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September 4, 2025 121 mins
Football season is officially here, and The Sports Cave is locked and loaded for kickoff! Host Sam Freas and the Crew bring the heat in this high-energy episode as they gear up for the Dallas Cowboys’ season opener and dive into the wild ride that was Week 1 of college football.

Cowboys Season Opener
With less than 24 hours until kickoff, Sam wrestles with the eternal fan dilemma: watch at home or brave the chaos of public Cowboys fandom? Cap accurately points out that the fanbase feels eerily quiet this year—has apathy replaced the usual “this is our year” hype? The Micah Parsons trade still looms large, and predictions fly about how many sacks he’ll rack up in Green Bay before facing Dallas in Week 4.

College Football Week 1 Recap
Drama, upsets, and standout performances—Week 1 delivered everything fans could hope for. Sam breaks down the biggest storylines, previews the Thursday night showdown in Philly, and celebrates the return of football’s gravitational pull on the show’s run sheet.

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While football takes center stage, baseball still finds its way into the Cave. From playoff races to local buzz, Sam and the crew keep one eye on the diamond as the MLB season barrels toward October.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
B oh Light the Beam, Boys and Girls.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
We are finally back for a full regular program. It
feels like it's been a month since we've actually had
a run sheet. If you missed last night's show, that
was certainly a show with no run sheet, but it
was a lot of fun broadcasting live here on the
North side of San Antonio. Once again, this is the

(00:36):
sports Cave with biggest Puma. I am your host, Sam Freeze.
Where fellas we find ourselves officially less than twenty four
hours away, Dude, from the kickoff of the NFL season.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
What I'm wondering if I want to go out or
if I want to stay in, Like I can't watch.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
If it was any other team but the Cowboys, I
would go out.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I can't watch the Cowboys in public.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's it's it's not that cowboy fan embarrasses you.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
One thousand percent. Yeah again, And.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
That's why I like watching them in public.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm sure, yeah for you, Yeah, I'm sure that's the enjoyment.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
But Cowboy fans like smart enough this year, I have
not heard this is our year, and I.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Think you're breaking my heart.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
You're confusing a newfound level of intelligence with the apathy
and nihilism that has overtaken the fan base.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Because I've noticed, I've.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Noticed ruining it for me. They're ruining it for me.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
You know what, if nothing else, it does make me
kind of happy that other fan bases aren't getting as
much enjoyment because finally Cowboys fans are apathetic.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I've had thirty years of this greatness, that this is
our year, dak pressed by, we got pickings, you could
still We're gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Know.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I have not heard anybody make the argument of we
are going to the championship or.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Very low percentage.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Speaking, they have the very low to the tune of
the third lowest odds to be in the Super Bowl
this year. That's your Dallas Cowboys. Speaking of Micah, there
is still a sliver of the fan base. Uh I
say more than a sliver, a good chunk that are
one happy the Cowboys traded Micah good distraction.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Get rid of him.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
He's too worried about his podcast. He doesn't play football,
he's never had can't stop the run. There's that nuy
and that guy also is the guy that is look
I believe. I think we're a better team without Micah.
I this might actually be are here. It's it's getting
smaller and smaller.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
But like any fan base.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
SUSI fifteen sacks over in green Bay, there's gonna be
a different.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Green Bay comes to Dallas Week four. How many sacks
does Micah have at that point, I think three games played.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Before three games play, I think he might have five
or six.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I'm gonna say four and a half. I'd say the
over unders at four. Probably, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
You might get five. I mean, I mean, who's green Bay?
I wonder if they're playing a layup that's right.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'd have to I'd have to look.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I don't know. The only one of those four games
I know off the top of my head is the
one against Dallas.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Uh, you'll also be happy to know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
For some reason, I look at you and I think
this might be a day you celebrate.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
This is the day I celebrate.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
It might be And I promise it's not dessert related
or anything.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's not a personal shot. It's not thank you, LG.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
That was I'm a savory person that market so much.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, it's not Uh, you know all you can eat
steak day or it's not what what the other day
it was a National Fahida Day a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
They get me, man, They're so easily convenient everywhere. They're delicious,
perfectly designed food. Yes, you just roll it up, man.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Now it is.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
National Bowling League Day. You look like a guy that
might have.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, I'm the guy that gets bored and I try
to toss the ball halfway down the okay, like I
get the lightest ball and I sit there, put just
two fingers in for all the ladies out there, just.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Too couldn't even make it five minutes.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
And I tried to get that ultra spin. But I
saw this one guy I played with him. I don't
know if it was like high school in MacArthur. We
got it one week and bowling remember that LG. Was
it one week or two weeks?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
What was it like curriculum? Oh for p Yeah, we
got to go to Yeah we did.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Take all, take all us like way Field drip to
the bowl.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
No, for us, they just set up alleys, set up
lanes on the gym floor, sir, Okay, yeah, no, My
my farm town didn't have a.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Now that I say, they give you a peach basket.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Bowling Alley was seventeen miles away in Granbury, Texas.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
And you had all the stoner kids, the proud boys
the back of the bus and stuff, and they didn't
have like the lower glass. It was the football bus.
So the coach drove it and the lower glass window.
We're all sudden there sneaking, like a little pipe hits
off the bag.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I was like, yeah, ude. The coach was like, if
I have to deal with your ship like in this alley,
you're gonna pay for it. We did it before we
got in there.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Closest I can closest I can compare when I was
in when I was paying tuition at one of the
what did I say the other day, I think we
counted them. It was like eight or nine schools, colleges
or universities in Texas that I paid tuition to at
one point or another along that winding, long, strange trip.

(05:45):
When I was at Tarleton, Just Army, Tarleton, Carlton State.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
It starts with the tea.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I always always Charleton just beat Army.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Last week up in up at West Point, when I
was there, we took me and a buddy decide did.
We were going to take a bunch of summer classes,
but just all of the like we took golf, We
took both all of the kinesiology classes you needed to
become a coach. Yeah, so we were just gonna knock
them out during the summer, including ball aerobics and ballroom dancing.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
We had to do that.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
One funny story. Yes, you remember Matt Lioner when he
came back for his senior year of college at USC
that was the only class he took. Oh my god,
because all he had, he just had to take something,
and so he took.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
But me and my buddy give the.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
People what they want to hear. Did you wear spandix?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
No, we didn't have to dress the part. But unfortunately,
because it was a summer class, there weren't a whole
lot of kids in the no way in the ballroom
dancing summer school. So there was an odd amount of
or an amount of men boys compared to girls. That

(07:00):
not every girl got a boy to dance with. But
it was the other way around. Where don't you gay
up my universities, buddy, So the numbers, my buddy, this
is funny, My buddy, Uh Gaston McDorman.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
He's a head football coach now here in the Great
State that I think.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Where's he at now? Anyway, he was taking the class
with me. He was the one that we hatched this idea.
And so there's an odd amount of boys and girls,
meaning two boys were gonna have to team up. And
so the teacher is going around asking everybody, you know, like, hey,
do y'all mind bla blah blah blah, and everyone was
saying no. And once I realized what was happening, I

(07:40):
immediately I was like, hey, Gaston, watch this, and I
held my hand up. I was like, uh ma'am, yeah,
we don't mind, We'll team up. That's fine. And Gaston's
of course pissed off instantly, as you would assume one
would be, and as a retcher or retaliation, he made
me be the girl the whole the whole six week class.
So I learned ballroom dancing from the female perspective. And

(08:04):
when the when the teacher told us to switch, Gaston
was like, I don't see anybody else. There's no other men,
no other boys or girls switching roles in this class,
Like we're doing this.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
One time, one time, and one time.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
And that's it. But long story short, we ended up
taking a bowling class, and I just remember it was
the defensive line coach from the football. It was very
small town high school, but just college level teaching the
bowling class. And it was literally if you show.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Up, you're good, You're good.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah. And so that was health class for us, like
literally like had a collection of VHS's that's a predating
my age and the coach. We literally watched movies every
class except for two days, which was the half a
semester test and then the final and he wrote the

(08:57):
answers on the damn board.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
You gotta love it.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
I was like, everybody got the dude he told him.
He was like, hey missed one or two of them. Okay, guys, yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Gotta throw him. You gotta throw him off the scent.
I think I think my health class was the first
time I saw the matrix. Actually, oh yeah, we had
another coach teaching health class that had no time. He's
too busy scouting Kennadell for the weekend matchup, trying to
figure out how he's gonna stop Everman's run game. He

(09:27):
doesn't give a damn about health class. Oh oh, well
as I say.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, I actually fell asleep through health class during the
Oh that was the other time you have to teach
here that I'm not gonna make sucks all fellas.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, oh man, I almost didn't make it tonight. I
forgot down at the Alamodome. It's a forty three thousand,
I think over forty.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Three that weekend.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
The week Yeah, beware of the traffic. Beware of all
the traffic, you hipsters.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's not even the traffic.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Well okay, yes it's the traffic, but it's also every
single show. No matter what's happening at the Alamodome, the
city can never consistently coordinate what streets are closed off,
what streets are open. It's a different It's a ship
show every time, and when it's a big show like this, dude,
it's every man, woman and child for themselves. It is

(10:24):
down there.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Running around Sofi Stadium trying to get over to the
other side, not realizing he had to go back up
and around to get on the other Yeah, there's no
I'm asking everybody who works there in like a yellow shirt, Hey,
how do I get to these seats? I don't know, Yeah,
I don't know. I'm just here the check man the worst.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's exactly what it is. So I ask one officer
on our street if I can go this way and
get out, and he goes, you should be able to.
I was like, well, it's I mean, I live here.
I know I should be able to, but I'm asking
is it open? So I decided to risk that, got
down to the end of that. No, it's blocked off,
But then I had to turn around. Eventually made it

(11:04):
out of downtown.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Almost lost my pick.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Man, are you kneeling another draft?

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I am doing the final draft of the twenty twenty
five season.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, while you were on the clock for potentially the
last time, let me set up the show for tonight
we do have.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
I am so excited it is.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
This is our first official show of football season. Yes,
we've got, of course, a weekend recap to get to,
got some weekend sports to catch up on, even though
it's Wednesday. I got the cow Notes, we got to
get into preview the game up in Philly tomorrow night,
and then main segy college Football Week one recap.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
A lot of drama out there. Man, I love it.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, it's uh it makes this mixed filling out this
run sheet a hell of a lot easier now to
have the gravitational pool of football as a topic, and
of course lightning round to close it out. But before
we go any further, we've some business to get to
with LG. Here, LG. Before we put you under the

(12:05):
bright lights, tell the good people. I saw we are
two subscribers away from hitting five hundred to what Tell
the good people how they can be one of those
two people. Make it too to get us over the top.
That's very fast and furious. Point break is the same movie.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
There we go.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
You can hit that subscribe button. We are two two away.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
The delicious subs A buddy, we need to We're gonna
get to that's my mission tonight. We need to Can
we get to?

Speaker 7 (12:40):
Man?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Well, we said five hundred bye by the start of
football By the start of footballball, we officially Cowboys will
be kicking off twenty three hours from right now. We
have twenty three hours to get two more subscribers.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Come on, Cowboys fans, I need you to like, hope,
be hopeful this season.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
But you see two of those subscribers pop in. I
need you to break in with some kind of breaking news.

Speaker 6 (13:05):
I have an alert that pops up when we get subscribers.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
But I don't know if it's working well a little.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'll, as LG said, if you aren't already subscribed, just
click that button on YouTube. It is super.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Easy, super free. The best thing about it is it's free.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
If if it wasn't free, I would feel bad about
the content we're providing. About free level, I would say
slightly above. I think we're slightly above.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
I got to take time out of my day. You know,
you know, make this look good.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yes, yeah, yeah, you know I got you look elegantly,
not to put together.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
But yeah, But LG Man, I don't know if you
want to show she shared some news with me.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
I think you shared some news with the world.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
I think you put it out there publicly.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I've been, I've been.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
You're not a member of the media thread.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I guess.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
You don't get the newsletters.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Give it time, you know. I still want that media pass.
I've never seen cops be so nice as someone.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's amazing when you.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Have part of the media, the media.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
If you get a like Wayne's World, it was like
medias media pass.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
You gotta walk.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
In the back back alley.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Subscriber there's one one more.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Is going to be our five hundred.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
Thank you, Eric Price.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Gotta get our five hundred. Man, you will get a
special something.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
Don't don't be promising anything.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Will go full larback Mop for his.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
First I've already done that, done that.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
I think.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
That.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Uh No, LG. Tell the good people, what's the what's
the news.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
I'm going to be starting a new job in about
two weeks as the audio visual technician for Spurs, Spurs
Sports and Entertainment. It's a mouthful Spurs Sports and Entertainment.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
System of things. You've been drafted and I'm like, what
is this?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Fans?

Speaker 8 (15:23):
They sent me an email that said I was drafted
to the team, So I will be handling a bunch
of audio and visual duties for Spurs and s A
f C.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Well, look, I think I want you to be crowd
watching and get some gold out there.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
I think everybody who knows uh, I think everybody who
knows of LG's resume would agree they could not have
hired a more fitting employee for that position. Eli A Yeah,
LG will absolutely kill that. I hope you get to
do no offense to s A f C. I hope

(15:58):
you get to do more Spurs games then soccer games.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
But there's more Spurs games than there are soccer games.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
That does there.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Season ends in November.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
So soccer right down the street though.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Man, oh yeah, I guess that is well, don't give
too much away soccer stadium.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
He actually lives in that quarry.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
There were some dude with a like a Charlie Days
like he's just like sitting there pieces all.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
No, that's literally that's where the sports cave is. It's
in the side of the quarry right there by the
soccer right where they have the tailgates, exactly under the
bridge down there bridge.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, behind the tea gardens. Man, all jokes and storyle.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Congrats l G that Uh, that'll be a lot of fun. Man,
it'll be fun to uh potentially maybe even.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
I told us about we get media credentials. Let's get
in there. I got some questions, I got some questions.
I'm hold them responsible, I'm holding them capable.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I have a new goal. I have a new goal
for the next six months, and that is to somehow
get you into a press pool.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
I will be ready.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
I'm holding I'm holding to it.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, you're gonna get in there and get in front
of and be like, mister, mister VICI.

Speaker 9 (17:16):
You don't you don't know me, Sir, you don't know me. Man,
you shot three for twelve. But those three shots you
made looked really good. They looked really good tonight. I'm
sure you'll be better tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
You went three for six beyond the arc. How's it
feel to be fifty for once?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
This look as someone everyone thinks they're prepared for.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
You get in that scrum for the first time and you're.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Talking to as you're talking to a experienced desbian. Sure
you know I was on you. T's one act of
UT's drama stage, which is a whole full auditorium, very intimidating,
and yeah, as a freshman. As a freshman.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Again, I think when you're a freshman in high school,
you don't understand Like your butterfly, surely, but you're still
so innocent. You don't understand the pressure or the stress
of an environment that.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Some people craze, some people fear like coward to it.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
I command that pressure.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'm the captain again, six months goal.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
I'm gonna try to get you in front of that.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
So we are in front of it.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Man, We're gonna so we can get some tape of
you melting down in front of Kelton Johnson.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Why are you still on the team, Kelton?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Exactly exactly. No, let's get into it tonight before we
get two g whoa, whoa?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Can we report five?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Five?

Speaker 10 (18:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Look, fellas we met.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
We we set a goal when we did this the
first show.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
I'm back. We promised you the first show of.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Sports Cave two point zero. Here March thirty days have
September April thirty first, the last day of March. We
said I want to get to five hundred subscribers by
football season, by.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
The couldn't have done without cut it a little close,
but baby, thank you to now the five hundred subscribers
we have so lg that means we'll be opening super jets.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Uh yeah, I think we have to apply for I'm
I'm gonna get on it right now.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
We'll see what happens. Also, you boys would be interested
to know the whole no tax on tips and the
new big beautiful bill that extends to content creators. Hey, baby,
so any tips any time we're at five? Oh man,
I feel bad for the one. Well, you're building us
to one thousand. Now you're the first building block towards

(19:51):
a thousand, you were the first one. Uh. Now, let's
get into the weekend recap because we have much to get.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
What National Day was it.

Speaker 11 (20:00):
Day?

Speaker 4 (20:00):
I was totally missed though.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I uh, I haven't been bowling in forever.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
But I do love some big Lebowski and one of
my favorites.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I mean, who doesn't wee Can.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
So it turns out if you listen to the show
last week when we came on and did a little
bit over an hour talking about the Mica trade, yeah,
I'm I might have been more sick than I realized.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
You did have COVID.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, it wasn't COVID. Every test I took came back.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Rags and stuff.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Now, granted, every test I took only included one test initially,
and then I are talking about it was negative I
took when I started feeling bad that that day that morning,
when uh, when I was coming over here to do
the show, took a COVID test.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
It was negative.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
So I thought, I'm fine to do the show, get
over here, and almost die about forty five minutes into
the episode.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
But no, the uh, the lords is like he's like
the valid, valid reason, because it did turn out I
I was.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
I was quite sick. The next three days were pure hell,
it was.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
It was. I am not I mean, I'm not a
good sick I don't know anyone who is.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
But I think I'm particularly why a lot of Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Turned into a giant baby pretty much, pretty much, pretty much.
Uh So I talked about it last night. Yeah, the
as I was bedridden with illness that was not COVID.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
A lot of people getting COVID right now, a.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Lot of people spiking in the Central Texas region. As
I was bedridden, that's where we decided to watch the.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
First seven chronological order.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, Diesel, I talked about it last night during the
Fantasy draft.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
But yeah, no, there was there.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
It wasn't part of the draft preparations, which we will
talk about our draft grades here.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
In a minute.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
But no, it Look I'm not gonna lie every now
and then watching bad action movies.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh yeah, it lifts it.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
It does something for you metaphysically.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
He thought it like lifted your sickness up.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Buddy. I felt like I had the adrenaline pumpings.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I mean, I went from thinking I couldn't make it
from the bed to the toilet, thinking like I'm ready
to take down an international arms dealer by flying, driving
a Dodge charger out of an airplane.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
If the rock can hold onto a helicopter, take a ship, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
There's Look, by the time you get to everyone knows
Fast five is the best first of all.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And then when you get to you've never watched.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Them, Yeah, they all go together. I don't know which
one was Fast five is that one with Ronda Rowsy?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
So five is when that's Rio, that's Brazil, not Rowsy.
Five is when the Rock for shows up. I think
I was okay, and they actually filmed it in real and.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
An old girl, the old girl from Lost who got
the d w I and Blacklist, it came back and
she wasn't dead right right right right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Michelle Rodriguez, Yeah one Galgado shows up randomly.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
That was that was her first film credit.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
I had no idea, like, she's fresh out of Masade,
fresh out of the idea, going right into Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
G how does that happen?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
She is, yeah, exactly, exactly No, So that was how
I ended up.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
We watched I wanted to watch a.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Bad action movie, so we watched the very first fast
and furious, and then I was like, look, I'm committed
at this point, I'm not leaving this bed or couch,
like we might as well burn through all the Paul
Walker one. So yeah, that's how we got in. That's
how we got seven movies deep down.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
That marvel chronologically.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
I'm a DC guy.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Man loser.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
I'm big on superhero movies to begin with. I mean
I do love. I mean, if it's Batman, I'm in.
I threatened to see the New Superman movie.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
But never did.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
James Gunn is good. That peacemaker, good peacemakers, it's bare
than good.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
That is funny. And suicide Squad when brought that back. No,
the other crowning achievement of the weekend. We have gotten
ridiculously into legos lately.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
You know, I like aibgizzl, but dazzle whatever chap of diizzl.
I just saw a shark tank of lego glue that.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Don't look at this too close. Yeah, because this is
not blue together. This was delicately transported from the house
to here.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
And I like, I watched the whole pitch from the
little kid and he's like, now you can drop your
thing and it's completely You can put it in water
and it dissolves.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
I mean it's pretty genius.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's it's genius because like, look, how like I can
put my hand over and you guys see you get
I get nervous a little bit.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
In fact, this one needs a little That piece is
poked out a little bit from transport.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
I bet you went over the speed bumps real slow.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Well, actually it was because I was trapped in my
own neighborhood. I was driving like an absolute jackass to
try to get out, and stuff's holding this thing like
trying not to lose it was.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
It was a bit of ulous.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
How's the tiger?

Speaker 3 (25:33):
How's get verbatim words that were spoken as I'm running
red lights or running stop signs in the neighborhood. No,
we built this one over the weekend. I didn't realize.
I mean again, I haven't walked down whiskers. Oh it's
it's pretty bad.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
They've gone up in quite a.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Difference between what I remember as a kid.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
No, I hadn't walked down the target toy isle lately,
believe it or not, Despite what the mustache might make
you assume, No, I haven't been down the toy Olive
the major retailer lately. Target has a pretty good Legos.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
You know what's on right now?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't watch it, but like that Lego there's like
a show a Lego competition shows like le Isn't it
hosted by god Bluth? Yeah, yeah, I've seen previously that.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, I'm sure it runs right after is it Cake?
It just it seems like that's where society is at,
that Lego And.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now the one I did watch was the Domino one
where this was Domino rallies and stuff.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
I've said it before. We're the silliest, We're on the
silliest time. We're on the silliest possible time. I know
I've been.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
We're in Japanese TV area right now.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Which or like, uh, you know Great American Game Show,
Central American Game Shows.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
There's some there's a little more TNA in that one.
Nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, what do you need?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
And one of my favorite weather Girls still one of
my favorites.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, that that place that still holds up.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
He doesn't have a long back.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Now we've been doing we've been doing some of these
bigger set pieces together. But stuff's been buying, like the
flower bouquets, so she'll she'll build her flowers. They make
McLaren or Formula one models had a legos, So I've
got half the grid. I've got the works, like like
a little I wish I wish it was RC.

Speaker 11 (27:40):
No.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
I mean it rolls and like you can roll it
across the.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
You do it, and you just roll it right into
the world.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
What happened when this is what happens when you're in
your thirties and you don't have kids. You build legos
as a happily married couple when one of you is sick.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
I've sept on one too many legos when my kid
was like six or seven, and I'm like, dude, put
just like man, that thing just takes you down.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah no, that well, there's nothing and.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
You're just like saying, they're just thinking about it all
next week and I can get up.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
I was a little younger then.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
No, it's fat.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Can you imagine reading on an autopsy?

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Uh, you know lego related death or like fell stepped
on a lego and the like.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's why they say this a choking hazard. Some stupid
kids put them in the mouth like me.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I could, I could.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
I was about to say, like, but it was marbles.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, oh my mom had to get that's a literal.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Let me put them in my mouth and spit them
in my marble bag. I was a weird kid.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Kids are well, I was.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
I was four years old.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Kids are stupid to begin with. That's what kids, that's
that's the time to learn by sticking marbles in your
mouth or touching the hot stove. Now, the the culmination
of getting over cole the culmination of getting over whatever
undisclosed sickness, illness I had last week. That's totally not COVID.
Wasn't COVID absolutely wasn't.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
I hadn't.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I hadn't really considered that. I hadn't drank any alcohol
in six and a half seven.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Days detoxing wild means sick, correct.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
But then as soon the first day I felt like
going back out, there was no moderation. Buddy.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I had the worst hangover all day Monday.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
I mean, I'm talking like like early twenties college level hangover.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Dan all the sweet it was not, No, it wasn't
all this.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
It was just literally all of the tequila, all of
the tequila under the roof of the chosen establishment that
we went to it was hadn't been that hungover in
a while.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
But I'm happy to report now.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Right on the cusp of football season kicking off. Oh
did you miss it? Did you miss a pit?

Speaker 4 (30:04):
I probably did? Damn it?

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Who they give me?

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Jake Ferguson, mother, Oh that.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Is so that is so perfect. So in case you
missed it, if you're.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Not watching, Cap is doing.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
His last fantasy draft of the year. He missed his pick,
so the computer picked at for him, and it just
so happened to pick a certain Dallas Cowboys tight end.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
And how about that?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Well, since your pick is now over and I know
I can hand it off to you for a solid minute.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Wait, I got one more.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh oh oh oh wait, oh well then hold on,
we'll we'll just sit here and watch.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
The But I think I can get it done. He
put a minute on.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
The clock there, LG.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
We are up three one now to the Houston Astros.
The Yankees are back in at baby, We're taking the division.
Going nice with the our swaggy tee. This guy has
hit twenty nine home runs. His highest ever in his
career is seventeen. He's coming on the last year of

(31:09):
his deal twenty eight year old center fielder with the
greatest mustache in the game, in the aura of a savant,
of just a hippie guru, suvant man.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
I just want to be around this guy.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
And also on the back is we have gian Carlo
Michael Stanton. His mother calls him Michael, and he is
crushing home runs. He's almost at twenty and he's only
played what forty games, so he's on pace.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Judge is back at it.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Just passed fifth Yankee all time home run just past
Yogi bearra rest In Piece, big guy, one of the
greatest catchers to ever do it. And you'll be seeing
more of us because we're gonna take this game, and
we're gonna take your game.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
We're gonna take all the games.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Okay, Stanton eighteen home runs in fifty seven games, Crisp
I said on the on the on the Cusp. On
the Cusp also said, forty games. It's fifty seven. Who
was the who's this center fielder? You said, though, Trent Grisham, Oh,
Trent Grisham, Okay, okay, you said he was thirty eight.
Twenty eight, Okay, I hurt it out, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
It's like his first, this is his first contract.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Oh god, I thought chishom.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Just y'all have a bunch of porn star stashes. Hey,
didn't you allow didn't the Yankees allow beards? Now they
allowed beards and they still choosing. Yeah, well they've always
had the mustache.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
His mustache is great, man.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, there's a few of them you mentioned. I talked
about it a little bit last night. The the Rangers
are massively teasing me this last ten these last ten
days or so, last two weeks, they were got I
think it got to as bad as six and a
half games out of out of the wild card race.

(32:58):
They win nine of ten, climb all the way back
to a game and a half, and now sweep swept
the A's over the weekend in Sacramento, but then lost
lost two out of three this week so far against Arizona.
Off tomorrow before a huge series with Houston starting up

(33:20):
this weekend in Texas, I believe, or in Arlington, not Houston.
So if y'all can you can hold Houston to.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Hey, oh I love that one. Look at that share
Andre Johnson being the hell out of Courtland. Finnegan, Yeah, Finnegan,
that's it.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Great.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, if y'all could.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
If y'all could keep beating the Astros, that would be appreciated.
Because the Rays have climbed back to five hundred now
because they're beating the piss out of the Mariners all week.
At the last time I checked, they were up eight
nothing already on the Mariners.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, we got to play the Rais, so they need
to they need to get humbled a little bit.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, it doesn't we did.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
We did sweep them last time.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
So yeah, there's still three and a half games. The
Rays are three and a half games behind Seattle. Rangers
are now two games behind, but it looks like Seattle
will lose, so probably will stay one and a half games.
Royals still sandwiched between Rangers and Rays. But we might
actually get a the Royals decent might actually.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Get a decent playoff race here.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Over the last month, I mean, I when the Rangers
had to put Corey Seeger, Marcus Simeon, Nathan Yuvaldi all
on the I L as they were six games back
of a wild card spot.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Do you think they're going to come off?

Speaker 3 (34:36):
It kind of felt like that was the Well, there's
varying levels of injury, like Seger had to have an appendectomy,
so that but you could come back from He had
to get his appendix.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
I was about to say, that's appendix.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, that should be like two weeks, three weeks potentially.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, So he could come back for the last couple
of weeks of September, and I think if they're still
in the race, comes back.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
If they fall out of it.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Over the next two weeks, I think they tell him
take the off season get healthy, especially with his injury history. Simeon, Uh,
potentially back. I think you have all these the only
one that they're pretty confident he's uh no second base.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Second Yeah, okay, so I'm it's football season.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
I've still got a side eye on the on the Rangers,
at least at least through the weekend because this the
next six to seven games will be the true test
because it's Houston this weekend and then it's the juggernaut
that is the Milwaukee Brewers. Yeah, right after Houston leaves town.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
So so these so the Yankees, man, these next three series,
counting this one which is the Astros. Uh, then we
go off and we have to play the Blue Jays
and the Red Sox. Oh like in like so it's
all teams that in our division. But then we get
a sweet sweet schedule, a lot of Orioles, White Sox, Tampa.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
See, that's the the thing, you know, when you're looking
at the Yankee you all still get to play Boston
and Tampa or and Toronto.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
So I mean you're getting meaningful division games.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Well, Tampa's out of it. Tampa, they're not out of it.
Behind catching Seattle. They're only three and a half behind Seattle.
Seattle keeps losing.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh yes, as I just.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
We just I'm doing it if you weren't doing the.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Drag and watching a Yankee game and but an actual show. No,
it's I have some audio for you Yankees related audio.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Oh you know sharp stick me No, no, no, no,
well maybe sideways but not directly. Uh So, your boy
Aaron Boone's taking the lot of heat throughout this season.
That guy man like sometimes he's like, you can't deny
his record because he is the most winning his baseball coach,

(37:11):
like right now tenured, and but he makes questionable decisions
about when to put in people like the ness Cortes
crap at the end of Game one of the World Series,
Like what was he thinking for a relief pitcher Nesters
is starting. He has to get warmed up. You know,
he's not someone who can just come off the bench.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, as a you know, you're not alone because oh
yeah Boone.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Throughout the year.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Going even back to the playoffs last year, Boone has
been a constant target of frustration among the fan base.
It got even worse over the weekend. I don't know
if you saw this. He went back. He went to
North Carolina to watch his son make his coaching debut
in the game. There he's on staff. Oh buddy, so natural.

(38:00):
The Yankees fans had a problem with that, like, why
are you taking time.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Away from the team in the middle of a September.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Playoff trying to get the division?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Exactly like you should be doing one hundred percent baseball
and nothing else, have no personal life, nothing. Well, the
voice of the Yankees, Michael Kay came to Boone's defense,
albeit in a very odd manner.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Uh oh, let me hear it.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
It's unbelievable. Listen.

Speaker 10 (38:31):
If you don't think he's a good manager, okay, then
then don't think he's a good manager. But when you're
going to try to start a little you know, fights
about nonsense, like this that he went to see his
son in his first quote unquote coaching.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Job when North Carolina.

Speaker 10 (38:47):
I'm sorry, I don't have a problem with it, and
I've always said that about players too. You know, when
players are out and we didn't have a they should
be back in their hotel room.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (38:57):
What if they're having an orgy in their hotel room?

Speaker 6 (38:59):
Is that okay?

Speaker 2 (39:00):
You wouldn't know about it.

Speaker 10 (39:01):
So if they go out to dinner with people with
having fun with people outside, well that angers you because
there's a game the next day. But if they were
in the hotel room and they set up a trapeze
and there were people flying through the air having an orgy,
that wouldn't You wouldn't know about it. The things that
people get upset about, it's just beyond me. It is
absolutely beyond me.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
The specifics goodtis Some believe that he includes their they
set up a trapeze and go flying across.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
The room having their orgies.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
It feels like Michael Kaye might have seen a trapeze
set up in a house.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Before like that that is a sex wing.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yeah, yeah, I guess I hadn't thought about him the
fact that he's probably just confusing a sex swing with
a trapeze something hanging. It does just oddly if you
just want to first of all throwing out the well,
what if they're having an orgy in their hotel that immediately.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
You're having fun.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
That raises my eyebrow a little bit.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
But then when he gives specific details like that, I
need to know more about what Michael Ka does on
off days when the Yankees aren't playing.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Yeah, because actually I don't want to know what Michael.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
That was oddly oddly specific time exactly. Let's talk some
fantasy football draft grades. You have the results. So last
night we did vicial.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
On the Oh oh damn, I forgot about it. Hold yes,
that's our producer. Gentlemen, that is spectacular.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
As I was telling, as I was saying, Spurs, you
picked the best man for the job. There's no one
more talented and on top of their ship than LG.

Speaker 6 (40:46):
To be fair, he sent to me right.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Before the show.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Well, that's that's my ghost.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
That's seven o'clock, you said, not fifteen minutes before.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
That's what I've heard before. Don't put this on me.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
It's a metaphorical fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
It's it was.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
It was a solid hour.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
It's really like a fifteen hours more.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Than my computer was here. I couldn't get the draft
grades until I got my computer in. The first thing
was that it was yesterday. Let me go home with
it and come back with it.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
It's your computer, computers, and it's a laptop, studios computer.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Oh okay, is that is that what.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
You're like, I'm gonna get reimbursed for this thing. Yeah, no,
officer in twenty fourteen. This is not the classic model.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
These are not mine.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
This is the Studios stash.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah, we were on the clock.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
We were talking last night after we finished the draft
and signed off from the show, and it felt like
it felt like there were more than a couple teams
that drafted really well, and like, okay, perfect example, the
one I know off the top of my head, your Boynie,

(42:00):
the wild card, the wild card, perfect grade. Not an
A plus, not an F absolute. See, he was the
only person to get not a C plus, not a
C minus, just absolutely in the middle. But a C
also tells me that could mean he's an A plus
by the end of the season or he's an F

(42:21):
by the end of this Like it's a.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Wild I've gotten a D and I've won the league.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
You know, grades are on the screen, all right.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Grades are on the screen. Switching back over. I just
did my pick, so here we go. As per usual,
the captain gets an A plus.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Uh not top of the list though, right.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Yeah, but you didn't pick Zeb.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
I'm coming for you, baby.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Zeb's dead.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
I think Ze. I think I might have a ringer
and Zeb. I like the strategy. The more I looked over,
the more I looked over. Everything I like.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
But then we got high FC coming in. That's uh,
I believe that is my man, Sergio. And then we
got the momentum Runners.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
That is the momentum Runners.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yeah them, yes, boy, momentum. He's gonna catch some momentum
with the B plus. You know Eli Zuber who sharp
stick me a couple on a couple of picks and
he laughed in my face. That's a B that you
get a B, sir. And then C plus is uh

(43:35):
for Adolph? Still want to know what that Oliver Bush means?
They all over Bush. And then the wild card we
could know the wild card comes in the sea and
the Baker soft Ferguson's D plus, James Gang D plus
Ai Overlords D.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
I want to know if you really did let chat
g G potent.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
I hope. So I really did in the league, I
hope No, I don't. I want to show it that
it doesn't. No ship.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, that's why I wanted to win.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
I will sacrifice myself if the AI Overlords can win.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
This same young young ho be cool.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
That's sweet.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Ivan with all his late like reaching grabs gets a
D deservedly and then total state fair. You failed, you failed,
but you failed so well that I like.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
I like his team though.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Yeah, look, I was about to say when I was looking,
when I saw that he was the only f I
went and looked at the team. Look, I haven't played
Fantasy in a decade. I don't know what the hell
I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
I didn't think it was like the worst, but I didn't.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah, I didn't either.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
I thought I was like, that's a little harsh.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
I thought he kind of got hit with with a
harsh grating.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yes, Scale, you are above me. You picked out a ringer.
I want to know, did you see though?

Speaker 3 (44:59):
So because of the lineups, uh, I'm projected to have
a better record than you, but you're projected to score
more overall, points so out of the fifth drafting position
to have an A plus. All right, I'll give you.
I'll give you props where props are due. That that
was impressive. Come on, buddy, Now let's see what it

(45:19):
looks like week to week. Yeah, it's uh again. I
was talking a little bit with Zeb and now I
think the fun actually starts like I'm well because I've
seen a Yeah exactly, I've I've zeb that. Look, if

(45:41):
a trade comes in, that's just too good for me
to pass up. You gotta you gotta let me pull out.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
I was trying to get Chase off them. Yeah, I
was like for CD lamb man, come on, cowboy fan.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yeah, there's a few.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
There were a few Jamar Chase conversations had already amongst
the league.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
I also figured out uh Gabriel. Yeah, remember I told you.
I was like, well, I know a few, like three
or four Gabriels. I didn't piece it together. That's my buddy, Gabe.
Oh that well, he's using his government name and I've
never called him bya his angelic name of Gabriel.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
It's like it's like Richard and Dick. You just can't
put him together.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Sometimes I still get on my little brother for never
going by. Dick was like, dude, you were gifted an
opportunity from the gods. Your our parents named you Richard
like you.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
My grandfa my mom's side.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Dick should have been a dick, Dick Bardon. You could
have gotten away with it.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
I got away with it one time calling him that,
and he would like looked at me like he was
about to just.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Like that's the last time I walked me across the sea.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, this nastiest nineteen seventies carpet they smoked inside all.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
It was just like a simpler, simpler times.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Well, we'll be looking, uh, we'll be looking at some
fantasy football results next week as we we'll do a
weekly segment, just a.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
League recap.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Second.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yeah, yeah, we'll do that on Wednesday, episodes like tonight's.
But before we get too much further behind the clock,
let's get into some cow notes, because Cowboys do play
now in about twenty two hours from right now, and
we do have if you are the if you have
an ounce of optimism left in you as a Cowboy fan,

(47:30):
we do have good news. It sounds like Trayvon Diggs
and Guidon Tyler Gydon are expected to play tomorrow night.
Oh wow, Yeah, the digs one is surprising to me.
The Guiden won a little bit surprising, but not nearly
as much. It kind of felt like Trayvon was gonna
miss two or three games at least before he was

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back healthy this year.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
So what Achilles or ACL?

Speaker 3 (47:57):
It was ACL, but it was the other one. It
was the different one. Then he tore.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Oh so was the other right?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Yeah, well the one you would think potentially was healthier
than the other. Yeah, and then get and you remember
it was they were They feared he had torn his
uh a cl but it ended up just being a
broken bone in his knee, which, ironically, even though it
sounds much.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Worse, ligaments, heel a lot slower than bones.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Yeah, and he can play through a broken bone.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Look at Fred Warner all last year he played through
a broken bone in his uh.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Don't it feels unfair to compare anybody's injury rehab ability
to Fred Warner?

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Like the dude's just a freak, that guy.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
So yeah, at least look again, if you have an
ounce of optimism, you're getting.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Your number one corner.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
You signed Blan, You signed Aron Blan.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
We'll talk about that in a second. You're getting your
starting left tackle, even though he was wasn't that great
last year as a rookie, but he's better than the
alternative you have as the backup. Now you're getting those
guys potentially dressed out and playing tomorrow night. We talked
about it a little last night. The line's up to
eight and a half at all.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
They put another point on it.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Dude, they put another point on Vegas.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Is is just sounding the alarm lighting, you know, running
the flag up to let you know this Cowboys are
about to get dog walked in this opener in.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Oh, buddy, I guess he's one of those sneaky games
man like my guy, like my boy, Ivan Young Ho
will be cool in the draft league.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
He always does the survivor league.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Oh yeah, so like you always picked the team, can't
pick another teams twice.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
But this is one of those like.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Trap games where it's like it's so everybody's gonna be
picking the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Yeah, then it's you know, banner night raising the Super
Bowl banner the Cowboys. I saw the two. I think
the two most popular picks were Cowboys Eagles and Washington Giants,
which is funny because it's all it's all.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
The same defense. I don't know why people are sleeping
on the Giants and their offense got better. If you guys,
don't be like they're still the whipping boy the do
you like?

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Do you like either of those games better than because
the other one that people are throwing into survivor polls
Cincinnati at Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Cleveland's terrible, but it's a rivalry game.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
And you remember what everyone did last year in Week
one they picked Cincinnati and then Cincinnati lost. Who was
at CINCINNTA New England.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Joe Burrows one and nine in the first two games
of the season.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
It's not good.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
And every time he started, he's one and nine. So, yeah,
do not pick Cincinnati in his ivory league. If you
were a history buff.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Yeah, you mentioned the extension for Bland. They first one
of the pending free agents to get done after the
Micah trade. Well, I guess Ferguson was before Micah was traded,
because he had Jake Ferguson, your fantasy tight end, signed
the four year, fifty two million dollar deal uh thirty

(51:16):
mili guaranteed for ferg and then they trade Micah, which
the narrative that now the Cowboys have all of this
money available to them because they traded Micah.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
A couple things about that idea.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
They had over thirty million dollars in free agent in
cap space available to them before they traded Micah. Yeah,
they could have done these That's how they were able
to do the Jake Ferguson deal when they did. They
could have been doing deals while still having Micah on
the roster. And secondly, the second they signed Micah, if

(51:51):
they had signed him to a contract extension, they actually
would have had even more available salary cap space to
sign these other guys. Great, it would have put them
in a you know, potential contract situation on thousand percent,
as we've covered extensively over the last few years. But

(52:12):
all that being said, they do give Bland a four
year deal, pretty rich, ninety two million, fifty million of
that guaranteed. I would have I would have been really
interested to see what Bland would have gotten on the
open market, because I thought it was I thought it
was pretty much guaranteed that he was at least going

(52:32):
to hit the market whether the Cowboys still tried to
resign him or not at the end of this year.
But they kind of speaking of Trayvon Diggs, it kind
of tells me the writing on the wall with Diggs
might be there because they can get out of that
contract after this season. They already fined him five hundred
thousand dollars for not rehabbing with the team all.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
Summer half a million, half a mill.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
They lowered his base salary half a mill.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
God, why why?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Because Jerry wants control, he wants.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
To Why wouldn't I wouldn't give up half a million?
IM like, okay with you?

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Yeah, No, Travon, Trayvon's a different cat. He also, Trayvon
spoke to the media about the Micah trade for the
first time. Yeah, talking because him he and he said
it in the interview, Micah is his best friend, like
that this sucks, this is you know, like, of course
I'm not happy about it. So I think Diggs, especially
with the Bland extension, Diggs, Uh, maybe that is the

(53:27):
pressure of why he's pushing himself to get back for
week one to show Jerry, Yeah, I didn't rehab with
the team, but I'm ready to go week one and
to potentially Holt keep his place on this roster after
this season because they now have the security of having
Bland locked up. Also, they signed resigned Hunter Lepke the

(53:49):
fullback slash. They're gonna run him at tight end a
little bit this year, just a two year deal seven
and a half mil. But the next big even and
a half mil. The next big domino is the Tyler
Smith potential contract extension, because apparently they are working towards

(54:10):
that to compliment ferg when drops a load on me. Yeah,
they have Tyler Smith up next on the docket to
potentially get done hopefully. I mean, it would be very
Jerry Jones to announce that contract extension an hour before
kickoff tomorrow night. But the real question, and we've talked

(54:32):
about it a little bit, you know, is George Pickens
going to price himself out of the Cowboys plans if
he shows? And that would be a great thing. This
is the odd situation as a Cowboy fan. You want
George Pickens to perform at a level that he helps

(54:52):
the team win games, but that also potentially is going
to be the reason why he gets wide receiver number
one money from some other team from Jacksonville or you know.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Have you even heard anything about the cohesiveness between Dak
and Pickens I.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Mean, they're all saying the right things.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
They're all saying they love, you know, having I haven't
heard any of the talking heads talking about him, like, oh,
they're really connecting and.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Well they've been too. They're talking. The national talking heads
are too busy talking to Micah. Jerry the local DFW
media talks has been talking a lot of Pickens and
his potential to open up the offense to have you know,
CD finally has a true complimentary receiver on the other
side all of this.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
I really wanted to stay with the Cowboys and blah
blah blah.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Yeah, I mean I kind of I still believe that.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
I think he did too. I think it's like I
don't think I don't think he thought Jerry would ever
actually trade it.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
I mean I think there was.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
I think he thought he was just getting some of
the leverage back against Jerry, and Jerry says.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Trying to do the old you know, like lock him
in the room type thing.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
And for sure, did you see what they did? You
see what the apparently NFL agents call that practice where
an owner was it like basically secludes a player. They
call that hot boxing. Apparently, So as soon as I saw.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
That Jerry old Man farts in there so far in
there and showed dominance.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
I saw the headline was something like, you know, Micah's
agent accuses Jerry of hot boxing, and I just read
I was like, the hell they catch Jerry on Harry
Hines Boulevards smoking out, like smoking out his car with
the windows, Like, what are we.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Talking about here? No, that's that's apparently what they call that.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
No, the We've talked a lot about Pickens potentially getting
a chunk of what would be Micah's money, but the
other name. I was reading an article I think it
was Joe Hoyt that wrote it. It was a Dallas
Morning News article and it was talking about the pending
free agency of Sam Williams, the Cowboys edge rusher, a

(57:06):
guy that super super athletic, tested great coming out of
the combine, out of Ole miss showed a lot of
flashes playing, you know, when he was getting his most snaps.
It was DeMarcus Lawrence and Micah and Sam Williams was
that rotating third guy that would, uh, you know, when

(57:27):
Micah's tapping his top of his head every other play,
needing to come out of the game.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Sam Williams was getting a.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Lot of those snaps he's so of course, yeah, no,
he's dead to us now. The athleticism though of Sam
Williams as a defensive end edge rusher Cowboys. Before his injury,
Cowboys were using him as a gunner on the punt
coverage team. So like, he's a dude that just freaking

(57:54):
tests freakishly on the athleticism charts. But mentioning the injury.
Had the injury last year in training camp, tore up
his knee. He is back now healthy and of course
with the Mica trade, now he's got a real opportunity
to make himself a lot of money if he can

(58:17):
have the kind of growth season that it looked like
he was going to have last year.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Before the injury.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
He's an interesting name to keep an eye on because
it also could be It reminds me of when the
Cowboys resigned Michael Gallup after he tore his knee up,
which again didn't turned out to be a bad deal.
But Jerry is not afraid to double down on bad ideas.
I think you might see a Sam Woods. There's still

(58:45):
time when Jerry sees Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders run
for a quarter and a half tomorrow night, I guarantee
you the thought will cross his mind. What's Zeke doing
right now? Where's Zeke at? What beach on Mexico?

Speaker 4 (59:00):
As Zeke.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
Now? The only other note I have for you you
want to hear a Cowboys Eagles note that involves George Seaffert.
Sure as a as a Niners, a proud Niners fan,
Nick Sirianni.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
He's coached the Eagles for four years now.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Seems like a long four years, it does.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Including the Super Bowl win. He has the second most
wins in his first four seasons as a head coach
in NFL history, only behind George Seaffert. Yeah, we don't
think of Nick Sirianni as.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
I think him flipping off the crowd exactly.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
I think of him as the Philadelphia, the city of
Philadelphia's mascot. I think of like he is the embodiment
of what I think of when I think of Philly.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Besides that down year, they've stayed pretty healthy.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
And that's years playoff.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I've already ran off the list of how we're in
the top five of injuries in the past, you know,
seven years, except for one year, you know, and that's
the one year, we go to we go to the
Super Bowl, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift snatched the snatched us
from the.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Jaws of victory.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Minor detail.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Yeah, but yeah, dude, like I'm like, they haven't been
I'm been injured.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
I know, but it was still shocking to read, like
I I mean, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
The super Bowl winner two times in the Super Bowl,
one super Bowl win.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Sure, all of his success, but I wouldn't have thought
that would equate to be having.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
The only one only one down year a little bit
and that was like like five hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Still, I have the second most wins in your first
four years coaching. That is not what I think of
when I think of Nick Sirianni, And I'm suggesting that
is my fault. That is a problem in my line
of thought, because I also all I can ever think
about when I think of Nick Sirianni as the awkward
introductory press conference he gave where he's talking about we're

(01:01:10):
gonna you know, we're gonna be smart, we're gonna just
all of that bumbling word salad. But as he starts
his fifth year now in charge of the Eagles, pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Yeah, he did have one of the worst like coming
to a team and we're going we're gonna do good things.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
And look, everyone made fun of my man Dan's bite
a kneecap off and he's been the best hired in
Detroit Lions football history.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Let's get into the main sege.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
We have a lot of college football to get into tonight.
We had Week zero two weeks ago where you know,
we got the college football kickoff game held in Dublin, Ireland, Kansas. Yeah, Farmageddon,
Iowa State, Kansas State. But this past weekend we had

(01:02:05):
I don't think it's much of a stretch to say
we had the best open the best slate of opening
Week one games in my lifetime.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
Whoa.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
They didn't play out as like all time classics. I
mean they were good games, but watching the three.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
The snorefest of the Ohio State Texas game, come on, now,
that was like, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
I thought, you're a football. That was a great defensive battle.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
I don't know, I saw horrible offense, not defensive battles.
That was overthrown balls. Can't can't open up a whold
save your life, you know, like, yeah, I saw the
d lines just destroying people.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
But you know, like we had three top ten matchups,
and every single one of them was a single score game.
That's a pretty that's a pretty opening Week one slate
of games.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
This Shoe game was awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
The Miami game was insane with probably won the catch
of the year already a la Odell Beckham.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
And not that it would have We're going to talk
about all of them, but not that it would have mattered.
But the way Notre Dame mismanaged the clock at the
end of that game, I mean, they they had seventy they.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Had they pinned their ears back. Man, they couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
They weren't given that guy any room anything, Like he
had three seconds at most. And it goes from first
like first down, he gets intentional grounding because he's getting
around into a sack, which I thought it was. I
thought it was a foul of you hit alignment? Is
the first one to touch the ball is not? Isn't

(01:03:45):
that a flag? Like, oh if you're throwing and illegal
illegal touching?

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Yeah? So like I was like, I never got because
it hit alignment.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Yeah, and receiver, I can't, I can't remember the specific
of it off top of my head.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Let's start with the one at the top.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Because you mentioned the eleven am kickoff the number one
versus number three matchup.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
Bites my ass sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
Point six million viewers on average for that game. Wow,
it peaked at eighteen and a half million.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
What's the average college ring game?

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Uh? Not?

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
This?

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
This was the most watched Week one college football game
ever in recorded ratings history. And to make it even further,
to provide further context for that number, that number beats
the average number of the last seven NBA Finals and
the last seven World Series.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Oh yeah, that's college football is keen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
But it hadn't been that way with college football. College
football hadn't been the dominant number two behind the NFL.
It was still the s of either. Now it was
usually the World Series and then the NBA Finals, and
then college football would be fighting.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
To get in.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
Surprising with the Yankees and the Dodgers this year.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Yeah, last seven yeah, oh buddy, Yeah, that number is
insane because that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Was damn near. That was damn near a championship gain.
You know, well, you know, number one, number two, number three,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Yeah, well number two in the coaches poll, number three
in the apes.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
And all I was hearing was Ohio State was ranked
too high. Ohio State shouldn't be ranked this high, blah
blah blah. And I'm like Texas shouldn't have been ranked high.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
I think I think both of them were actually probably
rated just fine because I think both of them it
was a rematch of the college football semi finals last year.
There's no reason after watching that game Saturday, I don't
walk away from that thinking either one of those two
teams are worse than number five in the country. I

(01:05:58):
think there's still Obviously, the biggest takeaway is artist struggles.
Remember that's the biggest talking point, that's the biggest point
of debate coming out of that game. I I don't know,
you know, the the idea that we have come so
far from hyping up these kids to he's making his

(01:06:21):
not debut start, but his first start where he knows
he's the guy. Yeah, it's in the Horseshoe Week one,
when you're the number one ranked team in the country
and they're number three, number two. You got Manning on
your You've got the whole like not making excuses for
the kid. But I read a headline article from it

(01:06:41):
was funny because, uh, you know, of course Steve Sarkisian
played quarterback at b Yu there was. I saw an
article from when he made his debut as the starting
quarterback for b YU. The first line in the article was,
Sudam Hussein had better days against the Air Force then
Steve Sarkisian did yesterday, so like and then of course

(01:07:05):
everyone was posting Peyton Manning's first start against the top
five team when he was at Tennessee and the.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
Numbers were just as bad as Art the man. Did
they did they do a Manning podcast broadcast just for NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
I was like, I saw something starts up Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
May have been the AI Overlords, but he was like
I knew he was adopted or something after it was
like a horrible path.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
Yeah, I think that was the AI Overlords. Considering how
bad that mean humor sounds. The if you're walking away
from that game Saturday and thinking, all of a sudden,
you you were right, Arch Manning is a fraud.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
I was right all along.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
I told you he wasn't gonna be I don't know
how you come to that assumption based off of that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
One game in the shoe.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
In the shoe all of the again, not to make
excuses for Arch because he was not good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
His footwork was a mess.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
The sidearm throws literally mimicked Uncle Rico like there were
everything can be simultaneously happening, happening, where all of the
pressures of what led to that poor performance aren't the
takeaway that arch Manning is now a bottom twenty quarterback

(01:08:23):
in the country like you looked like for three quarters
of that game Saturday. I don't know what's your as
a you know, not, I really know. I mean, you
don't have any fandom towards.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
UT do My grandma was a huge UT fan.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Surprisingly, what's your takeaway on art?

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
What's the concern level after what you saw Saturday?

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
I think he needs to settle down. Yeah. I saw jitters.
I saw overthrows.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
I saw some you know, touch passes that had way
too much heat on it, just.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Throwing behind guys, throwing too hard. Yeah, happy feet, a
lot of happy feet.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
They should have been design runs for him. I saw
a bad coaching game plan in my book, knowing that
this is going to be his first game and one
of the biggest stadiums out there, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
I saw a lot of the talk about Sark's play
calling when when your quarterback isn't hitting simple three yard.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
But Art can run. Art can run, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Yeah, but why aren't you calling some just so four
wide and then just QB QB up the gut?

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
I think because it's week one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
It keeps it keeps the It keeps the linebackers from
pinning their ears back, you know, and it keeps them
like I mean, it just opens up your playbook, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
I'm not sure Art running the ball would have been
the massive game plan change that would have swung that game.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
I think the fact that he wasn't hitting.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Sark was calling plays to get him into a rhythm,
simple pitch and catch, let's get let's.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
It wasn't working.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
It wasn't but it wasn't working because he's throwing behind
guys or like you said, so what do you do
when you're the head coach when your quarterback can't even
execute the easy plays you're calling for, Like you can't
just turn him into a running back or an army.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Quarter You had you had to game plan before the
game to be like you're not gonna like give him
a to a game plan. You don't hold on the
ball more than two or three seconds, all right, If
if you're not taking off, if you're not on your
second option and it's not there, you're not looking at
your third. Get out of there, dump it off to
your safety blanket or run, you know. And we all

(01:10:37):
saw Arch manning like when he came in and actually
did some work whenever.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Quinn was heard was hurt.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
He did a lot of feet.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
He did a lot of it on his feet, you know,
And I think that should have been utilized heavily on
that game plan. It seemed like Ohio State was doing
in the begin beginning, It looked like they were doing,
you know, a contained style defense on the defensive line
where it was like, look, you know, we're not.

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
Gonna let him beat this on his feet.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
But did they just start like pulling my ears back
and just just bull rushing him, doing every move in
the book just to get at the quarterback because they're
thinking he's going to hold the ball five seconds to
go down the field.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Yeah, it started.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
I mean the predictability, Yeah, the predictable nature of Arch.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
There was no halftime adjustment.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
Oh, I don't know, I would I would. I mean
the fact that his arch what what half did Arch
play the best in second half? I mean there were
adjustment that's when you actually saw him start to piece
together any kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
When did they get their touchdown?

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
And I thought it was like the fourth quarter, halfway
through the forties. I thought it was seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Say got their first one night at the end of
the first half.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I look. I think, like you said,
it was a snooze fest. It was a defensive battle.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
It was I don't think those kids they need those
primetime lights for big time games.

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
You know, we talked about it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
I mean, I don't eleven o'clock, eleven o'clock game. I
hate them. I hate them. I hate it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
The only eleven o'clock game I like is the red
River Shootout.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Texas ou still needs to be a still needs to
be the six thirty game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
See do it because it's at the state.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
Only if they only if they're ranked.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Well, because it's at the state Fair. You go to
the game and then you spend the rest of the
afternoon at the state Fair.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
That's just a tradition.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
And they they don't want a bunch of drunkards like
going well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
I think they've even even the red River game. They've
moved to like two thirty lately. Growing up for me,
it was always.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Eleven, if my memory serves correct.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
Yeah, I look, Texas is going to smash the hell
out of San Jose State this weekend, and it'll come
ten weeks from now when we'll know more about this
team as they're deep into their tnc schedule than we
will from their opening game.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Teams in the playoffs, they can still, they can still
twelve twelve teams.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
The other top ten matchups you mentioned, LSU holds Clemson
scoreless in the second half, they come back down ten
to three at halftime, come back and win seventeen ten.

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
Got in that ass at halftime.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
Yeah, I look, there's a few things I enjoy more
in college football than watching Dabo Sweeney lose games. The
man who said the day that any of my players
earn a single penny is gonna be my last day
of coaching college football. Still waiting on that resignation letter,
Dabbo any day now, you can send it any day,

(01:13:44):
any day, just send it, fax it in.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Well, well I've seen the light.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Well kindly accept Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
Well, he's saying people can't change their their minds.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
Man, Well he's never He might have changed it behind
closed doors, but he's never publicly retracted that statement, and
he's just acting like we all forgot he said it
speaking of seeing the light. I think in that same
press conference he said, uh my, my program's already built
on n I l Well, we don't. We're not doing
this new nil. My program's already built. It's built on

(01:14:14):
the name, image, and likeness of Jesus like he's very yeah,
which again, no, I mean nothing against religion, but we're
using that as the shield to prevent grown men from
making money football player.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Probably you probably didn't have a favorite team, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
He loves them all equally.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
Yes, uh yeah, No, it was fun seeing Dabo. Another
thing I did I will give I don't. I like
the Clemson brand when it comes to football. I just
can't stand Dabo. I love it, and I forgot. Last
year ABC for their big primetime games, you know, night
game of the Week, they show you the like eight

(01:14:57):
minutes that lead to up to the kickoff from so
we got to see a great They put a camera
in the Clemson bus as they bust from the fieldhouse
over to the.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Stadium, so we got that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
You just get the full The best thing about college
football is the environment. It's it's the crazy fan. It's
the crazy tradition kids, it's the kids in the tradition energy.
It's the closest thing we have to to, you know,
crazy intense European soccer. And we're going to talk about ABC,

(01:15:36):
ABC showing all of those traditions as part of their Like,
I don't need to hear Herbstreet, give me three minutes
of analysis before kickoff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Show me the full Clemson pregame.

Speaker 4 (01:15:49):
Yeah, give me the give me the inexperience.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Makes me feel like I'm in the stadium. And they
finally it seems like they're going to continue that that
they started last year and continue to show of those
So we got to see Dabbo running down the down
the hill and they fire their little silly tiny cannon
about the size of the Gonzales cannon. Yeah, and it's

(01:16:11):
so janky. It's on a uh what you might call
it a not a forklift, uh wheel wagon? Yeah, yeah,
the thing, uh you know, like a wheelbarrow. No, not
a not a wheelbarrow. LG helped me out. It's the
like a like a warehouse thing, you know, forklift, not
a fork not a forll doll dolly. It's on a dolly.

(01:16:34):
There you go, Cally. That was tough recall, which makes
it which makes it even more who Clemson an LSU,
because that's what we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
No, I need you all to win, I need you
to beat the as.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
You need to get some positivement.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
And then the other one other top ten matchup you mentioned,
Miami over Notre Dame twenty seven, twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
It's it's it's better for college football.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
It's just better for the Florida State.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
That we're about to talk about next.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
It's like they went like a whole decade and a half,
you know, where they just were irrelevant, you know, and
it was after all the you know, the after after
all the.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Cocaine, after third leg Greg Well, there was that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
There was the you know like late eighties Mike Irvin,
Jimmy Johnson Donant, and then there was the gap when uh,
you know, Bobby Balden and Florida State took over and
started dominating that rivalry. And then we got the revival
like Ken Dorsey third leg, Greg Willis mcgahey.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Yeah, you know that era went.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Yeah, Kellen Winslow when when when we were in high school. Yeah,
I'm with you, like I'm not ever Miami is one
of those brands that I have no affiliation, fandom, nothing,
but I wanted I.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
I want to see them, especially against Notre Dame. No offense,
it's Catholic.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
I don't like seeing I like seeing Notre Dame good
for the same reasons. I like seeing Miami good because
it's better for college football. But I if I let's
Notre Dame can lose these times.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
That doesn't have to be in a common exactly. Yeah,
and still I thought Notre Dame was in like Louisiana
or Boston. I never knew if I always forget.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
Some missions South Bend, Illinois, Illinois, Indiana, South Bend, Indiana, Indiana.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Yeah yeah, South Bend, Indiana.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Uh, still got it wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
The only other well quickly on the on the Notre
Dame Miami. I don't think Georgia had a Carson Beck
problem last year like that. Carson Beck took a lot
of the blame for georgia struggles throughout the year, and
you know struggles. They still were a deep run, playoff team.

(01:18:55):
But the the Carson Beck is the problem which led
him to transfer out of Georgia. I think he's gonna
fit in just mine with Miami.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Yeah, I mean Miami did let go seventeen points straight
before they came down and scored that uh that field goal.
So you know, but like beck looked good, you know
he like that catch. That catch is amazing. I wish
we had video of it, guys on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
The Florida catch, I think is the one you're thinking of,
the one handed Odell Beckham like stretch out and catch
can solid.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
No, that was the Miami. Wasn't that Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
The one I'm thinking about the catch of the weekend
was the Florida kid who stretched out with one arm.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Yeah, Notre Dame or Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
With cam Ward last year becoming the number one pick,
I don't think Carson beck makes that kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
But who knows keeps him in the game. Yeah, they
in the playoff hunt.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
They need that d fence to be better than it
was last year because that's the only thing that kept
that cam Ward led offense.

Speaker 4 (01:20:06):
From Who did Georgia play this year?

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
I mean this week it was a it was a cupcake. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Most of the other.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
Like seeing those seventies up there, had those had those scores, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
Yeah, most of the other uh, top twenty five or
top ten matchups even were you know, cupcake scheduling. The
only other top ten team that lost though, Yeah Alabama,
And yeah the meltdown that ensued when Alabama not just

(01:20:40):
lost to an unranked Florida State, Florida State team that
went one in eleven last year.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
They taw crap before the game. Well, and they quarterback
and he backed it up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
They handled their business. Yeah, that's it was.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
Was Florida Castianos. A deep fly by Castianos there or
to State's Castianos quarterback from Boston College last year. He
looks like he might be might be just exactly what
Florida State needs to get back. It's date.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
We're going to handle all that disrespect on the field.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
They've had such act, such a weird two and a
half year run. Now where you know the Jordan Travis
injury two years ago when he breaks his leg and
the playoff committee says, look, you're a different team.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
I'm sorry. You were deserving until your quarterback got injured.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Which is so fed up. That's that's so rotten.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
So you go to the best product on the plate,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Now, you put the team that has accomplished the most
throughout your regular season in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
So you just all your advertisers on the people that
give you money, be like, yeah, they were more deserving.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
And that's and that's the problem right there, because now
college football is more about advertising and script right and
sponsors and script right than it is actually about finding
the best team at the end of the season.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Brian is supposed to be finding the best matchup, best
product to put on the telly.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
But best product does not mean the most deserving teams
got in those are those are two different things?

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
Well then, like, but then how can you say all
these undefeated in like America, like in the all.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Because Florida State did it in the ACC at least,
I mean Florida State went through Clemson, Miami. Who's the
someone else from the ACC was really good that year
that they ended up beating someone random and not Pitt
but someone like that. Yeah, maybe North Carolina. Maybe that
was the Oh that was the Drake May North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Oh yeah, the year.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
So yeah, they had the great year. But then trav
Jordan Travis breaks the leg. And then last year it
looked like Mike Norvelle was gonna get fired halfway through
the season, they go one in eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
And now the question talking about Mike Norville looking like
he was gonna get fired last year, how many games
does Kellen make it this year at Bama? So?

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
What was the stat that I heard when Sabin during
his whole tenure in Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
Which is a good one I got.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
Yeah, had only lost against an unranked team two times.

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
He was one hundred and thirty one and two too
against unranked teams while he was the head coach and.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Now the head coach. But I don't even know his name.
Kellen de Boor, kelln boy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
Here two has four He's four and four against unranked teams. Yeah,
that's insane. That's a really bad. Well, Okay, he's.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
Gonna be run out. I they're gonna grab their hoods
on them.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
I think the obvious. Hey, now I think the obvious.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Uh, the obvious assumption there is that Kellen de Boor
is a problem. But I would counter maybe instead of
focusing on Deboor. When you read that stat, read it
again and realize what Nick Sabin did. Well, say, Alabama
like even had eleven wins his last seven years he

(01:24:04):
was there, at least eleven wins every year he had
he won.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
Five star, five star recruits on the bench. Yeah, you know,
he was three deep. They don't have that depthys with
the n I L now. It definitely it definitely kills
your ability to maintain a lot of that. And that's
why he like, I mean, oh, we're just going to
binge Jalen Hurts and put Tua in. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
It's a it's a nice it's a nice problem to
have when you're deciding which five former five star is
going to be the starter and which one is going
to be the backup.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Ty Simpson wasn't that. I mean, he's not Jalen Miller.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
I mean, obviously he's not that kind of game changing athlete.
But I think Bama's problem, which was the most surprising
takeaway from that game, they got man handled in the trenches.
Florida State was the more dominant offensive line and defensive line.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
They like that that never happened.

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
They wanted it more.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
That never happened to Bama when they said, I can
think of two times that happened, and it was both.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
They usually the best the Georgia line and linebackers in
the game to stop the run, like, you're not gonna
run on them. And then they usually have like an
all pro cornerback at one of the positions, and it
was just like, you're gonna have to throw on them,
but you're gonna have to do it within two seconds
because they're breathing down your throat.

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
We speaking of uh, we got our first college football
meme fan.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
You have that one LG from the Bama game.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
Lo, this is how you handle when you know you're
being zoomed in on and singled out by a whole
camera operator. This is what you do.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
We've eve been running the football.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
I keep my arm. Remember last year we had the
Texas fan that looked exactly like Conway Twitty, the big
hair you've always you always see, you know, the surrender cobras.

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
Or was it the ut girl who sat there was
like out of like the ou when they came back
and she was like and then she like, yeah see again.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
I think what you do is you flip the finger
or that.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
Guy is going to be running his dad's company someday.

Speaker 3 (01:26:30):
Oh, it's only a matter of time. But that gets
the camera off of you real fast. I props to
that Bama fan because it's they don't know what they're
witnessing there right now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
I mean it is and.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
I'm here for it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Well, and going back two years, this is again where
you never it's it's such an old trope, but it's true.
You never want to be the guy that replaces the legend.
You want to be the guy that replaces the guy
that replaced the legend. Whoever goes to Bama next after
they run Kellen du boor out of town.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
Yeah, he's gonna have an easier time.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Of course he is, because he's not replacing Nick Saban.
He's replacing Kellen de Boy. And it's if you go
back two years ago, there's not a better guy they
could have hired.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
I just got so sick of every Heisman winner was
either going to be from Bama or from Ou, you know.
And it was just that's the way it was before
the NIL. It was like, if you're a top one
quarterback and you want to throw the ball fifty times
a game, come over to the Big twelve, you know.
Or if you're a top defensive player blah blah blah

(01:27:37):
and running back, come over to SEC Alabama. You know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
It was just like a given every year.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
Yeah, it I mean again, you're described everything you're describing
as why I love nil Like it's like all these
people again, sixteen Ohio State versus Texas averaged sixteen and
a half million viewers. Where are all those people that
said I'll never watch call it. Where's the Abbo Sweeney
conglomerate that says I'm done with college football because all

(01:28:05):
all of a sudden, a twenty three year old kid
is getting paid for showing up to work because he
is a he's a student, but he's also an employee
of the football team, And all of a sudden, when
they get a little bit not even still not even
fair pay or fair split, but they just start getting

(01:28:26):
a little bit of money, and you say I'm done.
I mean the same way with the NFL. All right,
they take a knee, I'm not watching anymore. NFL ratings
are better than they've ever been. It's all posturing and
positioning and something a phrase that.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
The remember when the Dallas Cowboys went out with the same.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
People that threatened and Jerry did the stair right at
the camera. The same people that threaten boycotts are the
same people that like to point out virtue signaling by
everyone else. All you're doing is virtue signaling and saying
I'm never gonna watch again, but we all know you number.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
Let me guess you got American flag tenant on your
windows of.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
Course, of course patriot and your bio.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
Or you have a coexist sticker on the back of
your car.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
Those are the worst. Like this is not this is
not hyperbole. I don't know if there's a bumper sticker
that makes me more angry than when I see the
cod It's just so you know, the jogy liberalism. It's
so bed bath and beyond, like, oh I'm a liberal.
It's all coing zone.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
You know, the one stick and I probably vote with
that person more.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Often than not.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
It drives me.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
Is the deer one.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
I always thought it was like an angel, and then
like one like after seeing the sticker, like for what
the hunting brand, the hunting deer. I always thought it
was an angel, and then one day someone's like, oh, yeah,
it's a deer sticker, and I'm like what, And then
my left side of the brain click and was like nah,
it's like I've been misreading that the whole time.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
It's like company logos like FedEx has the arrow right
in the middle of their logo, but you never you
see it. You can't see it quickly before we close
out and get to the lightning round. Got to talk
a couple other Texas schools in action last week, and
UTSA lost up in Aggie Land forty two twenty four.

(01:30:17):
Did you catch how that final drive ended for UTSA?
Spread was twenty one and a half. UTSA puts all
their backups in to get some of the young guys
some experience and reps. The backup quarterback they have a
kid from Gilmer Yeah, throws a dart of a touchdown

(01:30:37):
and kills the TSA covers the spread on their final
drive with less than a minute to go in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Super super bad bad beat.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
It was. Look, I'm not gonna say. I'm not gonna
say the game would have turned out differently if this
had But you're.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Going against the mighty paid Aggies.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
Sure, and Kyle Field at night is no joke. I
mean that's it's a top three, top five environment in
college football. You do that sort of thing well, just
in terms of intensity, I mean, people, have you gotten
have you ever gotten to a game in cal Field?

Speaker 10 (01:31:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
My stepdad was a he graduated for them and I
heard enough of that crap.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
And as a as a uh, as a proud Aggie.

Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
I won't say hater, but as.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
A it's another reason why I have some love for U, t.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
A and M Midnight. Yelle needs to go. That's that's
long outlived. It's it's life span.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
They need to bring back the bonfire.

Speaker 3 (01:31:46):
But when power When Kanye starts blaring in cal field
right before kickoff.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
They playing Kanye Dude, Yeah, it's it's there act. When
they started doing that a couple of years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:31:57):
They've been doing since because it's my beautiful dark twisted
came out.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
It's a it's a hell.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
Of an environment. No, when UTSA gave up the punt
return for the touchdown, yeah, that was you know they
were they were swinging back and forth, they were punching.

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
Back and then they were like then they just got.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
A special team, put them in a hole and then
get the ball back and all the moment couldn't respond. Well,
it was just more of Aggie started finally getting something
going offensively and putting points on the board. It really
had more to do with their establishing more of an
offensive consistency than any type of momentum.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
Nothing does that more than some moment.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Again, I think you're just describing execution of a game plan.
So yeah, UTSA big, big, big game this week. Rumors
that we might be approaching fifty thousand tickets sold.

Speaker 1 (01:32:54):
Oh are we doing the rivalry with the Texas State State.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
Southwest Texas Another another university I paid tuition to at
one point in my life that the most. Yeah, the absolute.

Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
I used to go to a bunch of keggers up
there and it was the last universe I looked like
a college student when I was like sixteen seventeen years Oh. Yeah,
we just go down the street and if we see
a bunch of cars, we just walk up in there
and be like a frank guy come talking to me
Like I'm like, no, man, I'm over here at Delta
Delta five.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
Yeah, I never had I never had any issue finding
fun while I lived in San Marcos. Now, the Texas
State coming over for utsa's home opener in the Dome
Saturdays should be quite the spectacle. Unfortunately, I think it's
only being broadcast on ESPN plus what I know, I know,

(01:33:54):
and in a week where there's only one rinked. So
last week opening week, we got three top ten matchups.
Not to mention Farmageddon was a ranked game. There was
another one further down the rankings. We only get one
ranked game this weekend. It's Michigan at Oklahoma, number fifteen

(01:34:17):
Michigan versus number eighteen Oklahoma, so.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
Not even ranked.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
Yeah, they moved in.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
Not even a top ten matchup, much less a matchup
of either one of those teams being in the top ten.
In a weekend where the slate appears to be a
little weaker. You got a surprised USA in Texas State
isn't a.

Speaker 1 (01:34:40):
You got a Oklahoma State in an Oregon game going on.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
What are your hopes in that game? Oregon beat the
hell out of whoever they played.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Yeah, they put up seventy some points, not to get
seventy pun on.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
US fifty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
They won.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
Montana State did score thirteen on them. FCS team getting
thirteen on the board. Maybe y'all can hit twenty anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
There's a chance every there's a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Yeah, I well, and Oregon will always cough up one
game a year that they shouldn't lose. So you got
the only other college football notes I had, LG.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
Do you have that Dion clip this.

Speaker 3 (01:35:20):
I saw this earlier in the week and I was
gonna use it on the show we did where I
was sick, but it was uh we had to talk
Micah and get out that night. So this is Dion
talking about UH life as the Colorado Buffalo Head coach.

Speaker 10 (01:35:40):
Is there anything about falsehome, about this stadium that surprised
you that you didn't expect?

Speaker 11 (01:35:45):
Yeah, this mill of weed in the second quarter surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
They got me.

Speaker 11 (01:35:49):
Like every game, I'm like, dang, Like it seemed like
it's like a light up quarter, you know what I'm saying.
So is this the quarter that y'all chose? Like I'm saying,
is it's a TV timeout? It never fails in. I'm like, Wow,
what's going on? Because you know, I've never been at
day of my life. So that's that that's kind of
new to me.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
That that that's it. That's a boulder essential.

Speaker 6 (01:36:08):
I guess anything.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
That's a boulder essential. I I guess she did not.
I don't think she expected that answer.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Yeah, yeah, because he was keeping a one hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
I also kind of I believe Dion that he's never
been high a day in his life.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
Man, He's never he's high.

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
He's been high on himself every day of his life.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
He doesn't need.

Speaker 1 (01:36:30):
People with the most confidence usually don't take mind altering drugs.

Speaker 3 (01:36:34):
That's correct. Also, after watching the Cowboys documentary and hearing
him talk about Michael Irvin and everything that was going
on when Dion was a member of the Cowboys, Uh,
it was pretty clear to me that Dion I don't
think was If Dion was at the White House.

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
He was there for the girls. Yeah, she wasn't there
for any anything else.

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
House.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
I think he has his own house man, he had
his own pot. But we also before we get in
Lightning Round, Bill Belichick's debut.

Speaker 3 (01:37:06):
Yeah, I I that was so bad and I don't
even have what do you what do you want to
point out about?

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
I want to hear the press conference of the girlfriend. Yeah,
we can. She get her own podcast, and so I can.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
I'm it's kind of surprising to me she doesn't have
her own pods.

Speaker 1 (01:37:24):
I think Bill Belichick would like, he's like, I'm finally
putting it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:27):
I don't think he has that kind of scene control
with her, because if if he had that kind of
scene control, he would have stopped quite a.

Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
Few things the practice field.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
That's correct. She wouldn't have been wearing a bikini to
the NFL Awards show. Like, there are quite a few
things I think he probably would have changed. Yeah, all
of the all the internet jokes, Jordan Hudson's entering the
transfer portal, Jordan Hudson's gonna be dating Lee Corso by
the end of the night.

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
There was a long of course. So got his all
his picks right, all his picks right.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
So my last note, I was saving it for the last.
Not only did Corso get every single one of his
picks correct every single team he played. He played at
Florida State. Fun fact, he's tied for third overall on
the all time interceptions list at Florida State.

Speaker 4 (01:38:18):
Get them.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
He was an All American defensive back. Lee Corso was
a badass. He's a ninety year old.

Speaker 4 (01:38:25):
I didn't know wasn't All American.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
So are you ready for the real kicker. He's tied
for third all time in interceptions at Florida State. He's
tied with Dion al Buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
I was to say, I was like, pretty wild, right,
pretty wild?

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Did Dion didn't get the record?

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
He didn't stay long enough.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
Yeah, Jordan. You had Lawrence Taylor up in there.

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
Just just imagine what Lawrence Taylor is saying about Jordan
in conversations outside away from a microphone with people you trust.
Just imagine what Lawrence Taylor is saying about her. Oh buddy,
uh no, not only so every team he played or
coached for also one last weekend crazy. That's a pretty

(01:39:07):
it's a pretty fitting. I saw Ohio State gifted him
the original Brutus buckeyehead from the one he made on
his first the first show they did predictions when he
put head here on, they gave him that exact one.
Look the when it comes to Corso, there there's a

(01:39:29):
lot of problems in this country right now with old
people holding on to power for way, way, way too long.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Yeah, he's Mitch McConnell.

Speaker 4 (01:39:38):
He makes it fun.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
Lee Corso, I there are so many it's not hyperbolic
to say there are millions of people out there that
have been deeply, deeply impacted by his career.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
Yeah, like call it the it's impossible.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
To it explain to someone who is fourteen, sixteen years old. Now,
you know when we when I was fourteen year well
year two thousand, the you know, even go back to twelve,
you know, in ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (01:40:17):
Or you still remember him doing the picks and doing.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
The well and it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
The media landscape was not nearly a splintered y. There
was There were no.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
You know, gambling experts on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
There were no you know, college football analysts doing their
own podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
Yeah there was.

Speaker 3 (01:40:38):
It was literally you woke up at nine o'clock, you
turned ESPN on, and you waited until ten fifty ten
fifty five to see who Corso was gonna pick.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
I mean it was.

Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
It's one of those people called their bookies after that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
Very very much.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
So many coaches last week we're talking about like no,
I would I would ask a GA grad assistant, who
did Corso pick?

Speaker 1 (01:41:04):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
I want to know did he take us? Did he
pick us like just for that extra chip on the show,
like the It's impossible to explain to the younger generation
what a cultural foundation he was because now your attention
is so splintered every different direction. Back then, it was

(01:41:24):
you watched the Friday night high school highlight show after
your high school football game, and then you woke up
and you watched Corso And those were It wasn't like
those were just your options, Like you didn't have an
alternative two game day, You couldn't scroll your phone for
analysis like you watched Yeah One. Like I said, like

(01:41:47):
the foundational piece that it became for the ecosystem of
sports fandom for college football and specifically for college football.
I don't think I think a lot of people were
upset that they were still rolling out a mumbling, eighty
nine ninety year old man the last few years.

Speaker 1 (01:42:08):
But I can't wait to see what kind of send
off they gave him, Like, oh, like I had Cliff
Drysdale from tennis retired.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
Oh, I mean they did that thing. I mean like
that had some goosebumps.

Speaker 2 (01:42:21):
Yeah, they did a bunch.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
I mean they ran. I thought it was really cool
that Fox's pregame show cut into their coverage to show
Corso's pick, which is like understanding the dynamics of you know,
Fox being literally building a direct competitor to Game Day
with their big noon kickoff show.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Respect for Courso exactly, and you don't you know.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Again, I might just be a softie because I loved
Lee Corso, but to see two corporations, two media giants
that are competing with each other for eyeballs every Saturday
morning to have Fox defer because it's Corso, like you

(01:43:07):
don't normally see respect shown between corporate competitors like that. Yeah,
and it has to be a big deal like it
like it was Saturday with with Corso retiring to see
that happen. You want to do some lightning round, get
out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:43:22):
Let's get it all right.

Speaker 3 (01:43:26):
I think we're going to talk about this more as
the story develops. But the Pablo tore Kawhi Leonard investigation
is it's only it's in its infancy.

Speaker 1 (01:43:39):
I'll say that we're just brushing the tip of that
one very much so. And what we have so far,
what they're saying is a twenty eight million dollars no
show job.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
So this is kind of you know, four years, four
year endorsement or.

Speaker 4 (01:43:56):
Your endorsement, how many few years did you get?

Speaker 2 (01:43:59):
That's correct? Interesting how that happens.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
On a fraudulent tree and planting company funded by the
Clippers owner Steve Bomber.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
Massively contributed from Steve Bomber, but he the company that
went tits up scammed a lot of rich people. It
was like two point three.

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
Scheme type thing very much. Okay, but.

Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
It's the facts are still the facts.

Speaker 1 (01:44:27):
But they're saying is circumvented the salary caps so they
could get around it because they're keeping a lot of
players and they're they're maxed on their salary cap. And
if I'm Steve Bomber, the loud goofy face Microsoft face
of the you know, didn't he buy something else? Didn't
he buy a few things?

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
I thought of another team.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
Like, uh, maybe I think women's soccer.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
Or what it might have been, women's basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:44:56):
The interesting thing I haven't I'm going to Okay, you
guys see what I'm gonna watch the spectacular spectacular. Yes,
now we're, like I said, we're in the infancy of
this story. It's only going to get better. I haven't
been able to watch the full Pablo tore episode. I've

(01:45:17):
just listened to the clips that have been floating around.
But I first of all, if I'm James Harden, I'm
either asking where was my no show job when I
gave y'all a cut rate to re sign? Or I'm
saying all of them have no show jobs?

Speaker 2 (01:45:35):
Are they all about?

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (01:45:37):
Because they're all about to hide that money.

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
James Harden left a lot of money on the table
with this most recent extension. Yeah, I think we're going
to see I mean, obviously.

Speaker 1 (01:45:47):
It's we'll keep on track.

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
Well, and the big, you know, the big takeaway from
a San Antonio perspective is who's at the center of
all of this again, Yeah, and his uncle Dennis. Dennis
apparently is the go between between Kawhi and you know,
as we all know, the go between between Kawhi and

(01:46:11):
his endorsers, trying to get as much money out of
everyone that he can on Kawhi's behalf, but really seemingly
more for himself. As Pablo some of the clips I
was hearing, it seems like Pablo Torre has strong, strong
evidence that as shows this might be a deeper conspiracy

(01:46:33):
than Mark Cuban wants you to believe. Because Cuban immediately
came out and said, yeah, no, I'm with Balmer on this.
I don't I don't think I don't think you're jumping
to the right conclusions. And Pablo Torre immediately was like,
would you like to come on and talk about it,
so we might see Cuban on there soon talking about it.
But yeah, it looks pretty clear, like it's salary cap circumvention.

Speaker 1 (01:46:56):
Yeah, we'll see more.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
We'll talk about it more next year.

Speaker 1 (01:47:02):
So one of my favorite things that I love to
do every Sunday morning was to get up and watch
my NFL Red Zone. Oh we're seven hours of commercial
free football.

Speaker 3 (01:47:14):
Well then you're not a real football fan, because real
fans watch the full games. We don't watch the red
But now the shut up.

Speaker 4 (01:47:23):
Now you're in fantasy.

Speaker 1 (01:47:24):
Now you will respect them on the dark side, respect
the red zone. But now it will be commercialized. It
will be running ads through it. It breaks my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
Man, did you hear what?

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
So Scott Hansen announced he was on McAfee and he
said it's no longer going to be his first line.
Will no longer be welcome to seven hours of commercial
free football? Will just be welcome to seven hours of
NFL football.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
So they're saying it's going to be double screen ads,
so you'll still get the action on one screen, but
you're gonna get the ad on the other side of
the screen, and you're gonna get the audio from the commercial.
I mean, I've got it right here. If you want
to hear me rant at a bar for three hours
on a topic. Let's talk about the over commercialization of

(01:48:17):
American sports.

Speaker 4 (01:48:18):
Oh my god, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:48:20):
It's the same commercial over and over and over and
over and over and over, and.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
It's to be honest, it's a big, big reason why
I started to fall in love with European soccer. You
turn the game on, you watch forty five minutes straight,
no commercial interruptions. You watch the other forty five minutes.
We're done here. It's just pure sport.

Speaker 4 (01:48:40):
And hockey has like the minimal timeouts.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Hockey's great. Hockey's hockey and baseball, of course, I mean
they find ways to jam in mid inning commercials when
there's a you know, a random lull. But yeah, I mean,
any anytime more, anytime more commercials are being introduced, there's
one thing that's driving it, and it's corporate greed. The

(01:49:05):
NFL ESPN, which Scott Van Pelt was catching a lot
of hell for this because he jumped out immediately immediately
and was like, ESPN has no part in this, But
y'all don't care about that. You just want to bitch
about us. Cool. Yeah, And it's like, well, okay, look, Scott,
your company has effed up a lot of good things

(01:49:26):
when it comes to sports over the last ten years.
So you got to give people a little bit of
grace when they assume this is something else to add
to the list that y'all have screwed up, like good example,
how about sports journalism like Pablo Tore former ESPN employee,
can't pay him anymore to do investigative journalism, like the
Clippers may be circumventing the salary cap because you gotta

(01:49:49):
play pay screaming a Smith eighteen million? Do you gotta
pay Steven A. Smith like he's a fringe all star
NBA player because that's your brand. Now, that's the thing
people hate about ESPN. Now, So, like Scott Van Felt
is right, ESPN had no control in this. It's the
NFL's decision to add commercials. But also, well, I think

(01:50:12):
it's I think it's both there, what do you have something?
Are watching a baseball game?

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
Yeah you are? Y'all ever used stream East No?

Speaker 3 (01:50:30):
Apparently if you, well there's stream of those like uh yeah,
uh yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
So they were raided apparently we're operating out of Egypt.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
Yeah, they raid the place, take a bunch of laptops,
stuff like that, and then make this grand announcement Stream
East is no longer operational.

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
Blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
Well, if you go on x and look at stream
East feed, it's like it's basically like the Wolf of
Wall Street meme, like we're not going anywhere, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:51:03):
Yeah, that was just that was just their like you
you found our one rat hole exactly. You don't know
about the other nine rat holes we got.

Speaker 3 (01:51:11):
Or it was like, uh when they when they made
a big deal out of uh crashing the Pirate Bay.
Oh yeah, so yeah, so all of a sudden you
solved all the problems of the dark web.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
Dana White's like, we're coming after you guys that are
gonna show our UFC pay per view events and blah
blah blah.

Speaker 11 (01:51:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
Instagram Live, Yeah, like you're not. You're literally uh, you've
You've caught one fish in the ocean of illegal streamers.

Speaker 1 (01:51:42):
It's like you, bust is the one weed dealer in Oregon.

Speaker 2 (01:51:44):
That's correct, exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
I enjoyed streamings quick, like uh, just their quick bounce
back of like no, no, no, they ship, Yeah you
got anything else?

Speaker 1 (01:51:57):
Yeah, hear me? Ol G were you able to get
that picture up? I sent him one real late. My
buddy went to the uts A game.

Speaker 4 (01:52:07):
Check your phone. While we were out, I texted them,
Oh my god, but it's it's a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
I forgot man. I didn't like it was deep in
Mi because we haven't done the show. It was deep
in my photos. But he got he got a picture,
was like, you got good seats for the game. But
he didn't even notice this. It's two of the guys' names.
One is Buster, the other dude is called McNutt. And

(01:52:41):
they're standing next to each other all that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
That reminds me of the Miami fans.

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
And I'm like, they need to start doing something. They
need to start staying together at all times. But they
need to uh switch sides. So we have McNutt and
then Buster.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Yeah, this is like, uh, anytime here we go, Oh yes, anytime, Grady.

Speaker 1 (01:53:05):
You are you are the man LG. Yes. If they
just need to switch sides, I will be laughing the
whole time.

Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
The personalized jersey bits are always they're actually were Oh
it's the real players. I remember this one.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
Yeah, like Grady Dick.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
It's even better when it's a real players. You can
get away like I'm not doing anything. This is my
last name. What do you want me to do? Hit
me LG and we'll get out of here after this
one a couple of quick caterers. My favorite band is
touring for the first time in seven years. Albeit they've

(01:53:48):
only announced a European tour, but Radiohead, Radiohead anytime that
Usually they start with just the European tour and then
they eventually announced at least some you know, Chicago in
LA Yeah exactly. But I've only ever gotten to see
them one time and it was at ACL so it

(01:54:09):
wasn't necessarily the best presentation for him.

Speaker 5 (01:54:14):
But they.

Speaker 3 (01:54:18):
I mean, they have two absolutely perfect albums with no
no comments.

Speaker 1 (01:54:26):
To change anything, an absolutely perfect album.

Speaker 2 (01:54:29):
Have y'all ever y'all played Powerball at all?

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
I didn't, LG.

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
I wouldn't take you as a man, but yeah, drawing
taking place. It actually just took place ten o'clock tonight.
Over one billion dollar prize for the first time this year.
It hasn't been won since back in March. It's like
a one point four billion dollar prize, but if you

(01:54:55):
take the cash only option, it's four hundred and eighty
nine million instantly or no, no, no, five hundred and
eighty nine million cash instantly if you win. Now, if
you are interested, the odds of winning this thing one
in two hundred and ninety two point two million, So.

Speaker 1 (01:55:17):
Just you just have to put up two hundred, like
two and a half million dollars on tickets and you
should win.

Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
Theoretically, I would say, there's some That's what I always
wonder about lot Like, why don't rich people just rig it?
In their face?

Speaker 1 (01:55:30):
I think they do.

Speaker 4 (01:55:31):
Like, I'm like, honestly, like, you don't really see.

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
I don't see, man, I've known a bunch of rednecks
in North Texas that win the lottery that there's no
rigging there.

Speaker 2 (01:55:40):
They just play it every freaking day.

Speaker 1 (01:55:43):
I just like, And I just don't see billionaires like
an or half a billion billionaires walking around newly minted.
And I would think there would be a lot more
wilding out, you know what I'm saying, A lot more,
a lot more stories about a recent lottery winner blah
blah blah blah blah ended up buying and buying a

(01:56:04):
Bengal tiger that got loose.

Speaker 3 (01:56:05):
On the streets completely mauled his entire family. Let's end
with this, LG. I I am obsessed with the TikTok
is not a world I swim in whatsoever. But I
see a lot of funny stuff on X that's from TikTok.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
One of my favorite things is what we're about to see.
I haven't told you what it is, so I want well,
I want you to watch it raw without having any
set up.

Speaker 4 (01:56:40):
Got a raw do this?

Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
You got a raw dog?

Speaker 4 (01:56:42):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
This is this is our.

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
Closer for tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:56:46):
I'm a hot box.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
See if you can guess where we're going by the
end of this thing.

Speaker 5 (01:56:54):
If you got off too an indestructible water blob and
a car was thrown on the other side, you would
soar on hundreds of feet into the air. Now, if
a blue whale was dropped onto it, it could catapult.

Speaker 1 (01:57:04):
You over ten miles high.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
Okay, so all of it. So so far we've got
like the old summer camp blob.

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
That just is not physically possible.

Speaker 2 (01:57:13):
The car, well, that's it's physics, it's math, that's pop it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
It's like you got indestructible plastic. Yeah, exactly, you're suspending,
but it's just the equation of the weight of the falling.

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
Object and the weight problem. But they're not really doing
the like, what's realistic? Right, I'm that asshole on the movie,
Like that's not possible.

Speaker 3 (01:57:30):
Yeah, I see, And that's why that's why you don't
enjoy Fast and Furious, because the roommate did a lot
of that. This Faster was like, good, lord, woman, just
suspend your imagination and watch a.

Speaker 2 (01:57:41):
Freaking action movie.

Speaker 4 (01:57:43):
I'm like, that's not so.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
It feels like it's some sort of educational video. Yeah,
you might say, all right, go ahead, LG.

Speaker 5 (01:57:51):
Meteor fell from space and crashed into the blob. The
force of the impact would compress the blob and would
blast you upward faster than a rocket, and then you
landing straight into Amigo's text mex grill because our burritos
have their own gravitational pole.

Speaker 4 (01:58:05):
Come down and Amigos now open a place findo on
the mall.

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
Oh TikTok ad of the company doing the bait and
switch video, And that's great, that's great.

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
I thought this was gonna be the one where, hey,
you can't park there when you see people like crashed. Yeah,
did you see there lay truck that's in the bottom
of a ravine river?

Speaker 2 (01:58:27):
Can't park there?

Speaker 4 (01:58:28):
Mate?

Speaker 1 (01:58:28):
Yeah, it looks like it looks like it's it got
like land like helicoptered in. You're like it had to
roll it like there's no way it could like go
down physically. That had like roll over a couple of times,
but it was perfect, and it was in a beautiful
ravine river and I just wanted someone to be like,
you can't park there.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
The best one is the best one I've ever seen
is the it's a British guy who wrecks his supercar.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
Yeah, and he's on the side of the road.

Speaker 3 (01:58:55):
He's like rubbing his head and just staring like trying
to figure out what and a guy pulls up a
British accent makes it more fun.

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
He's like, hey, mate, you all right?

Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
What happened to you? And the guy's like, well, you know,
and he's like, oh, yeah, I don't think you can
park there, mate, can't park your car.

Speaker 2 (01:59:09):
And he was just like, oh the British action I
held you.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
Give that to me, give me the give me the
Katari text mes ad one more time before we get
out here.

Speaker 2 (01:59:19):
In its entirety, oh because the uh.

Speaker 5 (01:59:25):
The instructible water blob and a car was thrown on
the other side, you would sore hundreds of feet into
the graphics.

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
Man, if it could catamult you over ten miles high.

Speaker 5 (01:59:37):
But if a meteor fell from space and crashed into
the blob, the force of the impact would compress the
blob and would blast you upward faster than a rocket.
The guys lance straight into amigos because our burritos have
their own gravitational fold.

Speaker 4 (01:59:52):
Come dine and amigos our.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
Own gravitational Sinkle. Look, I'm such a nerd. The first
time I watched this video, I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
I would be interested to know what a car does
to you on a blob. Oh my god, a blue up?
Well yeah, how far would that launch? That's exactly what
I thought. And then when I saw the comment coming down,

(02:00:15):
I was like, Okay, what am I? What am I
about to see at the end here? Because this is
not what I thought it was. Well, on that note,
let's get out of here for the night. Cowboys, Cowboys
garbage tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
The NFL season is nearly upon us. How can the
people get hold of you?

Speaker 1 (02:00:37):
You can reach me out the captain's chair two one
oh on Instagram, DM me, I will be uh ladies,
I got hey, baby, Oh my god, you can fight.

Speaker 3 (02:00:49):
Me on this God dang it on x at, Biggest Puma, Instagram,
Biggest Pooma. LG. Whe's the next dream Tomorrow Night. Tomorrow night, folks,
tune into LG House.

Speaker 4 (02:01:00):
Enjoyed football, Gonna be watching football.

Speaker 1 (02:01:02):
Come on LG Possible Friday episode. We will see it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
You'll be good.

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
Peace.

Speaker 1 (02:01:08):
Peace kids.

Speaker 4 (02:01:13):
What do we say about drugs?

Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
You can stay

Speaker 8 (02:01:20):
Yeah, goes first, go
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