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Tyrese & the Pacers Take Game 1, Cyclone talk with Bill Seals & The Chicken Coop contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right. Good afternoon.
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  Welcome, Miller Condon on a Friday.
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  The Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon and Ken Miller to
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  talk sports with you for the next couple of hours.
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  Thank you for starting your afternoon here with us.
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  Here's what's coming up on our program.
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  We'll talk Iowa State and Tyrese Halliburton and Cyclone topics
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  with Bill Seals. A busy weekend camping wise for
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  our friends to cover Iowa State football wise, and Bill Seals
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  will shed some light on that when he joins us at 12:25.
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  Then we'll give 4 of you an opportunity to win some grub
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  from the chicken coop. If you haven't played in the
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  last 30 days, you are eligible at about, oh, 12:45.
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  Somewhere around there, 12:45-ish, we'll give you the
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  queue to call. If you get the most right, we'll
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  give you a $50.00 gift certificate that you can redeem
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  it. One of the four of the three
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  rather chicken coop locations in central Iowa, the runner up will
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  get 20 wings. So that's coming up at about
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  12:45. Again, if you played in the last
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  30 days, whether you want it or not, if you've played, you are
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  ineligible. Hour number two, Tom Cakert on
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  Iowa camping goes on up there as well.
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  We'll get the latest from Tom. Men's basketball practices are
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  underway, so we got a lot of things on the Hawkeye plate with
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  Tom. He'll kick off hour number two
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  and then we'll go to Las Vegas and talk to our friend Mike
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  Palm, VP of Operations at Circa Sports.
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  They'll get the go behind the counter with Mike.
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  What did the Pacers improbable wind do last night?
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  I'm guessing there were a lot of parleys that went down in
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  flames. Everybody thought it was a free
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  squirter except for one person. Picks coming up here.
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  My picks coming up 150. Oh, really?
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  Well, I had the game, yeah. But you don't play games.
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  No, I don't. They can't be beating your chest
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  over there, somebody. You ripped your tickets up.
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  You ripped your tickets up. I had the game called perfectly.
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  Look at I I was hoping, right? I didn't think there was much of
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  a chance. In fact, I thought after the
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  first 12 minutes, Oh my God, this is going to be awful.
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  How are we going to stretch this out to hopefully six or seven
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  games? There's no way in hell.
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  And then they started to chip away.
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  But I'll say this, I thought they were dead.
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  I'm talking about the Pacers, SGA three at the end of the
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  third quarter, Indiana getting close, getting close, getting
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  close. They had it to six and SGA, as
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  the buzzer goes off, hits that improbable 3.
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  It's up to 9. I thought, good God, there was
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  their. Chance.
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  That was the opportunity. Didn't it seem like?
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  That to you? It did.
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  Now, I checked in at halftime and going to our conversation
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  yesterday. So softball wraps up last night.
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  Get in and flip it on lug in the auxin.
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  Listening to the ESPN broadcast on the drive home, I didn't hear
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  one thing. The whole way home was
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  commercials. After a conversation that we had
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  with what NCA, the NBA is going to look like at ESPN, my whole 6
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  minute drive home, there was not one word from a commentator from
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  somebody involved in the game. All it was was commercials.
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  Yeah, well, they came on briefly after, then they went to break.
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  Yeah. Must you know, now that I come
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  to think of it was long. I'll say this about them,
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  though. I thought that the halftime, it
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  was pretty good analysis, was it?
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  I thought it was because by the time I got home, then it was
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  take back to the shower and no get to get to the shower and get
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  ready for the night. So there was no halftime for me.
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  But I just thought it was funny after we were talking about that
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  and how different. It looked like, yeah.
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  It's going to be with Turner and those guys.
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  I don't think they're going to be able to handle that very
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  well. That aside though, 19 turnovers
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  go fast, half watch the first half and Fast forward.
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  And how is it only a 10 point game?
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  Great. Question.
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  Should have been 20, Yeah, absolutely.
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  And throughout most of the third quarter and into the 4th and it
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  was just in that range of what, like 11 to 15 points.
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  And for me, I was just waiting, well, when's OKC going to start
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  hitting shots themselves outside of Lou Dort and put this thing
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  away and win it by 20 and then there's 6 minutes left, man.
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  It's a six point. It doesn't feel like a six point
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  game. It didn't.
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  And then it gets to 4 minutes and it's a four point game it
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  and. Then they missed back-to-back
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  threes. The Pacers did.
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  When I thought they had their chance, I thought, you know,
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  that that spirited come back after that dagger at the end of
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  the third quarter. You missed back-to-back threes,
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  including Halliburton, who's wasn't close.
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  The Bankton 3 like. Yeah, that was that.
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  All right, well, maybe this team just is living with the four
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  leak Clover in their shoe or a horseshoe up their ass.
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  That's probably the the ladder. Whatever term you want to use,
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  they got it and. And they were terrible.
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  Obi Toppin was a turnover machine in the first half.
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  In fact, I was surprised he was. The only guy that.
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  Could score. And the later on he was, yeah,
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  the Carlisle, it was keeping him on the floor.
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  I mean, everybody was turning the ball over.
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  Halliburton was turning the ball over and he ended up.
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  Three. Didn't it feel like he had more
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  than that though? It did.
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  It did. They cut their turnovers down
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  significantly from 19 to what, 6 or five rather in the
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  second-half. So obviously they cleaned that
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  up at halftime, but they just look totally out of sorts.
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  But to their credit, they just didn't go away.
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  So a question for you. We've seen throughout the course
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  of the year, the Thunder more than anybody, they're willing to
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  adjust, change their starting line up, kind of change their
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  rotations because they are so deep.
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  But in this match up against a small fast tempo Pacers team, to
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  go away from 2 bigs, to go away from what you've done throughout
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  this playoff run, and now you got Hartenstein coming off the
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  bench. And I thought he was terrific
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  last night and I was surprised that I think him and Holmgren
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  need to swap minutes. I was with you.
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  Or play them together more. Or play them together more.
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  That's where you have a huge advantage.
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  Hartenstein was great. He might have been his other
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  than SGA, there were some there were some good guys on the but
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  but Hardenstein, he made his presence felt last night in only
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  17 minutes. You were the team that won 68
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  games in the regular season. Shouldn't be the other team that
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  should be adjusting to you and I, and I get it, this is because
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  they're so deep. They can do this and they have
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  done this and I guess that is part of their DNA.
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  But from the outside looking in, I just, it struck me as odd that
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  you're going to go away and then on top of it and starting
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  lineups don't matter. You're.
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  Right. And certainly don't matter
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  apparently for the NBA because we're the NBA Finals.
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  Is there anything on the floor to let you know it's the NBA
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  Finals? No, they just put a big emblem
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  on there. Is there anything in the score
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  bug outside of a little trophy? There was, there was no, there
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  was no emblem on the floor. I think this is game one of the
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  NBA Finals. Did we hear the national anthem?
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  No, we didn't. Did we see the starting lineup?
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  Didn't. We hear the national anthem from
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  North Carolina. That was a huge part of the
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  basketball experience growing up for me.
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  Well, it was more than just the lineup, it was the video that
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  played with the Bull running through of it Chicago on his way
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  to the United Center. ESPN who?
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  What was that? Was that Alan Parsons project?
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  It was the background, yeah, that was the song.
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  So good. It was tremendous.
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  And the voice and everything. Yes.
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  Can you find that? Oh yeah, that's so good.
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  Yes. But we got none of that last
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  night. It just felt I, I saw there was
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  a piece on awful announcing. It felt like this was I came in
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  January. It didn't feel like the NBA
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  Finals. It was all right.
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  Well, there's no football on tonight.
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  Here's an NBA game for. You.
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  Yeah. Well, the crowd was in full
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  throat. I mean, they were in full
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  throat. That was a good crowd.
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  But the presentation for us watching, you know what?
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  A fairpoint, but but to be fair when it comes to this, I did
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  not. I watched the Cubs as long as I
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  could. So I was watching the Cubs and
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  Washington for as long as I could and didn't get over until
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  just prior to the ball going in the air and then I didn't turn
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  the channel. It was so good locked in.
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  But again, I thought, Oh my God, this is going to be brutal.
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  We were right. This Oklahoma City team is just
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  so much better than the Pacers. Pacers don't have a chance.
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  You know, they're, they're the, the sacrificial lamb.
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  Somebody was going to come out of the East and get embarrassed
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  by this juggernaut out West. And man, oh man, I don't want to
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  say, well, I'll ask it this way. Do we have a series?
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  Yes, you think we do? I believe that we do after being
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  dead set against it for the last week.
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  Yeah, and I'm going to cover because I was yesterday and
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  again, it was probably my heart over my head because I wanted
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  this thing to be good because this is the end of the winter
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  sports. There's only, I mean, there's
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  two of them and they're down to their championships.
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  So I want them to be good, but in in the back of my mind, I'm
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  thinking, you know, you don't mean what you say.
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  There's no chance this is going to happen.
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  I could tell you were trying to sell it, but it was your heart
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  wasn't exactly in it, you know, And yet you were right.
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  You got it. And I come on, Is it a series?
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  Can Indiana win the? Series no I.
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  That's what I come back to. It was such a weird game.
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  It was that, that's, it's very difficult to dissect because it
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  was just that odd nature, just the way that the 19 turnovers in
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  the first half and they don't turn over Lou Dort, he's hit 5
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  threes and you turn a team over 24 times.
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  Lou Dort did 5 threes. Did Oklahoma City win by 2030 or
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  40? Right.
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  You give me, did you hit your alternate spreads and how high
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  did you? Go right.
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  That is going to be the question that I would be asking next.
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  How much did the Thunder win by not did they get beat?
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  They got beat, they got beat and Halliburton Meech, talk about
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  clutch, talk about clutch and I'm with you.
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  He wasn't great, the whole. Game No.
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  He's crazy. It wasn't awful.
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  But is there anybody that you want with the ball?
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  No. No.
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  No, of course not. In the whole league.
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  Absolutely. What has this done to his status
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  in the league? These play offs.
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  It has taken him to. Rocket ship.
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  Super stardom it has taken that overrated tag.
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  Does America know who Tyrese Halliburton is now?
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  Absolutely. He is.
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  He is a top ten conversation player and maybe even higher
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  than that. Look at the game one one was
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  thought it was the three was in there being a two.
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  I mean, some of the clutch shots this cat has hit and some of the
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  plays. And then I did something I don't
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  think I've ever done before. After the game, I didn't turn it
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  off and to go search because I knew there was no baseball.
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  So I stayed I I got to give credit where credit is due and I
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  know this guy's incredibly popular and I just haven't been
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  able to form an opinion because I don't listen.
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  Scott Van Pelt. Is phenomena.
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  He is great. My God, him and Halliburt on the
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  on the podium after the game last night.
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  Excellent questions, no hesitation, You know, following
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  his his guest, in this case, Halliburton, you know, kibbutz
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  in a little bit Halliburton giving him you know what at the
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  end of the piece about you know, you about your take and how bad
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  it was and SVP no, is that Fosco SVP God, he's good.
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  He's I know I'm late to. The party you're very late to
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  the party because he's always been one of my favorites and we.
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  Started on the. Golf Channel, Yeah, when he came
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  in from the Golf Channel, well, really, by introduction, OK, he
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  was just another anchor when he started at Sports Center, but it
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  was on ESPN Radio. He had the midday show with
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  Ryan. Solo.
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  Yes, and that was by, I mean of national shows, far and away my
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  favorite. A really because sensibilities,
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  kind of goofiness, some of those things aligned with me.
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  But secondly, they would actually talk college sports,
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  something that was a priority on national radio.
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  They were one of the people is actually why I like Colin Coward
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  when he first went to ESPN Radio 'cause at the time he would talk
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  college sports. We know now he just talks about
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  USC and that's basically it. But he was one of those.
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  He lives in Chicago, so maybe he'll talk about northwestern
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  Illinois. Probably not.
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  But Scott Van Pelt and to see what he has developed that
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  Sports Center show into the last half decade, for me, it's must
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  watch. And I know you don't we don't it
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  it's funny to me, but for me, because of his personality, it
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  is a radio show on television in a way.
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  There is more than just highlights, but there are also
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  our old school love of highlight.
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  It just there's so much that makes it good.
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  But you mentioned the big piece. I think that gets lost with him.
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  Is those conversations he has with the players or?
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  And they they respect him too. And you talk about Barkley, when
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  he'll get and he'll get Barkley out after games next year.
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  That will be excellent because Van Pelt is as good of setting
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  people up, asking the right question.
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  He does. He listens.
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  He listens. He's excellent.
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  Yeah, no, he there's no question about that.
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  All right, Did you find that Bulls intro I just got?
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  To hear it, 1997 game six, they actually put it on TV.
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  The actual. Intro The actual intro.
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  See the NBC logo higher on there.
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  The same thing for last Jordan. There it is.
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  Unbelievable. That's how you start.
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  Goosebumps, baby. An NBA game?
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  Yes. That's goosebumps.
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  Not with ESPN anymore, though. Oh my God, get another.
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  Commercial in there. Got to pay the bills.
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  Let's get Nate in here real quick and then we'll get back to
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  it. God, that was good.
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  What a time. What a time to be a fan, right?
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  You know, at least this I remember telling the kids and
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  they were young at the time, right.
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  Cindy's boys and my son remember this because this is special.
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  I I'll vividly remember this. It was so good.
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  Nate, let me get the on here. Let me get this Nate, it's my
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  first day. Welcome, Nate, How are you?
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  I'm. Doing good, hey?
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  I guess this does kind of pertain to the champion, both
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  championships going on right now.
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  So have you guys seen the $13 parlay that something has out
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  there for is it $270,000? It's he spent yeah, that yes and
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  they were offering him at one point like a week ago we talked
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  about it 85,000 or something. OK, that would.
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  Yeah, that would. Before the game yesterday,
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  before last night's game, it was 123,000.
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  Was it? What do you guys do in that
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  situation? I'm.
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  Smashing. Cash out.
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  I'm smashing. Cash out as fast.
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  As I can. I mean, because this was a $13
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  bet. So he's like you and I, Nate and
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  Trent, you know, he's not betting 1300.
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  He's betting $13. He's a nickel and diamond, Yeah.
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  We're not, we're not not betting anything like.
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  That So what? So and I wonder what they're
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  offering him today. I haven't seen it yet.
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  I've been trying to look and he hasn't hasn't.
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  I hope he's OK after what happened.
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  I mean. But he's still it's the OKC one
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  where you're way more confident than the Oilers.
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  Yeah, that's true. He, he says he's still hanging
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  out. So, you know, maybe it only
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  dropped a little bit, but I, I would have, I don't think I
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  would have made it this far if I would have that 80. 1000
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  absolutely not. I'm with you, Nate.
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  Good to hear from you, man. Have a good weekend.
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  Thank you for. The call if you guys too.
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  Yeah, yeah, I would have. Cashed out, yes, there's a.
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  Way when I saw the 85,000 I mean for 13 bucks, goodbye.
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  So I won a DraftKings contest where I got a bunch of free bets
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  and it's a lot more than I normally.
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  How did you how? Did you win that again?
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  So it was last Friday. It was like a king of the
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  diamond, something like that. You basically had to bet a home
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  run parlay if the guy hit, hit a home run then and that team that
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  they were on scored the most runs that night.
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  You. Split the $1,000,000 pot.
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  So it was Trevor Lardic that I bet he hit a whole run.
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  That was when the Twins, down 6 three in the ninth, came back to
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  tie it, then scored six in the 10th to win 12/6.
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  So they scored the most runs on. So if they wouldn't have scored
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  the most runs you wouldn't have, I would have.
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  Yeah, I would have won my bet. So this was one of these
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  DraftKings promotions. It was one of those promotions
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  and like, OK, I'll do it. I was actually sitting at the I
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  Cubs game. Were you?
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  And open up the app. Oh, Twins are playing at 9?
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  That was the other thing. There's other games going on.
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  I probably wouldn't even bet Larneck.
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  But yeah, you were forced. To but I just opened it up and
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  it was like 730 and like, well, there's only a couple of games
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  left. All right, well, let's just jump
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  on the home team, throw my $10 bet in there.
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  But everybody else that also bet on the Twins and had their home
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  run prop hit are in this pool and you just dippy it up, split
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  it so it was $500 bets 7 of them.
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  You got 7 free $500 bets. I bet 2 and I'm the two times
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  that I hit. Just as Nate was saying.
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  I'm just nervous putting in these free bets.
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  They're not costing me a nickel, but it's because it's 50 times
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  more than I'd want. You and you've got what's what's
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  our guys? I can almost read the script
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  from you see the script in my head.
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  You've got a certain amount of hours to get to redeem these.
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  So I have to have the bets in by tomorrow morning at like 9:30.
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  How many of you used 2? Tell me you used the Pacers.
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  I used no the Dodgers to win the World Series.
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  Oh, you can buy futures. Good plus 280 and the Thunder in
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  like series price -2 1/2 games basically can't go to a Game 6.
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  I feel like I'm in trouble. I did four straight now out of
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  the Pacers or four out of the Thunder for that one to catch,
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  but I got five more of them. I don't know.
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  And you have to use them I. Have to use them by tomorrow
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  morning. We got to buy, you got to you
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  got to bet your bears. No, I want to win.
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  I want to win these. But if but if I mean stranger
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  things have. Happened.
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  Not that strange. Oh, sure.
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  No. We can we can go back and find a
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  team that came out of nowhere to win this thing.
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  But not a back to organizations like the Chicago Bears, OK?
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  Like, I don't understand your reluctance to better Minnesota's
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  franchise. I.
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  Have a lot of reluctancies. These things are just going to
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  go up and poof, aren't they? Because I'm going to be too
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  scared to actually bet on the. 5 They're free.
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  They're not costing you anything.
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  Just do it right. Just do it.
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  Just find a couple of you got to be involved in the NFL.
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  I know what you would do, you would just take all of them and
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  bet 7 different teams. I would or I'd name the final on
• 19:30
  Clemson. OK, Yeah.
• 19:31
  Because we both like Clemson and that number's coming down.
• 19:34
  Maybe sprinkle a little on. Who else do you like in college
• 19:37
  football? No, you won a national
• 19:39
  championship. Yeah, to win a natty.
• 19:40
  No. Nobody.
• 19:41
  Yet. Nobody at the prices that they
• 19:44
  are either. Texas.
• 19:46
  No. Yeah, I mean, I can understand
• 19:50
  why people are, but I can't get past it either.
• 19:52
  It's Texas. It's Sarc.
• 19:54
  We'll see where it goes. Well, fascinating.
• 19:56
  Game one was unbelievable. Now the point spread tomorrow.
• 20:02
  Our Sunday, rather Game 2 is Sunday.
• 20:04
  Sunday. That's right.
• 20:04
  Yeah, Sunday night. No, no, back-to-back of.
• 20:06
  Course, no, we've there's nothing Saturday.
• 20:09
  There's a hockey's tonight, basketball is Sunday.
• 20:12
  And by the way, what, what are we doing?
• 20:14
  ESPN Red Sox, Yankees The two best teams in baseball are
• 20:19
  playing each other this weekend. But they have no flexibility.
• 20:21
  I get it, they don't, but that's that doesn't say mean that
• 20:24
  that's the right policy and nobody saw Detroit, the Cubs.
• 20:28
  But I'll I'll give you that. But come on, have a little
• 20:32
  wiggle room and it's even worse off the tonight's game.
• 20:35
  Not that I would be watching anyways because I'm watching
• 20:38
  puck. It's on.
• 20:39
  Apple, but you would have watched the first before the
• 20:43
  hockey started. Last last Friday, when there was
• 20:45
  nothing on but baseball, Dodgers, Yankees.
• 20:47
  It's on Apple TV. Your frustrations.
• 20:53
  Mounting over there, I could definitely feel them.
• 20:55
  We'll take a time. And our teams are getting
• 20:57
  together this weekend. Oh, you know what that's true
• 20:59
  is? It important it is because both
• 21:01
  teams might be fighting for wild card.
• 21:03
  Could be, could be. Could be the decider home field.
• 21:06
  Here's what I don't know if I want to say this because I hate
• 21:10
  going down this path. I'm anxious to see if my fellow
• 21:14
  countrymen decide to cut off their nose to spite their face.
• 21:17
  How so? Because we don't travel to the
• 21:19
  United States anymore, I see. And in the past.
• 21:22
  I've been there for these ones. The ballpark would be.
• 21:26
  I don't know. 65% Saskatchewan and Manitoba residents.
• 21:31
  Maybe that's quite OK. 5050 close.
• 21:34
  There's a lot of Blue Jay fans there.
• 21:36
  And I'll tell you when I was there for the playoff game
• 21:38
  couple years ago, there are not many Blue Jay fans that were in
• 21:40
  the building for that, but for regular season for regular.
• 21:42
  Season especially. Weekend school's out.
• 21:45
  Yeah, weekend there. It's not.
• 21:46
  You go to the end of June. Weekend series.
• 21:48
  Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of Blue Jays.
• 21:50
  Yes, Pack. Normally, yes, normally.
• 21:53
  But listen tonight is what you're saying, OK?
• 21:54
  I wanna see tonight 'cause I got it.
• 21:57
  I, I, I think they're gonna come.
• 21:58
  And why wouldn't you? You don't stay.
• 22:00
  We can't. We'll take a time out and I
• 22:03
  apologize. I don't do any politics in here.
• 22:05
  If that was taken the wrong way, that's not the.
• 22:08
  That wasn't politics. I don't think it was either,
• 22:10
  right? That was just kind of where
• 22:12
  we're at in the world. We'll take a time out, we'll
• 22:13
  come back and we will talk to Bill Seals about Iowa State
• 22:17
  topics. Miller and Condon underway on a
• 22:20
  Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
• 22:21
  Network. Miller Kahn to 12:30 on a
• 22:35
  Friday, still to come this hour, we'll give 4 of you an
• 22:37
  opportunity to play for the chicken coop contest that coming
• 22:41
  up Q to call coming up in about, oh, 15 minutes or thereabouts.
• 22:45
  Let's talk some Iowa State, shall we?
• 22:47
  Bill Seals he covers them for cyclonereport.com part of the
• 22:51
  for now rivals soon to be all under the on three umbrella and
• 22:55
  Bill joins us and he Bill will still be here covering Iowa
• 22:59
  State under that new name when we get into July.
• 23:02
  Bill Trenton, Ken, thank you as always for coming on.
• 23:05
  I know you got a busy weekend, but I I want to ask you and I've
• 23:08
  asked this question too. I think now everybody that we've
• 23:10
  talked to the covers Iowa State when it comes to Halliburton.
• 23:14
  Did did you see any signs that you know, we saw a really good
• 23:18
  basketball player in college, right?
• 23:19
  But did we? Did you ever dream?
• 23:21
  Or not dream? Maybe, but foresee this coming?
• 23:25
  Well, it was an abbreviated run for him at Iowa State just
• 23:30
  because of the freshman year. Yet he was sewing some
• 23:33
  potential. And then I felt really broke out
• 23:35
  as a sophomore and then he suffered that.
• 23:38
  I believe it was a wrist injury or broken wrist that that put
• 23:42
  him out and. Then he tried to come back
• 23:44
  right? Yep, Yep.
• 23:46
  And the stock had had started to soar.
• 23:48
  There is sophomore year and it just become apparent that he was
• 23:52
  he was going to GoPro. I think that was even the case
• 23:55
  probably probably before he got hurt.
• 23:57
  And then yeah. And it, yeah, it I, I never saw
• 24:01
  him to this to the extent you know, you, you mentioned him
• 24:05
  with the greats, the playoff clutch shot greats that you,
• 24:09
  you, the shots you've seen over the years.
• 24:11
  And yeah, never, never saw that coming.
• 24:14
  So here we are and you know, the question always goes for me and
• 24:18
  and what you do with so much recruiting, is there a trickle
• 24:21
  down effect? I mean, people think that there
• 24:23
  is, but you talk to these high school kids, you know them, a
• 24:26
  lot of them so far removed. Oh, he played at Iowa State.
• 24:28
  But for them, and that's when I was 9.
• 24:31
  You know, is there a trickle down effect that you see in the
• 24:34
  recruiting something that isn't something that's a fun talking
• 24:36
  point? Or is there reality, a reality
• 24:39
  that a guy that's one of the top players in the league can lead
• 24:41
  to success and recruiting success for Iowa State?
• 24:44
  Well, I think so. And I, and I think so,
• 24:46
  especially because where he's from, he's from the state of
• 24:51
  Wisconsin and TJ Jr. Blunt, another one of the the
• 24:56
  staff members do a great job in that state.
• 25:00
  Tyrese is from the same high school that they just signed
• 25:04
  somebody this Sunday. He'll be showing up in Ames.
• 25:07
  Xavion Mitchell, same high school broke a lot of Tyrese's
• 25:12
  record. So, you know, up in that state,
• 25:15
  there's name recognition and then you look at what he did in
• 25:18
  the playoffs against Milwaukee, how how well that was
• 25:22
  chronicled, you know, with his dad and and Giannis and and the
• 25:26
  ex boys back in his home state. So yeah, I think especially it
• 25:30
  helps in that the state of Wisconsin and and just in the
• 25:34
  recruiting efforts in general, you know, and also he's played
• 25:38
  an active role with the Iowa State.
• 25:40
  We will collective donated some money with that.
• 25:44
  So not only their name recognition, but I think real,
• 25:47
  actual, tangible dollars and cents he's thrown back into the
• 25:51
  program as well. Yeah, No, Don.
• 25:53
  I mean, he just didn't, you know, pass through, if you will,
• 25:56
  right on his way to the next level.
• 25:58
  I mean, his dog is named Ames. So how about?
• 26:02
  That right so that obviously left an impact on him and
• 26:06
  certainly good to see Bill Seals is joining us.
• 26:08
  All right Bill, so you mentioned basketball are are we starting
• 26:12
  to get close to the the beginning of the summer practice
• 26:16
  schedule? Are we a week away?
• 26:18
  The team starting to assemble in Ames.
• 26:21
  Yeah, yeah. In fact, that's good, good
• 26:24
  timing. You mentioned that Kenny, I
• 26:26
  rolled out of the first thing this morning, had a piece on
• 26:29
  Killian Torre, one of the incoming freshmen.
• 26:33
  He's on his way actually tonight he'll he'll arrive.
• 26:38
  A lot of them will file in on Sunday.
• 26:42
  Xavion Mitchell, I've got a conversation with him coming up.
• 26:45
  I just talked to Jamarian Bateman actually within the last
• 26:48
  hour. I'll have something worked in on
• 26:51
  him and his reporting on Sunday. So yeah, I think we're we're
• 26:55
  getting real close. The summer workouts.
• 26:59
  I know we always like to talk about the media availabilities
• 27:01
  that will be forthcoming as well.
• 27:03
  So lots of good stuff and and right in the middle here of
• 27:07
  football camps and and official business.
• 27:10
  Let's talk a little bit about those guys as is it different?
• 27:13
  How different is it? Maybe that's a better way to
• 27:15
  term it a bill. It felt like kind of beginning
• 27:18
  of Matt Campbell. They're all right, they're going
• 27:19
  to 0 in. There's going to be a weekend or
• 27:21
  two that they're going to do that.
• 27:23
  But you have high school recruiting that's obviously
• 27:25
  different because the transfer portal, how different does it
• 27:28
  feel as you get to June now then compared to maybe even 3-4 years
• 27:31
  ago as it pertains to these high school kids?
• 27:35
  Well, it's a lot of, a lot of things have changed and it, it
• 27:38
  seems like it could vary maybe from class to class as well.
• 27:42
  I thought that, well, one, one thing you've seen out of Matt
• 27:46
  Campbell and his staff is they really like to work ahead on a
• 27:50
  lot of these, a lot of these prospects, they're the first
• 27:53
  ones to offer. A lot of times they're the 1st
• 27:55
  to get them on campus for a visit, a game day, spring visit,
• 27:59
  what have you. And I think all of those efforts
• 28:02
  early on in their high school careers lead to what we've seen
• 28:06
  this year in this 2026 class. Now, they had been even before
• 28:11
  the, the, the, the Braden Thomas decommitment earlier this week.
• 28:16
  I saw that one coming, but they had 13 with him.
• 28:21
  They've got 12 and they're they're in great shape.
• 28:24
  You look at here in the transfer portal era, that's a rarity on
• 28:27
  Kansas is another one that's really loaded up early in this
• 28:31
  process. But you know, with that it comes
• 28:34
  you got to hold on to these kids.
• 28:35
  Now Iowa State's got a dozen. I think they're hoping to land a
• 28:38
  few more out of this weekend and and really be in great shape.
• 28:42
  But again, we've we've talked about Jet Tamala.
• 28:45
  He'll he'll visit this weekend. Bama supposedly trying to get
• 28:49
  him back on another. I would assume that D and OV
• 28:53
  with him to follow up the one from Iowa State.
• 28:56
  Daniel Howard's another one. He he continues to add offers.
• 29:00
  He's one of the D line commits. So yeah, they're they're
• 29:03
  reaching back out to these guys and other schools that are Iowa
• 29:07
  State commits. So now the work is, yeah,
• 29:10
  between now and when they can sign him in December.
• 29:12
  You got to hold on to him. So how does Campbell go about
• 29:15
  this this weekend when it comes to Tamala, knowing that he was
• 29:18
  in, He's at Alabama's campus last week by sounds of things.
• 29:22
  You just said you what? They want him back on an
• 29:24
  official coming up. How will Campbell handle it with
• 29:27
  him? Will he, you know, push him to
• 29:29
  reaffirm his commitment? Does Campbell just give him his
• 29:33
  space? What what do you think?
• 29:35
  How does this happen this weekend with Campbell and
• 29:39
  Tamala? Well, I think that there will be
• 29:42
  a lot of Speaking of Tamala and Campbell, I think there's going
• 29:45
  to be a lot of one-on-one time with those two, certainly with
• 29:49
  Jake Waters, the quarterbacks coach, Taylor Mauser, Mauser
• 29:54
  very underrated I think on a national scale and in terms of
• 29:57
  the job he does recruiting. So between those three, I think
• 30:02
  that they'll try to show him the best experience that they can
• 30:05
  remind him first and foremost why he chose Iowa State.
• 30:09
  You know, the cycling were kind of the ones that the, the, the
• 30:13
  program that started this whole trend with him.
• 30:17
  The the first offer, the first big, you know, big time power
• 30:20
  for offer that that he got and show him why he made that
• 30:24
  decision in the 1st place. And I think they probably hope
• 30:29
  he doesn't go back to Tuscaloosa either, because I think if, if
• 30:32
  he does end up going back there or the the odds are probably not
• 30:36
  good. But you know, this, this
• 30:37
  coaching staff, they they'll do a great job.
• 30:39
  They've already got a few Q BS identified.
• 30:43
  I wanted one certainly in particular that they'll pivot
• 30:47
  to. I think they hope they don't
• 30:48
  have to pivot to, but this other one that I've heard about looks
• 30:53
  pretty darn good on film as well.
• 30:54
  So they've got contingency plans, but they certainly love
• 30:57
  to add another four-star QB into the mix and get get him to spurn
• 31:03
  the the Bama offer. And I think Alabama has a
• 31:05
  quarterback visiting this weekend that has also visited
• 31:08
  Oregon and he wants to play both days and he Oregon and he wants
• 31:12
  to play both baseball and football in college.
• 31:16
  He can't do it here. Can't do it at Iowa State.
• 31:18
  No, but that's not an Iowa State kid.
• 31:20
  But that's who Alabama's after. You're hoping Alabama gets a
• 31:22
  commitment from him this weekend and changes things, obviously
• 31:25
  with Tamala. Well, Tamala's getting a lot of
• 31:27
  the headlines here. Who would it be?
• 31:29
  Another one of the headline guys visiting this weekend, A big
• 31:32
  time prospect, either commitment or a guy that they feel good
• 31:35
  about that's coming in this weekend that has some of that
• 31:37
  maybe national acclaim. Well, I think I'm I'm going to
• 31:41
  name. I'm going to name 3 right away,
• 31:44
  a couple of offensive lineman in that three, Pete Aglitus from
• 31:48
  Ohio. He's a big big 67285 offensive
• 31:53
  tackle. Also Owen Winder, he'll he'll be
• 31:57
  back on another official visit to a Michigan kids a couple of O
• 32:02
  lineman and big 10 territory. I've heard that they well,
• 32:07
  they've already got 2 offensive lineman committed.
• 32:10
  I've heard they want to find 3. So I think Eglitus probably has
• 32:14
  got the higher profile right now on the offer list.
• 32:18
  I'm not sure if that means they're going to have to wait a
• 32:20
  couple weeks longer. And it makes you wonder if
• 32:23
  they'll take an Owen Winder commitment to this weekend.
• 32:26
  They get him back so that those two offensive lineman for one
• 32:31
  more spot in this 2026 class. Then also over at in in the
• 32:37
  state of Nebraska, we've talked to ad nauseam about this, their
• 32:40
  recruiting efforts, this rising senior class over in Nebraska.
• 32:46
  It's a big one. Darian Jones is then a an
• 32:50
  athlete that's going to play cornerback.
• 32:52
  I think with Iowa State, Iowa, Nebraska, I, I think I, I've
• 32:58
  heard Nebraska maybe a distant third just because they waited
• 33:02
  too long with him. I think it's the Cyhawk battle
• 33:05
  with, with Darien Jones, 62170. He's a borderline 4 star kid #2
• 33:11
  in Nebraska's 2026 class jet Tamala happens to be #1 So they
• 33:16
  love to get Jones. They got Jones coming in this
• 33:19
  weekend. Might be another couple weeks
• 33:21
  before they hear on him, but I think they're in great shape.
• 33:25
  He's the number one priority to get that 2nd cornerback in this
• 33:29
  class. And so I think those are
• 33:30
  probably as far as the uncommitted guys, those are
• 33:34
  three of the big ones. Well, part of the country is
• 33:36
  Evan Jacobson in This Week. Yeah, right.
• 33:40
  He's making the whirlwind tour across the United States.
• 33:45
  So yeah, supposedly he's supposed to be visiting midweek
• 33:49
  and I I would think that'd have to come next week, but still
• 33:52
  nothing definitive on him. But they had Isaac Jensen, Omaha
• 33:56
  tight end in last week. Ian Premer is still supposed to
• 34:01
  come in next week. He'll he'll be the blue chipper
• 34:04
  out of that tight end group. He's a four-star and I think the
• 34:07
  Cyclone's lead with him right now.
• 34:09
  Yeah, Jensen, he's got a couple of big visits set up himself.
• 34:12
  So him and Tamala together, it's it's not a package deal, but if
• 34:17
  Tamala stays committed, we get into we get through June, Jensen
• 34:21
  still looking at home. How much is that going to help
• 34:23
  Iowa states cause? I think it, I think it most
• 34:26
  definitely helps Iowa State's 'cause I think when, when Jet
• 34:30
  was a a firm commitment, they've also got a Murray and Jackson
• 34:35
  from that same high school program.
• 34:37
  He he's gonna play safety at Iowa State.
• 34:40
  Having those two certainly I think helped Iowa State make
• 34:43
  that final four list of Isaac Jensen get them in that
• 34:47
  conversation. He had a has had a ton of
• 34:50
  offers. So he had a great visit by all
• 34:54
  tents and purposes. And I think if they want to get
• 34:56
  2 tight ends here, they've got none right now.
• 34:59
  I think 4 they're in in pretty good shape with you mentioned
• 35:03
  Jacobson, Kevin Sullivan's another one headed to Iowa State
• 35:07
  this weekend. So there's your four and I, I, I
• 35:10
  would have to stay confidence level.
• 35:11
  Right now. I'm actually putting Ian Premer
• 35:14
  at the top. And I think Isaac Jensen, you
• 35:16
  mentioned with those connections with the Cyclones, I think he's
• 35:20
  probably #2 and I think that they would probably be doing
• 35:25
  somersaults down the high, down down the hallway in the Stark
• 35:30
  Performance Center if they were able to get both of those guys
• 35:32
  in this class. That'd be a a huge haul.
• 35:35
  Follow it the weekend etcetera at cyclonereport.com.
• 35:39
  Bill Seals from the Rivals Network will keep you up to
• 35:42
  speed on that. And Bill, thanks for doing this.
• 35:45
  Appreciate it as always. And we will track you down next
• 35:47
  week to get the recap of this weekend and preview next.
• 35:50
  Thanks Bill Seals, have a great weekend.
• 35:52
  Looking forward to it guys, have a good one.
• 35:54
  Yep. Thank you Bill Seals,
• 35:56
  cyclonereport.com and the good news for a lot of people, for
• 35:59
  us, because we like Bill and for Iowa State fans, Bill site gets
• 36:05
  folded into on three because there is no Iowa State on three.
• 36:09
  So that's good for Bill Seals. You're a good guy.
• 36:11
  Not losing coverage. Either Absolutely not.
• 36:13
  No. Uh huh.
• 36:15
  I I think this is a win for us as subscribers.
• 36:17
  Yeah, I do. I'm all in.
• 36:20
  I'm a subscriber to the site now, Full disclosure, I
• 36:23
  subscribe to Sipples because he was first one to go over there
• 36:26
  right at the Hawkeye. Hawkeye.
• 36:29
  No, Nosker rather nation. Anyways, we'll take a time out.
• 36:33
  But before we do that, the phone lines in 321 are open
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  Radio Network Hi Mallory Condon, welcome back to the Iowa Sports
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  Radio Network. Time for the chicken coop
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  in West Des Moines and on oral labor Drive in Anchedy, just
• 37:21
  southwest of the DMAC campus on oral labor.
• 37:25
  Shane, Steve, Paul and Brett. The tiebreaker is SGA and Tyrese
• 37:32
  combined points in Game 2. By the way, did you see this
• 37:35
  Bobby Whit catch yesterday? My God, we got a hustle though.
• 37:39
  We're going to. Oh, sorry.
• 37:39
  Sorry, sorry. Yeah, I forgot about that.
• 37:41
  Shane. How are you Shane?
• 37:44
  Yeah. Panthers or Oilers tonight?
• 37:48
  Panthers Thunder give 11 1/2 to the Pacers in Game 2.
• 37:54
  Yes. Guess what Thunder Thunder Cubs,
• 37:59
  Tigers Who wins the series? Cubs sovereignty or journalism
• 38:05
  head to head does don't have to win the Belmont sovereignty or
• 38:08
  journalism sovereignty. SGA and Tyrese combine points
• 38:13
  closest without going over Shane 44.
• 38:20
  Thanks Shane. Have a good weekend man.
• 38:23
  You too. Thank you, Steve.
• 38:24
  So how are you, Steve? Hey guys.
• 38:27
  Panthers, Oilers Game 2. We'll go Oilers, Thunder give 11
• 38:33
  1/2 to the Pacers. Too many Pacers.
• 38:37
  Cubs, Tigers Who wins the Series?
• 38:40
  No Cardinals. Sovereignty or journalism head
• 38:44
  to head? Journalism.
• 38:47
  SGA Tyrese total points closest without going over 55.
• 38:52
  Have a good weekend Steve. Thank you Paul.
• 38:56
  Hi Paul. Yes Sir.
• 38:59
  Panthers are Oilers tonight in Game 2.
• 39:03
  Oilers thunders -11 1/2 over the Pacers.
• 39:08
  Pacers, Cubs, Tigers game are the three-game series.
• 39:12
  Who wins it? Cubbies.
• 39:14
  Sovereignty or journalism head to head sovereignty SGA and
• 39:19
  Tyrese total points closest without going over. 55 Thank.
• 39:24
  You Sir, have a good weekend Paul and Brett brings it to a
• 39:28
  close. Hi Brett.
• 39:31
  Hey Florida or Edmonton? Who wins Game 2?
• 39:35
  Florida OKC gives 11 1/2 to the Pacers on Sunday.
• 39:40
  Pacers. Cubs, Tigers Who wins the
• 39:42
  Series? Well, I'm sitting here enjoying
• 39:45
  some Detroit style pizza in Detroit going to the game the
• 39:49
  series. Are you really good for you?
• 39:51
  Yeah. I'll go with the Tigers.
• 39:54
  Is Detroit style pizza underrated?
• 39:56
  I. Think.
• 39:58
  It's a little overrated. You think it's overrated?
• 40:00
  I love it. It's.
• 40:01
  It's it's OK, OK, Sovereignty or journalism.
• 40:05
  This guy. Yeah, OK.
• 40:06
  Sovereignty journalism head to head sovereignty SGA Tyrese
• 40:11
  total points closest without going over. 1.
• 40:15
  Enjoy the enjoy the series, Brett, You lucky duck.
• 40:18
  It should be great stuff. Thank you.
• 40:20
  Thank you, Brett. Appreciate it.
• 40:21
  How about that? That's awesome.
• 40:22
  Pretty cool. And your thoughts on the pizza?
• 40:25
  Detroit. Detroit.
• 40:26
  Style. Chicago style.
• 40:27
  Wow, in the deep dish that's. What we do here Hot takes.
• 40:31
  You know what? You could be right.
• 40:32
  It's really good. I'm always right.
• 40:34
  Yeah, you are a lot. Except for 150 most days.
• 40:39
  Yeah, it's been so bad. Miller and Condon, Our 2 is Next
• 40:42
  Iowa Sports Radio Network.