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Speaker 3: I love it. I am joining Girls by Dan Rubinstein
Speaker 3: over there in Chicago. I don't know what got into me.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 1: It's a touch of Dave Randa. I guess I can
Speaker 1: tell you this, Ty, Whatever happens these next dozens of minutes,
Speaker 1: it won't be in a bad way. Because I'm dehydrated.
Speaker 1: I am sitting next to my sixty four ounce jug growler,
Speaker 1: whatever the hell this thing is, and I am sore
Speaker 1: and tie. I feel the hydrogen and oxygen and coursing
Speaker 1: through I don't know. I guess my stomach. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel great, Ty, I'm ready to roll.
Speaker 3: Do you ever get to a point where you feel
Speaker 3: like you've had too much water?
Speaker 1: I have gotten to that point before. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: Tie breaking news. Your body just pees it out.
Speaker 3: I understand that at some point your commitment to hydration
Speaker 3: overtakes your commitment to just being a normal, comfortable human,
Speaker 3: and the bathroom trips become more frequent, and it just, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, like, is it all worth it?
Speaker 1: It's a tight rope that I'm not afraid to walk.
Speaker 3: Tie.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say right now. I'll leave
Speaker 1: it at that.
Speaker 3: Well, suffice to say, we are the most hydrated show
Speaker 3: in the college football ether. I am Tie, he is Dan.
Speaker 3: This is the solid verbal. We had originally talked about
Speaker 3: doing an ACC preview. Turns out I got my schedule wrong.
Speaker 3: That's going to be next week, okay, or we'll talk
Speaker 3: through all things ACC, maybe start getting you ready for
Speaker 3: the SEC talk about everything going on as it relates
Speaker 3: to this college football season. But one thing that we've
Speaker 3: had happen throughout the span of this pandemic, really but
Speaker 3: particularly as we've gotten a little bit closer to this season,
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Speaker 3: I leave everything so good at teases ty, We've been
Speaker 3: teasing stuff for a while.
Speaker 1: We had planned a lot of things for like eight
Speaker 1: weeks ago and because of everything that is happening, we
Speaker 1: have felt like things don't feel right to take the
Speaker 1: bubble wrap off immediately. It feels like it's in poor
Speaker 1: taste with some of the things we've been planning to do,
Speaker 1: not in terms of the shows we wanted to do,
Speaker 1: but sort of the structure and new things we've been
Speaker 1: planning for a long time. It felt like the wrong time,
Speaker 1: so we're hoping that the right time is quickly approaching.
Speaker 3: We've been grappling with is it middle of September, beginning
Speaker 3: of October for the shirtless calendar, Like, what is the
Speaker 3: right time for that? When is it soon? There's just
Speaker 3: so much going on in the world.
Speaker 1: Have people already heard the new Manscaped Dad that you're
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Speaker 3: Don't know if I cannot believe you did that to me,
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Speaker 1: this episode already, but I would not fast forward advertisements
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Speaker 3: You are a scoundrel for doing that to me. I
Speaker 3: can't believe you did that to me. That was almost
Speaker 3: the end of the podcast. Should we get to news.
Speaker 1: Let's do that.
Speaker 3: We have bracking news.
Speaker 1: You've got some energy today, Ty got a little bit
Speaker 1: of energy.
Speaker 3: Dog's barking in the background. Don't know if you can
Speaker 3: hear her. That's her reaction time.
Speaker 1: I yelled that apparently we had the solid Toddler the
Speaker 1: Sodler barkin in the background a little bit earlier. So
Speaker 1: it all works out. It's all even.
Speaker 3: Eight Nebraska football players are suing the Big Ten over
Speaker 3: the Big Ten's decision to postpone the season. They filed
Speaker 3: it on Thursday. They are seeking to invalidate the league's
Speaker 3: postponement of the fall football season and to award damages.
Speaker 3: It was filed in Lancaster County District Court. It alleges
Speaker 3: that the conference is in breach of contract by not
Speaker 3: following its governing documents, under which athletes are third party beneficiaries.
Speaker 3: The athletes, according to the suit, have quote the right
Speaker 3: to expect the Big Ten will follow its own governing
Speaker 3: documents and all of its other rules, regulations, and guidelines,
Speaker 3: will not make arbitrary and capricious decisions, and when a
Speaker 3: vote on a decision as momentous as canceling all fall
Speaker 3: sports is announced, will conduct an actual vote end quote.
Speaker 3: They are, of course citing some public statements from the
Speaker 3: Minnesota president the Michigan state president when they question whether
Speaker 3: or not a formal vote to postpone ever actually took
Speaker 3: place among the conference's council presidents and chancellors. So a
Speaker 3: lot to digest, They're a lot to unpack, you know,
Speaker 3: I get where they're coming from. I understand the frustration.
Speaker 3: I would say, almost assuredly they will lose. Yeah, this suit.
Speaker 1: I don't think the point of the lawsuit was to
Speaker 1: actually reverse the decision made by the conference, because that
Speaker 1: kind of precedent of players deciding on operational procedures for
Speaker 1: a conference is not something that seems like it's in
Speaker 1: the near future. But and if you read any of
Speaker 1: the pieces that there was an interview, I think it's
Speaker 1: Noah Pola Gates's mother, a cornerback for defensive back from Nebraska.
Speaker 1: She was more talking about we want clarity, we want documents,
Speaker 1: we want to know what happened behind them the Big
Speaker 1: ten curtain, and that they haven't gotten those answers to
Speaker 1: their satisfaction. And it could be argued no answers would
Speaker 1: be to their satisfaction, which is okay, sort of speaks
Speaker 1: to where everything is right now, So I would imagine
Speaker 1: if this is going to move forward to trial, the
Speaker 1: point is discovery. The point is to be able to
Speaker 1: gather documents, to gather evidence, to have more clarity into
Speaker 1: the thinking. Because there is rightful concern among players and
Speaker 1: you know, this is a belief system as it relates
Speaker 1: to public health and coronavirus and everything like that, that
Speaker 1: they are being denied the opportunity to market themselves and
Speaker 1: further their careers and their marketability for the NFL, and
Speaker 1: sure why they signed up to play college football in
Speaker 1: the first place in a major conference like the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: So I think it's more about further evidenced clarity than
Speaker 1: anything else. And even if you read the piece, I
Speaker 1: think there was I mean, it's been covered everywhere, but
Speaker 1: Nebraska parents, Nebraska players are not all on the same page.
Speaker 1: Some are totally good with the decision. It's not a
Speaker 1: monolithic thing where it's the entirety of the eighty five Nebraska.
Speaker 3: Sione at the time the times, that's the story across
Speaker 3: the board, really right for sure, So I think these
Speaker 3: eight players are acting on behalf of what I'm sure
Speaker 3: is an overwhelming majority of the Nebraska football team as
Speaker 3: well as any other Big Ten team, where they want
Speaker 3: to have as much information as humanly.
Speaker 1: Possible, and because they have not gotten it yet, this
Speaker 1: is the step that they felt they needed to take.
Speaker 1: And so if there's more information that's able to be
Speaker 1: gleaned from, you know, filing this lawsuit, I think it's
Speaker 1: a win because we'd all like to know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think the point is to actually, you know,
Speaker 1: restart the Big Ten season, even if that's what it says.
Speaker 3: All right. On the topic of the Big Ten, the
Speaker 3: conference is considering multiple domed stadiums as potential sites for
Speaker 3: winter college football. Some of those sites include Lucas Oil
Speaker 3: Stadium in Indianapolis. That's, of course where they play the
Speaker 3: Big Ten championship game, Detroit's Ford Field, the Minneapolis US
Speaker 3: Bank Stadium, and the Dome at America Center in Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: Some others that I saw kicked around in the CBS
Speaker 3: article Miller Park in Milwaukee, Northern Iowa's Uni Dome, and
Speaker 3: Northern Michigan's Superior Dome. Sure just some of the stadiums
Speaker 3: that have been kicked around there. It's also possible, of course,
Speaker 3: that they could consider some other stadiums outside the central
Speaker 3: geographic area around the Big Ten Conference, but obviously that
Speaker 3: presents some more logistical challenges. Here's what I like about
Speaker 3: the story. What I like about this story is they're
Speaker 3: getting creative. I like that they're getting creative with it.
Speaker 3: I like that it seems like they're trying to plan
Speaker 3: for something. Whether you like it or not, this is
Speaker 3: kind of like the last great hope for a Big
Speaker 3: Ten football season. Perhaps it already has not worked out
Speaker 3: the way that they had planned, with other conferences presumably
Speaker 3: trying to carry on in the fall. Maybe they didn't
Speaker 3: expect that, maybe they did. But I like that they're
Speaker 3: getting creative. I like that they're thinking about this. I
Speaker 3: would hope that they would have a better roll out
Speaker 3: plan as it relates to their spring season than they
Speaker 3: did the postponement of their fall season, because that created
Speaker 3: a hell of a shockwave around the world of college football.
Speaker 3: Anything that they can do to stave that off now
Speaker 3: with this planning of the spring season, I think would
Speaker 3: be much appreciated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's all correct. I think this fall
Speaker 1: is sort of on the everything is on the table
Speaker 1: portion of the Big Ten delayed season conversation. They're throwing
Speaker 1: out names of stadiums. By the way, is there still
Speaker 1: a hotel attached to the SkyDome or whatever the Toronto
Speaker 1: Baseball stadium is called. Maybe that's the answer. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: you could have the bubble quarantine attached to a dome.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, Canada seems like a terrific
Speaker 1: answer for a number of things, but I don't know
Speaker 1: what the logistics of playing in what North Dakota in.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that everything is on the table.
Speaker 1: I don't know if North Dakota was mentioned in your
Speaker 1: long Northern Iowa. Oh, the Northern Iowa Dome. Yeah, another
Speaker 1: FCS dome, but it's uh, I don't know. It all
Speaker 1: seems dicey. We don't know where the world is going
Speaker 1: to be come I guess the middle of winter and
Speaker 1: where the viruses and where vaccines are going to be.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to have better protocol by then,
Speaker 1: because I think it's increasing exponentially by the month. We're saying,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you put this down. The waste
Speaker 1: water situation at the University of Arizona Zona, bar down, Baby,
Speaker 1: bear down, so to catch things very early, certainly is
Speaker 1: an advantageous way to go about everything. So sure everything's
Speaker 1: on the table. That's my reaction.
Speaker 3: There are some postponements to discuss, and I probably did
Speaker 3: get them all. I saw that Troy and ULM are
Speaker 3: postponing their September fifth matchup due to a significant COVID
Speaker 3: outbreak at ULM. ECU and Marshall have postponed their game
Speaker 3: on September the twelfth. My guess is that there will
Speaker 3: be others, but those are actually the only two I had.
Speaker 3: Did I miss anything?
Speaker 1: NC State Virginia Tech by two weeks. They'll respondent because
Speaker 1: things have not been great at NC State. Hopefully it's improving.
Speaker 1: And yeah, there's I mean, there have been reported position
Speaker 1: groups at various schools. Yeah, we're going to buy their
Speaker 1: tested positive. Yeah, I know you have that in the
Speaker 1: news section, just related to postponements. So we assume that
Speaker 1: it's related to clusters on campus, perhaps clusters within the
Speaker 1: football team. And we hope everybody's all right, because it
Speaker 1: is strange sometimes that we'll see like North Carolina clusters
Speaker 1: or Notre Dame clusters or Alabama students and we were like,
Speaker 1: oh man, well they'll be better by football season, Like, well, hopefully,
Speaker 1: this is a really awful situation. And yes they're young,
Speaker 1: and yes they have the best chance of coming out
Speaker 1: of it in a good place. But it's okay to
Speaker 1: just say, man, I hope they're just hope they're all
Speaker 1: right as human beings. That'd be great. So that's happening everywhere,
Speaker 1: that's what it seems now.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I would further the point of much
Speaker 3: of what Greg Sankie has said, and I think conference
Speaker 3: commissioners have been fairly in unison on the point of
Speaker 3: if we delay, if we wait, that gives us more
Speaker 3: opportunity to build out protocols and build out strategies and
Speaker 3: just come up with some way to handle all this
Speaker 3: and still maybe put on a football season. So one
Speaker 3: of the things here My next tidbit is about the
Speaker 3: Big twelve and Conference USA and some extent the SEC
Speaker 3: adopting three COVID nineteen tests per week. The ACC is
Speaker 3: expect did to follow a similar philosophy in the very
Speaker 3: near future, but they're going to do two of those
Speaker 3: like pipe cleaner tests, where they're trying to like get
Speaker 3: the gunk out of your brain, which I think you
Speaker 3: had one.
Speaker 2: Had those.
Speaker 1: Not No, not at all, but I'm glad I got
Speaker 1: it tested negative. It's not a great time.
Speaker 3: Two of those a week and then an antigen test
Speaker 3: later in the week. They're trying to really cover all bases.
Speaker 3: It does seem as if testing protocols are being established
Speaker 3: and additional ways to test for the virus are also
Speaker 3: being developed as well. I don't know if that bodes
Speaker 3: better for the Big ten and PAC twelve in the spring.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to go there with it, but with
Speaker 3: the advantage of more time, we are finding that some
Speaker 3: of these things are coming to light and look, society
Speaker 3: as a whole can benefit from that. So here's hoping
Speaker 3: that this works out for the Big twelve and really
Speaker 3: any other conference that's going to establish this protocol and
Speaker 3: try to move forward in the fall or even in
Speaker 3: the spring it comes to that. I think that's good news,
Speaker 3: good news at a time, and we need some for sure.
Speaker 3: Doubling back on your point, though, we do have news
Speaker 3: now that multiple LSU offensive linemen have been placed under
Speaker 3: quarantine due to coronavirus exposure. They reportedly only have four
Speaker 3: offensive linemen available at practice who aren't quarantined. A bit
Speaker 3: of a problem. I would say as we get into
Speaker 3: the season, I have not seen whether or not these
Speaker 3: guys actually have the virus, but they had exposure to it,
Speaker 3: and look, this is going to be a recurring theme.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And even if every one of these guys turns
Speaker 1: out to be alright, it goes through their system. They
Speaker 1: recover fully. They don't have any obvious side effects, which
Speaker 1: is the best possible situation. Long term effects are not
Speaker 1: to be seen. Whatever, they're still not practicing, They're still
Speaker 1: going to be out of shape. It exaclates to where
Speaker 1: they normally are in August going into a season. So
Speaker 1: it just I worry about just a bigger likelihood of injuries,
Speaker 1: of being out of shape, of being not prepared, and
Speaker 1: this leading to other unforeseen circumstances. So hoping for the
Speaker 1: best for guys at LSU or anywhere else where we
Speaker 1: have these these these clusters, but man, it's it's tough
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 3: All right, what else do we got here? Brennan Armstrong
Speaker 3: is the new Virginia quarterback. He was given the starting
Speaker 3: nod by Broncomanden Hall. When we do our acc preview,
Speaker 3: I'll talk about Brendan Armstrong and what you can expect
Speaker 3: that of him. But some actual football.
Speaker 1: You not have strong takes about Brennan Armstrong right now.
Speaker 3: I don't. Right now, I need a little bit more
Speaker 3: time to I just have so many thoughts that I
Speaker 3: need to get them organized before I present.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this, he appears to be a
Speaker 1: south Paw and I always root for lefty quarterbacks to succeed.
Speaker 1: I love them left the quarterbacks and kickers. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: every time.
Speaker 3: Rare gem in the football world. And finally from our
Speaker 3: news is weird. We've got a quote here from less
Speaker 3: Miles that players opting out of the pandemic are opting
Speaker 3: into it. There you go.
Speaker 1: Quote, if they out of college football season, they're into
Speaker 1: the pandemic. Yeah.
Speaker 3: If they opt out, this is a quote. If they
Speaker 3: opt out because of the pandemic, then they opt into
Speaker 3: the pandemic. The last I saw it, the pandemic was worldwide. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I don't know what their advantage is to turn
Speaker 3: at this point away from what would be a good
Speaker 3: finish to a college career and the opportunity to advance
Speaker 3: their abilities and then have a choice whether to go
Speaker 3: off to the NFL or stay and compete. So we'd
Speaker 3: love to have them stay and compete. Okay, I don't
Speaker 3: understand any of that. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been a great week for less Miles now
Speaker 1: on audio tape.
Speaker 3: Now, I think I get the general point here. It's
Speaker 3: just a really weird thing to say right now. Less
Speaker 3: Miles is never really the authority you turn to when
Speaker 3: you're looking for like connectedness to world affairs.
Speaker 1: And just sometimes sometimes, and you can quote me on this,
Speaker 1: sometimes football coaches are just football.
Speaker 3: I'm writing this down. I'm writing this.
Speaker 1: Please write that down, underline it, period. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: my full thought. Sometimes humans who coach football are simply
Speaker 1: humans who coach football. That's it.
Speaker 3: I understand that there is a full spectrum out there
Speaker 3: of how seriously people are taking this. I understand that
Speaker 3: many of whom listen to the show write in about
Speaker 3: the show, and so we're not I'm not going to
Speaker 3: go there with this, but it's just a very weird
Speaker 3: thing to say at this point. And sometimes, yeah, sometimes
Speaker 3: coaches are just coaches who knew Yeah, all right, that's
Speaker 3: all I got.
Speaker 1: Questions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got in the news department We'll continue to
Speaker 3: do the news for as long as we can't have
Speaker 3: to whatever until we get to actual games to discuss.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited about. Let's get to some of those questions. Congratulations, Skippy,
Speaker 3: you've got mail, You've got mail on the solid ruble
Speaker 3: Dan as often as we can, and maybe for the
Speaker 3: last time before we get to the season. We like
Speaker 3: to pay Homas. Those of you who write into Soli
Speaker 3: Verble at gmail dot com, right into our various social
Speaker 3: media accounts, really get us thinking, get us stretching those
Speaker 3: brain muscles in a way that we don't normally when
Speaker 3: we're just talking about the news or odds or I
Speaker 3: don't know whatever else. We've got a menu before us
Speaker 3: of outstanding football and non football related questions.
Speaker 1: I have had enough water that I feel adequately prepared
Speaker 1: to really hit these with a good amount of energy
Speaker 1: and knowledge. Where do you want to start? You tell
Speaker 1: me all right quickly, sk Murphy. Will Army win the
Speaker 1: National Championship? Well, well, Army lost like all of their game,
Speaker 1: and then they built their schedule back up to twelve,
Speaker 1: to a full twelve. It does not include any Power
Speaker 1: five teams, but it does include I believe Cincinnati and BYU.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes,
Speaker 1: I am willing to give Army the solidrible national championship
Speaker 1: if they go twelve to zero and they of course
Speaker 1: still play Navy and Air Force.
Speaker 3: Here's what I want to know. This is what this
Speaker 3: question started me down the path of thinking about. Okay,
Speaker 3: because we've got three power conferences now, and the College
Speaker 3: Football Playoff Committee is on the record saying that they
Speaker 3: want to proceed as usual, even with fewer teams, they
Speaker 3: still want to conduct a playoff. They're going to do
Speaker 3: their rankings starting in November. How do non Power five
Speaker 3: or I guess Power three schools factor in because it's
Speaker 3: kind of more of an open slate now right, I'm
Speaker 3: not saying Army is that team, but yeah, if you're
Speaker 3: not one of those traditional powers, is there any kind
Speaker 3: of like statistical gain here for I don't know if
Speaker 3: boiss I, I guess Bois's not playing. But if now they're
Speaker 3: not a team like Boise, let's say a UCF. If
Speaker 3: you will a UCF, yeah, do they stand a better
Speaker 3: chance of eking their way into this thing? Now that
Speaker 3: it's such a goofy landscape?
Speaker 1: They would have to be. And this is sort of
Speaker 1: true of even years when everybody's playing, but yes, because
Speaker 1: there are fewer teams. If we get to the point
Speaker 1: where all these Power three teams just really just beat
Speaker 1: the crap out of each other and they're all seven
Speaker 1: to three and UCF or whoever runs the table and
Speaker 1: just dominates, it probably has to be an AAC team
Speaker 1: just in terms of what we know the talent level
Speaker 1: to be in the American if they just full on dominate.
Speaker 1: The problem is these teams, you know, in a normal year,
Speaker 1: a Mountain West Power or an American Power is getting
Speaker 1: hopefully a couple of shots against OK Power five opponents
Speaker 1: when they're not going to this year. So it's really
Speaker 1: tough to see unless UCF is just power bombing teams
Speaker 1: fifty five to three every week and they run the
Speaker 1: table and you know, next case scenario is you know,
Speaker 1: LSU seven and three or something like that. Unimpressively, that's
Speaker 1: that's as close as it'll get. And I still have
Speaker 1: my doubts.
Speaker 3: I am very curious to see how this all works out,
Speaker 3: because I gotta be honest with you, Dan, because the math,
Speaker 3: it already figures that we would need to have two
Speaker 3: of those power teams in the playoff from the same conference.
Speaker 3: So because of the schedules, because they're playing only conference
Speaker 3: opponents in a bunch of cases, do we want to
Speaker 3: see a rematch? Do we need to see a rematch?
Speaker 3: This could be an opportunity for the playoff committee to
Speaker 3: put one of those teams in and feel good about it.
Speaker 3: I guess we'll see what comes with that with the
Speaker 3: Playoff committee. I want to go to this. I love
Speaker 3: this question. Thank you to Gabe for sending this one
Speaker 3: in Who do you think has been the most over
Speaker 3: hyped quarterback recruit in recent history? So I believe what
Speaker 3: Gabe is referring to here is the brock Berlin Memorial Trophy.
Speaker 3: Right brock Berlin, Wow, highly touted quarterback, went to Miami,
Speaker 3: didn't quite work out.
Speaker 1: Should we define what this actually means? Because there have
Speaker 1: been five stars, there have been number one quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: classes that I don't necessarily think had hype, like sometimes
Speaker 1: there are just off years where like I'll give you
Speaker 1: an example. I think Max Brown was Max Brown quarterback recruit, right,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he had like Jimmy klaus in
Speaker 1: anywhere near that level hype. Jimmy Closs in southern California
Speaker 1: a lot more attention than wherever in Washington Max Brown
Speaker 1: is from. And Jimmy Classon is certainly going to Notre
Speaker 1: Dame and himself doing making the press conference announcement and
Speaker 1: his commitment at what the college Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: all sorts of things like that I think will lead
Speaker 1: to hype. And Jimmy Clausen happened to be a very
Speaker 1: good college football quarterback. So he is not the answer,
Speaker 1: but I think there needs to be. And I looked
Speaker 1: at the quarterback since two thousand and eight when we
Speaker 1: started the show. I wanted to send some juice coming in,
Speaker 1: like they were, you know, the savior type quarterbacks coming in.
Speaker 1: That's how I looked at this end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I was looking at a guy like a
Speaker 3: Shape Patterson. Shape Patterson, I think was the top quarterback
Speaker 3: recruit of his class. He was wasn't a bad quarterback.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he was a pretty good college
Speaker 3: I don't think he lived up to maybe lofty expectations,
Speaker 3: but as a college quarterback goes, he was okay. So
Speaker 3: I think we're looking for somebody who came in a
Speaker 3: five star got out there and was a stinker or
Speaker 3: maybe just didn't play at all in spectacular fashion. Are
Speaker 3: there any names to you that come to mind?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I considered a bunch, you know, with how Christian
Speaker 1: Hackenberg finished his career, I don't know if that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that fully fits, but because of his
Speaker 1: really promising fresh year, but the fact is, you know,
Speaker 1: he was drafted high based on potential, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was over hyped because of circumstance, because
Speaker 1: of coaching change. So I'm not I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna roll with Christian Hackenberg. Josh Rosen had a lot
Speaker 1: of hype but was pretty good with a bunch of
Speaker 1: different coordinators. Not amazing, but pretty good, And he was
Speaker 1: drafted high and hasn't worked out as an NFL player.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Jeff Driscoll, who certainly came
Speaker 1: in with a ton of hype, didn't work out at
Speaker 1: Florida but ended up being a pretty good college quarterback
Speaker 1: at Louisiana Tech. But not as it relates to his recruiting.
Speaker 3: I think he ended up being pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Kyle Allen pretty good.
Speaker 3: Kyle Allen was okay, Yeah, it was Okay, I had
Speaker 3: I have a couple names here as you might expect. Okay,
Speaker 3: so you know it maybe a little bit outside of
Speaker 3: your two thousand and eight time horizon, but Anthony Morelli
Speaker 3: still I have scar tissue from Anthony Morelli at the escape.
Speaker 1: And that he was I don't know, I don't remember
Speaker 1: his recurring I do, I do.
Speaker 3: He was a five star. He did not work out
Speaker 3: for Penn State. Okay, so he's a name. I think
Speaker 3: you can make a case for Blake Barnett.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting name. Yeah, he was what he's committed
Speaker 1: to Notre Dame, ends up going to Alabama and just
Speaker 1: is immediately supplanted and does not make an impact there,
Speaker 1: and you know, finishes his career with kind of a physics.
Speaker 3: We'd be remiss if we didn't also mention Gunner Keel.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think he had an okay career, though eventually eventually.
Speaker 3: Hunter Johnson right now is an interesting territory.
Speaker 1: See. I think Hunter Johnson came in as a really good,
Speaker 1: promising quarterback, but not with the once in a generation
Speaker 1: like Trevor Lawrence came in as like there were there
Speaker 1: were recruiting people who said he'd be the number one
Speaker 1: quarterback if he were a senior this year, during his
Speaker 1: junior year of high school, like that level of hype
Speaker 1: coming in and he, I mean, he's surpassed it. Somehow,
Speaker 1: he's surpassed that that level of hype. Hunter Johnson, I
Speaker 1: don't think. And maybe this is misremembering. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: just because I don't live in acc country, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't it didn't seem like he had incoming juice. I
Speaker 1: already regret that phrase.
Speaker 3: What about Bobby Reid from Oklahoma State? He was, of
Speaker 3: course the yeah, the catalyst behind that Mike Gundy rant.
Speaker 3: That's part of our intro. It's again a little bit
Speaker 3: I think before our two thousand and eight the window,
Speaker 3: but I know he was a pretty big deal coming
Speaker 3: out of high school.
Speaker 1: What was the Penn State quarterback? The Rob Bolden?
Speaker 3: Rob Bolden never quite got to these levels of acclaim.
Speaker 1: But he was a blue chip quarterback who was seen
Speaker 1: as I mean, it wasn't a five star, but who
Speaker 1: is he competing with? He lost the job at Penn
Speaker 1: State to another younger quarterback.
Speaker 3: God, you're putting me on the spot here.
Speaker 1: I found the name. I don't think he ever did
Speaker 1: anythink for Penn State, Paul Jones, Oh, no, Paul Jones,
Speaker 1: No he didn't. He ended up going to Bob Morris. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I think my answer might be Jacob Eason. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think as a five star. I mean, it's any of
Speaker 1: the Jakes if you really want to talk about it
Speaker 1: from the State of Washington, Jake Keaps, Jake Locker, Jacob Eason.
Speaker 1: Although Jake Locker was dealt a pretty bad hands situationally
Speaker 1: of when he came in, but I still never thought
Speaker 1: he was all that good. Jake Keaps was rough as
Speaker 1: a five star, transferring around Kansas and Stuch, but Jacob
Speaker 1: Eason came in with a ton of juice. If you
Speaker 1: remember the recruiting battle between Georgia and Florida and secret
Speaker 1: trips and will he won't switch, ends up at Georgia,
Speaker 1: holds firm in his commitment. I think it was after
Speaker 1: Mark Richt got fired. He was like, oh, is he
Speaker 1: gonna go to Florida now instead of Georgia. He sticks
Speaker 1: with Georgia, has a pretty underwhelming freshman year, but you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not amazing, but he's just a freshman, ends up
Speaker 1: transferring to Washington and was a below average quarterback this
Speaker 1: year with an above average arm just I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of somebody that who had that level of hype
Speaker 1: and never was a real threat at pretty good.
Speaker 3: I think my answer here is probably going to be
Speaker 3: Anthony Morelli, even if it's a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: Okay, next question.
Speaker 3: In your podcasts lately, where you've broken down schedule releases,
Speaker 3: you're constantly mentioning tough road game X. When discussing the schedule.
Speaker 3: With the current COVID situation, it seems clear all games
Speaker 3: are going to be played at submax capacity, likely at
Speaker 3: twenty five percent if there are any fans at all. So,
Speaker 3: with that being said, how much of a home field
Speaker 3: advantage do you think will be at traditionally tough places
Speaker 3: like that Valley, the Swamp Lane Stadium, or of course
Speaker 3: multi sport field. I'm glad that Michael through that in here.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to have an enormous impact. To
Speaker 3: be honest, Well, I mentioned this on a previous episode
Speaker 3: or in one of our streams, I don't remember, but
Speaker 3: typically the odds makers are going to give a road
Speaker 3: team three extra points. So all things being equal, a
Speaker 3: home team is going to be favored by three, and
Speaker 3: in a lot of cases like Death Valley, like Lane
Speaker 3: Stadium or Beaver Stadium, Michigan Stadium, what have you, that
Speaker 3: number goes higher, could be as high as like five
Speaker 3: or five and a half. Phil Steel College Football Extraordinaire.
Speaker 3: He's talked about this home field advantage metric in his
Speaker 3: magazine for eons. I guess there will still be a
Speaker 3: home field advantage logistically, like you're moving to a different spot,
Speaker 3: and for sure like it will be there, but without
Speaker 3: the crowd noise. I think we're probably looking at something
Speaker 3: closer to a universal three points this year. Dan, It's
Speaker 3: not going to have the same gravitas as before because
Speaker 3: we won't have that just that crowd of effect.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's the crowd effect that's going
Speaker 1: to give stadiums home field advantage when we talk about
Speaker 1: oh Man Pitt needs to go to Clemson or Syracuse
Speaker 1: needs to go to Florida State, whatever difficult places in
Speaker 1: normal times. For sure, what I think it is is
Speaker 1: going to be what is travel going to be like
Speaker 1: this fall for these teams, large groups of people traveling airports.
Speaker 1: I know it's charter flights and things like that. But
Speaker 1: what are the regulations, Like, what happens if a bunch
Speaker 1: of people test positive once they've arrived somewhere they arriving
Speaker 1: early to quarantine and be tested and be in like
Speaker 1: a pseudo bubble adjacent situation. What's going to happen if
Speaker 1: travel effects coaches? What happens if a coach is unable
Speaker 1: to make a flight because he is being quarantined or
Speaker 1: is in isolation, and things like that. I think just
Speaker 1: the idea of traveling and going on the road and
Speaker 1: perhaps spending more time and more unusual circumstance. What happens
Speaker 1: if a team is going from a place that's in
Speaker 1: the middle of cluster and hit hard and has really
Speaker 1: strict regulations in place, they go and play at a
Speaker 1: in a town that doesn't have regulations in place. We've
Speaker 1: got players sneaking off because they know the regulations aren't great,
Speaker 1: and so the variables at play here is what, at
Speaker 1: least to me, gives the advantage in a different way
Speaker 1: to home teams. Just not oh man, that's a rowdy
Speaker 1: stadium that rocks at night, because no, no stadium is
Speaker 1: going to be rocking this fall. But the idea of
Speaker 1: uncertainty and variables with travel, That to me is a
Speaker 1: road disadvantage.
Speaker 3: I could see that. I could see that, and who
Speaker 3: knows what that situation is going to be, Like, I'm
Speaker 3: sure we'll get kinds of stories about that. Sure question, Okay,
Speaker 3: Jacob says, Hi, guys, first time questioner, longtime listener. Hello Jacob, Hey,
Speaker 3: how do people have weddings? Now that the Big Ten
Speaker 3: plans to have spring football? Being an SEC country, it's
Speaker 3: harris see to have a fall wedding? What happens?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: What a question?
Speaker 1: I assume weddings are pretty different right now. I mean
Speaker 1: I can understand, you know, perhaps a space gathering outside
Speaker 1: or just a very very limited gathering inside with masks,
Speaker 1: be it, you know, a place of warship or some
Speaker 1: sort of events space. But from what I can gather
Speaker 1: from people I know that are engaged, most people are
Speaker 1: sort of postponing for a good chunk of time, or
Speaker 1: they're just doing something very small and private. So all
Speaker 1: I can tell you is if you are planning to
Speaker 1: have a wedding, and you're planning to have people friends
Speaker 1: and family at your wedding, not in a normal way,
Speaker 1: but in a semi normal way, I guess just do
Speaker 1: it during warmer months outside on a Friday evening or
Speaker 1: Sunday evening something like that, and just adjust your Saturday
Speaker 1: plans accordingly, or just to have a Saturday wedding is
Speaker 1: because we don't know what's going to happen, so you
Speaker 1: might as well just roll with something.
Speaker 3: This is your finest non answer in the history of
Speaker 3: the podcast.
Speaker 1: Dan, Thank you. I mean, how can I answer this
Speaker 1: question accurately?
Speaker 3: I have not. Here's the deal. I know at least
Speaker 3: two couples that had planned on Spring twenty twenty weddings
Speaker 3: and their venue was kind enough to defer their previous
Speaker 3: arrangement off to twenty twenty one. So we're going to
Speaker 3: get to like April, and suddenly they're going to be
Speaker 3: a bunch of folks who had planned for April twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Now it's April twenty twenty one, probably not going to
Speaker 3: be able to postpone again. That wedding is going to
Speaker 3: go off. This is an absolute dagger. Do you find
Speaker 3: gentlemen out there who managed to delay until April? I
Speaker 3: think the only saving grace here you're probably going to
Speaker 3: have the wedding. I don't know what the circumstances are
Speaker 3: going to be like when you get there. I've heard
Speaker 3: stories about people going and being socially distanced until they
Speaker 3: drink and then it kind of all goes out the window. Whatever.
Speaker 3: I think the saving grace here is that it's not
Speaker 3: going to be a normal season in the springtime. Even
Speaker 3: if there are games, and many of us are skeptical,
Speaker 3: I'm still not sure we know what the stakes are
Speaker 3: going to be here. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 3: feel those games are going to have. Like you mentioned
Speaker 3: they have the same juice as you'd expect, I don't
Speaker 3: think they are. I think it's going to feel like
Speaker 3: a glorified exhibition schedule, and so you know, hey, even
Speaker 3: though games this fall could be in that category, for
Speaker 3: what it's worth, I think because the games are going
Speaker 3: to feel so different, and because circumstances have shaded how
Speaker 3: we feel about those games so much, it will be
Speaker 3: easier to contend with college football. If you've got that
Speaker 3: spring wedding and it just happens to be adjacent to
Speaker 3: college football games, then maybe Otherwise.
Speaker 1: I think you nailed it with the juice thing, because
Speaker 1: if the fall season and Nagamwa goes forward and has
Speaker 1: minimal incidents, then there's going to be a college football playoff,
Speaker 1: and then the Pac twelve and Big Ten are just
Speaker 1: going to play without normal postseason stakes, So there's not
Speaker 1: as much that's going to be hanging in the balance
Speaker 1: for a spring season at the end of it. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that just means, Okay, there's me
Speaker 1: a Rose Bowl, and that's cool because if you're an
Speaker 1: Ohio State fan or a Penn State fan or whatever like,
Speaker 1: you want to play for the Rose Bowl against the
Speaker 1: Pac twelve champ by the end of the season. But
Speaker 1: I think Ohio State fans and fans of major programs
Speaker 1: that we've hang in the spring have or usually have
Speaker 1: their sites set a little bit higher than.
Speaker 3: This reminds me. The spring setup reminds me a lot
Speaker 3: of when I was fifteen and playing Conniemac baseball in
Speaker 3: Eastern PA. There were two leagues, two leagues, and if
Speaker 3: you made it through your own league, you qualified for
Speaker 3: the state championships and all that amounted to was playing
Speaker 3: teams from the other league. So wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Speaker 3: State champion chips are to be had out there in
Speaker 3: the spring college football season. Next question, Buster writes in
Speaker 3: throughout the show's history, can you think of any particular
Speaker 3: college football events that led to a huge increase in
Speaker 3: downloads reverb submissions for that week? Good question, buster.
Speaker 1: I think you pay closer attention to both of these
Speaker 1: things than I do. You have your finger on the
Speaker 1: digital pulse of the show more than I do. But
Speaker 1: I think crazy endings your.
Speaker 3: Kick sixes, that's the answer.
Speaker 1: That's when the reverbs really blow the hell up downloads wise,
Speaker 1: I imagine as well. I'd like to think that sometimes
Speaker 1: when there's just strange spikes, perhaps if either one of
Speaker 1: our teams, Notre Dame or Oregon loses in heartbreaking or
Speaker 1: gutting or entertaining fashion of some kind, that I feel
Speaker 1: like I've seen at some point a couple of spikes
Speaker 1: for heartbreaking Notre Dame or Oregon losses. Just to bathe
Speaker 1: in our.
Speaker 3: Misery, it's more Notre Dame than Oregon. Okay, any close
Speaker 3: Notre Dame situation, win or lose, or god if any
Speaker 3: if they do anything stupid that causes a spike in
Speaker 3: reverbs almost instantly, And if there's a big play, a
Speaker 3: controversial ending, yeah, those types of things they generally lead
Speaker 3: to an uptick in reverbs, and if there's a big upset,
Speaker 3: that will cause spike in numbers. But we're pretty consistent.
Speaker 3: That's why we I think we are where we are.
Speaker 3: We're pretty consistent from week to week. All right, what
Speaker 3: else we got here? What's the best setup you've ever
Speaker 3: had on a Saturday as it relates to what TVs
Speaker 3: and sound systems and food and weather. That's from ned.
Speaker 3: It's a good question.
Speaker 1: I have an actual perfect answer for this, and it'll
Speaker 1: never be replicated. But it was that camera guide Dave's
Speaker 1: bachelor party in Austin. We rented a giant house, We
Speaker 1: hit the lake the beginning part of the day, came
Speaker 1: back for a chunk of college football. I think it
Speaker 1: was Oregon, Nebraska and USC Stanford were that day two
Speaker 1: or three years ago, so you can look it up.
Speaker 1: And this was a camera guy. Dave went to USC.
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of his USC buddies and me and
Speaker 1: there was a home theater in the house. We got
Speaker 1: barbecue catering from I want to say Terry Black's Barbecue
Speaker 1: in Austin and just gorged ourselves on smoked meat in
Speaker 1: this giant, giant home theater set up and that was
Speaker 1: pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's my answer. To go through a couple
Speaker 1: more of these football ones quickly, do we get a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty dude watch list for this crazy season? I
Speaker 1: think we can pepper you know, maybe the ACC and
Speaker 1: SEC and a couple Group five previously down here with
Speaker 1: dudes by the team down here.
Speaker 3: Just get that out there, nice little field, good way
Speaker 3: to close out the week. My dude watch list in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty consists entirely of Chaz Surrat. Okay, I started
Speaker 3: going through my ACC teams and I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe I'd pose it on the ACC show. But now
Speaker 3: that this came up, can we do a universal Charles
Speaker 3: to Chaz conversion for this coming season?
Speaker 1: Is it because he's a linebacker now and you love
Speaker 1: a good like Joel Landing situation?
Speaker 3: Because I like a good Chaz situation Like Chaz is
Speaker 3: just such an underutilized name. We tried it with Will
Speaker 3: to Bill back in the day and we got big
Speaker 3: Bill Fuller, And I'm thinking that any Charles to Chas
Speaker 3: now could be a nice little pick me up. So
Speaker 3: instead of like Charlie Brewer, will go Chaz Brewer instead
Speaker 3: of Charles chip Kelly, we go Chaz chip Kelly.
Speaker 1: I think we have to move on. Like he calls
Speaker 1: himself Chaz, So doesn't he have to be you know,
Speaker 1: chuckles surat or something like that. Don't we have to
Speaker 1: flip it to something else to make it.
Speaker 3: Call him Chuck Surrat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Charlie Sarratt chuckles, Yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, but yes, we can do some sort of
Speaker 3: dude watch list. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do well as we as we previewed a
Speaker 1: couple of conferences, a few conferences we have left to do.
Speaker 1: Do you want to just get into a bunch of
Speaker 1: these non football things and politely dismiss everybody who came
Speaker 1: for the football talk, because now it's time for non
Speaker 1: football talk. Is that cool?
Speaker 3: Hit me? Let's do it all right?
Speaker 1: I did ask for electronics questions, ty, because I know
Speaker 1: that's right up your alley. I just got a new
Speaker 1: sixty five inch for KTV and Blu ray player. People
Speaker 1: buy Blu ray apparently still that's the thing. Oh okay.
Speaker 1: Last year I bought a home stereo with eleven point
Speaker 1: one Dolby at most not a sponsor sound What should
Speaker 1: I think buy? What should I think about buying in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Unless you can build like the levels that Kramer wanted
Speaker 3: to build in Seinfeld to like complete your home theater,
Speaker 3: I would like move on to something else. Maybe expand
Speaker 3: out to a whole home audio solution with Son not
Speaker 3: a sponsor, Sanos not a sponsor.
Speaker 1: That was the only thing I could think so, like
Speaker 1: wiring your house with a specific full house audio situation
Speaker 1: or without the.
Speaker 3: Wires if you go the Saanos route.
Speaker 1: Should you be treating your TV room acoustically?
Speaker 3: Oh? God, that's such a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1: Would at this point you're some I mean, like, should
Speaker 1: you have acoustic panels on the wall to really make
Speaker 1: it great? If you're investing in eleven point once around,
Speaker 1: you probably should.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, just put some pictures or canvas
Speaker 3: or something on the wall. But that's that's such a
Speaker 3: can of worms to try and treat it acoustically. I
Speaker 3: would say your TV situation's fine. Expand out into like
Speaker 3: whole home audio.
Speaker 1: Okay, what are your favorite This I guess is a
Speaker 1: technical college football question. What are your favorite college football
Speaker 1: uniform colors? And I've added slash shades from.
Speaker 3: Three D Nubie.
Speaker 1: I've got a list. Hi, I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: thought this.
Speaker 3: Anything that's yellow is easy for me to see, you
Speaker 3: like it easy for me to see because yeah, crippling
Speaker 3: color blindness. So anything like.
Speaker 1: Oregon yellow pops against the Gregans.
Speaker 3: Like Neon unis. Give me more of that, sure, give
Speaker 3: me more of that.
Speaker 1: So specific shades in college football that I love. If
Speaker 1: we're going to talk hex, if we're going to talk
Speaker 1: pandone tie. I like gold helmets, including Notre Dame standard,
Speaker 1: not the extra CHROMI gold helmets. I love Colorado's helmet
Speaker 1: that to me, it pops really well. I don't know,
Speaker 1: gold pops for you in that same way. I generally
Speaker 1: like gray as an accent, so your Ole, miss your
Speaker 1: Georgia when Wazoo has a gray accent. I love white
Speaker 1: helmets is almost a standard rule. The white pistol pete
Speaker 1: with the orange bars of good. That's pure sex. That
Speaker 1: is pure visual sex.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 1: I like Oregon's apple green shade, either on a white
Speaker 1: jersey or when the jersey itself is apple green. The
Speaker 1: penn State, I mean, they have the white helmets by
Speaker 1: the fault, but they're that shade of blue, whatever they
Speaker 1: officially call it, I think is incredible. When Illinois wears
Speaker 1: their navy tops with orange bottoms, I think that pops
Speaker 1: really really well for me Tennessee when they have when
Speaker 1: they usually do the white pants with the orange stripe
Speaker 1: down the middle, I'm down the side. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the standard. I love that. I love the Gator script.
Speaker 1: I mean it's classic, and it's great both when they
Speaker 1: wear the white helmets occasionally and just their standard orange helmets.
Speaker 1: I think is fantastic just in terms of colored tones.
Speaker 1: And I know this is not a question that you
Speaker 1: can readily answer because of your problems with colors. I
Speaker 1: like burnt orange, I do. I know that that makes
Speaker 1: some people throw up, but I like the orange against
Speaker 1: the white of Texas. Oh. When ole Miss has their
Speaker 1: their baby blue helmets. If you've ever seen those them,
Speaker 1: those are hot. I'm trying to think anywhere else across
Speaker 1: Power five schools or Group of five schools. I love
Speaker 1: Auburn's logo. I don't know if that fully fits in,
Speaker 1: but that, for whatever reason, it's just burned into my
Speaker 1: brain is just a college football symbol. I don't know
Speaker 1: if there are any else that really sing to me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the baby blues that we've seen recently. When
Speaker 1: SMU had their the the Galloping Cult or whatever, the
Speaker 1: Galloping Mustang, when they did that throwback logo that was
Speaker 1: that was also baby school pit. I did not And
Speaker 1: that's perfect. That is a perfect uniform. We've already discussed
Speaker 1: that on the show. Yeah, you've got the script, you've
Speaker 1: got the yellow, you've got that great shade of blue.
Speaker 1: That is a perfect uniform for sure.
Speaker 3: Give me something else, all right, Next question, question where
Speaker 3: we going next?
Speaker 1: We had a bunch of baby questions. How much should
Speaker 1: you spend on a stroller buddy? I do not know,
Speaker 1: but best advice for those who solid babies are turning
Speaker 1: into solid toddlers from Steven, all I would say is
Speaker 1: keep reading, keep checking. Okay, what should they be doing
Speaker 1: at thirteen fourteen months? It's not an emergency if they're
Speaker 1: not doing that. Every kid goes at their own pace
Speaker 1: and figures everything out on their own. If you just
Speaker 1: support them and do what you can do what's in
Speaker 1: your power. I would say keeping them on a good schedule.
Speaker 1: I think scheduling is very important, just the nap schedule,
Speaker 1: the eating schedule, keep them fed, keep the water coming,
Speaker 1: you know, keep them on that nap schedule where they're
Speaker 1: just they're rebooting every so often. And I think that's
Speaker 1: that's the way to give your chance the best shot
Speaker 1: at inner peace and happiness with your kid, because they're
Speaker 1: going to be difficult no matter what. But if you
Speaker 1: can stick to a schedule as best as you can,
Speaker 1: at least in my experience, that has worked out pretty well.
Speaker 3: I've got one here that I like. Okay, what's one
Speaker 3: skill your co host has that you're envious of and
Speaker 3: wish you had as well? I wish I could serve
Speaker 3: a tennis ball.
Speaker 1: Oh, not related to broadcasting or anything like this. Okay,
Speaker 1: you wish you could serve a tennis ball.
Speaker 3: I wish I could serve a tennis ball. Because you're
Speaker 3: and you'll remember this, I've told the story before. When
Speaker 3: I lived in my old apartment with then roommate Feldman,
Speaker 3: we would play tennis two or three times a week.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can.
Speaker 3: I consider myself pretty athletic, and I'm you know, competitive
Speaker 3: and all that. Words cannot express my frustration with being
Speaker 3: unable to serve with any efficiency. Right if we played
Speaker 3: fifty matches I might have won once. It was yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's like you know, I mean, he's athletic, but
Speaker 3: this isn't like Roger Federer over there. I should have
Speaker 3: been able to beat him. I couldn't serve. I couldn't win,
Speaker 3: and it drove me crazy. I don't know. I played
Speaker 3: as often as I did, but I just could never
Speaker 3: beat him. And it was because it couldn't serve.
Speaker 1: If I if I could take on any skill of yours,
Speaker 1: it would probably be any sort of ability to focus
Speaker 1: on something for a long time consecutively, because I can't.
Speaker 1: I have crazy add and I get distracted very very easily.
Speaker 1: Where I've seen you work and you can just pound
Speaker 1: away at something for five straight hours without taking a breath.
Speaker 1: I don't have that ability at all. I you know,
Speaker 1: a bird flies by and all of a sudden, I'm
Speaker 1: wandering away. So that would be your your life skill
Speaker 1: that I am jealous of. How is Dan enjoying Chicago?
Speaker 1: According to Celebrate, we will enjoy Chicago. I'm first of all,
Speaker 1: I'm in the burbs, so it's not nearly as cool
Speaker 1: as it would be exploring the city itself and seeing
Speaker 1: new things, eating new things. Is he planning on being
Speaker 1: there through winter, and if so, how do you plan
Speaker 1: to avoid freezing to death. I'm going to be here
Speaker 1: for at least a year. I like the greater Chicagoland area. Fine,
Speaker 1: I'm not far from Evanston. That's where I am in
Speaker 1: the Burbs, so I could. I could go on a
Speaker 1: long walk to ryan Field and Evanston is probably the
Speaker 1: area I've explored the most, and I'm a big fan tie.
Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff to eat, a lot of
Speaker 1: parks for the little guy. There's a good time to
Speaker 1: be had in Evanston.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: I just don't spend that much time doing anything. I'm
Speaker 1: in the house working all day, and then on the
Speaker 1: weekends it's just it's going to parks, it's picking up food,
Speaker 1: it's doing stuff for a nineteen month old. So so far,
Speaker 1: so good. I'm not looking forward to winter at all,
Speaker 1: but I was in New York. I'm used to a
Speaker 1: cold winter, but I'm not fully ready for the duration
Speaker 1: and intensity of a Chicago winter. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: Phil wants to know what are the best wireless earbuds. Furthermore,
Speaker 3: are air pods worth it? He says he does a
Speaker 3: lot of running and he's worried they'll fall out. I
Speaker 3: worship at the Altars Pod.
Speaker 1: Same. I absolutely do. Not a sponsor.
Speaker 3: Definitely not a sponsor. You convinced me of this, Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just, especially if you're doing stuff around the
Speaker 1: house with your hands all the time, you can wear
Speaker 1: wired headphones. They'll just they'll get caught on cabinets and
Speaker 1: they're just they feel a little bit cheaper if you're
Speaker 1: just using the standard issue iPhone earbuds or whatever. I
Speaker 1: would just strongly recommend, especially if you have a I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a little kid, as I've talked about at
Speaker 1: length here, and so that's just you know, you're changing diapers,
Speaker 1: or you're you're just scooping them up at the park
Speaker 1: because something went wrong, or it's just it's nice to
Speaker 1: have those and if you need to make a call
Speaker 1: on the go, it's it's a little bit easier. Just
Speaker 1: it is. It's just nice. I haven't run with them.
Speaker 1: I haven't really worked out with them because they're expensive
Speaker 1: and I don't want to get sweat all over them.
Speaker 1: But I feel like I've jogged a couple times for
Speaker 1: whatever wearing air pods and they've been fine. They've stayed
Speaker 1: in my ears. But I guess canals may vary.
Speaker 3: Canals may vary. Yeah, I use them when I mowing
Speaker 3: the lawn. I use them a lot when I'm talking
Speaker 3: on the phone.
Speaker 1: Gator GT Woman says, what's an underrated kitchen appliants? Now?
Speaker 1: Do you think she means appliance in the way that
Speaker 1: I think is generally understood, Like, is it a dishwasher,
Speaker 1: refrigerator that kind of appliance or is she saying appliant
Speaker 1: slash tool? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I kind of interpreted this as appliance slash tool because, okay,
Speaker 3: your options are sort of limited with regard to the
Speaker 3: things that you can plug in. Yes, right, So the
Speaker 3: one that came to mind for me is a can opener.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't scamp on your can opener.
Speaker 3: If you've ever had a bad can opener, you know it,
Speaker 3: you know it. A corkscrew kind of falls in that
Speaker 3: same category.
Speaker 1: Okay, not a big drinker, but I can see why
Speaker 1: it would be.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, crew can also fall into that category.
Speaker 3: You know. I'm partial on the souvied cooker as well.
Speaker 3: The running joke, how do you use your souvide?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 3: Not that often?
Speaker 1: Okay, now, I mean, it's still it's good to have.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: The running joke that the Solid Wife Kate and I
Speaker 3: have about souvied cookers is that anyone who has one
Speaker 3: feels the need to explain it every time they use it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, and I believe that's generally accurate. Those are
Speaker 3: the three that came to mind for me. Anything else
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a bunch that have just been a lot.
Speaker 1: My life has been better since I invested in a
Speaker 1: quality version of it. A cheese grater, like a box grader.
Speaker 1: If you get like a good, nice heavy one, if
Speaker 1: you're shredding a lot of cheese, or even if you're
Speaker 1: you know, doing it with onions or something, that is
Speaker 1: a big deal to me. The can opener is certainly good.
Speaker 1: Not just a knife, but we mentioned this Felder and
Speaker 1: I did on the episode a couple of weeks there,
Speaker 1: I guess a week ago. A knife sharpener. A knife
Speaker 1: sharpener makes a big difference to keep away any sort
Speaker 1: of dull blade action. I think a pizza cutter is
Speaker 1: nice if you're making pizza, investing a good one of those,
Speaker 1: you know, the rolling cutter a good like it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a standard drip coffee, just a pour
Speaker 1: over or a cold brewer. I have the Oxo cold Brewer.
Speaker 1: I drink cold brew every morning, and I love the
Speaker 1: one I got. It's just it has It's basically you
Speaker 1: pour the grounds and you pour the water and you
Speaker 1: let it seep for I don't know, eighteen or twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, and there's there's a spigot that you're it'll
Speaker 1: just come out and you can put it in store
Speaker 1: it in the fridge really easily. So that to me
Speaker 1: has been really nice. I have the ants cutting board.
Speaker 3: I use it every day. An electric teapot, Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3: An electric teapot is life changing.
Speaker 1: A good call. If you make eggs a lot, have
Speaker 1: a good little frying pan, if it's non stick whatever,
Speaker 1: I think that's important. I was just I just had
Speaker 1: something else tie that has now escaped.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: A potato masher. A potato masher, not because you're making
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes all the time, but if you're making guac.
Speaker 1: That has been my best answer for quality guak is
Speaker 1: a quality potato masher.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, why don't we leave it there and
Speaker 3: wish everyone fond to do as we head into the
Speaker 3: last weekend of August. The next time we join you,
Speaker 3: it's going to be September.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Ryan, Ryan has a good question. You want
Speaker 1: to get to that. It's it's been our endless frustration.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. How are you guys setting up for streaming video?
Speaker 1: Streaming lights slash, cameras slash other equipment questions? Yes, and yes,
Speaker 1: Ty and I have had, oh Man, maybe thirty seven
Speaker 1: conversations about diffused lights at least soft boxes and white
Speaker 1: T shirts and pillowcases over lights in the way that
Speaker 1: Ty is a stickler for high quality audio. I think
Speaker 1: I'm a stickler for high quality video. And I'm learning
Speaker 1: a bunch along the way as we get ready to
Speaker 1: ramp up some new elements of the show, Ty, you
Speaker 1: have what a Sony A sixty one hundred? A sixty
Speaker 1: one hundred, I've got a canon add that I already had.
Speaker 1: You just got the Sony A sixty one hundred because
Speaker 1: it has no video recording TI, I'm limit and it's
Speaker 1: a nice sensor and nice small body. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what we're that's what we're working with here right now,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty I mean, I think yours does four
Speaker 1: k mine doesn't. But one of the things that's been
Speaker 1: fascinating to me, as a lot of people have been
Speaker 1: quarantined and been at home a lot more and not
Speaker 1: going into offices watching and I'm not singling out any
Speaker 1: one network or anything like that, but watching ESPN personalities
Speaker 1: or Fox personalities or whoever, who are used to going
Speaker 1: into studios and being on TV or high quality digital video,
Speaker 1: and then they are left to their own devices or
Speaker 1: are being told, Okay, here the lights we're sending you,
Speaker 1: here is the microphone we're sending you. Here's the camera
Speaker 1: we're sending you. And all of these incredible broadcasters who
Speaker 1: have worked their way up to the top of the profession.
Speaker 4: Sound like that.
Speaker 1: They sound like this, Ti.
Speaker 4: They're not trying to sound like this. This is what
Speaker 4: they sound like as they try to produce television living.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 4: And I can't believe they can't figure out lighting or
Speaker 4: cameras or.
Speaker 3: Microphone, even a blue yetti for that matter.
Speaker 1: Jesus, Where oh man, there are there are guys who
Speaker 1: I think are used to going in and podcasting from
Speaker 1: these amazing studios and they're left to their own devices,
Speaker 1: and it's it's just like this time. This is the show,
Speaker 1: and that's been incredible to watch. There are some people
Speaker 1: that get it right, and it's it takes time, but
Speaker 1: it's amazing how poor people are at finding light, finding audio,
Speaker 1: treating their room just a little bent with some soft acoustics.
Speaker 1: That's been fascinating to watch. So that's why we are
Speaker 1: taking our sweet time, because we don't want to put up,
Speaker 1: you know, substandard stuff if we're putting effort into it.
Speaker 1: This is true, this is true.
Speaker 3: It's been an education for me, I gotta say.
Speaker 1: And I know I understand some people that's like their stick.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's fine, I guess. But we're talking
Speaker 1: about places trying to make good audio and good video
Speaker 1: and good TV. I think a couple of the late
Speaker 1: night guys have done pretty well. I think that has
Speaker 1: succeeded somewhat. But man, sports has not been in a
Speaker 1: good place at all. With that, that's all I have.
Speaker 3: It's fascinating, it is all right, all right, all right,
Speaker 3: let's call off the dogs. Let's call it a week.
Speaker 1: Ty. If this show is not a show that we
Speaker 1: can call out audio production value for no real reason,
Speaker 1: what are we even doing.
Speaker 3: For that guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 3: for myself, Tie Hildebrandt. Look stay safe, stay solid, Enjoy
Speaker 3: the rest of your weekend, Enjoy the rest of your August.
Speaker 3: We will be back next week, same times, same place,
Speaker 3: talking more college football, doing previews, getting you ready for
Speaker 3: the college football season. Dan, I ready screwed up my outro,
Speaker 3: so I'm just gonna say no, You're good. Enjoy the
Speaker 3: rest of your weekend, and I'll talk to you all soon.
Speaker 1: Peace,