Andy & Ari On3 - The TOP 10 returning players in college football in 2025 | Ty Robinson's Nebraska exit interview

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

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I'm picking my saucy nug flavors. Ari's got something saucy out today. It is his top 10 returning players in college football in 2025 and I saw it and I immediately started arguing with him. Said I knew you guys would start arguing with him. I look at the first comment in the chat. Glaring a mission. Let's go, Ari. How we doing? Man, you know, Andy, the thing that's funny about it is that I feel like if anybody made the list

that I think seven of the players would all be the same. And it's like the last three that will get people going. And, you know, I really want to talk about it because I think that there is this notion out there that Arch Manning is just included because he's famous. And that's not at all why I did. So, and it's not like he was in the headline or anything. Like that's just, you know, what I think.

So, you know, there's two ways of looking at this. One is what did they do already? Right? Like how many touchdowns did they throw for? How many snaps did they play? How many tackles do they have? What is their already proven production? Sorry, there's a corn chip in my throat. And don't ask me why I ate a corn chip at 815 in the morning. I

was gonna say corn chips for breakfast is a choice. That is bold. Do you ever have to go through the like packing your daughter's lunch phase where like all this peanut butter and chips and stuff are on the table and fruit and like you're just like smashing it as you're making it. That's what I do every morning. My breakfast is like a three year old lunch leftovers. Anyway, or what you think the best players are going to be next year, right? Like, and I think that there's a distinction between those two things. Well, I didn't just there's several distinctions, because this is because I've kicked around the idea of a most valuable player list

Like in terms of NIL or in terms of just what they mean to a team This is just pure best player list. So you're looking at more like you were drafting like an NFL GM Right, but when you're drafting There's two ways to draft There's upside and potential and there is proven tape, right? And I don't even know which is the best way to do it. You know, I always roll my eyes when I see NFL GMs drafting players based on upside and potential because I think a lot of times during the NFL draft process, which we're about to be in the thick of, we lose track of tape and are more concerned about combine

numbers and just pure physical measurables. And like I think that's fine. But in this specific instance, it's like I didn't try to go like who do I think is the top 10 players right now. I was trying to put myself in a place of who do we think are going to be the top 10 players in college football like next November, right? Like I think that that's kind of where my head was at. So, um, yeah, like I think that there are omissions in here because there's only 10. And if you are upset about somebody who's not on the list and they're not, it

probably means that they were very good and under consideration. Um, but yeah, I don't, I didn't think it was that controversial, but I do think that the number one thing that people are upset about is Arch Manning's existence and Lenora Sellers absence. Yeah, which in the written version, you do mention that Lenora Sellers was a just just missed the cut situation. But yeah, yeah, I mean definitely was under consideration. And what I told you to last night we were talking about it is

it's a top 10 returning players list. I didn't want it to be seven quarterbacks. Like I wanted to put it the positions out there and you know, get a wide range of teams and stuff. It's like if you want a quarterback list and Lenora sellers is in the top. You know, you put a gamecock on the list and in Dylan Stewart, who's amazing. The question is, who's who's better? Like we if we gave Shane Beamer truth serum.

Who's more important his team? Yeah, that's not the list. That's not the list. OK, who's better on his team? Lenora Sellers or Billingsworth? I think Dylan Stewart is better at his position in the North cells is right now. That's why I did that.

But like that doesn't mean that if you had to lose one player off the team going into next year, it wouldn't automatically be Stewart. Like those are two different things. So, you know, Garrett Nussmeyer is another one that people were upset about. I even saw some other lists, like somebody from on three, Thomas Goldkamp did one and he had drew Aller at number six. I don't know if he got a lot of crap for that, but that he didn't even cross my mind as a top 10 player. Which is funny because an NFL GM would be like you should have your all on your list.

Yeah, but an NFL GM would be drafting a position of scarcity and trying to hit a jackpot on the most important position. Do you think an NFL GM would say he's a top six player in college football? Period. Like I think that's insane. So like I don't know. I don't know if I feel bad about that. Does that mean that Drew Allard doesn't have a high ceiling and could be the number one overall pick in the draft next year? No, it just means that I don't think he's a top ten player in college football right now. Well, how about that?

Zaire Weaver says the list is perfect. Now Steve in San Antonio says no Anthony Hill. Curious to take a step back this season. Didn't seem to make as many plays as he does a freshman. Or you had Anthony Hill just missing the cut as well. I thought Anthony Hill like his his situation was more of a probably more schematic and they were a loaded defense at Texas. So I think a lot of it is. A lot of people have to eat on that defense. I did come to a conclusion. That when making this list that if you don't have Texas going

into the season at number one, I don't know what you're looking at. They've got a lot of really, really good players, a lot of players that were considered for the list. I even think you can make an outside argument for, if you wanted to look at who you think the best players in college football are gonna be in November, I think Ryan Wingo is an outside thought there too. So, they had four different guys that either made the list

or were in consideration for the list. And if you have four of the top 10 players in college football, that's a pretty good start for making a really, really good football team. So, yeah. So you want to get into the arch discussion? Like, did you have a problem with him being on there? I don't have a problem with him being on there because what we saw from him was very exciting. He was on a team that is loaded with talent, had a veteran starter. Like this is where I think it's very it's more hype, but somewhat comparable to

Nussmeyer as he was taking over this as a starting quarterback at LSU. Because remember, we had seen Nussmeyer come into the SEC championship game against Georgia when Jane Daniels got hurt and throw for a bunch of yards. So we're like, you know what, we we've seen enough of the year at Nussmeyer come into the SEC Championship game against Georgia when Jane Daniels got hurt and throw for a bunch of yards. So we're like, you know what, we've seen enough of Garrett Nussmeyer to know that he's going to be good. I think we've seen enough of Arch Manning to know that he's going to be good. Like it's a limited sample size, but it's not that limited. It's not like he just came in in garbage time. Yeah, also, too, like the way he was. But is he a better quarterback right now than Lenora Sellers?

That's see, that's my question, because I would say Lenora Sellers is demonstrably a better quarterback than Arch Manning right now until Arch Manning does something to show he's better and you don't have Lenora's on the list. Yeah, and also too, like if you want to get into like a screaming boxing match over Lenora's over Arch, like I would like it. I don't have Lenora's on the list. Yeah And also too like if you want to get into like a screaming boxing match over Lenora's over arch Like I would like it. I don't feel like you're an asshole for thinking that you know what I mean like that I think right or sellers is amazing. It's really good. It's like, you know, it's not a hill I would die you have DJ lagway at three and I kind of look at Lenora sellers and DJ lagway in a similar a

similar vein. Both of them have incredibly high ceilings that I don't think they even came close to touching in that first year as a starter. And obviously, Lagway's was not a full year. But we don't know if they're going to get to the ceiling. But if they do, we're talking about incredibly special quarterbacks who can do. You know they can elevate their teams in ways that other people on this list can't. Yeah, so here's the thing about Lenores.

There is a legitimate chance that by November of this year, he is the biggest star in college football and the Heisman front runner and like that is all out there. And I think that we need to understand and acknowledge that like even though he isn't in this graphic. Like he made the list of players that I had right on the outside, which was the first name listed, which was Lenora Sellers. And we had Leonard Moore of the corner from Notre Dame, defensive lineman LT Overton of Alabama, Ann Hill, who we discussed, running back Nick Singleton,

and defensive end denied Dennis Sutton from Penn State, cornerback Jermon McCoy from Tennessee, and defensive lineman Ruben Bain of Miami. So like that means- The lack of offensive linemaneman I find a little disturbing. Like yeah, Caden Proctor, Caden Proctor probably should have been on there on on at least the receiving thoughts.

But here's the thing. If Lenore sellers, there's number 11 or 12. That means he's the 11th or 12th best player in college football in my head. Like that's not an insult, you know? Right. It's like, I know that it's easy to fixate on who's in the graphic and you should, because that's what the story's about.

But it's not like it was like, oh, I don't even think Lenora Sellers is good. I think he's one of the best quarterbacks in college football, one of the best players in college football. And if it turns out that he has a higher ceiling or upside or reaches that ceiling or upside even further down the line than DJ Lagway, if that's how it turns out, then like that's not a shocking development.

That's just like, oh wow, he did a really good job of developing over the off season. So like, this is just like me in my head drafting who I would want on my team going into next year. Like if you had to maybe think about that way. Right, like the number one overall player that everybody in with a brain would pick is Jeremiah Smith. There's no question.

He's the surest and then number two would be Caleb Downs. If you do defense, he's the best defensive player in college football. And from there, it's like, okay, who would you rather have? DJ Lagway, Ryan Williams, Colin Simmons, Dylan Stewart. I don't know, Peter Woods. I don't know that people were paying close enough attention to know that Christian Wilkins is on Clemson's defense next year. Arch Manning, I would be a pretty high consideration considering the fact that

he is a seasoned veteran backup who is just automatically going to take the keys over to a team that I believe is going to be in contention for the national championship next year. Also, too, like his mobility and his arm have already shown flashes in the in the games that we've seen. It's not like I'm just like I've watched him play like I think he's going to be really, really, really good. And I honestly think it's the safest Heisman finalist bet you could possibly make it this ball. Dot and the debt says no Dylan Raiola is crazy. He's better than the Arizona Saints. That's not true. You have a number 10. He's definitely not better than Sam Levitt yet. Now Sam Levitt is a lot better than than or was a lot better in 2024 than Dylan Raiola

was. It wasn't even close. Sam Levitt is the type of player who I think could really take the sport by storm next year. I don't know that people were watching him until the boat. No cam scataboo though. Yeah, I keep calling him Bo Scataboo and I don't know why I do that. But he's slippery. For lack of a better term, he's been electric at times. He's got a good arm. He remains calm. I think of a better term, he's been electric at times. He's got a good arm. He remains calm. I think it's obviously easier when you have a get out of jail free card to hand the ball

to 25 times a game. And I don't know what that's going to look like. But Jordan Tyson, their receiver, is also a player that was considered for this list. Right. I didn't get to play in the most important, the two most important games of the season. I wish I wish he would have been able to play that without Jordan Tyson. Yeah. So I don't know. Do you think that I overranked Levitt and like here's where it's like, I don't think that I should be arguing. Dot says, what can Levitt do that? Raiola can't win

football games. Evade pressure. Yeah. Yeah. Evade pressure is a big one. Yeah. Uh, Raiola has a very hard time when there's people in his face. I don't know if people caught onto that. Yeah, uh, Rayola has a very hard time when there's people in his face. I don't know if people caught onto that, but uh, Cody Valera told me that before the year started of like here are the things that I would be worried about and I watched it through that lens all year and it was bad.

So I'm not saying that he can't be good. If you get the backfield with Sam Levitt, there's a very good chance that he's rolling out of the pocket and hitting somebody for a 25 year. He extends plays in a very, very, very efficient way. He is kind of reminds me of Riley Leonard in that like when a play looks dead, he can figure out a way to get away. It's funny because Dylan Raola was in the locker room with the Chiefs. I don't know if you saw that over the weekend. I did. I was crying behind my steering wheel because

I was pretty big on the bills that day. But there was this one comparison that like Dylan Raola who looks acts talks and wears the same numbers my homes doesn't have. And that's his ability to extend plays the way like my homes is like really really hard to bring down. And it's just like every single time you think a chiefs play is dead. It's like oh there goes my homes rolling around. Oh there he is throwing the ball across his body like a psychopath. Oh, 17 yard game, right? And he's not like, Raiola can't do that. He's not super fast. He's just, he's got great pocket awareness. It's more the pocket awareness. And we talked about that with Jalen Milrow, who didn't have the

greatest pocket awareness, who's super fast, but would walk himself into sacks at times, because he just he couldn't feel the pressure. Like Sam Levitt feels the pressure really well. DJ Lagway so far from what we've seen tends to feel pressure very or seems to feel pressure very well. Lenore Sellers definitely does and Lenore Sellers has the kind of top end speed that scares the hell out of you too. Let's talk about DJ Lagway because I did see some pushback on the DJ Lagway thing, which and I asked you on the phone last night when we were talking about this, am I too close to it being in a town that is just consumed by DJ Lagway mania?

Am I just getting kind of caught up in the rush or is that real? So here's the thing too. It's like, do you have to be a third year veteran with a bunch of stats to be on this list? Or can you just have eyeballs? Like, I don't know. Like I just like, I actually wear contacts but I think I've got pretty good functioning eyes. Have you watched this guy play for five minutes?

Like it's like, that's all I need. I'm not sure some people have because, you know, Florida's out of it at that point. There are five lost team when he becomes the starter in earnest. And yeah, it's not you may not have seen him against LSU or Ole Miss. Like I guess I was, he was playing on one leg because you said part of DJ Lagway's appeal is his mobility and his athleticism, but he didn't have any mobility against LSU because he was legitimately can throw football over those mountains that back there like. Yeah, I don't know if there's a profit out there, but if I could bet right now at some long odds because you don't know. You know how things are going to play out like that DJ lagway will be the number one overall pick in the draft in two years like I would bet it right now. Yeah, because he

has he has right right at 60% completions if he can get that up by about 5% or if he can get if he gets towards 70 like that's incredible 12 TDs to nine picks the picks have got to go down like you cannot have that that's too high of a TD or to nine picks. The picks have got to go down. Like you cannot have that. That's too high of a TD or too even of a TD interception ratio. Like that does have to improve. I don't even care. I know you don't care, but it does matter. He's an injured true freshman. Like what are we doing here? Right, right. So another question from Steve was Cade Klubnik considered. Yes, he was. He was, yeah. I yelled at Ari about Cade Klubnik last night when his list came out because I think I think Kate club Nick

This time last year. We didn't know what his full skill set was Garrett Riley did a great job showcasing that last year and as I say that producer rivers the best as I say that there's a picture of that run from the pit game that saved Clemson in the pit game. Well. I'm going to give you that juice to the neck here. You have to take a quarterback next year to start a team around. You're the G.L.I.Y. way. OK, then who?

Sellers. Okay, those are the easy one too, right? In your mind. Next. I actually might go Klubnik. I love the mobility. That's interesting. Because his mobility is what we are projecting.

We think arches will be, but we've already seen it with Kate Klobnik against good competition. So you think that I mean like he's gotten into the open field and ran really hard, but it's like you think he's. I don't know. I don't know the answer to this. I wonder what it is, but like is he more elusive than Sam Levitt or Archmanning? I might take him over Sam Leavitt

and Archmanning, yeah, yeah. I mean, if you're like, I like you go to ability. Have you watched? I mean, you watched Arch play in the in the in the time. I've seen Kate Clubnick do it for real against good competition for longer, so yeah, what you're saying is is our

who do you think is a better arm? the competition for longer. So what you're saying is, is our who do you think has a better arm? Kate's arm is just fine. Yeah. Like you, you put receivers with Kade as you saw this year, no problem. Clemson's problem was on defense.

Clemson's offense was not the problem. It wasn't. I don't think, I mean, against Georgia. Yeah. It wasn't Georgia. They hadn it gets Georgia. Yeah, but they didn't Georgia. They lost. Receivers refreshment like yeah by the end of the season. I was in a college football card break and I got Clemson and I've got a bunch of Cade Clubnet cards and I was like, oh wow, these are like

no low numbered Cade Clubnet cards and I was very disappointed to see that they weren't worth anything. I thought that they would be pretty massive and they weren't at all. I don't know. Yeah. It's crazy because Kate Clubnick was as big of a recruit as DJ Lagway, Arch Manning, the Manning name is what it is.

But in terms of like five star big time recruit, Kate Clubnick was right up there with all those guys. Yeah, he certainly was. I think maybe also too. It's just like he's been in college for 12 years now, it feels like. But he really hasn't. This is his fourth year in college coming up. No, I know. But is this his third year's playing, right? Coming up. Right. So I think that there is like a little bit of, well, if he hasn't become a star yet,

then when's that going to happen? And maybe that's just a bad way of thinking about it. I didn't think they had the supporting cast around him, and now they do. And I didn't think they really used him right, and now they do. So that's what it is. I'd still take Lagway and Sellers over him because their ceilings are so absurdly high. And maybe I'm under rating arch here. Maybe arch is ceiling is like that too. But I just, I like Kate club Nick a lot. I think you could build a really good offense around Kate club Nick in

college and I actually think he might be a good pro prospect going forward too. Yeah. Well, I mean, also too, like we had Clemson pretty high up on our list and it's like, they've got really good defenders and, uh, yeah, really good receiver coming back. The defensive personnel is not bad. Yeah. So, you know, that's the thing.

It's like Peter Woods, is he the number one player on Clemson? Like, do you agree with that? I, I would say that now. And especially like if you were if you were ranking in terms of like where they would go on a big board for the draft, Peter Woods would be the first first guy. Yeah, you know, they also have a B on sorrell the corner. It's pretty, pretty good. He's a very good player to me Brown's

gonna be really good to send my rounds back. Yeah, they've got some guys coming back next year. So it's Clemson back. Yeah, well, I think so. I told you dad was gonna start using the portal like they're gonna fill spots. I saw Davo down in Mobile. He's a happy man. He looks light and loose and they and look Tom Allen is a proven defensive forwarder that that's what I what I meant by their defense was bad. Their defensive

personnel was not. I think better coaching is going to make their defense significantly better. Yeah, went out and got a dude. Once you once you start cutting guys, I'll be right back in like we'll just start cutting people Davo. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

You are seeing Clemson players who don't play transfer, so it's not. It's not as as overt as maybe you want it to be, but it's there. I want it to be ruthless. I want him to stop caring about the development. Davos is more ruthless than you realize. I don't want him to care about the development of young men anymore.

Stop. Stop. I don't think you're getting that. I don't think you're getting that. I don't think your dad is gonna fundamentally change who he is as a human being, but I do think he's, he's now got some money, thanks to the rev share, they can really play in the portal,

and I'm excited about what Clemson can be, but I'm excited about what South Carolina can be, because Dylan Stewart does deserve to be on this list and the Lenora Sellers conversation is real like Dylan's and you know, maybe Josiah there left tackle who was a true freshman last year. Yeah might deserve to be on this list as we get into this, you know, what's so funny about this though and like I know that the people who listen to our show are ball knowers,

but if I would have put Lenora Sellers at six and then left Dylan Stewart off the list, I don't think anybody would say anything. And I just don't think, I just think- I think the South Carolina fans would. Yeah, yeah, I know, but I'm saying like, the entire sport would be like, oh, okay. But like, Dylan Stewart was so young and so good.

I can't, I'd rather get yelled at. Here's another one that came up in the chat that I did not consider. Didn't even cross my mind. And I want you to tell me if I'm messed up for that. But what about Nico at Tennessee? Yeah, producer River asked about that as well. I'm not sure.

I, so the Nico we saw against Ohio State because there were no receivers open and had to run like you take that right right but you take that version that mobility that level of mobility and ability to extend drives with his legs and if he has receivers who can get open then we're talking about him with the other quarterbacks on this list. But part of it is, was it the receivers or was it him where they couldn't get going? So like if Mike Matthews becomes a star next year, then I think we're going to be talking about Nico in a little different vein.

But I also think that there was a portion of it that was him because in games where receivers were open, he misfired quite a bit this year. Yeah, no, I agree. Especially early in the season. It felt like early in the season he was overthrowing him as the season went on. Then you started getting some, it was on target and you started getting some drops, but it never really fully connected. The Vandy game was pretty good, but we never saw that against the elite elite competition

against Alabama like Tennessee. If Nico is. Super accurate against Alabama. Tennessee wins that game going away like that's not close. I'll say this about Nico. I didn't have him on the list or in the inconsideration dude. Park. He also could be like the best player next year in the entire

sport. Like if you if you realize his potential like there are high ceiling guys out there at the quarterback position that really do illustrate the skill set to be great. And if he can work on some of the accuracy issues, they can improve people getting open. He has a really, really big chance to be great next year. So his omission on the list isn't a lack of respect in terms of what his ceiling could be. What one more from Zaire asked about Carson Beck,

where does he rank with Miami? I think he's hard to judge because he's coming off the elbow surgery. We don't know what his arm is gonna be like coming off the injury. And you have two sample sizes of Carson Beck. When he has two of the best pass catchers in the country in Brock Bowers and and Ladna Konke, he's awesome. When he doesn't, he's kind of okay. So what's Miami got? Because are you and I talked to Xavier Restrepo in Mobile, he's gone.

Jocoby George is gone. Can Miami replace that production in the receiving core and give Carson Beck a chance to put up big numbers? I do think that we are pretty good at like judging and having a gauge on fan bases. Were Miami fans like juiced about this? I don't think they were super juiced. I think they were more relieved because they needed the Emory Williams experiment in the second half of Pop Tarts Bowl said, okay, need a different quarterback, need somebody better than this.

So they got somebody better than that. Carson Beck is definitely better than that. So I think they're excited about that. But I think they're probably looking at it going, well, Cam Ward's issue at Washington State was he didn't have the talent around him. And then once he got the talent around him at Miami, all of a sudden, he's just blossoming.

Carson Beck had talent around him at Georgia. Now he had more talent earlier, less talent later, but the talent at Georgia last year, probably fairly comparable to what the talent at Miami this year will be. Josiah Trader at receiver too, I think he was a five-star prospect on. Yeah, he's going to step in. I mean, we have a lot of those. Yeah. Yeah, the hope is it is

somebody that it's going to be a young guy and they've got they got some freshmen they like to. Is Mark Fletcher back? He is right. Yes. Yes. Yeah, they've got to worry about the run game. I'm really not worried about the prime is running offensive line and good running back. Good, yep, I can't get my hair to cooperate and it looks terrible, sorry.

It's OK. It's alright. It'll give people something to make fun of you about if you left their favorite player off the list. Gotta go get a cut today, I think uh yeah, maybe uh this this I'll I'll talk to Jack Terry and ask him if it's okay if I wear a hat on Fridays, you know casual Friday and a Hawaiian casual Friday. Alright, we'll we'll see about that. We'll

talk about that this list Nate in the chat says can you guys save this list and come back to it next season so we can see how brilliant or completely stupid Ari was. Of course we can. Also though because I was texting Cole Kublick last night and he said he did a a video on YouTube about this exact topic that I didn't see and like we had eight of the same ten players. Like I feel like if you did this list and you don't have the bulk of the list, then like this isn't about being brilliant or smart. Yeah, save the list.

I like looking back at what we did, but like it could be like a massive miss on a guy or two or a massive omission on a guy or two. But like Jeremiah Smith and Caleb Downs and Ryan Williams and Colin Simmons and Dylan Stewart and Peter Woods are going to be good. Like there's no to me. It's like that's. This isn't controversial to me. I would agree. I don't think it's super controversial, but the two you don't have. That are the same as somebody else. They're going to

be mad about those two. Yeah, like it's how these many. It's just average and Lenora Sellers wins the Heisman, but everybody else on the list is good. It's just average and Lenora Sellers wins the Heisman, but everybody else on the list is good. It'll still look stupid. Right, right. And Lenora Sellers is really the biggest risk you took, I think. But it would have been an even bigger risk to leave arch off completely. Would it like?

I think that arch is going to be the face of college football and in nine months because of his last name or because he's good both. OK. He's the most marketable human being on the face of the Earth. You couldn't create a more marketable NIL. Recruiting hype headline name in a lab if you tried. And he's going to be on a team that is loaded. Yeah.

He's been developing for two years. He's going to be fricking awesome. Or what if he's not? He's going to be. It's a fact. But what if he isn't? The only thing that could stop him is injury. He's gonna do great.

Put a pin in it. But I also, I just- Clip it, River. Clip it. It's okay. I am glad. I like the enthusiasm. I do.

I like it. What I am doing is I am being the auditor for the audience members right now who are like, are you sure Ari? So I like that you're sure. Yes. Okay. Now that you're not the avatar anymore, great movie, right? Never seen it. No.

Didn't hold up. I got a 4K television back when it was cool, like, and it first came out, like I was like one of my first big purchases on adult, like back in 2012. And the first thing I did was buy the Avatar Blu-ray. Remember back in the day when Blu-ray was the thing to put into my PlayStation to like test how clear the television was.

And it looked amazing. Gotta tell you though, movie looks awful. Movie was good on first watch. Why? Because it's massive box office. If you ask somebody what happens in Avatar the movie, they're going to be like, I don't remember. Yeah, because people are like, Oh, it's colorful. It just it just vaporizes once you've been once you finish watching it. It's not like usual suspects where you're for years going

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Hey Andy, I wanna say something about the ad. So I hit a benchmark today, I'm in the 230s now everyone. Round of applause for me. And I'm trying to get down to about two oh five is where I want to be. I want to be lighter than you and then we're gonna build back up and we're gonna get our test back up. You know, but we we've been drinking Yule for breakfast and it like does make your lunch. It's like I've been doing Yule breakfast

light lunch early, stop eating by seven and then I don't eat breakfast until seven a.m. when I'm eating the sandwich. Cravings for my daughter's lunch. And it's been working for me like it like it doesn't make you as hungry at lunch. And then if you have like a healthy dinner or reluctant with the drinks are reluctant with the drinks that have the, that are high in protein. Because they'll say, oh, they don't fill me up. But yeah, the little cardboard box ones don't. But Huel will act as a full meal and it'll get you to lunch. And I think that's the key. Depending on the type of person you are, I guess, or like what your normal caloric intake is,

type of person you are, I guess, are like what your normal caloric intake is. Like for me, I'm not going to lie. Like, Huel is amazing. It tastes good. And it, I don't know that it would be enough for me all the time, but every time I drink it in a day, I eat less that day, which I think is its price. Right. Like it's like, it's not necessarily like you're smashing a meal. It has all the nutrients from a meal, but then when you drink it, it like satiates you. So like at lunch, you don't eat as much and you're

not as hungry at dinner. Yeah. I don't know if that's your experience. It's a nice slow burn. And that's for people. And Ari and I can speak from experience on this. When you've been trying to lose weight, figuring out what, what foods give you that slow burn where you're not that hungry and when you eat your next meal you actually eat a smaller meal and you crave smaller meals throughout the day. It's the magic bullet. It really is because when you just keep getting hungrier that's when you start to mentally fatigue by all of it. When you're full and feeling good that's when you start to mentally fatigued by all of it. When you're full and feeling good, that's when it gets easier.

Don't put Twinkies on your pizza. Do not. Do not recommend. I've never done that. That sounds, I mean, I've eaten it back in my heavier days. I ate some very disgusting things, but that is not some, I love that River immediately removes the advertiser logo from the screen when I say I've eaten some disgusting things.

No, he'll just push it. But I have eaten some disgusting things in my life, but Twinkies on a pizza sounds horrible. What is the fattest thing you've ever done? And it doesn't have to be quantity, Andy, because I know your mind always goes to like, what's the most I've eaten when sitting? Like what is the most reprehensible thing

that you'd be afraid to admit? Because I have one loaded just to give you an example. I had a, remember I had a burger that had like double bacon, double cheese, peanut butter, just all kinds of every, like they put pulled pork on it. It was always in Lansing, Michigan. You're missing. No, this one didn't have the peanut butter.

This was just like stacked up meat and two pieces of bread just suffering on top of the bottom. I'm not talking about the most caloric thing or the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten. I'm talking about an action Like for instance like ordering to slur. Oh, I'll give you one. This is this is toward the end of my last Going back up and wait. There's a New York doing some work The the pizza place they show in the most recent spider-man movies

It it was right down the street. And I was like, I'll try it. And they're selling slices, mind you, Ari. I already large at midnight and I ate the whole thing. Okay, I'm gonna beat you. And I'm sitting there at 1.30 in the morning, knowing the heartburn's coming. Like I didn't have to do that.

I didn't have to eat anything. I didn't have to eat anything. I could have just gone to bed. That was a terrible decision by me. OK, alright, this is what I'm looking for. I'm going to tell you a few of mine. OK, one time I was in Vegas when I was 25 and I was at a nightclub till 4 in the morning and was completely blasted out of my mind and I went back to my hotel room

that I was sharing with a buddy. Didn't meet any girls that night and we were walking to the room and somebody's to go cart that their room service cart was in the whole. I've absolutely in chicken tenders. I ate chicken tenders off of a to-go cart that was from someone else. I'm like that's an action like my buddy. you pick up the little metal thing to see if there are bites taken out. And there are times when nobody's touched anything. And those are fair game. Okay, so this is what I'm talking about.

The action. My buddy once threw away a cake that he had in his house because he didn't want to eat it. And he put it into the dumpster outside. And then two hours later, went back downstairs, got it out of the dumpster and like brought it back up to his house and ate it. Like I'm talking like, like one time my roommate

I used to live with. I've eaten food out of the trash plenty of times. I, that Costanza episode or that Seinfeld episode. Yeah. That's nothing. My old roommate works for, when we were in our early 20s, was a guy named Ben Axelrod.

He works for Awful Announcing now. I don't know if you've heard it, seen his name. I used to live with him. I have. He got- Did we be naming him? Is he gonna sue us? No, no, cause I'm the fat one in this one.

He got Raising Canes for dinner one night at like six, and then didn't finish it, and had all the chicken tenders that he was eating in the trash in our house, and I got home and saw it on the top of the bin, picked it up and ate the leftovers out of the trash. Like, I guess what I'm talking about, like I've done some really dark things.

Oh, if it's sitting right on top, there is no shame in that. No shame whatsoever. It was, I don't know if there was trash on top of it or not but it definitely was from that day and it was in the container still it was in the box oh yeah that's I know but I think this is like five hours later and it was just sitting in our truck I'm just saying like I've done some stuff I've seen some I'm seeing oh you've oh you and I similar histories there. Similar history.

Okay. All right. All right. What we're gonna I thought you meant, you know, weird combinations not eating it, you know, I'm sorry, you could throw it away like, look, the hotel thing is people get disgusted by that. Have you ever if it's on the room service tray and it hasn't been touched, and it's just sitting outside the room, like you're it's wasteful if you don't eat it. Like that's one that my wife would never can never know about me. She would

be repulsed by that. Um, have you ever ordered thousands of people? Yeah, well, I don't think she listens to the show every day. So we're gonna we're gonna. Risk it, but have you ever ordered a Domino's pizza while in the drive-through getting french fries and chicken nuggets? Have you ever done that? Never done that no. You're on the way home and you're hungry you order the pizza. You know, I'm sure you're you are a order the pizza before you get home guy from your phone right like so. Yeah, so it's right there. Yes. Ever had a Taco bell appetizer? Listen, before, before there was an app to do that, I would call time my arrival home to make sure I beat the delivery person.

The first, so it would be right there. The first date like in college though, you had to be careful. Like you're getting a ride home from the bar. You've had a bunch. You're trying to time it out. And it's like, can I get, can this delivery driver get to my front door at the pizza before I pass out? Cause that's the, that's the trick.

My first date with Britt, uh, we, she was in Columbus for work and I took her out in the short north and we went out at like six, went to dinner. I think we both had 15 drinks. Britt is 4'11 and 105 pounds and she put down at least 12. I took her back to her hotel and said good night and Then on my way home in the uber I ordered a domino's cheesy bread No pizza just the cheesy bread and it was on my front doorstep waiting for me when I got home And it was maybe a top five best moment of my life. The best I ever heard was a guy I knew in college

Was at home drinking and knew it was a little close to the edge, like wasn't sure if he was gonna get to when the pizza got there or if he was gonna pass out. So he left like 15 bucks on his chest and laid down and left the door unlocked. And you know what happened? When he woke up, the 15 bucks was gone and there was a pizza on his chest.

Was he outside or inside? He was inside, the door was unlocked. He may have put a note to the driver, just come in. I mean, that's the beauty of college town living, wholesome college town living when the pizza driver Will take the $15 leave your pizza and not rob your house Andy I just hijacked this episode. We've got to go talk about the it is So here's the thing we were gonna talk about the conversation yesterday with Jim Harbaugh Brett B. Lema and

And what happens with Michigan? Going forward with the NCAA we We're going to table that till tomorrow. We have a Dear Andy, Dear Ari show. I'm sure someone will ask a question about it anyway, but we'll talk about that tomorrow. We got to get to this Ty Robinson interview because we talked to him in Mobile. He's spectacular. You're going to be very, like if you're a Nebraska fan, you're going to be so excited about the're a Nebraska fan, you're gonna be so excited about the future when you hear Ty Robinson talk about where that program is going.

Dylan Raiola, we asked about him. Matt Ruhl, he told us all about what that program's like under Matt Ruhl. Get ready, you're gonna be excited. Here's Ty Robinson. Do you want to introduce him? We got Ty Robinson, the vanilla gorilla from Nebraska.

You started to say something and I'm just like save it for the show. So go right ahead. I don't know if you know this about me because when you look at other people's hands you don't realize whether they're big or small, but I have the smallest hands that a man could have. I've never heard of that before. Put your hand up. No, I know that.

Okay. No wait. Now we just do this real quick. He shook my hand. I'm like, yeah, that's an undeveloped player. So I remember my when I first started working at Sports Illustrated, I was covering recruiting and I did the US Army All American Bowl. DJ Fluker was was going into his senior year of high school. So he's in the game or he was finishing his senior year high. He's in the game. I shook his hand. I swear his index finger tickled my elbow. It is the largest hand of any human being.

But you're up there. But we're also at the place too where hand size maybe for quarterbacks is probably the most important but like they actually measure that stuff and it matters to them. Yeah. What was your favorite measurement you got taken? I have no idea. I guess I wish my arms were a little bit longer. That's the part of this that they used to do the public way in. Like you guys would have to walk out in your underwear in front of like all the reporters and everything.

You still have to do it in front of the scouts, right? Yeah, there was a few scouts back there. They got a little walled off section. Oh, that's much better. Yeah, no, and it was very efficient. They had like four of us in there and then there was just pop, pop, pop, pop out. What's it like to weigh in and you're underware in front of a bunch of NFL Scouts? Is that, was that the worst part of this or like the best part? I don't

know. It seems like easiest. Yeah. Yeah. How exciting is, is this process? I mean, you've played against some really good guys in the Big Ten, but to be able to play against this level of talent with a bunch of NFL coaches just standing there and watching. Yeah, no, I'm super excited for this opportunity. I mean, it's just another chance to compete. You know, I love football, so to me, it's just like another week of practice just going against, you know, some of the better guys in the country at their position.

I wonder, when you say another week of practice, obviously you take things very seriously when you're in school trying to win a game, whatever you're doing in practice, but for this to be a job interview environment where you're trying to not only practice well and get better yourself, but separate yourself in a way that could impact you pretty profoundly financially. Like, I mean, how do you get into the right mindset of like, hey, I gotta go out there and work?

I mean, you can't really like blow it too much out of proportion, otherwise you get in your head about it. So to me, like, I'm just gonna play the way I know how to play. And that's just how I've been playing the last few years at Nebraska. That's just my brand of football. So whether these scouts like it or not, then that's up to them. But I know what I could do, so I'm just gonna go out there and showcase it.

Yeah, let's talk about the last few years in Nebraska. Coach rule comes and looks past you guys finally break through, get to a bowl game. Did that feel like a kind of a big monkey off the back when you when you guys finally hit that 6-win? I think it was more the fact like, look guys, it does work. What Coach Rule is preaching, it does work. What he, his philosophies, his teachings, it does work. And, you know, that was kind of the main thing that first year was like, we just need everyone to buy in. And I was very surprised at how many people actually bought in. And just to now have another year under their belt, go year two, start the season five and one, then you kind of start to lose the pieces a little bit. And I think next year, I think those pieces are gonna be held on tightly next year.

And I think Nebraska is gonna have a chance. Is that something like, cuz they talk about winning being kind of a learned trait. Do you guys feel like you helped lay the foundation and now this group does know how to win games? Yeah, so like the thing that I've taken away from Coach Rull the most is winning is really hard. Yeah. And you know, beforehand you're like thinking thinking about like why are we not winning? And then you really look down at it

and it's like well, you gotta do all this hard stuff to now to win the football game. So I think the guys know how to do the hard stuff now to win a game, and I think that'll be really great for the guys next year. Yeah, so I have to ask, but you know,

it was kind of like doing reola mania over there. I mean, what was it like to, I think it was kind of like Dylan there. Uh I mean, what what watch him come into that s and the hope to be rekindle that had never played befo watching him in practice,

this year? Like where do y leader in terms of Nebraska one of the most humble and hardworking guys in the building. I mean, he understood from day one what was expected of him and how much work he was gonna have to put in. I mean, that dude was watching film 24 seven. And then also he didn't, as a young guy, it's hard to get into that leadership role as a freshman with all of us older guys that have come back for another year.

But what was awesome is that he didn't want to step on any toes. So I think he was trying to figure out his way on that side of the ball, while also allowing us older guys to still kind of have reign over the team. But he would also come and ask us for advice or kind of have him under our wing, just so he'll be prepared. I mean, he's gonna do great next year. That's probably a bit of a relief though when you're a freshman and you have all that pressure

on you that there's guys like you and Nash that, you know, had been there for a long time that has established that, hey, we're the leaders of this team. And then you could be a sounding board and give advice. And I would imagine even if somebody came in kind of cocky, they'd meet you and be like, eh, I got a little work to do. Yeah, no, I listen. You can all that stuff, you know, off the field. Yeah, cool. Yeah. We get

on that field. If you if you're like that and you can be like that. Yeah. You know, if you gotta work just like everyone else, everyone else, then you gotta work your way up the chain. And uh, Dylan did that last year. I mean, that that

dude grinded out each and every game. Ty, I know that he came in as a really highly rated prospect and all the things that happened to get him there were highly publicized. But as somebody who was later in your career and already a leader of the team, was it hard to go into last season with relying to a certain extent on somebody who hadn't been there? Or like what's it like, you know, not being him, being everyone else? Yeah, no, I mean, it's from a defense perspective, it's like we have our guys over there.

Like, side of the ball is a little bit older. We'd been, you know, stuck together for a longer time, grew really close with that bond. So, you know, having to rely on him, like we had our faith after watching, you know, spring and summer and, you know, because he put in those hours, like I said, and he, and he not only, he not only like excelled at the work, I mean, the hard stuff, like, you know, the sprints and the stadiums that we ran, like, he put in his time. So,. So for me, I was like, you know what? I'll ride with this dude because he knows how to work. Does that mean that's how it works in a locker room, right?

Like you always say, players aren't stupid. They know who's got to earn it. I mean, in a locker room, do you feel like people are keeping, I don't know if scores are right or tabs, but are aware of that? People can tell who can work. They're aware. I would say aware. I mean, there's no tabs, but it's like, it's more like respect, like you are in the

respect of others. Like, I still have to earn the respect of the young guys that come in because they can just, you know, you can tell me that off really, if they wanted to, I'm not gonna listen to you. So I think by showing them, you know, listen, I'm a grandma grindy motherfucker, and I'm gonna Yeah, this is how I work. And you know, if you respect me, cool. If you don yeah, this is how I work and You know if you respect me cool if you don't then that's your own decision But you know our our locker room but then people respond to people who are like that, right? Yeah, respond to guys who are gonna set the example. Well, yeah, you know it's and it goes about how you treat them, too

Right. We're not I mean like I was just about to say the culture in our locker rooms Like it's never been shaky at all Like ever since I've been there as a freshman in 2019 like there our locker room was like, it's never been shaky at all. Ever since I've been there as a freshman in 2019, our locker room has always been very tight. I'm able to go talk to freshman wide receivers who are from Florida, and I'm from all the way across the country, and just get to know these guys, or the new running backs, or transfers,

or something like that. I mean, just how cohesive our locker room was, I think, was a really special thing. When you go to this next step, you'll be the young guy again. How do you do you just bring that same mentality? What you just talked about? Is that all you got to do? Just make sure you bring that mentality into the, into the next locker room.

That you got to grind. You got to earn the respect of everyone there. I mean, nothing's given to you. Those guys have been there. You haven't some, you know, this next, I'm willing, I'm trying to learn everything I can, trying to figure out, you know, what an NFL locker room is like, understand, you know, what they expected me and what they need from me type of deal as a young guy. We were just talking to Smile Mundin from Georgia and obviously he's going to be a Philadelphia

Eagle because he played at Georgia. But Ari asked an interesting question of him. He's like, it's like you realize you could be living in one of like 30 different cities in the next three months and you don't know what that city's gonna be like right is it wild for you to think about like all these major American cities some of which you've probably never been to like that could be home for me in three months. Yeah no I've talked with my girlfriend and like yeah you know I got this job interview I have no idea where I end up yeah but so I don't have any plans for you right now. Like, I don't really know what to tell you.

How's she taking that? She's doing good. She's doing good. She's been really supportive about everything. She's probably got her wish list too. It's like kind of funny though, like you should like go, I don't know if you see online, they have like these like randomized wheels

and you can just like type in the things. You do a 32 one and type in like, it's like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and just spin that thing. Just to get them prepared for it. Well, it's funny because we always ask what you want to show teams. I'm interested because it feels like you're going to be

a valuable asset to whatever team takes you. What are you looking for in a team? Just somebody that is going to pour into me, not only as a player, but as a human. That's my biggest thing, just because that's really why I chose Nebraska, because of how dedicated and how much they really wanted to help me. And I'm a loyal dude at heart. I mean, six years at the same place. Like, I'm going to give everything I got back to you at the end of the day. I wonder in this process, like, you know, with all the personality tests and, you know, you're gonna go through all this,

but like how you could be like, hey, listen, I was at the same place for six years. That used to be a thing that was semi-regular. Now it's like rare. I wonder like how much like that changes like a GM's perspective of like, oh, yeah, this guy actually will, you know, go through the tough times and stuff because like, and even the first half, even at the first half of your

Nebraska career, like losing a bunch of games by one possession. Yeah, like, and you know, that's kind of when things are probably bubble the most for some people and say, I don't want to do this anymore for you to illustrate that you've done that, I think is a positive for you. Yeah, 100%. You know, it's frustrating to lose those one score games. I was just talking about it last night.

I was like, you know, in a different reality, like we fix one or two mistakes a game, we're a freaking nine and three team every year, like at the minimum. So to stick around and figure it out, I also was dedicated and committed to the University of Nebraska. Like I wanted that place. I fell in love with that place during the recruiting process. So I wanted to help make that place better. How proud are you that you'd left it better than you found it? I'm very proud. I'm a, I'm a proudful guy. Uh, just, you know, it's,

it's one, one of the little marks, one of the little boxes checked off on the list. I mean, next year, you know, six wins isn't enough. I'm not a real guy. Uh just what you probably haven't realized about yourself yet is that you're one of the rabbit Nebraska fans. Uh you're gonna be. Oh yeah. I am uh I cannot wait. I cannot wait to see you on the Husker online message board. I'm ready. That is not me. I am not a social media guy like that. I am not. I can't tweet about it. I mean, yeah, I got questions. I can go to the right people. That's true. You can just text on. You ever seen those insurance commercials that say like, you know, I'm becoming my dad. You will be tweeting in 12 years and you will be becoming their parents. Performing football players who are becoming message board posters. If we see vanilla grill 2024, like we'll know. Yeah, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, I'm not sure. I'm like, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not

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sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not even. I only do plate math at the buffet. I can do that better than this but um he did. He did. I did put up 225 with him. You did. You know, that's good. That's so I'm in the one percent. You're in the one percent. So yeah, maybe you

can train me for 12 years and I can see you for 55 one day and I'll I think I'll stick to the side of the table. Just ask me what we want to get into the squat and his power clean because that's that's where the real the real magic happens.

Uh I think the squats that most have ever done is six plates on both sides obviously. Yes. So what's that six times? So it's 500 pounds. Yeah, so like in six six is 585. The bar is bending at that point. Nash has done eight, eight plates. Nash is freakishly the ball. The bar is bending I saw something too late at night. It's not good. I saw something too real. Two reps and 800 pounds. Oh yeah, 100%. But like what's the thing where they pick up that ball, you know, and they walk out. Strongest man. I'd be like, that's like, I assume bordering on that.

Nash could do that. Nash is built for that. Nash's dad's built for that. Yeah, when Nash's football career is done, there's probably another 10 years of World's Strongest Man if they still do that. Like him and some dude from Norway. the I'm gonna get on the Astro Online Message Board and be like, did you see Ty today? Ty Robinson is a man's man. They should do the World's Strongest Man competition, but like legalize roids. Let's just see how far the human body can go when they're like friend out. I'm pretty sure the guys in that are roided out. Okay, so it should just be allowed. You've already seen it.

I think you've already seen level, but the baseline of competition is like you can do anything you want. Let's see how much a human being can lift up with every cheating mechanism that they possibly can. Like, let's just like have the freak show. Who proposed that somebody proposed the steroid Olympics? Like everybody's allowed to do whatever chemically they want to, and you have the same Olympic events.

Like why? Why wouldn't Major League Baseball just go steroids are OK everyone? And then everything is just based on how good you are, and there are health hazard. If you abuse them, I think that that's why. And they're a health hazard if you abuse them. I think that that's why I think that's why no one says, go ahead, please use them.

They're good for business. Promotes people to have to use them to ever make major league baseball, which then creates a problem. Okay, I get it. But like, yeah, yeah. It would be kind of cool if it was like, people were hitting 700 foot home runs.

Like that's what we want to watch. So just let it go. Well, 1998 summer is the best example of that. There is a documentary on baseball back. There's a there's a documentary on Netflix that says that like long term use of steroids is actually okay if you're responsible about it. So you should go watch it. If you're nobody but nobody's ever responsible about it. Have you met dudes in the gym? Like,

everybody's like, well, if I do this one more thing. If you are responsible about steroids are they actually like not detrimental to your health long term? Like is that true? You would have to have a doctor carefully monitoring everything. You'd be getting you need to be getting lab tests very regularly. I'm sure there's a way to perfect it. That's probably what a lot of these. These people are doing at the at the high high levels, but also at the high high levels. They're using this experimental stuff where nobody knows what the

long term effects are going to be. So Jay Grizz do steroids really help you hit the ball further? No, but over the course of 162 games season, they let you recover faster so that you can hit the ball far for longer. So it's, steroids are not about getting like,

they don't instantly make you stronger. They make your body recover faster, which allows you to build muscle better and also recover from injuries faster. Yeah. And it helps you drop poundage as our guy here said in the chat. I will say this and I don't know if this is bordering

on politics but we're gonna take a risk here Andy. Oh boy, okay, go. RFK is currently being confirmed for a health like being the leader of the health of our country health and human services Are you scared right now? Yes. Are you scared right now? Am I making you nervous? He popped his in Little little bit no, no, no, no, no, it's not even a political thing. Whatever if you think you should be I don't know It's like this dude's yet

All this dude pop this in in the middle of his confirmation interrogation yesterday. I don't know if You're just like, this dude's jacked. Well, this dude popped us in in the middle of his confirmation interrogation yesterday. I don't know if you saw it. But like, do you want to talk about electric? That doesn't seem healthy. You didn't see this? I didn't see that. You put a little pillow in the upper decky there.

That doesn't seem healthy to me. I just thought it was hilarious. Anyway, that is that is funny. Oh, speaking of of hilarious, Gabriel. Says this topic needs to be an on three top ten graphic. He's referring to I think things we would eat out of the trash or things we would eat off a hotel room service cart. Would you ever take a bite out of a chicken finger that had been bitten out of?

Uh, the other end of it, sure. Yeah, okay. I just, I didn't, how far would you go? I'd eat the whole thing, I don't really care. I would probably like rip off the side that was bitten. I don't know that I would go that far. Like if I was with my wife, she'd probably hit me for taking one that had a bite out of it. Can I tell you might let me go with with one that wasn't touched. Can I tell you a quick story Andy? Of course we're in the grab at the grab at territory. You want to know about the worst fight I ever had with my wife as it pertains to doing disgusting

things in public. I, Brittany and I went to possibilities of endless. Brittany and I went to Las Vegas, uh, the weekend it opened, uh, after COVID, like the first weekend, all the casinos were open again. Um, just had to go to Vegas. Okay. Okay. And I, like I usually do when I'm playing blackjack or and drinking having a good time just being got just a guy being a dude and

We were walking back to our hotel room at like 2 in the morning and some dude had a had a jewel And I ripped it out of his hands and took a hit of the jewel without asking him or without Doing it. They're just like just ripped it out of his hands and asking him or without doing it. They just like just ripped it out of his hands and took a puff out of it. And like Brittany was mortified. And rightfully so because you don't take something out of someone's hands that you don't know. Just like ripped it out of his hands. You don't put that in your mouth and it was nicotine and it was right after COVID.

And I forgot that we were, I was having such a good time in Vegas that I literally forgot about COVID. And that was the biggest fight that we've ever had. She said, how could I possibly create life with a person that would do something like that? Like that was like what happened. So-

And yet she did. Now I'm on team Brit in this situation because you're lucky you didn't get stabbed. You just take somebody's thing. I could size him up. What's he gonna do? He might stab you. That's what he's gonna do.

One time in college, I did the same thing. There's a strip of, and by the way, I was like hammered. What was it. Of course. And there was a pizza place in Tucson called Brooklyn Pizza and this one I could have gotten my ass kicked for. I had just gotten broken up with by my college girlfriend. I was very upset. I went down to Tucson to hang out with my friends and we were walking up I think it was 4th Ave. And there's a buy the slice place and some guy just got a slice. And I was walking again, inebriated,

and I become more of a responsible drinker as I've gotten older. And I took the slice out of his hands, like as he was going in for his first bite. And I took a big ass bite out of it and then threw it in the trash without breaking stride. I would have beat your ass. Like you take pizza that was about like because there's

nothing better nothing than the drunk slice. Like you're drunk. You stumble out of the bar. You get that slice. You're about to take the first bite and some asshole rips it out of your hand Takes a bite and then to be more of an asshole Throws it in the trash. I would have left you in a puddle of your own blood I was in a really dark place in my life at that time and I if you're listening to the show and that was you I'm sorry producer River Texas River you probably need to put this like we need to get you a YouTube login

and put it in the chat. Clearly Ari didn't go to an SEC school. Exactly, that's the kind of crap they put up with in the Pac-12. Like they don't put up with that in the SEC. I mean, also too, like it size up the person just by looking at them. Dude, you don't know?

What if that dude's like an MMA guy? What if he's got, what if the ear you can't, that's on the other side that you don't know? What if that dude's like an MMA guy? What if he's got, what if the ear you can't, that's on the other side that you don't see has cauliflower? Like you don't know that. There are guys walking around 135 pounds that would like I'm 215. They would kill me. They would, it would take them two seconds to murder me. Like you don't know

you don't take somebody's pizza. That that makes me think less of you as a human being. No, I actually like feel bad about it now. Like you should back back when you're like a 21 year old asshole and I was like going through a breakup and I was really upset and just like in a bad place in my life. But yeah, these are these are the things somebody said try to size up Bruce Lee. Also too like I should have gotten my ass kicked like that's part of life you know. It would have solved the problem and you never would have done it again or thought about it. Right like there have been a few times in my life where I've gotten close to getting my ass kicked and I've

had friends step in and save me but it is kind of a marvel that I've never been in a fight before. Maybe one day. It's your sense of humor that gets you out of it. I think that's saved you probably a few times. Yeah. But anyway, I want this podcast and me and you, I want this to be a journey of getting to know each other. And I want to be honest about the dark times in my life as much as the-

I'm not sure I want to work with you anymore after that. That is, that's disturbing. Yeah, I've had some, I'm actually kind of ashamed of it, but this is a safe place. This is my therapy. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Well, you have grown as a person. You would never do that now.

I know that about you. No, I wouldn't do that. I believe it. I believe it. If you do that when you're with me and the person goes to kick your ass, I'm not helping you. As I've gotten older, I'm going to tell the person whatever you do to him is

fair game. As I've gotten older, I just don't drink as much as I used to. So that's like, well, I mean, when you're 21 and an asshole and in college, I'd like lime is borderline discontinued. So that's probably why. Yeah, that's what happened. You can only find it in the 12 pack in the grocery store now. Vance in the chat asked us a question and I am saving this. So tomorrow is a Dear Andy, Dear Ari show. We love your questions. You're all brilliant. And I love the way you think about college football. So send us your questions. You know where to find us at Andy underscore staples on X and Instagram at

Ari Wasserman on X and Instagram, Andy staples on three at gmail.com Ari dot Wasserman at on three.com hit us with your questions. Vance has already hit us with a great bill Belichick question in the chat. How soon in the season will it take for Belichick to complain about the leniency of lineman downfield on passes? We're gonna hit this tomorrow. I had some conversations at the senior bowl about Belichick with folks who dealt with him in the NFL because I'm fascinated by how this is going to go. And I'm actually a little shocked that he is not, he's not causing the level of hype needle moving that, that Dion going to Colorado did. It's a little bit different, but I think once everything gets started and we're

watching Bill Belichick actually coach on a college sideline, it's going to just blow our minds. So I'm excited to answer that question. I'm excited. Add this to the question too, Andy. Why do you think the hype is not there? Like, what's your theory on that? Don't answer it now. Yeah, no, no, we got to think about it.

I actually really need to think about that because I don't know what my answer would be to that. So we'll talk about that. More questions. Also, don't forget our friends at prize picks. Have you covered for the Super Bowl? Download the app. Use the code staples to sign up. Play $5. Get $50 instantly. There's an almost free Patrick Mahomes Square. 0.5 passing yards. If he throws for more than that against the Eagles, then you are winning that

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