The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
The hosts Mitch and Bart discuss fitness, fatherhood, and guy stuff to help men live a great life, have fun, laugh, and get a little more fit in this weekly Podcast.
The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
Mitch and Bart’s 2024 recap and setting goals for 2025
This episode reflects on our experiences in 2024, highlighting both triumphs and challenges as we transition into the New Year. We discuss family dynamics, fitness goals, and the importance of shared experiences, emphasizing the need to embrace resilience while looking forward to 2025.
• Bart's family growth and personal reconnection
• Mitch's struggles and lessons learned in 2024
• Fitness aspirations and the pursuit of health
• Planning vacations and the joy of shared experiences
• Reflections on the Texas Longhorns football season
Join us in wishing for a successful 2025!
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Welcome to Dadbods and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch.
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm Bart, and Happy New Year everybody.
Speaker 1:Thanks so much for listening, liking, subscribing All 2025. Do it every single day. We love you. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:In fact unsubscribe and then resubscribe several times. Ooh, that'd be nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Five-star reviews. Don't care what you say in the comments, but even if it's screw you.
Speaker 2:But this hear what you say in the comments but even if it's, screw you, but this year is going to be a huge year. It's going to be a big year bar. I'm so pumped, dude. This is exciting stuff. 2025 definitely, uh, going to be a great year, starting with uh, how great ut is doing and uh, yeah, but we'll say that we're going to save our one minute of football towards the end, because the texas Longhorns are playing on Friday.
Speaker 1:You're listening to this Thursday, so they're playing tomorrow, and so we're going to talk about that at the end. But in the meantime, I'd love to hear about how your 2024 was, man All right.
Speaker 2:So the 2024 wrap up for me, so a really phenomenal year. I mean I think I always look at like family personal business, right. I mean I think you always look at like family personal business, right. So family, I think my son really like came into a new place in terms of confidence and like just enthusiasm about the different things he's into karate school, arts and stuff like that. And so that was really cool because just you know, when your kid's kind of a shy kid, you know you're always him. He just seemed to lock in this year on things he really liked. He got a lot of confidence from that.
Speaker 2:My wife and I also had a really beautiful reconnecting. It's 17 years. It's like you're always trying to find fresh stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Especially the second half of the year. It's been really great just kind of just finding a lot of like just synergy in terms of our energy, what we're doing and and a lot of that and some of that's like health related and some of that's just like intimacy related and that kind of yeah, um and then and then, business wise um you started this, basically your own you've been doing your own stuff, but you've kind of ramped it up, yeah so I've just taken my personal training business and really opened it up to bringing new trainers on, helping them get clients and starting to build.
Speaker 2:So I have a real big vision for 2025 with that, you know, bringing on more trainers and, just you know, creating a situation where you know the problem with being a trainer is like if you go away for a two-week vacation, you just lost half of your monthly income and so. So that's one of the challenges with with the longevity of the fitness industry is like, unless you find a way to to scale beyond just yourself, then you're always kind of trading time for money makes it hard to travel with family, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:So anyway, long story short by 2025, you'll be there, or did you feel that I have?
Speaker 2:a I'm already getting there yeah but I've kind of like crunched the numbers, figured out kind of where I need to be in terms of like trainers, and how many clients they need to have, so that I can, you know, have that more freedom in terms of flexibility and that kind of.
Speaker 1:What do you find is the hardest part about that? I mean you gotta find the right people.
Speaker 2:It's always the right people and it's loyalty, because you know, you know I mean, it's just the way that the industry works and all that kind of stuff and you just need people and I have to be able to get them clients, you know, be able to get them good clients that want to stick around and work out for a while and that kind of stuff, Because that's you know, it's all about finding the right people.
Speaker 1:How do you keep them from stealing those clients and doing their own thing? Loyalty, finding the right people, finding the right people and paying them well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Are their percentages better than like? Are you paying them better than they would pay?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I mean I'm always appalled like at Lifetime Fitness. I'm like they get 50, 55%. I mean.
Speaker 1:But they do the people. They give in leads. Are you giving them leads as well? I'm given leads. Are you giving them leads as well? I'm giving them clients. Dang, I'm like giving them two times a week, three times. Surprising, you haven't asked me to be a trainer.
Speaker 2:I don't want to complicate our relationship. And then finally, uh, though you know it was a great year fitness, wise, health, all that kind of stuff you know I coming out, I'm two months away from being 50, you know you haven't just turned 40 March, but, yeah, march 5th, so literally like two months, um, but so that. So that's on my mind and that's cool. But uh, that's also propelled me into like thinking about my goals for this year, which we'll talk about a little bit later. Absolutely, what about you Talk about your 2000 man?
Speaker 1:So that's a good way to put it up. Put it down, cause I haven't really had a good time to sit down and kind of review where my life has been. 2024 is a whirlwind. It was a, it was. I mean, if I'm being real honest, it was pretty, it was pretty shitty. Uh, pretty shitty year for me. Uh, you know, I'll tell you the good news and the bad news and whatever.
Speaker 1:But, um, you know, as far as family goes, I think the theme of our life has now become rhythm, like, I think, for the first time in our lives.
Speaker 1:We kind of know what we want and what we love as a family and so we're finally finding a rhythm of vacation and time together and you know giving them freedom and flexibility and you know finding their sports I think you talk about jack is a great example. I feel like my son's finding his rhythm and what he loves and what he's good at and finding success in it, which is even more important Once you find that thing like being successful at it. And then my daughter's just, you know, seventh grade, about to be 13. There's a lot of changing going on, but like she's found her friend group that is going to probably be that group that she gets through to high school with. You know who knows what happens in high school. There's always those transitions, but and they all you know, most of her friends love Jesus, which is really cool. So, you know, good influences kids and she get part of a Bible study. Um, she loves to go to. So the real reason we go to that certain church is because she likes the youth group.
Speaker 1:You know she likes the student ministry, which is super cool because I'm not pushing her and I don't work for the church anymore, so it's not like she's just there because dad works here Right. So that's a really cool thing to see. And I feel like my and I say rhythm too, because I think my wife has really found a rhythm in her practice and she's she seems very confident in it. And I think that was always the hardest part was she was such a successful ICU nurse where she was kind of the expert that people came to that going into a whole other field in industry, even though it's still healthcare. I think you start to really second guess yourself. And I think she now has her own clientele that's coming to see her specifically and she's giving them what they need and she's just finding her rhythm and confidence and I love that. So that's helped a lot.
Speaker 1:And you know me personally I think the weight loss has been great. You know it's nice to it's nice to not think about food. You know I'm still on ozempic, just fyi, but I've kind of found a plateau and a maintenance. So I've been working out the your workouts that you've been giving me um, so my body's changed a lot.
Speaker 1:My body responds really well to weight lifting, so, uh, I'm really excited about seeing what this first year, this new year, brings with that consistently, because I don't think discipline's a hard thing with working out and, you know, it's just seems to be a part of my daily routine now. Um, so that's been really cool and being 40, I've been looking forward to it. I'm excited to see what. You know it is weird saying you're 40 cause it does feel old, you know. But as far as I'm concerned, I'm like super pumped to to see what that looks like for me in the next decade, to see what that looks like for me in the next decade. And you know, as far as business-wise, you know, personal job stuff, I think I've seen ups and downs, but you know, like it's just been a, it's been one of those years where there's just not much you could control and I think that's the hard issue. It's like, even if I put a plan together and I'm a plan guy, you know, get my, get my three I'm a three pillar guy do my three big things and focus on those and drive those and and, uh, just never really caught anything Right. You know just many things just kind of fell apart in the midst of me trying to hold it all together. Um, so that's been tough, uh, and I haven't actually even had time. I mean, when you ask me about it, I was like, well, let me tell you. And you're like what's been good? And it's like I don't know. Man, like I honestly I enjoy this, I enjoy talking about life and fitness and, um, I feel like I've I feel like 2025, I have a lot of great relationships. That's friendships have been great, you know. I think that's another thing that would be successful is like just having great friend groups of people I love and trust. It's just been amazing to see what God's done in that. Uh, and I think in the future, I think 2025, I'm always optimistic the next year, um, so kind of going into you know everybody talks about it right, the new year's resolution I did this is probably the first year I haven't, like actually sat down and gone.
Speaker 1:No, these are the things I want to accomplish, Cause last year I wanted to learn the harmonica. Didn't do that. I practiced twice. Uh, I wanted to lose weight. I did that, but I had a specific goal, didn't hit it. I wanted to be in a thousand club, you know where you thousand pound where you bench, you deadlift squat, like that was on my list.
Speaker 1:Did it do that? I mean, I'm close, always, always been close, but never really dedicated to push myself to it. Um, and you know, just like I always have a financial goal in mind, and. I think you know I always have ambition, high ambition, but just never really hit it, you know. So, yeah, 2024 is probably my worst year ever. Okay, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 2:Honesty is good.
Speaker 1:If I'm being such a downer.
Speaker 2:No, I think I mean it's good to take stock at, like what you want to improve and and it could be worse, like looking back and like how, how you might like see things through a little differently this year than last year, you know? And let's, let's go right into the the thousand pound club, because this is something that I've decided.
Speaker 1:I I'm I love it, man, I'm all about it.
Speaker 2:Let's do it, and some of it's coming about because I've I've gotten back into bench press.
Speaker 1:You know, I've been I've been on this like, oh, dumbbells, dumbbells you know, protect your shoulders um, and now you're like f it. I'm 50.
Speaker 2:Let's screw these shoulders up no, you know, I just I've really looked at like my, like my technique and some of my stuff and just really figured out how to do it where it doesn't hurt my shoulder yeah and I, you, you always know, like if you do bench press and then the next day you're like, then you're like dude, that was not the right move.
Speaker 1:But I'm not so sorry. What is the movement, then? Because mine hurts while doing it, While doing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's just now coming the way every set I do a bench feels better, Like the first warm-up sets. Usually there's a little bit of just like. I'm just okay, I'm just making sure it doesn't really hurt, but it's like.
Speaker 1:It's like there's something noticeable on the left side, so you keep it right at your nips.
Speaker 2:Is that kind of like? No, I'm pretty wide, I'm about a 90 degree angle at the elbow, okay, so like if you know they have the rings. Yeah, I put my middle finger on the rings on the wide, so between the wide and the inside sometimes there's two rings, sometimes there's okay, there's like the middle part, that's smooth, and then, when the grip starts, there's a ring.
Speaker 1:And the middle grip is like working tris, basically because it's really close to the outer. Got it.
Speaker 2:Anyway. So my goal is and I've kind of done the math I want to bench 165, which is very doable, because I can bench 150.
Speaker 1:165? 265.
Speaker 2:Dang dude, dude I mean, I just did 240 yesterday and I could probably do two.
Speaker 1:How did it feel? Did you think, oh great, I mean, I was like slow control.
Speaker 2:I probably if. If somebody was screaming at me, I probably could have got a second rep on 240 dude, I hate when people scream at me.
Speaker 1:I know that's the worst, but it's not so.
Speaker 2:It's not so. I've done the math 265 there. I want to do deadlift 425 which it was it currently uh, well, I've done. I've done 355 for five pretty easily okay like in a set. So I figure like if I can do 355 for five, I can do probably 400 you can probably do 425 right now. I don't think I can do 425, but I think I could do 400 for one or 405.
Speaker 1:You're sandbagging, I know you are um. You're gonna do do this by February.
Speaker 2:And then I've got to get my squat up to 315.
Speaker 1:315. What is it at now?
Speaker 2:It's at I mean I'm doing sets of four with 265.
Speaker 1:Okay, you probably can do that, so you're okay if you're doing math at home. That's 15, carry the one, that's 10, carry the one Three seven 10. That's 10,. Carry the one Three seven 10. That's 1,005. That's good yeah.
Speaker 2:That's exciting. You know, it's a give or take of five pounds on any of those lifts. Give yourself five. Yeah, a little extra.
Speaker 1:Dude, I think if we did that you could probably do it right now. Do you have to do it all in one day?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's warm up. We'll do bench first, then we'll squat and then we'll deadlift, and then I don't care if we take 20 to 30 minutes in between all those. You know the different lifts, like we'll warm up progress up, we got to film it, dude. Hit whatever our max squat is and Los Combin combinados they got all the like oh yeah, it's all about my house. Yeah, yeah, I love that's my train. That's where you go now.
Speaker 2:I've given up on lifetime, piece of shit I hate, I still have a membership there and I just every time I go there, I'm like I just hate this place. Really, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1:I've just moved on okay, so I get old relationship you just want to like, but you can't keeps calling, calling your name.
Speaker 2:I could take my son there. So I took him there yesterday and we did like we did, uh, just working on the technique of bench press, yeah, pull-ups, and then, um, crab walk, bear crawls, and he ran on the treadmill for like 10 minutes, and so so I just I want to kind of keep it.
Speaker 1:For that reason, bring him there that's cool, but anyway, all righty, so mine will be. Yeah, it looks like. So I don't honestly know where I'm at with deadlift or squat. I mean, I do your squat workout and I do four sets of 12, 10, 10 and 8 at 205. You know pretty good technique. Yeah, um, you know, in high school I could I think I maxed out at 350, but I hated squats. I never did them and deadlifts have just never been a big part of my life. Yeah, I think I did 300 one time. Yeah, you know, but technique, you're gonna kill me on technique and you're pissing me off. So we got to set the technique early. So you're not like, oh, that doesn't count. Like when I do 100 push-ups, you're like, oh, that doesn't count. Okay, so mine is sorry, I don't. I'm not imitating you, I'm imitating people in general bro doesn't care and I?
Speaker 1:hate when people scream like you got this, you got this, oh stupid. Yeah, I know, I got it, bro, all right, so my highest max is a 365 on bench on bench okay, but I I could probably do 290 pretty easily.
Speaker 2:So let's say 300.
Speaker 1:So let's just say I don't know, the 300 might be in my head.
Speaker 2:You know that's a little, but 300. Okay, I could do 300 at bench.
Speaker 1:I could do yeah, cause my math is way off. When I did it I was thinking 350 at squat.
Speaker 2:Okay, right, so now you're at 650. So you got to need 350 to get to.
Speaker 1:So 350 deadlift. Yeah, that's what legitimately I think I could do. Okay, I think I'm definitely above 300 on all of them.
Speaker 2:So you'd be, you know, it'd be a good idea to kind of get you know, to do some test yourself a little bit on some of those and just you know, see, see, what I can do like right now if you can do 275 once yeah, on bench bench great, uh, if you can do 325 once and 325 on deadlift once, then you're.
Speaker 1:Then you know, you can kind of like say, okay, I think we're not talking about the little machine where you sit in the middle of it, right?
Speaker 2:No, no, hex barbell, yeah, okay, cool Like real barbell, real barbell.
Speaker 1:Straps Got it All right. So I only have 300 at my house, which is where I work out, but I'll try that next time I'll try to pop up. Well, we should go to.
Speaker 2:We should go to look, come beyond us together.
Speaker 1:Get it, see it.
Speaker 2:Yeah and just get, get, get like a day pass and just go, you know we'll do, we'll do a couple of lifts.
Speaker 1:See what it looks like. Yeah, sounds good. Yeah, cool. Well, let's do it man.
Speaker 2:I'm excited club you can want to. Maybe you want to do the 600 pound club 800.
Speaker 1:Pick a number and work towards it.
Speaker 2:Good for a thousand is fun because it's like yeah to me like if I could do a thousand pound at 50, 50 years old yeah, that's, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Hell, yeah, that's pretty. I love it. Man, just keep doing the workouts you sent me and I'll be there, you think?
Speaker 2:no, I'm gonna we'll change it up a little bit because I've got I've been working off of a strength matrix. Actually I found out it's from the Ohio State Buckeyes strength program, which is so anti-UT.
Speaker 1:I don't want to talk about the Buckeyes, the Buckeyes, but anyway, yeah, it's a strength matrix.
Speaker 2:You basically do your warm-ups and you do eight reps five, three, one, one, one and then back to five, and so it progressively takes you up. But that one rep is never like your max. It's usually like 85, usually probably, if you do the math.
Speaker 1:We could do the Nebraska Pyramid. We could go old school dude. That's what I used to work out on when I was in high school.
Speaker 2:But that's why like yesterday, that's why like yesterday. So yesterday I did, you know, like, you know one. I think it was like 185 for eight, 205 for five, 215 for three, and then I went to 240 and did one, one one, so three sets of one on 240, and then dropped back down to 205 for five more reps. So it was like it's almost like eight reps, or it's eight sets over the course.
Speaker 1:But more reps. So it was like it's almost like eight reps or eight sets over the course, but it it's really like it.
Speaker 2:It it has. I've been doing it for the last month or month and a half. It's been really fun to get us progressed from 225 I'm getting nervous now thinking about it. Dude, let's go, let's go that's cool.
Speaker 1:So what about, like family?
Speaker 2:you got family resolutions or anything like that um, yeah, you know, one of the big ones for me is just like I want to take my family on a really cool, like big vacation, you know, either this summer or in the fall. You know there's something and that's part of like getting my business in order so that I can really feel good about, because right now I mean I'm you know, the majority of the income that comes in for our house is through my training. Yeah, so you take two weeks of that out and that's tough to do. It can be done, but it's like. So what I want to do for the first half of this year is just to really help get trainers working with me and training people and even people that could be subbing for my clients while I'm away, so that I can, because I'd really like to take my family on a really cool vacation.
Speaker 1:Where would you go? What's a cool vacation for you?
Speaker 2:You know, something like California, like doing multiple cities in California, like Napa, san Francisco, santa Barbara, san Diego, something like that, maybe even going to a town, just go to the Pacific Coast Highway all the way, or maybe just going like doing like NorCal and doing like Tahoe for several days and San Francisco and Napa. Tahoe would be great, something like that. Anyway, there's some of it has to do with just like timing with my son's school, yeah, or we can do something over the holidays or something like that so anyway, that's kind of the, that's the big kind of just getting all that to align.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know you know what you should try. What's that? I did this with the family and it is awesome what's that? When, during covid, I rented. My buddy has an rv and I rented it from him but, you know, for less than he normally would yeah and we drove it 10-day trip.
Speaker 1:We drove from Austin all the way up to Yellowstone and we stayed at like a KOA campground for a couple days. I got a little car we could drive around, drive up to the. You know, through the spent hours on the car driving these places and drove back, I mean it was a long haul, right, but it was one of the best experiences as a family.
Speaker 1:I mean it was probably one of the best vacations I've ever been on, and there was horrible stuff that happened, Like we almost died from carbon monoxide poisoning. I mean it was wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but that's the thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like super cool. I mean, that makes it all fun, right, right, when you think back on it, it so uh, you should try that and we had a similar thing where we drove all the way to um.
Speaker 2:We had back when I had a tundra. It's my wife and son and I. We all got in the tundra. We drove all the way to, uh, lake city, um, not park city, but lake city, colorado okay and spent like a week in these cabins that my friend owned on her property, and then we, just we drove all around the american basin and yeah, all right, kind of that area and and then drove all the way back and it was about, you know, eight or nine days total that's a lot, and it was it was a lot of driving, but it was so much fun.
Speaker 2:I mean especially having the tundra, because my forerunner would be the same. It's four-wheel drive. We could take it. We literally had to like put it into four-wheel drive and just like go all these backcountry you know like mountain roads and like up into the basin. It was awesome, yeah, so yeah, I agree with you. Something like that would be a lot of fun, whether it's, you know, renting a, like you know, some sort of a I like the idea of like a camper type thing pull, bumper pull type thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you pull it, yeah, yeah, that I mean. And the cool thing is, with, uh like the rental apps, you can go to wherever you're going. Uh-huh, rent it there, uh-huh so you don't have to drive it and then you can leave it unless you're stopping. You need a place to stop, but I'd recommend probably hotels, like pulling it that far is is tough yeah, yeah, but if you did it for a little bit right, it wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a's a good idea. You could fly to Sacramento and then rent it there, go up to Tahoe, go here, do this, do a bunch of camping and then bring it back, leave it in Sacramento and fly home. Absolutely, absolutely. That's the way to do it. That's smart, yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so that's a good one. I think I'm kind of the same way. I, as far as family goes, we want to do one big ski trip this year, because that's kind of our family activity, yeah, and so I think we're going to go to Colorado this spring break and do something like that, and then in the summer I think I don't know what we'll do in the summer, but I think we want to go international too. So see her sister, probably, and brother-in-law that live and our nieces live in the czech republic okay so maybe fly out there and do christmas with them or something like that.
Speaker 1:I have friends in london. It'd be cool to see them like you know, do a full thing, but you know it has to be a good year, so we gotta get a lot of work to do. Yeah, hey, great to be good, tommy the who.
Speaker 2:I got a feeling 25 is gonna be a good year doesn't 20?
Speaker 1:what is it? 2025 sounds so like alien, it's like so futuristic. It's like there's no way.
Speaker 2:It's like that well, I remember when I I don't remember being born, but I remember being young and going like God, when I'm 25 it'll be 2000. And then, when I'm at 20, at when I hit 2000, I thought god, I'll be 50, at 2025, like. So, like these 25 year, like leaps, like, and now I'm here and you're like wow in 25 years 2050 you'll be 75 I don't even think in those terms, which is so weird.
Speaker 1:I I don't ever remember thinking, oh, in 2000 I'll be this age. It's weird, I've never had that in my mind. It's wild. Okay, that's cool, that's good stuff.
Speaker 2:So let's let's wrap up with, uh, this episode with moon of football. I'm gonna take this because I know you're still mourning it hurts, it does it's hard to have a team that good and be like dominant for the entire year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and just have one bad game and it'd be all over, yeah, and you just could never find a rhythm. Dan lanning just did not adjust. There's a few things that happened I'd like to talk about okay, first and foremost, when I met dan lanning in the summer you knew and I said it wasn't gonna coach, it's gonna be a great year. I jinxed it. This is why I'm saying 2024 sucked. You mean I am the jinx, bro.
Speaker 2:150 bet on them to win. Didn't jinxed it. This is why I'm saying 2024 sucked. You mean I am the jinx bro Placing the $150 bet on them to win. Didn't jinx it.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it turns out um it wasn't 150 bucks, it was a lot less which was good but also, um, definitely lost it all, which is bad then Uh.
Speaker 1:But so there's two times I've felt this way. I said one time before we started I was at the Alamo bowl in 2013, no, 2016. Yeah, it just turned the new year, so it's 2015, 2016 season, and it was like one of those before portal quarterbacks, but he's a really fast, good quarterback. In between Mariota and those guys, we were up 31,. Nothing at the halftime. I mean just total domination against tcu with their little stupid horn frog things. Well, the quarterback gets injured at half, but it didn't matter. All they need to do was like one stop in the second half. The game's over. Doesn't care how many they score. Right, one stop, that's all you need. It was just one after the other, after the other. Yeah, went into overtime. Yeah, the ducks lost like 41 to 37. It was the saddest day I didn't watch sports center for two weeks. I didn't have to hear about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've done, done that with, like, lakers games or it's like I don't want to. I don't turn on sports center. I'm not going, even going to youtube tomorrow because I don't want to hear, absolutely not, yeah, so actually I take that back because it would.
Speaker 1:It would have been 15-16 because that was the national title year. Yeah, 14-15, which I went to against ohio state and oregon oh really the first college football playoff now. That game felt exactly like that game against ohio state this last time.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it sucked yeah, I mean, it's so weird, you know, watching ut. You know, I mean, obviously I'm a fairweather ut fan. I just jumped on the bandwagon this year. So let's, you know, let's make that clear, um but you know it's like they're uh, they're, uh, you know they're so good at times and they're so.
Speaker 2:you're just like what is going on, like it's like the the last two minutes of the of the overtime when they like caught that fourth, fourth down pass and the very next down on the next overtime they caught the first pass to score another touchdown and then they got the two point conversion. It was just like lightning in a bottle for like 30 seconds of work. And at the very beginning of the game.
Speaker 1:It was the same thing. It was like awesome, and then penalties start piling up. It's like they're Ohio State. Oh my goodness. So it's like you, just it's hard stringing together an entire game of like yeah, I don't think they've done it this year.
Speaker 2:It's been, it's been hard I think so that when you, when you take the, the better the team is coming in. You know, with ohio state you're gonna. It's gonna be like a real test, like can they put together four quarters?
Speaker 1:yeah, I think what. What texas is notorious for is, if they don't get up early or they don't come out fast, then they're going to always play behind, and that's what they did with Georgia was they could never recover from how bad the first half was, and I don't even know what Quentin Ewers is. Is he an elite quarterback? Is he always injured? That's the one thing. Let's bring Arch Manning in. Let's just move on right now and just play this game against ohio state. I don't think they're gonna do that all all. What's your prediction, though? Uh well, I think ohio state's. I think they're even yeah, I think they're.
Speaker 2:Ohio state is like a plus five and a half, really, something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a pretty big spread for those types of teams, but ohio state's gonna be favored through the entire tournament, so yeah, anyway dead space. They're the darlings yeah, oh, I hate ohio state so much. What's funny is they go from when they lost to michigan like, oh, ryan day's done, they're a terrible team. So now it's like they're favored in every game. They're so dominant it doesn't make any sense to me all right, texas, ohio state.
Speaker 2:Ohio state.
Speaker 1:Five and a half yeah dang five and a half dogs. Dang Five and a half dogs. I think they'll play great as underdogs.
Speaker 2:Notre Dame one and a half spread.
Speaker 1:So it's basically even between Notre Dame and Penn State, which is a pretty actually good matchup. That'll be interesting to see on Thursday.
Speaker 2:UT has kind of the technical home court advantage because it's in. Dallas at the Cotton Bowl. I mean, it's really at AT&T Stadium.
Speaker 1:So they're calling it Cotton Bowl or whatever. I was wondering if it was actually at Jerry World. It's not at the fair.
Speaker 2:No, it's at Cowboy Stadium.
Speaker 1:Got it.
Speaker 2:I mean, because they want to pack as many people as possible? Yeah, of course, of course Absolutely Epic, but they do get that home court advantage of more UT fans are going to be there.
Speaker 1:So I don't know.
Speaker 2:Given that, I think that gives them an extra good touchdown. I think they're going to win by three.
Speaker 1:You think so. That's my prediction. That's good. I think they'll win. I don't know what it'll look like, but I know they'll ultimately win. Sark's going to throw some good stuff. Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Let's see what happens. Man, I'm excited. All right, happy New Year. Hey, first episode of the year. Hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Keep it coming. Thanks, guys, have a great day. Love you Peace.