Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal.
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Speaker 3: And now Dan and Tie.
Speaker 1: Friday three fifty seven in the afternoon song, We're between
Speaker 1: Minneapolis and Fargo.
Speaker 3: Hey Dan, Hey, Ty, how's life?
Speaker 2: Life is good?
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the solid verbal to those of you
Speaker 5: listening along with us.
Speaker 6: As we are actually in the car. We are right now.
Speaker 5: We are on the road, making about a three and
Speaker 5: a half hour drive from Minneapolis Saint Paul up to Fargo,
Speaker 5: North Dakota, where we're going to see North Dakota State
Speaker 5: presumably lose to the Colgate Wow wow uh last I
Speaker 5: heard the line has come all the way down. Now
Speaker 5: Colgate's favored by fourteen.
Speaker 3: That's what it says.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, this has been a very flat drive.
Speaker 5: It also feels like we've been awake for about ninety
Speaker 5: two hours straight since we're up very early this morning.
Speaker 3: So okay, let's rewind.
Speaker 7: So it is about three o'clock local time somewhere between
Speaker 7: Minneapolis and Fargo. Very flat, very very flat, extremely flat,
Speaker 7: and you've spent the night in my apartment. I did,
Speaker 7: slept on the couch. We got up around four am
Speaker 7: and went to LaGuardia, flew to Minneapolis. We got we
Speaker 7: got breakfast brunch with the podcast or friend of ours.
Speaker 3: It was very good. It was.
Speaker 7: It was the thickest bacon you and I have ever
Speaker 7: consumed together. It was, yeah, yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 7: about as thick as Derrick Henry's styles. Wow, very very thick.
Speaker 7: It's almost like you had that comparison prepared.
Speaker 3: I didn't. Actually, this is what the road, the open
Speaker 3: road does to me. I like this. I like tie
Speaker 3: out of PA is something to behold. It is it is.
Speaker 6: I want to I want to rewind for a second.
Speaker 3: Though. Please people enjoy a good.
Speaker 5: Travel story or a good travel horror story. Uh huh,
Speaker 5: can you just give me a good forty five seconds?
Speaker 5: And what went on next to you on the plane? Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, the the DMZ was approached. There's a there's an
Speaker 7: unspoken agreement that the arm rests is a is a
Speaker 7: nice border setting. And the woman next to me, the
Speaker 7: arm rest went up to like a forty five degree angle,
Speaker 7: and there was there was some beyond b action there tie. Yeah,
Speaker 7: there was some beyond the action that was not my favorite.
Speaker 7: You're very uncomfortable with that, Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 7: just unexpected. Yeah, I like my space. About a three
Speaker 7: hour flight. We are here, as time mentioned because what
Speaker 7: started as a being amused by Patriot League football and
Speaker 7: appreciating it in our own way turned into oh no, Colgiate's.
Speaker 3: Actually really good, really really.
Speaker 7: Good, and then they upset James Madison. You jokingly start
Speaker 7: tweeting live show from Fargo in all caps, and then
Speaker 7: or maybe you texted me that. We alluded to it
Speaker 7: on the show. More Twitter weirdness ensued, with the ESPN
Speaker 7: wanting us to come and telling us we should be
Speaker 7: on the sidelines, which is not happening. But we talked
Speaker 7: and we said, you know what, screwt, Let's go to Fargo.
Speaker 7: I've never been a Fargo. You've never been a Fargo.
Speaker 7: They have a dome, they do. It's not the KIDVI Dome,
Speaker 7: but it's a dome and we should be there in
Speaker 7: a couple of hours. The plan tonight is to meet
Speaker 7: up with the the pals we have at ESPN covering
Speaker 7: the game, and we're gonna go curling. Curling allegedly, we'll
Speaker 7: see if it actually happens. I've never been currying. We
Speaker 7: have the apparel to go curling, absolutely, we don't. Have
Speaker 7: you been curling? Have you been a curling rink.
Speaker 5: I've played shuffle board and I've been to an ice rink, right,
Speaker 5: never doing both at the same time.
Speaker 7: Okay, I am definitely not somebody with curling experience, and
Speaker 7: we're just gonna see how we do. My guess is
Speaker 7: poorly but in an entertaining way, also potentially tearing our groins. Yeah, well,
Speaker 7: I mean that's always on the table, right, And then
Speaker 7: we're gonna wake up early tomorrow morning. We're gonna go
Speaker 7: tailgate in eleven degree weather. We're gonna take an uncomfortable
Speaker 7: picture with short sleeves and nothing else on in a
Speaker 7: porky picket, right, and then we're gonna go in for
Speaker 7: some good old fashioned college football and watch.
Speaker 3: The Raiders and the Bison play. Can I just interject
Speaker 3: for one moment, I'm ready.
Speaker 5: We were just passed by a gentleman with a North
Speaker 5: Dakota license plate driving what appears to be a Super
Speaker 5: U outback wearing a cowboy hat.
Speaker 3: That's wearing a cowboy hat. Feels Jerry Minnesota.
Speaker 5: We're not in North Dakota yet, but he is headed
Speaker 5: where we're headed yep, and it feels very on brand.
Speaker 3: Super Us are.
Speaker 7: Bigger, and I would have figured in terms of popularity.
Speaker 7: But I think it's the all wheel driver, the four
Speaker 7: wheel drive. It's a versatile smart vehicle. Dan the Korean Australian.
Speaker 7: I know they have an outback model. I'm not gonna
Speaker 7: look it up.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to assume Australia because of the outbout. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's pretty flat, it's pretty gray, pretty brown, some
Speaker 7: smell on the ground. Yeah, but I'm pumped from some
Speaker 7: Upper Midwest Upper Planes football.
Speaker 3: So what is the plan here.
Speaker 5: We're gonna file a couple of these audio logs that
Speaker 5: we're gonna eventually stitch together. Yeah, so that people listening
Speaker 5: at home and people who don't live in the Minneapolis
Speaker 5: or Fargo area can kind of ride along with us
Speaker 5: and experience this as we do. Because Dan said we
Speaker 5: don't really have any familiarity with the upper planes, I
Speaker 5: think that's right, and so we're gonna try and do
Speaker 5: this chronologically and give people the full experience, even if
Speaker 5: you're unable to be here with.
Speaker 2: Us in person.
Speaker 7: Yeah, people were very high happy that we were actually
Speaker 7: making the trek to Fargo, So why not virtually take
Speaker 7: them with us?
Speaker 3: That's my thinking.
Speaker 5: If I haven't already mentioned, it is extremely flat at
Speaker 5: the current moment.
Speaker 7: You can see for what appears to be just limitless miles. Here,
Speaker 7: I see Brian Harson looking west. I see, I see Brian.
Speaker 7: He's just chilling, just getting ready for the What are
Speaker 7: they in the Vegas Bowl?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 7: They're in some other Bowl games? Sure, I think it's
Speaker 7: Fresno State and Arizona State. So yeah, so far, I
Speaker 7: enthusiastic comes up to Minneapolis, excited to get out with Yeah,
Speaker 7: excited to get back tomorrow. As you're listening to this
Speaker 7: Sunday or beyond Sunday, please know, if anything happens to us,
Speaker 7: our dying wish is that you know that we seem
Speaker 7: to appreciate the city of the municipality of Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: That's all. That's all. I got the end.
Speaker 2: Until next time.
Speaker 1: Friday, ten o five pm and.
Speaker 2: We're back Dan from curling curling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's as you now know, it's ten oh
Speaker 4: five pm right on.
Speaker 3: I have lost track of the day. I still Friday.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's Friday. We're back in the hotel room.
Speaker 2: We're drinking decaffeinated green tea to keep the instrument lubricated.
Speaker 4: I didn't even think about that. Good job by you.
Speaker 4: We arrived at five. We listen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be real listen.
Speaker 4: Oh god, Oh it amuses me, it does. I took
Speaker 4: like a twenty five minute nap. You got to see me.
Speaker 4: Tell Siri to wake me up in twenty five minutes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you have the is it the Australian or
Speaker 2: the British British?
Speaker 3: I have a British Seriy. He's great.
Speaker 4: And we got a burger at a place.
Speaker 2: Called Pounds Pounds Pretty good, not bad. I liked your description.
Speaker 2: Dan's description of the place was the burger tastes like
Speaker 2: the burgers you get at a friend's house, which just
Speaker 2: happens to be very skilled at grilling really good burger friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't like a gourmet anything. It was just
Speaker 2: like it was a good burger, a good picnic burger.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then we met up with the ESPN crew that
Speaker 4: is calling the game tomorrow happening in thirteen hours, which
Speaker 4: was Kevin Brown who started this whole, not the Dodger
Speaker 4: pitcher right, No, you know what, maybe he has the
Speaker 4: build he does. Kevin Brown, DJ Shockley Georgia Great Georgia,
Speaker 4: al Teimer and Cole Kublick Auburn participant now Auburn Alzheimer
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: We love call.
Speaker 4: We went curling at a local club about fifteen minutes away,
Speaker 4: a curling club, because that's the kind of thing.
Speaker 3: That exists in Fargo, North Fargo, North Dakota, as it should.
Speaker 4: And I had a blast.
Speaker 3: I was not very good.
Speaker 4: If you go on the solibrable Instagram, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't know when you're listening to this, but at some
Speaker 4: point I've got it archived.
Speaker 2: You have an archived that you are preserved good.
Speaker 3: I'm glad.
Speaker 4: Cryogenically we split into teams and we will. We learned
Speaker 4: to curl, which is very difficult. There's a stone with
Speaker 4: a handle, right, and you're supposed to one one of
Speaker 4: your shoes has like a slick bottom, the other one
Speaker 4: is gripped bottom, and you sort of slide and release
Speaker 4: and two other people. I just burped up some almonds.
Speaker 4: Will will brush, will broom will sweep for you. It's
Speaker 4: very people know curling I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I think our audience is familiar. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: my position are they position?
Speaker 3: My role?
Speaker 2: My job, I was the SKIP and I put that
Speaker 2: on the Instagram feed as well. That job, as I
Speaker 2: understand it is to just yell at the top of
Speaker 2: your lungs. And I was talking with DJ because he
Speaker 2: was he was that's right, he was a rival SKIP.
Speaker 2: So it was a bit contentious, but it neither one
Speaker 2: of us really knew what to yell, so we were
Speaker 2: just yelling as loudly as we could. And that's part
Speaker 2: of the reason why I now have to drink this
Speaker 2: tea before I go to bed so that I can
Speaker 2: talk tomorrow when we actually meet the people.
Speaker 4: I don't think you're a natural Skip. I did not
Speaker 4: hear you as I was sweeping. I thought you were like.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, in fairness, the instructor.
Speaker 4: He was yelling over you.
Speaker 3: That was the test.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a test, yeah, but I failed to
Speaker 2: test the initial test. Now the next the next few times,
Speaker 2: then I tried to be a little bit more assertive.
Speaker 2: You were better, but I didn't. Again, I didn't know
Speaker 2: what I was yelling.
Speaker 4: You lost the locker room early, you really did, and
Speaker 4: that's okay, because I thought you were more of a
Speaker 4: natural deliverer. If the person who glides the stone, If.
Speaker 2: If I would have had maybe five more runs at
Speaker 2: delivering the stone, I think I could have been at
Speaker 2: least I'm trying to think of what caliber.
Speaker 4: And you'd be underwhelming. I'd be the least underwhelming. Give
Speaker 4: me your impressions of Fargo. So we haven't been to
Speaker 4: the NDSU campus. We have not seen the Fargo Dome.
Speaker 4: We're going bright and early to tailgate and friend, it
Speaker 4: is going to be it is nine degrees when we
Speaker 4: get there.
Speaker 3: I did the math.
Speaker 4: I hadn't realized like, oh, yeah, we've got a twelve
Speaker 4: eastern kickoff, that's eleven am. Yeah, so we're going to
Speaker 4: show up a couple hours early and get some some
Speaker 4: tailgating wandering in. It'll be single ish digits, which will
Speaker 4: be a new tailgating. Yeah, experience in and tailgating impressions
Speaker 4: of Fargo thus far. So we're staying in downtown Fargo.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: On the on the ride home and we've driven around
Speaker 2: a little we've driven around a little bit. On the
Speaker 2: ride home, we probably went a good five minutes without
Speaker 2: seeing any other cars. In the road and that was
Speaker 2: at nine to thirty. Yeah, So I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's the cold keeping people indoors or if it's just Fargo,
Speaker 2: but in any case, it's a bit of a ghost
Speaker 2: town here at the moment, despite the fact that I
Speaker 2: think we've got the biggest game of the college football
Speaker 2: season in this town.
Speaker 3: It was a season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true cold, you know.
Speaker 2: In about thirteen hours. As you said, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if everyone is just talking in early
Speaker 2: to be prepared mentally. But so that's impression number one.
Speaker 4: Which i'd see as a positive. I love it. That's
Speaker 4: fine old.
Speaker 2: Heads at this point. Yeah. Yeah. Impression two is that
Speaker 2: it's very cold, but I think we've already covered that point.
Speaker 3: Fine, that's to be expected.
Speaker 2: Impression three, it's very quaint. Yeah, it's extremely quaint, and.
Speaker 4: It just sort of seems like a small college towns.
Speaker 2: It's a very small town. Yeah, but it's it's fine.
Speaker 2: It is not uh, you know, there are no apparently
Speaker 2: the wood Chipper.
Speaker 4: Is around, like the Fargo or visitor center.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like Bleak and you know, Almond is here.
Speaker 2: It's just not very crowded and you know, very very quaint.
Speaker 4: It's a small college town, which just seems like I've
Speaker 4: been too many and it seems like another one of them.
Speaker 4: And something I did notice when we were driving around,
Speaker 4: there has to be a business that installs lights atop
Speaker 4: other businesses, because every along the freeway there were probably
Speaker 4: seven or eight places that looked like strip clubs, right,
Speaker 4: but it was just a mattress store, it was just
Speaker 4: a pet hospital, but they had the lighting of strip clubs.
Speaker 4: And it's disorienting, but also shout out to whoever performed
Speaker 4: and pulled off that sales job. There's a contractor here
Speaker 4: making bank it's and they're not like holiday lights. They're
Speaker 4: not Christmas lights, not whatever. They are permanent fixtures. And
Speaker 4: it's very confusing, like all of a sudden, I think
Speaker 4: I'm in Tampa or something, the Tampa of the upper Plains.
Speaker 2: And where the buildings are.
Speaker 4: Positioned to yes, right next to the freeway.
Speaker 2: It's like you could go either way on whether or
Speaker 2: not it's you know, an eatery or a different kind
Speaker 2: of establishment.
Speaker 4: So those are our early impressions of Fargo.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: Total like I'm looking forward to and this is nothing.
Speaker 4: No slight on First of all, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 4: the game like crazy. Oh yeah, I haven't been to
Speaker 4: a college football game since Oregon Ohio State the National
Speaker 4: Championship game has been about twenty fifteen, the very very
Speaker 4: beginning of twenty fifteen, like early January twenty fifteen. I
Speaker 4: don't know if we're almost going on four years now. Well,
Speaker 4: because of the show. It's hard because of the show.
Speaker 2: It's hard to go to game, yes, because of work, Yeah,
Speaker 2: all sorts of things. Yeah, I mean actual game. It's
Speaker 2: probably been longer for me.
Speaker 3: You him in Deepenn State or Notre Dame or any
Speaker 3: of that. No, it's been a long time.
Speaker 4: I'm excited that it's a game at the Fargo Dome,
Speaker 4: which you didn't even realize that, y, you had a dome.
Speaker 2: Full disclosure. Yeah, that's okay, full disclosure. When you said
Speaker 2: on the show about the Fargo Dome. Yeah, I just
Speaker 2: assumed it was like that Patriot League.
Speaker 3: Gagah, the Tokyo Dome.
Speaker 2: We were talking about, you know, Lehigh playing Georgetown in
Speaker 2: the Tokyo don Stadium as Keeka.
Speaker 4: What's what's the one in London is the O two Arena.
Speaker 2: Right, So I just assumed this was another one of
Speaker 2: your guests. But thank Kevin Brown, not the Dodger pitcher,
Speaker 2: but the announcer. He said the Fargo Dome as well,
Speaker 2: And so I wasn't sure if this was just like
Speaker 2: a widespread joke that I hadn't colorble. No, it wasn't
Speaker 2: until this week that I googled it right and I
Speaker 2: sent to you on the Super Secret g Chat that
Speaker 2: in fact, oh damn, they do have a dome. That's cool,
Speaker 2: that's very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, see, it's what about twenty thousand?
Speaker 2: I think I think stadium our concert capacity, excuse me,
Speaker 2: is twenty four thousand I saw, but it looks like
Speaker 2: the football team gets about eighteen pten.
Speaker 4: There's a good crowd for an FCS. It's a huge crowd.
Speaker 4: We were hearing tonight during curling that people will come
Speaker 4: up to the head coach, Chris Cleman of NDSU football
Speaker 4: and like the supermar currently as we speak today on
Speaker 4: Friday night, the current one he's rumored to be in
Speaker 4: the mix for the Kansas State head coaching job, that
Speaker 4: people will come up to him like good luck. This
Speaker 4: season we're saving up for tick. It's for Frisco, so
Speaker 4: we probably won't see you in person. Until then, it's.
Speaker 2: Assuming a lot. Frisco, by the way, is where they
Speaker 2: play the champions, the National Championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every year in Texas.
Speaker 2: So no pressure, Bison.
Speaker 4: Look past the Raiders at your own risk, is all
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: This is a second straight week now where an opposing
Speaker 2: head coach is rumored on them two a new job.
Speaker 4: So it is, we've been up for a long time.
Speaker 4: We've been up so what it's ten to fifteen. We've
Speaker 4: been up since about what three fifteen our body time
Speaker 4: Central time. I need to import some footage. I need
Speaker 4: to sync up some audio and video. I need to
Speaker 4: sort of figure out what I want to do Tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We have the meet up tomorrow night. Tomorrow's another long day.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 4: I'm excited. I'm gonna get some green tea too. You should,
Speaker 4: you should.
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Speaker 3: So come on, no Brainer, you.
Speaker 2: Heard the man. Okay, so you got to import footage.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna import this audio and get ourselves positioned for
Speaker 2: the next couple captain's logs that we enter here. Yes,
Speaker 2: on our trip to Fargo tomorrow or trip back to
Speaker 2: Minneapolis to meet some of reballers and then eventually back
Speaker 2: home to the East Coast. But in the meantime, we're
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna do we got to do. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get some rest and we'll catch you on the flip side.
Speaker 1: Oh see tomorrow, Saturday, day five, all for in the
Speaker 1: evening somewhere between Minneapolis and Farigo. We can.
Speaker 3: All right, we are we are back. We are on
Speaker 3: the road again.
Speaker 5: We are and we are no longer virgins to the
Speaker 5: North Dakota State football first person viewing experience at the
Speaker 5: Fargo Dome.
Speaker 7: I was really hoping you went in that direction when
Speaker 7: you said we are no longer virgins. This is this
Speaker 7: is my headline, and I tweeted this out almost verbatim.
Speaker 7: We went to the Fargo Dome and it ruled so so,
Speaker 7: so hard. And it's not just because it was a
Speaker 7: crazy atmosphere and a really good team. It was unlike
Speaker 7: anything I've seen. I heard the ventilation in there because
Speaker 7: the crowd was so quiet during the Bisons offensive possessions,
Speaker 7: which is what really good fans should do.
Speaker 3: But it was it was a different place. That was
Speaker 3: a different place.
Speaker 5: Hey, I keep I keep feeling like I want to
Speaker 5: say we came, we saw, we kicked its ass, but
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what they're doing. No, we did.
Speaker 5: We did nothing except walk around and be mildly frozen
Speaker 5: and interview and talk to cool tailgaters who are also
Speaker 5: North Dakota State fans. But I said to you while
Speaker 5: we were there that I felt like it was part
Speaker 5: college football park monster truck rally.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
Speaker 7: It was definitely a venue that seemed like a rodeo
Speaker 7: monster truck. It was a very structured rectangle. It wasn't
Speaker 7: like your standard indoor stadium type Dome. But everybody went nuts. Man,
Speaker 7: everybody was like, that's the show in town. And you
Speaker 7: got that sense, you really did.
Speaker 5: And so we saw a bunch of stuff in there
Speaker 5: that I'm sure we could talk through here as we're driving.
Speaker 5: We got two hours left yet on the hall back
Speaker 5: from Fargo to Minneapolis. But let's start here just a
Speaker 5: really really subtle way of asserting dominance. When the PA
Speaker 5: announcer comes on starts talking about buying tickets to Frisco,
Speaker 5: you reserve your tickets now.
Speaker 3: It might have even been for next year, it may
Speaker 3: have been for twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but start reserve your tickets now to Frisco Texas, where,
Speaker 5: of course, as we said yesterday, they'd play the national
Speaker 5: championship on the SCS level. Sort of a rude thing
Speaker 5: to do when the team you're playing is just getting vaporized.
Speaker 7: So at a certain point, we're just talking about facts, right.
Speaker 7: In fact, a certain point, we're just talking about the
Speaker 7: fact that they've won five of six or six and
Speaker 7: seven national championships, and it just makes good sense that
Speaker 7: there is a good chance no matter what happens. I
Speaker 7: haven't seen anything with Chris Cimon and the Kansas State
Speaker 7: job since we started. No matter what happens with that,
Speaker 7: it's just good sense to plan ahead, as we all know.
Speaker 7: So when I tweeted that out that it was sort
Speaker 7: of an I didn't really think it was. And people
Speaker 7: are like, no, that's what's what people do because that's
Speaker 7: like an annual trip.
Speaker 3: It's like what parent heads do. They go on the
Speaker 3: Jimmy Buffett Cruise.
Speaker 7: What North Dakota State fans do is they go to
Speaker 7: Texas early on in January, so you might as well plan.
Speaker 3: Might as well plan it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what they're called parentids, right, Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker 2: I believe so.
Speaker 3: I believe so.
Speaker 5: My other takeaway from the Fargo Dome is it's really
Speaker 5: freaking loud in there, but only what it wants to be, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what we were saying. Yeah, you mentioned it a
Speaker 5: few minutes ago, only what it wants to be.
Speaker 6: When Colgate was on offense, that place was like a
Speaker 6: metallic concert.
Speaker 5: When North Dakota State was on offense. You could hear
Speaker 5: a pin drop, you could hear the ventilation system at
Speaker 5: the roof.
Speaker 7: You're very proposed to somebody across the stadium, a.
Speaker 6: Very very respectful fan base, I would say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. First of all, we spent almost more time.
Speaker 7: The tailgating was probably more interesting the game than the
Speaker 7: game itself, which was never really competitive. I think it
Speaker 7: was seven to nothing after the first quarter, and it
Speaker 7: was just we got to see a crock potting. We
Speaker 7: got to see maybe the crock Potting of twenty eighteen
Speaker 7: in person, which feels a bit right considering that we
Speaker 7: celebrate the sensation of crock potting. It it was really
Speaker 7: fun to tailgate. It was probably about ten degrees. We
Speaker 7: layered up, We complained minimally. I think our hands hurt
Speaker 7: for a little while. Your feet were giving you a
Speaker 7: little chores. I mean, it was fun, it was cool,
Speaker 7: you know, that's what happened. But what happens is people
Speaker 7: tailgate all the same in proportion. If you go to Alabama,
Speaker 7: there's one hundred thousand people. I'm sure there's a healthy
Speaker 7: proportion of people that tailgate. Same here, less than usual
Speaker 7: because of the weather, for sure, But it's tailgating in
Speaker 7: North Dakota State is the same as tailgating anywhere else.
Speaker 7: The people are the same, the food is the same,
Speaker 7: the attitude is the same, the good times and friendships
Speaker 7: are the same, except they do it inside of tents
Speaker 7: with rocket engine eaters. Outside is ten degrees, inside is
Speaker 7: eighty three. It changes very quickly. But we had a
Speaker 7: lot of bacon and sausage, and like there were cupcakes available,
Speaker 7: a lot of apple, citer and coco, so it was
Speaker 7: it was really cool to see.
Speaker 3: I had no idea.
Speaker 5: It's the adaptation is really inspiring to witness. It's like
Speaker 5: how wolves adapted to be friendlier with humans because they
Speaker 5: were providing them with food right back in that in
Speaker 5: that in the day. The infrastructure that some of these
Speaker 5: fans have clearly invested in, yeah, is is incredible. I
Speaker 5: would also add to your point about tents. I saw
Speaker 5: more North Dakota State themed buses at this tailgate that
Speaker 5: I think I'm accustomed to seeing. I haven't been as
Speaker 5: many places as you, but it feels like the bus
Speaker 5: is per capita and.
Speaker 3: Like school buses.
Speaker 5: Right. Is there bus graveyard somewhere up here where they
Speaker 5: can get these things for ten cents.
Speaker 3: On the dollar? Yeah, I am a Well listen, they're
Speaker 3: not listen. Listen, They're not doing this for any.
Speaker 7: Other teams, Like I don't think they're also twins fans
Speaker 7: on this level that they are North Dakota State fans,
Speaker 7: I don't think they are, you know, I think the
Speaker 7: year is built around this in the way that it's
Speaker 7: true elsewhere obviously, especially in the South, and you'll see
Speaker 7: a lot of those buses and setups like they're like
Speaker 7: that as well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, when you have and this team is the best,
Speaker 3: this team is Alabama, this team is beyond Alabama.
Speaker 7: I mean, what Alabama does against the competition is sort
Speaker 7: of unprecedented on that level. But in terms of the
Speaker 7: sport short of like the crazy, I don't I don't
Speaker 7: know how compares to like Mount Union and Wisconsin Whitewater
Speaker 7: on D three, but this is I mean, North Dakota
Speaker 7: State is beating They are beating Power five schools, so
Speaker 7: they're a lot closer than perhaps some of those dynasties.
Speaker 7: I almost thought watching the game, because Colgate is a
Speaker 7: very good but definitely not great FCS may certainly flawed
Speaker 7: one because of their offense, and watching North Dakota State,
Speaker 7: who at times looks like in just like an average
Speaker 7: Power five school, dismantle them, it made me wonder if
Speaker 7: people get bored going to North Dkota State games because
Speaker 7: I don't know how many are actually competitive. Granted, we
Speaker 7: went and saw a thirty five nothing game that was
Speaker 7: particularly not competitive.
Speaker 3: That was the final score, right, it was thirty five nothing.
Speaker 7: But I wonder if you should add like a Harlem
Speaker 7: Globetrotter element to it, because you go see the Harlem Globetrotters,
Speaker 7: you know who's winning.
Speaker 3: You know that the Washington tricks, You're not going to
Speaker 3: see the score.
Speaker 7: Right, So what I'm saying is you add one crooked
Speaker 7: ref just totally and clearly.
Speaker 3: Donna ging out there.
Speaker 7: You add a couple of players, mandatory players to North
Speaker 7: Dakota's starting twenty two, that are on English speaking, non
Speaker 7: football familiar people who will certainly affect the game.
Speaker 3: Your left guard is five three eighteen.
Speaker 7: You have to give them some sort of in the
Speaker 7: way that golf has a handicap, something along those lines.
Speaker 5: You also need to borrow a page from the old
Speaker 5: twenty four handbook.
Speaker 7: Okay, you need a good mole, You need an absolute
Speaker 7: mom need a mole, You need a pre installed Waki leagues.
Speaker 6: Right, something some some like fly in the ointment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that can serve on serves a distraction on a
Speaker 5: couple different fronts.
Speaker 3: And I think that might be it.
Speaker 7: Okay, we were talking about this earlier and this I'm
Speaker 7: I'm gonna switch it up a little. We were talking
Speaker 7: about which Power five school you would definitively take the
Speaker 7: or give the points fourteen fourteen and a half points
Speaker 7: over North Dakota State playing on the Vikings Field, so
Speaker 7: like US Bank State US Bank Stadium, not the not
Speaker 7: the Fargo town to have that true home field advantage,
Speaker 7: but a relative indoor, neutral home field advantage.
Speaker 3: And I want to add a little wrinkle to that.
Speaker 5: Okay, See, I almost think the question needs to be
Speaker 5: playing in the Fargo Dome because, as we tweet it out,
Speaker 5: it's such an enormous home field advantage, certainly on the
Speaker 5: SCS level where they're used to playing in front of, like, gosh,
Speaker 5: two to five thousand people. Right the Fargo Dome holds
Speaker 5: I think it's max capacity as twenty four, but for
Speaker 5: football games they pulled down about eighteen. Colgate coming in
Speaker 5: there has to be wide eyed and a little bit terrified.
Speaker 3: Gosh.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if it's all that different for
Speaker 5: other schools going in there. Certainly a school like I
Speaker 5: don't know, I'll just say Notre Dame. Right, Notre Dame
Speaker 5: is used to playing in front of a lot of people,
Speaker 5: but maybe not playing in a place like the Fargo Dome,
Speaker 5: which is so unique.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're Dakota schools, you're Northern Iowa who
Speaker 7: play in domes and have played in the Fargo Dome
Speaker 7: often get the drill, right, But Coldgates. Here's my question
Speaker 7: specific about Olgate or any other like Northeastern power or
Speaker 7: a power like Sam. I don't think Sam used to say,
Speaker 7: I don't know if they've ever come to the Fargo Nome.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'm wrong, but somewhere that's distant and definitively at
Speaker 7: a disadvantage talent wise, coaching wise, and now environment wise.
Speaker 7: If North Dakota State, by law of the FCS playoffs,
Speaker 7: the NCAA had to send Colgate every second of their
Speaker 7: offensive meetings this week filmed.
Speaker 3: There was a.
Speaker 7: Camera in their offensive meetings. This is we're doing in
Speaker 7: this situation. These are the plays we're installing. These are
Speaker 7: the practice cut ups from like where it was strong
Speaker 7: and where it wasn't strong. If they were forced to
Speaker 7: deliver the entire offensive game plan with video evidence to
Speaker 7: Colgate as it was happening like a live stream. Does
Speaker 7: it ultimately change the outcome in any sort of dramatic way.
Speaker 7: I mean, if Colgate is ready for everything, it's all there,
Speaker 7: like they know no sequence what's going to happen. They
Speaker 7: know the sequence, they know the first however, many plays
Speaker 7: on the script.
Speaker 3: They know what they've installed for the red zone. They
Speaker 3: know what every formation looks like.
Speaker 7: They know out of which personnel package they're running this
Speaker 7: type of play. They know the calls, they know the signals.
Speaker 7: Everything is fully telegraphed. The quarterback might as well tell
Speaker 7: the defense, wow, this is what we're running here, this
Speaker 7: is what you know.
Speaker 5: So you're really expanding upon the whole whole premise. Yes,
Speaker 5: that that is what triggered that in my minds.
Speaker 7: Do you think thirty five nothing becomes a competitive game?
Speaker 7: Do you think Colgate wins? Do you think at best
Speaker 7: it's thirty five to twenty?
Speaker 5: I mean, well, first off, you're not telling Colgate what
Speaker 5: North Dakota State's doing on defense. It's actually the bigger problem,
Speaker 5: the bigger problem. So I don't think it changes the outcome.
Speaker 5: Maybe North Dakota State, I.
Speaker 7: Mean they turned over, they forced you know, they they've
Speaker 7: maybe eight.
Speaker 5: But the problem, the problem with the game that we
Speaker 5: saw was that it really was not competitive.
Speaker 6: The better team was North Dakota State.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think it starts up front with their
Speaker 5: defensive line. We're not gonna do any deep analysis here,
Speaker 5: but Colgate was just so overmatched on the offensive side
Speaker 5: of the ball going up against that defensive line.
Speaker 3: So even if they knew, even.
Speaker 5: Everything that the buys in we're gonna do was telegraphed,
Speaker 5: I don't think right any much difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they probably score a couple of times.
Speaker 3: I think they forced.
Speaker 7: Turnovers, but don't convert in the red zone, because you're right.
Speaker 7: The big problem for Bolgate was it took a super
Speaker 7: human effort from their defense this season to become a
Speaker 7: top ten ranked MCS team, right to overcome the fact
Speaker 7: that their passing game just didn't really exist against the
Speaker 7: better teams on their schedule. I know they had some
Speaker 7: nice passes last week against James Madison, but it was
Speaker 7: it was a non starter.
Speaker 6: So let me ask you this because we'll kind of
Speaker 6: get to this.
Speaker 5: We were talking about this in the bagel shop before
Speaker 5: we hopped in the car to make this journey back
Speaker 5: to Minneapolis fourteen and a half points.
Speaker 3: It's your hypothetical spread.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna say we're playing the game in the
Speaker 5: Fargo Dome, in the Fargo Dome, in Fargo.
Speaker 7: Dome, which is both different and less daunting, a smaller
Speaker 7: crowd but louder in some cases than a lot of
Speaker 7: opponents on the road.
Speaker 5: So let's go through big ten teams. Okay, you tell
Speaker 5: me who you would take to cover fourteen and a
Speaker 5: half in the Fargo Dome.
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll start easy. Would you take Michigan and Ohio.
Speaker 7: State, Yes, Michigan in Ohio State, I or at least
Speaker 7: two touchdowns better in the Fargo Dome.
Speaker 5: In the Fargo Den the Bison, Yes, Penn State. Penn
Speaker 5: State had trouble with app State this year.
Speaker 3: Well, Apstates I would take. That game was in beaver Stadia.
Speaker 3: Appstate's legitimately good.
Speaker 7: And I don't think you can look at app State
Speaker 7: and say into the Sun Belt Champs. You can't look
Speaker 7: at Appstate and say, like, could you imagine struggling against
Speaker 7: Apps State and now they're good.
Speaker 3: Penn State struggled with Rutgers.
Speaker 7: I think that would be the more Apps exam of
Speaker 7: Penn State looking flat against a team that doesn't have
Speaker 7: the talent of Penn State. Would I take Penn State
Speaker 7: to cover on the road, Yes, I think I would.
Speaker 7: Eventually they win that game because of the line play
Speaker 7: and because of players like Miles Sanders and kJ Hamler,
Speaker 7: who even if the offense is not rolling like it
Speaker 7: should be with Tracey McSorley, they can turn eight into
Speaker 7: eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Yes. Michigan State.
Speaker 7: No, No, Michigan State definitively does something extremely poorly, and
Speaker 7: that's play offense, and I think that would be their undoing.
Speaker 7: I would definitely take those points, if not take like
Speaker 7: the money line, you'd go money line.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think North Kota State one upset Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: Yeah in the Fargo Dome. Yes, absolutely. Michigan State feels
Speaker 7: like a team that wouldn't take them seriously. Michigan State
Speaker 7: could shut them down. But I think North Dakota State
Speaker 7: could definitely win that game thirteen to ten for.
Speaker 3: Sure, So would you.
Speaker 5: I'd be inclined then to put along that same line
Speaker 5: of Northwestern.
Speaker 7: Did Michigan State barely get by Rutgers at the end
Speaker 7: of the year, that's the most recent example.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Northwestern played in the Big Ten championship game. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this is a good one, but but kind of has
Speaker 5: like a fatal flaw every game somehow, Right, whether it's
Speaker 5: Clayton Thorson turning the ball over four or.
Speaker 3: Five times, yep, whether it's well, it's usually not.
Speaker 5: The defense defense has been reasonably solid on the FBS level,
Speaker 5: but offensively going into a strange place. I guess it's
Speaker 5: not too too far of a trip for Northwestern, but
Speaker 5: they probably win.
Speaker 6: I don't know if they cover fourteen and a half though,
Speaker 6: you know, don't like that.
Speaker 3: By the way, this is all to be clear.
Speaker 7: North Dakota State has an NFL caliber quarterback once again.
Speaker 7: He is on draft boards. He's not like, I don't
Speaker 7: think it's a higher round pick like Carson Wentz was.
Speaker 7: But Easton Stick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna say you're burying the lead that his
Speaker 5: name is Easton Stick Eastern sick.
Speaker 7: Could he be a long time Chase Daniel asque backup
Speaker 7: in the NFL with some health luck? Absolutely, he throws
Speaker 7: a nice ball and he's he's a good size.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The fact that Chase Daniel is still a Chase danielish
Speaker 5: back is probably probably evidence enough for Eastern stick, so.
Speaker 7: Northwestern to get back to the main road. Yes, I
Speaker 7: probably would not. Northwestern is a team that plays up
Speaker 7: and plays down, and I would take Northwestern to win,
Speaker 7: but I would have them winning twenty four to twenty
Speaker 7: something like that.
Speaker 3: List for me.
Speaker 5: The teams that in the Fargo Gum outside of Michigan State, yeah,
Speaker 5: North Dakota State would be would beat outright.
Speaker 7: Yeah in the Big Ten or any we know they
Speaker 7: could beat Oregon, but how dare you Big ten? In
Speaker 7: the Big Ten, North Dakota State could outright beat Rutgers.
Speaker 3: Yes, in the Fargo doll.
Speaker 7: I think they could outright beat Maryland, even though the
Speaker 7: best of Maryland should be the you know, the average
Speaker 7: of North Dkota State. The best of Maryland is not
Speaker 7: something we always saw. I think they could beat that
Speaker 7: Maryland team, especially with injuries a quarterback. I think they
Speaker 7: could beat Minnesota, even though the Minnesota defense did improve
Speaker 7: by the end of the year.
Speaker 3: They could beat Illinois.
Speaker 7: Illinois actually scares me a little bit because of how
Speaker 7: well they ran the BOT.
Speaker 3: I mean, they can control a little bit on the ground,
Speaker 3: but I think they could beat Illinois for sure.
Speaker 7: They could beat to Purdue, but I would probably lean
Speaker 7: towards giving those points with Purdue just because they themselves
Speaker 7: have a good quarterback and some game changes on offense.
Speaker 7: I think North Dakota State could beat outright. I don't
Speaker 7: feel good about Nebraska. I mean I am to say
Speaker 7: that I feel good about Nebraska winning. I don't feel
Speaker 7: good about it beating Nebraska. Who else am I right now? Indiana?
Speaker 3: Indiana? They could beat Indiana.
Speaker 7: North Dakota State has recently competed well with Iowa, so yeah,
Speaker 7: we saw some ugliness from that of the Iowa offenses here.
Speaker 6: So anyway, the point here, I think the larger point
Speaker 6: is that.
Speaker 3: North Dakota State is a.
Speaker 7: Maybe below average right now Big Ten team, but they're
Speaker 7: hovering within average.
Speaker 6: Right like they could get both. Yes, this is what
Speaker 6: it amounts to. Incredible venue for a game.
Speaker 5: Definitely a bucket list trip to come up and check
Speaker 5: this out. It is different, though, and it's different in
Speaker 5: this respect because I don't know if it's because I
Speaker 5: know in the back of my mind that it's FCS
Speaker 5: football as opposed to FBS. I don't know if it's
Speaker 5: because it's that FCS team playing in a really cool
Speaker 5: and by comparison giant venue like the Fargo Dome. I
Speaker 5: don't know what it is, but there is part of
Speaker 5: me that felt like I went to a different planet
Speaker 5: for sure watching this game, and it occupies the space between.
Speaker 3: Really big time Texas.
Speaker 5: High school football and like middle tier Big ten football.
Speaker 5: It feels to me, wow mentally, like it like it's
Speaker 5: just somewhere in there. And I don't quite know how,
Speaker 5: And I don't mean that as any disrespect. I'm sure
Speaker 5: it'll come across that way. Well, it's just such an
Speaker 5: odd setting to see a whole town rally around at
Speaker 5: FCS school.
Speaker 7: That's not something I've seen. No, in the Northeast, it's
Speaker 7: most certainly not like that. And you know, in the
Speaker 7: South there are certainly pockets that appreciate and support FCS
Speaker 7: schools rightfully, so, but there this is the one hundred
Speaker 7: and twenty five thousand people live in Fargo, and a
Speaker 7: lot of the towns in the South and Texas are
Speaker 7: much smaller that have FCS schools. So no, it's a
Speaker 7: unique experience. It's a unique destination for sure. And yeah,
Speaker 7: I would say North Dakota State is like a good Macteam,
Speaker 7: pretty good Macteam and.
Speaker 3: I came away just crazy oppressed with the.
Speaker 7: Experience, and I almost have to wonder at what point
Speaker 7: And I don't know different conference qualifications because then you
Speaker 7: start getting into academics and you.
Speaker 3: Know you North Dakota State is not going to join
Speaker 3: the Big Ten.
Speaker 7: But when you win eight of nine, when you win
Speaker 7: ten of eleven or twelve fifteen, when do we have
Speaker 7: to say North Dakota State should be the Mountain West
Speaker 7: like that? And that has to be like in a
Speaker 7: not so distant time. That conversation has to be had.
Speaker 7: If it continues with it, it's very difficult because Chris
Speaker 7: Clime is gonna be hired by somebody in the way
Speaker 7: that Craig Bowl was at Wyoming, right if they keep
Speaker 7: it going with whoever's now, if it's a current coach
Speaker 7: at the school, or they hire from the outside, North
Speaker 7: Dakota's North Dakota State's infrastructure as such where they can
Speaker 7: support a Mountain West teams, and the conversation has to
Speaker 7: be had, why are they still playing on this level?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: And the point here is I think even if their
Speaker 5: coach leaves, yeah, it might be that they've gotten to
Speaker 5: the point where the program is it's almost a critical mass, right,
Speaker 5: because they've gotten such an infrastructure advantage having that as
Speaker 5: our home stadium. Yep, they can probably afford to throw
Speaker 5: a little bit more into their football program than a
Speaker 5: lot of their rivals because they have that and they
Speaker 5: need to continue that.
Speaker 7: Tradition, right. I also think they are and it's part
Speaker 7: of it. I don't think it's a main part of it,
Speaker 7: but it's part of it. I think they're kind of
Speaker 7: secretly in a very good location. It's very strange to
Speaker 7: say that about North Dakota, but they're in a good
Speaker 7: sized college town, cold mind you, but that's okay because
Speaker 7: a good chunk of their rosters they're from North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Speaker 7: and the high school level of football and the high
Speaker 7: school participation of football in Minnesota and Wisconsin I think
Speaker 7: is sort of under talked about where they can pretty
Speaker 7: much get any This is without any research or talking
Speaker 7: to any expert. It's my new It seems like they
Speaker 7: could probably at this point in the way Alabama can
Speaker 7: do it throughout the South, get any fringe FBS player
Speaker 7: they want, if they're undersized, if they're late bloomers, whatever,
Speaker 7: from Wisconsin or Minnesota. That Upper Plains area. They're the
Speaker 7: show and they have that advantage over a school like Colgate, which,
Speaker 7: all respect to Hamilton, New York and surrounding areas, this
Speaker 7: is not an area of the country that has a
Speaker 7: big pool to choose from, So North Dakota State in
Speaker 7: that way has a nice advantage.
Speaker 5: You know what, just Dawnamy, what did you happen to
Speaker 5: see the science saying I prefer Crest?
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of Coldgate. It's just dawned to me that
Speaker 3: they're comparing Colgate to toothpaste.
Speaker 6: Yes, in the car several hours after the game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, you were focused on many other things and
Speaker 7: that's acceptable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I would recommend because we get a lot
Speaker 7: of these emails and it's off the beaten path for sure.
Speaker 7: People ask should where should I go? I've never been
Speaker 7: to a game. I live in Australia coming to the States.
Speaker 7: Should I go see Texas or should I go see Alabama?
Speaker 3: Something?
Speaker 5: To be fair, if you're coming from Australia, don't don't
Speaker 5: make Fargo your first slag at the first one.
Speaker 3: Don't make it the first one.
Speaker 7: But if you've been around and you want somewhere new
Speaker 7: and difference. Go to a big game at the Fargo
Speaker 7: Nome in like late October, late October.
Speaker 5: Yes, at the absolutely because you're still get it. It'll
Speaker 5: be crisp, It'll be like the thirties or something, probably forties, right,
Speaker 5: I do recommend it. I had a great time. The
Speaker 5: people were terrific, the atmosphere was great.
Speaker 7: It was we went curling, We ate burgers, we layered up,
Speaker 7: we wandered around on tailgates. We got to see the
Speaker 7: end of the Patriot League football season. Did you got
Speaker 7: to see a clip of me curling on the game broadcasts? Yes,
Speaker 7: with Cole Kublic and DJ Shockley, Which it's very strange
Speaker 7: to say that I went curling with DJ Shockley and
Speaker 7: Kole Kublick, but I mean mostly DJ shock I could
Speaker 7: and I could anticipate. I could have anticipated a world
Speaker 7: in which I went curling with a former offensive lineman.
Speaker 7: But DJ Shockley a little different, just great quarterback for Georgia.
Speaker 7: So I uh, the trip came together last minute, and
Speaker 7: I regret nothing, and I encourage everybody to follow our
Speaker 7: decision making and just just go for it. Take chances,
Speaker 7: be spontaneous, your best life, live your best turning into
Speaker 7: an advice show. Here it is turning into an advice show.
Speaker 7: We're in the middle of Minnesota. It wasn't We passed Alexandria,
Speaker 7: Minnesota not too long ago.
Speaker 5: It's still very flats getting it is foggy. It's just
Speaker 5: a new wrinkle. We keep passing icy bodies of water.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: But we have the meet up in a little bit
Speaker 7: in about four hours in Minneapolis. You can check into
Speaker 7: our hotel to eat some dinner. And I think Tye
Speaker 7: is going to do some independent research on Fargo in
Speaker 7: North Dakota. I'm very curious about Fargo North Dakota. Tye
Speaker 7: is borderline becoming obsessed with like why do people move
Speaker 7: to Fargo, Why do people leave Fargo? Why do people
Speaker 7: start businesses in Fargo? Why don't they start businesses in
Speaker 7: Fargas don't they?
Speaker 3: I want to know.
Speaker 5: I want to know the official pitch, yeah, from the
Speaker 5: Fargo Chamber of Commerce to prospective business clients who might
Speaker 5: want to bring their operations inside the city limits. And
Speaker 5: I mean that not again in any derogatory way. I'm
Speaker 5: genuinely curious about how this works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. I got questions after this trip.
Speaker 7: It was an interesting place that is extremely far away
Speaker 7: for most places I've been.
Speaker 5: So what I would add as we sort of wrap
Speaker 5: up here a little bit, Yeah, big thanks first and
Speaker 5: foremost to our Frank Kevin Brown from ESPN.
Speaker 3: Yeah, planting the seed. Who planted the seed?
Speaker 5: You know, I guess we kind of planted it a
Speaker 5: little bit, but he took it and he watered that
Speaker 5: seed and gave it sprouts yep, to the point where
Speaker 5: we thought, hey, what the hell, let's do it. So
Speaker 5: Kevin a really good dude. It was great to meet
Speaker 5: him for the first time. Yeah, and I'm sure he
Speaker 5: did a magnificent job with the broadcast. If you listen
Speaker 5: to his intro to the broadcast, there were a bunch
Speaker 5: of little Easter eggs in there for sOliver bawlers. Yeah,
Speaker 5: who might have been watching wondering what is this game
Speaker 5: all about? So good dude, big thanks to him. Would
Speaker 5: you say we're influencing the influencers? It's not my phrase,
Speaker 5: but I think we think we have a good case you.
Speaker 3: Could use that. We could use that. Yeah, shout out
Speaker 3: once again to open.
Speaker 7: Floor Lowe, But I U Kevin Brown up and pay attention.
Speaker 3: Listen. We made Adam a meme. Listen, listen, we made
Speaker 3: Adam a meme. That's a joke. We can make Kevin Brown.
Speaker 7: We are secret king makers of play by play broadcasters.
Speaker 3: Kenvin Brown. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Also, big thanks to everyone in North Dakota State on
Speaker 5: very short notice kind of giving us, you know, our.
Speaker 3: Lay of the land here.
Speaker 5: Driving their credentials to our hotel, which is, believe me,
Speaker 5: not something that normally And you know, big thanks to
Speaker 5: all of the fans who kind of opened their tailgates
Speaker 5: up to us, welcomed us in. Thank you for helping
Speaker 5: keep us warm throughout this because it was very cool.
Speaker 5: What was the best thing you ate at a tailgate?
Speaker 5: What was that bacon? The whiskey, cayenne, bacon, sugar?
Speaker 7: Yeh, some guy made some sort of slurry with whiskey
Speaker 7: or bourbon and cayamne pepper for spice and brown sugar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the best bacon.
Speaker 7: I frizzled it over the bacon before bacon, and yeah,
Speaker 7: it was excellent bacon. I don't know what the best
Speaker 7: thing I had was. It might have been that bacon.
Speaker 7: It probably was that bacon. But we had meatballs and
Speaker 7: sausage and we did do a jellow shot. We didn't
Speaker 7: want to be rude, right, and I think we had
Speaker 7: a little bit of breakfast burrito.
Speaker 3: It's good food. It's tough in the morning. It's tough
Speaker 3: in the morning.
Speaker 7: It was an eleven am local pick to throw together
Speaker 7: at tailgate, especially when nobody really wants to be outside
Speaker 7: manning the grill.
Speaker 5: A lot of sausages around the parking lot. All right, Dan,
Speaker 5: So now we are off to Minneapolis. Yeah, for our
Speaker 5: next trick. We're gonna meet some for ballers. Yes, at
Speaker 5: Surly Brewing Company. I recognize when people listen to this
Speaker 5: they will not be able to to like adjust their
Speaker 5: plans and meet up with us, but nonetheless that's where
Speaker 5: we're headed. Yeah, a little bit later on the seating
Speaker 5: to meet some Minneapolis for ball.
Speaker 3: Er some people saying Paul overballers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, from the greater Minneapolis area, which is always fun
Speaker 5: for us to go out and meet some of the
Speaker 5: people that support the show.
Speaker 3: So that'll be fun. Then we fly back to reality
Speaker 3: early tomorrow morning, very early tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I didn't tell you this, but I think we're going
Speaker 7: to be departing from the airport in two different cabs. WHOA, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I think I'm meeting Jody with an I for brunch,
Speaker 7: pre existing reservation. Okay, so it's going to This trip
Speaker 7: is going to end before you thought it was going to.
Speaker 6: It's okay, it's okay. But we're used to this life, Dan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we are indeed, so I a huge success. Could
Speaker 7: not categorize it as anything less than a huge success.
Speaker 3: This was.
Speaker 7: If it's not my first FCS football attendance, I can't
Speaker 7: think of what was. And other than the fact that
Speaker 7: the game was in no way competitive beyond the.
Speaker 3: First quarter, I cradd in a it was.
Speaker 7: It was a great time and again recommend it to
Speaker 7: all go support the the.
Speaker 3: Bison and dominance. It's it's your duty already, damp. I
Speaker 3: think that's all I got.
Speaker 6: I don't know if we do the normal outro here
Speaker 6: being so we are in a moving vehicle, right, But
Speaker 6: there's been a fun trip. We appreciate everybody who who
Speaker 6: has sort of joined us spiritually.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, driving into the fog, this might be the last
Speaker 7: recorded evidence of our existence.
Speaker 5: They're going to find this, yeah, in a fiery crash,
Speaker 5: but no, thanks to everyone who supported it, who played
Speaker 5: along with all of our fun. We will catch you
Speaker 5: on a few days. In the meantimes, stay solid, Peace,