1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Bill Belichick Named HC of UNC - December 11th, 2024

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 937 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Look into my eyes. What do you see? It is the cult.

The cult of personality. Living color is a vibe, man. It is an absolute vibe. Thank you for hanging out with me. You know, one-on-one is its own vibe. I'm kind of thrilled because this weekend, I'm going to Tampa tomorrow morning for USC, then I'm going to head to D.C. And I'm going to get to hang out with this gentleman on Sunday. We figured out a thing.

We'll talk about that in the course of the hour. 4024-6-4-6-8-8-5 is the Sartar of him and text on. You want to be a part of what we're doing. Come on in. Come on in. Hang out a bit. Hit us with a what's up. And let's have a little conversation.

Lots to talk about. Lots to clear with our guests. And then if you want to follow on the live video streams, please do. Facebook, YouTube, X, and Allo, Channel 961. If you want to be a part of what we're doing, it is, in fact, Wednesday, 6 o'clock central time, and we set the standard. We all take a deep breath. We all go back in time to when things were simple. The great voice.

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he saw. sweeps along swaggering voicelessly his face is weather-beaten he wears a hooded sash with a silver half about his head and a bristling black mustache he growls as he storms the country a villain big and bold and the trees all shake and quiver and quake as he robs them of their ago. The autumn win is a raider, pillaging just for fun.

He'll knock you round and upside down and laugh when he's conquered and won. There are so many good things in that. There are phrases and words that we do not use, quiver and quake. Like, we don't, we don't, we don't,

we don't get enough symbol, we don't get enough concert bass drum to, like we don't get enough of any of those and we don't get enough Barry Thompson let's bring it the coach you know it's a silence that he uses in those pieces right a lot of times right when you learning how to yeah that silence is something right that we say we we say that all the time that sometimes silence speaks louder yeah than the non sense that can fill it good good storytellers know how to to stand on silence you know they don't they don't they don't

panic when there's there there's no sound they they kind of know and they they keep you in that that bridge for a while and they take you to the next thing you know it's it kind of you know you can kind of do it just when you're talking a little bit just pause a little bit and you're wondering what's coming next and he delivers bomb after bomb well it it's the great identifier for the best conversations uh for the best uh cinema the best music All is in the space, in the pause and the cause, all those things. Rhythm matters. Yep.

Spacing in every sport matters, right? You don't have to bunch a whole bunch of things in. Let's simplify communication between coach and player, right? Let's simplify it. Simplify. I would breathe. Barry, get us. Don't rush.

Yep, nope. What John would say, be quick, don't rush. Quick, but don't worry. Be quick, but don't hurry, right? And Walton said, I still don't know what that means, but it's an app phrase. It's an app phrase that you, I've used it a lot. I've always said, and I've said this to you, there's a lot of certifications out there for coaches when you have to coach at the high school and the youth level. All of them are basically around safety, which they should be. But man, the big certification, all those coaches should have to take, I think, is a John Wooden certification. You know, just on his homilies, the different things that he said, they're so poignant when it's, comes to just dealing with individuals um you know mike susseski my success coach k i don't know i'm like that coach k uh there's a quote that said he said a lot of people make a big mistake of immersing themselves in exes and o's more than they do and understanding people and um you know among all of this stuff there's still humans at the end of the process and it's humans that make it work

And it's the simplest kind of things that make humans tick. It's that hierarchy, that pyramid that most people took Psych 1-1, right? It's not Maslow. It's Maslow's hierarchy in needs. It's hierarchy needs. You know, belongingness and all that stuff is at the bottom. And then, you know, self-awareness and all the stuff at the top, whatever that is. When you're dealing with a group of people, you really can't get far away from those things.

they really, really truly matter. There's simplicity in sports, and we've gotten because of media and the internet and the kind of engagement that happens that, one, everybody feels like they know everything. They feel like they've heard everything. They feel like they need to repeat what they've heard. And the reality, they're simple.

We forget the humane part of it. Right. The fact that you can take somebody that knows the exes knows the football, put them in the wrong situation and circumstance, and it's very difficult for them to succeed. You can take somebody who, quite frankly, walked into a situation that has all the pieces,

all the recipes for a great, great full course meal. And they will screw it up because it's the timing and they don't understand the nuance behind it. And I very, I say that to say this, Today's news is interesting in the sense that I think simplicity is the best way to look at sports. Barry has been in a room, and I've said this with young people learning to play at a higher level, that when chaos happens, slow down.

And chaos ceases to exist. And let me let me. I'm sorry you're making a great point, but you know how I'm sorry to interrupt you, but this is a great point. Talk about it. It reminds me a great story I had with my daughter one time. Talk about this. And I don't know if I've ever told you this story. She was coming home and she was, you know, okay and stuff. And I said, what's going on and ask her about things and we're talking? And she says, yeah, but there's this girl at recess that chases me. And I said, what does she? I said, she always chase you? She says, yes, she chases me. And I don't want. And I don't. like it. And so I went through the normal process of doing it. And I, you know, talking to her about this and that. And she said, no, no, no. And I said, okay. Well, the next time she chases you, just stop running. She goes, but she'll catch me. I said, but just stop running. Just stop. And so she came home next day. She was a little happy. So what happens? She said, dad, I did what you told me. And she didn't chase me. The chasing stops. So I'm sorry to interrupt your point, but I just had that story. You're right.

It is that thing, Barry, that we go through sports cycles so quickly now because of the Internet. And everybody, I mean, every single person who listens to this station feels like they have a higher degree of knowledge in Intel on everything that happens in sports. That's your fault because you got a lot of smart people talking sports, so they're listening. Well, but it's a high volume, high repetition of information. Right. But the reality is, the reality is, even the people with the microphone and in the room have bit and partial information. Right. That if you ask most football fans about Bill Belichick, they will have an in full opinion about who he is, why he's successful.

what he's doing with his life and why he would make this decision of going to North Carolina. If you asked Tar Hill fans three days ago about their football program, they would have pouted and pooed and just absolutely made them. And without full knowledge of, wait a minute, that you have the resources, history, and location to attract this generation's greatest football coach. Right. And now both of them have to reassess everything they thought they knew because it wasn't true. Well, let's talk about the simple. The simple reason he's there is because Atlanta Falcons, that negotiation fell apart. So it's real simple. He wanted to coach, and the Atlanta thing didn't work out, and who approached whom, and you've got the landscape of college football that, you know, people were, you know, criticizing Dion, excuse me,

Coach Prime, and he kept saying this is an NFL. He kept running it, you know, getting people out. He was the guy out front saying it. And now everybody else is repeating it. So why wouldn't? And now there's sometimes when people speak, you don't listen to them fully. I heard Belichick speak, what was it on the, I'm just getting plugged into the sports or anything. But the guy has a real pop, a former kicker. And he kind of, yes, I'm sorry. Sorry, I don't, not educated. But. But he said in that show, he used the word education. He said it's an NFL level program, but at the college level, and he called it an education.

And when you listen to things like that, you know, he's not a guy as reckless with words. And he goes on to say the time management and he goes to list the other things. I think there's a couple things that you can see in college sports. One is make it a degree. Because the answer to all this chaos is who can create an environment where players want to stay. Who can do that? Because it's not money. You know, was it the Soto signing? What was it? 700 and some million dollars? And the story was that the Yankees lost out on them by $5 million. I mean, you believe that? That there's something that he

could need a $5 million more that he could do in his life. You know, it wasn't the money. It was something else. And so with this chaos, it seems to be going on, the opportunity, First is going to create opportunities for coaches who can get it right, who understand it's about people and doing that stuff. And the second thing, the big opportunity is going to be for coaches and institutions who can figure out, yeah, we're doing this. Yeah, we're offering this. But you'll want to stay here because it's better than anyplace else.

You're going to get more out of bang for your buck here than you will anywhere else. That's the proposition, right? And the odd thing that's going to bring it back, The easiest thing to bring it back to that is actually education. These schools have been resisting making football and the things that are involved in the high-level sports have been resisting making a degree. And you look at the NFL industry is like a $40 billion industry. I don't know what the NBA, they're talking about, starting merging with FIBA and going international. Those industries, when you're in the billions of dollars, they need every white,

profession in the world to run that industry. And here you have a highly motivated population of people who are highly interested in the industry. And everybody knows that of the percentage that comes there, only 3% are going to make it. 97% aren't. So what are you doing for the 97% that would make them want to stay and go through the 3 years or the 4 years with you? that's what's going to be the game changer. And let's unravel. Remember, we're going to slow down when chaos happens

because if you download a lot of information, you cannot consume all of that information. So let's go back to the beginning of it. No, no, you rewind it to go back to the beginning of it. Because the reality is, if you hear Belichick make the conversation that he wants to coach, to say that the Atlanta Falcons were the only place

that he considered coaching wouldn't be a state. and the truth. It leads you to, if you want to find out the real truth, go back a step further, that he wanted to coach. And remember that he actually flew in and had dinner with the commanders. He had several conversations with the Ravens. He had several conversations around the NFL. He had several conversations with colleges.

So he wanted to coach. Then you have to ask, but wait, you didn't want to come. you didn't want to coach with the Patriots or did you? And then what do you get from coaching? What does Bill Belichick, again, it is a very short role call. Right. For the people who could be in that room having that conversation. Then what does he get from it?

What does he want to get from it? Well, I think all the universities. Yeah. Of all the universities, right, to choose to consider breaking your peace and silence, he chose the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Right. Which by most immediate metrics doesn't meet anything that we can put a quantifiable level of interest in. Well, okay, let's back.

Let's back it up a little bit further. There we go. Okay, so let's go back. We know that Bill Belichick after Cleveland, after Cleveland, and even at Cleveland to some extent in a different way, but certainly after Cleveland, was very specific about where he was going to coach. He signed a contract with the Jets, correct, to coach there, and then backed out of it and then chose to coach at New England. And it was the right decision. So what we do, his history kind of indicates that whatever he wants out of it, it's in North Carolina.

And it wasn't in the other places. And so we could guess as to what that is. But I would guess at 72, there's something that he's going to pick a place that he doesn't have to put up with things that he doesn't think he has to put up with. He's 72. And he has a history with North Carolina. Right. Okay. And then that he wants an environment that he's free to do what he wants to do his way.

So what other those other situations were offering? We know that North Carolina offered the most of that. We know that he likes the, you know, the education rigor, the naval background. You know, Carolina has an academic tradition as well as a sports excellence. So we could speculate, but we do know that he's particular about where he lands. And we do know that when he does land recently, he has the environment to, he has the conditions to, he has the things that he needs that he thinks that he needs to be successful. He just wasn't, well, I think he's got to have control.

And I think he's got to be able to shape this program exactly the way that he wants. I'm sure they had a long discussion about, you know, the staff. budget and who he would bring in, who would report to whom. I'm sure that was a discussion. Because when you get into these colleges, you know, you have the presence at the top who are going to kind of sign off on contracts in most cases. You have the board of trustees that are kind of, you know, watching the money. And then you have the donors that are involved.

And then there's the coach, right? And the coach has to run this kind of track meet between keeping the trustees on the side, taking the donor's money. But when you take the donor's money, that usually, there's a, a quit poke row, right? The donor's going to give you some money, but then the donor wants to have a say. So there's a tangled web that you have to run on these college campuses to be a college coach. And I'm sure what he negotiated, I'm positive, is kind of a straight through line on how all that was going to be handled. Much like at Stanford, I took note of that situation, that they put Andrew Luck in charge of it,

and all the football stuff reports directly to him. Now, whether he's the guy to do it or not, it kind of streamlines the process. It lets you know who's in charge. And then Andrew can deal with the donors and the people up above. But the football stuff comes straight to him. I think the most surprising thing about Belichick will be how long will it take for Carolina to start giving college credits for some of the things that he's going to require these football players to do. Will they convert courses that are more amenable to what the football players are doing

and what they may likely be doing, the job placement aspect of it, the connections to different levels of the NFL, different areas of sports management. I think that's going to be the most interesting thing. I think that that's the most interesting thing. So several things. That one, that is to say that if that is true, that the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill will become the front runner and the pioneer for academic indulgment when it comes to college football and its professional value.

Fair? Yep. And that somehow Bill Belichick from the sidelines, swooping in like Jimmy Simplify Snooka from the top of the cage. Yes. Has managed to change in one leap, one felt strong leap, change the landscape, and the functional operation mode of collegiate football and the education that manages it. Yep, I like it.

And then here I'll play it out a little bit further. The ACC conference itself, which is really in a decreasing position, and you look at UVA and their grad requirements for getting people in except for Clemson and the past Florida State, they've had trouble kind of computing, Boston College has the same issues.

This gives the ACC schools that they adopt this template. If this is just my theory, that if they adopt this template, it gives them a bulwark against the other schools that have more money. Well, you could. You see, in order for this to happen, credentialed football academic, academia, there are some acts of Congress that are going to have to happen on a universal and, and a full,

accepted basis that places who play football are not going to accept at all. I think that those schools will fall victim to all the rich alumni that they have created who have an interest in their teams being competitive. And I think that's where the crack in the, I think there'll be a little crack in that. I'm just I sitting down blocks away from

the University of Nebraska Lincoln Yep Nah dog Don't think it's going to happen Well listen Listen I paid attention to what he said He used the word education several times

And I just say this I wouldn't be surprised if something like that happens Nothing would surprise me Am I, am I intrigued by it? That's the Captain Chaos version. Barry Thompson, DP, one-on-one. We'll be right back to hold this down. You're listening to One-on-One with DP,

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wonderful way to do that. From the text line says, I wouldn't hire Belichick for a college program. I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't think that's the flex you think of it. I don't know what we're talking about football. Yeah,

that, that, there, there are no greater minds in football. at any level, greater than Bill Belichick when it comes to football and his ability to turn a late round quarterback into the goat. And to do it together.

And then to do it with the systems and players in play in New England. Again, not necessarily the hub. New England wasn't the hub for football until they turned it into that. And they being a part of it, but he gets his best. much credit as anybody he and Brady and a group of players. You can't name five receivers who played for him for seven years or more, right? Because there was just an avalanche of receivers who went through the system. And then he turned the Edelmans and Amandolas into household names and did those things.

So what North Carolina has done and what college football now has to deal with is a force. it is a force. And we were talking about the academic and the educational side. And I think that will really play itself out over, over time. The quicker fix and the quicker impact will be in the transfer portal and the 105 player rosters that will exist. And then this coaching staff that will be put together for North Carolina Chapel Hill. And Barry, I think for me, we were, Jay and I were talking about it.

And my question was, how many coaches, period, could walk into the living rooms of American elite 11 quarterbacks and have more pull and leave the room with more quarterbacks than Bill Belichick? Yeah, it's an interesting question. Although things change quickly. Believe it or not, there's probably kids out there who are, or getting a star rating and they go, yeah, Brady, I heard of them, you know, but. Yeah, but he's not. Yeah, but it changes quickly. Their dads know the hoodie.

Their dad's no, but you know how sometimes it goes from dads and sons. Yeah, their dads, it does carry a lot of weight with their parents sitting there to explain their kids. Hey, this guy and a mom or two who's a Brady fan would say, hey, no, this is where you're going. Well, how many, Barry, let me ask you this. Yeah. How many coaches in America can walk in with all the Super Bowl rings? Well, they all identify with the Super Bowl.

Right. They would understand. They'd recognize what those are. Yeah, it's singular. And it brings up a point. I kind of texted you earlier. You know, this to me will be a matter of who figures out how do you get people to stay. And then the other thing, we talk about simplicity, is that there are coaches out there who don't need 50.

Some of them only need one. Some only need three. And they can make it work because they'll build things around it to make those three successful. In his case, they built a whole thing around one to make it successful. So there are people out there who don't need much space and can look at it and know exactly what they need to make this thing successful. And it's something I've been talking to, you know, a lot of times coaches have these talks in the off seasons. and something that's been coming up for me a lot with the season I just had at Debbie Nell and talking to some of my college, you know, some coaching buddies.

I said, you know, there's a difference between scheme and everything else. And then there's a difference. That's one thing. But knowing how to win a football game is a whole different thing. Like how do you put it together, not game by game, but structurally, how do you put things together in a way that you know that form is going to lead to winning football games. And to me, when you talk about somebody like Belichick or you talk about Dion like them or not, these are people who kind of pose a thing.

I know how to go win. I know how to go do this. I know what I need to go win, right? I know this, it needs to look like this or needs to be built like this. It needs to fit like this. I need this type of player to make it go win. win. And those coaches, the coach at Indiana, he has a foreign. He knows what he needs to win, right? He's done it multiple times, different places, different resources. Those coaches are going to

spot a tremendous opportunity in this environment. I think for me that there's a fascination that, again, of the, if when Bill Belichick walks on the sideline of the, of Dilfer's elite 11 quarterback camp. He don't need all 11 quarterbacks. He wants one, and he don't even need the best one. There's one that fits him that he will be able to get. And then, and then put with an already existing of 104 other dudes. Right.

Right. And we also know that there's more value for any of those people who are going to choose to play for Belichick. there's going to be a full understanding in advance that there's a different level of expectation for the amount of work being put in for the type of representation you're going to be as a person. We understood that a long way, right? You have a full co-sign of, listen, it worked for Randy Moss, it worked for Tom Brady, it worked for Teddy Bruske, it worked for Seymour, all of those things. And then anybody that he's reaching out for, he knows that they fit what he wants to do

from a football standpoint. No, you're exactly right. And I think, you know, going back to the quarterback thing, the guy's been popping up in my mind a lot lately for whatever reason is Bo Nix. And I think about Bo Nix, who was at Auburn. And for some reason, Bo Nix had to leave Alburn. He went to Oregon. And then he is an NFL rookie starter.

And you think about the universe of schools that produce first round quarterbacks, small. And you think about the university of colleges that produce first round rookie quarterbacks who are starters and have their team in the playoff hunt, even smallest, right? And to think that a school, any school, had a guy who had that potential in their midst and the people there, whatever it was, didn't recognize that this is the guy, and this is the guy we should develop things around, kind of speaks a little bit to the fluidity of or maybe the lack of understanding in some cases of the evaluation process of what it takes to build a team to win.

And I'm not picking on Auburn. I'm not, you know, one way or the other, but, you know, they haven't had a lot of great success. Like they did, you know, I think Cam was the last one, right? Cam was the last one, Malzon. They had that little run. Maybe the guy after him, they made a little noise. But, yeah, it just, it speaks to that. And a guy like Belichick, look at Deon.

Dion's done this thing with three people, right? He went to Tudor in place with three people, three special people, granted, but with three people. The characters around them change these thing, but he's done it with three people. You know, that's somebody who knows, okay, this is what I need to go win. And, you know, and be fair to Nebraska. You know, Coach Rule has a track record, right? Yeah. So, you know, he has a vision about what he thinks he needs to win.

And this is the third year coming up. So maybe this is, you know, you begin to see as the pieces come together, you know, coming out. But you're in an environment now where it happened so quickly. You know, you had, was it Arizona State, kind of turned things around on the dime, right? Indiana turned around on the dime. You know, you have SMU that was in the American. What was it?

AAC, it was called the conference. AAC, American Athletic or whatever it was all. Down to the Atlantic Coast Conference. Yeah. Then they went and got to the ACC Championship game. Right. It's their concept. Right.

Like, where'd that come from? I mean, SMU has a proud history. But after that Pony Express thing, right, they were busted up and down for a while. And here all of a sudden, they come out of the woodwork. So it's out there. It's out there. And it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. But, yeah, Belichick parking his rings on the table.

I think the other thing with Belichick is he has that family of Patriots. And so it's not just him. You know, it's Grant coming down to visit with a tight end. It's Teddy Brucey coming to say hello to the linebacker. You know, it's Tom Brady saying hello to a quarterback. You know what I mean? Yep. It's that army of people that he doesn't have to say what he has to say.

He's like, well, here's my. my resume. I know you don't know me, young man, but here are the rings and here's my resume here. Well, there's a big part of that, that anybody whose house coach Belichick walks in with, you know, branch on his sleeve who doesn't know who they are, probably aren't his dudes in. Yeah, could be. You're right. You're right. You want to talk about the great weeding system of a guy that is a student of the game. Right. You are not going to be able to process football at the level I'm going to need for you to.

Right. If you don't understand who the guy sitting next to me on my couch is. Yeah, if you don't know who the godfather is. But I'm telling you, it passes quickly. You know, even in my own little circle, you know, I've passed the part where I, you know, talk about my accomplishments. What I do is I put all the quarterbacks out front, right? I just say, you know, you want to know about me? Here's the list.

go go go talk to them well you know you pull a signetti go google me yeah yeah and i said there you go just i put that you know it's around on the website put it put it out there's there's a list you find you know i'll do stuff with my bio but that current thing with these kids is very important he'll be able to pull that in um you know it's going to be important it's got to be tangible to him yeah it it becomes elite in the space that no matter and i think as college game evolves and the business I'll be the evolves and you sent a tech talking about pro teams buying buying into college teams yeah well but that was the old way yeah that was the old NFL was regional the drafting was regional to the to the to the to the pro team so if you were

kansas city you had right of first refusal for missouri and nebraska because it made sense to them um Dallas would go through texas a and and texas that's why those players seemed to all fit. But then they figured that the regionally you were restricting yourselves. But here's the part that was really happening. That there are investors. There are businesses who are buying into programs. Yes. And that's where the business will take place is that the businesses will go in and buy 51% of Nebraska's athletic department. Yep. Give them funding and and get their own value from it.

Right. Right. Because if If you're pulling $121 million back to the bottom line, that if you're a funding agency, that makes all the sense of the world. Those discussions that we're about to have. Yeah. And the thing that makes it a win-win is that you can't write off the NIL money. You know, schools are basically nonprofits.

You can't write off the NIL money. So the investors that come in and take that up, they kind of alleviate that part of it. And then, you know, the schools can keep their non. It's an interesting. development that's going to take place. Well, this is where folks like DP come in, and instead of it being donation, then these are folks who are making money based off of the student athletes actually doing something

for the money. There we go. And that was part of the process is that as people figure out how this worked, my thought was do business. Yeah. Give them actual equity in what they're doing, time spent, and everything will work out just fine. but that's why we're here doing what we're doing.

So again, folks playing catch up, that sometimes things that the ticket was doing five years ago, uh, wasn't really a surprise. Uh, we'll throw it the break. We'll close out with Barry Thompson and ask him, what's you cooking?

We'll talk about that with Barry Thompson one-on-one, the ticket. You're listening to one-on-one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 93-7, the ticket and the ticket FM. com. Final segment of one-on-one. And

the question becomes simple. Barry Thompson. Talk to me. What are you cooking? Man, so Fondito.

Caso Fondito. So it's cheese. I'll spell it out because people can Google a recipe F-U-N-D-I-D-O Caso Fundito. If you make this, you'll slap somebody next time they bring you nachos and cheese to the table.

So there's a lot of simple recipes. It basically involves chorizo. You kind of cook the chorizo off. You take half of the chorizo that you cook out. You put some cheese in there using a melting kind of cheese. You let it melt in the oven. Then you pull it out and you top the rest with the remaining the other half of the

the chorizo and then you usually use sturdy chip or a flour tortilla you just reach in there and grab it. But we're going to take it up a little nice, D.P. We've got to do a little bit different. Just a little bit different. All right. So the classic cheese is called Wauaca. There are Tendas in Lincoln, I know, but if you can't find it, use a block cheese like mozzarella, maybe a combination like pepper jack. You don't want the fresh

mozzarella because it has too much moisture in it. You take those two blocks of cheese. You kind of, you know, you, what do you call it? You grate those down. You may add a little bit of corn starts to it. It helps a little bit. Then you're going to prepare your terriso. When you cook the chorizo, it's like cooking like bacon. You feel like your bacon crispy. You kind of let it go until it's crispy. Just as it gets there, you take a little bit of Plobano pepper. In the pepper family, there's green pepper, Poblano, jalapeno, serrana. So Plobano, don't be scared of them. Put them in until they're a little bit al dente. Then you, as that gets optional, you can add some mushrooms to it, a little bit of garlic. And let's see, I think that's

about it. We may add a little bit butter because butter makes everything better. And that's, you've got your topping all fix. So you only think half of that mixture and put it to the side, the other half is in that pan. That's when your cheese goes in. And then you just keep stirring the cheese. You lower the heat, keep stirring the cheese until you melt and everything gets mixed in with it. And then when it's done, you have it fill out throughout the pan. You take the half of that mixture that you made. You sprinkle that on top. You get some queso fresco. I'm going to pause right here. And you get a little bit of cilantro. And you get your chip and you get your flour tentia. And you will have a blast watching any sport game this weekend. Casso Fundido.

So YouTube it, get on it. Don't be intimidated. You can thank me later. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. Greatly appreciated.

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