Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal. Call that for me. I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be happy, you want to be happy
Speaker 1: for Dake Edith state is that woo woom and Dan
Speaker 1: and tie welcome back to the solid verbal, Boys and girls.
Speaker 1: My name is Ty Hildebrand, joining me as always my
Speaker 1: good friend over there in New York City, My man
Speaker 1: Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how are you? I'm pretty good, I'm
Speaker 1: not bad.
Speaker 2: Setting up the new home apartment studio coming along, and
Speaker 2: I say, I've got a thing to build later to
Speaker 2: store everything, sort of a cubby wall unit.
Speaker 1: So now, hold on, hold on. Last time we spoke
Speaker 1: of this very issue. Yes, I believe you were in
Speaker 1: a closet of some sort, weren't you.
Speaker 2: I'm no longer in the closet. No right, I can
Speaker 2: come out and say that there has been more work
Speaker 2: done to the point where there is a rug down
Speaker 2: on the ground, there is some soundproof foam up on
Speaker 2: the walls, and there's actual light in this room because
Speaker 2: it was a room that didn't come pre installed with
Speaker 2: the light. So I have a sweet ikea pole lamp.
Speaker 2: You need motion in place. No life is good Tai
Speaker 2: Life is good. I'm gonna go for a run after
Speaker 2: this because the sun is out, the sun.
Speaker 1: Is out, the guns are out here in the east.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to everyone who was able to outlast the winter.
Speaker 1: I think we're finally through the woods. Although it did
Speaker 1: snow here yesterday, yes, which is not that as terrible.
Speaker 1: So what are we talking about on today's show, Dan?
Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? We are doing?
Speaker 2: We have Q and A and related to some timely
Speaker 2: topics and some super untimely topics. So we have what
Speaker 2: the NFL Draft is in eight days from when we're
Speaker 2: recording this Wednesday evening right correct, and we have spring football.
Speaker 2: Most it turns out most games were canceled. I just
Speaker 2: how Michigan's was like, they're just cancelations, which is fine,
Speaker 2: fewer people hurt probably, and just we're gonna look forward
Speaker 2: to the season. Maybe a couple quarterback battles, and we
Speaker 2: don't have I don't think a lot of in depth
Speaker 2: thoughts about the draft as non NFL fans.
Speaker 1: Right, that is accurate? I would say, yeah, very so.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to try and take a look
Speaker 2: at this, and I mean we can react to we've
Speaker 2: had these NFL draft experts as much as anybody can
Speaker 2: be one on the show before to sort of say, hey,
Speaker 2: this is how this person progressed, and this is why
Speaker 2: this person is considered to be a top twelve pick
Speaker 2: or a top three round pick.
Speaker 1: Whatever. But you know, we can react to like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're a first round pick. Weird, didn't seem that way.
Speaker 1: But we can just sort of scan through it real quick,
Speaker 1: and then we have a ton of questions that we
Speaker 1: can probably get to about fifteen percent of them. That
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Speaker 1: show that goes year round, and there was a ton
Speaker 1: of interest. By the way, well, we mentioned on the
Speaker 1: last show that we were going to be doing our
Speaker 1: next live show in the Midwest in Chicago some point
Speaker 1: early to mid August. We had some great suggestions come
Speaker 1: into the inbox. It seems like there's a ton a
Speaker 1: ton of steam on this live show that we're going
Speaker 1: to put forth in August our next Fantasy Things Draft
Speaker 1: in Chottown, Dan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if anybody listening has ideas or knows people
Speaker 2: like we are interested in hearing about venues because we
Speaker 2: want it to be the absolute best possible situation. We
Speaker 2: want there to be food and drink. We're thinking, I
Speaker 2: don't know about three hundred people. We like to keep
Speaker 2: it sort of intimate, but yeah, we want to have
Speaker 2: a great venue central everybody can get to know a
Speaker 2: PA system of stage, that kind of thing, the basics.
Speaker 1: So we're looking for venues for that.
Speaker 2: We're trying to figure out if we can add a
Speaker 2: second show in another city, either before the season starts
Speaker 2: or within the season at some point. Sure, as we know,
Speaker 2: listeners are spread out everywhere, but no that's the situation, Ty.
Speaker 2: We're just living our best lives.
Speaker 1: Living our best lives. Again, tell your friends. Solibble dot
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Speaker 1: here all off season, and obviously once we get a
Speaker 1: little bit closer to the football season, we'll have more
Speaker 1: football to discuss. But as you mentioned, we got this
Speaker 1: whole draft thing, yes, staring us in the face. Now.
Speaker 1: As you know, if you follow these sorts of things,
Speaker 1: it's a weird hybrid. It's a crossover of sorts. For us,
Speaker 1: we've at times ruggled with how in depth we want
Speaker 1: to get with the NFL Draft. There is clearly a
Speaker 1: stake in the game for a college football film because
Speaker 1: as these players move forth and prosper in the professional ranks,
Speaker 1: oftentimes we're very interested to see how those players perform,
Speaker 1: see how high up they go. There's certainly plenty of
Speaker 1: intrigue when it comes to the NFL Draft, with teams
Speaker 1: moving around and sometimes overvaluing and undervaluing, and it's a
Speaker 1: whole different dimension. But we're going to try and do
Speaker 1: our best to cover it. Here. We've got in front
Speaker 1: of us the Daniel Jeremiah Mock Draft. Yes from NFL
Speaker 1: dot Com, and I guess the plan would be to
Speaker 1: go through to examine some of these players to the
Speaker 1: best of our abilities, not from an in depth standpoint
Speaker 1: of how much can Saquon Barkley squad, but instead what
Speaker 1: did we see in college do we think that translates
Speaker 1: to the NFL? And what do we think the likelihood
Speaker 1: is of some of these guys succeeding at the same
Speaker 1: level or to a greater as they move on.
Speaker 2: In a very certain way. And I do not mean
Speaker 2: this in a crassway, which I really if you're going
Speaker 2: to listen to our show consistently, you should listen to
Speaker 2: it within the back of your head saying Dan does
Speaker 2: not mean this in a crassway. The NFL draft and
Speaker 2: the way we in that you know, people interested in
Speaker 2: football on all levels evaluate players is not unlike if ty,
Speaker 2: if you were just dropped into a different town and
Speaker 2: we're tasked with finding a soulmate every year, you have
Speaker 2: to sort of you know, if you're in a tiny
Speaker 2: town all of a sudden, what you may be looking
Speaker 2: for might be different than if you were dropped into
Speaker 2: a major city or a medium sized town. Like there
Speaker 2: is a context to each draft class, which is interesting
Speaker 2: to me because the most important position obviously is quarterback.
Speaker 2: So we're looking at a quarterback class which is I
Speaker 2: would say, pretty robust, pretty deep this year compared to
Speaker 2: some other years.
Speaker 1: There's a ton of intrigue at the very top of it.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's intrigue at the top, and then you know
Speaker 2: it's spotty from there. From what I can tell as
Speaker 2: a definite non expert, but like Sam Donald is somebody
Speaker 2: who I think we liked watching for a long time,
Speaker 2: and obvious talent and athletic and improvises super well, made
Speaker 2: a good number of dumb mistakes trying to do too
Speaker 2: much whatever is thought of to be the most valuable
Speaker 2: person in this draft. Yes, by some measures, by some measures,
Speaker 2: by some measures, the position is so important. Let's put
Speaker 2: this way in terms of quarterbacks, right, you definitely make
Speaker 2: that case. But I've also heard the case made for
Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley. I've heard the case made for Quentin Nelson,
Speaker 2: I've heard the case made for Bradley Chubb, all of
Speaker 2: whom are very good players in their own right. But
Speaker 2: you're correct, at least to the extent that as it
Speaker 2: relates to quarterbacks, Sam Donald is getting a lot of
Speaker 2: the press. I can't make a good argument that Sam
Speaker 2: Donald isn't the best quarterback in this class. You know,
Speaker 2: and you know Baker Mayfield is a little bit small,
Speaker 2: and they wonder how Lincoln Riley's system, which has elements
Speaker 2: of NFL systems but not all NFL systems, how that
Speaker 2: translates to the next level. Josh Rosen has thought of
Speaker 2: to be the most advanced quarterback brain in terms of
Speaker 2: understanding and computing. But then there's weird worries that he's
Speaker 2: too smart, right, and then Lamar Jackson might be a receiver.
Speaker 2: If you listen to the worst people who cover the sport,
Speaker 2: Josh Allen didn't complete a ton of passes.
Speaker 1: Well's in the Mountain West. Let's do this. Let's start
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Okay, yeah, the big names that are out there,
Speaker 1: The Browns draft number one. Now, we're not going to
Speaker 1: break down what teams need, because neither you nor I
Speaker 1: are NFL experts, but we know that the Browns are
Speaker 1: drafting one. They actually have the fourth pick as well,
Speaker 1: at least as of now. And the names that you're
Speaker 1: going to hear, I think that are in contention for
Speaker 1: that first overall pick. It sounds like they want a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Maybe not right. The I guess insinuation at this point
Speaker 1: is that they want a quarterback. Sam Darnold is a name.
Speaker 1: We've also got Josh Allen, who has been bullied throughout
Speaker 1: the pre draft process from Wyoming. We've also got Josh Rosen,
Speaker 1: who has long been my favorite from UCLA. We've got
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, who has crept into that conversation as well.
Speaker 1: Who am I missing? There's also Lamar Jackson, who won't
Speaker 1: go that high but is still a name that carries
Speaker 1: with a bunch of intrigue. Of those guys that I
Speaker 1: have named Dan, which direction would you go based on
Speaker 1: what you saw in college? If you were picking number one.
Speaker 2: Overall, I'd probably go Rosen. Why I don't love Sam
Speaker 2: Darnold of these five guys? To me, like that indefinable
Speaker 2: thing seems to rest with Donald's in that he seems
Speaker 2: relatively trustworthy to just sort of get a team together
Speaker 2: for a seventy one yard drive at the end of
Speaker 2: the game. But in terms of what the NFL will
Speaker 2: throw at quarterbacks, which is far more advanced athletically and
Speaker 2: mentally than the college game, I tend to think Rosen
Speaker 2: and even maybe Mayfield. I really like Baker Mayfield. I
Speaker 2: like that fearlessness, I like that arm I like you know,
Speaker 2: the throwing off platform is like a big thing that
Speaker 2: you'll hear about him. But I really am a big
Speaker 2: believer in those two dudes, just in terms of ready
Speaker 2: to succeed.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to me because I think each of them
Speaker 1: has an interesting quality. Yeah, I don't know if any
Speaker 1: of them are fully rounded enough to truly be the
Speaker 1: number one overall pick. But Sam Donald has an intangible
Speaker 1: to him. There's no denying he's got an intangible. Everyone
Speaker 1: who's around him likes him. He certainly would be a
Speaker 1: good clubhouse guy, and he's got a ton of physical tools.
Speaker 1: The problem that we talked about on the program all
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the last season is when the
Speaker 1: first read broke down, so did Sam Darnald. That was
Speaker 1: the problem. Okay, and maybe is partially his fault, partially
Speaker 1: the play call in the coaching, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: that is the knock on Darnold. Josh Rosen, as you said,
Speaker 1: a smart kid, really smart, has a ton of physical tools,
Speaker 1: but a little bit brittle was banned up a little
Speaker 1: bit in college and there aren't these lingering questions about like,
Speaker 1: what would what would happen to Josh Rosen if he
Speaker 1: ended up in Buffalo? What you can also what would
Speaker 1: happen to any of us if we ended up in Buffalo? Well, right,
Speaker 1: and no disrespect to Buffalo, but you can only study
Speaker 1: the Eerie Canal and Buffalo Wings so long before a
Speaker 1: guy like Josh Rosen, who it seems like wants to
Speaker 1: be intellectually stimulated before he gets bored and wants to
Speaker 1: do something else. I like that that's looked at as
Speaker 1: a bad thing. Well it's not a bad thing, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying Josh Rosen just seems to kind of have
Speaker 1: a wandering mind that's into everything, and the knock on
Speaker 1: him is is maybe it's not into football quite enough.
Speaker 1: Rightly or wrongly, that's what people say.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean they try to find things. I mean
Speaker 2: to sort of take into consideration what NFL scouts do
Speaker 2: in terms of poking holes. I don't think there's a
Speaker 2: lot of logic at no.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's splitting hairs. The ultimate game is splitting here.
Speaker 1: So that's Rosen, Baker Mayfield. What's a knock on Baker.
Speaker 1: What he runs runs a little bit of hot, sometimes
Speaker 1: a little bit of a wild card, maybe a little undersized.
Speaker 1: How does the Lincoln Riley system, the Lincoln Riley slash
Speaker 1: Bob Stoops system translate to the college game? Sure, I
Speaker 1: think that's all fair game. And Josh Allen's kind of
Speaker 1: an unknown. I saw some stuff on Twitter about, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Josh Allen and how he likes to
Speaker 1: always roll out to the right m hm. And what
Speaker 1: we saw from him last year wasn't all that special.
Speaker 2: He was probably not one of the best three quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in the Mountain West in terms of production.
Speaker 1: So I guess to put a bit of an ambiguous
Speaker 1: and uncertain bow on this thing. I don't know if
Speaker 1: i'd take any one of these guys if I were
Speaker 1: picking number one overall. I think if I had to
Speaker 1: pick a quarterback though, of that group, I would probably
Speaker 1: go Darnald. I think Darnald might have the highest ceiling
Speaker 1: of all of those.
Speaker 2: Maybe throws it to a lot of players wearing a
Speaker 2: different color jersey than what he's wearing.
Speaker 1: But perhaps Gunslinger Dan Gunslinger.
Speaker 2: I'll go through this quickly because I don't this is
Speaker 2: not going to relate to any NFL team. I would
Speaker 2: not take a running back in the top five, probably
Speaker 2: even the top ten. Saqwon Barkley is otherworldly, and it's
Speaker 2: not because he's not. I just am not a big
Speaker 2: believer in that kind of value for somebody who takes
Speaker 2: a hit on every play he touches the ball. I
Speaker 2: love Vidavea. I think vidave is going to be a
Speaker 2: really good player for a long time. If you haven't
Speaker 2: watched him play huge nose tackle for Washington, who is
Speaker 2: crazy athletic and huge motor really at like three hundred
Speaker 2: and forty pounds. Mika Fitzpatrick I think is a very
Speaker 2: modern NFL player in that he is hybrid, can come
Speaker 2: up in the slot, can play outside a corner, can
Speaker 2: drop into a safety role. Really like Miga Fitzpatrick, I
Speaker 2: Derwin James, I think we both have just deep, deep
Speaker 2: crushes on time. He's top fifteen, top twenty ish in
Speaker 2: this mock he is at seventeen, but he fits that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: That hybrid guy still my beating heart.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's there's a lot of that people trying
Speaker 2: to because from what I can understand, the NFL is
Speaker 2: they try to copy year to year and Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 2: has this huge, huge impact as this super versatile defensive back,
Speaker 2: and there are a couple of guys in this year
Speaker 2: draft that have that potential to be able to be
Speaker 2: moved around.
Speaker 1: I suppose.
Speaker 2: Beyond that, there's not you know, Sony Michelle is the
Speaker 2: last pick in this in this mock love Sony Michelle
Speaker 2: feels about right, But yeah, I tend to gravitate towards
Speaker 2: and this is the big one I suppose is Quentin Nelson. Okay,
Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson just a wrecking ball of destruction of.
Speaker 1: A young man.
Speaker 2: And I love when people are described as who he
Speaker 2: plays angry.
Speaker 1: He's got a nasty does play angry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a total joy to watch. And you know,
Speaker 2: perhaps not single handedly, but a good reason why Josh
Speaker 2: Adams had the breakout year that he did last year,
Speaker 2: because that left side of the line for Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: as I'm sure you know and will deeply miss, was
Speaker 2: was pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: It was incredible. And one thing that I'm noticing here
Speaker 1: again the Daniel Jeremiah mock draft that we've got up
Speaker 1: from NFL dot Com. He's got Mike mcglinchy who was
Speaker 1: the tackle on the left side of that line for
Speaker 1: Notre Dame all the way down at number twenty one
Speaker 1: to the Bengals. Now, McGlinchey was a guy. Depending how
Speaker 1: much attention you pay to these mock drafts, at some
Speaker 1: point or another he was in many a top ten.
Speaker 1: I like McGlinchey a lot. I think he will be
Speaker 1: solid at the pro level. I also am somewhat scarred
Speaker 1: from the last play in the Georgia game where he
Speaker 1: just got toasted around the edge. He did. And you know,
Speaker 1: there were a couple moments like that in Mike mcglinchy's
Speaker 1: season and really his Notre Dame career where again eight
Speaker 1: percent of the time, very solid pro caliber player on
Speaker 1: the end of your line. A big deal to have
Speaker 1: that in the college game, a big deal to have
Speaker 1: that at any level of the game. Just a couple
Speaker 1: moments here and there were mcglinchy just got iced and
Speaker 1: I can't live those down. And when I see him
Speaker 1: down here at twenty one, I say to myself, out,
Speaker 1: that's about right. You got to go Quentin Nelson higher
Speaker 1: because you didn't have as many of those moments. If
Speaker 1: you're Quentin Nelson compared to Mike mcglinch, right.
Speaker 2: He generated those moments for other people exactly on the
Speaker 2: other side of them, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: So both those guys, to your point, will sorely be
Speaker 1: missed when it comes to the twenty eighteen Notre Dame
Speaker 1: football season that goes, can we sing? Can we transition
Speaker 1: from there? Who's coming for Notre Dame?
Speaker 2: Who's hitting the left side of that line? And who
Speaker 2: is coaching that they lost their offensive line coach? Correct,
Speaker 2: lost kind of everybody, man, right, So is are the
Speaker 2: prospects and my prospects, I mean looking forward? Are are
Speaker 2: we thinking good things about Notre Dame's offensive line in
Speaker 2: replacing these two clear top level talents on a decent level.
Speaker 1: The good news is that they've recruited very well, okay
Speaker 1: along on the offensive line, So you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg or Josh Lugger some of the other guys
Speaker 1: that got coming in, they'll be okay. They just won't
Speaker 1: be as experienced up front, and it's gonna be difficult
Speaker 1: to follow up the act of mcglinchy and Nelson. Even
Speaker 1: if mcglinche got toasted a couple of times, it's still
Speaker 1: a tough act to follow. He was a big dude,
Speaker 1: a big presence there on the left side of the line.
Speaker 1: And especially now when I think you got questions about
Speaker 1: your quarterback situation, Brandon Wimbush didn't little comfortable at all
Speaker 1: last year. Is Wimbus gonna start? You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: give me a few minutes before we discuss that point.
Speaker 1: Come on, I kind of don't want him to start,
Speaker 1: but will he I got to a point about eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the way through the year when I started
Speaker 1: really having these conversations with myself about whether or not
Speaker 1: Wimbush was the answer. When Wimbush was recruited and when
Speaker 1: he ultimately flipped from Penn State to come to Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: and then when he was lurking in the background as
Speaker 1: you had this whole controversy going on between Deshaun Kaiser
Speaker 1: and Malik Zayer, everyone was sort of talking on the
Speaker 1: Notre Dame boards that I lurk on about how Brandon
Speaker 1: Wimbush could make all the throws. He's the athletic type
Speaker 1: that can run the precise system that we thought Notre
Speaker 1: Dame wanted to run, and things should all just go
Speaker 1: off without a hitch. Whenever he's inserted into that starting lineup,
Speaker 1: and then all throughout the course of the season last
Speaker 1: year and the beginning part of the season, everyone was
Speaker 1: telling me, don't jump the gun. Don't jump the gun.
Speaker 1: He's a first time starter at the college level. If
Speaker 1: he's not doing what you'll want him to do, it's
Speaker 1: because he's just he's green, Dan, he's learning the system.
Speaker 1: I can honestly say, I don't feel like Wimbush got
Speaker 1: any better from the start of the year to the
Speaker 1: end of the year. In spots, he had moments right,
Speaker 1: moments are brilliant, but he did not get better from
Speaker 1: the start of the year to the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Well, here's I mean the actual context, though, You're only
Speaker 2: as good as your options and our Notre Dame's options.
Speaker 2: At a point where you can get rid of a
Speaker 2: guy who helped to lead a good or pretty good offense,
Speaker 2: just a flawed offense.
Speaker 1: He gives them something on the ground for sure, that
Speaker 1: Ian book doesn't right. Brandon Wimbush, no doubt a talented runner,
Speaker 1: but eventually teams figured that out. Dan. Eventually people can
Speaker 1: key on that, and we saw that happen in spots
Speaker 1: when they forced Brandon Wimbush to throw. He just never
Speaker 1: looked comfortable. More often than not, he just did not
Speaker 1: seem comfortable or he wanted to scramble, and that was
Speaker 1: the problem with him. So ian Book gives them more
Speaker 1: in terms of raw passing talent at this point, and
Speaker 1: we saw flashes here and there of ian Book. I
Speaker 1: thought he looked fine as a passer. He certainly plays
Speaker 1: with the confidence in the passing game that Wimbush didn't.
Speaker 1: That is, I think something to watch for as we
Speaker 1: start talking quarterback controversies now moving into twenty eighteen. The
Speaker 1: other name I'll throw in there is Phil Jerkovic, who
Speaker 1: is there. Freshman comes to Notre Dame from Western Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: and I didn't read much about him getting any serious
Speaker 1: looks for the starting position, but I could definitely envision
Speaker 1: a situation and wish that were the case.
Speaker 2: That's if you are going to roll with a true freshman,
Speaker 2: if there is no smoke around him at least like, oh,
Speaker 2: he picked up the offense immediately, he has a contender
Speaker 2: for this job in the way that say Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2: Immediately you know there was smoke around him, and he
Speaker 2: had a the spring game doesn't actually matter. But in
Speaker 2: terms of just like if those stories don't really exist,
Speaker 2: it almost assuredly won't happen.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. Now, that's okay, freshmen shouldn't be starting
Speaker 1: most of the time. Here's the problem I have, and
Speaker 1: then let's move on. No one wants this much Notre
Speaker 1: Dame talk, except for like five percent of our listeners.
Speaker 1: But listen as I raise my hand right, here is
Speaker 1: the problem that I have, really with my own gut instinct. Here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the main reason that I sort of want Notre Dame
Speaker 1: to move away from Brandon Wimbush is because I was
Speaker 1: very disgruntled with Brandon Wimbush, and not because I know
Speaker 1: for certain there is somebody with equal or greater skill
Speaker 1: set working behind him. The only quarterback on that depth
Speaker 1: chart that we have any data on is Ian Book,
Speaker 1: and I'm not totally convinced he's much better than Wimbush,
Speaker 1: but he's something different. And just because I was so
Speaker 1: frustrated last year with the old starting quarterback is probably
Speaker 1: not reason enough to just move in any damn different direction,
Speaker 1: whether it's Book or Drkovic.
Speaker 2: So at the top of the draft, Sam Darnold in
Speaker 2: this mock obviously gone from USC, and there's no clear
Speaker 2: successor for the Trojans. So it was Matt Fink and
Speaker 2: Jack Sears battling it out during the springtime, and then JT. Daniels,
Speaker 2: the five star incoming freshman who enrolled early at USC.
Speaker 2: He shows up over summer, and I cannot imagine a
Speaker 2: situation which USC is just going to roll with what
Speaker 2: should be a high school senior at a time for
Speaker 2: USC that, even though they are rebuilding, reloading whatever they've
Speaker 2: obviously recruited very very well. I can't imagine putting that
Speaker 2: much on a true freshman who was not there for
Speaker 2: spring that that hope has to last either into the
Speaker 2: season to give him time to pick up the offense
Speaker 2: or as a red shirt freshman something that doesn't. It
Speaker 2: doesn't seem fair to put that much weight on him.
Speaker 1: Why what if he's better.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you can be better unless Sears
Speaker 2: and Fink, who are who seems solid like they seem
Speaker 2: like a Cody Kessler model type quarterback, which is fine
Speaker 2: for USC. I just don't know how you roll the
Speaker 2: dice on that. I don't I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Will it take in this USC offense to get more
Speaker 1: consistency and take the team to higher levels than we've seen.
Speaker 2: So Jeremy Prue at Tennessee hired away I think his
Speaker 2: name is Tyson Helton, who called some of the plays.
Speaker 2: There was a weird breakdown of like one offensive coordinator
Speaker 2: called some plays the other with him and tem Martin
Speaker 2: calling other plays. So maybe more consistency of play calling
Speaker 2: just because it's from one person presumably and relying on
Speaker 2: they've got two to three I'm you know, they're obviously
Speaker 2: without the what's it the Texas Tesla Ronald Jones that's
Speaker 2: in the draft, but they've got good options at running
Speaker 2: back to go two or three deep offensive line looks
Speaker 2: new ish for USC, so I would imagine it is
Speaker 2: recognizing that it's okay to lean on the running backs
Speaker 2: and to think about things in a more play action way.
Speaker 2: And because their receiving corps was not all that good
Speaker 2: last year outside of uh, what's the name Deontay Burnett,
Speaker 2: they were just not all that consistent, So maybe there's
Speaker 2: just more development coming. I would imagine it is just
Speaker 2: getting more creative with the run game and asking the
Speaker 2: quarterback to do less until the quarterback is ready okay,
Speaker 2: elsewhere we mentioned Saquon Barkley, Miles Sanders.
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. Yeah, in this mock draft, here is Daniel
Speaker 1: Jeremiah's second pick going to the Giants, which I must say,
Speaker 1: as a Giants fan thrills me. Gives me some shivers
Speaker 1: as a longtime Giants fan. As a Penn State grad,
Speaker 1: Saquon I think would be a great pick, and we
Speaker 1: can discuss the merits of that. But yeah, we're talking
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders as the replacement. I feel okay about that setup,
Speaker 1: to be honest, and no one's going to be Saquon,
Speaker 1: But if you truly look game by game, they are
Speaker 1: only a handful of games really where Saquon was like
Speaker 1: up over one hundred yards. That offense was prolific enough
Speaker 1: even without him, which is crazy to say, But they
Speaker 1: still have Trace mcsorly, and I think as mcsorly goes,
Speaker 1: so does that Penn State offense. So whether it's Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders or and I don't know, Mark Allen is.
Speaker 2: Another name, Tommy Stevens shovel passes Tommy Stevens. I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna be just fine and get plenty of production
Speaker 2: from that spot. Regardless of who's carrying the rock. Fair enough,
Speaker 2: we'll skip down a little bit. Denzel Ward the corner
Speaker 2: for Ohio State. You're gonna be shocked to learn this,
Speaker 2: but Ohio State has recruited corner super duper well yeah,
Speaker 2: and should not find too many troubles. Jeffrey Okuda got
Speaker 2: some time last year. He's a former five star. Kendall
Speaker 2: Sheffield's in there. They will be fine at at corner.
Speaker 2: And even with losing what it's Taekwon Lewis, Sam Hubbard
Speaker 2: as just crazy pass rushers, Nick Bose is still there,
Speaker 2: Chase Yong. They have so much talent that the job
Speaker 2: of corner at Ohio State is one of the you know,
Speaker 2: this is all relative but easy considering how quickly quarterbacks
Speaker 2: have to get rid of the ball. Generally speaking against
Speaker 2: this defense, we talked about Notre Dame and the offensive line.
Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson replacing some Irish up front. Rokwan Smith at
Speaker 2: Georgia was everything on the middle tier of that defense.
Speaker 2: And we'll need to be you know, as a three
Speaker 2: four down linebacker. If you remember, Natrez Patrick was suspended
Speaker 2: before the playoff after the SEC championship game for I
Speaker 2: think it was a pot arrest or a pot charge.
Speaker 2: He's been reinstated and people feel good about him stepping
Speaker 2: in there. Do you know how many defensive backs Alabama
Speaker 2: loses that basically started last year A ton five? Yeah,
Speaker 2: five defensive backs because they played that you know, sort
Speaker 2: of strange bas Nickel defense. Essentially that Mika Fitzpatrick is gone,
Speaker 2: but they've recruited super well. Patrick Sartan junior, if you
Speaker 2: want to feel super old, comes in as perhaps the
Speaker 2: top corner in the country. We talked a little bit too.
Speaker 2: H what's his name, Jared Maiden a couple of years
Speaker 2: ago at the National Championship. He's sort of been in
Speaker 2: a safety corner. I remember he was super well regarded
Speaker 2: Saveon Smith, who was at LSU or he signed at
Speaker 2: LSU before going JC. He steps in for Alabama. They're
Speaker 2: going to be fine, but they're going to be green.
Speaker 2: They're going to be green. But that is if there
Speaker 2: is a unit of Alabama's that you trust. With Nick
Speaker 2: Saban's background, it feels like it should be secondary, right.
Speaker 1: I guess I just I'm sorry. I hate to interrupt,
Speaker 1: Please no, I keep laughing. Not at the prowess of
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremia of putting the mock draft together. But just
Speaker 1: as the possibility of Josh Rosen in Buffalo, I know
Speaker 1: it's right there. I know many nice people from Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and generally I root for the Buffalo Bills. They're not
Speaker 1: my team, but I root for them to do well
Speaker 1: and sort of exercise their own demons as a franchise.
Speaker 1: But I don't know about Josh Rosen going A Southern
Speaker 1: California kid going to Buffalo does not seem like a
Speaker 1: great combination as a Southern California kid.
Speaker 2: Time we mentioned we mentioned Wilton Spate to UCLA as
Speaker 2: a grad transfer, which I don't believe the ceiling is
Speaker 2: super high, not for Wilton spate potential coming off of
Speaker 2: a a spine.
Speaker 1: Injury last something something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's fine. I think he can be
Speaker 2: pretty good. He had some down performances in bigger games.
Speaker 2: But I don't think the expectations are too high for UCLA.
Speaker 2: So it could be Spade, it could be Devin Modster,
Speaker 2: who got some time behind Josh Rosen last year. I
Speaker 2: know they have an incoming freshman that's well regarded, but
Speaker 2: I wouldn't expect a ton from UCLA's offense in year one,
Speaker 2: but hope to be proven wrong.
Speaker 1: So let's let's do this. Let's close out our draft
Speaker 1: discussion here. Let's give me a couple guys, one or
Speaker 1: two guys that you think A can't miss. I'll go
Speaker 1: with two of the guys we just mentioned.
Speaker 2: The two guys that I would say right now, well,
Speaker 2: I'll do one that we just mentioned, one that we
Speaker 2: sort of mentioned. I think Minka Fitzpatrick. I know Alabama
Speaker 2: defensive backs recently have got into the NFL, and it's
Speaker 2: not that they've struggled, but trouble staying healthy or playing consistently.
Speaker 2: But Mika Fitzpatrick is to me too versatile not to
Speaker 2: succeed if he's healthy.
Speaker 1: And the other one is Vidavea.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I think in terms of finished products physically
Speaker 2: and in terms of their games and pass rush moves
Speaker 2: and ability to see plays happening before they do. For
Speaker 2: somebody taken in the top twelve or fifteen, a defensive
Speaker 2: player that high, I think Vidavea is bedrock that you
Speaker 2: can build your team around, or build a defensive unit around.
Speaker 1: I won't say any of the quarterbacks. I won't even
Speaker 1: say Saquon Barkley, even though I love Saquon, I get
Speaker 1: it if the Giants want to take him at two.
Speaker 1: He does seem like a once in a generation prospect.
Speaker 1: Whether or not that translates to the NFL. Whether or
Speaker 1: not he can stay healthy at a position, as you eluded,
Speaker 1: gets pretty banged up, that remains to be seen. I
Speaker 1: would never want to put a running back in as
Speaker 1: my you know, most likely to succeed here. Sure, it's
Speaker 1: just sort of a bad bet, but if I am
Speaker 1: betting on anyone, I think Quentin Nelson goes without saying
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson's going to be a lockdown guard for somebody.
Speaker 1: I also think Harold Landry from Boston College.
Speaker 2: Guys on not super great teams who keep succeeding is
Speaker 2: a nice flash.
Speaker 1: He's a pass rusher. He's a pass rusher, and you
Speaker 1: put him in the right system, I think he can
Speaker 1: succeed and would sort of be one of those can't
Speaker 1: miss guys. You want to aiate some cues, let's do it, baby. Congratulations, Skippy,
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Speaker 1: And Dan, you had a prescription for folks out there
Speaker 1: when you post on Twitter and Facebook and the like.
Speaker 1: What we were looking for in this show? What kind
Speaker 1: of topics did you solicit? Uh? Draft replacements?
Speaker 2: So I guess what we just talked about players coming
Speaker 2: into replaced first round type draft prospects, buying a new house,
Speaker 2: quarterback battles, the office obviously, the phenomenal show The Office,
Speaker 2: and I mean really anything beyond that.
Speaker 1: So that was the meat. Can I start with a
Speaker 1: question for you please? We were talking at the top
Speaker 1: of the show about podcast studios. Now I noticed that
Speaker 1: there are some podcast questions that came in. I would
Speaker 1: I would be in the market for a couple podcast
Speaker 1: questions from the verballer hood if we I have my
Speaker 1: own question for you that I need answered. Okay, As
Speaker 1: I mentioned, I am very close to owning a home,
Speaker 1: very close to owning my own home, and that will
Speaker 1: happen before long. I will be faced with a decision
Speaker 1: about which room I want to put my podcast studio in. Now.
Speaker 1: The new place is bigger than the current place, which
Speaker 1: means I have more options in terms of rooms into
Speaker 1: which a podcast studio would fit very nicely. I do
Speaker 1: think eventually, after the solid wife and I decide to
Speaker 1: remodel the basement area, the podcast studio will be located
Speaker 1: down there. But right now it's unfinished. It's in good shape.
Speaker 1: They aren't like bugs crawling around or anything, but it's
Speaker 1: in good shape. It's just a lot of concrete jungle,
Speaker 1: if you will, downstairs. So the question is do I
Speaker 1: try to occupy one of the unused bedrooms with my
Speaker 1: podcast studio now it's more of a finished product in there.
Speaker 1: We got the carpet, We can put stuff up on
Speaker 1: the walls, nice windows, be more of a comfortable experience
Speaker 1: in one of those rooms. Or do I just sort
Speaker 1: of acknowledge upfront that eventually it's going to be downstairs
Speaker 1: and even though it's unfinished now I sort of have
Speaker 1: my run of the full basement. I could build a
Speaker 1: video studio down there if I wanted. For some of
Speaker 1: the video stuff that we've done, some of the Facebook
Speaker 1: stuff that we've done here, and there. Sure, I am
Speaker 1: really on the fence about whether or not I want
Speaker 1: to go downstairs with it, or if I want to
Speaker 1: go more of the finished variety upstairs. So what do
Speaker 1: you think I would go upstairs? I would go upstairs
Speaker 1: because when you want to eventually build out your your
Speaker 1: podcast fantasy factory in the basement, that's exactly what it
Speaker 1: will be.
Speaker 2: It's not a priority right now in terms of moving in.
Speaker 2: It's not something that could be done in a week,
Speaker 2: whereas a room upstairs could be done pretty quickly. You
Speaker 2: hang some foam, you know, you just keep it quiet
Speaker 2: and you throw a desk in there, and you're good,
Speaker 2: right essentially, Yeah, you're plugging in some equipment, plugging a
Speaker 2: surge protect or whatever. You don't want to half ass
Speaker 2: the basement right now just to get in there.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 2: So I say, temporarily go upstairs while you map out
Speaker 2: fully what you want to do in the basement.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm leaning in that direction, but you know me,
Speaker 1: I overthink things, that's true, And I thought a little
Speaker 1: bit about going in the basement. Anyway.
Speaker 2: I've never lived anywhere with the basement, so this is
Speaker 2: all new to me. I'll stay on the topic of
Speaker 2: podcasting though, because you apparently have I got a hank
Speaker 2: of whistle that needs whatd Yeah, that's right, Kyle wants
Speaker 2: to know. Huge fan of the podcast as an avid listener,
Speaker 2: I really appreciate the audio quality of your podcast. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking of doing a podcast with somebody's Okay, any recommendations
Speaker 2: on equipment.
Speaker 1: Software, etc.
Speaker 2: So congratulations to Kyle for being the ten thousandth person
Speaker 2: to ask this question. So equipment is like the fourth
Speaker 2: most important thing if you want to start a podcast,
Speaker 2: but it's still one of the more important things.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think it. Yeah, it has to be.
Speaker 2: Yes, the show itself should be listenable in both content
Speaker 2: and audio. But ty, if he's strictly asking about equipment,
Speaker 2: so this has nothing to do with the content of
Speaker 2: his show or how often or whatever the type of
Speaker 2: show it is, what is the base level that you
Speaker 2: would recommend. Let's say he, just because we know this
Speaker 2: about our listeners, makes a little bit of money, so
Speaker 2: he has some disposable income. He's mail, he's not, Yes,
Speaker 2: we know he's mail, which I don't. Maybe you have
Speaker 2: microphone specifics no inundation wise for men versus women. But
Speaker 2: let's say he has some disposable income and cares about
Speaker 2: audio quality.
Speaker 1: It is his.
Speaker 2: If he's just starting this podcast with friends, then who
Speaker 2: knows if it'll be around in a year, right, what
Speaker 2: would you recommend? Well?
Speaker 1: So, okay, very quick history lesson. He talks about audio quality,
Speaker 1: and like, we've talked about this before, but podcasting has
Speaker 1: very much gone away that YouTube went very early on.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, it was whoever could do it, whoever
Speaker 1: could figure out how to shoot a video and put
Speaker 1: it on the internet. They were the ones that got
Speaker 1: the views. And then over the course of time, when
Speaker 1: people started pouring money into it, more of yous generally
Speaker 1: went to the videos ahead better quality. Podcasting is very
Speaker 1: much in the same vein. If you want to do
Speaker 1: it right, you have to put some focus on your
Speaker 1: audio quality. So the first thing I would say is,
Speaker 1: don't buy a blue Yetty. Don't buy a blue Yetty.
Speaker 1: A lot of folks have them, they work in a
Speaker 1: lot of cases. But I can hear when some random
Speaker 1: podcast has a blue Yetty.
Speaker 2: On the other end, if the theme of your show
Speaker 2: is I Am in a Canyon, yeah, then yes, then
Speaker 2: it's fine.
Speaker 1: But otherwise I'm telling you, if you're using a Blue Yetty,
Speaker 1: even if you don't publicize, I can tell. So, just
Speaker 1: to keep me sane, don't don't buy a Blue Yetty.
Speaker 2: So give me an option around one hundred bucks or
Speaker 2: hopefully a little bit less that will give you decent
Speaker 2: audio quality and either will go in via USB or
Speaker 2: thunderbolt or whatever.
Speaker 1: Or you can get an adapter. Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: can get a microphone, like a dynamic microphone, a decent
Speaker 1: one for like a hundred bucks. There's one called an
Speaker 1: Audix D two. Tell me what dynamic means. Dynamic means
Speaker 1: that it captures a pattern, Okay, a directional pattern, let's
Speaker 1: say in front of the microphone. Ah, I love when
Speaker 1: you're nerd out on this show. Whereas a bluoyetti, which
Speaker 1: I despise, is an omnidirectional mic. So if you put
Speaker 1: it in a room, it'd be great for like a
Speaker 1: conference call where you need to pick up people in
Speaker 1: various corners of a room. That's what a bluo yetti
Speaker 1: is good at. But if you want a true broadcasting microphone,
Speaker 1: you need a dynamic microphone because then it really only
Speaker 1: captures let's just call it, a radius around the microphone
Speaker 1: a very limited range around the microphone, it tends to
Speaker 1: pick up better quality. So I'd say I know of
Speaker 1: an audis one that's like a hundred bucks. I'd think
Speaker 1: it's the D two. There are audio technica options out
Speaker 1: there if you don't want to spend quite as much money.
Speaker 1: I've not used all these, but it has to be
Speaker 1: better than the blue Yetti And I'd say, just in general,
Speaker 1: in general, by the best microphone you can afford. Fair
Speaker 1: And I assume he's doing this over Skype or something
Speaker 1: like that, because most people don't have the luxury of
Speaker 1: always being in the same room with their co hosts.
Speaker 1: So all right, fair enough.
Speaker 2: Any other podcast topics you wanted to hit on as
Speaker 2: it relates to our show, or college football before we
Speaker 2: move to other college football or the just random life questions.
Speaker 1: Why don't we move on, because when you get me
Speaker 1: going on podcasting, I could talk for like four hours.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's air on some questions. If anything comes
Speaker 1: to mind, I'll bring it up quickly. Top wide receiver corp.
Speaker 1: We only really mentioned one receiver this whole time, DJ Shark,
Speaker 1: but returning wide receiving cores in the country, do any
Speaker 1: stand out to you. I have a couple, Okay, who
Speaker 1: do you got?
Speaker 2: I like Penn State actually, especially given the quarterback that
Speaker 2: they have throwing to them. So no Daveshan Hamilton, No
Speaker 2: Daveshan Hamilton, and no Blackmail's gone, right, and I imagine God,
Speaker 2: So it's kJ Hamler coming in and Justin Shorter was
Speaker 2: the true freshman right right, So they have youth, promising
Speaker 2: youth and a promising quarterback and Nogasicki, which means, I
Speaker 2: guess balls would go to receivers more and more.
Speaker 1: So it's Juwan Johnson is the big dude. Yep.
Speaker 2: DeAndre Tompkins still there, yep. Plus those two Hamdler and Shorter,
Speaker 2: I feel pretty good about Penn State and freshman or
Speaker 2: excuse me and receiver production. Oklahoma State even without our
Speaker 2: guy Junkyard Jim Washington, excuse me and Clark L.
Speaker 1: Eateman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, McCleskey, Tyron Johnson and Dylan Stoner caught a ton
Speaker 2: of balls last year, contributed a ton, but now obviously
Speaker 2: without Mason. Rudolph AJ Brown exists for Ole Miss, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Ole Miss. Paris Campbell exists for Ohio State,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to say Ohio State and DeMarcus Lodge
Speaker 2: is still good as well for ol Miss. But out west,
Speaker 2: there's not a hun to love pac twelve wise, there
Speaker 2: isn't There isn't a ton to love for me.
Speaker 1: Anybody else stand out to you wide receiver wise, he
Speaker 1: stole my aj Brown, although I guess it's not much
Speaker 1: of a secret at Old Miss. No. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Penn State's receivers are going to actually be real good
Speaker 1: this year. Well, I think they'll be made better by
Speaker 1: the offense. And I think still having trace mcsolely around
Speaker 1: will we'll cover up for whatever growing pains the receiving
Speaker 1: corp might have in the absence of Hamilton, and that
Speaker 1: it just helps development. Yeah, sure of course. Next question, tie, Yeah,
Speaker 1: got a notre dame question, not asking it? Nope. Um,
Speaker 1: let's go to God.
Speaker 2: We have so many questions. I should be I should
Speaker 2: be more organized. This is my apology here. Planning to
Speaker 2: go to Florida at Mississippi State this year. Any Starkville
Speaker 2: recommendations or just Mississippian in general. I usually drive to
Speaker 2: games tailgates, so I would appreciate any tips for tailgating
Speaker 2: when flying in and his bachelor party is this weekend
Speaker 2: in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1: Were going, Dan, you're going?
Speaker 2: I think it's the first time I've heard of a
Speaker 2: bachelor party here and it should be. I think the
Speaker 2: sun's going to be out. I'm going to be out
Speaker 2: of town. I'm going to be out of town this weekend,
Speaker 2: so I will not be attending Gary's bachelor party in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: But you should eat well and tweet mer eamil mean.
Speaker 2: I can give you some recommendations, but recommendations for Starkville
Speaker 2: or a plan if you were going to Starkville having
Speaker 2: never been there, Tie.
Speaker 1: What would you do? I've never been to Starkville. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Go to I think it's Little Dewey's
Speaker 1: is what Joe Moorehead recommended. Yeah, oh that's right, Little Dewey's.
Speaker 1: Go to Little Dewey's. That's all I have for you,
Speaker 1: and tweet or tweet us or whatever.
Speaker 2: We can try to send people your way because a
Speaker 2: lot of the fund of tailgating is a communal aspect,
Speaker 2: and so we can sort of figure out if we
Speaker 2: can find tailgaters to host you, because that's that's what
Speaker 2: we would do.
Speaker 1: Here you go, Dan, Here's one from Ivan He says
Speaker 1: he's a huge Notre Dame fan. North of the border,
Speaker 1: way north. Oh Okay, what's a road trip to any
Speaker 1: school in Division one, you guys would suggest with a
Speaker 1: great college town fan base and food. Trying to plan
Speaker 1: full trip, he said, he's way north of the border,
Speaker 1: So we assume somewhere somewhere, maybe the Arctic Circle, maybe
Speaker 1: Hudson Bay, who knows if you're coming from there, sir,
Speaker 1: I would go somewhere warm. I mean, why not. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna drive down to the US of A, I
Speaker 1: would just go all the way down. So I would
Speaker 1: say somewhere in the sec DAN if you want to
Speaker 1: get the true college football experience, and plus the weather
Speaker 1: will be a lot warmer than what you're used to. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean depending on where you go, though, if you
Speaker 2: go in September to a big ten town, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be nice. It's gonna be fine. If you're going to
Speaker 2: go somewhere familiar, so more like Canada, go to Madison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Madison, right, go to.
Speaker 2: Madison, Wisconsin. Don't think twice. It's a great college town.
Speaker 2: The food is I mean, it's aggressively Midwest, but one
Speaker 2: of the tastier places to eat in the Midwest. The
Speaker 2: game day experience, the in stadium experience all wonderful. If
Speaker 2: you want to go somewhere warmer, go to Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2: The city itself is not my favorite, but game day
Speaker 2: in Baton Rouge is incredible, and the food's incredible, and
Speaker 2: you'll eat super well and be in a loud place
Speaker 2: that's unlike many other places. If not, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: you're right, Go to Austin. Just eat well. It's very different.
Speaker 2: It's a city, it's not a town. But those would
Speaker 2: be the three options I.
Speaker 1: Would give you. If you're driving, Maybe Madison is a
Speaker 1: short Madison might be. Or come to the live show
Speaker 1: in Chicago in August. Or come to the live show
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Next question, along the same lines from Ryan,
Speaker 1: he says he's trying to go to every single D
Speaker 1: one football school for a game before he dies, which
Speaker 1: is an ambitious adventure. Here he says, what non big
Speaker 1: time program should I look to put at the top
Speaker 1: of my list?
Speaker 2: Does Florida count for this? Don't put a Gainsville just wondering.
Speaker 2: Go to Colorado State, Okay, go to New Stadium and listen.
Speaker 2: It's a state where if you like partaking in certain
Speaker 2: hobbies totally illegal and fine that it's they're good, They've
Speaker 2: got a decent coach and Mike Bobo. I would go,
Speaker 2: that's off the beaten path. That's a non power or
Speaker 2: five option and you get to see beautiful country. You're
Speaker 2: in Colorado. I'm I don't really have an answer beyond
Speaker 2: that tie.
Speaker 1: I'll go Colorado State too. All right, where you want
Speaker 1: to go next year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going Rams and for Collins is supposed to
Speaker 2: be super nice. Let's go to do you want to go?
Speaker 1: House? Questions? Do you want to go office place? Let's
Speaker 1: say a couple more football questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of talk in both pro and
Speaker 2: college football about getting rid of kickoffs. From David, what
Speaker 2: are your thoughts? So, how foundational and traditionally important in
Speaker 2: your brain is the idea of a kickoff after scores
Speaker 2: and to start halves.
Speaker 1: It's like part of my childhood, the kickoff, Right, My
Speaker 1: introduction into college football was were you a kickoff specialist
Speaker 1: as a kid? Of course Campton High School? No, I look,
Speaker 1: my favorite player growing up was rocket Ishmael mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And some of the most exciting plays that I've seen
Speaker 1: as a fan, have come on kickoffs mm hmmm, whether
Speaker 1: it's Rocket, whether it's Desmond Howard, whether it's some of
Speaker 1: the crazy plays we've seen elsewhere, the band out on
Speaker 1: the field, like all of these things are laced into
Speaker 1: the history of college football, and so I know that
Speaker 1: there are legitimate safety concerns about the kickoff play as
Speaker 1: a whole, But there is intrinsic value to me in
Speaker 1: keeping that in the game.
Speaker 2: I think people, and I don't mean you necessarily, but
Speaker 2: there is a natural fear of change in that this
Speaker 2: exists because it has always existed, and a certain reality
Speaker 2: is that things have to evolve. And if the evidence
Speaker 2: is insurmountable that this is an enormous, unnecessary health risk
Speaker 2: within the context of football being an enormous undous it's
Speaker 2: a little contradict. But if it is the upper tier
Speaker 2: of risk in an already crazy risky sport, then it's
Speaker 2: at a certain point worth trying to mitigate. And kickoffs
Speaker 2: in general, I know our pal John Boyce did a
Speaker 2: video about this, just how pointless they almost always are,
Speaker 2: like touchbacks are almost always more valuable if you're starting
Speaker 2: at the twenty five mathematically speaking.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean that's all very logical, and I would
Speaker 1: say ninety nine times out of one hundred, I'm all
Speaker 1: in on the most logical argument. Right, kickoffs for me
Speaker 1: were almost my introduction into the game as a fan.
Speaker 1: To lose that, I would feel like I'm losing a
Speaker 1: part of my own personal fandom. Do you think fewer
Speaker 1: people would watch football on a noticeable scale? No? No,
Speaker 1: I would still watch it, right, I would still watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I would flee the game as a whole,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying it would lose a little bit
Speaker 1: of the luster for me. Right.
Speaker 2: Okay, where we're going next, let's go to this is
Speaker 2: a question. It sort of spans everything. It's about losing
Speaker 2: a fantasy football league and getting a belly button pie.
Speaker 1: I got questions about the dude that wrote this one.
Speaker 2: Okay, So basically, he doesn't watch the NFL, and he
Speaker 2: only picks college players he likes, notably from Oklahoma, and
Speaker 2: he keeps losing in fantasy football and having humiliating consequences
Speaker 2: because of it. I would recommend never play fans.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Here's the thing. His name is John.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this. I'm gonna read the opening sentence here.
Speaker 1: Last year I came in last place in my fantasy
Speaker 1: football league and I was forced to get a belly
Speaker 1: button piercing. Now, look, everybody, and I do mean everybody
Speaker 1: who is into fantasy sports has at one point been
Speaker 1: part of the league where they couldn't fully give the
Speaker 1: proper amount of attention to it. Right, But in most
Speaker 1: cases those leagues aren't for one hundred dollars. There isn't
Speaker 1: like a huge entrance fee. The risk is relatively low. Well,
Speaker 1: why John, would you go into a league like this
Speaker 1: if you don't have the baseline to feel somewhat confident
Speaker 1: that you're not going to have to get your belly
Speaker 1: button pierce at the end of it seems like an
Speaker 1: unnecessary risk to me. Maybe he wanted to get his
Speaker 1: belly button pierced all along and this was his natural
Speaker 1: excuse to, oh dark jump into it. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're going to play a fantasy football league
Speaker 2: with those kinds of consequences, you should take it seriously
Speaker 2: and not just pick players from your favorite college team
Speaker 2: or just don't play fantasy football because I think it's
Speaker 2: dob Look.
Speaker 1: That's what the Browns tried and the Browns are drafting
Speaker 1: one year in and you're out right, So take take
Speaker 1: some heed from that whole adventure. And if you're going
Speaker 1: to join a league like this, where where the stakes
Speaker 1: are sit dan high, I don't know how much higher
Speaker 1: they can get. Find a friend who knows a lot
Speaker 1: about it, someone who can be a co manager with
Speaker 1: you or something.
Speaker 2: Ty who's your favorite player from a team you hate
Speaker 2: or hate?
Speaker 1: Ed Dustin, Dustin Pedroia Okay college? Oh football? Hmm, that's
Speaker 1: a tough question. There aren't many teams that I hate anymore. Right.
Speaker 1: I've told the story on this show about how in
Speaker 1: my younger day, before I went to Penn State, before
Speaker 1: I was a little bit more of a cultured individual,
Speaker 1: I used to hate Penn State. I really did. Growing
Speaker 1: up a Notre Dame fan Eastern PA, I hated Penn
Speaker 1: State and it stayed that way for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's not that way anymore, obviously, But there were some
Speaker 1: players on those teams that, even though I hated Penn State,
Speaker 1: it was hard not to like LeVar Arrington, It was
Speaker 1: hard not to like LeVar Arrington. It was hard not
Speaker 1: to like Curtis Enis. On some of those teams. Those
Speaker 1: guys were dominant in the day, so probably LeVar Arrington.
Speaker 1: For me, I love Reggie bush so much, and I
Speaker 1: didn't hate USC, and I was from USC, but rooted
Speaker 1: against USC because of Oregon. Ah, Reggie bush Man, that was.
Speaker 2: That's my earnest answer. My snark answer is Jake Locker
Speaker 2: loved when Jake Locker was at Washington. By all accounts
Speaker 2: of good dude, dude was just an average quarterback with
Speaker 2: superior athletic gifts. But uh loved the Jake Locker era
Speaker 2: at Washington.
Speaker 1: All right, quick one for you from Wilton Will sent
Speaker 1: in that he was interested in the Chicago Live show,
Speaker 1: and I said, I'd put this one on the list
Speaker 1: very quickly. Fifteen seconds or less. Your essential go to
Speaker 1: taco destinations in La or San Diego.
Speaker 2: I don't know San Diego Taco's that well. Go if
Speaker 2: you're downtown, go to Sonoratown, Marisco, Jalisco. Sit down at
Speaker 2: BS Takorea. It's a casual sit down spot. Those those
Speaker 2: three I would And oh one more bonus Giesato's g
Speaker 2: U I S A d.
Speaker 1: O S Gisatos. All right, Spencer writes in Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: or Kelly Bryant.
Speaker 2: I have a difficult time replacing a conference champion quarterback
Speaker 2: who did struggle at the end of the season against
Speaker 2: you know, arguably the best or one of the best
Speaker 2: two or three defenses in the country and did nothing
Speaker 2: against Alabama. But I right now Kelly Bryant. But if
Speaker 2: by mid October, which is when you would assume Trevor
Speaker 2: Lawrence would have a pretty good command of the playbook,
Speaker 2: or at least a better command, if Kelly Bryant looks
Speaker 2: much more in the Alabama direction, what he looked like
Speaker 2: against Alabama than what he looked like against teams like
Speaker 2: Louisville Virginia Tech early on in the season, I would
Speaker 2: imagine rotating in Trevor Lawrence at least four drives to
Speaker 2: see how he does.
Speaker 1: Kelly Bryant got him too the playoff, Yes, that has
Speaker 1: to stand for something. And when you've got a true
Speaker 1: freshman coming in, I think you got to stick Kelly
Speaker 1: Bryant until further notice, until given a reason to make
Speaker 1: that move away from him. I think right now, Spencer,
Speaker 1: the answer has to be Kelly Bryant, all right, who
Speaker 1: has a brighter future Tennessee or Florida I think both
Speaker 1: programs are going to be just fine in due time.
Speaker 1: I know we've been saying that about each for a while. Okay,
Speaker 1: I apologize to you. Yeah, what's his name, Tyler? Hello? Tyler?
Speaker 1: I think right now, for the immediate future, the answer
Speaker 1: is Florida. There are more building blocks in place at Florida.
Speaker 1: Tennessee remains a pretty big unknown for me. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of parts in place that I do like,
Speaker 1: but as a whole, it's a less finished product.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know nothing about Jeremy Prude as a head coach.
Speaker 2: Beyond did a good job closing out the recruiting class
Speaker 2: and hired a pretty good looking staff. I would say
Speaker 2: that all looked like him. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: saw a picture of all of them. But Dan Mullin
Speaker 2: has wanted a difficult place to win. He has developed quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: and he is in a state with much more talent
Speaker 2: that is local and Florida's crossover I believe is LSU
Speaker 2: in the West. Tennessee's crossover is Alabama. So things to
Speaker 2: me point to buying a little bit more stock in
Speaker 2: Florida at the moment.
Speaker 1: You get to pick the next couple questions.
Speaker 2: All Right, let's go to Oh man, I'm let's go
Speaker 2: to Noah Pittman about the show The Office. Which how
Speaker 2: far away are you from Scranton?
Speaker 1: Roughly about an hour and fifteen.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so this is not necessarily your backyard. Now,
Speaker 2: my wife and I have a disagreement over which is
Speaker 2: the most uncomfortable episode of the Office featuring Michael. She
Speaker 2: says it's Dinner Party. He thinks it's definitely. Noah thinks
Speaker 2: it's Scott's Tots. Do you remember each of these episodess.
Speaker 1: I remember the Dinner Party, and I definitely Scott's I
Speaker 1: do remember Scott's Totts. Yeah. I probably haven't watched as
Speaker 1: much of the Office.
Speaker 2: I'm rewatching it right now, and it's better yeah than
Speaker 2: it wasn't me.
Speaker 1: I love The Office. I just didn't all of it. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm not an expert on it. But the Dinner
Speaker 1: Party to me feels like it has to be the answer.
Speaker 1: And even though I don't remember Scott's Tots as well.
Speaker 1: Snip snap, snip snap. Yeah, there was no part of
Speaker 1: the dinner party scene that wasn't cringeworthy. Yeah, that's there
Speaker 1: was no part of it that was not cringeworthy. So
Speaker 1: for me, that's that's like the eight hundred pound gorilla here.
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: If there was a B story in the Dinner Party one,
Speaker 2: whereas Scott's Tots at least there was a B story
Speaker 2: in that episode. To get away from it. I think
Speaker 2: it's the Dinner Party. And this is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2: My middle brother was engaged and at the time was
Speaker 2: living in Saint Louis, and I had seen the Dinner
Speaker 2: Party episode of the Office. It had already aired by
Speaker 2: that point. I don't know if it was Netflix or
Speaker 2: DVD whatever, but invited me over to his apartment that
Speaker 2: he shared with his then fiance now not fiance, and
Speaker 2: the apartment was decoration in such a way that I
Speaker 2: was like, my brother didn't have anything to do with
Speaker 2: this apartment that was like an uncomfortable couch and porcelain,
Speaker 2: weird stuff everywhere, like, and he said, Oh, my god,
Speaker 2: you have to watch this episode of the Office with me,
Speaker 2: called the Dinner Party. It is my favorite episode. And
Speaker 2: as I was watching it and connecting it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: he is living. He is living this episode and it
Speaker 2: worked on such a good meta level that that is
Speaker 2: always going to mean more to me than pretty much any.
Speaker 1: Episode that said.
Speaker 2: Scott's Tots, in which Michael Scott promises a group of
Speaker 2: third graders that he's going to pay for all of
Speaker 2: their college tuition if they graduate from high school, and
Speaker 2: then has to go back to them watch a performance
Speaker 2: of them singing and dancing to him as a thank you.
Speaker 2: What you're going to do, mister Scott, when you make
Speaker 2: dreams come true? It's and then do you see you
Speaker 2: probably haven't watched this episode in a long time.
Speaker 1: It's been a while. It's been a while. I remember
Speaker 1: the inner party quite well.
Speaker 2: So he tells this group of third once third graders
Speaker 2: now high school seniors, that not only is he not
Speaker 2: paying for their college educations, but he turns the conversation
Speaker 2: to but you're gonna need laptops in college. And there's
Speaker 2: just like a very brief moment of like, well, pretty
Speaker 2: good consolation prize coming, and he opens up a suitcase
Speaker 2: full of rechargeable on batteries.
Speaker 1: See, oh, it's so good. It's The Office is great.
Speaker 1: If you need a show to rewatch and just binge
Speaker 1: out on, I think it's on Comedy Central. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Question. Noah, I'm gonna go back
Speaker 1: and watch both of those this week. Mm hmm, that's great. Ty.
Speaker 2: You ever been to Savannah or Ashville? No, Adrian wants
Speaker 2: to know. No, I haven't been a Savanna. I've been
Speaker 2: to Charleston. I know it's pretty similar. Ashville is awesome.
Speaker 1: Ashville's like it's a West coast college town in the
Speaker 1: middle of the mountains in North Carolina. Ashville. So if
Speaker 1: you like beer, really good beer, town, good food, that's
Speaker 1: what I would suggest, go to Asheville, find microbreweries, eat food.
Speaker 1: All right. Richard, speaking of the office, wants to know.
Speaker 1: Twelve bones is a specific, specific suggestion. Twelve bones, twelve bones.
Speaker 1: Richard wants to know, speaking of the office, is Jim
Speaker 1: a d bag or a good guy?
Speaker 2: Oh man, look at you shortening to keep our iTunes
Speaker 2: rating as family friendly family show.
Speaker 1: Dan, I think a little of both. I think he is.
Speaker 2: So if we're looking at a meter in which normal
Speaker 2: dude with tendencies of good dudes and d bags is
Speaker 2: find yourself in the middle. Where do you stands Hi?
Speaker 2: Where do I stand?
Speaker 1: No? No, where do you stand this for Jim? Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: you need to specify, Dan, Yeah, No, you don't have
Speaker 1: any d bag consistencies. If normal guy is what fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty you're saying, hm, like sixty forty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say he's on the wrong side of
Speaker 2: fifty with good guy tendencies, Yeah, i'd agree with him.
Speaker 2: He wasn't a particularly good boss. He screwed around at
Speaker 2: work way too much. He you know, I should be
Speaker 2: want to criticize, but started dating somebody in the office.
Speaker 2: But it worked out for him, right, Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: say because it was such a weird place, and because
Speaker 2: the camera always looked to him for reaction, they wanted
Speaker 2: you to associate with him, and therefore you want to
Speaker 2: think he's a good guy. But in his actual actions,
Speaker 2: I don't think he was great a lot.
Speaker 1: Of the time. Yeah. He played great pranks though, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And we did get a question about what kind of
Speaker 1: office style prank would you play on each other? Would
Speaker 1: I on you? You on me? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I know this answer immediately, and it
Speaker 2: would It probably will make your skin crawl just hearing
Speaker 2: me say it out loud.
Speaker 1: What prank you would play on me? Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: exactly what I would do. I mean, it's not really
Speaker 1: a prank. It's just me. What would you do?
Speaker 2: But I would before a live show or some sort
Speaker 2: of live recording, I would twist knobs on your board
Speaker 2: randomly or keep keep like because you're you're very good
Speaker 2: with diagnostic But.
Speaker 1: That would be a prank on you too. It would
Speaker 1: be it's a live show. It's pretty short sighted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do admit that, but I would say, yes
Speaker 2: that that sort of thing drives you batty, so like,
Speaker 2: why isn't sound coming through this speaker? And then like
Speaker 2: you go to check the board and then I just
Speaker 2: like unplug something in the space.
Speaker 1: See the problem that I have. I love the idea
Speaker 1: of pulling pranks, but kind of along the same lines,
Speaker 1: I tend to overthink them, and I tend to think
Speaker 1: of all pranks as if I'm pulling a bank heist.
Speaker 1: So eventually I have them so well planned that you
Speaker 1: start thinking, wow, this this is actually more mean than
Speaker 1: anything because I put so much thought on That's exactly true.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I have to think about what
Speaker 1: I do to you.
Speaker 2: I know you're too good a guy. You're you're on
Speaker 2: the right side of the meter. Okay, okay, quick question, Tye,
Speaker 2: what do you think of when you think about food
Speaker 2: from Oklahoma. I loved this question because it was weirdly affirming.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's great, uh Oklahoma?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What is Oklahoma food to you? I have two answers,
Speaker 1: and they're Okay answers. A good, A good, A steak
Speaker 1: from grassfread, grass fed beef. I don't know, Okay. All
Speaker 1: I know about Oklahoma food is you know those Hostess
Speaker 1: fruit pies. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think like the real version of that is it's
Speaker 2: either from Oklahoma or Arkansas. They're called hand pies, which, God,
Speaker 2: it's fun to say out loud.
Speaker 1: Sure. The other thing is I think they fry their
Speaker 1: burgers with onions.
Speaker 2: Like they take up a hamburger patty and throw a
Speaker 2: bunch of onions just like on top of it and
Speaker 2: throw it down on a griddle, so you get crisp
Speaker 2: onions with your burger, which is incredible.
Speaker 1: Sure, I think that's an Oklahoma thing. All right? Can
Speaker 1: that's all I know? Can I close out with the question?
Speaker 1: Jump in? Sure? Is this the question about body odor? No?
Speaker 1: Do you want to go with that one first? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a very real question, but whatever you want. What
Speaker 1: was that one?
Speaker 2: Somebody asked. I don't remember where this came from. What
Speaker 2: to do if a coworker has particularly bad being.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's very difficult.
Speaker 2: The only reason I bring this question to air is
Speaker 2: because your life advice is consistently confounding, and so I
Speaker 2: really wanted to mind share what you thought. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: although the grocery store had more legs than I originally anticipated.
Speaker 1: The grocery where to pick up some good answers is
Speaker 1: what they are. Yeah, man, the body odor one is
Speaker 1: very difficult, so it has to be. So the question was,
Speaker 1: what do you do? What steps do you take?
Speaker 2: How do you tell or how do you get somebody
Speaker 2: to tell a coworker whose body odor is particularly bad?
Speaker 1: Like I assume in this question to the point of distraction,
Speaker 1: it depends how good of friends you are with the individual,
Speaker 1: because like for example, and I know it's on a
Speaker 1: much much different scale, they are very close friends of
Speaker 1: mine that I have at the office who if they
Speaker 1: have something in their teeth, I would say, Hey, you
Speaker 1: got some in your teeth. Of course that's easily fixed,
Speaker 1: easily fixed. And what I found is that bio large
Speaker 1: people appreciate that. Oh thank you, thank you. You know
Speaker 1: you present it in a manner that you know isn't
Speaker 1: very threatening body odor. I guess you could kind of
Speaker 1: go the same route, but you'd really have to be
Speaker 1: good friends with the person. You really have to be
Speaker 1: good friends with the person, and if they smell that bad,
Speaker 1: you might not. So I'm thinking maybe I weasel out
Speaker 1: and just go the root of an anonymous note, man Ty,
Speaker 1: what would you give me? Hold on, mister wizard over there,
Speaker 1: give me your well thought out answer on this matter.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't anonymously leave a note that you smell, do okay?
Speaker 2: So, if it's an actual distraction on a like, if
Speaker 2: you have difficult times working without having to catch wis
Speaker 2: are you going to go to the boss and be like, hey,
Speaker 2: Bobby smells or if yeah, if Bobby's a salesperson and
Speaker 2: in meetings it's something that is distracting or embarrassing because
Speaker 2: of the smell, you probably have to go. Assuming this
Speaker 2: is an office of some size, you probably have to
Speaker 2: go to HR because those are the people that won't
Speaker 2: get in trouble.
Speaker 1: But then, what do you do if you're HR? If
Speaker 1: you're HR's, you have actually say what do you do
Speaker 1: if you're in the situation of having to break the
Speaker 1: news to this individual.
Speaker 2: I think you have to start it with you have
Speaker 2: to be very careful that it's not an actual medical problem, okay,
Speaker 2: because I think there can be like some sort of
Speaker 2: glandular issue, sure, in which it's out of people's control
Speaker 2: and they're using you know, prescription grade deodorant or whatever methods.
Speaker 2: So you have to say, listen, this comes from a
Speaker 2: place of good faith. Is there something wrong? Does our
Speaker 2: insurance cover it? If not, you may think about changing
Speaker 2: up your deodorant because it has been noticed that there
Speaker 2: is a little bit of an odor.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably the fair way to go at it.
Speaker 1: I guess it's not all that different than a manager
Speaker 1: who would have to tell a subordinate that he or
Speaker 1: she is dressing inappropriately. Right, It's just a very personal matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Or you just always go up to them every
Speaker 2: morning and say you just work out, yeah woo, you
Speaker 2: just get done with a run, feel the burn. But
Speaker 2: that it's it's much more difficult than somebody with bad breath,
Speaker 2: where you just offer them a mint ten times a day. Right,
Speaker 2: that's it's yeah, still on the on the table, dan Ty,
Speaker 2: we are we are trying to preach in this show
Speaker 2: as strange as of my sounds, to try to take
Speaker 2: a little bit of responsibility and act like a grown up.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, speaking of which, yes, let's close out
Speaker 1: with this question. I highlighted it. Okay, what do you got?
Speaker 1: This is my favorite question, Dan Kloba shar Kloba car.
Speaker 1: We're not entirely clear on how to pronounce his name,
Speaker 1: but DK is pretty consistent when it comes to quality
Speaker 1: questions here on the verbal agree and we appreciate that
Speaker 1: this may be my favorite question yet. He says, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of buying a project car to work on with
Speaker 1: my dad. I like this question, yeah, but I have
Speaker 1: a limited mechanical experience. Have either of you tackled a
Speaker 1: job without any know how whatsoever? Was it as rewarding
Speaker 1: as I think this will be? Marriage? Yes? Marriage? Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: very rewarding Dan. The fact that you can work on
Speaker 1: this with your father is very special, sure, and so
Speaker 1: for that reason, I think, yes, this would be very rewarding.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you can do the whole thing without getting hurt.
Speaker 1: If you can, that would be terrific. If you can
Speaker 1: get the car to start, even better, but spending the
Speaker 1: time with your father, I think would be priceless. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think projects, especially tangible projects where you are working
Speaker 2: towards a goal, where you're becoming more skilled, where you're learning,
Speaker 2: I think, are almost always if you're able to afford
Speaker 2: everything involved, worth it, because even if you fail, you
Speaker 2: get quality time either with a family member or a
Speaker 2: loan or whatever. But you're learning, you're getting stories, you're
Speaker 2: not staring at a phone, Like I think, it's all
Speaker 2: in all like a clear win.
Speaker 1: It's a clear win. It's a clear win if you
Speaker 1: can plan in advance what that project's going to be.
Speaker 1: In this case, he's obviously thought it through. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: purchased the car already, maybe he hasn't, but either way,
Speaker 1: he's given some advanced thought on the matter. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: projects where you get yourself in trouble are the ones
Speaker 1: that just sort of happen and you decide, I can
Speaker 1: go on YouTube and figure this out, Like, how hard
Speaker 1: could it be to do this? I had a similar
Speaker 1: instance when my garage door broke a couple months ago.
Speaker 1: Have I told you this story? Did you build a
Speaker 1: new garage door? I didn't build a new garage door,
Speaker 1: but I decided that I could fix it on my own.
Speaker 1: So if you can imagine one of those situations where
Speaker 1: the garage door only goes down ninety percent of the way,
Speaker 1: so I'll take it away. You just see it, like,
Speaker 1: how hard could this be? It's on a right pulley
Speaker 1: and you got some springs and a coil up there.
Speaker 1: I'm a smart guy. I can figure this out. M hm.
Speaker 1: So you go on YouTube. And when you go on
Speaker 1: YouTube to figure out how to fix a garage door,
Speaker 1: they see a lot of complicated things. You know, a
Speaker 1: sea clamp would be good to have, maybe some vice
Speaker 1: grips to hold things in place so you don't get squashed.
Speaker 1: I don't have any of those. I'm a computer guy, Dan,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have tools like that. Come on,
Speaker 1: I can do this. How hard could this be? Before
Speaker 1: you know it, my garage door is a skew, and
Speaker 1: about what I would say is like a forty five
Speaker 1: degree angle running from left to right. So no longer
Speaker 1: just nice and parallel, but ten percent of the way
Speaker 1: off the ground. You're doing actual tangible damage. I'm doing
Speaker 1: real damage to not only the garage door, but as
Speaker 1: the man who came to fix the garage door in
Speaker 1: the wake of whatever the hell I did. Told me
Speaker 1: most of the people who attempt what I attempted end
Speaker 1: up having to go to the emergency room after losing digits.
Speaker 1: Because a garage door is on a very tightly wound spring,
Speaker 1: that's what helps lift it off the ground, and I
Speaker 1: decided that I would try to disassemble that and put
Speaker 1: it back together. Thankfully, I did not do bodily harm
Speaker 1: to myself. But it's those types of jobs where something
Speaker 1: goes wrong. You say, I can go on YouTube and
Speaker 1: figure it out. You don't have the tools they tell
Speaker 1: you on YouTube you need to have, and he decided
Speaker 1: to do it anyway. Those are the bad ones. Don't
Speaker 1: do those, Dan I had. In late December, I was
Speaker 1: in the suburbs of Chicago, Jody with an I's family and.
Speaker 2: It was negative two degrees yeh, and I and my
Speaker 2: father in law were preparing to leave to go pick
Speaker 2: up dinner, and we went to open the garage door,
Speaker 2: just push the button whatever. It started to open and
Speaker 2: then closed, and that was a loud sound, and then
Speaker 2: suddenly it wouldn't open anymore, at which point we discovered
Speaker 2: it got so cold that one of those coils or
Speaker 2: spring or something just froze and popped nice. And that's
Speaker 2: when I had my really good Charlie from Lost moment,
Speaker 2: like where am I?
Speaker 1: What am I doing? What is Chicago in the winter?
Speaker 1: And so I do not mess around with garage doors.
Speaker 1: Not a good idea. So Dankloba shar qlobe car if
Speaker 1: you're out there, I would say, any of these projects
Speaker 1: are fine, but leave the garage doors to professional garage
Speaker 1: door people.
Speaker 2: I had so not me, but my near my parents' house,
Speaker 2: a guy built a helicopter in a head what now
Speaker 2: like a mini helicopter. It's it's actually the size of
Speaker 2: like a hatch back, like a smaller version of like
Speaker 2: a VW golf. He could sit in it, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: could sit in it, but that was it was like
Speaker 2: Erkele's car with a chopper with a rotor whatever.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's and that's an ambitious DIY project right there.
Speaker 2: I could not imagine how much money I would need
Speaker 2: to be paid to go up in that chopper. I
Speaker 2: guess alone, because there wasn't room as a passenger to
Speaker 2: like try to train myself to go up in that.
Speaker 1: I did see a thing online about a flat earther
Speaker 1: who built his own rocket. I saw that too, and
Speaker 1: he postponed. He chickened out right. He did launch the
Speaker 1: rocket eventually, and he didn't blow himself up. Oh, but
Speaker 1: he was in the rocket. I don't think he made
Speaker 1: it as high up to prove his theorem as he wanted.
Speaker 1: But he was able to launch the rocket eventually. But
Speaker 1: he was in it. He was in the rocket, and
Speaker 1: it was steam powered.
Speaker 2: I believe I so badly wanted it to go, and
Speaker 2: I don't wish harm upon many people, but.
Speaker 1: I wanted it to go very poorly. Let's leave it
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Speaker 1: That's all I got, Yeah, same all right for that
Speaker 1: guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself,
Speaker 1: Tie Hildebrand, thanks for hanging with us for about an
Speaker 1: hour or so. We'll be with you again next week
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