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Yeah, thanks for not spending too much time on the Florida State win versus New Mexico State. I kind of like New Mexico States quarterback. I did too. He was like, he was crafty and a little shifty. I'm going to the SMU game Monday night, so I'll actually be there. Rare games. Just go as a fan. No work. It's Labor Day Monday. I'll be up there, bringing my two younger daughters, Courtney's going. She was saying this is the first time we've ever been to a game together. She doesn't know what she's getting into, so we'll see. It's a great atmosphere. Florida State, college football is better on Florida State is really good, but we'll see. We're actually, for every appearance that you have on the show this season, we've decided to buy you Castelano's hoodie, so from his website, I was looking at it this week. Still up. Still active. The shirt's still available. I'm sure. I think every time you come on, we'll get you the gray one. Perfect. Do they have the short sleeve hoodie? I like that one. Short sleeve hoodie. We can work on it. So the exercise here is to try to put together a 12 team playoff field. This is, it's always been the hardest sport because it turned over, and now I think it's never been harder. It's the assumptions that you're sitting there, and I've been joking with people like every single time you read a team preview, the rounding up on every single transfer is like, hey, this transfer is going to be awesome, and this fills a need and all this different stuff. So, let's start in the big 10 because it feels like at least on paper, the three teams, you know, House, State, Indiana, Oregon are kind of everybody's favorites. Other people are picking Texas Notre Dame, maybe even Georgia and all that kind of stuff. But like I would understand if somebody said, hey, I think right now on paper, those three teams are better than any top teams in the other conferences, I'd have a hard time arguing it. So, go through the big 10 for me, and we'll kind of throw it back and forth here. So, I've got in the big 10 Oregon over Ohio States in the big 10 title game with Oregon avenging their regular season loss because they play in Columbus, right, in the regular season. I have that as Oregon's only loss on the schedule, but I have them beating them in a rematch and Indianapolis in the big 10 title game. So, I've got Oregon versus Ohio State. Okay. So, that's the big 10 title game or not. Big 10 title game. Okay. So, I am. That was probably, so when I did my bracket, I cannot help myself because I don't like watching chalk. I've actually got two surprises, three surprises, two teams that I have in and one team that I have out. And I know everybody's like, be careful, doubt and Kirk's dignity, like you better watch out for it. Be careful, doubt and, you know, Indiana Hoosers. I think they're really good. I think there are two ways they could be out, obviously, or nine and three. I think they're out, which I don't think is without, you know, out of the realm of possibility. The other thing I think they have to be careful with is if they're 10 and two, there are other teams that are going to be in this playoff conversation that I think you could possibly see a nine and three team jump, a 10 and two team, Kirk's saying that he's been so vocal about not playing those three non-conference cupcakes. Their schedule is the toughest that's been in his tenure. And I think there's still a lot that they have to replace, not to mention the number one overall pick in Heisman Trophy winner who did bail them out in a couple games in big spots that I just don't know if I have confidence in whether it's in Josh Hoover or the whole Indiana program that they'll just be right back up there. I think it's a little bit of a setback year for Indiana. So I actually have them missing the playoffs in my bracket. But if you said, you know what, how dare you do that? I'd be totally fine with it. Like if we're building a bracket together, you said Indiana's got to be in there. I would totally understand that. I just think there might be a little bit of a regression from this team. Yeah, look, I understand it because it's just it's hard to imagine like, hey, you're just going to go back to back and have that same kind of season. And it frustrates me a little bit when people talk about teams and say, oh, they're going to have their slip up as if 11 and more and it's bad. Like it's just people, people act like 12 and 0 for these top teams is a certainty. And I just don't like when people talk about teams being like, I either going to have their slip up. The transfer port of class is kind of loaded though. I like Hoover right now better than I liked Mendoza a year ago. I really like Hoover. They added two more stud receivers. They bringing in turbo Richard, the running back from BC. They already had a pretty good offensive line, but they added another one from Wisconsin. They're missing some defensive line and stuff. So they loaded up on depth there. They brought in this corner from the SCS who everybody said was like the best player in the SCS. I think they're a valuation in what they've done the last two years. You kind of have to give them the benefit of the doubt. And the fact that apparently whatever dignity does when he brings these guys in there, like they just look like the smartest football team. So I think Indiana has to be in there. Totally fine with that. Totally get why you would say that too. And I think they'll start off 6 and 0 and where, you know, Joshua, who probably puts up big numbers. I do think the stretch when they have Ohio State at home at Michigan, USC and Washington. I think people are sleeping a little bit on Washington. I think Washington will be in the playoff conversation now. They finish out at Indiana or Indiana at Oregon. So I don't think they, I don't think they ultimately make it, but I think they could beat Indiana as well coached as Indiana is the one thing that always gives well coach teams that are so disciplined or mobile quarterbacks in DeVon Williams is a very, very dangerous liability. Now clearly, Indiana is a better team. This kind of goes back to, like, just chalk and putting things down and just, yep, they're going to go win that game. Seattle's a tough place to play. I think Seattle, I think Washington's going to be a really good team. It's across the country. I just think Indiana has several more tests this year than even they've had the last couple of years on their schedule where they could falter. But I'm totally okay if we keep Indiana there. Yeah, the test thing is, I mean, no test two years ago and then failed both tests. And last year, to see what they do against Ohio State, and just, you know, I was reading through that again. And it's like, hey, they went for the field goal and fourth and one. It's like, well, they went for the, they went for the field goal because they didn't like running it. Indiana's defensive line, like Ryan Day and that group made a decision to be like, we don't think our guys are going to win that one yard. And that was something that was playing out in that game. And it's, it's like, okay, so there's that physicality and then they put it on Oregon in a way where you're like, oh my God, you know, like what this is getting ugly. And then Miami, you know, was, was obviously Miami has a chance to even pull that thing off on the last throw with Beck, but Indiana certainly felt like the better football team for three hours. So I know a lot of those pieces are gone. They lose eight players of the NFL draft, which is maybe the craziest thing.
say about any like Indiana. Oh my God. How are they going to do it again? The Hoosiers lost eight players to the NFL draft. I didn't ever expect to say something like that. When you look at those three teams and you're going with Oregon, why Oregon over the other two? I feel like Oregon is where Clemson was before they broke through. Like they were kind of knocking on the door. And remember Clemson was a thing. Remember it was like, oh, they're going to Clemson. Now their issue was they were falling against bad teams, like it's kind of surprise upsets and not, you know, not being able to finish games. Oregon is a position where they've been really good through the regular season. They've gotten the part and they've had a couple ugly losses in the playoffs. I think they're the best roster top to bottom. And it's way more than just Auntie Moore. I think the defensive line is one of the best defensive lines in the country. I get probably the biggest concern for me is losing both coordinators, but for Tosh Lupoy on the defense side of the ball, losing your defensive coordinator. Dan landing is a defensive guy. Like I feel like they'll be fine. And then on the offensive side of the ball, I think Will Stein was a really good play collar. They're staying in-house with true marriageer. They're all offensive coordinator, but he's going to have weapons galore. We already saw what DeCorean Moore could do last year as a true freshman. Evan Stewart with Dan landing told us he had, you know, his best off season so far. Former five star. I think he could absolutely pop. They've got depth. I just, I think it's their time. I think it's that time that they break through. The schedule is probably one of the more favorable ones out of all the teams in the top 10. So I think they should be pretty healthy. So yeah, and I'm a belief, I liked Auntie Moore a ton. I think he does take that next step forward. In some of their bigger games, kind of vanish a little bit. Even I went and watched him in person against Texas Tech in the orange ball. Started off. You're like, oh, this is the guy I want to see. He kind of came back to Earth a little bit. They didn't need him as much because they ended up shutting out Texas Tech. Then of course, he starts off the Indiana game tough with the pick six to D'Angelo Ponds. I think he's going to make big, make big strides forward. So yeah, I've got the war. I've got the ducks to sort of this is sort of their breakthrough year for Dan landing. They feel like they've been knocking on the door. They just kind of need to break break through it. Loaded at receiver. There's like three other younger recruits that are all top guys too that we're not even talking about between McClell and Stewart and Moore. You could make some issues with the tackle situation. Like somebody's going to have to pop with the guys that they brought in. The interior is pretty good. Linebackers, edge guys, tackles, feels like they're fine. They bring in that safety from Minnesota that everybody's raving about in every single preview that I read about. I'm kind of with you on that. I picked Oregon two years ago and I get into the habit too of trying to figure out a way to be a little bit different with the predictions of this stuff. There's just times that they've lined up against the big boys the last couple of years where it's kind of horrifying. Whether it's the Ohio State game from two years ago, you're like, "How the hell did you guys beat this team earlier in the year?" Where I think one of the best things about that Ohio State game when they lost at Eugene was like you felt so much better about Ohio State's quarterback because you were kind of like, "All right, well, even though they lost here." And then they go on to win the whole thing. So, look, I'm with you. I'm picking Oregon. I'm picking Oregon to be in the title game on top of everything else. So we'll see whether or not I pick them to win a national championship for a fourth one from four different teams of the big 10. But the running backs are great. I like more a lot too. I think the coordinator thing is probably more problematic on the Will Stein part of it than Tosh being a cow. But these teams, all three of these teams are loaded and that brings us to Ohio State because they had 14 players start all, or let me say that again. Nine of their defensive players, they had such continuity on defense. Nine of the guys that started all 14 games from a mark on on defense. But you go through all the recruiting stuff. You're like, "Oh, that guy was a five-star edge guy. Who's he? He's second in the depth chart right now. I was looking at their depth chart this morning and there's these top recruits from two classes ago." And I'm like, "None of these guys are even starters yet?" Like, this is ridiculous. So part of it's a transfer part of it. Well, Ohio State's always going to do well in the portal. And I just like saying, I think at one stretch last year, not only did I think he was going to win the Heisman, I thought he was playing like the best. Now, I brought up something with Stanford Steve and then somebody hit me up afterwards, and I'm going to ask you this. It's like, "San's completion percentage is nuts." And the yards per attempt is actually pretty good. But they were like, "Look, there's a little bit more in their were saying where it's a depth of target thing." And it never really felt like they let him be unleashed because after the Texas game, they just destroyed everybody. They had a really easy stretch for their schedule. Do you think Sain is like, clearly there's another level to him, but do you think he's actually capable of looking like the best quarterback in college football this year? I wouldn't predict it. He's got to prove it. So I thought he was close to perfect, like through most of the season, but he also, I think he was sacked 11 times over the first 12 games, and then he was sacked 12 times in the next two games and the next two losses. Like because his, the key was executing to perfection, but everything was so clean. It was like, and I want to see how a quarterback plays when he's under duress, when he's getting more pressure. And it wasn't like he cost them the game versus Indiana. It wasn't on him. It wasn't like it cost him the games against Miami when they lost in the playoffs, but he was not a difference maker in those games. That to me is where he'll have to step up. And I think Texas is a great challenge for him because that one will be one where I don't think it'll be like last year's game. What was it? 14 to 7? And both teams were like protecting their young QBs, making their first start. I think you have to cut it loose a little bit. My thing is, how does he handle the pressure? And both types of pressure. One, the pressure that comes with how I would stay quarterback, but after you've dealt with adversity, people are kind of looking at him. And I want to see how he handles the pressure on the field when he is facing those more elite defenses. So I thought like he, like, no complaints about Julian saying, but I do think he has to take a step up in that next level when he's getting more pressure in his face, because I do think they're going to face some tougher defenses, including that one and Austin week two. Yeah, it doesn't matter, but Texas outgained him 336 to 203 last year. So it wasn't like, you know, both quarterbacks were very limited in that game. You end up having the interception that kind of turns the entire tide of the thing. I didn't necessarily feel like because of the yardage part of it that the wrong team won, but it was just a slugfest where it was even more of a slugfest, not just because of the defensive talent, because it was pretty clear. Both play callers were like, we're going to take it easy on our guy. There's a saying number. Go ahead. I was going, I want like, I always look for who do you think has, you know, find some holes in this team. And you mentioned all the losses on defense. That is going to be unbelievable to fill in. So I thought there's a chance that Ohio State could be nine and three, because their schedule is probably one of the toughest in the country. But then you go look in the last time they didn't have nine wins was 2011, you know, and that was sort of an anomaly. Like they churn out double digit win season. So when is it going to come? You can look really foolish trying to predict that. I also think they could be better on the offensive side of the ball and be just as good as they were last year, but have a worse record. Like there is a like, watch out for the Iowa game. That one's a sleepy. I had a lot of Ohio State fans making fun of me because I included that as part of like the five games that are really tough for Ohio State playing on the road there. Phil Parker is a great defensive coordinator. I think that's a tricky game on the road at Indiana at USC. I mean, their schedule is absolutely brutal. I think they could make the playoffs at nine and three. I do think we're going to see a nine and three team in the playoffs this year. Texas and Ohio State are probably the two teams. I think I'm the most likely to be that candidate. But even when I say that, Ohio State fans are like, oh, there's no chance we're going to be nine and three. And it is impossible when you look at the history of success. But these schedules are absolutely brutal. And I think all those teams are improved that their playing against Ohio State schedule is legitimately tough. I don't know how many more teams like this are going to play Texas or I don't know how many times Texas is going to play in Ohio State now with the nine conference games across the board for both of the big conferences in SCC and big 10. It sucks. And it used to be like one of those arguing things where you were like, well, why am I arguing? Like if this team never plays anybody at a conference, this plays this team. It's kind of the Texas argument a bit last year. It's like if we just not played Ohio State and decided to play, you know, whoever writes, then we're in the playoffs. And so it's hard as an AD and you know, staff to go, there's value in this until you see the committee try to look at things a little bit more open-minded. And this isn't an argument that Texas ultimately like should have been in the playoffs. I was fine with how it all played out last year, even though the Notre Dame Miami thing just felt like a shitty situation really more than it was like I was infatically in favor of one team over the other. So I'm with you on Ohio State part of this. There's a number here on saying and this may be a little unfair. But if you look at some of the quarterback stuff that happens and what he's done against powerful ranked teams last year as opposed to the unranked teams, I think it's it's pretty alarming. Like his QBR against ranked teams, two and two, a 59.2 QBR against unranked power four teams, a 92 QBR. Like he's the numbers there tell you there's a significant drop off. But you know what? There's a lot of guys that like eat statistically against the eight unranked P four teams and then have so he is not alone on that. That's not something like, oh, he went saying has to play the big boys is a completely different guy. Well, the stats will tell you that, but the stats will also tell you about the same story with so many of these other top quarterbacks.
so I don't want to be like entirely unfair even though that drop off seems significant. But I think that's the, that's the, that's the bar that you have to meet as Ohio State quarterback because they could be, they could have an incredible season. But if he's two and two against some of these top opponents, they're going to fall short of their expectation, which is a national championship team. Like very clearly, he's capable of leading the team to really good wins, but can he lead him to a national championship? That's what I was talking about, like under pressure, under duress, against those better defenses. He starts to prove it to me that he can step up in those in those games. It's totally fair. Indiana though, I'm with you. I didn't leave that game going, oh, saying it's just not the guy, I would say to your point on like surviving some of these plays and having to figure out a way to make it happen. There was some stuff against Miami where you're like, okay, so now that this whole thing's disrupted, then there's no chance of any like putting the cape on, like some of the other guys that you expect that, you know, are at this level on Heisman favorites and potentially a national championship. You mentioned, what about USC? So I have USC in my playoff. Yeah, so I'm bullish on USC. I had Michigan too, but that's a wild card, so I had totally okay if we leave them out, but I have USC as a playoff team. I think Lincoln Riley came into, I talked to him at big 10 media days. He had sort of a confidence about him, asked him about it. He this was a little swagger. Did he have a little swagger? Yeah, he had more confidence that we've seen out of him being there the last few years. And he was talking about how the continuity across the board, like they just moved into a new practice facility. They have a new athletic director, like their stability. He's like the amount of returning players that they've got on the team. And that was before he lost his starting center. So that's a piece that's questioned after that. But I think Jade Myava, so Myava was my Heisman pick coming into the season because I think he's outstanding. You really went over back. I love it. Yeah, I love him. They're young pieces, which I mean, I get a little bit of a cheat code now because I saw him play in their first game, but Mark Bowman, the five-star tie-down is supposed to be, you know, people are comparing him to potentially to Brock Bowers. The other kid, the freshman Trent Mosley, who had 118 and a touchdown in their first game, Granite San Jose State. He popped. They've got depth that running back. We already knew that was going to be a position to strengthen. And the question mark, I would have like the defensive side of the ball. Lincoln Riley teams have always, let's say they've not been the most physical on the defensive side of the ball. I think the Gary Patterson higher defensive coordinator was big. Just from somebody who kind of does have that edge. She's got a lot of experience. I think their defense is probably better than they're going to get credit for. Even in the game against San Jose State, Lincoln Riley made it clear those were third stringers that gave up 23 points in the fourth quarter. I thought it was exactly the performance you would want. You know, some of their tougher games are at home in the Coliseum, where I do think it'll be crowded. Those games, even though it wasn't. I just, humidity was an issue out here. Unreal humidity. Yeah. But even that, I mean, I don't know. Are we ever really thinking that they were going to be sold out even if it's 70 degrees in sunny minutes? That's the crowd that they heart. Like, why do we still make this a thing? It is what they are. It's kind of like Miami with the Hurricanes. It'll be sold out when they play against Ohio State when they play against Oregon at home. We know that. So that is what they are. But I think they're a really good football team. And I think Jade Mila is this pretty special quarterback. You mentioned Michigan quick. And I got to keep it moving here because it's going to turn to a big 10 preview. I have to see it with Underwood. I've got to see them on the games before I would have any. I love winning him. I love what they've done with the staff. We expect that they're going to just be a brutal out. They're going to be a tough team to play. But Underwood was underwhelming, like in a big way. So, I like them is because he was 11 touchdown nine interceptions. He was bad. If he just gets to average and they had nine wins on the season, if they get to adequate quarterback play, which I think Jason Beck is a really good playcarl who you utilize his legs some more. 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Watch week one of the NFL on Netflix, Los Angeles Rams versus the San Francisco 49ers live only on Netflix Thursday, September 10th at 835 PM Eastern 535 Pacific. Who's one in the SEC? I have, oh, you like this one. I mean, it's a matchup we've seen before. I've got Georgia over Alabama, yet another matchup. I think they both have pretty favorable draws in the SEC I'm a, I love the Keelan Russell move to go ahead and go with the young player over Austin Mac. I think he could be really, really special with the turnover and offensive line to go with the freshman QB like he must be and considering that the other guy's been, you know, the boys driver. Yeah, like this. It must be really impressive from Keel. I don't, I think he's all, I mean, clearly he's a runner. I mean, if you see what he did in this spring game, I think that element probably could play into this because if the offensive line is struggling, I think Keelan Russell could be a mix of Jalen Moro and Ty Simpson. Like, and I think Kalen De Boer will have an absolute field day work with somebody like that. I think their defense is going to be good. That's another rematch that I've got. I've got Georgia losing in the regular season at Alabama and then getting the best of them in a rematch in the SEC title. All right. So, Bama's offensive line. I am a little worried about. And then again, that's probably why Keelan make it the notary might just be that talented. The receiver part of it, I think it's going to be fine. I don't know why Ryan Williams, Ryan Coleman Williams, why he turned into what he did. I mean, he ended up having of like high volume receivers. He had the worst drop rate of anyone. And it also looked like it was the traffic stuff where it's like a something going on with you now, like when you're around this because, you know, anybody that would say like, he's no one's Jeremiah Smith, right. But the fact that he was even in the conversation because of those big plays, the Georgia game and all that kind of stuff, it's like, you know, you have somebody like that, especially for a young quarterback. So, I don't know what to make of that. I just can't imagine that all of a sudden like the freshman year was a fluke thing and he's just shot, but this drop rate thing is significant. And, you know, I don't know. I guess the offensive line part of it for Alabama, knowing that last year, the reason why they ended up getting destroyed in the playoff. And we could see it coming in a way because you just go, all right, well, like Ty Simpson, I wasn't even upset with anything with him. And like this guy is, he has no chance. And it's kind of funny because it bookend perfectly with the Florida state game, whereas he's getting his ass handed to him out there. They have no chance whatsoever. Alabama cannot run the football. And so it's Ty Simpson trying to figure all this stuff out with a really nice receiving group. So I guess it's just better. I mean, you're, you're okay with that. I think it will be better. Well, it has to be better. Right. It has to be better. I mean, there were a trotious run the football. And I do think having a mobile quarterback will make a huge difference. I do. And a lot of me, with me and Alabama, like I know this SEC, the gauntlet is there and it's real. And it's the help. I think their draw is pretty easy. And that includes Florida state, who, I mean, that's a revenge game. There'll be a multiple, you know, probably two touchdown favorite in that game. I had them. And then so they have George at home, which again, that could be a loss. But I had them beating that one at Tennessee. They're going to be playing against phase on brand and a true freshmen quarterback. Like I think they should be able to go into Tennessee and get that win. Texas A&M, probably one of their toughest opponents, but it is at home. I have them losing at LSU as one of their losses. But other than that, that was their only blemish I had for them. Not foolish because I think there's going to, I mean, there's going to be some carnage in the SEC. But I still think Alabama, I think they're a team that's going to be just fine. I'm going to pick Texas. And it has a lot to do with the second half for arch because if you go from November 1st on, best QBR in college football, he's somebody else that you could point out to and go, all right, he ate against some of these other teams, certainly early on to the 10 touchdowns against San Jose and Sam Houston, all that kind of stuff. I think the tape backs up that he became a different quarterback. It's another team that you put down on the offensive line part of it, receiver I'm good, running back I'm good, defense I'm good. I think they have a couple guys on that defense that are like my favorite players in all of college football. And even with that schedule, I know it's brutal. It's brutal. Like there's, there's usually a couple stretches here for some of these SEC teams where you look at like three teams in a month like Ole Miss has a stretch here you go, Jesus, like that's a brutal, brutal four weeks where you're thrilled to just be playing like Mizzou and no offense to Mizzou, but I like your Oregon point. I kind of feel like it has to come together this season for Texas and I wish there was more insightful things to say about it, but it's just kind of the way it feels and I don't want to pick Georgia again.
So there you go. - So I have Texas in the playoffs. I have them going deeper than an ACC team, but I don't have an ACC title game because of that schedule. Also, I do think there was something, I'm a believer in arch, but they were a little inconsistent last year. They just feel like there's a majority thing where they're kind of new to this territory of handling the success that they've got. I think Oklahoma's gonna be where that's a rivalry game. Now they've had some success in it recently, but I think that's still a really tricky game for them. At LSU, another tricky one. At Texas A&M, rivalry game, having to go to college station. So I don't have an ACC title game, but I do, I have them beating Ohio State, and I think they'll be in pretty safely. There's been some rumblings, I don't know if you've seen some of the reports about stuff going on in the locker room. There was a freshman's dad who was on there saying he was gonna expose them. Arch, there's been rumblings that he hasn't been great at practice. I'm not even worried about that. I think that comes with the fact that you're Texas, rumors start to swirl. They get really noisy. I think they'll be fine. I just think to me, it was more about the schedule being a little bit harder within conference than Georgia and Alabama, but I have them in the playoffs. - For six games where Arch, he was 78th in QVR at College Football. Last six, he was third in FBS. And I think- - Two members. - Number one in parallel. - People on it start to give a play calling. It was such a pan. I mean, there were articles he was gonna be a bust. I'm happy for him. I actually feel way better about him because he played poorly and because they struggled, I feel better about his mental fortitude and be able to handle some adversity. - So how many SEC teams do you have in? - Those are my three. - That's it. - Bama. - Bama, Georgia and Texas. - Where are you with the lane train down there in Baton Rouge? - I gotta see it. Now that's one for me where the roster is hard to find many weaknesses. You spend all this money, you bring in lane, but in a sport that requires like culture and continuity. And I know Lane did that and he was the portal king at Ole Miss and he was able to bring it there. Very, very curious to see how this thing unfolds. Now I think they could be the national champion. I also think they could be seven and five. Like if they fall short and they have a couple losses early, does the, do the guys start showing up for a check? Which I've seen in the NFL when we started to become more professionals? And there's a big question mark for me at Sam Levitt. Not only, and it's not just the Liz Frank and coming back from that injury and he misses an entire spring. He was a 61% passer in the big 12th. Now he's got to play in the SEC in a system that requires you to be very accurate. Get rid of the football. He's also athletic and his athleticism is gonna play a part in what Lane wants to do and he'll have better talent around him. But I'm not sold on Sam Levitt is just gonna go out there and light up the SEC. So I think he could have some bumps and bruises on the way that possibly could cost them a game or two. - That's fair. He lit up the big 12 historically. Like if you go through his big 12 numbers and then kind of like some of the other guys but you take him out of the big 12, there was a drop off in production and that number was rather significant as well. The LSU offense, like going through those numbers, you can ask your co-host Brian Kelly about this. Like the fact that they were, they couldn't run the football in 24. And you're like, all right, they'll figure it out and it was even worse. I mean they were in the hundreds in some of these categories offensively last season and you just go, how could you possibly, the receivers are gonna be fine. I don't know what the hell is going on with the running backs because they brought in some studs and it hasn't necessarily happened. The offensive line looks like it's gonna be better. They load up on transfers. They're gonna apparently grab a couple NFL guys or try to pull that off too, which I think is gross. But I have LSU in the playoff over Bama. So there you go. 'Cause I have to say, everything you said is totally fair. Anyone else, like what do you do with A&M? Because A&M, I think the skill guys were good. I think the lines were good. I kind of just make an assumption with Elko and everything like defensively, they're gonna be fine. The Marcel Reed thing, I thought his high has been momentum last year was one of the most misguided campaigns just because it was the undefeated SEC ranked team. Hey, who's the quarterback? Let's do this and he's a lot of fun. But there's some red zone stuff in there that I don't like. And if you go catchable ball of the 16 quarterbacks that are like the guys in the SEC, he threw the 15th most catchable ball out of the 16 quarterbacks that registered, which is exactly what I saw every Saturday. Go back and watch the South Carolina game and you'll get the full Marcel Reed experience. 'Cause in the first half, he looked like one of the worst quarterbacks in all of college football. So the second half where he looked like he could be the best quarterback at college football. It is to me and for him, it is all about consistency. A&M, I do think they were a little bit of, do you like the team or do you like the schedule and probably like the schedule last season? Yeah. More than you like the team. This year, it's a different story. It isn't much tougher schedule within the SEC conference games that they have to play. So I'm like, I don't think there's gonna be a mega drop off, but I had them outside the playoffs. It just, to me, it was about some of the road games they've got in conference. I think they could suffer a little bit that. And not to mention Colin Klein, who was like the perfect coordinator for Marcel Reed, similar style of quarterback. He's gone. They stay in house with Holman Wiggins. So I get that there shouldn't be too much change over, but I do wonder how much that could impact the offensive side of the ball. I think we have to mention Ole Miss, even with that schedule. Here's my favorite stat. I think I found out the quarterbacks. Chameless, third and long. He's like the best, like quarterbacks, third and long. What do you do in this sport? I'm talking college because there's just so many schools once it's third and seventh, it's like, all right, we're screwed. And Trinidad Chameless has the best numbers of anyone returning on that stat. It feels like an afterthought after last year's run. Maybe it's just because post-lane and everything, the momentum and all that storyline. People have kind of turned the page on them of being a playoff contender. I would love for them to be better than LSU. I mean, just from the storyline approach, they still did spend the second most in the SEC, which is kind of crazy. They're not going down without a fight, especially in the spending war. The schedule's tougher. Again, a lot of this has to do with the schedule. I think Trinidad Chameless might be one of the best quarterbacks in the country. I don't know if, I think they're eight and four, probably around that territory. I just don't view them as being able to run it back with the amount of change over. And they kind of were that perfect storm last year. You kind of galvanized the team that did stay behind. And I know some players that threw lane under the bus or even trying to go back and play with them now, which is kind of wild. But yeah, I have to see it again with Ole Miss. I think Trinidad Chameless would be really good. The defense, I think, could be take a step back. So I'm just not a believe it. They're going to run it back. Real quick, I don't call home. Man. I mature for me as a wild card. His jacked up photos are great. I thought last year he was incredibly inconsistent. How much was it due to his thumb and the injury? And that would absolutely impact. Not only is Trinidad, he was awesome. He was awesome at times. He was really good. I think if it works for Oklahoma, he kind of has a t-bow like season where he's running for close to eight or 900 yards. And they're using him to bulldoze guys. And he's the emotional leader that the teammate loves. They've got a great defense, obviously. That's going to be a big part of any Brent Venables team. And they feel really good about that aspect. There are another one that has question marks. Can they run the football? I think they'll be better running the football. But I don't know, I just, I want to see Mathieu keep it together, stay healthy and be more consistent over 12 games. I also think that, again, I had Michigan in the playoffs in my bracket. So you kind of know where I felt with that game. I think that's a, that game will probably determine it too, like, or we believe in a local home or not. They absolutely could win that game. But I did have Michigan win in that one. All right, the ACC, you have to have, I mean, I kind of hate doing this in Notre Dame now, but every single preview is doing the same thing now too. We're just putting Notre Dame in the ACC. Because really, I didn't know that. Let's go. Let's get them in there. Then I get some more ammo. Come on, how many of how many ACC teams are we getting in? Let's start first with Notre Dame, though. You have them in, I assume, right? I do. With Texas Tech, Notre Dame and Miami, they're like the three teams that look really good. And like, in their schedule, it's like, find the losses. You have to, like, talk yourself into, like a four-interception performance from your quarterback and feel like they don't have a chance. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen. But I do have Notre Dame in. I have them slipping up once. I have an 11-in-1. I think 10-in-2. Who would have listened to BYU or SMU? I have listened to Miami. Miami, I have the only undefeated in the college football playoff as Miami. I have Miami going to South Bend, which is even a stretch. I think BYU is a tricky out for Notre Dame, but I think they can kind of bully him. I do wonder, he did lose two guys to the first round in the back field. That is a pretty good asset, but Marcus Freeman, maybe one of my favorite coaches. They have great culture, schedules there. I mean, I looked for ways to try to say, how can they not get it done? And it's just hard to find it. So I have men as a one-loss team. And then I have Miami as the only team from the ACCN. - Car was unbelievable against the Blitz last year. He was blitzed on 37% of his dropbacks, which is the most of any quarterback. And I think maybe the P4, and he was 14-2 on touchdown interception splits on that. Now, you could also argue after the first two weeks, like bad teams that have no chance are gonna blitz you and that it's much easier dealing with those blitz. But I've seen some car numbers, you split it up, and you're like, well, hey, first four weeks, it's this. It's like, well, the first two weeks, the guys have played before, he's at Miami, and he's against Texas A&M. And honestly, to come back to lose to Miami week one, I remember you even talking about it specifically. It's like, hey, there's some stuff in there, [BLANK_AUDIO]
can have from this kid. So I think he's that good. I know he's not the dual threat thing that we all want. Maybe that's part of his NFL breakdown and all that kind of stuff, but as far as college football is concerned, I just don't see how this team is not in the playoffs. And I think the same is to be said about Miami, I'm right there with you. Like I like Mensa better than Beck. You go through their transfer portal stuff. You're like if they're not getting it wrong, they're not losing any momentum despite losing the national championship game. I don't know where that loss is. I don't, I mean, maybe it's at Notre Dame. That's fine. And then Clemson won't matter. Possibly. You know, like they play Clemson, right? At Clemson. That's one of their total days. The only right team they play. Yeah. Right. And and this speaks to like the bigger as the ACC thing, like Clemson, obviously, one of the most disappointing seasons they had a really long time. Preseason number four, they finish up seven and six, even dabbo grabbed like 10 guys out of the transfer portal, which I'm assuming we didn't want to do. New offensive coordinator, you still have seven new offensive starters with this group. They lost three guys on defense, the top 15, the NFL draft picks. Chad Morris comes in, but even Chad Morris, people kind of like, hey, when's the last time this guy's like dialed it up? Was it 10 years ago? When you felt really excited about it. Vazena four star quarterback. There's not a lot on him, obviously lit it up against SMU, but the drop off from Miami to then what is next? Like, you'd have to start read like maybe Louisville because they're sort of consistent and put it together. Jennings is back at SMU. So there's some other teams that are potentially here, but it just feels like there's such a gap between Miami and whoever would challenge him in this conference. I think there is. I think if you looked at the spending receipts, Miami wouldn't be close to many other teams in the ACC either. I think there's a very real reason for that. I think it's clearly it's SMU Louisville. And I do think I would not have said this a week ago and I'm kind of mad at myself for not doing it. Virginia looked really good against NC State. I know it's one game. You don't want to over it. Awesome. I mean, that's supposed to be an NFL quarterback for NC State and they shut them down. And then if you start looking at their schedule, we kind of go through it. There's not that many tests. They could be favored most of them. But I really think in the similarity between the Big 12 and the ACC is I think the only way there are two bid league is if you see an upset in the title game, which if you get a cold weather game, I know they moved it to daytime. So maybe it's not as bad in Charlotte, but or if you get a day where you, you know, fumble a couple times and you get some fluke touchdowns, you could get beat at college football. But I really think that's the only recipe for the ACC to get to win is if you see an upset in the ACC title game, somebody beats Miami. And same thing with the Big 12 with Texas Tech. So you want to talk about gaps here. Big 12 and you want to talk about schedules like we talked our way into a couple Miami challenges. Try to do with Texas Tech. I can't they possible. If you look at the projections for Texas Tech. So they're clearly far and away and they should be, you know, talent wise. And you know, I know they brought in Castellanos. But when Hammond played last year against Utah, he was terrific. So this might just be September insurance for Hammond because there's a lot of like hand ringing about what does this mean for Hammond. I think they're adding depth just in case the sky were to be heard again, because then there's a bunch of other pieces there. Now, looking at the schedule, I couldn't believe how bad it was when I was looking at it again. So no BYU, no Utah, no case date. Houston's the only team that they would play that's like in that tier behind them. They play seven of the 10 worst projected Big 12 teams. Then I can play anybody out of conference on top of everybody else. If they don't win the Big 12 and make the playoff, this is actually one of the most disappointing scenarios of any program in college football. Totally great. The only thing I would disagree with you and you didn't really make a statement on it. I think Castellanos is not an insurance policy. I think he's an offensive weapon. Because remember, he went to the NFL draft to try to be a receiver. He is not a, I don't think he has a future at the next level as a quarterback. Clearly they can use him there because he's, you know, he's obviously pretty good. I think it's Will Hammond's team, but I think you could draw up some plays for Thomas Castellanos, put him in the backfield, Wildcat, put him at receiver in the slot. I think it's just another out of offensive weapon for Texas Tech. Yeah, that's totally fair. Yeah, I mean, you're right. I did not look at it that way. I looked at for the quarterback reasons. Which makes sense as well. Because then you get the best of both worlds. You have because he's, I don't think he would know the system the first month of the season. So like by the time you get to October, he feels comfortable there. So you do have that insurance, but I think they'll wrinkle him in as a playmaker. Just fight across the board. Joe McGuire, and I don't know if this is blowing smoke up. I was blowing smoke or what. He did say he thinks this year's defense is better than last year's defense. The other thing too, man, I am going to lay every point spread that is out there because Joe McGuire was talking about how upset they were about the way they were treated with the Brendan Swarsby thing, which clearly was mishandled. But they kind of, because I was like, how do you get your team to overlook all the opponents? I think they're going to look to unleash a little bit on most of those teams in the big 12. Remember everybody was against them. They screwed them. We're going to live. I was everywhere against them. I mean, it wasn't like they were completely innocent in all this, but they're looking to kind of unleash. So I think it's going to be one of those seasons where we don't know what Texas Tech is until we get to the playoff, which is why they're actually one of the teams. I have BYU beating them in a big 12 championship. I know they've come up short in the big 12 title last couple years. I think BYU is kind of physically built for that. They'll have been tested way more than Texas Tech in the season. I think Bearbock-Mire makes a big step forward as a passer to make them a little bit more balanced, bringing back L.J. Martin. And Clonis Tuttke always has sort of a defense that's physical. They got pushed around a little bit, but I think they could. I feel more convinced you could see somebody Cliptex's tech in the big 12 title than even Miami and ACC. Yeah, Bearbock-Mire will be better. O-Line is really good. Bring him back four starters from there. In 10 of the 16 defensive players who have two or more steps are all coming back. I know they lost their defensive coordinator here, but I like BYU when I have them in. So it sounds like we actually agree on this. So do you have in the same way I do? Is it upset in the big 12 title? So do you have Texas Tech out? No, I have BYU is at large. Okay, it isn't at large. I got you. Yeah. Got you. Nice. Anything with Utah here? I think like are we sleeping on them? Maybe? Damn it. That's a tough one for me. You want to talk about like some Heisman momentum? If he had, it's be a fun thing to track week to week. Remember back in week four when everyone was saying this and then it kind of got a little tough to watch at times, but I'll give like another one of my third and long. The other is like, what do you do? Red zone, they were number one in red zone touchdown percentage. Like that's that's a real thing there. And obviously this is a new world for them in two plus decades of having winning him. They were 21 years, but I think they're at least worth mentioning, maybe more so than K state for me at least. Definitely. And they also, I think the BYU had the Holy Wars in Salt Lake. So I think it's at Rice Eccles, which I think it's one of the ones I had a struggle with that pick. They did lose two first rounders to the NFL draft on the offensive line. And they did lose. Remember, I talked Jason Beck. I really like him as the offensive play caller. Gone to Michigan with Kyle Wittingham. I'm a little bit concerned about the ampere. But he's, he's pretty special with what he can do. He was really solid. I just, I think there's going to be a little bit of a culture shift. How do you adapt to that? And that's why I'm probably just not as bullish on Utah. All right. So if we put it all together then, because I know I've like two quick things before I let you go here. So the SEC, we agree on Georgia, Texas. I have LSU. You have Bama. Correct. Yep. Big 10, you have Indiana. You have USC over Indiana. Yes. And I had Michigan in there, but I could easily be talked out of that. We'll just put them down underneath here. Big 12, you obviously have BYU if you haven't won in the title game. Yep. Then I had Texas second and I don't, I think that should be a debate, but I don't see how you punish a team, you know, for the extra game. Okay. So that leaves the group of six, which everyone's pick has been Boise State. Do you have something different? I put UTSA watch out for Owen McCown. There's a talk about outside the box. Their win total I think is eight and a half. Like they surprise him. Big fan of Jeff trailer and what he could do. So, but I ignored the code of states. The team we better watch out for as well. They're going to be favored in every game. They already had a big one over Jacksonville State. UNLV looks a little more beatable. And I think the college, I think college, the selection committee, they are human. I think they would love a story. You know, going from FCS to FBS. So who do you have is your next like we have one spot here? For next one out or next one that's in next one that's in. If you're doing three from the SEC, three from the big 10, but is Michigan your 12th? Yeah, I had Michigan in. I mean, because you had USC in, right? No, no, I had Indiana. I just went chalk in the big 10. Oh, we got to keep Indiana. Then let's go USC. I'd rather have USC than Michigan. Because I'm more of a believer in them. So you have Indiana in them? Well, yeah, because I want you to I want to make sure we're doing collaborative. All right, so how about the scenario if Penn State's 11-1 in Texas
is nine and three in the fourth SEC team. Will you argue for Texas? No, but if Penn State is 10 and two, and they only beat one of those three teams they play, then I think it's very much a real possibility. I do think a nine and three. So I actually had Texas as a nine and three getting in the first time this year in the college ball playoff. I think a nine and three team gets in. There's been way too much noise, but I do think it has to be one of the SEC teams that also plays one of the tougher non-conference games, like Oklahoma, place Michigan, Bama, place Florida State. They got in last year, even though they lost that game. Texas, Ohio State, I do think they have to have one of those non-conference wins to help them get in. I don't know. I mean, comparing at the Penn State schedule and saying, hey, you had to beat Ohio State for me to argue you in. I'm just trying to -- look, I'm just trying to see how the semis are going. Well, I think 11 and one don't matter what you're saying. I mean, in the big 10, I wouldn't say that for the ACC or big 12, but I think 11 and one you're safe versus any number. 10 and two, I think it's where the 10 -- and that's where I think I'd be okay with it. I think 10 and two versus nine and three is realistic to say, you know what? That nine and three should be over the 10 and two. And it does matter, like even Texas last year, if they just didn't lose to Florida, who was an average team last year, they're in. You know, like you mentioned with Ohio State, like if Ohio State loses to Nebraska and that's one of their three losses, then I don't think they should be an either. But if they're three losses or they're really good teams and they still beat a Texas or a Michigan, they still had really good wins, but their three losses were really good, I'd be okay with that too. I'm doing exactly what I said I wasn't going to do to keep you this late, but I have to ask you one thing, Kira, do you believe the SEC has been neutralized because of the transfer portal? I think they've been -- I think the conference is better from top to bottom, but I think it has hurt their teams at the top. It has hurt their title contenders because they lack the depth that they used to. They lack the ability to hoard the talent that they used to. So I think the conference is better and healthier from top to bottom, but they just have lacked the national title contender. It's interesting because I was going through the portal rankings. 13 of the top 30 going into 26 or SEC teams. The top three are SEC teams. Five of the top 10 are SEC teams. The ACC has three of the top 30 portal teams. The big 10 has seven of the top 30. If you go through the top portal transfers in the big 12 and the ACC, it's a ton of non-power for a guys. So I think what's happened here is that early days, everybody was like, this is amazing. We can just go get players and boosters, and now we can pay. We can do all this kind of stuff. There's turning in, first of all, for the 26, and who knows what the portal rankings will mean. There's a massive gap between Mississippi state has a higher transfer portal grade than seven teams in the big 10. And Mississippi state has the worst grade in the SEC. So could we have a return to dominance for the conference? I don't know, I don't know who that top team is right now, but it's very clear that like in the big 12 in the ACC, they're shopping at a completely different store now a couple of years into this. A few years into what I should say. And that's why we're only talking about one or maybe two from each one of those conferences. Thank you, Danny. That's the reality. I appreciate it. You got it, man. Always fun. I jumped you there because I knew you have to leave. So sorry. See you. 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All three teams are projected 90, 90th or worse. So if you went through all the 130 plus teams in college football, the three teams that Texas Tech plays outside of the big 12 project to be 90th or worse. So minus 200 also USC over eight and a half wins market between, I don't know, one minus 136 for this one. We know it's a brutal schedule. So if you're running through it, clearly you're looking at Oregon, Washington, Penn State in consecutive weeks with no time off. Then they've got Wisconsin who should be much better offense because they couldn't be much worse. And then you finish with Ohio State and a week off Indiana, then Maryland, who actually leads the country, I believe, in continuity rankings from last year. So go you dirty turps. So over eight, a half on decays play there for you as well. 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So if you don't know the story, the guy basically kind of created all of these pages where the story was that he was from he was a business man from Switzerland and then he'd linked up with these other like top NFL wide receivers and they were working out with him and they were like man you're awesome and then he had tryouts and then he signed with the Niners but then he was hurt because his pinky was busted up which he showed a video of which didn't make any sense and then he somehow like ended up on the Rams. He'd said he'd gone to college for a year but was hurt so there was no tape and so apparently a bunch of women fell for this. I don't really blame the women. I think there's like a bigger conversation that maybe I can get to doing like why that happens. I think a lot of times you just want to believe you just have the promises of riches. They just have the juice. They're not driving their own car. They don't have their own cell phone. They just they got it. He would do a lot of videos that I see like there was some guy that posted some video he was presenting himself. I guess he is or said he was a financial planner. This is a different person altogether and his whole spiel was don't play Grand Theft Auto 6. Live it and he was like you're wasting your time playing video games. What you need to do is get mansions get cars and then he's like I have guns. I have guns too. He's like so why live out someone else's reality. Why be a marker for some other like be your own entity. Don't play the video game. Protect role playing. Do it for real. So kids out there get yourself some mansions this week. This sounds like the guy that manipulative time was like you know 6 a.m. to whatever my first day. Yeah you're like all right. You got it now. I'm doing it wrong. The levels of dislike that I reach when I see these kinds of videos I just go like who the fuck pays a tent but the thing is some people do like the guy that that sells cars and yells at you if you're fat like everybody walks out to the seminar at like a residence in and he takes off a shirt in the guys in great shape and then he brings up somebody who wants to learn how to be better at sales and he says take your shirt off and he's like you're fat and he's like yeah I'm trying he's like well you're not trying hard enough and it's like hey that people sign up for the shit man they they do it so. Well you like John Taffer. Is it that much different? Hey well Taffer. Not a negative way I like to do it. All right. Yeah I think there's a Taffer element of like hey it's a TV show and this is this is entertainment and I think some of these cars you know I know what you're saying and I don't always love all the Taffer appeal where it's like what is what is natural the main's history trains yeah absolutely but he has like that great built in there's the run train special yeah we're gonna do that's all those that look like logs being transported but that speaks to main's community yeah that's your drive
He has the nice built in thing though, it's like there's always going to be a maniac in the kitchen because that's like I think you have a pretty high like you know the cooks not necessarily chef but cooks kind of be a little testing. He's like great. I'll just go in red face screaming at this guy. We're gonna get five good minutes out of this. He can always you can always fall back on yell at the guy who's super stressed in the kitchen. So that's just like a built in TV gold. Yeah, I know you love to offer. So I didn't really do. We should just quit while we're ahead. So our guy to John love he had a video of him running routes at the beach. He had some other videos on the helmet workout. He always had the helmet. Yeah, it's just helmet. We're like, you're like any ball, though, are you like that guy's fake? Nope. Yeah, then there's like other videos where he's in the car and he makes sure that the helmets kind of in it. There's another video of him in a bedroom in the helmet. It's around. It's fucking crazy that he's constantly dressed up like this and like to the women out there are audience. Maybe not. It's it's not a 50 50 split. But it's it's always like one of those all time tells is that anybody that's a professional athlete would not be wearing his gear out. He doesn't do that. I remember one time one of my buddies who looked like Mike Timlin and was wearing a red socks hat and I bartended this place. The girls are like, are you out with Mike Timlin? And then one of the other girls like knew it. She was a seasoned vet. She's like, he wouldn't be wearing his hat out. And like, I was like, Oh, no. So three fingers from. Yeah. Right. You, you right now, you throw a baseball hat on and maybe like a little sort of wig in the back situation. Like Rod back is right there for you to impersonate not a compliment. Just saying. I love Rod back. Cut off, then a vest could be a whole different. RIP. He died. Damn. Yeah. Wow. You looked at a quick. So Rudy, I kind of dial up. You got over there. So these videos, like, I don't know, like some people are just so entertained by it. They're not mad. I hate it. I just hate fraudsters. I hate con artists. I really hate the men that do this because they're just to me. There's just such pieces of shit. I know a lot of people could be like, Oh, the women deserve it. All that kind of stuff. But like, you know, I'm not really here to like take a side or anything because I think there's really only one side. But his videos. When he's sitting there and he's like, I've got a $15 million house in Malibu. I'm just about to buy this other mansion. I also have a place in billionaires row. I have this. I have that. And then he's talking about his Richard Mill watch. He's like, this is 700,000. And then he's like, I'm really good with money. It's like, you're really good with money. And you spent, look, the Richard Mill watches are sick. They're awesome. 700 grand on one of those, you have to have so much money for that to be any kind of transaction that's probably good. All while you are a practice squad guy that there's no actual proof of other than the AI video that he posted that showed a Google search of him saying that it was, he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers, which is hilarious because when he shows that he actually puts it in the video where he's trying to make sure everybody thinks that he's on the team. He's like, that's Google. That's not me. That's Google who has to explain like twice that it's Google other than anybody that would be making up the entire thing. So I don't know that I'm like, I was asking somebody else, if you could have them on the podcast, would you have them on? And they were like, yeah, they'd be hilarious. That's a good guess. It was a meat eater. Nice. Steve, Steve was like, yeah, we have him on. I mean, are you guys not, do you get mad about it? Are you two entertained to get mad? Do you take the side of like, hey, if you fall for it, that's your fault? I had a close, something close to this happened to us with Mr. David Bloom in the Super Bowl heist and everything like that, where I was like, I was going to show up at the bar if he was going to bring us to the Super Bowl, but I definitely wasn't going to be canceling trips for this. You know what I mean? So I don't know. I kind of smelled something crazy, but you know, the second he asked me for money there, I was going to be like, no, and so he never did. So that was never asked you for any money. Never asked me for any money. He probably got a few like rounds from different guys at the bar. But like, that was about it. That's why it was so confusing about this. But I mean, to the guy in that group that like, canceled his gig at the Super Bowl because he thought he was going, I got to say, I think you might be a little bit stupid for that. That's all. So I'm kind of in the same boat. Maybe I just have no heart and you can just I've been put in that situation before, but there was like one tweet from this girl, and I think this is real, but it was like, she's allegedly one of the people that he scammed that it was like she tweeted out went from dating these little Bay Area boys to on a date with an NFL player. You're signed to never settle. That's got to be fake. And it's like, which player is it? She goes to one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. I'm just like, I actually don't care. I saw it. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't care. I don't care. Like that. Like at some point, you are being a willing, you're being willingly ignorant. I think. Yeah, I will say like growing up when I was younger, like I did have a couple of, you know, pretty boy friends that were like, I can get anything I want if I just talk to the right people. And it was always girls. It's like, yeah, I got to go pick her up from work later. And then he doesn't. And you know, I was hanging out with him before and I'm like adjacent to this and I feel bad. He's my friend. I got I accept his good qualities and bad. But what I see what he does to the people that he's basically it's scamming basically just getting favors from from people that you're in sort of a romantic thing with I feel bad. It makes me feel a bit yucky. But like that's that's where I've been more exposed to is like the guy who's just like she gave me 50 bucks. I ran her car on empty. I forgot to pick her up from work. I'm using her old cell phone. Like, and that that feels gross to me, but to me that's just a shitty boyfriend. Like, but he's not a boyfriend though. He's definitely not maybe she maybe he's got the maybe he's got the juice to make her think that but like that's not the case. So that that was really more what I've had experience with my my levels of like fraud acceptance are our con our acceptance. Like if you're scamming like old people on the internet. Like that's to me is like some of the lowest to below. Like they're they're like incredibly vulnerable. They don't know like they just don't know. Right. I just kind of feel like. A simple Google search would have solved this problem like a simple one. And again, I think there's willing fully willing full ignorance of these people that want to say they want to do this thing. They want to feel cool. They don't look it and do it all in this guy just starts. I don't know. Maybe again, maybe I'm being too cold-hearted, but this is the kind of like it's not a victim with crime. But it's like, hey, you kind of you kind of made your embed in this situation. It feels like people are having a hard time if he's saying like, hey, I've got this house. I've got this house and that he was his position was that like I have made to cover like how could you have these houses if you're on the practice squad, which I think there's probably a few people that he would have talked to that would have gone because there was some other women that were like, oh, he tried to come at me like and they would send all the text out. And that kind of stuff. And there was this one woman who's like, I have brothers and cousins that play ball like this doesn't make any sense. How was there not one clip of you ever in college? He was like, oh, because I only had one year at college, but then I was hurt. I'm the goodwill acting of football. So there's just a record of me. Yeah, just super mysterious. The 90s, this is easy. You want to go out and selfie and say you're hoping to get to call it from the postdocs. It works. Okay, but this is the story. Obviously, anyone that knew anything about sports and some of these women were sharing these, he's like, I always try to come at me. He was trying to get with me and they were just going like, there has to be a clip. There has to be some play like it doesn't just work out this way. And he had other videos like that he's blasting out to the masses going, you know, the whole way of getting involved with the NFL is if it was like some business, like some startup. Like there's not, you don't just have to get drafted. And he's like, I'm working out with Antonio Brown. I'm working out with Ty Rie Kill. I'm working out with was a Josh Browns, the other one. And then he was like, these are Hall of Famers. These are Hall of Famers. And they were just like, you're nice. He's like, and that's why I was able to get tryouts. He's like, but I was only going to do it if they were the teams that had a good chance to win a Super Bowl because it's like, I'm not. That's the other thing is he's like basically saying, I don't really want to do this. I don't want to play football in college. I don't want to play football. But I'm so nasty in my workouts. And then he was also 35. I think while he was saying it was 24, I'd say his hips moved a little bit more like he was a guy was 35. But for the guys that are like, hey, look at his, his toe drills. You should have known nobody would fucking know very few people would ever actually know the route on the beach is absurd as it looks. Most people wouldn't actually fucking know. So if you have your whole story down, which he's cover was that he'd made all of his money in business. And that's how we met all of these guys. You could see how somebody that doesn't know anything about sports could probably fall for this on top of hoping that it's true and convincing yourself to fall for it because it's like, oh my god, this guy's awesome. Especially when he's talking about shopping sprees and travel. One woman he was talking to, he was like, I want to come back and start having babies with you are you good. It was very informal. I feel like there needs to be a little bit more planning to have some kids here, but, you know, for lack of a better term. Did he have like a real job too? Like, what did he do something? He's 35. Like, what was he doing for, you know, 15 years of adulthood? I don't know if there was going to be an office guy or something and he did this thing on the side or it works out to the next athlete and it was like, I can kind of figure this out. Yeah, I think there was one stripper that he was talking to that he was mad that he was like, you didn't spend more time with me. He's like, I'm on my way right now to go buy Lamborghini. He's like I know that
general manager there. His name is done. Yeah. If you need to look that up. We're done to deal. But on the money front, like, why are you giving this guy money? If he's standing in front of these cars and he's supposedly in these mansions that he's living in and all this stuff, um, I think this is back to, wow. Is it I love you, man? Which movie is it where Steve would be our guy for that? I think Joban? Yeah. As a Jason Siegel needs, he needs some money to front something on the trip. Like the whole premise is like, is he actually going to scam Paul? He did. It was the billboards thing, right? Yeah, it was real. He was talking the truth. Yeah, it's a money tie. Yeah. Yeah. You were talking about yesterday because you, you're in this world more than I am because my question would be like, if you have all this money, why are you asking for money? And you're kind of like, well, you know, if you do have money, it doesn't mean you're always liquid and you have the yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, okay, that does actually, I guess makes sense. But if you're just like, you ask other people with money for money, you know, yeah, they'll ask like, do we have the, I know the hit rate probably wasn't awesome because there's people came forward. Like how many women account for the 1.3 million? Did he get, did he hit like one jackpot and a couple other supplementals? Or was he like, cruisin? Like is this, was this like a five? No, I mean, 40 people, 1.3 is what's reported. Who knows? Yeah, what it would be super impressive. If you piece together, 1.3 from like $10,000, that's like, get that guy somewhere where he's doing it for sales, right? I mean, I don't know. Yeah, no days off. But people, and by the way, on the liquid thing, there's nothing dumber than when people talk about like this guy's net worth. And then there's like, well, why did he need to do this? Like, do you people realize that these guy, like Elon Musk doesn't have a fucking checking account with that net worth number? A lot of the stuff is all on paper. And so there are people that are really, really rich that have moments where they need cash to do other things. And it doesn't mean that they're even remotely poor. I don't know if that's what this guy was doing. I think the probably the easier hack for him or scam for him would be, I have a chance like, Hey, I did this deal with this last guy. I put in 500,000. If you want to put in like 10k or whatever, this is going to go 10x in 12 months and all that stuff. And once you're, look, I'll admit to when I was broke, I remember watching these documentaries or whatever reading about these stories that these guys losing all their money. And I'd be like, Oh my God, like, how does that happen? Once you start to learn how like these investments work and you get pitched and then, Hey, this fund and this new thing and this is all going to happen. And what you have to do is you have to find somebody that you trust who has like a really good track record. But you can kind of see how it would happen if you're not on top of it at all. If you meet somebody who presents themselves as somebody, I mean, think about like all the athletes, but the thing is like the athletes get a bad rap with it because they're famous. And then they get kind of like hit with this tag of like they're all collectively stupid and let this thing happen to them. There are plenty of really smart guys that are rich that have great track records that then link up with like the wrong person for the wrong thing. And then they get to store it on some of these deals. And once you learn kind of how it works, I will admit there are times I'm like, Oh man, like I guess I could see how, how this could happen. And this feels like in a far more informal way where there's not as much checks and balances. You don't have your own financial advisor doing all this stuff. I imagine it probably wasn't really that hard for him to get the hopes up of all of these people. If the woman already thinks he's on the fucking 49ers and she's psyched that she's dating an NFL player, she's probably even more susceptible would be like, Oh, if I can only give you like 10 grand that you're going to five times it in this amount of time because that's the kind of deal that you did. And you've shown me all these props that you have that show this life that you're actually not really living. Like I think it is actually kind of simple if you're determined enough to do this. And that's where it actually does make me mad because I just think that if you're going to be this kind of person to do this to other people because you're such a fucking phony, you're such a fraud. You just, I don't, there's an entertainment level, but I'm never going to come back around where I, I don't know, like sure, they made mistakes and everything, but I don't really want to victim blame in this one. I think for the record, I think Kyle and I are like, this guy's awesome. No, I didn't think you were going to buy his jersey, but I, somebody should sell it though. I think the nineers was kind of a smart choice, which is just how many different guys you've seen on the field in the last couple of years. Like that was probably probably, it's like, if you had to pick one of the 32, that's probably the front runner. Packers would be a little tougher, smaller community. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. And we'll see what happens here. I can't imagine being on the Niners. Imagine being on the team and then seeing this stuff this weekend. I can't, that must have been. So I was like, was like Niners, Niners social team finally got a fun one. Yeah. Yeah. Tough, tough stretch. Yeah. 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[email protected]. We've got Steve couple thoughts. Start off here. Let's see here. Camp bar stool. Love the show. Been listening since dual threat. Those are like those that was like that EP that came out in the middle of some albums. Can't wait to get for football rolling. Why were we not at Camp bar stool? I will tell you that is not happening for me. If you guys want to go to Camp bar stool, go ahead. I was joking. I caught over 50 years old behind the scenes production guys. I was like, it would be funny if you were somehow able to get like this like incredible suite and you were saved by yourself and everybody else had to stay like in the pleasin like these. I wouldn't want to do that either though. See, I think that'd be funny. And I think you know, create some robberies who knows people can be upset with you. But yeah, there's just no way you're doing all that stuff. It does look fun. I'll be honest with you. Like the big blob, you know, launching people off that couch and it's fun. It looks great. So softball could take it or leave it. But there's some activities that I, yeah, I think it would be great. I think you'd be more interested. I, I'm orange and why did you get the ass for the international? The golf thing. No, I, I didn't get the ass for that. I would have done that. But as I said, I think you would be in on that if you got the ass. So if I was invited to that, I would do it. I don't know that I'm like, I don't know. Isn't it like people with millions of followers and stuff that you have to, like, that's a pretty big social media thing. So I don't, I don't know if I'm that guy. I think of the little loose. I think you got enough followers. I would say, I think you're okay. I don't know. But they just cut out. You were talking. Yeah, we couldn't hear you sound like it was going to be good though. You there now. Still not happy. You know, can't, can't hear Kyle. Sorry. It's been a while since I did that. It's just a big fucking new button. Sorry, guys. I was, I was saying, I don't think we get attached to something like that unless Ryan does it. And I think Ryan's bar is too high for us to end up doing stuff like that. So, um, you know, maybe a few more clips on the social side to get to get our presence up. But I think without, without Ryan's attachment, I think we just, we're probably going to stay home for stuff like that. Oh, that's definitely true. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying like, I don't, I don't want anyone at bars to be upset with me about that. But it was, it was kind of like, Hey, will you do some of the other stuff? And I was like, yeah, I'll do some of the other stuff. But it was like, maybe the golf, maybe, well, I went to, I think I'm going to go to the headquarters twice a year to do stuff. I did like seven things. And I was there with Chicago for the online. You were busy. We wait, we're in business aren't at camp on the store, right? I don't think so. No. So like, yeah, I don't know. Past a certain age, there's certain sleeping arrangements that I'm just
- Just not doing anymore. - Jerry O'Connor. - And I think everybody. - Yeah, Jerry was there. - He's the least around a lot, yeah. - Yeah, so credit to Jerry. They looked exhausted. - I'm sure they are. - Just exhausted. - Would you get along with anyone in like a sleeping share room situation? Like, who would you, who would, like, Kaby, Nick? You like, you can make those guys are funny. I'm trying to think of who, like, it's the funniest. - It's funny. - I don't know if I will sleep. I don't know. - I don't know. - I'm just trying to think of, like, the use that you would be, like, actually not be super bummed to be a roommate with. You and Titus are probably, like, a loner or so enough for how it could probably be fine, I think. - Just quietly reading in the bunk. He might be more lonerish than I am. - Yeah. - Thank you, right. So, yeah, that's the answer. Kyle, if you want to do it. - I was busy this weekend. I got ordained this weekend. So I had some shit I couldn't miss. - Oh. - Well, well, you could have scheduled around it if you were at the camp. - Yeah. - You guys do whatever you want. You don't have to check with me, and don't care. - I think we're kind of like a package deal, and a lot of things. - You think so? - Okay. - Yeah. - Little feedback. Girl who asked God to move. You guys missed the most obvious reason that she asked him. She wants a software to find out how much money he has, and if he'll say that he'll just pay for movers. - No, I don't think that's it. - All right. - You're changing the most obvious. - You're changing most obvious? - Yeah. - Okay. - This guy wouldn't have been taken by the 49ers guy. That's for sure. I'm sorry. I just hate those emails. Like you guys talked about it for 12 minutes. Hit on it. Here's the one thing you did. - The conspiracy theory behind themselves. - We do miss things. That's fine. - We definitely missed stuff. But now let's think. All right. Alone in a new city, acting like I'm 52 years old. 64, 170. Yes, I know I could fill out the frame. No gym stats of no, which should be obvious. Given the dimensions, but relatively good shape. Had the chest workout last Friday, hurt so bad. Heard the worst of any chest workout I've ever done. And I guess I could share the routine at some point. But I told the trainer at the end, I was like, hey, there's no more reps left. I'm like, it's done. If there's no reps, it's all over. And I was like, dying as I was done. I was like, was today even good? And he was like, all work is good work. So, you know, if you're in the gym and it's not going your way, all work is good work. Shout out to Paul. I love that. All right. Player comp, Tamara DeRose, an age 60 plane with his grandchildren, crafty score who is over-indexed on their mid-range game to compensate for lack of ability to dribble past anyone. The height usually attracts comp, such as Dirk, Yannis, Paul, Milsap, but it's often unwarranted. I've been a long time fan of the show. Never thought that actually someday would be one writing in. But here we are. As the subject line notes, I'm in a new city and the East Coast have been struggling to find the motivation to be sociable, to be a sociable new grad. I know this exact topic has been covered before, but I was wondering what your advice would be for someone who was struggling to find the motivation to hit the bars and enjoy themselves. Part of the problem is that because I'm so early in my career, I'd rather spend most nights working, you're getting ahead of the week so that I put myself in the best position possible, even if that means sacrificing the social aspect of my life. What is odd is that I am a fairly sociable person. I'm a fairly sociable person. It would not be considered an introvert, but for whatever reason, I have all of a sudden found going out and making friends to be a waste of time despite my better judgment. Any advice on how to get out of this old person mentality would be great. Well, I think there are cycles or whatever, like where you can say, hey, this is all I'm going to do. You want to prioritize work. Maybe at a very, very young age post-college for you at 22 to just go, hey, I don't want to do this. I don't want to stay in a crowd of bars. I don't want to go through all this stuff and have to go through the intro and the first inning of meeting a girl, which is like the toughest inning and all that kind of stuff. I totally get it, but if you go through this cycle for too long and then you look around and you're 27 and nobody wants to fucking hang out with you and you have not one guy to call in the town that you live in, this will be the origin story of why that happened. So I don't have any, it's up to you what you want to prioritize but we get all of these emails all the time. I'm like, I'm in a new town and I can't meet anybody. It sounds like other people are far more motivated. You're just checking out. You already have the answer to the test. You already know why this is happening to you and I would make it simple and I have more thoughts but before you guys jump in, it would just be, just be careful how long you get out of this road because if you actually do want friends and you want all these different things and by the way, it doesn't just have to be bars, okay? But don't go so long down this. I'm focused on prioritizing all the career stuff if the friendship stuff is important. For some people, it's just not important. Some people are just like, whatever, I don't care. I can have casual friends in the workplace. I don't think people should really go through life that way. But be careful once you start to taste the nectar, the nectar of, I don't know, I said it that way, of isolation, beware, is all I can tell you. What's more important to you is that meeting girls or meeting dudes, we're assuming you're a straight man here, right? Like, I don't know if meeting dudes at bars at nighttime, I don't think that works. Usually they're more pushy shovey at nighttime and they're not really, hey, what's your name, pal? If that's where you're going to meet women, but I mean, it's probably more important to have friends that you will continue with a long time for. So I don't know if it's some sort of intramural things. If you want to get to run, then, you know, when it gets, once it gets colder, you know, at the local middle school gyms or wherever they do that stuff on Saturdays, a run club came into the bar the other day, those people looked a little bit nuts to me, but they seemed like they were having a nice time. They all seem to be happy. Wait two times, I see what it was. But maybe that was just this one. But yeah, I think maybe you should prioritize some friends that you could lean on before, like just being like, I haven't had a date in a while. 'Cause that stuff will come and go, especially it takes longer to find the right one that you move through life with, but definitely I try to get some boys to hang out with. And that could be seeds planted at work, or again, there's all sorts of activities in your town. When you're at the grocery store, take a look at that bulletin board that you always walk past. Who knows? - Whoa, really? - Racking balls. - Racking balls. - Yeah, maybe try out racking balls. I don't know if you just posted like that. Instead of room for rent or bike for sale, just like friends question mark and then your phone number. You just pull those. I bet you don't do well. - I think that's how you get put on a little bit too well. - Yeah. This reminds me of our goat Tom Hardy. He had a great quote about this. He said, "Being alone for a long period of time is dangerous against addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don't wanna deal with people anymore." And that is true. I've noticed that like working from home, you know, like back in the day, we go into a studio and we talk and you'd meet new people and it was collaborative. And I do miss parts of that in my life. I mean, like right now it's easier 'cause I'm just, you know, take a shower, go downstairs, turn the laptop on, we chat a little bit, whatever. And I have to look for excuses to like, and having kids does kind of help 'cause I gotta go pick 'em up. Take care, we gotta go grocery shopping, yada yada. But there's like, it's really easy to just like, not go anywhere all day. Especially when you don't have anything to do or you don't have any friends that are pushing you to go out. And that, like, so I don't fall into that trap 'cause it really kind of is a trap. And as Ryan said, you're gonna wake up 10 years from now being like, okay, maybe my life was easier 'cause I didn't have to deal with some bullshit but I also don't know anybody now. And I have no true friend. - No, sit down and do lunch with Saul Brad. - Yeah, I'm in the hospital, you know, I get you. - Yeah, so I let him come up. - Now, this guy's feeding birds already by himself. If you wake up, if you look up, 10 years early, it's the highlight of your day. - Start naming him. - But I would echo the thing too. Like, it sounds like he's a Gen Z guy. He's fresh out of school, right? He said, so like, those people aren't drinking anyway. So you might as well, like, find some activities. Like, is there like a, do you like, I don't know? Yeah, do you like sports? Do you like, I don't know, are you into like, lower the rings? Do you like a large ring? There's a group in a city for like anything you wanna do. Like, find some things that you like doing and maybe try to like, go to those events. I mean, you can still be alone a lot. Like, I like being alone all the time. Like, my wife's like, what's, you know, what's your love language? We talk about that stuff all the time. And, you know, I don't know, birds is like, gaffster, whatever you gotta get out. And she, I was like, what's mine? She's like, you're just just being left alone. And I'm like, yeah, that's probably accurate. Like, I do like being left alone. But you can't be alone. - That doesn't sound like a love language. It just sounds like something you'd like. (laughing) - It was more just like, you like, you value your space. And I do value my space. I like to just kind of like be alone from time to time. Doesn't mean I wanna be alone all the time or not be married though. And that's what, again, this is the trap that you can't fall into. Because like, yes, that is a pretty attractive part of life. But like, it's, it kind of is gonna make you miserable in the long run. - Yeah, I'll tell you, I think like COVID, especially out here, 'cause it was so much longer and then to go from, like even if I were in different stretches of being social and Connecticut or not, and then, you know, with somebody or some sort of long distance thing or whatever, I was going into the workplace five days a week. And there's something to that. Like I liked getting up and going to work. I went in extremely early, 'cause I liked the job. I liked the whole process of trying to figure out, like, okay, what am I gonna do today and all that kind of stuff. And then as soon as the day was over, I'm like, I'm outta here. And then it's, you know, the rest of my routine. And there was always somebody around. But I would say, I mean, this is turning into something different here, but me working from home, and I don't wanna not work from home, but there are stretches where I'm like, wow. This has been, this has been. - We're gonna run here, that's not true. - Yeah. - Yeah. Although I hadn't seen like in Connecticut, I would do something where I'd be in the basement, and I'd go, all right, it's been, and I would count it. I was like, it's been 68 days since you haven't done this. Sat here, watched basketball games. But again, I was going into a workplace with all of these people walking around, saying hi to everybody. And like, look, there was still some juice to ESPN for you, where you walk into the building, and you go to the cafeteria, you're doing your routine, and it's granted once I got an office,
I was like pumped because I was like I can just go in there and hide and I just took the show like I need to get through and figure out what all the shows stuff's going to do. But I know that and I'm maybe I'm speaking to this guy, maybe I'm not, but I'm just telling you there can be some patterns that you can get into where it's easier, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it's better. Like easier isn't always better and my work day, my routine is easier and I'm not saying I wish I had to go into an office five days a week, but I think there'd be some things that would be a little bit better if that were the case. Yeah, I'd say plant some seeds at work and see if that works. I'm old now, so it doesn't matter. And then just try to like winter, maybe it's indoor golf league, you know, those are expensive if you don't have three other guys to go. So you might be able to jump into one of those for some for an hour or two bowling. I know I bring up bowling a lot, but you'd be surprised how fun it is when you try it. You know, we got cosmic bowling here on Friday nights, I think, so I try to, yeah, push yourself, like you said, it's not, it's not the easiest thing, but like push yourself to do one thing there. And yeah, try to see if you have any real relationships to work. That'll be sick. Cosmic bowling. Yeah, Google that. That's awesome back in the day. These are good ideas. I swear to God, they love the way you just said cosmic bowling, but I know you didn't like it, just trying to give this guy some actionable steps. Have you met friends long term at cosmic bowling? No, but I go there with friends. But I will say this about bowling. See, you already loaded up. I will say this about bowling, Alex, the bar there is always 10 times better than you think it's going to be. And there's a couple people that spit out there because it's always 10 times better than you think it's going to be. But I think you can become friends with anybody and you're fine with it. I think there's other people that have kind of like, like I think one of the best things about you is that you don't have to reach a minimum threshold, right? You don't have to have $10,000 in this account to make sure that you're not getting charged for physical checks. You look at people in a very open way. And so I think for other people, it might be like, how many friends am I going to meet at cosmic bowling? That's all. I'm just trying to do it to you. I just don't know. It's applicable to everybody. Okay. I rescind cosmic bowling. I feel like you're still taking as a critic. I rescind cosmic bowling officially. What is a good hobby to meet people though? I mean, swingers. Just look for the pineapples for that. I think anything that there's, they seem to get along pretty quick. Anything that they're signups for and especially something that's like, you know, I'm not saying we should go, you should go on the highest hill in town and look for with all the bird watchers at 6 a.m. But like something that they need, maybe to fill out a team for, I don't know, like there's got to be some sort of thing. I did that. Yeah. I probably picked town pickup hoops. I would play it in the summer league and I was playing with these like dudes that were still in college. And like if I was, you know, they're great dudes that would have never been them otherwise. They're awesome. Like if I was in a different place in my life, we'd be grabbed beers afterwards. It was fun. Like more people are playing botchyball in my life now than ever before. It seems like so. That's a thing. You're young too. That age group, like those guys are just dying for his uses to just do stuff. So like it's actually, once you kind of like get in, like it's going to be easy to just like have activities to do, you just have to find that in. Yeah. You need the one. You need the one. But some guys, you know, can be really tough, like this guy's not cool enough. I don't want to hang out with him. This one's, I don't know, man. This one's so bad. I'm not even, it's like, it sucks. I'm going to double check. I'm going to research this one, I'm going to run it through a machine or something. Is that fair? I think I'm going to hold off on this one through the AI machine. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's pretty bad. So like the pressing batter. Yeah. It's depressing. I mean, it's not like we had a pretty depressing one on Thursday last week. I think we should need breaks in those anyway. Yeah. That was a tough one. Look, we all know NFL Sundays are sacred. And so we found the perfect way to make sure we don't miss a single snap of NFL action. 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All right, how about 35 of my mom owns me. Fellows 6, 2, 2, 10 former college hockey player, father of two and built like a refrigerator box, back story, married two kids as you recall, two year old son, six month old daughter. What's going on here? Did this guy hit us up? All right. My cousin, we're not all that close, getting married late George in New York at the end of September. Late George could spot it, I guess. I'm trying to figure it out. And if I'm being reasonable or selfish for the sake of being obvious, going as a family would mean taking both kids on a plane for the first time to flights each way, looking all things necessary to keep two small humans alive running a car driving an hour and a half, staying in an Airbnb, setting up two separate baby rooms, the wedding itself and doing the whole thing in reverse a few days later. Boy, when you put it like that in two and a half sentences, even without anything else going on, I can't make the math work. The occasion of the cousin wedding doesn't justify the chaos in my mind, but we're also dealing with a pretty serious situation with our house, leaks, mold, house, down to studs, temporary housing, and maybe relocating again. So my tolerance for voluntarily adding more chaos right now is extremely low. My first choice is to go by myself. I'd still be there for the wedding and the idea of one or two nights alone in a cold, dark, quiet hotel room where nobody needs anything for me. Sounds incredible right now. Boy, you're speaking the 65 on the AC as soon as you drop your bag. Yeah. See how cold this can get. I like it. Stanford Steve said it's a 55, you wake up with a strep throat and it'll be like, so what? We had a share of room once in Mississippi. I woke up the next day. I was sick for like four days. Yeah. I was like, dude, are you serious? Did you put it? Did you hack into that? Like a golf cart? Right. I like it cold. That was when Gottlie booked us a room for Camp Newton's first game, Auburn at Mississippi and then couldn't make it. And then we showed up. There was only one hotel room. And then we were like, how were we? It's a three of us going to sleep in the two beds, but it's good thing Gottlieb missed it. What happened? Wrong kindness. Someone said he did it on purpose. Yeah. That sounds like a very Gottlieb thing to do with others. We were like, what? We were like, yeah. Two rooms. We were like, it was only one. Look at the tough place. Start real. Tough place. You get a hotel room. Last minute. Maybe not Gottlieb. People say that at all. I'll never forget that. Then driving back. Just nasal drip. The whole way back to Pasco-Lusa. I was like, why did you have to set it up? Hoth. Because he's a beast. He is a beast. It's more I hear about him the more I'm totally clear on that. He was the next day. He was like, mad at me for being upset. It was cold. Yeah. I was like, what the fuck did you do last day? He's like, what? Adapt. Right. Word of a blanket. Choose to not be sick. Dickhead. Sorry. Man. What was Rose Bull? All right. All right. But not because I don't want to be around my family. I think I'm just tired of the real complication and why I'm coming to the tripod of understandings my mom. She's assumed a sort of unelected, unofficial matriarch role in the family. I know it should be very unhappy if I say the kids aren't coming. More importantly, she'll try to negotiate the decision of death. Different flights. Hell. God. I know exactly what you're talking about here. She's sleeping arrangements, whatever makes the trip technically possible. She has a PhD in guilt trips and taking things absurdly personal. Most likely I'll say something snarky, rude or even worse because I'm sick of the conversation and I have a hard time being direct and honest with her because I know the reactions I'll get. So I usually just give into what I know she wants or avoid the discussion entirely. So I'm being unreasonable here. Is this one of those family events where you just suck it up and bring everybody? Is it fair to say I'll come alone? The kids are staying home and this really isn't up for an negotiation like a big boy. Even as sorority managed, the family expectations of his own kids helped me. Steve, do you ever lie to your kids or sick to get out of something? I have not done that yet, although man, we just had a stomach bug that ripped through our house. You said that. I know you mean it. It was tough. I thought, you know, like, you know, when you're so sick, when you're like, I'm never going to feel good again. That's, I was really, I was in that, I was like, I don't even know what feeling good feels like. I was like, well, it's been so long and it only been like 24 hours. It was like, it was like a pretty, it was like a 36 hour bug, you know? And I didn't, you know, I wish I, how many times did I call you during it? I had it. Well, it was like a Thursday. So I had some slack messages and I was like late getting a couple things you guys and I felt bad, but I would do it. I was.
bed all day. I couldn't eat. And then you know, it's one of those situations too, where like, you know that you're feeling worse because you're not eating, but you just have absolutely no appetite. Like it was just a disaster. So anyway, long story short, I haven't really used it as an excuse. I'm sure I will in the future. But I do have experience with the mom thing. Now, my mom is a lovely woman. Shout out to Ange, but she does, she is a little, and she listens to these bosses. She'll hear this, but I, you know, I don't think I'm speaking out of turn. Oh, no. She's a guilt stripper. Like, you know, she, she knows kind of how to be like, oh, you're really not going to come to this thing. You know, the one, the thing that she does, like, they live up in a chatroom in the case, and they have a lovely ranch house, like three bedrooms. And, you know, I've got three sisters. My sister just had a kid and she wants all of us to, like, come up and stay in this house. I've got two kids. One of them needs to sleep in a room by themselves. We have a newborn. And you're like, mom, I want to do this. But like the logistics just do not make sense. And do you do not, do we not get a grasp on this? And, but it's just like kind of the constant sort of like, oh, really? Okay. Okay. And she's disappointed. Like kids would know how to stay. Right. Am I a bad guy now? So I don't want to go hang out with mom. It's not that. So moms are kind of good at that. Sometimes, um, I would say you just have to put your put down, man. If you, if you're, if you are allowed to go by yourself, that's the move. 100% that's the move. Yeah. Because like I, I, I, you know, traveling for weddings, kids, that whole thing, nobody actually, it's also amazing how when people who have kids and then they like grow out of it, they forget how hard that kid phase is. They don't, they don't like understand that like bringing them as it's hard. Like, did you just go through this like 20 years ago? How do you understand how difficult this, this, this whole process is and what you're asking me. So I think you just, you got to watch out for yourself. I think that's whatever you're happy is is whatever you feel like you're comfortable with doing. And by the way, if we're talking like ages, the young baby is probably going to be fine on a plane. I think we flew with, with our, when I think when Marlow was maybe three months, it's like bottle up, flight, bottle down and they sleep in the middle. The problem is the two year old's going to be an issue. And then if you got two of them, there's just no way that flight is going to be enjoyable for you and anybody else around you. So not only you helping yourself, you're helping the rest of that plane. So I get a lot of your look out for yourself. And you know, if you kind of piston family members off, you do, but don't get over it. It's not the other way. Yeah. If you're not going to have to do a week of repairs when you get back home, after you left your wife with those kids, you know, for the whole thing, as long as she's like on board and it's not like, I guess if you really need to go, you can just like, you know how to read that situation. If that's not going to be the problem for you when you come back, yeah, I'd go out there and I just lie to my mom, say, the kids are sick because people respect that. They really do. They back right off. Yeah. When he started talking about how she was going to like plan it for him, I was like, Oh, because I know that person and it makes you even more mad in a way. It's like, Hey, it's clear. I don't want to do this. So now you're going to start. There's actually only a 45 minute layover in DC and like this will, this will work and you're like, you're missing the bigger point. What I'll say about guilt trippers is they don't really ever stop. So if you don't bring the kids, you show up solo. It's a cousin's wedding. It'd be fine. You know, you show up, you explain all the stuff that you have going on at home. She can do whatever she wants. You have to figure out a way to be immune to it because here's the thing is there's going to be something next summer that she's going to do to you all over again. And I don't know that it stacks up. I don't know that it's like a credit score where the guilt increases because you didn't do this. But like what's going to change? So it's going to happen. Even if you brought the kids and everything was great, know that there's probably another scenario looming in the future where she's going to do the same thing all over again. So you're like, this didn't even repair anything. It didn't fix it didn't change the course of time. It's just what she does. So if you can kind of look at it that way going, Hey, if I bring him, she's still going to do this to meet some other event. So I'm not going to bring him and she's going to lay into me and it won't change anything. So fine. And then you'll be in your room at peace and get to sleep in until 815. Yeah. As long as you don't need to be right, it's awesome. Remodel going on. Once you learn that you don't have to be right and you can just say sorry's or yeah, you're right. Didn't think about that. You need to do this, man. You may need to have that like little breakthrough. I remember like the first time I realized I could probably tell my dad to just I wouldn't want to ever I would never say to my father, fuck off. But like, it took me a long time as the oldest kind of just go like, yeah, I disagree, man. Yeah. And it was like, I remember that. I remember that combo the first time you're like, whoa, I could just not do this. I could say no. Yeah, I think you're wrong. And I'm not doing it. I think I'm way later. Yeah, because I don't like I don't mind that my dad was still in my head to the age that was late. I think when you're the oldest is something that definitely happens you to, but I might not even have been right about whatever it was. And I was just like, yeah, okay, cool. Don't want to do. Appreciate your concern out like I'm not I'm not going to argue with you anymore. I'm not doing what you're asking me. You bring up a good point earlier, though, too, about the guilt, tripper thing like they don't they don't it doesn't get any really better in my opinion. They don't. It doesn't get any better or worse. Like you can say yes or no and do all these things. And they're just going to be the same baseline almost every single time. You know, like they're exactly if you start saying no, they're still going to keep asking. And if you do a bunch of this stuff, they're still going to keep asking. So you just pick what you want to do. And it's probably going to be the same for you no matter what happens. God, what were you like, 12 the first time you're like, I actually disagree. You know, it's just just it's different because parents were divorced forever. So I just had two totally different audiences. And one, that was like, well, what's going on over there? And I'm like, you know, what the fuck? I'll tell you what's going on over there. And then I get all jazzed up to come back and be like, well, you know, I heard something else actually. So that was like, that was a little bit tougher when you're splitting the week in half. It was it was kind of fucking crazy, honestly. But yeah, that's where you get to talk about all that stuff. No, I was like the I was like the silent guy, but Anna splits. I don't think I was there that long, but I was I was not sharing. They're kids crying in there. Man, they're kids crying in there at lunch. Come on. No, that sucks. That's a lot for you today, man. You pulled me out of here for this shit. So I would definitely have sloppy Joe lunch. It wasn't often. I feel like or your top three lunch school lunch, because I got it's right off the bat. I would say, triple-decker grilled cheese day was never had that. It must be some Connecticut piece today. And I don't know where to eat today. Yeah. We had tacos every once in a while. I mean, it was like the bare minimum for tacos, but yep. Oh, probably the garlic bread sticks. I kind of like the corn. It seemed like it was lame to like the little portion of corn, but I fucked with it. I don't think we had sloppy Joe's, but anyway. You're lying with a sloppy Joe. You're like Marcel Marcel the rest of the day. That ring a sloppy Joe season around your face. Did I ever tell you guys this to you? I forget if I brought this one. What are you talking about? I used to sell my lunches at lunch to buy hot lunch. My mom would make a sandwich. I would sell it for like three bucks to buy hot lunch. Damn. Were you, did you not want to be a bringer or did you just you really appreciate it? I'm not a cold. I wasn't really a cold cuts guy, especially like I'm going to brown back all day. I know. I know. Even to this day, I'm about a huge cold cuts guy. So I would just, yeah, this guy had two 53 bucks and we trade fact ships in there too. Man. Yeah. I think it was like two 50 for hot lunch back then, right? So I'm like, I don't know. It just seemed like you were less cool than the hot lunch kids. Like I would have sometimes I'd bring too. And it's like, yeah, nice. A pulverized peanut butter and jelly. The great. Nice. It's all purple now. But even just showing up there, you know, with your, you sit right down with the bag. I don't know. Just something about it seemed like less cool. I cared too much. You know, my parents cared too much. You guys are just in the world figuring life out. And I got my bag lunch. That's just how I never really put in the words until right now. But that's always felt that way. I'm never having a little bag lunch episode when I was really young because my dad was the type to like, if we were going to get peanut butter, we'd have the peanuts ground in the health food store. And then it would be in the tub. And I'd be like, when I go to my friend's house, their peanut butter seems to taste way better than this horse shit. Yeah, but your dad was ahead of his time. Now that's now that's cool. Yeah, you got to go to the vocabulary and yeah, it was a cool way to do it. No, open up the bag. I think I just like opened my bag up and there was, I don't know if it was gorp. I don't even think it was called that back then. And then there was some sort of like homemade peanut butter thing and then like likely a vegetable or something. Maybe yogurt. It sucked. If you were eight, you were like, is there a therapist here? I can talk to you right now. It's like it sucks. So yeah, I know. I remember just kind of like opening my bag and I was like staring at it and I was upset. And then I remember the teacher coming over and she was like, what's wrong Ryan? I was like, I just hate my lunch. I still remember. I was like, I hate this. Why do they keep doing this to me? Yeah, it's like, I don't like any of these things. We never get anything good. Never get anything good over there. I'd like rather just buy lunch and that looks like shit. To like early 80s. Not lunch. Forget it. Yeah. So I remember like another teacher came over, you know. Like I'd shit myself with something. Okay, let's give a couple of people over here. And I'm going to treat this one. I remember like one of the other teachers being like, oh my god, you have like that granola or you have that yogurt or oh my god. Is that is that homemade peanut butter on 12 grain? And I remember like looking at her being like, you're fucking old. Of course you think this is cool. Like I'm eight. The kid's going to
fucking fruit roll up. That one over there is like something Capri Sun, was that from the future? Is that astronaut shit? I was like, I got. I got my water. Fucking water. I want some, I want some flavor. Oh, man, that is funny. Just look it around. Nobody trade with me. I was like, the guy in prison with no cigarettes, you know, just fucking looking around going, oh, man. So I want that to be my life. Yeah. Never forget the other older teacher coming over, trying to talk me up. Just hype you up right now. What's in that gorp? Yeah, what was it? You go to the dead shows. You want to fucking bring this with you? Anyway, all right, that'll do it for life advice. Thanks to Sury, thanks to Tom, thanks to Kevin and Kyle, who I'm going to Google Cosmic following. I'm going to go buy myself next week. How's that sound? Check out the bar, dude. You'll be surprised. I think we should start doing that to each other. Assign each other homework assignments. Not like, hey, this will suck. Next challenges. Yeah, I thought you were going to get your use. We're together. We should do it. We should do a Cosmic following video. All right, done. Cosmic full. I think I should go buy myself and see if I meet anybody. What was the one you had to watch a movie, right, Sury? Oh, yeah, what was it? I didn't want you to feel the dreams, right? Right. Oh, yeah, the dreams. Yeah. Yeah, it was once feel the dreams. I like know what the movie is. I did rhyme on the under on like 30 minutes before he taps out. He's going to text. He's going to text me in 15 minutes going. Are you serious? I'm fucked off, right? Do you want to do this on Wednesday? I could do this on Wednesday. I could do it tonight or tomorrow. I don't know. Sounds like you're getting over something. Sounds like you got wiped out. Pretty good by that book. We're in the clear. All right. Sounds good. Thanks again, everybody. Rhyme for still a show. Full episodes on Netflix. Please subscribe. Barser Sports. [BLANK_AUDIO]
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