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Speaker 1: His name is still Dan Rubinstein. He's still over there
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty good, Ty, I'm pretty good. We haven't done
Speaker 2: a show in two weeks because we put up our
Speaker 2: live show from Atlanta last week.
Speaker 1: Correct that that is correct. We have not actually convened
Speaker 1: to record in our normal capacity since I contracted what
Speaker 1: I would describe as the black Death and tried to
Speaker 1: do a show on the Tuesday following the National Championship.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 2: And I don't get to talk into a microphone that
Speaker 2: much anymore, tie, So I really do miss you and
Speaker 2: I missed doing this, So we're going to ramp up
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Speaker 1: How does that sound? It sounds good? And you actually
Speaker 1: you have me in rare form today? Full disquote? Do
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Oh, no problem, full business casual regalia.
Speaker 1: And I popped open the fridge when I got home.
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Speaker 1: I'm still sitting on like a collapsible stool. Okay, soa
Speaker 1: ask you a question, please please? What are we doing today?
Speaker 1: What's the plan? Skip? That's a hell of a question, man,
Speaker 1: Like you said, we did our live show. We ran
Speaker 1: our live show from Atlanta, which I hope everybody enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I hope that gets everybody juiced up for our next
Speaker 1: live show wherever that may be. Details forthcoming in the
Speaker 1: next couple months, for sure. But we've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of news items that have accrued since we last had
Speaker 1: a chance to record, and when we talked about the
Speaker 1: National Championship. We've also got our Fantasy Things recap ahead
Speaker 1: of us. Yes, so the live show that we did
Speaker 1: before this last live show in Atlanta was up in
Speaker 1: New York City at Hill Country Barbecue, where we did
Speaker 1: a live draft of our twenty seventeen Fantasy Things. Well, thankfully,
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Speaker 1: scorecard of how we did on the Fantasy Things draft,
Speaker 1: and we're going to go through each of our items
Speaker 1: and discuss them a little bit and recap just what transpired.
Speaker 1: The other thing we're going to do towards the end
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Speaker 2: Relieved to hear it, ty because we did get a
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Speaker 1: Hundreds upon hundreds of submissions came in and I took
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Speaker 1: some of the winners might be. So thank you for
Speaker 1: all your submissions.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it all right, So can we catch up
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Speaker 2: talked about the National Championship Game.
Speaker 1: Before that we were talking were.
Speaker 2: Previewing National Championship Game and reviewing Bowl games.
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Speaker 2: I think it's time we catch up and do you.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if you have the soundboard I have.
Speaker 1: I have the sound Dan. I think what you're saying
Speaker 1: is we have. Yeah, man, a lot going down here
Speaker 1: in the college football world. Where do we want to start?
Speaker 1: All right, Let's start with very very very old news.
Speaker 1: And that is after a pretty quick search. After Arizona
Speaker 1: let go of Rich Rodriguez, their head coach and solid
Speaker 1: verbal guest, amidst investigations that cleared him, but still there's
Speaker 1: ongoing lawsuits over misconduct that is alleged by a former assistant,
Speaker 1: Arizona decided to move on, and this of course is
Speaker 1: a new ad. After Greg Burn left the Arizona job
Speaker 1: to go to Alabama, so fresh start for Arizona football.
Speaker 1: They hire Kevin Sumlin, who of course was let go
Speaker 1: from Texas A and M after some drama involving a
Speaker 1: ken Nea Modelolo interview in Khalil Tate saying you didn't
Speaker 1: come to Arizona to run the triple option, which I
Speaker 1: think was not a great outlook on it. But whatever,
Speaker 1: Kevin Sumlin is your new Arizona Wildcat football coach. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I saw that he's got Marcel Yeates keeping defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator still at defensive coordinat offensive coordinator I think remains
Speaker 1: a little bit up in the air.
Speaker 2: There are rumors about Cale Gundy, who has helped to
Speaker 2: run Oklahoma's offense these past couple of years with Lincoln
Speaker 2: Riley and before him, Bob Stoops, of course, and Oklahoma
Speaker 2: is making moves of their own. I believe Shane Biemer
Speaker 2: is coming over to be an offensive assistant who helped
Speaker 2: to run special teams for Georgia. So certainly, Kevin someone
Speaker 2: comes into a PAC twelve South that I think is
Speaker 2: I would say vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Is that fair? Yeah? Well, Herm Edwards we could talk
Speaker 1: about Herm Edwards later. Yeah. A lot of turnover. Look,
Speaker 1: USC is losing their quarterback Sam Darnold and a lot
Speaker 1: of players leaving early on body players leaving early. We've
Speaker 1: got turnover at ASU, We've got turnover at UCLA. I
Speaker 1: think to bring Kevin someone in is a good move
Speaker 1: given the fact that this happened relatively late in the process.
Speaker 1: I've always liked Kevin someone. I hope he succeeds at Arizona.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he is demonstrably better or worse
Speaker 1: than Rich Rodriguez based on what we saw given his
Speaker 1: tenure similarities certainly at Texas A and M. But he
Speaker 1: is a hot name in the coaching world who we
Speaker 1: know can put up some points. So that'll at least
Speaker 1: at a minimum be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the connection is being drawn between Cleil Tate
Speaker 2: and Johnny Menzel, which I don't think is fully fair
Speaker 2: to either player because of different situations and you know
Speaker 2: the fact that there were different assistant coaches and different
Speaker 2: teams on their schedules. The fact is both Kevin Somlin
Speaker 2: and Rich Rodriguez have helped to develop transcendent dual threat
Speaker 2: quarterbacks at least at times at various places. You know,
Speaker 2: case Keenum was somebody that Kevin someone had a great
Speaker 2: deal of success with a Houston throwing the ball, and
Speaker 2: Johnny Manzel and his dual way and Texas A and
Speaker 2: M eventually became a pretty substantial running team. So interesting
Speaker 2: to see what happens because Arizona schedule is pretty good
Speaker 2: not much, you know. I know they have a Houston
Speaker 2: team that's going through some changes in the non conference
Speaker 2: part of the schedule. Well, yeah, as you mentioned, a
Speaker 2: lot of turnover in the South with ASU and UCLA
Speaker 2: and USC. Colorado certainly does not look to be necessarily
Speaker 2: on the upswing after a good year a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago. So it's a good time right now to
Speaker 2: be Arizona. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens there,
Speaker 2: I suppose, And this is all sort of tie as
Speaker 2: you know, in the much broader picture of the final
Speaker 2: signing day is I believe two weeks from.
Speaker 1: Today signing Day part duh, correct, Yeah, this is a thing. Now.
Speaker 1: We did a signing day show a couple weeks ago
Speaker 1: during Signing Day Round one. Now there will be a
Speaker 1: signing Day Round two. I mentioned Herm Edwards. Herm Edwards
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the process. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of coaches out there talking about this new sort
Speaker 1: of cycle, if you will. I saw some things being
Speaker 1: written about how now the term best available has really
Speaker 1: bubbled up in the college football recruiting world. If you
Speaker 1: need a guy at a certain position, or if there
Speaker 1: is an area on your roster where you need to
Speaker 1: try and add some depth. Best available ie guys who
Speaker 1: didn't sign the first time around, is now something you're
Speaker 1: going to hear a little bit more of in college football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and with the new signing period, there are players
Speaker 2: who have locked into places where head coaches have since
Speaker 2: been let go or have since on their own volition,
Speaker 2: decided to leave their schools, and yet they are locked
Speaker 2: in early not necessarily the best situation position coaches, coordinators. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we saw all of the techs A and M offering
Speaker 2: the world to Dave Randa at LSU. He decides to say,
Speaker 2: at LSU for a ridiculous and deserved because he was
Speaker 2: able to negotiate it and had all the leverage. I
Speaker 2: think he's he's got a two and a half million
Speaker 2: dollars a year contract for your deal for ten million.
Speaker 1: Also the governor of Louisiana. We're still waiting to confirm that, but.
Speaker 2: It's the governor of Louisiana that's part of it. Maybe a
Speaker 2: lieutenant governor. Sure, Mike Alco goes from Notre Dame to
Speaker 2: College Station, tex A and M and Jimbo hire him away.
Speaker 2: And so we have all these moving pieces, and some
Speaker 2: players are locked in, some are waiting to see where
Speaker 2: everything falls by early February. But to me, the most
Speaker 2: interesting thing year over year, since it's generally seems that
Speaker 2: the strongest, sort of legacy type programs tend to do
Speaker 2: the best during recruiting cycles. This year, you know, Alabama, Georgia, Texas,
Speaker 2: you know, Miami, Penn State, you know, all doing very
Speaker 2: very well. The most interesting thing to me is new
Speaker 2: coaches that come in and have six weeks, eight, nine
Speaker 2: weeks whatever to keep a class together and add pieces
Speaker 2: to the class, be it from the place they were
Speaker 2: last at or just scrambling to sort of fill out
Speaker 2: the class of talent. Both that and so this year,
Speaker 2: you know it's you know, Willy Taggart at Florida State
Speaker 2: and Mario christobal Is, Scott Frost, Chad Morris, Joe moorehead
Speaker 2: you know all over the country. There are sort of
Speaker 2: big stories like that, Kevin someone, as we mentioned herm Edwards.
Speaker 2: There's there are huge stories like that. I'm also super
Speaker 2: interested in the first full cycle coaches when they actually
Speaker 2: have a chance, because there are some intriguing stories from
Speaker 2: guys that had the full opportunity. Now to go through
Speaker 2: a cycle and to see how they can actually recruit
Speaker 2: when given a year or a year and a half
Speaker 2: or whatever the case.
Speaker 1: So those to me are the you know, PJ.
Speaker 2: Flack, for instance, is a very good, very very good class,
Speaker 2: all things considered, a Minnesota. So those are the kinds
Speaker 2: of stories I like paying attention to. They're a little
Speaker 2: bit more exciting to me than you know, is Georgia
Speaker 2: going to close with the biggest class in the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm interested just from the standpoint and you know,
Speaker 1: you know my stance on recruiting. Yeah, I've never been
Speaker 1: the biggest fan of recruiting. You have tonowledge it. It
Speaker 1: is the lifeblood of college football. I've never been such
Speaker 1: that I'm really jazzed up to go and follow what
Speaker 1: an eighteen year old is thinking.
Speaker 2: It's eight by the way, twenty eighteen fantasy thing. Recruiting
Speaker 2: is the lifeblood, right of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is different, and because it's different, that
Speaker 1: makes it more interesting to me. I concur with you.
Speaker 1: I'm interested in seeing how these first couple cycles really
Speaker 1: play themselves out. I find myself paying a little bit
Speaker 1: closer attention to what's going on on the recruiting trail.
Speaker 1: We will, by the way, be doing another Signing Day
Speaker 1: show to kind of conclude what's going on in the
Speaker 1: recruiting world, and that's coming up in what two weeks
Speaker 1: I guessks two weeks from today I believe is Signing Day,
Speaker 1: official Signing Day or late sign Day, whatever they're calling
Speaker 1: it this year. Okay, so stay tuned for more information
Speaker 1: on that front. You did talk about guys who are
Speaker 1: locked in. Obviously there's a lot of coaching turnover going
Speaker 1: on around college football, which now leads into new transfer rules.
Speaker 2: So nothing is official yet. This is what's being proposed.
Speaker 2: These are the sort of the idea is to give
Speaker 2: players a little bit more freedom in the way that
Speaker 2: coaches have freedom to just up and leave to better
Speaker 2: their own situation, in which you can't. You know, we
Speaker 2: live in a capitalist society. You know, if you want
Speaker 2: to pursue a job that you consider be better for
Speaker 2: you and your family, you have that freedom. And so
Speaker 2: now we're looking at players having a little bit more
Speaker 2: of that freedom. You know, if they go somewhere and
Speaker 2: they really don't like it and the situation changes and
Speaker 2: a coach leaves or whatever the case, you know, they
Speaker 2: have a sick family, whatever, that they can go transfer
Speaker 2: back or transfer to a better situation, could be to
Speaker 2: a lower situation. It could be very clear that they're
Speaker 2: not going to be getting a starting job anytime soon,
Speaker 2: or they get injured and they want to be close
Speaker 2: to home.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: There are all sorts of reasons to transfer that are
Speaker 2: I think are pretty life legitimate. So the idea and
Speaker 2: the proposed rule I believe is you can transfer without
Speaker 2: sitting out. I think you can only transfer without sitting
Speaker 2: out once. We still have the grad transfer idea. Obviously,
Speaker 2: people who look at NCAA rules and the freedoms that
Speaker 2: players don't have now, I think like both of us
Speaker 2: look at this as a positive thing more than negative. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and sure, coaches now are crazy concerned that they're going
Speaker 2: to have to recruit now twice as much because they
Speaker 2: have to recruit transfers and sort of recruit their own
Speaker 2: players to stay in a weird way, and everybody is
Speaker 2: sort of terrified of having dramatic roster turnover, perhaps in
Speaker 2: other sports like basketball where you don't have really big
Speaker 2: rosters to play around with, more so than football. But
Speaker 2: that is sort of an ongoing story, which how do
Speaker 2: you feel generally, is.
Speaker 1: There anybody out there who's a college football fan who
Speaker 1: is dramatically opposed to this idea of not having to
Speaker 1: sit out.
Speaker 2: Yes, the idea is you should be more loyal. This
Speaker 2: is college sports, this is you know.
Speaker 1: Okay. The counterpoint coaches can leave on a moment's notice.
Speaker 2: Right, right, right right, And I think there's very few
Speaker 2: people who acknowledge having a problem when it's put into
Speaker 2: like that sort of dichotomy. But the worry, the slippery
Speaker 2: slope type people who already kind of soft and worry
Speaker 2: about everything, say, well, then it's just becomes pro sports.
Speaker 2: The idea is you're there for three or four years,
Speaker 2: and it's that we have free agency, and that takes
Speaker 2: away the allure of amateurs.
Speaker 1: I was once told by a D one or a
Speaker 1: couple D one athletes, I should say that there are
Speaker 1: very few, if any Division I college athletes who go
Speaker 1: to play football who don't think when they sign on
Speaker 1: with the school that they're going to play in the
Speaker 1: NFL someday. Right. And that's not to say the only
Speaker 1: reason they go to school is to play football, but
Speaker 1: the larger point is that they all think they can
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. Sure, so you know the ability
Speaker 1: to transfer to get playing time, the ability to transfer
Speaker 1: out of a situation be it a coaching situation or
Speaker 1: otherwise that a player doesn't deem palatable for them. I'm
Speaker 1: okay with that. Please email us, tweet us, let us
Speaker 1: know your thoughts on it. I'd be very interested to
Speaker 1: get some other feedback on this.
Speaker 2: But you discover the weather in South Bend isn't what
Speaker 2: it was in May when you visit it. Listen, I'm
Speaker 2: right there with that sentiment because I did visit Eugene,
Speaker 2: Oregon when it was beautiful out, and I was it
Speaker 2: was a rude awakening come early January when I returned
Speaker 2: from winter break.
Speaker 1: Not my favorite moment, all right. So we'll have to
Speaker 1: pay attention to transfer rules and where that ends up,
Speaker 1: settling a few other odds and ends here before we
Speaker 1: jump into fantasy things. Yes, on that topic, there have
Speaker 1: been some quarterback transfers. There have been some graduate transfers
Speaker 1: of note, correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, announcements more than anything, and there hasn't been you know,
Speaker 2: Brady White from Arizona States going over to Memphis, which
Speaker 2: feels like a good fit. He was behind Blake Barnett
Speaker 2: and Manny Wilkins. Keller Christ also from the Pac twelve,
Speaker 2: who started a bunch of games and was only good
Speaker 2: against Oregon by the way.
Speaker 1: Wow, he was very bad. Funny how that works right
Speaker 1: against everybody but the vaunted Oregon d defense of these
Speaker 1: past couple of years. Now, But you know Wilton Spate
Speaker 1: who is from Virginia but obviously has been at Mischion
Speaker 1: in these past few years. He is a grad transfer
Speaker 1: and that was announced a while ago. Donovan Tate from
Speaker 1: Arizona with Khalil Tate succeeding. We'll see what happens with
Speaker 1: Brandon Dawkins. It's presumed that Joe Burrow at Ohio State
Speaker 1: won't necessarily be winning the job in Columbus, so he
Speaker 1: could be I don't think anything's official with that.
Speaker 2: He could be a name. kJ Cart of Samuels, who
Speaker 2: has been Jake Browning's backup, is going to UCLA as
Speaker 2: a grad transfer, so that at least gives Chip Kelly
Speaker 2: some depth after Josh Rosen has left for the NFL
Speaker 2: all over the place. It seems like I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think of other situations, but there seems Jacob Park at
Speaker 2: Iowa State. Obviously, he lost the job after some off
Speaker 2: field stuff made sort of everything pretty easy for Kyle
Speaker 2: Kemp to come in and succeed. Quinton Dormandy at Tennessee
Speaker 2: decided to transfer. Jeff George June year at Illinois. I'm really,
Speaker 2: I'm really going down here with this. But my final
Speaker 2: one is Montgomery Van gorder.
Speaker 1: Ty, Yeah, going to Youngstown State going to Youngstoe.
Speaker 2: I did see that, yes, So I assume more of
Speaker 2: these situations will start happening after springball, when depth charts
Speaker 2: become a little bit more clear. But yeah, it's there.
Speaker 2: Seems to be a lot in the way of transfers.
Speaker 2: And on a similar but also drastically different note, Clemson's
Speaker 2: entire defensive line decided to stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was I was going to go there
Speaker 1: next with it. So I've got in front of me
Speaker 1: the list on nfl dot Com underclassmen who have declared
Speaker 1: for the NFL Draft, now the official final list. I think,
Speaker 1: in the interest of time, we might be best suited
Speaker 1: to read off the notable players who intend to return
Speaker 1: to school, as opposed to going through all the players
Speaker 1: who have declared, because it is a long list of
Speaker 1: stars that have declared to go to the NFL. But
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Christian Wilkins staying, Austin Bryant staying Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Ferrell staying. Also on the offensive side of the football
Speaker 1: for Clemson, Mitch Hyatt, they're big tackle he is staying.
Speaker 1: That is very significant for the coming twenty eighteen ACC season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there is there's an argument to be made.
Speaker 2: I mean, Damien Harris I believe is returning to Alabama,
Speaker 2: So that's a huge piece for that offense with we
Speaker 2: presume to attack of Bloa under center. But I would
Speaker 2: not be surprised if both quarterbacks once again saw time.
Speaker 2: Josh Adams declared early correct, Josh Adams is gone. Yes,
Speaker 2: a number of the front on Ohio State's defense gone,
Speaker 2: and deservedly so. They you know, there's not much left
Speaker 2: to prove for a lot of those buck guys, Taekwon Lewis,
Speaker 2: Sam Hubbard, a lot of those guys very good. Deon
Speaker 2: Kane did leave Clemson, so offensively, there is some turnover
Speaker 2: for Clemson. He was what appeared to be their best receiver.
Speaker 2: Tremaine Edmonds, I think looks like be a top I
Speaker 2: forget which Edmonds, either Terrell or true. I think it's
Speaker 2: is supposed to be like a top ten type pick
Speaker 2: in the upcoming draft, so that seemed like a no brainer.
Speaker 2: Darius Guice, if you want to read any of these
Speaker 2: any of this list that's in front of you, and
Speaker 2: this is just a very specific request because the Eagles
Speaker 2: are in the Super Bowl. Anybody could read a list.
Speaker 2: Do you want to do it in like a Philly accent?
Speaker 1: For me, I can't do a great Philly accent other
Speaker 1: than what I would just do normally. So if there
Speaker 1: are any Marios on this list, let me know. I'd
Speaker 1: be happy to read their names.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I have to start suffering through marios
Speaker 2: every week and talking about Oregon football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's there, you go, the karma or the karma involved. Well. So,
Speaker 1: Bryce love another name, Yeah, has decided to stick around
Speaker 1: at Stanford, which calls some people off guard. I was
Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah you too, absolutely, especially at the
Speaker 1: running back position where you can see your career flash
Speaker 1: before your eyes very quickly, and coming off an injury
Speaker 1: filled season. Yeah, Bryce loves sticking around at Stanford, so
Speaker 1: good for him. I hope it works out. David Sills
Speaker 1: is going to stick around at West Virginia as is
Speaker 1: Will Greer. Mm hmmm. His quarter was just clear to
Speaker 1: start throwing, so good for him. Miles Gaskin sticking around
Speaker 1: at Washington, Ryan Finley, who else, Drew Locke, Clayton Thorson,
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham, Cam Smith at USC the middle linebacker sticking around.
Speaker 1: So some big names that are sticking around. Far greater
Speaker 1: number of big names have declared early for the draft,
Speaker 1: and again we won't go through all of them, but
Speaker 1: we will talk more about that. I'm sure as we
Speaker 1: get closer to the NFL Draft we can break down
Speaker 1: some of these guys that are going pro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there there's I mean a lot of the
Speaker 2: names are your household names that have decided to turn pro.
Speaker 2: Not a ton of surprises. I did appreciate. I think
Speaker 2: Eddie Pinero the kicker, Yes, Florida their best offensive player
Speaker 2: has declared.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy that. So yeah, a lot of I mean,
Speaker 1: Tanner Lee lighting up? Where is he lighting it up?
Speaker 2: So there's that hope he wins a thousand games and
Speaker 2: makes a pajillion dollars in the NFL.
Speaker 1: All right, give me a quick thirty second recap of
Speaker 1: what's going on. In the assistant coaching world beyond twenty
Speaker 1: four year old Charlie Weis junior being Lane Kiffin's new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator at FAU. Oh, that's my favorite thing, though.
Speaker 1: We are going to get a lot of mileage out
Speaker 1: of that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see. So, I mean we talked about the
Speaker 2: I mean the Charlie Weis. Did you read the thing?
Speaker 2: I think it was Matt Hayes wrote something from bleacher
Speaker 2: Report today and I enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a good piece. He said.
Speaker 2: He interviewed Gil Brandt, the old personnel guy who worked
Speaker 2: all over the NFL. He's like, I've I've come across too.
Speaker 2: This is my harried and grizzled NFL personnel voice. I've
Speaker 2: come across two people. I was positive we're going to
Speaker 2: be huge successes as coaches. Bill Belichick and Charlie weisst junior. Wow, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: and listen, what do we love more than like a wounderkin? Like,
Speaker 2: we love talking to Chris Brown smart football. We like
Speaker 2: guys is that you know, are super smart and love
Speaker 2: nerding out about football. And we hope he is a
Speaker 2: huge success. He will be two years older than some
Speaker 2: of his players here.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do. Yeah, we are going to
Speaker 1: send an interview request for Charlie Weis, junior to Fau. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do that about this show. I'm going
Speaker 1: to figure out how who I can email about that
Speaker 1: after this show, and we're going to see if we
Speaker 1: can bring him on because we've got a bit of
Speaker 1: a track record of interviewing some of these wonderkin coaches.
Speaker 2: Okay, so across college football, a lot of schools have
Speaker 2: made moves. LSU kept, Dave Randa lost Matt Canada, who
Speaker 2: I guess they sort of mutually agreed to part ways.
Speaker 2: Matt Canada after a year is now going to Maryland
Speaker 2: to be dj Diurkins offensive coach. They promote Steve Ensminger.
Speaker 2: Is that how you pronounced?
Speaker 1: Sure it is? Now? That sounds right to me.
Speaker 2: He was at Orgeron's interim offensive coordinator a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago. I think LSU fans were sort of deflated
Speaker 2: by that promotion. They had hoped for something a little
Speaker 2: bit more creative and splashy.
Speaker 1: But you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: The LSU offense certainly got better when he took control
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago. Herb Hand moves from being
Speaker 2: the Auburn offensive line coach our pal Herband the offensive
Speaker 2: line yes and co offensive coordinator I believe with Tim Beck,
Speaker 2: so maybe a little bit more creative. Who knows. With
Speaker 2: Herb's background and spread offenses. Ucla completed their staff. Jerry
Speaker 2: Asinaro should be a very good defensive coordinator for them.
Speaker 2: Peter Sermon moves on from Louisville. He's going to cal
Speaker 2: to be an associate head coach with that staff. And
Speaker 2: Justin Wilcox I think they played together at Oregon. Ryan
Speaker 2: Day decided to stay at Ohio State and we'll be
Speaker 2: calling plays even with Kevin Wilson there. Who what other
Speaker 2: huge moves am I forgetting ty Joe Morehead together his staff?
Speaker 2: John Chavis to Arkansas I think is still a pretty
Speaker 2: good move, but we'll see what happens. Jeremy Pruitt hired
Speaker 2: Tyson Helton away from USC who was in charge of
Speaker 2: I think the passing game for the Trojan Alex Grinch,
Speaker 2: who was very good and creative for a secretly decent
Speaker 2: Washington State. Secretly very good. He's a mean one, very creative,
Speaker 2: I think defensive football mind. He moves from Washington State
Speaker 2: to Ohio State, joining that staff Florida State. Willie Taggart
Speaker 2: hired Marked Antonio's co defensive coordinator who's been around in
Speaker 2: East Lansing for a long long time. I think that's
Speaker 2: a pretty good move. Kind of weird. Derek Dooley to Miszoo.
Speaker 1: Derek Zoo, very very strange. You know.
Speaker 2: The report too, was well, a lot of guys that
Speaker 2: Missoo interviewed didn't want to sign the contract that was
Speaker 2: offered because of a number of stipulations that were in
Speaker 2: the deal. Great Derek Dooley sign that contract. That was
Speaker 2: the report.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll we'll keep tabs on what else is getting
Speaker 1: on and we'll talk about it on future shows. The
Speaker 1: only other thing that we'd be remiss if we did
Speaker 1: not mention some horrible news coming out of Washington State
Speaker 1: with the news that Tyler Helenski committed suicide. We saw
Speaker 1: that Luke fall. We'll be wearing Helensky's number three sure
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl. Obviously a tragic thing, an emotional
Speaker 1: thing for everyone up there at Washington State. We hope
Speaker 1: they're able to heal from this. But a bit of
Speaker 1: a shock in the world of college football, and certainly
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers go out to the Helenski family. Just
Speaker 1: a tragedy, horrible thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, always incredibly devastating anytime this happens, especially to a
Speaker 2: younger person, especially anytime you know that there are people
Speaker 2: in that person's life who hopefully can help and step in.
Speaker 2: So just a friendly reminder. I know Spencer Hall wrote
Speaker 2: about this, but you know, it's an incredibly relatable thing
Speaker 2: to be feeling just incredibly down and not have control.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can reach out to people and hopefully if
Speaker 2: you sense that in somebody you're close to, you can
Speaker 2: be in their lives physically, you know, be present as
Speaker 2: much as you possibly can. So Ill said, we really yeah,
Speaker 2: we really hope you know everybody is able to heal.
Speaker 1: And and I don't know, just yeah, it was a shock.
Speaker 1: I saw it. I couldn't believe it, couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's incredibly awful. All right, Uh, let's make the awkward
Speaker 1: segue away from news, and certainly away from that tragic
Speaker 1: news onto something a little bit more lighthearted, and that
Speaker 1: is our final Fantasy Things scorecards. So for those of
Speaker 1: you new listeners out there who might have found the
Speaker 1: show and wondering what is a what's a fantasy thing?
Speaker 1: Well again, we came up with this concept about what
Speaker 1: two three years ago? Yeah, that sounds right. Two three
Speaker 1: years ago. We decided that instead of picking a fantasy
Speaker 1: football team, which everyone hopefully is familiar with, you pick
Speaker 1: a team of football players, an imaginary team of guys,
Speaker 1: and you get points based on how they perform in
Speaker 1: real life. We decided that we would put our own
Speaker 1: little spin on it in a college football since and
Speaker 1: draft fantasy things, which really amounts to storylines in the
Speaker 1: world of college football. We do it before the season starts. Essentially,
Speaker 1: we're predicting what storylines and things will be hot over
Speaker 1: the course of the coming college football season. We pick
Speaker 1: a roster. I'm looking We each had what eight entries
Speaker 1: here on our teams, and then, for the first time ever,
Speaker 1: I think we actually had an accurate account of WHU
Speaker 1: won who lost. In the past. Last year, you and
Speaker 1: I tried to duke it out and argue about who won.
Speaker 1: I got accused of so many bullying. Well, you were
Speaker 1: a bully item. We were a straight up bully in
Speaker 1: that show man. I was accused of being a weak
Speaker 1: beta male. Yeah, it was ugly. Thankfully the reddit the
Speaker 1: subreddit a gentleman in particular who goes by striker Obi
Speaker 1: Mike Yes on the social media he so graciously put
Speaker 1: together a scorecard of how we were doing each and
Speaker 1: every week on this It was simply a binary scoring system.
Speaker 1: If in the span of a given week, one of
Speaker 1: our storylines was mentioned or or hit or talked about
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form, it was one point.
Speaker 1: Otherwise it was a zero. And over the course of
Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty weeks he added them all up and
Speaker 1: Dan Rubinstein, congratulations, you won by a score of seventy
Speaker 1: nine to seventy one. Oh it feels so good.
Speaker 2: Congratulations out TI, thank you, And more than anything more
Speaker 2: than thanking you, I have to thank a school commercial
Speaker 2: featuring a lab and dance slash music that those two
Speaker 2: things had to be in the commercial. I have to
Speaker 2: thank Sam Darnold's draft stock and or athleticism, and of
Speaker 2: course a video of fans taking a loss poorly.
Speaker 1: Those were my heavy hitters.
Speaker 2: Now, a lot of the analysis on the subreddit is
Speaker 2: that I just sort of rode those heavy hitters to
Speaker 2: the title.
Speaker 1: While I'm looking at the scorecard here and that that
Speaker 1: would that would bear itself out in the final results.
Speaker 2: Yes to them, I would say, you're correct, you are correct.
Speaker 2: Those were my that was my what's my comparison here?
Speaker 2: How about a a Larry Walker, Dante Bischett, Andre Scalarraga, three,
Speaker 2: four or five in my lineup?
Speaker 1: Just you can get by with that? You can get by.
Speaker 2: And so I had I won with both the highest
Speaker 2: scoring item and the lowest scoring ie.
Speaker 1: You did. So let me go through your team here again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want my squad in draft order at our live show. Correct,
Speaker 1: let me read these off in the order that you
Speaker 1: drafted your team. Okay, and you'll find a couple interesting
Speaker 1: things about this. And I don't want to throw too
Speaker 1: much cold water on it, but I'm gonna make I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a really relevant point here later on. Let's
Speaker 1: let's dialogue TI. So your first picks in this order
Speaker 1: were jos hot takes, the coach argument penalty, which was
Speaker 1: a new thing this college football season, yep, Lane Kiffen controversies,
Speaker 1: and monsoon games. Now in total, again, you had seventy
Speaker 1: nine total points. In total, your first four draft picks
Speaker 1: only got you twenty four points. It's true. So what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing here when I look at this is a
Speaker 1: really strong weight towards the back end of your draft.
Speaker 1: You're a young Belichick, You're a young Scott Paoli. Just
Speaker 1: really focus Art Buford on the later picks, building depth
Speaker 1: with those selections, but also getting a lot of production,
Speaker 1: which is the hallmark, of course of any great dynasty.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of man who Genobli's back there, that's
Speaker 1: rightymon Green second round pick straints. Now what I'll say
Speaker 1: about those first picks. The Josh Rosens hot takes thing
Speaker 1: was fun before the season, didn't really bear itself out
Speaker 1: much as the year were on. Josh Rosen got hurt again.
Speaker 1: Josh Rosens now declared for the NFL. Josh Rosen's hot
Speaker 1: takes could actually be quite interesting as he moves into
Speaker 1: the NFL and gets comfortable with whatever team picks him. Well,
Speaker 1: it's all we're also entering into the interview phase. The
Speaker 1: interview phase. Sure, that didn't really amount to much for you,
Speaker 1: only three points in totals correct. The coach argument penalty
Speaker 1: didn't get a whole lot of traction, but was very
Speaker 1: sporadic seven points in total. It was a utility pick. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Your other two were lane kiff and controversies, which were fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was any giant lane kiffing controversy.
Speaker 1: But seven points in total, consistent seven points over the
Speaker 1: course of a year not bad, I'll take that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot of drumming up, a lot
Speaker 2: of trolling. A lot of it was Twitter related, like
Speaker 2: when he tweeted out the Kim Jong Un thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at the Tennessee coaching job. And yeah, the rat poison
Speaker 2: with Alabama rat poison. We talked about live show lane
Speaker 2: kiff and Wright. He's always a lightning rod for attention.
Speaker 1: Definitely had the freedom to be more vocal publicly. The
Speaker 1: monsoon games, I thought, actually had a really strong gear
Speaker 1: because we had some weird weather situations. We had two
Speaker 1: hurricanes that threatened the Gulf Coast in Florida. We had
Speaker 1: weird lightning delays late in the year, weird downpour situations
Speaker 1: that in our world qualifies as a monsoon game. Definitely
Speaker 1: came on real strong throughout the course of the year,
Speaker 1: probably stronger than we could.
Speaker 2: Have anticipated rightfully, so we had cancelations which would have
Speaker 2: resulted in monsoon games. Have they been played, But since
Speaker 2: huge storms caused teams schools to rethink plans of putting
Speaker 2: fans and players and coaches and Harm's way, it did
Speaker 2: deal me personally the least important part of all this
Speaker 2: blow points wise. But yeah, I figured ty changing climate. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I really figured there was going to be just you know,
Speaker 2: a random monsoon in La one week, a random downpour
Speaker 2: you know that had sent water crushing through the ceiling,
Speaker 2: through the roof at the Carrier Dome. I really thought
Speaker 2: something like that would happen, but didn't bear a ton
Speaker 2: of fruit.
Speaker 1: From early on, those were your first four picks. Your
Speaker 1: next four picks are really where you made your hay.
Speaker 1: That's true. This one in particular, I think among all
Speaker 1: of the picks before us, was the one that got
Speaker 1: the most reaction from Harver bawlers. And you came up
Speaker 1: with this, I did full disclosure. You were able to
Speaker 1: draft this in the first four rounds. You came up
Speaker 1: with this, what thirty minutes before we did that show.
Speaker 1: It was pretty it was the day of it was
Speaker 1: not right before. But yeah, the school commercials featuring a
Speaker 1: lab and.
Speaker 2: Dance music, not well dance slash music, so like a
Speaker 2: science lab. So somebody looking into a microphone or something
Speaker 2: into a patriotish and a situation in which somebody's on
Speaker 2: stage playing the cello or involved with ballet or whatever.
Speaker 2: That there was that a science and performing arts element
Speaker 2: of the same college commercial.
Speaker 1: Eighteen total points. It wasn't your high scorer, but it
Speaker 1: was close, and it was definitely the most fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of all the things, you just sort of came up
Speaker 1: with that. And every school has some kind of promotional commercial.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they don't have to use both of
Speaker 2: those things. There are lots of commercials that don't. But
Speaker 2: the fact is, if you're watching college football all day,
Speaker 2: there are enough colleges that want to stress. If you're
Speaker 2: into the sciences, if you're into performing arts, we got you.
Speaker 1: We got you covered.
Speaker 2: And there were some commercials where there was like a
Speaker 2: ballet dancer in the lab yep to.
Speaker 1: It was very very weird that they would do. I
Speaker 1: think it was USC I might be wrong, Yeah, we definitely.
Speaker 1: And this was true of picks for both of our
Speaker 1: both of our teams, both of our squads. There were
Speaker 1: definitely items that were already mainstays rather than unique to
Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen season, and I don't know if we
Speaker 1: want to keep that or because you know, in previous
Speaker 1: years it was specific references to players and predictions and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, whereas this year, you know, we each
Speaker 1: have picks that are like, well, this has already existed
Speaker 1: and will keep existing. Like I know, last year, so
Speaker 1: twenty or one of the items was who's going to
Speaker 1: be this year's Iowa? Right, I don't even think any
Speaker 1: either one of us drafted it. Right, Yeah, it's correct,
Speaker 1: but that would have been super specific to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Of all right, let's take something from twenty sixteen and
Speaker 1: move it forward, but we went in a slightly different direction.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. Next year a top pick, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll be the top pick, but
Speaker 1: to your point, the backup being better than the starter
Speaker 1: will be a pick next year. Oh god, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hopefully draft that pick. All right. Your other
Speaker 1: your sixth rounder was Brett Beilahman Fatherhood, which was kind
Speaker 1: of a dud. That was your lowest scoring You had
Speaker 1: one point on that, not a whole lot talked about
Speaker 1: with Brett Bilahma and Fatherhood really screwed me by being
Speaker 1: very bad at football. Yes, very much. So, yeah, really
Speaker 1: did your last two picks, though, mm hmm, were the
Speaker 1: reason that you won the Fantasy Things contest. Your seventh
Speaker 1: round pick was Sam Darnold's Draft stock and or Athleticism.
Speaker 1: And then your last pick, which I believe was announced
Speaker 1: by our friend Jess Smettana from Espianation, was a video
Speaker 1: of a fan taking a loss poorly. Now with my
Speaker 1: final pick, which also did well, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: here momentarily, I allowed everballer to come up and actually
Speaker 1: make that pick for me. Oh yeah, I just let
Speaker 1: somebody read it for me. Yeah. What I don't remember
Speaker 1: is if you picked the video of a fan taking
Speaker 1: a loss poorly on your own volition, or if you
Speaker 1: allow Jess to just go up there pick something that
Speaker 1: she liked, because if you want because of that, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to file a protest. I picked the pick,
Speaker 1: you did.
Speaker 2: I made the pick, and just like you know, Warren
Speaker 2: Moon doesn't make the pick for the Seahawks when he
Speaker 2: goes up on stage in the sixth round, Okay, Seahawks
Speaker 2: still make the pick. So that's the way I went,
Speaker 2: and your your choice is perfectly valid and it worked
Speaker 2: out for you.
Speaker 1: A video of a fan taking a loss poorly is
Speaker 1: one of those things that continues in perpetuity, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what season it is, certainly not specific to twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: or twenty eighteen or twenty twenty seven for that matter.
Speaker 1: You're always gonna have a video of a fan taking
Speaker 1: a loss poorly. So that did very well for you.
Speaker 1: And it should be no surprise that Sam Darnald's draft
Speaker 1: stock was something that sort of ebbed and flowed throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the year, just as draft stocks go,
Speaker 1: but was constantly talked about because Sam Donald was clearly
Speaker 1: the most interesting player on the USC Trojans football team
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's fair to say. And by the way,
Speaker 2: did you see the video of the Georgia fan throwing
Speaker 2: his TV Yeah for his balcony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not a good financial decision.
Speaker 2: There. There are some moments where I think to myself,
Speaker 2: should we be covering this sport? Is it healthy that
Speaker 2: we're helping the sport stay popular? That was one of
Speaker 2: those moments. But my god, what are you doing with
Speaker 2: your life? Let's move over to my team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I'm biased because I picked them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think my team is more fun than yours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you going to be like the Matt Lionerd
Speaker 2: after losing the national championship?
Speaker 1: Well, we had the better team. I think I had
Speaker 1: the better team. Congratulations on that. I think I had
Speaker 1: the better team. Okay. My number one pick was chip
Speaker 1: Kelly coaching rumors, which only got six points. It didn't
Speaker 1: even do as well as Monsoon games or PJ Fleck
Speaker 1: rowing the boat at Minnesota. What I'm finding here just
Speaker 1: looking through this, is that our first two rounds quite
Speaker 1: literally sucked. What I have a problem with So I
Speaker 1: can only see week sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen. You didn't
Speaker 1: receive any points for chip Kelly coaching rumors any of
Speaker 1: those weeks. I know when, in fact, it seemed like
Speaker 1: chip Kelly had coaching rumors around that time Florida UCLA, UCLA, Florida,
Speaker 1: Tennessee not interested. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, even if you had all four of those
Speaker 2: weeks covered though, with chip Kelly, you're not winning. It
Speaker 2: just seems like that's more of a ten than a six.
Speaker 1: That's me. Well, I love'm trying to give you points.
Speaker 1: We had someone who was gracious enough to keep score.
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw him under the bus. But true,
Speaker 1: I do have questions about the methodology, and I do
Speaker 1: have questions about whether or not I was jipped here
Speaker 1: of a couple points. Do you think that I had
Speaker 1: votes bust In from other states? There's a chance you
Speaker 1: could have. I don't know. You need to file a
Speaker 1: demo on this. I don't know you're gonna form a
Speaker 1: fantasy things draft commission, voting commission, fraud. Okay, good, A
Speaker 1: softer Brian Kelly. Only seven points.
Speaker 2: That's fine for me because that was more much more
Speaker 2: of a storyline early on in the season, and once
Speaker 2: as soon as they started winning, it was, oh, Notre
Speaker 2: Dame's good.
Speaker 1: If I told you before the start of the year,
Speaker 1: whatever you pick any of like we had like thirty
Speaker 1: five cards that we could pick. Mm hmm. If I
Speaker 1: told you this card right here is going to get
Speaker 1: you seven points, you take that, right? I think so?
Speaker 1: I think so? Yeah? Seven points? A softer Brian Kelly,
Speaker 1: he was softer. I don't know. I can't talk about
Speaker 1: Notre Dame yet. I need a few weeks. Okay, we
Speaker 1: can watch Quentin Nelson clips together, can't We We can
Speaker 1: do that. Absolutely. Pick number three for me was Mike
Speaker 1: Gundy's bullet. Mike Gundy's mullet got me sixteen points. Mike
Speaker 1: Gundy's bullet sort of has taken on a life of
Speaker 1: its own. Surprisingly ever since I picked Mike Gundy's hair
Speaker 1: wine in the very first year of our Fantasy Things draft,
Speaker 1: My god, the Mike Gundy hair thing, just broadly speaking,
Speaker 1: has really taken off on its own.
Speaker 2: You looked into the Fantasy Things Crystal Ball and thought
Speaker 2: to yourself, Mike Gundy's follicles. That's where I'm attaching myself.
Speaker 2: And I would argue, ty, because you know.
Speaker 1: One of those things, one of the things that I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know if it was draft eligible this year,
Speaker 1: Like coaches dancing, right, we have you know, Dabo Swingey
Speaker 1: in the locker room. We had Dino Baber's with his
Speaker 1: like impassioned speech. So we always have like the coach
Speaker 1: in the locker room video, and this wasn't locker room.
Speaker 1: But when Mike Gundy ripped his shirt off, yeah, at
Speaker 1: the I think it was a wrestling tournament or is
Speaker 1: a pep rally of some kind with Mason Rudolph there
Speaker 1: when he ripped his shirt off with that mullet I
Speaker 1: was like, man, this dude is the mayor of Stillwater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is full of mayoral just like I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: what I want. And it was great. What a moment.
Speaker 1: My fourth pick was Tom Rinaldi Tier Jerkers, which you
Speaker 1: gave me crap for in the moment. Still do you didn't?
Speaker 1: You didn't approve of this selection, but it is a
Speaker 1: part of the college football landscape. True, I'm disappointed it
Speaker 1: only got six points. Okay, here's what I like about
Speaker 1: this pick in retrospect. I'm still not a huge fan
Speaker 1: of it because he's been doing this for like decades,
Speaker 1: is what it feels like. I like that you didn't
Speaker 1: word it, and this was I assume pure accident. You
Speaker 1: didn't word it game Day tier Jerkers, No, you did strictly.
Speaker 1: Tom Rinaldi's right, and I think it's gene wo Jahowski
Speaker 1: is the other one who sort of does those feature tight. Oh,
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2: So the fact that you tied yourself to Rinaldi, who
Speaker 2: obviously we love and treasure, I think hurt you a
Speaker 2: little bit. I think this could have been like a
Speaker 2: ten to eleven ish in there. But you're a man
Speaker 2: of integrity, So you stuck by Ronaldi and didn't in
Speaker 2: on it, meaning game day even though you didn't say it.
Speaker 1: Damn, that's a good point. Okay, Yeah, uh, PJ. Fleck
Speaker 1: rowing the boat at Minnesota somehow got eight points. I
Speaker 1: did not see any instances of this throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the year, So our scorekeeper who put this together,
Speaker 1: thank you for the eight points. Without them, it would
Speaker 1: have been a sixteen point gap between Dan and I here,
Speaker 1: assuming all your votes are you know, accurate. But this
Speaker 1: is not something that I expected to do as well
Speaker 1: as it apparently did, and which is strange because if
Speaker 1: this were to even get more votes, you would be
Speaker 1: the first one to know as somebody who meticulously combs
Speaker 1: through Minnesota Golden Gopher football games.
Speaker 2: How can anybody dispute? I mean, you alone are goldiefan
Speaker 2: number one. But yeah, I think it was all just
Speaker 2: allusions to like, well, he's brought you know, he had
Speaker 2: that mantro Western Michigan he's bringing over to Minnesota. But
Speaker 2: there really wasn't in the same way that Western Michigan
Speaker 2: received the tension for it. There wasn't that weekly acknowledgment
Speaker 2: of their mantra. So you know, I thought it was
Speaker 2: a pretty good pick. I figured it would have gotten
Speaker 2: you another point or two.
Speaker 1: My sixth round selection was Gus Johnson Freakouts thirteen points.
Speaker 1: As much as staple, I think as your weird school commercials.
Speaker 2: It's dependent on game action. That's the thing though. Those
Speaker 2: commercials with the lab coats and the ballerinas or the
Speaker 2: cello players, they're gonna air no matter what. Gus Johnson
Speaker 2: needs a huge moment late or overtime, or some sort
Speaker 2: of game breaking or backbreaking or clinching moment to really
Speaker 2: freak out. So I think that is an almost better
Speaker 2: fantasy thing pick because Gus Johnson could just have a
Speaker 2: dry spell in twenty eighteen, we don't know.
Speaker 1: You don't know. He could do a bunch of blowouts
Speaker 1: and that did pretty well for you, all right, New
Speaker 1: Strength coach really paying dividends was round seven pick did
Speaker 1: not materialize. I hated this pick for you two points
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the year. They all came in
Speaker 1: the early stage of the year. I will be adjusting
Speaker 1: my strategy next year, yeah, hopefully not making picks that
Speaker 1: are really weighted towards action at the beginning part of
Speaker 1: the year. Josh Rosen in the Hot Takes is probably
Speaker 1: a good example too. That was hot at the start
Speaker 1: of the year, but as the year goes on, is
Speaker 1: that something that will remain noteworthy? And in the case
Speaker 1: of Josh Rosen, at least you had a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a chance. But the New Strength coach paying
Speaker 1: dividends is usually something to talk about in the first
Speaker 1: month of the year, and in hindsight, not so much.
Speaker 1: Week sixteen that's.
Speaker 2: Almost much more of a fall camp with one week
Speaker 2: two thing, even more so than just the first full month.
Speaker 2: I was sort of banking on the Josh Rosen thing.
Speaker 2: We live in a fiery political societal climate right now.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 2: Yes, I figured things would bubble up to certain points,
Speaker 2: and mind you, they most certainly have that Josh rozen
Speaker 2: would be commenting on them more, which he ultimately did not,
Speaker 2: so proved me wrong, certainly. But yeah, the New Strength
Speaker 2: coach is if this were a fall camp fantasy things, ty, yeah,
Speaker 2: you would be Scrooge McDuck right now, that's what you
Speaker 2: would be.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that one's tough. I already saw that. I
Speaker 1: think it's Jeremy Prewitt. We'll be running a more aggressive
Speaker 1: defense with an attacking mentality. I saw an article about
Speaker 1: that Krsy will be, they all will. There's never anybody
Speaker 1: who wants to run a passive defense that doesn't just
Speaker 1: one just one guy, just Bob YAKA, that's it, which
Speaker 1: I wasn't prove it wrong.
Speaker 2: And you know everybody said, no, he's much more of
Speaker 2: a sit back, read and react. And I know Alabama
Speaker 2: sort of runs that kind of thing too, But Jeremy Pruitt,
Speaker 2: coming from Alabama most certainly now for whatever reason, wants
Speaker 2: to do things differently attacking aggressive mentality, and that'll be.
Speaker 2: That'll be a good pick if we do fall camp.
Speaker 2: But man, that's tough.
Speaker 1: And then my final pick, and I say my pick
Speaker 1: with the full acknowledgment that I did not make this pick.
Speaker 1: I am a man of the people, as you know, Dan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the people's host here of this podcast. That's true.
Speaker 1: I called the gentleman up on stage who poured over
Speaker 1: the dozens upon dozens of draft cards that we had
Speaker 1: before us and selected that Michigan State's twenty sixteen was
Speaker 1: an anomaly. So Michigan State, you might remember twenty sixteen season,
Speaker 1: they went three to nine, horrible year. And the talk
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen was that, well, yeah, this is just
Speaker 1: an anomaly. Twenty sixteen, this is an anomaly. Mark D'Antonio,
Speaker 1: good coach, kind of a rebuilding season for him, even
Speaker 1: though it wasn't fully rebuilding season, but lost a lot.
Speaker 1: This is just an anomaly. So my selection in the
Speaker 1: final round here ended up being that Misschigan State's twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen was in an omaly. I hated this pick when
Speaker 1: it was made on my behalf won't behold Michigan State
Speaker 1: wins ten games. They do win ten games. Brian Lawurkie
Speaker 1: ends up being really good. Down to work.
Speaker 2: You can make an argument of player of returning quarterbacks
Speaker 2: that we've already seen place, not incoming freshman or red
Speaker 2: shirt freshman that haven't played whatever. Brian Leworky is probably
Speaker 2: in terms of expectations of growth and continued success, top
Speaker 2: seven quarterback in the country. How easily, it's an incredible
Speaker 2: story for that Michigan State offense. And certainly lose they
Speaker 2: lose some on defense, coaching and player wise, but Michigan's
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, and by the way, as soon as you
Speaker 2: put this out into the universe, as soon as you
Speaker 2: know the energy came out of Hill Country Barbecue and
Speaker 2: into the stratosphere. The Michigan Penn State game over. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it, you got a little you put too much
Speaker 2: goodwill to spar and wow, great bounce back here.
Speaker 1: That pick worked out nicely. That got me thirteen points.
Speaker 1: My top three were Mike Gundy's mullet gush, Johnson freak
Speaker 1: outs in Michigan State's twenty sixteen being anomaly and You're
Speaker 1: top three where the video of a fan taking a
Speaker 1: loss poorly, Sam Darnold's draft stock and then the school
Speaker 1: commercial featuring someone in a lab coat and some sort
Speaker 1: of dancing sequence, you know, in the club with music
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: Again, just on a stage playing the cello ballet, not
Speaker 2: talking dance music. How would you adjust your drafting? How
Speaker 2: would you adjust eligible picks in the future.
Speaker 1: I like our picks. I don't have any issue with
Speaker 1: anything in front of me here.
Speaker 2: And well, should we have a commissioner? I think we
Speaker 2: should Ooh, that feels right for a draft. And I
Speaker 2: want to say, we have some friends in this city
Speaker 2: that we're we could do anyway doing the show within.
Speaker 1: So I'd like envelopes. I'd like a commissioner.
Speaker 2: I'd like for you and I to be in suits, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'd like, Yeah, I really want to go for it
Speaker 2: with not prop comedy tie, but I want to make.
Speaker 1: It official on a stage. Okay. If we're going to
Speaker 1: charge people money to come see this tom foolery, we
Speaker 1: need helmets with uh, you know, phones in them. And
Speaker 1: what the hell is mel Kiper doing in August? Let's
Speaker 1: get mel Yeah, okay, I would try to lean into
Speaker 1: much more custom twenty eighteen things all right, that we're
Speaker 1: not expect. We're always going to expect tear Jerker, We're
Speaker 1: always going to expect the college commercial with you know,
Speaker 1: performing arts and sciences. Whatever we're going to expect, you know,
Speaker 1: probably myke gundyes mullet. Could you imagine if he shaves
Speaker 1: the mullet, like, oh my god, season and it's draftable again.
Speaker 1: But there are certain expectations where like this has been
Speaker 1: true of the past two years, the past nine years,
Speaker 1: the past fifteen years. I kind of want to get
Speaker 1: away from that. So basically early a wis Vunderkind could
Speaker 1: be a good pick for twenty.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, yeaheah. Talking about his age and making
Speaker 2: comparisons to players on the team or to like celebrities
Speaker 2: who are actually older than Fau's offensive coordinator, having like
Speaker 2: an ongoing narrative of like, can a group of five
Speaker 2: team actually ever make the playoff if it stays at
Speaker 2: four games? That feels very twenty eighteen after you see
Speaker 2: f twenty seventeen, So I want to I want to
Speaker 2: lean into that a little bit more.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, again, this was fun. We did a
Speaker 1: live show around the Fantasy Things draft. It lends itself
Speaker 1: very well to a live event. We will be doing
Speaker 1: another live event at some point, probably in mid August,
Speaker 1: in a city to be named, and we will do
Speaker 1: it up. That will be the plan now moving forward
Speaker 1: as we get into Fantasy Things again around mid August.
Speaker 1: So keep it tuned in here, follow us on social media,
Speaker 1: follow us on Facebook, and if you haven't already, sign
Speaker 1: up for the email list where we'll keep everybody up
Speaker 1: to date with all of our announcements going down here
Speaker 1: in solid Verboville.
Speaker 2: And if anybody knows any good venues in Nakadoches, Texas, yes,
Speaker 2: please let us know.
Speaker 1: All right, on that note, we got one final of business.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. One final order of business. As
Speaker 1: I said at the top of the show, Dan, we
Speaker 1: had a bunch of folks on our orders, by the way,
Speaker 1: send in how they listen, where they listen, weird stories
Speaker 1: about how they found the Solid Verbal podcast. As you know,
Speaker 1: we did a shirt saale towards the early part of
Speaker 1: last season, like before the season started, and it wore
Speaker 1: on a little longer than we wanted. We've got a
Speaker 1: bunch of extra shirts here we do. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: them right now. They're right next to me in my studio.
Speaker 1: And what we wanted to do was give a couple
Speaker 1: of those shirts out to people who wrote in with
Speaker 1: just interesting stories about how they found us and the.
Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, how they listen, how they found us, their
Speaker 2: experience as listeners.
Speaker 1: We received hundreds upon hundreds of stories. It was really cool.
Speaker 1: We read through all of them. Incredibly cool. Did you
Speaker 1: have a chance to go through and pick out a
Speaker 1: couple that you that you think are winners? Because I did.
Speaker 1: There were a lot more farming and livestock listening situations
Speaker 1: and listen. I had no preconceived notions about how and
Speaker 1: where people listen. I just assumed people listened. I guess
Speaker 1: I do have a preconceived notion how I listen to podcasts.
Speaker 1: We're just sort of walking around doing stuff around the
Speaker 1: house or commuting whatever. But I want to say there
Speaker 1: was a was it a sheep inspector? There was a
Speaker 1: turkey and a sheep person. Yeah, we're gonna get to that.
Speaker 1: That I think stood out to me. Kate works on
Speaker 1: a turkey farm and listens without headphones in the turkey
Speaker 1: house while she's tending to her fifty two thousand turkeys.
Speaker 1: So not only is she listening, but the turkeys are
Speaker 1: listening too. Yeah. I also like the Virginia tack tie
Speaker 1: into that absolutely. And then there is a gentleman by
Speaker 1: the name of Cameron who is the meat inspector in
Speaker 1: Georgia and listens while doing post mortem inspections on cows, sheeps,
Speaker 1: and goats.
Speaker 2: We had did we have flyers of some kind too,
Speaker 2: And by that I mean fl y, not fl I.
Speaker 1: We have another gentleman by the name of Cameron who
Speaker 1: shoots lasers at the ground while flying around the helicopter
Speaker 1: because he works for a mapping company, a cartographer sort of.
Speaker 1: So okay, Yeah, I went through and there were a
Speaker 1: lot of people the general consensus here is that people
Speaker 1: wrote in with where they listen. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you did that, that's the one thing that Dan
Speaker 1: and I have talked about an awful lot when we're
Speaker 1: not recording. When you talk to people about a podcast,
Speaker 1: one of the things that they tell you about, I
Speaker 1: would say, almost unanimously, is where people listen. It's how
Speaker 1: they identify to your show. So I want to send
Speaker 1: a shout out to a bunch of folks here who
Speaker 1: wrote in and tell us where they listen, the weird
Speaker 1: places that they listen to, the weird countries that they
Speaker 1: listen in, the weird continents. I think we're only Antarctica
Speaker 1: short of being listened to on like pretty much every
Speaker 1: place on Earth. So if you've listened in Antarctica, please
Speaker 1: do right in. But okay, shout out to Chase and Stephen,
Speaker 1: who are in the military. Yes, Stephan said that he
Speaker 1: listened while in Afghanistan along with his troops, so thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Joe in the UK listened while
Speaker 1: on a train between Hungary and Romania. Dan, I love
Speaker 1: that Big in the Eastern Bloc, John listens to the
Speaker 1: verbal on the regular. He admitted to having a dream
Speaker 1: about us while he was on a cruise with his
Speaker 1: wife and family. I'm fine with that in the Caribbean,
Speaker 1: fully comfortable with this. I hope it was a good dream.
Speaker 1: We had one gentleman who listened while in Santorini, Greece.
Speaker 1: Did you go there? I went there on my honeymoon.
Speaker 2: I was also listening to podcasts in Santorini, Greece, and
Speaker 2: I will say, TI, sitting and looking at the beautiful
Speaker 2: just sparkling, I forget what to see. It is the Tarrannian,
Speaker 2: the Agan whatever see is there and listening to I
Speaker 2: was listening to basketball podcast because I was listening it
Speaker 2: was during the NBA Finals. I had a wonderful and
Speaker 2: relaxing time doing so, so I confirm the glory of this.
Speaker 1: We also had another gentleman named Matt on his honeymoon
Speaker 1: who listened. He was in Italy and he listened while
Speaker 1: his wife was sick. Uh. Sorry, it's a lousy way
Speaker 1: to spend a honeymoon. We hope your wife got better
Speaker 1: and thank you for listening. I agree. We have Alex,
Speaker 1: who's a Peace Corps volunteer who listens from rural Paraguay
Speaker 1: or why however you pronounce it not Why another guy
Speaker 1: named Alex who listens on the autobon the freaking autobond, Dan,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust myself to listen to
Speaker 1: a podcast while going whatever however many kilometers No, not
Speaker 1: at all, the autubond, not at all. I would listen
Speaker 1: to the Baby Driver soundtrack'sh absolutely yeah. Uh. We are
Speaker 1: a show about honesty. We had a gentleman admit to
Speaker 1: listening while in the bathroom. Thank you, sir for your honesty. Okay,
Speaker 1: will you?
Speaker 2: Will you if you are listening so you commute in
Speaker 2: a different way. I have earbuds in when I commute
Speaker 2: because I take the subway home and I'll keep listening
Speaker 2: as I walk, and when I enter my apartment, I'll
Speaker 2: keep listening, and sometimes I will have to pee when
Speaker 2: I arrive home. Yeah, would in that situation? Would you
Speaker 2: stop if the wire is long enough to stay attached
Speaker 2: to the phone in the pocket? Would you stop listening
Speaker 2: to a podcast out of worry of hygiene or sound
Speaker 2: drowning out.
Speaker 1: What you're listening to? Or would you just keep on listening?
Speaker 1: I feel like you really need to be engrossed in it.
Speaker 1: If you continue through so you would pause for people,
Speaker 1: I would probably pause. Yeah, okay, interesting.
Speaker 2: I tend to keep listening, though, I will say sometimes
Speaker 2: I'll take out the headphones and I'll just turn the
Speaker 2: volume up on the phone speakers and keep listening.
Speaker 1: Okay, that works too, Yeah, that works too cool to
Speaker 1: listen while in the bathroom or wherever. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: Sure okay. Quickly, Clint sent along a picture listening next
Speaker 1: to a giant sand dune in the Sahara Desert. Thank you, Clint. Damn.
Speaker 1: We have Neil who pretty much beg borrowed and bribed
Speaker 1: people in Argentina to get a Wi Fi password so
Speaker 1: he could download the show. Thank you Neil for your
Speaker 1: shout out to Quarantina. Yeah, Derek, Hello Derek. Derek helps
Speaker 1: run a corn seed company and he listens while he's
Speaker 1: in the field, Thank you, sir. Great Dean Dean listened
Speaker 1: while in bed with his wife and he says that
Speaker 1: they were listening to music. And then we don't know how.
Speaker 1: I don't know how exactly, but the story goes that
Speaker 1: the phone fell out of the bed somehow, and skip
Speaker 1: to our podcast do you listen in bed to podcasts?
Speaker 1: With solid wife? Kate there. No, I don't. Do you
Speaker 1: listen to anything when you go to sleep, like any
Speaker 1: sort of white noise or you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: Pizziz on the show. Not not usually? No? Does she not? Usually? No?
Speaker 2: So you go to sleep, get silence in the room
Speaker 2: outside of your humidifier.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See.
Speaker 2: I will put on a podcast because I do not
Speaker 2: want to be alone with my thoughts.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's probably for the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I will put on a podcast, and sometimes
Speaker 2: I'll you know what I don't. I won't recommend a
Speaker 2: specific one because it's sort of mean. Baseball podcasts, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, tie like this sleeping no question, but solid wife,
Speaker 2: not solid wife Jody with and I. She falls asleep
Speaker 2: no matter what, so the podcast don't bother her. But
Speaker 2: sometimes I'll put on a baseball podcast or whatever sport
Speaker 2: podcast or whatever topic podcast, and I assume she's going
Speaker 2: to go to sleep, But then she'll turn to me
Speaker 2: and be like, what did he say about Anthony Rizzo?
Speaker 2: I was like, what, I don't know. I'm not paying attention.
Speaker 2: That's the point. So I'm for podcasts in bed.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, Thank you for listening Ross listening to
Speaker 1: the Bahamas, he encountered a native Bohemian who was a
Speaker 1: Georgia Finn and told him about our show. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening. Ross. Shout out to Eric and his sons
Speaker 1: Cooper and Leyden they listened in the car ride to
Speaker 1: and from school. Shout out to Matt from Allentown. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Todd who doesn't say anything other than that
Speaker 1: he's just a Kansas fan. Oh, poor guy. And then
Speaker 1: shout out lastly to Colin, who wrote a limerick to
Speaker 1: try and win. Sure. I like that, all right. Those
Speaker 1: are people who wrote in talking about the weird places
Speaker 1: that they listen and how they found the show. I
Speaker 1: am going to go through as quickly as I can.
Speaker 1: Some of these other ones that I think a cut
Speaker 1: above and potential winners. Okay, potential winners. So let's pick
Speaker 1: of these. Let's pick like five out Okay, because I
Speaker 1: got extra shirts there next to me. Ready, I need
Speaker 1: to get rid of these, all right, I'm stretching, all right.
Speaker 1: The first two that I think are of particular interest
Speaker 1: to me are Drew, who says, quote, I live and
Speaker 1: work in Ethiopia. It's one of the deadliest places in
Speaker 1: the world to drive a simple trip to the store
Speaker 1: requires every ounce of patients, sanity, and utmost attention to
Speaker 1: every single one of the kajillion pedestrians. Excuse me darting
Speaker 1: out in front of me, beat up old Soviet era
Speaker 1: taxis and disposable Chinese dump trucks which I don't even
Speaker 1: know what that is, Dan, but he says they may
Speaker 1: or may not have working breaks. How you can concentrate
Speaker 1: in that environment while listening to us. Yeah, we're just
Speaker 1: like two boobs talking about football. Yeah. If we help
Speaker 1: you and that environment drew, then we are here for you. Dog. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also shout out to Ethiopia distance running great. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: So that's a potential winner.
Speaker 2: Also, Ty, just while we're on it, Ethiopian food is awesome,
Speaker 2: very good.
Speaker 1: I've never had. Oh my god, Tey, you gotta try it. Kyle,
Speaker 1: What up? Kyle? Kyle had the best lead in of
Speaker 1: anyone that wrote, of the hundreds of people that emailed in.
Speaker 1: Kyle started with quote, I associate the podcast with the
Speaker 1: smell of burning flesh and bone. Worrisome lead, worrisome lead.
Speaker 1: It's very worrisome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's assume Kyle's not the Zodiac Killer.
Speaker 1: Not the Zodiac killer. Thank you Kyle for writing in Kate,
Speaker 1: the aforementioned Kate the name of my wife, not my wife,
Speaker 1: but Kate works on a turkey farm. She was the
Speaker 1: one who said that she listens in the Turkey house.
Speaker 1: She doesn't get cell receptions, so she'll download and then
Speaker 1: when she gets in the Turkey house, she'll listen, but
Speaker 1: not with headphones, which means that she is listening along
Speaker 1: with fifty two thousand turkeys. That's so strong to me,
Speaker 1: it's a strong contender.
Speaker 2: That's I mean over like gobbling and don't we have
Speaker 2: what is our turkey sound effect? We have it on
Speaker 2: some lead the Brett Bilama one, the Brett Bilima. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a strong it's a pig call, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like a turkey. Yeah. I mentioned Cameron in the
Speaker 1: laser category because he said, oh, we have a couple
Speaker 1: of flyers. Well we do. Cameron flies around in the helicopter.
Speaker 1: He shoots laser at the lasers at the ground. But
Speaker 1: we also have Frank, who says that he loves listening
Speaker 1: to the show, listens to it every week at work
Speaker 1: while building he builds high powered lasers. So we've got
Speaker 1: both ends. Of the spectrum. Here cam And is shooting
Speaker 1: the lasers and Frank is building them. Damn, I love
Speaker 1: me some lasers. These are two strong contenders. The meat
Speaker 1: Inspector we talked about Cameron, the meat inspector before does
Speaker 1: the post mortem on the cows, sheep and goats. We've
Speaker 1: also got Jimmy and MIT. Holy cow, Mit, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: heard of it. Wow, Jimmy makes nanoparticles.
Speaker 2: I'm almost gonna take away points because he has his
Speaker 2: email said that he is listening at MIT while making nanoparticles,
Speaker 2: which can treat genetic diseases, along with a technical article
Speaker 2: that he authored. If you for one second and you
Speaker 2: wrote this, type, I wrote.
Speaker 1: This, I wrote this down on our paper that if
Speaker 1: for one second, yeah, go ahead read it.
Speaker 2: If for one second, this is me quoting Tye that
Speaker 2: I didn't read every word of it. You clearly don't
Speaker 2: know how nerdy I am.
Speaker 1: That's right. I read every word of the technical article
Speaker 1: that Jimmy sent.
Speaker 2: See, he's getting minus points for any because you should
Speaker 2: not be listening to something as stupid as the solid
Speaker 2: verbal while creating nanoparticles to treat genetic disorders.
Speaker 1: Come on, what are you doing? All right? Kelsey is
Speaker 1: a nurse in the delivery room and she listens to
Speaker 1: us on the night shift.
Speaker 2: I like this because this is also importance. But we're
Speaker 2: molding young minds. Yes, I'm okay with it. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And now my two winners.
Speaker 1: Dan, how many winners are we awarding total? We'll pick
Speaker 1: three more from some of the ones that I just mentioned. Okay,
Speaker 1: mm hmm, but here are two in particular. Let's go
Speaker 1: and give a shout out and a T shirt to
Speaker 1: our boy Jimmy, who says that instead of paying attention
Speaker 1: to his teacher in physics class, he uses his third
Speaker 1: period to listen on Mondays to the weekend wrap up
Speaker 1: show and on Thursdays to the Picks and Previews. He
Speaker 1: has figured out the logistics of doing this, and here's
Speaker 1: what he says. I wear a hoodie so my teacher
Speaker 1: can't see my headphones, and so he doesn't get suspicious.
Speaker 1: I stare at him directly in the eyes through the
Speaker 1: entire class, so he thinks I'm paying attention. Because of this,
Speaker 1: I have a C in the class. Yeah it's fine,
Speaker 1: but that's just what they get for making me go
Speaker 1: to school. While I'm fired up about college football and
Speaker 1: watching the Todd Orlando led Texas defense dominate weekend and
Speaker 1: week out, except for when we played Kansas and they
Speaker 1: seem to oddly have our numbers. So Jimmy, he listens
Speaker 1: in third period, I think we can give him minghim
Speaker 1: props there, listen, this is all you need to know
Speaker 1: at equals a MA, you're good, you're straight. And then
Speaker 1: my ultimate winner, the Grand Poobah of God, all the
Speaker 1: stories that we got, this one wins. Okay, this one wins.
Speaker 1: Shout out to our boy Bill in the Navy. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read a little blurb here, he says. I
Speaker 1: started listening to the verbal in the spring of twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: In the fall of twenty fifteen, very early in the
Speaker 1: college football season, like week two, my submarine went to
Speaker 1: see scheduled to be out of communication for the entire season,
Speaker 1: he says. In case you're wondering, I was the executive
Speaker 1: officer think Denzel Washington from Crimson Tide, which I love.
Speaker 1: Thank you, oh yeah for the analogy. I saved up
Speaker 1: many of your episodes of the Solid Verbal so that
Speaker 1: I could listen while running on a treadmill hundreds of
Speaker 1: feet under the ocean in a submarine. Dan, Oh my god, Wow, God,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I distinctly remember your interview with Kirk Farence
Speaker 1: Bronco Mendenhall on the subar. Communication was limited to incoming
Speaker 1: information only, just text with scores from games. When we
Speaker 1: returned to Port after the season, I downloaded each episode
Speaker 1: of the verbal that I missed. I listened back to
Speaker 1: them in chronological order, previews recaps every week. I relived
Speaker 1: Navy's excellent efforts to climb to gret heights in the
Speaker 1: polls through the podcast, and he says, the story gets better. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm waiting. This is incredible. As I sit here writing this,
Speaker 1: realizing that your very popular podcast may have others who
Speaker 1: listen while on US submarines, I wanted to note that
Speaker 1: I am now on exchange. He's a grand transfer essentially
Speaker 1: uh huh huh with the Royal Australian Navy based near Perth,
Speaker 1: Western Australia. I've heard great things about Perth. By the way,
Speaker 1: as a department head at the Royal Australian Navy Submarine
Speaker 1: Force Headquarters, I routinely go to see on Australian submarines.
Speaker 1: And you guessed it. I listened to the solid verbal
Speaker 1: Underwater on Australian submarines as well. So if listening to
Speaker 1: the show Underwater on a US submarine while running on
Speaker 1: a treadmill isn't enough, I have now upped the ante
Speaker 1: while listening with Australians as well. Wow do you think
Speaker 1: do you think that when we do our breaking news
Speaker 1: sound and at the end I go boo boo boo?
Speaker 1: Do you think he thinks the radar is going crazy?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's a change. I really hope so. And
Speaker 1: as with your position within the Navy, I can only
Speaker 1: assume that you have the power to broadcast our show
Speaker 1: Underwater to other listening ships using like some of that sonar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: helps spread the word. Get those five star sonar reviews.
Speaker 1: That's great. Build it. Bill in the Navy, one is
Speaker 1: getting a shirt, send us your size, Yeah, jim I
Speaker 1: will reach out to Bill and Jimmy. But we got
Speaker 1: three more that we got to give out. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm going Turkey, all right, so Kate in the Turkey House.
Speaker 2: In the Turkey House, I'm one hundred percent. My one
Speaker 2: of my brothers is a pilot, so I'm going with it.
Speaker 2: Was Cameron Cameron shooting lasers at the ground, helping with maps.
Speaker 1: I love maps.
Speaker 2: I love lasers, and I love the idea of listening
Speaker 2: to the show on while operating unorthodox transportation. And then
Speaker 2: for my final shirt giveaway or do you want to
Speaker 2: give this away?
Speaker 1: Do you want me to you can give it away?
Speaker 1: Go ahead. I picked the first two. Let's pick we'll
Speaker 1: pick two more, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the guy listening between Hungary and
Speaker 2: Romania on the train. Oh, okay, you're gonna go early one. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with an early one like that Joe
Speaker 2: in the UK.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, And let me pick one more out there, please,
Speaker 1: I'll pick the final one out let's go to Let's
Speaker 1: go to the meat inspector in Georgia. Nice, good call.
Speaker 1: All right, so we could carcass download. Yeah, we picked
Speaker 1: out a handful. Thank you to everybody, honestly who took
Speaker 1: the time to write in. We had some really truly
Speaker 1: lengthy submissions, and we don't frown upon that. It is
Speaker 1: one of the things that we get that that humbles
Speaker 1: us in doing this show. To see how people will listen,
Speaker 1: to see how we're part of your lives is truly
Speaker 1: one of the things that we never could have expected
Speaker 1: when we decided to go into podcasting. So thank you
Speaker 1: to everyone out there welsome supports this show, who listens
Speaker 1: anywhere on the globe in weird circumstances. We very much
Speaker 1: appreciate your listenership. Even if we didn't award you a
Speaker 1: T shirt because we only have a handful left here
Speaker 1: next to me, we so much appreciate your support and
Speaker 1: fandom of what we do. So thank you.
Speaker 2: And if you missed the window to get a shirt,
Speaker 2: don't worry. There will be more and probably different but
Speaker 2: varied shirts in the not so distant future, and I
Speaker 2: hope you will choose to. We will not put out
Speaker 2: a substandard products because everybody I've talked to, both listeners
Speaker 2: who I've never met and people that you know. We
Speaker 2: send some shirts to our friends. The shirt makes its
Speaker 2: way into rotations near the top, if not at the top,
Speaker 2: of people's T shirt rotations, so it's a quality product
Speaker 2: if nothing else.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Dan, I think that's it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all I got. Thank you again to everybody out there
Speaker 1: for hanging with us. Please feel free to hang with
Speaker 1: us all throughout the off season. I promise we've got
Speaker 1: good things in front of us, a lot of cool
Speaker 1: stuff yet to come. Throughout the off season. We'll do
Speaker 1: our best to keep you entertained. Please do sign up
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Speaker 1: and I. We will use those channels as well to
Speaker 1: keep you posted with what's going on. Indeed, on that note,
Speaker 1: for that gentleman over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 1: for myself Tai Hildebrand, thank you again for listening. We'll
Speaker 1: catch you all in a week. Stay solid, peace,