Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid Verbo. I'll that for me. I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be happy. You want to be happy
Speaker 1: for day Edith State? Is that? Whoo whoom? And Dan
Speaker 1: and Tye welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls.
Speaker 1: My name is ty Hildenbrandt, joining me as always my
Speaker 1: man over there in New York City, the one, the
Speaker 1: only Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how are you? I'm good? Is
Speaker 1: it strange to say because we haven't recorded in like
Speaker 1: a week and a half. Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 1: I miss you. I mean we talk every day. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's not in this weird. I'd be hurt
Speaker 1: if you didn't miss me. Good. We're on the same page,
Speaker 1: especially because one, we have a ton of news to
Speaker 1: talk about. Two, we've got a couple of G five
Speaker 1: games from we're recording this Sunday midday to talk about.
Speaker 1: Three we have a show that I can't believe we
Speaker 1: haven't done sooner in terms of theme and Q and
Speaker 1: A and topic. And I mean, if you've downloaded this,
Speaker 1: you've seen the title and you know that at least
Speaker 1: part of this episode is dedicated to in the name
Speaker 1: of our Google document is consumption junction. Assumption junction, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which would be a great name for like a discount bar. Yes,
Speaker 1: so we have and we tend to focus on FBS teams.
Speaker 1: So we've got a buffet of like one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one I don't know the number actually right now.
Speaker 1: After we've got a couple of new entrants I believe
Speaker 1: this year. So it's a buffet ty, yeah, And we
Speaker 1: are all just trying to figure out how to strategize
Speaker 1: and consume effectively. And by that we mean how do
Speaker 1: we watch? What do we watch? Where do we watch?
Speaker 1: You know, what do we pay to watch? And what
Speaker 1: do we eat? Where do we go to eat? How
Speaker 1: do we find things to make to eat? This idea,
Speaker 1: Dan is a wheelhouse subject for both of us. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited. Where is a wheelhouse subject for us here
Speaker 1: hosting the soliverbal Because we've been doing this show. This
Speaker 1: is going to be our tenth I guess, full season
Speaker 1: doing the show. We're starting our eleventh season of podcasts,
Speaker 1: but our tenth full season of doing the podcast. So
Speaker 1: we've picked up a few pro tips along the way,
Speaker 1: many of which I'm very excited to share, some of
Speaker 1: which I don't think I've ever mentioned on the program before.
Speaker 1: So this gives us an opportunity to not only talk
Speaker 1: about how we consume football, but read aloud how some
Speaker 1: of the people that listen to our show also consume
Speaker 1: college football. So we got that we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about in a little bit. We've also got some important
Speaker 1: news that we're going to get through, and also a
Speaker 1: few housekeeping notes. So first and foremost, there is going
Speaker 1: to be a Pickum game this year. I am in
Speaker 1: the process of making that happen, but Week one will
Speaker 1: not be available until likely sometime on Wednesday. I know
Speaker 1: we've had thousands of people that join our groups every
Speaker 1: year when we pick these games. Just stand pat, it's
Speaker 1: going to be out there. Before you know it. A
Speaker 1: new and improved game will be coming your way, which
Speaker 1: you can access via soliverbal dot com. So look forward
Speaker 1: to that. We'll post more certainly out on all of
Speaker 1: our social media platforms. The second thing more of a
Speaker 1: technical housekeeping note for me that I am working on.
Speaker 1: But we do have a lot of people who listen
Speaker 1: on Spotify, and for some odd reason, at first our
Speaker 1: podcast noted at some point this weekend that it was
Speaker 1: last updated December thirty first, nineteen sixty nine, Yes, which
Speaker 1: is not at all accurate. And then it just disappeared.
Speaker 1: It went dark entirely from the service. So we'll figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on and get that back up and
Speaker 1: running in time for the year. Also, Yes, the solid
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Speaker 1: I trust to sort through all of our weird RSS
Speaker 1: issues that aren't actually not our faults. No, I assume
Speaker 1: it's Tie Hill. We will will. We will get this
Speaker 1: up and running before long, I promise, Daniel. Should we
Speaker 1: get into our news's let's talk news, as you know,
Speaker 1: we do have some briggant news. Yeah, Zach Anikstad has
Speaker 1: been named the starter at Minnesota. Well, that's not what
Speaker 1: I want to talk about. So we haven't done a
Speaker 1: show in a week and a half. You've been, what
Speaker 1: enjoying summer working doing all that sort of stuff. I've
Speaker 1: been working, and I was in Maine for a few
Speaker 1: days and a few days ago in Maine, I was
Speaker 1: in Maine at about I want to say nine pmsh
Speaker 1: Eastern time, there was a press conference in Columbus, Ohio,
Speaker 1: the gist of which was an announcement that urban Meyer
Speaker 1: was going to be suspended for three games. Risk can
Speaker 1: still coach during the week after Week one for his
Speaker 1: handling or mishandling of the Zack Smith situation, the receiver's
Speaker 1: coach at Ohio State who has recently let go after
Speaker 1: a trespassing violation that resulted from or as a result
Speaker 1: of a twenty fifteen court order in which he was
Speaker 1: accused of things not arrested related to domestic violence and misconduct.
Speaker 1: And then also the two thousand and nine arrest of
Speaker 1: Zack Smith that was not at all flagged by Ohio State,
Speaker 1: and everything was just sort of covered up effectively publicly
Speaker 1: for a while until recently and the group, the investigative
Speaker 1: group at Ohio State found that ern Meyer did a
Speaker 1: number of things incorrectly, as well as Gene Smith, the
Speaker 1: athletic director at Ohio State, incorrectly, both of whom have
Speaker 1: been suspended ish yes, she's a good way to put that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, but their jobs at Ohio States, which came
Speaker 1: as a surprise to many people. It brought out the
Speaker 1: worst in the worst of Ohio State fans and some
Speaker 1: really logical and human reactions from the best of Ohio
Speaker 1: State fans. So what was your reaction, you know, given
Speaker 1: the new information that came to light from the investigation
Speaker 1: and the punishment, and how thorough the punishment seems to you,
Speaker 1: or how light that punishment seems to you, or something
Speaker 1: in between. Yeah, I mean my first reaction was we
Speaker 1: shouldn't paint all Ohio State supporters with the broadbrush, because
Speaker 1: there were some of the worst of the worst out there.
Speaker 1: But also I thought a lot of folks who were
Speaker 1: just embarrassed about it and quite frankly didn't know how
Speaker 1: to feel because it's their team. At the same time,
Speaker 1: they're not very comfortable with the way things went down
Speaker 1: here as part of this investigation, so we have to
Speaker 1: call that out. Look, the press conference was this, Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a disaster. Whoever was the point person on
Speaker 1: running comms for that operation did a pretty bad job.
Speaker 1: It was a complete disaster. The way that they went
Speaker 1: about it, it came across as very shady, totally separate
Speaker 1: from whatever may or may not have gone on. The
Speaker 1: press conference did not do Ohio State any favors. So
Speaker 1: then you had other stuff coming out about text messages
Speaker 1: maybe being deleted, and I have a long list here
Speaker 1: of just oddities that I think we found out either
Speaker 1: at the press conference or after the press conference. None
Speaker 1: of that stuff plays well for Ohio State. Certainly, Ohio
Speaker 1: State had grounds to fire him if they wanted to
Speaker 1: be they chose not to, and they didn't want to.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to. They went into this not wanting
Speaker 1: to fire him because exactly they weighed his value versus
Speaker 1: the value of moving on from him, and you know,
Speaker 1: the goodwill perhaps that would have given them publicly, and
Speaker 1: they decided, you know, or I don't think it was
Speaker 1: a decision. I think they went into the investigation saying,
Speaker 1: how do we do something? And they said, as much,
Speaker 1: how do we do something with this investigation to appease everybody,
Speaker 1: Not how do we go into this investigation to do
Speaker 1: the right thing, but how do we do this so
Speaker 1: everybody is satisfied. They didn't want to get rid of them,
Speaker 1: They didn't end up getting rid of them. And I
Speaker 1: think that much came across in the press conference, and
Speaker 1: it really did represent a lot of what the stereotype
Speaker 1: is for college football. What's wrong in college football, this
Speaker 1: whole coach as king mentality. So yes, you know, look,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how this plays long term, just
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, how people view Ohio State
Speaker 1: moving forward. If the backlash that we saw on Wednesday
Speaker 1: continues throughout the season, a really bad look for Ohio State,
Speaker 1: it still feels like the beginning of the end for
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer at Ohio State, even if, yeah, a little bit,
Speaker 1: there is a sense that this is going to and
Speaker 1: this is college football and high level college sports, so
Speaker 1: you can't just say without any hesitation that this is
Speaker 1: going to just linger with Ohio State. Because we've seen
Speaker 1: other situations where people move on. This specific situation paints
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer terribly. Sure, it paints Ohio State terribly. And
Speaker 1: Andy Stables had a good line in his piece after
Speaker 1: the fact that when such an obviously smart person is
Speaker 1: trying to a paraphrasing here, convince everybody that he's stupid,
Speaker 1: that's problematic. Yeah, I mean the selective memory thing, consulting
Speaker 1: with people to try and delete text messages, didn't knowingly
Speaker 1: lie that, like all that stuff definitely has an error
Speaker 1: shadiness to it. And so yes, yeah, if we find
Speaker 1: out three years from now that this was the beginning
Speaker 1: of the end for urban Meyer. I don't think it
Speaker 1: would be a surprise to any of us. No, and
Speaker 1: I you know, you could get a situation where he says,
Speaker 1: I think it's best for everybody that I step aside
Speaker 1: for the good of the universe, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the maybe after the year, maybe after next year, something
Speaker 1: like that, where this is going to on whatever level
Speaker 1: stay with him publicly. It is one of those things
Speaker 1: where it's very convenient that one he had the memory lapse.
Speaker 1: That's fine. There is medication that can affect memory. That's
Speaker 1: incredible that this coincides with him not remembering things at
Speaker 1: media day when he spoke to the public. The text
Speaker 1: message thing. If you didn't see that, there was a report,
Speaker 1: it's in the investigation, not even a report. It's investigated
Speaker 1: that he asked a staffer how to delete all old
Speaker 1: text messages after a year in the wake of the
Speaker 1: Brett McMurphy story. When that broke and you know this
Speaker 1: it it doesn't automatically say ooh, he's trying to hide something.
Speaker 1: But when it's a university owned phone, that can be
Speaker 1: that the text can be retrieved. Whatever investigative method, the
Speaker 1: foy or whatever. There is something of like he could
Speaker 1: in his head say, I understand they're gonna come after this.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that will implicate me about this situation, but
Speaker 1: there are other situations I'd rather not bring to light
Speaker 1: something like that. It is hard to suspend disbelief that
Speaker 1: he did not have conversations with his wife about the
Speaker 1: situation in twenty fifteen years beforehand. There is a degree
Speaker 1: of mental gymnastics that needs to take price here to
Speaker 1: completely believe everything that Ohio State has been selling. And
Speaker 1: so there are That's what I have the hardest part
Speaker 1: dealing with you. I'm always skeptical of any internal investigation,
Speaker 1: and this is a big part of the reason why,
Speaker 1: because he gets stuff like this. The other ironic point
Speaker 1: that I'll bring up here and then I'm perfectly fine
Speaker 1: moving on. Zach Smith wasn't all that great of a
Speaker 1: wide receiver's coach to begin with. It was a personal
Speaker 1: connection that kept him there. I would pause it. He
Speaker 1: was flat out bad. He was not professional in his demeanor,
Speaker 1: not prompt, he was not he didn't he was not
Speaker 1: forthcoming about issues. Everybody looks terrible from this situation that
Speaker 1: you know there are facts that you know, there was.
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer claims that he and his wife met with
Speaker 1: Courtney Smith in two thousand and nine at Florida and
Speaker 1: then she was like, I never met with urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: absolutely not, I never recanted anything, and that they convinced
Speaker 1: her then not to press charges. Jean Smith, for the
Speaker 1: second time has hired a head or has hired a
Speaker 1: coach without a background check. At at Iowa State in
Speaker 1: the nineties with Dan McCartney, he had domestic violence issues
Speaker 1: that they just didn't know about. They just did not
Speaker 1: know about. And now at at Ohio State, it was
Speaker 1: you know, Andy wrote about Andy Staples that twenty four
Speaker 1: dollars gets you a background check on anybody in the
Speaker 1: state of Florida and just didn't do it. And urban
Speaker 1: Meyer was not forthcoming about Zack Smith when he hired
Speaker 1: him to Jean Smith. You know, urban Meyer and Jean
Speaker 1: Smith were not at all forthcoming with compliance at Ohio State.
Speaker 1: And so if nothing else, urban Meyer is incompetent as
Speaker 1: a corporate leader, as a leader of men, as somebody
Speaker 1: who is public facing and represents an enormous school. And
Speaker 1: he's Ohio State's coach, and there are probably a ton
Speaker 1: of other coaches who would not do any better. But
Speaker 1: urban Meyer is not new to this. Urban Meyer knows
Speaker 1: the game and it this will be whenever he decides
Speaker 1: to retire. This is what will join him in that retirement.
Speaker 1: This story and his actions or in action, and that
Speaker 1: a college football coach is part of my language. Full
Speaker 1: of shit, nothing new, nothing unique to Ohio State, nothing
Speaker 1: unique to Urban Meyer, but there is something. And I
Speaker 1: will only speak for myself here, but I think I
Speaker 1: have a pretty good understanding from doing this show and
Speaker 1: covering the sport for a while. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things where we love the sport because of, in no
Speaker 1: particular order, the actual football and the stories and the
Speaker 1: players and the plays and the matchups and the rivalry
Speaker 1: and the culture of you know, tailgating and food and
Speaker 1: traditions and marching bands and traveling and friendships over this.
Speaker 1: You know's there's no better sport than college football that
Speaker 1: has a cultural element in America. But when these types
Speaker 1: of stories come to light, you're like, there's a certain
Speaker 1: amount of disbelief that you have to have with the sport.
Speaker 1: There are issues, whether it's monetary, whether it's administrative, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. Competitive that you just have to
Speaker 1: ignore or get past or make peace with. And this
Speaker 1: is one of those stories that really like you're trying
Speaker 1: to like kick things under the rug, and this is
Speaker 1: one of those stories that just sits on your table.
Speaker 1: And that's what sucks about this, because you know, you
Speaker 1: want to believe the people that coach your teams or
Speaker 1: that coach teams that you enjoy watching or run these
Speaker 1: teams are doing so because they love it and that
Speaker 1: they want to do right by the people that work
Speaker 1: with them and under them and for them whatever. And man,
Speaker 1: this is a pretty big blow to that. And if
Speaker 1: he were fired, by the way, fine by me. Totally fine.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, let's go to Maryland. What's going on
Speaker 1: at Maryland? So DJ Durkin's been on leave since I
Speaker 1: want to say, August eleventh, head coach because of an
Speaker 1: investigation into Jordan McNair, the offensive lineman who tragically passed
Speaker 1: away during an early summer workout, and the investigation is ongoing.
Speaker 1: They got rid of the strength coach and they're investigating
Speaker 1: the culture of Maryland looking into whether or not it
Speaker 1: has become toxic and awful two athletes, especially football players,
Speaker 1: and in the wake of all of that, there was
Speaker 1: a story that former athletic director Kevin Anderson helped to
Speaker 1: use school funds to hire a lawyer to represent two
Speaker 1: former football players who were accused of sexual misconduct. And
Speaker 1: then turns out it was DJ Durkin himself who steered
Speaker 1: school funds to the lawyer to represent these two athletes,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a pretty big conflict. Not to say,
Speaker 1: if you're accused of a crime, you shouldn't hire representation,
Speaker 1: but when the school's investigating and paying for the defense,
Speaker 1: it's pretty bad. So that investigation is ongoing. I can
Speaker 1: imagine DJ dark and as coaching another game from Maryland.
Speaker 1: You have a list of newly named starting quarterbacks, so
Speaker 1: we should run through very brief Yes, no easy way
Speaker 1: to transition, but in no particular order. But the last
Speaker 1: one's going to be my favorite. Obviously, Blake Barnett is
Speaker 1: the starter at USF. Makes sense should have the talent
Speaker 1: to run that. It should be a good option there
Speaker 1: for Charlie Strong and USF Shaye Patterson. We've talked about nauseum.
Speaker 1: This is I'm we are not That's the last time
Speaker 1: we're saying his name on this show today. Okay, b
Speaker 1: Yu Tanner Mangam is back. He's going to start Tanner
Speaker 1: Mangum yep. Arthur Sidkowski the true freshman at Rutgers, Arthur King,
Speaker 1: Arthur Yeah, I really hope he does well well for
Speaker 1: Chris ash and Scarlett Knights wake Forest, Sam Hartman, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Wolford wagon is a tough wagon to follow. Tye,
Speaker 1: you know this. I know this true freshman Adrian Martinez
Speaker 1: from California is the starter at Nebraska. Do you remember
Speaker 1: the Pivotal People episode A Pivotal People. I think we
Speaker 1: had Adrian Martin Martinez. This guy right here had Adrian
Speaker 1: Martinez on that list. So true freshman Scott Frost. Of course,
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Milton was put into action as a true freshman
Speaker 1: in mariot at Oregon as a red shirt freshman, different circumstances.
Speaker 1: Zach Ennixstad true freshman walk on from the IMG Academy
Speaker 1: named the starter at Minnesota for PJ. Fleck, I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of strong thoughts, but Minnesota within a
Speaker 1: year and a half, that offense at least there could
Speaker 1: be some feist to it. Tie pluckiness. I told you,
Speaker 1: I told you, I know Indiana Peyton Ramsey notable because
Speaker 1: it's not Brandon Dawkins, the grad transfer from Arizona. So
Speaker 1: Peyton Ramsey back Kyler Murray officially, which we got like
Speaker 1: a tweet or something. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: edit or Twitter or whatever. Like. Tie is literally the
Speaker 1: only person that I've seen to be so obsessed with
Speaker 1: the threat of Kyler Murray injury. I love that because
Speaker 1: you're a trendsetter. Tie. Yeah, the world, I'll see that soon.
Speaker 1: I am Peyton Bender at Kansas. Not a huge surprise there.
Speaker 1: Brady White the grad transfer from Arizona State at Memphis.
Speaker 1: He is somebody that I would keep an eye on
Speaker 1: in terms of pivotal people, just because he's had time
Speaker 1: in that system. Now because you know, rejoining offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: from Arizona State at Memphis. Sam Ellinger at Texas. Not
Speaker 1: a huge surprise, but it's official. Brandon Wimbush, which became
Speaker 1: sort of obvious despite I don't think you were calling
Speaker 1: for somebody, but you were anticipating it being closer or
Speaker 1: a more difficult decision than implied publicly. Yes, not well, no,
Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be Wimbush. But okay,
Speaker 1: I think my trepidation is more with what happens a
Speaker 1: quarter into the Michigan game. And we know that Brian
Speaker 1: Kelly towards the end of last year had a pretty
Speaker 1: quick hook with Wimbush, especially in the Bowl game. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how quick that hook ends up being.
Speaker 1: Because if you listen to any of Brian Kelly's press conference,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure everybody who downloaded this show listened to
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly's press conference where he addressed this fat but
Speaker 1: it's very apparent that the two quarterbacks are drastically different
Speaker 1: in skill sets. It's almost like he's not grading one
Speaker 1: versus the other. It's more a matter of which skill
Speaker 1: set will give them the best chance to win. I
Speaker 1: think this has all the ingredients needed in this fine
Speaker 1: recipe that I've drafted for my Fantasy Things about Notre
Speaker 1: Dame quarterback questions. I think we're going to be age though,
Speaker 1: we are going to be there sooner than later, mark
Speaker 1: my word. By the way, the Fantasy Things Draft Live
Speaker 1: from Chicago is up, and even listening back incredible. I
Speaker 1: had so much fun. Even if my team gets blown out,
Speaker 1: I had we already just saw so much fun. Do
Speaker 1: you have Jimbo Fisher Texas things I do my number
Speaker 1: one overall. Yeah, so you already got points from that.
Speaker 1: I think he was interviewed by Marty Smith because of
Speaker 1: course he was on horseback. Although little disappointed, I just
Speaker 1: saw the picture. I haven't watched the full feature. Why
Speaker 1: can't Marty Smith wear the helmet with the antenna that
Speaker 1: they wear after like the triple crown, But that's what
Speaker 1: I want. Yeah, And speaking of Texas, TCU named Sean
Speaker 1: Robinson last year's backup starting quarterback, so as expected, nothing crazy.
Speaker 1: So I guess the holdouts for big quarterback announcements would
Speaker 1: be the LA schools. I think JT. Daniels kind of
Speaker 1: expected at USC. I would imagine Wilton Spade at least
Speaker 1: to start the season at UCLA, but yeah, entirely possible.
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. I haven't seen anything on Wazoo, Tennessee with
Speaker 1: the Jerreed Quarantano and Keller Christ. I haven't seen anything
Speaker 1: developed there. Florida State, nothing has been announced publicly. Clemson,
Speaker 1: we assume Kelly Bryant. I don't think anything will change there,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that's lasting the season. Dwayne
Speaker 1: Haskins already been named at Ohio State, any big schools
Speaker 1: I'm leaving out it's quarterback battle, probably, I mean Alabama
Speaker 1: is obviously a big one. Yeah, probably, But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think those are the notable ones that we discovered here
Speaker 1: over the last week and a half or so. As
Speaker 1: you know, these names can change pretty quickly depending on
Speaker 1: performance and injury and a whole variety of other issues.
Speaker 1: But yeah, as of now, we have a little bit
Speaker 1: more clarity around who's going to be starting for some
Speaker 1: of the big teams in college football. To keep everyone
Speaker 1: here who downloaded, and who's listening up to speed with
Speaker 1: what our plan is. This is our first Sunday show
Speaker 1: of correct the new season. First show. I should say
Speaker 1: that we're actually recording on a Sunday, so Dan and
Speaker 1: I are just kind of getting in the swing of
Speaker 1: things here. This will be our routine now as we
Speaker 1: move forward. On Wednesday, we're going to have our week
Speaker 1: one preview episode where we run through all the big
Speaker 1: notable games and give you our picks against the bread,
Speaker 1: which you could then take if you want and use
Speaker 1: to inform your picks in our pick a pool. And
Speaker 1: then on Sunday next Sunday, a week from today, we
Speaker 1: will do our Week one review show. Keep in mind
Speaker 1: that there are games on Sunday night between LSU and
Speaker 1: Miami and then again on Labor Day on Monday night
Speaker 1: between Florida State and Virginia Tech. So we will get
Speaker 1: to those games when we do our week two previous
Speaker 1: show on Wednesday the following Wednesday. But for now anyway,
Speaker 1: and moving forward for the foreseeable future, you can get
Speaker 1: a brand new show from US one recorded every Sunday one,
Speaker 1: recorded on every Wednesday from now through the National Championship
Speaker 1: in the beginning part of January. And speaking of Sunday shows,
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, that is our recap show that'll
Speaker 1: be up midday. We're aiming for we're going to record
Speaker 1: a little earlier this year. So really, you know, wet
Speaker 1: people's whistle? Is that the word? Yep? Wh w what what?
Speaker 1: But we can sort of start on that quickly because
Speaker 1: we had two FBS matchups last night. Yes, do you
Speaker 1: have the shootouts sound? Ready? I do the shootouts sound?
Speaker 1: It's been too long. Hawaii forty three, Colorado State thirty
Speaker 1: four in Fort Collins, kJ card of Samuels in a
Speaker 1: losing effort back. I'm ready to use it. It looked
Speaker 1: you tweeted out a picture. It really it got me going, Yeah,
Speaker 1: five hundred and forty yards and five touchdowns, the Washington
Speaker 1: grad transfer committed to UCLA briefly so almost Ucla, and
Speaker 1: a losing effort for not nailing down kJ card to
Speaker 1: Samuels as a Bruin. And then on the other side,
Speaker 1: the actual winning effort Cole McDonald's, who was not at
Speaker 1: all a big recruit for Hawaii. He has almost six
Speaker 1: hundred yards I want to say, five hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards something like that of total offense, runs for a
Speaker 1: near one hundred throws for about four to twelve, five
Speaker 1: total touchdowns, two hundred yard receivers. And when we previewed
Speaker 1: Hawaii as part of our divisional previews, we didn't say much.
Speaker 1: They had lost a ton of players, so it was
Speaker 1: hard to really get a concept for what Hawaii was
Speaker 1: going to look like, both to graduation, moving on, or transfer.
Speaker 1: And now that we know that they are at least
Speaker 1: capable of scoring some points, there aren't a lot of
Speaker 1: defenses on this schedule that you know, if everything continues
Speaker 1: along this path, we don't want to overreact to Week one.
Speaker 1: They have wyoming, they have Fresno State, they have San
Speaker 1: Diego State, but Hawaii threatening a boll now suddenly becomes
Speaker 1: more realistic. It's the quest for five at this point.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Wyoming. Wyoming goes on the road and
Speaker 1: they knock off New Mexico State by a twenty nine
Speaker 1: to seven margin. Here, Dan, what story for Wyoming defense? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: their defense is ridiculous. They were probably one of the
Speaker 1: best twelve to fifteen defenses in the country schedule and
Speaker 1: opponent adjusted, but our situation adjusted. And one, well, I
Speaker 1: have two big points here. Two defense is great, and
Speaker 1: they do have some tough offenses coming up. And also two,
Speaker 1: their quarterback completed more than fifty percent of his passes,
Speaker 1: which recently at Wyoming not not always a thing, not
Speaker 1: always a thing. Wyoming coming up has Wazoo and Missouri,
Speaker 1: so more challenging offenses probably than New Mexico States. They've
Speaker 1: got Boise before September is up. They do have Hawaii
Speaker 1: on the road, which I can't imagine. It's a short
Speaker 1: distance from Wyoming to Hawaii. And you know, colorad Station
Speaker 1: have a nice offense. President State pretty good. So it's
Speaker 1: a it's going to be a trying year. For this
Speaker 1: wyoming defense. But I have a feeling they're up for it.
Speaker 1: So those are the two games of do you do
Speaker 1: you like calling it week zero? I do? I think.
Speaker 1: I don't know who to credit that to it maybe
Speaker 1: our pal Stephen Godfrey. I don't know who. I like
Speaker 1: thee with it. Yeah, I'm a fan. I can't fully
Speaker 1: call it a its own week though, because there's not
Speaker 1: there's not a slate I have. I have a name
Speaker 1: that I workshopped in my head that I think is
Speaker 1: pretty good. You ever go to a restaurant tie, I
Speaker 1: always bring it back to food. Obviously, you have your entrees,
Speaker 1: you have your desserts. You know, above your entrees, maybe
Speaker 1: your salads, maybe your appetizers. I don't even think this
Speaker 1: slate is a full appetizer. Do you know what else?
Speaker 1: You know what's above appetizer? Sometimes sometimes they'll have snacks
Speaker 1: and it'll be like deviled eggs, or it'll be like
Speaker 1: a roasted garlic peanut. It's just something to pick at
Speaker 1: before your plate of appetizer comes. And they called snacks
Speaker 1: like just little bites. I want to call a snack.
Speaker 1: I want to call this week snacktion. No, we have
Speaker 1: action why not snacktion. I mean, it's a fair question,
Speaker 1: but no, I think we can do better. Killing me
Speaker 1: Thursday night is the appetizer. I think week zero is
Speaker 1: still better than snackch all right, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: admire the effort, though, Dan, next August, I'm just saction.
Speaker 1: Snacktion is going to be my fetch. You just got
Speaker 1: to steer into it like I did with Duke of
Speaker 1: his Arm. I'm going to make snaction happen. Ty, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I think that's everything in terms of the past. Yes,
Speaker 1: shall we talk about the future the present in future?
Speaker 1: Let's do that. So here is the deal. You came
Speaker 1: up with this idea. We introed it at the top
Speaker 1: of the show, but we've now gotten to the stage
Speaker 1: of this episode. We're going to talk about college football consumption.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, in a variety of different forms. How do
Speaker 1: you consume the game? How do you consume food and
Speaker 1: drink and adult libations before the game or during the
Speaker 1: game or after the game? Really we're playing into what
Speaker 1: is your routine for watching college football and tradition? Han, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are your traditions? How do you go about spending
Speaker 1: your safe Saturday is or your weekends when college football
Speaker 1: is in season. Now, as you might imagine, we got
Speaker 1: a variety of different answers to this broad question of
Speaker 1: how do you consume college football? So we did get
Speaker 1: into some interesting territory here. We're going to get into
Speaker 1: the cord cutting aspect of it all, which is obviously
Speaker 1: a topic near and dear to my heart. We're going
Speaker 1: to get into the food aspect of things, which is
Speaker 1: a topic that you know an awful lot about. But
Speaker 1: one question that I know we got a lot of
Speaker 1: is how you and I consume college football? How do
Speaker 1: we consume enough football? How do we digest enough on
Speaker 1: a Saturday that we can wake up early and put
Speaker 1: this show together on a Sunday morning. So Dan, I'll
Speaker 1: start there. What is your routine on a Saturday? How
Speaker 1: do you make the sausage on your end? So to speak?
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm generally up pretty early six six point
Speaker 1: thirty on Saturdays. I try to get it unless it's
Speaker 1: crazy cold, because I'm again a soft California I try
Speaker 1: to get in a run or a visit to the gym,
Speaker 1: just because I know it's a long day ahead. I
Speaker 1: know it's probably not going to be the healthiest day,
Speaker 1: so try to get some oxygen into the brain. Game
Speaker 1: Day starts at nine. I want to say it's three hours, right, yep.
Speaker 1: I will typically watch some of like half watch Game
Speaker 1: Day as I'm on my laptop looking at stories and
Speaker 1: maybe cooking stuff. Like Game Day has become less and
Speaker 1: less a part of my life just because it's long
Speaker 1: and I just have other things to do, so I
Speaker 1: am watching that less and less, but it's good. It's
Speaker 1: it's still obviously the gold standard. So that's what I'll
Speaker 1: do early on on Saturdays. Generally I have either gone
Speaker 1: into an office to watch things or I've had people over,
Speaker 1: more people over recently, and that's what it'll be this fall,
Speaker 1: and it's cooking, it's various things, and then it's generally
Speaker 1: just a couch setup with a couple of screens. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a computer monitor. Sometimes this year I think it'll
Speaker 1: be a second TV will be brought into the living room.
Speaker 1: And we moved so just down down the block, nothing crazy,
Speaker 1: and there's like a community room that nobody uses that
Speaker 1: I'll use a ton. I call it my me work
Speaker 1: because there's no we and there's like a seventy inch
Speaker 1: TV in there with couches and everything, so maybe I'll
Speaker 1: go down there. And it's right next to a grill,
Speaker 1: so to have access to that is new and exciting.
Speaker 1: So my general plan is to have a couple of
Speaker 1: TVs and be on Twitter and be looking stuff up
Speaker 1: and taking notes for the Sunday show as things strike
Speaker 1: my cerebellum and watching from noon to and I will
Speaker 1: not claim to stay up for no inconsequential in my
Speaker 1: mind pack twelve action that I can watch the next morning,
Speaker 1: because I still think with the best possible Sunday morning
Speaker 1: show is when we at least have a little bit
Speaker 1: of rest to sort of reset our brains from Saturday.
Speaker 1: So I will I will get up pretty early on
Speaker 1: Sundays at like six, but I will watched from twelve
Speaker 1: to twelve, I would say, and then watch the late
Speaker 1: night stuff that I missed as soon as I wake
Speaker 1: up before the show via YouTube or DVR or something,
Speaker 1: because a lot of this stuff is on YouTube pretty
Speaker 1: quickly thereafter. And usually it's just like oh cal Washington
Speaker 1: State went until three in the morning, or eras Khlil
Speaker 1: Tait ran for a trillion yards against UCLA, something like that,
Speaker 1: which I can catch up on pretty quickly without having
Speaker 1: watched it live because I am a sleep addict. I
Speaker 1: love sleep, and I will go with that two TV setup.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can pay attention to more than
Speaker 1: two screens. That was going to be my point. By
Speaker 1: the way, you mentioned Cal. Can I play my Bower
Speaker 1: Hour sound that I've been with? Oh my god, do it?
Speaker 1: Do it? Yeah? We're talking bower Hour baby. Okay, has
Speaker 1: he been officially named Starter? I hope. I love that
Speaker 1: you might have a sound. Yeah, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be I'm going to play that sound for Cal,
Speaker 1: regardless of who the starter is. Now, you bring up
Speaker 1: a good point. I can only put two games on
Speaker 1: it once, not because of any technical limitation. But when
Speaker 1: you go three Dragons Dan, I can't pay attention to
Speaker 1: any of the games on TV. It's just like and
Speaker 1: you can watch plays, but then you miss. It's too much,
Speaker 1: You're just out of sync, too much stimulation. So I
Speaker 1: try to cap it at two. I'll flip around if
Speaker 1: need be, just to look and see what's going on,
Speaker 1: if there are any games that are getting interesting or
Speaker 1: any cool plays that I need to check out to
Speaker 1: be informed about what's happening. Before we do our Sunday show.
Speaker 1: My pro tip actually is I read a lot more
Speaker 1: game recaps than I think might meet the eye from
Speaker 1: doing this show, and particularly I like to read the
Speaker 1: losing game recap because that generally gives me a better
Speaker 1: sense for what went wrong, and that usually also makes
Speaker 1: for better conversation between you and I when we're talking
Speaker 1: through a game, I get a better understanding knowing what
Speaker 1: went wrong than necessarily knowing what went right. So I
Speaker 1: enjoy just that aspect of researching and learning about the
Speaker 1: games through the lens of someone who is presumably much
Speaker 1: more of an expert on a team than than you
Speaker 1: or I. So that's part of how I kind of
Speaker 1: bring myself up to speed. But otherwise I'll get back
Speaker 1: to what you said about game day. Game Day is
Speaker 1: the gold standard. I love Game Day, and I would
Speaker 1: watch more Game Day if I could. But as I've
Speaker 1: gotten older, it's a lot of life. I'm married and
Speaker 1: now in a house. It's a lot of time to
Speaker 1: dedicate to college football in the morning when you could
Speaker 1: be doing stuff that you can't get to throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the week running Errand's going to a hardware story,
Speaker 1: life whatever, soccer, practice, life stuff. Dan. So honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't watch a whole lot of college game day, not
Speaker 1: because I have any stance against it, but because it's
Speaker 1: three hours in the morning before the games get rolling
Speaker 1: that I could do stuff that I just honestly need
Speaker 1: to do just to continue on. It's a pretty good
Speaker 1: resource for people who are not spending their entire week
Speaker 1: reading about exactly thinking about college football and the national
Speaker 1: scope of things. We've already done that. The other thing
Speaker 1: that I'm with you, The other thing that I would
Speaker 1: throw in there is and we'll get to this, because
Speaker 1: I saw there was a question about the window of opportunity.
Speaker 1: But it's not just something that I put on the
Speaker 1: show because I like to play a really cool sound.
Speaker 1: It is a good sound, the old windows sound. It's
Speaker 1: also something that I also abide by. I will add
Speaker 1: this as well. It is impossible to watch all meaningful
Speaker 1: snaps on Saturday totally and do a show at nine
Speaker 1: am on ten am on Sunday whatever. And so what
Speaker 1: we do rely on, as you mentioned, is the recaps
Speaker 1: and stuff, and there are condensed highlights that become available
Speaker 1: just so we can get a sense of rhythms and
Speaker 1: the feel of games. That's something that is just an
Speaker 1: unfortunate reality with there only being twenty four hours in
Speaker 1: a day. But what is cool is a lot of these,
Speaker 1: a lot of the conference networks, YouTube channels, varying degrees
Speaker 1: of legitimacy. We'll put up games twenty minutes, thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: and it's just snapped to snap, you know, all the
Speaker 1: filler is gone, and before the following preview episode, we
Speaker 1: will watch a lot of those to get a better
Speaker 1: sense of what we're actually talking about, because we can't,
Speaker 1: you know, if there's a random Auburn game, Kansas State game,
Speaker 1: cal game, Minnesota game that all of a sudden is
Speaker 1: like something huge happens, a quarterback breaks through, like we
Speaker 1: haven't watched it. So to have that like twelve minute,
Speaker 1: let's watch all the throws Sunday morning before we record
Speaker 1: is pretty enormous. So absolutely it is. Technologically speaking, it
Speaker 1: has become easier and easier to speak with at least
Speaker 1: a little bit of authority on what happensolutely, So that
Speaker 1: has become a major thing. Yeah, and I'll talk more
Speaker 1: as we go through some of these questions about my
Speaker 1: routine and how I feel about a Saturday, because we
Speaker 1: did get a variety of questions, and I'll actually start
Speaker 1: with a window of opportunity question from Andrew and he
Speaker 1: says he's been following college football intently since college, as
Speaker 1: well as a soliverbal Thank you Andrew. Normally he would
Speaker 1: sit down around eleven fifty and watch on and off
Speaker 1: until he had a family event or fell asleep. This year, though,
Speaker 1: I will be busy on Saturday and cannot watch all day.
Speaker 1: How should I choose by break from other activities. Should
Speaker 1: I pick a window and enjoy that whole window or
Speaker 1: just have the window to follow my team one of
Speaker 1: the big ten East cannon fodder teams that will just
Speaker 1: be on at noon and ignore the marquee games. This
Speaker 1: is where my window of opportunity I think fits in.
Speaker 1: And I kind of did it half jokingly because I
Speaker 1: found a sound for it a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and it didn't really dawn on me until we did
Speaker 1: the live show in Atlanta last January. How useful some
Speaker 1: people out there in the verbaler who had actually found this,
Speaker 1: which was music to my ears. I'm happy to keep
Speaker 1: doing it, but this is your baby. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that people took it actually seriously. So what I'm
Speaker 1: going to do for new listeners. What I try to
Speaker 1: do is give a heads up every Wednesday about what
Speaker 1: I call the window of opportunity, and what that amounts
Speaker 1: to is just on a Saturday when you can get
Speaker 1: out and do life things. So I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: that early morning nine to twelve game day slot, but
Speaker 1: if you do have to get out and do something
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, when is your best chance to go
Speaker 1: out and run that errand or go out and be
Speaker 1: with your significant other or your family without missing too much.
Speaker 1: College football games, it is not so much about picking
Speaker 1: what to watch as it is picking what not to watch.
Speaker 1: You have to triage these games accordingly so that you
Speaker 1: give yourself the best chance of seeing meaningful action throughout
Speaker 1: the course of a Saturday. So that's how I approach it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to look at the full slate, looking to
Speaker 1: see how these games line up from a timing perspective,
Speaker 1: and then give myself the best chance of seeing meaningful action.
Speaker 1: I will leap frog that. I will add to that
Speaker 1: one because he mentioned his team is bad, so a
Speaker 1: big East cannon fodder team is what Rutgers Maryland, maybe Indiana.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you're your Indiana Hoosiers. Excuse me. What
Speaker 1: I would add is, you don't have to watch bad
Speaker 1: football like you might. It might bring you enjoyment to
Speaker 1: watch one of those teams, but if they are really
Speaker 1: bad and are just gonna get blown out or just
Speaker 1: soundly beaten most weeks, you can specifically take that time
Speaker 1: and put it towards doing something productive. Pay attention to
Speaker 1: the score. If all of a sudden, Maryland's up on
Speaker 1: Michigan or something like that in the third quarter, you
Speaker 1: can get to a screen. Normally, you can find streams
Speaker 1: on your phone or whatever, your tablets, or you can
Speaker 1: get home if you're cleaning, you're mowing the lawn, whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing. If you're taking care of actual life things
Speaker 1: you can monitor. But I would say, if you are
Speaker 1: a college football fan, if national college football intrigues you,
Speaker 1: if you want to watch Lsubama and they're both in
Speaker 1: the top ten, you want to watch USC whatever, like
Speaker 1: just from a purely TV show standpoint intrigues you identify
Speaker 1: that Monday Sunday ahead of it, whatever the case is.
Speaker 1: And this applies if you have significant other and everybody's
Speaker 1: making plans and you've got a cousin's birthday, or you
Speaker 1: have dinner with you know, in laws, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Life happens, and you shouldn't ignore life. But you got
Speaker 1: to get way out ahead of that. Yeah, you have
Speaker 1: to say, listen, Saturday, this is what is happening in Like,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm interested in. How can we make
Speaker 1: this work so all parties are satisfied and so you
Speaker 1: can figure out a nice middle ground. That's the most
Speaker 1: adult thing I've ever said on this show. The other
Speaker 1: thing that you can do Dan, if you're interested in
Speaker 1: staying abreast of the action, but you can't watch all
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Speaker 1: much writing talent at the athletic. Adam Silver needs to
Speaker 1: look into breaking up the athletic. Too much talent, too
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Speaker 1: if you're listening this because you've heard of the athletic
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Speaker 1: consuming college football media should be. That's all. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to try to offer flowery adjectives anymore. It's just
Speaker 1: what it should be. And that's that's the coolest thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all all right. So on that note, you mentioned streaming.
Speaker 1: Can you explain for me, no, explain for the rebawlers
Speaker 1: out there, what your new situation is as it relates.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so you're streaming setup or just your internet
Speaker 1: setup because you did move and I don't think your
Speaker 1: situation is all that different from what some other folks
Speaker 1: out there might be facing. So when we moved, we
Speaker 1: signed up for one of the huge cable companies because
Speaker 1: my wife wanted to watch some of those channels, which
Speaker 1: I think we can also just stream using log in
Speaker 1: credentials that we have through life. So it's terrible. It's,
Speaker 1: you know, the amount of money we pay and for
Speaker 1: what we actually get from it. It's the Internet service
Speaker 1: is really good, but the actual cable experience is terrible.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we have a DVR for what
Speaker 1: we pay. It's just an awful experience. I'm actually trying
Speaker 1: to figure this out this week. What the solution is
Speaker 1: to try to keep the Internet speeds and get rid
Speaker 1: of cable and how I'm going to do that with
Speaker 1: manipulating customer service people over the phone. So I have
Speaker 1: I have a Roku which is amazing, which I spend
Speaker 1: all of my time on. Anyway, I don't even watch cable,
Speaker 1: so the Roku has all of your predictable Netflix and
Speaker 1: watch ESPN and the ESPN Plus app, which is actually
Speaker 1: great in the limited time I've used it, and am
Speaker 1: on it like my face on there, So I am
Speaker 1: I am a little bit biased but it is. It
Speaker 1: is a really nice experience. I used to have Sling
Speaker 1: TV at an old place when I cut the cord,
Speaker 1: and that was fine. I don't think they have a
Speaker 1: couple of the big channels for college football. I don't
Speaker 1: think that they definitely have Pack twelve network, which is nice.
Speaker 1: No CBS Sports network, right, I believe. So I am
Speaker 1: in the market if I can get everything square with
Speaker 1: my cable company, which who knows. I'm in the market
Speaker 1: to figure out how I want to do this. And
Speaker 1: my experience with watch ESPN hasn't been great. The Fox
Speaker 1: has actually been pretty good, pretty clean. Watch ESPN has
Speaker 1: cut out, but I know, and we've got a couple
Speaker 1: of people mentioning this ESPN streaming tends to be better
Speaker 1: on YouTube or Sling or Hulu or whatever because there
Speaker 1: is an actual stake. They're being paid money to be
Speaker 1: consistent and of high quality, whereas the watch ESPN forever
Speaker 1: was just like, oh, anybody can watch us with the login.
Speaker 1: But now maybe with the ESPN plus situation where they're
Speaker 1: making money from that, maybe that has upped the ability
Speaker 1: to diagnose issues and provide consistent bandwidth. Sure, so that's
Speaker 1: what we're figuring out I'll have I'll have one TV
Speaker 1: hooked up to a Roku and or cable if that's
Speaker 1: what I have to do, and the other one hooked
Speaker 1: up probably to like a Mac Mini and you know,
Speaker 1: run things through there because I can get everything streaming.
Speaker 1: Or I have a Chrome cast somewhere around here, so
Speaker 1: maybe use that. We'll see. Yeah, So we've got a
Speaker 1: list here of six of the services, Sling, YouTube TV,
Speaker 1: Hulu Live I think they call it, PlayStation View, Direct
Speaker 1: TV Now, and Fubo, which I've never heard of before
Speaker 1: in my life. You've never heard of Fubo. They had
Speaker 1: the commercials on it with like a guy in a
Speaker 1: locker room with a towel. Never heard of it. But
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of research on this, and I've
Speaker 1: been a card carrying member of the YouTube TV community
Speaker 1: ever since it came out, which means I'm grandfathered into
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars a month. I'm all. I've talked about
Speaker 1: it countless times on this show. I may or may
Speaker 1: not have woken up at five thirty this morning to
Speaker 1: talk to their customer service folks to see if I
Speaker 1: could broker a special deal for HARV Ballers I'm told
Speaker 1: that will be getting back to me this week. So nice, Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought maybe i'd throw out my own hail Mary.
Speaker 1: But what it amounts to is this Dan all right.
Speaker 1: Price is obviously a pretty big concern, but they're all
Speaker 1: going to be lower than what you're paying for cable now.
Speaker 1: Like Direct tv Now, I went through and I tried
Speaker 1: to configure it in such a manner that I would
Speaker 1: have all the channels that I need to watch the
Speaker 1: relevant action. If you don't get Direct TV now on
Speaker 1: some kind of deal through AT and T, if they're
Speaker 1: your cellular provider, it's going to run you about fifty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month, okay, which is about like what
Speaker 1: cable is right. The DVR function is coming around. I
Speaker 1: think they just added it a couple weeks ago, but
Speaker 1: that's fifty five. That's at the high end. Then you've
Speaker 1: got I think PlayStation View, which would run you about
Speaker 1: fifty to get all the channels you need. Fubo is
Speaker 1: forty five, and then you've got Sling, YouTube and Hulu
Speaker 1: all coming in at around forty dollars a month. The
Speaker 1: two differentiators, I think at that low end are how
Speaker 1: many simultaneous dreams do you get, which is important if
Speaker 1: you're planning on streaming a variety of games, and also
Speaker 1: can you use it for other life things right like
Speaker 1: I've got a wife, dan Oh, look at you? Ty?
Speaker 1: The Solid Way does not necessarily give a damn about
Speaker 1: whether or not we can watch CBS Sports Network and
Speaker 1: some of that hot Kennia Mantalolo trip congratulations on having
Speaker 1: somebody fall in love with you and dedicate the rest
Speaker 1: of their life to you. Topset of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's when you start talking about other things like, well,
Speaker 1: how does a DVR work? And that's where I think
Speaker 1: YouTube has the advantage because you get unlimited DVR for
Speaker 1: something like nine months. I think they store it on
Speaker 1: the system. You don't have to worry about what your
Speaker 1: dvring or how often your dvring things. Sling tries to
Speaker 1: charge you extra for it. Hulu, I think gives you
Speaker 1: a cap of like fifty odd hours of DVRs. It
Speaker 1: just seems like the best value is YouTube if it's
Speaker 1: available in your area. I was gonna say it is
Speaker 1: not right now available to anyone who has an Internet
Speaker 1: connection like some of these other services are. So if
Speaker 1: you go to if you just Google YouTube, TV markets
Speaker 1: or something like that. You'll get the long list. They
Speaker 1: happen to be in your market. Yeah, they happen to
Speaker 1: be in mind, so they will be under consideration these
Speaker 1: next I don't know forty eight hours as I try
Speaker 1: to figure this out. But here here is I guess
Speaker 1: a big thing that a couple of people mentioned in
Speaker 1: their questions. A lot of people do the double screen
Speaker 1: for the second screen with their laptop, Twitter or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they're following along and somebody, you know, sports writers
Speaker 1: will be posting like, oh my god, ridiculous call, and
Speaker 1: like it's commercial still on your TV as you're streaming
Speaker 1: the name. So you will have and I had this
Speaker 1: with Sling, you will have a to me significant if
Speaker 1: you're really on Twitter all the time, insignificant if you're not,
Speaker 1: because how would you know any different. So there is
Speaker 1: a lag. There is definitely a lag, and there's somewhere
Speaker 1: between thirty and forty seconds usually I found about twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty okay, And there is no way around it.
Speaker 1: I have tried technical solutions for this. There is no
Speaker 1: way to get around this problem. And so yeah, there
Speaker 1: is a small workaround depending on the channel, and that
Speaker 1: workaround is if it's on network TV and you're going
Speaker 1: to need this anyway, if you're fully cutting the cord,
Speaker 1: if a game is on ABC or NBC. For a
Speaker 1: lot of these, I don't know what YouTube situation is
Speaker 1: with locals, but not all. I don't think sling has locals.
Speaker 1: YouTube has locals. You can get your YouTube has locals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you are dead set on following a huge
Speaker 1: game on ABC live on Twitter for like twelve bucks
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks on Amazon or whatever electronics store that you
Speaker 1: trust online or in person, you can get in over
Speaker 1: the air antenna if you're not terribly if you're not
Speaker 1: like farther than like one hundred miles from a city
Speaker 1: or something, they're pretty good. The fifty do party guys
Speaker 1: that you can get on Amazon are pretty good, and
Speaker 1: they're instant. That's sort of so you just have to
Speaker 1: put them sort of near a window, and they're usually
Speaker 1: what coacs or HDMI and you will get perfect HD
Speaker 1: from the source itself from your local TV tower. The
Speaker 1: new ones are all HDMI. They work really well, which
Speaker 1: is always an option out there if you're not interested
Speaker 1: in jumping into one of these streaming services. But as
Speaker 1: far as the delay goes. I use Twitter less during
Speaker 1: college football game days now than I used to, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a trade off for paying a
Speaker 1: lot less like a lot of people. I was paying
Speaker 1: like one to ninety a month for cable, yeah, for
Speaker 1: cable and internet, because I didn't have a number of
Speaker 1: good choices in my area. I couldn't price shop, and
Speaker 1: now I've brought that down pretty significantly. The other thing
Speaker 1: that I'll address here, Simultaneous streams is something that really
Speaker 1: comes into play, especially on game day when you're trying
Speaker 1: to stream multiple games. What that means, though, is you
Speaker 1: can only stream let's say three separate streams using YouTube
Speaker 1: TV at the same time. What it doesn't mean is
Speaker 1: if you go on to watch ESPN and type in
Speaker 1: your credentials, if you go on to the Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Go app and type in your credentials. There's an easy
Speaker 1: way around it, just by going out to those other
Speaker 1: over the top apps using your U two credentials, which
Speaker 1: will work fine, in order to stream those to a
Speaker 1: device and then you can watch as many as you want.
Speaker 1: If you do it that way, nothing will ever get
Speaker 1: in your way. What device do you use? What over
Speaker 1: the top provider platform. Are you Roku, Apple TV? Amazon?
Speaker 1: What do you use? I'm I'm Roku. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: the Roku so anyway, yeah, to answer your question, to
Speaker 1: answer it, Rocus out there, Yeah, Roku will be my
Speaker 1: box of choice, and I'm a big YouTube TV guy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait and see if they're willing to play
Speaker 1: ball with us. Yeah, the the Roku is particularly nice,
Speaker 1: and we are not being paid a cent from Roku,
Speaker 1: although Roku get at us because we're ready, We're down.
Speaker 1: The remote is nice, the men user nice. The user
Speaker 1: interface is very nice. My remote, I assume yours does
Speaker 1: as well, has like an input, a headphone input on it.
Speaker 1: So if it's great sleeping and you just want to
Speaker 1: plug in, I don't know if there's Bluetooth availability yet,
Speaker 1: but mine is all so hardwired in so you get
Speaker 1: a really nice connection. All of the other apps are
Speaker 1: really nice, the Netflix stuff, so that would be our recommendation.
Speaker 1: But if you are an Apple person and you like
Speaker 1: your Apple TV talking to all of your other Apple devices,
Speaker 1: go for it. It seems fine. I don't know. Here's
Speaker 1: the other tentacle of this. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about what do you literally consume on game day,
Speaker 1: both in the way of food and drink. So we
Speaker 1: got some comments that came in. One from Brian he
Speaker 1: starts a tailgate session with a shot of old Granddad.
Speaker 1: Get a little badon in you to warm the cockles
Speaker 1: of your college with heart. Somebody wants to start a
Speaker 1: soliverbal brew club. I like that soliverble Brew Club, which
Speaker 1: I'm all about, by the way. That's from Russell. He
Speaker 1: has some ideas, okay. And then there is the food
Speaker 1: element of things here, David wrote in suggested some wings
Speaker 1: that should be made. You are far more passionate about
Speaker 1: the food side of things m hm than anything else.
Speaker 1: So can you give me a brief synopsis of how
Speaker 1: you approach a Saturday in terms of your food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's changed through the years. Some years it's
Speaker 1: more ordering, takeout, delivery, whatever than other years. Some years
Speaker 1: it's more cooking. Depending on the watch location. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: pot luck, which is always fun. What I would say
Speaker 1: this year, my big goal is is to get things
Speaker 1: done Friday night when available. So if I want to
Speaker 1: have meatballs on Saturday, make them, make them Friday night
Speaker 1: and just you know, toss them in a pot or
Speaker 1: toss them. If you're making meatball subs or something, toss
Speaker 1: it in the oven. To do as little work as possible,
Speaker 1: even if you're tailgating. Get your meat marinated, get your
Speaker 1: onions and peppers chopped. Friday night, you just you want
Speaker 1: to be able to enjoy Saturday. So that's my big
Speaker 1: thing moving forward. I don't have any specific food plans
Speaker 1: beyond getting stuff done Friday night. More often this year,
Speaker 1: I tend well. I don't really drink anyway. I'm very
Speaker 1: boring in that way. But when I do drink, it's
Speaker 1: going to be near the end of the nights because
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, if I drink at noon, I am asleep
Speaker 1: by one point fifteen yep. So I need I need
Speaker 1: all of the energy I can do. I mean this
Speaker 1: is sort of related to consumption. I'm still going to
Speaker 1: do my coffee nap after the twelve o'clock games end
Speaker 1: that like three point thirty to three point fifty one,
Speaker 1: you know, coffee nap. Just chug a quick iced coffee,
Speaker 1: sleep for twenty minutes because that's how long it takes
Speaker 1: caffeine to to jolt your system and you wake up
Speaker 1: shot out of the cannon, out of a cannon for
Speaker 1: the next nine hours, So if you're planning on staying
Speaker 1: up late, I would consider a coffee anpp look it
Speaker 1: up and yeah, I don't know. The big thing for
Speaker 1: me this year is also I have a grill, which
Speaker 1: does not sound like a big deal to probably ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent of people listening, but living in New York,
Speaker 1: grill access is not great and we've got one in
Speaker 1: our apartment complex, our our building, So I will be
Speaker 1: I will be grilling a lot, so marinating the night before,
Speaker 1: chopping the night before. I'll do some fajitas this year. Tie. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna grill some more vegetables than normal this year.
Speaker 1: Maybe girl some shrimp one weekend. No real specifics. I'm
Speaker 1: a big proponent of. We got a couple of people
Speaker 1: asking about healthier which you know what that means? Ti,
Speaker 1: this is I think it was. Yeah, Joe asked this,
Speaker 1: what are some good, quick, cheap and healthy snacks one
Speaker 1: could make while being stuck on the couch all day?
Speaker 1: Which this is, if nothing else, points to the fact that
Speaker 1: our listeners are getting older. Tie, we're growing up. Yep.
Speaker 1: I would say, hone in on sweet potatoes. They're healthy,
Speaker 1: but they're also filling, and they're pretty tasty. I will roast,
Speaker 1: I'll chop up a sweet potato into like tiny little wedges,
Speaker 1: like the size of like if you had a toothpick,
Speaker 1: you could pick one up and I would just char
Speaker 1: the hell out of that with some olive oil and
Speaker 1: some seasoning of your choice. And it's a good side
Speaker 1: for anything. You know, you're not dealing with a lot
Speaker 1: of oil or breading or anything like that. So that
Speaker 1: would be my easy, versatile fix. Even if you're making
Speaker 1: like veggie tacos with beans and sweet potatoes and onions
Speaker 1: and peppers, it's filling, which is a big deal. So
Speaker 1: the other element of this here is the alcohol. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's talk, let's talk booze. We're not the kind of
Speaker 1: show mm hmm that's gonna advocate going out there and
Speaker 1: getting blackout drunk. I know that's the thing that happens
Speaker 1: when you're watching. But you like your beer. You like
Speaker 1: your very specific beers. I do. And the message that
Speaker 1: we got here from Russell is I'm one of the
Speaker 1: millions of red blooded males who graduated from cheap light
Speaker 1: beer in the past few years. At the risk of
Speaker 1: giving them a cheap plug. My usual ballgame rotation has
Speaker 1: become founders All Day IPA, Stone Go to IPA, and
Speaker 1: Wolf Pop Session Ale Gang. Please give me some other
Speaker 1: sessionable options. I think we should have a Soliverble brew
Speaker 1: of the week to match that week's key matchup. For instance,
Speaker 1: week one LSU versus Miami, the beat a Big Easy
Speaker 1: IPA from Louisiana, and the Therapy Session IPA from Florida.
Speaker 1: I don't know about two a week, but I think
Speaker 1: one brew per week the Solid Verbal Brew Club could
Speaker 1: be a hell of a time. The prerequisite for that, though,
Speaker 1: if you want to get in on it, is you
Speaker 1: got to send me suggestions by Wednesday morning. Otherwise it's
Speaker 1: not making it into the podcast. But I think given
Speaker 1: folks one accessible beer that they can drink per week
Speaker 1: could be fun to trot out when we do the
Speaker 1: Wednesday preview show. This rounds out the adam Imine voice
Speaker 1: Meil really nicely. He'll give a recommendation for whatever city
Speaker 1: he's calling a game in, and we have the big
Speaker 1: brew of the week for whatever the week's big matchup is.
Speaker 1: If people want to call in the four oh eight
Speaker 1: Verbal one, well that's fine. Yeah, four to eight verbal one.
Speaker 1: The reverb one will open it up during the early
Speaker 1: part of the week. I'll only pick one, but we'll
Speaker 1: take some beer suggestions that we can trot out for
Speaker 1: people who are interested in and playing long. Last year,
Speaker 1: I drank a lot of Dogfish head sixty minute IPA.
Speaker 1: Where's Dogfish? Where's there dogfish down in Delaware? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's a little stronger. All the all the beers
Speaker 1: here that Russell mentioned, Founders and Stone and Wolf like,
Speaker 1: all of those have a relatively low alcohol content. I
Speaker 1: don't go pretty hard on a Saturday because I need
Speaker 1: to watch the games and I need to comprehend exactly
Speaker 1: what's going on. Because college football is so important, it's
Speaker 1: so important that a little bit of beer, yeah would
Speaker 1: throw us off. Call him in, Call him in before Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Four weight verbal one. We'll try to work one into
Speaker 1: uh week one. Here's here's my only addition to beer talk.
Speaker 1: Bells makes a good beer. I think they're in Michigan. Yep.
Speaker 1: I've had. I've had spotted cow in Wisconsin, because I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can get it outside of Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: That apparently is a thing. Yes, yep, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And the local place. I like here a lot. There's
Speaker 1: a place. There's a brewery called Blue Point, which I
Speaker 1: think is getting pretty well known, and that's that's it. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: I just like cold Mexican beer in a can you know,
Speaker 1: if it's Takata or Madela, whatever it's it's cheap. Blue Point.
Speaker 1: I like it's there's like a toasted ale or something
Speaker 1: like that. It's a little bit buttery tasting to my
Speaker 1: very not knowledgeable palate. So beer wise, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are into that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I will do. Uh. I think we're going to have
Speaker 1: do we know our schedule for the newsletter of intent?
Speaker 1: Not to see that not yet, We're still okay on
Speaker 1: that either way. I will be posting recipes, whether it's Twitter,
Speaker 1: whether it's in episode descriptions, whether it's newsletter of intent
Speaker 1: of things I come across that I that I've made
Speaker 1: and like, and they're just suggestions take them, don't take them.
Speaker 1: We'll still be palis. So that is that is the
Speaker 1: big thing. Is there anything you are looking to cook
Speaker 1: that you haven't or well no, that's see I'm going
Speaker 1: to lean on you for that. And we got a
Speaker 1: pretty good suggestion here from Chase a sausage balls recipe. Mmm, okay,
Speaker 1: sense like that wacamoley over here. The more handheld the better. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm always on the lookout for new recipes,
Speaker 1: but I don't have any go tos other than my
Speaker 1: old school chicken in the crockpot with some sauce, make
Speaker 1: some salsa with some Globe's. Yeah. Sure, do you know
Speaker 1: this is this is one hundred percent. I don't know
Speaker 1: if she said this to you, if it's very true.
Speaker 1: Our friends Gina Myzelf used to cover Oregon State now
Speaker 1: covers the Denver Nuggets. She was at our live show
Speaker 1: in Chicago and she when I was talking to her
Speaker 1: after the show, she said, do you remember You probably
Speaker 1: don't when Tye pronounced Globe as Globe because you were
Speaker 1: in such a crazy degree. And I looked at her
Speaker 1: and I said, do I remember that? That is one
Speaker 1: of the three best moments of my professional life? She so, yes,
Speaker 1: I remember? In any case, Yeah, really go like I
Speaker 1: I skew Mexican with my food choices and grilling, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to go go a little bit
Speaker 1: wild this year. I don't know what's what it's going
Speaker 1: to be I don't. I'm not really good at baking.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll try baking a little bit more so. A
Speaker 1: couple other odds and ends here that I want to
Speaker 1: address quickly because it shows we got a lot of
Speaker 1: good messages. Ready run a little bit while here, But
Speaker 1: we did get a question kind of on this topic
Speaker 1: of beer, like when is it too soon to crack
Speaker 1: a game or when is it too soon to crack
Speaker 1: a beer on on game day? I've always reserved the
Speaker 1: really early morning beer for some sort of get together
Speaker 1: or tailgate. Yeah, definitely not the kind of thing I'll
Speaker 1: do alone. That being said, though, I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of the Mimosa forgot about that, Okay, I'd be all
Speaker 1: about verball or sending in pictures of mimosas getting ready
Speaker 1: for you. What is your go to Mimosa vehicle? Are
Speaker 1: you using like a nice little thin glass anything that
Speaker 1: can hold liquid? Okay? It probably works best in a
Speaker 1: college football context if it's in like a or blue
Speaker 1: solo cup. But okay, I'm all about I had. I'm
Speaker 1: all about making those popular this college football season. I
Speaker 1: just had. I've had a couple of recent cocktails that
Speaker 1: I had a spiked torchata. Yeah, chata side, so spike
Speaker 1: that with some rum. That was excellent a lot of
Speaker 1: especially as it's going to be warmer the first month
Speaker 1: of the season. If you skew cocktails like a pineapple, ginger, icy,
Speaker 1: refreshing with whatever you like, tequila, rum, vodka, I think
Speaker 1: it works across the board. Mule it up. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, if you want something refreshing. And how's your
Speaker 1: couch situation this year, ty, I want to be complete
Speaker 1: about this. Yeah, it's the same couch situation as last year.
Speaker 1: Just a living room. Our sectional l straightforward three piece
Speaker 1: or two piece. Got a three piece and a two
Speaker 1: piece and some fun little automents that we got from Target,
Speaker 1: fun little Target automans. Okay, yeah, we've got a sectional
Speaker 1: which gets the job done. We probably need to add
Speaker 1: a share, but we still have it in a sixty
Speaker 1: inch O lead TV. Okay, here's quickly, because I know
Speaker 1: you have to run in a few minutes. I have
Speaker 1: the same TV I've had since two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: I find it very hard to get rid of. It's
Speaker 1: forty it's either forty two or forty six. It's a Sony.
Speaker 1: It works perfectly. Sure, plenty of HDMI inputs works well
Speaker 1: with the Roku et cetera, et cetera. You recently bought
Speaker 1: O lead Is that what you said? Old? Yeah? How
Speaker 1: is the how is the color? How are the black images?
Speaker 1: How are the is it? What's it called? HDR? Sure?
Speaker 1: I tried initially the Samsung Q Lead because I've been
Speaker 1: Samsung guy since the beginning of time. But I found
Speaker 1: that it was it was so damn bright that when
Speaker 1: you were watching at night, it would overpower you. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, man, I'm going to be watching some big
Speaker 1: Notre Dame games at night here. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be overpowered by the brightness of those helmets. Dan. Of course,
Speaker 1: so we did in about face, we tried the O
Speaker 1: lead and the colors are much more vivid and much
Speaker 1: friendlier on the eyes. What I would say in your
Speaker 1: case is, since I know you're trying to add, well,
Speaker 1: this thing is a monster, I don't think I have
Speaker 1: to get something new before we eventually move to the
Speaker 1: next place, because this is still an LCD. It's relatively thin,
Speaker 1: but it's like seventy pounds tie. Well, what I would
Speaker 1: say is, if you're looking to add displays to your
Speaker 1: game day setup, go out in Amazon and look for
Speaker 1: a deal on a TCL TV. They're all Roku TVs.
Speaker 1: They're reasonably priced, they're good enough for the kind of
Speaker 1: a lot of these have like the Samsung panels, right,
Speaker 1: they have the Samsung boards anyway, or like a good board,
Speaker 1: and it's just the framework is a different company. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure where TCL comes down, but TCL is a
Speaker 1: good enough TV if you're a budget option, a good
Speaker 1: budget option, you can connect pretty much through any of
Speaker 1: the apps that you might have at your disposal, I
Speaker 1: would add, and you don't have much time. If you
Speaker 1: have a neighbor who you like and has a great
Speaker 1: backyard and has a projector, become friends with that nimbor. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: because that experience, as long as the speaker situation is
Speaker 1: pretty good out back, that's a hell of an experience.
Speaker 1: Our pal, Andy Wall has that and she's living that
Speaker 1: good backyard projector life. So that is that is because
Speaker 1: I initially looked at projectors as like a second screen
Speaker 1: because we have a big white space above our TV.
Speaker 1: But it's just there's too much natural light in the room.
Speaker 1: It's not a quality picture. So it really wasn't an
Speaker 1: option less it's nighttime, and even then it's not great,
Speaker 1: but a good projector in a backyard, yeah, that can
Speaker 1: be like a home theater situation. That's ideal for it.
Speaker 1: Man a couple other little odds and ends here that
Speaker 1: I did want to address. Alex wrote in and he
Speaker 1: said his wife's not a college football fan, but he's
Speaker 1: a Tennessee fan, and he's trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: is his strategy now for watching the big Tennessee games.
Speaker 1: Does he try to move heaven and earth to watch
Speaker 1: the new look Jaron prow It led Tennessee volunteers this season,
Speaker 1: or does he play more of the long game knowing
Speaker 1: that Tennessee will probably be better in the in the future.
Speaker 1: I would quote the wise prophet Miley Cyrus and say,
Speaker 1: it's all about the climb, Alex. We love quoting that song.
Speaker 1: It's not about if you one day want to reach
Speaker 1: the summit of good old Rocky Top. I think you
Speaker 1: gradually increase your watching of Tennessee football over the next
Speaker 1: couple of years. So start basic, Start with the Florida game,
Speaker 1: Start with the Georgia game this year, or as ever
Speaker 1: as for like putting your foot down as an important event,
Speaker 1: set yourself up long term here for what might lie
Speaker 1: ahead under the Jeremy Pruitt euro. I think that's right.
Speaker 1: I would. I would Here's what I would say. I
Speaker 1: would say, don't discount even if your wife doesn't like
Speaker 1: college football. There's there's something about sharing something together and
Speaker 1: don't be like condescending explaining it. But like, this is
Speaker 1: important to me. I'd love to do it with you,
Speaker 1: and you know, help you to like become a part
Speaker 1: of this part of my life because we're married. They're married, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that what it's okay? So just make it them,
Speaker 1: you know, invite people over to watch games, you know,
Speaker 1: throw a party whatever, if you don't hate watching it
Speaker 1: with other people. But you're still watching games, so it's
Speaker 1: it's more of a social thing than a life or
Speaker 1: death thing. But I think if you incorporate the other
Speaker 1: person's likes dislikes into the situation, you might be able
Speaker 1: to watch. Not that somebody else is in charge of you,
Speaker 1: but like the experience of watching Tennessee, despite possibly starting
Speaker 1: caloristic quarterbacks, might be a more enhanced social and wedded
Speaker 1: bliss experience. We got a question here from Ryan who
Speaker 1: goes to Nebraska games. He can't follow the national scene
Speaker 1: because he's at the Nebraska games. He's asking for tips,
Speaker 1: to which I would say, I have no tips. That's
Speaker 1: why I don't go to games, because you and I
Speaker 1: have to record bright and early on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: So I'm i'd help if I could hear Ryan, But
Speaker 1: I don't think any amount of technology can help you
Speaker 1: be more in the loop on game day. If you're
Speaker 1: out there, quite frankly, you're just going to be too distracted.
Speaker 1: Life's about sacrifices, and I can't think of anything better
Speaker 1: as a college football fan then to go and tailgate
Speaker 1: with friends and share, you know what, have six opportunities
Speaker 1: at home a year, if that's something, and it should
Speaker 1: bring you a lot of fun and pleasure. Whatever, do it.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about missing things. There's streaming, there's DVR, and ultimately, yes,
Speaker 1: you're going to miss a somewhat important Ohio State Michigan
Speaker 1: State game sometimes, but you'll find out what happens, and
Speaker 1: if you like football, you can still watch it through
Speaker 1: any you know, DVR or YouTube or any conference network
Speaker 1: app or whatever, and it'll be fine. I would say,
Speaker 1: lean into the life stuff over the ignoring everybody who
Speaker 1: wants to hang out with you because you want to
Speaker 1: watch a game that doesn't involve your team, So lead
Speaker 1: into the tailgating. Nebraska games are super fun. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things that I've done on the road.
Speaker 1: So it's where we met Ty, and so honor the
Speaker 1: very real friendship and partnership between Ty hilden Brandt and myself,
Speaker 1: and go to NEBRASA games and have fun with your people.
Speaker 1: Don't don't think twice? All right? Two final questions here
Speaker 1: very quickly. Walker writes in that his brother's getting married
Speaker 1: in Portland on the Saturday of week one. Basically, how
Speaker 1: can he keep himself up to date with what's going on?
Speaker 1: He says, because it's his brother, he doesn't think he's
Speaker 1: going to be able to stream it on the phone,
Speaker 1: nor should he try. It's your brother. Different if you're
Speaker 1: a guest, But if you are presumab in the wedding,
Speaker 1: m h would I think you will find others at
Speaker 1: the wedding who are interested in college football, and you
Speaker 1: could maybe use them as a proxy to keep yourself
Speaker 1: up to date with what's going on. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: If i'd advise the streaming, I would savor every sec.
Speaker 1: If everybody likes each other generally at this wedding, if
Speaker 1: you like your brother, if you like your brothers soon
Speaker 1: to be spouse, I would say, just live it up.
Speaker 1: It's week one day, it's barely going to matter in
Speaker 1: two weeks, and catch up on DVR on streaming stuff afterwards.
Speaker 1: Live it up, enjoy the night. It'll be fine. Final
Speaker 1: question here Dan, which is tangentially related, but someone wants
Speaker 1: to know if they can get another New York City
Speaker 1: live show. Are Kelly's for live shows over the next
Speaker 1: couple months. If you've been to Yako's, we're doing a
Speaker 1: Yako's take like the Yako's Tour, I would say, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna hit every Yachos. They don't know what's happening. No,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna start yelling over the PA if they
Speaker 1: have a PA. We are looking into doing some live
Speaker 1: shows during the season. Obviously, it's more complicated than just
Speaker 1: saying we would like to in some bigger college towns
Speaker 1: where we know we have listeners, it would be interested.
Speaker 1: This specific question was about what a New York show, YEP,
Speaker 1: we would like to do something in New York around
Speaker 1: probably the playoff, maybe even the National Championship game, to
Speaker 1: do something different. I don't know. Maybe we'll go to
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Maybe we won't. That nothing has been in
Speaker 1: stone there, but we'd like to extend it to like
Speaker 1: not just doing a live show, but like a live
Speaker 1: show and a watch party. Maybe it's just a random game.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just like come out to this lsu ole
Speaker 1: miss game at this bar in New York and there's
Speaker 1: drink specials and food specials, and we'll do a quick
Speaker 1: little intro and then hang out and watch the game
Speaker 1: and like do really dumb commentary and take questions during
Speaker 1: the game. Something like that is interesting to us. So
Speaker 1: that's what we're tossing around right now. But I would
Speaker 1: say within this season there's a very good chance, because
Speaker 1: it's very convenient to do another New York City show,
Speaker 1: I would second that. All right, yeah, folks, we will
Speaker 1: be back on Wednesday to preview. Lik I love this show, ty,
Speaker 1: I loved it. That's just a quick debrief from me
Speaker 1: week one. Coming at you, soliverbal at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Right in. Let us know what's on your mind. We
Speaker 1: will have information out to you in very short order
Speaker 1: about the pickam Pool. We will also hopefully get our
Speaker 1: Spotify issue rectified. I'm working on that as we speak.
Speaker 1: Don't forget if you do have a Bruce suggestion in
Speaker 1: Light Show four to eight verbal one that's four oh
Speaker 1: eight eight three seven two two five one, give a
Speaker 1: call to the reverb line and let us know your
Speaker 1: suggestion for the coming week. Maybe I'll play that message
Speaker 1: allout on the air. And otherwise, Dan, I look forward
Speaker 1: to talking to you on Wednesday, going to preview you
Speaker 1: a big week of colle Triple Action opening weekend always
Speaker 1: a ton of fun. So we've got I think six
Speaker 1: or seven really big games that I spiked out that
Speaker 1: we're going to start going through here and get this
Speaker 1: thing underway. Oh my god, Ty, I am so damn excited. Also,
Speaker 1: I will be appearing on the Action Network show I'll
Speaker 1: Take that Bet that's on ESPN Plus check it out.
Speaker 1: That'll be on Wednesday with our palle Jeff Schwartz. Also,
Speaker 1: there will be a video and a column of picks
Speaker 1: and all sorts of fun on Action Network. So if
Speaker 1: you're not yet following Action Network or on Action network
Speaker 1: dot Com, please do so. All sorts of cool resources.
Speaker 1: And by Wednesday, I should have another announcement about things
Speaker 1: I'll be doing, and I'm very excited about see all right, Well,
Speaker 1: for that guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 1: for myself, Ty Hildenbrand, thanks again for tuning in. We'll
Speaker 1: catch you on Wednesday. The season's coming on Space