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I-80 Football Show: A Bad Week For OSU Reporters + 2025 Power Rankings
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In this episode, we power rank the Big Ten as we near the end of spring practice but first we talk NBA Playoffs and the OSU media debacle.
Recorded: 04/10/2025
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Transcript
Introduction and Personal Updates
00:00:01
Speaker
What's good everybody? Welcome in to another episode of Land Grant Podcast Network's I-80 Football Show. As always, I'm your host Jordan. I'm here my co-host Dante. soon hey I'm all right.
00:00:12
Speaker
um as As you know, I didn't realize today was Wednesday until like middle of the day. I was chilling. Not really, I was work. I was chilling. And I'm like, I look up, I say, have a dentist appointment on Thursday.
00:00:28
Speaker
I have a dentist appointment tomorrow. That makes today. I was like, oh my God. ain't thought about this podcast all week.
Financial Discussions and Budgeting
00:00:36
Speaker
And I told you I was going to have an idea too. I had to come up with it off the strength because we was going to be here talking about nothing.
00:00:43
Speaker
ah I knew it was Wednesday day all day because I'm like, it's almost end of the week. Let's This week's kind of flying by. I'll take it. I'll take it. Yeah, I mean, it is because I didn't realize it was Wednesday.
00:00:54
Speaker
And I think it's also just like it's cold outside. So it's kind of messing up everything. A little bit, yeah. It's just kind of, I don't know. It doesn't feel like we're nine days into April.
00:01:05
Speaker
Like, I know you have like false spring and like all of that sort of stuff. But like, it's like 30 degrees. Like, it's not typically this cold. watching like a week or two. It's about to go. pure oh The reason why I'm excited because I get paid.
00:01:21
Speaker
ah tuesday next week that's like let's get this week over with you get paid on the first and the 15th or something 15th in the end of the month oh that's how it was when i was in columbus okay right yeah yeah because i got to get the money back for buying paying for this yeah you know it's crazy i actually like being paid on the fifth the like twice a month twice a month was cool because i don't like i don't like bi-weekly because it makes it hard to budget because sometimes it messes it up and it's like if you're if you start in a good financial place and if you make enough money where it's just like half my paycheck half of both paycheck goes to rent it goes to this whatever and you start like paying stuff ahead it doesn't matter
00:02:05
Speaker
But if you're not paying stuff ahead, it's like, oh, this bill comes out on the 18th of every month. This month I get paid on the 17th. But next month I get paid on the 11th. And the month after that, I don't get paid to the 25th. And so you always have to remember what bills you're paying on what check.
00:02:22
Speaker
yeah So I don't like bi-monthly. I hate monthly. I don't like bi-weekly. yeah I hate monthly. Because by the middle of the month, don't have no money.
00:02:33
Speaker
But twice a month was perfect, especially because I was, before inflation, I was making enough money to cover my bills, no worry. So I just literally put my half my bills on the first, half my bills on the 15th, had them on auto pay, and it was smooth.
00:02:48
Speaker
And then like I would have a little bit of money left over. So I never had to think about my bills or anything because I just put them first whatever. It was 15th at the end of the month, but I just put the bills on the first and the fifteenth And so that was smooth. I miss it. look I'm not going to lie. i I was after because was doing monthly for about two years. After like the first year, ah got used to doing monthly.
00:03:11
Speaker
It got to a point where I would have extra money. And then when my paycheck would come, it just stacked. It was just stacking. So I got used to monthly. Now that I'm bimonthly, I had to move my car insurance payment o because it's all on autopay because it keeps it. It's a deduct if you have it on autopay.
00:03:31
Speaker
yeah So I had to move that date to the 15th. I was like, legit, make it the 15th. And you it was like, OK, so now that's on that day. I'll probably do my phone bill that day as well. And then rent and everything else is end of the month because right at end into the end month is the first.
00:03:45
Speaker
So I just pay rent and stuff and others. Do I have other bills? I mean, I do. I just don't know what they are. i just pay them. Yeah.
00:03:56
Speaker
yeah But um phone bill and car insurance are going to be the first from now. Not the first, the 15th from now. Yeah, that's how I like it My thing is, I think like if and it's great, like I'm not going to get stuck on this, but i I felt like I had more money.
00:04:11
Speaker
In Columbus? Especially like... Oh, you probably did because you you didn't living you didn't live in New York. Yeah, but especially like even before because like... I don't know. it's i wouldn't have i wouldn't have much money in Columbus right now anyways because of inflation.
00:04:29
Speaker
But like before that hit real crazy, I would have money. So like right now, because of inflation and living in New York, I don't have excess money after I get paid a whole lot. So that's what makes it a problem.
00:04:40
Speaker
I think if
Collectibles and Investment Talk
00:04:41
Speaker
inflation went down or I was making more money, then because I don't really spend a lot of money. in general so i could see monthly being cool but i think you have to live in a place where like your bills are not a certain percentage of your paycheck or like inflation and stuff because that's the problem it's like i'll have money after i get paid but then like a week or so in i have to buy groceries again and then you go out to the bar one time and now by the 13th i ain't got no money
00:05:12
Speaker
Like, it's like, man, all I did was buy it buy a couple of drinks and go to the go get groceries. Now I'm ass out for two weeks. i we do I do have to get groceries because this guy, this these past few weeks, I've been eating out way too much.
00:05:27
Speaker
Man. And I know, and I've been feeling it too, because I, like, what was it, yesterday? Yesterday I did nothing but cardio, but I felt so sluggish, and I was like, it's it's this eating out. Even if it is Subway, most of the time, yeah i still felt sluggish as hell. I was like, yeah, I got to figure this out.
00:05:42
Speaker
We got to cook some more. Yeah, that's honestly, is it's crazy because like, I eat healthy, but not like crazy healthy. Like sometimes I'll be forget, have a vest or something like that.
00:05:54
Speaker
But it's crazy the difference, even if you're cooking, but you're not like vegetarian, vegan, like I've eaten, you know, two thirds of my plate green. It's still different how much better you feel when you're cooking versus when you eat out, even if you're not eating the most healthy food.
00:06:12
Speaker
It's just like, you definitely you definitely feel a big difference. um But yeah, we're here. We're going to get into our traffic update. did you see um Did you see the LeBron Kendall?
00:06:29
Speaker
I scrolled past it on Instagram for a second. um I have no words. um um I want it. It's a collector's item. I'm getting it for sure.
00:06:44
Speaker
I mean, hey, I can't even say nothing. I have two Kobe Bryant tattoos, so I have nothing. I can't say nothing. Yeah. i Also, it's just like it is cool. like I mean, it's cool. like I'm not like, i don't know. I feel like it's it's like the same thing as getting Funko Pops, for real. I mean, yeah. yeah no Yeah, it is. It is. I just find it hilarious that they gave him a character.
00:07:05
Speaker
Yeah, it's dope, though. I fuck with it. I'm definitely getting it. um And it ah will if it doesn't like sell out like crazy, because I'm not buying two at the beginning, but if it doesn't sell out like crazy, I might get a second one.
00:07:21
Speaker
wonder how much it is. It's not that much. Really? I think when I looked at it, it was like less than $60,000. was like new Funko Pops coming out at $50. I don't be getting those. But like again, it's for me, it's like a collection. But if it doesn't sell out like crazy, if it's something that they're gonna have, I would buy one.
00:07:39
Speaker
And then later on, I'd buy a second one. Because I do think it would be cool for like when I have kids for them to have one. But like if I only have one, you can't have that. You can't you can't touch it. Yeah. But like, if I have two, then it's like, here's a toy.
00:07:53
Speaker
Let me teach you about our glorious kid. No, I'm just kidding. I am not. That's weird. That's just funny though. But yeah, I got to teach about LeBron early. So get him a little Bron Kindle.
00:08:04
Speaker
It seems like it's... it seems like it's um It seems like it's a thing that they were going to be doing, though. Like a series. Oh, so it's going to be more than this. Oh. Yeah. Probably Katie.
00:08:16
Speaker
what So the thing is, I don't know if it's only going to be athletes, though. I think it's like a... and like um It's not a male empowerment thing. What is it? I don't know how to explain it. I've read it in an article.
00:08:28
Speaker
I don't know if it's only going to be athletes, but it's going to be... like Like, for example, like if like If Chadwick Boseman was still alive, like I could see him getting one. You know what mean? like They might still do it regardless. Right.
00:08:38
Speaker
What if his family signs? I think it's just like, like I don't know how to explain it, but I don't think it's specifically geared towards athletes. Okay. but i would have been like if they're doing I thought it was like a basketball thing because then I would be like probably KD, maybe Giannis, uh,
00:09:00
Speaker
I should probably say a white guy, ah huh? One of those. yeah Oh, it's $75.
00:09:10
Speaker
I will only be getting one. I'm still going to get it but I will only be getting one. I mean, that's because... the um I think his Funko Pop is like a hundred and something dollars.
00:09:21
Speaker
LeBron James. I think so. The last time I was looking at Funko Pops, because I always just to check, see how much a Kobe Bryant one is. That's never going down. So it's not. here So, okay. So it's the Barbie signature Ken Basseter collection celebrates influential Ken figures who are creating positive change and contributing to a better world for all.
00:09:43
Speaker
Oh, so there might be a few more athletes. Yeah, but it's not... it does It's not... it's like It could be anybody. We might get a Denzel Washington candle. going to get that one, too.
00:09:55
Speaker
That one I might get. Yeah, I'm
Basketball Insights and Analysis
00:09:57
Speaker
going to get that one, too. $75. $75 is crazy. It's cool. I'm going to get it. But here I am talking to you. I'm not going to get a... a you know uh wwe w universal championship belt one of these days and those are like 500 some dollars boom i'm not gonna judge you but i can't rock i can't do that one oh i mean yeah i'm judging me don't worry i got it this good got you got you Speaking of championship belts or championships, UConn won the women's college basketball national championship, put belt to ass on South Carolina.
00:10:31
Speaker
South Carolina is going to be crazy. South Carolina is going to be back for sure. And so like the crazy thing about it, too, is like I was they always back. They're always just wanted of the. Yeah. Yeah, they're going to be solid. The thing is, like, they were young, right? it's sos just like they were missing some of the leadership and they were missing, like, the go-to player.
00:10:49
Speaker
And also, like, they still got the national championship game, so they were still really good. But, like, UConn was just clearly the best team in the sport, and their big three was clicking at the best time. I think the the craziest thing about it is I was watching the game, and it didn't feel like South Carolina played bad.
00:11:06
Speaker
They just got outplayed. they were just And they had played bad in other games, but like they weren't they didn't go through a whole bout of where they were taking bad shots. like One game i was watching, they had like four ah for ah travel calls and like a three-minute of game time span.
00:11:23
Speaker
They did turn the ball over. They called it travel? That was crazy. It was one region, bro. It was one region. Every game I watched calling hella travels. It was insane. And um it was so bad that I recognized the ref. I was like, oh, so this is in the same region. This isn't like all of women's college basketball. Like this site, this game site, y'all calling hella travels. I don't know what y'all was doing out there in Salt Lake or wherever y'all was at.
00:11:47
Speaker
Wherever South Carolina was at. They probably got tired of wasn' watching them players just walk. i was like, I'm calling this. You're calling this. They were calling everything. it was South Carolina, UCLA. It was all them up in that region. They was getting calls like crazy. And then they went to the Final Four, and they didn't barely call because nobody else was calling Travels. It's just one crew. One crew was like, yeah, we getting them today. getting them. I'm doing my job. I to lie because I've gotten tired of watching Travels.
00:12:16
Speaker
Bring them to the NBA. look the The biggest one that they could call all the time that they was calling all the time is moving that foot before you dribble. because they That happens every it happens almost every time. The ball has to test the ground first. take off like this.
00:12:33
Speaker
yeah yeah That's what they were doing. That's fundamentals though. It's basic fundamentals like that too. but When nobody's calling it, you're not practicing that no more. Oh, well.
00:12:44
Speaker
good but Be on your P's and Q's is what they said. Basically. um But yeah, i was very happy for Paige Beckers. um You know, it's one of them things where it's like she didn't really need a championship, but she kind of needed a championship.
00:13:00
Speaker
Like for her to be as good as she was, especially at UConn and all the things to like be the only like she was going to be the only superstar out of UConn that never won. Like i was very happy that she got one. And so that was, that was cool.
00:13:16
Speaker
um And then Florida, which I did not care about men's college basketball, but I did watch this game because it was just on the TV and I was playing the game. um Florida, Florida beat Houston.
00:13:28
Speaker
And the only thing I have to say, have two things to say. One, I really just don't like men's college basketball because there was a 12-point turnaround for a win, and I still thought the game was boring.
00:13:41
Speaker
i just like like that Like, that's the best you could offer. Like, you were down 12 in the third, and you came back to win the game. And I was just like, man. Stop throwing up these strong-ass hook shots, bro. like Why your hook shot about to bend the rim? You got no mess, no touch.
00:13:58
Speaker
All the shots are flat. Like, damn, what is going on? I was even, so didn't watch any of these games, but I did see the ending to the Florida-Houston game, and it was just, wow.
00:14:12
Speaker
You don't get shot bro. It was just so like men's college basketball. And it was like a – he knew he traveled, and he was like, I can't touch the ball, y'all. Yeah, and they just looked at him. They they all looked at him. I was in the air. I was in the air with the ball. I can't touch this.
00:14:27
Speaker
Yeah. and every And everybody just looked at him and looked at the ball. Yeah. yeah Incredible. Incredible. I've seen I've seen that happen so many times. it is just funny that it happened in a championship game. Yeah. yeah And it's it's just. Yeah.
00:14:41
Speaker
So I'm sure as ah Florida of all teams. Right. With this 39 year old head coach. But yeah, I really just, I just don't, I don't like it, dog. I just don't like it. I don't know what it is. I was watching the game and it's just like, but seriously, it's like, why are your hook shots so strong?
00:14:56
Speaker
Like nobody had touch. Like nobody had touch. It didn't look like any of them had any skill. They were like, all their shots were flat. they It was just like, I'm like, what are y'all like? What a game are y'all playing?
00:15:08
Speaker
Like the NBA doesn't look like this. Like y'all want to go to the NBA. What like, are y'all playing the same sport? And it's bad because, what was it?
00:15:20
Speaker
The fact that ah
00:15:24
Speaker
Duke blew, what, a seven, eight-point lead in a minute? Yeah. Against the same team. Florida yeah florida just, I don't know, dog. They playing the game on Hall of Fame or something. why because i don't I don't understand it. I didn't get it. But, again, I just watched ah Milwaukee. Milwaukee.
00:15:46
Speaker
carve a 24-point lead six in like five minutes in the fourth quarter. They were down 24 points against Minnesota. Minnesota didn't score a bucket for five minutes.
00:15:59
Speaker
Jesus. And they just they they came they tied the game, and then then Minnesota decided to score. was like, would have gave up. Y'all cut into a 24-point lead with minutes to go into the fourth.
00:16:11
Speaker
You want it. and why and i don't care no more because we can't we can't get nothing and like when i tell you like they it it wasn't like they were missing shots it was turnover after turnover after turnover turnover like a milwaukee just kept stealing the ball yeah i was like yeah i'm done i would have been done you better be fighting bro i don't care congratulations to florida congratulations to you kind um There's only one name I know going into college basketball next year, and i hope hopefully she gets better soon. so
00:16:44
Speaker
What? you USC. What's her name? Oh, Juju. Yeah, Juju. That's the only name I know going into college basketball next year. There was Cooper Flag, Paige, and Juju this year, and now it's just Juju for me. That's all I know.
00:16:59
Speaker
get you You should learn Sarah Strong. You'll like her game. Okay. that's the that's the That's the freshman all you I like her game. She's really good. and she's ah she's a She's a big, too. I know you like bigs.
Scandal in Sports Reporting
00:17:11
Speaker
I mean, not like, but like she's a big with skill. she yes She's nice. She got a back to the basket game? Yeah, she did. Okay. Okay. I'll have to look into it. And she can she can shoot the three, but she don't live at the three. like She's not one of them. like She will get in the paint and body.
00:17:26
Speaker
Good defense. it's like She's really good. She's nice. um So in the in the Ohio State media escape or whatever you call it, um ah two Buckeye beat writers, two, as much as you can call someone famous, but just for the lack of the better word, like famous Buckeye beat writers got fired from their company beat for allegedly skimming money off the top.
00:17:52
Speaker
what? So I don't want to get stuck on this, especially because it's crazy because they had two jobs like they wrote for a website and then they there was this other one called the podcast and that was just podcast.
00:18:03
Speaker
And so like so they got fired from the podcast company, but they write still for the the website. But it's funny because some of the people like there are people who work at both who still work at both.
00:18:16
Speaker
So it's like you fired me from one, but since it was just crazy. Cause like, I get to still work. Yeah. Because it's like, you didn't like you stole money. Like we got two companies together.
00:18:26
Speaker
You stole money from company a, but I can't fire you from company B. Cause they're not the same company. So you just got fired, but you better come to work. But, but in my house, it's weird. Cause it buys it's like, if you still have a company, a,
00:18:39
Speaker
Right, right. You're probably stealing from Company B, too. i don't But I guess when it comes to stuff like that, you have to have proof because then they can sue you and stuff right for like that.
00:18:52
Speaker
Yeah, so i won't I won't get into all the rumors because there's a lot of rumors. But what it sounds like they've at least admitted to is that they were...
00:19:03
Speaker
They were brokering sponsorships with people. And they were skimming money off the top of the sponsorship. People were saying that they're like, yeah, like people were like saying that they're like stealing money from the players and things like that. And so going to give you two scenarios because I think one is what people think. And this is what I think actually happened.
00:19:26
Speaker
So people were saying like, I, Jordan, promise you $25,000, then I only you five. but then i only pay you five So that's what people were saying. I don't think that's what's happened.
00:19:37
Speaker
I think company A, sponsorship A, was like, hey, here's $25,000. Give it to players for sponsorships. And they said, we have $20,000 to give the players for sponsorships.
00:19:49
Speaker
yeah Like, like, I think they were paying the players, but they weren't giving, giving all the money that it was supposed to. So like, it's two things where it's like, they're not breaching contracts with players.
00:20:00
Speaker
the The player pool is just less than what it was supposed to be. That's what it sounds like to me. I'm not a little expert. It is, it is. But, but a lot of people were like, oh my God, you're stealing from Buckeyes. You're stealing from like you, like you promised Caleb downs 25,000 only gave him five.
00:20:16
Speaker
And for sports fans, that's much more egregious than like you took some money off the top. It's still stealing. They still got fired. But either way, and again, as far as the Buckeye space goes, they're famous and there's some of the more source whatever.
00:20:32
Speaker
And so it's like.
00:20:35
Speaker
Are you stealing? moregan like Why would you do that? like what do you like like What did you expect to get from that? I guess money, but eventually. It's going to get caught because like the thing the thing with that is is that there's always accounting in involved. so somebody doing Somebody's counting this money.
00:20:55
Speaker
and If you're not the accountant, even then even if you are the accountant, you're more than likely going to get caught. Eventually, you're going to get caught. It always happens. so So like one of the things that it says, it says, ah
00:21:10
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so Birmingham acknowledged in writing that defendants have in fact retained advertising funds or sponsorship funds that were positioned into the company as exclusively intended for compensation for athletes appearing on the show.
00:21:23
Speaker
Specifically, Birmingham conceded in writing that advertisers paid Austin Ward, who after paying the players that appeared on the show with us, paid one third of the remaining amounts to himself, unnamed third party in me.
00:21:35
Speaker
So like, it again, it doesn't sound like they promised the players X money. It's that the company was like, hey, here's $25,000 for the players. And they was like, hey, players, we only got 20,000 for you and was keeping the rest. Although it was obviously different numbers because a third of that is different. I should have used 30. Then it's like, here's $30,000 for the players. And they're like, players, we only got 20,000 for you. And then they pocketed the 10.
00:21:59
Speaker
Which it's a minute difference, but it is technically a difference because it's you're not going into contract with Ohio State's best players and then not giving them money, which then may lead them to the transfer portal and like all these other things that may like actually mess up Ohio State's roster.
00:22:16
Speaker
But you're still stealing. Because you definitely are stealing. For shit show. So, um yeah, it's it's is's um crazy that you would do that.
00:22:27
Speaker
Crazy that you would do that ever. But at Ohio State, too, like there just some schools like it's too big. Like like if you do that, like Kent don't have no money. But if you do that, can't you might get away with it. you say theio i don't know am I don't know if they get away with it because it's small.
00:22:42
Speaker
True. Because they really need that money. And when they realize that they're not getting the amount they're supposed to, it might get caught faster, honestly. Yeah, that's true. That is that is true. and and And then they also said, there was like but like we're paying them better than they were getting paid at their last job.
00:22:57
Speaker
And we're paying them better than most reporters get paid. So it's like, they didn't need the money. was basically what the company said. And then on top of that, this last thing money yeah and is the last thing I say about it dude like logged into his email to try to like find out what information they had and try to like cover things up and some other things. So it's like they did one lawsuit and then they amended it because they're like,
00:23:24
Speaker
you we told you you were done and not to log in and you logged into the company email and was trying to see what we had on you and like delete stuff. Now that's getting added to the lawsuit. like that like That's worse. like what do like obstruction of It's not obstruction of justice, but obstruction of investigation. You're an idiot.
00:23:42
Speaker
There's a lot of idiots that work in the Big Ten. like um Yeah. but I don't understand it, bro. There's just a lot of idiots working in this in this conference. who It's crazy.
00:23:57
Speaker
But yeah, so that happened. And then our lot ah we'll actually, we because we'll take a break here and then we'll get back and we'll have a brief conversation about the final week of the and NBA. And then we're going to get into
NBA Coaching and Team Dynamics
00:24:08
Speaker
our road trip, which is power ranking the Big Ten Conference in the spring, off the cuff, off the top of our head, just what we think is going happen with no proof to back it up. So we will be right back on the other side of the ad break.
00:24:26
Speaker
All right, what's good, everybody? Welcome back.
00:24:31
Speaker
You know who's not welcome back? Mike Malone. He got fired. Yeah. bottom He is no longer welcome. He's welcome here.
00:24:42
Speaker
you can You can come here. You can listen. You can sponsor, but he is no longer welcome at his job. It doesn't make any sense because, again, like you said, this is the final week at the NBA. So the playoffs start in two weeks.
00:24:54
Speaker
or a week, something like that. And they're playoff team, right? Yes, they're like to fifth seed. They were on a four-game losing streak. And it's the crazy thing is is that how whose fault this really is got fired.
00:25:08
Speaker
Because the GM got fired as well. which is good because that's who fought this really is is why this team is not performing up to where it should be especially since we're still in yogurts prime and yogurts 28 i believe something like that something disgusting if yokus loved basketball we'd be in danger but he's gonna retire at like 31. so like that yeah he won't be playing this long probably but like um the problem the problem was it was the gm because he was okay with lay letting key players just walk after winning that championship because they they said um he was he wanted to develop young talent to replace those players and have the time a lot of that time that doesn't really add up and what's happened in the past two years is that that hasn't add up and the biggest problem with that too is that you knew that aaron gordon and um murray
00:26:01
Speaker
jamal murray were injury prone before you won a championship while you won a championship so to let the key players who help you win a championship who were not aaron gordon and jamal well aaron gordon let me stop but who was not uh jamal murray people who took his took his place and were key and winning that you let him walk for nothing and that's the problem so then while so that being the problem and then you're making mike malone have to coach these young players who he has no trust in because they're not earning his trust by not watching film.
00:26:34
Speaker
Cause he said it, they don't watch film. A lot of these players, a lot of those young players aren't watching film and they're not playing defense they're not listening them. So how, why should I play you when you're not doing what I asked?
00:26:47
Speaker
And they're like, and I, and I know how young people are. Well, I'm not doing what you're asking. You're not playing me. It's like, well, that's dumb. That's dumb. That's dumb. So they got rid of the coach.
00:26:58
Speaker
it's if you're gonna I feel like I look at it like this. Go to the playoffs, do your run, and then let them go. Don't let them go before the playoffs and then have like a whole new coach.
00:27:10
Speaker
Yeah, I think their thing is, like what if he does good, then we can't fire him? But like maybe you shouldn't fire him then. he was already making He was already making the most out of this team, and you made the captain for real. Yeah, it sort of feels like the Tom Thibodeau or the – who was the guy that was doing decent in, like, the Kings or something, where it's like you're you're a little old school, you're a little hard on the players, so the second it's not you're not winning 100 games, it's like, oh, but players don't like you. Yeah, but – You didn't care that they didn't like me when I was winning a nasa when i was winning championship. championship yeah but But now that I'm not and I'm trying to get these players to keep the standard that you're paying me for, now I'm an asshole.
00:27:53
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He's immediately going to get a job. Like, I think he's going to get a job. I don't know who's firing that coach, but he's immediately getting a job. ah Well, I mean, who just fired? The Grizzlies or whatever? not the Grizzlies.
00:28:05
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Oh, yeah. I don't know if he wants to go. He can't go to the Grizzlies. I mean, Jha going to shoot him. don't know if it was the Grizzlies that just got rid of their coach or the Tim Williams that just got rid of it. It was the Grizzlies, yeah. But he can't go there. Jha's going to shoot him. Did you see?
00:28:21
Speaker
Did you see that he was like, all right, you're going to find me for shooting, so I'm going to throw a grenade. He went, he's an idiot.
00:28:35
Speaker
I love a good troll, but I was like, bro, what? I was like, a grenade is so much worse. i see you know Next thing you know, i' other a celebration, he gonna get on one knee like it's a bazooka.
00:28:50
Speaker
It's like, bro, what is wrong with you? like Why can't you stop? I do find it hilarious that everybody was like, why does other players get to do that celebration with the guns, but he can't? Because he's already got in trouble for actual gun stuff.
00:29:02
Speaker
That's why. Don't be stupid. Other sports are trying to get rid of that, but like bro, has like he was he was pointing guns at teenagers. like That's why he's getting in trouble for that celebration. Why can't Gilbert Arenas do that? What?
00:29:21
Speaker
Yeah, like that there's a reason. That'd be like, that'd be like if...
00:29:27
Speaker
Who do I'm trying to think of? I can't think of his name. Oh, da no, no, no. oh a OJ Mayo. If he was like allowed back in the NBA and he came back and started doing like this. Yeah. Like, like likeck he didn't get trouble for that. Like, like come on, dog. It's like, everybody yeah, like, like, like a dude who got in trouble for like, if Ray Rice came back to the NFL and then he started boxing when he scored a touchdown, like, what do you mean?
00:29:52
Speaker
Like, you what are you doing? What are doing? You can't do that. Or even like, again, ah Josh Gordon. Yeah.
00:30:04
Speaker
Come on, bro. What's going on? It's nothing up here. i yeah Yeah. It's funny. It is weird. um along byfired Oh, yeah. He should have fired the GM that I agree with.
00:30:15
Speaker
Yeah. Did you um before we move on? did Did you see the picture of Yoki? Thanks to his brother. Which one? Which brother? I don't know. did you Did you see the one where they're sitting at a restaurant?
00:30:29
Speaker
No, I think i so. to you So people be laughing and and Kiki-ing when I'm saying that he plays basketball because his brothers are in the mob and they're they're they're doing war crimes and everyone everyone thinks I'm joking, bro.
00:30:47
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swear to you, I'm not. No, they
00:30:53
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for those ah For those on YouTube who can see this, for those of you who are not, I would just describe it, but for those of you on YouTube who can see this, yeah Nicole Jokic is 285.
00:31:05
Speaker
And this picture looks like if I was next to the big show. Is that a good is that's a good comparison? that bit much. His brother might be and definitely like 3'40". He definitely picked his seven foot blind and definitely like now before you Dude is huge. He is huge. It's the Mohawk that's me crying right now. Because he's a criminal.
00:31:36
Speaker
He is a criminal. you A suburban as ah a suburbian with a Mohawk? Yeah, you're a criminal. he's he is in he is he runs that country. Because who's going to say something to him? like and that's And that's why Nikola Jokic, the young brother, can play with horses and shit. Because his brother...
00:31:54
Speaker
You what funny as hell? If they're like the sweetest guys. they're They're not. They're not. I'm not judging them just off the look on his face, bro. They're not. I've seen how they reacted to when Yolkis get fouled hard in the final. mean, look, I look at it like this. I could be one of the sweetest guys. And still be a criminal?
00:32:15
Speaker
Well, true. But like if my family get messed with, I'm ready to buck. Yeah. I'm ready to book. So I could, it's, it's hilarious. It's record.
00:32:26
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So the other, the other one is just as tall. Yeah. Huge. Have you, ah ah have you, when's the last time you seen shark tails?
00:32:36
Speaker
I know this is crazy. This is crazy. So they just, they just put, they just put on shark tails last night. Do you remember it enough to remember the two brother sharks? Yes. This is like, this is hacking brother just like, like like you got you got the big brother who's ready to take over the family. And you got the other one who but who who was a vegetarian. That's funny. That's funny.
00:33:02
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that's for
00:33:05
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Oh my God. If y'all haven't
NBA Standings and Playoff Predictions
00:33:07
Speaker
seen Shark Tales in a while, just Google the two shark brothers, but it's hilarious. But no, I just thought that was funny that like, cause Yoko's just legitimately huge. And then his brother just like, like literally dwarfs him. Like it's crazy.
00:33:19
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Um, but yeah, do you have any, any thoughts? Cause you, you be watching basketball. I don't watch basketball to the playoffs. do you have any thoughts on, on, on the final, on the fact that like three through like six or two through six is like one and a half games apart in the West, uh,
00:33:35
Speaker
how are you feeling how are you feeling about your lakers just any any basketball thoughts at this time uh well the west being close going into the end of the season is is normal at this point that's i expected it's been happening for like the past five six years uh how i feel about my lakers they might make it to the second round and that might be it high stream street appreciate you uh turn uh ah i could see I could see the Lakers making it to the second round, but again, they're not consistent on defense. whether i don't I don't care how good they've been playing defense to end the year.
00:34:14
Speaker
they they're not They're not consistent. The only teams I see winning a championship out of everybody, OKC, Boston, Cleveland.
00:34:29
Speaker
Because while shooting... and die out, those are the only three teams that play defense. And the Cavs and OKC play historical defense, which usually wins you a championship. So those are the only three teams I can confidently say are going to win a championship.
00:34:48
Speaker
If any other team was a championship, it's like people got hurt. Yeah. I don't really follow Cleveland sports all all like that, but like if I had to pick a team, I'd be a Cavs fan because I'm from Ohio.
00:35:02
Speaker
If the Cavs win a championship and they do it without LeBron and it's their second ever, I may have to come home. I'm not going to the parade because that's insane. I will. I missed the last one. I'll go. that is I just want to be the will call off work and they i the I'll literally text my boss and I'm going to the parade.
00:35:20
Speaker
He better go. Got it. The last parade was disgusting. I can't be around that many people. So I'm not going to go to the parade. I just want to be around the vibe. I went to work the last parade. So I'm not going can't believe you did that. Well, I mean, I guess you're not really a Caps fan, but you're from Cleveland. So it's like, yeah.
00:35:35
Speaker
Yeah. All right. So that's that's the choice. Did you? did you Yeah, that's that is the traffic update. So we are going to get into
Big Ten Football Power Rankings and Predictions
00:35:44
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our sort of ah blind power ranking of the Big Ten.
00:35:49
Speaker
ah We're doing this with no real information because it has been super silent, um ah kind of really with. um spring ball and then also not half but a decent amount of the teams are like afraid of the transfer portal so they don't want to release anything about players and they're not dropping tape and they're not having a spring game and all of these sort of things yeah so this is just a bunch of injuries and everybody comes like i don't understand what's going on yeah uh this is this is a vibes based power ranking um but you know
00:36:23
Speaker
It'll still be cool. It's still fun. um And I think i think we're going to be right because we're always right. We're always right. um So do you want where we should start at the bottom? Yeah, that's what we're going to We can do that.
00:36:39
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All right. So 18 for me is Purdue. I have Northwestern. 17 is Northwestern for me. And I have Purdue. Honestly, those are probably going to have the same record.
00:36:52
Speaker
Yeah, our bottom four. If they don't play each other, they're probably to have the same record. Yeah, our bottom four the same. let's Let's just go there. and we have one like We have Purdue and Northwestern switch, but our bottom four is Purdue, Northwestern, Maryland, UCLA.
00:37:05
Speaker
yep i don't have any thoughts on that how my how far maryland has fallen but i've never liked that coach and so it makes sense that when he doesn't have the quarterback who is saving him the quarterback and you're losing that i don't i don't know if you they kept that running back i think that was he was in his second year at this point Yeah, I don't think they have Roman Hemby no more either.
00:37:28
Speaker
yeah But even it didn't matter because they didn't like to use them. so it's like Exactly. Yeah. Didn't matter. 13 for me is... We're at 14. 14 is Wisconsin. I hate to say that because if Wisconsin is this bad, it might mean that... um Oh boy, may get fired. But I just don't think Luke Fickle is a good coach.
00:37:46
Speaker
And I do think he can coach at this level, but I don't think he understood what he was getting into in Wisconsin. And he's made, he just made bad coaching hires. And, and I said it from day one, it takes too much time to try to change the defense.
00:37:59
Speaker
And also like, yeah, you were at Cincinnati, but I'm sorry at Cincinnati, you can get better recruits than you can at Wisconsin. Yeah. Yeah, I understand Wisconsin's in the Big Ten, but it's still Wisconsin. You're in Ohio. Do you know how many good players are in Ohio who don't get that Ohio State offer who go to Cincinnati? First of all, Cincinnati is barely in Ohio. I was literally talking to someone at work the other day who's from Cincinnati who lives up here.
00:38:24
Speaker
And I was like, are you an Ohio State fan? I was like, cause i like, you didn't talk to me about the national championship. below He's like, oh, no, i'm not really an Ohio State fan. Like Cincinnati and Toledo are like the only places in Ohio where you will consistently not find Ohio State fans.
00:38:37
Speaker
Even if they don't love Ohio State, whether least like like me with the Cavs, there's sort of like a rooting interest. Like you may have some people that like like Duke or whatever because they're from there or something. But like like Cincinnati and Toledo are like the only places where you'll consistently just be like, yeah, I'm not an Ohio State fan. I don't care.
00:38:52
Speaker
And so, like, Ohio State just won national championship. And Burrell never mentioned it to me. He's from Ohio. So, like, you have good players in Cincinnati, and most and that is not an automatic pipeline to Ohio State.
00:39:04
Speaker
You have all the players in Ohio. Like Cincinnati, football-wise, is the second best school in Ohio. So, like, you're going to get all those kids who don't want to go to Kent, who don't gonna want to go to OU, because that is technically, to them, still a lower level than where Cincinnati is. So I think you can get better recruits at Cincinnati than you can with Wisconsin.
00:39:20
Speaker
And so I don't think – like, I get it's a bigger job. He was making more money, whatever, but I just think he handled it wrong. Like, I think he handled it wrong, and it kind of sucks because I think he's a good coach, but, like, he messed up. at wisconsin you're not as low as on wisconsin as me so that was kind of my rant on the situation but that's where i feel about yeah i think even with all that i think wisconsin is still gonna be it can still be a better team than usc because i usc is losing more talent as the years go by so you lost your you lost your quarterback and y'all couldn't really do anything with him
00:39:56
Speaker
uh you had defensive talent and stuff like that decided to not play you did you were in competitive in games but i don't think i don't think that's going to really translate to next year or you probably i like i said i look at usc as a michigan state just over in the west now so and that's why i was like there's i think wisconsin could be better than these teams but not by much and that's why i have them a little bit higher Got you. So who's your 14?
00:40:25
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My 14 is Rutgers. I think they're going to take a dip this upcoming year, especially since a lot I think a lot of teams in the Big Ten are going to get better, especially with the transfer portal and stuff like that.
00:40:36
Speaker
So in in um recruiting class, this freshman class coming in, I think Rutgers is not going to be as good as they were last year. They might end it. Look, I'll say this and then teams will surprise me. So who knows?
00:40:49
Speaker
But 14 is Rutgers.
00:40:54
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13 for me is Rutgers. So we're, I mean, right in the same sort of spot. um You're 13. um My 13 is Michigan State.
00:41:05
Speaker
I don't see them turning it around. Not this year to be higher than 13, 14. You mean it be. ah I think.
00:41:21
Speaker
was it? They're still, they got a coach and stuff like that, correct? Yeah. Right, okay. My ranking for them is because I like the coach, basically. Okay.
00:41:32
Speaker
But this is new year, new season, for first season they are found? Second. second
00:41:40
Speaker
I like the coach, too. I still think I may be a bit aggressive for mine is, but yeah. I just don't i don't think it's this year they move up further than this. It'd be like next year the year after.
00:41:52
Speaker
Because they have to bring in people. yeah And I know they're not bringing it they're not bringing in anybody in the transfer portal of value. Not of value, but of merit to have them move up for me.
00:42:08
Speaker
That's fair. um I have them higher. I think that my thing is it's like they should have won more games, but their quarterback lost them as many games as he won them. And I just think if he's really seriously in the lab, he's going to get them a couple extra wins that maybe they shouldn't deserve because I think he's really good.
00:42:26
Speaker
Like, I don't think he's ever going to be like superstar first round pick and maybe, but he, I do think he has that talent. I just think he makes way too many mistakes, but like, So that's why I have them higher. I'll talk about it when I get there.
00:42:39
Speaker
bret That was your 13th, so we're at 12th. My 12th is Washington. I literally think Washington is going to be the same team as last year. They're going to be a hard win. I mean, they're a Big Ten team. They're literally a Big Ten team. They really are. It feels like they've been here the whole time.
00:42:54
Speaker
They're going to be a hard out. they may upset one of the teams that I have in the top, like, you know, five, six, seven, eight or something like that. They're going to give an Ohio State, Penn State, Oregon, Illinois, a hell of a game and lose it at the end.
00:43:06
Speaker
And then they're going to be five and seven, six and six. And just like, they fought like hell. They made everything hard, but they just weren't good enough. And I think like 12 is sort of where that is, especially because in a given year,
00:43:19
Speaker
like the Big Ten can have between nine to 12 teams in the postseason. And so this is the area where it's like, this is where you're getting your five and seven, six and sixes, your borderline teams.
00:43:32
Speaker
And I think Washington is sort of right there. I don't fully, I don't agree with that. I think they might, I think they're more of a bowl, bowl eligible team.
00:43:43
Speaker
My 12 is USC. I think what you're saying about Washington is USC.
00:43:50
Speaker
Fair. i think what I think USC is going to be 5-7. Again, you said about Wisconsin making the wrong type of coaching hires. USC literally did that.
00:44:02
Speaker
Yes. And if that still is the goal or that's still the framework there, i don't see it working again. Especially since, again, you've lost yeah ah think you lost your best defensive player because he definitely didn't play.
00:44:18
Speaker
I don't know who their best defensive player was. If you if you're talking about the defensive tackle. Yeah. Yeah. He quit their games. Yeah. yeah I think oh a different big 10 school. I don't know.
00:44:30
Speaker
He had to have left. I know he left for sure. I just think he went, he stayed in the big 10. Okay. I just, I don't see USC bringing in talent. I could see USC bringing in talent. It's just offensive talent.
00:44:41
Speaker
And even then, that doesn't really help them because their their biggest problem has been defense this entire time again i think they're going to be competitive like you said they're going be a hard win they gave penn state a run for their money they gave um They gave Oregon a little bit of a scare for a second.
00:44:58
Speaker
They're going to be a good team to watch, but I don't think they're winning second games. Yeah, they're just going to same team as last year. Largely because their coach is an idiot. He's going to make a mistake. Secondly, because I don't think they have a good quarterback.
00:45:10
Speaker
And it's just for me, it's like, I don't know when I'm going to pick USC to be good again because I watched what you did with Caleb O'Reilly. Caleb Williams' last year. And while, no, I'm not the biggest fan of him, you took him from winning the Heisman to winning six games.
00:45:24
Speaker
And so just like, if you can win six games with Caleb, how you ever expect me to think you're to be I'm sorry. like you How are you going to be better? You have to prove it. yeah like that For me, and you did that in the Pac-12, for me, that is your ceiling until you prove otherwise. like You won six or seven games with Caleb in the Pac-12. were mediocre with a Heisman candidate in the Pac-12.
00:45:45
Speaker
Number one pick. like like i I'm sorry. that's why I can't move him any higher. I almost wanted to put him under Michigan State. It's just Michigan State has a... It's still his second year as that coach.
00:45:57
Speaker
ah and coaching So that's the only reason why... USC got ahead, but I can't. They're not better than the next four teams that I have there. I got you. So my 11 is ah Michigan.
00:46:12
Speaker
um My thing is like, one, I still don't believe in Sheryl Moore. Two, who's on the roster? They got their quarterback. He's a freshman. Yeah, I know. I don't believe... We've seen freshmen do amazing things on teams. Yes, but I will never predict it.
00:46:29
Speaker
Yeah, it's fair. We've seen it, but I will never predict it. That is fair. Because, like, if he had... Let's say he has the same season as Dylan Raiola. That was a solid freshman season. It was. going win five or six games like yeah Nebraska did. You know like?
00:46:41
Speaker
Like, he has to have, like, one of them years, and I don't know that he's doing... Especially because who's he throwing to? Like, you just have to, like... They didn't do anything transfer portal for real. then you just count the players they lost. They lost Colston Love in the tight end.
00:46:55
Speaker
They lost, I think they lost a receiver. i wouldn't know his name, but I think they lost him. They lost both of their defensive tackles. They lost their star corner. That's three. That's four first round picks.
00:47:07
Speaker
They had four first round picks. last year and won seven games barely. Yes, they beat Ohio State. Like, they fought at the end. And so if you think, like, they're fighting, they're going to do it. Like, if that's what you believe, that they're going to get them there.
00:47:20
Speaker
But it's like, yeah, but they they needed all that fight to get to seven wins with four first-round picks. They don't have those. Yeah. And, I mean, they did win a bowl game as well.
00:47:32
Speaker
So... Yeah. So, like, I have them 11. That's 6-6. Like, you know, like, maybe you get to 7. Like, it's it's not. Like, I don't have them in the dredges, know what I'm saying? But, like, they're not going to be a good team. Because, again, I don't know what their schedule is going to be. But if you got Purdue on your schedule, Rutgers, you face USC and USC has to come to you, or even if you have to go to USC, it helps your team regardless whether you play USC.
00:48:02
Speaker
UCLA, things like that, like they could they could sneak out seven wins, especially if somebody injuries and things like that. Never hope for those. But, you know.
00:48:15
Speaker
Well, so I'll run it down really quick. We won't. do Because my 11 is Michigan, too. Oh,
00:48:24
Speaker
man, I don't know what they're going to do with this schedule. This schedule is hard. not like It's hard to predict. so They have New Mexico, Oklahoma, Central Michigan, Nebraska, first four.
00:48:35
Speaker
They could beat both Oklahoma and Nebraska or they could lose to both. I don't know. I don't trust Oklahoma. No, I don't. but like i don't and i don't you and i don't and i really don't trust Nebraska that much because So, like, they could start 4-0. The quarterback for Nebraska is in his – I wish he had his own identity.
00:48:54
Speaker
I really do. I really do. So, yeah, so that they could start 4-0 or they could be 2-2. Then they play Wisconsin, USC, Washington, Michigan State. They could go 4-0 and be 8-0. Or they could go two and two and be four and four. Like, i I don't like these are all games like of teams that are in the same. Then they get Purdue. That's a win.
00:49:14
Speaker
Then they get Northwestern. That should be a win. But sometimes Northwestern, whatever. then they play Maryland. That's a win. Then they play Ohio State. That should be a loss. But you can't predict that. never know. You never know. You really don't know. I genuinely have no idea what they're going to do. I'm literally just like, don't even want to predict it. I'm just like, it's just going to be a football season. Last year, could have easily go to it.
00:49:38
Speaker
They could have win like eight, nine games. Yeah. They still have lost a couple because they had some holes and whatever. They didn't have a quarterback. with like You could win like eight or nine games. this guys I don't know what the hell they're to do. like I really don't. It's crazy.
00:49:50
Speaker
Oh, they also lost their running back. They lost both their running backs. I don't know who. There's no one on the team, but their schedule is just a bunch of teams that are all 75 in the video game. and this is like Someone has to win.
00:50:03
Speaker
They can win these games. and like Again, I wouldn't be surprised if they they start off the season. they're like The first eight games, they're like 6-2, 5-3.
00:50:13
Speaker
i wouldn't be that surprised by that. With this schedule, you can't be. yeah they don't They don't play Penn State. They don't play Ohio State. ah was Sorry, they always play. They don't play Penn State, Oregon, Illinois, Indiana, or Iowa.
00:50:26
Speaker
And those are the teams that no matter which order you're going to have at the top, the only team that they play that is like guaranteed to be good is Ohio State. And depending on how you feel about Ohio State, this is going to be one of the worst Ohio States because they've lost a lot of talent.
00:50:40
Speaker
Yeah. So crazy. That was your 11-2, right? So my 10 is USC. And like, this is not a good 10. This is still a 6-6-10. It's just like like, if I was being lazy, I would have tied USC and Michigan.
00:50:54
Speaker
And just like kind them like, I just think they're going the same thing. I don't have anything else really to say about them. But it's just like like, they have enough, like they're still going to have more talent than the teams below them.
00:51:05
Speaker
That like, they're going to win some games just off the strength. Like, they're probably going to go 3-0 in most cases. And the thing is, though, like, I get what you're saying, but I feel like they've had more talents in the past and could barely get six wins.
00:51:21
Speaker
Yeah, i guess I guess my thing is just like they got six last year and I didn't think that was going to happen. So I'm no longer going to predict them to bottom out. I'm just not going to predict them to be good.
00:51:33
Speaker
So putting them at 10, I do think there'll be a step up of a Michigan because they actually have people on the roster and Michigan doesn't. So like a part of a part of my thing with USC here is everyone below them has a worse roster.
00:51:47
Speaker
That's okay. And most of them you could argue, even though I don't like Lincoln, you could argue also has a worse coach. So by the nature of that, they're probably gonna win six games and every team underneath, I could see winning less than six games, not so much Michigan anymore, but we didn't look at the schedule. Like this is not our actual prediction.
00:52:05
Speaker
Yeah. which if If they still allow us to have this show and we do predictions in the fall, I don't know what the hell I'm doing with Michigan. So that'll be fun. I have no clue. I got to look at USC's schedule because there's a good chance I look at that schedule. I'll go five at most.
00:52:21
Speaker
All right. Well, let's this is the last I promise is the last one we'll do, but it's USC. So it's fun. um Let's let's let's look. Okay, USC. Is this the right year?
00:52:31
Speaker
Okay, so they have Missouri State, Georgia Southern, and du Notre Dame and the non-con. So they're going to have two wins in the beginning.
00:52:44
Speaker
so they Okay, so their first four games is Missouri State, Georgia Southern, Purdue, Michigan State. They could start four now. They could. But here's the problem. They could easily start two and two, too.
00:52:56
Speaker
They could. Here's the problem for them. It doesn't matter what team you lose to. Yeah. ah But here's the thing. They then play Illinois, bye week. Michigan, Notre Dame, bye week.
00:53:08
Speaker
Nebraska. Nebraska's not the toughest, but Nebraska's going to be in that range. They could easily lose all four of those. They played Northwestern, an easy game to lose. They played Iowa, an easy game to lose. And then they played Oregon, which they will lose.
00:53:21
Speaker
And then they end with UCLA, which they could they make kill more games they could win like three or four games. Because this schedule is hard. like Last year's schedule wasn't that hard. This is a hard schedule. I'm going to tell you.
00:53:32
Speaker
Well. Again, we didn't look at the schedule when we did this. so ah they will I promise you they will not be 10 when we're actually picking games because that's a tough schedule. Who is your 10?
00:53:44
Speaker
My 10 is Wisconsin. I think i think um you said, ah because you have Wisconsin under USC, I think Luke Fickle is a better coach than Luke Kimbrough.
00:53:56
Speaker
i I honestly do. I think he's a much better coach. I just think his roster sucks. and it's his Yeah, but I think it is. But I think Wisconsin and i think wisconing and didn't do better. And um we're not going to look at the schedule, but I think Wisconsin, that team, will do better in the Big Ten then this year than USC will.
00:54:15
Speaker
And i think they just they just edge out, like legit just edge out for USC and Michigan. ah for me. Not by much, but it's is they just do it they just do it. I think Wisconsin is going to be a better they're goingnna have a better record than those two schools.
00:54:33
Speaker
i can i just i can and just I just see USC losing games they shouldn't, and then boom. and Now that we looked at their schedule, and yeah they could they could start the season 0-1 or 1-1, and you're see?
00:54:50
Speaker
i do think they're guaranteed to start three and know yeah like I don't see them losing to Missouri State, Georgia Southern, or Purdue. I don't see it either. but but if You say that, but then remember a spoiler maker?
00:55:04
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um Yeah. And it's at Purdue. Well... Lincoln might get fired. ah my number yeah My number nine is Michigan State. We already talked about them a little bit, so I won't get stuck on them. I just think Basically, what by putting them at nine, I'm saying they're going to go to a bowl game.
00:55:26
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like That's how I feel about them. I think they're going to go to a bowl game, and that's about the best I can say. I think the quarterback is talented. If he acts put in work, especially in decision-making, they have a really good wide receiver. I cannot remember his name, but he was also a freshman. He's going to be top four wide receiver in the country. like He may be the best wide receiver.
00:55:46
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and not Sorry, not in the country, in the conference. He may be the best wide receiver that's not on Ohio State's roster. Again, I haven't gone through other rosters. I don't remember all the transfers, so I could be wrong. But, like, Nick Cross is his name maybe. Whatever his name is. something Whatever it is. The freshman. He may be the best wide receiver in the Big Ten that's not on Ohio State's roster.
00:56:04
Speaker
So it's just, like, between those two, the coach going into the second year. i'm I'm a big fan of the coach. I just think, like, they're going to make a bowl game. Like, that's sort of how feel. Yeah, I understand that. And that's about it. My number nine is Minnesota, and for that reason alone, I do think they make a bowl game.
00:56:21
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i if From the people who've been fans of this podcast for a while now, y'all know how high used to be i used to be on Minnesota, and I'm not going to fall for that anymore.
00:56:35
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I'm not going to fall for that anymore. I think Minnesota is a bold ah bowl team. I think Minnesota takes – who one Who was in the bowl game? i don't okay so i think Like I said, I think Michigan can make a bowl game, but if they don't, Minnesota's the one that takes that spot from last year.
00:56:55
Speaker
I could see that. i could definitely see that. i'd like I think for me, it's just kind of like... I don't know if I'm ever going to pick unless it's just a really tough schedule.
00:57:07
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I don't know if I'm ever going to pick um Minnesota to ah not make a bowl game. But like you said, it's sort of hard. Like it's hard.
00:57:18
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and They've had a history is I hope they got a new trainer because they they had a history of just in injuries happening and things like that. So. ah But I can I see that I can see them winning eight games and solidifying a bowl a bowl win.
00:57:34
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Do they win the bowl game?
00:57:37
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Depending on the opponent. And then even then, I say that if I start watching the season, I could be like, no, they win bowl game. But yeah, that's my number nine.
00:57:50
Speaker
Got you. My number eight is Minnesota. Same thing. So. um My number eight is Washington.
00:58:01
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I'm going off of what I saw last year. They were a very gritty, rough team. And they, like I said, besides Oregon, they are the most, they're they one of the the teams that adapted to the Big Ten the most out of outside of Oregon, in my eyes.
00:58:17
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And i they play Big Ten football. And that's why I think they're going to be better than what you have on. i think I think they can make a bowl game this year.
00:58:28
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Okay.
00:58:31
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I'm not mad at that. It's just sort of, i don't, I didn't know where to put it. I just, I think there are better, there better, there better coach team than people give them credit for.
00:58:43
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And that I'm going off of what I saw last year. Cause they lost a lot of talent coming into this year and was either in games or winning games that you was like, you didn't think they, they were going to win or supposed to win.
00:58:54
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Cause I, They gave Oregon the – I don't know how remember remember if they played Oregon. I don't know. But I think they're going to be – because I can't remember anything right now. But I do remember how gritty they were as a team.
00:59:08
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And that's just something – that's a culture thing. So that's always going to be there as long as that coach is there. And I could see them winning a bowl game off of that alone, getting to the bowl.
00:59:21
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I could see that for sure. And I wouldn't be against it. I don't have i don't have any like ill will against against Washington. Where are we at? Number seven seven. My seven is Nebraska. Same, same.
00:59:33
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Yeah, I just think like... It should be – you should be ah elevating now. Right. Off of what you did last year.
00:59:43
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And you got the monkey off your back. And, again, Dylan Regal is a really good quarterback. like He is. a little good He was just a freshman. He doesn't have any identity, but he's a freshman. So, like, you have to predict that he gets better. Oops.
00:59:55
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And while I don't remember everything that they've done, I know that they've added to their roster. there So I think that's safe. yeah this is like eight wins yeah yeah the depending on schedule it's like eight wins you might even get nine out of them and you're like where'd that come from so six is the same uh we both have iowa iowa that i can't you you can't at this point at this point you really can't you can't fight the fact that i was probably going to fight for nine wins
01:00:27
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Yeah, like you can't – it's just like it's the opposite of USC. Yep. Yep. I'm not going to predict you to not win eight, nine games until you show me you won't win eight, nine games. Nine games. Because every single time think you're – didn't think were going to be good last year. And they won, what, eight, nine games last year? Yeah.
01:00:45
Speaker
So I can't – I can't ignore it anymore. i i want that coach fired, but, man, he's making it hard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and and the other thing is like, and don't know how far I'm going to go with because I do think their defense has also been taking some steps back. So it sort of leaves them the same position, but they're going to have their best quarterback that they've had. Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The offense was putting up numbers last year where yeah like we we were getting confused. Like, what do mean 30, 40 points?
01:01:15
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Yeah. So like, I think it puts them at the same level. It just looks different, but like they got that FCS quarterback who had like 5,000 passing yards and 2000 rushing yards in his career or something like a hundred something types of, like he's a legit quarterback.
01:01:28
Speaker
And unless their system is just so bad, they ruin him. He's going to be able to make a couple of throws. Yeah. Like I'm ah like, ah we're not going to talk about it on here, but I do want to look at it. I just need to make sure Iowa doesn't play Ohio state. Cause I don't want to watch that game. Yeah.
01:01:44
Speaker
They don't. Bless. okay Bless. i I'm telling you right now. we i feel like we would win, but like. Oh, yeah. I'm telling you right now. think you do too, man.
01:01:55
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Iowa is going to be the reason one of Penn State or Oregon doesn't go to the Big Ten championship game because they play both of them. One of them is getting one of them getting screwed. I'm going with
Oregon Football Team Analysis
01:02:06
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Oregon. I'm going with Oregon. I'm going with Oregon.
01:02:09
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ah we So that that was both our six. Five for me is Indiana. We'll just talk about the next two. My five is Indiana. Sorry. My five isn't Indiana.
01:02:20
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My four is Illinois. Illinois. You have to split. Yep. Is this just putting them at the same place? Kind of. Or do you think one is... Do you think Indiana's going to be better? No, I do actually think Indiana is going to be better.
01:02:33
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um i think Indiana builds off of what they did last year. i don't i don't see that much of that was of a regression. I don't see 10 wins. Well, you know what? Maybe.
01:02:44
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but um I think Indiana is hungry. You made it to the playoffs. You got that experience. I think they're hungry enough that they're definitely going to be a better team than in Illinois, and they're going to feed off of what they did last year.
01:02:58
Speaker
At least they definitely should feed off of what they did last year. Yeah, that's fair. i think Indiana is going to be good. But they did lose their quarterback.
01:03:09
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I think Illinois a like there're illinois is Illinois sort of the reverse, although it's not transfer portal heavy. They're going to be like all seniors. Their quarterback's coming back. I like him. Luke Altmyer. He's a baller. Like he's not great, but he's a baller. He's a very good college quarterback.
01:03:26
Speaker
I think they still have the running back, their defense. I think they brought Did they rehire Ryan Walters? I don't think he's the defensive coordinator. No, ryan I don't know. It doesn't matter. But, like, they've been steadily building, and now they have the team full of seniors.
01:03:39
Speaker
And so, like, I think this is their win year. That's fair. can see that. And I just don't think Indiana takes that far of a step back. So, like, yeah have them in the same sort of place, but I think i think Indiana – We both did agree that we think Illinois was going to do what Indiana did last year yeah this year.
01:03:56
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So basically the thing is like, if if the big, I guess the thing, the separation that we're saying is basically if the big 10 gets four teams in the playoffs again, I think the fourth is Indiana in Illinois. And you think it's Indiana again, but still good teams.
01:04:11
Speaker
Yeah. We both have Oregon three. Yep. Why do you not think they're going to repeat? As big team champions? Yeah. Because that's essentially what three means. like Yeah. I don't think they're as talented as they were last year.
01:04:25
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And honestly,
01:04:32
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i think that it you never know what a shellacking can do to you. coming into a next season, like you ended your season on a, on a ah belt to ass.
01:04:44
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So, yeah so I, you never know how it could, it could be motivating or it could be very detrimental. And like, I don't think it's that it's going to be that detrimental where you're like they just fall off a cliff, but the big games they have to play, it's going to look rough. And I think they might lose one or two of those games.
01:05:01
Speaker
And one of those games like, like I said, I think they lose to Iowa. So i yeah, I can very easily see that. Yeah. I think I agree with that. my They're younger, for one. yep ah They don't have the super senior quarterback for like the third year in a row. And so it's also hard for me to predict that.
01:05:17
Speaker
they're like I hear the players talking about it, but no player talks bad about their quarterback. And I think that Dante Moore is talented. That's the guy who's most likely going to start, but I haven't seen it. right They're going to be relying on a lot of freshmen at corner and wide receiver. Didn't he play somewhere else?
01:05:33
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ah He was at USC. yeah It was at nine. don't know. He transferred from somewhere. He had to, yeah. No, I think he was at UCLA. He started half the year, got benched, transferred last year, sat on the bench, and then came this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he has some starting experience, but the last time we saw it, he was bad.
01:05:57
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so Again, new new environment can be better for a lot of people, so you never know. like yeah I Again, better coaching at org at Oregon than it is at UCLA.
01:06:09
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Yes. And he sat a year. He sat a year. It was helped. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That does help. And they do have good players. Mateo Uyongaleli is going to probably going be first-round pick. He's solid. But they lost it they lost two pass rushers. They lost Jordan Burch, their other 10-sat guy, and they lost Derek Harmon, who was a dog up up the middle.
01:06:27
Speaker
He's going to be a first-round pick. so it's like and And they're going to be ah relying on a lot of freshmen on both the wide receivers and the corners. And here's the thing. Nobody's going be Jeremiah Smith. But they have a guy who like people's like, he's really, really good. like He's going to start as a freshman. That's fine.
01:06:42
Speaker
But the thing that I think is underrated with Jeremiah Smith, like yes, he was one of one, but he had so much senior leadership around him that it sort of also like got rid of some of the freshman mistakes.
01:06:55
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And then also Geno Smith is his cousin. So talent is not the only thing that separates Jeremiah Smith. So even if this wide receiver, I think his name is DeCorean Moore.
01:07:06
Speaker
even if he is an instant starter, I still think there's going to be a difference because you don't have the NFL pedigree. You don't have the senior leadership. Like there's just a couple pieces. Like like if if Jeremiah was doing – like if Jeremiah ran a wrong route, which I don't know that he did, but he may have.
01:07:21
Speaker
And he did make a couple mistakes. He fumbled a couple of times. He did some things. Will Howard as the fifth-year senior could be like, hey, get it together. Emeka Abuka as the fourth-year senior future first-round pick could tell him to get it together. Like you had leadership – in the room so i guess he was ultimately the best player but he wasn't the leader he could just play he could be a freshman and then his otherworldly talents like i don't know that that's going to be the same for this guy because it's just a different room so again even if he's good he i would say you do have dante more who would play
01:07:55
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He's a senior. He's a junior. i
Ohio State and Penn State Rivalry Discussion
01:07:57
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think He's a junior. that That is experience because he has starting experience and he's on the team and learn the ah and the schemes and things like that. So there's this it's not as much as ah Smith has, but yeah there is going to be some there. But I get what you're saying. I do get it. still think he's going to be good. i will I'm putting him out. If I had to put it, I'm 900 yards.
01:08:16
Speaker
like if if If Dante Moore can throw. I think the more and more connections going put them 900 yards. But like, you know, it's just, but again, we we have them third. We're not saying they're going to be bad, but like, I don't know that they're going to have in the Big Ten.
01:08:28
Speaker
So, and then our one and two is flipped. I have Penn State two and Ohio State one. You have Penn State one, Ohio State two. This is very simple for me. One, Ohio State didn't lose as much as people thought. And two, I like James Franklin more than most, but I don't see him winning the Big Ten.
01:08:44
Speaker
Too much expectation. Yeah, i get I understand where you're coming from. i think my thing is is that if it doesn't happen this year, it's not. And i don't think it's going to happen. so i I think you can. i i have more faith. i get where you I have a little more faith than you do, but I understand where you're coming from.
01:09:01
Speaker
I do understand where you're coming from. But like this is this. this You're pretty much at this point in in in how I'm looking at it and why I have Penn State one is that you played in the You played in the Big Ten Championship game last year, and it and you played well.
01:09:18
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You were in that game most of the game, and then you made the playoffs. I think you're you're pretty much following it in the footsteps of making Michigan and oil Ohio State the past two years, so this is your turn.
01:09:30
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and i'm like And I'm thinking, like, legit, this is your turn. And that's why I have i can i have them winning it. Because, i honestly, I think Penn State could have won the Big Ten last year.
01:09:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So I think i think it's i think it's it happens this year. i think James – what we saw what happen with ah Ryan Day, I think it finally clicks for James Franklin.
01:09:54
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I hope it does. That's what – I think it finally clicks for especially like it happened with Jim, and then it happened with um Ryan Day. So I think it – I could see it happening again.
01:10:07
Speaker
three times in a row for a different team. Yeah, i don't like I don't like state college per se, but I have no problems with Penn State. I don't have any problems with James Franklin. I would not be mad at all.
01:10:18
Speaker
It's just a hard thing for me to predict. yeah And you can also say some of it's a little bit fan-brained, but fan-brained also helps because like... more than people who don't like actually study it I do know what's on Ohio State's roster, and I don't think that they're going to take the fall off that people think they are.
01:10:34
Speaker
I also think that you know we play this like mind game sort of thing a lot. I think it's going be real hard for Ryan Day to win a national championship and then lose the Big Ten for a fifth year in a row.
01:10:45
Speaker
I'm not saying that they're going to back-to-back. I'm not saying that, but I also think... the things that he learned in this championship run, I do think still propel him. And because James Franklin, I, honestly I, I, I think the same thing, had like he learned a lot. They both learned in their playoff run. Cause they had deep, both had deep playoff. Yes.
01:11:06
Speaker
So I, I, I, I it's a toss up, but I'm going with Penn state because it should be Penn state. I don't, I don't. And that's the thing. I don't think you're wrong for picking them.
01:11:17
Speaker
So it's, it's, it's, it's just, you're right. It should be Penn state. Like in Penn state, it should have the expectations and they should be national championship. They should have the expectation on themselves. ah And I get why you're saying like James, it's too much for James Franklin.
01:11:30
Speaker
But at this point, especially of what you just done and what you're bringing back, you should have that expectation on your yourself Don't let it eat you But you should have it on like I should be winning the big tennis I should be any competing for a national championship And anything less is a – and this is the thing that people don't understand.
01:11:51
Speaker
You want to be Ohio State? This is what it means. If you don't win the Big Ten, your season was a failure. Yeah, and you have to do it. And I think it's at this point – because I also think what we saw last year in the USC game, Oregon game, and even in the playoffs, you could tell that not only did the team want it, I started to see it from the coaching and the play calling and things like that.
01:12:11
Speaker
So i even think now James Franklin wants it. i don't I don't think he's fully afraid of the moment like anymore. And I was seeing it early on, too. like Remember, i want to say two years ago when they played Ohio State, they had that game won until he decided to blitz.
01:12:27
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that at that one That one play did it. But they he had they had that game won pretty much the whole time until he decided to blitz. So
01:12:38
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i think I think it happens. I think it happens this year.
01:12:44
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I can't say I hope it happens because obviously I want Ohio State to win. But like outside of Ohio State, I'd be i'd be totally fine with it. like I'd be totally fine with it. Now, don't hold me to that.
01:12:56
Speaker
If they play Ohio State and they beat them, like I'm not going to that fine. But deep down, you know I'll be fine with it. It's like one of those things. like if If not us, then who? right I'd be fine with them.
01:13:07
Speaker
So that's it. That's our power rankings. 18 to 1. That takes forever because there's 18. let's Let's wrap this up.
Pit Stop Segment: Movies and Tattoos
01:13:15
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ah We'll get into our pit stops. As always, our pit stops is our time to take a break.
01:13:18
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um This is when we, you know, pit stop, you're on a road trip, you use the bathroom, you get gas, you stretch your legs. I'm stretching my legs a little bit on this one. I won't do a full review. I just didn't know how to put it. I don't know why I'm explaining this like people can see the thing.
01:13:31
Speaker
I just want talk about the movie Casino. um So ah so i I love movies. like I think I've talked about it. I talk about movies on here occasionally. I love movies. And I've started to do this thing again where it's just like because of this is one of the good things of streaming, I love specifically to watch movies from like 85 to 2005. Okay. just think that like...
01:13:52
Speaker
okay um it's i just think that like It's before, and like again, I don't think the old everything in the old days is the best and all these other kind of things.
01:14:03
Speaker
But like one, the actors were really acting, for real. And two, it's before you lost some small pieces of the movie due to special effects. So like they just really had to do it.
01:14:15
Speaker
And also, I feel like more then than now, you just got like multiple heavyweights in a movie that you don't just don't always get now because i have more movies. I understand. get where you're coming from.
01:14:27
Speaker
Long story short, i watched the movie Casino. I don't remember if it's the first time I watched it or not, but it was just a really good movie. it um It essentially was about um like...
01:14:42
Speaker
two best friends who were trying to make their name in Las Vegas with a casino. And it had like mob ties because we all know that the mob created Las Vegas.
01:14:53
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If you didn't know that, welcome to your history lesson. So essentially it's two it's two guys. One is a mafia enforcer who who who who wants fame and wants to like run a town.
01:15:05
Speaker
And the other one is a casino executive, a guy who's just like really smart. And so it's basically about their rise. and then their kind of demise, right? it's That's basically the thing of just like how they grew up and then the things that they were doing and and their name being intertwined. And, you know, obviously as in real life, the police wanted the mob. So that there's crime and there's police and there's, you know, um it's just, I thought it was a really good movie.
01:15:35
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I think one of the cool things that they do. So the main characters are, um, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. And so they like, they like both narrate the movie.
01:15:45
Speaker
So like they narrate and like talk about each other in the movie, but then they also narrate like some of their scenes. So it's not like shot from like one point of view, which was cool. And I mean, it's it's Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, like.
01:15:58
Speaker
Right. And it's a it's a it's a Martin Scorsese movie. like It's a good movie. like so that so I seen it. I can't fully remember, but I think I have seen I think I've seen it too. It's just been a while.
01:16:13
Speaker
But it's on Peacock if you want to watch something. Oh, I have. It's long. be cut Very long. As I feel like every Martin Scorsese movie is long. I was about to say, there's a single Martin Scorsese movie that isn't. so Yeah.
01:16:27
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, it's good movie. So that's my pit stop. My pit stop. We're definitely going off to ah doing some some breaks on this one because my pit stop, I'm just, it's going to be quick, but ah I've grown to realize that I can't sit for long tattoo sessions anymore.
01:16:45
Speaker
I don't think I have. It's not a about, I think I've just gotten too old to be able to sit down that long. uh this last tattoo i got lasted it um to tattoo me i was there for six and a half but the tattooing itself that was getting done took five and a half hours And by hour three, i was like, I'm sick of this.
01:17:09
Speaker
And usually I can just ignore it or even fall asleep. But this time I was just like, I am legit annoyed. I was getting annoyed. I don't know if it was the type of tattoo I got because there was a lot of this was mostly shady.
01:17:20
Speaker
And that's the one thing I hate the most about tattoos. And I think a lot of people hate shading the most. But I was legit pissed. I was getting mad. And like I had to keep lying to my artist because he's like, you good? And I was like, yeah, technically, I'm like, the pain's not that bad, but I'm just kind of annoyed I'm still here.
01:17:37
Speaker
Because now it turned out like 11 p.m. at night, and I was getting sleepy. I was hungry. And I'm like, how how are you not done? ah he is so that's That's my fist I got to split it into the sessions. Two hours.
01:17:51
Speaker
Two hours of sessions from now on. Yeah, that's insane. I got to get in and get out. But I do understand like i wanted that being too long. i did For me, i just um I don't want to keep going back.
01:18:05
Speaker
So I would rather just do it. but that's That's why I was like, just get it get it done, do it, do it. But yeah, who that's exactly how I felt. Because the way it went through head, I was like, I really don't want to come back.
01:18:17
Speaker
yeah i want it I want this done. cause He asked me, he was like, could you come back tomorrow? i was like, no. almost like i was like, I actually can't come back tomorrow cause I'm busy. Like, finish it. yeah exactly Let's get this over with.
01:18:30
Speaker
I need a tattoo so bad. Hopefully I'll get one for Christmas. Christmas. So, yeah. So...
Podcast Wrap-Up and Future Plans
01:18:36
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so yeah so I'm not to get into my finances here, but would just say this for various reasons. You'll probably see me a couple of times this summer and going back home is expensive.
01:18:49
Speaker
yeah So ah um I probably won't be spending a lot of money this summer outside of like going back home. Yeah. um So yeah, I think that's what I want my Christmas present to be.
01:19:02
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That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. um Yeah. I want to I want to do at least one more. i know I can afford one one more and it won't be that much because it's just a Roman numeral and some lettering.
01:19:15
Speaker
So it won't be that bad. But the other one that I want to try to get because I was like, I can get three is my chess piece to get s started because it's definitely going to be a start. I'm not sitting there the whole time. It's going to be a start.
01:19:27
Speaker
I think my problem is I just don't have any small tattoos right now. Yeah. So like, I like for me, it's going to be somewhere between four and like $800. Like I don't have like a quick little 150. This is going to take like an hour, 45 minutes.
01:19:44
Speaker
If I come up with something, I'll probably do it. But as of right now, the things that I'm looking at are like finishing my leg sleeve, like doing like big stuff. And so like for that, like I'm not going to come home in the summer and then also drop $800. on a tattoo. That's not how I'm trying to spend my summer. I would i would like to eat. for and I that may be a surprise, but I don't want to drop a stack to get home and then another stack on a tattoo and then be back in New York like, ah i don't know what to do. I'm
01:20:17
Speaker
It's either start to test unfortunate fuckingly Oh, so yeah. That tough. already got those. i got those i I got those. Yeah, I got that when I was young. And I'm supposed to finish it. And I'm like...
01:20:33
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I think it's alright. Because there's not really no shading on mine. For those of you who can't it. Yeah, I know. Which is why good luck getting it done again.
01:20:44
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I just got Roman numerals inside mine. And I'm like, you know what? I bet you I get some BS. And you can finish the clouds a little bit in here. But this would probably be mostly outline of something. You're not killing me anymore. I'm not doing this.
01:21:03
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um And even then, I'll probably do in two sessions. Fair enough. Fair enough. But all right, y'all. As always, thank you for listening. we will be back next week. And
01:21:17
Speaker
spring games are not next week. don't know. It doesn't matter. Yeah, we'll be back next week. There will hopefully be some more football to talk about. And we're getting closer to the draft. We'll see you. Thanks for listening.