WEBVTT - #660 - Tornado Chasing, Best College Towns & Bad Sequels with Josh Pate 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.000 All right, So on today's episode, we're going to talk 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.880 storm chasing, We're going to talk greatest college towns. We'll 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.640 talk a little college football. We have Josh pat here, 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.440 who is the college football guy. Unless you're Brandon Walker 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.800 watching this now, he's still the college guy. Yeah yeah, yeah, 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.720 yeah yeah. So first I wanted to talk about the 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.600 best college towns in America without giving you the list. 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.040 And you've been I think practically to all the good ones. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.040 What comes to my top college towns? 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:48.680 Athens, Georgia. I love State College, Pennsylvania. Now is this 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:49.760 a list like a ranking? 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.120 I'm trying to guess, or is it my I want 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.160 just yours because you've been a lot of places. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:56.040 I have a list, but I don't want you to 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.000 see the list before I go. Here are yours, and 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:58.600 we give ours? 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.800 Okay. I love Athens. I think if I were to 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.640 have to take someone from another country who wants to 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.120 see a college town on a game day, I would 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.119 take them to Athens, Georgia. I think that's pretty quintessential. Now, 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.559 you may hate Georgia, like you're a Florida fan or something, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.640 but I don't think if you could divorce yourself from 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.320 that you could deny just the vibe of Athens. Knoxville's 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.720 a bigger town, but I still think it is a really, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.480 really good college town if you're in the right spots. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.720 Tuscaloosa can be like that. I just mentioned State College, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.480 so Penn State. I was just up there this week, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.000 so kind of recency biased. Too cold, though not in 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:35.000 August fair enough, So make sure you go up there 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.160 with me early in the season. Have you been to Eugene, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.680 have you been to Oregon? Yes, so I think it's 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.240 good for me, but I'm from the South. If I 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.920 take some of my Southern buddies up there, it's really 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.119 hit or miss, like they either kind of can get 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.200 with that or they can't get with that. So that's 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.080 kind of a conditional college town. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.560 So isolated. It is like I can find a reason 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.840 to say everything is bad except Fanville. So just know 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.280 that I'll find a reason to hate on everything. And 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.600 Eugene's awesome. It's just so hard to get to if 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.280 you're just going there for that. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.600 Yeah, you're either southwest probably two stops to Eugene, or 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.280 you're probably Portland and then an hour and a half 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.560 down the coast and you're not really driving on the coast, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.720 so you don't get the scenery. I don't know. I 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.320 like Eugene, Okay. The one that I haven't been to enough. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.639 I've only been to a game there once is Oxford. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.360 Oh this hurts. It's great. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:22.760 Yeah, it's great. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.640 You It feels like though, if you ever walk into 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.240 like a Louis Bitton store or one of these luxury 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.440 brand stores, how they look at you when you walk in, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.120 they kind of want to make you feel less than 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.840 just to see if you're worthy. That's kind of what 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.519 it feels like when you go and you're the opposing team, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.280 because you go out in the grove and everybody's fancy. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.359 It's like they wear two collars on their shirts that type. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.000 not toy one collar, they're wearing two. Or they're wearing 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.040 the flip up you know how we used to do 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.800 back in the day. So it's great though. So Oxford 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.800 is fantastic because it's all built in. You did not 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:58.840 mention Feteville, So I'd like to hear. Have you been 0:02:58.840 --> 0:02:59.680 to Fable, Arkansas? 0:02:59.680 --> 0:02:59.760 Oh? 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.840 Yeah, I like it. Very underrated, very underrated airport. By 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.919 the way. Yeah, you gotta drive twenty minutes kind of 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.200 ou in the middle of nowhere. But I remember, I 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.160 remember X and A because we're right next to BNA. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.960 That's just a place where if I were to circle 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.880 two of them, South Carolina and Arkansas is a place 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.959 where if I could just snap my fingers in like 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.959 a couple of places or better perennially at football, those 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.600 would be the two, because I actually I would. Arkansas 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.359 is one of my favorite places to go. I got 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:28.840 to get storry about in a second, which I may 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.360 have told you just about losing my vision up there 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.600 because of the moonshine over not moonshine, something even more 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.280 dangerous cold brew consumed in large quantities. I wish they 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.400 were good. I know you're trying, like I know you're 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.960 doing everything in your power. I wish that I had 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.280 more reasons to go up to Arkansas. People will say 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:47.640 all the time, why don't you come up here enough? 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:48.200 Hey, you suck. 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.000 We're going to the biggest games in the country every Saturday. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:52.720 The last one I could go to is when you 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.600 guys played Cincinnati to open the season a few years ago. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.800 Yeah, yeah, it hurts. We bought a house right next 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.320 to the football stadium, but we bought it. You know, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.560 the market goes Mark goes down. I feel like we 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:02.920 got a better deal in the house because we suck 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.760 right now, which. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.600 I guess is one ray of sunshine. That's one way 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.760 to look at it. As at least it moves the 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:10.720 needle in one direction. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.680 People park in your yard like game day. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.919 Well, we haven't lived there during a game a season yet. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.760 Well I know, dude, there's the money to be made, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.040 but twenty bucks a car, But what do I care? 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.600 I don't want to be parking in my yarda ugh, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.240 I would put And it doesn't really count because the 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.120 city is so great. It just happens to have a 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.919 college there, Austin Austin. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:33.680 I wasn't going to go. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.520 It's got a million residents. I know, it doesn't I 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.080 hate the Longhorns, hate with every part of me, and 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.600 I live with Longhorns and have friends that coach Longhorns. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.719 Growing up in Arkansas, we hate Texas. But Austin is 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.359 freaking awesome. But it's not a college town. It's a 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:49.479 city that has a college in it. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.279 Do you have any familiarity with Texas Tech? 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.520 Meaning I know they head football coach. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.760 But do you know like, have you've been out there 0:04:59.040 --> 0:04:59.880 in the lubb. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.920 It but I haven't really experienced their island of Texas 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:04.920 technis good. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.240 Way to put it. You haven't been to the island 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:07.680 of Texas Technas. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.680 So I've played a show. I did stand up out 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.240 there at theater, but I didn't really get to experience 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.080 the Texas technis. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.480 That is one I would describe that, even more so 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.520 than maybe how we describe Eugene of like people think Texas. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.320 If you're from Michigan and you've never been there, you think, oh, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.359 Texas is Texas. Austin and Lubbock are like Jupiter and Mars. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.080 They're like different planets. Culturally they could not be any 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.760 more different. So that's another one. Like Lubbock, I love 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.719 it because it reminds me a little bit of sort 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.440 of the environment I grew up in rural Georgia. So 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.479 you go out there, everyone's sleeves are rolled up, just 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.520 literally and figuratively. It's kind of like an US against 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.600 the World mentality. You feel like you're on the moon. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.440 It's six hours from the next biggest town, and if 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.159 you're about that, it's awesome. If you're not about that, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.880 it's like, man, how soon can I get out of here? 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.680 Since I'm about it? I love it. I took Savannah 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.159 and my wife out there, and she had never been 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.960 pretty much west of Dallas in the state of Texas before, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.520 and we took her out there this past year. They 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.520 played Brigham Young game days there, like it's a huge day, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.600 so we'll go see Joey. We'll go out there the 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.880 day before and I had her spend the forty eight hours. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.880 She couldn't shut up about it. She still hasn't shut 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.360 up about it. We've gone out there again since then. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.400 And I think that's one that's a little off people's 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.760 radars where if you just popped, hey, what do you 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.600 think about Lubbock, Texas on them, it would kind of 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.080 catch them off guard. It's like a little fist to 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.839 the chin in the college town conversation that they don't 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.919 see coming. But you go out there, man, it's a 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.760 different world. You may not like it, but you may 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:33.920 also love it. I love it. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.000 Could you just reveal bias that you are from Georgia 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.919 and you just picked Georgia as your number one team? Like, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.400 I know where you're from. I was just gonna let 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.320 that slide but I can't address it and said you 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:41.920 didn't say it. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.600 Well, you can say I'm from Georgia. What I'm more 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.839 interested in is Georgia being my number one team, because 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.400 I said Athens was my number one town. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.880 Yeah, I'm saying college towns though. Yeah, they said there's 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:52.640 some bias there. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.279 There is. I don't know. Yes, you could say that, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.760 and I can't convince you of a counterfactual. I think 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.440 I would say Athens if I were from you know, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.240 like Wichita Falls. I think Athens. If I'm going to 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.080 list you the things I look for in college town, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.280 I'll tell you one thing that's underrated. A little bit 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.320 of terrain being baked in, like if it's not just flat. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.760 We went to Provo Eddie and I did a shoot 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.720 with BYU. Yeah, what a freaking city. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:17.720 I've only flown over it. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.040 You're on the field, And when you say terrain, that's 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.000 what it triggered, YEP, is that it's surrounded by snowcap mountains. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.480 It's like a screensaver basically. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.840 Yeah, and whatever they had Mormon's name is, he's up 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.320 on the top of it doing this, and so you're 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:33.360 just like, that's cool. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.360 That's great. So they played Notre Dame there this year, obviously, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.040 and that's the one where I'm looking at the few 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.760 places I've never been. I've never seen a game at 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.520 Brigham Young. I've never been to Provo. Maybe that's my shot, 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.480 but I don't have it off the top of my head. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.760 But that's that Saturday. There are really two of them 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.600 this year. They're just cram packed, and that's one of 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.160 those Saturdays where you've got half a dozen games that 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.840 may qualify as the biggest game on any given other Saturday. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.080 So crossed we can get out there. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.360 I don't know, I have guilt about our Provo trip 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.800 because we go and we're hanging out. Everybody's so nice 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.920 to us, you know, the coach is awesome, and we're 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.200 going to go and work out with some of the 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.560 players and they're like, what jerseys do you want? And Eddie, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:14.360 what number did you get? 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.400 I don't remember, like seventeen or something. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.600 Now I remember remember where at b Yu. Huh what 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.000 number should I not ask for? 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:21.880 Well? 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.520 I wouldn't ask for Jim at Mann's number. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.840 Let's think you're twelve years old. Immature more than that, Like, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.240 what's the most immature number you could possibly ask for 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.040 that you shouldn't ask for at a school that's. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.920 Built on sounds like an offensive lineman number. Yeah, probably 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.080 in the upper sixties. Yeah, and everyone rolls their eyes 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:39.360 and you did. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.360 It like an idiot. And I regret it. And I 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.680 don't regret anything in my life. I've learned from many mistakes. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.160 But once I started looking at pictures and the video 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.240 of it, I hated me because I wore the number 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.920 sixty nine at BYU. It was just bad. It is bad. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.200 I don't like me for that, and so that's my regret. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.400 I'm gonna give a pregnant pause to let it sizzle. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.199 So you are what age right now? 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:05.760 Forty six? 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.000 You are a forty six year old successful man. And 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.520 if you're speaking to a college class right now and 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.880 someone raises their hand, mister bones, excuse me, mister bones. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.280 What is your biggest regret in life? You're gonna go, well, Chad. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.760 I went to Provo one time and they asked me 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.840 what jersey I want and I went sixty. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.360 Nine, Chad. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.240 Other than that has been a pretty good life, brother. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.240 That's it. That's the answer. Yeah, it used to be 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.160 when I got fined a million bucks by the FCC. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:37.760 That's distant memory. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.760 That's too. Number one is picking number sixty nine at 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.600 a religious school because it was stupid. It was so stupid. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.000 They're so nice over there that I don't even think 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.880 they realized what he did. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:50.920 Oh that's a good theory. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.679 I think that's interesting. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:54.000 Great number. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.120 You don't think they knew, They didn't know what that meant. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.200 Hasn't got there? Yeah yeah, so I deeply regret. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.079 Has it got there? As it got there? It has now. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.600 I traveled through the top five from Business Insider, are 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.400 at number five, Tallahassee, Florida at Florida State. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.360 To do that, Wait, wait did they list the criteria 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:11.960 out of curious? 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.559 Yeah they did, so these are the best college towns 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:22.400 where culture, lifestyle, local college economy, population, and they also 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.360 factor in how well known is the college. Right, So 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.920 at five was Florida State. Eddie and I played a 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.600 concert in Florida State in the in the football stadium 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.840 and before you go, wow, that's cool, they had the 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.559 stage facing like only the end zone. Yes we really playing, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.240 Yeah yeah, we played toward the We don't say that details. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:41.000 That's all it counts. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:41.640 It's fantastic. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.880 And that same time I try to sneak into a 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:44.800 frat party that night. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.360 Oh my god, you did, dude, this might be worse 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.040 than sixty nine. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.240 They did not let me in continue that, and you 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.480 know what, it was parents weekend, So I thought I 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.440 had a chance, Like okay, and this was what how 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:57.839 many years? 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.360 We got another dad over here? Seven or eight years ago? 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.000 Years ago? So I'm like you, me and another buddy, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.320 We're like, all right, let's see we can get in 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:05.200 and they're like, no. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:07.720 Getting in here? 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:08.319 Like all right? 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.719 At number four, Gainesville, Florida, No problem with that. It's 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.520 because they haven't been good though in a while, like 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.800 consistently good. That didn't it didn't factor into yours, all right? 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.080 Uh No, it's I just didn't do a comprehensive list. Gainesville. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.400 I would have eventually gotten to Auburn, Alabama really good one. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.040 Auburn's excellent. I actually Auburn would be way up there, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.520 possibly top five. I like, going, is Auburn on there? No? 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.199 Not in the top ten to me, I don't. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.520 Know how this is no shot at FSU. The way 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.559 I would list the criteria for great college town, I 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.960 have no idea how Tallahassee Florida is above like Auburn 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.680 or Athens. I grew up within close proximity to those. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.520 You could say that's biased, that's fine, but like those 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.400 two places are pretty awesome to me. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:53.600 That frat party looked awesome. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.560 Dude, from the door, it looks you know what the 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.960 best part about going to Auburn was there's a gas 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.559 station near the university where you take your stuff and 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.760 you just put it on the counter and automatically reads 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.320 the price. That was Tallahassee. No, that was Auburn. It 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.880 was Yeah, it was Auburn because that's where the Charles 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.400 Barkley statue is. OK, and of everything that we did, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.440 because we went in played ball there and shot some stuff, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.719 and they had a gas station that that knew the 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.760 price of a banana by just me putting it on 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:21.120 the counter. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.000 I don't even know about that place. And I'm from there. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.000 Oh yeah, I'll give you. I'll give you a detail. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.440 So Number three Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, never been 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:31.840 it's it's so clean. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:33.040 Yeah, it sounds clean. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.480 It's so clean. Number two is Arizona State Tempa Arizona. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.200 Love it, yeah, love it. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:40.680 We went to Arizona State. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:41.920 We went to Arizonazona. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.319 Yeah, that's a different vibe. Yeah, the Arizona vibe is 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.160 different than Arizona State vibe. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.400 Do you mean like maybe one's a little little dirtier, grittier, 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:52.640 and the other one's a little. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:58.640 More Arizona stream, more maserati. Yeah, Arizona straight Corolla. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.960 We were late. Yeah, fair enough, say no more. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.960 Yeah, I had number one. I've never been here An Arbor, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.320 Michigan University of Yeah. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.880 Yeah, it's different in a sense that they are good. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.960 They know they're good. They make no apologies about acknowledging 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.160 that they're good. But if that's okay with you, it's 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.360 a little more sweater vest crowd, then maybe I'm used 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.160 to growing up in the South. It is a quintessential 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.559 college town experience. Though, they are right about that. That's 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.360 a good one. I probably wouldn't have rattled that one 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.720 off because I've gone for the Ohio State game, so 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.920 I've just been totally zoned in on the game when 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.520 I've been there. That is a good one. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.560 Though, have you ever seen him at he hit US 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:36.960 soft ball? 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.600 I would imagine he just smacks the crap out of it. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.599 It's crazy, like he's jackshit. He obviously works out and 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.360 takes care of his body, and like I respect that. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.280 And still though it's different the physiology to hit a 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.440 softball than it is just a bench press a lot, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.160 it's unreal. He does the thing where he walks up 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.120 and swings and walks back to the dugout. It's just 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.040 a safe time. What do you mean of all the 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.080 content he does? And I'm a fan of Josh because 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.480 he created his own lane. Like to me, I'm a 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.520 massive do your own thing if you can, even if 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.120 you can't, like figure out how to patch it together 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.000 and make it work. Like to me, that's the Josh 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.000 paid story is like he did it himself. But the 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.840 second thing is he hits a softball a mile And 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.760 when he posts content, that's my favorite thing. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:25.320 That's it. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:26.920 Yeah, and you do a lot of great but it's 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.800 when he posts on story he'll be like yeah, like 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.320 he'll put a ball with like a rocket on it. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.360 He'll just walk up gone, he walks right back to 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.000 the dugout. So wow, how does that feel to just 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.840 be an athletic monster out on that field? 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.760 Okay, well, conditionally, now like we are talking about Smirnit 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.080 Tennessee on a Friday night. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.240 That ball goes out anywhere. The balls I see you hit, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:51.360 they go out it in any park. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.800 It's fun. I love hitting, like hitting athletically, whether it's 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:59.040 baseball or softball. Outside of working out, That's always been 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.720 my favorite thing I play. I didn't play basketball, but 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.760 I've played most of the other sports growing up. I 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.560 played basketball growing up, but I just didn't like it. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.120 But of all the things that you could do repetitively 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.200 in sports, hitting like when you hit good, it's a 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:14.680 really really good feeling. Love it. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.800 Will you be able to send us a video because 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.280 when we clip this, I want to make sure we 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.720 have a video of you launching a ball. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.040 I think I can round one up. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.280 Dude, you've seen athletic feats until you've seen Josh Payton 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.160 Smart of Tennessee on a Wednesday night six thirty game. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.400 Hey whatever, now whatever, this. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.560 Is the league you're in, that you're in a softball. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:38.720 I love it. I do some absurd things that end 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.400 up costing a lot of money logistically of travel wise, 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.080 so I could play in that Friday night league. I 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:46.400 love playing softball. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:47.720 Do you ever not hit a home run? 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.640 Oh yeah, plenty of times. Three home run limit per game. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:51.480 Do you get all three though? 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.800 On your team, I'd say most of the time, if 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.840 someone's gonna hit three, yeah, not all the time though, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:58.960 Like I mean, I'm not the only one on the 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.880 team who could hit one out. Oh but you're by 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.000 the guy that hit the farthest right when you count, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.960 the same goes in the crew one with a shot. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.360 Okay, this is a philosophy. Yeah, one time, long time ago, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.160 when I had stopped playing baseball and I started playing softball. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.960 They're all kind of unwritten rules and float pitch softball. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.800 Anyone who's played the game for any length of time 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.640 knows that if you're playing in a certain caliber of 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.880 that sport, like travel ball, it's all former minor league 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.960 baseball players, you can hit the ball up the middle. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.240 You can do whatever you want to if it's a 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.920 if it's a caliber below that, guys who are playing 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.800 for fun church league, they're doing it one night a week. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.080 Like there are people well over fifty years old in 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.920 some cases on these fields don't be hitting the ball 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.440 up the middle. I didn't know that, so I hit 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.760 a guy in the net, like just next to his 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.320 throat one time. I knew him. He's like a friend 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.080 of mine. And he fell and it makes that like 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.800 a kind of a smack sound against his neck, and 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.640 I was terrified. Fortunately he didn't get hurt bad. But 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.800 if it hit him in like the esophagus, I have 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.840 no idea what would have happened. I have not hit 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.600 the ball up the middle again since then. That was 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:03.760 in know, maybe twenty ten. That's at least fifteen sixteen 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.160 years ago, so I don't but I see it happen. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.239 We had a guy, I kid you not, man, this 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.960 is a serious story. I played with a buddy in 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.880 a tournament Manchester, Georgia, and we're playing outfield and it's 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.320 we're in like our fifth game of the day and 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.000