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Speaker 1: Dan and I are in the early state of putting
Speaker 1: together our live tour for this coming August. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting responses. I don't want to peel
Speaker 1: the curtain back too far, but uh, Kalamazoo, Michigan doing
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Speaker 2: I wonder if the US Open Junior hard courts are
Speaker 2: still in Kalamazoo. That's my reference point. For Kalamazoo.
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Speaker 2: So before we go into our because I did. This
Speaker 2: should be reflected in the title of the episode. This
Speaker 2: is the off topic portion of the Q and A,
Speaker 2: the February Q and A still February. As we record this,
Speaker 2: there are a couple of news items that we should
Speaker 2: get to that are on topic.
Speaker 1: Right, that's right, So we have run news. Boo boom
Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom. Let's start here. Georgia has hired
Speaker 1: away Alabama strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochrane.
Speaker 2: Leading a college football show ahead of spring just after
Speaker 2: signing day with strength and conditioning slash.
Speaker 1: It appears not strength and conditioning news. Well, that's correct,
Speaker 1: and that's because Scott Cochrane has had an outsized influence
Speaker 1: on that Alabama program. Now he's been hired by Kirby
Speaker 1: smart Over at Georgia to an on field role as
Speaker 1: special teams coach. He can now recruit off campus. He
Speaker 1: could sprinkle in some of his magic program management pixie
Speaker 1: dust all over Georgia and the Georgia program, the stuff
Speaker 1: that we've been hearing about for eons now at Alabama
Speaker 1: dam But how worrisome is this for Alabama? I saw
Speaker 1: some headlines, I saw some tweets about wow, is this
Speaker 1: the first real loss for Nick Saban's that's going to
Speaker 1: make a mark on the program. Sure, he's had a
Speaker 1: big impact, as I said at the top, but how
Speaker 1: do you feel a out what kind of impact this
Speaker 1: might have on that BAMA program?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't even know if that's necessarily the case,
Speaker 2: because Alabama's defense under the tutelage of both Nick Saban
Speaker 2: and Kirby Smart was consistently better than it's been these
Speaker 2: last few years since Kirby Smart departed for Athens. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a pretty significant loss because, as we know, the
Speaker 2: strength and conditioning coach is with players, is with a
Speaker 2: lot of staff, perhaps more often than the head coach
Speaker 2: actually is. Nick Saban famously, you know, he does his
Speaker 2: thing from a top Alabama mountain, and he doesn't really
Speaker 2: concern himself in the way that a lot of coaches
Speaker 2: don't with the day to day of players. And Scott
Speaker 2: Cochrane He's one of the few coaches I was reading
Speaker 2: a piece from Aaron Suttles of The Athletic one of
Speaker 2: the few coaches that Nick Saban actually let's talk to
Speaker 2: the media. He's on the jumbo tron during games on
Speaker 2: third and fourth down to get the crowd pumped up.
Speaker 2: So he is a super public facing part of a
Speaker 2: generally pretty private Alabama football program, and a lot has
Speaker 2: been talked about. Andy Staples also wrote a really good
Speaker 2: piece about you know when players come in, these five
Speaker 2: star guys come in and they don't immediately play. You know,
Speaker 2: you see this with other programs. They transfer, they want
Speaker 2: playing time, they're used to playing time. Alabama does a
Speaker 2: really good job of convincing them to stay and learn
Speaker 2: and develop. And I think a lot of that credit
Speaker 2: goes to Scott Cochran and the buy in that he's
Speaker 2: able to get from the myriad of blue chip players
Speaker 2: that arrive at tuscaloosas so from a day to day
Speaker 2: program management and just keeping guys focused from a mental standpoint,
Speaker 2: obviously from a physical standpoint in strength and conditioning. To
Speaker 2: move on to Georgia, and apparently there were rumblings that
Speaker 2: he was looking to do something new and that you know,
Speaker 2: he's long had a really positive friendship with Kirby Smart.
Speaker 2: I think their wives are friends, So I think there's
Speaker 2: probably a human element of this. And you know, who
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to live in Athens, Georgia. It seem like
Speaker 2: this is a path that he's been looking to take.
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffen like supposedly allegedly offered him a similar role
Speaker 2: at Ole miss And the timing is suspect. I don't
Speaker 2: know what you make of the timing signing day. That
Speaker 2: was going to be my next question, because what do
Speaker 2: you make of it? I don't know what to make
Speaker 2: of it, to be perfectly honest with you. You know,
Speaker 2: you see the tweets, you see the headlines, and I
Speaker 2: guess you first start to wonder like, well, what does
Speaker 2: he know or what does he what makes him motivated
Speaker 2: to make this move now as opposed to a more
Speaker 2: normal time to turn over in the coaching world.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really know what to make
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: So on one end, one one possibility, which seems to
Speaker 2: be more likely is Kirby Smart intentionally did this to
Speaker 2: kneecap Alabama to a maximum degree because it's off season
Speaker 2: workout time ahead of spring practice, and this really throws
Speaker 2: everything into flux. Now, Alabama obviously has assistant strength coaches
Speaker 2: that can step in and run things until Nick Saban
Speaker 2: makes a replacement higher and it's an incredibly important hire.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, it could be looked at and
Speaker 2: maybe this is looking a little bit too glass half
Speaker 2: full that do it after signing day, get the momentum
Speaker 2: going with off season training before leaving, and you know,
Speaker 2: Scott Cochrane doing it by Nick Saban's terms as a
Speaker 2: show of loyalty, right, but also to go against that.
Speaker 1: When you're going next.
Speaker 2: When everything came together, he was simply escorted out of
Speaker 2: the facility, perhaps to prevent a Kirby Smart situation. It's
Speaker 2: been reported that Kirby Smart took a picture of Alabama's
Speaker 2: recruiting board on the way out to tell potential now
Speaker 2: Georgia recruits how low they were on Alabama's board.
Speaker 1: So to prevent subterfuge.
Speaker 2: If that subterfuge subterfuge, I'm probably mispronouncing that, But this
Speaker 2: it seems like we're making perhaps too big a deal
Speaker 2: over a strength and conditioning coach making a making a move.
Speaker 2: But he is you know, he is the standard in
Speaker 2: the sport. It seems yeah, well more to come on this.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like Kirby Smart and Nick Saban or
Speaker 1: going to be getting together for you know, tea and
Speaker 1: crumpets anytime soon. So sure we'll see how this uh pa,
Speaker 1: it's interesting.
Speaker 2: And Andy Staples wrote about this about how if Scott
Speaker 2: Cochran has head coaching aspirations, this is the path you
Speaker 2: know you're you're a Giants fan. They just hired a
Speaker 2: special teams coordinator, right well, Joe Judge, Yeah, Joe Judge
Speaker 2: from New England, John Harbaugh a special teams coordinator. So
Speaker 2: if if he does have head coaching aspirations, making the
Speaker 2: leap from strength and conditioning to head coach seems a
Speaker 2: bit too high.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think the tight Ends coach at Georgia has some
Speaker 2: special teams coordination experience. So this is just, if nothing else,
Speaker 2: a team with seemingly unlimited funds bolstering its staff in
Speaker 2: a way that not a lot of teams can.
Speaker 1: Wow, incredible the only other story we have here, and
Speaker 1: I must, I must come clean. Yeah, we have been
Speaker 1: doing this show religious since two thousand and eight. Now yeah, correct, correct,
Speaker 1: that sounds right. Would you say that, on average, I'm
Speaker 1: better than most at keeping track of college football news
Speaker 1: during the season, in the off season, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I'd say so, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean this is we're paid handsomely by mattress companies
Speaker 2: and beer companies and flower companies sometimes strawberry companies. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to do so so yeah, I'd argue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely missed this story, not even kidding. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna fake it. I did not know about
Speaker 1: this until I popped open our Google doc, our super
Speaker 1: secret Google doc. Colorado hired Carl Drell. Yeah. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of l's and ours in that sentence. They
Speaker 1: did hire Carl Durel. Is it two thousand and seven
Speaker 1: all over again? What is this? So?
Speaker 2: Carl Drel has been a largely an NFL assistant. He
Speaker 2: was at Vanderbilt in twenty fourteen, and there were.
Speaker 1: Lots of there. There was smoke about Troy Calhoun of
Speaker 1: Air Force, and Sark from now Alabama and Darren Shiverini,
Speaker 1: the internal candidate from Colorado. There was smoke about Brett Beelama,
Speaker 1: all sorts of names, and then I don't know if
Speaker 1: everybody looked at Colorado and said, yeah, I think we're good,
Speaker 1: and they had to really fall back to a candidate
Speaker 1: they knew would say yes but for whatever reason, and
Speaker 1: he may succeed. They looked at Carl Deurell, who has
Speaker 1: not been a head coach or a coordinator in some time,
Speaker 1: especially in college, and that Vanderbilt offense was not good.
Speaker 1: It wasn't good at all.
Speaker 2: They looked at Carl Derella and say, he will take
Speaker 2: the job, and so we are going to hire him.
Speaker 2: Who I don't think it had a losing regular season
Speaker 2: at UCLA, which seems more impressive by the day, but
Speaker 2: not somebody that immediately wows you with his potential. You
Speaker 2: think I'm trying to be kind. I'm trying to think,
Speaker 2: especially in the wake of ed Orgeron winning anaw national
Speaker 2: championship leading LSU and you know, looking looked at as
Speaker 2: potentially and also ran that was not good enough for
Speaker 2: the USC job, and then proving everybody wrong, takes the
Speaker 2: interm LSU job, gets the permanent job, and takes them
Speaker 2: to a national championship. Anything is possible, but wow, not
Speaker 2: not a at LSU. I get a little bit at
Speaker 2: Colorado if the the national championship level. Carl durell story
Speaker 2: is consistent nine and three challenging for the South pretty often, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I'm looking at a list of two thousand
Speaker 2: and six head coaches who have not since succeeded, and
Speaker 2: it's a long one time.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the thing. Yeah, how far down on
Speaker 1: the list was Carl Durell. How far down on the
Speaker 1: list was he would say? At least seventh? This is
Speaker 1: something I think about a lot when I'm watching commercials.
Speaker 1: We can go back to our Eckage sausage example. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: how many other names did they have to cross off
Speaker 1: before they got to Reese Davis? And I love Rees
Speaker 1: Davis no disrespect, but he is not the person I
Speaker 1: think of when I'm thinking of a sausage spokesperson. Right,
Speaker 1: we get race? Can we get? We can get race?
Speaker 1: Let's let's I guess, let's do rece How far down
Speaker 1: on the list is Zekridge going? How far down on
Speaker 1: the list did Colorado go? Seventh? Feels about right, maybe
Speaker 1: a little high. But Carl Durrell is a name from
Speaker 1: the past. He did not leave on great terms. At UCLA.
Speaker 1: He was a very average coach, he did win a
Speaker 1: sun Ball in ten games one gear, but outside of that,
Speaker 1: it was not exactly a sparkling regime. I soon remember
Speaker 1: pretty pretty vividly. UCLA fans were very happy to go
Speaker 1: in a different directions. So yeah, I can't imagine there
Speaker 1: are many at Colorado who are excited about this move.
Speaker 1: I guess it's good you have a name, you can
Speaker 1: move on, and maybe he's just a stop gap. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he doesn't see it that way, but nonetheless, this
Speaker 1: is not an excitable hire by any stretch.
Speaker 2: Here's some other coaches who went six and seven, six
Speaker 2: and six or seven and six in two thousand and six,
Speaker 2: when Carl Durrell went seven and six, Larry Coker at Miami,
Speaker 2: Skip Holtz, East Carolina still working, still working, Dirk Cutter
Speaker 2: at ASU, I think turned around his career to a
Speaker 2: certain extent. Ron Prince Kansas State, Buildova at Wazoo, Phil
Speaker 2: Bennett at SMU, Mike Shula at Alabama six and six,
Speaker 2: Rocky Long at New Mexico had a really nice act
Speaker 2: that at San Diego State, Glenn Mason at Minnesota go
Speaker 2: six and seven. It's a Mark Mangino at Kansas six
Speaker 2: and six, seems like a different era, yeah, cause it was.
Speaker 2: It's it does seem like a name that maybe there
Speaker 2: was another Carl and the phone there was a phone
Speaker 2: book error. There was another name that was a Kevin
Speaker 2: or a Kurt Kirk. Maybe they thought they were hiring
Speaker 2: Kirk Farens. I don't know what I'm rooting for it.
Speaker 2: I'm a PAC twelve fan. I'd like for the South
Speaker 2: to be a much deeper division than it looks to
Speaker 2: be right now, with quality teams. But yeah, out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: hope it works.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I shouldn't comment on this because
Speaker 1: I missed it, and I've done no research on it,
Speaker 1: but I quite literally missed this seeing it five to
Speaker 1: ten minutes ago.
Speaker 2: So and you know what, he could hire a killer staff,
Speaker 2: but also we're recording this in very late February, and
Speaker 2: that is not necessarily a time to hire a killer staff. No,
Speaker 2: so he's going to have to get creative. He has
Speaker 2: a little bit more money than mel Tucker had for
Speaker 2: his assistant pool. He's making himself a little bit more
Speaker 2: money than Meltucker because at this stage there are some
Speaker 2: premiums that need to be paid out.
Speaker 1: Would you have offered to pay Scott Cochrane to be
Speaker 1: the head coach of Colorado with no experience before going
Speaker 1: to Carl Derell. No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: But I'm trying to think of who I think I
Speaker 2: would have. You would have gone Scott Cochrane for why
Speaker 2: a lot less? Presumably he made six hundred before bonuses
Speaker 2: at Alabama. I would you pay Scott Cochrane two point one? No,
Speaker 2: one point three?
Speaker 1: No, offer him, offer him a dirt cheap rate and
Speaker 1: see if he even just for Yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: guy can develop guys in the weight room at a minimum, right.
Speaker 2: No, I mean he's essentially he's connected program for the
Speaker 2: chunk of a year. Yeah, he's connected. He can hire
Speaker 2: a staff.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's a good question. Scott Cochrane or Carl Drel.
Speaker 1: I think I'd still rather have Carl Drel a man,
Speaker 1: but wow, okay, right, and let us know Sobratto is
Speaker 1: still a big school. It's just a hype of job hypothetical.
Speaker 1: You know what we do on this show. Let's get
Speaker 1: into our emails. Dan, congratulations, Skippy, you've got mail. You've
Speaker 1: got mail on the solid verbal. So as often as
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Speaker 1: those hot spots. We have gathered questions. Now, the last
Speaker 1: show we did a week ago was primarily centered around
Speaker 1: the great sport of football and college football and just
Speaker 1: sports in general. Inevitably we get non football questions or
Speaker 1: questions that are tangentially related to football, and because we
Speaker 1: had so many last week, we've decided to essentially break
Speaker 1: the mail bag up into two. We put our hand
Speaker 1: down the middle. We pushed the non football ones off
Speaker 1: to the right, the pro football ones off to the left,
Speaker 1: And today's show is a non football variety. So you
Speaker 1: say pro football? Yeah, you know what I was. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just making sure don't get cute with me, okay, man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So where do we want to start here? Daniel? Did
Speaker 1: I catch a niner in there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So we're done talking college football basically for this episode.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the first part of our show.
Speaker 2: And to hear Ty say, to hire a strength and
Speaker 2: conditioning coach, I head of an experienced head coach. I
Speaker 2: would do you for the download?
Speaker 1: I do? Okay, Well, this is a good ease into
Speaker 1: the episode.
Speaker 2: Matt wants to know what's the best slash most productive
Speaker 2: way to enjoy the off season, so I don't then
Speaker 2: feel bad for spending four months at the end of
Speaker 2: the year just following college boy.
Speaker 1: Howdy, this is a question what are you doing? Ty?
Speaker 2: Don't just talk about the hypothetical listener, Matt, what are
Speaker 2: you doing even though we still do a lot of
Speaker 2: college I still do a lot of college football, even
Speaker 2: though I didn't know about Carl Durrell.
Speaker 1: But I won't I will not be held responsible for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you doing to maximize your mid January
Speaker 2: to late August?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's good to not have to record
Speaker 1: three days a week. Yeah, I disagree. I really like
Speaker 1: talking to you. No, I like talking to you. We
Speaker 1: talk every day anyway, It's true, but it's it's good
Speaker 1: to not have that extra Yeah and yeah, true. So
Speaker 1: that that I think is kind of the table stakes
Speaker 1: for this discussion. But no, I think what I'm doing
Speaker 1: mostly is trying to decompress on weekends because during the season,
Speaker 1: that four month stretch that we have, you know, weekends
Speaker 1: are almost off limits. It's impossible to go out and
Speaker 1: do things kind of like a normal person would because
Speaker 1: we got so much football to watch. So I am
Speaker 1: really just trying to get the most out of my
Speaker 1: weekends at the moment. People always ask me, you're reading
Speaker 1: any good books, or you listening to other podcasts? What
Speaker 1: are you doing? The answer to all that is no,
Speaker 1: I'm not ti What are you doing. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing any of that. And richer mind, No, I'm chilling
Speaker 1: out just for some period of time before I get bored.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing right now. You're watching Cheer on Netflix,
Speaker 1: is what you're telling me. I did watch Cheer. I
Speaker 1: recommended Cheer to you, which apparently you really like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't finished it yet, So I've gotten caught up
Speaker 1: in Jack Ryan okay on Prime Video. It reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of the old twenty four Days. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit of twenty four there's actually some twenty four
Speaker 1: characters in it. So yeah, been watching a little bit
Speaker 1: of that. I caught up on the Witcher. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're into the Witch to watch that. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, Okay.
Speaker 2: What I would say to do is you probably are
Speaker 2: not in great shape during the season. You're probably not
Speaker 2: physically in the same place because you're spending a chunk
Speaker 2: of your free time sitting on a couch watching football, presumably,
Speaker 2: So figure out a way to, I don't know, try
Speaker 2: to eat a little bit healthier, a little cleaner. Maybe
Speaker 2: go for some more runs or bike rides, or join
Speaker 2: a sports league, a rec league of some kind, if
Speaker 2: you know you're able to. I think that's probably bare minimum.
Speaker 2: I would also say, just go on more Wikipedia black holes.
Speaker 2: Just say, you know what, I don't know much about Belgium.
Speaker 2: I'm going to just deep dive Belgium. You don't need
Speaker 2: to read a book. But like I want to learn
Speaker 2: more about Belgium. I want to learn more about sunken boats.
Speaker 2: I want to learn more about the different levels of
Speaker 2: the atmosphere. I want to learn more about Jupiter.
Speaker 1: I would that would be something that at least you
Speaker 1: could occupy your brain and way is that. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say it's more.
Speaker 2: Productive, but you can sort of drop nuggets at dinner
Speaker 2: parties a little more often about the history of Brussels.
Speaker 1: I would go on. I would go on that.
Speaker 2: I would watch movies you've always been meaning to watch
Speaker 2: that you haven't been able to watch. Or maybe if
Speaker 2: you have a significant other and they have a bunch
Speaker 2: of movies that they love and you haven't watched, maybe
Speaker 2: do something like that. I would try to travel a
Speaker 2: little bit more. Yeah, I would maybe do crossword puzzles
Speaker 2: if I had more time.
Speaker 1: Do you want to work on a side project that
Speaker 1: we called nugget drop because I like that. It's actually
Speaker 1: not I would love to drop nuggets tie. You know,
Speaker 1: I love Nuggies. That's actually not bad.
Speaker 2: So that's what I would say, is make a list
Speaker 2: of things that you don't have time to do that
Speaker 2: you've always been curious about. That's just like, ah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know a lot about World War One. I
Speaker 2: just on nineteen seventeen, and I want to learn more.
Speaker 1: Cold fusion is that? Yeah, No, I'm in No, you
Speaker 1: don't have to go that far. I watched Parasite. That
Speaker 1: was good. Watch that is it good? I liked it.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously just won the Academy Awards. It's got
Speaker 1: to be decent. It was good, all right. Next question,
Speaker 1: Joey says, my first wedding anniversary is coming up here
Speaker 1: in a few months. Congratulations, Joey. Yes, are people still
Speaker 1: doing the traditional gift thing I e. Paper for the
Speaker 1: first year for example, or am I okay to maybe
Speaker 1: branch out and plan a fun weekend getaway. So my
Speaker 1: first anniversary, we went to Niagara Falls.
Speaker 2: It was cold as hell. Yeah, cold as hell, but
Speaker 2: it was a lot of fun. We did the touristy thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, beef on weck. Isn't that what you're supposed
Speaker 2: to eat there? Beef on wek. I definitely did not
Speaker 2: eat that.
Speaker 1: No, okay, it's sort of like their own It's like
Speaker 1: that buffalo style roast beef. I am. I am not
Speaker 1: at all in tune with local cuisines the way you are. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: fun fact, But we went to Niagara Falls. It was
Speaker 1: cold as hell. It was very tauristy, so we ended
Speaker 1: up driving around Canada, drove up to Toronto. Check that out.
Speaker 1: So I I don't know even what the tradition is
Speaker 1: for the first year, but if you have a chance
Speaker 1: to branch out and play a fun weekend, I would
Speaker 1: just say do that, Joey to what.
Speaker 2: I have found to be the case, and everybody's spouses
Speaker 2: are different. It's more about just showing you remembered, showing
Speaker 2: your thoughtful If. If it's a matter of finding your
Speaker 2: spouse's favorite donuts and you write a card that's heartfelt,
Speaker 2: that's pretty good. That's pretty good. If it's a weekend getaway.
Speaker 2: You don't need to adhere to anybody else's traditions. Do
Speaker 2: what you feel will be thoughtful for your spouse and
Speaker 2: go from there. That's always a winning formula. Tie.
Speaker 1: It's like when college football a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: decided to put its most important games on New Year's Eve,
Speaker 1: and then Bill Hancock said, you know, we're about establishing
Speaker 1: new traditions.
Speaker 2: Joey, you should have worked out perfectly perfect Take care
Speaker 2: should be two take.
Speaker 1: Your romance cues from Bill Hancock. That's went in doubt,
Speaker 1: Andy says too. After Tom Furnelli name checked you this week,
Speaker 1: which three players would you offer his lion I in
Speaker 1: exchange for him joining the pod? So did I miss
Speaker 1: a joke here? No?
Speaker 2: I think Tom Fournelli, who does a fantastic job covering
Speaker 2: the sport, yes, said something about the solid verbal, maybe
Speaker 2: something about you in your velvety tones, and okay, it
Speaker 2: seemed positive.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't.
Speaker 2: I have not heard it, but we got this tweet
Speaker 2: and a couple emails from from a few people, so
Speaker 2: it seemed like it happened. How would you make Illinois better?
Speaker 2: I suppose in order to pay back Tom Fornelli, which
Speaker 2: I guess him joining the solid verbal.
Speaker 1: Him joining the solid verbal as a super We've got
Speaker 1: a great thing going as is. He doesn't need us.
Speaker 1: He could be a super sub here if you want it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Or he can knock one of us off
Speaker 1: and take over whatever. Which three players would we offer
Speaker 1: his LIONI in exchange for him joining the pod? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I think Illinois, Well this is probably cliche, but
Speaker 1: first and foremost, a beast quarterback, sure, I think is
Speaker 1: very obvious. And I remember the halcyon days of Juice
Speaker 1: Williams and to a much lesser degree when we had
Speaker 1: all that hype around Nate Shieldhouse for Kittner. There's been
Speaker 1: memorable quarterbacks. I have a memorable quarterbacks. So a beast
Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback would be now interesting as.
Speaker 2: It can't be somebody. It can't be somebody you love
Speaker 2: because they're probably going to get pretty beat up, right,
Speaker 2: So it's somebody you like, but somebody who don't necessarily
Speaker 2: want to see really crunch under the pressure that was
Speaker 2: going to be generated by an Millinois offensive line. Okay,
Speaker 2: somebody who can handle it, who can physically handle it,
Speaker 2: maybe has the size to handle that sort of abuse.
Speaker 1: So not maliku'sayer. His eligibility is out, I think no,
Speaker 1: I think he's done. Okay, any names come to mind
Speaker 1: for you that have the physical size to hold up it.
Speaker 1: Ian Book's a pretty big guy. Ian Booked, though he's
Speaker 1: not mobile, He's not the kind of quarterback I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Midwestern experience. I mean, yeah, but no, that's not
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. It's got to be an excitable,
Speaker 1: duel threat quarterback. I would say Sam Ellinger.
Speaker 2: Sam Ellinger runs the ball a lot, has held up
Speaker 2: to a lot of physical abuse.
Speaker 1: And I think that would be a nice addition for Illinois.
Speaker 1: So I think you need the quarterback as a starting point. Sure,
Speaker 1: Sam Allnger. Okay, I think you also need a star
Speaker 1: on defense. So you need an Evan Weaver type. Now
Speaker 1: he's going pro, he's gone, but he's gone. Someone alike
Speaker 1: an Evan Weaver, maybe a Micah Parsons, someone of that nature.
Speaker 1: I think Parsons is a great answer, just a beast.
Speaker 1: And then that leaves one other spot, sideline to sideline.
Speaker 1: Do we go offense or defense with that final spot.
Speaker 2: I'd probably go offense. Illinois has shown themselves to be
Speaker 2: more of a running team when they're succeeding. Last year
Speaker 2: was just sort of catches catch can. I'd give them
Speaker 2: like Pine Seool or somebody they can run run behind consistently.
Speaker 2: An offensive lineman that can extend some drives on third
Speaker 2: and short. Maybe somebody like that Altland Trophy winner.
Speaker 1: Mmm, okay, yeah, I'd like I mean.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't like to see I wouldn't like to watch
Speaker 2: my team lose Pine Sewel. But yeah, I'd give them
Speaker 2: some sort of left guard, left tackle of the future.
Speaker 1: I'd want to give him a playmaker. Oh okay, give
Speaker 1: me give me some sort of playmaker I don't know,
Speaker 1: like Jamar Chase. Yeah, i'd probably give him Cuba. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I could go with that. I'd go Cuba because he
Speaker 1: is in that like Bryce love Mold where Oh I
Speaker 1: got it? No, no, no, I got it. Take a mile,
Speaker 1: I got it for shot, Bateman, Give me your shot, Bateman, Bateman, Okay,
Speaker 1: shot Bateman from Minnesota, because then we've got the Ellinger
Speaker 1: to Bateman hook up. He's impossible to cover. At least
Speaker 1: was against Benn State. Yeah, give me, give me him
Speaker 1: were shock. I think he's gonna be really good. Next question,
Speaker 1: next topic, let's go to Dylan. What were your wedding
Speaker 1: registry strategies. Did you focus on upgrades slash big luxury
Speaker 1: items slash cash m hmm, okay, can you do that
Speaker 1: for you? Sort of?
Speaker 2: I was for there's like, there are programs where you
Speaker 2: can have people put money towards your honeymoon.
Speaker 1: M okay.
Speaker 2: And I think that's more of instead of wedding gifts,
Speaker 2: more than wedding registry. But I think it's interchangeable. So
Speaker 2: I would say we screwed up a chunk of our
Speaker 2: registry thinking we're like, Okay, we're going to be married,
Speaker 2: We're going to have functions involving cheese plates a lot
Speaker 2: more often. And I can tell you we ended up
Speaker 2: returning a lot of our registered items.
Speaker 1: WHOA so break hold on? No, I mean I don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean wedding register ittums are gifts. And so
Speaker 2: we returned a number of our wedding gifts because we
Speaker 2: didn't care. Yeah, there were platters. You have to also
Speaker 2: remember I live in a small apartment in New York,
Speaker 2: so space is at a premium. I have a very
Speaker 2: small kitchen. We didn't register for anything betting wise, I
Speaker 2: think we got o Well, no, we did. We got
Speaker 2: a couple of pillows which were premium pillows. We got
Speaker 2: some new bath towels, so it was useful stuff.
Speaker 1: But we did.
Speaker 2: We went overboard with the entertaining element of our registries
Speaker 2: and that was a regret that remains a regret. But
Speaker 2: we got the cash and we could spend it on
Speaker 2: whatever we wanted at the places we registered.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. I mean, it wasn't for nought.
Speaker 1: I believe it was Mom h who imparted some wisdom
Speaker 1: on registry strategies, and her wisdom was to register for
Speaker 1: stuff that we wouldn't want to buy on our own,
Speaker 1: but stuff that we knew we would need. So we
Speaker 1: played it straight down the fairway for things like bedding
Speaker 1: and pillows and towel premium versions of stuff you already have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, a more premium version. I'm not exactly, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not exactly living. Uh, you know the life
Speaker 1: of luxury here. But your thread count on your sheets
Speaker 1: is so high? How high is it? How you love
Speaker 1: a premium lifestyle? You don't need to, uh to be
Speaker 1: ashamed of it. It's not the I don't I don't
Speaker 1: have more than one yacht, let's put it that way. Okay,
Speaker 1: But so we did plenty of that. We've gotten a
Speaker 1: ton of use out of a number of the items
Speaker 1: that we that we put on there. We did do
Speaker 1: the thing with the entertaining. Got a lot of cheese
Speaker 1: plates and uh dishes and things of that nature. We
Speaker 1: didn't before we bought the house. Okay, but now that
Speaker 1: we're in the house and we've got more space and yeah,
Speaker 1: now now they've actually started to show some of their values.
Speaker 1: So I think we played it right. But we didn't
Speaker 1: go overboard in that respect. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: that kind of kitchenee serving type stuff that we are
Speaker 1: finding ways to use. We just didn't go over the
Speaker 1: top and get too much of it that you know,
Speaker 1: it's collecting dust, all right. Next question, next topic, Oh boy,
Speaker 1: why do I have a feeling that this is all
Speaker 1: going to be aimed at me from here on out?
Speaker 2: Do you want me to send you. I need to
Speaker 2: send you an updated link. I'm going to send you
Speaker 2: via our connection right now. Continue, Carl says, what percentage
Speaker 2: of the words on the French Laundry's menu can tie pronounce?
Speaker 2: So okay, what exactly does this mean? Look on g chat,
Speaker 2: I just texted you the link of tonight's tasting menu.
Speaker 1: Tonight, I don't know. Tasting menu, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2: From the French Laundry, a world renowned restaurant that I've
Speaker 2: never been to. I have never had dinner at the
Speaker 2: French Laundry. When you look at that menu, is that
Speaker 2: intimidating to you? Does it excite you? Is it a
Speaker 2: little column A column B? Tasting menu means that there
Speaker 2: is a set You know what a tasting menu is, yes,
Speaker 2: of course, okay, So a set order of small dishes
Speaker 2: that will come your way. Starts with oysters and pearls Okay,
Speaker 2: sabayan of pearl, tapaoka, tapaoka, tapioca tapio with island creek oysters.
Speaker 1: Okay. You know what caviar is, yes, of course. Okay. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's the nextest, with a dill mayonnaise p tendrils. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think you're good here. Well, he said, how many
Speaker 1: of these items could I pronounce?
Speaker 2: Oh, just pronunciation, Okaytasuma.
Speaker 1: Mandarin, supremes, supremes. I'm assuming supremes supremes. Yeah, cherry Bell, radishes,
Speaker 1: I could pronounce radish, fennel, Yeah, pure, I got I
Speaker 1: got most of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're killing the game on this one. Oh man,
Speaker 2: I would love to go to the French laundry with you.
Speaker 2: I'd love to go to the French laundry with anybody. Oh,
Speaker 2: you're pretty good.
Speaker 1: What about the the second to last thing before assortment
Speaker 1: of desserts? Oh, boy, gouger. Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see Carl with Andante dry at two Day. Maybe I
Speaker 1: pronounced that. That's Carl Durrell. It could be it might
Speaker 1: be Carl Derell. Okay, next question, we did pretty well. Ian. Hypothetically,
Speaker 1: I need to redo the bathrooms in my house. I
Speaker 1: like this. I don't know why hypothetically is the qualifier there,
Speaker 1: but that's a question for another time. He says, are
Speaker 1: there any features you've come across in residential bathrooms that
Speaker 1: have made you jealous or even made a mental note
Speaker 1: that you want to copy that oh, I like this question.
Speaker 1: Thank you Ian.
Speaker 2: Okay, you have you're our bathroom expert, both in corporate
Speaker 2: and residential.
Speaker 1: This is true, Cals, this is very true. So I
Speaker 1: will tell you I will answer a little bit differently here.
Speaker 1: There aren't a whole lot of features that I've saw
Speaker 1: and taken note of, but one that I can tell
Speaker 1: you if I redo my bathroom, I won't beginning. I
Speaker 1: will be ripping it out. I will not be using it,
Speaker 1: and we will use that space better in the updated model.
Speaker 1: The soaking tub.
Speaker 2: Dan, I'm on Japanese soaking tub's Google search page as
Speaker 2: we speak.
Speaker 1: Get out of my bathroom soaking t Yeah, get out.
Speaker 1: You don't want a Japanese soaking tub. I don't want
Speaker 1: any soaking tub. Just give me so A soaking tub
Speaker 1: is a is a shorter, deeper tub. It's it's a
Speaker 1: sit in rather than a lounge in tub. Right, Just
Speaker 1: get get rid of the soaking tub, the lounge tub. Whatever. Oh,
Speaker 1: no tub, no tub, no tub, wo tub, get rid
Speaker 1: of it. Okay, Now you need to have a tub
Speaker 1: somewhere in the bathroom, but just not in the middle.
Speaker 1: This Japanese soaking tub looks amazing. No waste of space.
Speaker 1: Looking about four thousand dollars worth waste of space. Find
Speaker 1: some other way to use it. Well. The soaking tub
Speaker 1: is smart, it's smaller, It's like a tater top in space.
Speaker 1: It's a waste of space. You could have it built
Speaker 1: into your longer shower as well. Waste of space. Use
Speaker 1: it for something else. I don't know now. One feature
Speaker 1: I have seen, and I'm told that it's actually not
Speaker 1: that expensive. If you can do the heated floors in
Speaker 1: the bathroom, I've had that experience. Yeah, if you could
Speaker 1: do the lives yeah, yeah, cold Weather City or a
Speaker 1: place that would require heated tiles, mm hmm. I'm told
Speaker 1: it's not super expensive. That might be something to sporge on. Right.
Speaker 1: Have you done a Japanese toilet? No, but I've heard
Speaker 1: I've heard wonderful things about the Japanese toilet. The Japanese
Speaker 1: toilets are something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, digital readouts warm, you know, you get your your
Speaker 2: bum warmer tie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. The day built in.
Speaker 2: Futuristic Japanese toilets would be pretty high on my list.
Speaker 2: Depending on the budget, of course, that that'd be pretty
Speaker 2: high on my list. Our friend Jeff Schwartz built a
Speaker 2: house in Charlotte, and he built his bath through them
Speaker 2: with a urinal in it. Really because as a taller,
Speaker 2: larger man, that's a better experience for him for basically
Speaker 2: the toilet to come to him right at his preferred
Speaker 2: height without having to bend over to flush kind of thing.
Speaker 1: It's not bad.
Speaker 2: So that's not a bad idea. What about shower nozzle?
Speaker 2: Would you go that sort of rainforest from the ceiling?
Speaker 2: I feel I think I'm just maximizing water pressure, that's all.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like I'm too used to like the
Speaker 1: forty five degree angle that if it came straight down
Speaker 1: on me, I almost wouldn't know what to do. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, good question. Curtis says best or worst cough
Speaker 1: drop flavors to have when you have a cold.
Speaker 2: I mean, I pound cough drops because my job is
Speaker 2: now speaking all day, so I have to take care
Speaker 2: of my instrument. Ty, do you have a cough drop
Speaker 2: flavor preserence?
Speaker 1: I like the old standard issue. Ricola's not a sponsor,
Speaker 1: but they have they have many flavors. Yeah, just the
Speaker 1: standard like lemon herb or lemon honey herb, whatever it's called. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do the honey herb, honey herb or the I
Speaker 1: think it's lemon mint, don't. I don't like the cherry.
Speaker 1: I don't like the mixberry, the green tea, the cool relief,
Speaker 1: any of that. No cherry anything. On occasion, I've done
Speaker 1: honey herb. I've done some of them that have like
Speaker 1: I guess it's cementhol in them. I don't know packs
Speaker 1: a punch. It does pack a punch, so I don't
Speaker 1: do it frequently. But all right, Next question. This is
Speaker 1: a really good question here. I'm ready, short and saucy
Speaker 1: on Reddit. Mm hmm. This question has been eating me
Speaker 1: up inside. It has to do with socks. Are you ready, Dan? Yes?
Speaker 1: What are the rules for socks and when to use
Speaker 1: a new pair? For example, is it acceptable to use
Speaker 1: a pair of socks for twenty minutes to run errands
Speaker 1: and then reuse them later in the day when you
Speaker 1: go out to dinner. Is there a set time limit
Speaker 1: before a pair of socks becomes tainted It must be washed.
Speaker 1: Say you only go out once for twenty minutes for
Speaker 1: that errand are you allowed to reuse that pair of
Speaker 1: the following day? This, I feel, is a question for
Speaker 1: a generation, and also quite timely, because I think Bombas
Speaker 1: is running ads. If they're not now, they will be soon,
Speaker 1: So great, very timely question here, mister Rubinstein, what's say
Speaker 1: you love our Bombus.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a fast, high and fast, hard
Speaker 2: and fast rule for sock wearing. I think it depends
Speaker 2: on your feet. Like if you have a big sweat
Speaker 2: issue with your feet and that tends to stink up
Speaker 2: your socks, you shouldn't take chances with borderline sweaty socks.
Speaker 2: But like as I do, when it gets colder, I'll
Speaker 2: wear two pairs of socks, and I'll wear sort of
Speaker 2: a regular thickness, so you're just standard cotton sock whatever
Speaker 2: Bombas makes a great one on the first layer, and
Speaker 2: then maybe a wool sock. If I'm wearing thicker shoes
Speaker 2: for the elements or for the weather, I'll just switch
Speaker 2: out the initial sock the inner sock, and I'll keep
Speaker 2: the other one for a few days at a time,
Speaker 2: and I'll even do the insides, like I'll do smell
Speaker 2: tests and moisture tests, But no throwing a sock into
Speaker 2: the dirty clothes every day. That's a lot you don't
Speaker 2: need to do. That if your socks are not dirty,
Speaker 2: if you're not working out, if you're just going to
Speaker 2: work or doing errands on the weekend, and elasticity isn't
Speaker 2: an issue, Push that sock. Push that sock until you
Speaker 2: feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: You are essentially deploying a dove cover sock. Yeah, I am,
Speaker 1: I'm as we speak. Yeah, I've got a marino wool
Speaker 1: from Bombas sock on the outside and then a standard
Speaker 1: one on the inside. I too rely on the smell test.
Speaker 1: I also rely on the moisture test. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it has to be a comfortable situation. Can't smell, can't wet.
Speaker 2: What about other items of clothing for you though, like
Speaker 2: a T shirt that you are not doing anything. You know,
Speaker 2: it's I assume it's cold over there in Eastern PA lately. Sure,
Speaker 2: and say I mean, I assume for the mysterious day job,
Speaker 2: especially when it takes you to government sites that are
Speaker 2: sort of under the radar around the world, you are
Speaker 2: you're in more corporate wear, correct, So you don't want
Speaker 2: to be wearing the same thing because then it becomes
Speaker 2: sort of obvious that tie is wearing the same.
Speaker 1: To have a deep bench and a good rotation.
Speaker 2: I can tell you as a podcaster, as a professional
Speaker 2: podcaster and sports media weirdo, I can tell you that
Speaker 2: I will wear pants multiple days in a row. I
Speaker 2: will not wear T shirts multiple days in a row,
Speaker 2: but I won't necessarily put them in the hamper if
Speaker 2: I haven't done anything exercise wise or anything that is.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not a day that made me sweat
Speaker 2: or something like that. But it's a smell test thing
Speaker 2: as well. I'm just not going to overwash and overhamp.
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough. If you've got a good new
Speaker 1: pair of socks, though, there's nothing wrong with being excited
Speaker 1: about wearing it or finding ways to fit it into
Speaker 1: your regimen. I'm all all about that. Okay. Yeah, someone
Speaker 1: wants to know about your ten commandments or however many
Speaker 1: you might have of cooking slash preparing food.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have hard and fast rules
Speaker 2: for something like that, So I will say, as a
Speaker 2: relatively new parent, I try and cook what I buy
Speaker 2: at the grocery store as soon as possible, and whether
Speaker 2: it's when the solid baby is sleeping or out doing something.
Speaker 1: And I have food, if.
Speaker 2: It's vegetables, if it's meat, if whatever it is, a
Speaker 2: lot of it is preparing it as soon as possible,
Speaker 2: because if you let that sit in the fridge for
Speaker 2: a few days, is gonna forget about it.
Speaker 1: There's just too many things on your mind. Kelly wants
Speaker 1: to know how many of these is it? You only
Speaker 1: get one commandment? Do you have any more? I got
Speaker 1: plenty more.
Speaker 2: Don't cook food. Don't cook food the way you think
Speaker 2: you should like. If you if all your cool friends
Speaker 2: are saying, like, you can only eat steak medium rare,
Speaker 2: no eat steak however you want to eat steak, but
Speaker 2: toy around with it. Figure out, you know, try the
Speaker 2: different ways. You know whether I know you like your
Speaker 2: reverse searing, right, I dabble with different You've dabbled in
Speaker 2: reverse searing or cast iron cooking, whatever. Sure, I would
Speaker 2: say try different methods out for foods, because you never
Speaker 2: know what you're actually going to prefer. I would also
Speaker 2: say read up, don't don't assume you're an expertan and
Speaker 2: watch YouTube videos. I would say put in some time.
Speaker 2: If food is something that's relatively important to you, familiarize
Speaker 2: yourself with the food and cooking techniques, and don't just
Speaker 2: do what your dad did. Or your mom did, or
Speaker 2: your uncle did when he made blobbaty blah. Really really
Speaker 2: go for it and see what your preferences are. Learn
Speaker 2: learn about you, is what I would say.
Speaker 1: Learn about you. Okay, Yeah, any other commandments here, not
Speaker 1: that I can.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of eating and food commandments, but
Speaker 2: not necessarily cooking ones. But I will I'll bring this
Speaker 2: back to the wedding anniversary question, and I will say,
Speaker 2: if you don't know how to prepare your spouse's favorite
Speaker 2: meals or one of a meals, a meal that he
Speaker 2: or she grew up with, that is as a favorite,
Speaker 2: I would say, make an effort, be it for an anniversary,
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day, birthday, whatever, Christmas, Hanikah, whatever, go out of
Speaker 2: your way to learn how to master that dish as
Speaker 2: a surprise. I think that's a great move as a
Speaker 2: cooking commandment.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to Kelly here. She wants
Speaker 1: to know how many of these six movies we've seen? Okay,
Speaker 1: so just give me a yay or nay. Okay, Godzilla, well.
Speaker 2: There are multiple god Zellos. I saw the twenty fourteen
Speaker 2: one Brian Cranston. Yeah, Star Wars, Yeah, of course, all
Speaker 2: of them. No, I haven't seen last year's Which one
Speaker 2: was that last no Force Awakens?
Speaker 1: This last one was when that came out in Rise
Speaker 1: of Skywalker.
Speaker 2: Rise of Skywalker. Yeah, I didn't see that one. I
Speaker 2: really liked Rogue one whenever that came out. Interesting was
Speaker 2: that's like, that's like a splintered story, right, Yes, it
Speaker 2: was a it was an off kind of like a
Speaker 2: not a prequel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an off show. It happened. It happened in
Speaker 1: between episode six and seven.
Speaker 2: That was that was stealing plans for the death Star
Speaker 2: because to find the vulnerability, right right, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was a good one. I liked that one. Tremors.
Speaker 1: Haven't seen Tremors? What, No, I haven't seen it. What
Speaker 1: about Bring it On? Maybe I'll watch it this off season?
Speaker 1: About bringing On? Yeah, of course, come on? Were talking
Speaker 1: about classic cinema here? Yeah? What about saw No Real?
Speaker 1: Why would I want to do that to myself? Two
Speaker 1: hours of torture porn? No toy story? Yeah, obviously I've
Speaker 1: seen all the toy stories. Kind of monster do you
Speaker 1: think I am? I don't think I've seen all the Godzilla's,
Speaker 1: but I've definitely seen the original I know I've seen
Speaker 1: twenties or thirties. I believe I've seen the original. Yes
Speaker 1: in a movie class actually, good for you. I've seen
Speaker 1: every Star Wars, no exceptions. I have seen Tremors. I
Speaker 1: love bringing on Weirdly, I saw the first three Saw movies,
Speaker 1: What and Why. I've seen every Toy Story with the
Speaker 1: exception of whatever. The last one was.
Speaker 2: Last one wasn't that good. I'm a big fan of
Speaker 2: the franchise. Toy Story for left me sort of Eh,
Speaker 2: why did.
Speaker 1: You see the first three Saws? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Were you just dating somebody super into that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: There's a single person. There isn't a single person listening
Speaker 2: that says to themselves I'll bet ties in a torture porn.
Speaker 1: No, I just I'm I didn't really enjoy him. I
Speaker 1: just sort of watched them. Yeah, yeah, die, this is
Speaker 1: the shocker of the episode. I've seen a movie. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I just saw it.
Speaker 2: You seem like you have such an even keel. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm looking down on people that like these movies a lot,
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry, this is I can't help myself. I'm
Speaker 2: just shocked by this.
Speaker 1: Whatever, who are your favorite comedians. Mmmm. This is also
Speaker 1: from Reddit.
Speaker 2: I don't, I really. I guess I would go out
Speaker 2: of my way to watch a John Mullaney special.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big John Mullaney fan. Oh love John Mullaney.
Speaker 1: So I'm on Broadway. Yeah, I mean, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people that love him, and I'm amused by
Speaker 1: him for sure, but I'm not I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: out of my way to see him. I enjoyed Dave Chappelle, Yeah,
Speaker 1: same amounts. Same I haven't.
Speaker 2: I haven't watched Jerry Seinfeld's stand up in a long time,
Speaker 2: but I know we're both fans of that show.
Speaker 1: I've seen you've seen Seinfeld live. I like Trevor. I've
Speaker 1: seen his specials on Netflix. It was great. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, Tom Sagora, I like a lot more recent guy
Speaker 2: that sort of burst onto the scene in terms of
Speaker 2: a comedian in a big way.
Speaker 1: I haven't Whoh, you know what's really good? Seth Meyer's
Speaker 1: new stand up is good. I haven't seen that yet.
Speaker 1: I'll check it out. Yeah, I laughed, all right, So
Speaker 1: let's do two or three more here. Yeah. Do either
Speaker 1: of you have stories of running into players or coaches
Speaker 1: when you're on campus at Penn State or Oregon, and
Speaker 1: now that Dan lives in New York City, any fun
Speaker 1: stories about seeing celebrities or athletes out and about this
Speaker 1: question about running into players and coaches at college is electric?
Speaker 1: Who did you run into it? In State? Oh? I
Speaker 1: had classes with Kerry Collins. Did you ever see Kerry Collins?
Speaker 1: Way before my time, way before that. You're old, not
Speaker 1: that old. I had classes with Penn State football players
Speaker 1: frank o'harris not frank O Harris. Still not that old. Okay,
Speaker 1: why don't you go first.
Speaker 2: I had a class with Luke Ridenauer, basketball player, one
Speaker 2: of the most fun players. The basketball games are so fun.
Speaker 2: When I was there, I saw Hellodi Nata a lot
Speaker 2: enormous like you hear the nickname refrigerator for William Perry.
Speaker 2: That's as close to a refrigerator I've seen. And there
Speaker 2: was no fat there was. I saw him all the time.
Speaker 1: I see you.
Speaker 2: I would see football players all the time around campus.
Speaker 2: It's not a huge, huge school organ I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think we would always play so the original tie shout
Speaker 2: out Mike Nagel. I had a radio show with him,
Speaker 2: and after the show, he and my other roommate would
Speaker 2: go to the rec center and play basketball, and I
Speaker 2: am below average at basketball. Those other two guys were
Speaker 2: a lot worse, and so I would dominate them. We
Speaker 2: would play twenty one on a half court at the
Speaker 2: Oregon Rec Center and a number of weeks on the other.
Speaker 2: For a number of weeks on the other side of
Speaker 2: the court were two Oregon big men working with a
Speaker 2: coach on post moves, and we would always like we
Speaker 2: would hit a three or something like that playing twenty
Speaker 2: one against each other and like turn to see if
Speaker 2: they saw.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what I mean, man, I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm around. I got eligibility. I know one
Speaker 1: of them was Ray Schaeffer.
Speaker 2: I forget, I forget who else was the big man
Speaker 2: on the basketball team now, not a ton I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think of other crossover. I saw Helloai Nata a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I had classes with him, but man,
Speaker 2: that that's when you realize that because I went to
Speaker 2: a high school where the players look like me, were
Speaker 2: my size and they were terrible. And then I went
Speaker 2: to college and I saw Hellodi not Donald was like, hey,
Speaker 2: thank you for your ability to clog many gaps.
Speaker 1: So I had, but I do have, I do have.
Speaker 1: I have New York ones as well, but continue. I
Speaker 1: had a class with former Penn State defensive player, former
Speaker 1: forty nine er Anthony Adams and big personality, Yeah, big personality,
Speaker 1: and it was a bigger class at Penn State as
Speaker 1: a lot of them are. And it was the first day.
Speaker 1: The teacher was content to end class early, but he said,
Speaker 1: the only way I'll end class early is somebody asks
Speaker 1: a question. Well, nobody has any questions. It's first day,
Speaker 1: first day of class, right, right. So after about three
Speaker 1: to five minutes, I'd say, of very awkward silence, Anthony
Speaker 1: Adams from the last row stands up, yells out, Yo,
Speaker 1: what time is It's a question. Teacher answers the question says,
Speaker 1: you're dismissed. Anthony Adams is in that class? Had that one.
Speaker 1: I had a speech calm class with an unnamed Penn
Speaker 1: State player uh oh ho, very clearly had borrowed his
Speaker 1: speech from somebody else and wasn't really well versed in
Speaker 1: the topic that he was discussing. Wasn't very well practiced
Speaker 1: in the speech either. Was it Matt Millan? It was
Speaker 1: not Matt Millan. Ah. But let's just say it was
Speaker 1: a speech on diamonds and it was very odd and
Speaker 1: very awkward, but still something that some friends and I
Speaker 1: talk about to this day. You don't want to blow
Speaker 1: this person up all these years, thirty five years after
Speaker 1: going to college. No, No, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: I can tell you I've seen random famous people in
Speaker 2: New York because it's very hard not to everybody sort
Speaker 2: of crammed in this dumb city. And I can tell you,
Speaker 2: from a purely superficial point of view, I'd see a
Speaker 2: lot of these people. Like when I'm out for walks
Speaker 2: with the solid baby in the morning, when people are
Speaker 2: just out and getting coffee and not looking like famous,
Speaker 2: famous people, We're like, oh wait, that's so and so.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you two people I've seen that
Speaker 2: are pretty famous that live somewhere within I guess a
Speaker 2: thirty minute walk of my neighborhood. If I had to guess,
Speaker 2: I saw Carrie Russell. Okay, you know you know why
Speaker 2: that's a yawn for me.
Speaker 1: I was yawning. It's been a long day. I've been
Speaker 1: up since four am. Stupid.
Speaker 2: I saw Carrie Russell and I saw Olivia Wilde okay,
Speaker 2: and I saw them both in the mornings, either with
Speaker 2: their family or a kid like coffee hat going somewhere whatever.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you that even though they probably
Speaker 2: had not been awake for a long time, they were disheveled.
Speaker 2: They were, you know, wearing hats and whatever. And you
Speaker 2: used to seeing them on TV shows with professional makeup
Speaker 2: and red carpets whatever.
Speaker 1: Both of them.
Speaker 2: Totally disheveled, stunning, Like I felt like I needed to
Speaker 2: take a test to make sure I was of the
Speaker 2: same species as each of these people. Just absolutely completely disheveled,
Speaker 2: probably smelled like we all do, and stunning, stop me
Speaker 2: in my tracks.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, so those are two people. Not a lot
Speaker 1: of celebrities here in Allentown. But have you seen any
Speaker 1: seen some local news guys having about the time? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'd have to think a little bit more about that one.
Speaker 1: No one that comes to mind. Final question here from
Speaker 1: a Raoul. I don't even know if I have an
Speaker 1: answer to this question. This is very complicated. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: I'll try to read through this as quickly as I can.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the question. Roll final question. He said,
Speaker 1: my wife and I had our first child. He's currently
Speaker 1: nine months older. She's currently nine months old. Uh, not
Speaker 1: long ago, obviously nine months he said. As my wife
Speaker 1: is an ND grad, Notre Dame grad. She enjoys college football.
Speaker 1: I'm a Florida grad who is much more into college football.
Speaker 1: We live in Chicago. Now that we have a child,
Speaker 1: getting away for the weekend to attend a Gator game
Speaker 1: is much harder. I recently had the idea. I love
Speaker 1: the construction of the sentence. There's so much here. I
Speaker 1: recently had the idea of incorporating my family life into
Speaker 1: my college football life. Sounds like he's on the podcast
Speaker 1: with us m HM. So I ran by my wife,
Speaker 1: who's never been to a Florida Georgia weekend, the idea
Speaker 1: of turning the Florida Georgia Weekend into an annual family
Speaker 1: beach trip in Northeast Florida. The idea was well received. Now,
Speaker 1: since I have familiarity with the Florida Georgia Weekend, I
Speaker 1: have full discretion with the planning. My questions are as follows.
Speaker 1: Which beach in the area should I pick? Should we
Speaker 1: airb and B a beach cottage or book a hotel?
Speaker 1: Should we invite her in laws both sets of in laws,
Speaker 1: my sister, brother in law, their kids. Keep in mind
Speaker 1: my brother and I are the only Gator fans on
Speaker 1: either side of the family. And finally, any tips for
Speaker 1: ensuring this trip is enjoyable enough for the entire family
Speaker 1: that it becomes an annual event. This is a loaded question, Raoul,
Speaker 1: It's a lot. I am not going to pretend to
Speaker 1: know the beaches of northeast Florida well enough to give
Speaker 1: you kind of a read on which beach you should
Speaker 1: go to. I would say that if you are gonna
Speaker 1: invite a crowd, if you decide that's something you want
Speaker 1: to do, I'd probably go beach cottage, or you've got
Speaker 1: kind of your own living space as opposed to a hotel,
Speaker 1: which might end up being a little pricier and might
Speaker 1: not give you, you know, that family feel that I
Speaker 1: think you're going for here with this, with this vacation.
Speaker 1: Have you done this sort of thing before?
Speaker 2: Yes, not necessarily around a college football game. I will
Speaker 2: say the more the merrier in terms of childcare, if
Speaker 2: you want to go out and watch a game, if
Speaker 2: you want to go out and just grab some beers
Speaker 2: to have somebody in the baby's room or your hotel
Speaker 2: room whatever. That's pretty good. That you have people around
Speaker 2: that can keep a watchfuly on, like a baby monitor
Speaker 2: or something in the room, that's nice.
Speaker 1: I mean you have to.
Speaker 2: Navigate more politics of who wants to do what, and
Speaker 2: scheduling becomes weird. The hotel thing is also nice because
Speaker 2: there is somebody that is going to clean your room.
Speaker 2: And if you are with a bunch of kids and
Speaker 2: you got a bunch going on with your own and
Speaker 2: there's toys and bottles and all sorts of stuff, it
Speaker 2: is nice to have your room professionally cleaned. Might cost
Speaker 2: a little bit more, You're right, I don't know these
Speaker 2: beaches at all. No, I will rely on people that
Speaker 2: follow us on Twitter or Reddit or something like that
Speaker 2: soliverbal dot Reddit dot com to answer what beach in
Speaker 2: the area Amelia Island, Jacksonville Beach or Saint Augustine. It's
Speaker 2: just there are going to be more variables as well, though,
Speaker 2: the bigger your crowd is in terms of watching something,
Speaker 2: attending games, whatever. So I like the idea because college football,
Speaker 2: if nothing else, is we celebrate the community of it,
Speaker 2: you know, watching the game, going to games, tailgating, a
Speaker 2: commiserating over group text. That's the that's the real stuff.
Speaker 1: Tie.
Speaker 2: But you're just you're throwing a lot of wrenches in here.
Speaker 2: You're throwing a lot of wrenches. I would say, proceed
Speaker 2: with caution. I don't know everybody else in your group
Speaker 2: in terms of how enthusiastic they are about the sport
Speaker 2: and how seriously they take it. But I can't overlook
Speaker 2: the convenience of having in laws around and other people
Speaker 2: around to help out with childcare.
Speaker 1: That's pretty great, it, you know. So yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: I like the idea of this, and I want to
Speaker 1: thank you Raoul personally for introducing quote. I recently had
Speaker 1: the idea of introducing my family life into my college
Speaker 1: football life. End quote. Thank you for introducing that into
Speaker 1: the world. I will use that also forever more. You
Speaker 1: have a puppy. You have a puppy. I have a puppy.
Speaker 1: You know exactly. No I know how this works, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I will just say that you run a little bit
Speaker 1: of the risk that Cam Newton ran when he gave
Speaker 1: his Heisman speech. And I think we diagnosed it as
Speaker 1: he had good ideas, but he took advice from too
Speaker 1: many people, which is why it ended up as a
Speaker 1: beautiful disaster. So don't take too much advice here, don't
Speaker 1: think too much about it. I would say, start small
Speaker 1: and focused, get it down pack if you're going to
Speaker 1: establish any kind of new tradition, bringing this full circle,
Speaker 1: and then expand once you're comfortable doing so. But don't
Speaker 1: don't try to do it all at once, because that's
Speaker 1: a recipe for disaster. I think that's right.
Speaker 2: Master the small group first, master your family whatever first,
Speaker 2: and get that, get into a rhythm that way, and
Speaker 2: then expand from there.
Speaker 1: That's good advice. Ty I, thank you, Dan. I think
Speaker 1: that's a good way to close this out. We appreciate
Speaker 1: all of our questions. Next week we're going to be
Speaker 1: back with presumably a college football trick show, but we
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