Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal. I'm that for me. I'm
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Speaker 1: That's what we're doing Dan, as you know, congratulations, Skippy,
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Speaker 2: I like that when we put out a call for
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Speaker 2: or really anything that's on your mind, we start getting
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Speaker 2: I've set up both a document full of what appears
Speaker 2: to be a lot of life questions and a couple
Speaker 2: football ones, and then also an exercise in the realm
Speaker 2: of expectations.
Speaker 1: The realm of expectations, Why don't we start there? So,
Speaker 1: by the way, again, thank you to everyone who wrote
Speaker 1: in I'm going through these now again real time, have
Speaker 1: not had much a chance to prepare. There are some
Speaker 1: fantastic questions as all. We got six pages of questions here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a lot. There's a bunch that came
Speaker 2: in and not that long a time. And should also
Speaker 2: point out the solid baby flying six hours across the country,
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Speaker 1: Job, buddy. He's better than me. Yeah, way better than you.
Speaker 1: So let's start with expectations. You are in your old
Speaker 1: old digs here podcasting digs now in California. I am
Speaker 1: not at mommy agent's house where it all started for me.
Speaker 1: But why don't we delve into some expectations so you
Speaker 1: put this together. We had the Marie condo thing last week.
Speaker 1: We got questions about that. Seems like that went over
Speaker 1: pretty well. People liked it. Yeah, you want to delve
Speaker 1: back into expectations though. Dan a hot topic here in
Speaker 1: the college football offseason. Every time we've ever done an
Speaker 1: offseason show, it seems like we harke him back to
Speaker 1: some form of expectations for the season. That lies ahead.
Speaker 2: And by the way, we didn't get to a lot
Speaker 2: of those Mari Condo items that other were worth giving
Speaker 2: away or sparking joy. I'm particularly upset that I didn't
Speaker 2: make a decision about the well worn caricature filled what
Speaker 2: was it the acc at lanth or excuse me, coastal
Speaker 2: shirt with like the character of the giant heads, like
Speaker 2: you know, when the Detroit Pistons won the en Championship,
Speaker 2: you had they're all spinning balls on their hands, just
Speaker 2: with the sort of throw back eat success of that division.
Speaker 2: I'm sad I didn't make a decision with that, but
Speaker 2: people seem to like that. But as it relates to expectations,
Speaker 2: I went through the Power six conferences.
Speaker 1: That's right, tie.
Speaker 2: Power six okay, being inclusive, very nice. I seeked that sought,
Speaker 2: I think is actually the form of that word. I
Speaker 2: sought out the growers and the lowers, so not growers
Speaker 2: and showers, So the teams that grew in twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: and the teams that sort of lowered their their Q
Speaker 2: raiding or what we can expect from this team, and
Speaker 2: we saw sort of a lowering of performance. I went
Speaker 2: through each each conference and decided which teams fit those
Speaker 2: two things, And I think we should go in and
Speaker 2: help to cataract categorize base on the movement of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Whether we feel these teams should be classified now given
Speaker 2: how they're currently built. And I'm excluding teams that hired
Speaker 2: new coaches because we just don't have the data points.
Speaker 2: So these teams, are they just not a ball team? Sorry,
Speaker 2: it's just it's hard to see a way that you're
Speaker 2: you're getting to six?
Speaker 1: Are they the annual? Will they won't they five and five?
Speaker 1: Five and six? Playing for eligibility?
Speaker 2: The ross Rachel of college football, like sort of Virginia
Speaker 2: Tech was this past year.
Speaker 1: Are they are they? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are they perennialble like they're getting a seven? They're they're
Speaker 2: they're at seven. Maybe they'll win eight, maybe they'll win six,
Speaker 2: but they're a pretty healthy seven. Bet Are they a
Speaker 2: comfortable well bowl team with you know, you know, some
Speaker 2: years they're going to go six and six, five and seven,
Speaker 2: and that's just a standard deviation. And some years, when
Speaker 2: everything breaks right and the quarterback's better than expected, the
Speaker 2: coaches are up and coming growers themselves, maybe they get
Speaker 2: to ten with a couple of big breaks but comfortably eight.
Speaker 1: So this is this is essentially perception versus reality correct
Speaker 1: with some of these programs. So why don't we start
Speaker 1: with US secause I know USC is on here and
Speaker 1: so forth. Nine ten eleven plus Yeah, yeah, USC should
Speaker 1: be a ten plus win team that they're the lower
Speaker 1: in the Pac twelve. That would be my perception of
Speaker 1: what USC should be. What they will be, though, I
Speaker 1: think is really the open question. That's a big part
Speaker 1: of the reason why Clay Helton remains ever on the
Speaker 1: hot seat has been the last two years, certainly is
Speaker 1: going to be from day one this season because if
Speaker 1: USC doesn't get to like at least nine right, like
Speaker 1: right at that point, it feels like they're falling way
Speaker 1: short of what they should be.
Speaker 2: Give me your give me your take, tie you say
Speaker 2: they should be a ten plus win team and or
Speaker 2: ten plus win program.
Speaker 1: Excuse me? So if you.
Speaker 2: Combine what they've been in the last five or so years,
Speaker 2: which is on the high end of Pac twelve champion,
Speaker 2: on the low end not making a Bowl game, right,
Speaker 2: and you look at the talent that they've been able
Speaker 2: to bring in develop, you know, either get drafted or
Speaker 2: not get drafted to the NFL coaches available, talent, conference division, whatever.
Speaker 2: What is the biggest reason that you see as USC
Speaker 2: being ten plus? Anything less than that is disappointing? Is
Speaker 2: it a talent thing? Is it that the PAC twelve
Speaker 2: is down thing? Is it that they're just so far
Speaker 2: ahead in terms of infrastructure?
Speaker 1: Whatever it is? What is it that?
Speaker 2: Because this is something that like, I think I agree with,
Speaker 2: but then I keep seeing USC seasons and coaches and
Speaker 2: bad presidents and athletic directors, and like, I don't know
Speaker 2: if USC can ever really consistently get out of its
Speaker 2: own way unless they have a high NFL level coach
Speaker 2: like they did in Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: Well, it's certainly a consistency thing on some level, you know,
Speaker 1: because they constantly get the talent, and perhaps under Clay
Speaker 1: Hilton they haven't been as good at developing that talent
Speaker 1: as they should be, but they still get it, which
Speaker 1: leads me to believe that on some level it's a
Speaker 1: coaching thing. How are they not more consistent of a
Speaker 1: program at this point. They've had their struggles along the
Speaker 1: offensive line over the last couple of years. They've had
Speaker 1: some struggles along the defensive line over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. It seems like at any given point in time,
Speaker 1: a certain element of that team is not firing on
Speaker 1: all cylinders. Skill talent does not seem to be an issue.
Speaker 1: They seem to be fine there, But it's the little
Speaker 1: things that they need to be more consistent in that
Speaker 1: I think can get them to a higher level.
Speaker 2: I am, what are the ratings, the stock ratings whatever,
Speaker 2: bond ratings like standard and Poor's and Moody's and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. Right, you've got it. Maybe this is the
Speaker 2: actual theme of the show. We're like upgrading or docking whatever.
Speaker 1: Because the show last week tidying up was such a
Speaker 1: big hit, we could right now declare it a mixed
Speaker 1: metaphor may and go into investments in April. We could
Speaker 1: In April, we could declare it now, give ourselves enough
Speaker 1: runway to figure it out, and then do a whole
Speaker 1: investment theme show sometime in May where we do that
Speaker 1: kind of kind of We did.
Speaker 2: A mad Money episode that that got a little out
Speaker 2: of hand, and that's kind of managink we.
Speaker 1: Could do better than that, And I've just come up
Speaker 1: with an idea that we can roll with. But to
Speaker 1: your point, sure, a rating essentially a trust rating is
Speaker 1: what you're talking about here with USC.
Speaker 2: I have USC in my mind as someday they should
Speaker 2: be a ten plus win program. They have enough advantages
Speaker 2: and the conferences not robust enough to consistently challenge them
Speaker 2: week in and week out, that they should be a
Speaker 2: ten plus win program. I am downgrading them to nine plus.
Speaker 2: I am downloading. I am downgrading them to full on good.
Speaker 2: They're gonna mostly lose to teams that are on the
Speaker 2: same level and maybe throw in one just definitely disappointing loss.
Speaker 1: And why.
Speaker 2: I'm at that point with USC because when I look
Speaker 2: at them, I see them as a jym hobbyist entering
Speaker 2: local weightlifting competitions. We're like, yeah, you're doing well, and
Speaker 2: maybe you're wearing clothing that you shouldn't, like, you're showing
Speaker 2: off guns that aren't fully there, but just know what's
Speaker 2: going on. Know the reality. And USC, to me, with
Speaker 2: administrative and coaching hires, it doesn't look like they're fully
Speaker 2: dedicated to the ruthlessness needed to get to that ten
Speaker 2: plus level. And I don't know why that is, but
Speaker 2: it's hard to look at USC and think this is
Speaker 2: a well oiled machine and that winning ten plus games
Speaker 2: a year is hard, as everybody outside of like Bama, Clemson,
Speaker 2: Ohio State knows, that's a really difficult amount. And I
Speaker 2: see no evidence that USC has put anything in place
Speaker 2: right now over the next three, four or five whatever
Speaker 2: years to say this is where they stand. They're a
Speaker 2: ten plus win program. Maybe if there's an overhaul, but
Speaker 2: I don't know. Again, the data point to point to
Speaker 2: right now that says, yeah, they should stumble into ten
Speaker 2: wins no matter what.
Speaker 1: All right, so let me go to another team then, yeah,
Speaker 1: with that logic, how do you feel about the Michigan Wolverines.
Speaker 1: I feel a lot better about Michigan because there's a
Speaker 1: little bit overlap, right there's a little bit of overlap,
Speaker 1: and I like that the you know included in that
Speaker 1: overlap is going like a definite new direction offensively with
Speaker 1: Michigan hiring Josh Gaddis and USC hiring Graham Harrell.
Speaker 2: But right now Michigan is at least on an uptick.
Speaker 2: They go from going five and four what was it
Speaker 2: in the Big ten two years ago something like that
Speaker 2: to eight and one last year. The defense, there's nothing
Speaker 2: about USC that you can point to as being incredible
Speaker 2: and for ninety percent of Michigan season, their defense was incredible.
Speaker 2: They dominated team in a specific facet of the game.
Speaker 2: And so with Michigan, with they don't schedule up all
Speaker 2: the time. I know Notre Dame is sort of back
Speaker 2: on the schedule, whereas USC has had you know, Texas
Speaker 2: and Stanford early on in the season, and you know
Speaker 2: a number of huge Power five programs, whereas Michigan is
Speaker 2: sort of up and down in terms of what they've scheduled.
Speaker 2: Michigan has been excellent at something and there has been
Speaker 2: consistent competence with Michigan that I don't see with USC.
Speaker 2: So in terms of trends, even with some offensive questions,
Speaker 2: I think you have to put Michigan above USC in
Speaker 2: saying I understand why they're a ten plus win program
Speaker 2: right now because there's excellent excellence associated with where they
Speaker 2: stand right now.
Speaker 1: Well, and there's a lot that you can fall back on.
Speaker 1: In the Michigan case, I agree with you. Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 1: is definitively a better coach than Clay Hilton. You put
Speaker 1: the two coaches in a room, compare resumes, no one
Speaker 1: is taking Hilton over Harball. So that's the first thing.
Speaker 1: Second I don't have Michigan at eleven though. Right Well, secondly,
Speaker 1: you've got the defense. As you said, the offense has
Speaker 1: sort of been a work in progress. Jim Harbaugh is
Speaker 1: trying to address that. They've got plenty of talent. That's
Speaker 1: not an issue. Look at their recruiting class this past year.
Speaker 1: Sure recruiting class was demonstrably better than USC's, so you
Speaker 1: got that as well. I just feel like Michigan's in
Speaker 1: a much better place and they're going to continue this
Speaker 1: slow ascent up. Perhaps there's a bit of a void
Speaker 1: now with Ryan Day taking over for urban Meyer. I
Speaker 1: don't care how good he is, he's not Urban Meyer.
Speaker 1: I think that's an opportunity for Michigan. I feel, as
Speaker 1: you do, a lot better about the Wolverine's going to
Speaker 1: do the Trojans at this point.
Speaker 2: I also think, by the way, as for consistency, if
Speaker 2: Clay Helton is fired and Jim Harbaugh decides, see, I'm
Speaker 2: going to take the Lion's job or I don't even
Speaker 2: know what NFL job would be attractive to him, I
Speaker 2: think there is a better chance that Michigan makes the
Speaker 2: right higher to at least flirt with where they've been,
Speaker 2: or at least where they were in twenty eighteen, than
Speaker 2: I do about USC doing it, both because of location
Speaker 2: and because of the administrative dedication in your.
Speaker 1: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa you who
Speaker 1: always argues yeah, the merits of good weather. You're gonna
Speaker 1: tell me that Michigan's a better location than southern California.
Speaker 2: It's a better location for attracting excellent coaches. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I think I think an excellent coach is more likely
Speaker 2: to take the Michigan job than the USC job. I'm
Speaker 2: only comparing those two schools. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I buy that. Man, Really, I don't know if I
Speaker 2: buy that now. USC still has that glitz and glamour
Speaker 2: to it, even though they've been down for a bit.
Speaker 2: At what point are you going to say, ro I
Speaker 2: don't know about the glitz and glamour anymore. What are
Speaker 2: we going to get to that point where you're gonna like,
Speaker 2: are you going to be the as we mentioned in
Speaker 2: the Mari Condo show, wearing the USC cologne that smells
Speaker 2: like a sweaty Brian Cushing? Are you going to pointing
Speaker 2: to peak care I did throw that out and I'm
Speaker 2: still I'm still picking my pints.
Speaker 1: Of it on my on my clothing. Fair Next team,
Speaker 1: Let's stay in the Big Ten. Okay, let's talk about Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Where are we at with Wisconsin right now? The Alex
Speaker 1: Hornybrook thing admittedly came out of thin air for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that had been percolating for a while. Apparently it was,
Speaker 1: but for him to leave Grant it not the strongest
Speaker 1: armed quarterback, maybe not the most accurate, but seem to
Speaker 1: fit that system pretty well. Where are we at with Wisconsin?
Speaker 2: Wisconsin's confusing, We're now what he Paul Chris has been
Speaker 2: there four years and just hit a pretty huge stumbling
Speaker 2: block after year three, and there are reasons for it,
Speaker 2: with quarterback injuries and injuries all over the field, really
Speaker 2: but not necessarily a Big Ten that is lining up
Speaker 2: huge challengers week in and week out, especially in that division.
Speaker 2: And so I think I'm also downgrading Wisconsin a little bit,
Speaker 2: not fully panicking. They went what eight and five last year?
Speaker 2: Seven to five during the regular season and seven wins
Speaker 2: is certainly departure from where they were, but they won
Speaker 2: ten and nine and what eleven and one? I guess
Speaker 2: they went twelve to oh in twenty seventeen, so I
Speaker 2: think they are almost in that nine full on good
Speaker 2: team that they're gonna lose to teams that have more talent.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be in those games, But I'm worried about
Speaker 2: more BYU type games as we go farther into further
Speaker 2: into the Paul christ era, where they just they look
Speaker 2: pretty good, but they give up three and a half
Speaker 2: really dumb plays. And I don't know if it's a
Speaker 2: Jim Leonard thing on defense. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: a not evolving enough on offense and leaning on their
Speaker 2: sort of power brand too much. But I'm a little
Speaker 2: bit worried that they are taking an understandable but disappointing
Speaker 2: half step back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, so that's nine wins with the ability to
Speaker 2: go ten and two with a break and the ability
Speaker 2: to go seven.
Speaker 1: And five if it's a nightmare again. Yeah, I'm real
Speaker 1: curious to see what ends up happening at the quarterback spot.
Speaker 1: It doesn't concern me as much at Wisconsin the way
Speaker 1: it would at other schools because they do have that
Speaker 1: power attack that they do rely on, but they get
Speaker 1: Michigan relatively early this year, towards the middle to late
Speaker 1: portion of September, which will be a big test for them.
Speaker 1: They're on the road later in the year at Ohio State.
Speaker 1: They're on the road later in the year against a
Speaker 1: team like a Nebraska, who knows what shape they'll be in.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to expect out of this Wisconsin
Speaker 1: team now. The schedule isn't terrible, to be honest, I
Speaker 1: think they can navigate this, but there are some questions
Speaker 1: and they do need to improve over where they were
Speaker 1: a year ago. So I think I sort of fall
Speaker 1: in line with you. Around the nine win mark feels
Speaker 1: about right to me.
Speaker 2: Important to remember that outside of Illinois, each of the
Speaker 2: teams in the West you have to upgrade in terms
Speaker 2: of where they stand competitively. Northwestern has been a stalwart
Speaker 2: of consistency, even with Wisconsin taking a step back. Purdue
Speaker 2: for sure has gotten better. Iowa, even though they seem
Speaker 2: to go five and four, four and five whatever in
Speaker 2: the Big Ten every year, they's still a tough tough out.
Speaker 2: Nebraska's on the upshot and on the upswing, and Minnesota
Speaker 2: is a team that is certainly getting more dangerous, and
Speaker 2: there is a small part of me that's worried that
Speaker 2: Wisconsin built up that ten eleven annual win season threshold
Speaker 2: on a foundation of well, a big ten West kind
Speaker 2: of bad. So a pretty good team might look excellent.
Speaker 1: All right, final one here, Then we're going to get
Speaker 1: to questions where do we stand on the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. And talk about trying to time
Speaker 1: the stock market. Yeah, just when you think you know
Speaker 1: what Auburn's going to do, just when you think they're
Speaker 1: a seven win team, they go out and they win
Speaker 1: ten and vice versa. It's a really tough program to
Speaker 1: try engage. We talked about it on the Tidying Up Show.
Speaker 1: Our Gus mals on Hourglass still sparks Joy, I think
Speaker 1: for both of us. Yeah, trying to figure this thing out.
Speaker 1: But where are we at with Auburn now? Auburn is
Speaker 1: a like if you were going to invest in Auburn football,
Speaker 1: you have to know what you know. You could buy
Speaker 1: it at thirty eighty five a share and oh wow,
Speaker 1: it's up to nine dollars right now, Like, oh it's
Speaker 1: down to seventy six cents.
Speaker 2: What is happening Auburn is it's as if Enron were
Speaker 2: going through all of their issues and then right as
Speaker 2: they're going bankrupt, everybody's going to jail, they discover a
Speaker 2: clean renewable energy source to power everything on the cheap.
Speaker 1: Like what who are you? Auburn?
Speaker 2: Auburn should be a ten plus win program. And I
Speaker 2: say that knowing that they're in the SEC West, which
Speaker 2: is certainly in most years a difficult division to navigate.
Speaker 2: But given their brand and that they've been in and
Speaker 2: won national championships within the last decade, I am thinking
Speaker 2: that they are ten plus with Gus Malson and should
Speaker 2: be ten plus with Gus Malson given his offensive reputation,
Speaker 2: considering who they've developed on defense, and considering that they're
Speaker 2: one of what like two and a half programs that
Speaker 2: can challenge Alabama annually that should be able to challenge
Speaker 2: Alabama annually. So I am looking at them as ten
Speaker 2: plus with a whole bunch of volatility. And I know
Speaker 2: that sort of gives them two that assigns them to
Speaker 2: sort of expectation points. But I don't know how you
Speaker 2: can do anything different with Auburn.
Speaker 1: I think I'm in agreement with you there.
Speaker 2: I'm much more confident in staking a claim that Auburn
Speaker 2: should be that than usc should be that.
Speaker 1: I think I agree with that. Yeah, I mean, where
Speaker 1: do you stand on them? Eight and five? Last year
Speaker 1: three and five in conference did not go according to plans.
Speaker 1: I think we're both higher on Auburn than they ended
Speaker 1: up finishing throughout the course of the year. Now they
Speaker 1: lose Stidham and I've got questions, But this is the
Speaker 1: kind of year where they win ten games, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's every other year with the Auburn shows.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm in agreement with you. By the way,
Speaker 1: this sparked not just joy, but joy the idea of
Speaker 1: the show that we're going to do in May with investing,
Speaker 1: I have a great idea for how we're going to
Speaker 1: run this thing. I will lean on Jody with an
Speaker 1: eye heavily. Okay, So yeah, I'm in I'm in agreement
Speaker 1: with you. Generally speaking, Auburn's still got a ton of
Speaker 1: talent during a tough side of the SEC though. That's
Speaker 1: that's what makes this whole thing harder. That's sort of
Speaker 1: the great Barks factor. There's just so much competition on
Speaker 1: that and.
Speaker 2: They schedule well Auburn is a team that's schedules well,
Speaker 2: you know, they recently had Clemson in the non conference
Speaker 2: part of the schedule. They play well, they had Washington
Speaker 2: last year. I think they have Oregon this year. I
Speaker 2: know they have Orgon this year in Arlington. So in
Speaker 2: terms of wrenches into that ten plus number, they certainly
Speaker 2: are trying too much like in dodgeball, they're trying to
Speaker 2: avoid those wrenches being thrown at them constantly, and sometimes
Speaker 2: it works, sometimes it doesn't. What was that, Patches o' hulahan. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: which feels like a pretty apt comparison for Auburn.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I think I think there's nothing wrong with expecting a
Speaker 2: lot of Auburn with as much tumultuousness that surrounds the program.
Speaker 2: They they are one of the few teams that at
Speaker 2: their peak can play with anybody in the gusmells On era.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Daniel, shall we get to some of
Speaker 1: our questions here that we're sent in by some of
Speaker 1: our loyal overballers.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't even do any American Conference teams though, we'll
Speaker 2: run out of the power six man. All right, let's
Speaker 2: let's just do speed round. Give you give me a
Speaker 2: number quick ones, go ahead, Okay, Syracuse they grew last year.
Speaker 1: What's their number? They're I have them as an eight.
Speaker 1: They're like an eight win team. Yeah. Virginia Tech the
Speaker 1: lower in the ACC. They I trust in justin Filente,
Speaker 1: I'll say nine, nine, nine. Yeah, I have them at
Speaker 1: eight as well. With Syracuse.
Speaker 2: It's the a SEC. Everybody's everybody. Matt MUSHes together in
Speaker 2: a stew Texas.
Speaker 1: Texas grow ten.
Speaker 2: I think I think you're right. Oh, it's weird to
Speaker 2: say it. I think you're at Oklahoma State, a big lower.
Speaker 2: They go three and six in conference last year.
Speaker 1: Eight or nine. I have them as. I have them
Speaker 1: as eight. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see what they do with their new
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. Did a lot of great things at Princeton. Yeah, Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: A lot of people said a year ahead of schedule
Speaker 2: last year with how good they were, especially really good.
Speaker 1: Really good on defense. Nine or ten that seems fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think ten with as much talent as there
Speaker 2: as there is in Ohio. Yeah, in that general area,
Speaker 2: and Luke Fickle's connections might worry about ten. Where I
Speaker 2: may downloaded them to nine is how long. Is Luke
Speaker 2: Fickle actually a bearcat? Okay, sure, because I think he's
Speaker 2: a name that's going to continue to come up. Navy
Speaker 2: a huge lower year, which obviously much the joy of
Speaker 2: the Hildenbrand family.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think there.
Speaker 2: I think I haven't met about seven. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: there's some issues there.
Speaker 1: Seven or eight.
Speaker 2: Keny Modololo is looking around too much. It feels like
Speaker 2: his name is coming up too much. Kentucky. You know what,
Speaker 2: I took a beating. We took a beat for how
Speaker 2: canded Kentucky. Yeah, and so my my natural proclivity would
Speaker 2: be to say zero here just to rub.
Speaker 1: It in a little more. But let's be bullish on
Speaker 1: Kentucky moving forward. They had a hell of a year.
Speaker 1: They really did did. Perhaps I didn't, Perhaps we didn't
Speaker 1: give them enough credit.
Speaker 2: I think I'm at seven ish, but with a pop
Speaker 2: with like the If they have Ron Baker and Fred
Speaker 2: van Vliet, whichitas you know they have those like four
Speaker 2: fifth year seniors, they're going to be hard to beat.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what that team was last year,
Speaker 2: having as much upperclassmen experience as they did. I think
Speaker 2: they're seven with a couple of breaks nine plus. But
Speaker 2: I have them as comfortable ball team, which is with
Speaker 2: where they've been. I think everybody remembers certain recent eras.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Final team. Roll on you, Bears, Cal Bears.
Speaker 1: I'm down on Kel.
Speaker 2: You're down on Cal. They have a weird infrastructure thing.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of money running through No Berkeley. They're
Speaker 2: having a lot of financial issues. So the dedication to
Speaker 2: football is I mean, they've added facilities and they've you know,
Speaker 2: justin Wilcox, I think is really good.
Speaker 1: I have done something very well, recovered from the fact
Speaker 1: that I spent an entire offseason championing the Bauer Hour
Speaker 1: and then they pulled them. That was a rough offseason
Speaker 1: after like one game. Yeah. Yeah, I have them as
Speaker 1: ross Rachel.
Speaker 2: I have them as annual Bowl flirtation, and maybe they're
Speaker 2: getting to a Bowl sixty five percent of the time.
Speaker 2: It's tough without seeing some big step on offense to
Speaker 2: feel good about them in the next five years.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to questions here, Dan, question one in
Speaker 1: front of me that I'm looking at that I love
Speaker 1: this one from Anna last week. You got rid of
Speaker 1: things you no longer wanted, things that didn't spark Joy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with all that new space you've acquired, what are you
Speaker 1: most excited to add to the solid verbal house this year? Dan,
Speaker 1: We got room, we can expand we can create new memories.
Speaker 1: We can add new keepsakes. Here to the mantle.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you're not if you're only interested
Speaker 2: in football, this is one. Thanks for the download, Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us, and you can go hang out with
Speaker 2: another podcast if you don't want to hear our dumb
Speaker 2: thoughts about life Anna or Anna asks a terrific question.
Speaker 2: I Am not going to be adding much other than
Speaker 2: baby toys to my kind of small apartment. But you,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, have acquired space. I have what
Speaker 2: is what is something that solid wife Kate isn't necessarily
Speaker 2: thrilled with you doing space wise, but says, you know what,
Speaker 2: we have the square footage. Go for it, Ty, I
Speaker 2: know this will make you happy in Sparkjoy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with it. I've already got this figured out, Dan,
Speaker 1: I'm getting a fat head photo. Did you see today
Speaker 1: that the National Science Foundation or Institute whatever it's called,
Speaker 1: they somehow managed to photograph a black hole? I did.
Speaker 1: It's a huge deal. And you know how I've got
Speaker 1: this thing for outer space. Oh, I know where you're
Speaker 1: going with this. Yeah, I'm going to get with smelloscope. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get the framed photo of that black hole.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I want to get it fat head style
Speaker 1: so I can put it up here on the wall
Speaker 1: of the studio. And I think it's actually got a
Speaker 1: double meaning because it looks a whole lot like Florida
Speaker 1: State's quarterback depth chart. So I think it really has
Speaker 1: a double meaning added value for us here as a podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's ah, you went there. I can tell you
Speaker 2: what I would do with more space. At some point,
Speaker 2: I will have more space because I will not be
Speaker 2: living in Brooklyn. I think I'm going to I got
Speaker 2: talked into this a little bit by a friend last
Speaker 2: week who just got a place and they're going to
Speaker 2: get a Japanese soaking tub, which it actually looks like
Speaker 2: a sake glass. It is a tall tub and I
Speaker 2: am not a bath person, but it is like a
Speaker 2: fully submerged thing other than your head, and you sort
Speaker 2: of sit on a small bench in it, Okay, And
Speaker 2: it's apparently incredibly relaxing. And now I can be talked
Speaker 2: into having like a zen bathroom situation, zenroom situation with
Speaker 2: a Japanese soaking tub as the centerpiece. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go next to Eric. He says, what are the various
Speaker 2: slash most creative ways bagmen can get money to players
Speaker 2: controversial subjects? This was asked of us on in our
Speaker 2: last Q and A. We're just getting around to it
Speaker 2: now because we've been getting a bunch of good questions.
Speaker 1: Speak creatively to me, Dan, Well, so there are existing
Speaker 1: ways that are pretty creative instead of just players getting
Speaker 1: handed envelopes full of cash, or you know, a bag
Speaker 1: man or an extra assertive booster paying for car repairs
Speaker 1: or whatever expenses a player may incur as a senior
Speaker 1: or junior in high school whatever. A lot of stuff
Speaker 1: like this is going through charities, Like a seven on
Speaker 1: seven coach starts a charity, and that charity is to
Speaker 1: help kids travel to tournaments and get tutoring and then
Speaker 1: all of this and they get an infusion of fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars from an LLCA something like that. I think
Speaker 1: that's pretty creative. I think that's I mean, in terms
Speaker 1: of going skirting some rules, I think it's pretty creative.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would just continue to hire relatives in
Speaker 1: a cash business, Like if a player's relative runs a
Speaker 1: landscaping service and you're obviously now familiar with all this
Speaker 1: with your whatever you're doing in your backyard, if you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I really want we're putting in a patio
Speaker 1: situation with this deck and this bar setup and fire pit,
Speaker 1: and it's going to run us, you know, fifty one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. All of the sudden, you're like, what if
Speaker 1: I paid you twenty thousand dollars and sat you down
Speaker 1: for a spiel, like a time sharing type spiel about
Speaker 1: the virtues of Notre Dame football For anybody that might
Speaker 1: be in your life considering Notre Dame. That kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Cash business, cash business, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cash businesses where it wouldn't look super I mean spending
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars in cash on a patio would be weird.
Speaker 2: But something where it wouldn't raise eyebrows that you're paying
Speaker 2: for something in cash and getting and have a lot
Speaker 2: of cash on hand because of the business you're running.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to think more about this, but I
Speaker 1: like the boat cut jip here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, setting up a business like that, We're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course people are paying in cash a sandwich shop.
Speaker 2: We're like, gosh, turkey salami mortadella and how much is that?
Speaker 2: Eight hundred dollars?
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Speaker 1: slash solid four more information, Dan Hi, I love it, Ty,
Speaker 1: thank you for that that statement. Where we're going next.
Speaker 1: We had a question about grief. Grief.
Speaker 2: Did you see the question about grief? And so I
Speaker 2: believe it's our mottos from reddits. He has bummed out
Speaker 2: that the AAF, the association is that it is American
Speaker 2: Football is no longer. It appears they have discontinued after
Speaker 2: like three weeks. Huh, yeah, that's not great business wise.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite stage of grief? He is particular to bargaining,
Speaker 2: and he's half tempted to see if he can do
Speaker 2: a gofund me or a kickstarter to start a new
Speaker 2: spring football league. And I have this in front of me,
Speaker 2: the standard stages of grief, but I think we can
Speaker 2: invent our own stages. They include denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
Speaker 2: and acceptance. And so, as I'm sure you've had to
Speaker 2: grieve people or situations you watch the Notre Dame Bowl game,
Speaker 2: what is the point in grief? I can tell you
Speaker 2: from just a breakup perspective, relationship ending perspective. What my
Speaker 2: favorite part of that grief period is.
Speaker 1: It's weird to have a favorite part of the grief cycle.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the part where I was like, I
Speaker 2: just need to get outside. I need to get outside
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna run five miles. And it didn't
Speaker 2: last for a long time, getting up early and going
Speaker 2: for a run to just clear your head. But I
Speaker 2: did like that stage felt good. It felt good to
Speaker 2: sort of clear your mind a little bit, clear my
Speaker 2: mind a little bit. So that's what I would point to,
Speaker 2: and then just listening to a lot of saves the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm big on denial because it's sort of like
Speaker 1: it didn't happen. I'm fine, No, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Life is great? Yeah, getting higher the denial stage is
Speaker 1: sort of like the honeymoon stage of the grief cycle. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I think I'm a little partial to that.
Speaker 2: Okay, next question, Oh, I like this one, ty, I
Speaker 2: think you'll have and we've gotten this question sort of before.
Speaker 2: Let me find it was. I think it was about
Speaker 2: Jowitch rec league to join. Matt wants to say I'm
Speaker 2: moving to a new state after graduation, so This sounds
Speaker 2: like he's probably early twenties, maybe mid twenties if it's
Speaker 2: after grad school, New State where he doesn't know anyone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what kind of rec league, kickball, soccer, et cetera. Would
Speaker 2: have the most fun? People making friends, watching games, you know,
Speaker 2: going out for drinks, maybe being set up with somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So if you were alternate universe, sure you're a single guy.
Speaker 2: Mysterious day job says all right, Ty, you are moving
Speaker 2: to Kansas City. Yeah, which is an area I don't
Speaker 2: believe you know many people?
Speaker 1: Nope, nobody.
Speaker 2: And you're saying, well, I love playing sports, love being active.
Speaker 2: I'm going to join something, meet some new people, maybe
Speaker 2: come across somebody that could be interesting to go in
Speaker 2: a couple of dates with.
Speaker 1: All Right, So I have I have some thoughts on
Speaker 1: this matter, Dan, Kansas City in town. You and I
Speaker 1: are both very competitive people, correct, And I have a
Speaker 1: problem when I play a sport that I think i'm
Speaker 1: pretty good at, like softball or baseball, something that I've
Speaker 1: got a lot of familiarity with, When I get out
Speaker 1: there on the baseball diamond, it really pains me deeply.
Speaker 1: It wounds me. If I'm playing with a bunch of
Speaker 1: people who don't know what they're doing. Yeah, then you're
Speaker 1: gonna come off terribly. Then I'm gonna come off as
Speaker 1: sort of like the super intense guy who maybe doesn't
Speaker 1: make friends as easily as I would otherwise.
Speaker 2: Oh weird, we didn't We didn't tell you that we
Speaker 2: were going out to beers after the game.
Speaker 1: Oops. Right, Yeah, I'm not wearing Rex back to the game.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite at that level. But I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: a little too intense. You you do see the intensity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I just I'm not as open to meeting new
Speaker 1: people as I should be because I'm focused on the game.
Speaker 2: Again that I know, and it's hard. It's hard for
Speaker 2: people to be into intense tie That's right.
Speaker 1: So I think with that as the backdrop, it needs
Speaker 1: to be something that you know, maybe I don't take
Speaker 1: as seriously, or I'm not as prone to taking as seriously.
Speaker 1: So if there is like a kickball league or a
Speaker 1: dodgeball league or so, I don't know that something a
Speaker 1: little bit off beat.
Speaker 2: I still think kickball would scratch you where you itch
Speaker 2: a little bit too much because you're still on the diamond.
Speaker 2: There's still a short stop. There's still a picture. They're
Speaker 2: still waving somebody home.
Speaker 1: It also couldn't be something like bowling, where I'm just
Speaker 1: genuinely awful.
Speaker 2: But that's kind of cool. That's you know, there's time
Speaker 2: between to like get to know people and talk and
Speaker 2: find out where people are from and what they do
Speaker 2: for a living. And there's that you know, you're drinking beer.
Speaker 2: I think bowling is actually a great idea.
Speaker 1: No, I'm out. I'm out on them.
Speaker 2: But it's tough to just join a bowling league blind.
Speaker 2: I think you normally you have to join with like
Speaker 2: three other people. Want to outside team. I think that's good.
Speaker 2: I think kickball for you is bad. I think soccer
Speaker 2: for you would be good.
Speaker 1: Soccer is something I know a lot about but have
Speaker 1: never played.
Speaker 2: It doesn't involve your bum shoulder, true, so you just
Speaker 2: sort of beg off of throw ins.
Speaker 1: I get throwns. It'll be fine for you.
Speaker 2: I think soccer is the move for you. Or basketball,
Speaker 2: but you want to be outside. I'm retired from basketball,
Speaker 2: are are you really? I blew out my shoulder playing basketball.
Speaker 2: I'm retired, but you're not dunkin I'm retired, Okay. I
Speaker 2: think soccer is the answer for you, specifically for him,
Speaker 2: I think kickball is a great answer. Yeah, kickball is
Speaker 2: something that inherently, as long as Matt doesn't have the
Speaker 2: type of baseball or softball intensity that you have. I
Speaker 2: think kickball is silly enough that it brings out personality
Speaker 2: where it's just like, oh, we're playing this thing we
Speaker 2: did when we were in pe in fourth grade. And
Speaker 2: I think there's a natural like shift from kickball to
Speaker 2: a bar after even if you're not a big drinker,
Speaker 2: grab some nachos, grab some tendo's, whatever that. I think
Speaker 2: there's that social element to kickball where people are just
Speaker 2: their guard down, they're just a little bit looser.
Speaker 1: So I would say kickball. I like that, and you
Speaker 1: can talk to people.
Speaker 2: It's like if you're playing Ultimate frisbee, if you're in
Speaker 2: an Ultimate frisbee rec league, it's not like you're chatting
Speaker 2: around the field getting to know people. But if you're
Speaker 2: in a dugout, if you're in an outfield waiting between innings, kickball,
Speaker 2: everybody knows they're into this sort of ridiculous fun thing.
Speaker 1: I say, kickball. Next question. Let's go to Mike here,
Speaker 1: all right, he says, my birthday is Sunday the fourteenth,
Speaker 1: and my wife of one month, congratulations sir ooh very nice,
Speaker 1: has told me that her gift to me is a
Speaker 1: ticket slash weekend to any game for our alma mater,
Speaker 1: the University of Arkansas. Woo. What game of the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen schedule gives me the best weekend experience as well
Speaker 1: as a game where Arkansas has a decent shot of winning. Thanks,
Speaker 1: that is from Mikes. Those are two different things, exactly,
Speaker 1: Congratulations Mike. Those are two different things, and I think
Speaker 1: you need to look at this more from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of experience than from shot of winning. So who are
Speaker 1: you who you're penciling in? All right? So the first
Speaker 1: game that jumps off the page to me, Dan, is
Speaker 1: that A and M game? However, that's a neutral cider
Speaker 1: it is it's in Arlington. You know where we stand
Speaker 1: on neutral site games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but at least that game is usually entertaining. It's
Speaker 2: been an overtime game of you know, more often than
Speaker 2: not in the last few years.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If you're into neutral site games, Arlington
Speaker 1: would be you got to go to a game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to a game in Arkansas. The Auburn game midway
Speaker 1: through October is interesting to me. Sure. Otherwise though, there
Speaker 1: aren't a lot of high profile home games that I
Speaker 1: would really steer towards. Maybe Mississippi State could be interesting,
Speaker 1: The Missouri game end of the year could be interesting,
Speaker 1: but the weather could be a bit of a concern.
Speaker 1: Right exactly, I'm probably going probably going for that Auburn game.
Speaker 2: I think Auburn's the answer. And a couple reasons. You
Speaker 2: give yourself, what six games going in. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: a new quarterback, and this is year two of the
Speaker 2: Chad Morris era, and at times the defense looked alright
Speaker 2: at times. Last year certainly had some issues, But at
Speaker 2: least with Auburn you have that sort of big game
Speaker 2: intensity where you're not positive they're terrible, unless if they
Speaker 2: lose to San Jose State, that's gonna be a rough
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a rough ticket to look at. But
Speaker 2: at that point there's a shot at beating Ole miss
Speaker 2: a shot. In terms of what their schedule looks like,
Speaker 2: they should be. Portland State, Colorado State, and San Jose
Speaker 2: State are not world beaters. A and M is gonna
Speaker 2: be very tough, but at least that's a neutral site
Speaker 2: and it's been they've played them very close in recent years.
Speaker 2: Kentucky's not going to be as good, so there is
Speaker 2: at least a chance that Arkansas is competitive on the road.
Speaker 2: In Lexington Auburn, you get, in terms of tailgating, that's
Speaker 2: a big game atmosphere. Even if everybody at the tailgate, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're probably gonna lose and it's probably not gonna be
Speaker 2: super pretty, there's a buzz. You at least get that
Speaker 2: buzz where it's just like it's October, it's the South,
Speaker 2: it's Arkansas Auburn. There's just something about it that, at
Speaker 2: least for three four hours tailgating, you're like, this is
Speaker 2: what life is about except grilling meats, we're smoking meats,
Speaker 2: we're doing whatever, and it's just you get to enjoy that,
Speaker 2: that brief window, even with the pessimism laying in the
Speaker 2: back of your mind, the brief window of like life
Speaker 2: is good. If you can like sort of float ten
Speaker 2: feet above your tailgate, you can really appreciate it. Whereas
Speaker 2: Mississippi State, you're into November, then it's cold and you're
Speaker 2: wearing I don't know, I don't know how cold it
Speaker 2: actually gets in in Fayetteville in November, but it's probably
Speaker 2: not as nice as it is in mid October. So
Speaker 2: there's at least potential for hope with Auburn coming off
Speaker 2: of neutral site, a worse Kentucky game, a worse Ole
Speaker 2: miss team potentially with all sorts of issues.
Speaker 1: I think that's the answer. I think we're in agreement there,
Speaker 1: all right. Pick and Alburn could be terrible, Auburn could
Speaker 1: be terrible, Aways be terrible. Pick a game where you
Speaker 1: think the atmosphere is going to be fun. Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: worry about the wins and losses. That'd be Yeah. Recommendation,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Bizarro Tyler all time Verballer shares a
Speaker 1: namesake with yours, truly. Of course, now that y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: are in your mid to late thirties married, don't have
Speaker 1: near the amount of free time used to When did
Speaker 1: you realize you were out of touch with current music? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll listen to Pop two K, Sirius XM, and
Speaker 1: I'll have no recollection of some songs from the latter
Speaker 1: part of the two thousands. I long for the days
Speaker 1: of trains, drops of Jupiter, stay solid, Hail State, Bizarro
Speaker 1: Tyler in Nashville with a monster of a question here, Daniel.
Speaker 2: Where are you at? Long for the days of Drops
Speaker 2: of Jupiter? Is both brave and telling.
Speaker 1: Where are you at with the current state of affairs
Speaker 1: in pop music?
Speaker 2: I'm like, there are occasional songs that will somehow cross
Speaker 2: in front of my face. I'm like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: that's great and just pure like Top forty pop, like
Speaker 2: the Camilla how do you say it, Camilla Cabayo, I
Speaker 2: don't know, like that crossed in front of me.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, this is great.
Speaker 2: I can't are like some early T Swift great, But
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is that. I was just like,
Speaker 2: I can't. There's there's a certain sound and I only
Speaker 2: really listen to this music when I'm home and driving
Speaker 2: in a car because I don't drive in a car
Speaker 2: in New York, so I come across Top forty radio
Speaker 2: only once every few months, and it sounds like every
Speaker 2: song this is this is old man dance speaking. There's
Speaker 2: like a an effect I don't know if you know what,
Speaker 2: like logic effect that these guys and ladies whatever are
Speaker 2: working with these producers in logic and whatever and pro
Speaker 2: tools where it just makes every song sort of sound
Speaker 2: the same. They don't sound bad, but there's just there
Speaker 2: is that sheen where I'm just like, this sounds like
Speaker 2: this person, but it fully couldn't be, Like I just
Speaker 2: and I just get lost and I give up, and
Speaker 2: I go to an oldiest station and the oldiest station
Speaker 2: in California, and LA will play hey ya Ti. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it will play some outcasts if you want to feel ancient.
Speaker 1: So it's been.
Speaker 2: It's been in terms of the year, I would say
Speaker 2: since twenty fourteen, I've pretty much opted out of pop music.
Speaker 1: I'm having a real hard time trying. You love it,
Speaker 1: you commute with it, Well, I'm trying to commute more
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah. I find myself listening to older person
Speaker 1: stuff sure on the drive home, and I've had to
Speaker 1: recommit myself to be the pop music encyclopedia of this podcast. Yes,
Speaker 1: always what about Khalid? Have you heard of Khalid? I have?
Speaker 2: And that is only because our friend Richard Johnson told
Speaker 2: me he gets it a lot that he looks like
Speaker 2: is Kalid or is a Kalid?
Speaker 1: You know what I see it? You're right years old.
Speaker 2: I didn't even think that the hair is very similar.
Speaker 2: The build is very similar, in the hair is very similar.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard Richard, but Richard has a good voice.
Speaker 2: Richard has a legitimately good voice. There's there's something in
Speaker 2: the like Ariana Grande phylum and I I ari Grande
Speaker 2: seems fine to me. It seems like she has a
Speaker 2: good voice. A bunch of hit songs. I don't know nearly.
Speaker 2: I don't know like three of them. But that there
Speaker 2: is a lot of diet Grande out there? Is that
Speaker 2: fair to say? Sure, there's a lot of people who
Speaker 2: are saying, Okay, I see that sound, and I mean,
Speaker 2: that's music. You can look at the history of music
Speaker 2: and there's that. But I feel like we are in
Speaker 2: the diet Grande era.
Speaker 1: I think Selena Gomez would be in the diet Grande era.
Speaker 1: Di's singing anymore? Who sings? Who sings on the middle?
Speaker 1: The nonj me eat world middle? That w'd be Maren Morris?
Speaker 1: Would you say that there's diet grande to Maren Morris
Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe a little tangential. Maybe it's it's
Speaker 1: grande zero, yeah, something like that. Maybe it's caffeine free
Speaker 1: grande zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, So yes, my answer would be twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: since early Ariana Grande whenever that was fair.
Speaker 1: And it's just because I'm a thousand years for me, it's
Speaker 1: been about the last two years. We've really fallen out
Speaker 1: of touch and I'm trying, Tyler my very best to
Speaker 1: get back on the level. Here.
Speaker 2: What will you listen to when you're like I am,
Speaker 2: in a music mood when you're I assume you listen.
Speaker 1: To satellite radio? Still sure, what station? What genre? What
Speaker 1: are you going in that direction? I go Pop Rocks
Speaker 1: Channel seventeen, and it's all music enough. No, it's all
Speaker 1: music from our high school and college days. Really see
Speaker 1: their fuel switch back. No, it's nothing that hard. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of pop stuff. You're not sending the pain below,
Speaker 1: it's what you're telling me.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, let's do two more questions here. Okay, it's
Speaker 2: more love below than send the pain below.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Okay, Let's go to tuone squad. Okay,
Speaker 1: what is the proper tipping protocol at the following one
Speaker 1: restaurants where you order at the front, but if food
Speaker 1: brought to you and two buffets where the server brings
Speaker 1: to your drink.
Speaker 2: So what to you, this, I mean begs another question.
Speaker 2: And I am pro tipping. I am pro service industry.
Speaker 2: It's a tough job worked in food service. Whatever, I
Speaker 2: appreciate them.
Speaker 1: What to you sort of earns a really good tip,
Speaker 1: and that means play like twenty over over twenty percent. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously you got to be responsive. Yep, gotta be responsive,
Speaker 1: not two in your face responsive, but responsive enough. And
Speaker 1: you gotta have a personality. Interesting. I had a guy
Speaker 1: one time at an airport bar telling jokes about Seinfeld
Speaker 1: making human fun jokes. He got like thirty Oh really,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't want routines. I don't was telling
Speaker 1: human fun jokes, which connects with me. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: went above and beyond on that tip.
Speaker 2: I want water circulation to be elite. I want somebody
Speaker 2: coming around with water all the time. If it's full
Speaker 2: service and he's asking questions, or he or she tune
Speaker 2: squad for restaurants at the front where his food is
Speaker 2: brought to you, I'll leave a couple bucks. If it's
Speaker 2: very clear that the people bringing the food are only
Speaker 2: runners and they're not also making the food, or they're
Speaker 2: not also helping people that kind of thing. If they're
Speaker 2: only sort of runners all the time. That's not a
Speaker 2: huge service, but that it depends on the specific role
Speaker 2: of the person bringing it out a buffet, I would
Speaker 2: imagine the people bringing out the drinks are doing more
Speaker 2: than just drinks, like they're helping set up the buffet
Speaker 2: and keep things going and communicating that like, yes we
Speaker 2: need more enchiladas, Yes we need more mac and cheese.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: But it's not like I'm scoping. I'm not scouting the situation.
Speaker 1: But you'll leave.
Speaker 2: I'll leave a pretty standard tip. If the water is refilled,
Speaker 2: if the drinks are if everything comes in a timely
Speaker 2: manner and they're pleasant, whatever, I'll.
Speaker 1: Give my standard tip. It's about twenty percent.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if we're talking full service, what gets a
Speaker 2: good tip is elite water circulation. It's definitely not trying
Speaker 2: to memorize orders. Even if they get it right, there's
Speaker 2: a certain amount of hubris from like, come on, what
Speaker 2: are we doing. Just placate me and write it down.
Speaker 2: I don't, like, I don't need you to show off
Speaker 2: that you can memorize down even if you can, don't
Speaker 2: do that. I'm just totally out on that. And then
Speaker 2: I want especially because Jody with an eye is very
Speaker 2: is she's indecisive, and so she'll say something like what's
Speaker 2: better the roast chicken or the feticini. Like she will
Speaker 2: give them options, and I like decisiveness from a waiter saying, well,
Speaker 2: the roast chickens pretty spicy, so if you're into that,
Speaker 2: I'd go with that. The feticini's great, but it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's more of a mellow type thing. If a waiter
Speaker 2: or waitress server excuse me, is good on that level,
Speaker 2: I think that's a big play, especially if it turns
Speaker 2: out that they like, really nailed the wreck. I also
Speaker 2: love a good honest wreck where you're like, how's the salmon,
Speaker 2: You're like, it's fine, not my favorite.
Speaker 1: Like I like that sort of honesty. So you prefer
Speaker 1: more guidance in terms of food versus.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily I don't necessarily correct. Yeah, I want
Speaker 2: it's all business. I want all business, and I want
Speaker 2: their expertise on the menu.
Speaker 1: Here's a good question from Joey. Yeah, since it's starting
Speaker 1: to warm up in the Midwest, when you have sunglasses
Speaker 1: with you but don't need to wear them, what is
Speaker 1: the ideal on the body storage area? Oh? What a
Speaker 1: question above the forehead boses them to sweat and grease.
Speaker 1: But I've never been a fan of the V neck
Speaker 1: look that comes along with glasses. Pulling down your collar
Speaker 1: any pocket just increases the risk of something smashing. Thanks,
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen. This is really a question
Speaker 1: for an entire generation, Dan, this is a question for
Speaker 1: shark tank. What do you typically do your sunglasses? Guy?
Speaker 1: I have actually, in all honesty, I have pondered this
Speaker 1: question for eons, to the extent that I don't even
Speaker 1: bring sunglasses with me unless it's required. Who I had
Speaker 1: this I did. I had this same scenario a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago animal when I went down to Phillies opening day.
Speaker 1: I left the sunglasses in the car. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to have to deal with him. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do with him on, so I left him in
Speaker 1: the car. I don't have an answer here, Dan, Okay.
Speaker 2: So I am regularly the V neck, like even if
Speaker 2: I'm wearing a crew neck shirt and it becomes a
Speaker 2: V neck because the sunkey fold the sunglasses at the
Speaker 2: lip of the collar whatever. And that's just how I
Speaker 2: go about my life. I try more and more if
Speaker 2: I'm wearing a button down or a polo shirt or
Speaker 2: something like that, which I'm doing half the time. Is
Speaker 2: who knows to get one with a breast pocket? And
Speaker 2: I will go with the breast pocket. Look, I'm a dad,
Speaker 2: now I can get away with it, sure, and at
Speaker 2: least that gives me a little bit more security. But
Speaker 2: the number of times where I've bent over and my
Speaker 2: sunglasses have fallen off of my shirt or out of
Speaker 2: the shirt pocket is endless. Yeah, so I will not
Speaker 2: go the forehead. Look, I don't wear hats really, so
Speaker 2: that's not like putting it on. I definitely won't go
Speaker 2: back of the head. I won't do the full fiery tie.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you use. Yeah, I don't do
Speaker 2: a forehead. I don't go on top of my hair.
Speaker 2: So I am looking for somebody in the shark tank realm,
Speaker 2: some entrepreneur to come up with, like a shirt brand
Speaker 2: that has a hidden magnet in the breast pocket or
Speaker 2: inside the sort of collar area where that it really
Speaker 2: gets a good amount of traction for the sunglasses. That
Speaker 2: I'm all in on some sort of universe where we
Speaker 2: have magnets. I mean, it's all, it all comes down
Speaker 2: to magnets, So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean. And the thing is, if you're wearing
Speaker 1: a collared shirt with a button down, you can get
Speaker 1: away with putting it there in the collar. But if
Speaker 1: you're wearing a T shirt, if it's just a casual
Speaker 1: get together, if you try to put the sunglasses at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the collar, it turns into one way
Speaker 1: or another, a very aggressive V neck. You really don't
Speaker 1: wear sunglasses when you go to outdoor events in the sun.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with the sunglasses. Do
Speaker 2: you wear sunglasses when you go birding?
Speaker 1: No? You do? Have you have a weird vision thing
Speaker 1: as I wear sunglasses when I drive, but I don't
Speaker 1: like to take them out because I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with them When I have to take them off.
Speaker 2: You can't go pants or short pocket, you can't go.
Speaker 2: That's He's definitely right, that that's yours.
Speaker 1: I smashed. I've tried the thing where I try to
Speaker 1: put one arm in the pocket and just let him
Speaker 1: hang out. But that's a recipe for disaster. You end
Speaker 1: up using them or dropping them in the epping on them.
Speaker 2: Are you going to put them back in a case
Speaker 2: and put them in your back pocket? But then sitting
Speaker 2: down becomes a thing, it becomes uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I think the V neck transformation. I think
Speaker 2: the breast pocket is the best answer. But I don't
Speaker 2: know how we can better secure Again, I'm going to
Speaker 2: turn to people on Shark Tank.
Speaker 1: All right, final question here, Dan, Yeah, comes to us
Speaker 1: from our friend r J. He says, love the show.
Speaker 1: My fiance and I are moving to Phoenix in a
Speaker 1: few months. How do I convince her that buying Arizona
Speaker 1: State season tickets is a good slash worthwhile investment? He
Speaker 1: uses the word investment. It's tough. It's a tough sell
Speaker 1: if you're going to present it as an investment. So
Speaker 1: I think you need to shift the narrative a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's not an investment, You're investing in experience. Correct. All right,
Speaker 1: So that's the first I think tact you need to
Speaker 1: take here. RJ. Now, Dan, you've been to more ASU
Speaker 1: games than I have. What is that game and day experience? Like?
Speaker 1: It's a good time.
Speaker 2: Early on in the season, all the home games are
Speaker 2: at night because of how hot September is, so you
Speaker 2: still get to watch some of the early games. I
Speaker 2: don't know what times on Arizona is in the fall.
Speaker 2: I know it can vary, or they it never varies.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is, you get time to do whatever you
Speaker 2: want to do on Saturday as is, so if you
Speaker 2: have errands to run, it's not like you're ruining your
Speaker 2: Saturday by getting to the tailgate at nine am. You
Speaker 2: know you're there for four hours and the game lasts
Speaker 2: three more hours. It's much more of like, okay, it's
Speaker 2: a seven thirty kickoff. We can take care of whatever
Speaker 2: during the day during the morning hours and then go
Speaker 2: a couple hours before. And I don't think people are
Speaker 2: tail getting like ten hours all all day before ASU games.
Speaker 2: There's a huge parking lot, so you don't have to
Speaker 2: deal with huge or the pain of finding side streets
Speaker 2: and people charging you fifty dollars to park. Per my knowledge,
Speaker 2: maybe it's changed, so the social element, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: It's the experience. Even if ASU is perennially just to
Speaker 2: pack twelve South Threat and nothing beyond that, you're going
Speaker 2: to a night game in Arizona gets a little chilly,
Speaker 2: so it's a nice break from the heat of September.
Speaker 2: Usually by the end of the month anyway.
Speaker 1: Sun Devil Stadium's a cool venue. A lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of metal benches though that don't feel great in
Speaker 1: the heat, but a cool venue. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: a neat place to see a game. The other thing
Speaker 1: i'd add here, it's not like you're moving to Philly
Speaker 1: and trying to convince someone for Penn State season tickets.
Speaker 1: Phoenix is right next door to Tempee.
Speaker 2: Also, if you are moving to Phoenix from wherever, college
Speaker 2: football and tailgating is a nice way to meet new people,
Speaker 2: to meet locals that are presumably also interested in things
Speaker 2: you're interested in college football, and it's a big social
Speaker 2: experience where you make new friends tossing a football around.
Speaker 2: Somebody's making crab dip. I don't know what people make
Speaker 2: at the SU games. You're smoking b fribs whatever. It's
Speaker 2: a good way to be like, oh wow, that looks incredible.
Speaker 1: Is it good?
Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, try some and then your friends
Speaker 2: you're great. You're joining a kickball league together.
Speaker 1: The other thing i'd add, and this is I think
Speaker 1: the final point on this matter, m H. I think
Speaker 1: you are j first need to approach it as an
Speaker 1: experience that you're selling. The atmosphere that you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of now as you move to a
Speaker 1: new city. If that does not work and you are
Speaker 1: still dead set and determined to try and sell your
Speaker 1: new wife on this matter, you need to do this
Speaker 1: with a straight face. It's the only way it's going
Speaker 1: to work. You need to try and sell her on
Speaker 1: the fact that you are buying in and with your money,
Speaker 1: voting for a new model of college football led by
Speaker 1: one Herman Edwards. That's true. Heys was fine last year.
Speaker 1: A new model. You can support a new model, you
Speaker 1: can upend the system. You got to do it the
Speaker 1: straight face. That's the hail Mary. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be the big sell.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much to Herm Edwards to has
Speaker 2: a big name for somebody possibly not interested in Seucason tickets.
Speaker 1: But it's a read option, Dan. You put an experience,
Speaker 1: You put experience in the belly. If she doesn't take it,
Speaker 1: he got to opt for investment, and that investment opportunity
Speaker 1: is the new model of college football led by one
Speaker 1: Herman Edwards. How can I argue that point? All Right,
Speaker 1: we got a bunch of other questions here that we
Speaker 1: could not get to. But We're doing these q and
Speaker 1: as every month now, so there's a new one coming
Speaker 1: in May. We've got a bunch of stuff that we're
Speaker 1: going to try and a dress here over the next
Speaker 1: few weeks. So obviously spring football going on around the country.
Speaker 1: We'll talk in a little bit of detail about that.
Speaker 1: Some notable things that might pop up as we go
Speaker 1: through those. Also the NFL Draft coming up. Now. We're
Speaker 1: not big on the NFL, as we mentioned last week,
Speaker 1: but certainly as some of our favorite players go forth
Speaker 1: and prosper in the league, that is something that a
Speaker 1: lot of college football fans are particularly interested in. So
Speaker 1: where's a guy like Kyler Murray gonna go, Dwayne Haskins,
Speaker 1: where are some of those big time defensive linemen from
Speaker 1: Clemson gonna go. We're gonna bring someone on the program
Speaker 1: here to talk a little bit more about the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: So some stuff coming up here the next few weeks
Speaker 1: that you, as a college football fan might want to
Speaker 1: pay close attention to.
Speaker 2: That person, Maren Morris, Is that the right name? Sure,
Speaker 2: that'd be great combine two of our interests.
Speaker 1: All right, Daniel, so you are you are making the
Speaker 1: North American Baby Tour, right, now you are in southern California.
Speaker 1: Next week when we talk, you'll be Chicago.
Speaker 2: Next time we speak, I will be in Chicago, the
Speaker 2: Chicago Burbs for for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, well, you take care, enjoy showing off the
Speaker 1: little man, and keep us updated on his progress.
Speaker 2: Okay, done, will do. He's tall, poops consistently and is
Speaker 2: a good it smiles a lot. He does smile a
Speaker 2: good Amountain now excellent, It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: On that note. For that guy over there, my good
Speaker 1: friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Tie Hildon Brandt, we will
Speaker 1: catch you all in a week. In the meantime, enjoy
Speaker 1: your week, enjoy your weekend, and stay solid peace.