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Go get Reese's wherever you shop. Okay, let's go. [Music] Welcome to part of my take presented by Draft Kings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, September 2nd. Boys. The comm before the storm because on Thursday, we start football all the way back. We have our college football mega preview with Brandon and Tom Fernelli coming up. But how's everyone feeling? We're feeling good. There's not a lot going on. I mean, the biggest story going on right now in the sports world besides Dejan Love, which we got to on Monday. Let's not minimize Dejan Love. No, Dejan Love's huge story. I did love that no pun intended that Stribbling on the 49ers changed his number to Dejan Love's number. I love that. So he's now number seven. So if Dejan Love had just been able to hold out another week, he could have been like, "Look, I'm number seven." Yeah, the name's different. That's my Swiss name or something. If I was Dejan Love, I would issue a cease and desist against Stribbling. Yeah. Like they're just giving away that number now after Dejan made it famous. Stribbling should pay Dejan. He should. That's one point three million dollars for that number. The biggest story, though, other than that is a boring story that teams just keep getting sold and bought and staying crunchy is now the owner of the Los Angeles Angels, which I think is good. I think it's good for baseball, yeah, because they were owned by a guy that just did not give a shit and pissed away the prime of Mike Tratt's career. Yeah. Do you know I learned a weird stupid fact about the Angels? Hank, I'll ask you this trivia question. The Angels Stadium is the blank oldest stadium in Major League Baseball. Third. Ooh. Okay, you went the other way. It's fourth, but yeah. I don't know the Fenway. Rigly Fenway. What's one of my missing? Kamitsky. No, there's one that missing this very obvious. Oh, Dodger Stadium and then the Angels. Kinda crazy. That is crazy. Yeah, that is nice. Yeah, but that's just not because it's historic. No, just because he's cheap. And everyone's built new stadiums. Yeah. The last three years has spent money on their team except for this guy. Yeah, I think it's good for the Angels, right? Arty Moreno's not it. I mean, they had Shohei Otani and Mike Tratt and their prime and didn't do anything. Yeah, it's disgusting what they did. Disgusting what they did with that roster. So yeah, I think it's good for baseball. But I mean, pretty soon Stan Cranky is just going to own everything. Yeah, we're just kind of waiting for him to buy the rest of the farmland. Don't people not like him as an owner? Stan Cranky. I mean, Arsenal owners do not like him. But then they just won the league. They gave him a pass because they just won the EPO. Yeah, so yeah, he's he's done a lot of winning. He has one, I mean, one with the nuggets, one with the Rams, one with Arsenal. How have the the blizzard done? I think he has a cross team. Yeah, the NL teams are really good. Yeah, they are. Yeah, the Blizzard. Is it the Blizzard? Yeah, leave the mammoth. Oh, the Blizzarders Overwatch team. So he bought stake in Blizzard, who is the developer of different games? Got it. Yep. Oh, it knows it. Our lacrosse team would smoke him. Yeah, that's facts. Even if we don't play in the same league as that. We play outdoors. Yeah. That's where lacrosse is meant to be played. Yes. Okay. Does anyone have anything else? I mean, we've, we've, we've, we're going to get to a lot of the sports stories going on in hot sea cool throne. Well, yeah, and we're going to talk a little bit about it with, with Tom and Brandon. And the big college football story today, because there's no real games to speak of outside of week zero is there's going to be a court ruling on Thursday that will determine whether or not LSU is allowed to have players who worked out and tried out for NFL rosters, come back and play in school. The big 10 has already banned that from happening. Yep. The leaders. Yeah, the SEC condemned it. And then they got together and they're talking about banning it. And then now they're saying that they will, in fact, kick LSU out. If they attempt to do this, okay, which, I mean, this is good. I think for LSU's brand, it's just being like rebels. Yeah. And the conference that also features Ole Miss, they are the true rebels. But it's also like, Lane Kiffin doesn't give a shit about anything except winning football games. And I don't think that he'll be allowed to do it. But it's not as bad. It's not as much of a sky is falling situation as everybody else is making out to be. Yep. Because it's only players that got that extra year that are allowed to come back. So this is the only time that this is going to be a question. Right. Yes, college football is a wild west right now with very few rules. But it's not like in the future, these guys are going to be able to go to the NFL and come back to college afterwards. It's kind of a one year thing. I don't think that they're going to be allowed to do it. But that would be, it would be kind of funny if LSU had like guys that just tried out for the NFL going up against Clemson. And just a bunch of guys that like dabble won't even go into the portal. No. They have to be recruited. He has to have met the person when they were 15 outstanding young men who live and bleed Tiger Orange. Yes. The other story going on is everyone's doing their fantasy drafts this week next week. Where do you draft Puka and Josh Jacobs? The great moral question. Do you issue a stay? I do like I do. But whenever there's a fantasy guy online who like if a rest happens, he's like, I've now downgraded him to like a ninth round value. Yeah. That's what that's the important part. I also saw that the GM for the Packers said he's not seen the Josh Jacobs video. He also gave that press conference with his eyes closed. So I don't know if that's why you didn't see it when he hasn't have you seen it. I have not seen it. Do you think that the Packers have had a chance to see it yet? I think if they wanted to see if they probably could they probably have a security person. They probably have they probably have a big dom a Jason guy who could probably get his hands on it. Then again, if you don't open your eyes, you'd never have to see it. Well, also the Packers this falls on the shoulders of their 30,000 owners. True. Like all of them are just as guilty as anyone for not just without because as a fancy football owner, I issued a statement during my draft that I was not going to I wasn't going to touch him. I did too. And then he fell to the ninth round. And if there's that kind of value, then it's almost like you're virtue signaling by not drafting him. So right. You kind of have to. Right. Right. Right. No one cares, but we did a fancy draft, Blutman and Ebo and I and Blutman wanted to take him in the sixth round and I was like, dude, you can't we can't do that. And then he last all the way to the ninth round. I was like, hmm. And we had to wrap around. So we didn't pick him in the eighth. That's good. Yeah. You took my second. Yes. You dropped. That was punishment. Yeah. Is that he doesn't get that guaranteed contract that he would get in the seventh round. Fall all the way to the ninth round. Yeah, I have maybe what I think might be the worst fantasy football team in history right now. And it was I panicked during the draft yesterday. Obviously, I don't care that much about fantasy. It's fun to talk about, but I guess the line share of my brain is allocated towards just like thinking of which futures I'm going to take that will probably be wrong. So you're double dipping in losses. Yeah, it's kind of like I do that off with my fancy strategy this year came down to was essentially guys that were good four years ago. And then if it's not a guy that was good four years ago, it's a player that is on the Washington commanders that I think will have a breakout season. I love that. So those are the two buckets that I'm really pulling from this year. You always got to be you got to you got to leave yourself a spot. Late in the fantasy draft to draft a guy that was good a while ago. I think I got Tony Gonzalez like five years too late I thought you're gonna say you got him this year. No, like I It wasn't if he's around. I saw a picture Jeremy consider it. He looks like he could still play. Yeah I would definitely consider it to Jeremy shocky come out and say that he got a vasectomy when he got drafted That was weird. Yeah, I think you did. Yeah Just like a preemptive So I'm guys like they're balls deflated. I married to the game. Yeah. Yeah, I think he I think he did say that It's always funny seeing like these old athletes just All right, Jeremy shocky got a vasectomy So that was that was essentially my strategy mixed in with one extra thing which was a new face and new place Locked it in can he gain well? Yep buck. Yep, and I cemented that in my brain by drafting him. Yep Yeah, go that's how you learn things we were get we by the way we We do the new new fate or same face new place in a trust tree Environment on monday show got some Blowback that were our ball knowledge listen. That's the that's the point of the exercise We get ready for the regular. Yeah, if we screwed up on the first Sunday of Of the NFL season we said Kenny game was on the box then you could be like dude you don't fucking know ball Everyone has to learn their process in the offseason at their own pace. Mm-hmm Sometimes we're slow learner. Yeah, my brain just it shifts. It undergoes slow, but but steady changes and You know, there's certain times a year that that happens and right now is where I'm getting those old wrinkles back from the NFL Yeah, all right. You guys want to do a pick for a week one of college football sure to did did a terrible job week zero As a collective that's okay. I think we went one and two That's okay. It's pretty good. 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There's not I mean it listen We're gonna be excited to watch football. Mm-hmm, but it could be it's lacking in in some departments. That is though The premiere game on Saturday Saturday night, but that's okay. We still love it. We still love it very much so so much so so much We're proud of it. I'm gonna take uh West Virginia minus 21. I'm high on rich rod. I think he's gonna get his his swagger back this year I think this is a rich rod Renaissance year you just close your eyes late October Game Bay's at Morgantown Pat McAfee's going crazy rich rod. Hey, it's it's like the old days. Okay. Yeah That's interesting because I also have a favorite That's okay. Okay, week one is for favorite week one is kind of for favorites So I'm gonna yeah screw it. I'm gonna do it um put in the spread for LSU whoever's doing this. Yeah minus 10, right? Yeah Yeah, I kind of like the under in that game too. All right. I'm gonna take Alabama Yeah Crimson tied Yeah, 27 and a half. Yeah A little roll they're gonna roll BTA All right, there's the BTA parlay BTA over plus five six to five Love it All right, anything else uh That's popping off right now Live is dead. Oh, who's tweeting meatballs from max's account That max probably so max there was a tweet from max's account that said just meatballs And then he quoted and said who's tweeting meatballs from my account. It's probably max Yeah, we're all looking for the guy who tweeted from max is there any chance that max left his Twitter open on his computer. I don't believe so. I don't think so either. I'm gonna call max real quick Just do you think he picks up? He's probably he's probably yet just He's got pasta sauce all over him right now. He's got fucking Alfredo on his oh, hey, what's up? We're talking about uh the Alfredo that you probably have dripping down your your your beard right now If you think that they have Alfredo and Italy you're an absolute Oh Did you see them out rush more on Monday Yeah, it was I The fact that that was Zach. I like still thinking that was edited to like that video He just supposed to be shown to me to make me think that it was Zach I still have a listen to the full show. What do you mean that he said he you're one one pick for heavy things Insane apps. I think he's still mad at me about the bad friends Incident no, he's got a date with Rudy. We're gonna talk about that in a minute on the show Max the question though we have we we're calling you. We miss you. Uh, who's tweeting meatballs from your account There's a hundred percent names like because my Twitter is is logged in to The booth the booth computer which means that memes has full access to my twitter, which is I've realized it now very bad Oh, oh wait is this are you logged in right now Zach on max's Twitter Yes, hit it hit a hit a tweet on max's account right down What should we say maybe some about Lebron Or how about how about uh the Lebron is as good as the Alfredo in Italy That's good not doesn't it doesn't exist. Okay, and then people are gonna be like wow you're He's spell checking Alfredo. Okay hits send Okay, all right. We're good. All right. See you Max. See you on on Monday, right max congratulations on taco fall Yeah, congratulations taco fall taco fall. Yeah, also pea prisco was pea prisco you duck prete prisco. He was looking for you I also said the pft loves y'all nerds. I know that he you wanted me to not hear that. I heard it I saw my god. That's embarrassing. Oh man. You listen damn. Okay. It's okay. All the interceptions he's throwing is just because he's trying new things He said he was trying new things. I couldn't take my headphone. I know you'd like to talk about you on her and tell me take my headphones off My headphones wrong. Yeah, I can hear him. Okay. He can't hear you took the headphones off. All right. See you Max Have fun with the Alfredo All right, bye. Oh Alfredo was was created in Rome, Italy in the early 20th century. Oh, that's a new one early 20th century is a new one Oh, no, no, that's not a new one. That's 1908. Okay So what does Max say Alfredo? Is that true? We got pizons in the in the booth. He's hammered Yeah, I think maybe Max just hasn't eaten Alfredo this week. Yeah, what is it? What does he mean? Not don't eat Alfredo. Alfredo doesn't work for sex vacation. It's too heavy. Yeah, stay light What is that? Well, they just don't have Alfredo there? Catch you with Pepe? Yeah, catch you with Pepe is delicious Um, can we do some trust for you real quick? I didn't see anyone. I was there a lot of carbonara and Like pesto and lasagna And also just the the NFL draft Yeah, people forget Shane is such a fucking ball-nower and ballaholic that he went to Italy And stayed up all night watching the NFL draft. That's how I respect the fuck out of you. So low sex vacation. Yeah Uh, trust you go ahead trustery and max does have to take his headphones off for this I'm I'm feeling really really Bad about the upcoming commander season. Why very bad about just bad vibes coming out of camp from the local media From the the GM who's already getting up in front of the team and saying that there's a lot of stuff that they've done behind the scenes Okay, the fan base hasn't seen to shore up this roster. Okay. I'm saying it's unfair to judge a general manager based on Uh, moves that only took place six months ago. Mm-hmm Um Just bad just bad vibes. So what haven't been a lot of good What's the story? What's the success? Do you want to change it? I think you said 10 wins when we have booger on playoffs? No, I said playoffs playoffs Playoffs that's still success. Listen, so that's I'm holding firm playoffs that success I'm just I'm getting I don't know if it's just uh this time of year you know your body experiences trauma that you don't even know about And so maybe every year I'm just used to getting my teeth kicked in yeah this time of year that it's just like a defense mechanism I have It's early September wake up the guy from green day and I feel like this is where I get my heart ripped out my chest every year I think this is a totally normal normal thing, because I've had a similar week as well with the Bears defense, where I've been Kyler Gordon might not play it all this year. We had to make a trade. We don't, we already were thin at defensive line. We had to trade Dexter, which like he wasn't good, but it's giving up on a draft pick that quickly. And it's just, I'm at the same thought where I was just like, Hey, what if the defense is worse than last year? And we have to just score 40 points a game. So I think this is where you, this is the part of the season, where you have to, you have to get in your, uh, feels and, and, and scary before we kick off the, the season. I gotta work through all of it right now. Have you guys been going through any? Have you guys had any trust tree, you know, like dark thoughts? Hank? No, I'm excited. Okay. Good. Shane. I mean, of course. Yeah. I'm just gonna share it. Yeah. I mean, the, the, the chargers have pretty brutal schedule. Yeah. Uh, memes, memes text me a couple hours ago. Asking if I saw what the, what was it, week six through eight, uh, week eight and nine and nine. It's the Rams and Texans back to back. Okay. That's pretty fucked up for memes to text you. Yeah. I was feeling I was, I was, hey, the playoffs dude. Yeah, we do this every year. Okay. You're gonna be a winner. You got to beat good teams. I'm not, that's not my worry. I'm not. Teams in the playoff. That's not always true, Hank. I'm trying to think of some recent examples. My worry is Herbert dying. Mm hmm. And I was trying to share that information with Shane that is corner back. My die. What about you, memes? I'm fired up. I think you just might start for now. Okay. What about you, Zach? I'm worried about the energy in locker room. Yeah. Very worried. Yeah. Fair. Fair. But I think that's, that's normal. You got it. Yeah. You can't go into the season being like, we're the best team ever. I think especially if you're a fan of a team that historically has not been very good. Right. I can't help but think that bad things are about to happen. Um, and it's gonna take like four years of any sort of success to change my, my like natural inclination on September 1st about any of that. Well, yeah. And it's, it's also like the way that the commanders went, you know, rookie year, Jayden Daniels, then this, then last year, like I'm kind of it's staring at a similar thing where it's like last year was so fun. And it will be very hard to be as fun and when the NFC North, again, it's hard, you know, mountain to climb back up. Yeah. What if it goes away? Scared. But yeah, I, I think, um, I did see a chart that made me happy yesterday. And it was the, the, uh, young gets to oldest NFL teams. You're young again. And last year, the commanders were by far the oldest team in the NFL. And you saw it on our defense without slow. We were. And now, uh, maybe some of these guys went back to college. I don't know. But, uh, now we're only 27 years and 102 days, which puts us one, two, three, four, fifth to last, six to last. That's good. That's progress. Right next to the Seahawks. So I, we're in a normal, a normal age range. Falcon sneaky old. What the hell? Yeah. Falcon sneaky old dolphins. Well, the baby dolphins. That's tough when you're the Falcons and you're old and bad. Yeah. You know, like the Rams are old, but they're old and good. That's the quadrant of the graph. You don't want to be in the old and bad. The dolphins by far the youngest team in the NFL. Yeah. Okay. Let's, uh, let's do Hotsie cool throw and we're going to talk some more sports. And then we will get to our Mount Rushmore and then our college football mega preview with Brandon Walker and Tom Fonelli. Okay. Hotsie cool thrown is brought to you by tick pick. The no nonsense ticket app. Check the calendar. Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, football is officially taking over. And the couch doesn't deserve you for all 18 weeks. So get out to a game and get your tickets on tick pick where there are no service fees ever. I'm already looking at that Monday night game Eagles bears. Max and I are going to use tick pick. We're going to go to soldier field. 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Today Wednesday as you're listening, uh, 11 a.m. Eastern 10 a.m. Central. We are live streaming from stream song in Florida. A three on three scramble. It's me. PFT John Grooton. John Grooton. First big cat, Dave, Ryan Whitney, 18 holes and being Hank, we're in lockstep. We are in lock. So why are we on hot seat? Because Ryan Whitney is it's going to be Ryan Whitney verse lockstep. Yeah. That's that's that's I guess the hot seat's Ryan Whitney because he's gonna have to carry. It's gonna be a lot of pressure. I just feel I feel very confident and I'm excited like any golf event I participate in. If I can contribute a couple shots, I've done my job. Wouldn't you say? So I'm not on the hot seat. So the expectations for my golf is your expectations to win. My expectations are Ryan Whitney should win with a little assist from me and Dave. Yeah. If he show up on time, give him a couple reads. That's really all like the one thing that a couple drivers in the middle sleep in. He's not going to be happy. That's true. So are we going to have a rules official? I think if I can really is going to be the rules official. I feel bad for Frankie Barrelli. Yeah. That's going to be a very tough job. Yeah. Frankie Barrelli. Yeah. Now would he be compromised in any way? Oh, 100% is he would he be more inclined to rule in favor of certain teams? I think he's going to try to be impartial, but you never know what the Dave Frankie relationship. But yeah, I don't I don't feel any pressure in this golf outing other than like I said, I'd say two drives in the middle, maybe one chip that gets close and hit one long putt. Boom. Job is done. I can't wait to have four more boys out there. It's going to be great. Yeah. I'm excited. I'm really excited. So what does it mean? Can people do a free to play on it? There is a free to play on draft Kings. Use code grudge match on draft Kings. And if you it's a bunch of questions, if you pick the most questions correct, you win a share of $10,000, $10,000. I think I have a question. Yes, PFT. Can I just do this in certain states or is it available? It's available in all 50 states. Oh, that's crazy. Okay. That's sick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good point. Yeah. Memes. Can Memes ask a question, Hank? Zach, you said all the pressure is on Hank. I would like him to elaborate on that. Yeah. No, I just think it's high pressure. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. He's high pressure. No, I have. I have. I am. I am definitely the the worst performer, although pick out in the Ryder Cup. Not great. But I definitely. But again, I don't golf. You golf. You've been golfing the summer. The Ryder Cup. No, I'm saying before the Ryder Cup, I'm just saying, did I go document in history of golfing on camera, but I don't golf, but you do now, but I didn't before the Ryder Cup, but you do now. So there's pressure. I will, I will give four shots. Okay. I will, I will, I will contribute four shots. If I don't then hand up, I did not do my job. But Hank, you're the best golfer on your team. You golf by far the most out of anyone who's playing. I mean, PFT, PFT is probably close. He was also in the internet invitation. So he's, he's the golfer of the group. Okay. So it's green. I was, I'm the only one on my team, not wait. I'm the golfer. Wave, if we were to sit in a room together and let's say Hank and I did a podcast. Yeah. And somebody was like, walked into the room. Who's the golf guy here? Hank. Well, the UFC guy, Zach. Yeah. But yeah, there's a lot of pressure on me. Thank you. Overguy here. Thankfully, I can, I got sex marathon guy memes. I can go from both sides. Oh, no, things are going south. I can just switch. Snap that crown for memes. I'm very excited about this. I can't wait. I hear it's a very nice course that we're going to be playing. Brand new course. Hank and I just got done. We played Pebble over the weekend with a, at a wonderful draft Kings event. And it was, it was, oh, Hank golf this week is real blast. Well, this is work. Yeah, this was a business trip. And so we did get a pre-rounding Friday. That was called on Monday. No. Oh, this was on. Yeah. It's on on Saturday that we played Pebble. And it was, there's a lot of fun. I think with me and him, we did a shamble on the back nine. I think we're about even, weren't we? Yeah. We played well. We were kind of on fire on the back nine. And then at the Q and A afterwards, there was a very, there was a funny moment where they asked us to get up on stage with Frank Calliando and do like a Q and A with the audience. And they said something to Hank about, Hank, what would tell the story? You got confused about what? Well, all right. First of all, first of all, Hank wasn't talking at all in the Q and A. First of all, Frank Calliando did a full set, like at dinner, absolutely crushed it. Like was so, so, so funny. Everyone was laughing. It was a great amount of time. And they're like, Hey, well, you guys follow up after and do a Q and A with Frank Calliando. And I was like, I don't know what I'm going supposed to say. It was me, PFT and Francis. And I didn't, I didn't necessarily have questions. I wasn't like, I wasn't, I didn't, I didn't know what to do up there. They were like, well, you guys go up. I was like, sure. You remember the Jerry O'Connell interview? So I was kind of like, I was kind of sitting up there. Yes. And up there laughing. You know, PFT would say something. And I would just sell it. Like it was really funny. Thank you. And then I said, I wasn't really funny. No, no, Hank's doing a great job right now. I love it. And I said, I chan, then I was like, yeah, that was great or something. And then there was a group of guys right to my left that started like laughing and they're like, oh, thank you, Hank. Like we did the side bet on like your word count. And you just hit it or whatever. And I was like, I got you. And then they did a Q and A where they pass out mics to the crowd. That same group of guys was like, what was your, he said, worst shot today. But because it was. was the guys that had just been telling me about their word count. I thought he said, what was your word count today? So I was like, oh, you know, it was, uh, it's about 12. Now it's 13, 14, 15, 16. And they were like, no, no, no, no, worse shot. It was the room. It was bad. Yeah, it was really good. I was like, that's my boy. Hank, he's being so funny. You you laughed like it, like it was fun. Yeah. No, it wasn't. It wasn't funny. It wasn't funny. I'm a genius chat loves Hank right now. We got burned by Frank. I don't know. He was just so funny. Uh, tough to follow. It's a very tough fact. Okay. And your cool turn, uh, my cool, my cool throwing CTE. Oh, good, bad to two. Oh, Oh, I think Jusky skit. No, we could joke about CTE now. It's finally been long enough. Yeah, since Tudda truth. Uh, two posted an Instagram that he said, he like just bunch of, you know, pictures with him from the preseason. We're in the foul concerns. He's standard standard Instagram posts and he's captured it for the A. And then he left a comment from his same account. We're so proud of you. You got this. Yeah. So he's talking to us talking in the third person. But he gasped himself. People are proud of him, including Tua. Yeah. He is proud of himself. He was very proud of himself. Yeah. What's wrong with gas yourself up? Self-talk you are the man's skip. Yeah. Yeah. Man's skip. I love the show on FS one. Yeah. If you read any sports psychologist, they tell you that, uh, that visualization and important self-talk is, uh, is actually like the key to unlocking a next level of performance. So maybe two is just showing himself some love on this one. But it's like not self-talk, because it's like third person talk. You the man. He's a man. Come on, two. Yeah. Oh, yes. Multiple people that are so proud. I don't know. So yeah. CT equal. Yeah, that's tough. That's tough to explain the way. Players fuck up. I got, uh, I got an idea. Why not Joe Milton on the Falcons? Joe Milton just got waved by the Cowboys. Yeah. Why not Joe Milton on the Browns? He's not a lefty. That's a good counterpoint. That's a great counterpoint. Yeah. Joe Milton on the Browns would be good. That'd be very fun. Yeah. I can't believe he cleared waiver. I think he cleared waivers. I didn't see anybody putting a claim for him this morning. But it's a, give Joe Milton a home, guys. Come on. Also, I don't know if you had this one. If he didn't want to burn you, but two pock, I did not have that. Yeah, what happened? Uh, he, his murder was finally convicted. Story's pretty funny, uh, sounds hilarious. Most murder stories are funny. Can't wait to hear this rib tickler. Well, it's just classic 2026 or this, you know, 2020s. He, I guess he did a police like some type of like, Queens agreement they called it where he like kind of admitted this. Like they, they said, like if you talk about this, like you can't get convicted. Queen for a day. Queen for a day. It's where they bring somebody in and they say, no matter what you say, we're not going to use that to charge you with any crime. If you tell us the truth about things that are going on. So that happened. He admitted it. Obviously, Queen for a day, however, that works. He didn't get, he didn't get charged or arrested. Then a few years ago, he wrote a book essentially saying it. He kind of pin it on someone else. And then he did a bunch of podcasts promoting the book. And so the lawyers were able to use all of the podcasts as evidence to convict him from murder. I'd like to say, yeah, if, uh, if any lawyers or, uh, jury members are listening to this podcast, nothing we say can be held against you in court of law, we're all queens on this podcast. Yeah, queen for a lifetime on the show. Okay. Good hot seat. Cool turn on Hank. We did. We deliver the job. Always, um, my hot after Frank Aliendo. Yeah. Can't do that. I can't fall. Uh, my hot seat is chicks. Oh, chicks on the hot seat. Um, our good friend Kerb Street went on a podcast. Bustin with the boys and, uh, he was telling a story about him and his wife and how they conceived and, um, they, I guess he wanted sons every time. Yeah. And he read something online that said that male sperm swim faster. I don't know if that's how it works. But, uh, his wife was a gymnast. He said when we got done with the deed, uh, she would do a handstand. She would go up on the bed and do a handstand to try to get boys. And then now they're four for four on having boys. So, um, number one, this is a weird thing to share on a podcast, I guess. I would say very weird and I like Kerb Street's front of our program. I, I don't really need to see how the visual of Kerb Street, like, finishing and then his wife immediately going into a handstand. Yeah. She, like, puts the chalk on her hands, gets upside down and just balances for a while. I also, like, they, I guess really both wanted boys. Yeah, girls are, I have a daughter. It's pretty fucking awesome. Yeah. I just, I know I'm imagining Kerb Street, like, you've got to try it out the other way. What do you mean? See if you can hit it, hit on a girl, like, do it stand up, squat or something? Just stand up straight and walk around afterwards. I always thought that the position that you had sex and determine the gender of the child. And yeah, doggy style, that's twins. I also like, I know this is going to sound stupid, but, uh, Kerb Street, like, you're, you announce all these games. Like, I, I view you in a, uh, rarefied air. Like you, you're in my, my, my living room multiple times a week. Like, I don't need this, you know, I don't, I don't want my announcers fucking. You're above us. Yeah, you are. You are above us. You're, you're, you're pristine. Right. You, yeah, you exist on a level like, you don't, you don't poop. Right. You don't fart. You don't, maybe sometimes you pee if it's like a long marathon game. Uh, but yeah, our announcers, I agree with you. I don't like to picture them having sex. No, I like to picture them just walking the field with their dog. Well, yeah, now I'm thinking, like, I'm imagining Kurt, like, shaking his dog upside down so he can get, get another Peter a few years. Yeah. Anyways, that's kind of weird, Kurt. Yeah, I'm busting with the boys. I agree. And then my cool throne is being hockey tough and baseball. Uh, this is kind of a cool story, uh, that happened. So the nationals have a, uh, a new closure that they brought up. And, uh, his name is Eric Tollman and the story of him is, it's pretty nuts. So he just got called up. Got his first save the other night and majorly baseball. So he was a junior at Arizona State and he tore his ACL, or sorry, his UCL. I'm sorry, he got Tommy John surgery in 2021. 14 months later, his elbow pops again. He has Tommy John surgery in 2022. So then he rehabs a second time, gets back on the mound. He's pitching in single A Fredericksburg and he's a, he's a superstitious guy. Okay. Like a lot of pictures tend to be he tries to hop over the foul line. When he's jogging off the mound and his cleat gets caught in the turf. He had a torn ACL, a torn PCL, a torn LCL, the hamstring and the calf tore off the bone, dislocated his leg, the peronial nerve in his foot got ruptured. Uh, so his, his foot got paralyzed. And it was lucky that it happened to his, uh, I think it happened to his right leg, not his left. And if vice versa, it happened, he wouldn't be able to pitch anymore. Yeah. But basically it was the most catastrophic injury that you've ever heard of in your life because he tried to jump over the foul line. Yeah. And then after that, he had to learn how to walk again because his foot was pretty much paralyzed. He had to pitch with a brace. And then finally he got back to, uh, to the majors on August 22nd, had a scoreless inning and then a couple of days later, um, they put him in bases, loaded situation in the eighth inning, uh, and then got out of the inning, no runs and then came back to the ninth and got it safe. Nice. Pretty cool story. Yeah. But like also a bizarre injury to have to battle back very bizarre. Um, so that's, that's pretty cool. And then my other cool throne is, uh, just, I guess, optical illusions because did you hear about the, the island that has been spotted? I saw, I saw, I scrolled past it. Okay. There is a, um, there's an island that might not exist, but it also might exist. Okay. At the same time, it's in Canada. It's in like British Columbia. It's about a hundred kilometers from this place called the Bennett Dam. And on July 21st, they had a clear image of it on satellite. It was about the size of two NFL football fields. I like how they put it in those terms for us. Like, yeah, wait, CFL though. No, it's actually the headline I saw said it's about the size of one Canadian football field or two NFL football field, which is very helpful for us morons that don't understand math without a football analogy. So they had a picture of it on July 21st on satellite image. And then on August 5th, it disappeared from satellite images. And it's got trees and shit on it. It looks like it's fully grown tree. Yes, it looks like a full-ass island like with plants that took root in it. So they're trying to figure out what happened and how it, how it just disappeared. What? Yeah. Okay. So this is a real story. It's like, it's documented and it's crazy. So do they have an after picture of it disappearing? I guess the after picture would just be water, empty water. Did they just lose it? They lose where it is. They might have just forgotten where exactly it is. So here's a satellite. So you can see it out there. Oh, shit. That's crazy. And then it's gone. And I don't know what the explanation for this is. The island was actually a massive floating raft of vegetation and driftwood that detached from the shoreline due to high water levels. It did not sink, but likely drifted into a sheltered area along the reservoir's edge. So this is a piece of land that broke off the drift and then floated and then after floating for a while, it got broken up by waves or floated back to somewhere Close to shore. Isn't this how people think that like humans got to America to begin with? I thought that was Pangaea like a like there were a bunch of like apes on an island and then that island floated across the world and then it was Russia Frozen over we should be connected. There was a land bridge there, too. Yeah, I don't know that's kind of crazy If that's true that an island that size could break off. Yeah, and then disappeared that is nuts Okay, someone needs to get to the bottom of this like did that. I would I would drive myself insane if I saw that island And then I went back and I was like the island's gone. Yeah, where the fuck did it go? Everything kind of reminds me of the the commander's 2025 season Like I swear to God. There was a beautiful island here and now it's gone. Now it's gone. Okay. My hot seat I got a couple is PFT. Oh Because Barsal signed an op Yeah, Barsal signed the op to PFT a direct op. Well, I don't I don't understand. I heard him I was sitting in the studio and the door was open and I heard PFT crying to memes for So all right, so back up back up. Yeah, we have a new social guy Who is one of one of many one of many who got hired for the main his for the main account and his Previous handle, which I guess you'll keep running because a lot of guys when we signed social guys like memes for example He had pardoned my memes Liam Blutman had no context college football. Yeah, these guys who proved that they can do something On a social media on a social media app and then we hire them They get to keep the one that they had but they're now working for us. This guy happens to be the account Drake may lover Yeah, and he's perfect by the way because I had a brief conversation with them I said I walked up to him. I was like are you a freak and he was like, yeah, I was like did you go to college? He's like for one class is like you're perfect. Yeah, that's exactly what we want our social media guy to be But yeah, he is a direct op to you PFT because yeah, you guys are gonna be at a war. I mean How is he a direct op to you? Well, PFT was a was was a Drake may hate her well began to machine I was not I was rooting for Drake. You actually were probably more Drake may fax Yeah, Drake. I was Drake may fax. So it's the facts don't care about your lovers I met the kid earlier seems like a very nice guy. I'm sure we'll get along fine It does feel slightly targeted. I am glad that parcel sports finally gets a little bit of Boston and Patriots representation I don't think that we've put out enough propaganda. So I think it does fill a hole. I understand why that hire was made Kids obviously very good at his job. He's it's a funny account. I've seen it All over the place for the last couple seasons, and he is a talented social media guy. No doubt about that This is it does feel like I don't I don't expect there to be a lot of fair and balanced NFL takes Coming out regarding certain teams and certain players that might be seen as rivals of Drake may or the New England Patriots Do you understand where you work? Drake may lover though is in house. It's like when I found out meekville runs the account PC a hater It's it's does he really I don't think so, but I think so If you look at the history of the parcel source main account. Yeah Gaz yeah, coldly mick. Yeah, it's a Boston company. Drake may lover. Yeah, it's a hard core Patriots none of us would not here. Drake may love Borsal sports wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the Patriots We should all play Drake may stand. Yeah, it's Drake may lover. Yeah, not like Drake may go is Drake may lover. I did reach out to the Borsal sports had a social for comment this would be gas and he said He has no one to blame but himself fuck around find out. Oh, this is about pft. Yeah, yeah, okay, so so this was a direct shot where I wore now Yeah, this is it this was a direct shot against you. Yeah for your actions in the previous season. So we're at war. Yeah, this is this is where gas gas was like oh PFT spouting off. I know what we'll do counter move. Yeah, Drake may lover. Well gas has he's got two moves one is higher a hot chick And then the other is higher Patriots propaganda and so there's a button or the gun this as far it has no listen They're good. They're good moves. Don't get me wrong, but he's got he's that meme where he's sweating with the two buttons I mean if he could ever find one that would be both. Oh my god, like forget about it She'd end up taking over the entire company one day, but yeah, I listen I love gas, but we're at war. This is declaration of war. Yeah open hostilities right now I think you're not even and me and I know I know another guy that has an army that could go after a guy like bald Paul Mm-hmm. I know and and maybe what just good luck with what that army. Yeah, and listening that army I'm just saying I listen, I know what army you're talking about that army is they only serve one master They don't really get it. They don't care about anything else. Oh, I'm not I'm not pretending that they would serve me I'm just saying now we have a common enemy. Yeah, and so it may be you know the enemy of my enemy is my friend and in times of war, you know That weird allies come together sometime you you get in a battle with the riders side by side with you against gas the minute You get wounded. They're like, oh see you later, dude. I don't we got other things to do I think as long as I listen me and Rico aren't great terms now. Mm-hmm. I actually never think we could have been closer All right, my other hot seat is Pitchers pitching against the cubs because the cubs just keep hitting home runs They have the most home runs in in Major League Baseball. They hit I think it was nine Was it nine the other night on Monday night? It was insane. It was just a yabbo fest We also have Alex Braggman and Pete Kromsch on both had They have 17 home runs and 16 home runs since July 11th respectively, they both had over 12 home runs in the month of August So the cubs just keep mashing and then my cool throne is Players batting against the cubs because the cubs while they got the most home runs in MLB They also Last night or two nights ago tied the a's for giving up the most home runs. Wow. Yeah That's been quite it's quite a one quite an experience. So yeah, and they tied the a's the a's play in a band box Which is like I think high altitudes, you know, humid in sacrameno. So yeah, it's if you want if you want to know if you want To explain exactly what the cubs season has been in the ups and downs They have given up the most home runs and they have hit the most home runs and they have the Leader the presumptive favorite in NL MVP and there's still seven games behind the brewers. That's pretty much sums it all up Yeah, that is crazy. It's up down up down up down The fact that the brewers just just keep dominating is also pretty what you guys think and obviously this could all be a relevant because Tuesday night We're taping this on Tuesday and they play again Tuesday night, but what did you guys think there was some discourse going on Pat Murphy the brewers Manager put in a position pitcher in the seventh inning last night on Monday night and how how much What was the what was the run differential? I think it was like I think it was nine at the time Which the wind was blowing out and it's like you never know what could happen. Oh, I'm gonna look up exact score But it it did feel a little early. I I Think they should I actually was thinking too because people were complaining about it I get it like you just you're you're in a four game series. I get your rival. You got a you got to try to save bullpen arms at the time That he came in it was nine to three. So actually not I mean, that's that's six runs. Yeah, you know It's not the most competitive thing to do, but I understand it I get it power and I think it's kind of a smart move a four game series and this is you know the next team up in the division You just need to you need to hold on until the end of September. Yeah, so I get it It's not yeah, andra von came in he gave up nine hits two runs Pitch or two innings pitch nine hits seven earned runs It's enough red meat to like all the old school like baseball guys I would be like this is some bullshit. We never would have done this when I played what at the end of the day I do think it's probably the smart move. Yeah dumb rule. I think that a team the minute you throw in a position player I think a team should use a positive like Why why couldn't the cubs in that situation you auction it off preseason to a random fan who gets to then play the outfield Like when it's 17 when it's 17 to three in the top of the ninth emergency goalie and in hockey But think about how much like a rich guy would pay to be like hey, you're gonna get to come in. Yeah, you're gonna Play an inning at Wrigley field with a full crowd in a win. You get celebrate after going to clubhouse Someone who paid millions of dollars. Then you use that for next year's salary That's not a bad idea or if you are a manager and you're if you want to put a position player in in the seventh inning or earlier You can do it. They just have to wear a little clown nose. I like that. I like that Like if they have a clown nose, maybe maybe he's on a tricycle. Yeah, some big shoes And it will instead the bullpen clerk they have to go out on a tricycle make it Savannah ball Yeah, make what they just have to admit that this is you've turned it into a clown show So you embrace it if you're comfortable being a being a laughing stock for that game. That's fine But yeah, ultimately, I think it's probably the smart move, but it does suck. Yeah, I know I I can't get like super upset about it There are some people who are like this is an absolute joke. It's like I mean, I don't know every team Every team does it in the course of a season. It's a long fucking season. Seventh inning though is early. It's very early That's a lot. I mean, obviously was the the clubs were at home. So it was only two innings But seventh inning feels very early. All right. My other cool throw in a Zach Because, oh boy, I like it. he's going on a date with Rudy from bad friends. - Yeah. - She seemed into it. She seemed into it. - You know what she said? She said he's got great eyes. - Yeah. So for people who missed it, our good friend Andrew Santino, he was flying back with us from the internet invitational and Zach was sitting across from him. Zach is a big bad friends fan. Zach got out of the car and was coming back with Max and Zach told Max I was the whole time I was wanting to ask if Rudy, a female on the bad friends podcast, is single. Zach didn't ask. Unfortunately, Max then told me and I brought it up on the show 'cause I was like, hey, let's get this couple together. We talked about it on our show. Bad friends then talked about it on their show. I think Zach you're in. - That is true. We did talk here. They talked there. Some things were said. I think there's an opportunity for a date there. - Yeah, she said she said she was in, maybe to do a date. One thing you guys have in common, she said she's not much of a cold weather city person. - I'm also kind of out on the cold. - Yeah, so you know how to stay warm in the winter time. - We just migrate, right? - Yeah. - Play the end of the clip where she's agreeing to a date. I think she kind of agreed? - Yeah, there's no way to know. It's up in the air right now. You never know. - She was kind of put on this. It was actually perfect 'cause she was put on the spot. Almost identical to when Zach was put on the spot. - Nobody deserves that kind of heat. I felt terrible before. - But hey, this is Bob Knight, common enemy. You can go on a date with Rudy and you can be like, hey, big cap, PFT, Bobby, Andrew, aren't those guys such assholes for making us do this? - MMMM, I love you, I love you, I love you. - It's like common ground. - Yeah, right. You have something, the first conversation will be so easy being like those guys are real dickheads. - I can't believe we're doing this. - What did I just do this? - Yeah, all right, play the end of it. - She's, she's a really nice kid. I met him. So, uncrustables, you like them? I don't even know that. There's an uncrustable in the house. - She ate them on the Bert Pod. - When those guys came on the show, that's right, that's right. She ate like six on camera. - Okay, there he is. - So, here's Zach right there. - Awesome. - Would you go on a date with Zach, perhaps, Rudy? - That could be you. - Um, he's, I like his eyes. - Yeah, his eyes, that's a good start. - That's Arabian blue is what I call it. - Are you interested in maybe going on a date with this man, if we set this up the guy in the left, he's got a big, big crush on you. He was too shy to say it to me when I met him. But now we know the truth. - Maybe, what does he do? - He's a producer for that show, for part of my take. He's a, he's a producer and he's very good at job. Unlike the producers that we have on this show. - I like to have him, she's, idea. - You like to have him, she's an incredible idea. So, this is something we could move forward on. Perhaps if we can get emerging of maybe, - Where does he live this guy? - Chicago. - It's not gonna work. - I think it is. - She doesn't like winter. - We'll travel for love is what Zach said. - Okay. - So, that's him on the right, cool guy. - Cool guy. - Press as well, good style, smart, sweet, funny. - Yeah. - Very funny guy. - So, what do we think, Rudy, can we maybe do a date? - Yeah, maybe. - Yeah, he loves Zach very much, he's the man. And maybe we'll set up a little date for you guys. 'Cause you might like him, his style is cool. So, is that a yes? - Yeah. - Oh, that's a yes. - We spoke with our friends and other people. - All right, so we're good. - We're good. - That was a yes. - Yeah, maybe a yes. I do wanna say, kind words from Andrew. Great gas from Andrew, I really appreciate that. - Yeah, yeah. - Zach, so you used to have an uncrustables puncher, right? - Yeah, he called you a great producer. - Great producer. - We'll take that gas, what kind guy? - Yeah. - So, you used to have an uncrustable puncher thing, right? - Yeah, it's kind of like spring loaded. So, think of like a stamp almost, like you know the stamps that flip, use kind of chitching, and then it punches it out. Sometimes you gotta give it a second punch, but works pretty good. - I do think that would be a good like a fun first date somewhere. - Just make a possible split. - Yeah, you can go to the kitchen, maybe go to the kitchen here. And you can, you know, if you want to, you can record something, but do like make your own new types of uncrustables context. - Just kind of wild with the uncrust. - So, what do you, like, I don't hate that move. Give me out, what about like a Macrittle uncrustable? - Oh, like a hot sandwich. - Yeah, yeah. - What's the next step here? So, we will be in LA for the Super Bowl, but I feel like that's too far from now. Do you want us to fly you out to LA? Do you want me to see if Santino has any plans to come to Chicago? - Exactly, we want some foodie. - I think he wants a crawl out of his skin and die. - Oh, okay. - No, I didn't say. - Well, after you put that, after you, after you've met a more fun side. - Metamorphosis, yes, yeah. As a snake, what would you like to do? - Yeah, I think Super Bowl comes up pretty quick, or maybe like maybe for Super Bowl, she's open to that. Yeah, it's a moving target right now, you know? Yeah, I gotta pin that down. - Okay, so let's try to pin it down. - I'm not gonna pin it down. - I'll show you guys straight, but. - Wait, I just asked you to print up a calendar for me like an hour ago. - I can make two calendars. - You're not a big calendar guy? - I'm not good. I can definitely produce two calendars for your PFT. - Okay, can you produce, if you kids want it, wizards, tickets, courtside, might be a great first date. - Oh, send you guys to the nation's capital. - Incredible. - Feet on the wood, right behind Trey Young and Anthony Davis. - Everybody does love the capital. - I think it's either that, or maybe, maybe it's Sunday in the gambling cave. She seems like she would love that. (laughing) - Maybe we go somewhere else before the gambling cave. - Okay. - Yeah, but that was maybe a date, maybe a date. - I think it's a date. I think we just gotta figure out when if there's a potential for the bad friend's show to be here in Chicago at any point, and if not, we'll just get you a plain ticket to LA. - Okay, we'll see how it goes. - Okay. - If there's a date, looking forward to it, yeah. - Great. - All right, your hot seat cool throne, Zach. - My hot seat week, my hot, sorry. My hot seat this week is maybe Terry Scooble. - Yeah, Terry Scooble, they go back to Detroit, but what do you guys think about taking the-- - A special machine. - A special machine. - Yeah, what do we think? - I've got a couple thoughts. - He's taking a special machine. - So a Scooble bought in a special machine for the clubhouse, got traded, took the espresso machine. - That's tough. - Yeah, it is, it is. If I don't wanna say bad guy move, my thought was maybe it was a gift. That's the only way I could see this being a piece. If somebody gets you it as a gift and you bring it in, and then you're leaving, and you're like, I don't wanna leave that behind because it was a gift from somebody. That maybe might be a good, but otherwise, I mean, he did say he bought it. - He said his wife made him take it back. - You got it. - And he said, I'll wear it. I'll wear the fact that this was a bad guy move. - So he's standing up to it. - They got coffee in Los Angeles. You can buy a coffee maker there. - Yeah. - You could afford another one. - But also, the Tigers can too. - Did he send somebody in to repossess it? Or did he go, 'cause the only way it would be okay is if he went in there, grabbed it off the shelf and then walked out the front door with his coffee machine. - Yeah, I think there's plausible deniability if someone else just grabbed it when scooping up his stuff. - He, School said I wanted to leave it and get a new one, but she wouldn't let me, my wife wanted me to take it. Good fall guy moved by School's wife. - That's a really good fall guy move. - Yeah, I think you gotta buy, I think you can take it and then just buy maybe not the same espresso machine, but a espresso machine, you know what I mean? - Or maybe the same one, or maybe the same one. - They probably made two of them. - Yeah, you never know. - Yeah, it's a weird move. - It's also kind of a funny move to be like, see you guys. - He must have, yeah. - With his espresso machine under his arm. - He must have really liked that coffee that he made. - Yeah. - Okay. - And then you're cool through 'em. - My cool through this week is gonna be most nations, because a lot of guys believe it's maybe the best soccer player of all time, has decided to retire from international play. - Lionel Messi has retired from international play. You, you specifically Zach are on the cool throw now, because you don't have to watch him just dominate in your face when Ronaldo scores a goal against who's Becca Stan and says he's back. - I would be included in most nations, yes. - Yes. - Us as Americans are. - I would say you're the most nation of this. - Hey, look, we're all gonna have one more in 'em. - I hope he does. - Club coach has come. - I would leave off. - He wants to fall apart, though. - I want to see him. - He would never try to. - The World Cup's hosted in Portugal, I want to see him try to make it all about himself and fail spectacularly. - He would never fall apart. - He'll have four years to grow from this. - No. - Yeah. - He will grow. - I don't know if he's gonna grow anymore, he's done growing. But yeah, thank you, thank you, Lionel. What a great, what a great career it was. - Yeah, two Copa Americas, one World Cup, beautiful thing for the country. - Yeah. - He wrote, he went handwritten on the note on Instagram. - Did he? - Yeah, he said he made this-- - Did he also retire one time before from Argentina? - I believe so, before-- - He's half of the Copa Americas. - Yeah. So he might come back, like Jordan did it. - I think you said this time it was more permanent. He wrote the letters two days after the World Cup final. And then I guess earlier in August, his dad did unfortunately pass away and he's like that kind of cemented it for my ham. My time here is done. So. - I'm just saying, Jordan came back twice. - It would be cool. - He'd probably be so sick. - Unfortunately, he'd be so good still, yeah. - Of course he would be so good. - He's just so good in this world. - This is all part of my master plan when we hired Poach, he's Argentinian, convinced Messi to retire from Argentina. He already works in the United States. Just give him citizenship. - Yeah. - And then have him play for the US in 2030. - Yeah. - But he could never return home if that was the case. There's no way, there'd be riots in the streets. - No, he could return home. - Argentina's pretty good at hiding people. - Yeah. - If he threw on the red one, blue? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, he'd go off to a village somewhere and change his name. - Age 95 swimming in a beautiful lake of a heart attack, yeah. - Much of your mate. - Yeah. Okay, good. Good hot seat, cool throw. Do you have anything else? That's good. - Also just, the coach said your clay homes is throwing cartoon pages. Those were cool. - Dude, clay home. - That's a lot of movement on this page. It's crazy. The cups are in a spot where I think our starting rotation if we get to the playoffs is going to be all guys We just traded for so that speaks to the the stat of giving up the most home runs Play homes have been awesome. I wonder if that's ever happened right right now I mean, I I would go have your sod three But you could very well make the case that it should be play homes one Gosman to Peterson three because no one else can be trusted the trust tree has gotten as small as possible when it comes to the cup's pitching Okay, let's do our Mount Rush more. It is brought to you by our friends at Reese's There's something for everyone when it comes to Reese's we love Reese's. They're the one one pick of candy I actually had some Reese's sticks last night. They're so good. We have the Reese's lounge upstairs I brought my kids in on Sunday to hang out in the office. They were like, can we go to the Reese's lounge? Like absolutely we can they had a great time. They're the best candy of all time the Reese's peanut buttercrubs That is the goat candy. That is the one one. That is the New York Knicks of candy That is the Carolina Hurricanes of candy. 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I would yeah, so How do I do were you surprised with the voting because you kind of called you you kind of put up your finger and walked off on Sunday night. You're like I got this. I thought I had it. Yeah, I think death. I underestimated death death in max Who's that max? Homa no max Delunte our former producer you wonder how fat he was or how excuse me how heavy he was you guys all agree like the The gifts that max brings back have to blow us away for a two-week vacation He's not bringing back his he is bringing back gifts and they he actually needs to bring me an espresso machine because You can't go away for two weeks and come back with like You know Shane's little bobble heads and shit and like oh here. Here's a here's a fucking here's a shot glass No offense Shane. Sorry. I forgot you're sitting right there. I love my bobble heads by the way. Yeah, bolt up the right oh shit Where are they? I think you smashed them. Oh, no, I think you took oh, no, no, there's one of them There's a did you throw them off the roof the other day? No, where's my golf car? Oh, this did you get me this Shane? Yeah, yeah? All right This is cool. Where's the Pope? I don't where's the golf? Oh the golf cars up there where? Where's the pote there's big don't where's oh? My god, the pope's head fell off. Yeah, the pope. They didn't fall off. Yes It did no no, I I I I didn't like intentionally break it I bumped into the back is a white socks fan a lot of people are talking about it. It's white songs wrong Serious Pope wrong last Pope. It was the last of the last pope. Yeah. Yeah Okay, Mount Rushmore of household items you could use as a weapon Henry you are up first Stick knife Okay, that's a really good fucking pick. I didn't even think about that super sharp. I didn't even think about that. I double up here correct Yeah, I would like to take baseball bat and I would also take a nail gun Okay, okay baseball bat is a nail gun. That's a good own nail guns. I do I do own a nail Think I don't fucking I will buy a nail gun by the time this podcast comes out so that I could you got a nail Correct anyone in the booth have a nail gun. Uh, yeah, memes says Memes remember when I'm trying to think I use your nail gun bat. I don't think I know You're not wait. You're not sure if you have a nail gun or not memes. No You don't yeah, then you don't snoop From the wire. Yeah, I think I've a nail gun. I got staple gun. It is good. It is a good weapon though if you have one it is Also baseball bat is just that's a brutal one Do you have baseball bat in your house, Zach? Yeah Sock over it Why because you catch it you know swing what they catch it you get another swing. Oh that's so genius You double up holy fuck. That's actually brilliant. That's so brilliant So you just have a long sock over your baseball bat all time. Yeah, cuz they grab it and then you just whoop what about you double sock Well, that's when they say they break. Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah, that's true comes out Damn, Zach that is so so okay nail gun and baseball bat those are Pretty good weapons in your house Uh, my next one Thinking like Tom and Jerry will go frying pan. Oh, okay. Yeah, good one good pick like cast iron. Yep pretty heavy. Yep That's a really good pick brain somebody with that. Yeah, and this one's more like Like fighting like fighting with your brother like fighting with your sibling That's just a TV remote. Oh, okay. Just chucking at someone's face. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually. Yeah. Yeah It's like annoying like I you've I've gone hit by a TV remote off throwing a TV remote like it's a It's a or even if like accidentally like you like hey throw me the remote and it hits you in the face like that hurts agree Hank, what would you say the people out there that would say that the TV remote in this draft would be like taking a single hornet I would disagree I kind of annoying, but actually won't get the job done I mean at least a household item is what I would say. Yeah, it is I could have I could have used yeah, like a jack I use a nail gun in a TV remote about the same amount of times. Yeah. Yeah Okay, I'm going to take clothesline Okay, all right. Yep, like the uh The thing in the backyard. Yeah. That's a great pick. I have a great fix. I didn't think about it So we don't go outside we should go inside hang them to dry But also if you need to a little quick, you know, yeah, or just run them pat like hey, oh, you're gonna chase me I'm gonna run and duck under the clothesline That's how pricing to Shambon most losses career. We've lost you in home alone. Take them out. Yeah, hey quick run that way Yeah, and then next thing you know That could if you if it's tight enough take your head right off Yeah, I work bet you you didn't think of that Hank you don't want the kids to wake up You know wasn't all my life. Oh, yeah, the stealth. Yeah. Yeah good point Mr. Mrs. Smith actually wow Hank you're blowing this I think you great pick listen if you looked up This act stop shaking your head If you looked up, uh, how many deaths per year were caused by a clothesline as opposed to a remote I think clothesline. She why do I think in Zaks face? Yeah, why is he laughing Zach? Shane looked at his phone and started laughing. Zach, do you think that pfci hyping you up to this point might be having the unintended effect of People might be a little pick up on our sarcasm on clothesline was good pick Yes, okay, all right, so we'll we'll dial it down a little Decent pick I think you probably could have gotten it in the fourth I got to be more decisive on the list maybe a little bit of a reach you got another one all right. All right. I'm gonna take Oh I'm gonna fine. I'm gonna take bleach Okay. Yeah, yeah poison. Yeah No, that's good. Mm-hmm. Throw it at someone Here we catch a bleach cup to the face. No, I don't I that actually is a good pick that clothesline was dog shit If you close on that pick if you threw bleach and someone on someone's eyes you would fuck them up pretty bad I just looked it up online On average 11 people die per year on clothesline. How many now look up TV remote? Okay, most of clothesline desert keeping quiet. Uh-huh Yeah, uh-huh because it's the it's the silent killer TV remote's got to be lower than that Moves Bleach is a good one. Yeah, please get out of a spray bottle. Yeah. Oh what a spray bleach. Yeah, two You yeah, you fuck someone up that fuck someone up you like not to clean no and to clean. Oh, okay You sprayed in the right. Yeah All right, okay, really the only way that people die from Remotes is if you eat the batteries out of them. Mm-hmm So you would have to have someone come into your house to batteries might be and you have to convince him that the room TV remote batteries are delicious and then you could hope to survive But like think about it big cat someone breaks in your house. You're obviously lying on the couch You might only have the like TV remote's the most successful thing. Oh, so I'm lying on the couch someone breaks into my house Boom, first thing happens they hit the clothesline Bang next thing happens nail gun in the face. You actually tie it up. Tie the clothesline up to a nail gun trigger Yeah, so it's like a booby trap. Oh you tried to oh you got up after the nail gun in the clothesline. You ran at me Oh, look you just slipped on bleach Zach literally is just Kevin McAllister in this Due to he held down the house held it down held it down All right, last pick I'll give Zach a chance. I Zach's Zach's down, right? Yeah, he's done with his picks I could just take fork that would obviously do the trick. You could kill someone with a fork, but I will take can of soup. Oh Okay, yeah - Okay. - You heavy? - Not a bad one. - I was surprised. - All right, so good mount rush for. - I was surprised. - Hammer? Hammer feels like that would be a good pick. - I was gonna say also pot of hot coffee. - Hmm. - Yep, might be a good one. - Yep, what about a chair? - Throw a chair at someone. Feels good, what? - Zach, you got some honorable mentions. - Within a car keys. - Car keys, okay, that would be annoying. - Wait, maybe just your car. - Actually, car keys might be a genius one because-- - Like rastknuckles move. - No, I was saying like you just throw your car keys and they're like, all right, I can just steal your car now. - Oh, just take it, go. - Yeah, yeah, thank you so much. I came for the car and you just handed it to me. - What do you think about frozen food? - What kind of frozen food? - Anything solid out the freezer, you can do it with the, yeah. - I would say maybe a time of hawk steak. - If we got pound of ground beef down there, it's been there probably six months. Hard as a rock. - Yep. - Legos? - Yeah. - Strune about, that will fuck any person up. - Pretty bad. - What about fireplace poker? - That's what I was about to say right now. - Yeah. - I just saw the staircase recently. - I didn't have one, so I didn't take it, but that is probably the best one. - It's a classic one. I would also say lamp. - Crow bar, lamps a good one. - Lamp, you just, yeah, hit somebody in the head with it. Yeah, candle holder. - It's not really a plate. - Spoon, plate, spoon. - Spoon? - Spoon? - Oh yeah. - What's the thing? - Putting someone's eye. - The big point things. I gotta remember, me and memes are, we're also allies now. We've got an online war, we need to fight together memes. - The rolling paper. - Yeah, we should get someone biased against the Patriots to run our socials, that's what we need. (laughing) - Good point, hey. - Okay. - My account says unbiased. - It does say, clearly says. - It doesn't say, it doesn't say Jets lover. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Gino Smith lover. - That would be very concerning. - Yes. This is more of not a household item, but like a on-person item, but I feel like I could win most fights if you just let me get my belt off. - Like whipping someone would hurt so bad. - It'll also be very masculinity. - Yeah. - Yes, that's it. - Right? If you got into a fight and the students started just hitting you with his belt. - If you just whipped you, literal belt to ass. - Yeah, you become, you become, he's your daddy at that point. - Also thinking of like the George Bush Club, just like a shoe or a boot. - Yeah, I think that's most likely what you would end up throwing is something like that in panic. - Or you could take your remote out. - Potsuit. - Try to hit pause and see if they stopped. - Yeah. - Zach, you didn't want to pick like your gun? - Well, I had gun at nightstand. - Yeah. - But I didn't take it. - Yeah. - That is a household item. - Yeah. - What else did you have on your list, Zach? - Yeah, the fireplace stoker, we talked that. - That was better than clothes on. - We talked car keys, we talked the gun. That was pretty much it. - The fireplace. - I come out deleted, just 'cause they didn't. - What did you do? - I deleted them. - What did we think about pretty much anything you could drown somebody in? - Like a bathtub? - I was filling up the bathtub. - Yes, slowly filling up the bathtub, then drowning them. - Or like if you keep it filled at all times. - That's your drowning tub. - Yeah. - Or like the water goes out. You've got gallons of clean water right here. - Yeah, PFT and I, we always talk about if someone came into our house, what we would do is we would just hit the sauna and just lock them in there. - Brutally. - Well, are they stronger beyond belief because of the rejuvenating power in the sauna? - Mm-hmm. - I also say a lot of these items. I don't know if I could actually use them as household weapons. Anything you're doing the stabbing on, I don't think I have a chance. Like with the knives and the forks and stuff, I don't think I, yeah, tough. That's scary stuff. - Scissors. - Yeah, think about the close combat on scissors. - Scissors. - I mean screwdriver. - Scissors would be good. - Yeah, screwdriver might have been a mess. - With nail gun. - Nail gun's great. - Nail gun's a great pick. - Great pick. - When I used to be left alone when I was a kid, my dad believed me with a bag of baseballs. And if anybody breaks in, just throw all these baseballs at him. - I used to just build like with little little, like not Lego blocks, but like the buildable blocks, I just used to build a little fort and be like, I'm good. - I'm safe in here. (laughing) I'm fucking fine. Okay, good amount of rush for boys. Let's get to our interview. We got the college football mega preview with Brandon Walker and Tom Fornelli. Before we get to college footballs, we've got some butt head, Tom Fornelli and Brandon Walker. They brought to you by our great friends at Chevy. There's a reason that Chevy's called the heartbeat of America. 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Brandon, you were just looking up into the distance. You weren't paying to a single word that Big Cat just said. No, I pay attention to every single word he said. I just didn't like any of that. No, we're just looking away daydreaming the entire time. What's the daydreaming? I just didn't like what he was saying. We're locking. People who might be new, every year we have both you guys on, this is a third year, I believe. This will be the third year. You guys both pick, what is it, 12 teams? 12 teams on the national time and we do a point system in the playoffs. You get a point for being in the playoffs, point for winning. And then, you know, it increases. You go, Brandon, you got absolutely dog walked last year by Tom. I destroyed him in the first year. He is the college football expert. And I apologize, Tom, because we were at Camp Arsenal. Then these guys were in California. I was in Saratoga. We weren't able to plan much for you. For winning. We have a couple things. Exactly. Time out. Time out. Time out. Not that this is my show. You didn't do anything for me last year. In fact, when I got here as the reigning champ, you said, well, that was for last year. You said that doesn't carry over into this episode. Oh, great. That's what you said. Yeah. But hang on for a second. Because you made some good points. Right. And you are a skilled debater. And so it was in part of a larger college football discussion where you said that maybe you should think about honoring the college football expert. Sure. You won that debate. You made great excellent points. And so we're trying to evolve and we're trying to take that into consideration. Right or wrong. Celebrate it a little bit. Yeah. So we just have all, listen, all we got was a little, a little tiny ribbon that we're going to have Tom cut to, to signify that he won and just a ribbon start, start the ceremony. Yeah. This is cutting the ribbon on the 2026 college football season. Yeah. Even though it kind of already started. All the ATWLs, he's dedicated to all the ATWLs. Okay, great. That was excellent. All right. We can start the college football season. We can start Tom Ferdelli as an expert. I also, well, we got you a ring too. So here's a ring. If you want, this is the ring ceremony. That's it. No. No, there's a card that comes along with it. Okay. If you want to just say what the card is. Yeah. Sit down in the mic. You can get the card out loud there. It's just a card in a ring. Yeah. It's a squirrel. Yeah. It says, oh my god, you did it. It's a fat squirrel. Yeah. It's a fat squirrel. It's a very fat squirrel. Congrats. Oh, wow. Look at this. I got a lot of Chick-fil-A gift cards here. Oh, Jesus Christ. This is probably this is. You know what? It's $300 in Chick-fil-A. I am listening. I'm touched. I'm humbled. I am absolutely thrilled to be the number one college football expert here on a part in my take. But I am also humble and Brandon did get one team out of his 12 into the college. It's not like you got a bunch yourself there, buddy boy, I'm going to give you one of my Chick-fil-A gift cards. Oh, don't act like this. Come on. I don't know what to say. I don't know what this is. We did get you a trophy. Wait a second. We got you a trophy. So, Tom, if you want to stand and actually look at the camera, we'll take a picture real quick. Oh, sure. You with the trophy. So just look right into the camera. Okay. All right. There's your confetti. Wow. That's incredible picture. I think it was going to be that much. Yeah. So that's that's all we well. No, actually, are you hungry Tom? Because we did. We also got you a cake. We got you a full cake. It says congratulations PMT college football expert Tom Fernelli. Wow. And that and Brandon that's. Brandon was right. Yeah. Oh, actually, oh, shoot. last thing here. You want to open that in front of Brandon as well? That's it. That's literally it. No more. It was just the, it was the ribbon, the cake, the ring, the trophy, the Chick-fil-A, and then just this card. Oh, man. Let's see what this is. Okay. Oh, this looks official for immediate release. Pardon my take here by announcing the appointment of Tom Frennelli. That's me, by the way, as the official college football expert of the Pardon my take podcast, Mr. Frennelli, college football writer for CBS Sports and co-hosts of the cover three podcast earned this designation by defeating Brandon Walker of ESPN in the official part of my take college football. Thanks for. Competition in this capacity, Mr. Frennelli will serve as the podcast's principal college football authority, providing analysis, predictions and commentary throughout the season. Pardon my take, congratulate Tom Frennelli on this appointment. Signed big cat and PFT commenter, the hosts of Pardon my take, Barstool Sports August 31st, 2026, and there appears to be a cash prize. Yeah, there's thousand dollars cash for winning college football expert, pardon my take college football expert. He did get one right. Yeah, he did get one right. So yeah, wow, you got Brennan, you got a little confetti in your hair. Thank you. I'm going to get that out. I want this feeling. Tom, you're a great winner. I am definitely keeping this. Absolutely. You're one of the best most gracious winners on part of my take. I think you're number one. Yeah. Thank you. Congratulations. Oh, for being the best winner. Thank you. Again, Brennan, you said that we didn't do it well last time. So listen, this, you know, I just, I just feel and listen, I don't want to step on the toes of the winner here. I just feel if I had won, you wouldn't be going to this level of pomp and circumstances. You don't know that. Just one correction. Did you win? No, no, I said I didn't. I did not win. You are the, you beat me by picking teams like Clemson and Michigan and Northwestern in your playoff. I picked. I did not pick North Western. Well, you had Missouri Baylor. Look at the, look at the California. Perfect. It doesn't even know the logo. Can I say something? Yeah, we're trying trophies in my way. I just saw purple. Yeah. Giant. Let me, let me move my giant trophy. Now that is a wild cut. Yeah. Put this right here. So Brennan, you feel like there's something between us. Yeah. It's this giant trophy. That's hell of a trophy. This is fucking awesome. Yeah, it's a big ass trophy. Congratulations, Tom. Thank you. Is it worth that big of a grand sack? He won so good. He's so good at winning. Yeah. Did you want to look at the ring too? I'm all right. We want to kiss it. Kiss the ring. Who did I have? So let's see, Brennan, you had Penn State. Notre Dame should have made it. Notre Dame did not make it. Should have made it. LSU, Texas, Oregon, Boise. Yeah. It did your best. That's what matters. I think. Yeah. That's Arizona State Illinois, Washington. I'm so close, Cardinals. You've really thought you were doing something by picking Illinois. Yeah. That's the best part. You were mad when I did it. Yeah. I was mad. Well, you two idiots should have just taken James. You like I was telling you to and that would have been another one for you. Or Indiana. Listen, we both have room for improvement. Indian is not on there. Yeah. There's room for improvement. I both 24 teams. We didn't pick Indiana. Yeah. I will say, I think that you should use this as motivation. Don't really wear in the ring. Yeah. Of course. It's rings. Tell me you've never won a ring. Oh, that's, listen, Brennan. If Tom got to a real ring. If Tom was wearing this ring, walk down the street tomorrow. I'd be like, Tom, come on, man. But this is ring ceremony night. Fine. All right. We just, we just debuted the rings. I'm going to be buried in this ring. Yeah. Brennan's just not used to sing a ring that doesn't monitor cholesterol. So he's confused what he looks at. That's what this one does. All right. Let's, let's get into, let's get into this year. We let you to two rings, sir. Who got the MVP last? All right. Let's go. 2025 is in the past. Tom, congratulations. Thank you. Hopefully we did you, you know, justice. I feel like you actually won something. I am truly honored. And again, humble. I can't believe you guys did all this for me, but I appreciate it. It was a lease. It was a lease. We do have a car for you. A new lambo. It's an El Camino. How many fucking owners have that six people turn it down? A time share on an El Camino. All right. Let's, let's, let's start with 2026, though. We are, we are on the press piss of week one week zero happened, whatever. Where would you guys like to start? Do you want to start in the SEC, Brennan? Yeah, we can. Although I will defer to the raining champion. Okay. That's fair. All right. Oh, yeah. Let's start in the SEC. All right. So I'll let you guys kind of take it away, but my big thought in the SEC is I, I think people are being, uh, they're not giving Georgia enough respect. I think Georgia's going to be an old school, like Alabama bully ball type team. And I think Georgia and Texas are clear, clearly the top. And then it's kind of like the big tenants. Like who is going to be the three, four? Who else is going to crash the party? Mm-hmm. Go ahead, brother. Well, real quick, real quick. I want to give these guys a little bit direction here. So we, we'll start with the SEC, but they could go, you know, you guys could take it haywire. Sure. Just as a thought starter, is the SEC dead? Yes. No, it's a big 10 kill the yes. The big 10 is the best conference in college football right now. And I think they will probably win their fourth national title with the fourth different team this year. But the SEC is boiling. Oh, yeah, that's what I think. Okay. All right, but but the Georgia and Texas will start there. May I push back on a little bit? Yeah, of course. So I do think you're exactly right about Georgia. I think that defense is going to be back to Georgia standards this year. And the quarterback is consistently excellent and doesn't get enough credit. The playoff game they lost. He was incredible. Made a lot of great place. So I think he's an under, under appreciated guy in college football. I think I pushed back on Texas being the clear number two. The more I thought about that schedule is so nasty. You agree with me on Georgia. I do agree with you on Georgia. And this could be like the, because Georgia is a team that has fallen short the last couple of years. But it's like they also were there. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you know, they got injured against Notre Dame. That's right. They hit a unbelievable quarterback and treated at Chambles who's on an all-time hot streak. Yeah. Like, Georgia's fallen off. But let's be honest, it's hard to win every day. They're still in the mix. They're still very much in the mix. And the reason I push back on Texas is I just don't like the, the, the, the whispers around the program right now. It feels like Sark never really has that thing where he's like, you know, I know Signeti Indiana is a firm leader and that thing is tight. Georgia Kirby smart same thing. Even though they have the, you know, off the field stuff with the, with the driving and stuff. But I don't feel that it Texas. I feel like it's always a tenuous grip on being the leader of that team. And you don't hear great things about arts right now. And the schedule is so nasty. If they were to lose to Ohio State early, again, that schedule so brutal late that they could fall apart. Right. And they could have, they could have a couple losses going into Red River if they have a really bad loss. They have a top three roster in the country, probably. But that hasn't really mattered. So wait, wait, where are the whispers? Where are the whispers on the 48? Cause you can't just say whispers, you're like, do a grenade and then you got parents getting taken to Twitter right now saying it's all politics out here. And they're not like, and which is, is just fine. You can take that with a grain of salt if a team has buttoned up about their stuff. And Texas really kind of usually isn't. I, I'm with you on Georgia as far as what they're how close they've been and how they've been kind of dismissed. And that if you look at the NFL draft last year, there weren't a lot of Bulldogs taking it. But to me, that's because everybody that was the best player on their team last year was typically. Yeah. So it's like, you got all that coming back. Gunner is like perpetually unappreciated at quarterback. But I also think that part of what he's unappreciated for is the lack of an explosive passing game is also played a part in holding Georgia back because yeah, they lost on a last second field goal to Ole Miss in the playoff last year. But maybe if they had more of a passing threat, they wouldn't have been in that situation to begin with. So I do think it counterbalances a bit. As for Texas, I don't care what parents are tweeting parents are parents. They're pissed off about things all the time. Sometimes, you know, they like tell the school that they're going to file a cease and desist against them for using a number, you know, just because they gave it to somebody else. By the way, Brynn, take that shirt off. You got a lot of you got some show some respect that you're wearing that number in this. This is this is Arkansas great Darren McFadden. I don't care what it is. I think that was against Ellis. You should be one time he's going to release. Exactly. We're going to put some tape on this number five. We're not taping. We're not taping. We're taping right now. Legend Darren McFadden is one of the greatest college football players of all time. Yeah. Well, you can't get credit for it. I'm wearing the shirt. Congratulations on having a shirt. You still want to have a shirt too. Yeah, mine's just black. Yeah. But no, I to Texas, they are. They're extremely talented. They have like, they were in the college football playoff twice in the last three years. I got to the 14 that came two years ago. They nearly lost the Arizona State, but there were also a few plays away from beating Ohio State and getting the title game themselves. Last year, they missed out mostly because of, you know, they lost that Ohio State game early in the year and they lost a Florida for some fucking reason. But just I don't think that they're not the second best team in the league. I wouldn't be surprised that they finished in third because of the schedule that they have to play. But I also think if you look at the talent, as you said, they're extremely talented. My concern has been like, the one thing was Sark. The last few years, every year with Texas, I feel like I'm saying the same shit where they're able to move the ball, but they get to the red zone and then they don't really finish drives. And at some point, Sark has to figure out how to call an offense that finishes drives and gets to the end zone or else they're never going to achieve their ceiling. They could do that, though. And if they figure that out, and if Archman kind of develops into what everybody's expected him to be, if the kid we saw at the end of last season, is the kid that comes in this year and starts playing to that level right away, that's a very scary, very good football team and that they bring in Cam Coleman, a receiver from Auburn. That is, you know, Jeremiah Smith gets all the oxygen and deservedly so, but Cam Coleman is very good himself. So between the two of you, I think I'm going to lean Brandon on his takes on Texas, because you got to see him up close in personal last year. I did. I did. I did. So I'm very close. Really close. Super close. Yeah, as close as you can pass personal as it could be. I smelled the receiver as he caught the winning touchdown. He went right by me and I had nothing but class. I was like, great, great effort, very catch. And I knew he caught it. And is what it is. I don't think, I certainly think there's a world there, the second best team in the conference. But I don't think the separation between them and everybody else exists until we really see and put it together. Like you mentioned, they gotta be about Florida. Kentucky took him to overtime, weeks took him to overtime. Like they really were hanging on by a thread all season. They were waiting for arch development, waiting for him to develop. He finally got going at the end. But what if he has, what if he's just a slow starter? - But who's your second best team in the SEC if it's not Texas? - That's a great question. There's a lot of teams that can be, it can be Ole Miss, it can be Alabama, it can be Oklahoma. I would probably slot Texas in there right now, but I just feel like the potential for things to go wrong early in Ohio State starts to cheat sliding off the cracker and start might not be got to save it. - See, I think if there's a team that I'm looking at that could be the team that supplants them at number two. I'm looking at LSU. - Yeah. - With that roster, with Lane coming in, with everything that they have done, obviously last year was a very disappointing season for them, which is why all the changes were made and why Lane has come in. But I also feel as though Ole Miss, Trinidad is fantastic. Trinidad might be the best quarterback in the country, but I don't know if the rest of the team is there. And I don't know if losing Lane Kiff into LSU and that staff going in and then having a first time head coach and Pete Golding who, listen, he won two playoff games. One of them was against two lanes and you can just miss that if you want to, but he did beat Georgia in a playoff game. He did beat Kirby Smart. But it's different when you are going through the regular season and you're doing it weekend and week out in teams have scouted you and they know who you are and they know what your tendencies are. So can't he do that on a weekly basis? I don't know, but I look at LSU and the coaching upgrade that they have and how talented that team is. I wonder if they're not the second best team in the league. - They certainly can be. They're in the mix. Do I believe in that quarterback enough to propel them there right now? I don't think I do. Sam Levitt, two years ago when he had an NFL running back and a elite, elite receiver, they made it a playoff and he was solid. Last year, he only had the receiver and he had some health issues, but he wasn't good when he was healthy last year. He wasn't good pretty much at all last year. I watched him against Mississippi State in the Starfield, lose a game that he threw for 78 yards. Like I just don't know if Levitt is the guy. When they went quarterback shopping this year, they didn't go the store and say, we want to come home with Sam Levitt. They settled for Sam Levitt. So if Lane's a great quarterback guy, maybe he gets the utmost out of him, but right now, I don't know if I can believe in that quarter. And a league full of pretty good quarterbacks. I don't know if I can crown him, yes. - Very fair, but what were you saying with this time last year about Trinidad Chandler? You had no idea who he was. - Yeah. - Lane turned him into the best QB in the country. - I got a question about quarterbacks to the SEC. - Sure. - Does Killing De Boer finally have his quarterback? - Yes. - I don't know. - 'Cause that's like Alabama is one of those teams, like I said, I don't think quarterbacks to the issue though. - No, I don't think quarterbacks to the issue. - Right, yeah, Tyson said he got hurt and kind of, it didn't look good at you. - Sure. - That's the first round NFL pick quarterback. - That's the first round. - Yeah, that's a damn good quarterback. It was a quarterback, it was a lack of toughness and they could run the ball. - They fact they've sucked all the toughness out of that program in two years. - So do you think Alabama is going to, 'cause there is going to be three or four teams in the SEC that get to the playoffs. Who is going to be those three in third and four teams? - Which means there's going to be like four teams that think they're going to play off right now that are going to be like six and six or seven and five. I would say Georgia, who would you say? - The three or four, I'd go Georgia. I would go to Texas. - I like LSU. - I like LSU and I think that fourth one is where it gets complicated. - I like Oklahoma a lot. - Oklahoma I think has a very good shot to do just because you know the defense is going to be incredible. And it's going to be, you know, can John Matier stay healthy? Can they develop more of a passing attack that teams have to fear? You don't necessarily have to rely on it, but you need it to be realistic because that would help with their run game. And also, well, John Matier kind of handoff sometimes. - So I liken them to last year's Miami, where I think Oklahoma can get to 10 and two this year. Remember how Miami went 10 and two? And then they show up to the playoffs with that defensive line that defense and they just start wrecking people. Start destroying people. If Oklahoma were to go 10 and two in the regular season and stick it on the playoff, they could be that team where their defense takes over the playoff. - And they have, they can go nine and three and get to the playoffs. - 'Cause they're at Michigan and we too. - Like if they win that Michigan game and then even if they lose a few games in the SEC, they are going to be one of those teams that will have a legitimate claim to an at large spot at nine and three. - Yeah, they just need a couple of wins on that. - One school that I haven't heard from you guys yet is A&M. - I don't believe in them at all. A&M fans think I'm just a hater, but I-- - Well, you are, both of them can be true. - That's fine, but last year, they-- - Well, they hate Oklahoma. - They're first seven, I hate everybody. They're first seven games in the SEC where against teams ranked 10 through 16 in the SEC. They needed a miracle to be South Carolina. Then they finally get to Texas. They finally get to Miami. They can't score, they can't move the ball. And I think the quarterback is just okay. And I think they had to revamp the offensive and defensive lines. They're not getting that schedule again. I think A&M right now is a fakedop 10 team. - Yeah, a newfound reality of college football that I think fan bases need to come to grips with is now that you've got the super conferences where you've got 18 or 16 teams in your league and you're only playing nine conference games. Schedule luck is gonna play a role. - Big hell of a lot of teams. - That's why everybody's high on Penn State because look at their schedule. And look at NC State over last week. And people were talking about NC State because look at their schedule. So you could get a little lost and just relying on a team schedule to think that they're gonna be good. But Texas A&M took advantage of it last year. They had it set up for them and to their credit, they went out there and they won every single game like they were supposed to. Marcel Reed took a step forward. And then when they ran into Texas at the end of the regular season, they lost. They get to the playoff and they play Miami and they lose a home game in which the offense couldn't do anything. So now Colin Klein has left. Your offensive coordinators gone to take over at Kansas State. Your defensive coordinator left. I don't know if they're that upset about that but they do have two new coordinators. Can Marcel Reed maintain you to grow? If he doesn't and the schedule is more difficult than what you faced last year, it's gonna be really hard to do what they did again. Who's the SEC team that we're not talking about that could somehow crash the party? South Carolina. Ooh, okay. Brandon hates South Carolina. At the start of the year last year, I was like, I was all in on South Carolina. Well, the problem that South Carolina last year is they brought it into an offensive coordinator that tried to turn Lenora Sellers into a pocket quarterback and Lenora Sellers is not a pocket quarterback. You knew that South Carolina was my team. I was gonna say, "That's why you said it so fast." You knew it, you knew it, that's why you said it so damn fast. Listen, you knew damn well. I mean, it's not about strategy to be off the expert. We're both experts. I'm just down in the horizontal South Carolina from your number seven or number two on this show. His former expert. Yeah, like listen, we both are smart. We both know things. I'm just a little smarter, a little better look and I'm a little quicker than you on the draw. So I'm going to South Carolina because with Kendall Briles coming in, they're gonna let Lenora Sellers get back to what he's best at. Drop back. If the first read is there, throw it. If it's not, you're like six, two and 240 pounds go run over some defensive back and pick up a first down. And Kendall Briles, if we go back to week zero, he was the offensive coordinator TCU last year. Yeah, he left. Look at TCU's offense without Kendall Briles last week. And now he's coming to South Carolina. They are going to be better than they were last year. I'm not saying that they are going to be a playoff team, but if you're asking me which team I think is not being discussed, that could sneak in there. It is South Carolina, the one caveat. Dylan Stewart needs to be healthy. He's already got some back issues that are kind of scaring me a little bit, but hopefully he's ready to play. Good answer. I'll throw another team in there. South Carolina, I agree wholeheartedly. I think not every quarterback that we were high on last year is going to bounce back. I think what North Sellers is is too talented not to. And the offensive coaching is going to help him bounce back in the schedule. I think they'll be there in him at home, for example. But since he sets South Carolina, let me say Florida, I think Florida brings back a decent defense. You know, Jaden Balls, they got great receiver room. If they can get any sort of quarterback play that schedule early, they catch Ole Miss coming off to the LSU week in early September. This is a team that could start 6-0. And if there's 6-0 going to that gauntlet in the back half, there's somebody that can really mess with the powers that be in the SEC. Yeah, and another team that's made a big upgraded offensive coordinator too. So when you look at their roster from Florida, how many of the guys on the team or guys that are brought in like brand new to the program? There's a decent team. Not as many as you think though. Yeah, not as many as typically happen with the coaching change. Yeah, Napier's guys. Yeah, Napier, listen. Napier recruiting wasn't really the problem. It was, you know, being a coach on Saturday. That was a problem for them. Okay. Any high-spin, which your favorite high-spin bet from the SEC? So I have one, and now it's kind of going up in smoke. Okay. Oh, no. But I don't know before week one. We don't know when I'm out of heart, he's going to play. But coming in like a month ago, he was plus 10,000. He is the best running back in the country. He is. Now, he got shot in the offseason. Yeah, that's never good. And he's working his way back. They've been very spotting with information. They've been very close to the chest. Now, we do kind of hear that he's probably not playing in week one or the start of the season. But if he were to come back by week two or three, put up 1,500 yards. The high-spin sometimes is a story award. Can they win nine games, though? If he's great, they would, I mean, they would have to, can they? Yes, would they? I don't know. But I think that's the limit now. It used to be, you know, obviously you have to be like in the playoff, you had to be in a playoff. Well, like, Jaydeno's won it with nine games, not going to the playoff. I think nine and Travis Hunter didn't go to the playoff, I think eight or nine has to be the limit. Super long shot. I'm out hardly was my guy this year. But now just I do like sellers to put it back and become a top five quarterback in the entire country. Yeah. If another quarterback, you could look at somebody you asked earlier, Keelan Russell, quarterback at Alabama. Like if they do get to the playoff, it's probably going to be because he has a fantastic season. And part of their problems the last years is they have not been able to run the ball. Some of that's the offensive line and some of it was just the guys that they had it running back. I think Keelan Russell being back there if the offensive line is not where they need it to be. Keelan is the kind of guy who can make up for that with his legs and kind of give like John Matier did last year for okay. He could end up being the running game in a lot of ways. So he's going to have the story to like he's incoming, you know, first time starter. If Alabama gets back to the playoff, they're back in the run. He's gonna be in the room. but I think Sellers is a good call too. - No, to keep in mind, Will Stein is a listener of the show. He's probably listening as we talk right now. What can we expect from Kentucky? - I like 'em, I like 'em a lot. If you look at the rebuild offensive line, they went and got dudes from some big time places. And the quarterback I just assume is gonna be good under this new offensive with Will Stein. I think he'll know what he's doing at quarterback. - You went to Notre Dame, right? - Can he mention? - Can he mention, yeah. - Yeah, I like them to possibly, they play Alabama in week two. - Am I got what a way to start your new program if they were to somehow do that? And then they play LSU later in the season, and I think they might get one of those teams at home. So I like Kentucky a lot. - I love what Will said at SEC media days about being the reason, you know, that Kentucky can win. I do think it's gonna take two years. So I don't know if he's gonna be able to come in there and have that immediate kind of success. I think the schedule's pretty difficult. I think that you're overhauling the roster. I do agree with you. Kenny Minchi is not a known commodity at this point, but if you talked to Notre Dame people last year, that was not just, you know, we're saying this to keep a guy happy and keep him on the roster when they were talking about how close the race was between CJ Carr and Kenny Minchi. Minchi was really pushing car for that gig. So that gives me optimism about him going forward. And plus, we've seen Will Stein just as a quarterback developer what he's been able to do for guys. It's realistic to think the kid's gonna be good. I just don't know if Kentucky is at the place right now as an entire roster where it needs to be to win a bunch of games in the SEC. - Okay. - They go to a ball though? - They could, but I mean, they're when it tells what four and a half? - I don't know. - They can get there if Minchi really, really hits, but I don't know. I think they're probably gonna be in that five, seven, four and a big ornable. - All right, let's talk about the major leagues. The big 10. - Not really. - Not really a big difference as far as, you know. - Yeah. - I mean, he's not setting the best conference. - Three in a row. - Three in a row. - He's addicted to fourth in a row. - Are you doing that as a jinx knowing that you go always get your predictions wrong? - No, I don't always get my predictions wrong. I had had Georgia to win the national title before they ever won the national title. I had who won the national title two years ago. I have stayed two years ago, even after they lost the Michigan, I said you better bet them now, right? Three minutes after they lost the Michigan, I said they're about to go on a run. That's what I said. - You kept betting Georgia when they had Mark Rick? - No, that's not-- - That's not, like, hey, hey, hey, you kept that by saying. - Georgia was the key and then-- - Not what I said. - Is this a trophy getting in your way? - No, but I got so much stuff at my shoe. - All right, big 10. - Sure. - Oregon, Indiana, Ohio State. - Those are three big 10 teams, correct? - They are. Can we say that those, what's gonna say, let me do the reverse. What's gonna stop one of those teams from getting to the playoff because it feels like they are head and shoulders above everyone else. - For Ohio State, it's the schedule. - Yeah, they're actually-- - Ohio State finally has a tough schedule. - Really nice. - It's very, like, I fully expect Ohio State is going to get to the college who will play off. But I do think that a lot of people are overlooking how difficult their schedule is. - It's really hard. - A lot of games down there, like, you could talk about how they've never lost, you know, fewer than two games in a regular season. Then you look at their schedule, like, yeah, well, if there's gonna be a time for them to do it, this is gonna be the time where it's gonna happen. - Texas, at Indiana, at USC. - Yeah, yeah, and then don't think. - Organizing at Iowa, exactly. - So it's like, this is gonna be, if they get through the season at 10 and two and don't win the conference, they're still gonna be one of the best teams in the country. - That might be the best spot for them. - Yeah, not even the big 10 championship game. - That they are very talented. They have a very, very good team. Julian Sain, we need to see him, like, he struggled in their bigger games at the end of the year. He struggled in that game against Texas, but that was his first career start. So you need to see him take a step forward, and they did lose a lot of guys on the defensive side of the ball. So the biggest obstacle they face will be Julian Sain, not progressing in that schedule, but I think even if things don't go well, they're just too talented not to be in the playoff at the end of the year. - Yeah, can I say the same thing is true about organ though? Like, I'm gonna pick organ. - Yeah, yeah. - But like, Julian Sain and Dante more have the same problem. They both look so super normal when the other defense got elite. And Dante more was really bad when the other defense got elite. - Yeah, then Julian Sain was kind of bad. - Yeah. - But I still think organ so loaded in my name. - There's a narrative of like, oh, Dan Lennon can't win the big one. Like, Dan Lennon has put his team in a spot where they've lost to the national champion. I think they're the last five losses or the national champion. It, Dante more is the one that like, can he step up? We were talking about, I think it was Booger, like the Indiana game was bad. The Iowa game, I know we had the drive at the end when it was bad. There was another one in there where it's like. - The Penn State game wasn't bad. - Penn State game, yeah, they probably should have won that in regulation. There's just moments where I need to see him step it up and win a game for the ducks. - Ironically though, that's all true. And those road games he had a difficult time with. But like, if you think about the teams that we think of as national title contenders this year, you could say that about pretty much every single one of their quarterbacks. Like, they all struggle in big games. It's like, Julian Sain struggled against Indiana. Dante more struggled against Indiana. Guess who won the national title? India. So, I mean, there's some of that to it and you do expect that, you know, you're not gonna be great when you're playing great defenses. That is why they are great defenses. The question typically is, can you make enough plays? And they just didn't make enough plays in those games. But I do believe that with what Oregon has coming back at the receiver position. Like, if they failed this year or Dante more fails this year, to me, that's more on Dante more than anything. Because there's really no excuse of what they have at the receiver spot. They are again loaded everywhere spot, everywhere spot defensive line. Well, I do want like the offensive line could be, that's the one thing I'm gonna be watching early with them. I don't know if we'll learn a whole lot against Boise when they open the season. But that's one area where I'm gonna be kind of keeping a close eye on because they are replacing both their tackles. It's an interesting thing. I do think that Indiana's getting weirdly disrespected, even though they are a top 10 team. But why would anyone doubt Kurt Signetti at this? Well, they shouldn't. He's the best coach in the country. My thing, are they getting disrespected or is there just not enough respect to go around? Because with Oregon, oh, I like it. It just seems like Oregon's got a peak roster this year, right? The Oregon is the bell of the ball in the office. Right, like the Oregon and Texas both have rosters. Like, yeah, how can you get much better than these rosters? So they're naturally getting attention. Ohio State's always there. So Indiana isn't getting the standard Alabama Georgia level of defending national champ attention, but this could be a one-off. We don't know. So they are getting disrespected in that way. But I just think it's Oregon, Texas attracting the attention rather than Indiana not getting. Okay, I think Indiana's fucking thrilled with that, by the way. Yeah, because what you just did was wildly disrespectful to Indiana. How? You just said, they might be a one and done. This might be a one and a half. Who knows? It is flashing the pad for Indiana. But they might be. It's really hard to win consecutive national titles. It is. It doesn't happen a lot. A great schedule in six first year. But still, he outperformed expectations to a crazy degree, even though, you know, by the end, I think you, you know, you're looking back and thinking, I was right saying that there were going to be frauds when it came down to it. Yeah. But still, a great year. You're one. You're two. One of the best stories. One of the best teams we've seen in a very long time. Sure. In college football. So to say, like, the expectation from them should be anything less than repeating is kind of disrespectful. I have seven teams I think in one of the national title. They are 100% in there. If that's not respect, I don't know what is because they're replacing a high-spin trophy winning number one draft pick guy, they're replacing him at quarterback. And we're just assuming they're going to go right on because they're keeping the coordinators, they're keeping the coaches great. Like, I'm just assuming they're going to be at a league level, even though they lost one of the best players in the country. I think that's respect. Yeah, I think they also, you know, the money that they spent on the roster a lot more this year. Sure. Would you say, like, I bought a bigger gun? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The college football landscape overall. There's a little disrespect. Like Ohio State and Oregon on their defensive lines get a ton of credit, you know, a lot of because of recruiting rankings and they have talented players. I believe there's a chance that Indiana has the best defensive line in the big 10. I think that is a real possibility with what they have both this guys that they've developed and because with the new rules, some people they've been able to bring back who weren't to NFL camps. Yeah. They've got four to five year olds. Exactly. They've got like, fathers of three on their defensive line. And I think that's that's a huge advantage to have. So I wonder if like you lose for Nando Mendoza and I have said plenty of times this off season, like you typically don't lose the number one pick in the draft and get better, like even when you bring in a new quarterback that you believe in, it's hard to imagine that Josh Hoover, no matter how good he is, can be what for Nando Mendoza was. But what if he is? Right. Like, and you still compare that with their defense where they lost some cute guys, but they still have plenty of guys coming back. Their offensive line is still probably going to be pretty damn good. They brought in a kid Nick Marsh at receiver who is really the only good thing about Michigan state last year. Please bring him in. Yeah. Like, this is a team that will be very much in the running all year and it's I agree with you. There are seven teams, which by the way, is a wonderful thing. Yeah. That the kid is. It's great. All right. So in the big 10 similar conversation that we had in the SEC, if you say those three teams, there's going to probably be a four team. And you guys take it whichever direction you want of this group. Oh, I'll take Michigan, Iowa, Penn State, USC, Washington. I'm going to say it now. Big 10 doesn't get a fourth team in. Oh, okay. I think they're only going to get those. They're just going to eat each other alive. I think the rest of them are going to. Okay. Once you play the gut. Listen, I'm going to speak about big 10 stuff. You don't understand where you come from. Oh, so when you get into the gauntlet, when you get into the gauntlet of a big 10 schedule, okay. And you have to play nine games, big 10 teams, if you have to play them weekend and week out. They're going to eat each other alive. And I think that there is a very realistic possibility that like the Michigan's, the USC's, all these teams, they're probably going to end up with three losses. And I don't know if they're going to have the overall strength of schedule to get that at large bid. So at least they probably won't campaign and beg for it as a lot of these other. I don't think so. I think Penn State could trip into the only two losses. So that's, yeah, their schedule is like as we discussed earlier, like scheduling plays a huge factor into how things work. state could take advantage of it, we will see. I still don't know if they have the depth of talent to really be a playoff team and to not screw up or trip up in one of those games because that's they have to be perfect. They do have three tough games. It's not like they have. No, they do, but if they can go, they have one in those. Yeah. Yeah. True and one or maybe even one or two. This isn't an Indiana schedule from two years ago, but this is this is a schedule. It's kind of a couple of places I can trip up. For sure. All right, so then so you're saying no, no, four team. I don't think they get a fourth in, but of those teams, I would be the highest on the USC schedule is so tough. It's really hard to say. Well, clarify a question I want to ask for this was you're let's say one of those three teams doesn't make it who were places. Oh, yeah, because we're assuming all three of those are just. Well, if one of those teams, if one of those teams doesn't make it, I bet it's USC getting in because USC is knock them off somewhere. Yeah, knock them out because that's the one thing that holds me back on the Trojans is their schedule. It's very difficult. It's going to be hard to imagine them getting through with only two losses and getting there. Although they do, they could be one of those teams that has an argument at nine and three, depending on who the nine are and how the three losses go. So I would look at the Trojans. They have a great quarterback coming back. They are very talented defensively. You saw some flashes on Saturday yet with San Jose State, but they have very young talented kids. They had a great recruiting class and a lot of them are seeing the field early, but that is one of another thing that concerns me in this modern era of college football, where you tend to want to be older. You don't really want to be super young. So that could be a problem for them Michigan. I'm not super high on Michigan. I was getting some blowback. I think Kyle Wittingham is an awesome, awesome coach. The coaching upgrade from Shron Moore to Kyle Wittingham. He's enormous, enormous. Yeah. I don't know. And maybe I'll look stupid and I'll have to put my hand up after week two, but I just don't know if Bryce Underwood, like he's got to take a step forward for them to be a playoff team in my mind. So yes, he does. But why have we grown to a place where we act like that's not possible? He was a five star. Of course possible. Of course. I'm not saying to you. I'm saying everybody. If he beats Oklahoma, I will absolutely be like, you know what? I was wrong. This is a legitimate national title contender. He was a five star quarterback. They got thrown in the mix with zero coaching last year, zero leadership. I don't even know what that game plan was. They tried to roll him out with it was it was coaching my practice. Even before all the crap happened the end of the year, he was fireable based on the way he used Bryce Underwood. So and by the way, I know it's against lesser competition, but Biff Poegee did a better job with Bryce Underwood than Sharon Mordit. Now we go and now he has a full off season with an actual coaching staff. I do believe defensively they're going to be they're going to be very good. Like I I hate it. I don't like it. I'm coming around to be higher on Michigan now. And I was like two weeks ago. As I realized, I think we've thrown Bryce Underwood out. And that's not fair. He's sucking up today. That's sucking up today. The concern I have, like it's his second offense he had to learn in two years. So it's basically another freshman season. But at least he has a teacher this time. Oh, for sure. I was in maybe fourth offense that he's had to learn. Because it did feel like for most of the season, it was week to week, what they were going to have him run. And then Poegee comes in. So that's three. And now he got four. Yeah. I it's we could see a slow start. So them having those games are that Oklahoma game early in the year could be a problem. I do believe if you look at the talent, there's obviously if he does hit and reach his potential, he's a very good player. I wonder if they're going to use him more as a rushing threat this year. Then they were last year. You look at Jason back, the offensive coordinator that's come in with Kyle Wittingham. That is definitely something that's been a part of what he's done with his offenses. So I expect we will see it. My other primary concern about Michigan, when you think of the Harbaugh teams that were winning the conference that were beating Ohio State, that were winning a national title. Cheating. Besides cheating. Oh, I thought that's what I was saying. I was saying that the NFL draft would come around. And there would be a ton of dudes from that Michigan defense that were getting picked early in the draft. I don't know if this current defense has those dudes. And it's hard to be a great team in a playoff caliber team without more dudes on defense. So I'll happily be proven wrong, but I just don't know based on what I've seen now that they have. And they have a tough schedule. Oklahoma, Iowa, Penn State, and they got to go in Indiana, all at home, and they got to go to Oregon. They got to go to Ohio State. Like that's there are no easy schedule. If you go three or three there, it's going to be very tough. I'm going to bring Penn State up again. Well, there's one easy school Texas A&M had an easy schedule. Okay. So there's one easy schedule in each league every year. Yeah. Is Illinois's new scoreboard too big? You know what the most fascinating part of that scoreboard for me is what it is going to do to the kicking game. Because wind has come in through that stadium and made it very difficult. It's very soldier fieldish where it's hard to kick field goals in that stadium if you're not familiar with the wind patterns. Now they've put this giant scoreboard up that's on top of the south end zone that is going to affect that. I want to know how that's going to impact the team if that's going to hurt them. Because you know, Illinois won a lot of games late with field goals. It can be a big deal. Yes, Brendan. Is this what the trophy gets you? We're just spending time talking about the Illinois kicking game. Oh, yes. I'm out of the damn Illinois kicking. Oh, some of the damn Illinois kicking game. I give us. All right, let me ask you a quick. I gave you a Chick-fil-A gift card and a hundred dollars. And that's how you're going to treat my trophy. I must love you. I should take it back. I should, but I'm too big. It's probably hadn't marked ties his name on it like an hour ago. It's stretched it off. I was just curious about the athlete marked ties. Scoreboards are getting too big. That was that was my overall point that there's you reach a limit with how big it can be as as an addition. So we should Buffalo Bills the whole time. And now if you want to talk about what they should do in the kicking game with scoreboard, if it's super high definition, they should put like fake uprights with the wind and the flags blowing directions that it's not blowing in and just fuck with the kicker's head because kickers are dumb. Now if you're going to ask me if I'd rather that money went to the roster. Yeah, I'm going to say yes. I would never ask you that. No, but yeah. There'll be much more relevant to this contest. Who's the big 10 team that could crash the party? Illinois. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. Yeah. No, I'm interested. Go off. I think that you look at what they did at the quarterback situation. Luke Altmeier is very, very difficult to replace. Luke Altmeier was very good for that team. You want a lot of games, a lot of fourth quarter drives. A Starkville Mississippi native who went to old miss instead of Mississippi state, Illinois. Real smart coaching staff. You had there. Oh, yeah, you're the smarts of the great Mike Leach. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you're doing. That man's coach died. I know what? Maybe he'd still be alive if he'd gotten Luke Altmeier. I don't know. Although his dad is about to. Yeah, Tom's back on top. Good point. Luke Altmeier killed my laser watcher. I listen, they're, I'm not going to get into that. We don't want to start any conspiracies. But I'm not not saying it. Illinois also doesn't have to play Wisconsin. Don't have to play Wisconsin. Did beat them just overwhelmed them. They're offensive line late last year in the cold cold weather. But Kate and Houser comes in East Carolina. I believe he's a very similar player to Luke Altmeier. I also believe he is more of a downfield threat with his arm that could open up a part of that line. I offense that we haven't seen yet. And it's been a very impactful and effective Illinois offense the last few years. Defensively are where the questions are. They are changing their scheme or at least they're not changing the scheme as much as they're changing their approach with the scheme. But they're going to probably be far more aggressive, which could lead to some problems. But if things click, this is a team that has won a lot of games in the big 10 in recent years who I feel like is just being completely ignored for that. And they're kind of just being pushed to the side because everybody's looking at them and saying, well, they've got a new quarterback, a new defense, whatever. They're going to go back to being Illinois. I don't think they're ever going back to being what Illinois used to be. That doesn't mean they're going to win 9 10 games every year. But I still believe that if you look at what they've done on that roster, the talent upgrade, the coaching upgrade that they've had and just the investment that they've put into it, it's not the Indiana investment that they've had and the immediate changes we've seen. It's been a slower progress. But I think it's a program that is building. So if things click, they've got a schedule that compared to other big 10 teams, not as difficult. There is a path for them to get the 10 and two. And if they get the 10 and two and you're a big 10 team, you're in the playoff conversation. Uh-huh. What about a little school known as Iowa? You think they could grasp the party? Yes. I'm not as confident. They've got a quarterback is your quarterback is my question. Yeah. I have one that can crash the top and one that can crash the middle. The one that can crash the top is Washington. Washington's got a lot of people coming out there, man. They got a lot of teams that have to go through Washington. That's not a fun trip for that wasn't a fun trip for pack 12 schools to go up there. Now Michigan, you got or at big 10, you got to go all the way out there with the quarterback. If they can show there's harmony because he didn't want to be there. Or at least he wanted to go discover the other day. He didn't want to be there. He wanted to go test out that LSU money and see how deep it was. But they talked him back in the building. They got him back. They held him hostage. And now he's there. If they're happy and good, he's as dynamic a quarterback as there is in the conference. And they're going to be tough to beat out there. Now I got one that can crash the middle coming up from the bottom. Um, Maryland. Oh, yeah. What about dynamic quarterbacks? Talk about Malik Washington. Like I think everybody assumes like the Rutgers, Maryland, they're going to be at the bottom. I think you can look up and Maryland's one six, seven, eight games. And they're like, Oh, wow. They're here. They're kind of here and they get effects on body. So those are my two in the big 10 that maybe nobody sees coming very much. I'm going to say what's called. That would have been fun. Well, I figured you were going to say it. No, I mean, I, I don't know. I, it's an easy schedule. Defense is going to be really good. We'll see. Colton Joseph. Can he, can he stay healthy? Because we've lost every quarterback for the last three years. Can you least three games out of your quarterback this year before he falls apart? Yeah. Uh, crash the middle. I like that. Yeah. I think Wisconsin could crash the middle. Yeah. I think Wisconsin's going to get to a bowl. Yeah. I do too. I don't know if I consider them seven. Yeah. I expect eight wins would be like, all right. Now we're going back in the right direction. Seven. You'd have to show me who we lost. But I don't consider how it's going to be at the bottom. I know the last couple of years. I know they've been, they've been dabbling, but they're just visitors. They're not, they're not like permanent residents. It was constant season. I know you don't want to put it on one game, but like it actually is like, because I always, I always said this like I'm realistic. Like we're, we're going to beat Ohio State once every 15 years. You can't lose like 44 nothing to Iowa. That's where you have to mark yourself against. And so that will be a big moment of like beating Illinois. Yeah. Beat Illinois. One other team. the middle UCLA. Maybe that's by the way that now that I'm thinking about it, the start of the downslide was actually the lost Illinois with Paul Chris and then maybe beating Illinois last year was the sort of it completes the circle. Yeah. We're back to everywhere. Yeah. So are you just beholden to guys that stop through Harrisonburg for the rest of your life? Exactly. No. So for the rest of your life, if they stop at JMU, you're going to say they're going to crash. Like, you know what you need to do. You go stopping at JMU. Just visit. I've been to Harrisonburg. They have a great jet play for us for real. Yeah. Brandon Walker's next up. Take your gift card. They were there. I've been there many. I did it. I did a walk line. I did a walk line from there in 2019. You walked the line there. I did a walk line for the changing restaurant. Yeah. Chick-fil-A right across from the stadium. And then you drive past on I anyone. You look over, you see this big, beautiful stadium like, oh my god. Who plays there? You keep driving. See the other half? Oh, okay. That's nothing. Oh, you don't like the half stadium. It's a half stadium. It's a half city. It's split by highway. No. I do think that there's something I should. I think it's a smart thing to want our coaches to have immediate success after they leave. How does it help you? Well, we got Bob Jesy. Yeah, but now he got. Sunbelt Billy. Okay. You just said he built this floor to roster to a point where they can beat in the sun. So yeah, no, I think it's a good thing to root for a guy as soon as he leaves. Sure. The reality of the situation is there's never going to be coach that goes to Jamie who says, okay, this is where I want to be for life. And if there is, that's probably a coach that you would not want to hire to be the Jamie. So I hate a guy when they leave. Yeah, well, that's because you said you hate Mike Leach. He didn't leave. Good point. He didn't leave. He ran a good point. He'll leave. Theoretically, Brandon, you should be above being a stepping stone. You're a, so I hate him. Yeah. So I'm not. I'm a stepping stone. So I want to be the best stepping stone. Okay. Fair enough. That's that's my theory. Fair enough. But I maybe it's just a Mikey volcano talk that we had. Yeah. His name got into your ear best. Special. No. What? They've got a guy. They got a version of big dog. They got a guy. And he's, he's so kept under wraps. I had no idea about the guy. When he was at JMU. Volcano. Volcano. Oh, oh, so he's a Python. Yeah, I call Mikey volcano. It's big dumb. And his job is ambiguous to say the best. He just, he's a guy that they have hanging out. That's actually Italians like really specializing being ambiguous about what we do. But just being guys. Yeah. So if we're doing a live show and I'm a Italian today, I'd have to look out for Mikey volcano. Well, no, he would probably be the one to set you up. Okay. No, yeah, I'm not saying he'd be a threat to you. No, no, no. And quite the opposite. I think he'd be like your best friend. He'd take good care of you. And it'd be a real shame if anything happened to you. You see, LA's got a chance to be good. Well, right back into it. I don't, I don't know if they're going to be a playoff contender. I do believe that there is a little too much just. Well, SIG did it, get the next James Madison coach, and they're just going to just completely vault. But like, I Nico Yamila is a good quarterback who's been in really bad situations. And last year, that was a horrible situation for him to be in like talking about Bryce Underwood and thinking like, you know, eventually a five star might figure it out. So if he's able to figure it out in an offense that could be suited to his strengths compared to what they were doing last year. And defensively, they've brought in some good guys from James Madison. See here West is a kid. I don't think a ton of people know of who's a pretty good player who I think has a chance to be one of the better defensive end pass rusher types in the big 10. Like there's room for UCLA to grow. I just don't think that's more than an eight win team, even if things go completely crash in the middle. Yeah, perfectly. Big 10 hyzmins. Obviously Jeremiah thought I'm more. Do you think that do you think a receiver will win? I mean, I know Devon they won a few years ago. Come around every now and then. I don't know, especially because Ohio State is going to be in so many big games. Okay. Jeremiah Smith goes down to Texas and has 12 catches and three touchdowns. He's the early leader. Like, if he just keeps showing up in these big games, I think Jeremiah Smith 100% can win the hyzm. Okay. Well, if we want to go narratives, we're discussing it. What if Bryce Underwood figures it out? Yeah. That's a good one. Like a value play, right? There's no narratives. We're talking to the hyzmins. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. ACC, including Notre Dame. Sure. Why? So they have two good teams. Yeah. Yeah. He's got two good teams. They did that whole like Notre Dame. Sure. But when they played the AC, they won. Win and defeated. I'm the two best teams in the ACC do play this year. Notre Dame is that no name? Yeah. I mean, I think Miami is just of the seven national title teams. I've got Miami in that group. I think they're they're that good. Although I do think Louisville has a chance to be a to be a playoff team with that schedule. They have by September 19th. You're going to know if they were to pick off Ole Miss and then beat SMU in week three, they're almost a lock at that point. I don't know if I would call them a lock, but yeah, I say almost a lock. I wouldn't, I don't know if I'd say almost a lock. You can say almost a lock. I said, you might be in just seven and five and like the end of November beating SMU might not mean shit. You're right. Protect your house with almost a lock. You're also not allowed to say the L word. I said almost a lot. You said the L word again. You can't say almost the L word. Almost doesn't start with the letter L. It's just a letter A. Yeah. You should know that. Okay. So Miami's just better than everyone. Sure. And Notre Dame. Notre Dame is really, really. Yes. Yeah. It's smoking good. Is there anyone in the ACC that we should pay attention to? I mean, UNC is one and all. You should pay attention to SMU. You should pay attention to Louisville. You should pay attention to Virginia Tech. What about Virginia? Virginia. Yeah. Virginia. Yes. There already want to know. And then Bro Pribula. Look, I'm sorry. It can't match Brown. If you're listening Bro, Pribula, Pribula, Pribuia. Pribuia. That's 55 different ways. That's a great way. But yes, we talked about it on your show. And like Pribuia. Pribuia. Pribuia. Pribuia was one of the more underrated kind of guys who was very good at Missouri last year before he got hurt and then it was very ineffective the rest of the season. That Virginia defensively, we saw what they were able to do. That's a very good team. But it's just there isn't a great team or even a very good team. I don't believe in the ACC after Miami. So there are a lot of teams who could cycle up and have a great season and finish in that nine, 10 win range. It's just trying to figure out which one it's going to be. The only thing I'm really confident in is it's like it's not going to be Boston college. It could be any number of others. The ceiling for those teams is SMU a couple years ago. You get to the playoff. You take your loss like a man to get out there like that. That's the ceiling for Louisville and SMU and Virginia and all those teams. But that ceiling does exist. Mm-hmm. Virginia Tech is the one truly interesting team to me though. Would that be crazy if James Franklin finally broke through? It would be. Well, for him, it's like you're that you don't. I just can't get there where Gronkhmer. Now I like Gronkh. I don't. Well, we disagree. James Franklin, the big one. One of us is the number one college football expert. The big one has become just beating UVA. Yeah. That is the new Ohio State. And that's like and he can manage that. Look at their schedule. How many top five teams you see on it right now? They have a Ohio State. No, I think they play Miami and that's it. So like James Franklin's problem has always been beating top five teams. I don't think there are any on the schedule anymore. Yeah. No, and I think there's also something to getting a hungry James Franklin, a Franklin. Yes. That's got, you know, two years, two years ago, they were a bad pick by their quarterback from playing Frank National Championship. It was 24/24 with a minute left. They had the ball. And then they, the quarterback blows it for him. And then five, listen, five games later, James Franklin is out. That's got to put a fire in his belly because maybe hasn't been there. Well, the fire's probably always been there. But now he's got a chance to re-invigorate a program in his own, you know, in his own manner after being pissed off. And he said, is it James Franklin's fault or is it your fault? Because like last year, you're sitting on this couch talking about how Penn State is, I like them. Yeah. You're picking them as like a national title contender. I tried to warn you. I tried to say, but Brandon, they lost their best player on offense and they lost their best player on defense. You just, you didn't care. You just rambled right through and you put all these high expectations on James Franklin. Bam, now he's the coach of Virginia Tech. So you killed Mike Lee. Who is the best player on offense? They lost Tyler Warren. He's a tight end. Maybe you've heard of him. He plays for coming into, coming into the last year, coming in the last year. Let's just be honest. I mean, those running backs were very appealing. Singleton and the other guy. Maybe. No, I mean, I could have done it. Sing up to Nick H. John Allen, but I don't think they were superstars. We thought going in. They were superstars. You thought going in those superstars. That's a pretty common. It's a pretty common thing. You also thought Clemson was going to be good too, right? You picked him. I did. Yeah. Well, what round did I pick? I mean, first of all, because you talked him up so much. Yeah. No, everybody, everybody, everybody took a lot of losses last year with teams like Clemson, what teams like LSU, what teams like Penn State last year last year was brutal. I didn't see the collapse coming from Penn State. I thought Franklin was a solid program guy that wasn't going to bottom out like that. He bottomed out. $2.652.45. That's true. You mentioned Clemson. Haven't talked about Clemson yet. No. No, should we. I'm fine. I'm talking about them. Are they that overlookable? They're not. They're not overlookable. Just the sale. He's not there anymore. But yeah, like too much. One of the things we need to learn how to do is to re-evaluate what history means in this sport. Like it used to be you could just look and say this school's done this. This school is going to keep doing this because that's who they are. But the NIL and the Trans Report will have changed a whole hell of a lot about what history actually means going forward. And Clemson in the NIL portal era has been a mediocre ACC team. I think they've they're like 17 and 12 or 14 in ACC play the last three years. They are an average football team. They're not a bad football team. But the era of them competing for national titles, unless dabbo changes and starts really embracing the things that have happened in this sport, I think it's done. And they might go eight and four this year. Hell, they might go nine and three because again, the ACC once you get past Miami's a whole hell of a lot of shrugging and I don't really know what's going to happen. So I can't rule out that they're going to have a good season. But Clemson is not the team that won one national titles anymore. They're just not. - Nope, yeah. - It's really cool. Ever since Swinney did that tiktok. Yeah, that was what that was like the mark the degree degree doc. Yeah, the mouse went up the clout Coach Swinney got that drip and now he's on tiktok. I didn't watch that one in a while ever since that. Yeah, you that's that's really the point where it all went downhill for Clems Question I am high just like everyone else on Notre Dame. Is there any reason not to be I don't think so they're fucking loaded I think Marcus Freeman's a stud of a coach. I love CJ car I think they're going to unfortunately kick the shit out of Wisconsin in a few days What's what's not to like because now they also like you could have made the argument. Oh, well, they're schedules easy But if they lose two games again and want them to be why you but now they have the new rule Yeah, but I don't know if they would finish in the top 12 But yeah, the BYU game will be the biggest game because that would be the potential if that was a second loss That could be the potential hey BYU's right in the same neighborhood as you the if I'm a Notre Dame fan the only thing I am concerned about is that college football is funny and it would be very funny if Notre Dame lost a couple games Wasn't supposed to when they missed out, but you look at the roster That they're one of the best teams in the country if they don't make the playoff this year It is genuinely one of the biggest surprises of the season. I don't know It's there's just there's not the schedule is They should be winning most of those games by 20 some odd points and that BYU game like no offense to BYU We'll get to the big 12 here in a little bit. I'm sure but oh no, we're not doing that. Okay. Well Just fly over country. We don't need to talk about that Lee but like when BYU got to play Texas tech They didn't really look nearly as good as they did in all their other games and Notre Dame's quite a bit better than Texas tech Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah. No, and plus the what's the one concern? They're replacing their running backs It's the most replaceable position on the field and I know they were great, but they're very good They're they're I think the weapons they have out wide and then the quarterback and then the defense You know, they got the best player in the country on defense like it is there's not gonna be much point to watching Notre Dame games During the regular season like Notre Dame is it gonna have like a two game regular season and then you're just gonna turn them off until the playoff Yeah, they had two game regular season last year Yeah, they were those two games and then how many of them did you watch from that point? Yeah, so USC game That's probably about it. All right, so they also have a shit load of a former NFL player's sons Mm-hmm on that roster. We've got Jerome Betis bloodlines. Yeah, Larry Fitzgerald's son Yes, yes, Brandon or Lackersson. I think he said bloodline. I had the right What Lackersson transfer Kennedy is at USC. Wait wait, Bren you raise your hand for what he keeps raising his fucking hand He's wearing class guys guys. It's a bloodline. You say bloodline. He got to do this. Why because it's the fucking bloodline. It's Roman Reigns shit I'll kick you right Okay, I thought that was a Mississippi thing where we've talked about bloodline. It's always got to be singular. Yeah, just one That wasn't even funny. It was pretty good. It was pretty fun. It's funny. Um, make that you guys are in bread Yeah, they say it's very funny. Elijah Burris, Plexico versus son They've got just like a lot of former players on that roster. They're their children. So I don't know they there have been those moments though with Notre Dame It's like they they blow it in games that they very easily Should use this hand with this ring you bring up a good point something just dawn on me if they've got the sons of a bunch of NFL players How hungry are they? A lot of kids raised by privilege They wanted enough that could be the one that if if Notre Dame misses the playoff It's because those players weren't hard enough on their sons. Yeah, that's true I've ever heard all right, so we welcome to card and dairy men's uh, those are my husband. I actually like dairy men's uh, yeah Is 11 to 1 I think right now and CJ CJ car to me is if we We do yeah, but if we do get in a situation where we're very dismissive of the schedule and they're blowing teams out Is he gonna have the moment? I think the quarterback because I mean listen Love almost got you know, I mean he was what he finished third third. Yeah, yeah, like and that was a too lost team And he didn't really do those first two games. So I think Notre Dame always when you talk about narratives fair enough They want to vote for a game player fair enough. Yeah, there's been some breaking news Just while we've been doing this pot or maybe just right before we start taping it want to hear your guys reaction this the ongoing battle between LSU and the rest of the SEC when it comes to whether or not they should be allowed to bring back players that went to the NFL for training camp and then came back to campus This is Ross Dellinger that's reporting this right now SEC school executives are exploring extreme measures to address LSU's plans including boycott and competition sanctioning the school with probation or expulsion and firing or filing a federal legal challenge the conversations within the conference are considered Not league driven, but membership led the 15 SEC university leaders Are gathering over potential options to address the situation once source said the conversations are serious Well, these goals are tired of this bullshit. I wonder which which which membership school Do you think was the first to bring this up? Yeah, I don't know I Listen, it's such a weird thing because As a purist I don't want guys who have gone off to the NFL and have been training camp Coming back to play on college football rosters at the same time I do feel that they kind of got screwed by the new ruling where the five for five you get five years of eligibility That doesn't get passed until after these guys had to make their decisions So I understand where they're coming from I also don't think it is an existential threat to the sport if they do come back Because next year's class it's not that they they don't get the same benefit of the doubt They knew the rules ahead of time. So they're done. So it would be a one-time thing. So I am appreciative of the fact that at least like with the big 10 Doing it and then the SEC and the ACC and big 12 following up that the conferences are trying to take the power back and rule themselves Instead of begging everybody else to figure it out for them and begging Congress to come up with some kind of thing to fix things So if this is what they're trying to do to get LSU to like play along cool if it works cool I think it probably will, but I don't know shout out the big 10 for being a leader in this all will well Yeah, but the SEC did put out that statement about how they weren't Tom they condemned they did the president's in the yeah the president passed the first rule the SEC then fall Then passed the rule, but it's the SEC where the team was actually doing it the big 10 isn't being challenged right now No, if the big 10 is being challenged in the quarter of law like the SEC the SEC scared to death in the courts law right now So this is another quote I swear to God this real quote an SEC school official to Yahoo sports just said there are plenty of other schools who will take their place Yeah, that's just that that's just Keith Carter at Ole Miss threatening to kick LSU out of the SEC I I would be very Very surprised to fell as you get to kick out of the SEC over any of this, but you know, you got it You got to you got to bark a little bit, but uh people think that the cage and navy doesn't have ammunition They do and uh this would be this this would be a civil war. I think if you kicked out LSU out of the SEC First of all the southeastern ever seceded from anything, so I don't know why you put that on them, but It's I don't think it would be to the SEC's benefit to get rid of LSU I it there's no chance in hell that in a sport that is that dominated by television revenue with the SEC's And be like let's get rid of LSU I was just trying to scare him out of the fight nor would it be beneficial to LSU to fight this hard for these guys No, it's not like that's the thing if these were guys coming back that were like fucking huge game changer like types Or you're like if we bring like start if Jaden Daniels is like I'm coming back as long as you promised your tire by number five when it's done Okay, let's break some rules because that's going to really change if but this is like Our second linebacker, you know, it's it's not that big of a deal. Yeah. All right big 12 Texas Tech is clearly the the top. Sure. Mm-hmm. Who could crash the party. I'll give you three teams BYU. Yeah Houston. Yeah, Kansas State. Oh, West Virginia was gonna be my other one, but I like Kansas State Oklahoma State. Oh, okay, let's go I can't rule it out So Oklahoma State finally got serious about the money finally got serious about roster building finally got serious about this New era of college football can they do it in one-off season? Well the quarterback's gonna throw it all over the yard the running back is gonna run for a ton of yards I love I love messed up maker. It's a conference where you can make some pretty quick moves and pretty Pretty quick a cent up the the ladder how far will will be left to be determined But I think Oklahoma State is back to play big time ball in the big 12. I concern there is defensively I don't know they're gonna be very good. Sure I like Kansas State they did suffer an injury on the offensive line a couple weeks ago that kind of caused me to slow down a little bit But we discussed earlier Colin Klein has left Texas A&M. He's come to Kansas State He's come home. We know what he was able to do for Marcel Reed last year If he's able to do that same thing for Avery Johnson who's been a talented quarterback who is a five-star himself That's a huge move and also we talked about what was one of the things Texas A&M took advantage of last year? Schedule Look at Kansas State schedule. You know you don't see on there. You don't see Texas Tech. You don't see BYU You don't even see Utah. Yeah, they have a very friendly schedule That's something that they could take advantage of that can get them to you know Dallas for the big 12th championship They could be the team that's playing Texas Tech there simply by default and another team I would mention They get dismissed too easily. He's been too good there. He's won too many games Colorado Oh Arizona State okay. Yeah I think Kenny Dillingham is a very good coach Mississippi State loss aside He's been he's done a very good job with that program. I wouldn't be shocked if they have enough up upscale season I like Houston too. I yeah, I like Houston. I wouldn't you when you talk about a conference that says You know volatile as it as it is throughout the big 12 when you have a good solid coach and a good program builder though and they're having to rely on the transfer portal a lot again this year But he was he nailed it last year. I think I like Houston a lot also Houston kind of gets to play it out and in terms of the fact that they do get to play Texas Tech. Obviously, they have to go to Texas Tech, but they get to play Oklahoma State, they get to play West Virginia. So they'll get to play it out in terms of the teams that are right in that cluster. - I love Billy Fritz. - It's not Conner Wigman, yeah. - But I'm just not a Conner Wigman guy. - I like him. He was fine last year. - Well, he Fritz is a really good coach. - Well, he Fritz is a great coach. - Yeah. - I was just forgetting that UCF is in the Big 12.2. - They're a little sneaky. - I think UCF forgets that sometimes. - They were a little sneaky, they were better than people, thank last year, I think, and I like them. They got a win or a quarter back. - They do have a win or a quarter back. That's the fact. - They were in the middle. - They're very good at home on the road. They were an absolute mess. - But Grinches DeFence was like a astronaut uniform. - Grinches DeFence wasn't nearly as bad as Grinches DeFence usually are. - Which is funny. - Hard to clear. - Yeah, but I just think there, it's a conference where it's so volatile past Texas Tech. Anything can happen. - Yeah, it's like the ACC. You really don't know. - Any Heisman's in the Big 12? - No. - Topper. - Mastermaker. - I mean, Mastermaker throws for 5,000 yards and they went nine or 10 games. I think he's in the conversation. - I don't think there are enough big games though to get that kind of attention nationally. - Maybe not, but they play Oregon early. What if they give Oregon a run? - I'm saying, if you look at the history, if you look at the history of the Big 12, like all the Heisman winners were typically from Texas Oklahoma and Nebraska. They're not there anymore. - That's the fact. I'm looking at Oklahoma State's schedule right now. They have that in Oregon game. - I'm just, this is, it was very sanders the last high season. - Did you have? - That wasn't one of the main schools. - I'll say this, Brandon. I mean, no, RG3. - There you go, good call. - November, November 14th, they host Texas Tech. That could be Heisman game. - Especially about, they're gonna be throwing it all over the yard. If they were able to get Texas Tech in those shoes out with Texas Tech's quarterback issues, either an injured Will Ammon or Castiano's like, Texas Tech is going to be on Texas Tech. - They are bringing him in to be the backup. - Which is actually a big deal because Texas Tech is loaded and the question was, now the law soars, but you don't have a backup. - Yeah, and Castiano's like, for all the problems for the state had last year. I thought Castiano's was as advertised. He was exactly who he was supposed to be. It was the rest of the team. It didn't really carry their weight. So it's an interesting pickup in that they have something now that I think Oregon's the only other team in the country can say they have. The actual depth that quarterback is, if Will Hammond isn't able to play, they've got a guy they can rely on. Now is Thomas Castiano's the kind of guy I'm trying to win playoff games with? - Is he patching with homes like Oregon has? How's that gonna work, by the way? - The dodgy guy who's gonna play and Dillon Rale is gonna-- - No, I'm saying like, he's not wearing a red jersey anymore. - Practice. - Yeah, you have these good points. - When Texas Tech had their quarterback issues in the spring, you had to think Dillon Rale was just thinking-- - It was just perfect for him. - It was right there. - Yeah. - I thought might take that Dillon Rale, and it probably not really that controversial, but the fact that he's been to, what was it, six schools in the last six years? - Yeah, it's not good. - Just the A.J. store of college football. - At some point, he should have boys at a school. And he's like, I'm sick of moving. I wanna hang out with my friends. Like, this locker room means a lot to me. I would just rather not leave them, right? If you're a leader, if you're a good quarterback, that is able to develop deep relationships, or at least very good working relationships with your other players. I feel like at some point, you want that guy to stick around just for the personal feelings that he has for the place. - Well, that's the quarterback with the biggest NIL. He can just take his boys with him, couldn't he? Just take a couple of the boys, just transfer with me. - That's human bias, you can't do that. - I don't think it's human trafficking. - It's boy traffic, yeah, it's totally different. - Yeah, but if it's 20-year-old dude-- - Can't take boys with him. - You're just talking about the boy traffic. - 20-year-old college dudes? How you gonna do it? - Yeah, that's nice. - What? - All right, you guys ready to pick? We'll get to the G5, because we'll hear - Sure. - Oh, also, I asked Tom and Brandon to give me their best picks to see who could win the World Cup before the World Cup started. - This isn't. - I would just like to, I did. Brandon, you texted me. - Okay, all right. - So you guys both took Spain, Germany, and Argentina. Spain and Argentina, obviously they were pretty good there. Germany got bounced pretty early on. Now, outside those picks, Tom, you had France, great World Cup from France. - I don't pick France for anything. - You had England, great World Cup from England. You had two awesome picks there. - Yeah, but. - And then Brazil, disappointing, but two really good picks. Brandon, outside those common ones that you guys shared, you had the Netherlands. - Sure. - And they, I believe, got bounced at the first round. And then you had the United States of America. - Yeah, America, you ever heard of it, Tom? - So Netherlands and USA. - And in his soccer competition, I sure shouldn't be picking it. - Well, I am. - Oh, you all said Portugal, and they lost, yeah. - Okay. - They were not good too. So Tom, I know. - Ronaldo did score a goal though. - He did, he did. - He was back. - I think Tom Fernelli is, we can say, our football, the part where I take football, like, - You'll get my $1,000, $1,000. - Goddamn it. - There we go. - Congrats, Tom. - Thank you. - Come back to my mouth. (laughing) - Come back to my mouth. - Let's put together the list. I wanna see. - Yeah, let's go. - All right. - Who's drafting first? - All right, well, obviously. - What, how did we figure that out? - I feel like I should go first. - Well, you can, no, you can choose. 'Cause members snake. - Yeah. - So you can choose. - I'm gonna, I'll go first. - Okay. And by the way, we have Zach running the Excel spreadsheet right now. - Mm-hmm. - He's not gonna spell these, these. - I would, hey, get off your fucking phone. - Yeah. - Sorry. - I thought it was Jerry for a second. - I'm, I'll go with Notre Dame. - Good pick. - How are we gonna spell this one? - Okay. - Okay. - And we got it. - I nailed it. - You're not a capitalize guy. - I'll take. - I got you. - Thank you. - Yeah. - The Oregon Ducks. - Okay. - And. - The Georgia Bulldogs. - He's capitalized. - So you're gonna give me Ohio State. - No, I'm taking, I'm taking Oregon in Georgia. - I'll take Ohio State. - Okay. - I've already won. - I don't know that you have over it. - It's over. - Bless you. - I'm calling it now. It's over. - I have won. - I can't wait to see what you in next year, Tom. - Ah, let me see, after a Ohio State, let me take. - We should give him an, oh, he has a list. I have a master list. I don't need no list. - Give me my amy. - That's a good pick, Tom. - One, two, three, four, five. What teams are you thinking with the national title? - Yes, I do, I just gotta figure out who they are. - It's surprising. - Give me Texas and Indiana. - Okay, oh wow, so you took Indiana 7, that's disrespect. - See, that's. - Now it gets a little funky. - Now it's where we start getting a little complicated, but I'm gonna take LSU. - Okay. - And then let's see here. - They might get a really easy schedule this year if they get kicked out of the SEC. - They might. - This is like, now we gotta go to like the fourth team in the big 10. - Well, what about the big 12, big 12? - The fuck, I'm sorry. - The Ohio brand is gonna take Texas Tech. - I shit. - Brandon, they were on my list. I'm just trying to figure out. - I understand that, but he wasn't, you weren't near them. - I'll take Texas Tech. - Oh, good pick. - Good pick. - Good pick. - Respect. - You know what, this is why you don't fucking win trophies. - No, but you don't have any respect. - You were back in National Title, and you were trying to get to a team to want a national title, but we're gonna, but playoff helps too. - You matter, I can't remember what our rules were. - That's bullshit. - Zach, you're in charge. - No, by, I get extra points. - Yeah, put an asterisk next to Texas Tech. We'll revisit. - Why? - What do we got to revisit? - That's bullshit. - We go parentheses. - It doesn't mean anything. - Go parentheses and just be like, Brandon says that it's bullshit. - Yeah, Tom. - So you gotta understand something about Brandon. You just have to, you have to just, - Oh, he's like a kid. - Do you remember when I have some things, so that he'll stop complaining, and then we'll come back. - Got it, got it. - Yeah, that's bullshit, what just happened. - Put the asterisk on the bottom. Brandon's a baby, we wanted him to stop crying. - That's not how he's about Brandon, he got it. - Zach is very proficient in excel. - Yeah, this is so mad, master class. - Okay, hold on, hold on. - I took a course. - Yeah. - All right, hold on now. - Give me Oklahoma. - Oh, good. - Yeah, that's a good pick, Brandon. - Washington. - No, um, Alabama for Mama. - USC. - Ooh. - That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's fine. - That is a good, yeah. I'm trying to figure out if I wanna go down to my value picks here, if I wanna just keep going down my board. - Well, you have, you've picked so far, three, five, so you still have seven, so you're gonna get value picks later. - Yeah, I, I, I've been toying with the idea because I know he doesn't wanna pick Alabama. - Yeah. - So I've been toying with the idea of seeing how long I could let him go. I feel like this is probably as far as I should risk it. So I will take Alabama. - Okay. - And then, hmm, Michigan, Michigan, that's what you sound like. - You know, this map, you just can't suck up the date. - Um, what, I don't wanna say it. - And I won't say it. - You can put like a, a pick that you had last year. - Yeah, there's good pick if we're, if we're playing the, get into the playoff game. - It's your second favorite team. - You always say Mississippi versus everybody. - I'd rather die. - You do say that. - Mississippi versus everybody. - All right, everybody just hold on first. - There is a pick that, who could have seen your pick coming up? - It might not be crazy. - Who could have seen that it was gonna come back to you? - First, Texas Tech threw about, threw the whole rhythm on it. Oh boy. So Tom, this is the thing. I could go with a team here. Or I could go with another team. - That's true, you could go with different teams. - Yep. - Boy, really, it really. - Did you need me to, like, name teams for you? - No, no. - You forgot the whole of them, you don't. - No, I got it. I got a little miss him. I got Louisville in my head. I got BYU in my head. Give Washington to feel like I'm worth it. Feel like we're both missing one. Do you feel like we're missing one Penn State your Penn State? Tennessee. I don't think I'm missing anybody. You've Penn State. Yeah, you had to get reminded of Texas Tech Tom the schedule that Penn State I was reminded yes you were you have literally I was looking at your head. There were nothing for getting BYU. I just said BYU in my face. So you're forgetting him. I know who you're forgetting. Give me Ole Miss. Oh, no. Wow. Wow. Mississippi versus everybody. Ole Miss comes off the board for Mississippi State. All right, who is he forgetting? I don't know. I was just trying to fuck with him. God damn, I don't know. This is where it gets tough. All right. I think I'm gonna break the G6 seal here. Give me Boise State plus a okay. Blue turf. Did you see the blue turf Tom? I did what's right here. No, I know we're on it. It's covered in confetti thoughts and prayers. Do you ever asked to clean all this shit? That might be that might be the future though. Boise State covered him for confetti for Tom Farnelli. Seven, seven birds die every day here. Fuck it. Give me Texas A&M. I'm not super. I mean, you know, I want to avoid. I am not a huge Texas A&M like believer, but this is what cost us Indiana last year. You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right like counting your teams. - Well, I didn't know he was starting at three. Who starts at three? - Well, you're not proficient in Excel. - Why do you start at three? - These are my last two. - No, you have one more after that. - Oh, okay. - Well, shit. - 'Cause you went first. - Fuck. - Huh? - So you have three more? Brandon has two more. - I'm gonna go. - Oh, Brandon, what did you do? - Yeah, he got us. - I know. - I started by numbers. - I did. No, he started at three. - I will take advantage of the schedule and take Penn State. - Yeah, good pick. - And then-- - That would be something if Brandon's Penn State. - I said Penn State was breaking through about seven years in a row. - Yeah. - Oh, they're not, give me S-M-U. - I mean, there's a chance that a lot of stuff for Penn State is, yeah, it's coming back. - Jack spelled S-M-U perfectly right. So that's good. - Yup. - Got you, Tom. - All right, Brandon, last two picks. - Let's, you're my favorite. - Tennessee, Washington. Houston. Just take Louisville again. - I could take Louisville again. - It could take Louisville again. If you take Louisville again and they make it, I will give you two points. - Oh. (all laughing) - Not Washington. And the Florida Gators. - Damn it. - All right, fuck. - I was going to take Florida. - That was a great pick. - Great pick. - Wow. - Okay, so. - So from the G6, we have Boise and Memphis. - Right now, yeah. - Is there any other-- - Couple of good teams sitting out there. - Who else in the G6, you think could get in? - Can I ask you a minute question? Do you think you don't know if he's out of it or do you think they can find it? - I do. I don't think they could afford to lose that game. - I think they're out of it. - I think Memphis is a sneaky, awesome pick because of that. - He won the problem. - Oh, I mean, he, the offensive line was bad, but he also, he can't, he gets sacked every single time. - He's always been that. - Give me-- - Have you ever heard the sacks or half a quarterbacks that? - Never. - Yeah. - Give me Tennessee. - Tennessee. - All right, what other G6s were, would you-- - Navy? - Navy is what I really wanted. - I was about to say Navy. - Oh, that's, oh, God, Tennessee. The spelling-- - Hey, can I get Navy? Can I, can I support the troops? I'll take one on the side, I'll take Navy. - And I'll take New Mexico. Even though they don't have a quarterback. - Yeah, that's-- - I love Jesus for that. - I don't know where the Tennessee. - No, that's fine, he was close enough. - That's good, yeah. - Well, listen, Tennessee could use an A. - Yeah, okay, great job, boys. - Thanks. - Make rowback question, R-H-O-B-A-C-K dot com, promo code take, rowback dot com, promo code take, Zack, rowback question. - That was first question for Brandon. Brandon, how do you think today went and does, what do you say the people that say, Tom has you in a forever blender? - Well, he doesn't have me in a forever blender, that is absolutely wrong. First of all, he was a second guest on the brand of walk calls for a ball show. I appreciate that. I beat him and walked into this room last year as the reigning expert and y'all acted like it didn't count because it was a new season. So that's not a forever blender. You guys are doing the blending. I was the expert one year, you're there. We're tied at one, Tom, this is the tie breaker. - If we combine scores, though, it's not really that close. - I beat the shit out of you a couple of years ago. - You know what, you want to live in the past? You continue to live in the past. - If you want to do scores, I have destroyed you. - I have the whole point. - Sure, when you're talking to Brandon, you show your ring. - Did you see in this room? - By the way. You see that glitter? That's real. - Yeah, that is not fake. - And we have cake, by the way, at the end. - Shine's real nice. - By the way, you know what? As nice as I am, I'm going to share that cake with everybody here. - Oh, I love that. - That's beautiful. - Go buy yourself. - No, I'm not. - At least get out of it. - You're in a forever blender. I'm not a forever blender. I was the winner last year. - People are saying you're in a forever blender. - One of the worst places I'd say. The fact that you're even talking about the forever blender means you're probably in the forever blender. - Zach asked about it. - Right. It's a topic of conversation. - Sure. - You look on you kitchen aid. - Was that the only question he had? - Magic bullet. - It was the robot question, right? R-H-O-B-E. - Do you have the other one? - The same brand in the ninja. - I do a follow-up question for Tom. Tom is someone who's currently ring on body, trophy to the side. There's anyone in close proximity that isn't currently a winner. How would you advise him to become a winner? - Do you all want to take his pants out? Do you suck his neck? Do you want to take his pants out? So you can just suck his dick right here on the desk. - Yeah. - You can go there, man. - Jesus Christ. - Why do we have to get sexual forever blender? - Hour just sitting here watching y'all doing a reach around for Tom. - You know Zach, it's a great question. - No it's not. - It's a great question. - We're giving a reach around and that means that we're, we're, we're fucking him. That's how we're doing. - I think the thing that you need more than anything to be great is you have to believe in yourself first and foremost because if you don't believe in you, who will and I think that is the key. And then after that, it's just, you know, you gotta, you gotta take it one day at a time. You just gotta wake up every day, trying to be one percent better. And if you can do that, eventually you're gonna be a hundred percent better. - I love that, I love that. You gotta love yourself first. - Also stay humble. - Stay humble, stay hungry. - Brent, how many? - Well, you stay hungry all the time. - Do you love yourself? - I'm starving. - Brent, is that gift card? - I think Brent, I don't think loving himself is a problem with Brent. - No, I'm very in love with myself. - He loves himself several times. - There's a different kind of, there's a difference between loving yourself and being confident, I think. - Sticking your chest out there. - Yeah, I think. - Brandon's co-host used to do that. - Yeah, fired her. - I didn't, oh, no, Brandon. - No, she's on Fox News right now, she's good. - All right, boys, this has always been the best. We love having you guys on together and college football's back. - May I ask a question? - Yeah. - May I get a promise? - Yeah. - If I win this year, I get the same level of pop and circumstances next year. - I cannot promise that because like Kyle Shanahan said, we could all die tomorrow. - Right, if everybody's still around-- - No, but Brandon, if you're on the road, never mind. - Yeah, Brandon, I will give you the exact same level. - Of pop and circumstance. - Top and circumstance, both. - All right, I appreciate that. - Fair enough. - Okay. - I have not agreed. - I got half of it, I'm good. - Yeah, so we're gonna give it half of it. - Yeah. - I get 50% of the pop and circumstance that Tom got today. I'm guaranteed of that. - So like half a cake. - $500 dollars. - But you're not saying you won't do it, you're just saying you're not-- - You're not-- - Three Chick-fil-A gift cards. - You're not guaranteeing it. - Well, I'm not saying, I'm not guaranteeing anything. I could take away half of the pop and circumstance. - Why would you-- - Then you'd be at zero. - How would you-- - You can't take away half of-- - You can't take away half. - But I take away half. - If I brought in, let's say I bring in $500 cash and $150 dollars with the Chick-fil-A gift cards and two confetti pop and a cupcake. - And a cupcake. - And then I leave it out in big cat. Takes it all. - Takes it all. - Then that's just kind of what we're working with. - And we just don't have pop and stuff. - When you say-- - We might have some pop, but the circumstances out the window. - When you send someone to the store to get these supplies, how many confetti poppers did you tell them to get? - Actually, Dom, I did not say any confetti poppers. He did that on his own. - Which was a beautiful day. - That's just Italian, do you know? - Yes, he was a beautiful guy. - To ask for the cake, ask for the trophy, ask for the card, ask for the ring, the ribbon, the big scissors, all that stuff. But the confetti, he was-- He did not able. - That's not acceptable. - Confetti's got to be Italian, right? With a name like that. - Yeah, it's guy. - Hanson and I. - Absolutely. All right, boys, thank you. (marching band music) - Tom and Brandon were brought to you by Netflix where Netflix is expanding its NFL coverage in 2026 from week one to their first ever Thanksgiving Eve matchup and two Christmas day games in a playoff game in January. Week one of the upcoming NFL season will feature the leagues first ever regular season game in Australia on September 10th between divisional rivals, the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers that will air on Netflix live from the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Heading into holiday season, Netflix will add the NFL's first ever Thanksgiving Eve game on November 25th to its plate. Features the Green Bay Packers, visiting the Los Angeles Rams at Sofie Stadium. 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A member of seal team six or UFC fighter, not just a Navy seal, a member of seal team six. And what kind of a fight is it? Street fight. Street fight. I think it's the UFC fighter. Yeah, I think that if there was any sort of weapon involved at all, the Navy seal or special ops guy would do it. Is this at night? If it's at night, then I would go back to the special forces guy. Yeah, and I think the special forces guy would have better stamina long term deal with pain long term, but in terms of like technical abilities, it gets you on the ground. Yeah, there's nothing you can do for like a guy who is an incredible wrestler and grappler. I don't care how tough you are. You're just technically kind of fucked. I think that like a UFC fighter probably spends 100% of his time training in hand-to-hand close quarters. Right. But a Navy seal probably spends, I don't know, I would say 30% of his time doing that. But the second you introduce any sort of weapon that I think the UFC fighter's dead. It's like when people think that they can get into boxing and you're like, you don't understand how fast a boxer's hands are and the fact that they could basically punch you five times before you even get to them. Like that type of, it's just a different level. So Navy seals absolute bad asses. Thank you for your service, Navy seals. I think even Navy seals would probably admit that going against like a really, really good UFC fighter. Now, if you did like a guy who's, oh, I'm doing Jiu-Jitsu and I'm training in UFC fighter, not an actual sanctioned UFC fighter, yeah, the Navy seal would fuck them up, but like a guy who's actually an accomplished UFC fighter, pit on paper views, that's different. In this scenario, I was envisioning like current rating champ, patty the baddie rating champion in the UFC. Also, the thing I didn't think about the second that this fight starts to happen, you're going to have like 12 other Navy seals that crash the fight and just murder you. And put your body somewhere they'll never be found. Much like what we would do at Barstle Sports, if an Uber East driver came in and started shit back y'all back y'all. I never say a word about it. Hidden forever. Dearest New York Times best-selling writers. I just started dating someone new, also fellow W-A-W-L. I'm not completely sold on them quite yet. He's super nice, funny, lots in common, a real take home to your mom kind of guy. However, I'm pretty sure I could take him in a fight. I'm just kind of giving me the end of Smith, boys. Oh, Cali and us Steve and I was all-time, all-time. I'm also convinced the sex man to be a little bit vanilla because of this. How do I gently let him know that I'm looking for someone to pick me up and manhandle me in the loving, respectful way, of course? I'd have to know size break down here because I think sometimes like women don't understand the difference in strength. Like obviously they should never fight, but her saying, oh, I could take him in a fight. I don't know if that's true. You know what I mean? Like if they're the same size, I think the main. I think it's because he's nice. Yeah, you just seem like he's a pussy. So you need him to be a badass. She wants him to be a badass. God. How does she tell him she wants him to be a badass? Well, it sounds like she wants him to be a badass when they're fucking, if they fuck. Yeah. I think you just say like here's what I like. Yeah, but also badass in general. Maybe like stage like a mugging and see his reaction. Mm-hmm. And you know, like if he shrieks, be like, all right, we're broken up. That could be disappointing. Yeah. Yeah, you could stage something or I don't know. I feel like communication is the right move. Just tell him, hey, this is I want you to want you to throw me around a little bit or should be a badass. Be a badass. Well, actually, you know what? Here's what we can do. So it's not targeted at this one guy. Just send him some crazy porn. Yeah. Or buy him a gun. Yeah, but so what I'm saying is if we just blanket statement to all AWLs, maybe just be like 15% more badass. What were all you guys? What was the first two lines of this? Because this is now people listening right now. There's definitely going to be a few guys that are going to be like, oh shit. Just started dating someone new. I'm not completely sold on him. But and then what was the other part that he's an AWL? Yeah. And she is as well. Mm-hmm. Uh-oh. So yeah, there's going to be some hard. So maybe you guys are going to have some hard conversations in the mirror on Wednesday morning. Yeah, just when they hear this part. Just like crazy. Maybe you know, button take that take a couple buttons down on your next date. Also right back in if he does say like, hey, I was listening and I think it's, it's me. That'd be funny. If a couple, a couple guys out of themselves is like, shit, I got to be more badass. Get a living jacket. Start smoking. Mm-hmm. Get a motorcycle. All right. Well, I know on this one, uh, APMT guys have recently seen some videos online explaining why men should sit down to pee when they're at home. It's cleaner, no splash back, better for your pelvic floor and empty is the bladder fully. That's a lie. Uh, I have been unsuccessful in convincing my husband. He should pick up on this habit. Can you please persuade him thanks? Wait, wait, what did you say? Like when I take a shit, yeah, and I pee, I feel like when I stand up, I still have to pee more. Yeah. So it's on six. You can't I disagree or bladder. I just sitting down to yeah, I disagree with that. Here's, uh, I've never really thought about that. Yeah. You never take a shit and then stay up turn around and well, no, I forget to pee sometimes. Yeah, so when you when you pee when you poop, it's not a full pee. I agree with that. Yeah, you're there, that's a business trip. And then you're not necessarily thinking about number one. Jack's googling. This is a problem. Um, I would say counterpoint, lady, go outside, turn on your hose, hold it in between your legs. Tell me how much fun you have. Okay. So that's what it is. That's what you're dealing with. Wait till it snows and tries to spell your name. Yeah. And tell me how fun that is. Why don't you try standing up to pee every time? Yeah. How about that? Go to go to put some ice in your toilet and see how much you can melt. Yeah, how much fun you have. Go to a concert and, uh, when you go to the bathroom, cut the amount of, uh, stalls in half and say, you can only use these this half then wait in line until that's ready. Okay. Or you could just crouch over the, the drain and be done. And that said, in the middle of the night, sometimes, if I don't feel like standing up, if I'm very, very tired, I'll just go and I'll sit down and then I'll, like, then I'll stumble my way out of the bathroom. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah. I should don't do never done that. You've never sat down to pee ever in your life. I've sat down like, if I'm like, yeah, like if I'm like hurt painfully hung over. Yeah. Yeah. That situation. But at night, I'll just, I'll just let a fly deal with the whatever happens after. Because also I'm trying, at night, I'm, I'm essentially trying to get in and out of the bathroom without waking up. Mm-hmm. So I do it as fast as I can, usually piss all over the floor, don't care, deal with it in the morning. And then, like, never open my eyes. If I sit down, I feel like I'd open my eyes. No, that's, that's the thing. It's like the sit down is actually better for keeping your eyes close. So you wake up on the toilet. Yeah. That has happened before. That's, you get yourself in that type of situation sometimes. Mm-hmm. Okay. Good show, boys. Good show. Numbers. Three, five. Shane sits 20, please. What? That's what we just found out back here. That's some time. Instead of it's early enough in the morning. That's what I'm saying is definitely like if I'm tired. If I'm tired in the morning, I'm going to sit and if like middle, middle of the night, that's when I'll do it. Or if you're a man waking up in the morning, it can be, you know, or you're a huge dick. Yeah. Shane Buses. Well, not. It's just more, it's just more of, you know, your dick, how big your dick is. Wow, Shane. 99. 15. Seven. You're out on the rope. 69. 53. It's actually taking Shane's hog in the mouth. Where else more? Wipe him. Try peeing with Monday. It's up to me. It's up to me. It's 46. 46? Anybody? Yeah. Anybody? One more. 37. 37. Anybody? Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Happy birthday to Will Anderson. Happy birthday, Terry Bradshaw. Birthday Keanu Reeves. Happy birthday to Reagan. Remember Rachel Gunn? The break dancer from Australia? Oh, yeah. What a legend. That, you know what? I bet you some NFL player is going to do a Reagan celebration. Let's go touch on. But she actually was in the Olympics. Yeah, Kiddle, I'm looking at you. You would do an incredible Reagan. And then happy birthday to Max Crosby. Love you guys. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]