Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal.
Speaker 2: I'm that for me. I'm a man, I'm forty. I've
Speaker 2: heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy.
Speaker 2: You want to be happy for dake ado steak? Is
Speaker 2: that whoo whoom?
Speaker 1: And then and tie, Welcome back to the solid verbal,
Speaker 1: boys and girls. My name is Ty Hildenbrandt, joining me
Speaker 1: as always over there in sweltering New York City. My
Speaker 1: man Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how goes it?
Speaker 2: It goes really well, Tie, And I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me.
Speaker 2: I was pretty sure I was out of coffee this morning,
Speaker 2: and I went for a run. Gave me a good
Speaker 2: amount of energy, and I remembered I had some cold
Speaker 2: brew in the fridge. Oh, I can't do that, which
Speaker 2: is even more powerful because it's a sort of reduced
Speaker 2: version of coffee. And I may have overdone it because
Speaker 2: I was worried about not being caffeinated enough. And when
Speaker 2: you overdo.
Speaker 1: Cold brew not not good.
Speaker 2: It's cold cane.
Speaker 1: Tie, Yeah, it is not good. Wegman's damn near killed
Speaker 1: me with their cold brew about a year ago, and
Speaker 1: then I haven't heard it since.
Speaker 2: So the lesson is be careful, because we've got a
Speaker 2: really fun show tonight in which we've asked for a
Speaker 2: bunch of questions about revenge. Revenge would be one way
Speaker 2: of looking at it. My more optimistic way is turning
Speaker 2: things around in the new year optimism.
Speaker 1: But revenge is more controversial, Dan, But revenge, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's sort of what's going on.
Speaker 2: So we asked for questions about which twenty seventeen l
Speaker 2: you most felt your team could turn into a twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen W. Yeah, w your dream next coach, because it's
Speaker 2: never too early to start imaginarily firing people, right. I
Speaker 2: feel bad. It's a holiday week and we should all
Speaker 2: be celebrating with family and loved ones and not thinking
Speaker 2: about loss of jobs. And in that vein tie, celebrating
Speaker 2: with loved ones and family and friends and whoever else
Speaker 2: wants to hang around grilling meats or vegetables. We want
Speaker 2: to talk side dishes, specifically for cookouts, barbecues, cookouts. Dan. Yes,
Speaker 2: whatever it is that people in your region of the
Speaker 2: country or world call cooking things over open fire, we
Speaker 2: want to go to the side of that. Compliments, Ty,
Speaker 2: that's what we want, all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, get that will be the twenty eighteen Fantasy Things
Speaker 2: Draft live show in Chicago. Ty will be crowdsurfing to
Speaker 2: the stage, as he has promised many times. That's right,
Speaker 2: and I think we should get into that. We got
Speaker 2: a lot of good cues and some mediocre, as.
Speaker 1: Mediocre as Daniel. Yes, I found my soundboard one of
Speaker 1: the boxes. Do you remember when we used to play
Speaker 1: this sound talking about James Winston?
Speaker 2: I do I, Dodd remember this?
Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't go there on this show.
Speaker 2: But America's quarterback.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, Happy Fourth of July. Perhaps you're listening on the
Speaker 1: way to a barbecue or grilling adventure of some kind,
Speaker 1: regardless of what you call it, in what part of
Speaker 1: the country you might be. We've got questions in front
Speaker 1: of us, Dan, where do we want to go?
Speaker 2: Let's start here with a state in which I will
Speaker 2: be in a few days, The beautiful state of Michigan.
Speaker 2: The state I don't have. What is the nickname of
Speaker 2: the state of Michigan? Do you know, Dan?
Speaker 1: It's the Wolverine State?
Speaker 2: Is it? You should have known?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 2: Should have known Michigan's. So it's of Michigan's big ten
Speaker 2: losses from last year. This is the likelihood that Jordan
Speaker 2: thinks the flipping happens basically from an L to a W.
Speaker 2: Michigan State. Okaynstin Penn State, Ohio State. We've talked about
Speaker 2: this in the past. I don't know where your opinion
Speaker 2: stands right now. So we're ignoring the Notre Dame game,
Speaker 2: ignoring Western Michigan SMU. So of those four losses, I
Speaker 2: go to Michigan State the week after big body blow Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: right on the road after playing Wisconsin at home, I
Speaker 2: think is going to be a bit too tough.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say the most likely and I we've
Speaker 2: probably answered this question the last three weeks, but coming
Speaker 2: off of that bye week and playing at home and
Speaker 2: playing against a Penn State team that has lost a
Speaker 2: number of key pieces that including Joe moorehead, I would
Speaker 2: say that is the most likely flip. How do you
Speaker 2: feel about that?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, coming off the buy is definitely a little
Speaker 1: bit more advantageous. But if memory serves that game isn't
Speaker 1: till a little bit later on in the year.
Speaker 2: It's correct November three, So.
Speaker 1: I think I'd be inclined to go with Jordan here
Speaker 1: and go Michigan State because as I look at Ohio State,
Speaker 1: as I look at Penn State, and as I look
Speaker 1: at Wisconsin, I still don't feel as confident in Michigan
Speaker 1: State as I do those other three teams on a
Speaker 1: week to week.
Speaker 2: Basis a direct thumb in the face to Bruce Feldman
Speaker 2: and his body blow theory, though.
Speaker 1: This would it is a thumb in the face. Sorry.
Speaker 1: And also I believe this would classify as early Michigan
Speaker 1: State disrespect.
Speaker 2: Oh that's true, right, I am disrespecting Michigan State saying
Speaker 2: they're not even worth talking about because Penn State.
Speaker 1: Is the more likely lost, right, that is true.
Speaker 2: And you are disrespecting Michigan State because you don't believe
Speaker 2: they're going to be good enough at home again after
Speaker 2: Wisconsin on Michigan's schedule to beat the Wolverines.
Speaker 1: A blatant show of disrespect here, But I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna agree with Jordan's assessment and go Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Early disagree. Colin wants to know first laces over under
Speaker 2: on D'Antonio era seems like four years, I'm going to
Speaker 2: go under. I'm gonna say to be fewer than four
Speaker 2: years left, just because why do you feel that way?
Speaker 2: Health issues coupled with the upheaval in East Lansing in
Speaker 2: that the athletic department that there needs to be a
Speaker 2: cleaning of house. And that doesn't necessarily mean you fire
Speaker 2: the football coach. But sometimes there comes a time where
Speaker 2: a football coach in school just decide it's the best.
Speaker 2: Even Mark d Antonio arguably arguably as like the best
Speaker 2: football coach in the history of the modern program, I
Speaker 2: could see a time to move on there. So his
Speaker 2: question is Dave Randa Alex Grinch being his two names
Speaker 2: obviously big and huge name defensive coordinators lately Alex Grinch
Speaker 2: at Washington State Dave Randa most recently at LSU but
Speaker 2: also success in the Midwest at Wisconsin recently. Do you
Speaker 2: think either of them make it that long? So around
Speaker 2: four years before landing a bigger gig, Tyler.
Speaker 1: I think Randa probably has his site set on no
Speaker 1: disrespect again to Michigan State, god time twice in a row.
Speaker 1: Now I'm doing this, Dan, but I think that Randa
Speaker 1: could probably get what I would consider a top ten job.
Speaker 1: If my only two options here are Alex Grinch or
Speaker 1: Dave Random Inclina, go Alex Grinch.
Speaker 2: I would go Alex Grinch as well, though there are
Speaker 2: complicating factors to both of these names. The Alex Grinch
Speaker 2: complicating factor is a lot of people think, given his
Speaker 2: I believe he's an associate head coach, he has a
Speaker 2: big title at Ohio State as he slides into that
Speaker 2: tenth spot, that tenth assistant spot, that perhaps he is
Speaker 2: next in line when Greg Chiano probably moves on somewhere
Speaker 2: after his time at Ohio State and Alex Grinch makes
Speaker 2: for a natural successor there. And then the Dave Randa thing,
Speaker 2: And this is one of my favorite words. Tie the scuttle, ooh, scuttle.
Speaker 2: The scuttle butt is that his eyes, at least within
Speaker 2: the last year, his eyes long term are probably pointed
Speaker 2: in the direction of the NFL. I could see that too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he doesn't necessarily want to be long for college football.
Speaker 2: He doesn't necessarily have the This is a according to
Speaker 2: people who would definitely know better than you and I,
Speaker 2: that his temperament is best suited to be just that
Speaker 2: magician defensive coordinator in the NFL, and that he wants
Speaker 2: to be like Dick Lebaux kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you a question. Then, Yeah, hypothetically speaking,
Speaker 1: I don't have that sound cued up, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to reframe Collins's question. Yeah, is an NFL defensive coordinatorship, Yes,
Speaker 1: better than a top ten job in college football.
Speaker 2: Depends what you're looking for. If you are looking for
Speaker 2: a football intensive lifestyle where you worry about x's and o's,
Speaker 2: where you perhaps plan with the head coach and plan
Speaker 2: with some sort of team president about personnel to run
Speaker 2: your defense, and coaching more than teaching, because you remember,
Speaker 2: you're bringing in high school kids, certainly with a ton
Speaker 2: of raw talent, but there's a lot of teaching of technique.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of teaching of how you go game
Speaker 2: game play to play, how you keep temperament, and just
Speaker 2: sort of molding you into an NFL player. Well, whereas
Speaker 2: in the NFL, yes, you really have to worry about
Speaker 2: installing systems, making sure people know their assignments, but not
Speaker 2: necessarily teaching them footwork in the way that you would
Speaker 2: have to teach a nineteen year old.
Speaker 1: And guess what, we're obviously singing to a very biased
Speaker 1: choir here asking that question. However, if a random falls
Speaker 1: into that category of liking the scheme maybe more than
Speaker 1: the apparatus around college football and everything that goes along
Speaker 1: with it, I think you're right in that there's probably
Speaker 1: a spot for him somewhere in the NFL before long.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to go with Alex Grinch there as
Speaker 1: my more likely answer. If we're talking about D'Antonio out
Speaker 1: within the next four years. You also bring up to
Speaker 1: good points as to why he might leave. He's sixty
Speaker 1: two years old. They're clearly complicating factors around that Michigan
Speaker 1: State program that might facilitate and exit within that timeframe.
Speaker 1: So we shall wait and see.
Speaker 2: I'm so fascinated We'll get to the next question in
Speaker 2: a matter of seconds. I'm fascinated by the situational happiness
Speaker 2: of coordinators, either college pros, whatever, where a lot of
Speaker 2: people not in football can just be very happy with
Speaker 2: their Lawton life. They're happy with the money they make,
Speaker 2: they're happy with their coach. They say, Lawton life. They're
Speaker 2: a lot in oh life. Okay, their situational happiness, and
Speaker 2: a lot of people ask that question about Brent Vennables.
Speaker 2: Is he waiting for Kansas State? I know we have
Speaker 2: a Kansas State question, but or is he just super
Speaker 2: pumped to be making a ton of money coaching the
Speaker 2: best assembly of defensive linemen in college football. I'm fascinated
Speaker 2: to talk to people about that, about how real that
Speaker 2: has become.
Speaker 1: By the way, Scott Lawton, current flyer, used to live
Speaker 1: above me. Really apartment complex. True story, no good, good
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 2: Moving on, Jonathan wants to know does Florida State get
Speaker 2: revenge against colin Boston College, Clemson, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina,
Speaker 2: all of them? I mean BC is the most likely. Sure,
Speaker 2: I think it's fair. That's in Tallahassee this year. It
Speaker 2: was the big emotional game last year. And it was
Speaker 2: also a game last year in which Florida State was
Speaker 2: pure concentrated trash.
Speaker 1: But yeah, really bad. But in that game. But Boston College.
Speaker 1: We've answered this Boston College question before in this show.
Speaker 1: There seems to be some amount of trepidation about Boston
Speaker 1: College the Florida State in twenty eighteen. I just don't
Speaker 1: see it. I don't know. I understand that they sort
Speaker 1: of caught lightning in a bottle last year Boston College
Speaker 1: in beating Florida State, but there was a lot working
Speaker 1: against FSU a year ago. I'm not seeing it in
Speaker 1: Tallahassee this year, dan So, I feel pretty good about
Speaker 1: that game. Clemson's going to be loaded again. I don't
Speaker 1: see it. Quarterback questions, questions, but the right kind of questions.
Speaker 1: And there are those same questions with Florida State Louisville.
Speaker 1: I do what to expect out of Louisville this year.
Speaker 1: B v G B Miami, n C State again big
Speaker 1: questions for me.
Speaker 2: I think that the revenge spot is BC first and foremost.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, coming to tallasse But I really do
Speaker 2: like Boston College. I like what they have in the backfields. Defensively.
Speaker 2: I think there are a couple pieces that will will
Speaker 2: cause trouble for a lot of teams. Florida State. I
Speaker 2: think that game is later on in the season, right
Speaker 2: later in the state bac So, you would imagine Florida
Speaker 2: State will be in a bit of rhythm that you
Speaker 2: know quarterbacks should be sorted out by then. I like
Speaker 2: Willie Tagger play calling on offense. I got to see
Speaker 2: that with issues last year, and I don't think Florida
Speaker 2: State will have those issues with injury again. It's just
Speaker 2: hard to believe there'll be snake bitting once again. So
Speaker 2: that that's probably my answer here.
Speaker 1: All right, where are we going?
Speaker 2: Matthew wants to know is it all hype or can
Speaker 2: West Virginia actually beat for the very first time? A
Speaker 2: baker lists sooner squad h I know your answer. Your
Speaker 2: answer is no. My answer is, well, here's I think
Speaker 2: it's a complicated answer. I as you know, if you
Speaker 2: listened to last week's episode, I'm pretty down on what
Speaker 2: West Virginia has returning, and we'll put on the field
Speaker 2: on defense.
Speaker 1: I am detecting a very very serious hedge coming here
Speaker 1: from what happened last week on this show.
Speaker 2: It's not a hedge. I believe Oklahoma is going to
Speaker 2: win this game. Okay, but here's my butt. I've always
Speaker 2: wanted to say that onto a microphone. Here's my butt.
Speaker 2: This is one of those sneaky Oklahoma is the final
Speaker 2: game of the season for West Virginia. Correct.
Speaker 1: I believe so it is.
Speaker 2: It's November twenty third, the week before they play Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2: The week before that, they played TCU the week before that.
Speaker 2: They are at Texas Oklahoma before the West Virginia game.
Speaker 2: Do you know who they play? Kansas? Yeah, Kansas, so situationally,
Speaker 2: and it's after Bedlam too, obviously, you remember they've moved
Speaker 2: Bedlam up to more of the beginning of November, so
Speaker 2: it doesn't always come down to that game at the
Speaker 2: end of the year. I imagine if there is a situation,
Speaker 2: if they're playing Oklahoma State the week before West Virginia,
Speaker 2: that to me has such an enormous letdown potential that
Speaker 2: a not as good West Virginia at home against Oklahoma
Speaker 2: in the letdown spot has a better shot. But because
Speaker 2: there's that Kansas buffer, which let's hope we don't have
Speaker 2: to say that all your Kansas Kansas, right. I do
Speaker 2: like Oklahoma a little bit more, but it's a Mike
Speaker 2: Stoops defense late in the season, and West Virginia has probably,
Speaker 2: as we speak now, the most dependable quarterback in the conference.
Speaker 2: At home in an emotional spot, perhaps I don't think
Speaker 2: Oklahoma blows them out, but I think I'm just going
Speaker 2: to go with Lincoln Riley in the Sooner.
Speaker 1: You know what, Matthew, I am with you, dog lock
Speaker 1: it up, Ty, No, We're not locking it's about to
Speaker 1: be July fourth. Then we're not locking it up this
Speaker 1: far in advance, but lock it up. I we've been
Speaker 1: talking so much about this Kyler Murray situation. I'm fascinated
Speaker 1: by it. Yeah, I can't read enough about it. It
Speaker 1: is such a unique spot where you've basically got a
Speaker 1: kid signed on for five million dollars, a top ten
Speaker 1: baseball pick signed already for five million dollars, has one shot.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the Oklahoma fan video set to lose
Speaker 1: yourself by eminem you know, mom spaghetti, Yeah exactly. I
Speaker 1: am not convinced he's playing the whole year.
Speaker 2: You think that he gets injured and shuts it down.
Speaker 1: I think if he's injured at.
Speaker 2: All, rolls an ankle, anything.
Speaker 1: He shuts it down.
Speaker 2: I mean, Oklahoma has other quarterbacks they could probably win with.
Speaker 1: I'm just not convinced that Kyler Murray is going to
Speaker 1: be the answer for a full twelve game slate in
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. And so this game being at the
Speaker 1: end of the year on the road at West Virginia,
Speaker 1: who knows what Oklahoma is playing for at that point,
Speaker 1: what the hell, let's do it. I think it can happen.
Speaker 2: Our friend Jess Mattana, of course, of New York City
Speaker 2: Notre Dame graduate, lists her Notre Dame el to w
Speaker 2: as Stanford. How do you feel about, said el to
Speaker 2: w Stanford with I know you've gotten some flak on
Speaker 2: the subreddit ur slash solid verbal people saying you weren't
Speaker 2: doing your homework about Stanford's offense. I actually think, I
Speaker 2: actually think you were pretty right on other than neglecting
Speaker 2: the Bryce Love fact.
Speaker 1: What I haven't seen this, so what were they saying?
Speaker 2: They said that you were selling too vigorously on Notre
Speaker 2: Dame being an offensive threat this year and being more
Speaker 2: about defense when they had some big losses on defense,
Speaker 2: and this year they return a lot on offense, including
Speaker 2: Bryce Love, although kJ Costello has been pretty beat up
Speaker 2: and they get hip surgery early on in the off season.
Speaker 2: I don't think they have like a guy at either
Speaker 2: tight end or receiver in the way that they've had
Speaker 2: in years past, where they've been able to count on
Speaker 2: a lot of efficient scun offense. But last year they
Speaker 2: still were because of those Bryce Love home runs. They
Speaker 2: were one of probably the ten or twelve most purely
Speaker 2: efficient touchdown scoring teams in the country. Okay, now I
Speaker 2: feel free factor.
Speaker 1: I feel fine about flipping that Stanford game. The games
Speaker 1: it's first off, it's in Notre Dame, which is always helpful.
Speaker 1: Whenever they go out to Stanford, I feel like they'd lose.
Speaker 1: I have no data to back that up. It's purely
Speaker 1: reactionary as a skeptical Notre Dame fan. But yeah, games
Speaker 1: in South Bend, that's one, and I'm going to stand
Speaker 1: by what I said. I think Notre Dame defense keeps
Speaker 1: a minute, low scoring game, slug it out in the mud,
Speaker 1: end up winning. So I always feel I think okay
Speaker 1: about Stanford in Notre Dame. The one that really gets
Speaker 1: me is when they go out to USC end of
Speaker 1: the year. Oh yeah, that's like always a loss. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to talk about Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame going west where like as they fly, like
Speaker 2: they lose parts of their football souls. Midayre it's not great.
Speaker 2: I am going to tag your opinion with I agree.
Speaker 2: Stanford the week before goes to Oregon, which I think
Speaker 2: will be more a more physical team in the trenches
Speaker 2: than in years past with but they return along both lines.
Speaker 2: Even if Stanford's able to pull out that game in
Speaker 2: Autsen going to Eugene and then going to South Bend
Speaker 2: in consecutive weeks after having already played San Diego State
Speaker 2: and USC earlier in the month. I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be a lot. So I think that's a good
Speaker 2: spot for Notre Dame to get Stanford. Jess also adds
Speaker 2: that her dream next Notre Dame coach, which it seems
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly is pretty entrenched, like he's in that zone
Speaker 2: where the NFL's probably not calling his name, probably is
Speaker 2: already at such a big school that it would be
Speaker 2: a lateral move to go somewhere else unless he's miserable
Speaker 2: in South Bend. Do you get that sense?
Speaker 1: I get the sense, yes, that he's entrenched and also misery.
Speaker 1: Perhaps he may be growing more miserable.
Speaker 2: What would make a Notre Dame coach miserable given the
Speaker 2: you know, definite advantages.
Speaker 1: You mean other than coaching at Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Other than coaching at Notre Dame, what specifically do you
Speaker 2: think where is on a coach more than anything else
Speaker 2: with that, you know, a really good or if not
Speaker 2: excellent job.
Speaker 1: I think Brian Kelly has always fashioned himself as a
Speaker 1: career man in the sense he's looking for another gig.
Speaker 1: He wanted that Notre Dame job more than anybody else.
Speaker 1: And I do feel like there was part of him,
Speaker 1: again just opinion, that one to go to the NFL
Speaker 1: that has not materialized, because the stock has sort of
Speaker 1: remained neutral or dropped a little bit since that run
Speaker 1: to the National Championship Game back in twenty twelve. His
Speaker 1: stock hasn't risen a whole lot, if anything, has gone
Speaker 1: down a little bit. So I feel like that part
Speaker 1: to him is probably a little bit frustrating, and it
Speaker 1: just seems like he's unable to get things firing on
Speaker 1: all cylinders delay many fans had hoped. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of fans that are really down on BK. They
Speaker 1: think he mismanages so much of that team. So I
Speaker 1: think just a confluence of events here perhaps has worn
Speaker 1: on him over the course of time. Again just my opinion,
Speaker 1: but if I were venturing a guest, I think BKA
Speaker 1: has gotten a little bit more frustrated with that situation.
Speaker 1: As for Jess's dream coach here, once he talks about
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer, Am I seeing this correctly.
Speaker 2: That you are singing it correctly. Yeah, member Notre Dame
Speaker 2: wide receivers coach. I believe, And I'm with Jess. You know,
Speaker 2: I love yes right with her. Everybody loves Jess.
Speaker 1: I'm with her on urban Meyer. However, is there any
Speaker 1: team out there outside of Ohio State and Alabama whose
Speaker 1: dream coach isn't also Urban Meyer.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. I would probably say Clemson's dream
Speaker 2: coach is not Urban Meyer.
Speaker 1: Okay, three teams, Yeah, three teams. So I think you
Speaker 1: almost assume urban Meyer as the answer here. A more
Speaker 1: realistic answer has eluded me for years. I was talking
Speaker 1: to a friend a couple of weeks ago about all
Speaker 1: things Notre Dame, and the same question came up. If
Speaker 1: BK were to leave, who would be your dream coach?
Speaker 1: I don't have it was not mom age. I don't
Speaker 1: have an answer for it. And I know I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to being the resident Notre Dame fan here and sure
Speaker 1: our brand of college football whatever on the solid verbal,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to have an answer for that question. I don't.
Speaker 2: Well, there's somebody, there's somebody in state who has received
Speaker 2: a lot of buzz. Okay, Tom Allen, Tom, I like
Speaker 2: Tom Allen. I like Tom Allen. I'm rooting Jeff Brom
Speaker 2: Okay maybe, Okay, so that's in state and he will
Speaker 2: have proved he will have head coaching experience in a
Speaker 2: major conference, has a lot of buzz, would be creative,
Speaker 2: did a good job bringing with him Nick Holt and
Speaker 2: succeeding on defense in year one.
Speaker 1: Let me just let me say this. Let me say
Speaker 1: this before we go on much more about this.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Any enthusiasm I have about a young, up and coming
Speaker 1: coach is blunted by this skepticism I have, maybe from
Speaker 1: being a Notre Dame fan for too long that oh,
Speaker 1: they're not going to want to go to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Why would they want to go to Notre Dame when
Speaker 1: there might be an opening at LSU in two years,
Speaker 1: or there might be an opening here or there.
Speaker 2: Early bird dinners, hard candys, shut up, let's go. Let's
Speaker 2: stick with Purdue. Our old friend Danny Klobacar I added
Speaker 2: the n Y Last season, Purdue beat Iowa and lost
Speaker 2: to Northwestern and Nebraska. To have a bowl season, they
Speaker 2: may have to flip the Nebraska game in Lincoln. So
Speaker 2: heading to Lincoln with a different looking defense up front
Speaker 2: and the Nebraska game, excuse me, the Northwestern game at home,
Speaker 2: which is more likely, so going on the road and
Speaker 2: beating Nebraska or beating Northwestern at home for Purdue. All right,
Speaker 2: so let's look up the produce schedule in front of me.
Speaker 2: So they have they have Iowa at ross Aid, like
Speaker 2: you said, a week after they travel to Michigan State,
Speaker 2: and that's a week after Ohio State. So that's a
Speaker 2: that's the end of a pretty rough string. They have
Speaker 2: BC and Missouri both in ross Aid before they travel
Speaker 2: to Nebraska. They travel to Lincoln. So certainly going to
Speaker 2: Michigan State a week before coming home is probably more
Speaker 2: difficult than having Boston College at home the week before Nebraska.
Speaker 2: If we're going to focus on body blow stuff, I'm
Speaker 2: going to say it's more likely that Purdue is able
Speaker 2: to gosh, probably at home.
Speaker 1: That Nebraska spot is intriguing to me because it's at
Speaker 1: the end of September, right, you know, I'm pretty high
Speaker 1: on Scott Frost, but there's a pretty good chance that
Speaker 1: team is still going to be trying to find its way.
Speaker 2: He also mentioned Northwestern. That's the opening night game in
Speaker 2: West Lafayette, right on a Thursday night, it's like the opening,
Speaker 2: like August thirtieth.
Speaker 1: That was the other game I was looking at. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good spot too for them.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good to be at home to open the
Speaker 2: season when you are going to look rusty in certain aspects,
Speaker 2: especially with some new players around the field for both teams,
Speaker 2: really and Northwestern with Clayton Thorsen coming off of injury
Speaker 2: and his first spot back after getting hurt in the
Speaker 2: bowl game, I think it's pretty safe to say that
Speaker 2: that's a nice spot for Purdue. So I will say
Speaker 2: that's probably my most likely flip.
Speaker 1: All right, where are we going next?
Speaker 2: Can Ucla is from Bradley surprise anyone on its schedule?
Speaker 2: I had this schedule. This sort of feels like can
Speaker 2: I get a date to the prom? If I really like?
Speaker 2: I learn how to dress better real quickly?
Speaker 1: Is this a Yahoo Answers question?
Speaker 2: This is a Yah can Ucla surprise? So here's the
Speaker 2: full list of So if by surprise Bradley means beat
Speaker 2: somebody unexpected who is not taking Ucla perhaps as seriously
Speaker 2: as they should be, even though I think teams would
Speaker 2: take UCLA pretty seriously. Ship Kelly sure, so that would
Speaker 2: be at Oklahoma, that would be Washington, that would be
Speaker 2: at Oregon. That would be USC and Stanford, teams that
Speaker 2: for whatever reason believe UCLA is far away and are
Speaker 2: more talented than UCLA is currently constructed. Can they surprise
Speaker 2: any of those teams? Sure? I would say the most
Speaker 2: likely of those is probably Stanford. At the end of
Speaker 2: the year. Okay, they get them in the Rose Bowl,
Speaker 2: it's a week after Stanford is on the road in
Speaker 2: you know, it's the big game. But I think Cal's
Speaker 2: going to be improved. So a week after a rivalry
Speaker 2: game going staying on the road feels sort of let
Speaker 2: downy to me, and I know you are, you're not
Speaker 2: fully convinced of kJ Costello. I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 2: That's fair so him going on the road, UCLA will
Speaker 2: be more fully formed. Clearly by the end of the season.
Speaker 2: I would say that's the spot that UCLA if you
Speaker 2: remember this happened a couple of years ago, that UCLA
Speaker 2: looked really good, you know, had the let down against USC,
Speaker 2: and then just got trucked by Stanford at home a
Speaker 2: week after a rivalry game. I think I think UCLA
Speaker 2: is not trucking Stanford, but it's a good spot to
Speaker 2: get somebody more talented.
Speaker 1: So what I'm doing at the current moment, Dan is
Speaker 1: I'm going through and I'm looking at all of the
Speaker 1: games between Chip Kelly at Oregon and Stanford.
Speaker 2: Does Chip Kelly have a Stanford problem?
Speaker 1: That's right, You're right. You'll remember we've talked about this.
Speaker 1: It does go with him now as he moves over
Speaker 1: to UCLA.
Speaker 2: So I want to say Oregon murdered the best Stanford
Speaker 2: team ever in twenty ten.
Speaker 1: So Oregon won that game by a fifty two to
Speaker 1: thirty one margin.
Speaker 2: Right, but I think they were down like twenty one
Speaker 2: to three and rolled then at that point it was
Speaker 2: like forty nine to ten, so it was a pretty
Speaker 2: comfortable win.
Speaker 1: The following year they won again handily, fifty three to thirty.
Speaker 1: I was there now after that came a very very
Speaker 1: close Stanford win in twenty twelve. I guess i'd be
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly's final season.
Speaker 2: But that's too painful to talk about, even to this,
Speaker 2: too painful to talk about. Granted, these are different just
Speaker 2: you know, defensive coordinators and Derek Mace and everything like that,
Speaker 2: but there's certain you know, David Shaw's been there a
Speaker 2: very long time. Yeah, so all right, I'll agree. Let's
Speaker 2: go to the SEC. We have a couple more questions
Speaker 2: before we get into food. Does that work for you?
Speaker 1: A couple more?
Speaker 2: Let's do it couple more. This is from Tyler. I
Speaker 2: think the twenty eighteen version of Florida, which Tyler is
Speaker 2: very confident he knows what the twenty eighteen version of
Speaker 2: Florida is going.
Speaker 1: To look like.
Speaker 2: But I appreciate that sure would beat LSU, who they
Speaker 2: lost to by one, or Texas A and M, who
Speaker 2: they lost to by two this time around.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he is he is taking the twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: Florida Gators on the Magic school Bus back a year
Speaker 1: in playing LSU in Texas A and M. Is that
Speaker 1: is that my underside?
Speaker 2: I think? I think he means twenty eighteen LSU and
Speaker 2: A and M. Oh oh, well, Florida doesn't even play
Speaker 2: A and M this year, so he must mean last year's. Okay,
Speaker 2: so let's go with l Let's just stick with LSU.
Speaker 2: How would you rank Florida's ability to flip that LSU loss?
Speaker 1: I am pretty bullish on Florida this year. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty bullish. I think because Dan Mullen is there. The
Speaker 1: offense has to be better. I also am very aware
Speaker 1: of the fact that I said the exact same thing
Speaker 1: with their lasting football coach, The offense has to be better,
Speaker 1: gotta be better.
Speaker 2: He's an all cosive mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this time, eventually, I've got to be right
Speaker 1: with that, and I think Dan Mullin's probably the guy
Speaker 1: to get that done. So provided provided that their defense
Speaker 1: remains on point. I don't have any reason to believe otherwise.
Speaker 1: I think the offense improves enough to the point that, yeah,
Speaker 1: a one point loss is surmountable in twenty eighteen, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll agree with that.
Speaker 2: I think it's so LSU has a better immediate schedule
Speaker 2: coming into that Florida game. They host Louisiana Tech and
Speaker 2: they host Ole Miss, which defensively two good places to
Speaker 2: get some momentum with the new offensive coordinator, a new
Speaker 2: new new quarterback, going into an extremely tough place to play,
Speaker 2: having already played Miami and going to Auburn that's probably
Speaker 2: nice to have. Whereas Florida goes to Tennessee, which I
Speaker 2: think will be fine but nothing. They're nowhere near their ceiling,
Speaker 2: and they go to Mississippi State, which is a complete
Speaker 2: unknown under Joe moorehead, but a pretty talented team, so
Speaker 2: Florida will be happy to come back home. I think
Speaker 2: LSU was probably in a pretty good spot there. I
Speaker 2: am giving the slight edge, even at a tough place
Speaker 2: to play. I think I'm giving it a slight edge
Speaker 2: to LSU.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I'm feeling confident. I'm feeling a little above
Speaker 2: average confidence wise in Joe Burrow right now. Why talking
Speaker 2: myself into him?
Speaker 1: You're talking yourself into Joe Dirt.
Speaker 2: I'm talking myself into Joe Dirts. That's completely correct. I
Speaker 2: don't know. The more I think about it, you know,
Speaker 2: LSU just had a at a sort of starcross poor
Speaker 2: time last year, and I think it's going to take
Speaker 2: a little bit for Florida to fully get in rhythm,
Speaker 2: whereas there is at least a little bit more continuity
Speaker 2: with LSU, even with going back to an interim offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: I like the day of a Randa with a more
Speaker 2: in place LSU defense against a first year Florida offense,
Speaker 2: even on the road. I reserve the right to change
Speaker 2: my mind.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Where are we going next? Let's go like
Speaker 1: one more football.
Speaker 2: All right, one more football? This is cross conference? How
Speaker 2: about that? Yeah, Jonathan says, Ohio State don't blow the
Speaker 2: big twelve out of conference game like they did to
Speaker 2: Oklahoma at home last year. This year they're going to
Speaker 2: TCU in September.
Speaker 1: So now is this a question or is this just
Speaker 1: like a statement don't blow it?
Speaker 2: A little bit of both. So TCU hosts that game
Speaker 2: early on against Ohio State. That's in Arlington. It looks
Speaker 2: like Week three. So TCU opens the season with Southern
Speaker 2: they go to SMU Sunny Dyke, and then in the
Speaker 2: somewhat neutral not fully neutral game in their own area
Speaker 2: of Texas. I suppose in North Texas against Ohio States.
Speaker 2: Both teams, new quarterbacks, both teams with certainly talent on defense.
Speaker 2: Ohio State is going to be a little bit more
Speaker 2: dangerous there, but it's going to be an easier time
Speaker 2: travel wise for TCU. Does Ohio State blow that game
Speaker 2: early like they've done a couple of times? Really good
Speaker 2: Ohio State teams have had that one trip up early
Speaker 2: on a couple time, you know, going back to that
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech game a few years ago on their national
Speaker 2: championship team, and then last year against Oklahoma even though
Speaker 2: they really looked good the rest of the year. Where
Speaker 2: is your early lean?
Speaker 1: So an early draw against TCU, knowing full well that
Speaker 1: Ohio State is going to be in a position with
Speaker 1: a new quarterback is intriguing to me. However, Ohio State
Speaker 1: is so well rounded offensively beyond the quarterback position, particularly
Speaker 1: in that running game that can get you places. So
Speaker 1: I could see that being a close game, especially since
Speaker 1: its neutral site. But I my leaning is still Ohio
Speaker 1: State in that game. They usually play well in that spot,
Speaker 1: usually right, So far be it from me to go
Speaker 1: against Urban Meyer in a in a big spot early
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: You'll also remember that Ohio State went to Oklahoma a
Speaker 2: couple of years drilled really looked good on the road,
Speaker 2: drilledom So there's something to be said. And we talked
Speaker 2: about the Kansas buffer, the Kansas pillow. Right, do you
Speaker 2: know who Ohio State opens the season with one and
Speaker 2: eleven Oregon States and Rutgers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Rutgers pillow is pretty soft too.
Speaker 2: The Rutgers Oregon State too, So it's almost it's a
Speaker 2: bed with just extra pillows. There's so much throw pillow
Speaker 2: on that bed. You have to it's Ohio State tearing away.
Speaker 2: I have to throw pillows to get to where they're
Speaker 2: actually sleeping. Rutgers went four to eight last year, so
Speaker 2: we'll combined. If my math serves five and nineteen to
Speaker 2: open the season, right, pretty good for Ohio State. So
Speaker 2: I think Ohio State wins that game by double digits.
Speaker 1: Moving on, let's go to a non football question here.
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Speaker 2: So I specifically asked for cookout, grilling, barbecue, whatever your
Speaker 2: preferred term is, side dishes because I was tasked with
Speaker 2: making one of these for one tomorrow, and I settled on,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna charge some corn up and then toss it.
Speaker 2: I sent you this recipe with avocado. I might even
Speaker 2: add some black beans, some hot peppers. It's in like
Speaker 2: a spicy honey lime vinagrette, maybe some cilantro. It looked
Speaker 2: real good, refreshing, and I think, as you know, we
Speaker 2: got a ton of these emails about people making brisket
Speaker 2: or ribs or what goes with you sausage whatever. I
Speaker 2: think it's going to run a good counter. I think
Speaker 2: we're grilling up some sausages, so I think with like
Speaker 2: the salt factor, it's going to be like a good
Speaker 2: burst of freshness. And you know, zest tip, what do
Speaker 2: you think about a charred corn salad?
Speaker 1: You showed me the picture of it earlier, right, it
Speaker 1: looks delightful. If you can pull it off, I think
Speaker 1: I can. I already know the avocados separate. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they don't get all all browned. So you have a
Speaker 1: native working knowledge of the avocado. That's true, I do,
Speaker 1: so I feel pretty confident that you can pull this off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: h okay.
Speaker 2: So this goes right into Robbie asking which is better
Speaker 2: with ribs, baked mac and cheese, or roasted corn on
Speaker 2: the cob.
Speaker 1: I'm not a ribs guy.
Speaker 2: I do like ribs.
Speaker 1: I'm not a ribs guy, but I'm definitely more of
Speaker 1: a corn on the cob guy. Here.
Speaker 2: I will say this depends basically if you are if
Speaker 2: you're a lacquering sauce on the ribs, which I like
Speaker 2: a dry rube, I like a wet sauce. Whatever. If
Speaker 2: you're going with that sweeter sauce, I think The answer
Speaker 2: is like a salty, limey roasted corn to counter the
Speaker 2: sweetness and the meatiness. I think if you were going
Speaker 2: dryer with like the saltiness, I think you go mac
Speaker 2: and cheese for richness and starchiness to counter that. Sound right?
Speaker 1: It sounds right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, Okay. A lot of people asking questions about Cole
Speaker 2: slaw tie. Are you a slow guy?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Do you like a mayo based or a vinegar or neither?
Speaker 1: I'm not a slow guy. I'm just not in general,
Speaker 1: I'm not a slog guy.
Speaker 2: Whatever reason, people, I'd like mayo, I like vinegar, I'll
Speaker 2: like this is my move for slaw and it's it's
Speaker 2: what comes on my favorite fried chicken sandwich that exists
Speaker 2: in Son of a Gun in La. If you like vinegar,
Speaker 2: if you like that tang tie, maybe a little bit
Speaker 2: of spice I would go with the dressing. You maybe
Speaker 2: have some slight you know, some some sliced onions, some
Speaker 2: Holopano's if you're into that spice, A little bit of
Speaker 2: pickle juice.
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: That was what Douce Staley used to use to get
Speaker 1: rid of the cramps.
Speaker 2: Is that one hundred percent confirmed?
Speaker 1: Percent. I don't know if the science behind it is confirmed, but.
Speaker 2: He actually did go yeah juice, Yeah yeah, I would
Speaker 2: go with a little bit of pickle juice for your
Speaker 2: slow dressing. You can put it on sandwiches, you can
Speaker 2: have it on the side with your richer meats. That's
Speaker 2: my recommendation for slaught eart your meats. Look at you,
Speaker 2: your richer meats. This was a great life question, ty Yeah.
Speaker 2: Another one from our friend Danny Kay for attending cookout
Speaker 2: grow whatever. If you follow a lifestyle such as paleo
Speaker 2: or vegan paleo, as far as I know, it's you
Speaker 2: have to eat very basic foods prepared and very basic,
Speaker 2: like you can cook them, but nothing. You're not makeing enchiladas.
Speaker 2: Altas are not paleo? Should you a only eat when
Speaker 2: you can at the risk of offending hosts or having
Speaker 2: to explain yourself or be bring a few dishes of
Speaker 2: your own at the risk of being seen as forcing
Speaker 2: your way of life onto others. So say you're going to.
Speaker 1: A cookout, right, I see what he's doing with this here.
Speaker 2: And like, if you're eating paleo, you could have like
Speaker 2: I don't know if you could have a hot dog
Speaker 2: that's a process meat. But well, you could have a burger.
Speaker 2: I assume it's just ground beef over fire with some
Speaker 2: salt or something like that again, or a steak or
Speaker 2: a piece of chicken. I don't know. I listen. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to pretend like I know what paleo is.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna answer this question like I do. I
Speaker 2: would say, eat your sides beforehand, come a little bit hungry,
Speaker 2: and have some meat. I do think it's a little
Speaker 2: bit strange to come with your tupperware and say like
Speaker 2: a ah, hey, Mike's here and he brought I brought
Speaker 2: my own roast broccoli.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a little weird.
Speaker 2: I think it's a tough thing to pull off with
Speaker 2: the asterisk. If people already know you're a weirdo and
Speaker 2: confident about that, like I imagine people think of me,
Speaker 2: then go for it. But if it's a bunch of
Speaker 2: people you don't know and you don't want to explain
Speaker 2: yourself over and over again, eat your side dishes first,
Speaker 2: and come eat some meat or whatever is paleo there.
Speaker 1: I stand by what I said a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: which is just don't make a production, right, don't make
Speaker 1: a production, don't cause a scene. You know, do your
Speaker 1: best to sort of blend in. But the world does
Speaker 1: not necessarily care that you are adhering to a specific cuisine,
Speaker 1: specific dietary choice.
Speaker 2: That's that's right. I think I just it'd be it'd
Speaker 2: be very strange to ding dong door opens. I'm there
Speaker 2: holding my tupperware for my food only it's a strange,
Speaker 2: strange thing to put onto somebody. Also, our friend Jess says,
Speaker 2: skip the sides meat only. I can't do that, love is.
Speaker 2: I know she's gluten free because she has seliac disease.
Speaker 2: But there are plenty of grapes. You can eat beans,
Speaker 2: you can eat potato salad, you can eat that slow.
Speaker 2: I think you're okay. I think you gotta eat some
Speaker 2: sides to balance.
Speaker 1: So now I need to I need to talk to
Speaker 1: you about this question from David.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know you're not a beer guy, how much
Speaker 2: of aut not, But I will talk beer, all right.
Speaker 1: So he says, some are shandy or servesa with a lime.
Speaker 1: You know what summer shandy is. Are you familiar with
Speaker 1: the line of Google's summer Shandy?
Speaker 2: I believe that is it beer mixed with like a
Speaker 2: tart lemonade. It's uh something like that. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 2: like it's a lemony michelada.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so some are shandy. Or when he says servesa
Speaker 1: with a lime, he's really just ignoring the obvious reference
Speaker 1: here to bud light lime.
Speaker 2: You know it's I think it's probably bud light mixed
Speaker 2: with lime powder. But okay, do you like bud light lime.
Speaker 1: I am a proponent of bud light lime dan Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it deserves a five out of five
Speaker 1: on your untapped social network. I'm just saying that bud
Speaker 1: light lime in summertime should not be frowned upon and
Speaker 1: can be rather refreshing. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 2: Do they make non light beer lime beers.
Speaker 1: Non light beer?
Speaker 2: Sure? Like, can you get like a bud heavy line
Speaker 2: or could you get like a like a Cores regular
Speaker 2: Cores lime.
Speaker 1: Probably not. I think it's being sort of sold as
Speaker 1: a you know, a light refreshing option, kind of like
Speaker 1: they do with the mic Ultra stuff, which never I
Speaker 1: never really understood as a marketing pitch. But you know,
Speaker 1: you're not going to come in from mowing the lawn
Speaker 1: in a one hundred degree heat and be like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm thirsty for a Mick Ultra like no one, No
Speaker 1: one does that. But he may also be referring to
Speaker 1: a corona with the lime, which is a much more
Speaker 1: a much more standard practice. That's definitely a higher end
Speaker 1: version of the bud light lime fad that we find
Speaker 1: ourselves in here in twenty eighteen. I think both are acceptable,
Speaker 1: and both are preferable over summer shandy. If I'm selecting.
Speaker 2: One, there is something that it's summer shandy can be
Speaker 2: very acidic. I'm gonna go with like a takaate with
Speaker 2: lime being my ideal cold summer beer. It's cheap, it's
Speaker 2: available everywhere, it's great cold, it mixes well with a lime.
Speaker 2: That's probably my.
Speaker 1: Move there at our at our live show, if someone
Speaker 1: comes up and wants to buy me a bud Light lime,
Speaker 1: I will not at all scoff at that.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's probably gonna be pretty warm in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Scoff at a bud Light lime, A nice cold bud
Speaker 1: Light lime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, blah blah blah blah. Here we go. JD wants
Speaker 2: to know the best side dishes that also make for
Speaker 2: good toppings on hot dogs. Oh boy, so you're not
Speaker 2: a slaw person. Now, hot dogs are good tie.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I grew up in LA where there's it's a pretty
Speaker 2: experimental hot dog town. Tie. It just is. Hey, did
Speaker 2: I ever take you to any of like the weird
Speaker 2: hot dog places in La?
Speaker 1: Experimental hot dog town? Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Tie. Okay, So there's a famous place called Pinks. Do
Speaker 2: you know about Pinks hot dogs?
Speaker 1: Pinks?
Speaker 2: They have Pinks, Yes, Pink's hot dogs. I want to
Speaker 2: say it's on Melrose, and it is. They they're very creative.
Speaker 2: Maybe these hot dogs named after famous people that come
Speaker 2: create it. And some of them have a slow some
Speaker 2: be a mac and cheese dog, like a bacon potato salad,
Speaker 2: you know, like there'll be a Seth Rogan dog and
Speaker 2: a Martha Stewart dog and they really go for it.
Speaker 2: I don't really do like the crazy hot dogs. They're
Speaker 2: chili cheese dog is outstanding. So I would say side
Speaker 2: dishes that make for good toppings for hot dogs, ranch beans,
Speaker 2: sort of a chili stand in. I think that's fine.
Speaker 2: You want to put some cheese on there as well,
Speaker 2: Mustard onions great, so ranch baked beans type things, that's great.
Speaker 2: I will say a spicy slaw and a hot dog
Speaker 2: really good. Maybe a spicy mustard as the dressing for
Speaker 2: the slaw. Okay, I think that can be great. Beyond
Speaker 2: slaw and beans as a side dish on a dog,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think the answer is chili.
Speaker 2: Is chili a side dish? Though, sure you will go
Speaker 2: to a cookout and they will be making like chicken
Speaker 2: and steaks with a side of chili. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Chili chili Chili's versatile enough that it could be a
Speaker 1: side if someone to make it as a side.
Speaker 2: I think it's more likely you're gonna get like ranch beans,
Speaker 2: which are chili esque.
Speaker 1: But yeah, chili, I think is the answer.
Speaker 2: But what is how would you most rigorously load.
Speaker 1: Up a hot dog?
Speaker 2: Tie? What do you mean? I just wanted to say rigorously,
Speaker 2: Like what is your standard hot dog topping wise? And
Speaker 2: if you're really going for it, if you're making like
Speaker 2: a super dog super dog, Like if you are, you
Speaker 2: know you're you're doing it not just for flavor, but
Speaker 2: also for show that you want, like the a loaded
Speaker 2: hot dog.
Speaker 1: Well, the loaded hot dog would come if I went
Speaker 1: to Yako's.
Speaker 2: So what's the loaded Yako's dog?
Speaker 1: The loaded Yako's dog is the Yacko's secret sauce, which
Speaker 1: is one of a kind closest to It's like a
Speaker 1: chili okay, a chili sauce rather than a chili. Let's
Speaker 1: do that's right. They'll put some onions on it, but
Speaker 1: usually just a chili sauce and maybe some onions here
Speaker 1: and there. If I were loading it up, though, if
Speaker 1: I had my pick of the proverbial hot dog condiment
Speaker 1: add on litter mm mmm hm would I would commit
Speaker 1: the cardinal sin and go ketchup.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 1: I would probably also put some yellow mustard on there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I would probably go some onions as well,
Speaker 1: and then maybe try to simulate the yaco's experience with
Speaker 1: some sort of chili, although you're always sort of taking
Speaker 1: your life in your hands when you use a foreign
Speaker 1: chili as a topping on the hot dog, so you
Speaker 1: wouldn't mix. You don't know how that's gonna go over.
Speaker 2: Can you taste the ketchup with chili on there as
Speaker 2: well or the chili sauce? I feel like that's pretty close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably wouldn't overdo it with the ketchup, Okay,
Speaker 1: something like that I think.
Speaker 2: The only real So I obviously feel strongly about ketchup.
Speaker 2: I know somebody on our subreddit I want to say
Speaker 2: it's it's either Striker or Peter that their handle sort
Speaker 2: of says ketchup equals garbage and fine. I smile every
Speaker 2: time I see it, but I've softened on the like. Listen,
Speaker 2: if you like ketchup, we'll ketch um on your hot dog.
Speaker 2: I think it's gross, but you know, to each their own.
Speaker 2: If i'm loading up, I'm going chili love a place
Speaker 2: called Tommy's, a fast food place. I'll get a like
Speaker 2: a pint of chili from there. Yellow mustard, not talking
Speaker 2: about brown, not talking about some sort of spicy or
Speaker 2: honey like the Grays must like New York mustard is
Speaker 2: just trash yellow like frenches. Whatever mustard Frenches get at
Speaker 2: us for a sponsorship. We're open some diced onions, mustard. Oh,
Speaker 2: and I might melt some American cheese under the dog tie.
Speaker 2: So I like melt a little bit of cheese, dog mustard, onions,
Speaker 2: and then ChIL encapsulating everything. Okay, Wow, that's it's aggressive.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm not gonna tell you it's not.
Speaker 1: Two more non football, Dan, before we.
Speaker 2: Go, let's go to a lot of people just have
Speaker 2: questions about coleslaw. Who knew Matt Werner grilled veggies underrated
Speaker 2: as a side dish. I don't know they're underrated. I
Speaker 2: think everybody I know likes grilled veggies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, underrated in general.
Speaker 2: I'd say, what what are your go to specifics? The
Speaker 2: grilled zucchini, probably the champ yeah, oh man, I go onions,
Speaker 2: maybe some poblano peppers, well, spiceing there. I love grilled onions.
Speaker 2: I can eat a mountain of onions any and you
Speaker 2: wake me up in the middle of the night with
Speaker 2: a plate of grilled onions, Tie, I'm rearing.
Speaker 1: If you. If you literally and figuratively, Daniel.
Speaker 2: I'm real if you. If you've knocked down my front
Speaker 2: door with a just a mound of sauteed or grilled
Speaker 2: onions and you had a bullhorn and you said it's
Speaker 2: an emergency and I had to jump out of bed,
Speaker 2: and you're like, the emergency is these onions are delicious.
Speaker 2: I would I would say, what the hell, Tie, and
Speaker 2: thank you for the onions, because I do love them.
Speaker 2: Last question, we got a couple questions about potato salad.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So my question to you is have you made potato salads?
Speaker 2: Do you have stances on potato salads? Do you have
Speaker 2: secret ingredients that go into potato salads? And Nathan specifically
Speaker 2: wanted to know if there's anything more variant than good
Speaker 2: to bad potato salad.
Speaker 1: I have very strong thoughts on potato salad.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be cold. First off? Oh, yes, of course
Speaker 1: I like a cold potato salad.
Speaker 2: Oh, was say? The German ones are like, is that
Speaker 2: what's warm?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean they're just warm in general if you
Speaker 1: leave them out of the fridge.
Speaker 2: For me, Well, no, I know. I think German potato
Speaker 2: salads supposed to be warm.
Speaker 1: The Germans like everything warm. They like their Vierau room temperature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very strange, but I prefer a colder potato salad
Speaker 1: to start. I also prefer a potato salad of the
Speaker 1: of a little bit more your variety.
Speaker 2: I'm so in there with you.
Speaker 1: Like the potato salad be a little bit crunchier. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you get mushy and that's fine.
Speaker 2: M m.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, for sure, needs to be crunchy, needs
Speaker 1: to be cold. Also, there's nothing worse than a potato
Speaker 1: salad that has been poorly mixed and it just tastes awful.
Speaker 2: I don't know that we have been more simpatico on
Speaker 2: a food topic than we are with potato salad. I
Speaker 2: want a crunch factor. I don't want it over creamed.
Speaker 2: I want it well seasoned. Crunch factor can be anything
Speaker 2: you want, salt crunch. You want some bacon in there,
Speaker 2: you want some scallions, some Julianne carrots. Really go for it.
Speaker 2: That's fine, I just need texture variation. Tie, it sounds
Speaker 2: funny when I say it out loud, and it's.
Speaker 1: Gotta be cold. It's gotta gotta be cold. Some people
Speaker 1: really just go heavy on the mayo.
Speaker 2: Do you like a mustard potato salad?
Speaker 1: I don't know if they've ever had one of those.
Speaker 2: Oh delicious, Tie, you were.
Speaker 1: The one who turned me on initially to brown mustard,
Speaker 1: and it's changed my life.
Speaker 2: I do like brown mustard, just not on my hot dogs.
Speaker 2: I would yeah, I would definitely say keep it cold,
Speaker 2: but yellow mustard or yeah, yellow mustard and potato salad
Speaker 2: more found in the South, I would say than anywhere else. Delicious.
Speaker 2: You get that tang factor. You're not as relying on mayo.
Speaker 2: You get something maybe sweet with the carrots and salty
Speaker 2: with bacon or scallions or something like that. I love
Speaker 2: a potato salad because it counteracts barbecue meats so well,
Speaker 2: the sort of chilled starchiness against that the hot saltiness.
Speaker 2: I am. I'm just fully enthusiastic and on board with
Speaker 2: excellent potato salads.
Speaker 1: Why don't we leave it there?
Speaker 2: Daniel? Can I peel? Can I peel some couple layers
Speaker 2: back on this show?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: You? Initially, because I'm traveling this week and you've been
Speaker 2: running around, you said to to me, you said, should
Speaker 2: we just take this week off?
Speaker 1: I did? I did say that, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Perfectly reasonable question. Right, we're in the we're in the
Speaker 2: midst of somewhere. We're right before we're gonna fully load
Speaker 2: up for the season. We've got season previews coming up,
Speaker 2: We've got media days coming up, we have actual news.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be ramping up and doing more shows. I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, Tye, it's it's the holiday week. Why
Speaker 2: don't we give you know, people are traveling, why don't
Speaker 2: we give them something? And you said, all right, let's
Speaker 2: record at four thirty and let's bang out a half hour. Yep.
Speaker 2: And here we are at five thirty seven, and I
Speaker 2: just I bow down. Ty you are a warrior. Other
Speaker 2: other shows take weeks off, and they're great shows, but
Speaker 2: they'll take a week off. They don't dedicate themselves to
Speaker 2: editing and production value like you do. Ty Here you are.
Speaker 2: This is your MJ flu game.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of.
Speaker 2: A flu game, the dead of the off season.
Speaker 1: One hundred degree heat. Yeah, yep. If it sounds like
Speaker 1: I'm in a wind tunnel, it's because I've got the
Speaker 1: fan in this room on. That's fine turbo at the moment.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just.
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting here that when you are listening to
Speaker 2: this show, please know that Tye is giving you every
Speaker 2: last bit of him.
Speaker 1: I'm going to collapse in a puddle after this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all I got. I just wanted to let it
Speaker 1: be known that you are You're digging deep, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you, Daniel. I appreciate you, yes, as
Speaker 1: I always do. And I appreciate all the verballers yep,
Speaker 1: who so kindly sent us a Gosh, we have pages
Speaker 1: of questions here.
Speaker 2: We do we have about eight pages. We asked for
Speaker 2: questions about an hour before recording.
Speaker 1: On like an hour's notice. So thank you to everyone,
Speaker 1: as always for your support and enthusiasm we do have.
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Speaker 1: we mean it. A whole bunch of exciting things coming
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Speaker 1: the reaction we got to the dad hat.
Speaker 2: People want to be lazy on game day. They don't
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Speaker 1: On that note for that gentleman over there, my good
Speaker 1: friend Dan Rubinstein or myself, Ty hilden Brand over here
Speaker 1: in Allentown, PA. By all means, enjoy your fourth Please
Speaker 1: stay safe, enjoy your cookouts, Enjoy any road trips you
Speaker 1: might be on here. Yeah, we'll catch you all in
Speaker 1: a week. In the meantime, stay solid, peace,