Luke DeCock, News & Observer Sports Columnist, joins Adam to talk about the Carolina Hurricanes season starting and the things we should be looking forward to.

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Visit us at Capitol financial, usa.com. This is the Adam gold show. It'll show up this weekend against Yukon horrified scrimmage. So work that workout, whatever kinks you have to work out and we'll see everybody in Death Valley next weekend, which should be an absolute blast. Meemaw Clemson's got their own big game. What we're going to talk about here in minute takes in just a minute because they have to deal with Wake Forest on the road in Winston-Salem first, but we got a lot of things to get to not a lot of time to do it. It's minute takes All right, let's let's do this.

Victoria. I know you're a Panthers fan. So I'll give you first crack put 60 seconds on the clock Saints at Panthers Panthers getting two and a half points at home from New Orleans. You go. Okay. Well, last year, they did not have a winning record at home.

So I have no reason to think that it would be anything different than that. I do not see the Panthers getting their game play together. These division games. They have always been flustered. So to me, I don't have confidence that they can get it together again. It's probably going to be another gorgeous day where they drop the ball for no reason.

So I love my Panthers. I don't see them coming out with a window this Sunday, even at Bank of America. Yeah, they don't really have a home field advantage. They have lost nine in a row regardless of the venue. I don't think it's 100% true.

But I also think don't think it's a hundred percent false. Like again, I keep saying it. It just appears that the game is a little too fast for the head coach. It's a hard thing to do too fast for the owner to I think the Saints will win. I hope they don't but I think the Saints will win.

I think Saints have a better defense and a better quarterback. All right, let's move on. You just you just tap me on the shoulder. If you want to jump in here, let's move on to North Carolina. Here's the thing about this game that I find fascinating.

We're going to talk to Luke to talk about this in about 10 minutes or so. There wasn't as much expected of North Carolina going into this season in terms of being a top 25 teams in term of doing this or that. But they are three and oh, and Notre Dame is such there.

There's such a shining light in the spot. That it doesn't matter if this Notre Dame team is ultimately a six and six outfit. This is an opportunity for UNC in front of a crazy crowd on a gorgeous day where it's going to be like what mid to low 70s at Keenan Stadium on national TV over-the-air TV to put that skin on the wall. They got to get it. I think they will. Yeah.

All right. Next Clemson at Wake. Look, I don't think Clemson is dumb enough to look past Wake Forest. I don't think Dabo Sweeney is going to look at the team that just represented the Atlantic division in the ACC Championship game and think about next week. I think they're smart enough to not do that. That doesn't mean this game is going to be easy.

But here's the thing about it. I think Clemson is too big and too physical at the point of attack. I don't think Clemson's going to score a ton. But I think they'll be able to control Wake Forest and I see this game being played in the low to mid 20s. And I see the Tigers coming out on top staying undefeated and setting up a showdown in Death Valley next week. So I got for that. All right, we're going to get what would you state here state at home against UConn?

Okay next. What are we going to say about that? I am not like I hope I don't see them run a flea flicker in the first quarter at the plus 30 yard line. That's what I hope right like I hope they can just line it up and and get the running game going against the what are they called? Whatever UConn is called, but I can't remember right now. All right, moving on Duke at Kansas.

What did this become a game? I know Duke 3 and 0 Kansas 3 and 0. I know I've been saying it that way for for four days, but it is kind of remarkable that people are discussing this game as hey big game. Yeah, what Duke ends look it's not a big game nationally. It's not a big game even within each conference, but it's a really big game for those two programs that have been doormats over the last few years Kansas longer than Duke Duke is sort of bottomed out. We hope we think I'm pretty sure they have we'll see if Mike Elko can keep it rolling.

I think Kansas might be a little bit better and it's there so I don't expect Duke to win but I expected to play well because I've seen Duke play well three weeks in a row. All right, we'll get back to some NFL stuff right here before we have to wrap this segment up. Let's do Bill's Dolphins. Yeah bills for reals with a Z on the end of it.

We all know that Victoria. Do you think the Dolphins are for real this season? Yeah, I'm shocked that I'm saying this look I think it's an acceptable point of view that the Dolphins might be for real because through two weeks. We're not sure. Yeah.

I'm not a hundred percent on time close. I am like 30% on board with the Dolphins. Yeah, I think they have great skill position players.

I think to a might have something. I think they have some really good pieces on defense. I'm not sold on their offensive line, but maybe their head coach Mike McDaniel's is just smart enough to scheme around a faulty offensive line.

It's going to get them at some point. It might not even be this week. Yeah, but I even if they beat the bills, they better than the bill. Yeah, those are more competitive than they used to be at least yes bills are a five and a half point road favorite at Miami. All right Ravens at Patriots. I think the Patriots are one of the worst teams in the league.

Yeah. Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not one of the they're not really not a bottom 10 team the league. I just think the Patriots are very very average. I don't think the head coach is very very average though. It's just a limit to what you can do with limited personnel night.

They have limited personnel. I'm not really sure how the Ravens lost to the Dolphins with a four touchdown lead for a six 18 point lead in the fourth quarter on the road. So like Jacoby Brissett talked about how the Browns had to come back and figure it, you know, look themselves in the mirror and rally from having blown the game against the Jets the Ravens have to do the same thing only the Ravens are on the road in Foxboro. I'm the Ravens win the game. They are road favorites was the last time the Patriots were underdogs. I know all right Packers bucks.

I don't know why this game doesn't have big game feel to me know that could be just my fault. I know it's Packers bucks. I know it's Rogers Brady, but we don't know what to make of Tampa's offense. No, no Mike Evans. Their offense wasn't really that good with Mike Evans. So I'm not really sure what to make of it Packers are trying to figure it figure it out with a whole bunch of new options for Aaron Rodgers. Bucks are only a one-point favorite at home. I know that's crazy with Tom Brady.

I know I think the Packers are going to win this one. Actually, I do that was my pick. All right. I have a hard time with that with Jillian. Yes. That's my picture on Jillio's car the whole thing. All right, good.

I think Tampa wins at home, but I think anything could happen that game two good defenses. So who knows? All right, finally. The United States leads the Internationals in the President's Cup for one. However, the of the four only one was an easy one. I said this yesterday about golf golf is kind of dumb in that it doesn't matter if you are the best player in the world. You can lose to the hundred and fiftieth best player in the world because that guy is capable of going low. He just doesn't do it as often but man the worst player on the international team has probably shot a 62 this year.

Wow, so it doesn't matter how good Scottie Scheffler is you can lose Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns lost yesterday right now. There are all five matches on the course the USA leads in one the Internationals lead in one and they are all square in the other three. Anything can happen. But the US is probably going to wrap it. There you go.

So I gave you that President's Cup scoreboard earlier. It is flipped USA leads in two International leads and none three matches are all square that cannot end that way. I think the Internationals have to win this session. Otherwise, we're just going to get to by the time we get to Sunday. It's going to be not worth anybody's time unless you just like to watch it and that's me. I'm that guy but if you needed to be close, I don't think that's going to happen with the Internationals win this session today.

We had a lot of things to discuss today and I'm glad that it's Friday. We can talk to Luke to cock from the news and Observer my friend you can read him in the pages of the NFL online news observer.com. All that follow my Twitter at Luke to cock. He makes it easy. All right, let's start with let's start with the Carolina Hurricanes who opened up training camp yesterday. Not a surprise Brent Burns and Jordan stall set the bar in the team's fitness test rod told me that a week ago. He was blown away, but your level of optimism for this team over the course of this season. Obviously injuries are always going to play a part of everything barring something crazy like max patchy ready blowing out an Achilles to miss four months of the year.

What's your level of optimism for this group? I mean, I think it's the same as it was last year. If anything, it's it's higher, you know, you've got some even with the patch already injury, you know, even without nino niederreier and Vincent trochek mean Brent Burns.

It's I'm not sure people realize this yet because I keep hearing things about this. I don't think people realize what a parabolic exponential upgrade Brent Burns is over Tony DeAngelo. Nothing against Tony actually probably played to the limit of his capabilities for most of the season here, but Brent Burns is just a completely different player. It's just not the same sport and yeah, the center. I think center is going to be a little bit of an issue. Paul Stasti started in the nino role on the wing. Obviously, you can play in the middle.

They want to give a long look to you. Spirit Kokie me there. Martin Aches is going to get a look at center because he complained about it the end of last season. Well, in fairness to him, if it's going to happen, it needs to happen. So give him the opportunity and if he takes advantage of it, you know, the more power to him and you know, it was. I think you always kind of are impressed with a few of the kids from rookie camp. I think Vasily Panama has a chance, you know, passion has gone from passion to passion to passion to passion to passion over the course of the last two weeks, but he also scored a lacrosse goal.

And look, I know eight year olds are doing that all the time now, but to do it under live live action is Hubert Davis would say is different, especially in a rookie tournament game where everybody's looking to clean someone else's clock. So, you know, that to me that the expectations haven't changed even with the new faces as I wrote today. What's changed, I think, is is the fact that there is only one option for this team that you can call the season of success. That was true last year.

It's true this year. It's true anytime you're a contender. And as Rod said yesterday, you know, they're even the best team in the league just has a chance. We're one of the teams that has a chance. And on September 22nd, September 23rd, if you're in a position to say that you have a chance and you're not hoping you have a chance, then you're at the bar set pretty high. And I think it is, again, for the hurricanes, I think they're if they can figure things out at center, whether that's Stassney or Kokie me or whoever it is, maybe it's even ends up being Jack Drury, who's managed to exceed all expectations over the course of his young career. They'll be OK. That that's that's the one issue. And obviously the left defense situation you and I have been talking about for months took it.

So the problem solved itself as these things so often do. Theoretically, Calvin DeHaan still, I guess, has to win a spot on the team, but I have no doubt that he will for those people who don't know what Luke might be referring to there. And that is Jake Gardner not going to be a training camp and more than likely will be placed on long term injured reserve. Back went out, apparently, so will not be returning after a year on long term injury.

All right. My only fear of this team, my only real fear, I have some some fringe fears. You referred to one of them that is really other than Derek Stepan or potential of more teenagers. There's no right shot center. And we know Rod likes to have options.

Righty lefty. My biggest fear is what happens if Freddie gets hurt? Freddie Anderson, goaltender, missed the entire playoffs last year.

We know Auntie Ronta is really not capable of being a fifty five game a guy. Fifty got five game a year guy. So what happens if goaltending deals with an injury or just isn't quite as good as it was a year ago, which I think given age is a possibility? Yeah, it's a possibility.

I mean, two things. One, you can always get in that sort of veteran goaltender market. They haven't for various reasons, cap reasons and wanting to get Piotr Kachikov every opportunity to play in Chicago.

But B is they really like Kachikov and they like his his sand, for lack of a better word. And if he has to come up and play a little bit, that's not the worst thing in the world. I don't think you want to go into the playoffs the way you ended up in the playoffs last year with Ronta and Kachikov. But I don't think this team should be good enough that if they lose Freddie Anderson for the month of December, that they can get by with Ronta and Kachikov.

That's not a long term solution. But there aren't many teams in the league that would be in a good position if they lose their one, their number one goalie for the playoffs. You know, like, let's you know, Tampa's not sitting here going, well, what's our backup plan if Vasilevskiy can't play in the playoffs? What are we? You know what?

How are we? That's a big hole for us. Yeah, no, no kidding. It's a big hole for you.

And then and it was for the Hurricanes and really, you know, Auntie Ronta, despite the way things ended, you'll carry the Hurricanes a long way. So I don't I hear what you're saying there. I don't have a ton of concern over a month or so without Freddie. Look, over the course of Freddie's career, you're going to miss Freddie for a month or so.

Yeah, like that is something you have to game plan for. But I'm I'm fine with Kachikov coming up. I think he's earned that opportunity. I think he's earned the opportunity to be the guy in Chicago and not have sort of a veteran type come in and play out of him. And we'll see what happens.

But that that's also a position, Adam. If you get into a fix, you can address it. The deadline with the guy from a non-contender. Yeah, there's there's other things you can do. But I'm not sure in September having Kachikov and seeing the way he played under fire. I'm not sure in September that you need to do anything about that at this point. You mentioned his sand, just the fact that he went after Brad Marshawn during that series against Boston. That's enough for a lot of people. He won a lot of respect, maybe not maybe not as much in the room for that, although I'm sure he did.

But fans notice that it's like, wow, that guy went after Marshawn. All right, let me go to to football. Carolinas 3 and 0. Adam Gold here from my man, Coach Pete DeRuda with the Capital Financial Advisory Group. We are talking retirement.

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I think legitimacy is at stake, to be honest with you. I mean, App State's, you know, you got to remember, Adam, App State's 4-0. They've got two wins, a moral victory over UNC and a transitive property victory over Miami. You know, it's crazy. We're all just sort of moving on with life as if App State won that game.

You throw it. You combine that with how bad UNC looked against Florida A&M with with, you know, struggling to put away Georgia State on the road. I think legitimacy is on the line for UNC. I mean, one, I don't think Notre Dame is going to be this bad all season.

So if you're going to catch him, now's the time to catch them. Two, if UNC look at that. Look, you're talking to a guy who picked you and see to win the coastal. So, you know, it's not like this is crazy out of bounds. But if UNC is legit, if they're going to be a good team, this is a game they have to win. It's at home. It's a struggling Notre Dame.

You got to kick them while they're down. That that to me is what's at stake for UNC. Obviously, it has no bearing on the the coastal division or the ACC race. But you've had three wins that are not exactly. Oh, I don't know what the word you want to say is decisive. Right.

You've got a chance here. Even if this win isn't decisive, nobody's going to discount it. Notre Dame is still Notre Dame.

Right. So everybody will forget if Notre Dame is a six and six Notre Dame team, nobody will care at the end of the season or next year or the year after. They will simply remember that when it was seventy three degrees, not a cloud in the sky and beautiful in Chapel Hill. I was there when the Tar Heels beat Notre Dame, blah, blah, blah, because that's this kind of game. It's Notre Dame and Duke beat Duke beat a terrible Notre Dame team there. They went to South Bend and beat him.

And it might they might as well have beat Tony Rice and Lou Holtz. It doesn't matter. The gold, the gold flux are still in the helmet. It's like it's it just matters. It just says, should it? It's a different conversation in 2022 is Notre Dame still Notre Dame?

I don't know. But I know bad Notre Dame, good Notre Dame, Notre Dame and a hurricane trying to throw the ball 41 times. It all still counts.

Right. And nobody at NC State is like discounting that win because Notre Dame finished the season four and eight. Nobody cares that Notre Dame was bad and was poorly coached on that particular day.

Luke DeCock of the News and Observer is here. What are your thoughts on Wake hosting Clemson? This is an interesting spot on the schedule for Clemson. It's an interesting spot starting next week on the schedule for NC State, which starts a stretch at Clemson. Home against Florida State is clearly not a train wreck and at suddenly viable Syracuse. So what are your thoughts about Clemson going to Wake? I think this is the kind of game where everybody picks Clemson and Wake wins. This is a classic wake. Dave Kloss and Jim Grove, if you want to go that back that far. Everyone's picking against them and they can find expectations.

And, you know, oh, yeah, that's right. Back in September, we'd be Clemson. Hey, I just look, I know Clemson's defense is good. I'm still just not sure whether Clemson is good or what we've come to know as Clemson. Good. And I think Wake, despite struggling with Liberty, has a lot of confidence coming in this game.

It's going to be full. I think I think I just feel like this is one of those games where we look back and say, oh, yeah, why didn't we pick Wake? Wake was obviously going to win that game. And and, you know, it is it a trap game for Clemson? Yeah, I think it is because you look at the ACC preseason player of the year, the way the preseason polling went state coming to Clemson. That's a big game. And you're going to be looking ahead to that a little bit, I think, because even now, as good as Wake has been, I still think people overlook Wake because it's Wake.

Right. And I think I think Clemson to a certain extent is ripe to fall that way. So that's kind of how I see that one setting up. Here's the thing about this game. I actually think that Clemson's running game and them at the point of attack on both sides of the ball might be I think it's going to be low scoring. I think it's going to be a close game, but I think that might be just enough. I think there were signs in the Wake Liberty game defensively more than anything else that Wake isn't might not be good enough to. I mean, look, I know DJU is not great, but he looked much better than he had against air against Louisiana Tech. So I think if he is turning any kind of corner, then I think Clemson is going to be too much athletically for for Wake to handle.

The Liberty game, I thought, was eye opening. I'm not so much offensively, more defensively. I don't know.

I just don't put it on the stock. All right. Is it the kind of game you win and move on? And they were probably looking ahead to Clemson. Maybe. Is Duke Kansas an actual big game?

Yeah, I think so. Just because we know that Kansas is well coached. It looks like Duke is well coached. I think what we're learning about Duke is it.

And look, you and I talked about this, nothing against David Cutcliffe. You work miracles at Duke. It obviously went stale at the end. I think what we're seeing is players who were there for the last two years playing with a new degree of freedom, of love of the game. I think it's almost turned back the clock on Duke four or five years back to when there was excitement around that program. And, you know, it's just it's sad that it took that coaching change to do that.

But sometimes that's what it takes. I think we've seen with the schemes and the coaching on the staff that the brain drain really did hurt Duke, that they just weren't. You know, look at what Chase Bryce has done at App State.

That was just not a program that was that was doing twenty, twenty two things on the football field. And now it is, you know, Mike Elko knows what he's doing. He's come from big programs. He may be a first time head coach, but he's been able to install things that he knows will work on both sides of the ball. And they've got their brain and connect in in Jordan Moore, the quarterback who plays wide receiver and scores all the touchdowns, their best receiver.

Now you're now you're harkening back to the to the true modern glory days of football. So, no, I think it is I think Lance Leopold is an unbelievable coach at Kansas. I mean, I you know, he kind of comes from, you know, my my roots in terms of sort of small college Wisconsin football.

Sure. Which is which is legit. I mean, that's that's kind of what I grew up watching for various reasons. But but I believe that the success he's had at Kansas and the success he had at Buffalo is no fluke. And I believe that, you know, Mike Elko is clearly hit on something at Duke in terms of tapping a sort of vein of enthusiasm and do a certain talent that had just sort of gotten hidden under the sort of gray clouds that that came to surround that program.

So I think it is a legit game. I mean, I think Duke at this point until proven otherwise is is a contender in the coastal. You know, they've come on.

No, hold on. I'm not into coast. I don't think the coastal is very good. I don't think there are a bunch of teams in the coastal better than Northwestern. And they beat Northwestern on the road. I mean, look, Temple was Temple was going to struggle against Broughton or Cardinal Gibbons. And obviously, A&T is not up to A&T's usual standards, but going on the road and beating Northwestern is legit. And if they go on the road and beat Kansas, OK, I don't know what that's what I'm that's my point. I'll say I'll agree with you. If they go on the road and beat Kansas, I'll agree that there's there's fringe contender in the coastal.

Who else is there? I mean, Carolina's looked terrible in Carolina. Miami and Pitt are all significantly better. Are you serious?

They're all significantly better than Duke, I think. Five percent of the time. I'm happy to be right. I'm happy to be wrong. Because, you know, I love the program. I'm happy to be wrong.

I will sell short on Miami until the day I die and be a very rich man. Totally, totally understand. All right. Final thing. Is there a way, Luke DeCock, that the international team can win? No, no, no. There's no way.

That's not going to happen. Is there a way, although I'm going to Charlotte, is there a way that if when the Panthers lose to the Saints that this will not be a Sunday night, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday referendum on Matt Ruhle? I think like here's here's the thing. I think Matt Ruhle is a dead man walking. I think what Dan Orlovsky goes on ESPN and tears you a new one, whether he was right or wrong, national guys, even the prickly ones, don't take headshots like that at sitting coaches who they think are going to be around. Oh, yes.

They know it will come back to haunt them. That was a absolute kill shot, right? It doesn't matter whether he's right or wrong. The fact that he pulled the trigger on that video breakdown, basically showing how the Panthers were tipping their plays and then calling out the coaching staff doing it.

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Listen, now find Cane's 25th anniversary wherever you get your podcast. Yeah, but honestly, if that rules this defensive guru, he football genius, he's supposed to be. He should spot that in their tendencies. And if you have a head coach who isn't checking their tendencies, like that's why you have 19 offensive quality control guys. So someone's watching that. I mean, they just Adam, they just put a situational clock on their practice field this week. Probably need. Where's where is that going to go in the tick tock two years from now?

Where it went wrong in America. Anyway, did they borrow that from Nathaniel Hackett at the Broncos? You know, it's always good.

Yeah. You can make jokes. The joke I'll make is ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips has a view or will have a view of Bank of America Stadium from his new office. And he's considering or I shouldn't say consider. He has been rumored as a candidate for the Bears open presidency. Means he has the choice of managing the second worst franchise in the NFL or watching the worst franchise in the NFL. Every single day.

That's not an envious anyway. No, I don't think that rule is going to get fired during the season. I think the Panthers maybe like Thanksgiving. I think the Panthers will will use that rule.

If they're smart and who knows what they are, will use the mat rule at the end of the mat rule era as a as a tank. Get a good draft pick. Try to get some talent in the draft and start over with a guy who knows what he's doing and isn't in over his head. I said actually yesterday or the day before that a sneaky good bet is Matt ruled to not be the first coach in the NFL fired.

Yeah, no, I agree. And if he's smart, he's talking to Nebraska right now. I know they're looking. I would know if he's smart. He's talking to Arizona State, not talking to Nebraska.

If Matt rule is really smart. I know. I know you are Luke DeCock. I appreciate your time at Luke DeCock.

Thanks, man. I'll talk to you next week. Look, I am. I just don't I want the knee jerk. It's we all understand the head coach is not great at this. We get it. OK. We have to be able to focus on other things unless the head coach is a complete fool during the game, in which case, yeah, we're going to do it.

I appreciate, by the way, Nathaniel Hackett owning up to there. I don't know. They've got like four delay of game penalties in two games. And actually, that's not even half of their issues. Pre snap for the Broncos. They have other. Actually, the Broncos don't have other issues. The quarterback of the Broncos has other issues that will probably get to at some point before we are done here today. But it is half time.

Your half time entertainment. OK, so I may have mentioned this before, but I am a fall lover. So I was super excited yesterday happened. I am ready for all the fullness, which includes Halloween.

Do you know what? Do I like Halloween? Yeah, I like it. Well, my my son is 14 is not trick or treating anymore, which is good. I don't have to do with the costume, but my wife loves Halloween. We have no neighbors. Nobody comes to the house now. We decorate the house.

Yes, me too. We have pumpkins already. There will be a witch.

There will be all sorts of apparatus around the house. Halloween is a fun, a fun holiday. We are the same person. No one really sees any of my decorations, but it just makes me feel good to do it. And I'm going to be honest right now.

I'm taking my Halloween decorations out this weekend and I may put them up. Oh, no, there's no question. Yeah.

One hundred percent. And I'm glad that you brought up trick or treating because that brings me to my first topic. But it doesn't have to do with humans. Seventy six percent of pet owners say that they put costumes on their little doggos. And cats. I don't know how you put it on a cat, but neither neither.

No, not doing that. Well, my dog, Earl, the Weimaraner, he likes to wear a coat. Oh, he likes it. OK. Weimaraners don't have full. They're not fully furred, if you will. So their chest and belly are kind of exposed. He gets cold. He likes to be covered up in a blanket. Yeah. Like loves to be covered up in a blanket. And if you don't cover him up, he will cover himself up. Oh, OK.

But yes, outside, especially if it's cold. Yeah. He he he digs a coat. So he would accept a costume. Yeah.

But we don't mean there's no reason to cost him. You don't do that. I used to have a bull terrier who I put a panther jersey on and he would just freeze. Like he didn't really know what to do with himself when I did it. But so apparently that's how many people take it out.

But here's the here's the kicker that kind of was like, huh? Thirty one percent of people take them trick or treating and prefer to do that over a human or like a child, like a significant significant other or their child. How does the dog hold the bag?

That's what I'm asking. Do you not get looks if you go to people's house and you know you're like a 38 year old person with a dog? Dogs got out like one of those plastic pumpkin. Yeah. Candy buckets. Right. Yeah.

He can hold it with the handle in his teeth. I would give that dog candy. Oh, absolutely. By the way, I was.

This is a real a real issue. Back in a previous life, I used to do a show. We had a vet on every week. Oh. And for people who are new pet owners, new dog owners, Halloween, really dangerous for dogs.

So not to be serious about this, but yeah. Keep your dog away from the candy. Yes. Keep your dog away from the candy.

No chocolate. Yes. That's not a good idea. But if I if I see someone come up to my house with a dog in a costume. Yes.

I would I'd give the person candy anyway. So I'm excited to see those pictures. OK. Do you like the halftime shows for the Super Bowls?

For the most part? Yeah. I love this past one.

Yes. Oh my. It was just amazing. So much fun.

I really loved it. Well, apparently there's little birdies going around about this next Super Bowl halftime show. Swifties are thinking it's going to be Taylor Swift. That's their fan club. Just in case you didn't know. Swifties. So apparently I have no problem with that.

Twitter lit up early this morning with an NFL announcement that there's going to be a significant Super Bowl coming. And they made a deal with Apple Music and they are no longer with Pepsi. So people are starting to connect dots because Taylor Swift couldn't work with Pepsi. She's like affiliated with Coke, I guess. OK.

I have no idea. This also was released at midnight. So that's why they're connecting these dots like, OK, it's midnight.

Pepsi's out of the picture. Got to be Taylor Swift. So just a heads up. That might be.

I have no problem. Best halftime show ever was Prince. Yes.

I think last year's halftime show is second. Yes. I just thought that was such a slick production. Prince, have you ever seen the there's like a almost it's a mini doc.

It's not a long documentary, but it's a mini doc about putting that together and how cool Prince was to deal with for everybody involved. Oh, fun. Yeah. And of course, I mean, it was a driving rainstorm. Yeah. And they were terrified that he was going to electrocute himself.

Well, obviously, it's a great, great piece. Oh, wow. That now is back in 2007.

I can't believe it was that long ago, but it was that good in Miami. And he was he had dolphin colors on. Yes. Prince's sports.

He was a sports fan. I shouldn't say. Yeah.

Although, who knows? Maybe Prince is still alive. I know.

Right. It could be a could be like an Elvis thing. Yeah, it's an Elvis. He's still alive.

He's just somewhere not performing. I know. Last up. Are you a coffee drinker? Yes.

Me too. Well, apparently there's benefits between hot versus cold. So apparently, if you like hot coffee, it supposedly lowers risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, all this stuff. Also, just holding a cup of warm coffee supposedly makes you a more generous person and less stressed out.

Holding a cup of coffee makes you more generous and less stressed out. This is what they say. And I say they thinking that they have some kind of credentials degree who decide this. How did they even do that study? I know.

Like, is there a control group for that study? So we gave a hundred different people a cup of coffee, not to drink, just to hold. Right. To see if their generosity tendencies went higher. Right. The distress. I just don't even understand. Are you more of a jerk or less of a jerk? I don't I don't even understand how you.

No idea. But if you like cold coffee, not all is lost because you still get some protection with your digestive system. It's better for your teeth versus hot one. But either way, I think it just comes down to the caffeine. Caffeine makes everyone happy. It's happy juice. So I think that's really where it's coming from. Look, I'm a I'm a fan of of coffee and it doesn't have to go any further than that. I know it's good. The older I get, the more I drink less of it now than I used to drink.

I used to I used to probably drink four cups a day, maybe a little bit more. Yeah. Which maybe not great. Well, so I'm I'm I'm down to between two and three. It's OK.

I mean, of course, our cups, they're giants. Well, yes, that's kind of like my wine glass to technically like one glass of wine. And I've got this huge thing.

There's a ladder hanging off the side of it. Yes. Let me sit it in my lap while I. Yeah, I understand. I know. But we understand. Either way, enjoy your coffee. Makes you nicer.

Yeah. Look, I think ice coffee, not cold coffee. Yeah, cold coffee is vile. But ice coffee, ice coffee is unfortunate. Here's where ice coffee goes wrong, is that it's not really I guess some people do drink ice coffee black. I don't understand. No, but to me, ice coffee is more.

All right. It's sweet. It's got this in it. It's got that in it.

It's got a macchiato to it. Like at this point, might as well just do a milkshake. Yes. In which case I'm for cookouts right up the street. I'm for all that. So let's just do that.

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