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On this episode of On The Tape Guy and Dan discuss last week’s interview with Terry Duffy about the FTX debacle (1:30), whether a Santa Claus rally is coming (9:00), retail/Deere earnings (19:00), and relative strength in bank stocks (23:30). The co-hosts interview Ricky Cobb, founder of Super 70s Sports, about his popular Twitter account and t-shirt business (30:00).
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Guy Adami: [00:00:00] CME Ad. [00:00:01][0.4]
Dan Nathan: [00:00:30] iConnections Ad. All right. Welcome to on the tape. I’m Dan Nathan. I’m here as always with Guy Adami. Danny Moses has the week off. He was with us for a conversation we had with the Super 70 sports guy. That would be Ricky Cobb. So stick around and listen to that. Guy you got he got you kind of giggling a little bit. That conversation with the Super 70 sports guy, one of your favorite Twitter followers. [00:01:46][75.4]
Guy Adami: [00:01:47] As I said to Ricky, is I’ll say here in the top, if you follow only one Twitter account, don’t follow us. Don’t follow on the tape. Follow Super 70 sports because it is ridiculous. The genius of Ricky Cobb manifests itself dozens of times a day in his Twitter account, and I find myself literally, what do they call it? When you laugh out loud? What do they say? [00:02:10][22.7]
Dan Nathan: [00:02:10] They call it laughing out loud, lol [00:02:12][1.3]
Guy Adami: [00:02:13] Loling. I’m lolling out loud and that’s what I do on a daily basis. So that’s going to be a great conversation. But you know, we created a little disturbance with last week’s podcast with Terry Duffy and it reminded me of an album from the great Roger Daltrey, I think his solo album released in 1985 Under the Raging Moon. But one of the songs on that LP was After the Fire, and that’s what we’re in the midst of right now. We’re after the fire of the Terry Duffy interview because this week Terry came on CNBC’s Fast Money. He also appeared on a Fox News show and it’s creating quite a disturbance out there in the Twitterverse Dan. [00:02:53][39.6]
Dan Nathan: [00:02:53] Yeah, no, it’s interesting, you know, I mean, our listeners kind of know our take on a lot of this stuff. You know, since we started on the tape in January of 2021, it was the height of this kind of meme stock thing. Crypto and nephews were going crazy. It looked like the stock market was ready to party. As you like to say, guy. And you do like to say that, right? A little bit. We’ve been skeptical. All right. I’ve been long the stuff I’ve kind of dabbled in in a lot of this stuff. But again, I have not done enough work to have any conviction one way or another. And I was actually trading a lot of it as I would trade any sort of macro asset, if you will. And so the fact here we are nearly two years later after just kind of the the height of the craze here and people like Terry, you know, who’s been in the you’ve known Terry for, what, 30 years and you know him as a consummate professional. He was a trader on the CME. He’s risen to be the CEO of the CME Group, which is the largest futures exchange in the world. And for him to kind of say the things that he did to this upstart, this kid, right, who was coming in saying it felt a little bit like, buy me out. I buy you out? Yeah, a little bit. What’s that? [00:04:01][68.3]
Guy Adami: [00:04:01] Well, it’s interesting that you mention Godfather, because it reminds me of Godfather two. If you think about this, what’s this guy’s name? Ro Khanna. I think he’s a Congress person from the great state of California. And it reminded me of Senator Geary during the hearings with Michael Corleone, because he had an excuse himself, but he also made a point of sort of giving kudos to the Italian people and Italian heritage. And it reminded me of somebody that might be a tad compromised in the form of Congressperson Connor because he went after Terry Duffy with, you know, venomous statements quite frankly, and things that I think Terry should really start pushing back on. So it’s incredible how life sometimes imitates art and vice versa. [00:04:47][45.6]
Dan Nathan: [00:04:48] No and I guess the point here and the big takeaway is Terry’s criticism of the regulatory agencies and the way in which some of these elected officials that he was testifying under oath and giving his commentary about the way they were pushing back on him and what he was clearly saying about this proposal by FTX right for this clearing proposal, I guess they had, which wasn’t going to be just for crypto but is going to be for other assets. And Terry’s point was that if you use their model based on what they can see and the transparency in which that they have given about these models, that you were going to be introducing a great deal of risk to the financial system. He put it down in paper in his testimony, he said it in front of Congress. Roxana, I don’t know Roxana from a hole in the wall here guiding me. But I’ll just say this. Your point is that he is a Congress person in Silicon Valley. So who are the people who are basically going to get most egg on their face? It’s going to be a lot of these CEOs. It’s going to be a lot of crypto backers here. And it seemed to be that he was kind of holding water, if you will, for that community. So, again, kudos to Terry for being out front of it and being really honest about it. I think for people who’s who really, you know, that clip that’s caught fire on the Internet is about Terry’s meeting face to face with SBF Sam Bankman-Fried in March of 2022, where he calls him a fraud. But then it was May of 2022 where he was really calling him out in front of Congress. [00:06:13][85.0]
Guy Adami: [00:06:13] Yeah. And I think listen, I think Gary Gensler is the chairman of the SEC. I think that’s the correct title he met. With this this SPF 40 guy a few months ago as well. So, you know, the only person that really thought called bullshit on the whole thing was Terry Duffy by the way, the same. Terry Duffy that called bullshit on Jon Corzine many years ago and nobody wanted to listen to him then and clearly nobody wanted to listen to him now. Maybe people should start listening to him because I guarantee you at some point in the not too distant future, somebody else will try to perpetrate a bit of a fraud on the public and their investors, quite frankly. [00:06:49][35.5]
Dan Nathan: [00:06:50] Yeah, well, here’s the thing, Guy. You and I have been doing this for a while. This is the business we have chosen, and we’re going to continue to have these sorts of, you know, scammers who are going to be attracted to the shiniest sort of thing where they see the most opportunity. And, you know, the saddest thing and again, I know this is something, you know, kind of right in your wheelhouse. You know, the bag holders for the most part are retail, right? We’re starting to see some big financial institutions, some very sophisticated investors, whether it be Sequoia, the venerable VC firm, that sort of thing, who’ve taken big, big losses. But generally they can afford to take losses and their LPs can afford to take losses. It really is the retail people who’ve kind of, you know, left holding the bag, which is one of the reasons why. And Danny Moses has been so spot on about this, you know, since we started the podcast, a really asking the hard questions and being skeptical, especially when, you know, there seems to be a bit of a sentiment bubble only going one way, I guess I would say on that. [00:07:46][56.3]
Guy Adami: [00:07:46] No, no question about Danny’s tried to point this stuff out. And if people sometimes people just don’t want to hear the truth. Danny says it all the time. It’s that lyric from the Simon and Garfunkel song. People hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest. And it’s true. And I made this point on podcasts last week, and I actually asked Sheila Bear this on Fast Money this past week. I said, Listen, I understand that people are always going to look to rip people off. I totally get that. You’re never going to eliminate fraud or the fraudsters that are out there. I said. But I’m curious, Sheila, what do you think about this? And I mentioned the fact that a Federal Reserve that had been overly accommodative for a decade or so adding liquidity to the system, did they make a bad situation worse? And she actually agreed with me, which I really felt, you know, I gave myself a high five on set off camera. So, you know, you talk about the again, this is not a conversation about the Federal Reserve, but you’re talking about the unintended consequences of their largesse. Well, this is just one of the many. Dan Nathan. [00:08:43][56.3]
Dan Nathan: [00:08:43] Yeah, no, I got you. All right, let’s cover a handful of things here before we get out of here, before we get to Ricky Cobb, by the way, we’re going to do one of our promotions here, leave a review in the Apple Podcast Store, take a screenshot before you submit it, send it to Amanda Diaz and she’s going to send you or we’re going to send you a shirt from Ricky’s store. The super seventies are super sports guy shirt store. So do that. Send that out. We appreciate you guys doing that. Let’s talk about where we are in the markets right now. Okay. We have a little bit of a holiday rally going here. A lot of people get you teed up, whether it be on the fast money, on the Twitter, you know, asking you, are we going to have the Santa Claus rally Guy? Okay, into Christmas. Now, interestingly enough, it’s a low volume week here. We had the S&P and the Nasdaq up about 1% yesterday. As we’re recording here on Wednesday, right before noon, the Nasdaq is up another 1%. I can’t really come up with any reasons why we have rates down a little bit. We have crude oil down about 4%. And I think let’s start with crude here, guy, because this is one where about a week and a half ago we had crude, just over 90 bucks. Here it is just under 80 bucks. It’s been volatile this week here. We’re also seeing, like I said, you know, the ten year U.S. Treasury yield can’t get out of its own way. Are these reflective of future growth expectations, which would really be contrary to the fact of seeing the Nasdaq and the S&P rallying a couple percent here? Just you know, the S&P is down only about 15% on the year right now. You know, given everything that we know about corporate earnings and expected global growth, it just seems to be a bit of a divergence with rates and crude and with what stocks are doing this week. [00:10:32][108.9]
Guy Adami: [00:10:32] The call you’ve made in crude is standing up with that question, and you made that months ago when crude probably had a three digit handle. And here we are obviously, you know, continuing to trade lower, getting to levels that I didn’t think we’d reach number one. Carter Worth has talked about this as well. In terms of yields, this is something that you’ve talked about. You have a position on that’s basically illustrating exactly what’s going on. And Carter talked about this and we’ve talked about the potential for ten year yield to trade down to three and a half percent. One of the things that Carter also says is he could see a scenario where yields go down. Commodities, specifically crude oil goes down, the dollar goes down and equities go down. But in the short term, people would misinterpret this as being bullish for equities. And I think that’s what the period when right now that short term period where people are looking at lower rates. And saying this has to be bullish because I don’t know, maybe it means the Fed is backtracking or pivoting or pausing, whatever it is. I think people right now are buying first and asking questions later. I think it’s going to be somewhat misguided because to me, it speaks to exactly what you just said, a slowdown in growth and that TLT now north of one or two probably headed to 110 to 112 or so, which would again be commensurate with a three and a half percent yield in the ten year. The problem, of course, is the two year remains sticky and 2/10 continues to widen out. I think we reach almost 77 basis points or so and it looks as though we want to get to a -1% inversion, which, again, I don’t think speaks well to the broader economy or in the in the short term, it speaks well to what happens in the markets. So we’ll see. But all these things are lining up in many ways the way you’ve outlined. And we’ll see. The one sort of fly in the ointment, though, is energy stocks continue to hold in there. As I’m sitting here right now, the OIH, which traded down, I think, to 75 at one point this week, rallied back to 309. There’s still either side of 300. The XLE holds above 90. So the energy stocks are telling one story, the underlying commodities telling a completely different one. [00:12:35][123.3]
Dan Nathan: [00:12:36] Yeah. And that might just be a function of flows, right. When you think about just kind of the relative underperformance of Megacap tech of late. And so money is looking for, you know, other places to be and especially when you consider the fact that there’s two very different things going on, right. Large-Cap Tech, the five largest names, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tesla, all of them just guided down for the current quarter that we are in. And I think you and I would agree that that’s not likely to be a one quarter phenomenon. And we still have numbers going up in the energy space. Right. And so we’ve been looking at some of the work that FactSet has been doing about Energy’s contribution to S&P 500 earnings, and that’s been a huge driver in 2022. But they’re also expecting them to actually start to go negative right from the estimate revisions upward at some point in Q2, Q3 of 2023. And I think, you know, if we don’t have some of these other areas that have seen deceleration or declines in 2022 pick up some steam, we are going to have negative earnings growth in 2023, and I think that’s really important. Now, the other thing I’ll just say about the here and now guy with the stock market, you know, rallying off the lows from mid-October, which again, you called, you thought we’d see 4000, maybe 4100 on an overshoot here. If you look at that chart, the S&P 500, you see that very well-defined downtrend from the start of this year when the S&P made a new all time high. You see that declining 200 day moving average. Again, that comes in just below 4100. Maybe we get there, maybe we go through. But here’s the one thing I’ll just take you back to the last time that the Fed was raising interest rates. Okay. And it was Q4 of 2018. And what happened? The stock market went down 20% in a straight line over two months here. And one of the major impetuses for that was that with coupled with the Fed raising interest rates, we also had a global growth scare. And again, so what are we dealing with? We’re still dealing with, you know, COVID lockdowns in China. We’re still dealing with supply chains disrupted from that and also the shooting war in Europe. Right. And so I just kind of look at, again, just putting a bow on this whole conversation here, the fact that crude is nearing 2022 lows. Okay. The fact that we have yields in the ten year not getting out of their own way and really look like they’re going to be three and a half and possibly on their way to 3%, maybe by the end of the year. That’s a nasty cocktail for the stock market, in my opinion, especially you know, we just have it levitating here on a low volume week. So to me, I really feel like the higher we go into December one, we’re going to get the November jobs report in the first week and then we’re going to have all eyes focused on that CPI report and then the Fed meeting. You know, I think it’s December 13 or 14 here. Could we really to that? Sure. But the slightest hint of hot data and the stock market’s going to get creamed. [00:15:35][178.7]
Guy Adami: [00:15:35] Well, that’s exactly right. I mean, I think so many people are taking their cues from a better than expected in terms of better. When I say softer than expected CPI, softer than expected PPI, they’re taking some of their cues from, again, a housing market that’s deteriorating, commodities markets that are selling off. And they’re making the connection that, you know, the Fed’s job is working and they don’t have to be as aggressive and that should be supportive of stocks. The problem, of course, is we continue to see layoffs. We continue to see, in my opinion, weaker than expected operating margins, weaker than expected revenue and EPS growth. And again, what are you paying for that in this environment? In a rising interest rate environment, with an environment where the yield curve, again, is -75 basis points. We haven’t seen that in 41 years. Go back and look what the economy was like back then. So if you’re getting bullish, hyped up in the equity market right now, I think it’s the wrong time. On top of which, remember when the VIX is traded up to 34, we’ve pointed out a number of times this year that’s been your signal to buy stocks and that’s typically been a capitulate to three short term bottom. Conversely, when the VIX trades, the levels that we’re seeing now, a 21 handle, that’s basically been your cue to sell stocks. And here we are now. And I think that pattern is going to continue. So again, at this point in the equity market, I think it’s buyer beware. A month or so ago, it felt right to be long stocks. Now not so much. [00:17:03][87.4]
Dan Nathan: [00:17:03] Yeah, no, I agree with that. And just again, to put some context here. Last year, the S&P was up nearly 27%. That’s without dividends. 2020 was up 16%, 2019 was up 29%. And again, going back to 2018, when we had that dramatic drop at the end of the year, the index only closed down, you know, six and a quarter percent or so. And so when you think about down 16 or 15% of the year right now doesn’t really encapsulate all of that exuberance that we saw in the stock market in the back half of 2020 and all of 2021. So to me, I feel like, you know, again, I’ll just say it, the higher we go, the harder we fall. And that was clearly the case in the end of last year. And Danny’s mentioned this on a couple of occasions that that kind of rally that we saw in November and December in the S&P, and we know that the Nasdaq started topping out a lot of speculative sort of equities, smaller caps, crypto, SPACs, all that sort of stuff started topping out as soon as the Fed indicated that they were going to battle inflation by raising interest rates. Alright Guy are there any things that kind of stick out to you? Any single names, any sectors here? You know, we had a lot of retail earnings this week. For the most part, the stock reactions were pretty good. Target was very disappointing. That was after Walmart’s better than expected result. But we saw, you know, things like, you know, Dick’s and Best Buy and some of the retailers, some of the department stores act pretty decently. Is that just a scenario of, you know, low expectations, really negative sentiment and just kind of just stock market reaction, as you like to say, playing stock market? Because the backdrop, you know, there was a really great article in The Wall Street Journal and maybe Amanda will throw that in the show notes, really talking about a consumer that’s becoming increasingly strained, savings rate going down, consumer credit, which you mentioned a lot, is going up dramatically. Your thoughts on the U.S. consumer and then I guess just kind of this reaction to some of these retail earnings as we head into Black Friday. [00:18:58][114.8]
Guy Adami: [00:18:59] Yeah, well, it’s interesting, because now we’re north of $1,000,000,000,000 U.S. credit card debt. We’re approaching $5 trillion in overall consumer debt here in the United States. And that’s made up of auto, obviously mortgages, credit cards, student loans. I mean, you know, that is a significant number. And that’s happening under, again, a rising interest rate environment and you have to service that debt. What I’ve said for years and what I believe, as long as people have jobs, as long as they feel good about things. And one of the main things they look to is the stock market, which year earlier point has sold off, but not in a catastrophic way. People will spend money. I mean, that’s just the way it’s always been. It doesn’t mean they should be spending money, but they will spend money, as a matter of fact, on fast money this week. BOND When I since spoke to exactly that point, never underestimate the U.S. consumers want to spend. It doesn’t mean they should be. But if you look at some of these retailers and Nordstrom’s is a great example, we mentioned that on fast money as well. The stock has rallied over the last couple of weeks, people getting hyped up in earnings only now to fall pretty significantly post earnings. And if you look at this stock, this is now in an almost eight year downtrend, a series of lower lows and lower highs since I think it topped out north of 80 bucks in the spring or so of 2015. So the the point here is you’ll get rallies in these names and you’ll get meaningful rallies in these names, but their underlying businesses continue to be challenged. And I think that’s what we’re facing now. There are some good ones out there. And when we talk about Dollar Gen, for example, which is lower this week, but basically just a hair off its all time high, they seem to be doing everything right. The Target problems now, you have to think are somewhat Target specific and that’s just a management issue. I mean, they’ve done a really poor job with their inventories, managing inventories and their product mix. And I think in this environment, a name like Target finds himself smack in the middle and you don’t want to be in the middle. In this environment, the high end is doing very well. The low end to a certain extent as well, doing well as well. But that middle bucket, not so much Dan. [00:21:04][125.1]
Dan Nathan: [00:21:05] Yeah, no, I got you. All right. Here’s one that just sticks out to me. It’s up nearly 7% today. And this is Deere and this is a stock that’s up 30%. Now on the year guy, it’s up 56% from its lows made just a few months ago here. And you know, to me, this is one of the ones that I think if you are an investor and you’re trying to kind of look at single names to kind of give a sense of kind of what the broad market might be in store for. On the other side of all of this kind of geopolitical stuff that we’ve been dealing with, the other side of the pandemic, on the other side of the Fed’s rate hiking cycle, you look at a stock like this and you say, is this telling the story here? Right. So the stock made a new brief intraday all time high today. Again, it was trading below $300. This was in July. And now here it is at $445. What do you think industrial like Deere is saying about the broad market as we head into year end? Because, listen, while you and I remain bearish on the economy, I think you and I both agree that all of this Fed rate hikes are going to take some time to work themselves into the economy here. But the stock market at some point is going to discount. Maybe it’s just a very shallow recession that we see in 2023 on the back side of this stuff. What is this stock like Deere telling you? [00:22:22][77.6]
Guy Adami: [00:22:22] Well, I mean, Deere is Deere specific, though? I mean, they’re just operating really well. It’s still relatively cheap on valuation. They’re basically their business mix. Their product mix is exactly right. And this quarter spoke to that. But your point about briefly touching an all time high. Yeah, it did. But this is an interesting one because go back to April of this year, before that cratering in July, this stock was trading about 445. So just be aware that there’s a real potential for Deere to put in a short term bit of a double top here. So you’d need a meaningful close above 450, I would think, over the next week or so for this to take the next level up. Otherwise, you’re looking at a double top, the same type of double top we’ve seen then in the XLE and to a certain extent the OIH as well. [00:23:08][45.9]
Dan Nathan: [00:23:09] Yeah. All right. Last one here, guys. Let’s look at the banks and the XLF at the ETF that tracks. And we know that Berkshire Hathaway is the largest holding, so it’s kind of a weird one. Danny’s brought that up on many occasions. But I mean, it is pretty astounding when you look at the largest bank component of that ETF here. You see Jp morgan right before the market turned right around when Q3 earnings started, okay, it was trading about 100 bucks. Well, here it is. Okay. It’s up 33, 34% or so. If you look at the XLF, okay, this thing looks like it’s about at this technical resistance level where it’s been on a couple of times over the last six months or so and it really wants to break out. We have not talked about the banks a whole heck of a lot here. I know that when interest rates started going higher, that this kind of notion that, you know, net interest margins going up was going to be good for these guys. But the slower basically pace the economy, exposure to Europe, exposure to China, all that stuff was kind of weighing on them. So to me, for the first half of this year, the relative underperformance in the banks was a tell about the broad market. What is the relative outperformance over the last month saying about, you know, again, where we might close the stock market on the year and where we might be going into 2020? [00:24:23][74.2]
Guy Adami: [00:24:24] Yeah, I mean, for me, the banks, I think it comes down to the headwinds that are obvious to a lot of people are being sort of dismissed in favor of valuation, which I think people can wrap their head around in an environment where people are looking for names that make sense on valuation, they’re fleeing from these high value, high growth names to more stable things. And I think to a certain extent, that’s what we’re seeing in the banks. I will tell you that as we sit here, Goldman Sachs is within eight or 8% or so of its that 52 week high, their all time high. And this stock has had a meaningful rally from 275. This is an environment that Goldman Sachs actually does really well in, and I think they’re being rewarded for their fixed income, currency and commodity group for the first time in a long time. Now, how long that lasts remains to be seen. But think about the volatility we’ve seen not only in the bond market, but in currency markets and commodity markets as well. And that’s something they obviously excel in. So Goldman to me, has been the one that’s really shown relative strength compared to a JPMorgan compared to a morgan Stanley names historically, well, historically, over the last couple of years, people have sort of flocked to because of their stability. Now people are looking at Goldman Sachs for their trading expertize. [00:25:34][70.2]
Dan Nathan: [00:25:35] Matter of fact. And you were part of that trading back in the day. All right. Listen, Guy Adami, that was fun. We kind of talked markets. We talked about that phenomenal interview that we had with Terry Duffy and he was phenomenal. You and I were just fine here, so check that out if you haven’t seen that or listen to that yet. And we’re also, you know, we’re thankful here. It’s the day before Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for you and Danny and our whole team with, you know, Amanda and Jacob and Stephen and Nick, who’ve been helping us all year with RiskReversal media and all the properties that we have here. So thanks to them and obviously thanks to the listeners guy. [00:26:13][37.8]
Guy Adami: [00:26:13] Thanks to the listeners. Obviously they’ve put us, I think as of this taping we’ve. Reached the top 20 in terms of business podcasts, which is pretty remarkable in a very short period of time. And we obviously couldn’t do that without our listeners. So thank you very much. Thanks for all the comments. Continue to what do they call it when you put something on the on the recommendation? [00:26:34][20.6]
Dan Nathan: [00:26:35] Leave a review. Leave a review of the product recommendations. Smashed that subscribe button here and listen here’s the one thing you got to stick around. You got to listen to this interview that we had with Ricky Cobb, the Super 70 sports guy, because guy Adam, he was downright giddy. You know, they say never meet your heroes. But you know what? You met one of your comedic heroes here, and I think you’re not disappointed. [00:26:57][21.6]
Guy Adami: [00:26:57] Not at all. He was great. And, you know, this is another week in the NFL, the week where they play for pay. Danny Moses is not here, but Danny texted me his picks. So if you indulge me a second, if you want to play the role of Guy Adami, I’ll play the role of Danny Moses Dan. [00:27:12][14.6]
Dan Nathan: [00:27:12] Okay, Guy Adami, what do you got this week? [00:27:16][3.6]
Guy Adami: [00:27:16] Well, this is me being Danny Moses. [00:27:18][1.9]
Dan Nathan: [00:27:19] Oh, right. [00:27:19][0.2]
Guy Adami: [00:27:21] Hello Dan. I know you. I know you guys make fun of me because I’m not having nearly the year I had last year. I’m right now 15, 12 and one which is still good. You can still make money with that. I just want to point that out. But this week I like the San Francisco 49, was playing nine and a half at home over the New Orleans Saints. I think Jimmy Garoppolo is showing that he might be one of the top ten quarterbacks in the league. Their defense is stout. Love the Niners. And I’m going to take the Patriots at Minnesota and by the half a point to make it Pats plus three. The line is two and a half. But I want to take that half point and make it plus three. That makes it -125 on the money line. Those are my picks this week, Guy. [00:28:04][43.2]
Dan Nathan: [00:28:05] All right, DeMo, that was great. We’re rooting for you, buddy, because as guy would say, you were a very pedestrian. Whatever your record is this year in the league where they pay for play. All right. Listen, thanks a lot for being with us. This is going to be an early drop on Thanksgiving. We hope you all have a healthy and happy one and we’ll see you all next week. [00:28:24][18.6]
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Guy Adami: [00:30:27] FactSet Ad. So I’ve been on Twitter since 2009 or thereabouts. I currently follow, I think, a little over 1000 accounts. But if somebody said to me, GSwizz, you can only follow one account. It’s not Donald Trump, it’s not Justin Bieber, it’s not Katy Perry or any of those people. I am telling you without equivocation, it’s super 70s sports. I don’t know where you come up with 90% of this shit, but I find myself laughing out loud to the point where my family comes in room and said, What are you laughing, Ricky Cobb It is an absolute honor to have you with us on the tape. [00:31:09][41.6]
Ricky Cobb: [00:31:09] Well, thank you, guys. It’s my pleasure to be here. You know, I figure any podcast that has the wisdom to bring me on as a guest is a great podcast. [00:31:19][9.1]
Guy Adami: [00:31:19] I could not agree more and it’s fascinating. I happen to think and I fashion myself. I try to think I’m funny at times and I happen to think the smartest people in the world tend to be people with great senses of humor. But yours is off the charts. The stuff you come up with is legendary. So my first question to you is what was your inspiration for this? Other than the obvious growing up around the same time that I did, how did you come up with the idea for this Twitter account? [00:31:46][26.7]
Ricky Cobb: [00:31:47] Well, I’m a college professor by day, at least for a little while longer. And I was on Christmas break maybe about eight or nine years ago. I think that I was looking for a creative outlet, something that I could do to amuse myself. I’ve always had a love of comedy. Obviously, I’ve got a love of sports. And in the whole era that I tweet about, but at the time that I created it, it was really just something very personal for me. I was new to Twitter at that point. I had a personal account that to this day I think is got maybe 100 followers if that. I wasn’t really doing anything with it. And I read a book called Big Hair and Plastic Grass by Dan Epstein. And Dan had a Facebook page that he was using to promote his book. It was about baseball in the 1970s and pop culture stuff mixed in there a little bit. And I thought, this is a lot of fun. I was I was checking his Facebook page every day. He was posting birthday shout outs to Bill Matlock and Josie Cardinale. And I found myself kind of enjoying the fact that he was taking these figures from my childhood and making them relevant in my present in a way. And so I thought, what if I took the seed of that idea and just expanded it into football and basketball and every other sport? And so it was really just something that I was doing for fun. And I am the most shocked guy in the world to be here with you these years later, pushing towards 700,000 followers. It’s ridiculous. [00:33:28][100.9]
Guy Adami: [00:33:29] So Ricky, Dan wants to get in here, but you mentioned Bill Matlock. So I’ll say this. This is why I know where there’s some sort of kismet between us or because I remember that Bill Matlock and John Matlack won the MVP of an all star game in like 1975. I thought it was ironic that they both won. Anyway, Dan, over to you. [00:33:49][19.8]
Dan Nathan: [00:33:49] Well, is there something about baseball in the seventies and the early eighties that’s just funny, guys, saying you’re brilliant. I think you’re obviously very witty. I’m sure you’re a smart guy, too. But isn’t there like you got a lot of good material? Because I’m looking at just a tweet from today with Steve Carlton. It’s like, you know, he was an Indian back then. I think I see Dick Butkus, Moonlight Graham and a goddamn Wolfman in the stands. Like, where do you find the source material for this stuff? You just have all your Topps cards and you’re just kind of scrolling through. [00:34:23][33.4]
Ricky Cobb: [00:34:24] Well, in that case, yes, sometimes there’s things that are there, but you just got to look for them. A lot of the best material hides right under your nose, I found. And so sometimes it’s just being open to looking at things as mundane is a 1987 Topps Steve Carlton and looking in the background and kind of hitting gold. It doesn’t happen that often, but yeah, baseball cards have been a good source of material for me, really, where the material comes from. The shortest answer is this I just roll up my sleeves and I go looking. And I think sometimes people think that the material somehow I have a secret portal to these sources of awesome material, but it’s really just a matter of punch in a lot of gibberish into Google and checking Pinterest and looking around the Internet wherever you can find it. It’s fishing. And obviously I’ve been doing it. For a long time now. So it gets harder and harder to find things that I’ve never seen. I get a charge when I find something that I haven’t seen because I know after all the expeditions I’ve been on over the course of the last seven or eight years, if I haven’t seen it, there’s probably a really good chance that my audience hasn’t seen it. But the one thing I will say for anybody that’s listening to this, if you follow Super70s, if you’re a fan of the account, even if you’re just learning about the account today and hopefully you’ll check it out, you’ll like it. Send me material. My email address is in my bio on Twitter and people want to tee up with great shit. I’m all about it. [00:36:12][107.6]
Dan Nathan: [00:36:12] All right. Well, Guy Dom, you can see in his basement, he’s got he’s got closets full of that great shit. All right. Here’s one question, though. What elevates a tweet to having the word motherfucker in it? Because it seems like some of your best tweets have that expression in it. [00:36:28][15.5]
Ricky Cobb: [00:36:28] Sometimes I think it’s just my mood. People. That’s the biggest. Well, that’s one of the criticisms. I guess the two biggest criticisms I get are that’s not the seventies. And the other one is, is you cuss too goddamn much, although they don’t say it that way. Right. I get emails, I get helpful suggestions from concerned citizens that the profanity is too much for them. But I think it’s a little overrated. I’ve done a little independent research into my own body of work, and I think that I sprinkle profanity into only maybe 30% of my tweets. But it’s very organic. I think sometimes you can probably tell what kind of a mood I’m in just by how much I’m cussing that day, because there’s some days I’ll go through my tweets and I’ll think, Well, today was very motherfucker. I don’t know. I’m I’m slippin. So I have to remind myself the next day to put my game face on again. [00:37:26][57.7]
Guy Adami: [00:37:27] You know, it’s interesting, Ricky, people say to me that I’ll make a comment on fast money and they’ll say there are about five people that understand that reference. And personally, I don’t give a shit like I’ve always felt like if I’m talking to five people, that’s great. I’ve never been one to want to appeal to the masses. I don’t find that particularly interesting. But my sense is David Letterman had profound influence on you because he’s another one that just didn’t give a shit and he would try things not necessarily to appeal to everybody, but to appeal to a very specific audience and sometimes say things that only a handful of people might understand. Can you speak to that? [00:38:04][37.0]
Ricky Cobb: [00:38:05] Yeah, I’ve always been struck by something that I heard Dave Chappelle say probably close to 20 years ago when Chappelle’s Show really took off on the comedy channel. And it was an unexpected success. And he said that he felt the reason that the show ultimately became as popular as it as it was is that he wasn’t aiming for mainstream appeal. He was trying to make a show that he thought was funny, that his close friends would think was funny. And it was really very personal in that way. And I think it has to start there. And I’ve been very, very lucky Guy in that. My comedic sensibility, my voice, my perspective, people have just taken to it. So I didn’t have to create a persona that wasn’t me in order to try to become popular. And I think that that’s a large part of the reason that it’s been successful, because it would be exhausting to have to get up every day and pretend to be somebody that you’re not. Yes. The the voice of the feed is me clip up two or three notches on the dial. I’m not necessarily going to be motherfucking in my way through every day of my life quite like that. But if my personality is a seven or an eight, all super 70 sports is is just me turned over to ten with the enthusiasm. But it’s still me. And so I think that’s very, very important. And I just don’t think that anything is going to land generally as well from a creative perspective, if you’re creating it to try to appeal to as many people as possible. Because when you try to appeal to as many people as possible, you end up with the kind of shit that’s in Target and Walmart, right? There’s not anything wrong with that. But if you’re really trying to be great and, and I put too much time into this to not try to be great, and you work in the shadow of what you’ve previously done. And so I’ve got a pretty good body of work out there now. I think you and the people who follow me have a certain level of content that they’re looking for. And I don’t want people to ever think, Oh, well, jeez, you know, Ricky slipping and the Super 70 sports guy, he’s he doesn’t have it anymore more, right? So the more followers I get, the harder I want to work. But I definitely think that it’s very important for anything that’s legitimately going to be great. I think it has to be original and authentic to itself. And I’ve been really lucky that I haven’t had to fake it in order to appeal to people. [00:40:47][162.0]
Dan Nathan: [00:40:47] So, Ricky, what are what are some of the other side hustles from other professors in your sociology department? Because it might be a really eclectic group. [00:40:55][7.6]
Ricky Cobb: [00:40:56] Yeah, I don’t know that there’s a lot of side hustling going on. I know a guy who’s an accountant and stuff like that. I don’t think anybody is side hustle, probably quite like I am. And the reaction to it is is interesting too. Sometimes I don’t think my college is a huge fan of it. For a long time people would ask me like, Well, you know, how how did the people at your college feel about it? And I would always say, Well, I haven’t really heard anything. To the extent that anybody says anything, the word of mouth is pretty positive. But I don’t think that’s necessarily the case anymore. And it’s one of those things where I’m at a point now where I kind of don’t have any fucks left to give because I’m successful enough with this that I don’t need the gig anymore, and I’m probably going to leave next year of my own volition in order to focus on some of the opportunities that are coming about the super seventies. I don’t think there’s a ton of side hustle and that goes on in academics for for most teachers. I think you you put in your 30 years or whatever and you get the you get the watch and the retirement package and and you move on. I’ve I’m having a very, very interesting midlife detour. And it’s it’s been a pretty incredible adventure. [00:42:21][84.8]
Dan Nathan: [00:42:21] Well, talk to us a little bit about the demographic. I mean, obviously, you know, you’re looking at Dan, Danny Guy and myself, we kind of all look alike. We’re kind of like, you know, 50 something year old guys. So. So the content and the wit we really identify. How do you think how does it translate to some of these younger people where, you know, they are digitally native? Right. They started with social media. A lot of your students, you know, literally, you know, came into their teens with with social media accounts and iPhones and the like here. Does the content resonate with them despite the fact that they might not be aware of these were memes back in the seventies or eighties, but they’re just that they’re not program that way. [00:42:59][37.6]
Ricky Cobb: [00:43:00] Yeah, I think obviously the sweet spot is guys of a certain age, right? I think millennials, I think there are a lot of millennials that connect with the account. And I’m I’m gratified when younger people like it, I think is we tape this, I believe Travis Kelce scored three touchdowns last night with the Kansas City Chiefs. Travis Kelce follows the account and there are a lot of younger folks who do active NFL players, Major League Baseball players and so forth. College, college kids. And I think funny, funny. Certainly there are some things that I tweet that if you don’t have the context, maybe it’s not going to be funny or maybe it it’s going to be a little bit less funny. I try to tweet things that are funny as often as I can. I try to tweet things that are just funny at face value. But if you understand the era, if you understand the reference, maybe it has another layer of funny to it. But it’s one of those things where it’s very satisfying to me. Any time I have somebody reach out to me who who’s in their twenties or even in their thirties, and they tell me how much they enjoy it. Somebody not too long ago who was, I think college age kids that this account makes me wish that I grew up in the seventies and I thought that’s that’s the sweet spot that I’m trying to hit. For us, we look back on it and it’s a nostalgia ride. It’s a juxtaposition of what culture was like then compared to what culture is like now. But for the younger generation, there’s that different perspective of, as you noted, being exposed to this stuff for the first time. They didn’t go viral, things that have faded into the ether, so to speak. And I’m pulling that stuff back out and saying, Hey, you young kids, check this shit out. And so I think there’s that element of that, too, that gives it more legs than maybe some people might realize. [00:45:10][130.2]
Danny Moses: [00:45:11] So you obviously get to meet a lot of your heroes. I guess you call them from time to time. Now, I would imagine with what you’ve been doing, and I notice certain people pop back up like an Andre Dawson who was just an absolute badass. I don’t know if it’s the Expos that you loved as a kid or what it was. Talk to me about who you’ve been able to meet that by doing this, you never probably would have been able to. And how meaningful that was for you. [00:45:30][18.4]
Ricky Cobb: [00:45:30] Oh, I mean, gosh, so many. I just had Rad Crew on my podcast a few episodes ago and got to interview him for about 30 or 40 minutes and that was fantastic. Some of the other guest I had on the on my old podcast, we have one now called the Super 70 Sports Show. Check that out on your favorite streaming service. But I left the archive up of the of the old podcast as well, which is out there people can find. But I had guest on that one like Rob Lowe, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Barry Williams from The Brady Bunch was one of my favorites. A surreal experience to be able to pick Greg Brady’s brain with any silly goddamn question that you had about that show. But the the the short answer is, is there have been so many people whose acquaintances I’ve made some friendships that I’ve that I’ve carved out through this from not only athletes from when I was a kid. Dale Murphy and Dave Parker have been on the podcast, Danny Soul, one of my old favorite NBA players. And then just the people that I’ve met through it, people who have reached out to me, DM’d me and told me how much they enjoy what I do. And it’s forged relationships in some cases and in friendships. It’s amazing. It’s it’s kind of like candy land, man. I tell you, I’m convinced that what’s going to happen is I’m going to wake up like a year from now, and I’ve probably been in some sort of COVID coma or something because some somedays as much hard work as it is and there is a hell of a lot of hard work that goes into it. It’s a labor of love. And I really feel like I caught lightning in a bottle and I got to be one of the luckiest guys in the world. [00:47:24][114.6]
Danny Moses: [00:47:25] Have you ever heard from anyone that you might have offended even if it wasn’t, you know, intentional in a tweet that saw it and said, hey, that’s not it, or you you had to take on something like you don’t know what you’re talking about or anything like that happened. [00:47:35][10.0]
Ricky Cobb: [00:47:36] I mean, I have offended people. There are certain tweets that I that I’ve made where people get upset, but it’s usually not the subject of the tweet itself. I made a tweet about Joe Paterno a few years ago, and it was Joe Paterno. He was broadcasting with Keith Jackson as the color analyst. They were both wearing the yellow or the gold ABC Sports Blazer. And I said something to the effect of Joe Paterno’s announcing career came to an end when on every play he insisted that he saw nothing, heard nothing really happened. And I didn’t hear anything from the Paterno family, but the Penn State loyalists let me have it. And my follower count dropped down. I’ve learned not to even toy around with politics. Things things like that. The the only person I can think of who ever said anything to me. And it was. And she still follows me. I think she just retweeted me the other day. So there’s there’s no animosity there. But I had tweeted a photo of Wayne Gretzky from the early eighties, and I referred to him as Martina Navratilova. And I said, you know, you can’t deny Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest of all time. And it was the photo of Wayne Gretzky. He tweeted back something like, Are you guys crazy or stupid? But I think Martina came around on it and kind of got what I was doing. So I don’t even really think she was that mad. But I think the people who follow the feed understand that it’s very tongue in cheek. It’s done with a wink and a nod. I’m going to poke fun at everybody. I always say, Hey, look, I’m a smart ass, but I’m an equal opportunity offender with the with the smart assery. Right. I’m going to I’m going to poke fun at your favorite sometimes I’m going to poke fun at my own favorites. I’ll poke fun at myself. And then I’m also going to poke fun at your enemies and your rivals, too, you know? So if you stick around long enough, everybody’s going to get skewered. But unless it’s O.J. Simpson or or somebody who richly deserves that, it’s it’s normally the kind of thing where you bust the balls of the people you like. Right. And so it’s I make fun of the seventies in general, right? I take shots at the seventies and point out a lot of the absurdities and and things that haven’t necessarily aged well. But I’d like to think that most of what I do comes with a good heart in a in a sense of affection. [00:50:16][160.4]
Guy Adami: [00:50:17] The Eurythmics are a decent band. They’re not the who then. It’s not Led Zeppelin. It’s not the Eurythmics right now. I don’t know why this resonated with me, and there’s going to be a question on the back end of this. But you tweeted a picture of Kurt Warner and his wife, and his wife is out there. Right. And the tweet is Kurt Warner and his wife made history in 1999 when he passed for 41 touchdowns while she explained what sweet dreams are made of and felt, she wasn’t in a position to disagree. Now a lot of people read that and be like, what the genius of that is? It’s Annie Lennox. She’s a she’s a spitting image of Annie Lennox. It’s obviously a lyric from one of their songs. But how do you like I know Dan asked you, but you must write this and laugh your balls off. Are there certain tweets that you put out that you find yourself just rolling on the floor? Because for me, that’s one of them. [00:51:14][57.0]
Ricky Cobb: [00:51:17] I do sometimes it’s more of a it’s more of a giggle kind of thing. If I make myself like, you know, I got a weird sense of humor, man. So it’s like sometimes the ones that make me laugh the most. I think a lot of comics are like this. Comics try to crack up other comics, and sometimes the things that comics crack each other up with isn’t necessarily the same material that plays the best on the stage. And I’ve always seen Twitter as a sort of a form of virtual stand up because you’re getting the feedback instantly. And I always tell people I know within two or 3 minutes how well a tweet is going to do. That’s a large enough sample size for me at this point, having tweeted over 50,000 times, I’ll know within three, four or 5 minutes, tops, how well the tweet is going to perform. I know if it’s a homer in the upper deck or if it’s you, people tell me I never miss. And I always say, with all humility, I miss every day. But I think that I miss because I’m still willing to take chances. If I wanted to play it completely safe, my batting average would be higher. But where’s the fun in that? You know? So I still like to take chances because that’s the creative beauty of it, right? Is finding where where’s the line? What can I do with this that’s different? Is that to offensive? Or is that just offensive enough that I can get away with? And then those are all questions that you might have a feeling about it, but you don’t really know for sure until you hit send. And the thing that I do that I will say compared to standup comedy in standup is something that I would like to eventually do, I think. Especially as a veteran of 20 years of giving lectures and trying to entertain students. I think I’ve got some chops for a novice. But I will say I don’t get to go into some little room with 20 people in it and test my jokes out. And I’m firing live rounds every day right when I hit send, that’s going out to 673,000 people or whatever it is now. And if it misses, it’s going to miss with all those people, many of whom are big names and people that I admire and that I don’t want to look stupid in front of. And so there’s a certain amount of you just you kind of have to have brass balls to do it. I don’t think about it in that way unless I’m describing it here in an interview. But because you can’t think about it, because if I spent time thinking about the potential ramifications of every tweet that I send out, I don’t think it would be good for me. So you kind of have to go from the hip as much as you can and you don’t really have a choice. There’s no focus groups for Twitter. [00:54:14][177.7]
Dan Nathan: [00:54:16] Yeah. So talk to us a little bit about that. It sounds like you’re about to make a pivot and, you know, it sounds like you’re refining a process and again, you’re firing bullets, you’re doing it live. You know, a lot of comedians, like you said, they workshop their stuff. They work on these ideas. They put them together as a set. They’ll just go pop into, you know, the Comedy Store or whatever. And they’ll do a set. They see what works, then they go back to it and they’re not doing their Netflix special until they have that 55 minutes down. Right. So I think about this and what you’re trying to do or what you’re about to do is like during COVID, there was some success. Remember, like that Sarah Cooper, she was like she used the medium as well as anybody could. And she was so funny. But the moment and again, I’m not trying to discourage you from anything. The moment that she stepped off a social media and tried to do what she did so well on that medium in the real world, I haven’t heard from her since, as anyone checked on her, you know what I mean? So I guess my point is, is that it sounds like you got you’re always going to keep a foot in the door with this Twitter feed. This is your bread and butter, but you’re going to try a bunch of new stuff. [00:55:18][61.9]
Ricky Cobb: [00:55:19] Yeah, absolutely. The Twitter is the backbone. I’m not stupid enough to say, okay, well, I’ve I’ve gone beyond Twitter now. What else is there? The Twitter is going to continue. There’s always going to be that presence there. And and I and I would be stupid not to right because really is is is kind of sad. This is in a way, it’s probably the thing that I do better than anything else. everybody has something that they do better than they do anything else. All of us. For some people it’s in a car engine. For some people, it’s maybe it’s operating on somebody, right? For whatever that might. For some people it might be playing video games, but everybody’s got something that they’re better at than their other stuff, even if they’re mediocre at that and they suck at everything else. Twitter is I think that it’s the thing that I’m best at. And yes, I think I have a talent. People ask me, you guys ask me, where does it come from? I don’t really know. It’s kind of like. Songwriting some, you know, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, whatever. The people that I look up to who who can write great songs and you think to yourself like, where where does Visions of Johanna come from? Where did Desolation Row come from? How did Paul McCartney write Hey, Jude? Where does it come from? And the answer is, is it’s just something that they have that they probably can’t even really answer themselves, because if they knew Bob Dylan knew how to write Desolation Row every day of the week, he would have written a thousand songs like that. Right. And so the creative muses of is a fickle thing. And I don’t really know where it comes from. So I’ve got natural talent. But the thing that I’m most proud of is the fact that I have just worked relentlessly at it every day. I’m just sharpening that that skill because I haven’t missed a day of tweeting in eight. It’ll be January the first of next year will be eight years since I’ve missed a day of tweeting. And in those eight years, I would say you can count on one hand the number of times that I’ve tweeted less than 12 or 15 times. So just through sheer repetition, just grinding over and over again, it’s probably not that much different than Tiger Woods or somebody just hitting a million golf balls until you’ve grooved it as good as it’s going to get. And so that that for me, is the thing. There’s lots of people who are talented. There’s lots of people who are funny. But I went from being absolutely someone that nobody knew. No followers, zero, very limited. I have gotten some media through the years now and television and newspapers and stuff like that, but I didn’t. I certainly didn’t in the beginning. And the thing that I’m proudest of is that I kept going because I found a tweet the other day, guys, I was searching through the through the archives and I found a tweet from 2014. This is even before I began my streak of never missing a day, and it still had zero retweets and zero likes. And I thought about putting it out there and saying, Hey, guys, look at this. And then I kind of felt like, no, I don’t even want to do that. It means more to me to know that that tweet is out there in the wilderness, never retweeted it, never liked. And it was a reminder for me of where I started. And I basically just tweeted my way to this point by just continuing to do it over and over and over again. And I think that I improved my skills that way, too. [00:59:17][237.9]
Danny Moses: [00:59:18] So it’s clear that you have passion and you’re attracted to either sports figures that showed passion at the time or whatever. I’m curious, though, to still a question the guy was probably going to ask your favorite 70 sports movie, you know, in terms of what encapsulated you, everything about it. Because I think back like Heaven Can Wait. Rocky North Dallas 40, give me your one. If I’ve never heard you talk about him, give me one that you think kind of encapsulates the seventies. [00:59:39][21.6]
Ricky Cobb: [00:59:41] The Bad News Bears. Yeah, for me. But I love the Rocky movies, especially, obviously the first one, second one, Mr. T and Drago. It got bigger and dumber and goofier as it went on. But I love the Rocky franchise. But for me, the 270 sports movies, one would be the Bad News Bears. And then I got to Mission Slap Shot as well. And those are both movies. And the reason that I would say those movies is, is neither one of those movies could probably be made today, at least not in the same way. If you go back and watch those movies, there’s not a studio in Hollywood that would have put the original bad news bears out to the public in that form. Right. And in years later, they did do one with Billy Bob Thornton, and it went over like a live balloon. Yeah. It didn’t have it didn’t have the the life force to it. The energy, the thing that separates kind of is you were saying earlier, Guy didn’t have that authenticity, the originality to it. And when you try to make bad News Bears, you’re not you’re going to make you’re going to make something else, right? That movie is what it is because it was organic. It was of its time and it was it was it was authentic. It’s what it was. And so for me, that one probably embodies the seventies, the best in many sports movie. [01:01:10][89.7]
Guy Adami: [01:01:11] Jackie Earle Haley I don’t think he did anything after that and I got it. You know that scene when they’re in, when she’s doing her ballet lessons and the leeks in there? I play for the bears. I’m in 591, I drive a Harley. For some reason, I could watch that 100 times and I laugh every frickin time. It’s genius. Listen, Rick, before we get out of here, I mean, what one tweet has gotten more play? I mean, they’re all listen, and I mean this sincerely. Every single one of them is brilliant. But which one really is just for whatever reason, for whatever reason is just sort of hit a place with people and rendered. It’s just really made its mark. [01:01:51][40.4]
Ricky Cobb: [01:01:53] Well, the tweet that I suppose elevated the account the most, and I started to see a jump in followers and a jump in interest in Super70s was a tweet that I tweeted about five years ago on my 46th birthday, as it as it were. And it’s Howard Cosell, flanked on either side by OJ Simpson and Bruce Jenner. Then Bruce Jenner and I found that tweet that I found that photo, I should say, and I held it for a while. Some photos. People will send me photos if I’m hungry for material. Somebody sends me a photo, I’ll open the email or I’ll open the DM on Twitter and I’ll be like, Oh, I can use this and I need something. And I’ll come up with the caption quick and I’ll just tweet it. But with that one I knew I had something, so I held it. I didn’t know what the caption was, but I didn’t want to mess that caption up because I knew that it was it was a splendid picture. And so a few weeks later, I tweeted it out, as I said, on my birthday. And the caption was, Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve looked into the future when you’re not going to believe this shit. So that one took off. It ended up getting like 50,000 plus retweets and something like 115,000 likes or something like that. And it, it, it got meme’d and it went around the world a couple of times. I would hear things somebody told me once they said, Hey, Howard Stern was talking about your your tweet today on his show or whatever. And I’m like, oh, wow, really? It’s like, did he mention my name? No. But he was talking about the tweet. It was out there. And so that was the first one that made me kind of step back and say, like, wow, like if you tweet the right thing, people will notice it, it will get shared and you will gain followers. And so that when I think as much as anything made me think, okay, Cobb, put your head down and keep working, and you might maybe, just maybe you might be able to do something with this. [01:04:14][141.4]
Dan Nathan: [01:04:15] Well, to quote the stranger here, Ricky, it’s good to know that you’re out there, man, because you’re taking it easy for all of us sinners. Listen, it’s been our sincere pleasure. We really appreciate you coming on the tape. And, you know, we are going to do a little promo for your Super 70 sports store where you have all those brilliant t shirts, the first 50 people who leave a review in the Apple Podcasts store. You know what to do with that review you screenshot at the. Amanda. And we’re going to send you a shirt. We may expand that because we’re going to do we’re going to design a shirt to be in that store, don’t we, Danny and guys so that’s come into a Super 70 sports store near your near you. So thanks, Ricky, for being on with us. We really appreciate it. [01:04:56][41.4]
Ricky Cobb: [01:04:56] Hey, thank you guys so much. It’s been a great conversation. My pleasure. [01:05:00][3.5]
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