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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls. My

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Speaker 2: name is Ty hilden Brad. That fine gentleman over there,

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Speaker 2: one of the only still the incomparable Dan Rubinstein in Chicago, Illinois, Sir,

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Speaker 2: how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm great, Ty. I am shot out of a cannon.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's because of the caffeine

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Speaker 2: Is this a new thing? Supported by science or no?

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Speaker 1: I'm vaguely probably supported by Google, supported by I've seen

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Speaker 1: And honestly, I've been sort of shot out of a

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Speaker 2: we got football this weekend, Dan Buddy, Yeah, buddy. Football

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Speaker 2: week zero is what they call it, but football nonetheless

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Speaker 2: Week zero preview. I've also got a bet. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: I think we're only doing one. Are you doing multiple?

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Speaker 2: But there are a couple of games, a couple notable

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Speaker 1: Northwestern hasn't officially named Ryan Holinsky the starter, but I

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Speaker 1: I am of the mind to just take the points.

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Speaker 1: We saw how Nebraska came out of the shoot. That's

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Speaker 1: In Europe.

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Speaker 2: Blunk of the week, let's get this already started, mister Rubinstein,

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Speaker 2: lock me up, Nebraska, minus two and a half minus thirteen.

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Speaker 2: I will say the cause for pause our favorite pet

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Speaker 1: Buddy, I did. Some of them are close, and then

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame also blew out Navy, Like there are varying results.

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Speaker 2: If that, if that's the reason that you're going to

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Speaker 2: Nebraska annihilated Northwestern last season, Northwestern didn't stop them at all.

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Speaker 2: got mail. You've got mail on the solid ruble Dan.

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Speaker 2: which team's season outlook is most dependent on Game one?

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Speaker 2: I feel very different about Perdue based on the result

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Speaker 1: You love this.

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Speaker 2: I love this, not just this question, but his answer.

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Speaker 2: I feel similarly about Penn State. My answer is Penn State. OK. Question,

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Speaker 1: So a couple teams stand out, A few teams stand

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Speaker 2: That would be a really big deal. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Pitt favored by about six and a half in that

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Speaker 2: backyard brawl game. Okay, taking place on Thursday, September the first.

435
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Speaker 2: We will absolutely preview that when we do Week one

436
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Speaker 2: preview next week. And to your point of the weather

437
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Speaker 2: in Florida being different than Salt Lake City, it's going

438
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Speaker 2: to be mid to upper nineties in Salt Lake all week.

439
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Speaker 2: Oh but the humidity Tye, you're talking altitude altitude. Yeah,

440
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Speaker 2: still hot, I have no idea. Still hot, still absolutely hot.

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Speaker 2: There's other interesting matchups that I don't like. If Army

442
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Speaker 2: beats Coastal Carolina and Conway, you're already high on Army, right,

443
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Speaker 2: I love Army.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that upsit though, right, that has to up

445
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Speaker 1: what you expect from our yes here absolutely yeah. I

446
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Speaker 1: mean you have to consider Notre Dame at least playoff

447
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Speaker 1: worth if they beat Ohio State in the shoe.

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Speaker 2: They're not going to beat Ohio State in the shoe,

449
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Speaker 2: but yeah, for sure, if they do, we're talking about

450
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Speaker 2: a much different Notreed Aame team. We're talking about Heisman

451
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Speaker 2: contender Tyler Buckner if they beat Oile State in the shoe.

452
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Speaker 2: By the way, let me bring up that question because

453
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Speaker 2: we did get a question about that. Enrique says, which

454
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Speaker 2: team is in the best position if they're new quarterback?

455
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Speaker 2: Has that it factor? Now? New quarterback? The word new

456
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Speaker 2: is doing some heavy lifting. We need to define what

457
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Speaker 2: that means before I answer this question. Is it new

458
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Speaker 2: in terms of this is a brand new kid who

459
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Speaker 2: has never played quarterback? Is it a Tyler Buckner situation

460
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Speaker 2: where we saw flashes. Is it somebody who's been on

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Speaker 2: the roster, Like, what do you define as new full

462
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Speaker 2: time starter? New full time starter?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think Tyler Buckner is my answer here. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I hate to answer this question with a Penn State

466
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Speaker 2: and Notre Dame on back to back because people are

467
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Speaker 2: gonna call me a homer, But I really think it's

468
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Speaker 2: if it's not Notre Dame and Buckner, it is Texas

469
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Speaker 2: A and M and whoever they pick. Okay, I think

470
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Speaker 2: both those teams are in really good shape if their

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Speaker 2: quarterback has the IT factor. I have not seen A

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Speaker 2: and M yet. I don't know who they're gonna pick.

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Speaker 2: My suspicion is that they like Haynes King a lot.

474
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Speaker 2: That Haines King gives them a lot of athleticism. That's

475
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Speaker 2: why they picked them last year. So if he goes

476
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Speaker 2: out there, if he brings that IT factor, if he

477
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Speaker 2: can make it all the more difficult to defend that offense.

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Speaker 2: A and M's a strong answer. Buckner isn't working with

479
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Speaker 2: as much offensively as what they've got at A and M.

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Speaker 2: But he does remain a pretty big unknown because we

481
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Speaker 2: only saw him in limited doses last season.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go off the beaten path. Sir Cameron Ward

483
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Speaker 1: was it? Oh my god, so long shot. To me,

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Speaker 1: it's a long shot. As good as he was and

485
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Speaker 1: as good as he has been, there are if you

486
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Speaker 1: look at where Washington State should be pretty good upfronts,

487
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Speaker 1: you're basically looking at teams that have defenses that you

488
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Speaker 1: think are pretty dependable, that need a significant upgrade in

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Speaker 1: terms of offensive output, especially from quarterback. So yeah, your

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame answer is not bad, though I would argue

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Speaker 1: a good chunk of where Notre Dame struggled last year

492
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Speaker 1: was because of Jack Cohne or Drew Pye or Tyler

493
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Speaker 1: Buckner and the rotation. They were just so beat up

494
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Speaker 1: along the offensive line they couldn't run the ball at all.

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Speaker 1: So basically they were just starting from way behind last year.

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Speaker 1: So it's we'll see new quarterback wise, Dylan Gabriel is

497
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Speaker 1: an interesting answer to me.

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Speaker 2: I thought about him, but he see he doesn't feel

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Speaker 2: like a new quarterback. Yeah to me, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: guess he is for Oklahoma, and it obviously got hurt

501
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Speaker 2: last year, so it's been a while for him. New

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Speaker 2: quarterback for Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: This is a new quarterback for Oklahoma. So we know

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Speaker 1: that Dylan Gabriel has the adfactor, which is why I

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily feel like it's a worthy answer. Where there's

506
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Speaker 1: more of a mystery with Cameron Ward and Wazoo and

507
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Speaker 1: just that he hasn't played at the the FBS level.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise there's there's not a lot of teams. Here's I'll

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Speaker 1: scratch you where you witch ty? You ready?

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Speaker 2: I'm ready?

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Speaker 1: Kate club Nick, Oh my god, what is whisper you

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Speaker 1: of a comp You've grown a cuss?

513
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Speaker 2: We talk about the club level and Cameron Ward around

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Speaker 2: here in hushed revered tones. You know that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, just excellent defenses that are hopeful that whoever

516
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Speaker 1: is stepping into the full time quarterback job now is

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Speaker 1: the answer.

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Speaker 2: I noticed that you didn't mention the uh Alex Padilla flotilla?

519
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Speaker 1: Was he named the starter?

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Speaker 2: I don't know he should be Okay, he's got to

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Speaker 2: be right.

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Speaker 1: Those are not he but see neither one of them.

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Speaker 1: I guess Spencer Petris was the full time starter, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if that counts. But

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Speaker 1: even still, that's just a ridiculous answer. Time you could

526
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Speaker 1: be ashamed of yourself.

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Speaker 2: I know it's Padilla too. I apologize. Okay, here we

528
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Speaker 2: go from Chuck the rebuilding Baltimore Orioles and their surprising

529
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Speaker 2: performance is the best sports story of the summer, at

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Speaker 2: least at my house. Okay, who is a chance to

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Speaker 2: be the college football equivalent. So the feel good story.

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Speaker 2: Maybe some success you didn't see coming, and everybody just

533
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Speaker 2: feels good about it.

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Speaker 1: Somebody likes likable to you or to somebody, somebody likable who,

535
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Speaker 1: against all odds, keeps stringing together wins. And perhaps I

536
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Speaker 1: don't know if it's a schedule thing. I don't know

537
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Speaker 1: if it's a weird winning fifty to fifty games, but

538
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Speaker 1: they were projected to win four or five and suddenly

539
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Speaker 1: we are we're swimming in an eight to nine win

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Speaker 1: pool something like that.

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Speaker 2: Well I'm not talking an eight to nine win pool,

542
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Speaker 2: but I'm talking about the Arizona Wildcats here.

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Speaker 1: That would be likable ish, Yeah, that would be likable ish.

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Speaker 2: I feel really good about this team, Okay, not necessarily

545
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Speaker 2: getting to a bowl game, certainly not getting eight to

546
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Speaker 2: nine wins. My god, people would laugh me off the

547
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Speaker 2: stage here. Uh, but I like what Jed Fish is

548
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Speaker 2: doing and I think they played hard last season. I

549
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Speaker 2: think they've got more support this year. I think they'll

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Speaker 2: be better. And so if they pull an upset, even

551
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Speaker 2: if they win four games, and it feels like they've

552
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Speaker 2: got things going in a good direction, that's a feel

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Speaker 2: good story, you know. That's something that Arizona people can

554
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Speaker 2: feel good about and build towards. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: it gets national significance. I don't know if the Orioles

556
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Speaker 2: have national significance. Frankly, at last check, I believe they're

557
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Speaker 2: still trading all their players. But who for you outside

558
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Speaker 2: of maybe the bottom rung of eligibility for this answer, right,

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Speaker 2: would you go with.

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Speaker 1: The fighting lion I of Illinois tie?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: I feel as if and maybe this is me misreading

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Speaker 1: the room, and I'm sure there are some fans who

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Speaker 1: would disagree. But if Illinois is surprisingly decent, that means

565
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Speaker 1: they're beating PJ. Fleck. They're beating Scott Frost, they're beating

566
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Speaker 1: Michigan State, they're beating Jim Harbaugh, they're beating Kirk Farns,

567
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Speaker 1: they're beating Shark Tank's own Paul Chris. Number of either

568
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Speaker 1: good or unlikable teams at least within the Midwestern footprint.

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Speaker 1: And again I don't think I misreading the room, like

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Speaker 1: I think Brett Bielam is somewhat likable, just like playing

571
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Speaker 1: the big dumb style that Illinois and Brett Bieloma teams

572
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Speaker 1: tend to play. I think that would be considering the

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Speaker 1: depths to which Illinois dropped to these past few years,

574
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Speaker 1: these past couple coaches, and how sick people can grow

575
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Speaker 1: around certain powers always being the best. Illinois coming up

576
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Speaker 1: and spanking two or three of them are surprising two

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Speaker 1: or three of them on their way to winning seven games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that would be a pretty likable story.

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Speaker 2: We also could include Texas beating Kansas here ending the

580
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Speaker 2: losing streak. I thought, how dare you a feel good story? Right?

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Speaker 1: I think Kansas would be a good story. Maybe TCU

582
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Speaker 1: given Sunny Dykes's ties to the state and college football

583
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Speaker 1: success within his family and the depth to win TCU

584
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Speaker 1: fell and they were ready to move forward, and the

585
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Speaker 1: uncertainty and hatred that people feel in the Big Twelve

586
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Speaker 1: toward Texas and Oklahoma. That if like the phoenix rising

587
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Speaker 1: from the ashes of where TCU was last year, that

588
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Speaker 1: the Frogs are pretty good Virginia Tech.

589
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Speaker 2: Winning six games would be a feel good story. And

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Speaker 2: I view Virginia Tech a little bit like their rich

591
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Speaker 2: Man's South Carolina from twenty twenty one, okay, in that

592
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Speaker 2: they just don't have the guys. They don't have the

593
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Speaker 2: people to build this thing in a great direction in

594
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. But they're trying, you know, they're moving

595
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Speaker 2: guys around, they're they're doing their best. And I believe

596
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Speaker 2: in Brent Priye. I think he's a good coach. I

597
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Speaker 2: think they're at least a year away from being, you know,

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Speaker 2: a respect year away team. Yeah, you're away from a

599
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Speaker 2: year away. But if they can find a way to

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Speaker 2: cobble together six that'd be a great story. Yeah you can.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to look too hard to find these.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Virginia Tech is. I think they're pretty likable nationally.

603
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Speaker 1: I think people like the idea of a giant Turkey

604
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Speaker 1: and Metallica and jumping up and down in a loud

605
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Speaker 1: stadium in the middle of nowhere. Sure. Yeah, I think

606
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Speaker 1: people are on board with enjoying a Virginia Tech run

607
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Speaker 1: back to you know, competing just with the best of

608
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Speaker 1: the acc not necessarily winning every week, but being a

609
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Speaker 1: hard out. I'd think people would be on board with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, longtime SEC fan, right, sin h, long time, first time.

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Speaker 2: I've listened to you guys now for at least thirteen years. Welcome, Wow, welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 2: From the beginning, I've noticed that you two generally have

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Speaker 2: positive takes on everybody. Was that intentional as part of

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Speaker 2: your approach to the show and football?

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Speaker 1: Dan? Not intentional per se, especially in the off season.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of the thought exercise of let's

617
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Speaker 1: piece together a road in which this team is good

618
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: or improved or pretty good, because that's the currency we

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Speaker 1: trade in as college football fans. It's all hope, it's

620
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Speaker 1: all positivity and reasons to find positivity about our own teams,

621
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Speaker 1: and reasons to hate the teams we don't like and

622
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Speaker 1: want to beat into the ground. And so every year

623
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Speaker 1: there are teams that surprise us by being good, or

624
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Speaker 1: our own teams surprise us by being better than we expected,

625
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Speaker 1: and so who unless we feel certain that a team

626
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Speaker 1: is not going to be all that good, it's just

627
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Speaker 1: it makes more sense to sort of not paint a

628
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Speaker 1: rosier picture but look for silver linings, because I think

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Speaker 1: we can both agree that different. Success for different teams

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Speaker 1: is very different. And so by me saying, like for

631
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Speaker 1: Illinois and how when we preview them, I said, look,

632
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Speaker 1: if you if you don't take the Ali and I seriously,

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Speaker 1: they'll come up and beat you. If Illinois catches you

634
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Speaker 1: with a beat up quarterback, they might come up and

635
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Speaker 1: beat you. And so Illinois winning six or seven games,

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Speaker 1: it's not crazy positive. But for an ALIONI fan who

637
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: just wants to watch his or her team be pretty

638
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Speaker 1: good going to a bowl game, beating probably a couple

639
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Speaker 1: teams that they're looked at as not being ready to beat,

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Speaker 1: that's a huge deal. So I try to enter that

641
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: mind space when talking about different teams in the offseason,

642
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: because I don't know, it feels more natural to me

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Speaker 1: to try and paint that picture, to try to pave

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Speaker 1: that road when looking at these teams.

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Speaker 2: Here's the reality. You're listening to a podcast now for enjoyment.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to come on here and hear somebody

647
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Speaker 2: just tell you that your team sucks. If your team sucks,

648
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Speaker 2: you already know they suck. You know you do know that. Yeah,

649
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Speaker 2: you don't need me to tell you that, or Dan,

650
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 2: you already know your team sucks. So I think we've

651
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 2: made it at least somewhat of a point here to

652
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 2: try and highlight the fun stuff. If your team is bad,

653
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 2: let's give you things to latch onto, things that we

654
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 2: can latch onto. Right, this isn't necessarily just a show

655
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 2: for the other folks. It's also a show for us.

656
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 2: Because we do it all the time, we have to

657
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: enjoy it, and so we try to find those points

658
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 2: of intersect between reality and amusement that we can use

659
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 2: to keep people engaged here with the show. Sometimes it's

660
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 2: easier than others. Sometimes we just have to say this

661
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: team's really bad. Well, also another that we can say

662
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 2: here other than the obvious that this team's bad. But

663
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 2: I think we are not necessarily looking at the glass

664
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: half empty all the time. We are doing our best

665
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 2: to try and find just those little points that people

666
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 2: can feel good about.

667
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: We're in the business, though, of selling the sport. So

668
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: if Tie comes on here and tells you that Virginia

669
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: is garbage and you shouldn't watch them, and Minnesota is

670
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: horrible and to avoid them at all costs, your enthusiasm

671
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: for college football could be affected by Tye the influencer

672
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: being negative about teams that are playing in the sport, like,

673
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: oh I was thinking about watching that game, but Ty

674
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: the influencer said, damn, they're really bad.

675
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

676
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: And so if we are selling excitement and enthusiasm about

677
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: college football, which is authentically something we feel, then maybe

678
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: you'll be more interested in listening to this show more often.

679
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: It's not intentional, but people like listening to people who

680
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: are into their subject matter. And so if we go

681
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: down the road like this team sucks, this offense sucks,

682
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: this defense sucks, without giving you a chunk of like look, yes,

683
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: of course Northwestern struggled mightily on offense and their defense

684
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: took a step back. But here is the picture I

685
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 1: can paint in which they can actually surprise a couple teams.

686
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: They ran the ball well, this guy's going to be

687
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: an NFL player on the edge. And so there are

688
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: reasons to still care about games on the fringe outside

689
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: of a Bama game, outside of an Ohio State game,

690
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: because that's how we take in the sport. We're looking

691
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: for that meaty flank of a team that otherwise does

692
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: not have a winning body. That's what we're looking for.

693
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 2: Brian wants to know, will the valuable TV market in

694
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 2: LA just turn into a mid tier Big Ten program?

695
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, speaking yeah of Pump in the Sunshine

696
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: here Brian going the exact opposite direction USC DAN. What

697
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 2: does usc look like within the Big ten college football landscape?

698
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. In the short term, they should be the

699
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: valuable LATV market, should be a team who can put

700
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: up points in the Pac twelve next year or two

701
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: if they are as one note, as they look right now,

702
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: as they appear to be right now, and as they

703
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: appeared as Oklahoma appeared to be under Lincoln Riley at

704
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: times where they had to win a bunch of shootouts

705
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: and really struggle to catch on defense. Maybe other than

706
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: the back half of the twenty twenty season, it actually

707
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: provides for a unique program within the Big Ten. Who

708
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: was the last Big Ten team to be sort of

709
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: all gas on offense and all breaks on defense, to

710
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: be like a pseudo half team in the direction of offense.

711
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: Like all of those Penn State teams under Joe Morehead.

712
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: They had pretty good defenses. They won the Big Ten.

713
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: Ohio State has had good last year wasn't great, but

714
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: it was okay. That defense so Who was that last

715
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: team to have like a number four offense and a

716
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: number ninety seven defense in the Big Ten? Has that

717
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: team existed ever? We We sort of had bouts of it,

718
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: maybe with Minnesota a couple of years ago, and they

719
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: want a bunch of games. They still have a pretty

720
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: good defense. Who is that team that was capable of

721
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: scoring forty five but also capable of giving up forty

722
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: five any given week in the Big Ten? That could

723
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Speaker 1: spell mid tier Big Ten for USC because that style

724
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem like it works within the conference. But that, yeah,

725
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: that got me to thinking, who was that team that

726
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: couldn't get it figured out on defense but locked in

727
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: on offense within the Big Ten?

728
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Speaker 2: I mean, are we counting Maryland here among those Maryland?

729
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: I guess Maryland is not.

730
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Speaker 2: As high level as what I think we assume USC

731
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 2: will be by the time they make it over. But

732
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Speaker 2: Maryland's maybe the closest go by right now team that

733
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 2: should have a good offense did not play a lick

734
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Speaker 2: of defense last season. Ohio State to a much much

735
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 2: lesser degree. The defense had its moments against physical opponents,

736
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: but it wasn't like it was an overall bad defense.

737
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 2: This wasn't a half team type of scenario. They certainly

738
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 2: needed to get better if they wanted to contend for

739
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 2: a national championship, but they were still like second in

740
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 2: the conference, so clearly they don't really rise to the

741
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Speaker 2: level of what you're describing.

742
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Speaker 1: No, not necessarily so mid tier. Who would you define

743
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: as mid tier? And does that fit to you with

744
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: what you expect from Lincoln Riley USC if they're not

745
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: quite as good as what we assume his and their

746
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 1: ceiling is together, I don't think with mid tier mid Minnesota, Yeah.

747
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say Minnesota, I guess kind of is

748
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 2: in that meaty middle. I just don't see them falling

749
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 2: that far. I think by the time they get into

750
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: the Big Ten, it could be a scenario in which

751
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley has the offense cranked up enough, USC starts

752
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: playing more Big Ten opponents, and suddenly the Big Ten

753
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,439
Speaker 2: maybe has to change a little bit. Maybe the Big

754
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 2: Ten has to revolutionize its own offenses or the way

755
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 2: that it plays in order to accommodate USC. I kind

756
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: of view the USC thing, at least from an offensive standpoint,

757
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: as a positive agent of change for the way the

758
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 2: Big Ten plays football, Right now because it is a

759
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: lot of defense and let's see what we can get

760
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 2: out of the offense. I'm hoping that USC, or maybe

761
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 2: Ohio State Michigan's been good on offense, maybe Penn State

762
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 2: can get there this year. I'm hoping that we can

763
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 2: have something of an offensive revolution, that we get a

764
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 2: little bit more.

765
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Speaker 1: Scoring in five years if both head coaches are still there,

766
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: do you expect USC to be ahead of Penn State

767
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: in terms of Big ten hierarchy and program health?

768
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 2: Probably? Okay, probably because for as high on Penn State

769
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 2: as I am this year, there's definitely a sense in

770
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 2: State College like if James Franklin leaves, we'll find somebody else, right,

771
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 2: you know, there is a sense of right, Kay, when's

772
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 2: this thing gonna happen? When are we going to go

773
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 2: to the next level with this thing? It's been a

774
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,479
Speaker 2: minute since the Joe moorehead and Saquon Barkley and Trace

775
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 2: mcsworley era, So maybe just because they're the flavor of

776
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 2: the week here and the USC is probably my answer there.

777
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: Interesting, I'm worried. I'm worried about line play. I'm worried

778
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: about defensive star power with USC moving forward when the

779
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: top of the conference seems to be a little bit

780
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: more robust than what USC has been dealing with lately,

781
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: in that Michigan State has gotten better. Michigan obviously went

782
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: to the playoff. Ohio State should continue to be lethal.

783
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: Penn State, while not a team and a program with

784
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: its act fully together, should field good defenses for the

785
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: foreseeable future. Given how they've recruited and at least has

786
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: interesting offensive skill talent, Wisconsin is just going to be

787
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: very difficult to deal with in perpetuity. Like USC would

788
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: need to build a program on the level of where

789
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: Michigan and Ohio State currently are for me to truly

790
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,919
Speaker 1: believe that they'd be above Penn State, and I don't

791
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 1: know if I'm there, I really don't.

792
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, speaking of this question, here's a related one

793
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 2: from Allen fill in the blank. Power five school A

794
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 2: is the Power five school B of the Power five

795
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 2: school a's conference. That's a lot to get through your head.

796
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 2: The example here is that Texas is the Virginia Tech

797
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 2: of the Big twelve. Is what he's listed out, which

798
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: I don't agree with. But the reason that I thought

799
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 2: of this question is because we're talking about USC is

800
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 2: Miami not the USC of the ACC?

801
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: Man, at least I would say Miami is the Texas

802
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: of the ACC, because at least USC has won their conference.

803
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: Least USC has been to and won a major bowl

804
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: game in the last decade, right beating Penn State in

805
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl.

806
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: Yep.

807
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think there are similarities big flashy cities

808
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: looking back twenty years, fifteen to twenty years for when

809
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: it was truly the glory days that they need to

810
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: get back to. Blah blah blah. I think it's a

811
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: little bit of Texas that and both can be compared

812
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: to Texas in that the glory years were probably more

813
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: isolated than we'd like to think. Yeah, but Miami has

814
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: much has at least a more pronounced you go back

815
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: twenty thirty years than USC and Texas at least. Who

816
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 1: are the other similar teams like Nebraska Tennessee A little bit?

817
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: A little bit?

818
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,399
Speaker 2: I mean the I think the low hanging fruit here

819
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: is Stanford and Vandy, that sort of academic connection Stanford

820
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 2: as the Vandy of the PAC twelve or vice versa,

821
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 2: of the.

822
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: Scene the Rose bowls. Man.

823
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, not recently, though it's been a while.

824
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: It's been a minute, It's been a little bit, but

825
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: like I don't know, I understand the academic thing and

826
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 1: why they're close. Duke is the Georgia Tech of the ACC.

827
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech is Duke of the ACC. Who is living

828
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: like I think they're playing this year Michigan State and Washington, Yeah,

829
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: living in the shadow, but also both went to the

830
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: playoff and couldn't accomplish anything on offense, but both went

831
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: to the playoff just as many times as their rival.

832
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: Who has received far more attention.

833
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:28,879
Speaker 2: Yeah? Is Colorado the Vandy of the PAC twelve? Wow?

834
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 1: They were right there for the playoff a couple of

835
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: years ago, and they started four and oho and packed

836
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: twelve for losing to Utah and just getting drilled by

837
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 1: Casey Thompson.

838
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 2: I guess it depends how this season goes.

839
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, you would have to look like so Colorado, a

840
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: once semi mighty power, is now an afterthought in their conference. Yeah,

841
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: who is that comparison in? I mean, it's weirdly enough.

842
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:02,919
Speaker 1: Maybe Nebraska right rivals Nebraska obviously on a higher level

843
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: than Colorado. I'm trying to think of there any other teams.

844
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: Is there a UCLA in another conference?

845
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 2: UCLA is an interesting answer or an interesting thought experiment.

846
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd think they'd be better, but for whatever reason,

847
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: for a number of reasons, they just can't seem to.

848
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 2: Break through that ceiling. My first thought was Florida State.

849
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:31,240
Speaker 2: Florida State's got a lot more success in its history totally,

850
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 2: but at least at present, there's a similarity there.

851
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, UCLA, who is the team that you feel like

852
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 1: should have had a more interesting successful Golden era and

853
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: never quite got there? Peaked a while ago, recruits pretty well,

854
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: but never really gets to that like nine to ten

855
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: win territory.

856
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 2: I mean, it could also be Texas.

857
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: I generally think Penn State should be better. I agree,

858
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: And maybe there's like a Penn State Jimora era UCLA

859
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: comparison where the recruiting is there where you think like

860
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: they're going to break through more often. Penn State did

861
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 1: it more and went to more big games than UCLA.

862
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: Who is that team? Who is that team that you

863
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: would think would put together that stretch of nine to

864
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: ten win seasons and just is in there at seven

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Speaker 1: and eight, just comes up one and a half to

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Speaker 1: two games short every year. I guess Oklahoma State, right

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Speaker 1: is Oklahoma State in there? What about them? Oklahoma State

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Speaker 1: can't get over the hump of the Sooners with any

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Speaker 1: sort of consistency. They're always going to be second place

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Speaker 1: in their own state, and they win pretty often, but

871
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Speaker 1: just I don't know, eight nine to ten somewhere in there,

872
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Speaker 1: or maybe like eight or eight or nine wins but

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Speaker 1: not ten wins with any consistency, can't fully seem to

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00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: break through. Yeah, all right, that's all. Okay. Next question,

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Speaker 1: why don't.

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Speaker 2: You pick one or two non college football or semi

877
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 2: college football questions off the tree here before we let

878
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 2: the fine people go off into the sunset.

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00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: Let's see. Next question, are you staying hydrated?

880
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 2: Ty drigging right now? Baby?

881
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: Would you pass the Tom Herman Texas color charts? No?

882
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 2: No, what is it? You got to be perfectly clear?

883
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: Clear?

884
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

885
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: Clear means you care about your teammates?

886
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 2: No, no, No.

887
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: Are you close? I could do better? I could always

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Speaker 1: do better.

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00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it. It's close enough, I think for

890
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 2: a podcaster. I think I'm in good shape here doing okay, podcaster? Yeah?

891
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: All right?

892
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 2: Another question two, Dan, what's the process for your new

893
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 2: audio setup for people watching at home? Ryan One Studio

894
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 2: a new studio setup. Excuse me, you've got a new studio,

895
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 2: you moved into a new place. You've got a new studio.

896
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 2: You've got some hexagons behind you. What's going on back there?

897
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: Man, I don't know right now. I'm just trying to

898
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: quiet this room down. I'm just trying to tame this

899
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: bucking bronco of a reverberating room. So I've softened it

900
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: up a little. I have some audio panels on the wall.

901
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: I've got stuff in here, and that softens things up

902
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: and you get less echo and less reverb. I'd like

903
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: to figure out some shelving in the background. I got

904
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: my lights in here, I've got all my audio stuff.

905
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: I put a TV on the wall. Finally, like making

906
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: a permanent home of this studio. I don't know it's

907
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 1: coming along. If I sound all right, that's an early

908
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: win for me, But I got to figure it out.

909
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: I get some lights behind me to sort of jazz

910
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: up the bookshelf and everything right there. But no, for

911
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: anybody who podcasts or would like to podcast, my only

912
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: real advice, aside from my only real production advice, it's

913
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: just soften up that room. You don't need to spend

914
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: a lot of money out of microphone. You don't need

915
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: to do vide right away anything like that. Be consistent

916
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: and soften up the room. You don't need to spend

917
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: a ton just have stuff in your room. Have soft

918
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: stuff in your room. No bare walls fully and no

919
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: bare floors. Fully, cover up glass with a curtain, cheap

920
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 1: ass curtain.

921
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 2: See this is something that you and I disagree on.

922
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 1: Oh what you don't care about the room.

923
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 2: I don't care about the room.

924
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: No.

925
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 2: Oh I can't get spend all your money on a

926
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 2: good mic and then go into a closet.

927
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: Oh well that's a room. Ty, that's a quiet ass room.

928
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 2: Phil need a room, but get a good mic. You

929
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 2: don't want to sound like you're talking into a tin can.

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00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I wouldn't spend a lot of money on

931
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: a mic right away. I don't care about that.

932
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Speaker 2: So look again, college football Thursdays is tonight, Boom, it

933
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Speaker 2: is tonight. If you are listening on Thursdays tonight five

934
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Speaker 2: pm Eastern, two pm Pacific. Solid verbal dot com slash Spotify.

935
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Speaker 2: That is where you go. It is a live show.

936
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: You can participate in the chat if you have something

937
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 2: to get off your chest. If you would like to

938
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 2: speak to us physically, actually speak to us, not just virtually.

939
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it is kind of virtually. But yeah,

940
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 2: if you want to use your voice to communicate with

941
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,399
Speaker 2: us in real time, you can do so on College

942
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 2: Football Thursdays. You just send us a speaker request. Towards

943
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 2: the end of the show. We're bringing people up on stage.

944
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 2: Did it last week? Brought a bunch of people up

945
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 2: on stage. We are excited about this. We're playing games.

946
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 2: We're going to talk through college football news with starters.

947
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 2: We're going to talk through the week ahead in week zero,

948
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Speaker 2: all sorts of fun stuff. Come on out to College

949
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Speaker 2: Football Thursdays live on Spotify again five pm Eastern. Also,

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Speaker 2: dot Com. Player on the Board dot Com. It's our

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Speaker 2: big pick them contest. It runs the whole year through.

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Speaker 2: We've never gotten never talking about it ever again.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 2: The extra credit bit. You know, I'll bug you guys

956
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Speaker 2: about player on the Board for a while at least

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Speaker 2: another week. But the extra credit bit of this is new,

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Speaker 2: it's novel, it's exciting. You can help you win. Get

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Speaker 2: can go to find out more information about that. We

961
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Speaker 2: detail the whole thing there. We did not mention the

962
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Speaker 2: extra credit bit though. No. The only way you know

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Speaker 2: about that is if you're listening to the show part

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Speaker 2: of a secret society.

965
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Speaker 1: If your voice is going to a weird place, I

966
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Speaker 1: like it.

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Speaker 2: Play run the board dot com. It's how you get

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Speaker 2: in on the fun and last, but certainly not least,

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Speaker 2: live show, live show, Blinking red Light. We have yet

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Speaker 2: to plan our content.

971
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Speaker 1: Worry we out. We've done a little We've not only.

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Speaker 2: Done a little bit. Okay, we've done a little bit,

973
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Speaker 2: probably not as much as we should, but that's pretty

974
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 2: much part of the course for you and me. We'll

975
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Speaker 2: get it sorted out. I've got all sorts of audio

976
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Speaker 2: gear strewn about the studio here. I am waiting for

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Speaker 2: a big backpack that I can hopefully use to carry

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Speaker 2: all this stuff with me on the plane to get

979
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Speaker 2: out there to do the live fantasy things draft before

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Speaker 2: a live audience. If you want to be there in attendance,

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Speaker 2: we would encourage you to do so. At solid verballive

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Speaker 2: dot com. Please come on out and see us.

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Speaker 1: What about smell tieshir dot solid verballive dot com. Okay,

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Speaker 1: just making sure and so I'll giveaway dot com if

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Speaker 1: you want to win.

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Speaker 2: The Michael Maherh helmet behind me.

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Speaker 1: It's all I have.

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Speaker 2: For that guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein,

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00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 2: for myself, Tie Hildenbrandt, thank you for downloading, listening, playing

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Speaker 2: along at home. We hope to have you on stage tonight.

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Speaker 2: College Football Thursdays Live on Spotify. For that guy over there,

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Speaker 2: my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for my self, Tie hilbrand

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Speaker 2: Talk to y'all soon. Stay solid, peace