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[18] Very manly show today.
[19] Very testosterone -filled show today.
[20] No estrogen in sight.
[21] I'm looking at the cast, I don't agree.
[22] Some estrogen?
[23] Hello.
[24] Why are you looking at me?
[25] Well, Billy, myself, Jeremy, like, I don't think that we're dubbed manly men.
[26] Wow, so I am.
[27] Wow, Billy.
[28] Chris, yes.
[29] You're really.
[30] Yeah, Chris.
[31] Yeah, man. I feel like I...
[32] You're a dude, bro.
[33] I can play both sides.
[34] I tried to do a connery there.
[35] I'm going to turn my...
[36] Emphasis on the wrong syllable.
[37] But, no, Tony's got a mustache, so that makes him manly, and he's got the MMA hangout.
[38] So, Billy, Jeremy, and I think, like, we're...
[39] There's tears here.
[40] Certainly not the first tier.
[41] for me. Yeah, I think Chris and me and Tony are tier one in perceived manliness.
[42] Yes.
[43] Billy.
[44] I'm not ranking these guys.
[45] I'm just saying there's two clear tiers here.
[46] Jeremy, I'm in the same tier with you.
[47] All right.
[48] I'll take it.
[49] Thanks.
[50] I won't.
[51] I won't.
[52] I'll be upset about it.
[53] But, you know.
[54] Which is why I'm surprised that you would even consider that we're in the same tier.
[55] Because honestly, I would have figured you and Billy are the next and then I'd be below that.
[56] You grow a good beard, though.
[57] Thank you.
[58] That does help.
[59] Not enough people talk about it.
[60] You grow a very solid, solid beard.
[61] It means a lot to me. The last thing I want to do is go back to yesterday's show.
[62] but does someone very manly play with their jawstrings when they're feeling uncomfortable?
[63] I feel like that puts me into the other category.
[64] We all have vulnerabilities.
[65] The important thing, Chris, is not to talk about said vulnerabilities.
[66] Just keep it to yourself.
[67] That's what a manly man does.
[68] That's what you're tier one.
[69] You bury them deep.
[70] And you forget about it.
[71] You don't do therapy or anything like that.
[72] You just deal with it.
[73] You don't admit that you do medium brown just for men on the sideburns because they're aging earlier than the rest of the beard.
[74] Dude, let me tell you something.
[75] I want to get to a lot of things today.
[76] I want to talk about my Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
[77] Huge game.
[78] Huge game.
[79] I want to talk about your Georgia Tech Ramblin wreck too.
[80] Yeah.
[81] It's a massive game.
[82] I also want to talk about all the things that happened between the Phillies winning 30 games earlier this year and the White Sox winning 30 games.
[83] A lot has happened.
[84] A lot has happened.
[85] The world has changed dramatically.
[86] Jeremy's got that for us.
[87] But I want to start here with this conversation about facial hair.
[88] Because it never ceases to amaze me how many women are like, I like for my significant other to grow his beard out, to grow the facial hair out.
[89] Because while I do accept that many of us look a lot better with facial hair, myself included, I think a beard makes me look more distinguished.
[90] You grow a great beard.
[91] I try, man. This is a lot of grooming.
[92] I also notice that you don't have the sideburns.
[93] Is that because you're dealing with the sideburn gray issue?
[94] First of all, my grays are all on my chin, and I love the.
[95] The grays have skyrocketed my stock on the market.
[96] Oh, they love the gray.
[97] I don't mind some grays in the beard whatsoever.
[98] It's the sideburns that kind of make me feel like I'm Donald Sutherland.
[99] I just, I don't know, I've always like a taper fade, and I like the look of the top being faded in it fades.
[100] That's like I have two fades.
[101] I'm going up.
[102] I experimented with that look.
[103] I guess my fade isn't high enough.
[104] I can't pull it off.
[105] Yeah.
[106] No, it's.
[107] I go to my barber, like any white man. man, I asked for the Travis Kelsey, and I'm just, like, not happy with the sideburns.
[108] You know, he invented the...
[109] No, he invented the fade.
[110] Oh, he invented the fade.
[111] He did.
[112] That's true.
[113] It's documented.
[114] Him and Elvis and Benny Rock and Roll.
[115] Yeah, but I also feel like I look way better with a beard.
[116] That's because I'm not...
[117] If I were 205 pounds, I'd rock clean -shaven.
[118] I'd actually have some sort of bone structure that wouldn't be hidden behind some face fat.
[119] But my wife prefers that I'm clean -shaven because my beard scratches.
[120] I prefer the beard because I think it makes my face look a lot better.
[121] Therefore, I'm more confident in myself.
[122] I think the other thing about being clean -shaven is, it's a lot of work, man. You get up every day and slather this shit on and v -v -bl -hmm.
[123] Are we sponsored by any razor company right now?
[124] I mean, we've had Dollar Shave Club do activations for us.
[125] I also, you run the risk of irritating the skin a little bit more, getting, like, shaving bumps, so I prefer not to, but really, it's because I got an Italian T -Zone, I can get shiny, and if I'm clean -shaven, an Italian T -Zone.
[126] What is an Italian T -Zone?
[127] You know, everybody has a T -Zone, but I have a really pronounced one because I've got a big Roman nose, and then I get shinier, and the more hair that is on my cheeks, the less surface area is shine that you have in my face, so it's a guardrail against that.
[128] Is it T -Zone, like the Taco Bell version of the Pizone from...
[129] Pizza Hut?
[130] No, it's something on your face.
[131] I thought I explained it pretty well.
[132] I don't know.
[133] You just said, I have an Italian T zone and you just did this.
[134] Yeah, T. Well, he did a T to it.
[135] He was like up and down, yeah, T. Forehead, down the nose to the lips.
[136] T -Zone.
[137] They're called it T -Zone.
[138] Yeah, that's one of my issues.
[139] I'm like, Italian T -Zone.
[140] Oh, yeah, I understand.
[141] You're one of those.
[142] Is there a difference to an Italian T -Zone and say Greek T -Zone?
[143] Well, Mediterranean.
[144] Mediterranean.
[145] Not much.
[146] Thankfully, I do love my natural olive skin, which I think is from the Mediterranean.
[147] My Italian side is from Sicily, but my dad was also born in Cuba.
[148] But he's more on the white Hispanic side, more Spanish blood.
[149] I probably get the olive side from the Sicilians, believe or not.
[150] This is very self -involved, and I don't think I have the appropriate buy -in from everybody else.
[151] I feel like I'm twisting in the wind here.
[152] I just know, I mean, look, I'm learning about the T -Zone, all right?
[153] Give me a break.
[154] I'm trying to keep up.
[155] It does sound like a Pizza Hut special.
[156] Right, the T -Zone.
[157] Whatever happened the regular pizone did that kind of lose steam it's always uh it's never i don't think it's a permanent items it's like the mic rib like they bring it back every time they want to get you excited because it reminds people of a time like oh remember when we watch the all -star game slam dunk contest and we had those pizones and we had we just chug some diet pepsi mountain we stayed up to like 1 30 a m playing nc ncdbola o4 man times were better dude i did that last week and did all those things last week Mike.
[158] Why do it tonight?
[159] Look, the NCAA, because these guys walked into the studio today, Chris and Tony.
[160] And they had a full -on conversation about, man, I was in the middle of third down, da -da -da -da.
[161] And I was like, what game was on last night?
[162] I thought GT was the first game.
[163] We were kicking off the whole season.
[164] You didn't watch BAMLSU yesterday?
[165] Game of the century.
[166] Game of the century.
[167] So, all right, the marketing, game of the century, usually Alabama and LSU, play Game of the Century, but you said it was for everything, because in our online dynasty, for you, you feel like there's a possibility you can miss a college football playoff.
[168] It wasn't for everything for Alabama.
[169] They're pretty firmly entrenched.
[170] Taylor's got a CFP spot.
[171] You probably survived this loss as well, so it wasn't for everything, much like all the previous Alabama -LSU Game of the Century types, because they just ended up having a rematch like a couple weeks after that.
[172] Again, you know, it's the marketing.
[173] to get everybody in under the tent.
[174] Why is it the game of the century?
[175] What's going on?
[176] Number one, number seven.
[177] There's one loss.
[178] Unless you could miss this game.
[179] What's happening?
[180] I don't know.
[181] A game of the century, I think, can only be number one versus number two.
[182] Right.
[183] You were number one versus number seven.
[184] To dub it, game of the century, when you're a one lost seven seed doesn't make any sense.
[185] Oh, the seven seed already had a loss?
[186] Yeah, we had one loss.
[187] Given the week that might be a noon start.
[188] Like, that's not even like a prime time.
[189] If you have like a two four matchup that week, like that's a nooner.
[190] Buddy, there was nothing big.
[191] than Alabama LSU on the slate.
[192] Nothing.
[193] Those offenses, whiff.
[194] So that sounds like game of the week.
[195] Yeah.
[196] It was game of the year.
[197] It was game of the year.
[198] It was game of the year.
[199] We're from century to year.
[200] That's a lot.
[201] Well, again, it's the marketing in century.
[202] But then if we're talking amongst the boys, it's game of the year.
[203] It's a 99 % discount right there.
[204] And what you heard was me Monday morning quarterbacking Tony of just like rewatching a third downplay.
[205] And just being like, because Taylor's the safety on this one play.
[206] Big third and five in the third quarter.
[207] Tony checks down to his tight end when Taylor, who was.
[208] The safety comes running up.
[209] A guy was going wide open down the seam.
[210] And he just checks it down to take the safe plate.
[211] And I missed him.
[212] Yeah, sorry.
[213] Biggest, biggest game of my life.
[214] My bad.
[215] Neusmeier had thrown three picks already.
[216] I couldn't go for another one.
[217] He was wide open.
[218] He stinks, huh?
[219] I would, sucks.
[220] I would kill for a coach in the post game.
[221] Like press conference.
[222] I missed them.
[223] Sorry.
[224] Over assuming.
[225] That would be awesome, man. Yeah.
[226] By the way, I firmly entrenched my tier two status by just immediately taking it to T -Zone talk, right?
[227] Absolutely.
[228] And Jeremy, you were locked in.
[229] You were nodding along.
[230] Of course.
[231] Firmly entrenched T -2 guys.
[232] Yeah, come on.
[233] I mean, you've got to take care of the T -Zone.
[234] Everyone knows it.
[235] And if you don't, you're not part of Tier 2.
[236] Billy, you may be kicked out of Tier 2 and move up to Tier 1.
[237] Do you recognize the T -Zone talk?
[238] I did not know what that was.
[239] I saw a picture of it, but I don't know what that was.
[240] You're a Tier 1 guy.
[241] I think Tony kind of knows about it.
[242] about the T zone, he was kind of co -signing.
[243] I've heard you talk about it before.
[244] I've heard of low T. Heard you talk about it.
[245] The big dog talks about that.
[246] The big hurt.
[247] Is that related?
[248] No, it's not.
[249] It could be, though.
[250] I have a high tea.
[251] I have a high tea.
[252] That L .T and that E .D. Those are those cousins.
[253] They hate each other.
[254] That's what the big dog always says.
[255] You make me laugh, man. Where is this going on?
[256] L -T and E -D hate each other?
[257] No, E -T does.
[258] They're cousins.
[259] Yeah.
[260] But they don't like each other.
[261] They don't get along, even though they're cousins.
[262] But they're related.
[263] They are.
[264] Yeah, they are.
[265] Well, they usually go hand in hand in hand.
[266] But they're cousins that don't like each other.
[267] Aren't they good friends?
[268] It seems like they'd get along.
[269] Yeah.
[270] Like, Lotee and E .D. are very good friends.
[271] They get along the way that the Joker and Harley Quinn get along.
[272] Like, these are bad things.
[273] I've got Lotee sitting there at the party and then E .D. walks and says, oh, here we go.
[274] Who let this guy in?
[275] I've got LT's like, hey, get out of here, E. I'm already here.
[276] We don't need both of us here.
[277] That just ruins everything.
[278] They have to show up together, generally.
[279] No, I feel like Loti shows up first, and then E .D. comes, and then that's how Lotein knows.
[280] Well, ED often doesn't.
[281] That's a good point.
[282] Well, it's a half the problem.
[283] Tony, I think the reason why we started here is because before we went on the air, I looked at me, and I was like, so Tony's just straight up a mustache guy.
[284] And it fits.
[285] Like, it's not, most people that have a mustache, they do so to get attention.
[286] It's a novelty.
[287] They're known as a wacky mustache guy.
[288] But with you, it just fits, and you've just become a mustache guy.
[289] guy, and it's a serious mustache.
[290] It's big, it's wide, it's bushy.
[291] Gertie.
[292] Yeah, and my main question is, anytime that I do a mustache, I usually do it for the novelty, although I think it fits, and I like it, but my wife hates it.
[293] She hates the mustache.
[294] Hades it, because I'm willing to go clean shaven and spare her the lip hair, the chin hair, and all the other stuff, but I need to have something on my face because of the Italian T zone, but she hates it.
[295] Tony rocks it, and on top of that, Tony's got a wife that loves it.
[296] The mustache is clearly back in a big way, and I was somebody who was very nervous about doing the mustache.
[297] Maybe five, six, pre -COVID, five, six years ago.
[298] I was like, I don't know if I can just pull off just straight mustache.
[299] The issue is that my beard is patchy.
[300] I have a patchy beard.
[301] And, like, I don't have the facilities to grow a great beard like Mike, like Amin, like Jeremy, like Chris.
[302] Thank you for including me. I was just like, man, he's not going to say.
[303] What did I say?
[304] You said facility.
[305] which is a new show with Emmanuel Lachio.
[306] Oh, my bad.
[307] I just, I had that on the brain.
[308] Yeah, I had that on the brain.
[309] Let me explain.
[310] The facility.
[311] Great name, by the way.
[312] I think you meant faculties.
[313] The faculties to grow a great beer, whatever.
[314] Long story short, during COVID, I would do what all men do, which is shave the, the closer mustache that goes handle bars all the way down.
[315] You start doing the wacky closer mustache.
[316] She started hating it.
[317] The Brian Harvey.
[318] Exactly.
[319] So I started getting creative with the mustache.
[320] And then I trimmed it to like a regular stash.
[321] Get those handlebars out of here, she said.
[322] She didn't like it at the beginning.
[323] She's like, I don't know, like this look.
[324] It's kind of weird, whatever.
[325] Cruising for something.
[326] Yeah, and I'm like, I'm like, hey, this is me now.
[327] And then she's like, okay.
[328] And then about like a week after, she's like, you know what?
[329] I like it.
[330] And then I was like, yeah.
[331] And then obviously, when you start wearing the shirts, when you wear the college shirts, and you show a little bit of the chest here, you got the mustache, you got the gold chain.
[332] Like, things start changing in a relationship when you start seeing a little bit more of the animalistic side of your partner.
[333] So the mustache tapped into a more primal side of you.
[334] You became a better lover.
[335] I mean, I've always been there.
[336] You've always been a solid lover?
[337] Yeah, we knew that.
[338] You would ask her.
[339] So your performance has not changed at all, is what you're saying.
[340] I've never once thought, like, this guy's not good at it.
[341] Yeah, I think the mustache has changed external perceptions, right, where people are like, wow, that guy's confident.
[342] If he's going to wear a mustache, he's going to be confident.
[343] Oh, wow.
[344] Look at that.
[345] Yeah, like to do that once in a while.
[346] I call that one the Jalen Hertz.
[347] Oh, I don't like that.
[348] The Jalen Hertz is weird.
[349] Yeah, no, I shaved it, but I like to do stuff like that.
[350] Yeah, I used to just, like, not have the sole patch here, and then I found medium brown.
[351] You notice that it's gone from the sideburns to the sole patch.
[352] I haven't noticed.
[353] No, no?
[354] Well, thank you, ma 'am.
[355] Appreciate it.
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[369] Don Lebertard.
[370] But it's just his titties are sitting on the shelf that is his belly.
[371] Stugats.
[372] He said titties.
[373] It's like shocked me a little bit.
[374] I wasn't quite prepared for cities.
[375] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[376] You know what I've noticed?
[377] I've noticed these goddamn Georgia Tech Yellow jackets are fired up and ready to take on Dublin, Ireland.
[378] So the line opened up, courtesy of our friends over at Draft King Sportsbook, that line opened up at 13 and a half.
[379] And there's all sorts of stories how the sharps are firmly backing the rambling wreck here.
[380] It's now down to 10 .5.
[381] A three -point move, neutral -site game, although Florida State's athletic director said he anticipates in the neighborhood of 30 ,000 Florida State Seminole fans in Dublin, Ireland.
[382] I imagine that's a really fun game to travel to.
[383] But I have a lot of questions about FSU, quite the offseason, a lot of turnover on the roster.
[384] Yeah, they've turned their program around.
[385] Norville appears to be a good hire.
[386] I think Georgia Tech is a well -coached team.
[387] I think it has too many points.
[388] It's early in the season.
[389] It's a unique spot.
[390] and I'm putting the town on alert This is an upset alert Upset alert Upset alert Putting the town on alert here I think Georgia Tech can win this game straight up Put the town on alert It might be your greatest impression It's very limited but It sounded so Because you know what The production, the acoustics on it Made it sound like it was ripped off Yeah I told it like The town on alert I legitimately still think that's Pierce Broson Though I'm told it's me And I'm waiting for the call How?
[391] How is it you?
[392] But this is, granted, I'm literally wearing a Miami logo on my shirt right now, so you know my bias here.
[393] But I think Georgia Tech can at least keep this one close.
[394] I don't understand the spread.
[395] This is music to my ears because I have been kind of on the outs with Georgia Tech for a long time.
[396] I just haven't been as engaged in alum as I should be.
[397] I mean, you had Paul Johnson.
[398] You played a style that didn't really.
[399] And Georgia, low -key dude, you can stack Georgia up with the likes of Texas, Florida, and California.
[400] There's actually been more higher -end talent.
[401] You can make a solid argument that Georgia's now kind of alpha when it comes to high school recruiting.
[402] And you used to play a style that did nothing to use those athletes.
[403] They have essentially one in -state option in Georgia if they wanted to play big -time power conference football.
[404] Yeah, and the problem with GT obviously, it's like it's a really tough academic school too.
[405] so that kind of limits the options.
[406] I mean, there's always ways around them.
[407] Oh, well, you're telling me I went there.
[408] But, you know, it's one of those things where it started.
[409] I went to a game at UCF, Georgia Tech at UCF a couple of years ago with some friends of mine that I went to college.
[410] Can G .T. win that one?
[411] No. Charge on.
[412] That was Paul Johnson's like, okay, he's going to get fired any day now, right, at that moment.
[413] And then last year, we went to obviously to GT Miami, and I was like, that's cool.
[414] To be on the winning side of that.
[415] I was like, oh, maybe I do want.
[416] That was the first time I understood, like, oh, this is why Mike does all this shit, like getting involved and stuff.
[417] It's fun, it's cool.
[418] So I looked around, I was watching, we went in this game.
[419] I'm like, I want to be on the sidelines.
[420] I want to be the alum who's like, ooh, there's Amino Hazan.
[421] I'm standing there with a GT kind of quarter zip on and kind of like just clapping my hands with a little lanyard.
[422] Oh, man, I want to do that.
[423] It's a nice perk.
[424] And then you actually do the giving and you realize like, Well, what?
[425] I think there's a way around that.
[426] I feel like I can...
[427] This hurts.
[428] Here's the thing, Mike.
[429] I think I can provide a level of exposure that is worth more money than I could ever donate.
[430] And here's why, folks.
[431] Let me explain.
[432] So Georgia Tech, most of their alums are athletes.
[433] Like Megatron.
[434] Most of the ones that we know.
[435] Most of the famous.
[436] It's impossible.
[437] Most of the famous.
[438] Most of their alums are not athletes.
[439] Most of their alums are, yeah, engineers, I would say.
[440] Most of the famous alums are athletes, right?
[441] Yeah, who's their most famous non -athlete alum?
[442] So, Jimmy Carter.
[443] Jimmy Carter is one that people say, like, I still don't believe it.
[444] I don't think he went to.
[445] You don't think he went there?
[446] No. He's asking for the transcripts?
[447] Like, what's going on?
[448] This is like a weird birther theory.
[449] No, no, it's just, it's not that, it's just like.
[450] He wasn't born in the U .S.?
[451] I feel like if you came to get your graduate degree there, you didn't go to school there, man. So that's kind of like you with Arizona State.
[452] Because theoretically, geographically, you would be a big forks -up guy.
[453] Because you live there.
[454] I am a big forks -up guy when it suits me. When it behooves you?
[455] Yeah, and when it behooves.
[456] It does not behoove at this point in time.
[457] The guy who runs the Coca -Cola company.
[458] He's not famous.
[459] Nobody knows who that guy is.
[460] Right?
[461] Jeff Foxworthy is on that list.
[462] Right?
[463] Yeah.
[464] Why, that's funny.
[465] And then Amino Hassan's on that list.
[466] I'm dead serious.
[467] Like, we don't have like Julia Roberts when.
[468] to college here or, you know, or Paul Giam.
[469] I. We don't have people like that.
[470] We don't have Huba Stank went to college here or they met here.
[471] You don't have McConaughey on your sideline.
[472] No, man. So it's like, yo, I'm here.
[473] I'm active.
[474] I got something of a platform.
[475] And I know people.
[476] And that's the important thing about being in the booster game.
[477] You got to know people.
[478] Hey, kid.
[479] You want to meet Dan Levitart?
[480] I can make that happen.
[481] I would say that you probably would be doing it the right way.
[482] way.
[483] By the way, I got confused with the UCF Georgia Tech thing.
[484] Georgia Tech did beat them in the bowl game.
[485] This past year.
[486] Yeah.
[487] Most recently.
[488] But so here's all you need to know about NIL.
[489] The Saudis, known for spending on sports recklessly, right?
[490] Reportedly, a staffer from Colorado good travels and seeks an investment, an NIL investment from the Saudis.
[491] I did not know you could do that.
[492] Can you do that?
[493] I mean, take a good look at Texas A &M.
[494] You can.
[495] You could.
[496] There's stuff there.
[497] So, but the Saudis were like, I mean, because we know they didn't end up doing it, best to our knowledge anyways.
[498] So the Saudis, who spent recklessly, looked at this and they're like, well, this isn't worth it.
[499] This is silly.
[500] And that tells you everything that you need to know about what's at stake with NIA.
[501] I don't do it to return an investment.
[502] Now, I have built really good relationships.
[503] I really valued my NIL deal with Destiny Harden.
[504] and I do know that it impacts lives positively and if you can make connections with these people that you're impacting their lives, it's a beautiful thing.
[505] But largely, this is just to bring my program back and that's all I get out of it.
[506] I'll get an occasional great relationship with a suit and athlete that it changes their life.
[507] That's amazing.
[508] But I'm doing this to bring my program back, and that's it.
[509] What do you get?
[510] You get to be happier.
[511] No, you get to be cool.
[512] You get to be the guy that goes to the games.
[513] You get good seats.
[514] Yeah, you see with a name on it.
[515] People, yeah, people come up to you, shake your hand.
[516] People's like, who's that guy?
[517] Although it's problematic for me because, like, on my box, it says the Ruiz family.
[518] Oh, no. Why would you do that?
[519] Well, because I'm not going to put the Ryan family.
[520] It's a stage name.
[521] And also, like, my box is next to, like, the other Ruiz family.
[522] Brother, you're complaining about stage name.
[523] Meanwhile, FIU plays at Pitbull Stadium.
[524] Hell yeah, pause up.
[525] I mean, I've done, like, when I had a luxury box, I have.
[526] had like sayings.
[527] Like it's all about the EU, the you invented swagger.
[528] But like for this box, it's a nice thing.
[529] While I have this stage name and this weird John Ruiz thing is hanging over it, it's nice for my daughter to take a photo from our luxury couches there and it has a Ruiz family there.
[530] So in the Saudi situation with Colorado, do you think the Saudis had a guy that just knows ball?
[531] Like they look at the guy like, where's my boy that knows football?
[532] Hey, come over here.
[533] What do you think about this?
[534] And he's like, I don't know about that one.
[535] Yeah.
[536] Noted to be very conservative with the money that they spend, Saudi Arabia decided, you know what, this is just not for us.
[537] I don't blame anybody for not given an NIL.
[538] I see the benefits of it, and I've had genuine good relationships with people that it's impacted, but also here's a really undersold portion of it.
[539] There's tremendous networking.
[540] I'm in rooms that I genuinely don't belong into.
[541] I've made lifelong friendships.
[542] It's great for networking.
[543] Lifelong friends.
[544] No, for real.
[545] No, for real.
[546] John Ruiz thought, the money dries up and they want nothing to do with you.
[547] What was the guy, the little guy that ran around?
[548] Nevin?
[549] Yeah, and that's what Nevin thought also.
[550] Lifelong friendships.
[551] So he's operating in bad faith.
[552] But no, there's good stuff.
[553] I appreciate the banter there.
[554] But no, I've made really strong relationships.
[555] And that's what I've gotten out of it.
[556] But I don't blame anybody for being like, that's a waste of money.
[557] Juju put it on the poll.
[558] Do you really appreciate the banter?
[559] when you say the words, I appreciate the banter there.
[560] By the way, I'm speaking for the audience.
[561] I'm scrolling through Georgia Tech's famous alumni wiki.
[562] And there are like, you know, there's a business section, scholars section, like every kind of education, politics, and over 100 names.
[563] I mean, you're not on here.
[564] All hacks.
[565] Number one, they're all hacks.
[566] Number two, that's on purpose.
[567] I don't have, I've paid a lot of money to make sure that I don't have a Wikipedia page.
[568] They can still list you and just not link it to anything.
[569] No, no, look, man. No, they can.
[570] No, no, no. Look, the money I paid, Billy, there's no paper trail.
[571] I don't exist.
[572] I'm a ghost.
[573] Well, what are you up to?
[574] You don't have to worry about it.
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[600] Oh, come on.
[601] Yeah, I would be.
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[609] And you know what I do?
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[611] I jerk off all over myself.
[612] That's what I do.
[613] Lincoln, who you outed the other day?
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[639] Georgia Tech Miami game last year and I was heartbroken because of how that game developed but you didn't know I told you afterwards that you were in my line of view I was like I saw you the entire game I saw you crestfallen but I also saw me because no no no I saw you like kind of like shut up you were given you were you were talking a lot of stick to the people around you so but I saw like the absolute heights of euphoria after that and it's just like I was dealing with my own stuff because also I'm like, what am I doing with my life?
[640] What am I doing with my finances in that moment?
[641] What are we doing as a program?
[642] There was a lot going on there.
[643] And just you at the corner of my eye.
[644] Cackling.
[645] And it's like one of the worst people to give that dub to.
[646] Just like one of the worst.
[647] You do not let a mean get a dub like this.
[648] But to be honest with you, because we were bad last year.
[649] So we went into that game, fully expecting to get our heads bashed in.
[650] And so it was a big joke.
[651] Everyone around us was cool to all the Miami people, because we're joking with them.
[652] You know, every time we got a first down because of a penalty, I was a weird game, Luke.
[653] It was an awful game.
[654] Yeah, because, like, it was an awful.
[655] Yeah, Miami had several opportunities to kind of put it away that you never felt like they were in danger of losing until they had actually, like, lost it.
[656] Like, it was one of those things where, like, I guess if we get like a 60 -yard reception here, like, it was one of those things where we, like, the most improbable thing needed to happen for us to have a chance to win the game.
[657] Several improbable things happened.
[658] And they all happened.
[659] But for the most part, we were having fun, and the people in front of us were joking around.
[660] I'm like, yeah, you know, like, we had lost, I can't remember who we lost to, like, some not Middle Tennessee State or something.
[661] No, you lost to, like, a Mac team.
[662] Was it bowling green?
[663] Yeah, it was bowling green.
[664] So, like, then there's this guy who didn't get the joke.
[665] Every time we're celebrating, yeah, it's first down, the refs are our best player or whatever.
[666] Like, we're making it obvious.
[667] We're a terrible team.
[668] Super serious Miami fan guys.
[669] He was like, how many national championships are like, what are you talking about?
[670] We lost the Bowling Green last year.
[671] You thought a national championship.
[672] So then it turned into, you know what?
[673] I just want to piss this guy off.
[674] This guy off, yeah.
[675] And so I just went at him and Adam and Adam and Adam.
[676] And then luckily for him, he left before the big collapse.
[677] Wow.
[678] Because.
[679] And he's probably to this day saying, thank God I left before that collapse.
[680] It was one of those things where you kind of just got to accept, man, let people be.
[681] I say, I can't be happy my team.
[682] Just scored.
[683] We scored a field goal like, I can't be happy?
[684] So every time something good would happen I would turn around and I'd ask him permission Like is it a can I clap now?
[685] Is it could?
[686] Okay guys it's good to clap It's good to clap I'll just keep doing that I'll bring in like opposing fans into my section I just ask them to like subscribe to decorum Like because we're in the golden canes We don't curse Yeah we don't And I think you should subscribe to decorum like In the lower bowl Like just like don't be disrespectful Like don't make like You can banter the team But like you start getting like personal Or you there's a line that you cross Look, I am, most people probably don't believe this because I don't typically talk about fandom.
[687] I'm not usually going to games as a fan.
[688] It's weird to see you like that.
[689] Like, it was weird to turn to my right and occasionally see you like selfie -style video.
[690] Like, oh my God, I'm so happy.
[691] Like, I can't believe this is my life.
[692] Yeah.
[693] No, I'll tell you what it is.
[694] I, a long time ago, perfected.
[695] Like, I will never, ever be ejected or kind of reprimanded for something.
[696] explicit or whatever.
[697] I'm going to get kicked out because people are going to want to fight me. I'm going to just say things, right?
[698] And a lot of it's very heavy.
[699] I realize a lot of people don't like sarcasm.
[700] A lot of people really don't like sarcasm, particularly in the sporting space.
[701] So in soccer, for instance, and this is something, this is a very Sudanese thing, when the opposing team, like somebody makes a strike and misses the goal by a lot.
[702] misses a sitter like just wide right Scott Norwood style right the entire crowd will sarcastically in unison say go like that's just a thing people do and it sucks when you're on the other side of that you're like shut up just shut up so I've kind of taken that ethos and applied it to American sports but again I don't go to basketball games as a fan so I don't get to do any of my sarcastic things I just sit there and kind of like you do for Georgia Tech though right like they made a final four so so georgia tech basketball they had bosh and jerry jack well and now now damestottomar is our coach bonzie wells is on the staff and i'm like you know what i kind of won in on gt bans he's on the staff bonzies on the staffs because i went to a miami georgia tech game last year that georgia tech won my my record at miami georgia tech is awful like i've never been with a mean where miami's played georgia tech and see miami win remember with the j wakefield like five years ago and was and you were in your element oh my god Yeah, my record going to games, which probably serves Florida.
[703] My record just watching Miami over the last 20 years are just dreadful.
[704] Mike, this is the funny thing about that night at Jay Wakefield is that Mike was like, yeah, this is going to be like a real blowout.
[705] He had this cocky kind of like, okay, there's Georgia Tech guys, what are they going to do?
[706] About Georgia Tech?
[707] No, I think that game.
[708] No, five years, that Georgia Tech team was terrible.
[709] Yeah, that was a game that we, DeNofrio lined up in a goal line package.
[710] He went three down linemen and had four linebackers seven yards deep in the end zone.
[711] That was just, like, terrible coaching.
[712] Oh, man. Golden.
[713] Golden.
[714] Golden Cains.
[715] Yeah, there you go.
[716] Speaking of Cain, do you guys see who was in Cains gear yesterday on the internet?
[717] No. I did.
[718] I thought of you.
[719] AJ and Big.
[720] The boom!
[721] I don't know what they were doing.
[722] Are they getting paid to do these things at this point?
[723] Or you think it's just like, hey, we'll give you a jersey.
[724] Wait, who are these people?
[725] You don't know AJ and Big Justice?
[726] The Costco guys.
[727] The Costco guy.
[728] Chicken bake a double chunk?
[729] A double chunk.
[730] Chon chocolate cookie.
[731] I don't.
[732] That was a cookie monster.
[733] A double chunk chocolate cookie.
[734] Wait, what is this?
[735] What am I watching on my screen right now?
[736] You're watching Big Justice.
[737] The internet sensations, AJ and Big Justice, a father and son who have just gone viral for being Costco guys, they toss paper towels to each other, they eat chicken bakes, they eat double chunk chocolate cookies.
[738] What do Costco guys mean?
[739] Like, you go to Costco for lunch?
[740] That's a Costco guy?
[741] They just posted videos.
[742] Chicken bakes.
[743] At Costco.
[744] Yeah, and they've gone insanely viral and they're everywhere.
[745] They're kind of cringe.
[746] I don't want to say that.
[747] Why would you say that?
[748] You guys seem all too enthusiastic.
[749] I'm going to go to Billy, because Billy, it feels like...
[750] No, don't.
[751] Come on, ground us here.
[752] It's a father and a son.
[753] It's a beautiful relationship.
[754] Big Justice is the kid, by the way.
[755] Yeah.
[756] Just watch their videos.
[757] Hopefully, UM signs him because the bat speed is just undeniable on this kid.
[758] Wait, the kid plays baseball.
[759] He's a multi -sport athlete.
[760] I saw him going at Baby Grunk.
[761] Tackle dummy, too.
[762] No, it doesn't stand a chance.
[763] You don't know who the Rizzler is either?
[764] Where are you?
[765] Like, what world do you live in?
[766] Oh, the Rizzler.
[767] The Riddler or Rizzler?
[768] Rizzler.
[769] You're already embarrassing yourself too much.
[770] But I saw this collaboration.
[771] I'm like, wow, Miami's brand is immense.
[772] This is bigger than the Drake video, by far.
[773] This is the coolest thing that Miami's ever done.
[774] Now, like, we're a desirable brand.
[775] You get A .J. and Big Justice, you might actually be back.
[776] They gave the facility three booms, by the way.
[777] Really?
[778] Yeah.
[779] Out of five, though.
[780] Oh, out of five?
[781] Yeah.
[782] I mean, what gets a five cooler?
[783] The show of the facility?
[784] No, like they were at the facility Me being able to grow a beard It's really hard to get five booms, yes?
[785] Five booms is tough but they give a lot of Costco stuff five booms Clearly and the chicken bake clearly gets five booms They're not at this point I mean they're doing something wrong No they're not, they do it for free Why don't I need to pay them?
[786] Love the game We're Costco guys Okay, so all right Let me I'm gonna throw some coal ones They do like Costco reviews I mean so they love everything On a boom system.
[787] On a boom system sometimes.
[788] One boom is like this isn't great.
[789] Like they were at McDonald's a few weeks ago.
[790] Like, let's do the Big Mac.
[791] Four.
[792] Boom.
[793] Boom.
[794] Boom.
[795] They got to give the booms with the throwing up of the elbow.
[796] But they also give dooms.
[797] So it's like boom and doom.
[798] You don't see a lot of dooms.
[799] What is doom me?
[800] Like they're generally getting invited places.
[801] So they play ball.
[802] What are you doing?
[803] So this sounds like the white version of Keith Lee.
[804] Do you guys know who Keith Lee is?
[805] Kind of, yes.
[806] Does Keith Lee have a banger song?
[807] A scene of him.
[808] Keith Lee was an MMA fighter, and somehow he stumbled upon doing restaurant reviews on TikTok.
[809] But Keith Lee is a really particular kind of guy.
[810] He has a very particular type of speaking.
[811] I'm trying to be as sensitive as possible in describing what Keith Lee is like.
[812] I can only just do the impression, which is my family and I decided to go to name.
[813] restaurant or whatever.
[814] I'm going to try to find out whether it's a marketing, the customer service, or the food quality.
[815] I got it, let's try it, and rank it one through ten.
[816] As always, this is my opinion.
[817] Yes, I've seen this guy.
[818] That guy, right?
[819] I don't like this.
[820] But people love it, and a lot of these restaurants, when he gives them a good rating, there's like a line around the corner.
[821] He's the biggest food influencer on the planet right now.
[822] If he goes to your restaurant, Well, second biggest.
[823] No, no. How can you not love that?
[824] That's infectious.
[825] I didn't know about these guys until Chris alerted me to them, and I'm in.
[826] Like, they're so fun.
[827] I wanted to hate them.
[828] They'll be bringing the boom.
[829] Quarter to three.
[830] With double -trunk chocolate cookies.
[831] You guys want more?
[832] Okay.
[833] Yeah, I do.
[834] Can't get enough.
[835] Who produced this song?
[836] Mike Ryan.
[837] It sounds like one of Mike Ryan's songs.
[838] It sounds like Rick Rubin.
[839] It really does.
[840] I don't have any technical skills.