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3 Guys Before The Game - Nathan Adrian Visits (Episode 556) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Well look, look, look, look, look look what we have assembled
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  here. Oh my goodness, three guys before the game plus one episode five
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  point fifty six. If there's ever been the fourth host, if there was
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  ever the fourth host, if this was ever four guys before the game,
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  yeah, our guest would be the fourth guy, right, question, no
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  question about it. He's in. He's back from Italy. It's Nathan Adrian.
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  You know. It's the way we mark time here, exactly right.
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  Some people do it by whether the leaves around the trees or not. We
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  do it is Nathan in town. Nathan's in town. It must have been
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  a year. My gosh, time flies. So you see Nathan, you
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  go, it's summertime. Hey, you see Nathan lately? No, no,
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  here comes the fall. Because of his pre he is hosting duties.
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  He's ineligible for the record for most appearances by a guest. Correct, rightly,
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  he's eligence. Well, no, it is. We have an award.
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  Yeah, we have a big award that goes out for that. We
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  need to redo those lists and we need looking to see what it actually is.
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  of America. Did you saunter up and go? You got an there?
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  I was. I was just so you got to try and tune you matter
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  if I go for a ride with you. By the way, it's on
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  now voting season open. Do you been out? You went out and out?
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  Got to go? Well? Great, it was great, A little
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  money weather, weather's beautiful water, tad cold yet a few more degrees?
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  What are coming down on cheap river there? Yeah, it's tough. One's
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  forty five degrees in the morning. Yeah, it was little chilli, this
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  one, this was yeah, this week was coold, well CHILEI this morning.
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  Last week was better and mostly eighties. Great to have you back,
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  brother, It's good to be here. Glad to be home. For those
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  of you that may be relatively new to this program. Nathan, well,
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  I guess, I guess you gotta do the full explanation. Nathan was born
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  and raised uh here in Morgantown. He attended he attended South Middle School,
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  made the transition over to Morgantown High and I aled over there, played ball
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  over there at Morgantown High School, and then stayed in town for his his
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  post high school education and he played over at the college up there. On
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  up there on Land Boulevard. Played there, you were, you were there
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  for all four of those years. Yeah, played at the college. And
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  now now he was he was a he was a just a standout young man.
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  What what what honors did you receive in your senior year from the Big
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  twelve Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, uh thirteen? All Conference, First Team, All
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  Defense? And what's the what's the what's the school one? Uh? The
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  school one? What'd you get in an award? Here? No? No,
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  no, that was the Big twelve Scholar Athlete of the Year. Schools
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  one, the academic one, the academic one, school in my sport management
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  masters. There you go. So that's who he is in case because we
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  have new people, you know, they may not be totally familiar with you.
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  And so this is Nathan and he's from here. And what Nathan did
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  after he got done playing that college basketball is uh he said, you know,
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  I want to see that was like overseas and so now he has just
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  completed his fifth season of playing professionally. I'm not even gonna try to guess,
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  but Ukraine was first first, I'm sorry, first Bordeaux, France,
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  then Ukraine, and then any tiny car they gave you in France for Fiat
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  what number five five series? What are you supposed to do? Get one
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  leg in? Barely got my head in. Oh my god, I sat
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  on the roof. They call that the Jinko Jin the five hundred. So
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  France first, then not not the Ukraine, just Ukraine, just Ukraine,
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  I remember those. Yeah. And then Italy the last three years and Serie
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  A this past year, which is their highest level. How many levels are
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  there of professional basketball in Italy? Professionally there's all right, technically professionally there's
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  one. Then below that they don't consider a professional league because their tax laws
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  are different for those leagues and they don't have to pay benefits to the players.
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  It doesn't matter where. It's seven of those leagues, it doesn't matter
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  where you are. Everyone's got to try to find a little loophole, right,
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  they find a loophole. You got some good news as far as last
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  time we were on, you were talking about looking back through your ancestry and
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  potential dual citizenship and that's it's in process. H yep. That well.
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  It went into the Italian courts in October. Took seven and a half months
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  to get through them, and finally they approved me and my family, so
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  I'll be a dual citizen as soon as I can get my passport. Is
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  a process. This is awesome. Yeah, I mean, look where you've
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  come from, Grafton Road. I mean, now you're an Italian away.
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  Did you ever have to physically present yourself in any of the conversations about getting
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  the citizenship? Did you have to go to an Italian court? You never
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  want to do anything. I think the only thing I'll have to go in
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  person do is go to the consulate in Philadelphia to get my birth certificate and
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  passport. And that's significant because then you will not count as an American when
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  you play over there. They can count you as an Italian and there's a
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  limit on the number of Americans, so you become more marketable. Exactly.
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  Technically, Italy does it different than other countries. When you get your Italian
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  passport, you become a European player, and they still limit the number of
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  European Oh, so you have to have the same amount of Italian players as
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  you have foreign players. So anything outside of Italy is considered foreign. So
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  I'm still considered one of those six foreign players, but they don't have to
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  go through the process of give me a visa to come play now during the
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  next feeble window, which is the international basketball qualifiers and everything for World Cup
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  and levees, everything like that. If I play for the Italian national team,
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  then I'd become a full Italian and would count towards the six Italians.
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  I got you. So they can have non Italians on their international team.
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  On their national team as long as you have a passport. Do you have
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  to try out for that or is that invitation? There's an invitation, so
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  we'll see can that happen. Let's work on that, and we're working on
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  it. Effort efforting, we're efforting. Have you looked at their roster and
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  guys that have played on that team you think that could be viable for you
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  one day on the national team. Yeah. I play against all of them
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  almost every year, except for the guys that play in the NBA like fun
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  Techio. You know, they don't get to play and all the qualifiers though,
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  because they're probably in the NBA, they don't get out of it.
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  And a lot of the euro League guys don't even get to play because they
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  don't they don't their league doesn't get a break during the feeble window like else
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  do gocha? So it takes away a lot of guys that could potentially play.
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  Okay, well, this is good. Let's get that done. We're
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  working on it. You got it, because now you've got a four year
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  window for the Olympic window opens up again. All right, let's work on
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  that. How old are you know? Twenty nine? Twenty nine? Just
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  turned twenty nine? Body feels good, A little little more tiresome than Look.
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  Look how much weight? Look how much weight he lost? You have
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  lost? Sinner's a rail? You wait to eighteen? You said to eighteen?
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  You played at West Virginia? What wait between two thirty and two forty?
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  Yeah, so how that happens? Yeah? But now you're spacing the
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  floor shooting threes. You're not banging down there with a broken shoulder and bad
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  hip and everything else and trying to wrestle down in the post. Did you
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  intentionally lose the weight? No? I just can't keep it on over there.
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  I eat as much as I want, it just falls off me.
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  That's interesting, hoppy, any thoughts on that? Why is this happening?
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  To know? Well, you know my eight years of medical school, I
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  don't know, I think just because he's a pro, he just like it's
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  hard work, it's practicing hard, he's playing hard, and just it's probably
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  is hard to keep the weight home. Yeah, definitely. I mean for
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  lunch, I eat a poundapasta every day and just nothing. Excuse me,
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  day straight up, eat a pound red sauce, white sauce, right,
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  bowling as you cheese. You get meatballs with that bowl? You do not?
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  Meat sauce is in there, meat in order the meatball separate as well.
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  Some do, yeah, some some try, and sometimes I'm a waiter
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  will go like, no, we're not giving you meatballs. You're getting bolonnes
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  sauce. You're not getting meat polls. Were you there that day? No,
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  our guy, our guy Michael, Our guy Michael was ordering remember that
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  time at Carmines and he kept saying, yeah, now I want bowlinnis and
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  I'm better the thing meatballs. Guy goes, No, you don't I like
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  that. Yeah, I don't like that. We wanted meatbolls too. No,
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  well you don't tell me, no, we'll you no, I'll tell
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  you you can't here, We'll tell you what to get. Yeah, it's
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  a pound apasta every day for lunching a pasta for lunch and we stand off
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  the bread or something. What are you doing staying off the bread? No?
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  I would eat three pieces of buttered bread with that too, dipping this
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  song. What what are you doing? You're just running. It's just good
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  food. I understand that. Are you Why are you? Are you practicing
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  more? The last year we were just sitting around between games? Well,
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  No, I was just oka last year too. I come every year.
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  I go at two thirty and come back at two between two eighteen and two.
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  We know that now we've seen them. This is perplexing. Cattler would
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  not be happy. And Andy Catler the former around here like programs over there,
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  we're doing a lot of things with thirty pound dumbbells. Keller would say,
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  one hundred and thirty pound dumb belts. Wouldn't be pleased. Do you
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  have a restaurant that's here that your standard? Do you go in they know
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  what you want? Or do you spread it around? What are the choices
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  there? This year? I didn't really have one. Past years, I've
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  had a few. Yeah, I would just walk in this year, you
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  didn't, though, No, I ate a lot. Did you cook at
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  home? I cook at home. Now, I love this. This is
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  good. Why haven't you gone over Tony while he's over there. I tend
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  to be busy during his season. I also have the basketballers over here.
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  Sometimes that season ends early, and you could there was about three months.
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  This was a long seat. You played forever too. This year felt like
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  he just finished. Yeah. You came home this month. Yeah, day
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  before Mother's Day. Yeah, I mean you could do something in April.
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  See, you had buddies visit you right at Blaine. Steward came over and
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  comes. Who else comes? Calisant They always comes? Yeah, not always.
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  He came this year. Uh huh. Ryan Anthony, Ryan Antony.
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  Dudes, are all your middle school buddies. It's all my yeah, your
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  posse. Yeah, Ryan's my Grafton Road buddy. See all the way back
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  up there. That's good level of play in Serie A? Is it?
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  Is it Power five basketball? Better? Better? Oh? I like this.
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  I like this. Okay. I mean you're getting a lot of guys
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  that there's a time. Eh, it's just different. There's a lot of
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  guys that go over there have been successful in college that just don't pan out.
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  Whether it's the lifestyle or if it's different style of basketball. Sometimes just
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  doesn't work out, and there's other guys who come from D two schools who
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  find a way have incredible careers. So there's really no telling who's going to
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  be successful who's not. Over there, you play how many days a week?
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  One Sundays, so it's a Sunday deal, so that that whole league,
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  Serie A just plays Sundays. Yeah, they just play Sundays. And
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  then you have teams who play in European competition. So you have Milan and
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  Blown, you who play in your league who will have games on Twodays or
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  Thursdays, and then EuroCup, which would be Vennis Trento. I think that's
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  it. They play on Wednesdays, and then Champions League they play on Wednesdays
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  and then euro europe Cup. Okay, but your team did my team did
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  not. So if you make the playoffs the previous year, you get invited
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  to European competitions. Okay, and my team this year it was their first
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  year coming up from the second league, so if we would have made the
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  playoffs this year, which we didn't, then they would have been invited to
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  playing European competitions and they have the choice to say yes or no, because
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  obviously it's more money. But this year was a success though, because they
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  you didn't get relegated back, so the club was happy. The club,
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  he was very happy with it. So you had been second tier before you
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  got there. This was the first year up, so you beat you came
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  through regularly relegation and you stayed away from relegation, that concept of relegation.
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  Do you like it? Do you think this is a crazy thought? First?
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  Whatever? On this podcast? I think first today? Could you ever
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  see that working over here in colleges? Like if you suck you have to
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  go down? What are you going down to? Its non power conference?
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  Like you have power. There's four power conferences now, and like if you
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  just continually are not good and not productive, like drop drop them down.
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  It's logistically, I don't you can do it? Just be a nightmare.
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  Would make it a lot more fun. Yeah, see, I hell have
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  a lot more fun, right have? The SEC will be there here soon,
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  don't they're coming with that coming last place, they're coming with that.
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  Get rooted back to the A C. C. Looking over your shoulder there,
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  all due respect of course, those two fine institutions. Guess what you're
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  in Conference USA. Did you feel the pressure though you said your team was
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  that was a big deal, So you felt that throughout the year that was
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  a cost stint. Even if it wasn't a direct message, you felt that
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  pressure. Yeah, you start feeling it. No, it's a direct Oh
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  it's a direct message too. Yeah, it's it was spoken about all year,
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  all year. We have one goal, get to eleven wins, and
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  we got we got the eight and eight. Yeah, it was like,
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  don't lose sight of eleven wins. So not even a moment where you could
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  rely like, oh, maybe we can make a push and make the playoffs,
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  is like, just get to eleven wins. How about? That's all
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  they care? And how many you end up with? How many twelve?
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  Twelve? And you almost had out there tell the story the last game because
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  they almost had one of the best teams in the league. They had the
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  best team in the league on the ropes we did at home last game of
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  the year, we played Milan at home. It's one of the ear league
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  teams and they're definitely the best team, winning the whole game sixty eight to
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  seventy. With two seconds left, they guy shoots twenty two percent on the
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  year. Shoot the three makes it we lose, oh man, and still
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  celebrate because we didn't get relegated. Yes see, that's that's a special part
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  of that whole thing, exactly. The fact it felt the pressure and it
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  was discussed all year. That's that's really interesting. That's just the real thing.
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  More the crowds, like your crowds. Crowds are good. Were we
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  talking two thousand? Uh yeah, so, I think our gym was about
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  four thousand, so it was good. And then you know, being where
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  we were close to Milan, there's a lot of teams up there, so
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  a lot of a lot of their fans would come and it was a good
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  atmosphere. It was a good atmosphere. Fire in the stands like the previous
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  fire, no fire, no fire. I think they've banned It's the same
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  gym I played the championship then, so that's the that's the gym my team
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  set the fire in. Yeah, so I think they've banned the fire,
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  no fire, no live fire. While playing good news officiating any better this
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  year? You were a little better, slightly better. They listened to you,
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  talk to you. It all certain ones, certain ones definitely don't you
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  get the old guys. You can get the ear league refs because you have
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  to. So it'd be like NBA refs who have to come only do a
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  college game once a week and listened to college kids yellow at they're not doing
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  it. They don't know, they're not putting up with it. Yeah,
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  Like like Luca when he's playing overseas, Like they'll listen to Lucas, but
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  like say whatever he wants, but I'm not listening to you. Did they
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  listen to you? Do you ever say anything here? You just played?
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  He just played. I keep my mouth shut as much as I didn't gesture
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  or anything. I didn't say that. I kept my mouth shut. Sometimes
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  a gesture sometimes the hands go up. This is this is a generalization.
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  Europeans gesture more than Americans. Question. Oh yeah, I mean Luca gestures.
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  Luca. By the way, you may not know this. Luca's never
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  committed foul. No, never, why was fowl? I've never said,
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  good call. What's the level of trash talking serie A low? I mean,
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  you might get certain Americans, you do, but if you're in there
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  for multiple years, you're playing the same guys and then your teammates with that
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  guy in the next year probably, So no reason to burn a bridge.
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  Exactly. There's a lot of guys that, especially the Italians, they've played
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  with each other since they were kids, because you come up they don't have
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  school sports, so the clubs, like our club has a youth youth program,
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  so they come up in these clubs and literally just play each other since
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  they were ten, so they all know each other. So it's the trash
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  talks more like how's your mom? Yeah, you see you next year.
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  Yeah. So here's another concept outside the box. Obviously, we have high
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  school sports teams in the United States, they do not. They have clubs
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  that you do after school and you're blong with this club. Is there a
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  value to that? Do you think that system? If you were to again,
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  my thought is bringing something like that over here, I wouldn't take it
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  away from the high school. I would take it away from the The direction
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  that like AAU and some are basketball is going because over there they are practicing
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  full year all week they're actually getting and learning the fundamentals, and over here,
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  we just play fifteen games a weekend and that's your basketball. So you're
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  not really learning how to play the game, you're just playing one hundred percent
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  agree with you. That thing's gotten out of hand. It's crazy. It's
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  just a money maker now exactly. Yep, your parents out there whenever you
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  have that one person that comes to you and your kid's real young and they
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  go like, hey, listen, know are regular seasons over now or a
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  couple of us parents. Uh, we're going to put a travel team to
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  get it won't be real far travel. We're just gonna a couple of games
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  on the weekends. Here's my message to you. Run, don't walk.
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  Next thing, you know, you're in Sheboygan and you got a hotel bill
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  coming out of there about eight fifty for the weekend. Hey guess no,
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  Hey, we'll see you guys in Richmond next weekend. It's hold on.
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  There's about fifty Division one scouts that go to those eight U games in Galla
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  Police, Ohio. There scholarships are then there police kids getting a scholarship offer
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  this weekend. Yeah, probably out over there. I didn't play you until
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  but I'm kidding. I know you're a kidding because they the pitch is there's
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  going to be scouts there and they go there and there's just other parents,
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  right, I would just say this having seen so much of it, having
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  lived through it as well, I think oftentimes it takes families away from doing
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  things in the spring and the summer, during weekends. That isn't worth what
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  you lose by not doing stuff with your family. Yeah, you're at their
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  mother's Day and you're at some stupid tournament and in Ohio. Remember we used
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  to go to those, Nathan, And we're sitting there going, it's fricking
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  mother's day. We got to make sure this team wins. If this team
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  wins and we get to play in three hours, like the discussion point is
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  what he said, it's it's less about it's more about the skill development versus
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  just standing out there and not getting the touches or in baseball, going somewhere
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  a six hour travel trip where you get four rat bats versus are you better
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  off getting in the cage and taking a hundred swings yeah, and perfecting the
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  skill. I think that's where the debate lies rather than just, as Nathan
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  say, playing game after game after game after game, which there's some value
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  to playing games. It does help your IQ, does help you understand the
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  game. But if that's if that's diminishing your skill development, then I think
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  that's where you need to evaluate. Agree, well said, yeah, one
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  hundred percent. When you play guys that are Italian or European that have been
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  through clubs and are really fun to what's the difference fundamentally when you watch these
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  cats play, it's a different They play different style, don't they. Yeah,
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  it's very different. You're just not going up and down as much.
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  You're not seeing guys make plays and transition as much. Not that it doesn't
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  happen, but it's hard to explain just with words. Passing better, passing
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  better, better, motion better. You're coming down the court, You're getting
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  into a ball screen to get to the next side. You're not just coming
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  down coming off something to go shoot the ball. You're coming off to get
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  the side pick and roll on. Transition is getting you into your next set,
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  it's not getting you straight to the bucket, if that makes sense.
• 22:11
  And they just know where it's supposed to go, when it's supposed to go
• 22:15
  there, where you're supposed to be. Why this guy over here is helping
• 22:18
  and needs to go that way? Now? Is it more enjoyable for me?
• 22:22
  It is? Yeah, because that's how your style right, Yeah,
• 22:25
  just fits me well more well, he's a scholar athlete year high IQ.
• 22:32
  You can pass the ball, right, sneaky athletics, sneaky sneak, let's
• 22:36
  lea get all the white guys. No, I'm I'm no longer sneaky athletic
• 22:41
  sneaking out of the door. We haven't transitioned into old man smarts though,
• 22:45
  you have you Yeah, yes, yes, I got I got the real
• 22:48
  slow floater going. But you're kind of you're kind of going back to high
• 22:52
  school game. Like you're shooting the three really well, forty from three.
• 22:55
  Yeah, we gotta get you a couple more shots though, Like you got
• 22:56
  to get the ball more. You're shooting forty two percent from three. We
• 23:00
  got to get the agent on the phone, get some more shots. Do
• 23:02
  my job doing. I'm told, oh, bolshot citizen, Now give me
• 23:06
  the damn ball over here and get some threes up. They they got a
• 23:08
  guy that shoots a three. Yeah, it should be him. His percentage
• 23:11
  was better give him the ball. Do you back back to the intricacies of
• 23:18
  the game. So when you're playing somebody and you I don't know how much
• 23:21
  time you have to prep or watch film, but so when they come down,
• 23:23
  do you know and they start to their motional movement. Do you know
• 23:26
  what they're doing? Do you know what they're gonna do? Uh? For
• 23:29
  the most part, do you? I mean, especially with this we play
• 23:33
  there's sixteen teams in the league, seeing only fifteen other teams. You play
• 23:34
  him twice by the second time, you know, and you play them in
• 23:37
  the preseason, so like the second, third, fourth time you play him,
• 23:41
  at the end of the year, you kind of know what everybody's going
• 23:42
  to be doing. So it's a lot easier to prepare for. Is it
• 23:45
  still fun or is it just I gotta go to work today? Most days?
• 23:51
  Is still fun? Okay, there's definitely Every year becomes more of a
• 23:56
  job. I would say, you get older, things start to hurt.
• 24:00
  Getting up in the morning's not as enjoyable. How's the travel now? Travel's
• 24:03
  fine. I mean, I think our longest bus ride this year is three
• 24:07
  and a half hours. That's good. That's pretty good. That's not bad
• 24:08
  at all. That's pretty good. You know, once once every other week.
• 24:12
  Yeah, oh yeah, okay, yeah, Brad would struggle with it.
• 24:15
  But other than that, you forget what I'm in now. I've been
• 24:18
  on twenty one hour bus drives to play games. My DNA, I can
• 24:22
  travel. Tony wouldn't make Yeah, he would, he wouldn't make it.
• 24:26
  So he tried to direct that back from No, he'd have to have a
• 24:27
  special correct, exactly, that's false. That's true. True, that's right.
• 24:33
  I got three three our bus rides not no problem for me. Let's
• 24:37
  take the Greyhound to Charleston next week. You want to go, not available?
• 24:44
  You have, you have, and it's fine, it's fine, but
• 24:48
  you have reached a certain point in your life and career where there'll be certain
• 24:52
  requirements spread right of travel. Is that correct? Yeah, he's been at
• 24:56
  that point for a while, though I continue to get poorly branded like it's
• 25:03
  completely accurate. Actually, yeah, that's right. Three guys before the game
• 25:07
  invites you to join us Saturday, June the eighth at the Stonewall Resort.
• 25:14
  Why you say, Well, we're gonna raise money and we're gonna have a
• 25:17
  big, big time. We're partnering with DOUBLEVU Cancer Institute and we'd love to
• 25:23
  have you there. This is a two prong event, Nathan, Now,
• 25:26
  good, slow, because there's a lot going on with this stuff going on.
• 25:30
  This is gonna be fun. So we're raising dollars for blood disorders and
• 25:34
  folks that suffer from blood disorders and this is to live like Brent fun who's
• 25:38
  a DOUBLEVU graduate who's passed away and we're raising money for that. So there's
• 25:42
  a golf tournament at Stonewall Saturday, June eight, that's during the day.
• 25:48
  Once they get off the course, we're going to have food and a live
• 25:53
  three guys show for those that are there. But you don't have to be
• 26:00
  a golfer to participate in the event. You can just come in the afternoon
• 26:04
  when we do our show and eat and then enjoy the show. Well wait,
• 26:08
  there's more. There's not just one guy, there's not just two,
• 26:12
  and there's not just three. We'll be joined by a fourth guy who wears
• 26:18
  number six. His name is Garrett Green. Garrett's coming. He'll be on
• 26:22
  hand and will also be joined by a fifth guy. His name is Wren
• 26:27
  Baker, really athletics director. That's a new addition, isn't it yet?
• 26:30
  It is? Rent will be there. He is going to represent the university.
• 26:34
  Because there's a sixth thing. You're done, there's a sixth thing because
• 26:38
  we're going to dedicate I should come to work more off and I know this.
• 26:41
  We're going to dedicate the bench in honor of late Mountaineer football coach Bill
• 26:48
  Stewart at the resort and Blaine Stewart, his running mate, Nate's running mate
• 26:53
  for years, and Karen, Bill's wife. I will also be on hand,
• 27:00
  and we're going to have a lot of stuff that we're going to do.
• 27:02
  So we're going to have auction items. There'll be a lot, but
• 27:04
  there'll be a professional auctioneer that'll be there. You I can't even call myself
• 27:11
  professional because no one's ever paid me to do it. So you're pretty good
• 27:14
  at it. Yeah, and you were very good. There's an aspiring auctioneer
• 27:18
  that'll be there, Nate. Have you heard him do this? No?
• 27:21
  I haven't. I was practicing with my grandson last week. Oh yeah,
• 27:26
  yeah, because he I had to swing him on the port swing. Yeah.
• 27:30
  He just kept saying and he wanted me to keep singing them songs.
• 27:33
  I had no more lyrics, so I just started going, what am I
• 27:36
  twenty? He was completely he was completely good with it. I think I
• 27:41
  sold him for about three grand. So all that's going on. All that's
• 27:47
  going on, And Saturday, June eighth, correct week from Saturday. Put
• 27:52
  one of those Apple Air tags on him to make sure we know where he
• 27:55
  is that day so we can get him down there. Great, but it's
• 27:56
  a Saturday. How are we going to find him to get him down there?
• 27:59
  Get through the security the website. If you'd like to join us,
• 28:02
  and it's not too late, is WUVU Cancer Golf Classic dot com WVU Cancer
• 28:07
  Golf Classic dot com. Got some stuff, got some Charles Wesley uh signed
• 28:14
  guitar as well, and we just want to raise money and have a good
• 28:18
  time and have fun. I'd love to have you Saturday June eight. Yeah,
• 28:25
  as we record, Well, don't say as we record. That's why
• 28:29
  I'm saying June eighth again, because he just screwed that up of the week
• 28:30
  saying what he said. So June eight, Saturday, June eight, What
• 28:33
  I screw up? Nothing, Saturday June eight. The events on Saturday June
• 28:38
  eighth, DOUBDVU Cancer Golf Classic dot com. Are you on June eighth?
• 28:45
  What time? Row week? Can I ride with you guys? Yes?
• 28:48
  Right, you'll be in the trunk three guys before the game is brought to
• 28:52
  us alicopter to get us. Yeah, I'm gonna get did you. I'm
• 28:56
  sure Tony's arranging something. No, let's just drive down. Let's just drive
• 29:02
  down. It's a dog gone hour. It's an hour. We're there,
• 29:07
  three guys before the game. Like, if you don't want to go to
• 29:08
  the website and sign up, you know what, we could we get your
• 29:11
  digital phone system from Comax. That'd be kind of neat. You just call
• 29:15
  up Marge, you'll answer, can take your reservations right there. Comax Business
• 29:19
  Systems does provide digital phone services and systems. If you're a business owner and
• 29:25
  need a new phone system, by all means, give them a yodel.
• 29:29
  At COMAXWV dot com. You can purchase, lease, rent your hardware and
• 29:34
  everyone is accessible with this new fangled phone system. It's quite amazing the ability
• 29:41
  now and the different things that you can do. So if you're in the
• 29:45
  market, Comax Business Systems the place to be. Hey, Nate, if
• 29:48
  you thought about post your post basket post playing life, your post playing life,
• 29:53
  I was wondering everything about coaching. No, I'm out on coaching,
• 30:00
  ye done. The landscape of college athletics is just not something I'm interested in
• 30:06
  getting into anymore. Okay, all right, what about okay not Uh would
• 30:11
  you do you want to be associated with the game in some way postplaying?
• 30:14
  Yeah? I mean I don't think I'll ever be completely away from the game.
• 30:18
  I think I just don't know what it looked like. Okay, you
• 30:22
  know, It'll always be in me to want to be around it, but
• 30:25
  I'll have to figure out some way to make it work, okay, because
• 30:27
  I can't live with that headache. You are saying that it sounds to me
• 30:33
  like transfer portal nil and butt kissing that has to go along with today's gaming.
• 30:37
  Like I'm not doing that. I don't want to any part of that.
• 30:41
  Yeah, I understand, I understand. What's the future for next season?
• 30:45
  What are you thinking? Uh? More than likely back to Italy unless
• 30:51
  something comes up that I can't turn down. Just never know what's going to
• 30:56
  be. So over the next month or two will be to hear from teams
• 31:00
  and just see what pops up. That citizenship, though you mentioned Italy does
• 31:03
  it different than everybody else, So in other countries that becomes even more valuable.
• 31:07
  Yeah. So certain countries like for example, Spain and they're top league,
• 31:11
  you're allowed two Americans for European ers, and then your other six have
• 31:18
  to be Spanish guys. Okay, so they have to get four European players.
• 31:22
  Yeah, so I would be considered into that four. So it helps
• 31:27
  in a lot of ways. Good good, good, good good. How
• 31:36
  much better of a player are you today than you were in your last year
• 31:40
  at West Virginia? Better? Yeah, definitely, better better understanding of what
• 31:48
  I'm able to do when I'm not able to do. I think I just
• 31:51
  have a better understanding of the game. And what aren't you able to do
• 31:52
  that you've learned that you can't do. That's a good question. Probably shouldn't
• 32:02
  have said that, because no one's No, it's not about that. I'm
• 32:07
  saying I've gotten better at things that I couldn't do. Then, Okay,
• 32:12
  I can post up a lot better now, which I never did in college
• 32:15
  or high school. I just recently started doing that. I've gotten a lot
• 32:19
  better at that. I still shoot the ball well. I probably don't guard
• 32:22
  as well as I used to tell you that. I would imagine you shoot
• 32:24
  it better now. Probably for sure, shoot it better now handle it.
• 32:28
  You probably handle it more now. Honestly, you don't handle it much at
• 32:30
  all. Oh really, No, I can off the glass and bring it
• 32:34
  up. No, not in not in this league. I have Ukraine,
• 32:37
  I did a lot, but not in this league. I haven't been What
• 32:43
  was the key to learning how to post up and doing it well? Figuring
• 32:49
  out how to handle the ball? Doing that you gotta When I first started,
• 32:52
  I had a lot of a lot of unnecessary turnovers, trying to dribble
• 32:57
  in bang against somebody at the same time. Mm hmm, i'd yeah,
• 33:00
  I get stripped doing that a lot. Being able to read when people are
• 33:04
  helping down and just kicking it out real quick with one hand, swinging across
• 33:07
  court if somebody's helping too close. A lot of stuff like that. I
• 33:12
  realized TVT is a different animal. But when when you playing the TVT,
• 33:15
  we would comment on the air it felt like that offense was running better when
• 33:19
  it came through you. They were initiating offense through you. A lot.
• 33:22
  You do that over there or no, did you do that in the previous
• 33:24
  league, not this last league. Certain time, certain certain teams will have
• 33:30
  you do that. A lot of teams over there are very guard oriented.
• 33:36
  They want the ball on their guard's hands. They usually have three guards on
• 33:38
  the court instead of playing two guards in a Ford. So a lot of
• 33:42
  teams go smaller, go three guards, so they have three guys and come
• 33:45
  off screen rolls. So a lot of times the big man aren't really handling
• 33:49
  the ball or getting into things very much unless you play for a Koshu.
• 33:53
  That's what he goes for, and there are certain ones that do. I
• 33:57
  just haven't played for. You know, the end game in college game for
• 34:00
  that matter, now is becoming either lay up or three. Where's the mid
• 34:05
  range game in your league existing? It exists? I wouldn't say so much.
• 34:13
  And coming down and shooting pull ups, I wouldn't say that people come
• 34:17
  off. The most mid range thing that you're going to find is people coming
• 34:22
  off screens in they're doing what's called drop defense, where the big man's just
• 34:25
  stand back with the big while he's rolling. A lot of times you're gonna
• 34:29
  get open pull ups doing that. If you're open, you're pretty much required
• 34:32
  to take that shot. That and post of game, a lot of guys,
• 34:37
  you know, we're not seven foot two, so we're not really just
• 34:39
  banging getting to the room getting the ram. A lot of guys are shooting
• 34:42
  fades. A lot of guys are shooting those fifteen foot jump shots like that.
• 34:46
  Did you run into anybody in Serie A this year that you played against
• 34:50
  that in college? Familiar faces at all this year? I mean you're like
• 34:57
  from West Virginia's standpoint, like you, I mean, there's not that much
• 35:00
  many of them anymore, Teyvon, I think that might be it. How
• 35:05
  about that Tarikan? Tevon is still going other than that pretty much kJ obviously,
• 35:09
  but he's out in the Far East. He's over there in Japan.
• 35:13
  But I don't even know his plans for next year. Trying to think,
• 35:21
  No, I don't think I played against anybody I played against the college,
• 35:24
  you know, think of a kJ. Now it's been a decade, right,
• 35:29
  So he was a he was a freshman on the final four team,
• 35:31
  sophomore sophomore. Eleven years. He's been eleven years. That's a heck of
• 35:37
  a run. It's a long time. Yeah, it is what Alex get
• 35:42
  twelve twelve twelve figures as well? I think it was twelve. Yeah,
• 35:49
  it's a man, what a new game it is nowadays? Dude, It's
• 35:52
  different, that's for sure. It's crazy to tell the difference between when I
• 35:57
  was here, which doesn't feel like long ago to me, and now.
• 36:00
  I mean it's even different from there in the here. Yeah, there's no
• 36:04
  quite the whole thing. The whole thing is revolutionized saying and here's another piece
• 36:07
  about this as the NBA Draft you know, comes up this year, it
• 36:10
  is I don't think it's talked about enough, but the globalization of basketball.
• 36:17
  And I mean, have you ever just stopped and looked at these players and
• 36:22
  they're coming from all over the world now and think about how rare that was,
• 36:27
  you know, thirty years ago, Like if one came over, it'd
• 36:30
  be like, oh, you know, there's a unicorn. Number one pick
• 36:34
  last year from France. Number one pick this year is going to be European.
• 36:37
  Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Think, I mean, you can attribute
• 36:39
  it to the different ways they're brought up. I think I think they're just
• 36:42
  learning the game so much better, and they're it's taken a long time for
• 36:46
  the world to catch up to being as big of basketball countries as they are
• 36:51
  now. People. I mean, it's just growing and growing and growing everywhere
• 36:53
  in the world, you know. And I think people are growing up playing
• 36:57
  that instead of playing soccer, playing basketball instead of doing other things. And
• 37:00
  I think you just got more people getting into it. Yeah, and they're
• 37:02
  developing better and so you're going to keep getting more guys. But you know,
• 37:07
  and someone could really do a deep dive on this. However, with
• 37:09
  that being said, just based upon population numbers, there shouldn't be as many
• 37:14
  international players as there are in the NBA. Does that make sense to you?
• 37:17
  Yeah, right, there shouldn't be as many because I mean they're not
• 37:22
  coming from the Far East, so not even say Asia, they're coming from
• 37:25
  Europe, right, And so like, if you just do the population compared
• 37:29
  to where we are population wise, compared to where they are population wise,
• 37:32
  the rate of internationals is a higher percentage then it quote unquote should be if
• 37:39
  you're just doing it straight by the numbers, because I agree with you,
• 37:43
  because they're more fundamentally mature and sound, and that's what this league is.
• 37:49
  Yeah, And I think the NBA five, six, seven years ago,
• 37:52
  it was all running jumping, that's all anybody was looking for. And then
• 37:55
  it was can you run jump and shoot? Luca and Joger and all these
• 38:01
  guys are kind of changing to where you don't have to jump. If you
• 38:06
  can figure out just to play right, you're going to be better than other
• 38:09
  guys. I think people are starting to realize that skills taken over a little
• 38:13
  bit of the traditional athleticism that we've always had. You run and shoot in
• 38:15
  b six' eleven right right, seven feet yeah or seven four or seven
• 38:22
  four five. When you think about what Joe Missoula is doing, what goes
• 38:27
  through your head. Good for him. I mean, he took an opportunity
• 38:32
  that was put in front of him and he's ran with it. You can
• 38:36
  say what he wants about the talent that he has been given, but there's
• 38:38
  a lot every team in the NBA's talented. You're not not. Everybody's doing
• 38:42
  something with it. I think goes a long way to say he's a players
• 38:45
  coach. He knows how to interact with the players. He puts shit,
• 38:50
  he's still putting his body on the line and manage your games and crap.
• 38:53
  So I think players see that, and he makes you want to play for
• 38:57
  a guy like that. So I can't say enough about it. Yeah,
• 39:00
  So I think there are people I understand completely what you're saying. I think
• 39:02
  there was more pressure on him, as you know, to not screw it
• 39:07
  up. Yeah, and and and that's super hard to do. As you
• 39:12
  said, There's been a lot of coaches that have had really talented teams but
• 39:15
  it never meshed. And he's done a fantastic job of doing that, just
• 39:19
  keeping it tight exactly, and they like him, and uh, that'll be
• 39:22
  an amazing story. I'll be a trivia questionnaire. Last Mountaineer alumed to coach
• 39:28
  in the NBA finals. It's a simple answer, Fred schelis exactly. Yeah,
• 39:31
  it took me a little bit. I forgot all about that. But
• 39:34
  yeah, the Lakers four years in a row got beat by Boston four years
• 39:38
  ago. So much of that that NBA is about, And not to diminish
• 39:43
  at all what Missoula is doing, because it's amazing, is just about how
• 39:45
  do you manage these people? Oh, it's managing personalities, managing people's expectations,
• 39:51
  it's managing Uh, you're paying me this much to do this. Why
• 39:53
  am I not doing this? It's less of drawing up on the on the
• 39:59
  chalkboard. Yeah, I mean it's less of that. It's a lot of
• 40:01
  skill development. I think that's what people don't realize the most is I mean
• 40:06
  they there have a coach for each player and they're out there like physically playing
• 40:10
  defense. Again, has been warm ups and practice, and that's just their
• 40:14
  whole job is to develop their skills in order to translate to a game.
• 40:17
  Mm hmm. And he's got those guys bought in plus his The x's and
• 40:21
  o's have been underrated this postseason absolutely this past Yeah, they ran some stuff
• 40:24
  this past this past series against Indiana that was like, oh, okay,
• 40:28
  okay, yeah, but that's not the primary but yeah, that he's he's
• 40:31
  on that too. That stuff. Has that done. If you had to
• 40:36
  start learning the game of basketball over again, starting it from scratch, what
• 40:43
  would you now know that you would do differently? And I guess that's a
• 40:49
  cheap way to ask you. If a parent out there has a young kid
• 40:52
  that wants to learn how to play the game, what would you advocate or
• 40:57
  suggest that they do more of that might not be done. That's a tough
• 41:04
  answer because if I wanted to go back and learn a skill that I think
• 41:08
  would help anybody, but I don't know how you teach it. It's learning
• 41:13
  how to use your body and angles and getting to spots that you need to
• 41:20
  be in to make a shot or make a pass without necessarily being the fastest
• 41:23
  guy in the corridor. Being the most athletic or anything like that. I
• 41:28
  think that. I mean, that's been what's helped me the most is I
• 41:30
  know angles. I know, if a guy's running at me from here,
• 41:35
  if I go this way, he can't turn that quick, so I can
• 41:37
  get by him going that way because I'm not just running by anybody. So
• 41:39
  you got to learn different ways to doing that. In Austin. God,
• 41:43
  I learned a lot of this in college when I had to learn how to
• 41:45
  press. I wasn't straight lined running catching up to these point guards. I
• 41:52
  had to take angles to get in front of them and cut them off,
• 41:53
  and tournament into javon and tournament into decks, and that was my whole job.
• 41:57
  So I really just learned angles and learned how to make things happened that
• 42:00
  way. And it's hard to teach that because you can't just, you know,
• 42:04
  go out there with one guy and show somebody how to do that.
• 42:07
  You kind of got to be in a five on five situation and learn it.
• 42:12
  So if there was one thing that I would want to go back and
• 42:14
  learn sooner, it'd be that I just don't necessarily know, I'd say how
• 42:16
  to teach it. It totally makes sense. Basically you're talking geometry here.
• 42:21
  Yeah, And like a boxer tries to shorten the ring, right, yeah,
• 42:23
  by working certain directions to shorten the ring, that's what you're trying to
• 42:27
  do. You're trying to shorten the floor less space to attest for them for
• 42:30
  you to have to go catch them. But you learned that defensively, but
• 42:34
  you're using it more offensively now offensively. Yeah, I guess I can attribut
• 42:42
  have to learn that defensively offensively. It's just been years and years and years
• 42:45
  of playing against guys more athletic than me. Yeah, And you can either
• 42:51
  say, all right, I'm not getting by you. I'm not going to
• 42:52
  be able to do anything, or you can figure out a way to do
• 42:54
  it. And the way I've learned how to do it is becoming a better
• 42:59
  shooter. And you're gonna have to respect my shots. So you're going to
• 43:01
  run at me quicker and the second I see you running full speed, I'm
• 43:05
  pump faking and going So, so, how where are most of your threes
• 43:09
  coming from? Picking pop or a lot of them? That's really what I
• 43:15
  work on the most is just picking pop threes because for me, especially now
• 43:20
  that i'm developing a post up game. If you do anything but switch,
• 43:23
  I'm gonna be opening and shoot it. So these teams are having to switch
• 43:27
  guards on me, so then I have an automatic mismatch. Take it down
• 43:30
  low, got something there. They're either coming in picking pop situations or just
• 43:36
  swinging the ball. Kickouts and still the threes. One step back, we
• 43:40
  got step back, one step you're proud of that one? I was.
• 43:46
  It was a shouldn't have shot that It went in? Okay? Good?
• 43:51
  How how's your euro step? Not as good as it used to be?
• 43:55
  It was good there for like two years that as good. Got bad ankles.
• 44:00
  I can't be putting that much pressure outside. I get you dunks one
• 44:07
  one dump, blew out my shoe. Excuse me, Zion? What did
• 44:12
  you say? Zion? Gotta steal at half court? Went to dunkey,
• 44:15
  went to jump bottom of shoeses blew out really serious Nathan dunk. Thank god,
• 44:20
  but you had a big floppy flopper. Had you done that before?
• 44:24
  All the time serious to take Yeah, I got real high arches. So
• 44:29
  the balls in my feet are like daggers. So you're cutting that toe all
• 44:31
  the time, cutting the toe, and then it popped. I take two
• 44:35
  shoes with me where you go? How about that? What's what's speaking of
• 44:37
  shoes? And get what's the gear? Situation team had? Gee, you
• 44:43
  get everything except shoes. You got it. You're on your own for shoes.
• 44:45
  Really, okay? I got a guy perfect, I got a guy
• 44:49
  gotta like you bring those you get him there, you bring them over,
• 44:52
  bring them with me? Brings these shoes? How many pairs you bring over
• 44:54
  with you start with three, usually have to buy another pair before my parents
• 45:00
  come in the fall, and then you're dead. And then they bring me
• 45:05
  They bring me two or three pairs, and that gets me to the spring
• 45:07
  when my friends go and they you should bring me a pair of Well,
• 45:08
  that's good. I'm glad they're bringing shoes into the country. And say those
• 45:10
  damn lemon trees. He's trying to sneak out, So that's better. This
• 45:14
  makes I'm a lot less anxiety ridden than his last appearance. I never did
• 45:17
  it. You do any market shopping? Was there a market near you?
• 45:22
  There was on Wednesday mornings. I never went because in morning practice. But
• 45:27
  Lucky would go every Wednesday and come back with some flowers and stuff. So
• 45:30
  that's nice. Every something to do in the morning. That's good. That's
• 45:34
  that's that's really good, really good. Hey, here's a reminder. As
• 45:36
  you were though, Brad gets all worried about the Mothman. You know,
• 45:38
  he gets all nervous and tight when I say Mothman, Mothman, Mothman.
• 45:43
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• 45:45
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• 46:17
  So you go there and they we'll have like it'll say, uh Blenner
• 46:22
  Hassett bonus product. Trans Alleghany Asylum bonus product. You buy that, you
• 46:27
  get more points on your awards card. You get all three, get five
• 46:29
  thousand. Where's this amusement park that'd be the old Lake Shawnee abandoned amusement That
• 46:36
  gives me accuves me the willies just thinking about it. What wouldn't it be
• 46:39
  weird? Rusted by TwixT? I'm not I'm not going listen to listen to
• 46:49
  me. Nothing to worry about about a haunted amusement partner. Look at Scooby
• 46:52
  Do. How many times did Scooby Do go into a haunted amusement park?
• 46:58
  They all came out of there. They never hate, they never left,
• 47:00
  right, I mean Scooby was always getting his ass out there late, but
• 47:05
  he got back into that van and off they went. So don't be worried.
• 47:08
  Don't be worried about a haunted amusement park. They didn't give me,
• 47:12
  Scooby doesn't I give you the willies? No does mean jeez, No,
• 47:17
  I doesn't. He just directly taunts them off. Man. You think he's
• 47:20
  worried about an amusement park until he gets any amusement park and he gets stuck
• 47:22
  on one of those things. He can't get out. You know, Italy's
• 47:24
  really superstitious. Have you caught any of that? Yeah, can't break pasta
• 47:29
  Italian man dies cats cappuccino afternoon Italian man dies? Oh really really? Oh
• 47:37
  yeah? My dad used to say, if you eat meat on a Friday.
• 47:40
  You will die like a dog at the gates of Hell. Oh they
• 47:45
  oh yeah. The more southern you go, the more crazy they are.
• 47:50
  Like if you look like you said you break pasta someone's gonna die. Serious,
• 47:55
  not just breaking. You can't cut it either, can't caught it,
• 47:59
  can't it's just like it's like, okay, fine, put pineapple on pizza.
• 48:01
  Italian man's gonna die. Yeah, I completely buy into that. One
• 48:06
  drink cappuccino after Like, no, after afternoon. I'm telling you that drink
• 48:13
  cappuccino afternoon and that milk they were, they were a revolt. They'll do
• 48:16
  that. I think that milk will just ruin your thumb and ruin your stomach.
• 48:21
  Like do you want to bum out an Italian waiter? Go to an
• 48:23
  Italian restaurant, not the meatball ball and a No, this will drive him
• 48:28
  crazy. And you can go and find videos of this sit down, big
• 48:30
  meal. You're done with the meal. They come in, Okay, what
• 48:34
  we're gonna do for dessert? And someone says, I'll have cappuccino and you
• 48:38
  might as well. International war conflict, Like I'm not giving it to you.
• 48:45
  I'm not giving it to you. We may give it to you,
• 48:46
  but I'm going to spit in it. I was once up at pen Mac
• 48:49
  and there was a guy that was I was getting cheese and he was grating
• 48:54
  it, and I and I and I said, I went to Pittsburgh.
• 49:00
  Would you please wheel a cheese? I know, guys, if I wheels
• 49:06
  of cheese, I personally do they haul them in from New York went to
• 49:12
  Pittsburgh. Yeah, stopping for cheese. So I told this guy could you
• 49:15
  mix? Will you mix? Like two pounds of reggiano Parmejohn and locatelly?
• 49:22
  And the guy went like, no, I not do that. You take
• 49:29
  a set, but you want a mixer? You mix, I know,
• 49:30
  put them together? Well you crazy, I'll skip it. Then, I'm
• 49:37
  good, thank you, I'll be moving on. That's real customer service.
• 49:45
  When they tell you they're watching your back, that's watching your back. What
• 49:47
  else did you me? Or you just go straight pasta for nine months?
• 49:52
  Not nine months? Pasta for lunch every day? What are you doing for
• 49:58
  sauce out of a jar? Yeah? Uh? Burrilla? Okay, all
• 50:02
  say goodinos, that's it? A little olive oil? What am I hearing?
• 50:12
  Garage door? All right? What else? What? Else do you?
• 50:15
  I mean, if you go out you're getting pasta and then a steak.
• 50:20
  That's about your option, Mistaka, I always get deflecto demonzo. What's
• 50:28
  that? I couldn't tell you whatever they got, there's not options? Oh
• 50:34
  okay, and it's coming out as cooked. Hey, you know we haven't
• 50:39
  done in a long long time. What I mean a long long time,
• 50:44
  hoppy, you know what we haven't done. What we haven't done any of
• 50:47
  this boom all those weeks that you were gone. We haven't done textual healing.
• 50:53
  That right, And we had Jenn Greeneon we didn't do healing. We
• 50:55
  had Chad scott On. We didn't do healing. We got made here.
• 51:00
  He's the fourth host. Might as well do some healing. He's coming up
• 51:01
  to some second. They've spent here meetings. They are about the same number
• 51:07
  of shows we've done on me beat. Now, well, he hadn't been
• 51:12
  here in a month. You do one more next week and you'll you'll two
• 51:15
  x Hobby. You haven't met Derees personally yet. Talked a little bit,
• 51:22
  talk to Fraser a little bit, but I haven't met him yet. Yeah,
• 51:27
  that's good. They're all moving, Yeah they are. They're making it
• 51:29
  in June third is when D Day comes. They're gonna start conditioning. They're
• 51:34
  headed da Italy. They are, Yeah, they're coming to Italy. Textual
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  see it in person. And new stuff coming, by the way, Yeah,
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  our coffee or June eighth, a big new gear coming. Just had
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  a big meeting this week for the golf thront of it, yes, but
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  also for the website. Awesome coffee's there and the popcorns there and everything else.
• 52:15
  I think summer's here. I think we have a garden sprinkler. I
• 52:20
  don't think that's confirmed yet. It might be a garden sprinkler on it because
• 52:23
  we feel a good green grass is the way to go. Speaking of green,
• 52:34
  that's not the color water you want to be in. If you're in
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  a lou Wendell pontoon, you want to be a nice blue water. And
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  at lou Wendel Marine Sales, the premier pontoon boat dealer in the state of
• 52:42
  West Virginia, can we roll some of that some of those pictures there,
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  right there and just gorgeous down there in the canal valley. We encourage you
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  their selection of everything you need in the boating world is as good as it's
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  going to get all year, so we encourage you to visit. Mostly though
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  the water you're gonna be in is greenish, let's be honest, and not
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  when you're in the lou Wendel boat. You put a lou Wendel boat into
• 53:17
  the water instantly turns blue. Not true, but James all the James Bond
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  movies, all the James Bond movies, and lou Wendell provides those boats for
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  the James Bond series that the water is always blue. You know, you
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  know the line confirmed in Country Roads, Stranger to blue water, Stranger to
• 53:37
  blue water. All right, never mind, got you very good trying to
• 53:44
  provide a little There's nothing wrong with green No, I get it. There's
• 53:47
  nothing wrong with greenwater. It's the fungus that's among us that could be the
• 53:51
  problem. Okay, so this is going to take a little chore doing this.
• 53:58
  Just give me one second here, and I mean you've been struggling all
• 54:01
  day. Oh you're going back digitally on these. Yeah, since we haven't
• 54:06
  done them in a long time. Here we go. These are some of
• 54:09
  these are old, but they're good, solid weekend pleasure to give the old
• 54:16
  thanks for having us on our way out. This is talking about Mountaineer baseball.
• 54:21
  The weekend was topped off by getting a chance to run into coach Mazie
• 54:23
  and JJ Weatherholt with my nephew. There they are after the game and their
• 54:30
  final regular season game as Mountaineers. Looking forward to watching them again. Let's
• 54:34
  go Mountaineers. That's Cody fort Worth, Texas via Ravens would all right,
• 54:38
  that's after the TCU game. Right, That was that, Texter says,
• 54:47
  as we record this, they're in Tucson. Yeah, they are playing.
• 54:51
  As they playing in the next couple of hours. We're recording Friday at noon.
• 54:57
  This was a good one. Happy, this is the guy that's into
• 55:00
  the gummies. Oh jeez, used to live in Colorado. Gentlemen haven't been
• 55:07
  the same since. This is when he was heading out to the Mountaineer Gulf
• 55:12
  event in California. Paranoid, he said, I just bought my tickets for
• 55:15
  Saturday at La Costa after that interview with coach Kovich. I will have a
• 55:21
  Colorado candy or two with me, just in case things go sideways. Been
• 55:25
  holding off on shipments due to hoppies, huge turnaround, nearly three hours at
• 55:30
  the food court, proactively engaging patrons. I think my work is done here,
• 55:37
  go ears Frank from Huntington Beach, formerly Boulded, Colorado. So he
• 55:40
  felt hoppy when he gave you those gummies. That is what gave you the
• 55:45
  comfort level to spend as much time as you did at the food court.
• 55:51
  I have to challenge that, because if I had hit the gummy, I'd
• 55:53
  be like, who are all these people? What do they want from me?
• 55:55
  Why are you talking to me? What's going on? Something coming out
• 56:00
  of my nose? I would you're confirmed for June eight, right event?
• 56:05
  On the event on June eight that we're having, I'm there, I'm there.
• 56:07
  You're in awesome Michael and Colodin what tell me picking me up. We'll
• 56:13
  get take care of that at the house. It's an Olympic year recy Cup
• 56:19
  medals. Have you seen these? Recy Cup? Just saw them today?
• 56:22
  There they are? Yes, thank you, Michael. And is that a
• 56:23
  Santa's boot? Telling Nate what that was about? Bread? There were shapes
• 56:31
  around the holiday season that we were since we were pulling out the different shapes
• 56:37
  and we pulled one out. What what was it supposed to be? I
• 56:39
  don't even know what stock like? You hang on your shocking, right,
• 56:43
  very very Christmasy thing. Ding dong over here, he goes that nice they
• 56:47
  put in there, the ever popular Santa's boot. Not a stocking, of
• 56:54
  course, because when you think Christmas ahead of the stock, imagine Nterese's meeting
• 57:01
  idea. It's hard to get the detail though in the thing. I mean,
• 57:05
  well, but you knew it was in Santa's boot. I mean he
• 57:07
  didn't. Oh my go ahead. Remember Jason, the guy had used to
• 57:15
  be in Texas and I had breakfast with him down there and then he moved
• 57:19
  to tall Yeah, he moved. Now he's in Now he's in Phoenix,
• 57:22
  Tucson, well documented, and he'll be there for the baseball But he said
• 57:25
  on Coach at Covid show, he said he gave us a line that should
• 57:29
  have been a T shirt. He said, Covid said threw out as seventy
• 57:32
  two didn't need it. That was back in the NCAA regions. So yeah,
• 57:40
  switching to football. Is there a date set where every institution starts selling
• 57:44
  its single game tickets. I'm chopping at the bit to get tickets to the
• 57:47
  game out here in Tucson. Love the show. I don't know when that
• 57:51
  happens. Brad got it time for the first three games, got times?
• 57:58
  Yeah, you do have times in States noon uh p one, Jennings writes,
• 58:04
  two guys, great episode with Coach Kovish. I wish the golf team
• 58:07
  best of luck. Speaking of crawfish boils, my friend's host won in Putnam
• 58:12
  County around the first weekend of May each year. Next year, I'll get
• 58:15
  you guys all invited to that event see on June eighth, as I keep
• 58:20
  my attendance streak alive. I'll leave you with this Ai picture that Facebook sent
• 58:24
  to me when I was looking for the three Guys page. It made me
• 58:29
  laugh, so Ai generated photo of that's how Facebook thinks. Three guys before
• 58:34
  the game. Let's look like, so there, which one is which?
• 58:38
  Tony's obviously the one in the back and happy. I think you're doing the
• 58:44
  right the goofy looking guy. Yeah, yeah, that's about right, Nate
• 58:51
  fitting right in. Absolutely he gets it, Glenn and Glenn and Glenn Ferris
• 58:55
  writes in real name. Sounds like it. As I looked at the picture
• 59:00
  for the Coach Covich episode, I noticed a very dour looking Hoppy. Then
• 59:05
  when listening to the show, the dean seemed irritated at several points. I
• 59:08
  realize covering West Virginia politics can bring you into the frame of mind. But
• 59:14
  for the love of God, Hoppy stop bringing great stories like the West Virginia
• 59:17
  golf program down. Was it the now failed inner Tube transaction with Chuck and
• 59:22
  Spreads that brought him here? Some sort of viral mood disorder brought on by
• 59:28
  years of super spreader handkerchief use, perhaps one too many interactions with baby dog
• 59:32
  Hoppy for the benefit of the show. Please enjoy your well earned vacation.
• 59:36
  Come back tanned, rested, and ready about pale and disappointed. You have
• 59:44
  a better option there you know guy, you know me. You guys know
• 59:47
  me. I didn't think you were overly irritated during that. Well I wasn't.
• 59:50
  I was. You don't smile in pictures, that's just your thing.
• 59:53
  I just I don't. It's hard to me physically to smile. Yeah.
• 59:58
  Yeah, like look watch I know you. Yeah, it doesn't come easily.
• 1:00:02
  No, No, Texter says, I bet nothing makes the senator more
• 1:00:07
  happy than this. And here is Oh, yeah, we haven't talked about
• 1:00:10
  this. Yeah, see that, Nate, see what's happening there. They're
• 1:00:14
  bringing in digital chains. How long have we been talking? This is what
• 1:00:20
  it's about. Time to do. Yeah, although, although do you think
• 1:00:22
  it would be more efficient than the guy running in from the side from thirty
• 1:00:25
  yards away. No, because when the official comes into spot it, he
• 1:00:29
  is absolutely on a dead laser line, never waivers, and then gets the
• 1:00:32
  exact spot down. It never misses. Never. But this is a nice
• 1:00:37
  technological advance. Hopey, were you involved at all in the chili debacle when
• 1:00:43
  Jordan Leslie's wonderful wife brought us chili? No missed that. So what happened
• 1:00:47
  was she brought it to the station here or the building here is this the
• 1:00:51
  stations. Coach Leslie made it, Coach Rice Building. It's a building building
• 1:00:54
  Dale Miller Building, Miller Building. Coach Leslie's wife made his chicken chili after
• 1:00:59
  he came on there. Jan made Jordan made it with his wife and then
• 1:01:04
  she texted me and said, like, I'd like to give you guys chili,
• 1:01:07
  and he said absolutely. I said, I probably won't be around the
• 1:01:09
  building. I was going to Charlotte that day, and she said, I'll
• 1:01:14
  drop it off. I said, just give it to whomever and they'll take
• 1:01:16
  care of it. So she comes and she drops off the chili. George
• 1:01:22
  was near the door. George or our boss, Yeah, opened the door,
• 1:01:27
  said, oh, y'all take care of it. She goes, okay,
• 1:01:28
  it needs to be warmed up. He said fine. He left it
• 1:01:31
  on my desk. We never got to take the chili, which leads to
• 1:01:37
  this text from Chris formerly of Mulleins. The chili story hurt my soul.
• 1:01:43
  It was left out for a couple of days. So what I still would
• 1:01:46
  have tore into that thing after bringing it up to a rolling boil. In
• 1:01:51
  my college days, I was poor, I mean poor. I would take
• 1:01:52
  an eight pack of hot dogs and put them in a pot of water,
• 1:01:57
  boil them up, eat a couple, leave them on the stove, and
• 1:02:00
  then the next day boiled that wiener water and cook up, eat up a
• 1:02:02
  couple more. If I boiled an egg, yep, same pot of water,
• 1:02:07
  left over weenies and all I would eat out on that pack of hot
• 1:02:10
  dogs and a dozen boiled eggs for days upon days. And you know how
• 1:02:15
  many years later, during the pandemic, I didn't get the covids correlation or
• 1:02:21
  causation. Well, that's probably unconfirmed. Chris formerly of Mulleins. We did
• 1:02:27
  discuss it. I didn't think it would have been safe. Yeah, how
• 1:02:30
  long had it been sitting on? Over twenty four hours? Yeah? Probably
• 1:02:34
  just kidding. Yeah, my brother had a similar pain in college. Did
• 1:02:37
  he really just heated stuff up? And his buddies had a pan? I
• 1:02:39
  was just filled with grease. Oh, and it just sat on the stove
• 1:02:43
  to up. And when they want hot dogs, they just turn on and
• 1:02:45
  cook hot dogs on it. Jeez, it's lucky. More people just don't
• 1:02:51
  go down, you know, it's really lucky. The more people don't go
• 1:02:54
  down. The beauty of you, yes, the beauty of it could overcome
• 1:02:59
  a lot. You do that now, I'd be like, oh my god,
• 1:03:01
  be down for three weeks. When Coach Greenee was with us a wonderful
• 1:03:05
  visit with her. It led to this text good evening, three guys.
• 1:03:08
  After I listened to the Coach Jen Greeney episode on my way home from the
• 1:03:12
  gold standard blue Collar really rang true to me personally. I thought I'd see
• 1:03:16
  if those supercomputers could make a good graphic, and this one was my favorite.
• 1:03:22
  I thought you could share it with you, guys. I hope you
• 1:03:23
  guys enjoyed as much as I enjoy listening to you guys. Thanks again.
• 1:03:27
  Brian from Whirton formally a willing so hoppy. The women's volleyball program has inherited
• 1:03:30
  the motto of gold standard blue collar and so that's an AI generated graphic and
• 1:03:37
  that is really it's well done. Super nice. Yeah, super nice those
• 1:03:40
  thank you, Thank you think very much. Next up on the hit parade.
• 1:03:49
  Let me see here. Okay, yeah, this was kind of wild.
• 1:03:59
  This goes to the state boys baseball tournament, that thing that happened at
• 1:04:01
  Buffalo High School with all the coaches left, and then you heard that hobby.
• 1:04:05
  You've not heard that story. Listen to the story. Last week of
• 1:04:10
  the regular season, coaching staff at Buffalo High School departs. The principal,
• 1:04:15
  the vice principal, and the ad step in and coach on an interim basis.
• 1:04:19
  Three weeks later, buis and win their regional and go to the state
• 1:04:24
  tournament for the first time in sixteen years. Really, yeah, my son
• 1:04:28
  Caden is on the team. He's the kid who creates the Mountaineer hype videos
• 1:04:32
  with the name Craig Edits remember him. This postseason run has provided a lot
• 1:04:38
  of material for his next project, So I had him up at the press
• 1:04:41
  box last football season. So he's a little guy there on the right,
• 1:04:45
  and he was on this Buffalo baseball team and they're probably playing literally as we
• 1:04:49
  speak. So best of luck to those guys. That's a pretty amazing story.
• 1:04:53
  It is. Next up, three guys. There's always a West Virginia
• 1:05:00
  connection. Yesterday, my family drives down to Jensen Beach, Florida to celebrate
• 1:05:02
  my nana's eightieth birthday. We live in Harrison County. We stopped for gas
• 1:05:08
  once in rock Hill and then again Saint Augustine before we wanted to experience the
• 1:05:13
  new BUCkies gas station. Superstore. Have you ever been to a BUCkies a
• 1:05:16
  couple of times? Okay, So he says, we go through the store,
• 1:05:18
  grab some delicious brisket, tacos, cinnamon rolls, beaver nuggets, all
• 1:05:24
  the touristy things that you have to try. We go to check out and
• 1:05:27
  we're talking with the cashier. Somehow West Virginia comes up. She said,
• 1:05:31
  I'm from West Virginia. I lived there until the late nineties. She said
• 1:05:34
  her dad was still a veterinarian in Dunbar. I shouldn't have been shocked by
• 1:05:40
  this relevation. Revelation. We both laughed and said, no matter where life
• 1:05:43
  takes you, you'll always find someone from West Virginia, even in the most
• 1:05:46
  random of places. Tony, I was at the rental car booth at the
• 1:05:54
  airport in Saint Pete renting a car. Yeah, struck up a conversation with
• 1:05:59
  the gentleman, and he looked at my license and said, West Virginia.
• 1:06:02
  My mother in law was from Morgantown. I said, of course she was,
• 1:06:06
  why wouldn't she be, Yeah, Texa, Hello, Hello, Hello.
• 1:06:11
  I'm glad you didn't do the last show because I'm late in sending this.
• 1:06:15
  I loved Brad dropping the or egone Oregone as a former resident of the
• 1:06:21
  Pacific Northwest. People from Oregon, when you say Oregon, get the same
• 1:06:27
  I twitch West Virginias get when people ask if you're from Richmond. I got
• 1:06:30
  that more than times than I can count. Here, what's the correct pronunciation?
• 1:06:34
  Just Oregon? Oregon? Oregon? Brad was making you were being cute?
• 1:06:40
  Is that what Brad was being cute? Remember too? Nevada? Yeah?
• 1:06:45
  Oregon? Yeah, don't say that, Oregon, Oregon, Texa.
• 1:06:51
  Hey, three guys, Jordan and Morgantown, one of the Kidwell brothers.
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  My wife and I just went to a Sandals resort in Jamaica for our tenth
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  anniversary. I kept waiting and waiting on a West Virginia connection. Finally,
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  on the last night, a couple stopped us to inquire by my Mountaineer football
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  shirt. Turns out, not only are they from West Virginia, you ready,
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  they live down the same road that we do in Brookhaven, Courting,
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  maybe three minutes from our house. Absolutely wild stuff. Go Mountaineers. Yep.
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  I had to go to Jamaica to meeting yep. Simply simply amazing.
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  Next up, do you ever Nate. Do you ever run into anybody from
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  West Virginia in Italy? That's a little bit. That's different. You fly
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  in the Stretch, you flying the WV there at all, you wear any
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  WV gear, I got my gear on it. I would think you'd be
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  spot we probably not. I'm not any big city. Yeah you go.
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  Not too many tourists in Cromona, Florence, Rome. I'm sure you might
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  be. That might be a T shirt. Not too many tourists in Cromonah.
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  I was in Morganton, North Carolina for a work trip, attending a
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  large community networking event. I walked up to two people and introduced myself,
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  started to chat. I mentioned I lived in Morgantown. One of the guys
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  mentioned that he went to school there. His brother still works for the university.
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  I asked him what his brother's name was and the case we might know
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  each other. As it turns out, his brother is my next door neighbor.
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  We share a fence, We share a fence. Good golly, miss
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  Molly, this thing's bizarre. That's a good one, Texter says. I
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  was doing a virtual meet and greet with a colleague who works in Germany.
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  I was telling her I was originally from West Virginia. She wasn't sure where
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  that was. And then I said, like country roads, take me home.
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  I said that, and she started to sing the rest of the song.
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  She said, it's such a great song to sing and just paints a
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  picture of going back home, such a universal feeling. Periopolis, Phil True.
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  Okay, one more. It was West Virginia connection hobby always, except
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  except when my brother goes to Florida for a month and does run into one
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  person from West Virginia. He's got to wear stuff. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  you got. You gotta be visible so that people I'm not just gonna
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  randomly come up say are you from West Virginia. That's true. I'll get
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  him some gear. I'm gonna edit. I'm gonna edit one word out of
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  this next text. We thought you could help with an argument after seeing the
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  game time speculation is that quote James Franklin is a sissy and would not play
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  us at nighttime in Morgantown. Actually, there isn't much argument. We tend
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  to agree. Did Penn State refuse to play night game? They don't have
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  that say. Penn State can't say we're not going to play the game at
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  night. If it was at night, they'd come at night. It's just
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  like, that's that let's see here, do you like that new kickbread?
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  Well, I get where fans there's some there's a there's a part of fans
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  that are disappointed because the it lim it's the tailgating time on Saturday. So
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  I totally understand that. The fact the opportunity it presents the program from a
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  pr standpoint is massive, right with the pregame show being there. I likened
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  it on sports Line earlier this week. I likened it too. Playing one
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  of those Thursday games Nate, one of those Thursday NCAA tournament noon tip offs
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  where there's heavy risk reward. The risk is you lose the noon Thursday,
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  it feels like you were never in the tournament. But if you win that
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  one, it's all day in the tournament's sake. It's four days or three
• 1:10:29
  days of talking about that game. So Westernini has the opportunity to do that.
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  But I get where fans are bummed out because it lessens the tailgating.
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  That'll just increase the Friday tailgating Thursday, I think Friday Thursday. And also
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  and also the atmosphere that is unique to the nighttime games. You imagine what
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  that's going to do to our food court be packed thank Friday? What would
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  be before that? We're going to go? We're going before that? Are
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  we going multiple days? Multiple days of this? Is I'm hearing this for
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  the multiple days of the food court for the first game. How many days
• 1:11:00
  we're gonna build that sucker up? Efforting? But we're working on train's going
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  to be rolling, man, No sense waiting, no playing that thing out?
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  Wednesday could play, could be Tuesday, Wednesday when Wednesday is definitely in
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  play. I know the reverends in Revkev's Oh is he complete? In?
• 1:11:20
  Really? For what? Three not three nights? Revkev? That is the
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  best biscuit you'll ever eat. I picked up a pant when you going back
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  to Italy early August, Oh, man, that won't be around for the
• 1:11:33
  first comes you've ever had Revkev's barbecue. I picked up He made me a
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  brisket and pulled pork, two big pans full of it. Last weekend,
• 1:11:43
  went to his house, picked it up. He had about seven hundred people
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  in his yard. There was a graduation party going on, and he had
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  just cooked it. And I took it home and it was like, Holy,
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  how does he get it better than anybody else? Simple simplicity is that
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  where it is. Put salt and pepper on that brisket. That's all the
• 1:12:00
  time there, salt and pepper. I don't want to. I don't want
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  to muddle your head and your calendar and have you screw up June eighth,
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  because we need you there on June eighth. But you also need to start
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  blocking off the week of that Penn State game, the whole week. Oh
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  god, don't even I mean, i'd block all. Don't bring up.
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  You can do your show, but then we're gonna need you for some things,
• 1:12:15
  so I don't bring up the first week of football. He brings out
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  his lip stuff. He gets all nervous, he gets all crazy and runs
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  around, like, get through June eighth first, then we'll then we'll get
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  into specific. I mean, but you haven't told me what time we're leaving
• 1:12:29
  on June eighth. We'll get there, we'll get just you get June eighth.
• 1:12:30
  We need you last one. You remember Brandon, And uh, this
• 1:12:38
  says Jolie. It was it Jolie or was it Julie. It's spelled j
• 1:12:41
  O l I E. Oh, yeah, they're awesome. Yeah. Remember
• 1:12:44
  then I hung out with Brandon at the baseball game here recently? Yeah,
• 1:12:45
  well here it is. I thought you guys would appreciate the restaurant that we
• 1:12:49
  just went to. I had the pleasure of catching a baseball game with Brad,
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  Dave, and daughter Gigi, only because of Hoppy's recommendation. Of course,
• 1:12:57
  you won't believe Hey at the stadium, he says, you guys won't
• 1:13:00
  believe this. They have hot dogs and beer. Who would have ever known
• 1:13:03
  I could even park my car anyway, Brad told me. Word on the
• 1:13:08
  street is that you guys, as well as with Dave, will be joining
• 1:13:10
  us for lunch at this aptly named establishment, and Hoppy will be buying the
• 1:13:13
  first round of kerchavel sometime in July. About that. Karen will obviously have
• 1:13:17
  to come so she can place the order we miss home, but rest assured
• 1:13:19
  will make as many as three guys tailgates as possible, as long as these
• 1:13:24
  greedy mountaineer politicians don't get in the way again. Brandon and Raleigh now in
• 1:13:28
  New York City by way of Morgantown, originally of Pittsburgh. At this point
• 1:13:31
  might be easier to say where I haven't been. They're terrific. We had
• 1:13:34
  a great time with Brandon at the game. Joey wasn't there, she was
• 1:13:36
  back working traveling nurse. And so their stop right now, as you just
• 1:13:40
  said, they're in New York City, so your stint, Yeah it is,
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  Jolie. Yeah. Can you show that picture again, Austin so is.
• 1:13:47
  There's a place called Three Guys Restaurant in the city. Have our attorneys
• 1:13:50
  send a cease and desist? Yeah, we'll have to cut that off right
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  there. I'll tell you something. I'll be playing with that. We might
• 1:13:57
  be getting a letter before they to come on now, Hobby. All right,
• 1:14:06
  well that's good. We finally purged the all the textual healings that have
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  been built up. Nathan, thank you so very much. You're spending your
• 1:14:15
  summer back and forth Deep Creek Lake. Are on the water. You're on
• 1:14:19
  the water as well, Yes, sir, all right, outstanding, very
• 1:14:23
  good. Me and my brother, Yeah, how's the baby? How's the
• 1:14:26
  baby? Brother? How's uncle? Uncle? Ha'll be and uncle? All
• 1:14:29
  good? Uncle, that's good, it's easy. Yeah, the responsibility pick
• 1:14:31
  them up, give him back? Good deal? All right? Well,
• 1:14:35
  real quick. What's that website for June Nath did you give that? Make
• 1:14:41
  sure people get there? Double ev you Cancer Golf Classic dot com. Doublev
• 1:14:45
  you Cancer Golf Classic dot com. Don't have to play golf to go?
• 1:14:48
  Do not have to play golf? Or is Don? I'll say that the
• 1:14:51
  foursome price is really good. Is Don Cricky would say, it's WUV you
• 1:14:57
  Cancer Golf Classic dot com. I'd love to see you there. All right,
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• 1:15:31
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• 1:15:34
  Thank you all very much, have a wonderful, wonderful day and we'll see
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  you hopefully Saturday. You're going to have a big time. Garrett Green,
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  Ren Baker, Blaine Stewart. June eighth, be there or b Square see
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  it, Junior,