Transcript

02/11/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Let's get it. Good morning friends, Romans, countrymen, insomniac's, maniacs,
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Speaker 1: and everybody else up at five hundred, which is what
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Speaker 1: they call it the military. Why because the O stands
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Speaker 1: for oh my god, it's early. Welcome in to the huddle, Drew,
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Speaker 1: Billy and arm We've only been doing this our first month,
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Speaker 1: our fourth week, and it's started to hit me that
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Speaker 1: Wednesday is indeed hump day. Yeah, Wednesday is the oh
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Speaker 1: my god, I feel like I've been hit by people
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Speaker 1: holding a bunch of two by fours.
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Speaker 2: This is when this is when the character of a
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Speaker 2: team really comes together. This is when in the huddle
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Speaker 2: you might need that Joe Montana to say, hey, guys, look.
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Speaker 1: There's John Candy in the crowd.
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Speaker 2: We need This is where you need that moment to
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Speaker 2: be able to lighten the load, because it gets tough,
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Speaker 2: it gets long, it becomes a little bit difficult. However,
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Speaker 2: it gets brightened when all of a sudden you wake
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Speaker 2: up to celebration after you thought it was a pair
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Speaker 2: of dismays on the road.
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Speaker 1: See you can find little lights.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go in the early morning where there
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Speaker 2: are no there is no sunlight.
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Speaker 1: There you go Billy, you have You've taken a bucket
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Speaker 1: and lowered into the well of my despair this morning.
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Speaker 1: Well not my despair, my fatigue. And now I'm energized
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Speaker 1: because I look over there at our producer armand sorry,
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Speaker 1: and he is a man in deep conflict. And that
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Speaker 1: makes for good radio because on the one hand, he's
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Speaker 1: crushed that Marquette's attempt to upset Villanova last night Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: fell short. Oh man, It's beloved Golden Warriors will ring
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Speaker 1: out a hooya another day in victory. But it did
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Speaker 1: not happen last night, though tantalizingly close. But Armine's also
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Speaker 1: thrilled and over the moon because he's wearing his new
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Speaker 1: Olympics apparel.
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Speaker 2: Came in the marriage, Baby, let's go that. Yes, I
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Speaker 2: feel like anybody has ever come through better. Wow, I
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Speaker 2: shouldn't say that because we speak about your Marquette, Golden Eagles,
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Speaker 2: our buddy in New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Pete, New Jersey, I believe was also.
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Speaker 2: Another Pete coming through big time for for Armon New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: Pete came through as big as you can come through
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Speaker 1: with big East. You and Laura have a son.
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Speaker 2: Pete might have to be then because Big Vegas Peach
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Speaker 2: just came through it a different way. Multiple piets and
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Speaker 2: this was yeah, if you remember following the saga Big
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Speaker 2: Vegas Pete who did correct me, was correct about the
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Speaker 2: about the networks and Olympics, and then said casually, I
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Speaker 2: might have some old stuff when I worked for the
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Speaker 2: Olympics networks for you, and.
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Speaker 1: There lo and behold.
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Speaker 3: They came in the mail yesterday the package here at
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Speaker 3: the station, uh, addressed to me with some great with
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Speaker 3: some great old Olympics stuff. And I'm telling you in
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Speaker 3: my nineteen ninety eight bright yellow parka here, I feel
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Speaker 3: like I feel like the great Jim McKay. You know,
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Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like you know, Greg Gumble
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Speaker 3: and all the greats.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: I don't feel like Pat O'Brian thankfully with you know,
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Speaker 3: with the wonderful way he did.
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Speaker 1: That's a great point.
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Speaker 3: That's a good stash though, great at these great on
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Speaker 3: great on phone calls. But yeah, fantastic, amazing a lot
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Speaker 3: of different things he's got. Gave me the CBS no
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Speaker 3: hat here, which is fleece lined by the way they
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Speaker 3: can't wear. You know, I feel like I feel like
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Speaker 3: I'm on the crew here for the Olympics in ninety eight.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, this was a fantastic bright yellowjacket for those
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Speaker 3: of you not watching on this story.
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Speaker 2: What are you doing if you're not watching? And you'll
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Speaker 2: see it on all of our socials and Drew I
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Speaker 2: as he unboxed that yesterday with similar passion of John
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Speaker 2: Gruden getting one of the boxes from every one of
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Speaker 2: all the one hundred and forty four college football teams
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Speaker 2: that there are. It came over me that I think
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Speaker 2: Armand's gotta wear this the rest of the Olympics run.
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Speaker 1: I gotta be honestly, I tend to agree.
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Speaker 2: I mean, like I think, if you're gonna be about it, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna be our Olympics guy. And we're going to
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Speaker 2: continue to opine and campaign to somehow find you in
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight. This is how you
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Speaker 2: get to Los Angeles. This is how you get to
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Speaker 2: the next Olympia. Sure, sure it's not by rounding corners
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Speaker 2: and enjoying what might be a sweat induced coma later
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Speaker 2: on here today, because the temperature is gonna warm up
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Speaker 2: a little bit, oh yeah, and the heater is gonna
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Speaker 2: catch you into that suito. It is a warm jacket
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Speaker 2: and that police line hat is going to warm up.
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Speaker 2: But I think it's kind of the price you have
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Speaker 2: to pay if you're gonna honor Olympics and you're really
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Speaker 2: gonna be that Olympic.
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Speaker 1: I drag commit to the bit. I come.
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Speaker 3: I think I'm committed, and just to look at a
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Speaker 3: fantastic jacket, so I wouldn't I want to wear it?
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Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I was a little a little
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Speaker 3: excited because there was a moment last night when I
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Speaker 3: thought we were getting all kinds of dubs last night,
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Speaker 3: all kinds of dubs, and I stayed up, you know,
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Speaker 3: to watch these games because I couldn't. I couldn't tear
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Speaker 3: myself away. I couldn't tear myself away from all these
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Speaker 3: great games we had going on. First of all, let's
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Speaker 3: hear for the US women just dominating Canada. Justum, just
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Speaker 3: dump trucking them. Okay, let him know whose house it was,
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Speaker 3: whose continent it still is?
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Speaker 1: Is our continent?
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Speaker 3: Basically over basically just wasting them five nothing was the final. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: our Wisconsin Badgers a fantastic, fantastic win last night on
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Speaker 3: the ver well, you know it's we're all part of
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Speaker 3: the family here. What a road win for the Badgers.
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Speaker 3: That was huge, huge for that for their tournament situation.
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Speaker 3: And uh, Marquette had a great, great performance on the
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Speaker 3: road at the finn And Pavilion in Philadelphia. Chance to
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Speaker 3: knock off Villanova and add a little silver lining to
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Speaker 3: the season. Up six with three to go, and uh
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Speaker 3: let it get away. So I thought we were gonna
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Speaker 3: come in here and talk about all the great wins
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Speaker 3: last night, and well we had two out of three,
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Speaker 3: but market could not hold on for me. But hey,
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Speaker 3: a great night overall. Still and a great win for
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Speaker 3: Wisconsin Badgers in overtime.
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Speaker 1: What did what didn't me say? One time? Drew two
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Speaker 1: out of three? Ain't bad? True? But however close they're
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Speaker 1: so close.
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Speaker 3: The Panthers toys playing IU Indy, which I think there
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Speaker 3: they used to be known as IU p Why I
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Speaker 3: think they're going by AU indian Now.
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Speaker 1: Ye, Poe was a great It was tradition. You know
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Speaker 1: here they come Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that was that was the ultimate soup that I
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Speaker 2: saw on the on the Marquee when all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: the U w M or pardon me, the Milwaukee Panthers. Yes,
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Speaker 2: we're in the uh in the hotel that we were
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Speaker 2: in in Indianapolis a couple of years ago for the
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Speaker 2: NBA or for the NFL combine. All of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: they're just roaming around. Dude, we got to rest up.
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Speaker 2: We're about to dub oopy oopy. Yeah, it's gonna get soupy.
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Speaker 2: Those are some jokes that you all have here six
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Speaker 2: thirty in the morning when you got a six o'clock
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Speaker 2: game later on here tonight.
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Speaker 1: Goodness, hit us up. Well, we may have a little
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Speaker 1: dilemma on our hands, boys, because UH fired up the
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Speaker 1: nicola a lotta Co'm talking text line or what we
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Speaker 1: know as did.
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Speaker 2: We officially switch without any Hell, there's a couple of
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Speaker 2: texts in here from times that we were.
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Speaker 1: Not on the air, and I see this one there.
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Speaker 3: Okay, well, you know, probably off off format for us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like they're intentional for us. There is
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Speaker 1: one that at the top of the queue that seems
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Speaker 1: to be someone miss dialed and was heading for the
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Speaker 1: political station because there's comments about Israel and there's assuming
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Speaker 1: that's not Olympics. Take Yeah, that's.
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Speaker 3: Not about the probably not you're not talking by athlon
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Speaker 3: I do. That happens sometimes the neighborhood we mentioned.
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Speaker 1: Since there's a new station firing at the frequency where
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Speaker 1: we used to have our station, they might want to
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Speaker 1: take over that number that corresponds to their position on
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Speaker 1: the radio. That's all well and good, but we still
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Speaker 1: have This is how our smart, good looking listeners reach
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Speaker 1: out to us. Right now, and until they give us
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Speaker 1: a new number, we will continue to hammer eight seven seven,
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Speaker 1: seven nine four one ninety seven three, yeah, correct, until
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Speaker 1: that because new house closes, we're giving the old address
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Speaker 1: because we want to make sure we get our mail.
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Speaker 1: It is hot take hump day and we need all
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Speaker 1: course of your hot takes and opinions at eight seven seven, seven,
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Speaker 1: nine four one ninety seven to three. That's right, get
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Speaker 1: them to us. They can be about Marquette, they can
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Speaker 1: be about Wisconsin. That bounce back after the officiating horrifics,
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Speaker 1: and that makes that game piss you off even.
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Speaker 2: More now one thousand percent, And as much as Brad
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Speaker 2: Underwood was one of the individuals that maybe intimidated me
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Speaker 2: the most in college basketball because he looks like one
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Speaker 2: of the sternest cats.
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Speaker 1: Of all time. He's a nice man. You had him
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Speaker 1: at the time.
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Speaker 2: Oh, just an incredible, incredible dude, great interview, great time,
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Speaker 2: great guy.
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Speaker 1: And his gripe last night was remarkable. Was like we
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Speaker 1: had a ref. We have an end three years in
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Speaker 1: a league game, league game. This ain't cyo. What are
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Speaker 1: we seeing here in the middle here?
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Speaker 2: So I love the fact that big ten officials are
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Speaker 2: getting it from all ends. However, man that was resilient
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Speaker 2: with a capital R yesterday to be able to climb
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Speaker 2: back multiple times after a twelve point deficit with about
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Speaker 2: eight minutes to go, Drew.
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Speaker 1: Put this guy to bed. It didn't them. That was incredible,
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Speaker 1: incredible road against a top ten opponent. That's a big
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Speaker 1: Stones win.
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Speaker 3: You know, I often gripe about win probabilities when they
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Speaker 3: don't go our way, and Billy hates this when I
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Speaker 3: do this, right when they but the Badgers were at
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Speaker 3: one point one point eight percent to win in the
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Speaker 3: second half and they came through with the Flying Colors
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Speaker 3: with the comeback wins. So I think it's only fair
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Speaker 3: when I complain about the win probability not going my way.
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Speaker 1: Billy and Claul luck Drew.
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Speaker 3: I have to give it credit or make or point
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Speaker 3: it out when it does go our way and the
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Speaker 3: Badger's overcoming that last night resilience with the Capital Are
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Speaker 3: and Greg Gard with the great head of Lettice and postgame,
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Speaker 3: did you guys see all that stuff?
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Speaker 2: So I've kind of missed the start of it, but
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Speaker 2: here's my hot take to start out here, Greg Guard
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Speaker 2: becoming the most popular coach.
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Speaker 1: In the state of Wisconsin. Well, I like that one.
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Speaker 1: I like that. Who is if not Greg Guard?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely Murph right now, right like it gotta
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Speaker 2: be Murph right now, however, but he also, you know,
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Speaker 2: this is where you can really have fun, you know,
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Speaker 2: pitching coach, they're not a manager. I'm gonna put Murph
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Speaker 2: right there at the top. But Greg Guard has from
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Speaker 2: hanging out in Iowa and Grant counties counties.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's Iowa Grant, you gotta put them together,
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Speaker 3: but there's different counties.
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Speaker 2: Do you go out there around Platteville area, Drew, and
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Speaker 2: all people want to ask is have you met Greg?
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Speaker 3: Do you know?
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Speaker 1: Greg? Great guy? Great guy?
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Speaker 2: And from Platteville being the hub of love for Greg
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Speaker 2: Guard where sometimes he's got to box out some haters
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Speaker 2: and every once in a while that fire Guard pendulum
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Speaker 2: swings very radically over to the red instead of the green.
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Speaker 2: Dude just continually finds a way for his team to
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Speaker 2: win huge games and show me two teams, show me
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Speaker 2: two wins on the road that are better than what
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin has put to here today.
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Speaker 3: Great point, great point, And that's a great point about
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Speaker 3: the opportunities they have with this schedule in the Big Ten.
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Speaker 1: You know, obviously there's a lot of great teams in
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten.
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Speaker 3: They have to go play them, but it's also opportunities
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Speaker 3: to chunk off huge meals and to chunk off big wins.
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Speaker 3: And the one thing we said about Greg Gard when
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Speaker 3: they beat Michigan, and I'll see it again, he knows
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Speaker 3: how to go big game hunting in these big games.
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Speaker 3: He's always got his team in these games against the
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Speaker 3: highly ranked teams in these situations, and when they need one,
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Speaker 3: they seem to always play well and often get these wins.
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Speaker 3: And another great example and a great point by you, Billy.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's been around now for a long time,
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Speaker 3: and how many times have people said, you know, I'm
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Speaker 3: not really sure if Greg Guard's the guy, And I'm like, well, really,
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Speaker 3: it's been eight years. Guy, So if you don't think
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Speaker 3: he's the guy, I mean, he's creating his he's creating
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Speaker 3: his only. Yeah, and no longer is he just the
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Speaker 3: guy that took over for bo. I mean he's an
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Speaker 3: established coach. He's been there now almost I think maybe
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Speaker 3: a decade, and he's creating his own genuine legacy there
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Speaker 3: at Wisconsin. So obviously, you know, getting to that next
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Speaker 3: those next levels in tournament in March is always the
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Speaker 3: next step is always the final boss. It's always the
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Speaker 3: final goal for any coach in college basketball, and we hope,
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Speaker 3: you know, hopefully Greg Guard can reach that. I believe
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Speaker 3: he's good enough. I believe he knows how to coach
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Speaker 3: and recruit and do all the things well enough. But
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Speaker 3: the reality is he knows how to set up and
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Speaker 3: create winning teams, to coach, to teach the game of basketball,
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Speaker 3: create rosters and in an ever changing landscape, and he
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Speaker 3: keeps doing it, and he's doing it again.
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Speaker 1: It's impressive work. That was impressive. It really was.
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Speaker 3: Villa.
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Speaker 1: That was very.
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Speaker 2: Yes for five fivers fifteen am impressive superpowers.
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Speaker 1: In this jacket. I tell you, man, I feel I'm
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Speaker 1: Jim McKay in this Jack Armon an amazing technic color
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Speaker 1: Olympics jacket. You may never not wear that jacket. It
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Speaker 1: does fire me up a little bit though. And while
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Speaker 1: he was doing that, there was the montage of Purdue's
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Speaker 1: thrilling overtime victory. They almost blew it away and that
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Speaker 1: made Laura happy. So I now that was impassionate for
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Speaker 1: Arman to say that like this just goes to show
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Speaker 1: he's a man of principle. For a Marquette fan who
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Speaker 1: waxed poetic for like three and a half minutes, it's
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Speaker 1: got to hurt about Greg Guard and his place in
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Speaker 1: the pantheon of of n cua A basketball coaches and
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Speaker 1: in the state and creating legacies for a Marquette For
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Speaker 1: a ring out Ahoya guy to put on cardinal and
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Speaker 1: white the way armand just is that's an m VP performance.
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Speaker 1: That's heroic. But you have to call like you see it.
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Speaker 1: You know, you have to be honest.
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Speaker 2: Why is the only I'm saying, It's why he's the
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Speaker 2: only MVP this building has ever seen, true and probably
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Speaker 2: ever will because I doubt that we're ever going to
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Speaker 2: do another ceremony.
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Speaker 1: And that's why he gets his own parking spot that
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Speaker 1: no one else can touch, that no one else can touch.
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Speaker 2: And if you dare think you're pulling in into that
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Speaker 2: parking spot, you got another thing coming. The other part
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Speaker 2: of it drew and like looking at it from one
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Speaker 2: of these numbers, up most twenty point games by a
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin player since two thousand, Tucker Kaminski, Johnny Davis, Tucker again,
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Speaker 2: Jordan Taylor, and all of a sudden the bottom here
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Speaker 2: with a pair of fifteen different twenty point.
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Speaker 1: Games, John Tanjay and Nick Boyd.
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Speaker 2: I think Guard's ability to adjust to the portal has
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Speaker 2: been one of the coolest evolutions of somebody in sports
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Speaker 2: in the state.
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Speaker 1: That's true because the whole notion of Wisconsin is get
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Speaker 1: a guy like Kaminsky, You get a big lump of
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Speaker 1: clay as a freshman, and you mold him and by
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Speaker 1: the time he's a senior, he's the player of the year. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and then that's you know, but the development right is
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Speaker 1: draft and development, which now you can't do. Yes, you
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Speaker 1: can do it more in the NFL than you can't
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Speaker 1: do it in the end all one thousand percent.
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Speaker 2: Instead, you can actually get guys drafted, developed and then
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Speaker 2: bring them back to college.
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Speaker 1: But like, the rules have never been.
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Speaker 2: Stranger, but Guard has found a different way to manipulate
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Speaker 2: all of them.
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Speaker 1: Wow, we celebrate what happened last night. And you used
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Speaker 1: the R word before, resilience and resiliency. The question is now,
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Speaker 1: because that's the fifth time in nine games that the
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Speaker 1: Badgers have come back from double digits down. That's resilience.
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Speaker 1: What can they do to get rid of that tag
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Speaker 1: and not be resilient and not have to come back
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Speaker 1: from a double digit deficit because that's playing with your food,
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Speaker 1: that's playing with fire, that is skating on thin ice.
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Speaker 1: What other cliches can I playing the way it gets
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Speaker 1: your beat? Because exactly, And I'm old enough to remember.
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Speaker 1: It was a couple of years ago and we were
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Speaker 1: talking about the Badgers and they had some ridiculous record
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Speaker 1: in games of six or less, which is completely arbitrary
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and it's like, well, they can't lose. If
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Speaker 1: the game's close, they're going to win, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: until they lose, right, And I was like, that was
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Speaker 1: a meaningless stat And I was beating up Hunter about
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Speaker 1: what a meaningless that that was. And then in the
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Speaker 1: first game of the tournament they lost, and they lost, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and that spread didn't mean anything. It's you know, you've
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Speaker 1: been in there, and when you're back. When Craig Council
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Speaker 1: was managing the brus and someone asking a question like that,
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Speaker 1: he's like, that sounds like something that should mean something,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't. Sure doesn't mean anything.
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Speaker 2: Craig, you're eleven and one day games that start on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: After and that's the kind of stuff he'd be like,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't swing. It's like, okay, that's interesting.
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Speaker 3: Well, the funny thing is the Batterers weren't playing a
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Speaker 3: lot of close games this year until somewhat recently, I guess.
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Speaker 3: But that wasn't a thing that was It was either
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Speaker 3: one extreme or the other. And we talked till the pay.
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Speaker 1: About that a lot. But listen, now they're getting getting
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Speaker 1: some close ones.
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Speaker 3: As we approach election Sunday, they're gonna probably be involved
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Speaker 3: in more of those things.
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Speaker 2: But it is funny how like the home and road
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Speaker 2: I think also changes the equation, right, like because it's
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Speaker 2: a close game and obviously the result is different with USC,
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Speaker 2: but it's at home. It's like, man, you spit those
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Speaker 2: things that what a wasted opportunity, but you get one
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Speaker 2: of those even if it would have been against the
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Speaker 2: same caliber opponent.
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Speaker 1: Instead it's two top ten teams that they've done it against.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Arman was was sitting here clutching pearls
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Speaker 2: and nervous a month and a half ago about are
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Speaker 2: they going to get into the tournament? They got to
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Speaker 2: worry about this, this bubble situation. I know you're not
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Speaker 2: looking at it, and I know people should be. This
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Speaker 2: is two months away from selection Sunday, and people need
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Speaker 2: to be worried about where you are.
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Speaker 1: At the bubble.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and now they've got the two maybe best wins
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Speaker 2: in the country and show.
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Speaker 1: It is very important.
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Speaker 2: And it's one of those where developing. Like you said, Drew,
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Speaker 2: damn is it cool to see the development when you
16:37
Speaker 2: got to microwave that development. And this team's been in
16:41
Speaker 2: in earnest together for what five six months in about August.
16:45
Speaker 2: You know, maybe in some summer workouts it happens a
16:48
Speaker 2: little bit earlier, but uh that that's an impressive ability
16:52
Speaker 2: to bring a team together and get them playing some
16:54
Speaker 2: of their better ball on the road.
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Speaker 1: And we talk about a lot of times this year
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Speaker 1: the Olympics times.
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Speaker 3: We talk about quads a lot, right, druple axles, quadruple
17:02
Speaker 3: you know, salcows and lutzes and quad gods.
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Speaker 1: But it's about quad one wins.
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Speaker 3: And this is another one one of those you know,
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Speaker 3: when the when the committee starts looking at these things.
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Speaker 1: These are the dog days, but we're approaching. I still
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Speaker 1: think people are going to talk about top ten instead
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Speaker 1: of quad one. But I give what you I give
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Speaker 1: what you mean, right, But that like that's how they say.
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Speaker 2: But no, I think it's different though, if it's a
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Speaker 2: top ten win instead of a quad one win, like you,
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Speaker 2: I don't I understand that you.
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Speaker 3: That's that's how it works for the committee. I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying more people on the street are talking about quad one.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you, Pelly.
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Speaker 2: Again, however, top ten wins are more important than a
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Speaker 2: quad one win. It's not just they, they will also
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Speaker 2: factor it in as a quad one win. To me,
17:43
Speaker 2: that's like a square in a rectangle, right, every rectangle
17:46
Speaker 2: is a square squad but not every rectangles. But like
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Speaker 2: you sit there in the situation of yeah, there can
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Speaker 2: be a quad one win, what where you can have
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Speaker 2: a net rate of thirty four?
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Speaker 3: I see your point, not the same like that one
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Speaker 3: ends up being a little bit like the Hall of
17:58
Speaker 3: Fame Harold Baines and by Babe Ruthrin the same museum.
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Speaker 3: But one's brutes.
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Speaker 1: There you go. All right, I get your point. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you got that. All right, We're we've solved some things.
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Speaker 1: I was trying to craft this into a hot take,
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Speaker 1: and Billy told me not to. It don't work that hard.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that you were trying, though, but it's apropos
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Speaker 1: for today to say that. You know, if you want
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Speaker 1: to warm your cockles and your team didn't win last
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Speaker 1: night despite a gallant battle in Philadelphia, and you want
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Speaker 1: so hot take that is in the top five exciting
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Speaker 1: sports sentences. What are your others? What are your other
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Speaker 1: what are your other for? What else is in the conversation?
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Speaker 1: Give me a sports sentence that warms the cockles and
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Speaker 1: fires you up as much as pictures and catchers report wellesday, the.
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl Sunday is Today is maybe the toughest one
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Speaker 2: for me to take out to day out of the lexicon.
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Speaker 1: Because I'm looking for a I'm looking for a sentence.
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Speaker 1: How about you are looking live? Is that a good one?
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Speaker 1: That's the beginning of a sentence, so then you have
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Speaker 1: to fill it out. But yes, yes, you are looking
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Speaker 3: But I know it's always an exciting day when until
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Speaker 3: I hear they're short ones.
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Speaker 1: They're shortened too. The wait like, gentlemen, start your here
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Speaker 1: on Sunday and the earnest. If we were talking to
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Speaker 1: Matt Miller, the phrase that gets him going is and
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Speaker 1: the oscar goes.
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Speaker 2: To, yeah, oh, I thought it was please silence your phones.
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Speaker 2: The oscar goes to, so what what are they? What
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Speaker 2: are the sentences that get you fired up?
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Speaker 1: It's a great one.
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Speaker 2: And when we had uh, Brian Owen got into this
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Speaker 2: conversation the one day UH where we were about to
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Speaker 2: have a Game seven in the playoffs. Because game seven,
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Speaker 2: people will always say, and we will go to games
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Speaker 2: and we will go to Game seven or the other
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Speaker 2: one and we will see you tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: I think that one like it's someone's call.
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Speaker 2: However everyone uses it and then Jack Joe Buck, but
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Speaker 2: I think I've heard everybody use it.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like a radio bit.
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Speaker 2: So like, I think that one to me because it
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Speaker 2: immediately signifies something is flipped. And even though it could
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Speaker 2: mean your ass is going home tomorrow, I'd like it
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Speaker 2: might be in it might be a gentleman sweep instead
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Speaker 2: of a sweep. It does feel like the tide has
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Speaker 2: definitely changed in any kind of series.
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Speaker 1: How about for wisconsinights the top sports sentence swinging a
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Speaker 1: drive to left and deep. That's a good one. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: fill in the rest. That's pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you didn't work too our because I got
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Speaker 2: a little bit of the hot take on pitchers and
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Speaker 2: catchers reporting, because I think it's one of the greatest
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Speaker 2: sports strip teases in the world, right because like I
22:34
Speaker 2: think I love spring training. What I hate is the
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Speaker 2: next two days where all you hear is the glove
22:43
Speaker 2: popping into the mint and you're like, sweet, let's go.
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Speaker 2: Games are actually a week and a half later, and
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Speaker 2: then the first game happens, and then you're like, all right,
22:52
Speaker 2: it's a monthly. It's a tease, like the first like
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Speaker 2: that seventy degree day you get in early March, and
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Speaker 2: then in ten days, yeah, like a foot and a
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Speaker 2: half of snow and it's it's ten degrees outside.
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Speaker 3: Uh huh. I like.
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Speaker 2: The t's of o t as or in pads and
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's actually shells and we'll get
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Speaker 2: to full pads in three days in NFL training camp.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe there is something like that, like full padded practice.
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Speaker 3: That's a sentence that like people do enjoy. Yeah, something
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Speaker 3: the NFL schedule. We will be released to night. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: remember just the draft chimes when you hear the that's
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Speaker 3: not a sentence, but it's a sound.
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Speaker 1: Pick is in there. That's a good one. Now, boxing
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Speaker 1: fans used to love the Michael Buffer line. Right, ladies
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Speaker 1: and general, welcome to the main event. Let's get ready
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Speaker 1: to rumble. Oh, there you go.
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Speaker 3: That's of course if I play that is Lawyers on Well,
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Speaker 3: now it's Bruce Buffer, Bruce Is. It's a good one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a fair into UFC, which I think is
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Speaker 2: kind of overtaken. There's Kevin Green there, but that's that's right.
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Speaker 3: That's why there's gotta be a lot of wrestling ones
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Speaker 3: like that, Billy though, right, stuff like that, like.
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Speaker 1: Or different guys entrances.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean anything Jim Ross level, God, enter
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Speaker 2: someone's music.
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Speaker 1: Can you smell what the rock is cooking?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: That would be one for folks of a certain vintage
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Speaker 1: who were into that. So, yeah, your favorite sports sens
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Speaker 1: is because pictures got You're right, Billy. It is like,
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Speaker 1: what does that mean, Well, it means technically, it means
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Speaker 1: they have to be in Arizona today, like you there,
24:20
Speaker 1: you gotta be insane. And now a lot of most
24:22
Speaker 1: dudes have been there for a week and a half
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Speaker 1: and they're throwing and they've they've already turned their head
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Speaker 1: and coughed.
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Speaker 2: That was a glass breaking moment for me when I realized, oh,
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Speaker 2: they've actually kind of been here.
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Speaker 1: It's more of just the the ceremonial day. But it
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Speaker 1: is fun though, and it's very much like when pictures
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Speaker 1: and catchers are there and some of those guys, like
24:38
Speaker 1: we said, have been grinding for a while. And then
24:40
Speaker 1: but I have seen, you know, I've been witnessed to
24:44
Speaker 1: the arrival when guys show up for the first time
24:46
Speaker 1: and they're seeing each other for the first time since
24:48
Speaker 1: October and they're you know, dapping up and they're hugging
24:51
Speaker 1: and like you see guys and then it's like it's
24:54
Speaker 1: very much like the first day of school in the
24:56
Speaker 1: fall and you see people that you haven't seen since
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Speaker 1: the las school year, and people live grown changed and
25:01
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, in the newbys are getting bigger. Some
25:03
Speaker 1: dudes are slimmed down, they got the new haircuts. You know,
25:06
Speaker 1: some dudes who have had kids, you know, like a
25:09
Speaker 1: little different lives, completely different lives. So it is it's
25:11
Speaker 1: funny to see that. And when guys walk in, it
25:14
Speaker 1: is the vibe is very much like going back to
25:16
Speaker 1: like junior high for eighth grade, especially for a young
25:19
Speaker 1: team like the Crew, right, Like with so many guys
25:22
Speaker 1: who I think what like four or five guys ended
25:23
Speaker 1: up getting married this year, Yeah, during the off season,
25:26
Speaker 1: and the contrares ended up getting engaged, And I wonder
25:28
Speaker 1: how some of it would be as well, Drew, like,
25:31
Speaker 1: there's a uh, there's a different reunion factor knowing hah,
25:35
Speaker 1: all right, now it's about to start. Now we're now
25:39
Speaker 1: you get equate this one to school even more because
25:42
Speaker 1: you will look at the same twenty five guys, well
25:45
Speaker 1: mostly the same twenty five guys for the next eight months,
25:48
Speaker 1: which is different than an arm This will warm Arments
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Speaker 1: cockles because he's a former ra at Marquette University. But
25:55
Speaker 1: when you have a group of guys and you meet
25:57
Speaker 1: freshman year and you live on a floor and then
25:58
Speaker 1: like eighty percent of the guys come back the next year,
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Speaker 1: that you already know each other. It's like, that's the
26:04
Speaker 1: that's a vibe, right, It's a great feeling to see
26:06
Speaker 1: each other for months, but you go, right, that's the
26:09
Speaker 1: vibe kind of that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you lived at a dorm, you can relate
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Speaker 3: to it because you know when you first moved in
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Speaker 3: and and as a freshman, those guys usually become your
26:16
Speaker 3: best friends. And then when you see them come back together,
26:18
Speaker 3: it's like summer camp again. You know, it's like I'm
26:20
Speaker 3: seeing all those guys again. It's like you were excited
26:23
Speaker 3: to see them. So the reunion is cool. Uh yeah,
26:25
Speaker 3: that community building part was a lot of fun. So
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Speaker 3: that is a good That is a good reference.
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Speaker 1: I do like that. Oh yeah, your your favorite sports
26:32
Speaker 1: sentences in honor of pictures and Catchers report today, which
26:35
Speaker 1: is procedural and actually boring, but it's it means that
26:40
Speaker 1: it's baseball's coming and that there will be an end
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Speaker 1: to winter, and it's it means more.
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Speaker 2: This is it means more than the damn brown hoog
26:47
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. Oh damn Bell, take that, honey. I mean like,
26:50
Speaker 2: this is so so different, and it also feels a
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Speaker 2: little bit different when we don't have drew like seventy
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Speaker 2: percent of the.
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Speaker 1: Best free and still available.
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Speaker 2: Like I get, I feel like this has also now
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Speaker 2: become deadline time to sign over the last like five
27:06
Speaker 2: or six years. I mean, Verlander was the only one
27:08
Speaker 2: that yesterday was was a bit noteworthy, But it does
27:10
Speaker 2: feel like most of the moves are done, and uh,
27:13
Speaker 2: I think the way baseball has continued to roll up
27:16
Speaker 2: into the right this would be a hot take for
27:18
Speaker 2: me as which is going to sound strange because it's
27:21
Speaker 2: going into one of its tensest seasons and why again,
27:25
Speaker 2: smart people need to figure out the labor situation because
27:28
Speaker 2: I think there's way too much to lose right now.
27:30
Speaker 2: Baseball's got a ton of positive forward momentum. Yeah, while
27:35
Speaker 2: the NBA goes into what used to be a great
27:37
Speaker 2: celebratory weekend where all you can hear is people that
27:41
Speaker 2: love the association more than any complaining.
27:44
Speaker 1: More and more about the product. We're gonna talk about
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Speaker 1: take is that few events in sports have fallen down
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Speaker 1: the pecking order more rapidly than NBA All Star Weekend.
28:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, in all reality, Drew, the tough thing is, I
28:26
Speaker 2: don't care about the gripes about All Star Games.
28:29
Speaker 1: To me, it's like, if you want to watch it,
28:31
Speaker 1: watch it.
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Speaker 2: If you don't, don't, It's really not going to affect
28:34
Speaker 2: anything of your livelihood unless you allow it to, and
28:37
Speaker 2: then at some point that might be on you. But
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Speaker 2: I think the tough part about it is when the
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Speaker 2: weekend became such a showcase. That's fine, and I love
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Speaker 2: seeing all the best players and all the best stars around.
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Speaker 2: But now in a year in which the league seems
28:53
Speaker 2: like it's coming to a head, of the true problems
28:57
Speaker 2: the league has of like Jared Jackson junior sitting out
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Speaker 2: games and like twenty one to twenty two year old's
29:03
Speaker 2: not being able to play in certain games that potentially
29:06
Speaker 2: leaking into the college game with guys over at Kansas,
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Speaker 2: like there's just there's a flow to it. So many
29:12
Speaker 2: guys are getting hurt. Everybody pleads, begs and asks for
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Speaker 2: the season to get short shortened because it's way, way
29:19
Speaker 2: too long. The amount of players that get hurt, and
29:22
Speaker 2: the lack genuine lack of interest by teams and fans,
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Speaker 2: but teams much more than fans. What the Jazz are
29:30
Speaker 2: doing is egregious in the crazy variety and like it just.
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Speaker 1: It's become such an issue. Instead this week, we're not
29:39
Speaker 1: going to do what you know.
29:41
Speaker 2: Rob Manfred, who took a lot of arrows and a
29:43
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of shots and was the whipping
29:47
Speaker 2: boy for a long time, went out on the legend
29:51
Speaker 2: said this league needs change, and I will be the
29:55
Speaker 2: a hole that everybody hates for a year when I
29:59
Speaker 2: implement these radis changes. It might be too much. People
30:01
Speaker 2: are gonna say it's way too much, way too fast.
30:03
Speaker 2: We're gonna do it. We're gonna cut the cord. And
30:07
Speaker 2: now four or five years later, I think the game
30:09
Speaker 2: is so much more digestible. It's fun, it's entertaining, it's athletic,
30:13
Speaker 2: and it's to a point where with a revamping of
30:18
Speaker 2: the way the game is being distributed. I think baseball
30:21
Speaker 2: can reascend to where it was, which was not America's
30:25
Speaker 2: past time. Nothing's overtaken the NFL, but I think baseball
30:28
Speaker 2: can get back to number two as the most popular
30:31
Speaker 2: North American sports, where it felt like basketball had gotten
30:34
Speaker 2: up there. They've played with their food far too much
30:37
Speaker 2: and allowed everything to bypass it at this point.
30:40
Speaker 1: That's an interesting question too, and it's a debate that
30:42
Speaker 1: scholars are having. When will like who was it was
30:46
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban said something I think didn't he say about
30:48
Speaker 1: it get slaughtered? When will the NFL plateau? Because they're
30:54
Speaker 1: talking now about international expansion Europe, Like, when will it
30:57
Speaker 1: be all right? Enough is enough? Like they and when
31:00
Speaker 1: they started seeping in and they took over Christmas Day,
31:02
Speaker 1: the creep sure right? When will they go a bridge
31:05
Speaker 1: too far? What is it look like that will make
31:08
Speaker 1: us not like the NFL as much as we do,
31:10
Speaker 1: because you're right, right now, it's not close, all right now,
31:13
Speaker 1: it's not close. And their bulletproof because you know those
31:16
Speaker 1: who were mad about the selection for the half gime
31:19
Speaker 1: halftime entertainment, which yeah to me really, but there were
31:22
Speaker 1: those who have that kept saying when they were woke.
31:25
Speaker 1: Remember when they put end racism and the end of
31:28
Speaker 1: the end zone there. Yeah, they did that, and everybody's like, oh,
31:31
Speaker 1: it's gonna go out a bit. No, they're there's they're tough.
31:34
Speaker 1: Concussions was supposed to continue to the NFL.
31:38
Speaker 2: It seems like nothing will stop it, and maybe that way, yeah,
31:41
Speaker 2: and maybe the concussions still are. You're going we're not
31:44
Speaker 2: gonna see a full ramifications of that for the next
31:46
Speaker 2: five to ten years, with like the amount of players
31:49
Speaker 2: and kids that are not allowed to play football because
31:51
Speaker 2: of it. But as I've been, you know, urging and
31:54
Speaker 2: yelling at my wife when she's like me, oh, may
31:56
Speaker 2: we play baseball? Maybe make you listen the Helmem's treat
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Speaker 2: me the safest thing in the world. By the time everything,
32:01
Speaker 2: it'll be one of the safest things in the world.
32:03
Speaker 2: But Drew, I think the only thing that could and
32:07
Speaker 2: it's the one thing that gets rumored about the international expansion,
32:10
Speaker 2: is if they put the game we watched on Sunday
32:13
Speaker 2: somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I hear the.
32:16
Speaker 2: Rumors, I hear the rumblings that needs to get That's
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Speaker 2: where it needs to be a bridge too.
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Speaker 3: Far.
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Speaker 2: You can't ask the championship game to include eight hours
32:29
Speaker 2: of nonsensical travel, right, Like you can't ask the most
32:33
Speaker 2: important outcome to be decided somewhere that has not housed
32:39
Speaker 2: a professional tackle football game all year, or like in
32:44
Speaker 2: Wembley Stadium where it maybe has three games of the year,
32:47
Speaker 2: Like I think that would be the one where it
32:49
Speaker 2: will clearly get halted. But like, just because there were
32:52
Speaker 2: three million less viewers than last year's number, ergo, the
32:56
Speaker 2: best player in the game wasn't in the in the
32:58
Speaker 2: game this year. That's why a lot of people potentially
33:01
Speaker 2: didn't end up watching it.
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Speaker 1: Go figure yeah, eight seven seven seven nine seven three
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Speaker 1: And baseball, you're right, like a banning the shift or
33:12
Speaker 1: putting in the pitch clock would have been great. Doing
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Speaker 1: them both together streamlined the game. It made it a
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Speaker 1: gajillion times.
33:17
Speaker 2: Better, made it so much better. It also did not
33:21
Speaker 2: do what again, this is this is super deep. You know,
33:24
Speaker 2: chat room rumor mill and guys that have heard different
33:27
Speaker 2: interactions with the commissioners wore. But for five years or
33:30
Speaker 2: ten years drew everybody felt like Adam Silver's clearly the
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Speaker 2: best commission in sports. And when the Major League baseball
33:37
Speaker 2: shift with Manfred happened of pitch clock, banning the shift,
33:41
Speaker 2: condensing the game, trying to make it quicker. He's like,
33:43
Speaker 2: what you're doing is ruining the ability for it to
33:45
Speaker 2: be gambled upon, right like for it to be pitched
33:48
Speaker 2: by pitch. No, it just made it even better and quicker,
33:50
Speaker 2: and then you get better, quicker payouts, and it makes
33:53
Speaker 2: it even more digestible. It is becoming a spot in
33:58
Speaker 2: a hot bed for what I think and how a
34:00
Speaker 2: lot of people are going to consume sports going forward,
34:03
Speaker 2: and they're nipping it initially in the butt with this
34:06
Speaker 2: class a deal. Like, I genuinely believe baseball has a
34:11
Speaker 2: chance to really reascend it. It's one of the biggest
34:14
Speaker 2: reasons why the biggest hot take is everybody in Major
34:18
Speaker 2: League Baseball has far too much to lose. Whatever money
34:20
Speaker 2: they think that they're fighting for, way more gets lost.
34:24
Speaker 2: Interesting if games get lost, agreed, Yeah, yeah, I think so.
34:28
Speaker 3: I think there's also the they're going to be fighting
34:30
Speaker 3: that perception of the imbalance of the economy, but a
34:32
Speaker 3: baseball economy. But I think that you're right, Billy. The
34:36
Speaker 3: pitch clock was was one of the biggest things that
34:38
Speaker 3: saved them. The problem I think for the NBA is
34:40
Speaker 3: I don't think there's that obvious of a fix as
34:42
Speaker 3: there was in baseball. If you're talking about changing a
34:45
Speaker 3: rule and being able to step up and say, Adam
34:47
Speaker 3: Silver is gonna have to change some big rules, I
34:49
Speaker 3: don't know what that is in basketball, to change a
34:51
Speaker 3: lot of what it is, because a lot of it
34:53
Speaker 3: is cultural. But that is probably the biggest problem right
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Speaker 3: now the NBA.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and to me armin the easiest one and the
34:59
Speaker 2: one that it's staring you right in the face. Season's
35:02
Speaker 2: way too long. The season is just too long. And
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Speaker 2: the argument of the money will just be far different.
35:10
Speaker 2: What Giannis's contract is about fifty eight million dollars if
35:14
Speaker 2: they played fifty If they played I would say sixty
35:17
Speaker 2: five games.
35:17
Speaker 1: But let's meet at seventy games.
35:19
Speaker 2: What would his his thirty five percent of the income
35:22
Speaker 2: go to Drew fifty six million, fifty four million.
35:26
Speaker 1: They'll all still eat, everybody will still eat plenty, but.
35:30
Speaker 2: It will just be a better product and a much
35:33
Speaker 2: more digestible one. And whatever inventory the networks are paying
35:39
Speaker 2: you for, I think they would prefer it be even
35:41
Speaker 2: better inventory, and it'd be with the best players and
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Speaker 2: not a bunch of random cats that don't understand what
35:48
Speaker 2: we're doing. Or like the situation last night, my man
35:51
Speaker 2: Chris Dunn has been playing in the NBA for like
35:53
Speaker 2: nine years, Drew, he did something that you couldn't even
35:56
Speaker 2: think there or you're going to see in a park
35:59
Speaker 2: View Parochial League game this weekend where.
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Speaker 1: He's getting the inbound pass.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, doesn't touch it, and let's the guy that passed
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Speaker 1: Brother, don't we know that we need to touch the basket?
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Speaker 1: It's super weird. Yeah, found it like it's such.
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Speaker 2: A lack of either attention, focus and or the sea
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Speaker 2: is that like you shrink the season, you make it
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I don't think people actually use that phrase.
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Speaker 3: Now someone said welcome to Game seven or we're going
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Speaker 3: to Game seven, But like I feel like when I
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Speaker 1: Remember one said nothing we're going through cat seven? Baby
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Speaker 3: I'll never forget that now. When I did that, it
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Speaker 3: Zaza ever since he did that years and years ago.
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Speaker 2: And I think one of my favorites was did add
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Speaker 2: on to the sentence this year, Drew? And I think
39:56
Speaker 2: it was in the Oregon game that that ended the
39:59
Speaker 2: drought of thirteen quarters without a touchdown.
40:02
Speaker 1: When Matt sat there, I said it there, I said it.
40:06
Speaker 2: Touchdown Wisconsin with a little bit more angst and vigor,
40:09
Speaker 2: and then finally the exaltation of who glad that's over
40:13
Speaker 2: of two straight games getting shut out at home and
40:15
Speaker 2: outscored seventy plus to nothing.
40:17
Speaker 1: Ye, some again your favorite sens And you know, here's
40:21
Speaker 1: the pitch swinging a drive to left in deep and
40:24
Speaker 1: you just said that's what you know came after that?
40:27
Speaker 2: You throw that one right back into it. The other
40:29
Speaker 2: one is and this one might be a little bit
40:31
Speaker 2: nerdier sports media landscape of it.
40:34
Speaker 1: Who that guy played for?
40:36
Speaker 2: Like when I start thinking of the we're talking about
40:38
Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs, I immediately think of inside the NBA,
40:41
Speaker 2: and by that time Chuck has figured out who everybody
40:44
Speaker 2: plays for.
40:44
Speaker 1: But when they play who that guy played for?
40:46
Speaker 2: That is always one of my best because there is
40:49
Speaker 2: not only Charles Barkley doing it on national television, but
40:53
Speaker 2: there's forty eight different guys on the couch. When randomly
40:56
Speaker 2: somebody pops.
40:57
Speaker 1: Up, what's that name?
40:59
Speaker 2: Who he played for?
41:00
Speaker 1: He's been on that team for four years. It was
41:02
Speaker 1: my my buddy, the late great Steve Haywood. He's still
41:04
Speaker 1: getting a check. He's still getting a check. Oh my goodness.
41:10
Speaker 3: All right, we got some great ones next hour, I know,
41:13
Speaker 3: But I got a couple of hot takes after the break, right,
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Speaker 3: some Olympics ones and stuff like that.
41:17
Speaker 1: By the way, I remember Steve Haywood going at it
41:20
Speaker 1: with Senator Cole talking about Bucks issues and like laughing,
41:24
Speaker 1: and then I got the front row seat to watch
41:25
Speaker 1: Hardercourt and Seilings far too man. The choice of my career.
41:31
Speaker 2: Is a tennis match between those guys, not a whole
41:33
Speaker 2: lot of volleying gently I can't remember, no, no, not
41:37
Speaker 2: trying to hit each other.
41:38
Speaker 1: So Armor's got some hot takes, We'll take yours. You're
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