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2-18-26 Hour 1 - Remembering Doug Moe/Rapids Head Coach Matt Wells/NBA ASG Still Busted? · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 2: All right, so a lot to get to today.
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  Speaker 3: The US men's Olympic hockey team takes the ice again
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  Speaker 3: today at one ten, taking on our dear Landeskog's sweet
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry Lendeskorg his Swedish team. So that's at one ten.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch to talk about from the last few days, now, Vick,
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  Speaker 3: I just want to open up a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 3: here because I know that you knew Doug mo Well.
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  Speaker 3: I said earlier that I know the legacy of this
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  Speaker 3: man in his career, but I don't know enough about
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  Speaker 3: him to feel comfortable speaking totally on it. So I'll
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  Speaker 3: open the floor to you.
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  Speaker 2: Haley's comment, that's all I could say.
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  Speaker 4: I know most your new Doug from days at the
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  Speaker 4: other station app.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I work with Doug for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I had the privilege of, as you guys know,
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  Speaker 4: way back when I was a child, I was a
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  Speaker 4: ball boy for the Denver Nuggets, and I happened to
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  Speaker 4: be a ball boy during the Doug Moo era, and
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  Speaker 4: I learned a new language from Doug Mo and the
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  Speaker 4: language of profanity. In the words of Earth Brown, he
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  Speaker 4: was the most curious, most joyful, most celebratory, most unique
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  Speaker 4: coach I've ever come across. And I think he was
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  Speaker 4: the last of a bastion. He was the last of
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  Speaker 4: the coaching carousel that actually made friends with media. His
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  Speaker 4: best friends were in the media. His best friends were us,
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  Speaker 4: believe it or not, and Tom Green and the Cannon
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  Speaker 4: and Ronzipolo, and you know, to his very last breath,
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  Speaker 4: those were his friends. And he understood them, and they
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  Speaker 4: understood each other, and nothing was personal ever. And I
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  Speaker 4: just think that Doug Mo a guy like come around
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  Speaker 4: again personality like that, somebody who lived and breathed basketball
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  Speaker 4: but never took himself too seriously. You just don't see
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  Speaker 4: that anymore. You don't. You don't see the way he coaches.
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  Speaker 4: His practices were an hour long. That's it. He didn't
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  Speaker 4: do anything else. He didn't have a freaking play, he
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  Speaker 4: didn't have a he didn't call anything during the game.
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  Speaker 4: He made them run the same thing the entire game,
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  Speaker 4: and it worked. Wonders for the decade of the eighties.
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  Speaker 4: Coming up in the nine o'clock hour, we will join
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  Speaker 4: two of his former players, Danissel Hall of Famer, his
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  Speaker 4: Reminiscence of Doug MO, and my friend Bill Hanslick, who
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  Speaker 4: Doug MO considered the biggest stiff of all and you
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  Speaker 4: want to talk about whipping boys and the way he
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  Speaker 4: was treated. Bill has nothing but love for Doug. She
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  Speaker 4: tells you what kind of man he was, what kind
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  Speaker 4: of relationship they had. Again, if you're a Nuggets fan,
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  Speaker 4: do me a favor, one favor. Go to YouTube, I
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  Speaker 4: posted it yesterday. Go to the Altitude plus appet you
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  Speaker 4: have that and watch the documentary we produced in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 4: It remains my proudest achievement of my career, the greatest
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  Speaker 4: work I've ever I've ever done. I had a chance
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  Speaker 4: to spend days with Doug and his family down in
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  Speaker 4: San Antonio. We unearthed some rare interviews. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: not easy getting interview with Greg Popovich and Larry Brown
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  Speaker 4: and pat Riley. But when we mentioned we're doing it
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  Speaker 4: for Doug Mo, they opened their doors right away. That's
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  Speaker 4: what kind of ticket he provides.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, welcome back motion, Thanks appreciate it y. Yeah, Vick,
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  Speaker 2: I I got the word I don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: some weeks ago, a few weeks ago, that it was
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  Speaker 2: probably not going to be too long with Doug, and
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  Speaker 2: so I immediately sent a message to Tom and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just anyway. The point is that I
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  Speaker 2: knew this was coming, but when it does come, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, gracious. Doug was nothing but great to me
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  Speaker 2: when I was just a young pop total idiot coming
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  Speaker 2: into this town and so on and so fourth and
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  Speaker 2: and that was very nice to me. When I started
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  Speaker 2: actually doing hockey full time, it was very nice to me.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought that was that was very conciliatory of him.
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  Speaker 2: And just as Vic said, Brett, he's simply there will
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  Speaker 2: never ever, ever ever be another human being in the
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  Speaker 2: world of sports like Doug mo ever period.
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  Speaker 4: You know most you got me thinking Doug mo was
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  Speaker 4: very much like this show, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 5: Not.
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  Speaker 4: To give us a pat on the back, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: talking about his style, his love his love language. Doug
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  Speaker 4: Moe's love language was trash talk was put downs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he would see you and just put you down, but
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  Speaker 4: in a loving way, in a brotherly way. So he did.
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  Speaker 2: I'd walk into the studio and he goes, hello, I
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  Speaker 2: can't uh Blake Blakehead, Hello, Blakehead. I'm like, you know
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  Speaker 2: that can I mean, it's just he he uh, just
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  Speaker 2: it's just such a unique person, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Just.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the way he did things was so it
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  Speaker 2: was so against the grain in the NBA at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Brett he, I mean, honestly, he the way he changed
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  Speaker 2: the game, what he did with these Denver Nuggets to
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  Speaker 2: try and win in the nineteen eighties. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go on record again as saying it, Vic,
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  Speaker 2: if it's not for those stupid Lakers and all that
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  Speaker 2: showtime crap where they stacked that team with Kareem and
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  Speaker 2: Magic and Worthy and Ac and everybody else you want
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  Speaker 2: to throw into the sun, the Denver Nuggets would be
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  Speaker 2: multiple time NBA champions by the end of the decade. Yeah, Vick,
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  Speaker 2: I'm convinced of it. Yeah, they would have won at
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  Speaker 2: least two NBA championships. I'm convinced of it. Anyway, It's
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  Speaker 2: just it's a sad day because Doug was beloved in
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  Speaker 2: this town. Hell, he was beloved wherever he went. It
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  Speaker 2: was so great he had an innate ability to collect
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  Speaker 2: checks from from different teams. I think when he was working,
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  Speaker 2: when I was working with him, he was still getting
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  Speaker 2: paid by Philly and by San Antonio. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: the only coach.
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  Speaker 4: When he was fired by the Nuggets, he's the only
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  Speaker 4: coach who held his own goodbye press conference at the
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  Speaker 4: facility and it was sold out. It was standing room only,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody was there for him to say goodbye. That's
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  Speaker 4: what kind of reverence he held in town. As luck
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  Speaker 4: would have it, tonight, I'm going to be moderating this
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  Speaker 4: panel for the new movie Soul Power, the film that's
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  Speaker 4: on Amazon Prime. If you haven't seen it yet, give
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  Speaker 4: it a look about the ABA, and a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: his friends will be there. I'll be visiting with George Carl,
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  Speaker 4: Ralph Simpson, Chuck Williams. They all played in the ABA,
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  Speaker 4: as did Doug, and this cannot be forgotten. We remember
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  Speaker 4: Doug mo as a coach. He was a hell of
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  Speaker 4: a player. He really was hell of a player. He
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  Speaker 4: finished second in the ABA MVP voting in nineteen sixty nine. Second.
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  Speaker 4: That's what kind of player he was. He won a
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  Speaker 4: championship ABA Championship with the Oakland Oaks. He was highly reveal.
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  Speaker 4: He just a player before he became a coach.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll talk to Bill hans Lake. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 3: danisl on the nine o'clock hour in the meantime.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick, though, I think that, and I know that
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  Speaker 2: David Adaman doesn't have any ties to Doug Mo. But
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  Speaker 2: I sent up this tweet a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and what about this is I found it. I found
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  Speaker 2: it last night. What did I say there?
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  Speaker 3: Just one time before I'm gone, I'd like to see
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  Speaker 3: an NBA coach show up courtsight with an outfit like
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  Speaker 3: Doug Mo.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to see, like David Adalman just wear her,
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  Speaker 2: just wear a Doug Mo suit on the sideline one time.
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  Speaker 4: Where the tie comes undone and both sides are just
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  Speaker 4: down the.
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  Speaker 2: Down, down the middle. Uh. He's got you know, like
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  Speaker 2: a bright maroon jacket on with with the lower pants
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it was just it was just such a.
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  Speaker 3: Great Well that's what isn't there like a Kim Mulky
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  Speaker 3: outfit that the Chicken coach is lsu that crazy Kim lady. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: she always wears some flam buoyant shirt or something well, this.
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  Speaker 2: Was I mean, this was the style back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: but Doug had his own style. It was It's just
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  Speaker 2: it's a sad day for Denver sports. It's a sad
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  Speaker 2: day for the game of basketball. And you see the
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  Speaker 2: tributes pouring Endvic. I mean, he touched an awful lot
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  Speaker 2: of people. Again, a lot of people inside the game
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  Speaker 2: revered him.
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  Speaker 4: Think about this, this this is the last, my last
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  Speaker 4: mention of how great a coach he was. He had
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  Speaker 4: his own coaches show on television. Who's the last basketball coach?
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  Speaker 4: Think about this for a second. Can you think of
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  Speaker 4: another basketball coach who had a weekly coaches show on television.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't happen. They have radio shows, we have him here,
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  Speaker 4: but a television show. He did that for three years
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  Speaker 4: with ron Zapolo and it was musty television. It was
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  Speaker 4: that good.
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  Speaker 3: Not Dawn. He's got about five So I'll talk to
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  Speaker 3: Danislondugmo on the nine o'clock hour in the meantime, USA
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  Speaker 3: taking on Sweden today and the game against Germany over
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  Speaker 3: the weekend. Really funny because I've made an admission Moge.
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  Speaker 3: I know that a lot of people disagree with me
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  Speaker 3: on this, but my admission is when the Kachuck brothers
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  Speaker 3: wear the red, white and blue, I'm in. I love
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  Speaker 3: the Kachuck brothers on this team. When they were barking
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  Speaker 3: at dry Sidle saying always the bride's maid, never the bride,
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  Speaker 3: I love that, And I think this team kind of
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  Speaker 3: needs to have that sort of that calls it sandpaper
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  Speaker 3: to him, because look, we're all hoping for the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: That it's the US in Canada in the gold medal match,
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  Speaker 3: and that the US wins. Now Canada is stacked in
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  Speaker 3: a way that's kind of unbelievable. It's like the greatest
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  Speaker 3: players of this generation are all on the same team
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  Speaker 3: at the same time. It's wild. But I feel like
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  Speaker 3: if the US gets in it, they got a shot.
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  Speaker 2: They got a Oh sure they do. I mean, believe
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  Speaker 2: me when I tell you the Canadians they're they're worried
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  Speaker 2: about They're worried about Team USA. Now Team USA has
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  Speaker 2: to get by Sweden today. Sweden's playing back to back.
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  Speaker 2: They got the win yesterday. They club Latvia pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: They were up to nothing. They score within forty one seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Landy had a tally. Landy had a tally yesterday, but
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  Speaker 2: by the way, it was a really nice goal.
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  Speaker 3: Explain how this works. By the way, is this just
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  Speaker 3: like what kind of elimination are we in right now?
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  Speaker 2: Because the usf you lose, you're gone despite going three. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's it, okay, gotcha, you lose, you're gone. And again,
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty damn tough thing to get, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: So Germany just got bounced this morning by Slovakia.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. And the reason that the reason that that Sweden
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  Speaker 2: had to play yesterday is because even though they won
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  Speaker 2: the game, they gave up a late goal I think,
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  Speaker 2: to Slovakia to make it five to three into the
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  Speaker 2: five to two beat they lost on the they lost
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  Speaker 2: a tie breaker on the gold differential, so they I
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  Speaker 2: had to play us. It's just it's funky, but I
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  Speaker 2: guess you gotta do it in a short tournament like that. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think this does the US any favors because
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have uc sorros between the pipesweedo, he's good.
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  Speaker 2: You look up and down. The sweetest lineup they got.
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  Speaker 2: Their back end is frigging great. Yeah, they got a
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  Speaker 2: ton of great forwards up from I mean every guy
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  Speaker 2: on the Swedish team is an NHLR. It's not like
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  Speaker 2: they're pulling some guy out of the Swedish Eleague Nague.
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  Speaker 2: Every guy plays in the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one of the things I was thinking about. I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned this before the Olympics started. Now I go, look,
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  Speaker 3: all I can tell you is it wouldn't hurt. I've
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  Speaker 3: watched a whole bunch of the AVS players now individually
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  Speaker 3: for their respective countries, look really good on the power play,
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  Speaker 3: look really good. And I'm like, is there anything that
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  Speaker 3: you can take from this bring it back to the
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  Speaker 3: Avs and improve on what they have right now, which
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  Speaker 3: is the worst in the league fifteen point one percentage.
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  Speaker 3: Because I watched Marty Nachos yesterday sitting in the same
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  Speaker 3: spot that McKinnon sits in the AVS power play and
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  Speaker 3: look really damn good doing it really good. Like, can
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  Speaker 3: you take some of that stuff and bring it back
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  Speaker 3: from when the season I start something?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I guess we'll ask Jerry Bennar one
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  Speaker 2: week from today, because we'll be back at it. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: one week from today, the Apps will be in Utah
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to take on the Mammoth. Coach will be back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that day, right, I just think from it
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  Speaker 2: we can ask him. But on the confidence standpoint, maybe like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that helps. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you want to put McKinnon on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: I think what I tell him. I all I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: is I don't think anything you do from here and
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  Speaker 3: now is gonna hurt anything.
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  Speaker 4: He emos. I'm glad you're back. So much was made
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  Speaker 4: about the rink size. The rink's fine, the hockey's great
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  Speaker 4: and and fast. What's what's the issue?
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  Speaker 2: It's three point eight feet shorter overall?
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  Speaker 4: You notice anything different?
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  Speaker 2: I guess optically, you know when you're on TV.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: But when I look at I guess the old overall view.
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  Speaker 2: It looks just a little bit shorter to me, I
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  Speaker 2: guess it. It just optically doesn't look I just it
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  Speaker 2: feels like there's something off. I can't really tell. Just
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  Speaker 2: feels like there's something off.
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  Speaker 4: Vic And you can recuse yourself from this. This is
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  Speaker 4: just me and Brett. Recuse yourself because this is I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna speak glowingly of you. Some of these announcers they're
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  Speaker 4: using an Olympics to call these hockey games, are not good. Brett,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you noticed. They're not the moje
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god. And I don't know who they are
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  Speaker 4: or if the IOC hires them. I don't know who
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  Speaker 4: hires them. But I'm watching some of these things and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, where's my man, Moses.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, recuse yourself. Mos.
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  Speaker 3: He's right, uh three h three. I mean I would
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  Speaker 3: have done it. I would have done it for free.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's there's a guy we'll talk to, coach coming
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  Speaker 3: up here. And just a little bit they had a
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  Speaker 3: soccer commentator, yeah, doing the game of the day, and
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  Speaker 3: you could tell he's a soccer guy.
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  Speaker 2: Just buy it by the cadence and buy.
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  Speaker 4: He called it a man match.
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  Speaker 2: But that's that's his gig. That's I know, But I'm
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't it doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: Matter, coach, Hockey's not a match.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to, uh coach in just a second. It
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  Speaker 3: two five. Let's head out to the Ramas Law Hotline
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  Speaker 3: and welcome in brand new coach of the Rapids, Matt Wells. Matt,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing I'm very good?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? How are you doing well?
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  Speaker 3: And uh? I first of all, welcome to Denver. A
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  Speaker 3: niche thoughts here on Denver.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think he's been around for a little
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  Speaker 2: bit now? I mean it's like you was hired yesterday. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, a month for a time. Say hello, hey, coach,
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  Speaker 2: good to see you.
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  Speaker 5: How's it going? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: It is actually only my third day in Denver.
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  Speaker 6: We had the training camp in Florida, so my third
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  Speaker 6: day here, as you can hear, I already have the
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  Speaker 6: drive throw dry skin, so I forgo and get some
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  Speaker 6: new moisturizers and new lip bomb.
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  Speaker 5: It's been great so far.
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  Speaker 4: It may have, but did it take a lot for
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  Speaker 4: someone to have you move across the world, across the globe?
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  Speaker 4: I mean you were coaching. First of all, let's get
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  Speaker 4: the proper pronunciation from somebody who's from there. It's Tottenham, correct,
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  Speaker 4: Tottenham Hotspurs.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm half British, so I've got.
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  Speaker 2: And I should. I should tell you coach that I'm
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  Speaker 2: a Brentford guy, So sorry about that. We still a
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  Speaker 2: we are best players and managers. It's it's it's what
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  Speaker 2: we do with Brentford's a big deal. But it's great
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  Speaker 2: to have your board and we're excited. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: start less than a week. Here we go, you're off
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  Speaker 2: and running. How excited are you to kind of just
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  Speaker 2: dig in a good going.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so excited now. I think the training camp
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  Speaker 5: was intense, but it was.
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  Speaker 6: It was a great period for me because I had
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  Speaker 6: the guys all under one roof at the hotel, so
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  Speaker 6: it was it was twenty four to seven. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 6: intense once I get going, so it was good. The
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  Speaker 6: team shaping up well there. We had our final preseason
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  Speaker 6: friendly the other day against Orlando. We played some really
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  Speaker 6: attractive attack in football, which is how I see this team.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Played with a lot of intensity. So now I'm excited
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: for the Seattle game.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: All right, So, Matt, what will the new identity of
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: the Colorado Rapids become under your leadership?
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, every time we step on the pitch, we
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: have to be the dominant team. That's that's that's my
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: general mantra. Of course, there's a lot of detail that
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: underpins that, but for me, it's a mentality shift that
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: we can't go into a sea and satisfied with trying
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: to make the playoffs, or that can't be the limit
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: of our goals. We have to be here to win
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: this whole competition. That starts with every training session, every performance.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: So every time we step on the pitch, we'll try
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: and take control of the ball, We'll press the opponent.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: So I'm hoping for the fan base it'll be a
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: really exciting style of player to watch.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: What attracted you about this job in particular, Yeah.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: I mean I wanted to change. I was probably for
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: the last three or four years. I felt ready to
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: be a head coach I've been. I've been coaching now
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: at a very high level for seventeen years. So I
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: loved being an assistant, but there's always frustrations that come
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: with it because you see, there's no way you're going
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: to agree with the manager on absolutely everything. So I
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: have my own opinions, my own sort of ideology around
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: the game and how it should be played, how the
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: environment should be. So I was just waiting for the
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: right opportunity this one, This one came up, and through
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: the interview process, I loved all the conversations with the.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: With the hierarchy here, so it felt like a good fit.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: And then crucially, I've got my wife's permission to move
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: country and so that that's stilled the deal.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Well on top of that, just quick, sorry, Vic, I
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: know that for guys who become first time head coaches
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: there's always like some stuff that comes with the job
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: that they weren't expecting. Have you been have you gotten
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: some of that? Of Like, now that I'm the head coach,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I have to deal with this and this and this.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I think, listen, only the only shift for me is
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: this sort of stuff. It's the media side of things
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: is obviously a lot more intense.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: I did small bits when I was an assistant, but
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: that was mainly in house stuff at Tottenham, So I'd
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: say that's that's the only big shift in terms of responsibility.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: But the actual job has been the day to day stuff.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: I'm passionate about coaching. I'm passionate about shaping environments, leadership.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: So for that's been a new lease of life. But yeah,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: this this stuff's been been the added stuff to my calendar.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Over under five months until you hate it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, we'll see, man, this is going to be a
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: vacation for you. Man, you're used to coaching in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Premier League. You see how the media, how fans operate
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: over there. It's a different entity. Have you noticed the difference.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, the Colorado Rapids are a reputable outfit in
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: the league in Colorado, especially in the US where you're
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: competing with a lot more here, and I'm sure you
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: know that you have to really embrace the fact that
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: you need fans, you need to get people watching your team,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: because it's not as easy as it is in England.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, that's one of my biggest intentions and goals
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: here is I want to create something that's so exciting
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: and so appeding, so attractive that everyone wants to come
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: and watch us. I said to the players on day one,
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: I want every team to hate playing against us, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I want every fan in the whole of the MLS.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: I want us to be the second favorite team if
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: we're on the TV, if we're on Apple TV, they
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: put it on. I can't think another reason to get
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: out of bed just to create something ordinary. So I
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: want to create something special here, dynamics, something that gets
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: the whole league talking Orlando is a good step. The
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: other day already had a lot of people reach out
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: to me surprised and shocked at both the score line
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: but mainly Iraq elements and the way they're The way
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: the team played was very impressive at this early stage, Ronnie,
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: I've only been here four weeks, so it's going to
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: take time. But yeah, I definitely want there to be
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: a buzz around us, and hopefully we can. We can
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: sell this stadium out more often than not and get
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: people watching and enjoying the football they see.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Coach, you know is about it here pretty soon. But
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: you're basically drinking through a fire hose right now. Back
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: in Denver for three days and then you're gonna go
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to Seattle and it's off and running. But I guess,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: how do you now look at the rest of the
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: league and say, Okay, this is what we're up against.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, scouting everything. I know that you have assistance,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I know you have people to help you out with
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: all of that, but you're going into this not even
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: knowing when once you get off the bus, Okay, where's
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: our you know, where do we go? All that kind
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: of thing. I mean, it's it's kind of a big
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: deal for you, But how do you adapt to that
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: or how are you anticipating adapting to that?
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that was a that was That was a big
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: part of me coming here as making sure that I
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: had MLS experience and expertise on my staff. So I
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: made sure that we kept Chris Sharp and Elliott Pross
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: to two fantastic coaches and even better people. So I'll
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: be honest, I wouldn't have come here without without that,
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Because as much research as you can do, the amount
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: of games I watched from last season was was crazy, really,
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: but you still can't get a feel for the intangibles
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: of the league, and only someone with the experience of
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: a Chris Sharp or an Elliott can give me that insights.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: That's been very, very useful.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Also brought two guys over from the Premier League who
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: were fantastic at their jobs, but they also need up
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: skidding in terms of the landscape that we're facing over here.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: So those guys have been great for me. But outside
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: of that, there's there's no substitute for me. Just spending
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: hours and hours on this laptop watching game, studying the opponents,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: coming up with game plans. That side of it doesn't change.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: That's that's the same job as it is in England
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: and when I was in the Premier League or we
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: were trying to win the Europa League. I'm still watching
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: European teams that I don't know that well and then
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: having to watch their games in their home league and
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: study and work out the tactics. So that side of
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: it is the same. But definitely having guys here with
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: such experience helps.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: I have one quick, last one, Brett, and I love this.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: You're quoted as saying win everything except the fair Play Award,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: and I love that mentality.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Coach.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie to you. You know you don't
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: have to be nice.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I mean you win.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: You're here to compete. Is that where you're trying to
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: get across. Here. We're on the pitch to win, and
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: if that means you gotta win ugly win. I'm not
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: saying you have to play dirty, but you don't have
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: to be a nice guy to win in this league.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah. One, I didn't actually realize I said that in public,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: but I said it a few times to the players privately,
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: for sure, and I stand by that. I think my
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: frustrations early in this pre season we were the first
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: few friendlies we played were exactly that. I have to
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: stop calling it that because we were far too friendly
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: on the pitch we played.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: We played some nice football.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: But if you're soft against the ball, and you're soft
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: in the jewels and you're soft on the second balls,
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: that's a recipe for everyone wanting to watch us. But
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: we lose every week and that's not why I'm here
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: and that's not what we're going to create. So it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: making sure we do have a nastiness about us. We
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: do have an edge, and it's tough because we're trying
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: to combine this beautiful style of play, which hopefully you
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: guys will see against the atoll where we're trying to
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: dominate the ball and we're always building out from the
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: back and we're really controlling the games, and there's a
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: lot of short passes, but then the second we lose
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: the ball almost I want to go from that ice
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: call to the fire. And that's the bit the early
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: in preseason we were lacking. But thankfully over the last
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: couple of games it's still not at the level of
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: edginess and nastiness and aggression that I want, but we're
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: definitely getting there, and recruitment will help that as well,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: so we'll get that.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Brand new head coach of the Rapids, Matt Wells joining us.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: First of all, welcome to Denver. Second of all, good
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: luck this season. Appreciate the time.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Matt, Appreciate you guys. Thank you very much.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: All right, coach, head coach of the Rapids, Matt well
• 24:13
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• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I love that. You know, if he's telling us that,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: imagine what he's telling his players when they're playing. Hey man,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: quit messing around. Let's go. Yeah, let's go all right,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: you're not here to make friends. We're not here to
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: exchange jerseys after a game, right, exchange kits as they
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: call them. By the way, Is today the day that
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: the Rapids unveiled their new kit? Is it later this week?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's today, but it's soon. Could be.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I'll try and get a check on that. But yeah,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: brand new head coach of the Rapids, Matt Wells joining
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: us now and.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: The Rapids listen, let's be fourth right. They've gone through
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: coaches like I go through socks.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a lot.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: They need someone who's going to establish something, and the
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: fan base needs somebody here that's gonna set the table
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: for years to come, not one or two years at
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: a time. So let's hope this guy's the guy. How
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: many coaches we had on this show.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Well there was.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the guy's name. When I first got here,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: it was right before Robin, because Robin was here for
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: what Robin Fraser was four years? Was it?
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I think I don't remember the timeline.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: But since I've been here, this is the fourth coach
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: in seven years.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean it's they've been going on. I
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: guess see I was Connor Casey was the interim.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if you counted, but anyway, good
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: luck to the Rapids this year as they get going
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: soon against Seattle. Now we can talk about this in
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: more detail, but Vic watched the All Star stuff really
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: disappointed by Jamal in the three point contest. That sucked
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: because it just didn't feel like he had a shot
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: to the actual game.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: By the way, Jamal during his practice couldn't miss. So
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: he went. Yeah, he went there earlier as they all do,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: because he wanted to try taking the ball off the racks.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, could not miss.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Couldn't miss. And I'm thinking, oh my god, it's kind
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: might win it. But it changes when you're in that arena. Sure,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: and there's no one in the stands. That's to me
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: was it was unreal. Guys. I've been to a lot
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: of these All Star games. Most no one was there
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: on the Saturday they have sides.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Somebody panned to the crowd. There was so many empty seats.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: You hold the All Star Game in the afternoon in LA.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: It's tough enough getting La people to go to games
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: at night. Now if you hold something at two in
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: the afternoon, because it started around one or two LA time.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Good luck with that.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Here's the other thing. Was the All Star Game
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: itself better than it was before?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Because the worst.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Thing you could imagine anything other than that is going
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: to be better. Was it more competitive?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Did it feel like something I had to watch?
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Still?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Not really? I mean it was better there was.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: It only worked, to be honest, because some of the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: younger guys brought it from the very beginning, like Wemby
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: was out there to play.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Can we be real about this, You might have a
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: different take on the All Star Game if our guy
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: really wanted to play.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Jokis did not care.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Still, and you know that's just the way it is.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I asked him afterwards, I said, what'd you think? He goes, Well,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: our team was better when I wasn't in the game.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Just not for him. Well, also just not for him.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: It's just not the You cannot manufacture competition and desperation
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: and all that stuff that goes into it. And I
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: don't care what you do to this game. I don't
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: think you're going to get him to have that same
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: level of intensities he has in a regular NBA game.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Well, he's one of the guys that I said, like,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: he's not going to care about the US versus the world.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: He cares about Serbia. That's what he cares about. And
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe that US versus World thing gave
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: it some sort of extra juice.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I really just think it was a few.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Guys decided they were gonna go one hundred percent, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: so you have two options. You match the intensity that
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: those guys are bringing, or you sit down on the bench.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: And Yoga said, not for me, see you later. I'm
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: sitting down like Jamal tried. Jamal just wasn't very good.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: He was okay in the second game, I suppose, but.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Wemby was out for blood. Yes, Wemby's like, I'm gonna
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: block every shot, I'm gonna make every shot, and I
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: want to win every game. Did you see his reaction Most,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you watched when they lost that
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: first game to the Young Buck Americans and the three
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: ball went down. Did you see how mad Wemby was
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: after that? Like I did mad band?
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: No? I did not.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Most, I'm not going he was in Spain.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: No home, by the way, my buddy's got a broken
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: or unlocked firestick to watch anything I want across the globe.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: It's pretty awesome.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: You took it with you.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: No, no, he's got it there in Spain.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: An unlocked firestick. How long do those I don't know.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: They the companies catch up and then you got to
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: get it unlocked. They I don't know.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: How are you advocating piracy? I mean, our salaries are.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Based on Spain. It's it's another I don't so.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: What you're doing is you're coming on these airwaves and
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: telling everybody to forego.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: With him international water. It doesn't count a jackwagon in Spain.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Can't buy altitude anyway, all right, get the app.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: By the way, they give me one of those fire sticks.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: When you add he can, he can. He's got some.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: He's got some ex pat englishman who breaks fire sticks
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: in Spain. It doesn't matter anyway. The point is he
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: can watch any abs and nuggets he wants. But he's
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: got altitude right there in Spain. Here's the thing. It's crazy.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you do it, but he's got it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Can I stop for a second, please? On the airplane home,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I made a commitment to myself and to this show
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: and to the listeners that I'm not going to blow
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: smoke up your tail at all, not that I was before.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just not going to do it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Oh really, so last decade, you've been so so you
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: so this whole thing about your quarterback.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I'll I'll i'll, I'll acknowledge something like.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: No, Vic, I didn't see it. I won't expand on
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: it because you probably don't want me to expand on it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And if you do, then I will, but otherwise I won't.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I won't to expand on it. But no, Vic, I
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: did not see Wemby's reaction. And you know why I
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: didn't see Wemby's reaction because I don't give a rats
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: ass good.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: No, No, I appreciate that.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, and I don't care if you think
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: that it's your job to watch the NBA All Star weekend,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: No it's not.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I was there.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: It's not my job to watch crap basketball and took
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: a fight time in Los Angeles at the damn in
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: normal don't crap.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Most I made it. I made it pretty clear.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I was there much so much.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I was there and I was bored. I was there
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: and I was bored. But it's no different than there's.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Literally nothing that the NBA could do to get me
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: to watch the All Star weekend?
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: What about the NHL?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I got about the NHL Star they stop?
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Wait wait wait what about the NHL?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Before we go? Yeah, what about the NHL? Yeah, I
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: got no, no, no, hang on, I got something. I came
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: up with an idea myself and Chris and the the appetizer.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I gotta.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I got a way I would get you to watch.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I'll explain it in a minute, but I got away.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: But go ahead, Vic, good, what about the NHL All
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Star Game? Are you are watching every moment of that game?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: No, not all of it? A little bit? Yeah, it
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: just doesn't.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Would just say it's the same thing, same product, Oh.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Vick, I don't know if I didn't watch the Okay,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: it's worse.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: And they're all in the same. They're all the same.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: They don't mean anything. You can't you can't dress them up.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: You can't dress them up. Nobody cares. I couldn't agree.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I couldn't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to think how much I could care less,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: and the answer is none. I couldn't care less. I
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: didn't watch a second of it. I did see the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: thing on online, Jamal doing the three points and a
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: lot of clangs. I'm like, well, that's a bummer. At
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: least he was there, Okay. I saw Joker played five minutes.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I was hoping his leg didn't get blown off. Now
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: they just took him out because he's It's just management, right,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: his management. It just it is completely unappealing to me.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I don't care what format they come up with. I
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: don't care if they have live animals, I don't, I don't.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: It doesn't I don't care if they're playing on llamas,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Like every NBA player's got a lama and they got
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: a dunk on a lama, I don't. I don't care.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: That would be that would be musterful. I just don't care.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: See, I think you're skewed a bit because you witness
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: the greatest All Star break ever last year with the
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: four Nations. That was the greatest event we've seen. It
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: was actual competitive hockey. It comes with the price. Obviously,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: guys can get injured, but that's that's the pinnacle of
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: mid season exhibition, right at the pinnacle. Yeah, and when
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: you go there, anything else pales in comparison.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: One last reminder of your key word for this hour
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: is Francis so text that in your first and last
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: name to three oho three five O four nine two
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: five gets you a chance to go to the building
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: for Colorado's return to the ice against Minnesota next Thursday. Now,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: moj I got an idea. I can get you a watch.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: No you can't. No, I can't, Brett.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I promise you. Look, I I promise you.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Alls is gone.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I promise all the history, all the history are all
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: the topless in the middle of the game.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: No, No, all right, all the history onics, all of
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: the all of the fun times and the tickle fights. Okay, God,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: it's all just done.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: We'll get to it in just a second. Stick around,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: all right, Listen to me. Listen to me, most put
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: those put those damn headphones on.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: You.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Listen to me.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I know exactly how to watch, because I gotta be honest,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: I didn't tune in for a second of that dunk contest,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: and I'm disappointed in myself. If I had known a
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: man would concuss himself trying to dunk, then I would
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: be all in on this thing. If you if you're
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: gonna give me no name guys in the dunk contest.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: I don't even know this guy's name, the guy who
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: fell on his head.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, Jason Richardson.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Sure if if you're gonna give me no namers, I
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: got a great idea.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: That's Jason Richardson's son. No, Yeah, remember Jason Richardson.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Richardson could who does he play for?
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: I think Orlando?
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: You think Orlando. There's a mother f there's a guy
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: in the dunk contest. I think he plays I think
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: he's in the league. Listen, it's a joke. Jo.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: You know Jason lives here in Denver. Hang listening to this.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Show, Judson, I'm just saying, Oh, Jason was amazing.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Here's what I want if you're gonna give me guys
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I don't recognize in the dunk contest. I needed to
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: be some evil caneve stuff. I need there to be
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: guys shot out of cannons. I need there to be
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: uh knives pointed up at the floor underneath the hoop.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I want some steaks on the line. I want somebody
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: to go up for a dunk. You're like, if you
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: mess this up, you're gonna hurt yourself if you start
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: doing a jackass version of the dunk contest, because that's
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: the only thing that's gonna get me. Now, I watched
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Jackson Hayes do a dunk that we've seen eight hundred
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: times in the middle of basketball games, and his name
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: was Jackson Hayes. It can't happen anymore, not taking it. Nope,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I need to have some some tigers on the floor
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: or something.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: You know, what's interesting is that about?
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: What about a viper pit most under the hoop?
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: That still wouldn't get me? Well, I mean if you
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: if you land in the pit, you get attacked by cobras.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah like that. Yeah, yeah, that still wouldn't get me.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: By the way, Jackson Hayes plays for the Lakers, did
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you know that?
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I did not know. Yeah, we know that that That
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: dunk was so bad. I think Chris'll could pull it off.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Well, somebody put somebody put highlights of Kareem during the
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Dunk Contest, and honestly, it was super lame dunks.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: But it's Kareem, so it's different. It's like, at least
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: it's a big name guy.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Dude. The very first Dunk Contest in nineteen seventy six
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: was held here in Denver. The ABA held the All
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Star Game and the reason they did the dunk contest
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: at half? Do you know why they did it? Because
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: the league could not afford halftime entertainment. Red Panda was
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: too expensive, so they said, what are we gonna do? Yeah,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: let's have these guys dunk.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Baby races cost too much money. And the dunk story
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: doctor race, Yeah, doctor j launches from the free throw
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: line of the rest is history.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: And back then artist Gilmore attempted a dunk like his
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Dunk contest and he was told I go up there
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: and dunked. He's like, well, what do I do?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: But everybody says that thing's dead? And I'm like, do
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: you guys not remember?
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Like it's getting farther and farther away, but do you
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: not remember Aaron Gordon and Zach Levine? That was amazing.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: But that's the reason why guys like Aaron Gordon won't
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: do it again because he got robbed.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Look, but it was entertained mint. Do they really care
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: that much if they win or lose? Like Jamal was,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Let's be honest, pretty embarrassing to splay at the three
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: point contest. I think you should do it again next
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: year if he gets invited.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Who cares? Look, man, there was a time when I
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: would say this is going away. This, this just doesn't
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: the mac McClung crap, right, guys, not even in the league,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: and he's winning the dunk contest. I was done, and
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I've been saying this for going on a decade. The
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: dunk contest to me is like Sears, VIC. Do you
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: remember Montgomery Ward.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Of course, there's the Montgomery Ward at Lakeside Maul and
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: my brother worked there.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: You kid me, Sears Montgomery Ward. You know brands like that.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: J C.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Penny Jac Penny and I would say this, they're out
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: of business. They just don't know it yet. Does that
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: make sense? It's a good example of one of those
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Do you see what you see what I'm saying? Yeah,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the NBA Dunk Contest is out of business. They just
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: don't know it yet. That's That's essentially what it is. VIC.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Nobody cares, nobody watches, nobody knows. Any bed would.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Watch if they put stars in it. I would you watched,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: You'd watch if they had the right people in it.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Right people, There's only so many dugs you can do
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter time.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Derby's been the same thing for fifty years.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: I watched once Dwight Howard wore a cape. It was over.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Did you watch in the home run Derby most anything
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: different than what you've seen before?
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Stubborn and you're being dumb. Okay, stubborn and dumb are
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: not a good combination. If I told you that this
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: dunk contest had I don't care forty one year old
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Lebron James in it, you'd watch.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: You would you know it? You wouldn't you know it?
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: If if they brought Vince Carter out of retirement.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: You'd watch, get a little crazy.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: If Aaron Gordon not have four to six weeks reevaluation,
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: you'd watch.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Can I bring something else up that blew my mind
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: over the weekend? Please saw some video out of spring training.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Guy in the cage for the Rocks. I said, who
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: the hell is this? Ronnie Coleman, Arnold Schwarzenegger looking guy
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: hitting baseballs?
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Can you talking about Zach Veen?
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: What happened there?
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: He he's Here's what he said. He went full mosure.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: He gained forty three pounds of muscle, and he attributed
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: that to getting sober that's what he said. I have
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: a feeling like, look, I'm not alleging anything that much
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: of a body transformation looks like would you pee neon colors?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Cause that that doesn't look normal.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Have you seen him, mos, I know you're out like
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: you were not in the country.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Have you seen what Zach Vine looks like?
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: No, I have not Google it and give me your
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: first reaction. Okay, to do with that?
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. I'm always a fan of guys
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: bulking up because I love nineteen ninety eight. I love
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: just ripping the ball over the park.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I hope he can do that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: The big thing with Zach Vine is I feel like
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: every time the Rockies have a prospect that they really like,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: like it was Brendan Rodgers, and I know he dealt
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: with injuries, they never really developed into that. I hope
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: he does that. I really do. But you put on
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: forty three pounds. I want to see that ball over
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: the fence a whole lot this year. That's what I want.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: That's what I want you to do with that, vic.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: I want you to put that body that he's got
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: into some oomph party deck style.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: That's not even the story of Rocky Spring Training. The
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: story of Rocky Spring Trains crazy, right, It's not Zach Vine.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: The story is they got a guy who showed up
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: and they owe him one hundred and eighty two million
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: dollars and he says it hurts when he walks, let
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: alone when he bats and plays. So he can't play.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: He's already on the ILDL whatever they call it now,
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: says it feels like he's being electrocuted every time he
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: takes a step. What do you do with Chris Bryant Man.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's a story because it's the same story.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: It's been for three straight.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Years, but it continues to be. You would think after
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: a while, what what's the end game here? So next
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: year it's the same story that you have to Can
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: they not come up with a settlement? Clearly he can't
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: play baseball anymore? And I feel for him. Back k
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: injuries are awful. It's the worst mos. What do you do?
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I don't think there is a settlement. I don't think
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: the MLB has this stuff. I don't think there's a
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: protection for the team for an injury.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: Isn't there an insurance clause?
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Don't you think that would have happened with guys like
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Rendon already if there was, Like, I think, this is
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: just this is part of the infinite power that the
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: MLBPA has.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Has any league had more players steal more money from
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: teams in the league than MLB. No, I'm trying to
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: think of Well.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Basketball's got a few of them, like Ben Simmons, been
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: doing that for a long time.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: John Morant might be one of those now.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they just basketball does it all the time.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: They have a settlement, they buy them out in basketball,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: they buy out these guys all the time. Hell, they
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: bought out Dame Lillard in Milwaukee. They didn't blink an eye.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: They didn't buy out Ben Simmons. I feel like if
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: I continue all that's an injury thing. I feel like
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: I can if I continue on this path. And here
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: we are almost to the top of the hour. First
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: hour back, it's.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Just about complete.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm in a real negative headspace and
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I feel like Vic.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Got me there.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: What did I do? I like your hair?
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I hate it, by the way, I got it cut
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: before I left, and I might regularly wait, wait, wait,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: have you seen Vic's hair? Yeah? Look, it's a joke. Yeah,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: it's a joke, an absolutely ridiculous joke. Spee you.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: It is me.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: It's not you.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about? This is me?
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: What I look.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: This is I'm gonna tell I'm gonna go here. I'm
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: gonna go here. I'm gonna I'm gonna use this card
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna do it because you're cancer stole my
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: beautiful hair and it turned it gray overnight. So I'm
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: stealing it right back. And if you have a problem
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: with that, blame cancer. Now what are you gonna say?
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: He just dropped because it's the truth.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: He just dropped up my mom's dead card on you.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Exactly right. I had beautiful, luscious brown hair before twenty nineteen.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Overnight it went gray. I'm taking it back.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you ride, you ride with what God
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: gave you. That's what I'm saying.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: You know, Vick, you can blame it on that or
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: I got here in twenty nineteen.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: That's good. That's a good look man.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: By the way, Simmons was bought out in February of
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five by the Nets. They bought out forty
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: million dollars of his salary. He gave back one point
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: one million if you call that a buy out. So
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: that happens in basketball all the time. They look up
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Damian Lillard, but that's for guys who want to leave,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: not for guys who are hurt and can't play.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Well, Damian Lillard was hurting. He couldn't blame Milwaukee. They
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: bought him out.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be negative, but I find so
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: many things. It just as a joke and no offense
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: to Chris Bryant, but this is what are we doing?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: This is it's it's ridiculous, the whole he's and he
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: says he's not going to retire.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, what would you do most?
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: The guy can't walk and he can't most most you've
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: got you know what I'll tell you. I tell you
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: what I do, Vic. I ride airplanes and eat steak
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: for the the next nine months. That's what I do, right, airplanes,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: eat steak, and sleeping hotels.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: You got it?
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Oh my stirrups A. I guess that's what I do.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: So are you being facetious or are you being serious?
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: I'm being serious. I'd ride it out, Vic, with back
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: pain and can't play the game. But you know what,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I don't want to give.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Up that bread, so would I. Admission is the first step.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: One hundred and eighty two million dollars. You show up,
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: you say, hey, listen, guys, you think I'm gonna walk
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: away from one hundred and eighty two million? Here I am.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I can't play though.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: This is by the way, people I think have very
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: misguided anger on this thing. I'm not mad at Chris
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Bryant for this at all, mean either like I that is,
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: it was not his fault that his back gave out.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: It is the fault of the people who thought it
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: was a good idea to sign an aging guy who
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: had back problems, whose game was already past its prime
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: when they signed him. Like even when he was healthy
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: enough to play, he was not good anymore.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: It was such a panic move. It looked bad. I
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: mean it just it felt like such a panic move
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: that we've got to do something. Oh, here's a former
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: All Star that's uh at it on the market too.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna to rip on I mean bad luck.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: I mean it happened to is back went.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Completely hand on.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Beyond the back injury they signed him. We all said,
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: what are they doing this? Makes no sense immediately.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: The reaction was never like, yes, we got Chris Bryant,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: it's what's the point of this, like right away. So
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: this isn't one of those like when people talk about
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: how bad the rust thing was, the Russell Wilson trade
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: and it's like, well, you probably were jumping for joy
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: when it first happened. I think most people were like,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: I don't understand this at all at all.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: How many games do you think the Rockies are going
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: to win this year?
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know how many?
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Sixty three?
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Let me yeah, let me reverse that. Then how much
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to lose.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: I think there'll be more in ninety nine. I think
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: they made enough changes they'll they'll bring some intrigue this season.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: I do. Why did I even come home? Why why
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: did I even come home? And I told my lovely
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: wife last night, I'm regretting going in in the morning
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: because I know they're going to say some stupid, stupid
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: things that I thought was out of my system. I
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: know it. Vic. They lost one hundred and nineteen ball games.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Bro Their their plus minus in run run differential was
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: minus four hundred and twenty four. The biggest the biggest
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: in FDR was wasn't even born yet?
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: Your face, your face looks bigger. How much of this
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: fun did you eat?
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Jack glasscock was roaming around spitting brass spittoons when the
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: last time a team had a minus four hundred and
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: twenty four run different.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Don't even fit over your face?
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: And then you say I think they're going to be intriguing.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I just I cannot. I can't do.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: It with it.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Just click quick quick, Raj texted me over the weekend.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: He said, I thought you should know this. I found
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: out something amazing. Jack Glass Cox great great great grandson
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: JJ is a sophomore shortstop at West Virginia. How about that?
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: Does he play without a glove?
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I think he has a glove? No, I think he does.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: Now if he played without a glove, that'd be something,
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: that would be something.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: And let me say something else, Raj, Let me do
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: it quick. Yeah. If you've got enough time on your
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: hand to research the lineage of Jack Glass Cockton, you've
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: got problems.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Why did I even come home all right?
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Back after this