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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about win total over unders. We're
Speaker 1: going to he just did a story about Tala Tonga Valoa,
Speaker 1: who is the little brother of Tua Toangua Valoa, obviously
Speaker 1: a budding Alabama quarterback, Hawaiian dynasty, whatever. But he just
Speaker 1: did a really good feature on the two of them,
Speaker 1: particularly Talia for Bleacher Report. He also just wrote about
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, the star defensive lineman for Clemson. So we're
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Speaker 3: now like infested with malware and growing.
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Speaker 1: And to get everything straight, because you've been writing features
Speaker 1: for Bleacher Reports, what is your official title at bleacher Report?
Speaker 1: Because you've been doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I actually I think it's National college
Speaker 2: Football writer. That's a good question. We're a guy.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, I think national college football writer at bleacher Report.
Speaker 1: Awesome. And you just wrote You've r in a couple
Speaker 1: of features that I think have gotten a good amount
Speaker 1: of traction sort of spring, late spring, early summer. And
Speaker 1: the most recent one you wrote was about the tongue
Speaker 1: of Iiloa and I'm almost positive I pronounced that correctly
Speaker 1: the brothers specifically, is it tau Leia?
Speaker 2: Yeah, to Leah, tell me you believe me.
Speaker 3: Pronunciation within the family has taken me basically since and
Speaker 3: I'm still butchering it since January eighth, right like since
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, like on January ninth, when people
Speaker 3: are doing radio interviews, like all these sports people, they.
Speaker 2: Had no idea because they did not see any of
Speaker 2: this coming.
Speaker 3: So yes, we're still trying to learn the name, and honestly,
Speaker 3: like I think we know the situation.
Speaker 2: Now about you're not going to talk to Tua right now,
Speaker 2: You're just.
Speaker 3: Not going to talk to it. Nick Saban's gonna no
Speaker 3: thank you, like with the quarterback race, like that's just
Speaker 3: not happening. So it was like, Okay, how could you
Speaker 3: tell this story.
Speaker 2: In a unique way? And I kind.
Speaker 3: Of pitched this idea to my editor like five days
Speaker 3: after the National Wild to come to be and honestly
Speaker 3: getting with the family as you know this too, man
Speaker 3: like with the projects, like the access points in this
Speaker 3: is probably the hardest part.
Speaker 2: Right Like, this is a family whose life like.
Speaker 3: Just changed dramatically, like in an instant, and they're being
Speaker 3: bombarded with just people wanting to talk to them. So
Speaker 3: trying to position this in a way where it wasn't
Speaker 3: going to be like.
Speaker 2: More continued coverage of Tua because I could get a
Speaker 2: sense that honestly they're good on that, but give.
Speaker 3: A little shine of light on kind of the family sacrifices,
Speaker 3: if you will. And then yeah, this little bro who
Speaker 3: you know who is there that night and you think
Speaker 3: how it's going to change Tua. You think how it's
Speaker 3: going to change the family in Alabama. But like, here's
Speaker 3: a kid who's been like in this into a shadow
Speaker 3: of his whole life, and all of a sudden, like
Speaker 3: in thirty seconds, it's like his life, the perception of
Speaker 3: him will never be the same simply because of like
Speaker 3: football osmosis.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, right?
Speaker 1: And they're not the first set of brothers to play
Speaker 1: quarterback in spotlight and come after one another. Although you know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about recent notable brothers to both play
Speaker 1: at least high ish level college football, the Rogers, the Vicks,
Speaker 1: the Cars, A lot of them were separated I think
Speaker 1: by more years. I know the cars are about ten
Speaker 1: years apart. In the case of like Carson Palmer and
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer or the Clawsons, they played at different schools
Speaker 1: or different level schools. What is the dynamic at such
Speaker 1: a spotlight place coming so quickly? Is their worry that
Speaker 1: it's almost too much for two kids from four thousand
Speaker 1: miles away, displaced with their family to I assume a
Speaker 1: very different part of the world. I haven't really been
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time where they are from, in
Speaker 1: Hawaii or Alabaster, Alabama. But what is the dynamic with
Speaker 1: that sort of instant double spotlight.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a great question. And the interesting thing in
Speaker 2: this is when I was talking about Tua, it was
Speaker 2: like I was talking about a twenty five year old man.
Speaker 2: This is like, you know, like this is a sophomore
Speaker 2: or going to be a sophomore who has not been
Speaker 2: named the starter yet and perception wise, however, because of
Speaker 2: the magnitude of that night, it feels a lot different.
Speaker 2: It did for me. I mean even writing it, naturally.
Speaker 3: I had to curb it a bit because it's like,
Speaker 3: wait a second, man, this kid's just a baby in himself.
Speaker 3: So the dynamic, but the dynamic between everyone is extremely
Speaker 3: This is a great family. I mean, this is a
Speaker 3: really good family who has clearly is kind of leaning
Speaker 3: on each other during what is it obviously an amazing time,
Speaker 3: but there is a burden that comes with us as well.
Speaker 3: And they used to turn blessing quite a bit to
Speaker 3: his dad, mister Chekavaloa, and everybody is thrilled with where
Speaker 3: they are, but also like getting recognized at a Walmart
Speaker 3: and Alabama being asked to take photos like if you're
Speaker 3: a junior in high school or you know, a dad
Speaker 3: who's just kind of wanting to watch your kid. Like
Speaker 3: that's there's a weight to all that, and that's only
Speaker 3: going to get more so as this progresses, and this
Speaker 3: will progress. But in terms of the you know, the
Speaker 3: dynamic between the two, I think also like virtualia now
Speaker 3: and he's committed to Alabama, Like there's pressure in that decision,
Speaker 3: Like if he don't commit to Alabama, what's wrong? You
Speaker 3: know if you commit somewhere else and think, oh, man Trader,
Speaker 3: you know you could impact to it. So everything they
Speaker 3: do in this this in this area, specifically in this
Speaker 3: day age where like recruiting is it, you know, recruiting
Speaker 3: is that is what we're.
Speaker 2: Most interested in? Is has a spotlight on it.
Speaker 3: And you're right, there is a weight to all that.
Speaker 3: But it does seem like they are equipped to handle it.
Speaker 1: Do you in your estimation as a non college coach
Speaker 1: is a non scout, as a non high school coach,
Speaker 1: is there a sense that his value is being inflated
Speaker 1: because of his brother's value, not to say he is
Speaker 1: a you know, overrated or anything like that. Is it
Speaker 1: hard to sep rate when his brother has these accomplishments
Speaker 1: and you know, it's very easy to project well, like, well,
Speaker 1: his brother has these gifts and this work ethic, and
Speaker 1: this natural talent and personality, so we are projecting his
Speaker 1: younger brother to be very similar. Do you do you
Speaker 1: get that sense that you know, people are overreaching to
Speaker 1: a certain extent based on that or is it just
Speaker 1: they had both happened to be extremely talented?
Speaker 2: You know, that's another really good question. I went into
Speaker 2: this full transparency thinking that was the case.
Speaker 3: I went into this story thinking, Okay, this is the
Speaker 3: number eight ranked quarterback in the country.
Speaker 2: He's what six', one he's getting that last name. Bump
Speaker 2: and AS i dug into this, MORE i actually almost
Speaker 2: think it could be the opposite here in the next few.
Speaker 2: Weeks and, look this time of the year in the
Speaker 2: recruiting world is kind of hugely. Influential this is like
Speaker 2: the time that to his profile. Exploded you've got to lee,
Speaker 2: eleven you've got the opening and two had just like
Speaker 2: owned those events like he was. Incredible SO i talked
Speaker 2: to a lot of recruiting people about. THIS i talked
Speaker 2: to coaches about.
Speaker 3: This in, TRUTH i don't think the recruiting people have
Speaker 3: a real sense of what he is just YET i
Speaker 3: do know that from an, athlete like an athletics, side
Speaker 3: he's not to like, that and that's not a knock
Speaker 3: like they you, Know June, jones who coached these kids In,
Speaker 3: hawaii which was hilarious and wonderful conversation in terms of
Speaker 3: college football, randomness you know said two was probably the
Speaker 3: best running back In hawaii as. Well salea is. Different
Speaker 3: but you talk to people and they say. That you,
Speaker 3: know there's three college coaches that mentioned that he's probably
Speaker 3: got the quickest release they've ever. Seen, now quick release
Speaker 3: doesn't mean it's going to go where you want it to,
Speaker 3: go but it's a.
Speaker 2: Start so As i've actually.
Speaker 3: Talked to people a little bit more AND i look
Speaker 3: to lead, eleven all this, stuff the next month is
Speaker 3: probably going to dictate. THIS i actually think his profile could,
Speaker 3: increase and there's no question who he is and who
Speaker 3: his brother is plays a role in. That but it
Speaker 3: ALSO i also think that maybe his skill set during
Speaker 3: a year when the quarterbacks are clearly not as defined
Speaker 3: they were last. Year like last, year the last couple
Speaker 3: of years have been. Insane when it comes to this
Speaker 3: this year a little bit, DIFFERENT i actually think he
Speaker 3: could have a chance to increase a bit when it
Speaker 3: comes to his recruiting.
Speaker 1: Profile and you also recently wrote a piece before we
Speaker 1: get into some win totals About Christian, wilkins who of
Speaker 1: course is the anchor Of clemson's defensive, line made a
Speaker 1: big decision to come back and leads an, interesting if
Speaker 1: not unusual life off the field for The. Tigers what
Speaker 1: was it THAT i think separated where you saw that
Speaker 1: separated him in terms of who he's, become perhaps from
Speaker 1: other well regarded junior senior defensive line, prospects anchor as, leaders.
Speaker 2: Etc SO i feel LIKE i usually have a pretty good.
Speaker 3: Thermometer i'm not a, scout but WHEN i see a
Speaker 3: guy Like, okay that guy's going to translate to THE.
Speaker 2: Nfl maybe not, quarterbacks but a guy Like Christian, WILKINS
Speaker 2: i would assume would be, want you, know there'd be some,
Speaker 2: interest like tons of interest from THE. Nfl and WHEN
Speaker 2: i found out that they're thinking second round, PICK i
Speaker 2: know that Shocked.
Speaker 3: DAVOL i know that shocked. Him it certainly shocked. Me
Speaker 3: AND i mean we watched these. Games he's, everywhere he's catching,
Speaker 3: passes he's on, BLOCKS i, mean he does everything like.
Speaker 2: This is like the prototype of a defensive line you
Speaker 2: can move.
Speaker 3: Around you find out that's not the, case and clearly
Speaker 3: he was not thrilled with.
Speaker 2: That so he comes back to. School he's already.
Speaker 3: GRADUATED i mean that was kind of what made this
Speaker 3: sort of, formality and he walked with the seniors on senior.
Speaker 3: Day you, know this was, done and then all of a, sudden,
Speaker 3: boom he's. Back he's trying to get his master's you
Speaker 3: know in. Here but When dabo just kind of slipped
Speaker 3: after practice and said, yeah he's substitute, teaching right, AWAY i.
Speaker 3: KNEW i was, like, okay let's do. This let's go down.
Speaker 3: There you, know my wife's a. Teacher i've always had
Speaker 3: a lot of love and respect for that, profession specifically with.
Speaker 2: Kids and the fun.
Speaker 3: Part in talking To christian about, this and the wope,
Speaker 3: originally by the, way was THAT i was going to
Speaker 3: sit in on one of his. CLASSROOMS i, WAS I,
Speaker 3: will really wanted that to worked. Out it, Didn't but
Speaker 3: was talking with him about his passion with young, people
Speaker 3: AND i, mean, honestly in terms of my respect for,
Speaker 3: him when he shared a story about working with like a,
Speaker 3: nonverbal you know child with autism for a day and
Speaker 3: the impact it's had on.
Speaker 2: Him you, know get my, wife specialized, teacher like that
Speaker 2: hit me. Hard that's as hard As i've.
Speaker 3: Been hit in an interview during a, while and talking
Speaker 3: about you know it with such, Admiration SO i think
Speaker 3: you get different perspectives of.
Speaker 2: Him, look he had that play Against Ohio state where
Speaker 2: he got a little, handsy you. Know you, know he's
Speaker 2: a guy that's been very. Volatile he did the.
Speaker 3: Splits, like there's all these different perceptions of, him but
Speaker 3: when you actually sit down and speak to, him he's all,
Speaker 3: Academic he does all these. THINGS i just find him
Speaker 3: as a truly insightful. Guy and the fact that he's
Speaker 3: taking his time now and using it to just make
Speaker 3: a few extra bucks and work with, kids like that's just.
Speaker 3: Cool you, Know like you just don't hear a lot of,
Speaker 3: that you, know especially when a guy like that should
Speaker 3: probably be playing in THE.
Speaker 1: Nfl one of the. Things and we've done this in the,
Speaker 1: past but, now obviously it takes on a new meaning
Speaker 1: with a recent court. Decision is Gambling. Now, obviously as
Speaker 1: people who cover the, sport we are keenly aware of
Speaker 1: lines and perceptions and odds and preseason. Stuff but when
Speaker 1: you saw the news and know that it's obviously going
Speaker 1: to be dependent on the state for sports, gambling and
Speaker 1: THE ncaa has you, know sort of been a little
Speaker 1: bit weird about, things But i'm not sure they have
Speaker 1: that much of a voice about. It do you get
Speaker 1: the sense just in you, know whatever it is social
Speaker 1: media talking to people that just fans are going to
Speaker 1: gamble more if their state allows for things to pass
Speaker 1: through in that, state or is there an idea in
Speaker 1: your head that, like the people who liked wagering before
Speaker 1: will keep wagering and the people who didn't probably won't
Speaker 1: see a big.
Speaker 3: Uptick i'm somewhere in the, middle AND i do think
Speaker 3: that maybe this decision is way has overblown Because team out.
Speaker 3: Forever that doesn't mean it's not a hugely, important impactful
Speaker 3: decision that's probably ultimately going to trickle down into the
Speaker 3: way we consume games live and the way that the
Speaker 3: way we're expected to watch, games and our interest in.
Speaker 3: IT i like, baseball but if you allow me to
Speaker 3: sit in the baseball stadium and do live betting on
Speaker 3: every at that with kind of micro, Wagers i'm going
Speaker 3: to go to more baseball.
Speaker 2: GAMES i, will you, know, Like so that's just the
Speaker 2: reality in terms of you, know, betting you know. BEHAVIOR
Speaker 2: i think the really interesting thing about this, is you,
Speaker 2: know with a lot of betting, now whether you're betting
Speaker 2: with a bookie or, whoever your credit is. Good you
Speaker 2: don't have to hurt money up.
Speaker 3: Front you can you can you can wait to pay
Speaker 3: your guy if you have. To that's not the case with,
Speaker 3: everybody but this is this is definitely going to be
Speaker 3: a huge win for the casual better for the guy
Speaker 3: like me who on A saturdays will go to the horse.
Speaker 3: Track we'll go To arlington, here you, know At Arleko,
Speaker 3: heights we'll sit, down have a, beer throw some bucks.
Speaker 3: AROUND i think you'll start to get that kind of
Speaker 3: behavior from the casual.
Speaker 2: Guys SO i do think you'll increase the number of
Speaker 2: people that are wagering in. Time but to your, point
Speaker 2: it's not that hard to do this right.
Speaker 3: Now it may not be legal in some, regard but
Speaker 3: if you want to, gamble you're probably. Gambling you'll make
Speaker 3: it easier for people and you'll, AGAIN i think that
Speaker 3: where it gets interesting is if you put it in
Speaker 3: sort of the unique places the venues themselves and integrate
Speaker 3: it to the games, themselves WHICH i think we'll get.
Speaker 3: To but other than, that, NO i think it'll have
Speaker 3: impact with an enormous, story BUT i also don't necessarily
Speaker 3: think it's going to change the way things are being
Speaker 3: done right now a great.
Speaker 1: Deal so let's dive. In we have a number of
Speaker 1: questions about sort of win total over. UNDERS i don't
Speaker 1: know if you have them in front of, you BUT
Speaker 1: i will provide the information BECAUSE i have it in
Speaker 1: front of. Me. Memorize we have a number of. Questions
Speaker 1: we got a number of questions about The big ten
Speaker 1: and specific teams in The big. Ten somebody wanted to
Speaker 1: know About Penn. State there over under it is nine
Speaker 1: and a half after a year THAT i, mean there's
Speaker 1: a good amount of attrition in state college With jillmorehead
Speaker 1: moving To Mississippi, state and the defense is going certainly
Speaker 1: going to look, different but they've recruited quite. Well do
Speaker 1: you have a sense for that nine and a half
Speaker 1: number For Penn? State where's your confidence level in them
Speaker 1: once again looking like a top, seventeam.
Speaker 2: You, know and it's also interesting with wind.
Speaker 3: TALLS i Think Penn states nine and a half is
Speaker 3: pretty much like even money, Too so like the big
Speaker 3: thing with these, is you, know the juice will sometimes
Speaker 3: get depending on where you're, looking like you, know nine
Speaker 3: and a half plus two thirty for the, under you
Speaker 3: know things like, That AND i know With alabama and.
Speaker 2: Stuff they've had that. Historically this team is a really
Speaker 2: tough team for me to figure out this.
Speaker 3: Year and, HONESTLY i think there's no reason for me
Speaker 3: to believe that That Terseik sorely shouldn't just continue to
Speaker 3: do what he's been. Doing granted you lose like the
Speaker 3: old some video games cheat code Who and it wasn't
Speaker 3: just you, KNOW i was thinking about this the other
Speaker 3: day and BECAUSE i just think About Sequon barkley randomly
Speaker 3: during the, week AND i feel, like as you. Should,
Speaker 3: yeah it wasn't just, offense but like how many games
Speaker 3: did he set the tone, in like with kick returns
Speaker 3: and like those third down plays where he was doing
Speaker 3: something absurd to extend.
Speaker 2: Drive like there is such these these. Moments he was
Speaker 2: like a moment's.
Speaker 3: Guy AND i worry when you lose a moment's, guy
Speaker 3: you're you're gonna have. Problems but offense should still be
Speaker 3: Good McSorley could be. Awesome, ye defense should still be pretty.
Speaker 3: Good out of conference scheduling.
Speaker 2: Is, terrible which is what you look. AT i kind
Speaker 2: of lean.
Speaker 3: OVER i feel like this number is right where it should.
Speaker 3: Be you, know you house stayed at, home like you're,
Speaker 3: good get you, play have to go To, michigan but
Speaker 3: the rest of these conference, games You're you're comfortable at
Speaker 3: your place and you play tough. There SO i do
Speaker 3: kind of like the.
Speaker 1: Over, okay fair? Enough are there Other Big ten? Teams?
Speaker 1: SPECIFICALLY i look At wisconsin AND i have a nomber
Speaker 1: of questions because their defense loses a number of key.
Speaker 1: Guys this Is Jim leonard's second, year but, he you,
Speaker 1: know had a really nice INHERITANCE i would say in
Speaker 1: his first year as defensive. Coordinator they obviously have a
Speaker 1: really good backfield In hornibrook And Jonathan, taylor but the
Speaker 1: schedule gets harder and we're a year. Removed do you
Speaker 1: believe in the infrastructure Of wisconsin or does this feel
Speaker 1: like an under year for?
Speaker 3: You this feels like the team and Maybe i'm guilty of.
Speaker 3: It that's getting like an unusual amount of buzz at
Speaker 3: this time of the, Year like this is his summer.
Speaker 3: Team washington And wisconsin to me are like those two,
Speaker 3: teams AND i really LIKE i kind of like both of,
Speaker 3: them to be, HONEST i really Like. Washington out of
Speaker 3: conference scheduling. Stinks IF I it's, Stinks so that's. Fine you,
Speaker 3: Know i'm a big ten, guys and go for. It
Speaker 3: get those wins when you. CAN i do think that
Speaker 3: the road games are pretty. INTRIGUING i, Mean iowa is always,
Speaker 3: Tricky michigan's always. Tricky kind of state for due late
Speaker 3: in the year could be. Weird they're going to run
Speaker 3: the ball like. Crazy they should be really. Good But
Speaker 3: i'm kind of with, you there's like an assumption that
Speaker 3: they're going to be this is going to be the
Speaker 3: best offense.
Speaker 2: That they've they've like had in quite some, time and
Speaker 2: it and it might. BE i, Mean Jonathan taylor is
Speaker 2: incredible and probably could push it to two thousand yards
Speaker 2: this year if you're. HEALTHY i still worry about quarterback,
Speaker 2: Though like when that's not that's not working for you
Speaker 2: at some point with some of these teams in some
Speaker 2: of these, places At, michigan even At northwestern that Pens.
Speaker 2: State the back half of the schedule is just kind
Speaker 2: of weird for, Me like there's there's a lot of
Speaker 2: games that they should basically these games they should, win
Speaker 2: but there's games that they certainly could. Lose So I'm
Speaker 2: i'm a.
Speaker 3: Believer it would not shock me if they got back
Speaker 3: to where they, are and yet because of the way
Speaker 3: they're set, up it would Be would it be a
Speaker 3: surprise to see them duplicate the the, incredible basically almost
Speaker 3: blemishless success of last year and the, Answers, YES.
Speaker 1: A team THAT i was curious about in The Big
Speaker 1: ten just because they seem like the quietest successful, team
Speaker 1: if not in The big ten the country Is. Northwestern
Speaker 1: they just seem to keep winning, eight, nine ten games a.
Speaker 1: Season last, YEAR i think things broke really. Nicely they
Speaker 1: have two overtime Wins Michigan state And. Nebraska this, year
Speaker 1: the schedule looks, trickier and you, know the addition Of
Speaker 1: Notre dame later. On the over under is seven and
Speaker 1: a half wins For. Northwestern and Maybe i'm just a
Speaker 1: Late may Early june, pessimist but this it does feel
Speaker 1: like a seven and, five six and six year For.
Speaker 1: Northwestern as things get trickier and they open At, purdue
Speaker 1: on A thursday.
Speaker 2: Night, Yeah northwestern is Super iowa now where, like, yes
Speaker 2: it can be five and, seven it could be ten
Speaker 2: wins and you probably won't know the difference between them,
Speaker 2: somehow like it'll just all feel the.
Speaker 3: Same and it's incredible the job they've. Done i'm hoping
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 2: Over there actually here in the next few weeks and
Speaker 2: the next month to kind of check it. OUT a
Speaker 2: new facility looks. Incredible it looks like you're on a
Speaker 2: like a tropical island looking at The Lake. MICHIGAN i
Speaker 2: think the question here is the quarterback helse too Like Clayton.
Speaker 2: THORSON i mean that was the one of the, freakiest
Speaker 2: oddest injuries in That bowl. Game you know where he's
Speaker 2: catching the. PASS i mean. That but he's really. GOOD
Speaker 2: i mean the SENSE i get from talking to people
Speaker 2: and you, know people who are connected with THE, nfl
Speaker 2: is they really like this. Kid like it's not just
Speaker 2: kind of the manufactured little engine that could At northwestern.
Speaker 2: Talk it's if this kid's healthy and right in a
Speaker 2: year where there's not great, quarterbacks he can be he
Speaker 2: can be. Excellent but in.
Speaker 3: Terms of like the, schedule a how fun is that
Speaker 3: opening night game Like purdue is like now college. Football
Speaker 3: twitter's team all of a sudden and like A thursday
Speaker 3: night game where we're starved Like. Northwestern For purdue and For,
Speaker 3: due it looks like it just a delicious chunk of
Speaker 3: meat to sink. Into SO i can't wait for That.
Speaker 3: Duke extremely, tricky extremely tricky after. That so like your
Speaker 3: first two, GAMES i know it doesn't sound like murderers
Speaker 3: over for Doing. Duke that is like you, go oh
Speaker 3: and too. THERE i mean that's the tricky part. Here
Speaker 3: and you're looking At, akron which you're gonna, win and Then,
Speaker 3: Michigan Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Nebraska SO i kind of like the under. HERE i
Speaker 2: think this schedule does not sit up. Well then he's
Speaker 2: throw in the back end Of notre game At Iowa.
Speaker 2: Wisconsin like to, me this.
Speaker 3: Is very, QUIETLY i think one of the more challenging,
Speaker 3: schedules certainly in The Big.
Speaker 1: TEN a team you mentioned earlier for liking as a
Speaker 1: summer team and maybe a fall, team Washingtam washington has
Speaker 1: an over under right now of ten, wins which feels about.
Speaker 1: Right they have that formula coming back of really good,
Speaker 1: coach really good, quarterback very promising. Defense you, know lose
Speaker 1: a couple key, pieces obviously notably in the middle Of
Speaker 1: Vita vea on that, defense but certainly enough to feel
Speaker 1: very good about the schedule seems. FINE i think they
Speaker 1: go To oregon a week after going TO, ucla which is.
Speaker 1: Tricky they have a short week Before Washington, state BUT
Speaker 1: i think that is After Oregon. State so not as
Speaker 1: much concerned about a really tough back to back LIKE
Speaker 1: usc had last year in going To Washington state on
Speaker 1: A friday. Night But washington at ten, wins it feels very,
Speaker 1: pushy if not maybe like there you can talk me Into.
Speaker 1: Washington aside from that really difficult opening game In atlanta Against,
Speaker 1: auburn like they just it feels like an eleven and one, team.
Speaker 2: You, know it, does like it numbers right where it should.
Speaker 3: Be by the, Way i'm not into the, narrative but,
Speaker 3: like if they lose that game To, AUBURN i, mean
Speaker 3: we've spent the better part of two and a half
Speaker 3: years talking about how bad The.
Speaker 2: Pact twelve is as a.
Speaker 3: Whole that's a that's like a big narrative, game right
Speaker 3: if like they.
Speaker 2: Lose because this is a year you'll have an.
Speaker 3: Off season of height AND i kind of believe, AGAIN
Speaker 3: i believe in the HEIGHTST i think this team's going
Speaker 3: to be pretty good and if you lose that, game
Speaker 3: it's going to be. Crushing but this is kind of
Speaker 3: What washington is lat, too, right like criticized them for
Speaker 3: that wolful out of, companies and when they made the, playoffs.
Speaker 2: It's been the kind of the focus of the pack.
Speaker 3: Twelve LIKE i don't want to make this game sound
Speaker 3: bigger than it. Is it's an awesome, game by the, way.
Speaker 3: TOO i mean that's just a really fun game and
Speaker 3: quarterback play. EVERYTHING i really like this team that left
Speaker 3: tackle excuse, me quarterback running back is very more underrated
Speaker 3: player in the country Than Miles, gaskin like a truly
Speaker 3: like twelve hundred yards thirteen hundred, yards thirteen hundred, yards
Speaker 3: has scored like a like forty touchdowns more than, That,
Speaker 3: like the guy's been really really. Good i'm the Part
Speaker 3: i'm kind of trying to figure out With washington Is
Speaker 3: Browning like last year was so that like this, kid you,
Speaker 3: know looked like he was going to be a, star
Speaker 3: like a, star AND i still think he kind of.
Speaker 3: Is he's been very productive still and yet last year
Speaker 3: he was just. Not so if he can be the
Speaker 3: kind of player we think he is or we've seen
Speaker 3: seen him, be they're going to be. AWESOME i think
Speaker 3: they'll they'll be able to get through that. Schedule but
Speaker 3: no that that that you, know that slate is not
Speaker 3: without its. Potential you, Know Land, Mines oregon could be
Speaker 3: a really really fun. Game you, Know, Stanford Washington. State
Speaker 3: the end could get, weird as it usually, does so
Speaker 3: plenty of, Spots but in this, Instance i'm kind of
Speaker 3: riding along with the.
Speaker 2: BUZZ i get why people are excited About.
Speaker 1: Washington there seems to be more and more attention paid
Speaker 1: To Tom herman And, texas even though recent results For
Speaker 1: texas certainly not. There they're over under his seven wins
Speaker 1: right now with not a ton of, confidence it looks.
Speaker 1: Like but people are curious as to Why texas is
Speaker 1: looked at as as having budding potential for eight to
Speaker 1: nine even more. Wins do you think that's rooted more
Speaker 1: In texas or more in the changes within The big
Speaker 1: twelve at quarterback and the teams that looked very good
Speaker 1: last Year, Oklahoma Oklahoma, STATE tcu all have new. Quarterbacks
Speaker 1: you know some of whom have, lost you, know, Coaches
Speaker 1: Iowa state is certainly a team who made noise last.
Speaker 1: Year they are overhauling on defense so that they've returned
Speaker 1: their Quarterback West virginia with a toss, up is it
Speaker 1: more rooted in a newer look big twelve or young.
Speaker 1: POTENTIAL i think For, TEXAS i.
Speaker 2: Think it's a.
Speaker 3: Combination it's it's a really good point because you, know
Speaker 3: their primary Competition, Oklahoma, well their starting quarterback could be
Speaker 3: drafted by a baseball team here in the next few
Speaker 3: weeks and not play or, not so there's so much
Speaker 3: kind of up in the, air AND i, think you,
Speaker 3: know With, texas to, me this is one of the
Speaker 3: most difficult teams to try to understand like they're what
Speaker 3: they're going to, be because there were times last year
Speaker 3: where it looks like they solved their quarterback. Problem they are,
Speaker 3: explosive big, plays and then defensively the area you think
Speaker 3: they'd be solved and they had some pretty good players
Speaker 3: and they still. Do they would just be carved. Up
Speaker 3: so it was just like the rhythm of that team
Speaker 3: was all out of sorts last. Year And i'm not
Speaker 3: exactly sure what it is to push it over At.
Speaker 3: Eds in, truth it's probably one of those quarterbacks, whatever
Speaker 3: just taking this by the hornelt, sudden you, know in
Speaker 3: those first four, games you, know scoring sixteen, touchdowns getting
Speaker 3: sort of your The colt McCoy feel back to it
Speaker 3: is the quarterback play as a. Whole there's been some
Speaker 3: glimpses with these. Guys it's just been too inconsistent for
Speaker 3: it to be, tangible AND i think that really has
Speaker 3: impacted the entire.
Speaker 2: Team you, know it's just they can't there's just something.
Speaker 3: Missing like the secret sauce, there which was What horman
Speaker 3: was so good at At, houston like was so good
Speaker 3: At like there was just that extra.
Speaker 2: Thing beyond having good. Players they've got to find a
Speaker 2: way to recapture, that AND i think they. WILL i,
Speaker 2: mean they've recruited too too well not for it to not.
Speaker 2: HAPPEN i just don't know if it's going to happen this.
Speaker 2: Year they got to solve their. Quarterback they've got developed young.
Speaker 2: Players it feels like we're a year ahead of. Time
Speaker 2: and that schedule, too is kind of kind of. Funky
Speaker 2: it's just you, know Usc maryland's not THAT i, mean
Speaker 2: that's a game those are games you could lose.
Speaker 3: Games, yeah it's it's just everything on that, schedule you,
Speaker 3: know Minus. Kansas so every game on that schedule gives
Speaker 3: you a little bit of like like Even Iowa, state you,
Speaker 3: Know Texas. Tech there's every game here just says If
Speaker 3: texas isn't, right they might lose.
Speaker 1: That somebody asked about the over under Of South carolina
Speaker 1: and theirs IS i believe at, seven if not seven
Speaker 1: and a. HALF i will verify. That right, Now South
Speaker 1: carolina is at seven. Games AND i found this one
Speaker 1: to be pretty. Fascinating when you look At South carolina's
Speaker 1: schedule and what they, return there's appears to be too.
Speaker 1: Surefire just write it. Off georgia And clemson Knock South
Speaker 1: carolina down to ten. Wins, correct, Correct but aside from,
Speaker 1: that there's a stretch between Late september and essentially the
Speaker 1: middle Of november that is At, Kentucky, Missouri TEXAS a
Speaker 1: and M, tennessee At, ole miss At florida where you
Speaker 1: have you, know if you're, lying if you're saying you
Speaker 1: have any concept for any of those. Games South carolina
Speaker 1: feels like they can. Win just the fact that there
Speaker 1: is less, attrition more consistency that they should be able
Speaker 1: to win three out of five of those, Games like
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel crazy to say, that which would put
Speaker 1: them at eight. Wins what is your sort of yah?
Speaker 1: Take but, like what is your feel On South carolina
Speaker 1: at this? Point just for continuing to?
Speaker 2: EXIST i feel odd saying, This LIKE i feel like
Speaker 2: a well Muss champ team may be one of the
Speaker 2: most watchable teams in college football this.
Speaker 3: Year like in, truth LIKE i love love their. Players
Speaker 3: they have awesome wide. Receivers they've got a great. Quarterback
Speaker 3: like this offense is so good THAT i don't think
Speaker 3: he can butcher it AND i watch him butcher. It
Speaker 3: SO i think in terms of they are going to
Speaker 3: BE i think they could be really.
Speaker 2: GOOD i mean they won nine games last, year which
Speaker 2: is which is again another season Like Group western where
Speaker 2: you just like look at and, say holy, crap that.
Speaker 2: Happened there's no reason for them not to be. Good
Speaker 2: Like i'm not going to do the whole dark HORSE
Speaker 2: sec dark horse playoff, thing BUT i.
Speaker 3: Know that If i'm playing, them If I'm, georgia this
Speaker 3: game concerns Me week, two like this this really worries,
Speaker 3: Me like this is not necessarily the team you want
Speaker 3: to play, Here you no exactly like this is this.
Speaker 2: Team could be a. Problem you get guys back from,
Speaker 2: injuries WHICH i think is, Huge AND i mean there's
Speaker 2: been moments With bentley where it looks like he's going
Speaker 2: to be just, Phenomenal like it really could be a
Speaker 2: guy that takes that next. Step so he is. Odd
Speaker 2: we have to kind of acclimate ourselves to saying the
Speaker 2: most chance got the, goods BUT i think he. Does and,
Speaker 2: again it wouldn't surprise me and all to see them
Speaker 2: get nine.
Speaker 1: Wins again Fair and let's let's go from angry will
Speaker 1: mushamp to happiness because it is, Today today's the thirty
Speaker 1: first Of, may which means essentially tomorrow is when people
Speaker 1: start really getting into that summer. Mood and so we
Speaker 1: asked for summer. Questions AND i don't know, Why Maybe i'm,
Speaker 1: wrong but it seems to me that people who spend
Speaker 1: a majority of the year are a good chunk of
Speaker 1: the year in the bitter cold are the most excited
Speaker 1: people for. Summer and since you live in The chicago,
Speaker 1: area AM i correct in assuming?
Speaker 2: This, oh there is no doubt we had a we
Speaker 2: had a miserable.
Speaker 3: Spring, yep we had a miserable spring and it was
Speaker 3: a miserable ish. Winter and we've kind of just gone
Speaker 3: into ninety degrees here In, chicago and there is no,
Speaker 3: Doubt like you go around my, neighborhood it is shirtless
Speaker 3: bike riding with like middle aged men and.
Speaker 2: LAWNMOWING i mean.
Speaker 3: Me it's like the most satisfying satisfying thing for me
Speaker 3: is lawn.
Speaker 2: Mowing sure that that is my that is my.
Speaker 3: Passion like WHEN i am not watching college, FOOTBALL i
Speaker 3: like mowing the.
Speaker 2: Lawns so that is like peak. Dad but also REALLY i.
Speaker 3: Think summarizes what you're saying is that we are starved
Speaker 3: for sun and we actually have some, now thank, goodness
Speaker 3: and it's probably going to be like we went FROM
Speaker 3: i feel like zero degrees to like ninety degrees in
Speaker 3: a matter of like three and a half, weeks which
Speaker 3: is not a typical, here but it even makes, us you,
Speaker 3: know to dive in that much more.
Speaker 1: Drastic what is So i'm glad you we have this
Speaker 1: question from a longtime Listener. Dan he, says what activities
Speaker 1: are being shirtless? Acceptable what activities you know include acceptability for?
Speaker 1: Shirtlessness you mentioned that the peak dad life of? Lawnmowing
Speaker 1: do you, biking, running dog? Walking getting the? MAIL i
Speaker 1: guess it sort of differs neighborhoods to neighborhood and region to.
Speaker 1: Region do you find most acceptable if any you KNOW i.
Speaker 2: AM i am not typically shirtless dad.
Speaker 3: Guy, Okay, HOWEVER i know HOW i judge, people AND
Speaker 3: i will be shirtless dad getting the mail in.
Speaker 2: Trash that's My that's that's, throwing, right, like that's that's the.
Speaker 3: THROWING i know that the one move that is concerning
Speaker 3: to me is shirtless. Driving i'm not a big fan
Speaker 3: of the shirtless, drivers you, know like and you get
Speaker 3: a lot of that like, that that to me is
Speaker 3: just kind of, gross like you just and it's NOT
Speaker 3: i THINK i just think about your poor, car like
Speaker 3: put a shirt, on like you're. Driving other than, that,
Speaker 3: however AND i also WHEN i see shirtless bikers as
Speaker 3: someone who's taken a spill every now and, THEN i,
Speaker 3: think oh, GOD i think about what you, know and
Speaker 3: this is even more dad thinking about you.
Speaker 2: Falling it's like.
Speaker 3: That you're wearing a helmet but no, shirt, Sir like
Speaker 3: that seems ill advised if you pummel but other than.
Speaker 2: THAT i yea you. Are so WHILE i may not.
Speaker 3: Partake, Always i'd like to have a shirt on WHEN
Speaker 3: i mow because of you, know grass and other. WEIRDNESS
Speaker 3: i think the problem here Is i'm, LIKE i just
Speaker 3: like don't like bugs and that kind of. Stuff, Right
Speaker 3: So i'm generally shirt. Guy but the only instance THAT
Speaker 3: i will judge you if you are a non shirt
Speaker 3: guy is if you're driving an.
Speaker 2: Automobile, Yeah i'm with.
Speaker 1: That and this QUESTION i think goes with the idea
Speaker 1: of riding a bike shirt, list which is. Madness this
Speaker 1: comes f ust From, robbie AND i cannot believe this
Speaker 1: is a. Question and this is not to Shame robbie
Speaker 1: because he sort of indicates that he's a. Partaker he,
Speaker 1: says pool etiquette. Question this is assuming it is at
Speaker 1: a public or neighborhood, pool eating particularly messy foods like, ribs,
Speaker 1: wings or, burritos and using your stomach and our legs
Speaker 1: as a napkin and then jumping into the pool to clean.
Speaker 1: Off is this? Acceptable, like good god? Man like first, aig.
Speaker 2: It's it's a, Thig LIKE I i did not know
Speaker 2: we were human, Napkins LIKE i didn't even know this
Speaker 2: was something was if it is a, thing Like i'm
Speaker 2: floored right?
Speaker 1: Now theres around there.
Speaker 3: Has to be something like where are you eating in
Speaker 3: the middle of like a deserted. ISLAND i, mean, look
Speaker 3: look all, right science looks. Science the chlorian is.
Speaker 2: Gonna kill all of. It it doesn't really, matter DO
Speaker 2: i truly? Care not? Really but AM i just.
Speaker 3: Taken aback by the whole? Thing and you're you're just
Speaker 3: your etiquette eating? Food, yes they make napkins for. This
Speaker 3: you don't have to use your your bear. CHAIN i
Speaker 3: actually now.
Speaker 2: Though When i'm at the, pool this is Something i'm
Speaker 2: going to look. For is the rib wiper? Guy? Also,
Speaker 2: wait eating ribs at the? Pool can we talk about that? Too?
Speaker 2: Like is? That? Like what is like When i'm at a.
Speaker 2: Pool i'm trying to think like the messiest Thing i'll.
Speaker 2: Eat i'm, like you'll eat a, wrap or you'll eat like.
Speaker 3: My kid's chicken, fingers, Right, Like i'm not eating like
Speaker 3: buffalo wings at the pool or. RIBS i think that's
Speaker 3: also a problem.
Speaker 1: Here who wants to put a burrito in before jumping
Speaker 1: in a?
Speaker 2: Pool what pool is?
Speaker 3: This by the, Way, also where are we serving? Burritos at,
Speaker 3: pools like unless you're sneaking in the Old. Chipotle so
Speaker 3: there's a lot of concerning things about. This to be quite,
Speaker 3: HONEST i don't necessarily have a huge problem with you
Speaker 3: wiping it on yourself as long as it's, is you,
Speaker 3: know have a. Blast but maybe you should reevaluate food
Speaker 3: choices first and then you won't have to worry about
Speaker 3: wiping it on.
Speaker 1: Yourself does this answer change if it's the ocean or A.
Speaker 2: I actually. WAS i was actually thinking that when you
Speaker 2: were asking to do. It like the first THING i
Speaker 2: came to my mind is just like a forty five
Speaker 2: year old shirtless man covered in barbecue sauce just walking
Speaker 2: into the ocean with his arms rings, right like just
Speaker 2: free as a.
Speaker 3: Bird it doesn't change like the fact that you're still
Speaker 3: eating messy food on a, beach which is like the
Speaker 3: most horrifying thing. Imaginable ribs on a. Beach it's like
Speaker 3: that's got to send like chills through your. Spine so
Speaker 3: it does change the. Conversation it doesn't change the WAY
Speaker 3: i would evaluate what food you're eating in a certain.
Speaker 2: ENVIRONMENT i will.
Speaker 1: Say this though about ribs as somebody WHO i don't make.
Speaker 1: RIBS i live In New york and SO i don't
Speaker 1: really have access to. Smokers but there is something that
Speaker 1: becomes very. BEACHABLE i don't, know but if it's poolable
Speaker 1: but beachable about leftover cold ribs on a hot day
Speaker 1: that EATING i like a good, cold whether it's a
Speaker 1: spare rib or baby back, rib, Whatever all of the
Speaker 1: sudden it BECOMES i don't know why the temperature affects,
Speaker 1: it but a leftover cold, rib like leftover cold fried,
Speaker 1: chicken it suddenly feels like it. Works AM i? Crazy, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no you're.
Speaker 2: Not my fear of all of this isn't the leftover.
Speaker 2: Component it's like the. Sand and this is again someone
Speaker 2: with two. KIDS i have two kids under the age of,
Speaker 2: three and we just were planning our vacation now To.
Speaker 2: Florida we did it last, year AND i remember with
Speaker 2: the sand Like i'm haunted by. THIS i had sand all,
Speaker 2: Over LIKE i got home like two days.
Speaker 3: LATER i feel Like i'm still pulling sand out of
Speaker 3: my ear or something from these children in. Sand SO
Speaker 3: i worry about, That Like i'm not SAYING i eat.
Speaker 3: SAND i want to make SURE i present this. Accordingly
Speaker 3: like but when you get sand in your mouth. Accidentally
Speaker 3: that's a that's a jarring, feeling especially when you're trying
Speaker 3: to eat something delicious so that your rib desires post first.
Speaker 3: Consumption i'm all for it's more Of i've always had
Speaker 3: a very hard time with the. Beach Like I'm you've
Speaker 3: got to make sure you're doing it right, there otherwise
Speaker 3: your food is going to be just completely contaminated with.
Speaker 1: Sand so what will you bring to the, beach like
Speaker 1: if you had to recommend to, somebody BECAUSE i will
Speaker 1: try to eat lighter or bring lighter, food maybe freeze
Speaker 1: some fruit something like, that some trail, mix whatever it,
Speaker 1: is so you just sort of like pop and. Go
Speaker 1: LIKE i like beach. ACTIVITY i don't like. LOUNGING i,
Speaker 1: like you, know boogie boarding or you, know just, swimming, bodysurfing,
Speaker 1: playing throwing a football, around. Whatever what is your go
Speaker 1: to because now that you have two little, kids, well,
Speaker 1: yes transport for eating at the.
Speaker 2: BEACH i feel like sandwiches are your safest bad everybody's
Speaker 2: hulling it at all. Times you ziplock bag.
Speaker 3: Them you, know it's not like, gourmet but you can
Speaker 3: take care of business and get enough. Food SO i
Speaker 3: feel like if you're eating out of the, beach it's
Speaker 3: not like a. Throwaway you're just basically trying to get
Speaker 3: by or and you don't want to eat like a
Speaker 3: big meal before. That So i'm not going to recommend.
Speaker 3: That LIKE i am totally on the little kid diet,
Speaker 3: Now so IF i was packing this.
Speaker 2: Lunch not even worried about, me But i'm worried about my.
Speaker 2: Kids it would be, chatter, cheese gold could hour and
Speaker 2: like a peanut yellow and it's just a penum include
Speaker 2: fruit in, there but we're just going to pass on
Speaker 2: extra at the. Beach, so like all these things are
Speaker 2: very easily consumed and. Handheld where you'd have to put
Speaker 2: something down is WHEN i start to lose it a little.
Speaker 2: Bit now you can bring a table like you're seeing
Speaker 2: people do it like they've got it actually amazes. Me
Speaker 2: AND i don't know if you've ever been have you
Speaker 2: been to a raveny around?
Speaker 1: Here which is the strangest place to me because you
Speaker 1: go to concerts and you can't see the person.
Speaker 2: Performing now you're in an open. Field, however revenue which
Speaker 2: to give people a full, backdrop it's just this, contract
Speaker 2: uh you know this this venue that gets i'd say
Speaker 2: good to average musicians in the. Summer, sure and, uh
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: Huge it's this open, field but it's in a it's
Speaker 3: a pretty nice area of of like the, suburbs and
Speaker 3: so people with money come and there they're setups for
Speaker 3: these these food, spreads like it's basically sitting on. Grass
Speaker 3: always amaze, Me like you'll get someone with like a
Speaker 3: salami plate that's on like a you, know like this
Speaker 3: enormous portable. Table it's, like it's just incredible the way
Speaker 3: these people do. Food that is HOW i need to
Speaker 3: translate that mentality to the, beach AND i feel like
Speaker 3: my experience would be a lot.
Speaker 1: Better oh, easily. Easily, well we'll stick With midwest summering
Speaker 1: because this is a good question THAT i have an
Speaker 1: okay answer for because you Mentioned florida as a summer.
Speaker 1: Destination somebody asked for a state that is not widely
Speaker 1: concer to be a summer, destination but you could have
Speaker 1: a great summer time in this.
Speaker 2: State, WELL i am An east, coast So i've got
Speaker 2: a few different answers.
Speaker 1: Here, yeah i.
Speaker 2: Am i'll give you my. First my, Desire like this
Speaker 2: is What i'm trying to plan IS i really really
Speaker 2: want to go to Like. WYOMING i really want to
Speaker 2: venture out to get out. THERE i always did a
Speaker 2: story With Josh allen And.
Speaker 3: I've really enjoyed, it And i've heard if you find
Speaker 3: the right spot In wyoming And montana that you can.
Speaker 2: Really have a great.
Speaker 3: Time and so it's kind of just an off the
Speaker 3: beaten path like venture out.
Speaker 2: There the other thing for me, personally.
Speaker 3: It's like if I'm i'd like to, disconnect you, know
Speaker 3: and it'd be great to just go somewhere where you
Speaker 3: can just kind of be out, there not necessarily around,
Speaker 3: people like disconnect from. EVERYTHING i don't THINK i can
Speaker 3: get the wife and two children to buy into this,
Speaker 3: yet so it's on. Hold i'll give you a few
Speaker 3: others if it wasn't so god not awfully. HOT i
Speaker 3: am really falling in love with The Carolina South carolina
Speaker 3: to me is a really really great love going To
Speaker 3: clemson you mentioned In Christian.
Speaker 2: WILKINS i was thinking.
Speaker 3: About, That, drew you, know you, Know, charleston things like
Speaker 3: that beautiful. Area the problem is ultimately what you're going
Speaker 3: to run.
Speaker 2: In, yea it.
Speaker 3: Is and then my last one would, be you, KNOW
Speaker 3: i was born In New, jersey kind of grew up.
Speaker 3: There i've always been fond of kind of the Upper
Speaker 3: if you drive Through, maine you drive through Upstate New.
Speaker 2: YORK i mean there's some there's some goodness to be had.
Speaker 2: There spent a. Week if you're a, gambler one of
Speaker 2: the things that you can do is check Out. Saratoga
Speaker 2: have you ever been? Dan have you ever gone?
Speaker 1: To it is.
Speaker 3: Fun it it rains like hell and you won't know.
Speaker 3: It AND i remember hearing that for the first. Time
Speaker 3: but if you want to go in, somewhere bring a,
Speaker 3: cooler can bring the, fan bet on some.
Speaker 2: Ponies it's a that's a really kind of neat set up.
Speaker 2: THERE i got to get back there because it's been a.
Speaker 1: While what is what is the best for a a
Speaker 1: lake and enjoyable. Trip what is the Best midwestern lake states?
Speaker 1: BETWEEN i guess the three biggies would Be, Minnesota, Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: Michigan, Yes i'm biased here. TOO i got married In
Speaker 3: wisconsin On Lake. Geneva and have you ever been up?
Speaker 1: There haven't been To Lake?
Speaker 2: Geneva, OKAY i am so. Again i'll just answer this
Speaker 2: with completely biased city AND i have not done a
Speaker 2: lot Of minnesota And michigan Yet i've done Some.
Speaker 3: Michigan New buffalo is. Great we got a good casino
Speaker 3: up there. Too but The Lake geneva And wisconsin's little
Speaker 3: boating town probably about i'd say an.
Speaker 2: Hour From, milwaukee two hours From. Chicago if you like.
Speaker 2: Golf they've got great golf, courses but it's kind of
Speaker 2: very old. School really good, food really good fried chicken At.
Speaker 2: Popeyes they also have, good you, know great great fish.
Speaker 2: There it's it's.
Speaker 3: Quiet my only concern would be if you do one
Speaker 3: of like the mainstay. Weekends and this is the CASE
Speaker 3: i think with like any good small voating, town you're
Speaker 3: gonna just get hammered with.
Speaker 2: Tourists it's becoming less and less of like, this you,
Speaker 2: know off the. Destination it's more of like.
Speaker 3: Now if you're there For fourth Of july or Even Memorial.
Speaker 3: Day we drove through it last, weekend you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: Bombarded But i'm a huge fan Of Lake geneva and
Speaker 3: Just wisconsin as a. Whole wisconsin to me is a
Speaker 3: just an incredible. STATE i, mean it is just these
Speaker 3: people know how to. Live And i'm trying to be
Speaker 3: In wisconsin as much as.
Speaker 1: Possible my answer for, this aside from The Midwest, states
Speaker 1: WHICH i haven't really spent a ton of time doing
Speaker 1: lake stuff in The, midwest is if you go to
Speaker 1: The Pacific northwest over the, summer you're getting, ocean you're
Speaker 1: getting no, humidity you're getting good, food you're getting. LAKES
Speaker 1: i mean there are lakes In. Washington Like washington itself is.
Speaker 1: Beautiful it's right by The university Of. Washington you, know
Speaker 1: there are sounds and. Islands you can go well watching terrific.
Speaker 1: Food i'm unbelievable food and, Like so if you have
Speaker 1: the cash to spend some time Around seattle or The Pacific,
Speaker 1: northwest that would be my. Answer you lose the, humidity
Speaker 1: you get the, food you get the, water and you
Speaker 1: can fly there from.
Speaker 2: Anywhere SO i have not spent much. TIME i.
Speaker 3: DID i went to the opening last year In, oregon
Speaker 3: so you did the Whole nike. CAMPUS i was blown
Speaker 3: away By, hey just the just the look and. Feel
Speaker 3: it felt good but like and we got really good.
Speaker 3: WEATHER i mean we're talking like seventy five And sonny
Speaker 3: and it's like breathing.
Speaker 2: The air felt, Different like the air felt LIKE i
Speaker 2: would walk outside and it was LIKE i could finally breathe.
Speaker 2: Again it was. Gorgeous SO i AM i love. That
Speaker 2: i'm absolutely looking to get back there because that is
Speaker 2: not a part of the. Country i've spent enough.
Speaker 1: Time do you have a go to marinade or rub
Speaker 1: for grilling? Smoking that is your, standby even across different,
Speaker 1: meats different, cuts.
Speaker 2: Whatever, sure this one's this one's kind of moderately. Interesting
Speaker 2: So i've been messing around with, this you, know in the.
Speaker 2: Winter you're, right we don't have much to, do so
Speaker 2: we just try and cook things something that. Works some
Speaker 2: of them it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't BUT i got a little tired of frying. Wings
Speaker 3: try and make them a little. Healthier and this is
Speaker 3: not going to set up, healthier but it. Is But
Speaker 3: i've kind of found a good brown sugar marinad THAT i.
Speaker 2: Like so it's a brown sugar, base not healthy, Obviously chili.
Speaker 3: Powder onion powder you mix, in some, onions you mix
Speaker 3: In i'm trying to think what else for their salt,
Speaker 3: pepper it's it's somewhat, simple olive.
Speaker 2: Oil you mix it, up cut up your. WINGS i
Speaker 2: let it sit for about a day and a half
Speaker 2: in just like a one gallon bag and THEN i actually.
Speaker 3: Don't i'll bake them versus grill, them and the baking
Speaker 3: seems to really kind of crisp up the. Sides so
Speaker 3: if you're like trying to pretend to eat healthy and
Speaker 3: don't want to fry your, food like this gives off
Speaker 3: the impression because of the way the brown sugar and
Speaker 3: everything else kind of wraps around the wing of, being you,
Speaker 3: know a fried. Wing SO i love that absolutely like.
Speaker 3: That that's been my go. To the problem is and
Speaker 3: next time you are out, here you will have to
Speaker 3: we should really go here because this IS i will
Speaker 3: vouch for. This i'm not mister this is the best
Speaker 3: in the. World but there is a place probably five
Speaker 3: ten minutes from WHERE i, Live frank's for The memories
Speaker 3: as the wing place it's called it is the best
Speaker 3: defalo Thing i've ever, had is The it is the best,
Speaker 3: WING i think in the. World so What i'll do
Speaker 3: sometimes is make my wing which is it is, good
Speaker 3: it's good, enough and Then i'll have THAT i realize
Speaker 3: how FAR i. Am so next time you're out.
Speaker 2: Here that we have to do. This it Is ranks
Speaker 2: for the. Memory franks for the. Memories it is fantastic
Speaker 2: and hole in the. Wall it is. Perfect it is
Speaker 2: everything you look for in a wing.
Speaker 1: Quilts oh my, god that's. Incredible, YEAH i would. Recommend
Speaker 1: AND i think this is just specific to a very
Speaker 1: specific cut of, meat but it's been my go to
Speaker 1: WHEN i make carne. Asada Roy, choi who has a
Speaker 1: famous place out In la Called Kogie park he has
Speaker 1: and it's a carne asada. Marinade it's like four, hours
Speaker 1: you can do it overnight, whatever and it's a good
Speaker 1: blend Of mexican and there's a little bit of mirror
Speaker 1: for you, know The asian. Sweetness if you just look
Speaker 1: Up Roy, Choi Roi choi, asada it's LIKE i think
Speaker 1: The New York times has the recipe and it is.
Speaker 1: Phenomenal it's you, know roasted. Hold it's a little, convoluted
Speaker 1: but it is one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Worth it in Totally And i'm always looking for the
Speaker 2: because marinate, too turning into like a dad lecturing, Podcast
Speaker 2: but like the MARINATING i like because when you get,
Speaker 2: home it's. Madness so when everybody's like a, sleep you
Speaker 2: can cook your dinner for the you know WHAT i,
Speaker 2: Mean like you're ahead of the. Game, yeah so like So.
Speaker 3: Marinads in terms of dad prep is like with the,
Speaker 3: house as crazy as it, is sometimes it's like a.
Speaker 3: Lifesaver you've done your work after.
Speaker 1: Hours will you bring A bluetooth speaker to a, pooler
Speaker 1: beach or?
Speaker 2: Lake, No, NO i will. Not we actually just got Like,
Speaker 2: alexa you, know and it's kind of freaks me. Out,
Speaker 2: yeah my daughter knows how to use, It like it's
Speaker 2: just kind of But i'm not LIKE i find. It
Speaker 2: i'm mildly.
Speaker 3: Irritated like if somebody is blasting, MUSIC i may like that.
Speaker 3: Music the only Place i'll bring a speaker, occasionally it's usually.
Speaker 2: My phone is like the golf. Course If i'm playing with,
Speaker 2: somebody we can put on, music but that's still a private.
Speaker 2: Event if we're, near somebody will turn it. OFF i
Speaker 2: feel like it just feels, Wrong like you, know it's,
Speaker 2: like you, Know i'm airplane seat at a kit where
Speaker 2: you're pushing your. Seatback i'm not that. Guy this feels in.
Speaker 3: The same genre of impacting somebody's outdoor, experience doesn't It
Speaker 3: like it's just it's unnecessary.
Speaker 2: TOO i don't need music that.
Speaker 1: Bad, NO i think it depends how secluded you. ARE
Speaker 1: i think that's the right, answer but blast the music
Speaker 1: so everybody around you can hear. IT i think it's
Speaker 1: just the old man in, us BUT i think you
Speaker 1: got to go a different.
Speaker 3: DIRECT i do, too and you're. Right it does depend
Speaker 3: where you. Are but if, you're if you're if you're
Speaker 3: impacting somebody else's experience.
Speaker 2: In some, WAY i. DON'T i don't want. That it's
Speaker 2: just it's just good old fashioned common.
Speaker 1: Courtesy final question is From ryan and this could not
Speaker 1: be more different than everything we've talked. About But i'm
Speaker 1: sort of pumped that it's on a college football. Podcast
Speaker 1: and since you mentioned you have two kids under three this,
Speaker 1: Summer i'm trying to potty train my. Daughter oh, god
Speaker 1: tricks or advice because this is technical summer. Question have
Speaker 1: you potty?
Speaker 2: Trained, yes my daughter is potty. Trained now give me
Speaker 2: was a little like.
Speaker 3: One, well here's the overwhelwhelming. Advice gotta wait till they're, ready,
Speaker 3: right wait till they're.
Speaker 2: Ready that was the big, thing and Then i'll, go.
Speaker 3: You, know because if they're, not it's going to be a.
Speaker 3: Disaster but the, big big, thing and this has worked with.
Speaker 3: Everything instead of chart my wife, teacher we have a.
Speaker 3: Chart did have a chart in the. Bathroom every time
Speaker 3: you did the, deed small, pride all, right for every
Speaker 3: time was a small. Pride and then at the, end
Speaker 3: with a certain number OF, x you, know potties.
Speaker 2: Executed this is. Great you would have like a trip
Speaker 2: to check e cheese or.
Speaker 3: Something, incentives, incentives, incentives and it worked.
Speaker 2: In like two. Weeks that was the amazing.
Speaker 3: Thing there was like all this tension and build up
Speaker 3: and weirdness leading up to. It you throw off some incentives,
Speaker 3: there you get a few, successes and then, boom within
Speaker 3: like two, weeks it's like you'd never have to worry
Speaker 3: about it. Again so, Far i'm saying that it's going
Speaker 3: to be a problem in like the next few, days
Speaker 3: but so, far so.
Speaker 1: GOOD i like that there's almost analytics to, it like
Speaker 1: there's after you hit a certain number potties, executed deeds,
Speaker 1: executed that you just have to hit that magic. Number
Speaker 1: AND i like THAT i can also tie this together that,
Speaker 1: basically if the big thing is patience and waiting until they're,
Speaker 1: ready not all that different than smoking a large piece of.
Speaker 1: Meat you can't do, yes you can't ask for it
Speaker 1: before it's. Ready it's ready when.
Speaker 2: It's, like how you can bring these two, together these
Speaker 2: very two similar things together at One but, no it
Speaker 2: is it is kind of traumatizing it first as a parier.
Speaker 2: Thing you're going to do this if in, doubts you,
Speaker 2: know give prizes is horrible parenting. Advice, sure but in
Speaker 2: the instance of this it. Works.
Speaker 1: Well here's here's my, final actual final, question BECAUSE i
Speaker 1: feel LIKE i have a good, ANSWER i, think BUT
Speaker 1: i don't know if it is actually. Good maybe you won't.
Speaker 1: Agree mark wants to know board shorts Question mark netting
Speaker 1: Question mark how? Long Question? Mark do you have bathing
Speaker 1: suit thoughts in twenty eighteen THAT i assume are going
Speaker 1: to be very different than your bathing suit thoughts in
Speaker 1: like two thousand and.
Speaker 2: Three, Yes i've got medium takes on bathing. Suits, okay
Speaker 2: whatever you want to wear is. Fine. NOW i in the,
Speaker 2: SUMMER i like to swim. LAPS i do this at.
Speaker 2: LUNCH i am not a profe. Swimmer if you watch
Speaker 2: these swim, laps you'd, say my, god that poor man is.
Speaker 2: Drowning that would probably be your thoughts As i'm swimming
Speaker 2: back and forth in the. Pool but you, Know i've
Speaker 2: gotten satisfactory at. It and What i've found Is i'm
Speaker 2: not out there in the, speedo But i'm an above
Speaker 2: the knee shorts guy now because of like it actually
Speaker 2: makes an. Impact, Okay i'm not wearing, Goggles i'm not
Speaker 2: wearing the old skull. Cap, Okay i'm not shaved. Down
Speaker 2: but that's like my very loose criteria is. Goggles and
Speaker 2: THEN i found if the shorts are just like slightly
Speaker 2: above the, KNEE i can. Operate and because.
Speaker 3: That's really like the only time that and with kids
Speaker 3: in the, Pool i'll go. SWIMMING i don't have a
Speaker 3: problem with board, shorts per.
Speaker 2: SE i. DON'T i don't really have much of an
Speaker 2: issue with swimming. Suits it depends what.
Speaker 3: You're gonna do with, it right like, that to, ME
Speaker 3: i rarely see like a huge fashion statement unless you're
Speaker 3: going FULL. Mankini and if you, are honestly and you
Speaker 3: can wear, it god bless you like, it they don't
Speaker 3: go for. It i'm just not a man seeny.
Speaker 1: Guy my only real, thought, like, listen if you want
Speaker 1: to wear bard, shorts wear board. Shorts board, shorts especially bagggar,
Speaker 1: ones will tend to make you look. JUVENILE i want to,
Speaker 1: say like the bag your clothes, ARE i think the
Speaker 1: less seriously people will take. You and that's fine if
Speaker 1: you don't want, people you, know at the lake or the,
Speaker 1: beach at the, pool, LIKE i get, That but sometimes
Speaker 1: people are putting on a bathing suit and they're looking to.
Speaker 1: Impress AND i also think going above the, knee LIKE
Speaker 1: i don't know how far above the, KNEE i don't
Speaker 1: go super, short BUT i don't go barely above the.
Speaker 1: KNEE i will go confidently above the. Knee it will lompin.
Speaker 1: You it'll make your legs look. Longer AND i think
Speaker 1: most people are are down with looking taller and leaner
Speaker 1: than they actually. Are, yeah and the netting thing is,
Speaker 1: fine you, KNOW i think most bathing suits have. NETTING
Speaker 1: i would also, say don't be boring with your bathing.
Speaker 1: Suit you want flamingo print on, there don't let don't
Speaker 1: let certainly your boring instincts take. Over just go for
Speaker 1: we only have a certain number of years in this.
Speaker 1: World you want two kids And flamingo's palm, trees go for.
Speaker 2: It AND i think that's an area where you can
Speaker 2: like really try some things out and people won't call
Speaker 2: you on.
Speaker 3: It like IF i see someone with flamingo bating, suit you, KNOW, i, oh,
Speaker 3: wow that guy's got a swimming of bating.
Speaker 2: So like, Me, like it's just like this is an.
Speaker 3: Area it's also the area WHEN i SHOP i feel
Speaker 3: Like i'm the like it's the least, area not like
Speaker 3: an area WHERE i really know nothing about WHAT i.
Speaker 3: WANT i just see something and, say, hey that's kind of.
Speaker 3: Cool LIKE i have no idea When i'm going to
Speaker 3: go look for a new swim suit THAT i, want
Speaker 3: like this red one with stripes down the, Side i'll
Speaker 3: just basically see one that's probably at a reasonable price that.
Speaker 2: You're right is above above the, knee and that'll. Work
Speaker 2: and to your point about ports, SHORTS i don't even
Speaker 2: know IF i probably have owned a pair Of boord.
Speaker 2: Shirts i'm SURE i, have but they are not it's
Speaker 2: not like an appealing look now LIKE i, look then
Speaker 2: you can understand why you wore something like they don't
Speaker 2: serve a ton of purpose other than being long and
Speaker 2: kind of goofy. Looking and sure we did. It but
Speaker 2: that's one WHERE i can't understand.
Speaker 1: Why if you are on the cast Of Laguna, BEACH
Speaker 1: i get. It i'm with. You where Boards but if
Speaker 1: you if you just live in your, life go above the,
Speaker 1: knee that's you know where what you. Want but this
Speaker 1: is this is the opinion Of Adam kramer And Dan
Speaker 1: rubenstein show, off show off work on the. Tam, Yeah,
Speaker 1: adam thank you very much for your, time your, insight your.
Speaker 1: Genius it all comes full circle with potty training and
Speaker 1: smoked meat and board. Shorts so thank you. Again where
Speaker 1: can people find your? Work and, uh what's coming up
Speaker 1: down the pike for?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 3: Sure thanks, Man, no it's good. Fun Leasure report dot
Speaker 3: Com we've. Got this is a fun time of year
Speaker 3: for me because it's during the year no one really
Speaker 3: wants to talk to. You so right Now i'm not
Speaker 3: sure if they want to talk to you, either but
Speaker 3: they're more likely to.
Speaker 2: Talk to you in terms of putting together.
Speaker 3: Features so we've got more traveling coming, up trying to
Speaker 3: get around different, places and now it's going to be.
Speaker 2: Fun. Man we are how many days? Out we're under one, hundred,
Speaker 2: right we're under. Ninety, yeah we're in the.
Speaker 3: Nineties that's it's going to be here. Soon SO i
Speaker 3: am ready for, that ready for kind of the Media gauntlet.
Speaker 2: Season it should be should.
Speaker 1: Be, good, great, well enjoy your, Summer enjoy future potty
Speaker 1: issues with your, Children enjoy marinates and your eventual succumbing
Speaker 1: to being shirtless while you mow the lawn and get
Speaker 1: mailed it happen the paper or. Whatever cool, Adam thank
Speaker 1: you very much for your.
Speaker 2: Time thanks. Middy there it.
Speaker 1: Is we learned a. TON i promised you would and you,
Speaker 1: did season win, totals the first, quarterback displaced family Of,
Speaker 1: alabama summertime, ribs wiping on your, chest board shorts and
Speaker 1: why it's probably time to move on from, them potty.
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