August Q&A

walk in music. Sometimes, just maybe after he goes down for the night, I'll go for a walk in the neighborhood. We'll just throw on some T Swift, sometimes a podcast, sometimes folklore, Supreme Washed list activity. Oh ty, I'm advanced. I've been practicing go on that nice long walk after dinner. Welcome back to the show. We have broken the seal on August. As we get a little bit closer to whatever this season is going to look like, we do have some news on that front that we're going to

get through. Also, of note, we put out the call earlier that we wanted to take your questions again. It's August.

starting in the Big twelve. As we're recording this later in the week we were recording this early on, they're going to announce more schedule specifics, so we'll be armed with more data to talk about what Brock Purdy has in front of him, or what Sam Ellinger has in front of him, or Keyante Ingram is running into stuff like that. So I'm excited. I am too.

with which we record to maybe update some previews. A quarterback wins the job, somebody gets hurt, a coach gets fired, another schedule adjustment happens, So we're leaving ourselves some wiggle room given the revised scheduling as it stands August third, today's a third word.

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schools they pend a letter. It showed up in the player's tribune, threatening to opt out of fall camp and game participation unless their demands for fair treatment, safety regulations, and concerns over racial justice for college athletes are met

by the conference. The letter is signed by players of the PAC twelve that uses the hashtag we are united to explain their concerns, saying quote, because NCAA exploits college athletes physically, economically, academically, and also disproportionately harms black college athletes hashtag we are you and I had dis garnered a lot of attention over the last few days. Very interested to see where this all goes to what end the PAC twelve and member schools are able to meet

some of these demands. I will say that they waited for the right time to cash in their bargaining chip because right now, with things as uncertain as they are in and around the world of college football, if you've got a workforce quote unquote workforce that just decides, ah, we're good, that would really put things in a bind. So I admire the timing of this for sure.

and branched out from there. A lot of pretty well known Packed twelve players were on board with this and shared the messaging yesterday on social media, so it certainly garnered a lot of attention. But yeah, between the health stuff, which all made sense, all of the concerns about safety protocols and health insurance after playing, nothing really all that unreasonable.

Just a tricky situation. Perhaps with some of the revenue ass I think there was an ask for about fifty percent of revenue to be distributed to players and dipping into endowments, which is more complicated since endowments are earmarked for specific things by the people giving the money to save. And we saw Stanford cancel a number of Olympic sports. The social justice, the racial justice stuff all was it

just seemed like a no brainer. Let's listen to pe, Let's create scholarships for low income people more, let's have a more open conversation, more due process. All of these things from a human level all seem like very reasonable, thoughtful asks. One of the I wouldn't say problems is just the revenue thing is tough because college football is built on not handling revenue all that responsibly as it relates to other similar professionalized sports. And so the understanding

I have is it's the beginning of a negotiation. How can we help to distribute revenue with those who help to generate it. And I think that is a reasonable conversation, a reasonable ask, And the hope is that things evolve from a human perspective. You see a lot of people and this is the straw man argument, come out, whether they're in the media, whether they're fans in general. And I don't necessarily think it's a bad faith place I think people like the sport for different reasons, and they

see say, scholarships and room and board as well. I didn't get that they should be lucky that they get that. I don't know if I want to open the can of worms thing about what college ball players do and don't have, but it's clear this season is largely happening for revenue purposes. And the revenue right even a question that football helps to generate and helps to garner. So if that's the case, these players have even more leverage than usual. And we saw I think it was a

top Washington corner Elijah Molden. He shared something and I thought it was very thoughtful. And then Trevor Lawrence, who might be the highest profile college football player on the planet right now, he shared what Elijah Molden had to say. So it seems like you're never going to really get change without a ton of buy in from big names with big platforms, and that's what we're seeing more and more.

So I found it to be fascinating. I really hope for their sake because and this is I think I can speak for you, but I can definitely speak for myself. My favorite thing about college football is watching college football players play college football. So anything that is college football player forward, I'm in favor of. That's my favorite. It's

my literal favorite part, with grilled Mexican food coming shortly thereafter. Yeah, and truly it is the next frontier, Yeah, in college football, the players finding their collective voice about this or something else. We saw it with the nil legislation, which at some point will dive a little bit more into. Yeah, this is the next frontier. Where do you see this going realistically? And is it something that you could see getting worked out or having a like a beta agreement before? I

think it's fall Camp. I think it's the beta agreement.

system upon which the entire sport is built. It's going to take a while to work through the details on that front, but I think if we can get some sort of buy in from member institutions that they're going to work with this group of players. That's where I would expect this to go next.

recruiting arms race. It's to keep players in the facility, watching film, being around other players, buying in and not necessarily becoming full college students. And it's even more recruiting. It's even more recruiting. And so one of the things that the players in the PAC twelve United statement made was we're spending so much money on everything but the

people on the field. And so that's the interesting thing to me is how this changes the bottom line and the spreadsheets across the sport, Because what a Texas spreadsheet, what an Ohio State spreadsheet looks like, is not what a Mountain Union spreadsheet looks like. Is not what a Texas track and field spreadsheet looks like. So it's fascinating to see if this gets at least there's an incremental change that happens in the next month or so before the season starts.

No big deal, no problem there. What he would have a problem with is if he opted to be part of the Unity movement, the group that we just discussed, the ones that are threatening to opt out this season. If the PAC twelve does not meet a series of demands. Quote, that's going to be an issue if you align with them. As far as future stuff, Rolovich said, according to the Dallas Morning News, quote the COVID stuff is one thing,

but joining this group, it's going to be different. If you say I'm opting out because of COVID and health and safety. I'm good, but this group is going to change how things go in the future for everybody, at least at our school.

and get buy in. You got to get everybody believing in you, believing in your vision, believing in you as a human and how you are going to day to day. Take this program from A to B and ah, it's rough. It is absolutely rough to start your tenure. Oh and not in Nikrolovitch's defense, but I can see that Nikrolovich is saying, Okay, I need buying. If somebody's opting out, I don't want them at practices. I don't want them

in the locker room. If they're opting out for health reasons, it's for the best that they're not there, perhaps distracting or just sort of on the sidelines.

heard about conversations that have happened on multiple campuses. It seems like the best coaches say to their players, Hey, I really I'm interested by the stuff you put out. I just want to let you know I have your back and anything that I can do to clarify anything to be there for you, Send me a text, give me a call. Here's my number. Nick Rolovitch saying we may need you to clear out your locker. It probably could have been handled. It definitely could have been handled better.

And it's and I think it was Beaumonti Jones who said this that Washington State's already a very difficult place to recruit too. It is not a traditional college and college football program that recruits top level talent. It is

not near any big high school talent bases. And so for Nick Rolovich, without having coached a game, to give himself this to self inflict this sort of reputation about not having his players backs and not being able to convey what he's trying to convey in a mature, leadery way, I don't know. I don't know what his long term future looks like. Because it's got to convince parents on the road that you're there for your sucks, bad luck. And how many people knew buck? How many people knew

his name before yesterday? I know how many? I know how many West Virginia fans, how many Miami fans, how many Texas Tech fans? How many Wisconsin fans knew Nick rolovich name before yesterday? And now they know his name? Okay? Staying with the PAC twelve been a busy news cycle out West. They approved on Friday a ten game conference only slate for football. We don't have to spend a whole lot of time on this one. We do have a bunch of questions that we want to get to.

But ten game schedule, conference only beginning on September the twenty sixth, with quote a lot of built in flexibility. Each team's going to play five home, five road games. The PAC twelve championship will be played at one of

the home sites. It's not going to be played in Vegas the higher ranked Yeah, the higher ranked home team either on December eighteenth or nineteenth, they worked out some sort of deal where they're going to start the Vegas game next year, and then games that can't be played on their scheduled dates are going to be made up in one of the bye weeks or in Week twelve, which is the December the twelfth. So you know, whether they could pull it off or not is the operative question.

And as we speak, as I think you said at the top, the Big twelve, trying to work towards their own model, trying to get some agreement there. There's also one yeah, yeah, there's also a big NCAA Board of Governors meeting that's going to drop on Tuesday. So perhaps a lot of this stuff will be irrelevant by the time folks listen on Wednesday morning. But that is a

state of play right now. The only other thing that I'll add here this is just a follow up to a story that we discussed on the last show about Caleb Farley from Virginia Tech the prize defensive back opting out going to focus on the draft. Remember lost a parent two years ago, didn't want to run that risk with another. He also adds that because of Virginia Tech's rudimentary and or non existent health and safety protocols that contributed to his decision as well. Quote this year at

Virginia Tech at our workouts. I started having deep concerns about staying healthy. Guys are going home, going to Myrtle Beach, coming back up to campus. We weren't getting tested. We're all together, working out close to each other. One day I looked around. We were like one hundred deep in our indoor facility, no masks. My concern grew more and more. Yeah, and I don't fault players. I mean, I don't faull Caleb Farley. I don't even fault players for being in

a large group without mass. I mean, yes, they're at fault, But it's the responsibility of the grown ups in the room to be very clear about protocol, to be very clear, like we're not wearing masks, we're not working out. If we're not working out, we're not playing. It's very strange

to me. I think I just came into this with the assumption that, like, oh, all of these major college football programs have the means to convey protocol that anytime you're inside, you wearing a mask, anytime you're practicing, this is what we're doing anytime. This is how we clean up after practice, is how we're dealing with footballs and goalposts or whatever. I guess we're not really touching goalposts

all that much. But for a place like Virginia Tech, if this is true, which I have no reason to believe, it isn't kind of shocking. No, I can understand a tiny school really having trouble keeping up with whether it's a money thing, whether it's a supply thing, a testing thing, whatever. Virginia Tech makes a lot of money, They're an ACC school, They've played in recent huge Bowl games. And if they're not able to get their messaging to their players, I

imagine they're not the only school. I hope they are, because that's extremely worrisome if they are, but or if they're not. But man, this is this is rough. This is this is a I totally get where Caleb Farley's coming from.

or less the exact wording. We obviously did not anticipate this situation. So should Notre Dame quote unquote joining the ACC for this season count? That is? Americ Dan, how do you feel? I don'ts bet? Would you count it? I don't know the language that they used. If it's simply will Notre Dame football join a conference before twenty twenty six? Notre Dame has joined the ACC before twenty twenty six. If the wording of the bet is not, will Notre Dame become a full time memory of a conference?

Might be different? That's semantics, right, But the fact is Notre Dame is playing an ACC schedule, is eligible for the ACC Championship game? And how many non ACC opponents is Notre Dame going to play this year? Uh? Maybe one? If things think well, I think I think probably zero maybe one, which is no different than any other ACC team. So I think Notre Dame's an ACC team. I think Notre Dame is an ACC team if there is say full time membership.

You know, probably not in the short term. I think what I do think though, I hate when I get permeated by culture.

Like could the Power five decide that it's sort of quasi going to break away from the NCAA and run football on its own.

The NCUBLEA answers to its member schools, so anything new that Power five schools would form would be an entity that answers to Power five schools, which is not all that different from the nc DOUBLEA just has a shiny new polish. The way that the college Football Playoff is run by Hutai BCS people, it is indeed Bill is

indeed Bill right. So yes, I could see in regard to this Instagram question, I could see these schools becoming parts of conferences, but only because I think a lot's going to change with the sport in the next year or two, because of whatever it is, PAC twelve players, whatever it is, players becoming more vocal and revenues becoming more obviously in need of a little bit more redistribution.

I think things are going to change now. Notre Dame has the cachet to go about things independently because they are that quote unquote national brand. I'm not doubting it. I just like quoting national brand, and then they can negotiate a TV dealer on their own. I don't think there's a national TV deal available for BYU and Army in the same way on network TV that there is

for Notre Dame. But I think it's interesting. I think it's interesting because we're going to see at some point, whenever it is, TV contracts come up in various conferences. I think gradual reorganization around the reality that college football has in a lot of ways outgrown college. Yeah, and look no further than our current situation to really highlight the weakness in the system, right yeah, yeah.

on whoever that coach is, whoever. You know, a coach maybe coming off of an uncharacteristic bad twenty nineteen that's going to go farther and farther into the rear view mirror, you know, like a Dino Babers at Syracuse, somebody who followed up a pretty exciting year with a disappointing one, you know, not all that challenging conference that. You know, Pat Fitzgerald probably a big winner, you know that even though Northwestern isn't a huge, huge national name, Northwestern had

a pretty terrible year. David Shaw pretty big winner. We're not, you know, thinking about Stanford's disappointing twenty nineteen as much so from an optics standpoint, teams like that from a coach's aging further, I don't know if there's an obvious answer there. I mean, there's no reason to think Nick Saban's retiring because of age. At this point, there's you know,

now Alabama's still getting it done momentum wise. Maybe, I think schools that have a lot of obvious first round, second round picks who are either not going to play because the season isn't happening, or opt out because they don't want to take that chance. High State, Clemson schools like that that I think have a lot like, you know.

there's able to be practiced in some way. I also think big losers are new coaches, because new coaches are desperate to see what they have with their players and to see what the new school is like, and just to to get out on the field and make sense of everything in either a year zero or a year one situation. Those are, you know, Mike Norvell at Florida State.

I was going to say, yeah, yeah, let yeah, all these guys, those are those are big losers who are and it's champing at the bed I learned, But you can also say chomping at the bed to just know what they have, know what it's like to be a head coach for these guys. Those are those are some pretty big losers there This is a fun question.

that's a spring break. B R A k E. Because pcast tie right, I'll give it some more thought. You can let us know how. It's weird. It's hard to imagine they'd have a spring, a full spring, and a full fall season. It's hard to imagine they would say, yeah, we're gonna need you to play to some teams. I don't twenty eight games, twenty nine games in twenty that's a lot to ask. That's a lot to ask guys to just take a summer off and not have a

full offseason. And what that does to recruiting and official visits and signing classes. I don't know. I think it's if anything is going to happen. I think it'll be an attempted fall season. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen, and then they're going to try again in August of next year if they really feel good about like a Banger's only five game schedule in April May, I can understand having five and then a full season in the fall.

Beyond that it's too far to ass Then you're going to see a lot more PAC twelve Players United, ACC Players United, Mountain West Players United. All that's going to start up to really come into play. I mean, we saw what happened when what the NFL tried to add one more game and what the players union push back on. So and I understand why they didn't want her two more games. Whatever, I think it's gonna get pretty dicey, all right, So we don't I'll think on names till

got to think on this. We'll put this out there, maybe on social media. That'd be a good one. Dave, staying with the subject of playing games in the spring, could we get a non traditional champion if they even have a playoff or BCS style champion. This is an interesting question to me.

don't have the non conference games. So without that, in lieu of that, again, it is Barry Alvarez or people like Barry Alvarez in a room arguing about it, and that to me seems like a great recipe for some weird stuff to happen. Now, it is going to be tough to leave the big guns out, the Clemsons and the Ohio States and certainly the Oklahomas, right.

There are different tournaments and even though you didn't win the Champions League, you won euro or FA or what right, So what if any way that we've ever determined a national champion is brought back, And especially if there's no college football playoff and the season just ends after conference championship games and we have three ten and zero teams and two nine and one teams, and then in the G five level we've got a couple undefeated teams and it's like wow, I mean, this is the American was

really tough this year. This you know, Houston has to be given consideration. ECU has to be considered given consideration. Whatever I think we have a BCS champion, I think we have we don't have a college Yeah, let's call it a college football national College fotball playoff national champion. That's just determined by the playoff committee. There's no actual playoff. It's just a playoff committee champion. There is a college coalition champ. So whoever would have won the Orange Bowl

or something that year. There is every single way that you know, there's an AP champion, there's a coaches champion, every single way. Everything has to be fully transparent, and we just have like seven national champions. Seven national champions. Wow, yeah,

all right, why not? I mean, it's it's such a weird, like to just say, Okay, Alabama or Georgia or Ohio State went undefeated and they had the best margin of victory and it was clear that, you know, they were a class above in a way that no other team was a class above. They're the national champion as boring, Ty, I don't like that. I don't like that at all. So I I'd like it to be uh, sort of

more up in the air. I think that's the way to go, because it's such an up in the air season, you might as well make the national champion.

This will be I feel like I'm generally more excited about a returning CJ. Verdell was good and had some really nice long runs, but also some more inconsistent play earlier on in the season. Mostly I think Stanford and Auburn were not great. But yeah, I don't feel like I'm as excited about the running back class going into the season as I normally am. I don't know, Maybe I'm just I'm forgetting a lot of guys. We'll see Trace sarmon Ohio State, Yep, yep, Arbone.

because he should. We've seen Oklahoma track record. He should have a good year.

So you have Mac Jones and Bryce Young at Alabama, so a more veteran, steady hand and then the promising freshman. We've seen that situation with Alabama before. Recently, Clemson's all set, Ohio State's all set. But Oregon Joe Morehead, Tyler Shuck I think is interesting. Washington is wide open. Chase Garber's I mean, everybody on the West Coast that talks about back twelve football will say, well, he's never lost a

game that he played all of in twenty nineteen. The city, you know, Keaton Slovas I think is probably worthy of top five quarterbacks in the country consideration. I think so, Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, I think across the sport there's I think there's more intrigue than there is proven and reliable. But it's interesting to me and in normally yours in normal years, when you've got that kind of uncertainty at the quarterback position, you get some wild results. Yeah, truely absolutely.

So Tie, specifically, this is a question from Tyler, and it's probably for you. Tips for moving to a new house beyond hydrating and stretching, which are both very important, I would say maybe maybe take Adville ahead of time before you move pieces of heavy furniture. Ty, I'm about to move into a rental house. Yeah, you recently purchased a house and moved in from not that far away.

If you had to give everybody listening tips about what to do when moving into a new house, both the physical move and what you should do once you're already settled, what would they be As for the physical move?

ARU and stuff like that. Well, we have the heating and cooling guy who comes twice a year, okay, and that's on a schedule as long as you pay your bill, right, Okay, No big deal there. Most of the other stuff is sort of as you need it, okay, and sometimes it's not always apparent when you need it. That's something that I think you'll learn as to you as you get a house. But I got to get a grill that ideally has a gas line hook up. I don't know if you have a recommendation. And I'm speaking to both

of you and anybody listening. I don't need a huge grill. It's just me and solid wife Jody with an eye. Sorry, Kate's solid wife. It's just me Jody with an eye and the solid a toddler. But don't need a huge one. Don't need a smoker, but it'd be nice to have a quality one that that gets hot, can can make all sorts of meats and vegetables on it. That'd be great. Got some patio furniture coming, Yeah, we could talk. We can talk about this, all right. I was excited. I

need a Pellett girl, tie, What do I need? Pellet grill? Gotta get gotta get a gas grill. Man. Well, I guess if I'm getting natural gas line girl, I don't need a pellet girl. But yeah, all right, I figure that out. So yeah, I'm gonna pre Advil. I think that's big Advil. Not a sponsor, but heavy usage. Next question, James says, when you close your eyes and say the phrase college football Saturday, Yeah, college football Saturday, what do

you visualize? Uh? Right now? Is how you're interpreting this. I guess so more missed moments bea of child care, which is fine, love the solid toddler, but that's different. And I suppose more room because I'll be in a house college football Saturday. When I close my eyes, I feel that Crisp bear. Did you mount your TVs? By the way, No, I didn't have you ever mounted a TV?

couple pro tips for how to get that thing mounted. Okay, the brackets are already there, so that that part's that You're fine? Oh okay, then you're fine. Done? All right, Dan, Where do we want to go next? Give me a question, Well, you didn't technically to the truffle oil or Cajun seasoning and tots or fries question, I'll go tots or fries. So which one? If you'd rather eat truffle oil, Cajun seasoning solo or tots and fries. Would you prefer a truffle oil on a tot or fry cajun?

Let's say a documentary is being put together about how college football players are training, slash live their lives during the pandemic. Name five current players you'd like to see profiled in a documentary. I'm going to revise this tie. If you could pick any one position to have a different player playing that position at five different schools profiled. What position on the football you know you want five quarterbacks? Do you want a documentary following around quarterbacks? I feel

like that's been done so many times. I say definitely not. Yeah, quarterbacks are going to self aware largely, and they're trying to just have good pr about them.

So yeah, I think that's right. I think my answer is probably going to be either offensive tackle or defensive tackle, because those dudes they're both valued because they play incredibly important positions. So there's going to be a certain degree of confidence and self assuredness to them as well. But also they're navigating a world that they're not necessarily built

to because they're huge. You know, the college apartments aren't necessarily built for huge dudes, and so I think a lot of them have to develop a sense of humor about themselves. So I'm going to go with with the large men here. A lot of eating I think I think that's the way to go. Ty, I'll go wide out.

Surprise on topic question from the Rexologist. Then, if you saw via Twitter, I believe on sports Wars shout out sports Wars available via Wondering, you spoke about how one of Oklahoma's biggest moments in the Texas Oklahoma rivalry was when they started getting recruits from Texas for other cross state rivalries. What does a more quote program foundation event look like? And this person says the bias would be Minnesota, Wisconsin with any is good? So what what do you

just in general? What to you has swung shifted program success level. What are those big moments that you know, Oklahoma recruiting Texas players and building in roads in Texas is going to be huge. What to you and I don't you don't need to be specific, but what sorts of events permeate successfully growing programs.

So I would throw that in there as well. I would also add, you know, I know it's probably not totally applicable for a school like an LSU or an Oregon because they are already among the most prominent college football programs. But if you can get like a sweet news hit about facilities or uniforms, just something that's novel and new and potentially very interesting to incoming recruits, I think that's interesting.

four where they go to the Rose Bowl. They eventually get spanked by Penn State, but that raised Oregon's profile and it got the attention of Phil Knight, built them an indoor practice facility after Mike Blotti was like, okay, what can we do? And then Nike became more involved with Oregon, and obviously the branding of the uniforms and the flashy style and the coaching hires that becomes big.

I think continuity with coaches. You know, we still associate Kansas State with Bill Snyder, right because he's recruiting junior college players. They're beating teams with more resources and it's just scrappy Little Manhattan, Kansas, Kansas State, you know, beating Giants, beating Oklahoma, beating Texas, and it's the continuity of a

Bill Snyder program. We saw it with Bobby Bowden at Florida State and Joe Paterno at Penn State, where it's just like, Okay, the identity is tied to these coaches, and you know what you're getting when you watch a Penn State team from the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties or a Florida State team in the nineties. I think conference membership becomes a pretty huge change for teams. You know what.

You know, Utah was considered to be and TCU was considered to be in West Virginia, and you know this movement around conferences I think is a pretty huge deal in terms of perception and identity and success in general, and so force of personality among coaches I think is big. You know, Minnesota I think was in need probably of a reboot, and PJ. Fleck has done it so far. Really interesting, fascinating, successful job in Minneapolis. So I think there are a lot of a lot of it goes

to coaches, but having those magical seasons. I think if you think about Northwestern football and what they did in the what mid nineties really has still to this day set the tone of Northwestern as like a scrappy, winning, well put together program, I think that's I think it's you know, a lot is tied back to coaches, But when you have those singular events, like you talked about that big win, that big moment that you know, we're still talking about Boise State in two thousand and seven,

We're still talking about, you know, the giant Killers and the trick plays of Boise State, those become seminal foundational moments that define a program sort of almost in perpetuity.

of marriage. In the early days, we hash out a contract that allowed each person full control of what's on the TV during a certain part of the season. Obviously, I negotiated for college football season. This was a loose agreement early on, but became more formalized as the years had passed. It includes addendums for bowl season, if my team reaches the playoffs, and the off season things like

the draft, National Signing Day, et cetera. During the season, I'm able to watch whatever games I want, knowing that in the off season I get no say. With lots of reality TV during her time, I've learned about this tie continue with the season starting later and still possibly on the brink of being canceled altogether. What suggestions do you have for what I should do slash watch during my time? Should I ask for an addendum because of

the pandemic and if so, what would that be? Any other thoughts or suggestions, Cody, this is a hell of a question, sir. First off, congratulations on ten years or oh yeah, coming anniversary? I want marriage suggestions from the man who said maybe be passive aggressive about the dog sleeping in your bad as your big power tip. Much to our friend Andy Wall's horror.

you want to watch. And if there's if you can't think of anything that fills out your complete fall run of Saturdays. Just take some my ouse, just say, you know what, I'm going to take half of these for shows I want to watch, and then I'm going to take half of these. We I'm going to take a quarter of these for shows I want to watch, and then I'm going to pull these forward to the spring. I'm going to defer, and you know I'm not going to take I'm not going to make the decision at

opening kickoff. I'm going to defer till the spring. I think that's an option you have. I would say, do a lot of research about shows that you've heard are good. Maybe you watch the pilots yourself. You're like, I've always heard Fargo is good. I've always heard The Wire is good. I've always heard, you know, Breaking Bad is good, Insecure

or whatever. Always heard these shows are great. What about watching all of or some of the pilot and it's like, you know what, I'm not going to waste my pick on this show because it turns out I'm not into it at all. And so that's the way you go. You got to do your own scouting, is what I'm saying. You got a pilot Scout pilot Scout, Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I mean, I'm sure you have shows. Ty, do you

have a show right now? You're like, I'd really like to watch that, but I'm not sure about the old Kate taste.

what was the last show? I won't I won't tell her ty, what was the last show that you watched that you weren't into but you watched it because you're part of a partnership. I mean, that's most of the shows, Dan, I'm not gonna lie. Just give me the show. I'm not going to say anything. I'm not sensing it that loud. It's most of the shows. Okay, what which one was? Was truly pulling teeth.