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February 24, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for joining us on this Tuesday afternoon. We
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Speaker 1: have got a veritable plethora of different topics to talk about.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Bucky. They have to go to
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Speaker 1: Payetnam tomorrow. We've got a high school report. In this hour.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be joined by Dan and Laura Dotson
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Speaker 1: coming up in this hour. In the second hour fifteen
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Speaker 1: minutes short, Aggie Baseball pregame at five point forty five.
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Speaker 1: Mallory will be here at the top of the hour,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna hear from Ryland Griffin as well. So
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Speaker 1: that's kind of what's ahead right now for the show.
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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Aggie Baseball tonight against Lamar, I don't
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Speaker 1: have my reading glasses. I don't know what happened to them.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I didn't get here with them.
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Speaker 1: I've searched every nook and cranny, So this is going
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Speaker 1: to be challenging, I would say. And then I always
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Speaker 1: keep an extra pair in my drawer in my office.
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Speaker 1: Well someone stole those. They're worth about fifty cents. I
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Speaker 1: don't think anybody stole them. I just don't know what
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Speaker 1: happened to them. Anyway, We've got Baseball tonight six o'clock.
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Speaker 1: This is the last of the eight game homestand and
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Speaker 1: then we've got the Baseball Classic at Global Life right
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Speaker 1: up in Arlington, and A and M is going to
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Speaker 1: play the number one team UCLA this coming weekend on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: I believe, I think that's right Saturday. They play Virginia
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Speaker 1: Tech on Friday. Those are seven o'clock games. The Arizona
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Speaker 1: State game is six point thirty on Sunday. Then they'll
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Speaker 1: come back, they'll play five at home, and then the
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Speaker 1: SEC starts in the middle of the month. It's quick.
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Speaker 1: It's coming up quick. A m of course. Over the
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Speaker 1: weekend swept so they're seven to oh to start, and
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Speaker 1: they're trying to go eight to no against those Lamar
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Speaker 1: Cardinals tonight. And let me see if i can throw
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Speaker 1: in a couple of other things. I'm gonna see. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they've played forty one times. The Aggies have won thirty
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Speaker 1: three of the forty one. Okay, Lamar traditionally is pretty
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Speaker 1: good in baseball, and they've won twenty two here at home,
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Speaker 1: ten on the road. So we'll see what happens. You
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Speaker 1: USA team manager Mark Durosa says Trek Scuble is going
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Speaker 1: to pitch for Team USA and the World Baseball Classic.
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Speaker 1: That's the good news. Here's the bad news. He's making
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Speaker 1: one start. The reason I didn't announce it earlier, said Schooble.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to keep the momentum on the WBC. But
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Speaker 1: I'm just making one start. I'll stick around for a
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Speaker 1: few games. I have it to determine what games I'm
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Speaker 1: going to watch. If they go to the finals, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to try at lobby to go watch and be
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Speaker 1: with the guys. His comments came on the day his
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Speaker 1: first spring training appearance for the Tigers, So Deuroza's got
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Speaker 1: to I guess he figures. I guess what he's saying is,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to make the start, start the first game,
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Speaker 1: and then you'll see what you're missing the rest of
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Speaker 1: the way. I'm pretty I pretty much know what they're missing.
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Speaker 1: By the way, you know, probably the best pitcher in
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Speaker 1: baseball right now. We've got SEC basketball tonight. Kentucky's at
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Auburn at Oklahoma, Tennessee at Missouri. Okay. Those
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Speaker 1: are the three games involving the SEC teams. Duke visits
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame, North Carolina State at number eleven, Virginia Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: at number sixteen, Texas Tech, Minnesota visits number three Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Arizona ranked second is in Waco to play Baylor. Iowa
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Speaker 1: State ranked fourth is in Salt Lake City to play Utah.
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Speaker 1: And Central Florida's at Brigham Young last night. This is
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Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Kansas coach Bill Self won his forty first
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Speaker 1: Big Monday game at Allen Field House without a loss.
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Speaker 1: Self is forty one at oh at home on Big Mondays.
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Speaker 1: Do you understand how hard that is? Do you understand?
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Speaker 1: Big Mondays are the showcase? So Kansas in those forty
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Speaker 1: one games haven't played many cupcakes, you know, Like last
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Speaker 1: night was Houston. Houston lost for the third straight game.
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Speaker 1: It's the first time in nine years they've lost three
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Speaker 1: in a row. That was early in the Calvin Sampson tenure.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say uston as the problems. They've lost
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Speaker 1: to good teams. All three games are to good teams, right,
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Speaker 1: but they are not defending the way Kelvin Sampson wants
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Speaker 1: them to defend. By the way, Houston only scored fifty
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Speaker 1: six and that was some kind of record low for them.
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Speaker 1: Kansas can play defense when they want to. Peterson played
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Speaker 1: which is amazing. You know, most of the game, hit
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Speaker 1: a clutch three down the stretch. Don't know what you're
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Speaker 1: getting for him. He was allowed to talk to the
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Speaker 1: media or forced to talk to the media yesterday. I
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Speaker 1: think he said about six words, called himself a loaner,
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Speaker 1: and you can see he does not like to talk.
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Speaker 1: His dad had the great quote, if you're going it's
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Speaker 1: something to the effect that if you're going to have
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Speaker 1: a pure river, you also have to be ready for mud.
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Speaker 1: That was weird. There's been lots of mud with Peterson.
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Speaker 1: I have said, and I still believe this. I think
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Speaker 1: Kansas better team without Peterson. I think they play together more.
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Speaker 1: I don't think the teammates think they can count on him,
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Speaker 1: because they can't. I just think Kansas is better without him.
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Speaker 1: I know, stupid number one player, but hey, I mean
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Speaker 1: it's obvious the family and the agent are calling the
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Speaker 1: shots here, right. They're allowing him to play certain number
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Speaker 1: of minutes a lot of times he hadn't played at all.
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Speaker 1: It's a weird situation. The SEC has fined Kentucky basketball
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Speaker 1: coach Mark Pope twenty five gerr for quote his postgame
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Speaker 1: conduct and comments following the last second loss at Auburn
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Speaker 1: Saturday night. Elijah Freeman's tip in with one point one
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Speaker 1: seconds was the game winner and followed a controversial offensive
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Speaker 1: foul call against Colin Chandler that set up the game
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Speaker 1: winner winner. As he was leaving the podium postgame, he said, Mitch,
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Speaker 1: addressing Mitch Barnhardt, the athletic director, if those bleep bleepers
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Speaker 1: try to find me, screw them, because I did not
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Speaker 1: say a word about how they cheated us, and he
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Speaker 1: hadn't until then, but he said it from the microphones.
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Speaker 1: University of Kentucky men's basketball coach Martin Pope has been
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Speaker 1: issued a public reprimand and fined twenty five thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: by the SEC Conference for postgame conduct and comments related
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Speaker 1: to officiating following the Wildcats game at Auburn University on
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Speaker 1: February twenty first. The comments violated SEC Bilo ten dot
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Speaker 1: five dot three and the SEC Commissioner's Regulation regarding Public
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Speaker 1: Criticism of Officials, which prohibit coaches, student athletes, and institutional
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Speaker 1: staff from publicly criticizing officials or disclosing officiating related communications. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I've said it over and over and over, and I
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Speaker 1: will use this opportunity to say it again, the officiating
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Speaker 1: in this league is awful. I watch a lot of
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Speaker 1: college basketball, and I'm telling you far and away, this
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Speaker 1: league is the worst when it comes to officials, and
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Speaker 1: it should not be that way. They are not held
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Speaker 1: publicly accountable. I haven't seen any statement by the league
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Speaker 1: office supporting or detracting from that call that was made
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Speaker 1: in the last seconds of that game which led to
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Speaker 1: the Auburn victory. Now there's always calls at it in
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Speaker 1: one point game. You can have ten or fifteen calls
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Speaker 1: you can go back and look at. But it seems
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Speaker 1: to me with this crop of officials, there are always
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Speaker 1: a lot of calls to discuss and talk about. They
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Speaker 1: are horrible. So if you're keeping score, SEC football officiating horrible.
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Speaker 1: SEC basketball officiating horrible. SEC baseball officiating not great. So
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Speaker 1: let's do something about that. If the league is the best,
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Speaker 1: why not have the best officials. It's a hard game.
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Speaker 1: I look, I get that it's a hard job. Basketball
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Speaker 1: is the toughest because the crowd's right on you. I
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Speaker 1: get that you've got super slow motion instant replay, which
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Speaker 1: I hate. But like I said, I watch a lot
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Speaker 1: of college basketball I'm not saying there aren't bad officials
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Speaker 1: in other leagues. I'm just saying that as a league,
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Speaker 1: A and M hasn't been very good in Arkansas. To
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Speaker 1: at Arkansas. Here is Bucky Hey.
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Speaker 6: Bucky anicheb got you're sure that at the Worsha'll finished
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Speaker 6: five hundred in SEC play. Do you have any number
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Speaker 6: of minds that you feel like helping to reach to
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Speaker 6: feel real comfortable age in the tournament.
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Speaker 7: I got a number in mine. I want to get
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Speaker 7: to this thirteen for four more games.
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Speaker 8: But no, I mean, look, I think that you know
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Speaker 8: you you got to keep grinding.
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Speaker 7: We don't have any bad losses.
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Speaker 8: We've shown that we are a great team.
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Speaker 7: At home and on the road particularly.
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Speaker 8: I mean, you know, if you think about our road
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Speaker 8: games and the toughest league in the country and the
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Speaker 8: SEC has the toughest places to play in the country.
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Speaker 8: We we We've gone to Alabama, we lost by three.
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Speaker 8: We won at Auburn, one at Texas, one at Georgia,
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Speaker 8: one at Oklahoma, double overtime at Tennessee.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 8: The only one we didn't play well in was was Vanderbilt.
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Speaker 8: We lost with double digits. But you know, I think
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Speaker 8: when you're looking at numbers and all that. When when
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Speaker 8: you evaluate things like that, you know, if you have
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Speaker 8: a winning record in the SEC, the toughest league in
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Speaker 8: the country, and you have shown you can do it
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Speaker 8: consistently on the road, that's a great sign for the
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Speaker 8: NSA tournament, right. And I think you also got to
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Speaker 8: look at teams that our team specifically. You know, you
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Speaker 8: thought the first four games of the season, you look
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Speaker 8: at this team, you're going to say, the team's been
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Speaker 8: able to play it with a lot of these teams
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Speaker 8: that are gonna have some nice seats in this tournament.
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Speaker 8: So you know, it's me bragging on our team, but
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Speaker 8: I want to finish this thing off right and play
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Speaker 8: well here in this last four games.
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Speaker 6: It will be enough to ensure that you get in
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Speaker 6: as good as they are.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like you know, I would.
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Speaker 8: I would think our body works pretty dangn good right now.
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Speaker 8: So I don't want to put game pressure either way
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Speaker 8: more than the pressure that you know, we put on
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Speaker 8: ourselves to play well. I think that we got a
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Speaker 8: team that if we play well, it just takes care
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Speaker 8: of itself, you know. I mean, I'm not thinking about
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Speaker 8: the INSA Tournament as much as I'm thinking about, like,
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Speaker 8: how can we position ourselves to be in a spot
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Speaker 8: somehow can peop for a championship in this league. And
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Speaker 8: if it can't be done, if Florida runs the table
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Speaker 8: and does there deal with then how can we have
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Speaker 8: the best seed possible for the SEC Tournament to give
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Speaker 8: ourselves a chance here to get by double buys get
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Speaker 8: to the Semis. And you know, if you think like that,
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Speaker 8: what's in front of you and you know the way
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Speaker 8: to do that is not to focus on that, but
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Speaker 8: I focus on playing good basketball.
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Speaker 7: Everything else should take care of itself.
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Speaker 10: You guys probably had one of your better defensive performances
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Speaker 10: on Saturday, especially in that second half.
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Speaker 11: Just what'd you feel like?
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Speaker 10: We're maybe some of the little things y'all did really
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Speaker 10: well that you can take from.
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Speaker 8: That to Keach State maybe well, I think our players
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Speaker 8: took up the game personal, like and I mentioned this,
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Speaker 8: you know, I mentioned this on the radio.
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Speaker 7: Is that so this time of year? And I wouldn't
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Speaker 7: be careful.
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Speaker 8: I want to say this after we've won, because sometimes
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Speaker 8: if you lose this, you're like, this is a players game.
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Speaker 7: They're like, okay, sure.
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Speaker 8: It is, now right, but this time of year, it
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Speaker 8: really becomes a players game. And I want to say,
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Speaker 8: if we had two wins, because here's why the schemes.
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Speaker 8: Everybody knows each other by now we know what the
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Speaker 8: other players can do. They know what our players can do.
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Speaker 8: They're gonna know what defenses we run, We're gonna know
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Speaker 8: what they run. You don't see too many I got
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Speaker 8: you plays out there this time of year. It is
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Speaker 8: literally like who wins the matchup? Like Rylan Griffin, that
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Speaker 8: last possession we went to him won his matchup. He
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Speaker 8: finished through contact and got a bucket. And then there
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Speaker 8: were several players on defense in that game. They had
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Speaker 8: their guy and said, you know, coach told me to
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Speaker 8: guard you. Your night's over with, right, And that's what
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Speaker 8: I mentioned on the water I mean what I mentioned
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Speaker 8: on the radio earlier. It's like who can cut Who's
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Speaker 8: water off that night? And I think that's really what
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Speaker 8: it comes down to.
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Speaker 7: This time of year.
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Speaker 8: It's like I got you, Oh Now they were on
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Speaker 8: a screen. I switch off, Now I got you. It's
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Speaker 8: over for you. Oh switch back, I got you, Now
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Speaker 8: back over for you. And that's the mindset you got
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Speaker 8: to play with this time of year.
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Speaker 10: We could go back starting to get a little bit
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Speaker 10: against the wall. Just what have you seen from maybe
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Speaker 10: just the sense of urgency from your guys these lost.
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Speaker 9: Couple of games.
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Speaker 8: Well, just you know, a lot of teams wait till
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Speaker 8: they get to the NSAY Tournament. Are their their LIFs
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Speaker 8: on the line to really fight. I haven't felt that
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Speaker 8: from this team. I would say a Vandy were a
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Speaker 8: little fatigued. But you know, I don't think lack of
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Speaker 8: fight has been the issue with this team or any point.
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Speaker 8: I'm not saying there is issues with tim This team
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Speaker 8: is one of the most what some would consider an
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Speaker 8: overachieving team right in a lot of ways. I'm not
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Speaker 8: telling wins and losses. They just give you what everything
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Speaker 8: they got. But a lot of teams, they get the
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Speaker 8: NCAY Tournament in their in their basketball lives on the line,
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Speaker 8: now they're really going to fight. You know, UFC right there,
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Speaker 8: we just talked about it earlier. They wait till they
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Speaker 8: get an octagon and they're really going to fight. Well,
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Speaker 8: how did you train the sixty days leading up to that?
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Speaker 9: Right?
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Speaker 8: Because if you walk in the octagon and you know
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Speaker 8: you again't done that, that's an eerie feeling.
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Speaker 6: Like Bucky alacheb got you were sure that at the
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Speaker 6: worshap finished five hundred and sec play, do you have
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Speaker 6: any number in minds that you feel like something to reach?
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Speaker 1: saying in pitching staff, which has been really good so far,
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Speaker 7: Here's Bucky everything they got.
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Speaker 8: But a lot of teams they get the NCA Tournament
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Speaker 8: and they're in their basketball lives on the line. Now
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Speaker 8: they're really gonna fight. You know UFC right there, we
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Speaker 8: just talked about it earlier. They wait till they get
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Speaker 8: in the octagon and they're really gonna fight. Well, how
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Speaker 8: did you train the sixty days leading up to that, right,
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Speaker 8: the line. And I think you've seen that from our guys.
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Speaker 8: With six games left, I told our players, let's play
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Speaker 8: Now we're in sweet sixteen going up to Tarkansas, because
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Speaker 8: to win the NCAA Tournament, you gotta.
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Speaker 7: Win six games.
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Speaker 8: So let's treat it like that. So that way when
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Speaker 8: we get to the NSA Tournament, we know that feeling.
26:49
Speaker 14: Remember during many days that Kyle kind of give you
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Speaker 14: some indirect advice about how to build a program.
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Speaker 9: There's not really a team to year, do you, guys?
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Speaker 10: I mean, what's that relationship like between you two and
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Speaker 8: Challenge of sort of pushing through the Hall of Famous
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Speaker 8: stick use your players. Yeah, I've just never looked at
27:05
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27:08
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27:09
Speaker 8: the coaches in general that that I just never looked
27:14
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27:17
Speaker 8: But to your point on on Caliperio, I knew him.
27:21
Speaker 8: He recruited one of my players in high school. Very
27:24
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27:29
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Speaker 8: They struggled at parts, and that's I think they lost
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27:41
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27:48
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27:52
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27:54
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Speaker 20: Welcome into the High School Report. I'm Caleb Rapley, and
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Speaker 20: today we're jumping out to the Player's Fun Center phone
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Speaker 20: line to visit with the head coach of the Brass
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Speaker 20: Christian Eagles baseball team, mister Ryan Ray coach. Thanks for
33:39
Speaker 20: joining me.
33:40
Speaker 11: Hey, thanks, I appreciate you having a.
33:42
Speaker 20: Soccer Yes, sir, so your Eagles got the season started
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Speaker 20: a couple of weeks ago. I've already played seven games,
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Speaker 20: so getting a pretty good idea of where you're at
33:53
Speaker 20: as a team. What have your thoughts been on the
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Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, this is our first full week of having
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Speaker 17: our full rosters, so so really excited about that, you know,
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Speaker 17: first and foremost, you know, what we've done in the
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Speaker 17: last few weeks and and just.
34:10
Speaker 11: The program goals developed christ like men that carry the
34:12
Speaker 11: values of brass as Christian and I feel like we're
34:15
Speaker 11: we're on a really good track with that. We're learning
34:20
Speaker 11: just just kind of chop with a carry water. That's
34:22
Speaker 11: kind of where we're at as as a program, and
34:27
Speaker 11: really just doing learning how to do the intentional everyday
34:31
Speaker 11: details and how important those are. You know, they're not
34:35
Speaker 11: the most exciting, they're not the most you know, worldly glorifying,
34:41
Speaker 11: but they're needed to to and they're essential to to
34:45
Speaker 11: have success. And so it cause haven't really done a
34:47
Speaker 11: great job of learning into that and buy into it.
34:51
Speaker 11: And yeah, we're we're really excited for for where we're at.
34:54
Speaker 11: And we've been playing really high level competition so far,
34:59
Speaker 11: and that's just the goal of that is just early
35:02
Speaker 11: season learning are what we need to work on a
35:05
Speaker 11: lot quicker than than than than we have in the past,
35:09
Speaker 11: And so that's been really good to go back to
35:12
Speaker 11: the drawing board and and you know, we want to
35:14
Speaker 11: play gritty, confident, and consistent baseball. So that really helps
35:20
Speaker 11: us identify just key points where we need to be
35:24
Speaker 11: to have our goals of winning a district championship and
35:28
Speaker 11: make a playoff run.
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Speaker 20: So, you know, one of the most interesting things about
35:32
Speaker 20: high school sports is the fact that the team is
35:37
Speaker 20: changing every year with the composition of the players. So
35:41
Speaker 20: how would you say that the new the younger players
35:45
Speaker 20: have stepped up this year to fill the void from
35:47
Speaker 20: those seniors they graduated.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, uh, you know, we uh lost.
35:53
Speaker 11: You know, Braydon and who went to Harding and then
35:56
Speaker 11: and then a corps of just really good seniors through it,
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Speaker 11: Isaiah Perkins and Jackson Caffey and so, uh what what
36:05
Speaker 11: we've done well is we've retained our core pitching staff
36:10
Speaker 11: and so that's really helped us. Guys have stepped up
36:13
Speaker 11: as well too, haven't really pitched before. We've done a
36:18
Speaker 11: great job in the off season of developing hat and
36:21
Speaker 11: and and and you know, our our defenses is outstanding
36:26
Speaker 11: and and and our bats are starting to pick up
36:28
Speaker 11: to you and so you know, the kids have done
36:31
Speaker 11: a great job in the off season of of of
36:34
Speaker 11: of developing where they need to be. And so I'm
36:38
Speaker 11: really just proud of them and excited to put that
36:41
Speaker 11: on display, to see them put that on display here
36:44
Speaker 11: for for the next weeks ahead as we attack our
36:48
Speaker 11: main core of of our season.
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Speaker 20: So, I know it's still early and you don't know
36:54
Speaker 20: exactly how everything is going to play out yet, but
36:57
Speaker 20: as of now, what do you think are some of
36:59
Speaker 20: your biggest brings some weaknesses.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's it's it's really just us against
37:06
Speaker 11: the baseball and and and that's kind of what what
37:08
Speaker 11: we're preaching as a coaching staff. And and it's it's
37:11
Speaker 11: just one pitch at a time. We we we want
37:13
Speaker 11: to win this pitch, and and then we want to
37:16
Speaker 11: win the next pitch, right, and and and when keeping
37:19
Speaker 11: us against the baseball right, trying to eliminate the outside
37:23
Speaker 11: factors as as as we all know, baseball is such
37:25
Speaker 11: i mentally taxing game. You can be your best and
37:30
Speaker 11: you can still lease and and so it's it's just
37:33
Speaker 11: so it's it's just so many dynamics into the game.
37:38
Speaker 11: So that's really what what what we got to do.
37:41
Speaker 11: And and and the kids have done a great job
37:44
Speaker 11: of of of learning that and and they're continuing to
37:46
Speaker 11: learn that and that's every gay, right. So it's us
37:48
Speaker 11: against the baseball and practice. We want to win this
37:50
Speaker 11: pitch and practice and of course we we we resort
37:55
Speaker 11: to our training in the game, so so when things
37:57
Speaker 11: go chaotic, we we just want to lower our heart rate,
38:02
Speaker 11: focus on the good, you know, over communicate on the field,
38:07
Speaker 11: and and and really attack and and and just win
38:10
Speaker 11: this pitch, a single pitch at a time. And so
38:14
Speaker 11: we've we've done a great job of of of learning
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Speaker 11: map so far, and and and and we continue to
38:21
Speaker 11: do that will be a really good baseball team.
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Speaker 20: So y'all are in TAPS Division three, District four and
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Speaker 20: last year second place finish. I believe it was Hill
38:32
Speaker 20: Country Christian out of Austin to come the first place.
38:36
Speaker 20: Uh so, what are your thoughts on how you can
38:38
Speaker 20: continue to climb the ladder of the district standings?
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Speaker 18: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, our our our goal is obviously the
38:44
Speaker 11: to win a decert championship. And and again I kind
38:46
Speaker 11: of saluted it to it earlier. But it's just us
38:50
Speaker 11: shopping wedding carrying water, right, we got to just work
38:53
Speaker 11: every day, just just just do the important minuscule tasks
38:57
Speaker 11: that kind of is against today's culture of that's flashy
39:02
Speaker 11: and and and and and all that. It's really just
39:06
Speaker 11: the nitty gritty, just doing the important, minuscule details that
39:10
Speaker 11: aren't the most attractive or the fun thing to do,
39:13
Speaker 11: but they're essential. And so we do that and we
39:18
Speaker 11: keep us against the baseball I think all all of
39:21
Speaker 11: our goals will attack them head on, and so it
39:25
Speaker 11: you know, baseball such a mentally taxing game, and we
39:30
Speaker 11: just win one of that aspects. I really think the
39:34
Speaker 11: rest of will take care of itself as long as
39:36
Speaker 11: we buy into doing the hard games every day.
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Speaker 20: So this weekend, y'all are hosting a tournament in Brian
39:45
Speaker 20: at Travis Field. Looks like you've got, uh, I think
39:49
Speaker 20: ten schools at the tournament this year, so how much?
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Speaker 1: How uh?
39:54
Speaker 20: What's the process like of organizing a tournament like this,
39:56
Speaker 20: especially when you know you have to deal with the
39:59
Speaker 20: field being being used by you know, in the past,
40:03
Speaker 20: it was the Brasses Valley Bombers. This year it's going
40:06
Speaker 20: to be the new Brian summer ball team. So what
40:08
Speaker 20: goes into this tournament for you?
40:10
Speaker 15: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: Well, well, first off, I've I've met some of the
40:13
Speaker 11: guys coming in and I'm really excited for what they're
40:15
Speaker 11: going to bring into the community. So I'm really looking
40:18
Speaker 11: forward to that product. But yeah, the tournament, the athletic
40:21
Speaker 11: department and even our parents have just an outstanding job
40:25
Speaker 11: of organizing it and putting it together. We were fortunate
40:28
Speaker 11: enough to have some local teams that great competition last
40:32
Speaker 11: year and we were able to retain those and they
40:34
Speaker 11: were excited to come back, and I just reached out
40:39
Speaker 11: to some teams out of town and those guys are
40:42
Speaker 11: coming into. So I think last year we had twelve.
40:45
Speaker 11: This year we have ten. Well, games start at eleven
40:50
Speaker 11: o'clock Thursday and Friday and then we're eight to eight
40:55
Speaker 11: am to the last about eight pm on Saturday, and
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Speaker 11: so really looking forward to a great competition. It's a
41:04
Speaker 11: lot of fun to put together, just meeting new teams
41:10
Speaker 11: that we haven't met before. So yeah, it's great for
41:15
Speaker 11: the community. It's great for the school as well, and
41:18
Speaker 11: just just really looking forward to honoring put the Lord
41:22
Speaker 11: and putting that and putting that together.
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Speaker 20: All right, Coach, Well, I appreciate your time today and
41:29
Speaker 20: wish you luck this season.
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Speaker 11: I appreciate it, I appreciate what you guys do for
41:33
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back, Thanks for being with us on this
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Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. Mallory is coming up at the top of
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Speaker 1: the next hour. We've got Aggie Baseball at five forty five.
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Speaker 1: now we're gonna jump out to the Players' Fund Center
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Speaker 1: phone line. We're gonna visit with Dan and Laura Dotson
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Speaker 1: of A and E Storage Wars, which begins a brand
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Speaker 1: new season on Saturday. How you doing, guys.
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Speaker 14: We're doing fantastic, chipper. How are you today?
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Speaker 9: Great? Take State of Texas.
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Speaker 1: To a little drizzly today, but hey, you know it's
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Speaker 1: going to be eighty so we're doing good.
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Speaker 9: Yeah you are? Yes, yes, so yes, Dan?
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Speaker 1: How did this come about for you personally? Did you
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Speaker 1: know the producer? Did they come to you? How did
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Speaker 1: this all begin like seventeen years ago?
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Speaker 9: Wow?
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Speaker 14: Well, you know we started, we started putting stuff on YouTube,
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Speaker 14: and we started doing it every week because we wanted
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Speaker 14: our clients to know, Hey, we're good auctioneers and we
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Speaker 14: want your business. And KTLA and CBS and ABC all
46:38
Speaker 14: got ahold of us at about the same time and said,
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Speaker 14: we want to do a you know, a thrift economy story.
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Speaker 14: Can we come and film one of your auctions? So
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Speaker 14: that's really how it started. Once that happened, we had
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Speaker 14: like we had like sixteen different production companies and a
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Speaker 14: couple of different networks get ahold of us wanting to
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Speaker 14: want to put a show around us, and.
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Speaker 22: We were putting out little youtubees like option, what's in
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Speaker 22: the unit? Come on, you can be a storage bidder
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Speaker 22: and buyer, And it was so intriguing that they actually
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Speaker 22: were getting a hold of us, and we were coming
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Speaker 22: home from work and hearing messages on our phone.
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Speaker 23: There's a mandate for da around you folks.
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Speaker 14: Laura, Laura's had these prolific dreams about things. So we
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Speaker 14: we were, we were producing, we were I was dreaming
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Speaker 14: we had another production company, and and Laura had this
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Speaker 14: dream that they they put our they put our tape
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Speaker 14: in a cabinet and shut it and she goes, what
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Speaker 14: do you think that means? And I said, well, that
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Speaker 14: means you should call them and find out, what's going
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Speaker 14: on with our show?
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Speaker 9: We're pitching it for trying to begin.
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Speaker 23: This is real.
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Speaker 14: So she calls him up, and I'm watching her talk
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Speaker 14: and she's off the phone and and she says. What
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Speaker 14: she says was, this is a wife and the auctioneer.
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Speaker 14: We're wondering how our show's coming along. And what they
47:46
Speaker 14: thought she said was, I'm the wife of another auctioneer
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Speaker 14: with another show called the Auction Barn, and I want
47:52
Speaker 14: to know how it's going. They come back and they say, oh,
47:54
Speaker 14: the network loves the auction house concept. They're going to
47:57
Speaker 14: pick it up. And Laura says, what else? What about storage?
48:01
Speaker 14: And then they said, oh oh. Then they figured out
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Speaker 14: they were talking to the wrong person. So then they
48:06
Speaker 14: tell her, oh, we have two shows. She puts the
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Speaker 14: phone down, looks at me. They have two shows, and
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Speaker 14: she goes, what's the name of the other show? They
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Speaker 14: don't even have.
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Speaker 9: The name for the other show. And so anyway, she
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Speaker 9: is so pissed off.
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Speaker 14: She hangs up the phone and she goes, God, send
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Speaker 14: us to Tom Beers. I don't know who that is.
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Speaker 14: And I said, who's Tom Beers? She goes, well, that's
48:24
Speaker 14: deadliest catch. That's Ice sures Truckers, that's ax Man. Those
48:27
Speaker 14: are the shows you watch. So I said, yeah, I'd
48:29
Speaker 14: be great if we had a guy like that show.
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Speaker 9: Two or three weeks later, in mid tale.
48:34
Speaker 14: Okay, and I mean, we're in Van Eyes and this
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Speaker 14: guy comes up and he says, he gives me his card.
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Speaker 14: He does you ever think about doing a reality show?
48:41
Speaker 14: And I say, yeah, you're number sixteen baby.
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Speaker 9: What's your name? He has me his card, it's Tom Beers.
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Speaker 9: I said, no way.
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Speaker 14: My wife praid to God you'd come here, and here
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Speaker 14: you are. So, you know, a couple more dreams later
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Speaker 14: and we had a Discovery Channel that wanted to wanted
48:56
Speaker 14: to you know. They called us up and they said, hey,
48:58
Speaker 14: we want you to sign a thing. You want to
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Speaker 14: do this, and I said, well, I'm in a holding
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Speaker 14: pattern for Tom Beers, so I just got to, you know,
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Speaker 14: do that. A couple hours later they called and they said, hey,
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Speaker 14: we'll give you six shows on Discovery Channel Stationary if
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Speaker 14: you'll if you'll sign that.
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Speaker 9: So I said, well listen, let me think about it overnight.
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Speaker 14: And soon as I hung up, I sent Tom Beers
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Speaker 14: an email and I said, hey, these guys are saying
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Speaker 14: this much, what say you? And he comes back, he
49:20
Speaker 14: because we can match that, And I said, well, I
49:22
Speaker 14: was hoping you could beat that, and so he did
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Speaker 14: beat it by a little bit, I said.
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Speaker 22: And and then more shows, and we just knew that
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Speaker 22: Amy was our home dance Garty Entertainment, and I was
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Speaker 22: dreaming about it. I said, Danny, We're going to have
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Speaker 22: a show. It's going to be an auction show. And
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Speaker 22: I pitched the idea, and I pitched it to the
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Speaker 22: network and I spoke to the executive and oh my god,
49:41
Speaker 22: if you.
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Speaker 9: Talked about talked about their dreams, She goes.
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Speaker 14: We were all up on this stage and everybody had
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Speaker 14: a spotlight, and we all had fishing poles, and they
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Speaker 14: kept giving us fishing poles so our fingers could hardly
49:50
Speaker 14: hold the fishing poles, and everybody's light went out.
49:52
Speaker 9: Are stayed on.
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Speaker 23: We're the last one standing, the last.
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Speaker 14: One standing, and the light comes on and there's Tom
49:57
Speaker 14: Beers like one hundred people behind.
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Speaker 9: That was the original productions and that was kind of how.
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Speaker 1: At what point did you guys know this was a hit?
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing there was no way you knew that there
50:11
Speaker 1: were five and a half million people watching. But but
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Speaker 1: at what point, what was there a point like you
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Speaker 1: went to the stores, something happened you went, hey, we
50:19
Speaker 1: know those guys. You guys became celebrities.
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Speaker 23: He just said it.
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Speaker 22: So here, you know, I love to do my grocery shopping,
50:26
Speaker 22: going in, I'm checking everything out and I, you know,
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Speaker 22: Danny says, I usually, you know, roll around a card
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Speaker 22: or two and I feed my whole staff and auction
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Speaker 22: stuff and Danny's helping me. And I walk in there
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Speaker 22: and I hear out, don't forget to pay the lady.
50:39
Speaker 22: I just about dropped. I said, oh my gosh. And
50:41
Speaker 22: then when they realized, oh, it is to you. It
50:43
Speaker 22: is you folks, It's Danny right there. Danny's auctioning off
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Speaker 22: things in the item and in the in the aisles.
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Speaker 22: And we said, I think people are watching this show.
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Speaker 22: Oh yeah, gosh, I think they like it. And I
50:55
Speaker 22: had had a dream. I told Danny.
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Speaker 23: I said, we're going to have like five million views.
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Speaker 14: She told the production that and they looked at her
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Speaker 14: like she was nuts. Was nobody's going to get that?
51:04
Speaker 9: But we were.
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Speaker 14: We beat the regular ratings on regular and it was
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Speaker 14: just you know, by the second or third season. We
51:12
Speaker 14: kind of knew we had a you know, we had
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Speaker 14: a we had a really good show and people really
51:15
Speaker 14: loved it.
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Speaker 23: And it's part of it's part of a phenomenon, you know,
51:19
Speaker 23: part of the culture.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it has become part of the culture. Where
51:23
Speaker 1: did all the characters come from? So, so where did
51:26
Speaker 1: you get the buyers.
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Speaker 23: Real life buyers that really come to our sales.
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Speaker 14: We would, you know, Laura and I we go drive
51:32
Speaker 14: about two hundred and fifty miles two undred miles every
51:34
Speaker 14: day each do an aux separately, and we were we
51:37
Speaker 14: were wanting to do this show, so we would bring
51:39
Speaker 14: back different buyers. We're telling everybody, hey, we want to
51:42
Speaker 14: be on our show. And if somebody said I want
51:44
Speaker 14: to be on the show, but we thought they would suck, Yeah.
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Speaker 9: You'd give them a one.
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Speaker 14: If they wanted to be on the show, we thought
51:48
Speaker 14: they'd be great, we'd give them a ten. So, you know,
51:51
Speaker 14: Laura's coming back with like Darryl, and I'm coming back
51:53
Speaker 14: with like Dave and and so we put everybody on
51:55
Speaker 14: the show except for Barry. Barry was the godfather for
51:59
Speaker 14: Jess James and he was doing the Monster Garage. So
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Speaker 14: I think it was.
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Speaker 22: An eplectic collector, so it was a perfect match for us.
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Speaker 22: And he was a friend of Tom Beers, so it
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Speaker 22: kind of just meshed in. And he is magic and
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Speaker 22: he's brought a lot of fun memory to the show.
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Speaker 23: We still are friends with Barry Well.
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Speaker 14: I think when they first started they thought it might
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Speaker 14: be the very show. But you know, Storage Horse has
52:22
Speaker 14: so many different levels and dimensions, some of different things
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Speaker 14: going on.
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Speaker 9: It's just it's like a super as stew It's just
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Speaker 9: got the right ingredients in it.
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Speaker 14: And so, I you know, probably around the third or
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Speaker 14: fourth season was probably the best. But you know, Laura,
52:36
Speaker 14: she she just she just hit it and she put
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Speaker 14: her hand after it. She goes, I see this in
52:40
Speaker 14: five five, five different shows, and she had all of
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Speaker 14: them down except for she thought it would be in Chicago.
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Speaker 9: They never put one in Chicago.
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Speaker 14: And originally I was, you know, telling, telling the production
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Speaker 14: we should be in charge of every one of these,
52:53
Speaker 14: and oh, you can't do that. You're you're too busy
52:56
Speaker 14: right here. So we're gonna do it over here. And
52:58
Speaker 14: we've got you know, we've got New York. And the
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Speaker 14: production guy comes back and says, we've got New York.
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Speaker 14: You better watch out. We're going to be the best show.
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Speaker 14: And I said, well, good luck to you for that.
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Speaker 14: What do you mean, I said, you're.
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Speaker 9: Going to need a lot.
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Speaker 22: It just needed Dan and Laura. But I do have
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Speaker 22: some exciting news. Yes, Mary is back.
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Speaker 1: Nice, I saw that. I saw that Mary's coming back.
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Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, Mary's back and.
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Speaker 23: She's oh she's on fire. Yes yeah. And it's such
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Speaker 23: a treat.
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Speaker 1: So it's obviously important to have different personalities, different styles
53:33
Speaker 1: that kind of mesh together. How has that worked out
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Speaker 1: over the years.
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Speaker 14: Well, it seems to work out good because you know,
53:41
Speaker 14: every unit's not the same. Sure, people might like a
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Speaker 14: certain thing in a unit and somebody else might specialize
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Speaker 14: in something else. Yeah, you know, one unit that might
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Speaker 14: be valuable to somebody might not be valuable to everybody exactly.
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Speaker 14: You know, you you have to have diversified buyers in
53:55
Speaker 14: the real world to buy the stuff. And you know
53:58
Speaker 14: the way that these auctions work. They're all genuine, official,
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Speaker 14: legal auctions, So there's always another crowd there that you
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Speaker 14: just don't always see them on camera because you know,
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Speaker 14: our buyers are the ones that you know, production and A.
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Speaker 9: He wants you to follow our.
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Speaker 22: Future you're invested with them and you love them and
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Speaker 22: you want to know what's going on.
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Speaker 1: I've got about thirty seconds left, So how much longer
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Speaker 1: you guys want to do this?
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Speaker 22: We I don't see any end in sight, you know.
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Speaker 22: I think Danny said that he'll probably just fall off.
54:28
Speaker 23: The auction day.
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Speaker 14: I do, Miss Joe, what are you crazy? I'd like
54:32
Speaker 14: to see like like twenty five episode, twenty five seasons.
54:35
Speaker 14: I'd like to see five or six hundred shows. That's
54:38
Speaker 14: what I'd like to see in it. And I think
54:40
Speaker 14: we have that in us. And then after that, maybe
54:43
Speaker 14: our son, you know, he's twenty eight years old and
54:45
Speaker 14: he's an auctioneer in fourteen. She's been in a few shows,
54:48
Speaker 14: and so I can almost see handing him the baton
54:50
Speaker 14: at some point and nice.
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Speaker 22: You know, we out there, yell and don't forget to
54:54
Speaker 22: pay the lady because I've got.
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Speaker 1: Dan and Laura Dotson are with Storage Wars. The seven
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Speaker 1: teenth season begins February twenty eight. Guys, we'll be watching.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time.
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