Blue By Ninety - The 99 - Friday, August 12th

Episode Date: August 12, 2022

Welcome to our new segment where the boys cover topics from all over. Sports, world news, entertainment etc. Crack a coldy and enjoy the show.

This is the University of Michigan. Touchdown, Michigan! The Beats of Michigan! And they've caught extra pass. And it goes for the win! The three-pointer by Jordan Poole! Down the sideline! Peebles-John!

Touchdown, Wolverines! nine this is a brand new show that we're gonna do here a couple times a week and uh it's gonna be something where we talk about more than just michigan sports we're gonna talk about just kind of the the big news of the you know that's going on around college football college sports the world in general uh and we're gonna try and run through like i mean we'll try to run through nine topics each time. If we like, I feel like we should get a reward if we actually do nine sometime. I'll be honest. I think we're going to struggle to get five.

I agree. But I think so. I think we can shoot for nine. And then like, if we ever get it, like there's like a jackpot that we met or something. Okay. Shoot for the stars land on the moon. Exactly. All right um all right it's august 11th we're recording this uh this will probably go out i don't know tomorrow morning or something on friday um all right first uh first topic we've got here

though um is wait i've got a topic no are you wearing the same shirt you wore in the last podcast yeah it was sitting on my chair from yesterday and i threw it on because i was wearing a red polo that's funny because we recorded on tuesday and you wore it on wednesday and now it's thursday do you only have one shirt this guy just wears the same shirt over and over. Wait, when did we record? We record on Tuesday night. Yeah, we did do Tuesday night because that's when Hard Knocks came out. Well, I didn't wear this yesterday.

It was just still sitting there. It hasn't gone through the laundry. How do we know you didn't wear it yesterday? Let's see. I don't know if I can prove this. Hey, you didn't send your daily outfit pick. Yeah. I usually do send you guys.

Every time I wake up in the morning, I see if my outfit is cute or not. So sick of those goddamn mirror pics, man. Just stop sending them to us. Well, nobody cares about your OCD. At least I'm doing them with a shirt on now.

They used to be shirtless. Yeah, that's bad. All right, so that was the first topic. Thank you, Jack, for bringing that up. Welcome. Now on to topic number two. If we do that, we might get denied. We might.

We might get denied real quick. I'm gaining more confidence. All right. So ESPN no longer for the Big Ten. Coming up here, it's just going to be Fox, NBC, and CBS. What are you guys' thoughts? Good or bad? Fine with me.

I mean, if that means – I do love the CBS because I love the SEC on CBS theme, however it goes. that's really it yeah does that mean a shit ton more money right shit ton more money coming in it was like it which i didn't really understand that it went from like 80 million to like 350 million or something like that yeah i don't i don't understand how that works. Does that mean there's going to be more 330 games and less noon games? I think so. I mean, Fox will still try and get it, but I think that the –

So what I heard was NBC – So it'll be Fox noon, CBS 330, NBC night. Okay. That'll be the situation. I think the NBC games are going to suck. Yeah, who's the announcers even for NBC? Unless it's like Tirico. Tirico.

Is it going to be Tirico? That'd be dope. Okay. I like Tirico a lot. I mean, this year they already have like five fucking noon games already. Like, it's brutal. Yeah, why is the night game? I don't know how i just found that out you just found that out yeah i have no idea we've been talking about this tailgate and everything for like

literal months nobody ever mentioned it was a night game all right well i don't know what to say that's pretty embarrassing anything for me now i'm just aware that it's a night game i'm throwing i didn't know yeah um you know what's gonna be annoying though is this what this is what's gonna happen we're gonna be on prime time on nbc and every commercial is gonna be for the next week's uh notre dame game yeah that's true nbc only does notre dame right pretty much they have like not only but like they they're exclusive for notre dame yeah that's gonna be really annoying or i do think or flip this around all right the positive here every notre dame game is gonna have commercials for the next you know michigan game ohio state all that shit that helps yeah it's just like oh it's all right notre dame fans that

that works is this like forcing the hand for notre dame to like actually join a conference i think it's the first step to them joining the big 10 yeah because they're gonna be like oh perfect like our network's already set up like this you can just join and then you still like can play on nbc every single week right i think that's what could work with notre dame and the big 10 because if notre dame there's mb they have like nbc has exclusive media rights for them right yeah but i like going back to like i know for a fact that like the michigan notre dame night games have been uh yeah or abc i'm just curious like how that'll work with notre dame's like tv schedule like if they're playing at the same time the Big Ten game is

or something. I'm sure that they'll figure it out. They're a lot smarter than us. Not wrong. Yeah, I guess I really have no strong feelings. I guess I'll miss ragging on Kirk Herbstreet a little bit until

the college football playoff. I Kirk Herbstreet a little bit until the college football playoff. But, like, eh. I like Herbstreet a lot. I know he's a Buckeye. I really like Herbstreet, and I think he gets a bad rap for being, like, this biased Buckeye. I think he's pretty actually, like, unbiased, to be honest. I think he used to be biased, like, you know,

towards the beginning when he became a commentator. But, like, he's gotten a lot better, I think he used to be biased towards the beginning when he became a commentator, but he's gotten a lot better, I think. I think the biggest thing that bothers me about Herbstreet is just anytime I fuck up in NCAA, that's the voice I hear. I think it's just like I associate his name with bad news.

Why aren't you better at NCAA? I don't know. Kalen, did you beat me last time too yeah i fucking lost last time we played yeah i don't know i'm trying i'm trying to be decent yeah not great what does that mean for college game day oh that's a good question well they go to like fbc games now college game day usually follows like where the ABC primetime game is. Yeah. Ah, fuck. That's a good point. Interesting.

But they still would go to schools even if their network wasn't broadcasting the game, if it was a really, really big game. I feel like the money runs it and they're like, they're only going only gonna they'll make whatever game i mean whatever game college game day goes to it becomes a big game you know that's true yeah so i feel like they're gonna try and push that whatever that prime time network yeah that's a good point interesting i guess we'll see i guess we'll see all I guess we'll see.

All right, we'll see how that goes down. Next thing I've got here, Al Avila. He's out. Let's fucking go. Not that I follow the Tigers like that fucking much. I just know everybody wants them gone. Hopefully it's a good thing for the Tigers, right? I can't imagine it would be a bad thing.

It can't be worse. They've had five straight seasons of being last in the division. Now remind me, is he the orchestrator of trading away all of our best assets? Literally. I don't even know why. Well, I mean, a lot of it was like their contracts were ending and they wanted to go elsewhere but what you do in that situation is you're supposed to get like a bunch of young

guys in trade for them and he got like nobody like for verlander he got one dude i can't even remember who it was now but the guy is like literally not in the majors anymore he never even made it past the minors was dom Dombrowski, was he the GM before? Yeah. And he was the GOAT. He fucking brought everybody. He did great. When did he leave?

He left, well, we kind of like. 2013, 14, something like that. That was the one thing. It was, to me, that was like the Michigan, like moving on from Lloyd Carr. Lions moving on from lloyd carr lions moving on from fucking uh matt millen or no um jim caldwell jim caldwell yes you're right patricia it's where like you think that you're like the grass is always greener and it's just not like hey if you're consistently winning the division and going to the world series like how about we keep that up like not that many people do it even if you don't win the world series you know yeah just make it to the fucking playoffs

is that topic number three what that is that's a topic this is the topic that's all yeah so i'll just clarify i had nothing else to say on it so i'll just clarify yeah i'm excited i mean i still think the issue is uh chris hillich still is the the owner um and he doesn't want to win nearly as bad as his dad, Mike Gillidge, did. Like, as a fan, like, for the benefit of the Tigers, like, Mr. I wanting to win before he passed away was, like, the best thing ever because he was like, whatever we need to spend, we're spending it, you know? He's got to sell the team team what's the next move right maybe we'll see he i think the other issue is that he cares a lot about the red wings

and doesn't care i know i forgot that he owned the red wings too pistons also no that's uh That's Gores, Tom Gores, who is like a literal cokehead. Yeah. All right, cool. This next one, I don't know if you guys saw this. Me and Kalen were just talking about it. It happened like five minutes before we jumped on. So apparently John Calipari came out and he was like telling reporters how they needed like needed new facilities at kentucky and he straight up

said like we're a basketball school we're not a football school i'm rooting for them to get 10 wins but like we're basketball school straight up the focus is on basketball and like not a good look for you know you're i you know i don't know not a good look mark stoops who's the football coach like quote tweeted it it was like i'm sorry i thought we were played in the SEC. That's a football conference. And we've been in the postseason five years in a row now. And then, like, after that, it started snowballing, and even players were quote tweeting it and being like, oh, I'm sorry, did we lose to St. Peter's last year?

No, the basketball team did. So, trouble in paradise? They're tearing themselves apart man how do we get that to happen at ohio state can we do that somehow figure that out get ball sack sports to tweet something out ball sack sports get out a fake Yeah, we should for sure. Well, it makes me feel good because Juwan was just talking to the football team, right? So, like, obviously they're tight. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's very dumb of Calipari to come out and say that. But, like, I don't know if you're mark he wanted facilities but like don't brag on your football team in the in the meantime right i think they must have been like doing something for new football facilities and he's like fuck the football facilities We need basketball facilities because we're a basketball school. But, I don't know. Interesting. Who are you siding with there? Stoops or Calipari?

I don't know. Kentucky football is kind of hot now, dude. I'm going to go Stoops. Yeah, I'm with you. Kentucky football is actually pretty solid i also think too um yeah i've yeah he's a loser he's a loser for sure um all right next topic here mozzie smith it's fucking wild dude number one freaking college football according to bruce feldman you see that it had what four guys in the top 50 yeah i think four guys in the top 50 and then 20 2020 was quitty pay was number one and then 2021 was hutchinson was number two that's what it was i mean there's got

to be a michigan bias here i love our guys but like i don't know if we've got the biggest freaking college football like every single year right i mean i think it's fair to say for aiden hutchinson and quitty pay dude our strength staff is just different, bro. Mozzie Smith. I mean, I'm not hating on it. I love it. They're literally like building new machines for Mozzie Smith so he can lift more weight. That's the most incredible thing.

I mean, that's insane. And he's fast, too. Right. He's jumping up those playa stairs. You know who you know, who's going to, I mean, Michigan is going to keep this going because Kenneth Grant and Mason Graham both could be on this list like very soon.

Dude, I think, wait, no, I think Kenneth Grant is on the list. Oh, already. Yeah.

I think it was, I think Eric all DJ Turner and, oh already yeah i think it was uh i think eric all dj turner and uh kenneth grant was like number 46 wow yeah um hasn't played a down of football right hasn't played a down of football i feel like that could be a prerequisite for this list i don't't know. Yeah, I agree. I'll take it, though. Although if like, you know, if all of a sudden Kenneth Grant is like one of the top D linemen this year, Bruce Feldman looks like a genius. Like a fucking genius. Yeah.

So I don't hate that either. Yeah. I can't wait to see Mozzie just blow up some Ohio State linemen. Yeah. I mean, is this setting the bar too high for Mozzie now? Maybe a little bit. But his stats are just off the chart. Yeah, I'm going to say no because I feel like their stats at least –

I mean, say he's the number one freak. It doesn't mean he's the number one D lineman, like he is freakishly strong and athletic for his size so uh no i don't think it should affect him yeah i was curious to hear like mike warren say he that uh mozzie's like the leader of that defense though because we just talked about that the other day and mozzie smith was not on our list i think you're. So that was cool to hear. I wish Chris Hinton was still in the building, and then they could have two of those dudes in the middle, you know? I know.

Well, you might still have him. Kenneth Grant or Mason Graham. I feel like we're going to say that all year long or something. All right. Next up. Oh, this is a fun one kim kardashian boyfriend odds there was somebody so let me pull this up real quick on on what exactly dude it's like official i saw this on odd shark okay so i thought it thought it... Honestly, when I first saw it, I thought it was like a ball sack sports. I mean, I think it is.

Kinda, sorta. I don't think so. Odd Shark is like... No, they're like actually taking that. Plus 20,000. What did you say, Donald Trump? Yeah, he's on the list. Plus 20,000. Ray J.

Yeah, that was the one that was like, okay, no fucking chance they're getting back together. Oh my god. Am I dumb? Who's Van Jones? I don't know who that is. He's a CNN commentator. What? That seems like the least likely.

Chris Evans, who played at Michigan, is on the list. Chris Evans plus 1,400. It's Jamie Foxx, Chris Evans, and then Harry Styles. Chris Evans, former Michigan running back, current Cincinnati Bengal, has higher odds than Kanye. That's fucking wild. She's already been married to Kanye. Oh, my God.

Oh, she already knows she doesn't like it. I just want to know where this came from. Like, I would have assumed that they threw out there one of the top, no dig at our guy Chris Evans, but why wouldn't they pick a top running back like Christian McCaffrey or something? Yeah. Derrick Henry. Yeah.

Anybody like that seems like I would be like, okay, makes sense. Or like an NBA player. The Kardashians do love their NBA players. They also love their football players. Remember she went out with Reggie Bush? Oh, she did. That's right. Yeah. Went out with Reggie Bush. Was married to that one guy

in the NBA for 72 hours. For 72 days. Chris Humphries, right? Yeah. Jamie Foxx is on here. Nick Cannon. Nick Cannon has like 25 kids. All different moms. What's his name?

What's the short comedian? Kevin Hart. Send him like a vending machine full of condoms or something oh my god that's oh chris evans did put he he retweeted it and put the eyeball emoji that's funny that's pretty funny i would i mean you have to like blow it up if you're him, right? You have to. Yeah. I wonder, does this mean that Chris Evans has hung out or hooked up with Kim Kardashian? I mean, if it's a legitimate betting odds,

they've got to have something behind it. Yeah, I would think so. I don't know i that's why i think it's just fucking random i mean it's got to be but like usually like if it was fake in these odds like the bookmakers would pick like a big name to throw people off and i don't think chris evans is like that big name you know but that's why i think it's like that i think i'm thinking the same logic but with chris evans like they pick a random fucking name out of a hat to make it more legitimate or or was it like some some intern screwed up and it was supposed to be chris evans the actor but but it was so clear like chris ch, Cincinnati. I know. I know.

I would have loved to be in the locker room when this comes out and all the guys are just dogging him. Oh. I mean, would they be dogging him? I'd kind of give him his props. Dude, all the replies on Twitter are just like, Chris, don't do it. We just broke the Bengals curse. Oh, yeah. They don't need the Kardashian curse.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I would bet on this one. This is too difficult. Throw all my money on Trump. See what happens. There you go. I wouldn't doubt that he would do it for for some attention too for some what would he say like what would he say on there rake feels like a good bet oh yeah drake for sure i could see

that oh wait it's not husband it's boyfriend huh yeah interesting johnny depp would be interesting too. Jesus. M&M too. Throwing it back to fucking old days. Oh yeah. She's not young though, right? She's like 40 something. She's got to be getting up there though. And M&M's like 50.

Yeah. Alright. We got one more here. that's insane that we made it through this i mean there there wasn't nine to begin with i do have a i've got a uh you're able to count i've got a topic at the end awesome all right make a banner for it and put it up okay all right does michigan need a mascot i shout out to my my guy jonas drebgo on uh on twitter sm uh he's he said he'll just volunteer to be the mascot um that would be awesome yeah i would love that um kaylin you brought this one up go for it yeah like i just feel like first off i just omit all like live animal mascots i'm just like just get out of here you have like a dog on your on a leash

that's that's not fair like the bulldog you need like a guy in a costume like that's a mascot somebody being crazy and so like there's like really three categories of mascot there's like good there's bad and then there's just like weird stuff right like a good mascot is like if you look up like university of montana they have a guy who dresses up in like some sort of bear costume and rides a Harley. That is awesome. Unfortunately, our rival in-state has a pretty good mascot. Sparty's a good mascot.

Right? You know who has a bad mascot? It's Ohio State. It's just literally a nut on his head. It just looks like a butthole. I'll give you what, though. At least they have a mascot for it. Yes. Exactly. That's my point.

And then you get into weird mascots, and that's like Western Kentucky. It's just like an amorphous red blob. Hilltoppers, right? And also Xavier. Xavier has two mascots. One is this guy with sabers and a Z zoro hat but i guess he was

like scaring children in the 80s so they added another mascot and it's just a blue version of the western kentucky mascot it's just a blue blob what about the stanford tree i love that one i put that in the weird because it's just out there, right? Yeah. But weird, I think that makes it different. Weird is okay. So that's where I go for Michigan. You can't just have a guy in a weird animal costume, right? Well, I think you do kind of like what Ohio State does.

Just do the headgear. Get a Wolverine mascot head and then give the guy like a michigan sweater and khakis and call him walter walter the wolverine but like that's my thing like if you just put on a a helmet type deal or something right it's like i don't know if you're a bear are you a wolverine are you a muskrat like you just look like a random animal so it has to be like something really different to make people go like that's the walter the wolverine or whatever you could just put wolverine on his nameplate i'll say you're at a michigan game you probably know it's a wolverine like i'm like why not like use like the marvel wolverine character as inspiration or do something a little bit

different so that it like really stands out and so it's not just like oh there's another animal you could just change his sweater and he would be someone else i think you're getting too picky i think we just need to get a mascot then we can discuss those details you know uh what we had at the Mud Hens was it was Muddy, and then Muddy had a girlfriend, and it was Madonna. I like it. I think Phillies do that maybe. They have a girl version. They might, yeah. I'm just thinking I cannot imagine the internet outrage.

No matter what, it could be the coolest thing in the world and the internet outrage and the outrage of michigan old blue heads and everything would be insane like i that comment section would be the craziest thing in the world i don't know i'm just saying if they can do a classic wolverine head give the guy a michigan like sweater or something throw some khakis on there i think you're golden maybe a little tail i don't think wolverines actually have tails they don't need a tail they do a little small one though huh yeah like oakley yep

yeah i mean i think part of it is like not many people actually know what a wolverine looks like because it i mean you said it caitlin like it literally like it is a a cross between a bear like a muskrat a beaver like it's yeah we actually used to have a mascot in the early 1900s called Biff. I did. I have seen that. It's like, it's like Royal blue and yellow. Like it was a live month.

It was a live Wolverine. Oh wait, what really? Yeah. And we kept it on campus, but it was obviously Wolverines are like super dangerous. So it was like growling at people or whatever, and they had to get rid

of it. Okay, I just while Googling realized that the name like the actual name for a Wolverine is Gulo Gulo, which is the beer at Wolverine

Brewing. Wow. We should definitely have our mascot named Gulo Gulo. There you go. It's a muscular carnivore and a solitary animal. I feel that. I mean, the solitary thing is perfect muscular carnival

is that just me? here's a question do you think that Wolverine and maybe this is true already Wolverine the character is blue and yellow is that after Michigan? that's a good question. Maybe.

I mean, when did Wolverine start up? Like, fucking early 1900s? The cartoon? Yeah. That's what we need Patty for. In the 60s? Yeah. Early 1900s? I don't fucking know.

It's like Batman or something. Yeah. Yeah. They had shit that back then. I think. I mean, I feel like it's gotta be after Michigan a little bit too similar.

Not to be true. All right. Moving on. All right. Yeah. I got a fucking ticket because I turned on red

on a no turn on red downtown. Was there a sign? Yeah. You just didn't see it? Oh, I saw it. I just didn't look to see that there was a cop right behind me in my rear view. Literally right behind you? Literally right behind me. I'm like,

come on. What is the deal with no turn on red? like what what is that like they just pick and choose randomly like what fucking streets you can turn on red and not turn on red on makes no fucking sense to me if anything just put like be cautious when turning like i just don't understand it nobody's coming i can fucking turn on red why would i not be able to turn on red so It's so stupid. I think it's usually... Is it not? Usually when you like, there's a green turn lane

on the other side and people are coming from multiple ways, maybe. I guess, but what? I don't have fucking eyes. I can't see that people are moving. Oh, this is the best. best oh that makes me so happy i'm so mad heather just types me i must have got it in the mail she's like 170 bucks for a ticket

did you hit somebody no i wish i would hit somebody i just fucking well the good news is if you fight a ticket no matter what you almost always get it reduced even if you're totally like messed up you should go do that so yeah just literally just go and just say like i'm sorry and they'll be like all right 60 bucks all right okay sweet thanks or like the cop won't even show up and then they just drop it yeah oh interesting all right try that keep you updated yeah i'd say i mean my advice would be just not pay it. Like, what are they going to do? You know? I mean, I'm very much on that path.

This country's not even real, man. Yeah. It's just the man trying to keep us down, man. I'm my own country. Trying to keep control over us, man. Rage against the machine. Fuck you, I won't do it. You tell me. I think we gotta just go back

to the 60s. Wow. Straight hippie. Okay. That part. Good. I agree. Yeah. That's awesome. Wow. I don't know if I want to go back that far. The hippie point.

Anything before 1980. Hold on. That is not what I go back that far. Anything before 1980. Hold on. That is not what I meant by any means. Whatever, dude. You grew up on the west side of the state. It's okay. The joke is he meant 1860. 1860. Those were the good old days.

Yeah, we need more hippies. No, dude. I'm with you. That took a turn. All on that we're gonna end i think go get you your ticket paid or don't you know actually i would love the entertainment factor of you like trying to escape like oh i mean i just say don't pay your taxes either like actually you know what honestly the the final thing I have here is why do we have to figure out how much we pay in taxes? Preach. They should just give us the number.

They know. They already know. Why do I have to come up with the number and pay money to figure it out? And then they tell you you're wrong yeah they do tell you what to pay though you do all your taxes then you file them and then if you get them wrong they audit you right which means that they know the right numbers so if they already know the right numbers why don't you just tell me what i owe i feel like okay you're onto something here i like this um i get the feeling

jack's never done his taxes and no i do my taxes i take them to a fucking the lady so they're done right but uh i think i do like we have like they should just send you like boom like this is what you owe this year and then you take them in to see if you can get any deductions or whatever like yada yada yada that would be way better i think more people would do their taxes less crime less tax evasion yeah there we go yeah i i mean i'm in agreement like it's it's ridiculous to me it is i don't understand it it's the most annoying time of year it would be it's like the concept is like all right i'm gonna

go to the the grocery store and i'm just gonna like try and calculate it all in my head and give you the right amount and then if i'm like short, they're like, you've got a fine now. We're taking you back to the grocery store jail. Yeah. I don't know if that's a good analogy. Because you're still doing all the work in the grocery store, grabbing everything, putting it all together. Yeah. grabbing everything putting all together yeah i you know that like that's what like that's what you're supposed to do for your taxes there were businesses like h&r block that were

made to like do them but it's still like you as a human being and a citizen doing them, not the government. The reason that they don't do it that way is because TurboTax and H&R Block petitioned the government to not do that because how would they make money? We got to take down H&R Block and TurboTax.

That is the solution to our problems. We're coming for you. Unless we want to sponsor us and then we're in. Ooh, yeah. Good point. Somehow this has to do with Kim Kardashian's boyfriend and right turns on reds. Yep.

No, don't turn on red. How did you – tell me about the experience like did the car i was like delivering a door dash order and uh this guy comes up to me he's like do you know uh he's like did you see that no turn on red and of course i'm like no he's like okay well there was no turn on red like you know give me your like license and registrations that. Went back to his car for like fucking 10 minutes. Why does it take so long too? I don't like... What are you looking up?

You're looking up like my... I'm looking up like database. Like does this guy have like previous charges? Like shit like that. Like whatever. Why does it take that long? That should like come up quick. I could do a Google search in that in like 30 seconds. Yeah, I don't know why it takes him so 30 seconds right yeah i don't i don't know why it takes him so fucking long he's like i don't know this guy's bald and he was like he was like hey

like i'm gonna downgrade it to uh i didn't know how this is a fucking downgrade but i'm gonna downgrade it to like you didn't know trying to read i'm gonna downgrade it to um what was it impeding traffic or like hitting a citizen while driving or some shit my college had a downgrade i feel like that's worse there's something like that i think that's why heather texted me and was like did you hit somebody on the road because that must be what it says on the ticket but i'll have to look at it i was like so confused at that moment in time. Hitting a kid. The story gets better.

You can hit a kid. It's less of a problem than turning on fucking red when it's the dumbest thing in the world. Oh, my gosh. That's good stuff. I'm glad you're all right. You're like the NFL with their policies. It's just fucking ridiculous. Roger Goodell between the government, the taxes and Roger Goodell.

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