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[56 minutes]

Our podcast this week was actually recorded in the immediate aftermath of the Wisconsin game, but due to technical difficulties I couldn't get my hands on the file for editing until yesterday. So we've dropped the Wisconsin bit—which sucked anyway—and now present the nearly hour-long 2013 recruiting class overview and award presentation, which is something other than Ace and I moaning about how terrible everything is. Except for the intros and outros, which are. 

If it sounds different, the audio is lower-fidelity than it usually is, not that this is particularly important for two guys talking to each other. 

Topics!

Offense! Logan Tuley Tillman as Schrodinger's recruit. Sure things don't exist on the OL, but if they did they would be a couple of those guys. Derrick Green and such.

Defense! Taco Charlton as Logan Tuley Tillman. Henry Poggi as Mike Martin if Poggi can also become a slab of muscle more stone than man. Two flavors of cornerback, and Dymonte Thomas as no Michigan safety in memory. 

Gettin' my Rob Parker on. Not really, but we finish with some gimmick superlative type stuff. 

Music. "The Rat," The Walkmen. "Caring Is Creepy," The Shins. Creepy breakup songs are always best for recruiting. The latter is a shout-out to Black Heart Gold Pants and their much-better-titled version of the Hello post. 

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[1:03]

Topics!

Pop quiz: why we done lost? Answers are bandied about. 

Burke. Mansome.

GRIII. Donde?

Stauskas. Missin'.

The Morgan question. Hashed and rehashed. 

The inexplicable Dick Vitale. Calling something awesome is a stupid catch phrase. Raftery doodles the word "onions" and this makes him superior.

Football recruiting! Boring at this juncture but boring in a good way. Our discussion touches on Kyle Bosch, Wyatt Shallman, Damario Jones, and Malik McDowell amongst others. 

Talking Big Ten with Jamiemac. Jamie has a rough ride as we ask him which team he sided with on Saturday, and he punts. Front-running accusations are leveled! A duel may result. Also we talk the top of the Big Ten, the conference race,

Music. "The Saddest of All Keys," Tapes 'n' Tapes. "Harborcoat," REM. I have no reasons for either of these.

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[53 min]

Topics!

Illinois: defeated. Burke's halfcourt performance is gently prodded with many nods towards his inherent Burke-ness.

Stauskas: more than just a shooter(tm). Obligatory. I call him "Darius Morris who shoots 50% from three." Note that I just rewatched the Illinois game and my assertion that he did not take a jumper was wrong--I was misremembering a LeVert Kobe assist as Stauskas's. Stauskas left a floater short, which Illinosi rebounded. Just for the record. 

Morgan's absence: problem? Doesn't seem like it so far.

Caris LeVert: future? Getting that feel despite his lack of outburst. 

Everything is falling into place. All things are as you would have them be to maximize this team's performance. Enjoy it, as this sort of serendipity is uncommon.

Indiana looms. Looms.

Talking Big Ten with Jamiemac John Gasaway. It was Monday at noon so we figured Jamie would be at that "work" stuff and dialed up the man formerly known as Big Ten Wonk, John Gasaway. We talk about his status as a battered Illinois fan, I get shot down talking about Jordan Hulls's defense, he expresses confidence in Michigan basketball, and Yogi Ferrell is talked up as a guy who has an impact outside of the box score. 

Music. "The Switch and the Spur," the Raconteurs.

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[1:12]

Topics!

Hey, basketball! We meant to have these the past couple weeks but a slammed Sunday with both men's and women's going at the same time nixed us two weeks ago and it was black death time for me a week ago. 

If I sound weird it's because I'm sucking on cough drops the whole time. 

All the starters. We're all like "Trey Burke is good" and this is why we get paid the okay bucks. 

I accidentally dis Jordan Morgan. Ace calls me out, yo.

Stauskas! Come back to me, 57% shooting.

Various gigglings unbecoming manly men. Sorry. 

Talking Big Ten with Jamiemac. We run down the league, and groan expressively about Wisconsin. Then the phone lines go out (srs) and we finish up the contenders discussion ourselves. 

Music. "El Scorcho," Weezer, since we are giggling like children anyway. 

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[58 min.]

Topics!

Well, obviously. Yeah, we talk about it. Contractually obligated to you know. We end up talking about it three times in fact.

That again. WOO

That a third time. hardsell'd

Fourth and three. Coinflip, don't like running the thing you just scored a touchdown on right before halftime right after halftime.

The same story on defense. Hang in, can't quite do it, everyone's like "yeah I get that, good job anyway."

A Kovacs appreciation. Godspeed, man who gives up no long touchdowns.

Talking Big Ten with Jamiemac. Not really. I mean, we talk to him, mostly about the game and Nebraska-Iowa and Big Ten expansion and finally basketball, because we didn't want to leave everyone with more of a bad taste in their mouth that is necessary.

STAUSKAS. He is my basketball Norfleet.

DAN DAKICH + DORIS BURKE = AWESOME. I demand that this happens over and over again. GET A ROOM! ON MY TELEVISION!

Music. "Can't Change Me," Lydia Loveless. She is from Columbus, 20, and just put out an album in which she sounds like a 40-year-old alcoholic. Recommended all around. "The Big Three Killed My Baby," The White Stripes. There needs to be a politics version of "no homo." No polo? No polo.  

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[1:01 in length.]

Topics!

DENARD YAYYYYYY. We are happy at each other. 

DEVIN KIND OF GOOD. It is a nice thing as well. 

HEIKO HOT DOG CONSUMPTION TECHNIQUE. Unusual.

DEFENSE COULD HAVE COVERED THE TE A BIT BETTER. We'll take it, obviously. 

FERENTZ ONSIDE KICK SERIOUSLY GUY? Just roll over and die instead of throwing your troops fruitlessly at the walls.

TALKIN' BIG TEN WITH JAMIEMAC. A brief digression into Iowa's GLORIOUS FORTHCOMING VICTORY over Nebraska, then we split the rest of the time talking M-OSU and expansion. 

SONGS.  "Helicopter," M. Ward. And an LCD Soundsystem/Miles Davis mashup a guy sent me on twitter. Sorry I can't find you, guy. Take credit in the comments!

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