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I-80 Football Show: The SEC won't stop whining + NCAA '26 updates!
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In this episode, we spend too much time discussing video games as we get our first look at NCAA '26. With new updates and a return to some staples from previous eras, such as including coaches, bringing back the trophy room, and starting your road to glory in high school, EA is trying to follow up last year's game with another banger. In other news, the SEC hasn't won a national championship in two seasons, and they're having the world's longest meltdown; a new version of the 16-team playoff is being discussed, and the Big Ten released the full schedule for the first three weeks of the season.
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Welcome and Introduction
00:00:11
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What's good, everybody? Welcome in to another episode of Get Defensive Sports Network's I-80 football show. As always, I'm your host, Jordan. I'm here with co-host, Dante. Dante, how you doing?
00:00:22
Dante
Doing all right, man. Doing all right. I think it's hilarious that you still almost messed
00:00:30
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Yeah, i had to think about it. I had to think about it it.
00:00:32
Dante
up.
00:00:32
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It wasn't just, it wasn't rolling off the tongue today. I don't i don't know why. I was...
00:00:37
Dante
Man, is funny. It's because we've missed a few weeks and you've done that one a few times now.
00:00:41
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Yeah, probably.
00:00:43
Dante
So that's that's probably why. That's probably why.
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Yeah,
Offseason Challenges and NCAA Game Release
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Dante
Yeah, yeah that's all.
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we just get we we got to get back into the swing of things.
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May was not a, it was May and April was not a good month for this show, but we we locked in and um things are finally happening, which is cool because we do this show year round, but it is admittedly hard to do in the off season when there's not a whole lot to about.
00:00:48
Dante
That's all.
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Dante
Nah.
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Dante
Yeah. yeah All right, so OK.
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Like, even today, one of the topics is just, like, another iteration of a topic we've talked about a million times already because it's the only thing happening. And that people just keep arguing about the same thing. So it's just like...
00:01:17
Dante
I figured we was going to talk about 26. twenty six
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Oh, yeah, yeah, we're definitely talking about that.
00:01:22
Dante
Yeah.
00:01:23
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That's new. That's new. We're definitely talking about NCAA
00:01:25
Dante
Yeah. Yeah. So I thought when I saw those hats, I knew I knew i I knew I saw what I saw. All right.
00:01:31
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Yeah. and like i don't they they So that the funny thing is, all right, well, we can just skip to that. ah So we're we're we' in our traffic update.
00:01:38
Dante
But.
00:01:41
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We're in the news segment. And as y'all can tell, we want to talk about Incident of Elite 26. First of all, I just have to say, it is so nice to know that this game is coming out every year.
00:01:45
Dante
Honestly, honestly.
00:01:51
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And the best part about the game is like...
00:01:51
Dante
Yep. Kinda.
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it We're not doing that right now. You're right. And I know what you're going to say, but we we still going to pretend it's going to be a good game until they prove us otherwise.
00:02:00
Dante
Oh, yeah. ah Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like...
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Because pretty soon they're going to give us a bad one, but not not right now.
00:02:06
Dante
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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you know
00:02:07
Dante
i don yeah Don't worry. i'm I'm terrified. I really am.
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get Well, you know, two is going to be strong. We're just going say year two is going to be strong. I will not make any assumptions on year three, but year two is going to be strong.
00:02:20
Dante
yeah
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ah
00:02:22
Dante
Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:23
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um But either way, good or bad, it's nice that the game is coming back, especially because like this game in particular, it just comes out at the right time. Because like if you're not doing the pocket, so like for us, July is a good time because that's when we're doing our preview. So like we have things to do.
00:02:38
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But like if you're not doing like a podcast, you're just like, a regular fan or whatever, there's like nothing in July. NBA is over. WNBA, well, but so WNBA is on.
00:02:48
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But if you're not into WNBA, if you're not into soccer, that like there's nothing baseball is...
00:02:52
Dante
Baseball. Because I got to go to a few games this year, too.
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Yeah, so it's just like, but especially if you're like, you know, there's a lot of people who are only into football.
00:02:56
Dante
I keep forgetting about that.
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By the time you get to July, you're just itching.
00:03:02
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:03:04
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So now you get this game in July. It's not the same as real football, of course, but it's something that can at least hold you over a little bit until the season starts.
00:03:12
Dante
Oh, I mean, we do have summer football, spring, summer football now.
00:03:17
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Yeah, I'm not even watching that. so
00:03:21
Dante
Oh, it's me.
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So...
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Dante
I'm the problem. Okay. All
Sports Viewing Options and Draft Strategies
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Dante
right.
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you're you're watching you see you but You watch...
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Dante
Cool. Cause I'm watching it.
00:03:26
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ah yeah But all you do is play the game, watch sports, and go to the gym. like
00:03:32
Dante
You right.
00:03:32
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I'd be forgetting that. I'd be forgetting this on TV.
00:03:34
Dante
You right.
00:03:35
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I'm not even going to hold you. But also, to be honest, I could probably watch the USL. I think that's what it's called. But I don't know what it comes on. and i don't have No, they got rid of the F.
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Dante
USFL, I think is.
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Dante
They got rid of the F.
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can Yeah, because they combined the two leagues.
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Dante
Okay. Okay.
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Because it was USFL, and then it was...
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Hold on, what is it called?
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Dante
It was CFL.
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No, the CFL still exists.
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Dante
No, no, no. um Fuck.
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What is it is it? It's not the USFL anymore. Because they combined it. So it was the XFL and the USFL.
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Dante
Right.
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Dante
Right.
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And I'm pretty sure they combined those two. And now it's, oh, it's just the UFL.
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Dante
Hmm.
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They got rid of the S, not the F.
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Dante
UFL. Okay, okay, okay.
00:04:27
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Which makes sense, because how do how do you get rid of the F?
00:04:28
Dante
Okay.
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You need football. You're like, that didn't make any sense.
00:04:31
Dante
You kind of need football on your name.
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I'm like, yeah.
00:04:32
Dante
Yeah.
00:04:33
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I'm like, they got rid of the F. It's like, you United Soccer League? Like, yeah. Okay. So it's UFL, because they combined the USFL and the XFL, because there was no reason for there to be two different leagues trying to do the same thing.
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Dante
Okay, okay.
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Dante
Right, okay.
00:04:47
Dante
Stupid.
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But um I don't even know what.
00:04:49
Dante
Just dumb as fuck.
00:04:51
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I could maybe watch it, but I don't know if it's on any streaming. Because as you know, I get rid of cable as soon as football season's over. I just can't.
00:04:58
Dante
Ah. Yeah.
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I'm not paying $85 a year.
00:04:59
Dante
yeah
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Like, all the way around. Because i just thought I'm not watching it. When it's over, I'm already paying for streaming. I play the game more. So, like, i don't watch nothing on a cable for a but football. And the way basketball works...
00:05:11
Get Defensive Sports Network
you can get a lot of those games on the streaming, like the, like football, basketball, you can get on streaming. So like a lot of times I can watch a basketball game. I want to, but like, other than that, I'm not, and I haven't even watched basketball this year.
00:05:22
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So it doesn't even matter, but like, yeah, I'm not, I don't keep YouTube TV.
00:05:25
Dante
I've been watching a little bit. This is the least I've watched in a very long time.
00:05:29
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For real.
00:05:30
Dante
Yeah.
00:05:31
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That doesn't surprise me because you haven't talked about basketball a lot on the show this year this year. Like we have, we, the last couple of years we had a whole segment and we would talk about it weekly, but yeah, no idea. As soon as honestly, because the Superbowl is on streaming, I don't even get to the Superbowl.
00:05:45
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I cut it off in January. Cause why am I paying?
00:05:47
Dante
Damn.
00:05:48
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Why am I paying for February? And there's only one week of football left.
00:05:52
Dante
You right.
00:05:53
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I ended in, i ended in, i ended in January. right after college football championship championships over, I get the rest of that month.
00:05:56
Dante
I
00:06:00
Get Defensive Sports Network
And then you can watch the Superbowl on streaming. And if I couldn't watch it streaming, I would do a trial or I would get, go to someone's house or something. But like, I'm not paying for the month of February just to watch the Superbowl. So yeah, as soon as January hits, it's cut. Cause I, I'm not paying for that.
00:06:18
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I honestly, I don't even think it
00:06:18
Dante
might I might get rid of it because now that I'm thinking about it
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for real.
00:06:27
Dante
wrestling, wrestling's on Netflix and they even show SmackDown on Netflix. I might not need cable no more.
00:06:36
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Man, I'm not going to hold you. You getting rid of it will hurt my pockets, but you got to do what you got to do.
00:06:42
Dante
Well, hurt your pockets.
00:06:42
Get Defensive Sports Network
Because, because so I can't watch it anymore, but I'm still in your family group. So I'd be using yours to do the live TV on yeah ESPN when it's like you need a TV subscription. Yeah.
00:06:55
Get Defensive Sports Network
I'd be logging into my Google because I'm still on your thing. So it's funny because like they restrict, like I can't, I haven't been able to watch your YouTube TV for like two years, but because I'm still in the family group, it counts as a TV subscription.
00:07:03
Dante
Oh yeah, no.
00:07:08
Get Defensive Sports Network
So every time I want to watch something on ESPN, it'd be like, you need to log into a TV subscription. I'd be like, let me go ahead and log into YouTube TV. ah But I mean, whatever, like that's not a reason for you to keep it.
00:07:18
Dante
That's...
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Get Defensive Sports Network
That's your money. If you got rid of it, I just just wouldn't watch it, but it's just like, yeah.
00:07:20
Dante
That's funny. That's funny.
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Yeah.
00:07:24
Dante
That's smart. That is smart. i Since it counts, I would use it too.
00:07:27
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Yeah. It's like, honestly, I'm surprised.
00:07:28
Dante
But now that I'm truly thinking about I don't know.
00:07:33
Get Defensive Sports Network
tell you, i cancel every year. Every every time I log it in and you still have it, I'm like, damn, all right. Cool.
00:07:40
Dante
Cause I am watching basketball, wrestling and shit like that.
00:07:52
Get Defensive Sports Network
don't know. For me, it's February, March, April, May, June, July. It's like six months the year. don't got to pay for it. It's $85. That's a lot of money.
00:08:02
Dante
um yeah Cause I'm thinking about it.
00:08:03
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That's almost $500. That's $500. Especially because they went up to $85.
00:08:05
Dante
Yeah. No, it is.
00:08:06
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Yeah, it's $510. You know what I mean?
00:08:07
Dante
It is. Yeah, it is. That's I'm thinking about. I like i don't know.
00:08:08
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Save me $500. You can call me. Yeah. Yeah. yeah it's five ten you know and save me five it dollars i not
00:08:12
Dante
yeah
00:08:15
Dante
i don't think i because because i'm like i said i'm barely watching barely watching basketball i'm gonna watch i'm watching it now because conference finals in the finals and shit like after that because i can't even always get guardians games so not yeah uh columbus no because uh
00:08:15
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you can call me
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yeah
00:08:27
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when is it When is the next game?
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What?
00:08:35
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Oh, yeah. Do you get the you get the Reds games?
00:08:39
Dante
Probably if they're on TV, but like sometimes when they're on TV, I don't get those games, even though it's like on TV. Like I didn't get Cavs games too, because it it was like on TV.
00:08:46
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Mm.
00:08:49
Dante
So I'm starting to think like, because like, if you got a Hulu account, don't, can't you still watch ESPN? Okay.
00:09:01
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Uh, no.
00:09:02
Dante
All right. Well then I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out.
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Yeah.
00:09:05
Dante
I might, I might not need that no more.
00:09:06
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause it's like, so it's like, uh, but you really, the thing is like, it it just depends on how much you want to watch.
00:09:09
Dante
What up, Jay? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:09:14
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You know what saying? Because, um What is it? There are. So if it's on ESPN plus, right? So I pay for ESPN plus. So if it's on yeah ESPN plus, you're good.
00:09:26
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Of course. The only thing is, is the games that are just like co-streamed. That's not what it's called. But where it's like the game is actually on live TV, but then they also just put it on the app.
00:09:36
Dante
yeah
00:09:37
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But if you don't have cable, you can't watch it. That's the only time. But so it's like there is still a decent enough number of games that gets put on ESPN Plus. And then like I'm about to turn on the Pacers game ah live right now and like TNT is on HBO.
00:09:53
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So like I would definitely and if you did it, i mean, it just depends on what apps you have, because I have Paramount. Peacock, HBO. So any of the games that are on like TNT, CBS, and NBC, they typically simulcast.
00:10:10
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That's what's good it's called. They typically simulcast it. So I can see those.
00:10:12
Dante
Oh my God. So I can still watch basketball anyway.
00:10:13
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So then the only ones you wouldn't be able to do is the ones that's on ABC and the ones that's on ESPN that they don't simulcast.
00:10:24
Dante
No, but the thing is, I just realized my mom has a spectrum account. So yeah.
00:10:29
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Oh, yeah.
00:10:30
Dante
Yeah.
00:10:31
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Yeah. Well, I apologize to anybody that's been eating off of Dante's YouTube TV because I may have just convinced him to cancel on accident.
00:10:35
Dante
who
00:10:41
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Hey, that's my bad, y'all. That's my bad. I'm going to be all right. I know some people with cable, but that's my bad. didn't mean to do that y'all.
00:10:48
Dante
That's what I'm saying. like i know like I know a few people with cables.
00:10:50
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I didn't even mean to do that like that. i was just, you know, I was just talking.
00:10:52
Dante
oh I'm just sitting here.
00:10:54
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I was just talking about how I saved me money. i didn't even know he was doing that for real.
00:10:59
Dante
Once you like kind of said it, i was like, wait.
00:11:04
Dante
I've been watching wrestling through Netflix since January, pretty much.
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oh yeah
00:11:12
Dante
I don't need this. who Man, I'm about to save me $100. Just about. I'm thinking...
00:11:18
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Look, i did I did lie, though.
00:11:20
Dante
about
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I cannot watch. I don't have the upgraded HBO, so I can't watch the finals game. They put that one behind the paywall, which makes sense. It's the Western Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals.
00:11:29
Dante
you um thinking i'm thinking I think I know somebody, i know a few people probably with HBO. So like I think I'm good next year. We're going to see how this works.
00:11:42
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Yeah. So the only thing with HBO is like, they'd be, they'd be going back and forth on what you can. and Like I said, like I can watch, there are certain games I can watch on there, but then they put the Eastern, I imagine just cause it's the Eastern conference final, they put this game on a paywall.
00:11:58
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So to watch all the games, you have to have the, the next tier. I'm just on the basic tier. But either way, if you've got the streaming apps, you've got the one, twos.
00:12:08
Dante
Ad free... Mmm...
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Yeah, I think it's the ad free. I think it's the ad free.
00:12:12
Dante
AJ, I'ma need that.
00:12:14
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What? He said, you know what?
00:12:17
Dante
I'ma need it.
00:12:18
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Let me, let me, let me, let me talk to you.
00:12:20
Dante
You want my Paramount?
00:12:20
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Let me talk to you on the side.
00:12:21
Dante
You want my Peacock?
00:12:26
Dante
That sounded crazy, but you know what I mean. Because...
00:12:28
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Yeah. Yeah. Um,
00:12:32
Dante
Mmm...
00:12:35
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Well, I do apologize to anybody who's going log into YouTube TV in a month and realize they don't got access no more. But at the same time, fuck y'all.
00:12:44
Dante
It's probably only going Brandon.
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Because...
00:12:45
Dante
He's the only one that can use it.
00:12:47
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Yeah. Oh, yeah, because no one us is in Columbus.
00:12:47
Dante
Because I'm in Columbus.
00:12:49
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Man, all I know is that it made me so mad you moved back to Cleveland. It was cool. It was so cool. And then it was like... just randomly. It was like, yeah, gang, you can't do it.
00:12:56
Dante
I thought it was dumb. I thought it was dumb too. You can't use it.
00:12:59
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You thought I was lying.
00:12:59
Dante
i was like...
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You was like, what are you talking about, bro? You in here. I'm like, I'm telling And then I Googled it and it was like, yeah yeah, you got to be in the, you got to be in the same household and they don't know the household well enough.
00:13:05
Dante
Paramount, bet.
00:13:09
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if You're in the same city. But if you were not in the same city, it's cut. I was sick.
00:13:12
Dante
It's... That was so silly to me. That was so silly to me because i was like, what does it matter?
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Yeah. Really?
00:13:19
Dante
What does it matter if you have to take it from their location?
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Really?
00:13:23
Dante
Do it. I thought it was their own account. Like, I'm just.
00:13:25
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Right. Yeah. No, they won't do it.
00:13:27
Dante
It's.
00:13:28
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Speaking of spending money though, I need to figure out how I'm getting Sunday ticket this year because I, after a year of, of, of, uh, New York sports, I can't do it, bro. I can, I will literally never watch the NFL again. If the only game on my TV is the jets and the giants.
00:13:45
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And I know why you're laughing because I complained about this all last year. I'm I was sick. And the jets have Justin Fields and Garrett Wilson. So that's like mildly more entertaining. But I'm not trying to watch Russ and Jackson Dart. Like, that is awful. That is so bad.
00:14:00
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So I literally, like, I'm going to to save up my coin this summer so I can get Sunday Ticket because I refuse.
00:14:00
Dante
No, because I know as soon as you said that, they'll set a ticket. you
00:14:09
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And that's steep.
00:14:10
Dante
And like, we hold on, and will you will you get Indianapolis Colts games?
00:14:16
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On Sunday Ticket, yeah.
00:14:18
Dante
Are you positive?
00:14:19
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Yeah, because with Sunday Ticket, you get every game that's out of market.
00:14:22
Dante
Oh, okay. Because I remember so sometimes I remember with the old Sunday ticket, you didn't get every game out of market.
00:14:23
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It's like, it's like, it's.
00:14:29
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Oh, yeah, that's it. So that was that's when it was on direct TV and direct TV was doing some weird stuff.
00:14:33
Dante
Okay. Okay.
00:14:34
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As long as long, at least so far, as long as it's out of market, you get every game.
00:14:34
Dante
Okay. All
00:14:39
Dante
right.
00:14:39
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And and on YouTube, you can do the quad box and you can do that kind of stuff.
00:14:40
Dante
Okay. All
00:14:44
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i do I do think they get a little bit weird about the 3 o'clock games sometimes, but at least the 1 o'clock window.
00:14:45
Dante
right, then.
00:14:49
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:14:50
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You get every game. And the Colts suck, so we're always in the 1 o'clock window. That's never a problem for me.
00:14:55
Dante
I need it.
00:14:56
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We're in the 1 o'clock window all the time. I'm trying to watch us go two and fifteen Please, for the love of God. way i need I need a 2-15. I'm telling you, I've talked about it, and we will talk about it as the season goes on.
00:15:08
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This is finally a good year for quarterbacks. Please, Anthony Richards. What's his name? Daniel Jones, I need it.
00:15:16
Dante
i need
00:15:16
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I need it. Stink it up. Please. I need it. Honestly, you know what? We could do we can do 4-13. Four wins will get you a top three pick. As long as we in the top three, that's all I just please. Help me out.
00:15:28
Dante
um
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Do it. Like, no funny. RIP. Do it for Jim Irsay. You know he wanted us to win, gang.
00:15:33
Dante
but
00:15:34
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You know he wanted us to win.
00:15:34
Dante
Yo, I'm sorry. i know I shouldn't laugh.
00:15:36
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That was his... That, like, please. Do it for Jim. Do it for us. Do it for his daughter who's running a team. Come on, bro. 4-13. That's it. Just wrap it up.
00:15:45
Dante
Four. Four.
00:15:46
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Wrap it up. I need i need i need and i need the number one and number two pick. don't I don't need none that. I'm sorry. It's over. I don't want none of it. Four and 13. Let me get a top two pick. Let me get a quarterback.
00:15:59
Dante
I ain't even mad at it.
00:15:59
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Let me get a quarterback.
00:16:01
Dante
I'm not even mad at it.
00:16:02
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Honestly,
00:16:02
Dante
You know, I've been saying it for for a while. Stop making the playoffs.
00:16:07
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yeah.
00:16:07
Dante
Stop it. just Stop making the playoffs. to to losing the first Stop
00:16:13
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Yeah. and And this is not really a coach conversation, but like like, let me lay the picture for you, right? And again, this is no jokes. RIP to Jim Irsay. But in this next offseason, because Jim Irsay passed, we're going to have a new owner.
00:16:29
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If we're bad, that means we can have a new GM. That means we might we might have a new coach. And we for sure going have a new quarterback. Reset the franchise. Run it up. Unplug it.
00:16:41
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Unplug it for 30 seconds and plug it back in.
00:16:43
Dante
nigga say reboot this shit reboot this shit
00:16:44
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Like re re reboot it. We need like we start over. Start over. I need all of it. New owner, new GM, new head coach, new quarterback. All that's coming 2026. That's the the foreign four and 13. That's it. That's all I'm asking for. I don't think I'm asking for too much.
00:17:05
Dante
You know? Maybe you're not. That's just what he is.
00:17:10
Dante
Go for it. Yeah, I ain't mad at it.
00:17:12
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Yeah.
00:17:13
Dante
I've been saying it for you. I was saying it for years.
00:17:15
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And honestly, we really just need to be in the top.
00:17:15
Dante
Tank, stop winning these games.
00:17:18
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We really just need to be in the top five because like, This is a good year for quarterbacks. And then Caleb Downs is also coming out and some things like that. So, like, there's probably going to be three quarterbacks taken in the top five. So, as long as we're anywhere in the top five, we're probably good. But, honestly, I just want the number one pick, to be honest with you.
00:17:36
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Like, I don't want to play around because with because last time we got the number four pick and we thought it was cute.
00:17:36
Dante
well
00:17:41
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And then we ended up with Anthony Richardson and they didn't trade it for CJ Stroud. So, I just need them to not be able to mess it up. So I'm actually back to 2-15. Just lock up the number one pick.
00:17:50
Dante
Yeah.
00:17:51
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Don't even done't doesn' play around. I don't want no strength of schedules argument. I don't want no, they're also 4-13, but they got the number one pick because they had a harder schedule. No, no, no. two and fifteen wrap it up.
00:18:01
Dante
ah
00:18:03
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i need I need Daniel Jones and Anthony Richards.
00:18:04
Dante
They get a third win. He gonna be pissed.
00:18:07
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Yeah, yeah. And it's going happen. We're going to win eight games, I'm telling you. Just because I said this out loud, we're going to win eight games. And it's going be the ugliest eight games you've ever seen.
00:18:18
Dante
You're probably not wrong.
00:18:18
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It's going to be like, we're going to win games where Anthony Richardson going to have 125 yards and three interceptions, but he's going to have four rushing touchdowns.
00:18:19
Dante
You're probably not wrong.
00:18:26
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It's going to be the most disgusting football you've ever seen in your entire life, and we're going to picked fucking 15, and they're going to draft somebody garbage.
00:18:32
Dante
Yeah.
00:18:37
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The fucking cycle continues.
00:18:38
Dante
Every single year, I see 20-something near our name. I'm like, fuck! Why don't we make the playoffs?
00:18:46
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for no reason. You don't got no quarterback.
00:18:48
Dante
ship This shit pisses me off.
00:18:49
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You trading wide receivers.
00:18:49
Dante
You got the 23rd pick.
00:18:53
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What am I supposed to do with this? And you can't trade it up for 23.
00:18:55
Dante
yes
00:18:58
Dante
You can't.
00:18:59
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There's nothing you can do with 23. You just got to eat it.
00:19:01
Dante
And there was nothing to really...
00:19:02
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You can trade down. That's about it. You can't trade Yeah.
00:19:04
Dante
Yeah, there was nothing and there was nothing to trade up for. Again, i love what we did in the draft. I loved our pick, our first pick. I liked our few picks. Again, we got Jack Sweet. We got a bunch of, like again, we love Ohio State.
00:19:14
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Yeah.
00:19:17
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Yeah.
00:19:18
Dante
ah Pittsburgh loves Ohio State. So...
00:19:22
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And I get it. I guess, you know, I just want, honestly, we need to get off the NFL.
00:19:25
Dante
Mm-hmm. True.
00:19:28
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We have enough time to talk about that. I just want Will Howard to start five games.
00:19:30
Dante
True.
00:19:32
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Give him a chance. i don't know if he's going to do it, but give him a chance. I really just, I feel like, especially like if y'all, don't
00:19:38
Dante
Look, if we find Aaron, it's never going to happen. And they keep talking about him. Apparently, that that's still a thing.
00:19:47
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I'm not going to comment in on that.
00:19:47
Dante
And I think it's... I mean, anyway, it's a goddamn joke.
00:19:49
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I'm going to be honest with you, though. this is Normally, I would laugh, but I don't even think I could laugh at your pain at that one. Because I know how you feel about Aaron Rodgers.
00:19:59
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I really don't even think I could laugh at you. i think Honestly, I just feel bad.
00:20:02
Dante
Especially now. Especially. He's 40-something years Who cares?
00:20:05
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Yeah.
00:20:06
Dante
What did he blow? Whatever. i um not not like I mean he tore something two years ago.
00:20:09
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Something. Crack, maybe.
00:20:14
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Yeah, he tore his Achilles. Achilles. Yeah, it was his Achilles.
00:20:22
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Yeah, I don't know.
00:20:22
Dante
Stop.
00:20:23
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He needs to go to a darkness retreat and stay there.
00:20:27
Dante
Just, we don't need him. It's cool. Either Mason or at Will, let's let's let's be terrible and get, ah there's a bunch of receivers coming out the draft.
00:20:37
Dante
There's a bunch of offensive weapons we could get coming into this draft as well. This is a pretty good draft next year.
00:20:43
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Yeah.
00:20:45
Dante
So.
00:20:45
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Like, I mean, it's going to be real solid. Not even going to hold you. It's, especially, like, it's funny because, like, i'm I'm doing, you know, like, I'm reading some of the draft stuff just because I think reading the draft stuff this early helps with the podcast because it gives me some, like, players to pay attention to and it, like, helps solidify some of my opinions and some of that kind of stuff.
00:20:51
Dante
Speaking of.
00:21:07
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And they're talking about six, seven quarterbacks in the first round.
00:21:10
Dante
Oh.
00:21:11
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Francisco Mendoza.
00:21:14
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indiana who people don't know because they didn't watch cow but i watched cow i don't know if you watch cow but i watch cow that boy's a baller they're talking about um garrett nussmeyer uh they're talking about potentially drew aller they're talking about lenore sellers potentially arch manning depending on if he wants to do a one and done as a starter um who are who are the other the ones that they're talking about uh
00:21:21
Dante
Probably one or two games.
00:21:37
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There's a couple more in this year. I can't think of them. There's a couple more in this year. And then next year, you're going to have DJ Ligway. You're going to have Dylan Rayola. You're going to have Julian Sane.
00:21:49
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um And of course, this is this is just the people that have the hype, right? Because there's always going to be someone that comes out of nowhere, has ah has a great year, all that sort of stuff.
00:21:58
Dante
Yeah.
00:21:58
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So 2 and 15, I'm not asking for too much. The franchise is in mourning and therefore we can't win games until 2026.
00:22:07
Dante
um
00:22:08
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Okay.
00:22:08
Dante
They go win games for Jim. What are you talking about?
00:22:13
Dante
but They go win games for Jim. They go have the whole patch on the jersey.
00:22:19
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They already showed the patch. They showed the patch.
00:22:21
Dante
oh I'm sure they did. I'm sure they did.
00:22:22
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Yeah, they already showed it. They already showed it. Yeah, it's it's a little J.
00:22:24
Dante
I'm sure they did.
00:22:25
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It's a J. It's a JS, and then it has a signature over it. It's ah it's a little touching thing for sure, but, like, we could lose some games too.
00:22:30
Dante
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:22:32
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They're definitely going to win for Jim, and it's going piss me off. No disrespect to Jim.
00:22:35
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:22:35
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I just want to quarterback, please. I would like to be good. I was literally talking to – i was talking to dj on the last podcast and um we were talking about like where you want to be and like if it's better to be the team that always wins but like doesn't always get the championship right uh or is it to be that better to be a team who like wins and then bottoms out right so like the example in college would be ohio state versus lsu
00:22:58
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:23:02
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lsu wins the championships like every four five six years whatever but then they'll have like a five six lost season ohio state always wins 10 11 games but they average a championship like once a decade right they got one oh they got one oh two they got one 14 they got one 25 24 so it's like twenty four so it's like
00:23:24
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24, They always, 25, yeah, 24, it 25. doesn't matter. So Ohio State roughly averages one every decade. And then we were talking about football and we was talking about how like, that's what the coach used to be under Peyton Manning.
00:23:30
Dante
Right.
00:23:36
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Because we didn't have a defense, he only got the one ring, but Peyton Manning went 12 and four every year, count it. 12 and four. It was 12 and four, 13 and three. And the worst he did in his prime was 11 and five, but you could book it that he was going, he was going to playoff game.
00:23:51
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And it's like, can we just get that back? Like, I understand we may not want a super bowl. It's hard. Lamar don't even have a super bowl.
00:23:55
Dante
Y'all was also, you know what's funny about that?
00:23:56
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He's arguably the best quarterback in the year. Yeah.
00:23:59
Dante
You know what's also funny about that that that era, too, is that during that same era, I think y'all had, you know how like people used to say Tom Brady's conference was just weak? I'd have to say the same thing for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts.
00:24:09
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Yeah.
00:24:13
Dante
Like, I didn't, I wasn't putting my money on anybody else to win that division but y'all. Every single year, just about.
00:24:21
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Yeah. Yeah. And it's not going to be that easy now because you got my boy CJ Stroud and, you know, whatever.
00:24:26
Dante
Oh, no, not of course not. Yeah, but like during it during that time?
00:24:28
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But it's just like, come on, bro. Like, we can't. 11 wins.
00:24:30
Dante
Yeah.
00:24:31
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That's all I'm asking for. So, but anyways, because I don't know how we got on this. we were supposed to be talking about the video game. NCAA 2016 releases on July 10th.
00:24:38
Dante
We should be. Right, yeah.
NCAA Game Updates and Features
00:24:41
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um High School is back. Yeah. I don't know if they were telling the truth or not when they said we just couldn't put it in there because of X reason.
00:24:52
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But they heard us loud and clear. Everybody saying you can't have Road to Glory without high school.
00:24:55
Dante
Yeah.
00:24:57
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So and it's funny because they try to like sneak it in there. They try to sneak it in the video.
00:25:01
Dante
Yeah, they did.
00:25:02
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They put the hats in there.
00:25:02
Dante
Yeah, they did. I saw them heads.
00:25:03
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And then in the little like campus notes thing, they basically was just like, um they basically like, go from high school to the NFL. And that's it. like They didn't list it. They just like, yeah, go from high school to the NFL. I was like, yeah, y'all trying to be slick.
00:25:17
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They're probably going to do like a bigger like reveal of it.
00:25:17
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:25:19
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But they knew they needed to put high school in there. They couldn't play around with that. So high school is back for Road to Glory, which is cool. Um, they're doing an update on the wear and tear system, and they're also including dynamic substitutions, which I think is interesting. So the, from what I understand, the dynamic substitutions is you're going to be able to sub players without pausing the game, which is good because they put the wear and tear system in, but then it didn't always come up.
00:25:46
Dante
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:25:47
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And then you like there was just not a good way to manage subs. So they're also doing formation subs too. So it's just like if you had like if you have if you had a good running back, he was your regular running back, he was your third down running back, he was your power back.
00:26:01
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And because like the fatigue system wasn't good, they didn't rotate the running backs and you couldn't do formation subs.
00:26:12
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So like formation subs, you can be like, if we in this, like if you have a pass catching bet, we want them here. And so you can sort of more better do it or with the dynamic substitutions where you can do it without pausing.
00:26:23
Dante
My God, are they going to put it in Madden 2?
00:26:25
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i don't, I'm not talking about Madden, but which one's not, when did they take it out of Madden?
00:26:26
Dante
Because it's not in Madden.
00:26:30
Dante
Formation subs.
00:26:33
Dante
I swear it's not in Madden.
00:26:34
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No, no, no, no, no.
00:26:34
Dante
I'll have to check again.
00:26:34
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It is. It is. It is. So Madden, so Madden, the thing with Madden is it's not obvious. But like when you're in the menu, I'm pretty sure if you hit the right, like the right analog stick down, you can scroll through the players and you can select someone and you can change them.
00:26:50
Dante
Okay.
00:26:51
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In the play calling menu, yeah. Madden's had it, yeah.
00:26:53
Dante
Okay, I'll have to check.
00:26:54
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And then,
00:26:54
Dante
Okay, I have to make sure. because also have to I swear Madden doesn't have
00:26:56
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Yeah. No, it does. It does. And then, ah but yeah, so like, the so they're bringing, they're making an update to the wear and tear system, hopefully making it better because why is my running back injured three weeks in?
00:27:08
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ah They're doing dynamic substitutions, which means you're supposed to be able to sub without going, pausing the game.
00:27:09
Dante
Man.
00:27:15
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And then they're also doing formation subs. ah Coaches are in the game. If you care about that, i don't really care about that, but some people cared about that. So coaches are in the game.
00:27:22
Dante
I kind of do. It's a, it's a, it's I forgot the term for it, but it's like, yeah, like it, they, I mean,
00:27:27
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It does make it more realistic.
00:27:34
Dante
it's, it's a, it's a, I forgot what the term is, but it's just, it's a feel thing. Like it was part of the game.
00:27:40
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Yeah.
00:27:40
Dante
Like when, when they took referees out of man and you're like, this doesn't feel right.
00:27:43
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Yeah, that's weird. Yeah, yeah, No, that makes sense.
00:27:45
Dante
Yeah.
00:27:46
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and And this one is, this is so minor, but it's so big to me. Protected opponents, right? Like, there were years when I was playing with Ohio State where I didn't play Michigan.
00:27:57
Dante
Yeah, and and again, that's that's not minor.
00:27:57
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And you can't change, yeah, like, like like well, yeah, it's not, might yeah.
00:28:00
Dante
That's not minor. Because that, that it's again, that's that's part of, that should have been in there. So, yeah.
00:28:06
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And they talked all about traditions and all these sort of things. And so it's just like, it doesn't make sense.
00:28:11
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:28:12
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And then because you couldn't edit, you couldn't edit league games, you just didn't play them for a year or whatever. So they're putting in protected opponents. And I think what they're going to do outside of just putting protected opponents, I think they're going to let you choose protected opponents.
00:28:26
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So like when you set up a dynasty, how before you could, um, you could go in and you could say like, you could change conferences.
00:28:31
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:28:33
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You can do that kind of stuff. I think you're going to be able to say like, Georgia plays this team every year. Ohio state plays this team every year and that sort of stuff. So um let's see, was there anything else that was kind of interesting that they're putting in there? Obviously they're doing a lot of other, like, you know, regular things. They're revamping home field advantage. They got some licensing.
00:28:53
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So there's going to be more kind of, especially like music for like example, the work that everyone kind of stuck on, was the fact that Enter Sandman wasn't in the game, which is Virginia Tech's historic runout.
00:29:06
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um So like they they did some licensing for some of the people who um who use like real songs, which hopefully means we're going to hear...
00:29:06
Dante
Oh.
00:29:14
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um ah What is that song?
00:29:19
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What is that song?
00:29:22
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What is that song called? And I'm literally like, I'm not trying to cuss as much on the show, but all I can think about is the cuss part. I got, oh a
00:29:30
Dante
oh
00:29:31
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oh, oh, the Sheck West song.
00:29:32
Dante
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:36
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Whatever it is, whatever it is, the Sheck West song. If you played the game, you know it's all I'm talking about because it it played throughout the entire video game.
00:29:41
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:29:45
Dante
Yep.
00:29:45
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So like hopefully with them updating some of that, like there's going to be more, um just like better music and just things in general. So when you're playing the game, the only thing that you're not hearing is that the only thing you're hearing is the Sheck West song, because that got real annoying.
00:29:59
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um You know, whatever.
00:29:59
Dante
Yeah.
00:30:00
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ah They're bringing back the trophy room, which is like a dumb...
00:30:01
Dante
I started to tune it out. I forgot that was in there.
00:30:04
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Yeah, I mean, eventually you had to. They're bringing back the trophy room, which was a dumb thing for them to get rid of, that you couldn't see your trophies.
00:30:11
Dante
they probably for They probably forgot all about it.
00:30:12
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um Yeah, it's probably something they had literally, it's probably something they didn't think about.
00:30:15
Dante
ah
00:30:17
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Cross plays here for Dynasty. So for you weirdos that have Xboxes, you can play your real friends with PlayStations. um What else?
00:30:25
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What else? What else? What else?
00:30:25
Dante
is it just Is it just through console?
00:30:27
Dante
It's it's not cross-played through PC yet?
00:30:30
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I don't know. They still don't have the game on PC.
00:30:33
Dante
Oh, okay, then never mind.
00:30:34
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And they said they're not they said they're probably not going to put the game on PC.
00:30:37
Dante
That makes sense.
00:30:37
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At least not for a while.
00:30:39
Dante
That makes sense.
00:30:39
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oh Let's see. I don't care about Team Builder.
00:30:42
Dante
I figured as much.
00:30:42
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I don't care about... Oh, somehow... They they made some changes with the transfer portal ah recruiting. You know, the minor tweaks that they always do. But the big one is high school is back.
00:30:53
Dante
don't
00:30:55
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They're fixing the subs. They're bringing the trophy room back. um And stuff like that. So, um you know...
00:31:01
Dante
Yeah, because when I was playing my Twitch Dynasty, what's her name?
00:31:01
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It's hard...
00:31:05
Dante
Sammy was getting hurt like every few weeks. I like but like i have ah have toughness and all that all the way up for him. like
00:31:12
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Yeah. and it's And it's crazy, too.
00:31:14
Dante
How are you getting hurt this easy?
00:31:16
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And it's crazy, too, because it was like, you have a I'd have a running back who is in the Heisman race, and then at the end of the season, I can't even play him.
00:31:25
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And it's like, yeah, so...
00:31:25
Dante
Yeah, no, I got it. Hold on.
00:31:30
Dante
Okay, he took off. Oscar left so I can shut the door.
00:31:35
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Oh, yeah. um So, yeah, like, so I'm excited for the game. July 10th. I'm gonna get it. ah You know, it's funny.
00:31:41
Dante
Oh, yeah.
00:31:43
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And you know how you laughed at me for buying Madden.
00:31:49
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:31:50
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I haven't touched Madden. I haven't played it at all. I haven't played.
00:31:54
Dante
At all?
00:31:54
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I haven't. played I haven't played it at all.
00:31:56
Dante
That's funny because I ended up getting it and I've played it. I've actually played it.
00:32:00
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um I'm going to get it again.
00:32:01
Dante
I even... of
00:32:02
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I'm going to get it. i haven't touched I was playing college football football so much. I haven't touched it. i'm not
00:32:06
Dante
I even brought...
00:32:06
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I'm not even sure if it's downloaded on my station for real.
00:32:09
Dante
That's funny. I even brought the twitch ah Twitch dynasty to the league. They're already five years in. the league.
00:32:16
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Yeah. i haven't touched Madden at all. ah But it's okay.
00:32:19
Dante
That's funny.
00:32:19
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I'm going to get the bundle again because like i always i always buy Madden.
00:32:22
Dante
That's funny.
00:32:25
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It is what it is. always buy Madden.
00:32:27
Dante
But even though you went a whole year and didn't even download it, you're still going to buy the game.
00:32:27
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um
00:32:30
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:32
Dante
Don't even do it.
00:32:33
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Because probably going to play it.
00:32:33
Dante
Don't even do it.
00:32:34
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I'm going to play it this year.
00:32:35
Dante
No, you're not.
00:32:35
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I just didn't play that one.
00:32:35
Dante
No, you're not.
00:32:36
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Yeah, I am.
00:32:37
Dante
No, you're not.
00:32:37
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Yeah, I am.
00:32:37
Dante
No, you're not.
00:32:38
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Yeah, am.
00:32:38
Dante
No, you're not.
00:32:39
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I am. I'm a play Well...
00:32:40
Dante
You're really not, though.
00:32:41
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so
00:32:41
Dante
like You've even played other. You you already on MLB. like No, you're not.
00:32:46
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Yeah, I'm in year seven. I'm in year seven, dog. Hey, I'm in year seven. i have five straight MVPs, five straight Cy Youngs.
00:32:53
Dante
Bruh.
00:32:53
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I've been smacking shit.
00:32:54
Dante
Don't buy men. Don't buy men. Do not buy Madden.
00:32:56
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Yeah, no.
00:32:58
Dante
I don't even because i even...
00:32:58
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This is honestly...
00:32:59
Dante
Because I even thought about it and I was like, I'm not going to buy Madden this year. i
00:33:03
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he
00:33:04
Dante
I'm not going to do it. I'm going to just get NCAA.
00:33:07
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I'm going to buy it. I'm probably going to buy it.
00:33:09
Dante
I should go back i go back to not playing that game.
00:33:09
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But no. um
00:33:12
Dante
was fine.
00:33:12
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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. maybe Maybe I won't. We'll see. Maybe I won't.
00:33:17
Dante
you You're not even playing it.
00:33:17
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But um especially because especially because next year i need to next year i'm gonna I'm definitely going to buy the new MLB game. i didn't buy and I didn't buy it this year because I'm very staunch, except for Madden, because buy Madden every year.
00:33:30
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I'm very staunch on, like, I don't buy games that have new things in it for the first time. because it's almost always bad. And i've I've never retired a player in MLB, so I didn't buy this year's MLB, but they um they put high school in MLB to show 25.
00:33:46
Dante
Yes, they did.
00:33:47
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So like I was geeked about that. So I'm going to wait till 26 when they have a year to fine tune it. And by then, I'm going to have made the haul. um And I'm actually, I'm really interested because they in 24, because 23, it was bad. In 24, they fixed the two-way player thing.
00:34:05
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So I'm interested to see how far it goes.
00:34:05
Dante
Uh-huh.
00:34:07
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Like, I'm interested to see if it's like real life. Like, if I get injured as a pitcher, can I still play the position? Or like, if I get older, are they going to turn me into a designated hitter? Like, they're already talking about that with Shohei. They're like, Shohei, eventually he's going to like, his arm is going to break down because he's doing too much.
00:34:23
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And he's probably just going to be a designated hitter. So like, I want to see what happens in like year 12. If they're like, yeah, you can't pitch no more, but you can still bat. So, I don't know. I'm probably going to get mad, but i probably shouldn't.
00:34:33
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We'll see. maybe i'll talk Maybe I'll be...
00:34:34
Dante
There is no reason. There's no reason to get it at this point. If you've gone the whole year and it's not even downloaded, didn't touch it.
00:34:39
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Yeah. I haven't touched it. I touched it.
00:34:44
Dante
No point. No point. You've written you retired on accident.
00:34:46
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Yeah.
00:34:48
Dante
You didn't even notice.
00:34:49
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No, I really didn't.
00:34:50
Dante
You didn't even notice. Yeah.
00:34:52
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ah I didn't miss it or nothing.
00:34:53
Dante
You're fine.
00:34:54
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and you know oh yeah i i literally I literally went...
00:34:54
Dante
yeah Exactly. so There's no point.
00:34:57
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Yeah.
00:34:58
Dante
There's no point.
00:34:59
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ah You're right. maybe Maybe I'll save my Madden money and I'll buy Cyberpunk.
00:35:02
Dante
Cause I went this whole, i went this whole year. That shit should be like $12.
00:35:08
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Nah, bro. So I did the trial and then I went to pay for It was still $40. I said, I'm not paying $40 for it. But I'm going to wait.
00:35:14
Dante
Damn. See, see, I'm, I, I, I'm, I don't, uh, pretty soon.
00:35:16
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When is the days of summer?
00:35:20
Dante
I'm actually happy. I got that game for 10 bucks.
00:35:24
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Yeah, I know you told me and I should have just bought it, but I think I i think i missed when it was $10.
00:35:25
Dante
Hmm.
00:35:28
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Like I just didn't see it.
00:35:29
Dante
Yeah, because it was like right it was like a couple months after it dropped because it had one of the worst releases of all time.
00:35:33
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oh
00:35:35
Dante
we In gang gaming history, had one of the worst releases. So I ended up getting it for $10 and waited for them to fix it.
00:35:45
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Dante, I just have a i have a feel for when PlayStation going to go on sale. um Their sale is right now.
00:35:55
Dante
What?
00:35:57
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Their Days of Play sale, the big summer sale, it's happening right now.
00:35:57
Dante
The SummerSafe?
00:36:00
Dante
I get paid tomorrow.
00:36:02
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Look, listen, but for some reason, Cyberpunk's not on the deal.
00:36:02
Dante
I'm going to...
00:36:08
Dante
That's nuts.
00:36:10
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Come on, i don't play with me. What are we talking about?
00:36:12
Dante
Yeah, because I got the i got yep got it for $10. I even got a box case. Box set.
00:36:17
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Oh, okay, okay. So the PS4 version is not available for whatever reason. But it's 50% off.
00:36:24
Dante
Well, because...
00:36:26
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It's $25.
00:36:28
Dante
Damn. Because at this point, if you got a PS4...
00:36:29
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That's not that bad, though.
00:36:32
Dante
Get a PS5.
00:36:33
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Am I going to get it for $25, though? I might have to.
00:36:37
Dante
You're about to spend Madden money, which is going to be like 40, 50 bucks.
00:36:41
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Yeah, but that was in August.
00:36:42
Dante
Hold on.
00:36:43
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Yeah, that August.
00:36:44
Dante
It's still for
00:36:44
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Madden's going to be like $70. $70.
00:36:48
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Yeah.
00:36:49
Dante
this. And you wasn't going to play it.
00:36:51
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Well,
00:36:54
Dante
Look, you saved me money.
00:36:55
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I might've played it.
00:36:55
Dante
I might as well save you some too.
00:36:57
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You're right. You're right. I'm a, I'm a listen to you for once.
00:37:00
Dante
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Uh,
00:37:03
Dante
that
00:37:07
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yeah.
00:37:07
Dante
i'm mean a rumbo and
00:37:07
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All right. Yeah. no Yeah. days ah Days of play is right now. i was like, I knew it.
00:37:11
Dante
Damn, yeah.
00:37:12
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I just had a feeling it was coming up. I always just kind of stumble into it. So, um,
00:37:16
Dante
Man, now I gotta to see what I want.
00:37:19
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what are you What are you looking at?
00:37:19
Dante
I opened Steam.
00:37:23
Dante
we're gonna
00:37:23
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Hey, so but this show is all over the place.
00:37:23
Dante
so
00:37:25
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We haven't talked about anything we we're supposed to talk about. So since we're not talking about anything we're supposed to talk about.
00:37:27
Dante
We did talk about NCAA.
00:37:29
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Yeah, but ah so since we're just talking about random things, though, um did you ever play? um Did you ever play Mafia? Because they're coming out with a Mafia 4 and I'm geeked.
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00:37:39
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I can't wait, especially because it's going to be PS5 Mafia.
00:37:42
Dante
Right. I have never played Mafia, even though it's been free so many times on PlayStation.
00:37:48
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Yeah, I love that game.
00:37:49
Dante
I think it's still free right now. ah Yeah, no, I've never played Mafia. are hear I heard, I watched, yeah.
00:37:55
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I played all three of them multiple times. Like, I played them all twice.
00:38:00
Dante
That's crazy, because I heard, ah heard, but think we've had this conversation before, but ah I see, I heard that, yeah, it's a very repetitive gameplay.
00:38:05
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It's repetitive. It is. It is.
00:38:09
Dante
But, I mean, again, I've played... I've played some games that are extremely repetitive. played Assassin's Creed, so...
00:38:16
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I mean, i feel yeah, I feel like most of the games get repetitive, right? Like Assassin's Creed gets repetitive. um
00:38:22
Dante
I know this isn't Ghost of Shusima, but that's not on still.
00:38:23
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ah Yeah, it's just sort of like Ghost of Tsushima was repetitive.
00:38:27
Dante
Oh, that's Yotai. That's not Yotai, but I never played it, and I think I i put it in like my downloads.
00:38:32
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would you haven't You haven't played Ghost of Tsushima yet?
00:38:35
Dante
Mm-mm.
00:38:36
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That game fire.
00:38:37
Dante
After all it these years, still haven't played it.
00:38:37
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But that game's fine. But that game, like all of those kind of games are repetitive because it's like you go into said village, you kill a bunch of people, you level up, you go find some kind of hidden scroll or whatever.
00:38:41
Dante
here
00:38:50
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You walk around. There's always go free some people. There's always go raid some people. And then you have your story missions. Like they're all repetitive. Like I don't think Mafia is any more repetitive than any of the other ones.
00:39:01
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And i as with all the other ones, right, it levels up and and various things like that. But it doesn't matter. There's a fourth one coming out, and I'm geeked about it. I'm definitely getting it at some point. ah to to um To go back to the show.
00:39:15
Dante
They dropped but Well, I guess this season's about to end.
00:39:19
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Yeah. um Okay, so the SEC is whining again. ah had Did you see that?
00:39:24
Dante
ah
00:39:25
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i think it's hilarious.
00:39:25
Dante
I think I did. I think I did, yeah.
00:39:28
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The SEC is like the bully in like your favorite childhood movie. Like, let's listen. And like whatever your favorite childhood movie is where a bully. The SEC is like the bully that when you finally hit him, they break down and start crying.
00:39:40
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Like the first thing that came to mind is a Christmas story. either That bully. And then Ralphie was putting the ones on him, smacking shit.
00:39:47
Dante
lot
00:39:48
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ah Yeah, that's the SEC. They went two years. They went two years without a national championship. And they're they're literally making presentations and PowerPoints talking about how much better their conference is and talking about they need to change the playoffs. and They need to do all these things. I'm just like, hey, brother, just win.
00:40:05
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And also... What would you change?
00:40:06
Dante
Honestly, just win.
00:40:08
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Like, like like you're going to tell me that 9-3 Ole Miss should have been in? like and that's I think that's always the biggest problem that I have with this because that's like a staple of our show. If we're going to say something doesn't belong or something needs to change, we always got to say what we would do, right?
00:40:23
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And so you're sitting there and you're talking about, oh, the selection committee, the criteria, this, that, and the third. Okay, so put it out there. I want the commissioner of the SEC to go up there and say,
00:40:34
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Clemson should not have been in. Well, clemson won Clemson won the thing. Go in and say Indiana should not have been in.
00:40:38
Dante
Yeah.
00:40:39
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Nine and three Ole Miss should have been in. This is why. right They need to go in and say SMU shouldn't have been in. right ah Nine and three Ole Miss or whoever should have been in. and This is why. Don't sit up here. And then it then it's always like it's always fake too because it's like, well, we trust the we trust the committee to make the best decision.
00:40:57
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We just want to know what information they're using because – we feel like it should have been different. And that's so annoying. And they're literally like, I'm telling you like, that's what i'm trying to figure out.
00:41:04
Dante
It's how do you feel like it should have been different? Who are you taking out?
00:41:07
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Like, you got three teams still.
00:41:08
Dante
And for... Yeah.
00:41:11
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But they never, they...
00:41:11
Dante
And my thing is because I know but at least the media was complaining about Alabama. That was one of the schools. that Alabama lost to Michigan.
00:41:18
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You lost to Vanderbilt.
00:41:18
Dante
So why are we... why Very true.
00:41:21
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Before you even had a chance to lose to Michigan, you lost to Vanderbilt. Like, it's just, it's blowing me.
00:41:25
Dante
And you shouldn't have lost it. And you lost it bad.
00:41:28
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Yeah, and it's like, you know how down bad you have to be to at your media day to print out a packet and give it to every media member who doesn't even pick it to talk about why you think you should ah you should they should change the selection criteria and why you think your schedule is so hard and it's not being properly ranked?
00:41:47
Dante
That's nuts.
00:41:49
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And the and the the funny thing is, somebody was just like, so one of the few media...
00:41:50
Dante
That's nuts. They just trying to go back to the old ways before the playoffs at this point, even though, even though the SEC has literally flourished off of the playoffs.
00:41:55
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Yeah, one of the one of the few media members who like...
00:42:01
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Like, yeah, it just it doesn't make any sense. I'm tired of him crying. But speaking of the playoffs, the thing that they're that's currently being pushed, ah because this changes every single week, is um their thing they're thinking about doing now still 16 teams, but they want to do five automatic qualifiers, which is the five conference champs.
00:42:13
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:42:23
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And then 11 at largest. So essentially it's exactly what we have right now, except it's 16 instead of 12. twelve Cause right now we have the five ah conference champs and then we have um seven at largest.
00:42:36
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So they would just, it would literally just be adding at largest at this point. This probably makes the most sense. If you're going to go to 16, whatever, just keep the format you have now, give it to the five champions and then, and and then do straight,
00:42:45
Dante
I'm not mad at this. And then the 11th, 11 best teams. Yeah. eleven best team
00:42:50
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Yeah, and then and then just do straight seeding.
00:42:51
Dante
yeah
00:42:52
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So don't do the top four conference champ, get a bye. Just do straight seeding and just leave it at that and just make a decision so we can stop talking about it. because Because of that, we're still talking about is the SEC going to go to nine conference games?
00:43:00
Dante
yeah
00:43:04
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Is the ACC going to go to nine conference games? like Can we just just make a decision? You want 16, do 16, five conference champs, 11 at-larges, straight seeding, and call it a day.
00:43:15
Dante
And just call it a day. Quit crying.
00:43:17
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And then let them play on the field.
00:43:21
Dante
It's just two. Because how long the college playoff has been going on now? Almost 10 years?
00:43:28
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It's longer than that.
00:43:28
Dante
If not 10?
00:43:29
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it's a So it's been... I think we're at year... So it started in 2014. So this year was 11.
00:43:35
Dante
Did it really? okay so Okay, so we're going on 12 years.
00:43:37
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Next year will be 12. Yeah.
00:43:40
Dante
I'll have to say, what, seven of those years are SEC teams? And I might be underdoing it, undercutting it.
00:43:49
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Yeah, so... Okay, so if it's 11, which I think it is, Ohio State's won twice, Michigan won once,
00:43:54
Dante
Mm-hmm.
00:43:59
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Clemson won twice.
00:43:59
Dante
And Clemson.
00:44:01
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They won twice. So, yeah, six or seven. Six or seven SEC.
00:44:04
Dante
6 or 7.
00:44:05
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And then, yeah, it's two Clemson, two Ohio State, one Michigan.
00:44:10
Dante
but Man.
00:44:12
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Yeah.
00:44:12
Dante
you You literally, it's more than half. Because you're at 6. You're at 55%.
00:44:12
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Yeah.
00:44:17
Dante
You fifty five percent
00:44:18
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Yeah.
00:44:22
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i don't I don't know what they want, bro. And it's just honestly, it's the most disappointing thing about it. And it's funny because like I've had this opinion of the SEC for a while and I hope people are finally starting to um like come around to it. I want to read a very quick part of this article because all of it all ah all it's saying is it's literally that it's literally just the SEC admitting that they're afraid to compete.
00:44:53
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um He says... ah So this is this is an athletic director who says this, but I think a lot of them feel this way. So... Some SEC athletic directors stressed this week that they would only favor a nine-game league schedule if the conference is guaranteed four playoff spots, also the Big Ten's preferred model.
00:45:14
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If we're not confident that the decision maker ah that the decision-making about who gets in and why and what are the metrics around it, it's going to be really hard for some of my pop colleagues to get to the nine games.
00:45:28
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We've got a timeline that's getting tight, and we recognize that it seems like everything is coming to a head. In a way, it feels a little bit frustrating. In another way, it feels good because eventually it feels like we're actually going to get some of this dealt with.
00:45:39
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You can't go to nine games if you don't have guaranteed spots to the playoff. It's just like y'all afraid to compete. like if like They're basically like if you don't give them the four cupcake games that most of them have, they won't do it.
00:45:56
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Like, they're afraid that if they won more game, they're not going get into the playoff they're not going get these things. It's like, but if you're the big bad conference who who play it, do it on the field, bro.
00:46:02
Dante
Win the games. Win the games.
00:46:06
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Play the game. Play the game.
00:46:08
Dante
Win the games. This
00:46:10
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So, I don't know, man. Eventually, eventually we're going to stop talking about this. Eventually, they're going to make a decision. i don't know when they're going to make a decision, um but eventually they're going to make a decision, and it's probably going to end up what it always should have been, which is the the model we have right now with extra teams, and then you just change the seating.
00:46:20
Dante
is nasty.
00:46:31
Dante
Uh-huh.
00:46:32
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So...
00:46:35
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whatever.
00:46:35
Dante
Oh yeah. OK. yeah
00:46:36
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hu Moving on to our road trip segment. um The Big Ten, because this is a Big Ten podcast, all of the media companies released their early season. I think they do the first four.
00:46:49
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They released their early season and then they released some of the bigger games throughout the year, their TV schedule. But this is a Big Ten podcast. where're're We're only going to talk about the Big Ten. So we're going to look at some of the games that now have days and times officially for the first three or four weeks of the season.
00:47:04
Dante
I
00:47:06
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The big 10, more than some, in my opinion, has really, really bought into the opening weekend thing. The opening weekend, they play games Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
00:47:17
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And if Texas wasn't scared of Ohio state, we would have had a game on Sunday. um a whole bunch of Ohio state fans are mad because again, the early week thing came out.
00:47:23
Dante
don't know.
00:47:28
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And so it, it, um, it It secured the fact that Ohio State-Texas is at noon. I will not do my noon run again. I've done it enough. But I will just say, Ohio State tried to play the game at night.
00:47:39
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You can't tell me that Ohio State-Texas in the night slot on Sunday wouldn't have been fire.
00:47:46
Dante
Oh, yeah.
00:47:46
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But Texas said no. They didn't want to do it.
00:47:48
Dante
Oh, yeah.
00:47:49
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The funniest part about Texas saying no, though, is the athletic director was like, ah yeah, we ah why would we want a short week? They're playing an FCS school after that.
00:48:00
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You don't need a full week of practice to play them. Like, it's not like you're playing Ohio State and the next week you're playing Georgia and you need that extra day. Like, you're playing – you're going to beat this team in your sleep.
00:48:10
Dante
They don't practice on Sunday, so what are we talking about?
00:48:13
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the The extra day matters. but Like, they didn't they didn't want to play Ohio State in primetime on Sunday and the opening week of the season because they didn't want a short week for their next game against – insert directional school.
00:48:24
Dante
Damn, they really didn't want that money? Damn.
00:48:27
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Yeah. Ohio State and Fox had a deal in place, but they couldn't do it without Texas agreeing, and Texas said no. And then the athletic director came out and said he didn't do it because he didn't want ah
00:48:33
Dante
That's money.
00:48:39
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yeah um
00:48:40
Dante
I'd rather you not come out.
00:48:41
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he didn't want a short week.
00:48:43
Dante
I'd rather you not come out and give us a reason. Just let it go.
00:48:45
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That's the stupid-ass reason.
00:48:46
Dante
Just ignore it. I'd rather you not told us.
00:48:48
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Yeah. but So, yeah, that game is solidified at noon and a whole bunch of literally just
00:48:51
Dante
Every time you're asked about it, no comment. ah No comment. Because that's just dump doesn't even worse.
00:48:57
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Short week?
00:48:59
Dante
That's even worse.
00:48:59
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Yeah. It's just scary. I hope, oh oh God, I hope we smack him. I think Texas, like, don't, you know, I won't get into my previews. what We have a lot to do for that, but I really hope that we smack Texas around because that was so childish. Anyways, the Big Ten, as we talked about, um is they released their first four weeks.
00:49:19
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As a reminder, the Big Ten media is ah Fox. It is NBC and it is CBS. Fox typically had Fox owns the noon window.
00:49:31
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CBS games are at three 30 NBC games are at seven 30 or just prime time. And then Fox also does Friday night games, um, throughout the year. Of course there are games on big 10 network and various things like that, but that's how it works. And because people always kind of forget or get confused about this, the way the draft works, um,
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is Fox gets the first three picks and then six out of the first 11 picks. ah NBC and the CBS, each year they rotate who gets the fourth pick, and then they get a total of five picks out of the 11. They split that however it goes.
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Um... Because Fox owns ah the Big Ten's media rights, they're essentially leasing it to the other ones and they pay the most money. They get to pick the first three. um And so that's how you get um a lot of these games on noon.
00:50:20
Dante
Right.
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um But they can trade and they can do a bunch of other stuff. then they And then the other thing that they can do is they can pick weeks. So they can say, i want week I want the first pick of week nine. And so you wait until week seven, week eight, you see who's good, and then you pick your game then.
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Because, like, last year, who right like nobody would have thought Indiana was winning 10 games. So if they would have picked early some of the weeks, Indiana would have been on, like, Peacock the whole year.
00:50:48
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right
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But then they got some prime time. Like, Ohio State, Indiana was a late-night game or something like that. One of the games was later because –
00:50:58
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Yeah, it was on primetime, though.
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um Obviously, Indiana was good. So um that's sort of the quick rundown of how that works.
00:51:02
Dante
Mm-hmm.
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So Thursday, August 28th, we have Ohio, not Ohio State, Ohio at Rutgers at 6 p.m., Buffalo at Minnesota at 8 p.m., Nebraska versus Cincinnati at it on ESPN at 9 p.m.
00:51:19
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And this is you know, the Patrick Mahomes Junior Bowl. And then we have Miami of Ohio at Wisconsin at nine on Friday. We have Western Michigan at Michigan State at seven. And we also have Western Illinois at Illinois at 730. That is on Peacock. I will be watching that on Peacock. Just, I mean, Illinois going to smack him, but I'm going to be watching as many Illinois games as possible.
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On Saturday, we have Texas at Ohio State at noon. This is August 30th. Ball State at Purdue at noon. FAU at Maryland at noon. Northwestern at Tulane at noon. Old Dominion at Indiana at 2.30.
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Nevada at Penn State at 3.30. Montana State at Oregon at 4. Albany at Iowa at 6. Oh, my God. So many of the Big Ten is not playing good out-of-conference games. New Mexico at Michigan at 730. Missouri State at USC at 730. Colorado State at Washington at 11.
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And Utah at UCLA at 11. That is a sneaky good game. Utah at UCLA.
00:52:13
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That was what say. That's the only distance the only one. He's out of Texas in Ohio State.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah that that phrase That first, that first, that first week's kind of ugly.
00:52:20
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The only one.
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That first week's kind of ugly. ah The next week on Friday, you have Northern Illinois at Maryland. um And then you have Western Illinois at Northwestern. Saturday, you have Kennesaw State at Indiana at noon. FLU at Penn State at noon. Northwestern State at Minnesota at noon. Iowa at Iowa State at noon.
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That is a banger. um For those you don't remember, that is a ah rival an rivalry game. Iowa State won that game for the first time in many, many years last year.
00:52:48
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I
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um So I will definitely be tuned in for that one. Illinois at Duke is at noon. That's going to be a sneaky good game. And that's one of those games that we say, if you listen to the show for a while, we kind of do these things all the time. It's like, we don't call it prove-it games.
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But like i mean like, you need these games where it's like, for lack of a better term, it's a prove it game, right? If Illinois is a team we think they're going to be, they're going to smack Duke. If they struggle with Duke, it doesn't mean that they're bad, but there's a chance that they're not going to be the team that we thought.
00:53:22
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It's just, and but it's but it's also weak too, so you never know.
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Yes. um Oklahoma State at Oregon is 330.
00:53:29
Dante
Also sneaky good.
00:53:30
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Grambling State at Ohio State is 330. This is hilarious because everyone saw the big G and thought it was Georgia. And it's like, Ohio State's not playing Texas and Georgia. This is Grambling State and HBCU.
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Miami of Ohio at Rutgers is on Peacock at 330. Middle Tennessee State at Wisconsin at 4.
00:53:46
Dante
Hmm.
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SIU at Purdue at 730. Why that 730 game? Boston College at Michigan State at 730. That's a sneaky good game.
00:53:53
Dante
That's good.
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I will tell you right now because it's a Big Ten podcast and we don't get to talk as much about other teams, but you can listen to the Power 2 podcast if you want to hear my opinion on college football as a whole.
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Boston College is going to be sneaky good this year.
00:54:07
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ah You should pay attention to that. um Akron at Nebraska at 730. Michigan at Oklahoma at 730. That's going to be a crappy game.
00:54:07
Dante
Yeah, Boston College is still going to be pretty good.
00:54:15
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That's a good.
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And they're going to – it's going to be a hype game. Were you going say something different?
00:54:19
Dante
Yeah. Yeah, it's probably going to be a game. It's going to be an interesting game to watch. ah it might It could be sneaky good for real.
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you're a better You're a better man than me. I think that's going to be a shit show. I will watch it, but I don't think it's going to be good football to watch. um
00:54:38
Dante
Hmm.
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Georgia Southern at USC at 7.30, UCLA at UNLV at 8, UC Davis at Washington at 11.
00:54:45
Dante
Hmm.
00:54:47
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that We're going into the third week of the season, Friday, September 12th. We have Indiana State at Indiana, New Mexico at UCLA, this is This is that Friday where I remind you all that you have family.
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You don't need to watch football. You don't need to watch those games. um Go on a date. It's early. It's week three of college football season. NFL just started.
00:55:09
Dante
There are other games on and other conferences.
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They're not on Fridays. Well,
00:55:14
Dante
I will say that.
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I can't promise you they're gonna be much better.
00:55:16
Dante
For the Big Ten, it sucks.
00:55:18
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I can't promise.
00:55:18
Dante
Yeah, yeah.
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And also, not a lot of teams play on Friday. It's largely the Big Ten that plays on Friday right now. But there will probably be other games on Saturday, September 13, Oregon at Northwestern at noon.
00:55:29
Dante
Might get a Hawaii game.
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Wisconsin at Alabama at noon. ah houston christian at north who the hell is houston chris a Houston Christian at Nebraska at noon.
00:55:34
Dante
Oh.
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Nebraska is making sure that they get the bowl eligibility because they ain't played nobody with a pulse three weeks in.
00:55:42
Dante
See? You damn right. You damn skippy. You damn skippy.
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Hold on. Hold on.
00:55:49
Dante
I'm starting to think Houston Christian is like that one school.
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Where's Nebraska at?
00:55:51
Dante
What's the one school that faked that they were a school?
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I can't of the name of but I know what you're talking about.
00:56:00
Dante
Yeah. Going to date is hilarious.
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Yeah. Nebraska is starting with Cincinnati. Uh, um, where are they at? Cincinnati, Akron, and the Houston Christian. They say we getting a bowl eligibility, boy. I tell you, I'm telling, I tell you right now.
00:56:15
Dante
I tell you what.
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Um, and I tell you what, um, ah
00:56:21
Dante
what i say Boy, I said, boy, ah we we making it to a bowl.
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Look, look, if it's the last thing I do,
00:56:26
Dante
I'm about to Google it right now.
00:56:30
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ah so Central Boys, Houston Christian, is that even a real school? Nebraska, where did you find them at?
00:56:40
Dante
um but the google right now
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who
00:56:43
Dante
Houston Christian. I'm going to guess.
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And the, he I don't know, I guess, I guess.
00:56:50
Dante
Houston Christian University? Oh, my God.
00:56:55
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Houston Christian College doesn't sound good, but technically there is a difference between a college and the university. It's about the size and and some other things.
00:57:01
Dante
Houston, Texas, of course. It's a private school, non-profit.
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Yeah.
00:57:09
Dante
That's what I'm guessing.
00:57:09
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that
00:57:09
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I'm guessing that's
00:57:10
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i I've legitimately, I've watched so much football. boy That name has never stumbled across a screen that I've ever seen in my entire life.
00:57:19
Dante
Never would.
00:57:20
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ah they pulled They pulled that out of nowhere. They said, we we did an easy dub. They just started Googling schools. um And the Connor Stallions Bowl, Central Michigan at Michigan at Noon,
00:57:30
Dante
South Harmon Institute of Technology. Ma'am. Okay. Wait.
00:57:36
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ah Townsend at Maryland at noon.
00:57:36
Dante
Hmm.
00:57:38
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Villanova at Penn State at noon. Norfolk State at Rutgers. I swear nobody in the Big Ten this year is playing good out-of-conference games. This is insane. Youngstown State at Michigan State at 330. USC at Purdue at 330. Ohio at Ohio State at 7.
00:57:51
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seven Western Michigan at Illinois at 7. UMass at Iowa at 7.30. Minnesota at Cal at 10.30. That game may be interesting. For whatever reason, the Big Ten really – like last year we had a lot of good games. This year they said we're not doing that.
00:58:03
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we're not We're not doing that at all.
00:58:06
Dante
We ain't doing that shit no more.
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We're not getting, like, no, there's not a single.
00:58:08
Dante
Yeah, they're they're Houston christianie Christian or the Huskies. They got... They legit...
00:58:14
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Okay. ah All right. ah ah Going in into week four, there's not as many games announced week four. um Friday, we have Iowa at Rutgers. Okay.
00:58:26
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I might be going to so many Rutgers games this year. ah Saturday, we have minnesota Michigan at Nebraska, Purdue at Notre Dame, Washington at Washington State, another rivalry game that I'm glad that they're still playing.
00:58:37
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Another piece of good news to sort of pay attention to, Oregon at Penn State has been announced for Saturday, September 27th. It is a 7-30 game, which means ah Penn State did not play around yet.
00:58:50
Dante
I got loud.
00:58:53
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it That is their whiteout game.
00:58:54
Dante
oh
00:58:56
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A lot of Penn State ah fans have been complaining that they haven't been able to get good teams for their whiteout game, ah largely because of Fox, because they play Ohio State a lot.
00:58:58
Dante
loud
00:59:07
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But they announced that Oregon at Penn State, this is going to most likely be a top five matchup unless one of them struggles. Week four, early in the season, it's still going to be hot ah on NBC 730.
00:59:18
Dante
It's going to be loud. My lord, that's to be a good one.
00:59:22
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So very excited about that one. And then is there any other games of note? Obviously, the the game, Ohio State-Michigan, that's always at noon. That was announced.
00:59:34
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Are there any other games worth ah talking about?
00:59:37
Dante
Washington, Oregon, maybe.
00:59:38
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USC at Notre Dame is at 730 on October 18th. um
00:59:45
Dante
Washington, Oregon. two hasn't been hasn't been announced.
00:59:47
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Did I miss that one? Oh, yeah. that That one hasn't been... we they They're basically saying that one's going to be played for sure on Saturday, but we haven't talked about one.
00:59:56
Dante
Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, so so those those those are the first four weeks. um i as As one of the Big Ten's staunchest defenders, it's hard to defend the first four weeks.
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When we get to the season, we will give you games to watch.
01:00:09
Dante
Straight. Trashed.
01:00:12
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That's what we do every every year. We're going to give you games to watch, but... um they did not put a lot of thought and effort into ah this out of conference slate this year.
01:00:24
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So, um, you have any thoughts on any of the games or on the schedule release?
01:00:30
Dante
Nah, man, I had to Google Houston Christian. I'm good.
01:00:33
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Yeah, that was insane. That's crazy.
01:00:35
Dante
I'm good.
01:00:36
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um And then just to just one last thing on schedules. As a reminder, Fox does play Big Ten games on Friday night. So the Friday night slate...
01:00:48
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as currently listed some of these are big 10 some of these are not on august 29th there is autumn autumn geez auburn at baylor september 12th kansas state at arizona that's gonna be a good game september 19th iowa at ruckers i really think i might go to that game september 26th tcu at arizona state
01:00:59
Dante
oh
01:01:11
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You might as well. Why not?
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Yeah, that's going to be a banger. I literally just hit my boy up because Oregon's coming to Rutgers for their homecoming. And if you remember, I told you Rutgers homecoming's lit, surprisingly. Did not expect that.
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But i I told him, I said, and he works and he works at Rutgers.
01:01:26
Dante
I kind of do.
01:01:27
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I said, yeah, dog, I need to give me that game. and need I'm going to the Oregon Rutgers game. like Because Rutgers is going to get smacked up, but when am I going to get to see Oregon in person for $30? Because Rutgers tickets are super cheap.
01:01:40
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So, um yeah. ah Where am I at? September 26th, TCU versus Arizona State. That's going to be a banger. That game is also going to be a game that helps determine the Big 12.
01:01:52
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October 17th, we have Nebraska at Minnesota. November 7th, we have Northwestern at USC.
01:01:56
Dante
ah Should be good, but damn Hey cash, how you doing?
01:01:58
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Don't watch that one. Don't watch Northwestern at USC. Please, for the love of God, don't do that. November 14th, Minnesota at Oregon. And November 28th, we have Arizona at Arizona State. That should be an interesting game.
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Obviously, as you can tell by the things that I've mentioned, they did not pick every single game.
01:02:11
Dante
Minnesota Oregon you
01:02:15
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These are just the ones that are solidified. So if you do not care about your relationship or if you are not in a relationship and you watch football on Friday nights, those are some games that you can watch.
01:02:24
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Doing good
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But yeah, you know, we're here.
01:02:28
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That's funny.
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ah We're here. um
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Living our best life.
01:02:34
Dante
i I'm interested in the Oregon, Minnesota one.
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Yeah, for sure.
01:02:38
Dante
Honestly. Yeah.
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Honestly, like, I went a little hard on Dante Moore last episode, but I'm interested Oregon as a whole, just in general. I'm trying to see what they're going to be doing. Their school is kind of hard to pick because, like,
01:02:53
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you sort of expect them to be good, but they also haven't fully earned the benefit of the doubt. And what, with what they lost, it's kind of like, they're not going to be scrubs.
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Like, don't get me wrong, but like, there's a difference between like, remember last year, they were the number one team in the nation.
01:03:07
Dante
Yeah. They not.
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Are they going to be pushing for that again?
01:03:11
Dante
Yeah. And they're not going to be. the Yeah, that's that's what I'm thinking.
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Yeah.
01:03:15
Dante
Like, I don't think it's going to be anything like that. ah the past two or three seasons you've been pushing for number one in the country.
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Yeah.
01:03:21
Dante
i don't think you're going to be that, but you're definitely going to be ranked.
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Right. I think, yeah, for sure. I think I'm still, I will give you a little hint now. I'm still going to pick Oregon to go to the playoffs, but I think they're going to be sort of like a nine and three, maybe a 10 and two kind of thing.
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um
01:03:36
Dante
Mm-hmm.
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But that is much later. We are getting closer and closer and closer Our previews start in July. um June, there were you know will we have some ball to talk about. We'll finish up the NBA.
01:03:49
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um But let's end the show as we always do with our pit
Mental Health Awareness and Entertainment Highlights
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stops. Our pit stops is a time, a chance for us to talk about something that is unrelated to football, unrelated to the show. We can talk about whatever. um Because, you know, when you're on the road, traveling down I-80, you have to take a break. You have to use bathroom. have to get gas. You have to stretch. You have to make a stop. So this is our chance for us to talk about something else.
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Do you have a pit stop this week?
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I'm gonna take that as...
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Yeah.
01:04:17
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All right, no, my bad.
01:04:20
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um You asking me if I had a pitch stop?
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Yeah.
01:04:25
Dante
Trying to think.
01:04:32
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Damn. No. Go to the gym.
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ah yeah
01:04:38
Dante
Go to the gym. And it's not even like a getting shape thing or anything. it's It's really... I guess it's more... Okay, since it is Mental Health Month or Mental Health Awareness Month, that sounds right.
01:04:51
Dante
ah um it's ah It's a really good stress reliever, honestly. And I know a lot of people, including myself, have some stuff going on in stressful times and stuff like that. So...
01:05:03
Dante
ah It's cheaper than therapy, and it it helps a little bit. So go to the gym.
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Yeah. Sometimes it's cheaper than therapy, depending on what kind of gym you go into.
01:05:15
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Sometimes it is definitely cheaper than therapy.
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um Yeah. So I had a pit stop. I lost the pit stop. So I'm just to talk about something else.
01:05:22
Dante
Nice.
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um I went to the Beyonce concert. I am not the world's biggest Beyonce fan. I knew maybe 20% of the songs. And I will tell you, if you have the money and the time, I think everyone should go to a Beyonce concert, fan or not.
01:05:39
Dante
Oh, she's a great performer.
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she's like and it's and it's And the thing is, it's just like...
01:05:43
Dante
She's a great performer.
01:05:44
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you like you hear that she's a great performer and you see the videos and you know it, and but being there is insane. like The set, the concept, like the the set, the design, the way she uses like the whole stage, like there's no like wasted space as far as set, like the things that she brings out.
01:05:51
Dante
ob believe
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She was flying around the stadium in her car. like um How it's sort of like, ah just you can tell it's very intentional in the way that she does it. um The videos that plays when she's not out,
01:06:11
Dante
Uh. Uh.
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it's just like, it's a show. Like it's really a show. Right. And it is expensive. So if you don't have it or you really just don't care, like that's fine. Right. But if you can,
01:06:26
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and you're open to it i i'm very much on the team that everyone should go see beyonce perform once especially just because like we just don't have good performers anymore like i'm not gonna go on my rant about the music industry but when with streaming and losing mixtapes and losing a and r and this sort of like instant success thing there's no one that's teaching like there's no marketing anymore everybody's dropping a surprise album but you have no name recognition Nobody's doing the press tour anymore to to put up the hype.
01:06:56
Dante
Fair. Yeah.
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They're not dropping singles. like The music industry has changed so much. And with that, there's no one teaching them how to perform. like right like They're just sort of standing there and they're all drunk and high and all these things. and Whatever. That's the last thing I'm because I said I wasn't going go on a rant and I felt the rant building up.
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Beyonce is a legitimate performer. She's one of one. and And because the performance art has sort of been lost, if you have the chance, I would. but That is my pit stop.
01:07:25
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If you can go see Beyonce perform, you should do it.
01:07:25
Dante
ah I believe you. I believe all of it. i've I've heard countless people say the same thing. Like I said, i'm I'm not a fan either, but I know for a fact there's no denying she's one of the greatest performers of all time.
01:07:39
Dante
Like that I would not deny.
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Yeah.
01:07:40
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I do know that. i
01:07:42
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And I'm telling you, i knew maybe 20% of the songs.
01:07:42
Dante
You could tell. You could tell she puts in the work. Yeah.
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Like, 20% of the songs. And it was it was it was still a great time. So, um that's all I got for you. That's all we got. As always, thank you for listening. We will be back next week. um
01:07:57
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Yeah, follow the show on YouTube. You can watch the show on YouTube. Follow the show.
01:08:01
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Mm-hmm.
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