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3 Guys Before The Game - Pitt Game Preview (Episode 574) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Showtime in the University City. It's time to brawl. This
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  Speaker 1: is three guys before the game, our backyard Brawl Preview
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  Speaker 1: Pit edition. Boys are all assembled. Senator hasn't said a
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  Speaker 1: word to us since coming into the studio. Verry Verry
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  Speaker 1: Young social very busy. He's into his numbers. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: that coming up in a second. He's broken this thing
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  Speaker 1: on the program. Yes, he's back. This might set a
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I miss a couple here and there. Now you
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  Speaker 1: do pretty well when the season starts, and if you don't,
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  Speaker 1: we toast you. So it's it all works out, Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: all right. We're going to talk pitt coming up, textual
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  Speaker 2: I know that's surprised. I'm hungry when we can record this.
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  Speaker 3: Your food management horrible.
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  Speaker 1: Really be you.
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  Speaker 3: You're an organized person. You have you act together in
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  Speaker 3: Here when I come in here right on that that's
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  Speaker 3: why it was grouchy, all right, but sugar is low.
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  Speaker 1: Now. You may get a little testy because you did
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  Speaker 1: not eat your lunch before we recorded. Normally you run
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  Speaker 1: upstairs and eat your lunch. I hope you don't turn
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  Speaker 1: angry on a little snack. It was something a little snack.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if we're gonna have to go to
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  Speaker 1: you from being angry.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not I'm good, Okay, cool, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll judge that in the next sixty to seventy minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, like, let's just watch him like seventy second minute.
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  Speaker 1: If he gets going a little bit, you'll jump here.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not dog little something usually because I have
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  Speaker 3: to go to the bathroom if.
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  Speaker 1: I could, if we had a recording that after we
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  Speaker 1: stop our recording, how many times as soon as we
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  Speaker 1: stopped the recording you've said, man, I got I got
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  Speaker 1: a peel like a horse. I mean, if I just
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  Speaker 1: had that on a on a rotator, four out of five,
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  Speaker 1: four out of five times. Yeah, all right, So here
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  Speaker 1: it is man, fun time. We've already dealt right with
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  Speaker 1: the excitement of the opener against Penn State didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Took care of the great Danes, took them for a walk.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got two weeks in a row of significance. Right,
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  Speaker 1: You've got the backyard brawl and next week the Big
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  Speaker 1: twelve Conference opener happens to be at home against Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of fun before we end this month
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  Speaker 1: of September. Hoppy, How big is Saturday's game.
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  Speaker 3: Tony, I'm gonna start with who hoo Hoppy's obvious observations.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a student here back in the day,
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  Speaker 3: when at the start of football season one year, we
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  Speaker 3: hung a banner in front of our apartment and said
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  Speaker 3: beat Pitt And the first game wasn't pit. But that
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  Speaker 3: was because the pit game was about more Brad than
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  Speaker 3: just a game. And I was searching for the right
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  Speaker 3: word before we went on the air, and I came
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  Speaker 3: up with two words, profound and existential. And I actually
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  Speaker 3: think existential fits more because existential is about the nature
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  Speaker 3: of something, and the pit game is about the nature
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  Speaker 3: of a rivalry, the nature of the spirit of what
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  Speaker 3: it means, to the spirit of competition. It is all
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  Speaker 3: wrapped up in the WU pit game, which is more
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  Speaker 3: than other games. Now, other games have more significance in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how you do in the conference, but other
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  Speaker 3: games are games. This is about more than just a
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  Speaker 3: game and has greater meaning and it is This is
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  Speaker 3: going to be the one hundred and seventh time they've played,
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  Speaker 3: and I just think it is very sad.
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  Speaker 1: That they don't play every year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there are in college football, there are rivalries
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  Speaker 3: that play every year, and this is a game that
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  Speaker 3: should be played every year, and it is tragic that
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  Speaker 3: the realignment of conferences has left us with this game
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  Speaker 3: occasionally instead of every year.
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  Speaker 2: The risk of repeating myself that I've said every time
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  Speaker 2: for the last three years, now, this is college football.
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  Speaker 2: To back up what you're saying, this is college football.
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  Speaker 2: I said the guys last night, I'll be we were
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  Speaker 2: leaving sports Line it like it just feels different, like
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  Speaker 2: you're just stamped up differently yes for this one than
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  Speaker 2: you are all others. And there are other big games
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  Speaker 2: and Penn State was awesome, and there's gonna be some
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  Speaker 2: great big twelve games coming in and the atmosphere is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be trying. This one is different. Some of it's proximity,
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  Speaker 2: some of it's the one hundred and seven years that
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  Speaker 2: you've played it. It's hard to replace time, right, this
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  Speaker 2: is college football. It's sold out again, big surprise. So
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  Speaker 2: it would make a lot Yeah, yeah, they did today.
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  Speaker 2: It would make a lot of sense with all of
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  Speaker 2: those factors. And I would say the pit folks feel
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  Speaker 2: exactly the same as we do, which makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sense. That the game's not played every year. Then
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  Speaker 2: Why would you want to have these on the schedule,
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  Speaker 2: Why would you want to play this every single year?
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  Speaker 2: It's a shame they're not still in the same conference
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  Speaker 2: so that you don't have to use one of your
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  Speaker 2: non conference games on it. But this game feel different.
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  Speaker 2: And because it is different, this is said, it is
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  Speaker 2: different when you.
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  Speaker 3: When we watch games, and and I want to be
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  Speaker 3: clear about this too, because I don't hate Pitt. I
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  Speaker 3: don't buy into that, and and primarily it's because I
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  Speaker 3: respect the rivalry. Number one. Number two, I've seen a
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  Speaker 3: lot of great Pit West Virginia games, wins, losses. Number
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  Speaker 3: three is Tony. Whenever we've had contact with the Pit folks,
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  Speaker 3: they've been fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: HEJ Borgetti, one of the old time great.
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  Speaker 3: So I have none of that acrimony. Okay, However, when
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  Speaker 3: I'm watching games and I'm just flicking and Brad the
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  Speaker 3: Pit games comes on, I feel different watching that than
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  Speaker 3: I do any other team.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you, well, you should have come up
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  Speaker 2: to some of those basketball games with Tony, and I
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  Speaker 2: said it right there, you might change your opinion. Well,
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  Speaker 2: and their administration has always been wonderful. You get a
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  Speaker 2: little different feelings sitting in there in old Fitzgerald Frielhouse
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  Speaker 2: right behind you, screaming things at you. Well, when they're
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  Speaker 2: taking Peterson Event Center, you're in there making shots on them,
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Pittsnogle hitting, hitting a hook shot from nearly three
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  Speaker 2: point rains. They ain't not so friendly to you, ain't
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  Speaker 2: not so well?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, I haven't been to the field house.
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  Speaker 1: What's it called now?
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  Speaker 3: And you know what's interesting too, is that Pat Nardozy
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  Speaker 3: has tried different things about this game. He's tried not
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  Speaker 3: to say anything about the rivalry. He's tried to say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, don't talk to the media. And this year
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  Speaker 3: he's embraced it like it's the backyard brawl. And you
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  Speaker 3: know what, he needs this game, I mean West Virginia
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  Speaker 3: wants it. He needs it after a bad year last year.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a big story in the Pittsburgh paper.
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  Speaker 3: Like you know, in Ardoozy. It's been a while since
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  Speaker 3: they won eleven games with an NFL quarterback. And they
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  Speaker 3: don't beat the rivals very often. Don't beat the rivals
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  Speaker 3: very often. A lot at stake in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Both coaches, right, I mean one of the coaches on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night's going to go to bed and sleep like
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  Speaker 1: a baby, and the other one's going to go to
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  Speaker 1: bed and sleep like a baby and get up every
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  Speaker 1: two hours and cross.
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  Speaker 2: And the sack to their stomach.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, be nauseous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was This was a fun game to open
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  Speaker 2: the season with a couple of years ago, similar to
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  Speaker 2: the atmosphere around Penn State. This year was great. It's
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  Speaker 2: really interesting that it comes here in game three because
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  Speaker 2: you talk about both teams trying to figure out exactly
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  Speaker 2: who they are. I think this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: fun parts of analyzing a game, or handicapping a game,
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  Speaker 2: or trying to evaluate it is you're making a lot
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  Speaker 2: of assumptions here, and you're making a lot of assumptions,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll make some assumptions off some numbers that I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how good the numbers are. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how mature. They're definitely not mature numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: How often I say that to you guys? You got
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  Speaker 2: to wait till you get a couple more weeks in,
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to look at some of these numbers
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  Speaker 2: and strength the schedule. How often do I talk about
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  Speaker 2: that this time of year? Does it matter?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: You're going to find out. You're going to find out
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  Speaker 2: does West Virginia look a little bit better than maybe
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  Speaker 2: what the perception is naturally and among some of this
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  Speaker 2: fan base because it played the most difficult of the
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  Speaker 2: opponents in this matchup in a Penn State team. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have to see. Yeah, I think that's part of the
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  Speaker 2: fun of this is uncovering what's next. Now, it's more
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  Speaker 2: fun when your team wins, but that's part of the
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  Speaker 2: fun is on covering what your team looks like. Pitt
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  Speaker 2: comes in really bouncing. I'm not sure they thought they'd
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  Speaker 2: be two to zero at this point. They didn't know
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  Speaker 2: what they had on either side of the ball at
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  Speaker 2: quarterback or a defense that's completely rebuilt. So they come
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  Speaker 2: in bouncy, biggest comeback in fifty years for them. They're
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. West Virginia feels good after dominating Pitt
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  Speaker 2: last year. So this is gonna be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: I will not run away from Let's give them a
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  Speaker 1: month before we say exactly who they are, but you
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  Speaker 1: will know a tremendous amount after Saturday's game is over
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  Speaker 1: as to exactly what you will be this coming season.
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  Speaker 1: If you have significant problems in a particular area again
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  Speaker 1: this week, i e. For West Virginia pass defense, then
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a problem. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a lingering problem. It'll be a canker sore that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go away. So you'll know that. However, if it gets
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  Speaker 1: mended and it's at least solid on Saturday, then you'll go, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to be solid. But if it again
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  Speaker 1: proves to be a major weakness, then it's probably gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: Here's why, because all week long, what have the coaches said,
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  Speaker 1: This is all correctable. Hoppy, You're a linebacker. You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to drop down twelve yards sit in your hole on
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  Speaker 1: the hash But you were dropping down six last week.
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  Speaker 1: You were sniffing trying to get a pick. Weren't doing
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  Speaker 1: what you were told to do. Now I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: this week you're gonna drop twelve and you're gonna stay
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  Speaker 1: right there in that hash mark and you're gonna cover
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  Speaker 1: your zone. Now, if you don't do it again, then
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna become a problem. So you'll learn. You'll know that.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's been encouraging, is they're not saying or not
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  Speaker 3: even implying that guys can't make plays. It's just that
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  Speaker 3: they're not doing what they need to be doing in
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  Speaker 3: all instances. Correct they say it's correctable, not like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: we don't know who's gonna play there, we don't have
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  Speaker 3: a guy for that position.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've got some experience isn't the correct right term,
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  Speaker 2: because you've got guys that have played a lot of football,
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  Speaker 2: but some inexperience here. Both your corners Garns and Hollis
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  Speaker 2: have not played here. Those linebackers you just mentioned, Trey
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  Speaker 2: Lathan got in what four games last year before he
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  Speaker 2: was injured. Josiah Trotters and his freshman year Read Carrico
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  Speaker 2: has not played here before. So you've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of new pieces that are trying to figure out a
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  Speaker 2: new system as well as just play football out there.
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  Speaker 2: So that's part of the challenge and why you would
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  Speaker 2: expect that group in particular to continue to grow and
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  Speaker 2: get better. But guys, I don't want to turn the
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  Speaker 2: page too far ahead. Huh, but strap in man, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean strap in after Pitt here, you're going on
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  Speaker 2: a run of Kansas, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Kansas State, Arizona, four,
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  Speaker 2: of which four of those teams are ranked. The one
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  Speaker 2: that's not as Kansas they just fell out because they
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  Speaker 2: lost last week. Quarterbacks Jalen Daniels coming bowman in his
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  Speaker 2: nineteenth season. Yes, he's fully invested in the pension coming
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  Speaker 2: up here after I think after the West Virginia games
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  Speaker 2: he's got a four to one k Yeah, I fully invested.
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  Speaker 2: Iowa State Rock go Beck freshmanll American last or Kansas
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  Speaker 2: State Avery Johnson, guy that everybody raves about. And Arizona
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  Speaker 2: know if a fla FITA and if your past defense
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  Speaker 2: isn't ready by then you're getting the number one receiver
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  Speaker 2: in the country and Teed McMillan. So so buckle up, boys,
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  Speaker 2: we got six straight weeks of big ones coming.
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  Speaker 1: Big boy football, Yes, big boy football. Hopey are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Ready, Oh, you're ready.
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  Speaker 3: The young men, the young men in the Golden Blue
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  Speaker 3: need to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to play this thing now.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I'm jacked.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be at It's going to be a spectacular
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  Speaker 1: weekend Friday Saturday up in Pittsburgh. It starts off with
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  Speaker 1: a West Virginia connection. Our very own. Charles Wesley Godwin,
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  Speaker 1: the official music artist of Three Guys Before the Game,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be holding a concert the night before
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  Speaker 1: right there in the burg. And as you might imagine,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: there may be a couple two three Mountaineer fans that
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  Speaker 1: have already a right committed that they will be there.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great take, great time.
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  Speaker 3: It's four that Charles Wesley's available because he had been
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: on tour. He's on a little bit of a downtime now. Yeah,
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: this is a little bit. I talked to him at
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  Speaker 3: the last Connection three or four event and he was
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  Speaker 3: just happy to be off the road. Enjoyed the road,
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  Speaker 3: but happy to be off the road. But he's going
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  Speaker 3: to do that event on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That is Stage A E in Pittsburgh. Stage A E
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh that is coming up as we record on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: That is Friday evening. Check it out Stage A.
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  Speaker 3: Where is that?
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  Speaker 1: It's there, right there in Pittsburgh. It's like right there,
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  Speaker 1: right about the stadium, right's right there in the mixed mixed.
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  Speaker 2: Of things and that between the two stadiums.
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  Speaker 1: North Shore Drive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, four hundred north Shore Drive.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean it's not a temporary it's a no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a venue, that's event it is Oh yeah, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: He may have played there before. We probably did a
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  Speaker 1: bad job not getting him in studio right today. Probably
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  Speaker 1: should probably should have had you probably should have probably
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  Speaker 1: should He was at the busy last week doing all
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  Speaker 1: that barbecue with Rev keV. He was he was there
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  Speaker 1: four forty You know this is true. He pulled up
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  Speaker 1: four four forty five in the morning. Kevin got out
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  Speaker 1: there at four thirty over at the church where they
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  Speaker 1: where they smoke it. He pulled up four forty five,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, like he just got to work, like
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  Speaker 1: literally worked. He didn't just like stand around and go, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what are you guys doing? Is that would hey? Is
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  Speaker 1: that is that fire? Is that? No? He literally said
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  Speaker 1: like he leveled everything off and then was doing he
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  Speaker 1: was working. Working guy terrific.
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  Speaker 3: Revkev is he has been so busy with But I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he showered in three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why you got to go there. I
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  Speaker 1: think that got good hygiene. I mean the guy's producing
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  Speaker 1: meat products. I mean he's been dirty.
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  Speaker 3: He's been busy. Every time I see him he's like.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Kevin, that was Kevin. That was Kerchival that said Brad,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel very good about your hygiene, like I've
• 15:47
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 1: Huh, I've got questions? Sure does you got questions, we
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  Speaker 2: We've got questions. So that's I think that's still the
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: stage you're at. It is hard to give declarative statements
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: about either of these two teams and what they what
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: they bring. So let's go through some things that are
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: going to be important. You could call them keys if
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: you want, things that are going to be important, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: some numbers within those keys and how they stack up,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: and we can debate. This is an open forum.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Here, of course. So you're saying we can interrupt, please do.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: First and foremost, Now, Hoppy, you know how I do this.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: If you really want to get into it. We could
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: come up with ten keys the game, right, So I've
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: tried to niche it down. This isn't every key. Those
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: are three that I think are pretty important though.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Number one, can West Virginia not only handle but exploit
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: pits pressure and aggressive defense? Elaborate what's pitt want to
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: do on defense every year? Under our easy What do
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: they do in football terminology? What do they want to
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: pin their ears back?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: That's what they'd like to see.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: They come and they want to come and get you.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: They do pit blitz sixty percent of the snaps versus Cincinnata.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Holy cow, what do those defensive backs do from pitt?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Uh? They step on your They step on your They
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: like they're like, they're like hyenas. They just nip at you.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: They nip at you, They nip at you.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: You kind of think that for all defensive backs that
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: they do not just pit. I just want you to say,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: hyenasn't do that. It makes me gingle. All right, So
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: first of all, let's let's talk about handling the pressure
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and pits pressure Hoppy, Yes, of the top two hundred
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: and nineteen pass rushers in a category called PRP from
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: PFF PRP from Pro Football Focus. Here's what that formula is.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: It combines sacks, hits, and hurries relative to how many
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: times that player rushes the passer. Okay, so the top
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: two hundred and nineteen individuals in college football, there's five
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: different pit players that are in that group. That's a
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: lot for one month. And now again small samples is
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: here on both pass rush opportunities and total pressures. But
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the fact that the point of that is hop They're
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: coming with a bunch of different people. It isn't just
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: one guy you have to focus on or Penn State.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: You worried specifically about the two ends of which West
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Virginia did a really good job. Pitt's gonna bring a
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: lot of different guys at you watch in particular, this
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: is no surprise. The right side of West Virginia's offensive line,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: so Yates, Hubbard, Nick Malone, that have held up very
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: well so far. Reason we say that a lot of
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Pitt's pressure has come from the left side. Kyle lewis
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: fifth nationally in pressures from the left side. He's also
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: third nationally and pressures from the right side too, But
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Wyatt my Milin's over there. You kind of have a
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: proven quantity right side. So can West Virginia's right side
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: continue to do what it's done in the first two games.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Brandon George from Pitt is also up there, fifth nationally
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: in pressures from the left side going against West Virginia's
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: right side. So first and foremost, can West Virginia handle
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the pressure? Hop they can they match it up? Can
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Raylan Davis helped? You need to chip with the running back.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: They're going to bring guys, so handling it is number one.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Now you would think West Virginia would be a difficult
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: or a more difficult matchup for Pitt's aggression in this
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: game because why Garret Green. Yeah, they don't just sit
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: and drop back on passes very often. This is different
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: than a quarterback is just going to drop back. So
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: you're going to get a lot of motion and shifts
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: that also give the defense a lot to think about.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: And you have Garrett an elite running quarterback. If you're
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: going to bring heat and don't get home, and your
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: corners are on that island pressed up and they're chasing
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: receivers doing verts going deep on you, there is a
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: lot of room on the edges there. So Garrett scampering
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: outside pitch to a Jaheem White on the outside, a
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: screen pass to Jaheem White or CJ and letting them rumble.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So Pitt's gonna want to come. They better make sure
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: they get there because I think this is an offense
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: that can take advantage of it. If you don't get there,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: what you try?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Laugh, Well, you just did a variation of you'll walk over,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: but you'll limp. But I was just thinking in my head,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I was like, you run up field, but you'll be
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: running back pressure.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Well, man, I think that's next one point and it
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: gets to the fact that you can't do everything right.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: So if you're going to bring pressure, you're going to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: be vulnerable some places you just pointed out.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: So that's incumbent upon not only the blockers handling it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: But I think you go further. This isn't a West
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Virginia offense. It's just gonna say, okay, we hope to
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: kind of hold you out here, gonna they're gonna launch
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: at you too. Right, they're gonna say, okay, come on
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: with it. Here we go, and we're coming right at
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: a pit defense that currently is sixty ninth nationally in
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: opponent plays of ten yards or more. You're going against
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: a West Virginia offense. It's twenty fifth in the country
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: in plays of ten yards or more. So this is
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: a big play offense in West Virginia that wants to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: attack you. So those receivers, can you get out and
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: beat those guys one on one, because if you do,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have some opportunities. They're gonna drop those safeties
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: down to try and protect against the run.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: You hit them deep, Okay, stop there, Okay, we need
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to save that low clip right there. I think that's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the essence of the game, do you yeah, Because they've
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: now played eight quarters pit has and they've shown a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: propensity to give up big plays. Right, they're sixty ninth nationally.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: West Virginia's played two against a believed to be good
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Penn State defense and they had big plays in that
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: game as well. So that's a significant piece. So let's
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: count your ten plus yard plays after it's over, and
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: there's a good chance West Virginia will do well in
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: that category.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: That's why it's category number one or key number one
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: in this because I think that's this isn't just a oh,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: hold your own hope we can hold them out. This
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: is strike when they try and strike you. Which of
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: those two units went out to Pitt's defensive backs lock
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: up West Virginia's receivers and they get pressure, or does
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: West Virginia break through and big play them all day
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: and make them have to be less aggressive. I think
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: this is a massive and massively important matchup.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And if you do that, then that opens the door
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: for CJ. Donaldson to run between the tackles and just
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: start running people down and running people over. That's the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: significant part.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: That leads in We didn't discuss this that leads into
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: key number two. Here we go Key number two. Can
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: West Virginia handle pits tempo and same as the first key,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: not only handle it, turn it to a positive in
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: your favor. So they're going to go fast. The new
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator k Bells come in from Western Carolina and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: they've done a complete one to eighty from what they
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: did with this pit offense and what we've seen the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: last two years when they wanted to huddle, go slow,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: hand it off and not go fast at all. This
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: is the exact opposite of that. In fact, pitt rakes
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: third nationally in plays per minute. They're averaging a snap
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: every twelve to fifteen seconds. So they're gonna want to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: go They're going to want to catch you out of position.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: They're going to want to catch you in bad spots,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: which is which is fine. And West Virginia's going to
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: have to figure that out. And you mentioned earlier West
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Virginia's inability to get to its spots where it needed
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: to be. Well, that becomes even harder against tempo offense
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: and they're going fast. There's not as much time to adjust.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: You've got to play your base defense. As Jordan Leslie
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: talked about this week, and you've got to go make plays.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: So that's the challenge for West Virginia. Get lined up
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: and still be able to make plays. Now here's the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: flip side. Now, look out, Pit, Well, you've been on
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: a long you bear make sure you get first downs.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: We've been on the other side of this.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: If you want to go fast, that's all fine and dandy,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and it can give defenses a lot of problems. And
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: if it's cooking, that defense is gassed and you're moving.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you what. You start running into
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: some three and outs or some stops on third down
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: or fourth down and you're not moving those chains and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you've got to kick that back to West Virginia. And
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: now West Virginia can have success running it on you
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: and they're just gonna feed cg and keep pounding you
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: and keep the ball and you don't get it back.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: That's a potential, big, big part of this game. Does
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: their tempo hurt West Virginia or does it ultimately hurt
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Pit because West Virginia gets stops and gets off the.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Field, And whether this happens to Saturday or later this season,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: at some moment when that does happen to them. Pat
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and Ardozy will have a lot of internal strife because
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: that's not the way he likes to play the game
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: of football. He likes to play the way that they
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: were using it in the past. Hoddle slow run, limit
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the opportunity for my defense to be out on the field.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I want to make it a short game, right, So
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: at some point, when they start not having success and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: ringing up first downs, he's gonna go, what are we doing?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I just you just know it. It's not a matter.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's coming, and hopefully it comes Saturday. But
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: at some point he's gonna go, I'm uncomfortable. You know
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: how you go out like in certain places hoppy and
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you get uncomfortable. I'm not comfortable.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: I'm not comfortable now I'm comfortable wherever I go, and.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable. That's what he's gonna He's gonna have
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: some moments on the sideline. You mean that he's gonna
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: go like, what am I doing here? Why did I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: do this? It's gonna drive him nuts.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now the flip side is drive West Virginia nuts.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: If they're not getting lined up or they're not in coverage,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and pitch just keeps running down finding open spots, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: they're just playing pitch and catching marching down the field. Yes,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I think again, I think these That's why this, to
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: me is going to be so much fun. Is I
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: think there's some real differences in stylistic approach that are
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: much like Pitt's defense wants to be big risk, big reward.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I think there's some things that turn into risk reward
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: just philosophically in this game.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: All right, So there's your first two questions, comments, comments.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I think you're off to a well of a start.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're nailing it. Give us the third.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: All right, here's a third one to watch. Obvious one.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: We've all talked about it, everybody's talked about it. Well,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: West Virginia's pass coverage be better in this game. West
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Virginia's Pro Football Focus coverage grade right now is one
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty first nationally out of one hundred and
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: thirty four teams.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, that's probably not good.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: One thirty one out of one thirty four. Not ideally
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: where you'd like to be.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I think what you could say is it's going
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to get better because it can't get much worse.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: So Neil and Jordan Jordan Leslie both talked this week.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: You alluded to it earlier about they think it's some
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: some easily fixable things they can do to make this
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: better instantly. Well, that better start now because Pitt's going
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: to want to chuck it. And here's here's two things
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: to watch here. Okay, so these are within that little
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: is your coverage better now? Two offshoots of that number one?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Two things to watch when it comes to pass coverage.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Can West Virginia get pressure on Eli Holstein quarterback? For Pitt,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: he was a really highly touted prospect coming out of
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: high school top ten when he chose to go to Alabama.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: He's making only his third start here. He really struggled
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: first half against Cincinnata, really struggled for three quarters quite
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: frankly against Cincinnata, and then absolutely went bonkers in the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: fourth while laughing.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Just become part of the fabric Cincinnata, Cincinnata.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: So here's what you watch on the pit offensive line.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: They have a right tackle that's twenty third nationally and
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: most pressures allowed. He had a pass grade in true
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: pass sets so far that his nineteen point five is
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: great on a scale of zero two one hundred last
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: year against no I'm sorry again Cincinnati a five point
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: seven grade in true pass sets a five. So can
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: you get some pressure on the right side with them?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: They have another tackle that's forty fifth nationally in pressures allowed,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: both played against West Virginia last year. They have a
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: third offensive lineman that's ninety fourth in pressures allowed. So
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: teams have been able to get some pressure on Pitt's
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: offensive line.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Can you do that again? Can you get there? Sean
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Martin had four last year against Pitt, Lathan had two.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Tyron Bradley had a sack last year one of two
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: against Pitt. So that was a group. If you remember
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: last year's game, that pit offense really really struggled against
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: West Virginia's defense. It just couldn't do a thing. West
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Virginia was heating Djerkovic up all night. This is a
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: totally different offense than what you saw in here last year.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Can you get to Holstein if you can get some
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: pressure that helps the back end, as we know, make
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: him uncomfortable. Here's the other area to watch. If you
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: get some pressure on him. Holstein leads the country in
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: turnover worthy place excuse me. Turnover worthy plays another Pro
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Football Focus stat and it's defined as this a pass
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: that has a high percentage chance to be intercepted or
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: a poor job of taking care of the ball and fumbling.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: He has seven of those through two games, but only
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: has two interceptions in that time.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So he's been running through the rain drops.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: He's due due, He's due there for some picks. Can
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: you get those Saturday? And so I think that's an
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: important key to watch for somebody that has been flirting
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: with danger and a West Virginia team that is not
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: creating turnovers.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: You call him for a three pick day.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know, threes, a lot, two and a half.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: It'd be nice if you could get.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: To be in Pittsburgh is being the available?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, really be nice if you could find a couple
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: of these. So if he keeps putting those passes in
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: positions to pick them off, West Virginia must take advantage
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: of that and catch the football and get a couple
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: of and flip that around. So maybe you know how
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: we like to talk regression, positive and negative regression. Maybe
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: West Virginia's due to win a turnover battle, because so
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: far that has not been good. And maybe the Holstein
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: is due to give up a couple more of those
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: passes that maybe should have been turnovers that weren't. Maybe
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: that's due to turn into some turnovers. So that's another
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: one of those matchups to watch. If he turns it
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: over a couple times, you feel great. If he's able
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: to sit back there and find guys on his own
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: defense and West Virginia can't get its coverage right and
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Sam and then he's just gonna sit there and he
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: can pick you apart. He has the ability to do that,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: as he did to Cincinnati in the fourth quarter when
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: he was ten of eleven. So talented kid, he's just inexperienced.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Can you make the inexperienced work against him rather than
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: have the talent show forth and give you a real problem?
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Right of your keys? I think the biggest key goes
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: back to those defensive backs, because even if Pitt brings pressure,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: you still have some confidence in an offense. The offensive
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: line's running backs and Garrett Green, so I think you
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: have confidence there. You do not have confidence right now.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: And those defensive backs based on that statistic that you
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: just gave and they're gonna throw it around. So and
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: the coaches, as you said, says this is correctable, but
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: it so if it's not. If it isn't corrected, if
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: it isn't.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Corrected, you're gonna have to win fifty to forty eight
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: if it's not corrected something. Yeah.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Remember though, I know the defensive backs are catching a
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: lot of heat right now, and Neil and Jordan have
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: both talked about that that area's got to be better.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: But you mentioned linebackers have to cover too. This is
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: a team coverage grade here is this is the all
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: the guys have to be involved in coverage. And again
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: it goes back to pressure a little bit. If Sean
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Martin's a dude and an NFL guy and can abuse
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: one of their guys up front, and now they have
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: to adjust or TJ Jackson, who's been very good with his.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Pressures, it's gonna start this week.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: If those two guys are problems up front, now you
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: can drop some more in coverage. You don't have to blitch,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: you don't have to bring extra rushers. Now you've got
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: some help in the coverage game. So I think I
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: get what you're saying, and the defensive backs are super important,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: but I think the pressure can play a huge role
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: in this. If we come in here Sunday and there's
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: not a lot of pressures and that defensive line didn't
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: get home with just those three or four guys rushing,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I think we're going to say that was one of
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the issues. I think it's clear that's got to be
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: a part of this game plan that comes through. And
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: some of that's should's a game plan. That's guys that
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: have to just say I'm beating you. Sean Martin, You're
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: an NFL guy, Go beat the guy across from you.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: TJ Jackson, keep doing what you're doing. And we saw
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Martin do that last week. I know he's better than
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: the guys he's playing against from Albany. He's going now
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: against Pitt Go get him, go at him.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: This is not calculus level analytics like you provide, but
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: quite simply, if you want to go down to a
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: base level of this, Garrett Green has to outplay Eli Holstein.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I E. Garrett is seasoned. Garrett is experienced. Garrett's been
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in big games. Eli Holstein has not. This is going
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: to be his third career start. And while he is talented, right,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: he also is very young. Now he is he's going
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to be a really good player for him. Like I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: watched that game, I watch the tape several times. He
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: is elusive for his size. He is elusive for his size.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: He's not going to run around you and buy you
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: like Garrett does. But he's got some great athleticism him,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: just as hip movement gets away from guys, able to
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: wiggle away from guys. So if you're going to get
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a kill shot on him, that's in quotation marks you,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you have better get your job done because he's thick
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and you got to bring him to the ground. And
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati had no success in crunching them and getting them
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: down to the turf. But that's really what this game
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: comes down to.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: But they had success early bothering him. Yes, Like you
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: can see what happens when you bother him.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: What was there? Three high safeties right? There was the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: three high safeties that were playing. It confused him. They
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: went back, they watched the tape, they got the surface
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: pros there, they're looking at it and say, okay, this
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: is what you need to do. This is what you
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: need to do. And he got a heck of a
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: lot better as the game went on. There's no question
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: about that. But My point is this, Garrett has to
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: outplay him. When we're walking out of the stadium on
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Saturday evening, chances are that when you look at the numbers,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: are going to say which team won? Okay, which quarter
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: let me see the numbers. Yeah, that's why they won.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: He's got you got to you gotta play well.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I put that key for the next six games and
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: probably the rest of the season. Garrett Green's your most
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: dynamic offensive player, and he's got the ball in his
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: hands the whole time. He's the usage rate guy, that
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: is through the roof, running and passing. He's got to
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: be electric and very good. And we'll say that every week.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: If you're gonna go, you're gonna go on the back
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: of your quarterback in this league, and that's especially true
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: of six. Now. You need White to hit some plays,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: you need Donaldson hit some plays. That defense has to
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: get better, but Garrett Green has to be a problem.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: He has to cause a lot of issues for that defense,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: both with his arm as with his legs.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, you got anything else?
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: That's it?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: That was really good.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: That was good.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff in this one.
• 37:30
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• 38:45
  Speaker 1: two of those mountaineers. Yeah, could we be able to
• 38:48
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• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 38:49
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• 39:31
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• 39:36
  Speaker 3: What's this whole two thing? I know you guys are
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: big eater, especially you Tony. Just have one and enjoy it.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Brad's one that brought up. I could eat too. I
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: didn't start it. He started it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: It's not a competition. Just enjoy the biscuit.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Lord might enjoy it with two. Don't tell me how
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I'd enjoy my biscuit. What if I want to do.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: You want to?
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: I might.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Guy wants to let the guy eat right now, you.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Would be okay, I'll tell you what you can eat
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: too because of your poor food management, and you're gonna go,
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• 40:10
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  Speaker 1: Day was in LA this week. Almost went to the
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer soccer game. He was in LA. They were playing
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• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a picture from his hotel. There's a fire. Excuse me,
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• 42:14
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• 42:18
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• 42:40
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• 42:43
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• 42:46
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• 42:50
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• 42:55
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• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Vats of it, texter As I said, we got good
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: text today. James Earl Jones is the most famous person
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I've ever met. This is my story. In nineteen eighty
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: and five, the movie Matewan was filmed in southern West Virginia.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I submitted a photo and a letter to the casting
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: company and was chosen as an extra. I spent one
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: day on the set while filming at Grand View State Park.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: James Earl Jones was on the set that day and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: spent most of his time in a tent. Now eight
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: year old me almost nine, was a huge Star Wars fan,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and I knew who was the voice of Darth Vader.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I wanted to meet mister Jones so bad, but I
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: was too scared and timid to approach. I missed an opportunity.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Now fast forward to the fall of nineteen ninety eight,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: thirteen years later, I'm in my first year as the
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: WVU Mountaineer mascot. At the time, mister Jones was the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: spokesperson for Bell Atlantic. The athletic department arranged for mister
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Jones to mc a halftime event at the.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Football game thanks to John Golden.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Sure, as you could imagine, this was a big This
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: was a big production. I mean it was James Earl Jones,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the voice of Darth Vader, among other great roles. Luke,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I'm your father. Sure, the WU band, cheerleaders and I
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: had to participate in a rehearsal at the stadium early
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: on the morning of the game. We were all excited.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: This was right before the prequel trilogy came out, so
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: the hype for Star Wars was growing. In addition, all
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: of us were in Generation X that grew up with
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Star Wars. A lot of people brought memorabilia in hopes
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: that mister Jones would sign it. Unfortunately, we were quickly
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: advised he would not sign anything. Since I was the
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: mountaineer mascot, I got to share the stage with him
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: during rehearsal. I had a few minutes to chat. I
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: told him I was in a movie with him when
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I was eight. He said, oh yes, mate one shock amazement.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: All I could think was he remembered me. Of course,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: with time, I deduced that he only filmed one movie
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: in West Virginia. Of course he knew it was Mate Wan.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: He was very nice and gracious. If the story ended there, though,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: it would have been enough, but it did not. Fast
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: forward there he is halftime. We make our way to
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the stage middle of the field, probably over fifty thousand There,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: mister Jones begins his presentation and he introduces me the mountaineer.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: He then proceeds to tell thousands of people that he
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: and I starred in mate wand together. That's awesome. In reality,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I'm in the background of one scene and I'm blurred
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: at that. But this was absolutely, without a doubt, the
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: coolest thing that has or ever will happen to me.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: James Earl Jones said, I started a movie with him.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you, James Earl Jones for all wonderful memories you
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: gave me and billions of others from Star Wars Field
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: of Dreams in San Loott. You will always be remembered
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: much love and admiration. I will tell everyone that we
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: were co stars in Mate wand it is true because
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: he said so, and I say he will always be
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: a mountaineer to me. I hope the sky is blue,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: mountains green, and the water is clear. Rest in peace,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: mister Jones, who passed away earlier this week.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Tony, it's Brandon Flower, former mountaineer.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so's Nate's got a kick in the other day.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Terrence Man in Field of Dreams my favorite of his role.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Well done. He He had a remarkable life started I
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: think he was born in Louisiana and was kind of
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: semi abandoned by his parents and it had a traumatic
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: effect on him. He ended up I think in the
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: north somewhere, and he developed a stammer, a very bad stammer,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: and because of that didn't didn't talk, didn't talk at all.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: In high school, we had a teacher that took an
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: interest in him, and he got involved in theater and
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: he was able to manage his Stammer, and he went on.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: He was in hundreds of plays and movies and TV shows.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: I mean not just like a dozen plays, I mean
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: hundreds he worked At one time, he was in like
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: three plays in one year or something. A remarkable career.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Interviewed him one.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Time when he came here. I guess it was, Yeah, I.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: Guess it was. But just an incredible career, an incredible actor,
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Great White Hope you ever see that one of the
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: great movies of all time where he was portrayed the
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: movie Jack Johnson The Boxer.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've interviewed some people and think about you. You
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: you got James Earl Jones, you got Anthony board Dain
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: shortly before he passed away. Lauren Bacall, You did, Lauren Bacall.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: He did not know that, did not know that it
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: was one of those.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: It was the year of Bush Gore in two thousand
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: and it was West Virginia was up for grabs, so
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: everybody was pushing out people to talk on their behalf.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Video was getting calls, So Lorn Bacall was coming on
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: to pitch for Al Gore.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Garrison Killer made fun of your name.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had interviewed Garrison Keiler once.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hoppy, I'm saying Hoppy. What is that your name? Hoppy? Yeah?
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: You know, I understand it's a funny name.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Didn't end well for him. Meanwhile, jeez, hello, three guys,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I am writing from Djibouti, Africa. What Hoppy? Here's the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: answer to your question. In the last episode, Tony shares
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: a birthday with several big names, celebs and public figures, notably,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I will say Pink and Bernie Sanders the most prominent. Also,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: can we ask the Big twelve to provide the East
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Africa time zone? Thanks guys, beat pitt Mark from Africa
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: by Oceana. Wow, wait a second, it gets bigger. Here
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: gets bigger. Let's go to Ireland. Just spend eight days
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: playing ten courses on the west coast of Ireland. Stayed
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: in four different towns. The courses and beauty of Ireland
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: are indescribably good. But more importantly, Country Roads was in
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: every single pub, of course. It was one pub in
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: letter Kenny, County Donegal. It was even played twice. Irish
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: folks loved this song and then he sent us a video.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: But the video doesn't transfer when you send it on
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: that text line that was inside of Matt Molloy's pub
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: in Westport County, Mayo. Always a west Prigjet's our buddy, Matt,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Remember Matt and Tulsa.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Matt travels around, Matt gets a lot of golfing.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Boy, he does, he does because I saw him up
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: there at Mountinsville. Now all of a sudden he's in
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Ireland and Ireland playing ten courses in eight days or whatever. Right, Yeah,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Texter didn't get this in before episode five seven three.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: But I went home with some family to the Virginia
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Tech Marshall game last Saturday. I had to support the
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: current holder of the Black Diamond Trophy with my hat.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Selection is just tawning. Charles is a show Friday in
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and so maybe some effort he could have had
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: him fitted in. Thanks for having us. Just a thought,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Let's go mountaineer as Matthew from Morgantown via Grafton.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: He had an when he was at the Three Guys
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: teal Gate. I think he had an efforting shirt on.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Now he did, and nobody cares where harder shirt?
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Oh he did.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: He's got efforting too.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: He's got our stuff.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody cares, work Texter, Guys, can we expect more
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer munch this year. Our tins need twenty twenty four
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: friends to keep them company. I think we're gon Probably
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't we do?
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Sure, well, I'm sure we'll effort on that. Yeah, get
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: home with Dave on it.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Well, that was our top seller. I'm sure we were
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: a deal.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Texter guys. Sorry, we did not realize that bringing our
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: friends would be so controversial to an outdoor tailgate. But
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I figured someone would at least appreciate the photo and
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: the good times these dogs had there. They are dogs
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: were excellent. So on the far you got Luca, Luca
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: far right, Yeah, Luca's on the far right, and oh gone,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I'm having far left yead Theodore. Yeah, but Theodore and was.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: The one that was granted permission to show up, and
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: then everybody else just decided to come.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: How beautiful that hosy, How beautiful that husky?
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: All nice?
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Now the middle guy is the guy that stopped being
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: a grass cutter, right, it was a nice buddy. Oh
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: that's the guy that was the grass parker in Morgan
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: from Morgantown.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was an elite grass cutter too.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? I had a great grass cutting business.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: He used to mow brads and the guy was making
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: he's making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. And
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: he went in the portal so he wouldn't have to
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: sit on a mower instead, now he sits in the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: desk and does nothing.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Grass was always greener.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bad move, literally, and figured I should have picked
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: up his list. That's a good job. Mowing grass is
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: a good job. You don't have to deal with.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Any one because he's gone. Now my mower broke again.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Serious again.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Our guys are busy racing cars.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: What happened to you?
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Won't start again.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Dude, you don't think that's a good job. You get
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: yourself a trailer. Get yourself a trailer, get a get
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: a cub Cadet twenty horse Kawasaki and you you get
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: a coller zero turn, get a pair of nice noise
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: canceling headsets. You take that thing off the off the trailer,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: and you mow lawns. No one's known, you know your
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: law have no idea what my lawn? For years?
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: You have no idea.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: No, I don't have just started talking to a guy
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: who worked at a golf course every summer mowing lawns,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: tea boxes and greens. I know nothing about it.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Then he went thirty five years on Tuesday, how long
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: you've been married?
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Thirty eighty six, eight nine?
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: How long is When was the last time he mowed
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: your grass?
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Last Wednesday?
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: He's started it now, Oh he did, yeah, but an
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: eagle for decades did not.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: He just spout like, oh, that's a great job. And
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: how come you can't find anybody to mow your grass?
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: It's such a great job.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to I want to moment, I'm
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: not talking about you. I mean you can't.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: It's it's hard to find people to mow grats.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: It's a good job that you don't know. My buddy
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Jeff Barry, mean, he got like two hundred lawns. You
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: most like two hundred lawns on one tank.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Called Jeff's if he needs two hundred and one?
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: So what does it? Does it turn over?
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I got to talk to my collective. They didn't enough
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: money to get my guy.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Great motor genius here, Remember the last time you hit
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a dead? Battery? From Scott Depot found this interesting stead
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: on Instagram. Mountaineer fans we always feel like bad things
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: just happened to us. Notre Dame has seen some bad
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: stuff as well, so I can't read that. But there
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: have been twenty eight losses by home teams that have
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: been favored by I'm getting sixteen or more, and Notre
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Dame has been involved with a bunch.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Says you know what we we had that game on
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: and that was not Flukey wind up, lined up, beat.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Him, Brad lined up, leodown spot big letdown.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Three guys. My friends and I had a discussion recently
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: around the best WVU athletes to name a dog after
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: good one. We came up with Harry West Dog, Kneeling Puppy,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Right Bar Bulger, Kevin Pops, Noggle, Perlough Dog, Steam, Javon Barker,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: and Sam Roff. What other good ones are we missing?
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Signed by Scott in the Woodlands Texas.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Pretty good Scott.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: It is another one from Texas. Joe Mock our good listener,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Hey gents. On my U Albany game recap, Bingo card
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: I most definitely did not have kangaroo Scrotim agree, you
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: guys are the best.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: What do you do with it?
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: No, it's up ups, don't know where it is you
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: have it on your lawn more. I should put my
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: lawnmower key on that uh texter like your two biscuit challenge.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I was also backed into a corner. My French challenged
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: me to take a shot every time Nardoozy said, you know,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: at his latest press conference, I'm currently having my stomach
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: pumped out at the er fourteen times in the first minute.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Ya esp I'm looking forward to meeting all of you
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: at the food court next week. Let's go. Signed by
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: the lawman from Fairmont.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Excellent, see you next week.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Hey, three guys, Rod from Augusta, thanks for the shout out.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: When talking to Tony at the food court, I mentioned
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I had brought a T shirt to give Brad if
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I saw him, but I forgot them to bring it
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning. Harrying his affinity toward the moth Man. I
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: thought Brad would appreciate the gesture, and there it is.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I'll bring it the next time.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: We attend Rods. Certainly not necessary, but thank you for
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: the thought. Well documented. I'm the only one that supports
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: the moth Man here. What do you mean a healthy
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: respect for the Mothman?
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: No, I'm in on the moth Man. It's Tony that
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: has fabricated, perpetuated a falsity about the Mothman, like he
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: claims to know the Mothman.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Dude, I'll go to my grave on that one.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: You want to go to the mats on that? Yes?
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: I do?
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: You do?
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I do? Yeah? I mean I'll stand up and fight
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: you move along. I'm not going to someone that's gonna
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: run up on a stage and then run away.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: Got a call from the athletics director about then.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Was he concerned about you being on the stage with
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: with hostile fire? Was he concerned by that?
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: He just was. He was just ran like I thought
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: you were. I had no idea you were gonna.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: I got a wild one here. It's not on It's
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: not on your list. And I hope Zach's got these
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: pictures because this is just wild. Hi, Brad, Tony and Hoppy.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Earlier this morning, I saw some panthers here in Krueger
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: National Parks, South Africa take down a wart hog and
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: preparation for our game day. I told them so, check
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: out the look at this picture. I told them it
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: won't be enough to defeat the Mountaineers on Saturday. So
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: that is that's fresh. He just sent that today. So
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: he's a mountaineer. He's out on a thing. Now check
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: those Now watch the next one. Okay, the ward hog
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: is having a bad day. Oh yeah, so we have
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: gone in the course of two episodes from Kangaroo scrowed
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: him to a ward hog just getting shot upon.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Brought the blitz on that.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Backside tackle, didn't have coverage, responsor and pick up the blitz.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: The bad day to be a ward hog.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: So he's on so far and he saw a kill.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: You don't often see a kill, did you see any
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: I did not see a kill. No, incredible, Go back.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Zach, if you would have the first one, get that close, Zach,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: go to the first picture, like not usually? So why
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: is he not?
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Like why do you think launches?
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I wouldn't be that close.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, but that's a great guy.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: He didn't include the next picture. That thing's on his back.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: That's the last picture we saw of it. You'll see
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: that line wearing a hat. Where in that West Virginia hat?
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: So the where was this again, Kruger?
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah you were there? Is that where you went? No?
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: I was, No, I was not, Kruger.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Texter Will from Connecticut Again, I do have concerns about
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: the eye test compared to some of our more successful
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: teams in recent memory. Fumbbells, missed assignments, missed opportunities. I
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: saw stat after two games West Virginia d ranked one
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: thirteen out of one three three. Realistically, what can we
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: expect to see improve as we enter the Big twelve Center?
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I didn't see that set. It's
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: got to get better, there's no question, but early.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, any thoughts on Coach Brown's press conference this
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: week saying future schedule isn't fixed because Alabama is still there.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Any thoughts being too scared to play Halabama? You all
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: agree with the sentiments? Days of us competing with Halabama
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: like we did in the Chick fil A Kickoff game
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: a few years back? Or is this a loser's mentality?
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: How about this.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: Lost Alabama and the Chick fil A Kickoff classic?
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: How about this? You stand at the edge of the
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: cliff and somebody says, what's wrong? Are you scared to jump? No,
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: I'm just not stupid. I'm not going to jump off.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: You don't need to look. Nick Saban's gone. It doesn't
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: don't play Alabama seriously and It's not about being scared,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: it's about being smart.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you delayed in sending this. I missed out on
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Brad and Tony at the food court, but we got
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: our picture made with the elusive Kerchieval in his natural
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: habitat My Mom's his biggest fan, and promises to send
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: more peanut butter balls this winter. If Tony will share
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: as always enjoyed the food, the new beer will be
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: looking forward to more releases. A little hot goes a
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: long way, hoppy. It's very nice of you there.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Picture terrific. Yeah, it took the baby. Those peanut butter
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: balls were awesome.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: They're really good. You bring a strong hat game to
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: these first two food courts. The pressure pressure is on
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: for week three. What are you gonna do? You got
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: something I usually don't. We'll see got the same shirt
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: on right now. Yeah, we're being called into help here.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Next one, I need a ruling from the Stupid podcast
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: on a marital situation. You come to the right place, dog,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: I'm in. I figure since there's an odd number of you,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: this is the only reasonable solution. Missus Pete recklessly bought
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: tickets in April to see Willie Nelson. John Mellancass of
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Aggressive Time and Bob Dylan on the evening of the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Backyard Brawl. I've seen all three of these fellas several times.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: While I'm also a fan, I also know that all
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: three of them lost their fastball many conference realignments.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Ago does he mean the performers are us?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: The performers? Question is what do I do?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: We lost?
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Do we shut up and go? Being forced to watch
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: the game's Sunday morning, Perhaps fake a food poisoning episode,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: stay home, perhaps give myself actual food poisoning. I love
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: the show, but I need answers. Signed by Pete from Pennsborough.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: Dear Pete, I would, first of all, it would seem
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: like that in a healthy relationship you might have a
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: discussion between spouses before such a big investment is made.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: So you're putting it on the wife.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying I think that it would be
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: healthier to talk those things out before that big decision
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: is made. But look, if it's really important to your wife,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: then you go.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: You go. You're saying happy wife, happy life. You say go, Brad,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: I told you I'm out.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not giving someboy marrital.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Wait, but he's using us for the three.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe thanks Pete, best luck.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Tony, go to the concert. Yeah, happy wife, be life. Dude,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: just think of this, dude. I know you've seen each
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: of the three before, but Lee's sake, Willie Nelson, Mellencamp
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: and Bob Dylan that's his.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: That's historic too.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: It's historic. And look how long? How much longer? Right? Yeah?
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: So where where are they? Where they is that like
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: farm Maide or something?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Look that up, Poppy, where is where are they performing? Chick?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: Drop that ticket on me, I'll go.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to sent myself something. I want to
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: There's a great gentleman that I just got informed who
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: passed away, and he was a fixture in Fairmont. Hey,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: it's the Oh this is interesting.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: No, I just got but look it's it's at Starlake. Okay,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: well it's it's at Starlink. It's the Outlault Music Festival.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: But it's five thirty to seven thirty. So the pit
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: games at three thirty. I mean you could make most
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: of the show.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: So I was saying I had a great guy who
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: was centrally involved at Fairmont State for years with Jojo Rhtton.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Farmington native Mike Arcurra. Did you know Mike at all, Brad?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Did you ever run into him? He was the best.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: He Farmington born and raised, went to Salem, then went
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: to Fairmont State, coached football in Ohio, came back to
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: West Virginia and was one of Jojo Htton's assistant coaches. Okay,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: so this is pretty wild. So our buddy Joe Lambiat
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: sent me these, Zach when you put up the first picture.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: So how about this picture? Oh my, that is pres Marovich. Wow,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: that is obviously Mike in the middle and John Wooden
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: and Joe said that every summer they would go to
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Campbell College through the sixties and seventies and they would
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: work camp. Jojo Rhtten would work camp. So what's wild
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: about this is when you remember when we played NC
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: State not that long ago. He had two grandsons play
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: at NC State. They're now both in the NFL. Drake
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Thomas plays for the Seahawks. Theyer Thomas, oh yeah, plays
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: for the Viking. Yeah.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: Remember those those are Joe's grandsons. Yeah yeah.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: So check this photo out. You hit that next one
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: up there. So this is Pete Maravich with Wooden, Mike
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: and one of the little campers. He said, they would
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: take pictures of all the little campers and they would say.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Joe told me that he pistol Pete and coach would
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: work stations together. He was a camper and then they
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: would bust from Jim to Jim. So during Mike's coaching
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: days at Fairmont, they were two sixty five and forty
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: one good, won eight conference titles, seven trips to the
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: national Tournament, and h five NAIA All Americans. One day,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Joe Rhtton got sick with a virus and Mike took
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: the team over beat lined up beat Kansas State or
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Kentucky State, I should say be Kentucky State, and hit
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  Speaker 1: that last one. So I remember this day because I
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  Speaker 1: spoke at one of their big fundraising events for the departments.
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  Speaker 1: That's me. So that's the same day I catch hell
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  Speaker 1: for this all the time. That's the same day that
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  Speaker 1: Michael Coaredy graduated from college. So I attended commencement and
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  Speaker 1: then took off christ and spoke, then came back to
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  Speaker 1: jump back here. And I've always gotten a raised eyebrow
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  Speaker 1: about the partying to go do that speech. But that
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  Speaker 1: was that was a great night there at Fairmont State.
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  Speaker 1: So our condolences go to his family. Mike was truly
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  Speaker 1: one of the great ones. Mike Arkura has passed away
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  Speaker 1: and he was eighty three, eighty eight years old. Eighty
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  Speaker 1: eight years old.
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  Speaker 3: That's a heck of a career.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a lot? And both of his grandson's currently
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I got you roll into Campbell, the
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  Speaker 1: Campbell Camil College and you got press here.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, at theage and.
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  Speaker 1: John Wooden, those camps aren't weren't those camps as well?
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  Speaker 1: Like you remember Jerry West would come back and they
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  Speaker 1: would do that camp, right, and and Gary McPherson and
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  Speaker 1: Bones McKinney, right and and all these It was basketball
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  Speaker 1: was different in the summer. Back then. They had anybody
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  Speaker 1: and everybody was around.
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  Speaker 3: Also, they had to make some money, yes, right, not
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  Speaker 3: like now, I'm already I'm making thirty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a camp, right, Uh. Texter Rick from
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  Speaker 1: Cheat Lake, that's it just down the interstate there to get.
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  Speaker 3: There's a blue window pontoon boats out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I see. They're going to keep that river level
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  Speaker 1: or the lake level low, keep them liqually. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: had the opportunity. I had the opportunity to attend the
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  Speaker 1: concert honoring Don Wilcox recently. The Wind Ensemble played his
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  Speaker 1: favorite tunes, and some members of the West Virginia Marching
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  Speaker 1: Band played some of the pregames. It was an amazing experience,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure you guys are aware the Marching band
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  Speaker 1: is undefeated and has won a national title. I had
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  Speaker 1: the honor of marching with the Pride from nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: four through seventy seven. I realized, you three guys are busy,
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  Speaker 1: don't get to see much of the beloved pregame. Hoppy,
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  Speaker 1: I can confirm that next fall, the Pride will have
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  Speaker 1: performed the circle drilled to simple Gifts for fifty years.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the Pride when it was performed for
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  Speaker 1: the very first time. I hope it's recognized in some way. Hoppy,
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  Speaker 1: double question mark honor the circle next year. Fifty years.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good time.
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  Speaker 1: That was really bad.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, will Cox was the Latetown will Cox certainly
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  Speaker 3: credited with building that.
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  Speaker 1: He's the Don Neeland of the band. Yeah, it built
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  Speaker 1: the foundation on which everyone else built it upon. Pat
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  Speaker 1: from Whelan, I was thinking that the food court would
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  Speaker 1: be a great venue for Tony to break out as banjo,
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  Speaker 1: PLoP down in an adam An deck chair and strum
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  Speaker 1: a little.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, yeah, the little apple atchin music.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is I play with the banjo. I don't
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  Speaker 1: play the banjo. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: You can probably strum up a little too.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on quick. I gotta give a quick shout out.
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  Speaker 2: I told you I made a visit this week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wait a second, stops all the phones.
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  Speaker 1: Now, did you go to a Gomart?
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  Speaker 2: I did? I mean, that's that's not the unusual part
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  Speaker 2: of this. But I you know, we like good customer service.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, we love good customers.
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  Speaker 2: Can't find so I pulled in to get gas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: then I thought, you know what last few episodes have
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  Speaker 2: been in here talking about these reess Oh you killed
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  Speaker 2: and go and check it out. Okay, plus mega millions
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  Speaker 2: was eight hundred?
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  Speaker 3: Oh you bought.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going but mee by a little episode. I
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  Speaker 2: won't be around for episode five seventy five. If this
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  Speaker 2: thing hits, I'm here. So it didn't hit. Went in
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  Speaker 2: this was this?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: This is I'm being serious here. This was really easy.
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  Speaker 2: I walked in and didn't know what I was doing.
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  Speaker 2: And just immediately upon walking in, I said, where are
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: the Reese's Where I need some help? Here shouted it.
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  Speaker 2: Just walked in shouting Mark and Michael immediately had two
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  Speaker 2: guys behind the counter. Handled it right here there, right
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  Speaker 2: up front by the counter.
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  Speaker 1: You got pictures.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got? Oh? I got the actual items?
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  Speaker 3: Look at that.
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  Speaker 2: See look you buy two get one free.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second half, I thought it was a doll.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was a dollar dealer.
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  Speaker 2: That was the M and MS. Next time bought to football,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: bought two king size, got one free. They were right
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: there up front, very easy, pulled the app you get
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  Speaker 2: you buy two of those and you get one free.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: By two get one free. How many cups in the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: three m'd be two? Two big ones?
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  Speaker 1: And what and what type are they?
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  Speaker 2: Their footballs? Let me sucker, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Not Santa's boot.
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  Speaker 2: It's not it's not Santa's boot.
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  Speaker 1: And you did this off your app.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: He might think it's a snowball or something though, and
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: you didn't and then just did it right off the app.
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  Speaker 2: Got reward points. The thing it what it really truly.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: Was easy look copy snow shoes.
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  Speaker 2: So there we go.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean, not for you one, but I
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: know yours. You download it on your phone, put it
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  Speaker 1: on the phone, and it just gives you all these things,
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  Speaker 1: like as soon as you walk in, they just go like.
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  Speaker 2: You walk in, you can see the offers and I'm
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: going to pot pay. It's tied into my cart.
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  Speaker 3: Is just so you walk in, you see the offer
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  Speaker 3: when you walk in.
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  Speaker 2: No, I see it right now. Oh okay, I can
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  Speaker 2: see the offer looks at five if you want a
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  Speaker 2: mountain do or PEPSI right now now.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't loud when you walked in there worried me.
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  Speaker 2: I just you walked in and yelled listen. There was
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: no sense walking in and spinning around and causing problems.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: Right when you go in someplace you don't know what
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: you're doing. If you stand at the door and spin around,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: then everybody else is held up. So I didn't want to.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to confuse other customers were coming. So
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: I just immediately asked for help. Just walked in. You
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: walked in the door and said, immediately start asking for help.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Where are the reces? I see by one by take
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  Speaker 2: it one free right here on my phone, Mark and
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Mark and Michael were immediately behind counter and boomed. So
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: you're sprang to action? Did you say now? I did
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  Speaker 2: not say hello. I just need some help. It was
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: on a mission.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: So are you saying Are you saying then that it's
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: a good thing to download the app and get the
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: rewards part?
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  Speaker 3: I would that's awesome.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Also got a free a fountain drink out of the deal.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Now got used by the end of September. It just
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: appeared on the reward. Yeah, check out. I went to
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  Speaker 2: the rewards. It just appears, disappeared. Got a free bonus drink.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: You got it while you were there. You just got it.
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  Speaker 2: Just now I'm this.
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  Speaker 3: I got one.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I'm stealing this, so I actually got
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  Speaker 1: to I I.
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  Speaker 2: Bought you one. I didn't like Courgibal one because he
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: didn't need sugar. Yeah, anyway, a good experience. It was
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  Speaker 2: a great experience.
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  Speaker 3: Well done, good job, fuel points points. Now next time,
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  Speaker 3: just say hello though when you walk in, don't just
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: come in and start very nice.
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  Speaker 2: We had a nice chat afterwards. I just need some help.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Did they ever listen to the podcast?
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: And we didn't get that far. I was busy with
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: the transaction.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: When he walked out. They said, what the hell was
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: that guy? I need some gas? He reces, three guys.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know how to do it. Now I'll go
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: back in Linger for a while to see what else
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  Speaker 2: is there.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, just get the app. Let's just get
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  Speaker 1: the rewards card.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: You want to go to Gomart? Yeah, good time. If
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: you're going to uh the pit game, they're driving up,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: you gotta get fuel. Get your fuel at Gomart on
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  Speaker 1: your way.
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  Speaker 3: Up, or just stop shop.
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  Speaker 1: You could be like one of those things like don't
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  Speaker 1: don't leave your money in Pennsylvania, buy your stuff in
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: West Virginia. Figure out your gas that way. Three guys
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  Speaker 2: You gotta stake your impressed that I didn't need all
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  Speaker 2: four of those right now for you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys brought when did you get them? Yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Today, earlier, this ago?
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  Speaker 3: And they went. They lasted this long.
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  Speaker 2: I kept him out of sight pretty good. They usually
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  Speaker 2: don't last.
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  Speaker 1: we made enough trouble. Back on Sunday we'll recap PITSI