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Speaker 1: My name is ty Hilton brand joining me over there.
Speaker 1: Where are you Dan? You're not in New York today,
Speaker 1: are you I'm all over the place, Ty, we're talking mentally, emotionally, physically.
Speaker 1: I do this, it becomes muscle memory.
Speaker 2: And I'm about to say New York City until I
Speaker 2: realize that you're You're in Austin, Texas today.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The sun is beating down on me in Uta Country.
Speaker 1: I just have some tacos. I'm I'm very happy to
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Speaker 1: So is he? Hold on?
Speaker 2: Is he still West Coast Kevin despite the fact that
Speaker 2: now he has moved to decidedly. Uh uh, that's a
Speaker 2: good question.
Speaker 1: Midwest Heartland, Great Plains, Southwest Hill Country. Yeah, he's on
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Speaker 1: First, should we get just jump in? Let's jump in dead.
Speaker 1: First off, we have brading news. You didn't. I like
Speaker 1: that you're not even playing the sounds because as you are,
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Speaker 1: have not found my soundboard yet. Oh okay, that's a
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Speaker 1: that was mean. So I stand by everything. Do you
Speaker 1: want to get into news? So there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were two I guess related bits of breaking
Speaker 2: news on the NC double A front. Both pertain to transfers,
Speaker 2: and I guess by extension red shirts.
Speaker 1: But I guess yeah, directly and indirect transfers. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: transfers are going to be easier. And what this amounts to,
Speaker 1: and I'm reading directly from the ESPN dot com article,
Speaker 1: student athletes will now have the ability to transfer without
Speaker 1: asking for permission, like real life human beings. This is
Speaker 1: a whole thing.
Speaker 2: For as long as I can remember, if you wanted
Speaker 2: to transfer, you had to go to your school or
Speaker 2: your coach, and they had the right to restrict where
Speaker 2: you could transfer. Again, a whole thing. There's a new
Speaker 2: process now that's going to take effect in October, and
Speaker 2: it allows an athlete to notify his current school of
Speaker 2: his desire to transfer. Then the school is required to
Speaker 2: enter the student's name into a database within two business days.
Speaker 1: I love that they specify that.
Speaker 2: And then upon being entered into that database, college coaches
Speaker 2: can just go out and contact any athlete freely without permission.
Speaker 2: It's like the waiver wire in your fantasy league, Dan,
Speaker 2: That's what this is going to turn into. It clearly
Speaker 2: gives more independence, more rights to any.
Speaker 1: Students up the process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, any student athlete who is actively seeking a transfer.
Speaker 2: So I think I think this is a net positive.
Speaker 2: I think this is a very good thing for students
Speaker 2: who are pursuing an kind of transfer.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's not sort of a cart blanche thing
Speaker 1: because conferences can still sort of institute their own rules,
Speaker 1: But in terms of process, it certainly speeds things up
Speaker 1: and helps kids who want to transfer and gauge with
Speaker 1: coaches at potential destination. So I think it's a it's
Speaker 1: a good thing.
Speaker 2: The other bit of this is that there is a
Speaker 2: new red shirt rule, And what this amounts to is
Speaker 2: this is great. Yeah, somebody, a kid can play up
Speaker 2: to four games without burning a red shirt, which is
Speaker 2: interesting to me, and I thought about this all afternoon.
Speaker 2: Is this going to turn into like a September call
Speaker 2: up like we see in Major League Baseball? Could it
Speaker 2: turn into like a November, a late November a bowl
Speaker 2: season call up in college football?
Speaker 1: So there's a number of different ways that this can
Speaker 1: be interpreted or instituted. Really. One of them, obviously, is
Speaker 1: when you have games against teams that you're not terribly
Speaker 1: worried about, if it's an FCS game early on or
Speaker 1: in the case of a number of SEC teams, I
Speaker 1: don't have schedules in front of me, but that November weekend,
Speaker 1: the SoCon weekend that you can, you know, play a
Speaker 1: starter for a quarter or not even play a starter
Speaker 1: who might be nursing an injury, where you can have
Speaker 1: depth that you didn't necessarily have in years past to
Speaker 1: get a sense of what you might have in a
Speaker 1: red shirt player. And maybe that's it's better in November,
Speaker 1: where you have a better sense of that player on
Speaker 1: a scout team or throughout practice for a couple of months.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's early on in the season to see whether
Speaker 1: or not a potential red shirt should be an actual
Speaker 1: red shirt or an actual contributor, because the talent is there.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's to find out whether or not. In the
Speaker 1: case of I think Khalil Tait, somebody had talked about
Speaker 1: this that it just wasn't a good practice player, but
Speaker 1: he was a gamer, and maybe you have somebody like
Speaker 1: that forever. Reason rises to the occasion once he is
Speaker 1: between the lines, you know. I saw a couple of
Speaker 1: people mentioned about Jalen Hurts where he could actually play
Speaker 1: three four games and still take a red shirt and
Speaker 1: graduate and transfer out of Alabama after the season exactly,
Speaker 1: stay fresh and showcase abilities and in ways perhaps that
Speaker 1: he hadn't before. So I think there are situations like that,
Speaker 1: But ultimately I think it's going to help in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, a guy plays four games and breaks his
Speaker 1: ankle and is unable to play the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: but can still maintain another year of eligibility that he
Speaker 1: otherwise previously would not have had. Right now, I think
Speaker 1: it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if coaches get creative with it,
Speaker 2: very curious to see if this is something that comes
Speaker 2: into play again later in the year, depending on situations. Clearly,
Speaker 2: what we saw with Tua this past season was not
Speaker 2: exactly the norm, but you can envision a scenario in
Speaker 2: which there's somebody who's a red shirt that could be
Speaker 2: of service to a team, maybe even in a particular package,
Speaker 2: a particular situation come gain down the stretch.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm just very curious to see if there's any bit
Speaker 2: of strategicy that goes on with this new four game rule.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll have a better sense as fans, we'll
Speaker 1: have a better sense for players that, oh, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of hype around this red shirt and what he
Speaker 1: was able to do in practice, when ultimately practice is
Speaker 1: important doesn't mean a ton As for future success in
Speaker 1: a lot of cases. Also, like let's say a team
Speaker 1: who's not going to be all that good this year.
Speaker 1: Give me a team, I don't know, Rutgers or something.
Speaker 1: We don't expect Illinois that we don't expect a ton
Speaker 1: from perhaps once they just are definitely not going to
Speaker 1: be eligible for a bowl game once they go to
Speaker 1: two and seven or something like that. But they have
Speaker 1: a promising blue chip quarterback or something like that who
Speaker 1: they're red shirting now all of the sudden, especially schedule
Speaker 1: isn't crazy. Yes, four games's two last three and just
Speaker 1: like get some game rhythm, game experience, get that sort
Speaker 1: of speed of the game thing updated a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's it's entirely possible that. And that's the September call
Speaker 1: up thing telling you get a sense, yeah, but in November. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the November call up, I guess we can. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Sepvember call up, we can.
Speaker 2: We can be the first to coin that if it
Speaker 2: hasn't already, Yes, November call up. All right, well, we'll
Speaker 2: have to keep an eye on that. In other NCAA news,
Speaker 2: it doesn't to you know, players transferring a red shirt,
Speaker 2: but three more bowl games are coming Our way. We've
Speaker 2: had arguments with folks on Twitter who think there should
Speaker 2: be fewer games, But starting in twenty twenty, it looks
Speaker 2: like the total Bowl games will now increase two forty three.
Speaker 2: There'll be three more. According to our friend Brett McMurphy,
Speaker 2: Chicago and Myrtle Beach reportedly are in line to get
Speaker 2: Bowl games. They could be two of the three sites. Chicago,
Speaker 2: if they got it, would play it at Wrigley Field,
Speaker 2: which is kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've been in Chicago in late December. It's it's literally cool.
Speaker 1: It's literally really cool. It's extremely cool, cooler than being cool. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does increase the likelihood.
Speaker 2: That we're going to see more five and seven teams
Speaker 2: getting into these Bowl games. Teams again five and seven
Speaker 2: final record losing records. But I am long past the
Speaker 2: point of really caring about whether or not a five
Speaker 2: and seven team gets in. I've gotten to this point
Speaker 2: because we've talked to a lot of reporters, a lot
Speaker 2: of coaches, and in particular a lot of players who
Speaker 2: all lax poetic about the Bowl experience and what that
Speaker 2: means to a college athlete. Many of them talk about
Speaker 2: how good of an experience that was how memorable it
Speaker 2: was and how it really influenced them in a positive way.
Speaker 2: So if there's a means to do this, if it's
Speaker 2: not setting anyone back, I say, I say go for it.
Speaker 2: And I'm always in favor of more football doing a
Speaker 2: college football podcast, so what the hell?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's in their exhibition TV shows that you don't
Speaker 1: have to watch having strong opinions about a five and
Speaker 1: seventeen they don't deserve. It's like, it's almost as if
Speaker 1: you're getting angry that, like Blue Bloods is getting a
Speaker 1: spin off and you never really watch blue Bloods in
Speaker 1: the first place, Like blue What who cares about blue
Speaker 1: Bloods in a spin off? Exactly? Orange Bloods set in Miami,
Speaker 1: I have never end honestly, just oh Orange Bloods. Didn't
Speaker 1: even realize I was gonna go, yep, hook them. But
Speaker 1: it's getting angry over something that you weren't even caring
Speaker 1: about in the first place and didn't need to patronize
Speaker 1: in the at all in late December. So whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Chicago's a great city. Myrtle Beach, I'm sure is a
Speaker 1: good time if you're coming from a cold weather place
Speaker 1: and it's just just have fun. It's it's more time
Speaker 1: for college students putting themselves in harm's way to have fun.
Speaker 1: Get a couple of eye slides along the way. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: In other news, former five star Clemson quarterback Hunter Johnson
Speaker 2: has announced he is transferring to Northwestern. This is a
Speaker 2: pretty significant move for the Northwestern Wildcats. They're hoping to
Speaker 2: get Clayton Thorson back from an injury in twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: and have him be the starter as he's been yep,
Speaker 2: but come twenty nineteen they're gonna need a new quarterback.
Speaker 2: And Hunter Johnson was formerly the number one pocket passer
Speaker 2: in the class of twenty seventeen, the number twenty one
Speaker 2: overall player in that twenty seventeen class.
Speaker 1: So this is a blue chip recruit who's signing on
Speaker 1: to play.
Speaker 2: He'll have three years of eligibility left after he sits
Speaker 2: out the twenty eighteen campaign. He's from the Midwest, so
Speaker 2: he's close to home. If in fact, Pat Fitzgerald can
Speaker 2: spin some gold here out of Hunter Johnson, this is
Speaker 2: a pretty significant pickup for them.
Speaker 1: It is, and I'm not sure like they've always recruited
Speaker 1: well enough like quarterback there's not a lot of Northwestern
Speaker 1: teams you're like they're good other than the quarterback. Quarterback
Speaker 1: play has always been pretty solid, not spectacular, but pretty
Speaker 1: solid these past few years. And the fact that they're
Speaker 1: led by their defense, the fact that coming in he
Speaker 1: should have more talent than any Northwestern quarterback ever in
Speaker 1: terms of raw material, raw talent. The problem to me
Speaker 1: hasn't been that Northwestern hasn't been able to develop kids
Speaker 1: to the point where they're beating or hanging with I mean,
Speaker 1: you watched Northwestern beat Notre Dame. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's still a tender spot for you. But Northwestern has
Speaker 1: developed kids to the point where they're competitive with the
Speaker 1: best of college football, or at least the highest level
Speaker 1: of college football. The thing I'm concerned about, and I
Speaker 1: don't have the music at the ready. You certainly don't
Speaker 1: because you don't have a soundboard. It's not the people
Speaker 1: on the field that worry me about Northwestern. It's the
Speaker 1: people with the laminated play cards and the headsets on
Speaker 1: offense that worry me about Northwestern the past five years.
Speaker 1: This is the disappointment. So this is there. This is
Speaker 1: a total offense against FBS teams yards per play a
Speaker 1: certainly not bulletproof metric, but something along the way of that.
Speaker 1: Twenty thirteen seventy fourth, okay, around average time sure, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty second, two thy fifteen, one hundred
Speaker 1: and twentieth, twenty sixteen eighty eight, twenty seventeen ninety third yep,
Speaker 1: and that's with an experienced quarterback. Last year, Justin Jackson
Speaker 1: obviously was a home run threat a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if it's been a talent thing or
Speaker 1: a we need to change things up on offense. And
Speaker 1: hopefully that's the case going into this year, because to
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm for next year when they do
Speaker 1: have Hunter Johnson would be a pretty big deal for
Speaker 1: a Northwestern team That year in a year out is
Speaker 1: pretty damn good. All right.
Speaker 2: Elsewhere quarterback news Virginia Tech Josh Jackson may not be
Speaker 2: eligible because of a quote academic issue. It depends where
Speaker 2: you look about this news topic here. I think, for
Speaker 2: what it's worth, Virginia Tech remains pretty optimistic that he'll
Speaker 2: still be eligible and able to play. He was still
Speaker 2: with the team as of like a week ago. He
Speaker 2: hasn't been suspended or anything like that. It sounds like
Speaker 2: it's the kind of thing they're trying to work through.
Speaker 2: So as of now, everything that I've seen, they're fairly
Speaker 2: optimistic that he's still going to be the starter. But
Speaker 2: certainly something to watch if you're an ACC fan, if
Speaker 2: you're a Virginia Tech fan. Josh Jackson had a pretty
Speaker 2: promising campaign a year ago through for like twenty nine
Speaker 2: hundred yards twenty touchdowns. Clearly a young kid still trying
Speaker 2: to find his rhythm, but that would be a pretty
Speaker 2: big blow for Justin Flinte.
Speaker 1: Yeah, essentially no experience behind him in any sort of
Speaker 1: meaningful way. They opened up the season against Florida State.
Speaker 1: They were that offense took a pretty big step back
Speaker 1: after I guess what the Duke game. They scored ten
Speaker 1: against Miami, twenty two against Georgia Tech, twenty against Pitt
Speaker 1: ten against Virginia, twenty one against Oklahoma State, so that
Speaker 1: it wasn't a prolific offense the back half of the
Speaker 1: season with I think some pretty good talent. So that
Speaker 1: would be a pretty significant setback for both Josh Jackson
Speaker 1: and the Hokies. But the schedule is not terrible. Other
Speaker 1: than that opening game against Florida State the first half
Speaker 1: of the year, so who knows. And finally a bit
Speaker 1: of somber news here. But you may have read stories
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago about Jordan McNair from Maryland,
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman. He collapsed during a team workout. He
Speaker 1: has now passed away. Oh so awful.
Speaker 2: Two weeks after that happens, So thoughts some prayers out
Speaker 2: to his family and the entire Maryland family. You hate
Speaker 2: to read about this kind of thing, and it, unfortunately
Speaker 2: is something that happens. But man, what a bit of
Speaker 2: terrible news for that Maryland program sad to hear it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Country Lucky Stars, it's a tough place. I hate
Speaker 1: to hear it. Absolutely Okay.
Speaker 2: On that weird note, Dan, if we could go to
Speaker 2: some of the questions let's do it that we got
Speaker 2: from the verballerhood now again reiterate or what kind of
Speaker 2: questions we put the call out for, Whether the solid
Speaker 2: verbal bat signal went up for questions of a of
Speaker 2: a certain particular theme here.
Speaker 1: Yes, secret fear, who are you secretly scared of? Yes,
Speaker 1: so we're not talking are you scared of? This season?
Speaker 1: What we're not talking like you're scared of spiders. We're
Speaker 1: talking about what team are you? Are you a little
Speaker 1: bit less excited to see on the schedule, then you
Speaker 1: might think you could be scared of Richmond, and in
Speaker 1: that case, right right, scared of spiders. Pretty decent situation. Okay,
Speaker 1: who are you secretly scared of? Not the major teams
Speaker 1: on your schedule, with the teams that are perhaps overlooked
Speaker 1: or sandwiched. You know that let down, look ahead sandwich situation.
Speaker 1: I do have one of those in our in our questions,
Speaker 1: there's a prime let down, look ahead sandwich situation. So
Speaker 1: there is let's get into it real quick. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of overlapped questions and teams that multiple fans
Speaker 1: of the same team are scared of. We also have
Speaker 1: candidates for improvement and a couple of random questions, and
Speaker 1: then be we'll get into the grilling and outdoor eating
Speaker 1: questions with of course non West Coast West Coast Kevin.
Speaker 2: Sure, all right, So Ryan sends in as a Penn
Speaker 2: State fan, I'm secretly scared of app State in the
Speaker 2: first game, Yes, Ryan, I am not.
Speaker 1: Penn State wins that game going away by three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: What would concern you most about Penn State. We have
Speaker 1: a pretty good concept for app State, just because opening
Speaker 1: week against a frisky team with the infrastructure of a
Speaker 1: good defense, losing a defensive coordinator, new quarterback for app State,
Speaker 1: but who is what is excuse me, the vulnerability in
Speaker 1: a game where you know, even James Franklin's not going
Speaker 1: to know how a new look Penn State team is
Speaker 1: going to look in week one. You know they there's
Speaker 1: a fair amount of turnover on defense. Yep.
Speaker 2: Some of the veteran leadership is gone now, and of
Speaker 2: course Saquon Barkley is the headliner drafted number two overall
Speaker 2: by the New York Football Giants, but they've got plenty
Speaker 2: of depth behind him to pick up at least some
Speaker 2: the slack trace bick Sorely being there is a pretty
Speaker 2: big deal. Will he will continue the tradition of the
Speaker 2: last two seasons now and I think propel them to
Speaker 2: great things. So I am actually not at all concerned
Speaker 2: about this football game. There's clearly going to be some
Speaker 2: turnover that they're going to have to adjust for and
Speaker 2: develop over the course of the season. But AP State
Speaker 2: Week one does not scare me. The game's in State College,
Speaker 2: which can cover up a lot of sins. So I'm
Speaker 2: okay with this game, Ryan, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough? I mean, yeah, the concern is week
Speaker 1: one cob Webs, a new play caller obviously on offense
Speaker 1: with Joe Moore had gone, and what if those Tommy
Speaker 1: Stevens shovel passes don't turn out? Alright? What happens then?
Speaker 1: What's the plan?
Speaker 3: Be Ty?
Speaker 2: All right, Joshua says, as a Georgia fan, I am
Speaker 2: secretly terrified about Week two against South Carolina? Can you
Speaker 2: whisper it's going to be okay? In my ear please,
Speaker 2: I'll just be over here in the fetal position. Thanks.
Speaker 2: So all right, josh Well here's the deal. Yeah, Daniel,
Speaker 2: let me ask you, are you afraid?
Speaker 1: What are you afraid of? The most?
Speaker 2: If you are a Georgia fan as it relates to
Speaker 2: South Carolina, what about South Carolina scares you? Other than
Speaker 2: the fact that the game I believe is in South Carolina,
Speaker 2: it's in Columbia.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So besides that point, it's a new look
Speaker 1: South Carolina offense without Kurt Roper, who has let go?
Speaker 1: I think it's Brian McClendon who takes over, so they're
Speaker 1: going to play faster. South Carolina has recruited, well, this
Speaker 1: is a new look offense, and the fact is South
Speaker 1: Carolina is going to be at its healthiest. So Georgia
Speaker 1: obviously has the depth that South Carolina doesn't have, so
Speaker 1: that's a huge advantage. October, November whatever. So South Carolina
Speaker 1: should be healthy. They're talented enough at least that first
Speaker 1: eleven on defense Debo's back for South Carolina. I've given
Speaker 1: like four answers, but I think the health and experience,
Speaker 1: the healthy experience, I think should be the biggest thing
Speaker 1: for South Carolina that should worry Georgia in week two.
Speaker 1: And also Georgia is gonna murder Austin P in week one,
Speaker 1: but it should be noted, really good story last year
Speaker 1: Austin p going from zero to eleven and twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: to eight and four and twenty seventeen with like a
Speaker 1: thirty one year old head coach. I think his name
Speaker 1: is Will Keely. Just it's very tangential to the question
Speaker 1: at hand, But Georgia might take a few weeks to
Speaker 1: really get into a rhythm with a new look defense.
Speaker 2: I could totally see that happening. I think it's an
Speaker 2: interesting game to bet the home dog, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: when we talk about our previews, definitely it's something that
Speaker 2: we can bring up. But early in the year a
Speaker 2: bit of an adjustment again, some turnover on the Georgia side.
Speaker 2: South Carolina will be fine. They do have some turnover
Speaker 2: on their defensive front that I think will be okay
Speaker 2: in the long term because Will musch Champ does defense
Speaker 2: pretty well. You're right in saying that the offense might
Speaker 2: be a little bit more wide open. But all in all,
Speaker 2: I think Georgia wins the game. But I think it's
Speaker 2: a really good opportunity to go home dog because South
Speaker 2: Carolina at home is probably going to be getting like
Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen points. I can see that game being a
Speaker 2: little closer.
Speaker 1: Sure, absolutely, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Mike says FSU fan here. I am secretly scared
Speaker 2: about Boston College after the beatdown we got last year.
Speaker 2: Do you think Steve Dazio continues to keep BC moving
Speaker 2: in the right direction? How do you think BC will
Speaker 2: fare against FSU's new look offense. Can I answer this
Speaker 2: question with a question of my own?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 2: Do are we sure that BC's moving in the right
Speaker 2: direction under Steve Doz.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, why are you so sure they're a ball team?
Speaker 1: That's the right direction. That's great, ty, come on, be
Speaker 1: happy it's summer. But do you feel like they're getting
Speaker 1: that much better from year to year? So they developed
Speaker 1: one of the best freshman running backs in the country
Speaker 1: last year, probably one of the best one twenty running
Speaker 1: backs in the country in aj dillonfishent State, healthy, workman
Speaker 1: like whatever. Harold Landry developed really nicely on defense. You know,
Speaker 1: the depth isn't going to be there. That's two players,
Speaker 1: which is great, two players. Anthony Brown was not particularly
Speaker 1: good last year other than the Florida State game, so
Speaker 1: that's I guess maybe a little bit worrisome. Yes, if
Speaker 1: Boston College is on a bowl streak, which I believe
Speaker 1: they are, that at least on a very surface level,
Speaker 1: tells me that there's good momentum. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm totally convinced about that. Listen, they're in the ACC
Speaker 1: so they're never going to win double digit games under
Speaker 1: Steve Adazio. That's not a hot take. It'd be wonderful
Speaker 1: if they did because it's something new and novel, but
Speaker 1: it's Bowl eligibility tie is positive momentum in Chestnut Hill.
Speaker 2: Here is what strikes me about that Boston College game
Speaker 2: for Florida State. I'm not so much worse worried about
Speaker 2: Boston College winning the football game as I am Florida
Speaker 2: State potentially being worn out because listen to this stretch
Speaker 2: of games that they've got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's what's coming up? What's the body blow?
Speaker 2: Here is what Florida State has before that game October
Speaker 2: twenty seventh, home against Clemson, biggest game on the schedule.
Speaker 2: The next week they're on the road at NC State
Speaker 2: for Ryan Finley's like fifteenth year of eligibility.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely right. That's a huge letdown look ahead Sandwich.
Speaker 1: No matter what happens.
Speaker 2: Saturday, November tenth, the week after at Notre Dame, which
Speaker 2: should be I would think a pretty big game as well.
Speaker 2: And then they come back home the week after against
Speaker 2: Boston College the game in question, and then the week
Speaker 2: after they've got their rivalry game at home but against Florida.
Speaker 2: So a lot of ammo there on the schedule Boston
Speaker 2: College and a prime letdown look ahead spot. I still
Speaker 2: think Florida State by that point later in the year
Speaker 2: is good enough to just buwl them over. But there's
Speaker 2: at least a question in my mind as to what
Speaker 2: might happen there. But I still feel pretty confident.
Speaker 1: It's an ideal scenario other than the Tallahassee thing. I
Speaker 1: because I am a believer and it hurts me to
Speaker 1: say this. In Willie Taggart's offense, like, I think what
Speaker 1: he brings to Florida State is so much needed change.
Speaker 1: And even if they don't get wonderful quarterback play either
Speaker 1: out of either DeAndre frans Bola or James Blackman, there's
Speaker 1: enough there that they should especially by then. Like if
Speaker 1: you look at what Oregon looked like when fully healthy
Speaker 1: against and we can compare Boston College to some of
Speaker 1: the not so impressive teams that Oregon played when Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert was healthy last year, I would imagine they will
Speaker 1: be happy to be in a rhythm against a team
Speaker 1: without the talent of Notre Dame, NC State, Clemson, etc.
Speaker 1: Agree Dan, all right, let's one I think they could play,
Speaker 1: but it is ideal for Boston College scenario wise.
Speaker 2: All Right, Ben says he's scared of Boise State ruining
Speaker 2: his birthday when the Broncos visit Stillwater in Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I looked at this game. I'm equally as
Speaker 1: terrified Ben. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Boise State brings back enough to feel pretty good
Speaker 2: about what they're.
Speaker 1: Going to do on offense. I e. Brett Rippen coming back,
Speaker 1: pretty good quarterback. Mm hm. In Stillwater.
Speaker 2: If you're Mike Gundy, you've got a ton of turnover,
Speaker 2: not the least of which is Mason Rudolph is now
Speaker 2: at the Pittsburgh Steelers, and you're going to be starting.
Speaker 2: I believe Taylor Cornelius great name, will clearly end up
Speaker 2: being Yukon Cornelius in this show.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Big dude six six, like two point thirty. But early
Speaker 2: in the year, I think a really low point spread,
Speaker 2: probably single digits under a touchdown, could see it happening
Speaker 2: where Boise State pulls an upset. They're going to be
Speaker 2: the best group of five team this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's fully true. I mean, I
Speaker 1: still like UCF, I still like Houston Memphis. There's a
Speaker 1: lot I like. But yes, I think Boise State has
Speaker 1: a very good claim to that. Boise has not much
Speaker 1: going in I think they have Yukon the week before.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State has even less. They have South Alabama coming
Speaker 1: in the week before. It's in still Water. The big
Speaker 1: thing is is, you know Cornelis, whoever ends up starting
Speaker 1: for Oklahoma State, what's his poise like? Because Boise States,
Speaker 1: they're essentially led by their defensive line, the fact that
Speaker 1: they have a ton of talent and experience there and
Speaker 1: return a quarterback in Brett Rippon, are well coached, and
Speaker 1: there's not much Boise State has to lose. They're going
Speaker 1: too still Water. That's not like it's a playoff elimination
Speaker 1: game for Boise So I think they can play with
Speaker 1: a little less abandoned. So I would happily take those points,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: Moving on, Matthew says he's scared of Ohio State's post
Speaker 2: Penn State stretch. Okay, post Penn State stretch and the
Speaker 2: way here's how he's labeled it. He says Indiana is
Speaker 2: a chaos team, Minnesota has PJ Fleck looking for a
Speaker 2: big win, and Purdue on the road is Jeff Brom.
Speaker 1: He just says Jeff Bram here in parentheseason. That's the
Speaker 1: worrisome thing.
Speaker 2: Now, I looked at this a little bit more closely,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I fully agree. I think it's giving
Speaker 2: Indiana alog it's given him a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: Sure, PJ.
Speaker 2: Fleck, Okay, maybe he starts building something. Maybe he built
Speaker 2: like a quarterback on what he did a year ago. But
Speaker 2: the game is in Ohio Stadium, and again, who's playing quarterback?
Speaker 2: Ross Aids Stadium before a bye week in West Lafayette
Speaker 2: could be interesting, but still Ohio States should be fairly
Speaker 2: well loaded by that point in the season, like they'll
Speaker 2: have it mostly figured out by the time they get
Speaker 2: the Halloween weekend. It's actually the games after that that
Speaker 2: terrify me the most. Of course, Yeah, Nebraska at Michigan,
Speaker 2: State at Maryland, which we're gonna I think talk about
Speaker 2: Maryland a little bit later, and then the game back home.
Speaker 2: But Michigan, who knows what we're going to get out
Speaker 2: of Michigan. I'm not all that worried about those three
Speaker 2: games after Penn.
Speaker 1: State, I'm not worried about Purdue. If I'm an Ohio
Speaker 1: State fan. At this point, there's nothing Yeah, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: there's nothing great leading in, there's nothing great the immediate
Speaker 1: week after with a bye week there and The thing
Speaker 1: that's a bummer about Purdue is they were for as
Speaker 1: much credit as I think Jeff Brom rightfully deserves for
Speaker 1: being innovative and interesting on offense, it was the defense
Speaker 1: that led that team last year, and they replace a ton,
Speaker 1: especially up front. So it feels like, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: thinks when there's a new coach, like, wow, the first
Speaker 1: year is going to be sort of an experimentation, rebuilding
Speaker 1: type beer. But offensively produce should be a little bit
Speaker 1: better in year two. But defensively, I think they're going
Speaker 1: to take a step back, and that's really what led
Speaker 1: their sort of exciting resurgence last year. So I'm not
Speaker 1: buying Prudue as being secretly scary right now.
Speaker 2: A and M fan Sean says that Arkansas makes him
Speaker 2: nervous because John Chavis knows the defensive personnel and Chad
Speaker 2: Morris for several reasons. He says they will have plenty
Speaker 2: of motivation to beat us. Does it seem legit or
Speaker 2: is the talent gap too big for Arkansas? I think
Speaker 2: this is a legit concern. One of the things that
Speaker 2: we talked about when Chad Morris came over from SMU
Speaker 2: is how we both saw potential for Arkansas to be
Speaker 2: that sort of wild card team, you know, like, ah,
Speaker 2: they might not be consistent, but they're gonna beat somebody,
Speaker 2: and A and M with their turnover, they've got a
Speaker 2: lot coming back. But could totally see a situation in
Speaker 2: which A and M's beaten up from playing Alabama the
Speaker 2: week before and Arkansas just sort of finds a way
Speaker 2: to wear him down in the line.
Speaker 1: Maybe, I mean, at what point point as A and
Speaker 1: m Arkansas ever normal? No, it's it's in a TNT,
Speaker 1: I believe once again, it's that Cowboy Championship Classic thing,
Speaker 1: whatever they call it. Yeah, it's gonna go to three overtimes,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get weird and wacky, and sure, no matter
Speaker 1: who's coaching any of the teams involved, that should worry
Speaker 1: you because it's A and m Arkansas. Yeah, the perpetual
Speaker 1: worry game. Yeah, A m Arkansas, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Nathan says he's a Notre Dame fan from Indiana. It
Speaker 2: seems like people out of state don't realize that there's
Speaker 2: a perdue Notre Dame rivalry between fans. That being said,
Speaker 2: it pains him to admit that Purdue might be a
Speaker 2: fun team to watch this year. Notre Dame does not
Speaker 2: play Perdue this year, but I do agree. I was
Speaker 2: all in on the Purdue thing a year ago and
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see where they go in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: I think Jeff Brohm's an incredible coach, and we've talked
Speaker 2: at nauseam about the cindularity here the sinularity.
Speaker 1: And if Jeff Brohm has a good year this year,
Speaker 1: he's gone. I don't know if he'll ever be playing
Speaker 1: against Notre Dame, coaching against Notre Dame and Ross, but listen,
Speaker 1: who knows hope for the best, similarly Notre Dame. This
Speaker 1: is just on the topic of scheduling. Why does Notre
Speaker 1: Dame make us such a disaster out of their skale?
Speaker 1: From Ivan? Why not drop Stanford or Navy? And I'm
Speaker 1: not looking for the typical we owe Navy right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is there any reason should Notre Dame make their schedule
Speaker 1: easier or do they have to make their schedule what
Speaker 1: it is in order to maintain the credibility of independence.
Speaker 1: I think they have to. Yeah, I think they have to,
Speaker 1: and I'm with you all they want to see it
Speaker 1: at that playoff table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with the Ivan. There are definitely years in
Speaker 2: which and it's mostly every year if we're being honest,
Speaker 2: where I look at the schedule and I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: that's that situation is not going to play out well.
Speaker 2: You can see the writing on the wall. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, if you are Notre Dame, if you
Speaker 2: do play such a high price on your own independence,
Speaker 2: I think is something you have to do if you
Speaker 2: want to try and compete for national championship. Otherwise gonna
Speaker 2: find yourself in a situation later in the year where
Speaker 2: we're arguing this top four thing out and Notre Dame
Speaker 2: is left out of the conversation because they didn't maybe
Speaker 2: have a game like a Stanford.
Speaker 1: Brendan says his Notre Dame fan fear is Northwestern because
Speaker 1: of a letdown, look ahead Sandwich situation, after Navy, the
Speaker 1: body the Notre Dame, the classic Notre Dame body blow situation,
Speaker 1: and before Florida State and that game is in Evanston yep.
Speaker 1: I think I think Brendan's onto something with that, something
Speaker 1: with that fear one hundred percent. What week is that
Speaker 1: in the in the season that Octmber, first week of November,
Speaker 1: first week in November. Yeah, that's when Northwestern is getting
Speaker 1: a little frisky. Sure, absolutely, a night game.
Speaker 2: Hold on one other thing, yeah, place a night game
Speaker 2: the week before against Navy.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. That game is being played in San Diego,
Speaker 1: of course it is. Yeah, all right, I mean it
Speaker 1: does make sense with the Navy base there, but yeah,
Speaker 1: in San Diego. So there's travel involved. They're flying back
Speaker 1: cross country, not like a true cross country flight. It's
Speaker 1: not like the pure NFL scenario where you're going from
Speaker 1: San Diego pretty far. It's pretty far from San Diego.
Speaker 2: And just saying there's a lot there that makes you
Speaker 2: potentially a little bit squeamish. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: after that Florida State game in Notre Dame, the Irish
Speaker 2: are back on the road. They play the game in
Speaker 2: the like the non Pinstripe Bowl Pinstripe Bowl in Yankee
Speaker 2: Stadium against Syracuse before traveling back across country to square
Speaker 2: off against usc.
Speaker 1: Final game of the year. Are you gonna go to
Speaker 1: the Yankee Stadium game? Yeah, you're a Yankee fan in
Speaker 1: a Notre Dame. I'm not going to that game, mister mainstream,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to that game. Who should Michigan be
Speaker 1: more worried about on their schedule, aside from the big ones,
Speaker 1: which is Ohio State, Michigan State, Penn State, Notre Dame
Speaker 1: is from Abbot long time for baller, just crowd favorite
Speaker 1: Abbot Skelding, Nebraska, Northwestern Indiana. What do you think? Not
Speaker 1: Indiana at this point? Probably Nebraska's pretty early on, right,
Speaker 1: but it's not week one or two. I want to
Speaker 1: say it's like week four. It's week four, yeah, second
Speaker 1: to last week of September. And I will also say
Speaker 1: Nebraska has there is another letdown look ahead situation. I
Speaker 1: don't have it in front of me, but I'm almost
Speaker 1: positive Nebraska has Colorado, who shouldn't be all that good,
Speaker 1: but you know they're well coached. Who knows they have Colorado?
Speaker 1: And then I think a Troy good Troy team once
Speaker 1: again who beat LSU last year. New quarterback for Troy,
Speaker 1: but a lot of remaining pieces before that Michigan game.
Speaker 1: So disadvantage for Nebraska right there with a letdown look ahead,
Speaker 1: but who knows. I still think the highest ceiling of
Speaker 1: those teams in terms of existing structure is Northwestern. It's
Speaker 1: probably Northwestern. Yeah, where is that game? The game is
Speaker 1: at Northwestern. Actually, yes, okay, weird Kyle field Day. Who
Speaker 1: knows what else we got here? Let's go to Libby,
Speaker 1: another crowd favorite. Yeah, secretly terrified of Fau for Oklahoma's
Speaker 1: home open, our first game without Baker Mayfield against a
Speaker 1: motivated Fau. Is this an irrational fear? I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty warranted, ty not a rational link Kiffinlank Kiffin? What
Speaker 1: are we talking about here? Is now associated with the
Speaker 1: Weiss family. Charlie Weiss junior, who is your younger brother's
Speaker 1: younger brother.
Speaker 2: Have you started looking at our fantasy things for twenty eighteen?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I think Charlie Weiss somehow, some way
Speaker 2: being involved in our fantasy draft, even if it's Charlie
Speaker 2: Weiss Junior, has to be a thing.
Speaker 1: I am excited for the possibility. If there is going
Speaker 1: to be a Brian Colangelo esque burner controversy in college
Speaker 1: football this year one, you know it's going to be
Speaker 1: within the orbit of Lane Kiffin, and it'll probably be
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin if it's not, because and you know this
Speaker 1: because you're somewhat local to it. Having Charlie Weiss Junior,
Speaker 1: have Charlie Weiss who I believe lives in Florida somewhere
Speaker 1: with the ability Charlie Weiss with a burner account defending
Speaker 1: his son, like if there's weird play calling against Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: if there's weird, you know, there's some strange situation, that's
Speaker 1: the obvious pick for a college football burner because you
Speaker 1: have the Kiffen and you have the father something with
Speaker 1: a twenty four year old twenty five year old and
Speaker 1: do not get either one of us wrong. It's good
Speaker 1: for everybody if we have like this crazy success story
Speaker 1: of a twenty five year old offensive coordinator. But that's
Speaker 1: where my money would be.
Speaker 2: A Charlie Weiss's senior scenario is odds on favorite to
Speaker 2: forget to switch accounts on his phone, thinks he's tweeting
Speaker 2: from his own personal or vice versa, and accidentally tweets
Speaker 2: out the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, gives the whole game away. Yeah, Yes, Fau is
Speaker 1: in a good position. They'll have a new quarterback. Jason
Speaker 1: Driscoll retired. But I want to say it's Chris Robison
Speaker 1: who transferred from Oklahoma after not really I don't think
Speaker 1: he just like enrolled in Oklahoma, had never even played
Speaker 1: or was really with the team, and then the Florida
Speaker 1: State transferred DeAndre Johnson. I forget his name. I'm a
Speaker 1: bad host and everybody already knows that. But FAU is
Speaker 1: loaded with high ish level power five talent in multiple
Speaker 1: spots early on against an Oklahoma team that is much
Speaker 1: more talented. From one to eighty five, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: go Oklahoma that they might be close for two and
Speaker 1: a half quarters, but Oklahoma gets into a rhythm and
Speaker 1: pulls away, probably by seventeen to twenty one points. So
Speaker 1: I understand the fear, but I think in the end
Speaker 1: they'll be all right.
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Speaker 1: Where are we going, Dan, Let's go elsewhere? How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Here we go? Uh, we want to go Okay, do
Speaker 1: have a list of your top five running backs this season?
Speaker 1: I have mine. This is from Patrick just a quick
Speaker 1: little ranking time like Bryce Love, JK. Dobbins, Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: tail back, can't forget him horse Yep. I don't know
Speaker 1: if cam Akers is my top five, but I love
Speaker 1: cam Akers. I'll put him in my top five top
Speaker 1: five ceiling. Yeah, we mentioned AJ Dillon.
Speaker 2: I think he'll he'll certainly have numbers because they're gonna
Speaker 2: give the ball every play. But like Miles Gaskin, Rodney Anderson,
Speaker 2: Damien Harris, there's so many names. It's a very good
Speaker 2: year for running backs in college football.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I would have Gaskin and Harris after Dobbins, Taylor
Speaker 1: in Love, not in any particular order other than Love
Speaker 1: number one. It's a yeah, it's a It's a pretty
Speaker 1: hardy class of running backs nationally. It's spread out pretty evenly,
Speaker 1: which is nice. You know, Travis CTN I think has
Speaker 1: the potential to be up there. What happens? Sure, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a good question. I really like this one
Speaker 1: from three people from Todd, John and Dennis. Wow, that'd
Speaker 1: be great. They are going on a football pilgrimage, which
Speaker 1: we're hearing more and more about like as a secondary
Speaker 1: bachelor bachelorette type situation, very much a thing that people
Speaker 1: are talking to us about. They're making a good trip,
Speaker 1: They're going to College Station, which I think is I'm
Speaker 1: not crazy about the town of college Station, not for
Speaker 1: any real reason. Just didn't do it for me. But
Speaker 1: a game at Kyle Field is a terrific time, huge game.
Speaker 1: I would just spend more time in Houston. I would
Speaker 1: just come in for the game, watch the game, chill out.
Speaker 1: If you want to eat well and having that hour
Speaker 1: and a half two hour proximity to Houston, you go
Speaker 1: to Hugos and eat Mexican food. You go eat some
Speaker 1: Vietnamese crawfish wherever you can. There's a place called Crawfish
Speaker 1: Noodles that just go wild in Houston eating and seeing
Speaker 1: the various, crazy, diverse neighborhoods. That would be my recommendation.
Speaker 2: He also adds at the back end of this email. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now I'm not sure if it's Todd, John or Dennis
Speaker 2: all three years here as part of the email, but
Speaker 2: he says, my son, so someone in this group is
Speaker 2: missing his Honors Society induction. To keep the pilgrimage streak alive, Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's right. I think that's the right move.
Speaker 1: I was president of my honor society in high school. Really,
Speaker 1: I was Would you rather have gone to an induction
Speaker 1: ceremony or to Houston, to Mexicanowood and to watch a
Speaker 1: major college for one college football? Yeah? You can't. In
Speaker 1: terms of your your building memories, You're just collecting memories
Speaker 1: along the way. And I think this is more valuable
Speaker 1: than an honor society induction.
Speaker 2: All right, so let's start here, Dan, let's go to
Speaker 2: non football questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what is the topic, du jure? The topic
Speaker 1: appears to be grilling? Yeah, grilling is West Coast Kevin available.
Speaker 1: West Coast Kevin's making, I mean, appropriately enough a quick
Speaker 1: grocery store run hellby. I'm going to drag him in
Speaker 1: here as soon as he gets back. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's start here. Have you ever used it's a public grill? Why?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Or why not? Have you? I never have?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Ty, I'm I'm I'm not sure i'd
Speaker 2: ever really want to up in your ivory castle.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen those things? Sure? They're fine? And listen, Ty,
Speaker 1: if you if they are like caked on and really gross.
Speaker 1: You just throw a piece of foil on top. It's fine.
Speaker 1: Throw some foil and some cooking spray, olive oil spray, whatever,
Speaker 1: and the charkath if your burgers or dogs, yeah, you
Speaker 1: have some charcoal. You bring your own charcoal, you light
Speaker 1: it up, and you cook meat and or vegetables over Firetie.
Speaker 2: How would you score your own aptitude when it comes
Speaker 2: to grilling?
Speaker 1: I mean, if I like, I'm a B plus, Okay,
Speaker 1: I would not throw myself a parade, but yeah, I've
Speaker 1: done it at parks before. And my current apartment has
Speaker 1: like a communal grill that I've used actually a good amount.
Speaker 1: But you you clean it when you're done. Everybody seems
Speaker 1: to be pretty respectful. It's a nice girl. It's a
Speaker 1: gas girl. So this one's not charcoal. So you make
Speaker 1: sure you turn off the propane, you make sure you
Speaker 1: turn off all the burners, you clean up after yourself,
Speaker 1: and everybody seems to do a good job. It's wonderful, Tie.
Speaker 1: It would be fun if we could somehow organize like
Speaker 1: a beat Bobby Flay style grilling competition between you and I.
Speaker 1: What do you think the like we would have to
Speaker 1: be like the same and like chicken thighs. What would
Speaker 1: you want to make like a flank steak? I had
Speaker 1: not thought about what I would like to make Dan,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. But what are you most confident
Speaker 1: in in your grilling ability? I'm very confident at the
Speaker 1: grilled steak. I mean, I know it's a I know
Speaker 1: it's a common thing. But and you'r do you reverse here?
Speaker 1: Do you do that? I've done both? Actually, what do
Speaker 1: you prefer? I prefer swede? Actually, oh great? Yeah? Man
Speaker 1: for in the ivory castle. See it before or see
Speaker 1: it afterwards? Excuse me, but I think a competition would
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. I don't know how we
Speaker 1: do that, but I mean we both have access to
Speaker 1: grills now, so we do we do? All right? We
Speaker 1: just force our wives to be judges. All right? Next,
Speaker 1: let's go to This is interesting to me. Austin wants
Speaker 1: to know is it acceptable for an adult to refuse
Speaker 1: to eat anything with bits of onions or mushrooms, et
Speaker 1: cetera in it? So it's not I don't think this
Speaker 1: is specific onions or mushrooms, but is it acceptable? And
Speaker 1: I guess within the context of grilling or just a big,
Speaker 1: big pot of food or something like that. To refuse
Speaker 1: to eat something knowing that there are bits of something
Speaker 1: in it. I know a lot of people that won't
Speaker 1: eat anything with onions in it. I am. I am
Speaker 1: not one of those people. I know. I actually like them.
Speaker 2: I like mushrooms, so for me, it's not an issue.
Speaker 2: But I think it's acceptable provided they don't make a
Speaker 2: big stink out of it.
Speaker 1: Don't. Yeah, if it's the only thing being served and
Speaker 1: somebody's like, you know, I'm just gonna have gram crackers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, as long as you don't make a production
Speaker 2: out of it because you've made if you've got some
Speaker 2: aversion to onions or mushrooms, that's fine, but just don't
Speaker 2: make a production out of it.
Speaker 1: Be cool. In that case, I'd say, yes, it's acceptable.
Speaker 1: I would. And it's acceptable if somebody's like, if somebody's
Speaker 1: grilling burgers and like the specialty, or they've decided to
Speaker 1: make like mushroom burgers, not like grilling like a big
Speaker 1: meaty portobello mushroom like cap or something, but they're like
Speaker 1: sauteg mushrooms and putting it on all the burgers, I
Speaker 1: think it's fine. To say, you know what, maybe just
Speaker 1: don't throw them on mine. But if it is, yes,
Speaker 1: if it's like a giant stew and there's just bits
Speaker 1: of onions and mushrooms, I think you gotta suck it up.
Speaker 1: I think that they're inoffensive enough and not change unless
Speaker 1: obviously you're allergic. But beyond that, I think you just
Speaker 1: got to go for it. If you're a grown up,
Speaker 1: you have to all right, where are we going next
Speaker 1: to here? Quinn, I'm gonna go, Quinn. Sure. Optimal marinating
Speaker 1: time for barbecuing chicken tie, uh, one to two hours?
Speaker 1: You would say a couple hours should be fine. I
Speaker 1: don't think chicken takes especially well to marinating to the
Speaker 1: point where you need to do it for an overnight
Speaker 1: period of time or something. I've actually I've done the
Speaker 1: overnight thing, and I've done the two hour thing, and
Speaker 1: I didn't really notice much of a difference. So I
Speaker 1: would I would just go like one or two hours.
Speaker 1: I think that's right. Underrated foods for grilling This of
Speaker 1: course comes to us from Krispy Brown. Shout out Krispy Brown,
Speaker 1: Smart Football. Underrated foods for grilling, as well as optimal
Speaker 1: grilling efficiencies this is how you know it's this is
Speaker 1: you know you know it's from him, I e. Dishes
Speaker 1: cooked inside and outside, transport of cooking, utensils, plates, et cetera. Ty,
Speaker 1: do you have efficiency and underrated grilling foods? Well? Have
Speaker 1: you ever grilled romaine lettuce? I have, and it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: It takes to it really nicely.
Speaker 2: Romaine lettuce would probably be my answer here for underrated
Speaker 2: foods for grilling. It does take a little bit of finesse,
Speaker 2: but it actually turns out a lot better than you'd expect.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's romine. My I think West Coast Cavin,
Speaker 1: come on in when you're ready, All right, West Coast
Speaker 1: Kevin's gonna beautiful early, I'm gonna say so. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's underrated, but I think it's something that's overlooked
Speaker 1: if you are willing to put in the time. This
Speaker 1: is why this is inefficient. Grilled pizza can be quite
Speaker 1: good because you can get that pizza steel if you
Speaker 1: have one of those pretty hot on a grill, and
Speaker 1: there's also add ons that can make it make your
Speaker 1: because it's the hotter the better with pizza obviously, but
Speaker 1: in terms of efficiencies, I would add, and this is
Speaker 1: actually West Coast Kevin's. Corn is a very efficient item
Speaker 1: to grill because whether you wrap it in foil or
Speaker 1: whether you go straight on, it takes a while. So
Speaker 1: you throw that on early on, and whenever it's done,
Speaker 1: just throw it up top to keep heated. Right. You
Speaker 1: don't need to, you know, pay a ton of attention
Speaker 1: to corn. You turn it every so often, but it's
Speaker 1: not something that you have to look after constantly. A corn.
Speaker 2: It's a very good in terms of like actual he
Speaker 2: mentions here utensils and plates, and I think he's talking
Speaker 2: about utility items when you're actually on the grill again.
Speaker 2: Me and my ivory tower. I've got a seer burner
Speaker 2: right on my grill, which is crazy efficient for doing
Speaker 2: all the searing. So I'm perhaps a little spoiled in
Speaker 2: that regard, but I go seer burner, is my answer.
Speaker 1: West Coast Kevin's here, ty yo, So here's my So
Speaker 1: the question is underrated grilling food and efficiency. I already
Speaker 1: mentioned your corn theory. Corn.
Speaker 3: You also have yellow onions which turn very sweet.
Speaker 1: Oh, and you can do it ahead of time, right.
Speaker 3: Longer you cook them, they're good, I mean really any
Speaker 3: vegetable is good because, like Dan said, the prep work
Speaker 3: is relatively minimal, and I think the yield is good
Speaker 3: because otherwise you end up with just like a ton
Speaker 3: of meat.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: And one of the great things about grilling that I
Speaker 3: like is you just like the dishes are minimal afterwards.
Speaker 3: So it makes sense. You already have a going and
Speaker 3: it's hot, you just keep throwing stuff on and throwing
Speaker 3: stuff on. But then you're left with a meat parade.
Speaker 3: The next day you create tons of chicken, tons of
Speaker 3: ribs overcook Yeah, exactly. But so it's good to mix
Speaker 3: in the vegetables.
Speaker 1: Yes, fair, Yeah, you want leftover grilled vegetables. That's a
Speaker 1: successful grilled situation to go with your meat parade. They're
Speaker 1: the spectators and the meat parade. The meat parade can
Speaker 1: also lead to the meat sweatstan which we've talked about
Speaker 1: at nauseum on our g chat. True. Yes, I would
Speaker 1: also in terms of underrated foods, anything with natural sugars
Speaker 1: like peaches or pineapples for desserts. I've grilled banana you
Speaker 1: got you have been a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: water in them that they can sort of grill out
Speaker 1: of that's a great idea. Yeah, yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think those are all. And always make sure if you're
Speaker 1: doing if you're grilling meats and you're bringing out a
Speaker 1: plate of raw meat, always walk out with two plates
Speaker 1: so you're not going back in for a clean plate.
Speaker 1: Just make sure everything is set when you're when you're there,
Speaker 1: and if like, vegetables can be cooked ahead of the barbecue,
Speaker 1: because you want to enjoy your time, excuse me the cookout,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, everybody south of the Mason dates of mine.
Speaker 1: Ahead of things. Yes, you can grill vegetable and just
Speaker 1: throw them on for thirty seconds. So that's a more
Speaker 1: efficient method. All right, all right, the next question here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: charcoal or propane. I go propane, I go Arcole's fine,
Speaker 1: And just like with pancakes, I let everybody else do
Speaker 1: it and enjoy their work, and I'm just gonna do.
Speaker 1: I have gas and propane at my place. I've never
Speaker 1: grilled on charcoal before it gets it gets warm, and
Speaker 1: it's hot and it burns a good long time, but
Speaker 1: it's it's dirtier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for a while I was a charcoal purist. Really,
Speaker 3: I got a procaine. Well, because that's how my dad
Speaker 3: did it. I want those little tiny grills in the backyard,
Speaker 3: and when I would go to parks and stuff to grill,
Speaker 3: obviously those aren't propanees. You have to bring your own
Speaker 3: charcoal and your lighter fluids. I learned how to do
Speaker 3: it that way, but then I got a grill of
Speaker 3: my own and it was propane, and I said, this
Speaker 3: is way easier and no cleanup.
Speaker 1: Basically, So next question from David wants no best flavors
Speaker 1: to infuse into vodka, tequila, or rum. Neither one of
Speaker 1: us speaking right now are huge drinkers on this end
Speaker 1: or on your end. But give me one. And by
Speaker 1: the way, camera guy Dave as opposed to West Coast
Speaker 1: Kevin for his wedding, was given. And they're pretty cool.
Speaker 1: As a non drinker, I just they look good. They're
Speaker 1: called like a what's like a window on a subway.
Speaker 1: What are those called, not a subway on like a submarine?
Speaker 1: A porthole. Yes, it's called a porthole. And you basically
Speaker 1: put fruit into an area of this like very clear
Speaker 1: looking canteen looking thing and you just have it hanging
Speaker 1: around for two weeks and it infuses with fruit. You
Speaker 1: got to be a pretty big drinker to have somebody
Speaker 1: to be like, I know, I'm going to get this
Speaker 1: person a fruit infuser alcohol porthole thing. But it's pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do it for water too, but this was specific
Speaker 1: for alcohol because you let it in there for like
Speaker 1: two weeks instead of like a days. Cucumbers aren't bad,
Speaker 1: it can be refreshing. I would say pineapple would be
Speaker 1: my answer that. Yeah, board, I have a tequila rum
Speaker 1: and oranges, watermelon that sort of thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've never been a huge fan of that. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of work. It is a lot of work. But
Speaker 1: I had a pineapple actually with West Coast Kevin in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: I had one of the best cocktails ever and it
Speaker 1: was a It was a pineapple mint julip I was
Speaker 1: at a cocktail bar.
Speaker 3: What is the Can I ask you a question please?
Speaker 3: What is the process to infuse something? Like? How long
Speaker 3: beforehand do you need to begin the infusion?
Speaker 1: A couple hours? If you have a picture of something,
Speaker 1: if you're going to serve like a pineapple infused rum
Speaker 1: or something at a barbecue excuse me, sorry, everybody's South
Speaker 1: Air on line cookout, or if you're actually smoking mates.
Speaker 1: It's a barbecue. I guess a couple hours. I would
Speaker 1: say it just sits there. It just sits there, and
Speaker 1: the natural juices and sugars whatever run throughout, and you
Speaker 1: can shake it up. You can do all sorts of
Speaker 1: even there's physical activity you can do to speed it along.
Speaker 1: Next question comes to us from Gary, and I thought
Speaker 1: his name was Gary very strange, which was a great name.
Speaker 1: But it's almost that Gary wants to know I just
Speaker 1: got a deep fryer and have access to a smoker
Speaker 1: and grill, which, by the way, is such a great
Speaker 1: way of phrasing it, like does that mean his neighbors
Speaker 1: have it and like anytime you want to use it,
Speaker 1: or like he knows like the code to a local Low's.
Speaker 1: In any case, Gary.
Speaker 3: Connected in the underground smoking.
Speaker 1: No big deal. You want to smoke? I got a smoker?
Speaker 1: You had you own one? I have access, yeah, smoker. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Gary does affirmatively have a deep friar with access to
Speaker 1: a smoker and grill. What are good ideas to synergize
Speaker 1: synergize wow friar with these tools, he already plans to
Speaker 1: smoke and fry wings tie, do you have a deep
Speaker 1: friar slash smoker slash grill synergy idea.
Speaker 2: I do not have a synergy idea for this. I
Speaker 2: see the bubble, I see deep friar. I think I
Speaker 2: think of uh chicken.
Speaker 1: I think of potatoes, which I don't know if you
Speaker 1: make fries the right way to think of it, but
Speaker 1: I am. I guess wings. You could do wings. He's
Speaker 1: got the wings down. You could do sort of wings
Speaker 1: three ways. What came to the top of my head
Speaker 1: as a Mexican food nerd, I would say, fry some tortillas.
Speaker 1: You have some tostata shells. If you're smoking some smoke
Speaker 1: a pork button, carnitos or something like that, or you know, slowly,
Speaker 1: if you're making you're smoking a brisket, you have some
Speaker 1: taco shells if you want it. It's very easy to
Speaker 1: make taco shells and a fryer. I would also say,
Speaker 1: if you are grilling, even if you're making something basic
Speaker 1: like burgers and dogs, there are desserts you can fry
Speaker 1: ahead of time, ahead of your burger and dog grilling.
Speaker 1: Make some doughnut holes. Yeah, I think that that would
Speaker 1: be delicious. Okay, so that's what I would do. I
Speaker 1: would think about it in terms of the synergy of
Speaker 1: frying something ahead of time that won't dry out or
Speaker 1: lose its lust or while you're grilling or smoking something else.
Speaker 1: So churros, great churros are better out of the fryer.
Speaker 3: Never mind on the recommendation of either Dan or Scott.
Speaker 3: I got my wife a deep friar one time for
Speaker 3: her birthday.
Speaker 1: This would be a lion I fan Scott. Yeah, and I.
Speaker 3: Think that was just for the sole purpose of when
Speaker 3: you guys came over, she would fry stuff for us.
Speaker 1: Did we end up eating fried food out of the fryer?
Speaker 3: Well, she's made I think three things and then it's
Speaker 3: never been used.
Speaker 1: What are those three things?
Speaker 3: Sweep ptato, fries, and chicken. And I think she tried
Speaker 3: to make Benet's.
Speaker 1: Once power rank them.
Speaker 3: How they turned out fried chicken made yourself is amazing. Yes,
Speaker 3: And I never I never grew up with fried foods
Speaker 3: or accessed I wasn't like Gary who had access to
Speaker 3: a fried Gary.
Speaker 1: Has access to both a friar, a grill, and a smoke.
Speaker 3: I had the opposite. We ate very healthy. So that
Speaker 3: was probably the first time I actually had homemade fried
Speaker 3: chicken m hm, And I was like, this is this
Speaker 3: is incredible because you know previously it was mostly KFC, right,
Speaker 3: so yeah, the fried chicken would be one, the fries
Speaker 3: would be two. The Benet's that's just tough because you
Speaker 3: have to eat them right away. Yes, and if you're
Speaker 3: off by a little bit in terms of timing or
Speaker 3: crispy cry out. Yeah, but those are my only contributions.
Speaker 1: Ray wants to know, is assigning someone quote, plate and
Speaker 1: napkin duty so that you don't have to buy a
Speaker 1: ton yourself sort of insulting when inviting people to a party.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. No, I don't think so at all. No,
Speaker 1: they're buying them.
Speaker 2: Food, essential tools to the cookout, barbecue, grill out, picnic,
Speaker 2: what have you.
Speaker 1: If you should only be inviting people to your home
Speaker 1: for a cookout or whatever, if they're the type of
Speaker 1: people that say something like, what can I bring even
Speaker 1: if you have no plan on asking anybody to bring anything,
Speaker 1: that those are the type of people you should be
Speaker 1: associating yourself totally. So assigning someone plate napkin duty is
Speaker 1: almost saying thank you for being the type of person
Speaker 1: who asks, and yes, it'd be great if you could
Speaker 1: bring this, because I've cleaned my house and went out
Speaker 1: and bought meat or vegetables or whatever, and I'm spending
Speaker 1: time cooking them for you. So your contribution is the
Speaker 1: easiest possible thing. Some paper, napkins and plates and one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. No, that's perfectly fine.
Speaker 3: Nothing. There's nothing worse than going to a group food
Speaker 3: gathering or a potluck at work where you have three
Speaker 3: times the amount of two liter bottles of so do
Speaker 3: you need and no napkins and no napkins.
Speaker 1: No, you need a napkin, or you're out of spoons,
Speaker 1: but everybody just needs you'd like as people are, there's
Speaker 1: ten thousand Like I think Alanis Morissette has a song
Speaker 1: about this. Well, all you need is a fork a knife. Okay,
Speaker 1: But like if if somebody brings fruits out and you
Speaker 1: don't want to be fruit salad with a spoon, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Or in my example, you have ten thousand ounces of
Speaker 3: mister pib.
Speaker 1: Now you needed something to get the barbecue sauce off
Speaker 1: your face. Next question, ty this is almost too close
Speaker 1: to home because the asker's name is Tyler. Is it acceptable?
Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with grilling with college football question.
Speaker 1: But Ty Hildenbrand fashions himself a bathroom etiquette maestro.
Speaker 2: On the corporate on the corporate level, yeah, on professional experience.
Speaker 1: Yes, So corporate bathroom etiquette is like Ties minor on
Speaker 1: his show. So anytime anybody asks the bathroom etiquette question,
Speaker 1: no matter the theme of the rest of the episode,
Speaker 1: Tie is happy to oblige with an answer. Sure, is
Speaker 1: it acceptable to not lock the door and have it
Speaker 1: hanging open when going number one in a stall? It depends.
Speaker 1: This could be applied to either work or like an
Speaker 1: airport or a restaurant or anything.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it depends. I think if you're at work,
Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta lock the door for just ping
Speaker 2: y it's a quick little tank. No, No, at work,
Speaker 2: gotta lock the door. It's a professional setting. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: be honest. But if you're at.
Speaker 1: Airport, restaurant, home depot, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean if you're at if you're at more of
Speaker 2: a public setting where like an airport in particular, where
Speaker 2: everyone in the airport is sort of in a hurry
Speaker 2: trying to get to a gates and trying. Yeah, in
Speaker 2: a setting like that, it's okay, I think it a
Speaker 2: sports bar, you know, a restaurant. It's okay in a
Speaker 2: public setting such as that, but in a professional setting
Speaker 2: yet you have to cover your bases, if you will,
Speaker 2: and make sure that you lock the door behind you.
Speaker 1: Have you ever made, and I know you've been in
Speaker 1: such bathrooms, have you ever made one of a longer
Speaker 1: visit to a bathroom stall, so a seated visit, but
Speaker 1: at a particularly nice bathroom, like at a really nice hotel,
Speaker 1: or a country club, or a probably not a house,
Speaker 1: a house would not have stalls, but something like that
Speaker 1: where you've closed the door thinking you've locked it, and
Speaker 1: if the door were to swing open, it might be
Speaker 1: a little far away from your reach. Once you're already
Speaker 1: sitting down, and there you are faced with a choice
Speaker 1: that no man should have to make. It's a panicky moment, Dan,
Speaker 1: to be quite honest, it's a panicky moment. The problem
Speaker 1: that you have. Have you found your self in that scenario?
Speaker 2: I found myself in that scenario. The problem is that
Speaker 2: most of well I shouldn't say most of, but a
Speaker 2: lot of the door latches in said stalls are not
Speaker 2: properly installed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you think you're a lot, then they're not
Speaker 1: inspected with the right and then you.
Speaker 2: Break into a cold sweat when the thing just swings
Speaker 2: open because it wasn't installed on on the level or
Speaker 2: it doesn't latch properly. I found myself in that situation
Speaker 2: many a time.
Speaker 1: So what you found yourself in a situation with a
Speaker 1: door that you could not close from the seated position? Uh,
Speaker 1: where I've had to make a choice? Okay, and what
Speaker 1: would you say, as again the bathroom etiquette authority.
Speaker 2: It depends where you're at in the process. But if
Speaker 2: you can, if you can get up.
Speaker 1: To let's call it mid process.
Speaker 2: I've never been in that situation before. I think you
Speaker 2: have to take care of the process. Trust the process before.
Speaker 1: You get up, Trust the process before you get up
Speaker 1: to latch the door again, Dan, Otherwise you're talking about
Speaker 1: a bigger issue. So the correct order of operations is conclude,
Speaker 1: at least temporarily conclude process, complete the football move. If
Speaker 1: you're anticipating minutes more of processing, what if it's an
Speaker 1: elaborate process. We're talking about a splash and go here,
Speaker 1: which is a very difficult maneuver. But I think you're
Speaker 1: hoping it. I think if you can, you have to
Speaker 1: get to the door to try and relatch it.
Speaker 3: Do you have any in this situation that Tyler proposed here?
Speaker 3: Do you have any sympathy for the people who are
Speaker 3: coming in and want to check to know if someone's
Speaker 3: in the store, right, And it's a great disservice to
Speaker 3: them to have to bend all the way down to
Speaker 3: see feet, whereas if the door was a jar, Oh,
Speaker 3: and you can walk by and you can see their back.
Speaker 3: I mean, nothing more is revealed in a stall than
Speaker 3: it would be.
Speaker 1: It's every man for himself in there, dude, and for
Speaker 1: anyone else coming in.
Speaker 3: But I hate doing that. Don't you hate doing that?
Speaker 3: Like at an airport and when you have bags and
Speaker 3: you're carrying them in there and you have to like
Speaker 3: bend all the way down to see, like whose feet are? Well?
Speaker 1: Why whired, vacant and occupied signs limited to plane laboratories
Speaker 1: rather than every day? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, that would solve it. But I'm just
Speaker 3: saying that's a that's a tough spot to be.
Speaker 2: It's well, Jerry Seinfeld has a whole bit on this.
Speaker 2: He has a whole bit on this. Yeah, why why
Speaker 2: do they still make the doors from Dan and I
Speaker 2: for bathrooms that don't go all the way down.
Speaker 1: Okay, next question. I think I feel like we got
Speaker 1: to a good place with that. Yeah. Sure, Ryan wants
Speaker 1: to know it's twenty four. Would love to throw fourth
Speaker 1: the July party at his new apartment. We've a rooftop deck.
Speaker 1: This is his word. He is a rooftop deck overlooking
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Harbor. Wow, Baltimore, Right, that's what they say, Baltimore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we haven't really broken it in yet. I want
Speaker 1: to make it a somewhat official event with a fair
Speaker 1: amount of people. But I tend to scoff at evites.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of understandable. Sure, I get that evites.
Speaker 1: Can you know you never know when you're supposed to
Speaker 1: actually one? By the way, do we talk through the
Speaker 1: issue of being engaged and kicking around the idea of
Speaker 1: sending out an evite for either the reception and or
Speaker 1: the rehearsal dinner. We have talked about that. I'm pro,
Speaker 1: I would talk more. I am pro as well.
Speaker 2: However, I tried to advance that theory, Oh, never gonna happen,
Speaker 2: and yeah it did.
Speaker 1: Don't don't even bother Ty, when you and I get married, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's well, yeah, exactly, it'll be local evite city. How
Speaker 1: do I make it official without sounding like it's a
Speaker 1: wedding or a bar mits of invitation. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: make it nicer than an average Bio twenty four rac
Speaker 1: type of party, but I'm a bit lost at drawing interest. Okay, so, Ty,
Speaker 1: you want to make it. You want to officially invite people,
Speaker 1: so like there's no doubt as to like what kind
Speaker 1: of party it is. Where it's not just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing some burgers on the girl, come over. You
Speaker 1: actually want it to be a thing that like people
Speaker 1: take seriously about coming over for right, what is that
Speaker 1: middle ground? I mean like group text and evite? I
Speaker 1: have it. Hit me, I have it because I've done it.
Speaker 2: Here's what you do, Okay, if you can, if you
Speaker 2: don't want to go over the top, use the Facebook
Speaker 2: event thing, all right, use a Facebook event thing and
Speaker 2: invite all your friends if you want to have them
Speaker 2: invite friends, so be it. But if you're a creative guy,
Speaker 2: and I think I know the question asker here, mm hmm,
Speaker 2: and I believe he is a creative type.
Speaker 1: If you're creative person. I believe, I believe. I believe
Speaker 1: this is Ryan, who's who helped us with our reverbs
Speaker 1: at one point. Yes, okay, great, perfect. Ryan's a really
Speaker 1: creative dude. All right.
Speaker 2: You can make up a lot of ground without being
Speaker 2: way over the top if you just write something funny
Speaker 2: in the description. Write something funny, right, Just write something
Speaker 2: funny in the description. That's gonna it's gonna latch onto people,
Speaker 2: gonna make them want to come to your shindig. And
Speaker 2: then you don't got to worry about like graphic design
Speaker 2: or sending anything out through the mail, or even doing
Speaker 2: one of those fancy evites.
Speaker 1: Just write something funny in the description and you're fine.
Speaker 1: That's all you gotta do. Here's my quick counter. Facebook
Speaker 1: is the creepy cousin of the evite. In twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: fewer people perhaps are on Facebook or check Facebook as often,
Speaker 1: so I think that's a little trickier. Here's what I
Speaker 1: would do. Still, go with a group email instead of
Speaker 1: an evite, because also, you got it. With evites, you
Speaker 1: have to like select graphics and stuff can be cheesy.
Speaker 1: I say, you just sent out a group email subject
Speaker 1: line eleven and a half reasons you should become in
Speaker 1: a Ryan's barbecue or the top barbares is same page
Speaker 1: here right, same page. So you're you're going with a
Speaker 1: lighthearted thing and you list out reasons because who doesn't
Speaker 1: love a list on the internet and they can let
Speaker 1: one we're gonna have like you describe the food. Two
Speaker 1: you describe some weird o friends. It's like a BuzzFeed article. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brent's gonna be there and he's going to do his
Speaker 1: stupid magic tricks and he's gonna leave early. So don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. Like you just make different items weird
Speaker 1: and funny. Our friend Andy Wall did this for her
Speaker 1: rehearsal dinner and it was a great idea, not for
Speaker 1: inviting people, but for writing the restaurant itself. Here's like
Speaker 1: eleven reasons you should host the exactly it'd be perfect dinner.
Speaker 2: And you could do it through do it through Google
Speaker 2: Google as like a free Google forms.
Speaker 1: You can send out a Google form, do it. I
Speaker 1: think just direct emails is a good idea. Sure, all right,
Speaker 1: let's doll like one or two more here we're running
Speaker 1: pretty long. It's a free show.
Speaker 3: Tie wait before we move on, cam we back up
Speaker 3: a little bit place. Can you scroll down so I
Speaker 3: can see that email. I've never felt older than when
Speaker 3: Dat Dan said, Oh I know me too, e Yo
Speaker 3: twenty four rack type of party?
Speaker 1: I read it? And what type of party is that?
Speaker 3: I have no clue.
Speaker 1: I think it's like a bring your own case of beer,
Speaker 1: bring your own twenty four pound.
Speaker 3: So I thought twenty four related to his age because
Speaker 3: it says he is twenty four, right, Oh, but then
Speaker 3: twenty four racks, so twenty four modifies rack in that's
Speaker 3: in that clause there.
Speaker 1: So this last clarification is being brought to you by
Speaker 1: Centrum Silver. We're all very old.
Speaker 3: But then I was wondering our twenty four year old's
Speaker 3: on Facebook anymore?
Speaker 1: On that theme, that's true, all the cool kids went
Speaker 1: over to Instagram.
Speaker 3: So go send it out via blockchain, send it out
Speaker 3: by a blockchain LinkedIn invite? Is that how blockchain works?
Speaker 1: I really do not know. I really don't know.
Speaker 3: I wanted to invite to Ryan's b YO twenty four.
Speaker 1: You know what? What is? What is your house of
Speaker 1: run at gmail dot com? Yeah? Ryan, invite house of
Speaker 1: run at gmail dot com. He probably won't be there,
Speaker 1: but he will proof read it. Yeah, it'll be a
Speaker 1: bad sign if I like it. Former English teacher.
Speaker 3: I'm clearly not the target demo here, but I just
Speaker 3: wanted to clarify and know if anybody else was confused.
Speaker 1: Joey wants to know tongues or spatula for outdoor booth. Now, obviously,
Speaker 1: obviously the answer is both, depending on the meat, depending
Speaker 1: on the vegetable whatever. You don't want to turn corn
Speaker 1: over with dispatch no, But if you had to choose
Speaker 1: one tie, what do you think best defines your hand
Speaker 1: grilling technique. I'm hashtag team tongs here all the way,
Speaker 1: Team tongs. Yeah.
Speaker 2: My problem with dispatula is when your your grilling subject
Speaker 2: terrible way to freeze it. But whenever you're grilling something
Speaker 2: he gets stuck to the to the greats. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: have we'll get in the spatul underneath it. Sometimes you don't,
Speaker 2: and you inadvertently gun the piece of meat all the
Speaker 2: way against the back of the grill, which I know,
Speaker 2: I know it's a knock factor. I know it's like
Speaker 2: sterile in there because it gets to eight hundred degrees,
Speaker 2: but it's still it's it still creeps me out a little. Bit,
Speaker 2: so I would I prefer.
Speaker 1: I would say, without a doubt, tongues are a better utility.
Speaker 1: They're more varied in their ability. But the sound a
Speaker 1: spatula makes when you're scooping a burger right against that grill,
Speaker 1: great and have like that perfect flip, But that sound,
Speaker 1: that scoop sound, I think it is an elite sensation
Speaker 1: that tongs just will never give you that I'm going,
Speaker 1: I'm going tongue if I had to choose one, Okay
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 3: It's tough though, because if you're doing burgers, you can't
Speaker 3: do burgers with tongs. Yeah, so I guess it just
Speaker 3: depends what your grill.
Speaker 1: I think you probably could do. You could you peak
Speaker 1: to see if it's fully cooked on the bottom to
Speaker 1: the point that you I mean, you'll see the puddle
Speaker 1: of meat juice.
Speaker 3: But if the tops uncooked and you're flipping it over.
Speaker 1: Hey, do they do they make spatula tongues. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: get flathead tongues. Yeah, I think you can get flathead tongus.
Speaker 1: Here's your answer. Yeah, Joey good nickname by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: flathead tongue. Final question, This is an easy answer as well,
Speaker 1: but we like to go out easy ty yeah, board commander,
Speaker 1: really good screen name. When attending a we'll correct him
Speaker 1: and say Google by someone who is certifiably grill literate. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love that good term. Good term. Probably didn't make
Speaker 1: it up, but used it really well. Perfect. What is
Speaker 1: the safest option to request hot dog, hamburger, chicken, something else.
Speaker 1: What's the hardest thing to mess up? The answer is
Speaker 1: clearly hot dog. It's definitely not chicken. Yeah, Chicken's the
Speaker 1: easiest to screw up. It's dead easy.
Speaker 2: Chickens either like bone dry because it's been on for
Speaker 2: forty five minutes or potentially infected with salmonella, so you
Speaker 2: don't want.
Speaker 1: No chicken sashimi for yeah.
Speaker 2: And the hamburger, you know you're probably safe even if
Speaker 2: you get it a little on the rawer side of things.
Speaker 2: But still nobody likes getting a burger that's still bleeding.
Speaker 2: So hot dog is clearly the answer here. Hot dogs
Speaker 2: arrive fully cooked exactly.
Speaker 1: The worst thing that will happen to a hot dog
Speaker 1: is either it's served to you kind of warm or
Speaker 1: kind of dry. But in terms of safety, hot dog
Speaker 1: is because you can also just look at a hot
Speaker 1: dog and be like, no, that's this is what I
Speaker 1: want it right now. Just give it to me, Give
Speaker 1: me that hot dog. Okay. I'm gonna regret saying phrasing
Speaker 1: things like this, Give me that barbecue, that grill item
Speaker 1: right now, and that's fine because it'll be fine no
Speaker 1: matter when you take it off the grill. All right?
Speaker 1: Do we get anything else in here? Do you want
Speaker 1: to cover? Yeah? Just because just because he's such a
Speaker 1: illuminary Peter Hoffman quickly, Oh, better outdoor experience an evening
Speaker 1: with dinner outside or a good sunrise with a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee. It's tire you rolling dusk or don I'm
Speaker 1: going to George Clooney salmahayak okay dusk. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's right. I can respect it. It depends on where
Speaker 1: you are for the morning, like if you're overlooking an
Speaker 1: ocean or something. But even still overlooking an ocean at
Speaker 1: night is better. Yes, So yeah, I'm with uh chill
Speaker 1: breeze at night. Well, since we have him here West
Speaker 1: Coast Kevin no longer truly West Coast Kevin.
Speaker 3: South of the Mason Dixon line, I'm here to correct
Speaker 3: all your barbecue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell true, Tell the people where they can find you.
Speaker 3: House of Run dot com is the website. It's a
Speaker 3: track and field running podcast.
Speaker 1: Come on more enthusiasm. I feel like it is the
Speaker 1: quintessential track and field and running enthusiast podcast. We have
Speaker 1: crossover listeners, so you're doing them a disservice.
Speaker 2: Is it still the Is it still the fastest running
Speaker 2: podcast online?
Speaker 3: It is, although we changed we changed the logo when
Speaker 3: I moved out here and change jobs. I believe we've
Speaker 3: tapped out all the crossover listeners. I found out there
Speaker 3: was like three or four college football people who said, hey,
Speaker 3: I found you guys via the solid verbal. I was
Speaker 3: really happy just to take those three and move on.
Speaker 3: But if there are any people out there, I mean,
Speaker 3: maybe there's some USC fans who are very thrilled.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they should be by.
Speaker 3: Their women's title in the most it's a very connic way.
Speaker 1: That was incredible.
Speaker 3: It's four by four. Maybe they're out there and they
Speaker 3: want to, you know, get track twenty four seven, three
Speaker 3: sixty five. You can check out the House of.
Speaker 1: Run if you're a track and field nerd.
Speaker 3: I'm also Dan's personal running coach too.
Speaker 1: That is true. It is going poorly, must say and
Speaker 1: that's more on me than it is on Kevin. If
Speaker 1: you're into track and field, if you're if you like
Speaker 1: it in the Olympics and you want to follow it
Speaker 1: more during non Olympic years. If you're into college running,
Speaker 1: if you're a runner yourself and you want Kevin and
Speaker 1: Jason to help you out, they probably won't, but there's
Speaker 1: a chance. Listen to the House of Run.
Speaker 3: Dan comes on to previous the New York City Marathon
Speaker 3: every year, and he inexplicably has gotten at least one
Speaker 3: winner in the men's race or women's race for the
Speaker 3: entire time we've done this, So we've done that episode
Speaker 3: seven times. Ye. Danly picks a winner every year, and
Speaker 3: it's getting to the point where it's frustrating because Jason
Speaker 3: and I oftentimes get zero the two right. I think
Speaker 3: it's not that hard to pick one of the winners, right,
Speaker 3: Dan can do it, But it is because marathons are
Speaker 3: hard to predict.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent of the time. I'm either right or wrong.
Speaker 3: Facts, Well, you get I think time you've got one
Speaker 3: of them right? Did you tell them about you run
Speaker 3: this morning?
Speaker 1: I did not tell them about the run. It's just
Speaker 1: that I tried to run and had to take a
Speaker 1: quick process break. Okay, yeah, and it was listen, I
Speaker 1: got a good sweat on, I got some some some
Speaker 1: cow's bacon. But it was the door was swinging over
Speaker 1: Austin's tough man. The Austin heat is rough.
Speaker 3: The door was swingle. But he went There was a
Speaker 3: line time about nine porta potties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's tough.
Speaker 3: I was worried for Dan because I don't know what
Speaker 3: his position is on porta potties. And I said, look,
Speaker 3: this is the best I can I can give to you.
Speaker 3: But he came out I think in better shape than
Speaker 3: he went in. And ye, we were able to finish,
Speaker 3: but again I still have my work cut out.
Speaker 1: That's that's the closest you can feel to dying as
Speaker 1: a man in a hot portal in a hot porta potty.
Speaker 2: About actually being sicker and any real peril the hot
Speaker 2: porta pot is. That's enough to really test your metal.
Speaker 1: Wep and tested it did, ty tested it did all right,
Speaker 1: that's all everything we got.
Speaker 2: This seems like a terrific moment to tell people that
Speaker 2: they can find us at soliverbal at gmail dot com
Speaker 2: if they've got any further commentary they'd like to submit.
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Speaker 1: We will be back in a week. We promise.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more college football in the meantime for my
Speaker 2: good friend Dan Rubinstein down there in Austin, Texas, and
Speaker 2: alongside him longtime friend of the pod who we have
Speaker 2: to have back in again at some point to talk
Speaker 2: about all things life and football and running or whatever else.
Speaker 1: West Coast, Kevin, we'll catch you. We'll catch you on
Speaker 1: a week meantimes. Stay solid, hey,