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3 Guys Before The Game - Gary Jennings Visits (Episode 461) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hey, Hey, what's up. It's time. It's time. It's time
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  for three guys before the Game. Ready or not? Here we go.
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  It's episode four hundred and sixty one, and we gotta we got a dandy
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  for you. It's fair to say it's a dandy. Oh absolutely, double
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  d double dandy. That one, double dandy. It's episode four to six
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  one or Summer series, and we've got with us. Former Mountaineer football standout
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  Gary Jennings joins us, repeat visitor. You remember when we had them.
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  We did, but it's been a while, been several years now. I
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  don't want to say he's getting old, but when I just had birthday in
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  March, he's not getting old. I'm just saying this. He might not
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  be getting old, but he's past twenty five. That's all I'm saying.
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  He's still got the jets we're talking about. They can still burn it.
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  That can't be that old running like that. You reach your peak athleticism at
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  twenty eight. So he's still got two. He's almost saying, he's rolling
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  nice. It's turning quickly turn By the time some people listen to this,
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  it'll be nice out again. It'll be nice out again. Yeah. Well,
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  here's a guy that's down in South Florida where it's always nice. Please
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  welcome to the program form out in here standouts now xfl or Gary Jennings,
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  Gary, thanks so much for being with us, My man, what's going
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  on here? Right? How you doing? We're wonderful. How are you
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  doing all right? Can't complain, can't complain. Congratulations on your season.
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  As you might imagine, we kind of stole a few looks at your highlights
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  during the year, and uh at punt at punt fake, pretty nice,
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  punt fake, pretty nice. It was. It was really nice, really
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  nice, man, A lot of space for my life. Have you noticed,
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  like your plays are memorable? That's a good point his play. I
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  mean, you make plays. Guys make plays. Guys make plays. But
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  when you make a play like you make a play, that's like an iconic
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  histake, right, historic place, historic place always always is what I do,
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  man, It's what I do. I make plays exactly. I mean,
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  obviously, you may you may be remembered here for a certain pass that
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  you caught. I don't know. I don't I don't I don't think.
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  I don't know if I really remember. I don't know. Well, don't
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  worry. We're gonna show it. We're gonna show it about nine hundred times
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  on the screen. While you're talking. Yeah, so you're you're always going
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  to be remembered for that one and then obviously this season on the Fake Punt.
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  So we'll get into all that kind of stuff. So I was teasing
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  when we started there in the beginning. You just celebrated last a couple months
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  ago. Now May sixth or March sixth, You're twenty sixth birthday, So
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  congratulations, and we chatted really super thank you, thank you. Yeah,
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  we chatted just a quick second before we started recording, and you said,
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  yeah, I don't feel old yet. Well, no, you're not gonna
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  feel old at twenty six. He's a long time before you. And the
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  way you take care of your body, I mean, you're you gotta feel
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  good and bouncy. Huh. I feel really bouncy. You know. I'm
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  really into this health esoteric type of deal. So yeah, I feel like
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  I'm twenty something still and I'm moving. Hold on, he used a big
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  word, the esoteric. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. So what
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  does that mean? What are you doing? Dive into it here? What
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  does that mean? Man? I'm I'm on everything. Man, Uh,
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  eggs, beef, fruit, you know that's uh, you know that that's
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  that's diet. Really I should die that way, you know, very big
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  on my workouts, big on you know, getting you know, out in
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  the sun, all that type of stuff. Big health guy man, just
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  you know, just watching when I put in my body and all that.
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  Okay. So this is not a surprise because if you recall for our listeners
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  out there there when he was on the first time, this is the kid
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  that pretended that he was sick during the NFL draft so we could stay home.
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  Combine right, combine, combine, that's combine. And then and then
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  he was the kid that asked his parents for a blocking sled, I believe.
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  So yeah, all that and all that, okay. So you're not
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  you're always at the cutting edge of this stuff. So now walk me through
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  how your diet has evolved. Perhaps, what's the most recent changes to your
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  diet that you've made, and what is your diet right now? Um well,
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  I'll start with what my diet is right now. My diet right now
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  is consists of basically you could say it's amil based, but it consists of
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  you could say, eggs in the morning through to go along with that.
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  You know, I'm working out, then I'm having beef. I'm having steak.
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  You know, I'm eating really like one to one and a half maybe
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  even stakes a day, No, depending on what I'm doing. So per
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  day, honestly per day, per day, per day, oh, per
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  day. I know, it's uh, it can be quite uh what's the
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  word, uh, challenge price, you know, challenge No, not challenging.
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  I you know, I'm a I'm a girl master. Now it's not
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  challenging to do. So you know, I love cooking, you know,
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  and I have a routine down, you know with doing it. So uh,
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  I love it, you know, and I crave it. Actually,
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  you know, with how much I eat it. I crave it. So
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  that's that's all I really eat. So gary, that's heavy protein. I
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  assume light on the carbs. How many times are you eating to day?
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  Honestly? Probably twice, like to two real meals? Right, and and
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  uh if I do snack in between, like I'm not afraid of cookies or
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  anything, but like I'm eating fruit or whatever, so in between if I
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  get hungry. Yeah, So okay, So do you have an idea you
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  could you try to? Are you in a calorie area? Are you going
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  thirty five hundred? You're going four thousand? What are you doing? Calorie?
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  And that's a cool thing about this diet. You don't gotta necessarily count
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  calories, you know, Uh, beef the way beef satiates you, so
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  to speak. You can eat however much you want and you won't get fat,
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  you won't get whatever. It means the most nutrient dense thing. And
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  that's for all the vegans out there too as well. Yeah, what what
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  steak are you getting it? Were you are? This? Is this?
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  Are you going? Filet? Going ribi? What do you? I switched
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  up in between? But I'm big, I'm a ribi guy. Man,
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  I'm a man. Yeah, a little a little fat for the little fat
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  for the flavor. No, the fat for the flavor. And it's good
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  for your hormones too, yeah, or you know testosterone production all that.
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  Sure. So so preparation wise on the steak, I mean, what are
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  we doing? Are you going? Salt? Pepper? Is everything on the
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  grill? What are you doing? Uh? I'll switch it up. It's
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  it's salt and I have a couple of seasonings. There's just one buttery steak
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  out season guy used. But it's very it's very simple. I let the
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  I let the steak do most of the talking, or a beef do most
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  of the talking itself, right, and I'll switch from either grilling it to
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  cast iron. I'm a big I'm a big cast iron guy. Sure,
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  huge cast iron guy. Absolutely absolutely acid butter all that type of stuff.
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  Huh So the side that normally accompanies your steak is what no sides. To
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  be honest, I ain't fruit, no sides, So you're going just like
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  a chunk of a chunk of meat and seventy and seventy two apples. Uh
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  So to speak, I'm not an apple guy right now. I'm in my
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  orange and seated watermelon phase right now, South Florida, South Florida. I
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  couldn't be. I couldn't do the steak without the big baked potato though.
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  That's where I'd fall down, one of the many areas i'd fall down.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Are you working with a nutritionists or is this just you
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  have researched this and you know when you're on top of this yourself. I've
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  just had a lot of time to be able to really sit down and see
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  what works out best for my body. So I've tried. I've tried everything.
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  I've tried. You know, I've tried the veganside of things. I've
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  tried you know, heavy, no chicken and everything, and I'm honestly I
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  found really the golden point, uh you know, of what my diet should
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  be. So when you made the transition and you have this going on right
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  now, what does your body feel like now that you're putting this fuel in
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  it? What change? What feels different? I mean, I'm strong,
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  I'm leaning. I'm strong, I'm lean, I'm not tired. My recovery
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  it's a lot better. And the main thing is my weight. You know,
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  it keeps me very lean. I can actually eat. I don't got
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  to really worry about overeating too. That's adding like really any extra pounds.
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  So that's the main thing I notice is my weight. It's keeping my weight
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  at a pretty slim level, which is what I'm trying to do. I'm
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  trying to be as slim and lean as possible. One hundred years ago on
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  the WUVU site, they had you listed at six one, two hundred and
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  four pounds. What are you officially I mean about about that right now?
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  Two or five? Honestly, I was thick. I was thick back in
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  West Virginia compared to what I am now, I'm I'm definitely a lot leaner.
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  Uh, it's it's a different body type. It could be even similar
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  weight, so to speak. I can fluctuate from two h five to two
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  ten. I don't like, I don't really like to get too much over
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  two ten. But uh yeah, it's it's really just how it's put together
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  now as compared to it was in West Virginia. What do you think your
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  percentage of body fat is probably about like four right now, I'm I'm jack
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  right now. I mean you're like, you're like, yeah, like that's
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  perfect. Okay. So this has to go in conjunction with your workout.
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  You said you're working out, walk us through that, some some weights,
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  some running. Is there yogas or stretching? What are we what are we
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  doing? Workout? You got a stretch? You better stretch on a weekly
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  basis. Uh, it can system of a lot of field work. You
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  know. I've been big on you know, working on my craft, uh
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  during the week about and also as well after an afternoon. I'll honestly I've
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  been a big basketball guy lately. Two as well. I'm a hooper two
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  and that keeps off the you know it. It's it transitions well for a
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  receiver. Allows me to be able to move and uh be limber, flexible
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  and also burn off you know, any extra calories so that so they don't
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  stick. Yeah, And on the weekend, I'll you know, hit some
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  movement yoga along with uh, you know, more b ball as well on
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  Saturday. So honestly, it's a lot of field work, maybe one or
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  two lifts per week and be ball man, I'm staying lean, I'm staying
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  strong. Diet are the lifts full body stroy doing two a week, You're
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  hitting everything when you go in there. Uh you you could say that,
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  yes, there's full body, a lot of more, a lot of legs,
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  and to be honest, like the way that my body set up,
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  Yeah, I do a lot of you could say, prehab with my upper
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  body, but I'm not I'm not doing a whole bunch of necessarily like bench
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  pressing, like heavy bench pressing and stuff that I don't really personally, I
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  don't really need that. See it's the functional stuff, right, That's the
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  key, the function, the legs, the core in the stretching, functional
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  movement. Start stop twitch. You's got to have twitch It's like I gotta
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  stop maxing out a couple of times a week, right, I gotta get
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  rid of the bench max. That's nineteen nineties movements. That's the way to
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  go. Yeah, I mean, you need to stop going that fifty two
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  at two twenty five bench. You need you need to pull that man.
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  Well, sometimes I go three fifteen, jump some rope and tell you you'll
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  see you'll see a lot more games. So, if I remember correctly from
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  our last visit, at one point you were on the AAU basketball track,
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  you just said that you're really happy with your hoop game right now. Do
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  you think you could you could make a big twelve basketball team roster right now
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  as a basketball player? Literally? Uh? Actually, every time I go
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  come back home home, I mean, uh in my gym uh down here,
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  you know, playing my pickup games, And I'm not gonna lie there
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  there aren't there's some people that can ball. There's some people that can ball
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  down here. Yeah. They're always asking me to, you know, play
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  their summer leagues. And I can't, you know, du to you know,
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  you know obvious reasons. But um yeah, I mean I'm not gonna
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  lie like not to to my own horn but hoop, so like if like
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  if Hugs called you, if Hugs called you now, and let's just forget
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  about your age, forget about any eligibility. Like he just said, hey,
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  I need you. Could you make them out in your basketball team?
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  Yes? You know, first of all, I'm a I'm a lockdown defender.
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  That's that's one thing that good. That's good. I'm lockdown defender.
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  I'm a facilitator. I'm a smart player, a great motor. And my
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  mid range is I'm not gonna lie. My mid range is unparalleled, unparalleled
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  around hoop. I appreciate, but I will I will say, you know,
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  I will say, my, my, my, my long range could
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  use some more constituency. But hey, we all need things, but we
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  all have things to work on, right, fair point. No, that's
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  that's that's that's totally totally fair. So you had this wild, um interesting
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  spring season in the XFL in that there was this West Virginia connection, right
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  that you're playing with a buddy of ours in in Anthony backed. So that's
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  kind of wild how that always works out. What was that experience like for
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  you? Oh? It was great. What are you doing? What are
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  you doing? Buy a steak? You're buying a steak right now. We're
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  no, No, I do no. Honestly, I'm taking a walk around
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  my neighborhood and talking to behind. Oh it's good, No, it's fine.
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  And people I've been, I've been. I've been back here in like
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  four months, so yeah, people are people are happy to see me back.
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  Yeah, you do. You do what you gotta do. We want
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  you to be social. You do what you gotta do. During the interview,
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  no problems. Hey, listen, better, you're better. You're better
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  than Jared Brown. Last guy we interviewed down in Florida was Jared Brown,
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  the form out of your quarterback. He's a barber and he was cutting someone's
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  hair while he was doing the interview. The funny thing is, I'm literally
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  about to get a haircut, like right now, and I didn't want that.
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  I didn't want it to be buzzing. I didn't want that. That's
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  a that's a funny thing, you know. I like, if I can
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  show your picture right now, I'm literally about to get like I'm literally about
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  to get an haircut. Yeah, if you could you still, yeah,
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  just keep us away from the buzz for right now. That'd be grammy.
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  So Um, so, what was the Anthony experience, like, Oh,
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  it was great. You know, Coach Beck, he was a he was
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  a great Uh. He gave a lot of knowledge and he's I think he's
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  a true definition of someone that uh knows the game very well, played it
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  at a very high level, and also able to uh relate of course,
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  you know, and then playing at a high lip, playing at a high
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  level, able to relate to us as a player, and uh, he
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  pushed us in various ways, and you know, we signed a lot of
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  success in that. Had you talked or met Anthony before hooking up here with
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  the Battle Bucks, I never, I never had never had But you were
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  aware of him, you knew what he'd done, and obviously, yeah,
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  I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew who I knew who
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  he was. But I wasn't, honestly, I was. I never I
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  never had a conversation with him up until meeting him. So walk us through
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  because the last time we had you in was right at that period where you're
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  making that transition from the college game and trying to get into the pro game.
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  What's life been like for you from that side of it, for from
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  the pro football perspective, What have things been like for you? I mean,
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  it's definitely been a roller coaster of things, but uh, it's not
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  really a bud. It's it's been a roller coaster. It's it's no,
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  but it's been a roller coaster of events. And I wouldn't honestly, I
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  wouldn't trade any of those events for for for anything. You know, It's
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  it's made me a much better player, a much better person. And you
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  know, I'm really thankful for every experience that I've got on through. It's
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  just it's been a whild I've I've knew, I've a crazy amount of stories
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  that uh, that I've been through, you know, during this process that
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  that people don't honestly don't even know what properly. So uh, I just
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  feel like in my life, I'm I've been put through a lot of things,
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  uh that I have overcome and I will overcome. And I believe that
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  I can be a template to others and show people that they can get past
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  things or get through things even when things don't necessarily look as uh, when
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  things look bleak. You know, you can get through anything. You can
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  really get through anything if you don't quit. That's the main thing that I
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  see, uh in this possession a lot in this profession is a lot of
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  people, Uh they they're just they just get tired of being let down.
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  That's that's honestly what I see a lot of you know, they get tired
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  of being let down. They get tired of uh really working. And you
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  can you can never lose if you really want to like do this thing,
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  you can. You can never lose that dog. You can't lose that dog
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  in you. You gotta keep going. You can't stop because once you stop,
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  you know, they're they're they're filtering people in every year. He really
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  gotta love it. And it comes down to really like loving what you do
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  and loving your purpose, that's what it really is. And and knowing what
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  your purpose is in life. So that's really really insightful. So let me
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  ask you this, what's been the lowest point along that journey? Lowest point?
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  I mean, um uh uh, I mean, honestly, the first
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  It's funny, I was talking to my brother about this the other day.
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  Uh, the first one the first time when I got waived by Seattle.
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  So now it was that was it was, it was something that I never
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  really felt in my life. Because and honestly, when I really hindsight twenty
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  twenty, there are things I probably could have done, but honestly, I
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  didn't feel like it was deserved in that sense. You know. So.
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  But but like I said, everything happens for a reason, uh, in
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  that sense. But even more recently, I want to say it's it's not
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  it's not really low. I don't like to put low, but things that
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  hurt you could say. I'll tell you. I'll tell you a story.
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  This past training camp in Kansas City, right, I really like it was
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  was kind of determined or predetermined that Gary, like you gotta you gotta make
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  this one count, you know, in order, like you really gotta make
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  this one count. So I'd put all the necessary training into you know.
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  It was with my routes everything like that. You know, I knew my
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  role on special teams, what I had to do, and that was another
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  another thing, my mentality out there on special teams. That's the biggest thing
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  that I learned and that I would preach everyone else is making sure you carve
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  out your role on special teams. But UM main thing coming from that was
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  going into camp, I'm killing it. I was. I promised you like
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  I was flitted fine my role as a gunner. I was, and and
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  I'll showed that this past XPL season as well. You know, numerous coaches
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  came up saying, you know, how elite I was as a gunner.
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  Anyways, going through this camp as a gunner, I'm doing my thing at
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  receiver and literally bam a running to a wall during like the only indoor practice
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  of a year. Literally run into a wall that was five like five yards
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  away or so from the sideline, and I got put out with the concussion
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  for a year. And that was kind of I was really just like a
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  dang moment, like Larry, that close. I knew, I knew what,
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  I knew what could have been. I knew what could have been,
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  And I know people wanted people wanted me to push through, you know,
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  with that because the opportunity was just so close, and the opportunity was just
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  so there. But I couldn't. I couldn't put myself out there in a
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  compromising position to put anything bad out on the field. I don't want to
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  go out there, not because you know, they'll just get rid of you
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  anyway. If you're you're putting bs out there on the field, so I
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  would say that's probably the one of the crazier stories that people don't even really
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  know of. Uh I can I'll tell I can even tell another one.
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  This was back during the COVID year. This was back during COVID twenty twenty.
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  Uh same san Fran called me in for a workout, right and I'm
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  there. And during that process that twenty twenty year, you had to stay
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  there five days before or five days before you get tested every single day for
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  your COVID or whatever. And during literally like I think it was like the
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  second day or for second first or second day being san Fran, Seattle calls
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  me up and they're like, yo, we got a we have a peace
• 21:51
  squad spot for you right now. If you you know, you leave that
• 21:53
  sans prayer was for a workout. Seattle calls me talking about here you are.
• 21:59
  You know, we have a pea squad spot for you. So head
• 22:03
  up to Seattle, go through like three days of testing. Next thing you
• 22:11
  know, I'll wake up one morning I don't really feel right, man,
• 22:15
  I not get a call the next day. I popped for COVID, so
• 22:21
  crazy, So I am in a hotel in Seattle. They took care of
• 22:26
  me. They did. They took care of me, and they did.
• 22:29
  But I'm in hotel in Seattle for literally the whole month of November through Thanksgiving,
• 22:33
  and it was just like, dang, I can't catch a break.
• 22:37
  And already know they were thinking like dang, like this kid can't really can't
• 22:40
  catch a break, you know, but you know, uh we we we
• 22:45
  pushed through that. We don't quit, you know, all right, So
• 22:48
  you know, so you're right there. I mean, the skills and the
• 22:52
  talents never never been the question. You were right there. And we talk
• 22:56
  a lot that that athletes, even whether outside people see it or say it
• 23:00
  or not, you always knew an athlete where you stack up with what you're
• 23:03
  doing. So my takeaway from you is you know you belong there. I
• 23:06
  would think being back here in the XFL this last season's a nice spot for
• 23:11
  you because again, it gave you a chance to put some more stuff on
• 23:12
  tape. You could showcase what you're able to do. And if I'm reading
• 23:18
  between the lines right, you know you should be at that level. Right,
• 23:19
  you're going back into the NFL. You're gonna get a shot here next
• 23:26
  time I get that shot. Trust me, what you're gonna you ever gonna
• 23:29
  see trust me, We do trust you. I'm looking at this thing Gary
• 23:33
  on a website. Do you know that you've been involved in twenty four transactions
• 23:40
  since September the eleventh of twenty nineteen, twenty four different times, twenty four
• 23:45
  different times your name has made the transaction list. I'm telling you it's it's
• 23:51
  been a I'll even it's it's all sandwiched so much in there together that I
• 23:56
  can't even really remember, because you know, sometimes some of those uh you
• 24:02
  could say transaction so to speak, sometimes it's just for them to get a
• 24:06
  look. Maybe not true opportunities. You know, they're filling right, they're
• 24:08
  filling spots. But um, but yeah, there were there was, There
• 24:12
  was a number a number of the places that I've been. I've been all
• 24:17
  over a country. I've literally been to every corner of the United States.
• 24:21
  So is this whole process all right? So is that's something you've learned through
• 24:23
  this process, the business side of it, way to filter out what are
• 24:27
  the real opportunities where your real chances to make the squad, Because it would
• 24:30
  seem to me that that's a massive part of this whole business side is getting
• 24:36
  the right fit an opportunity into into the right place, correct. I mean,
• 24:41
  yeah, it's it's all about opportunity, timing and all of that.
• 24:45
  But that's not something I'm really thinking about when going into something. When I'm
• 24:48
  going into a workout or you know, if they're picking me up for whatever,
• 24:55
  I'm not really thinking about their business side of things or whatever. I'm
• 24:59
  just trying to be the best person and show what i can do in the
• 25:02
  limited amount of time. And that's what I've thrived on. That's what I've
• 25:04
  hung my hat on for all my life. Every single little opportunity that you
• 25:08
  get, you just got to maximize it, because especially at that level,
• 25:12
  it could literally be one chance, like literally one chance that they'll that they
• 25:18
  see and uh it could that's either yes or no. Literally the one chance
• 25:22
  they'll give you. Let'll give you one chance. And you know it too
• 25:26
  pressure maximizing it and and and it's and it might even be on you.
• 25:30
  It could be you know, you still have uh, everyone has to do
• 25:34
  a job. It's not like basketball where you can just take the ball off
• 25:37
  the court and take it. You know, you still have line as a
• 25:40
  block, quarterback has to throw the ball. Everything, so there is a
• 25:44
  variety's a variety of things, and I have to do my job too as
• 25:45
  well. So yeah, uh, it has to be a perfect storm for
• 25:49
  that. And uh, hey, you know that's that's just what it is.
• 25:56
  Yeah, And it's been like that, hasn't It's ever since the drafted
• 26:00
  by the Vikings twenty nineteen fourth round pick with along with another pick, a
• 26:04
  sixth round pick to Seattle and then it starts. I'm counting seven teams involvement
• 26:10
  at some point Seattle, Miami, Baltimore, Buffalo, Indianapolis Raiders, Kansas
• 26:17
  City makes seven. Now with that set, what do you think your season
• 26:22
  that you just completed with Saint Louis, what possibilities are out there for you
• 26:26
  now as we had ready to get ready for the next NFL season, There's
• 26:32
  there's endless facilities. Because I was able to show my eliteness at gunner,
• 26:37
  I was able to get back in the backfield at running back too as well,
• 26:41
  which is big. That's something that me and my circle I've been talking
• 26:45
  about for a little bit now as being able to, you know, carve
• 26:48
  out kind of a debo role. And honestly, looking back at the film,
• 26:52
  it was pretty cool. To see me back in that backfield and be
• 26:56
  able to do what I did at such in such like a natural way.
• 27:00
  Well, so I definitely have a lot of angles that I can hit in
• 27:08
  my value, I think to the roof, the main problem with all of
• 27:11
  this was that I never really made it to a preseason game, either due
• 27:15
  to injury or never really really due to injury, and teams haven't seen me
• 27:22
  really play in a minute. So getting out here and be able to play
• 27:27
  for you know this, you know there's that great Saint Louis crowd, it
• 27:33
  was it was a blessing. Honestly, it was. It was a real
• 27:36
  blessing. The other part, and we talked about the fake punt that's been
• 27:40
  all over the place, that that thing has to have millions of views on
• 27:42
  social media. But I would think the other good part of that for you
• 27:45
  selfishly is the analytics that come with that. When they put out there you're
• 27:48
  running twenty two and a half miles per hour, the fastest speed in the
• 27:52
  XFL. To me, that's that's got to help you down the road.
• 27:56
  Too. Is a team looking at that, it's not just a great play,
• 27:59
  it's not just you making a play. They see that and think,
• 28:00
  Okay, this guy's got the athleticism and the speed to be in this league.
• 28:03
  That's got to help too, honestly, and not just the XFL.
• 28:11
  If you look back at the analytics, that would have been the fastest,
• 28:12
  uh in the NFL last year as well, you know the fastest last year,
• 28:17
  it was like twenty two point two. Well that's and mine that was
• 28:19
  the twenty two point five, So NFL and XFL. So I think that's
• 28:23
  something telling in itself. And I think it uh now, I think I
• 28:27
  know it. It puts it puts a lot of eyes back on you know,
• 28:32
  yeah, on on the on the radar. Well, I would say
• 28:34
  this to you in a in a big way too, Gary, without having
• 28:37
  to get an individual workout to go get clocked. I mean, now every
• 28:40
  team in the NFL can see that out there gas game speed too as well.
• 28:44
  It's not it's not in that's not in shorts t shirt. Well,
• 28:48
  it's not shorts, that's in helmet, helmet and shorter pad. And also,
• 28:52
  uh, that's swerving. That's also swerving the defender too as well.
• 28:56
  That's not really it wasn't really straight line. That's a sort of a guy
• 29:00
  and Ryn and be able to hit that. I think that really shows a
• 29:03
  great deal of of athletic prowess. Were you faster on that play than when
• 29:11
  you ran by the Texas defensive back on the will gurpress? I think I
• 29:15
  was rolling on this play. I was rolling on both I was rolling.
• 29:22
  I was I was really like, you know, just how the game,
• 29:26
  just how the game. I was really like high step in running for my
• 29:30
  dang life. So he man, think about this now, when he was
• 29:34
  here, they didn't have nil yet. Think about like, with that speed
• 29:38
  and the fact that he's eating all those steaks, he'd be an awesome spokesperson
• 29:42
  for the beef council. Question like, wherever you go, dude, you
• 29:45
  got to go to the beef council, cut a deal with them and say
• 29:48
  I'm powered by beef. That's his thing, right, That's that's what I'm
• 29:53
  saying. I have a few I have a few things, uh, definitely
• 29:56
  in my notes and my notepad in the works of some deals that need to
• 30:02
  be cut. I like to be prices on getting in cheaper, and egg
• 30:07
  prices aren't getting in cheaper. And we'll get you, hey, listen,
• 30:10
  we'll get you some cows. I mean we probably get a Yeah, you
• 30:12
  got some cows. Oh yeah, I guarantee you. There's three. Hey,
• 30:15
  there's three guys listeners out there. We got people with cows. Well,
• 30:18
  effort, we'll effort on that. We'll get your We'll get your cow.
• 30:22
  Stand by, we'll get your cow. Let's go. Let's go,
• 30:25
  let's go. Let's go. I need that, man, We'll get it.
• 30:26
  You said, yeah, you said earlier that you're a better receiver obviously
• 30:32
  now than you were when you were at West Virginia. When you watch yourself
• 30:37
  on tape today, and if you were to put West Virginia tape on,
• 30:40
  even if it's just running routes and just watching yourself, what do you think
• 30:44
  the biggest difference is in Gary Jennings the receiver. I'm much more fluid.
• 30:51
  I show a change of pace more, I have more nuances in my routes.
• 30:55
  And to go along with that, I'm just more put together. I'm
• 31:00
  ricker, I'm stronger, I'm faster, and just my overall just reaction time
• 31:08
  to everything, and like in the game, it's everything is just everything's just
• 31:12
  better. I've been working on it. Everything's just better. You think a
• 31:17
  lot, and that's a good thing. And when we had you on the
• 31:21
  first time, we did talk about you kind of missing school so that you
• 31:25
  could watch the Combine because you know, you had this, you were obsessed
• 31:27
  about playing football professionally. What is the world of real football like? From
• 31:36
  the kid that was watching the combine and now having gone through all of this,
• 31:40
  what has been the biggest you know, I'm not going to say surprised,
• 31:45
  but what's the real world like compared to the Gary that was watching the
• 31:48
  combine saying, man, I would really love to do that someday. It's
• 31:52
  just a it's a short space of the opportunity. You know, you think
• 31:56
  in you know, in college, you know you're on a scholarship that uh
• 32:00
  you have time, you're day regardless, you know, and you realize you
• 32:06
  can realize quickly and you know you see it all the time. You have
• 32:09
  to perform at that level because they're you know, they're they're paying to paying
• 32:13
  these guys and they don't play around at all. They're they're looking every single
• 32:16
  day. And I've actually uh had the opportunity to you know, inquire and
• 32:22
  and listen to what goes on almost in some of these meetings on the daily
• 32:29
  and it's it's crazy. It's crazy when they when they're they're looking literally every
• 32:32
  single day at practice, uh on who's doing, what what people are doing?
• 32:38
  And body even like body language like oh this person was this person doesn't
• 32:45
  look happy today, Like I don't know what's good, what's good with him?
• 32:46
  Like stuff like that. So just just you know, learning to always
• 32:52
  you know, always keep your body language cool. And I mean, honestly,
• 32:54
  I'm a I'm a I'm an up and up person already, so it's
• 33:00
  I'm not I don't have to fake anything, right, but just being just
• 33:02
  being conscious of or conscious of just all of that at all times. I
• 33:08
  think that, Uh, I think that's that's the biggest part. Clipping that
• 33:14
  details I'm clip clipping that and given it to some of the youth kids were
• 33:17
  with that right that right there, what he just said, that's invaluable for
• 33:22
  kids to learn that. I think too many are missing at this point of
• 33:24
  how important body language is to the whole overall game and what coaches are looking
• 33:29
  for. Hcent Gary. We we mentioned obviously the Texas Pass and that will
• 33:36
  always be the iconic memory that folks have of you at WVU. But when
• 33:42
  you're just kind of going through a day or going through a week and West
• 33:45
  Virginia memory comes into your head. What oftentimes is are they those West Virginia
• 33:51
  memories that you have, I mean, their memories, they're great. Uh,
• 33:55
  But to be honest, like like I said, they're great. Want
• 34:00
  to take anything that's happened for granted. But I'm I'm a much I look
• 34:06
  forward to the future. I don't. I don't think that the best is
• 34:07
  in the past. I look forward to the best in the future. So
• 34:13
  I don't really dwell on too many old things and old accomplishments, so to
• 34:20
  speak. I'm a person that I'm striving for better because I know there's better
• 34:22
  in the future. That's that's how I feel. And uh, that's right.
• 34:27
  Why right now I'm kind of on a little hiatus, you know,
• 34:30
  so to speak from social media, And uh, it's for a reason.
• 34:37
  You know, I made a promise to myself and it's just gonna come to
• 34:40
  pass soon and it'll explain it. You know, it'll all explain itself when
• 34:45
  that time comes. But I think a lot of times people get caught up
• 34:50
  in That's another thing too as well, is really coming to yourself and really
• 34:57
  investing in yourself and not hearing what other people think, so to speak.
• 35:02
  Uh, there's a lot of voices out there. You can be pulled each
• 35:07
  and every single way to do things, and a lot of things. It's
• 35:09
  just noise distraction. And in this journey in life and whatever you do,
• 35:15
  you gotta you gotta stay poys, you gotta stay focused because when you get
• 35:19
  thrown off, or if you get thrown off, it can sometimes be very
• 35:23
  difficult to get back. So uh, it's it's better to it's better to
• 35:30
  fix it, fix it up right, rather than for it to break and
• 35:35
  have a ticket to take it to the shop. You know. All right?
• 35:37
  All that said, though, is there is there a part of the
• 35:39
  college experience, of the West Virginia experience, specifically that that you miss or
• 35:44
  that you remember fondly. What would what would the number one thing be that
• 35:45
  you miss about the college football spart just just camaraderie, just like the guys
• 35:51
  I was around, Honestly, the moments and things. Everything just seems like
• 35:53
  such a blurk now, to be honest, Like, I have lots of
• 35:57
  memories with my teammates, I have memories of working out with coach Joseph.
• 36:00
  I've memories of working out with you know, all my all my fellow players,
• 36:06
  all my fellow teammates, and uh, you know, just the community
• 36:09
  that we're able to build. And it's uh the most time part about it
• 36:15
  all is that, uh didn't have half the stuff that I did then,
• 36:22
  but we we made it where I was happy. I was happy, you
• 36:24
  know, I was happy. I was I was enjoying life. I really
• 36:29
  enjoyed what I did and what I do. I still enjoy what I do.
• 36:32
  But uh, you know that that's honestly, that's honestly what I you
• 36:37
  could say I miss miss the most was that camaraderie, uh throughout it all
• 36:43
  in that college experiences, and just just memories made on a daily basis,
• 36:46
  not even really in necessilly football, a lot of it was in football,
• 36:50
  but just on a daily basis throughout that college experience. Yeah. Uh,
• 36:54
  you ended up playing exactly fifty games, one hundred and sixty eight catches,
• 36:59
  twenty two hundred ninety four yards, seventeen touchdown receptions, thirteen of those in
• 37:05
  your final season and uh, you know, a thousand and ninety six as
• 37:08
  a junior, yards nine seventeen as a senior. That was a great career.
• 37:14
  Oh and you're you're one of those role model guys because you take a
• 37:16
  look at your first two years, and you were one hundred and sixteen yards
• 37:21
  and seven catches your first year, one sixty five in ten catches your second
• 37:27
  year, and then you just explode it. Ninety seven balls as a junior
• 37:30
  for ten ninety six and then fifty four as a senior for nine seventeen.
• 37:35
  But your touchdowns went from one as a junior to thirteen as a seat.
• 37:38
  Do you think he got some defensive attention to Ji, Yeah, I think
• 37:42
  he may. Yeah, that's a that's fantastic. Well, listen, I
• 37:47
  would never want to be accused of denying a man a good haircut. And
• 37:52
  I'm sure like by the way this shop that you're going into, like you're
• 37:57
  a regular there or what was it? Like, what's that goond to be
• 37:59
  like when you're this is actually this is actually is actually a house called this
• 38:01
  My guy Richie, he's the best barber in South Florida. I got Richie
• 38:06
  best Barbara in South Florida. So if anyone ever needs a haircut, Uh,
• 38:09
  he's the guy for you. So it's not Richie barber. So it's
• 38:13
  not a shot, but it's his house. It's his house. It is
• 38:16
  a shot. But no, he's my guy and he does he does house
• 38:20
  called as well. Will there be anyone else there while you're getting your hair
• 38:23
  cut? No, just me, just me and him. We talk a
• 38:27
  lot about that diet type stuff too as well. And okay, all the
• 38:30
  other type of stuff is Richie's the guy. Richie's on the beef thing.
• 38:35
  He's on the steak thing too. I'm trying to I'm trying. I'm trying
• 38:39
  to get him there. I'm trying to get him there. I don't know.
• 38:42
  He asked me about it, but I don't know. I'm trying to
• 38:45
  get him there. Well, here's the deal. Hedn't committed, yell Richie
• 38:46
  the barber hadn't committed. Yeah, he's verbaled, he's verbal, he's leaning.
• 38:50
  So here's the deal. You tell him this, Hey, Richie,
• 38:52
  Look, I eat a ton of meat. I run twenty two miles per
• 38:55
  hour. You you eat twenty. You eat a lot of meat. You
• 38:59
  could cut at a much higher rate. Therefore, more heads, more dollars,
• 39:04
  probably going to be beneficial to him when you think. So, that's
• 39:07
  what I think. You know, health and long Jevy. That's that's the
• 39:09
  key, right, So that's the key to this rate of life. Bro
• 39:12
  exactly exactly, Gary with a lot of wisdom today he can't a ton of
• 39:16
  wisdom, he can't. I got, I got, I gotta, I
• 39:19
  got, I got this for days, man, we can, we can.
• 39:21
  We can talk whatever, even even in even in private, man,
• 39:24
  about anything. Really I got I've been through, you know, so many
• 39:29
  things and uh, just be able to really sit down and dissect I've learned.
• 39:35
  I've learned a lot in my long twenty sorts years of life. Well
• 39:38
  here here, here's here's the deal. I'd like to do that. I'd
• 39:42
  like to do that a lot. But I don't want to see you at
• 39:45
  all from July until uh the middle of February. So don't want to see
• 39:52
  you then at some other point if it's if it's been the summer or if
• 39:54
  it's in the spring, you're always welcome. But I want you on an
• 39:58
  NFL roster, and I want you to fulfill all of those dreams that you're
• 40:02
  making all the time. So that's that's really what we want. It's not
• 40:06
  what we want, what's one hundred percent what we want. We also need
• 40:07
  to hit he needs to hit us up on the back end here because we
• 40:09
  got a bunch of food questions. I got more food questions. We're not
• 40:13
  gonna borrow it, but in the probably we have more food questions. We
• 40:15
  need to talk bright. I like it a lot. Yeah, Hey,
• 40:16
  I got something for you, dude. So you talked about you're going you're
• 40:20
  going grill and you're going cast iron. There's something else I want to introduce
• 40:23
  you to. Have you ever heard of su vie It doesn't pend I mean
• 40:30
  French French tomato tomato like so s O U asked, v I d E.
• 40:36
  That's a really good way too. You put that steak in that bag,
• 40:37
  you vacuumate, you put the boil it right, you boil it well,
• 40:43
  you base it's boils a little aggressive of a word. I mean you're
• 40:45
  like one hundred and thirty one degree, so you're not it's not two twelve,
• 40:47
  but like long term. Then you dry it off and then you see
• 40:52
  it. I'm telling you what you talk about uniformity in that steak. It's
• 40:55
  perfect all the way through. Perfect. That's yeah, that's how I uh,
• 41:00
  I mean, that's honestly my favorite message to do is the reverse to
• 41:04
  your methode. Yeah, so you are you are reverse series? Yeah,
• 41:07
  I'm a reverse to your method guy, you know, having at two twenty
• 41:10
  five? Yeah, I don't thinking this about forty five to an hour.
• 41:14
  No, I'm throw I'm throwing it on the grill. I don't even need
• 41:16
  a look. He's reversed. Look, he's reversed there. That's exactly it.
• 41:22
  That's the same difference. Yeah, same difference. The reverse here is
• 41:23
  also absolutely off the off the chart. This is I'm happy with him that.
• 41:30
  I'm happy. If he's reversed, I'm messing around. I mean,
• 41:31
  if he's obviously research and knows what he's doing, well, he's well researched.
• 41:36
  Know my beast, I know my beats he does. Are you you
• 41:37
  playing around with artificial intelligence at all? Any chat GPTWO stuff? And I'm
• 41:43
  not gonna lie, I don't. I don't know about that. Okay,
• 41:45
  that's fine, But I think I'm cool right now. Okay, he's got
• 41:50
  the food in the workout stuff on his plate. He doesn't need AI.
• 41:52
  Right, Yeah, I'm cool and AI. We'll do that. We'll do
• 41:57
  that the next time. Next time you coming worry about food and workout.
• 42:00
  By the way, I'm gonna let you go on this. So how are
• 42:00
  you getting in your haircut? I mean because a picture I'm looking at you
• 42:04
  when you were at WV you had a headband on and things were going kind
• 42:07
  of high. So where do you where you wearing your hair? Like?
• 42:08
  Right now? I have I have long hair right now. It's a funny
• 42:13
  thing too. You know a lot of people haven't seen my my hair face
• 42:15
  in years. So you know a lot of people don't even know I have
• 42:20
  I have long hair. Now I do I have long hair? Yeah,
• 42:22
  we're seeing a picture, yeah that we're seeing a picture from the BattleHawks pictures.
• 42:27
  It's high. It's way up there. It's high. It's high.
• 42:30
  Yeah, it's a little lot. Lottle Man bun. Look, you know,
• 42:35
  lottle Man bun. Look that works, you can works for you.
• 42:37
  You got it. Yeah. The people like it. People like it.
• 42:40
  I like it. Yeah, it's good. It's a good look. I
• 42:43
  like it. All right. So listen, it's raining here. You're in
• 42:45
  South Florida. Enjoy the day and stay well. We look forward to see
• 42:50
  what happens here in the next chapter for you this coming season, for sure,
• 42:53
  I appreciate you guys. Thank you all right, man man, take
• 42:55
  care. Thanks Gary. There is a going you too, see like the
• 43:00
  best ever. We're getting him back on Listen, there's lost us. He's
• 43:05
  the guy that replaces Kirtival. He very well couldn't right, he'd be great.
• 43:09
  Why wouldn't he be the third? I'm just telling you right now,
• 43:10
  I'm gonna have Taylor cut two of those different segments and not only play it
• 43:15
  for my girls, but take it to the whole team here. I don't
• 43:16
  know why you wouldn't the two parts he gave you. He gave you two
• 43:20
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  love them, because it's just like there's a name that you remember been around,
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  but then he's been gone for a while. You saw him the spring
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  Plane, but like how much stuff has gone on in his world and how
• 45:02
  much has he learned and grown since he left here? Right, that's what
• 45:06
  I like talking about those guys years later after they've left here, and some
• 45:09
  of those basketball players that go over and play overseas. It's just fun to
• 45:13
  watch their their development, how much they've picked up over the time since they
• 45:15
  left here. Can I also offer this and so a lot of times how
• 45:22
  you deal with stuff determines what your outlook on life is. I said,
• 45:28
  he's been involved in twenty four transactions and seventeen and seven teams since September of
• 45:36
  twenty nineteen. Right, what did he say? I wouldn't trade that for
• 45:40
  anything. Now, that's one attitude. The other attitude is screwed, can't
• 45:50
  catch a break, screwed. Man. These teams are freaking screwing me.
• 45:52
  Man, they's freaking screwing me. No, those are the guys that are
• 45:58
  out. They're not they're out now. And our guy, he's like here,
• 46:02
  I'm going I'm gonna be a great story. You just watch this.
• 46:05
  He's still bouncy, he still has good self talk, you can tell.
• 46:08
  And like we talked about, he knows he's there. He knows, he
• 46:12
  knows, But for circumstances that were somewhat out of his control, the injuries,
• 46:15
  the concussion in the COVID. He's in that league, in the league
• 46:20
  injuries concussion in COVID. Hits a wall and gets COVID that breaks, but
• 46:24
  has the talent and the ability to be there. And like I said before,
• 46:28
  runs fast enough that in some homeowners associations he would be arrested for speeding,
• 46:34
  which is awesome, right those developments will put fifteen he's way over.
• 46:39
  If he's seven over in your neighborhood. And if he's sprinting down there's someone
• 46:44
  coming out of the front door, probably me yelling slow down, slot out.
• 46:47
  Yeah, but it's not a car, but it's just be him running
• 46:52
  kids playing slow out. There goes Gary. And for those of you that
• 46:57
  are watching on the YouTube's he is cooking on this. That's when he clock
• 47:00
  doubt's a midfield there has got a defender that the angles off and he just
• 47:02
  say here here take a twenty fifteen ten five, Hey Pilon, what's up?
• 47:07
  Now? I know the guy the punt returner there, it's not his
• 47:08
  specialty to make tackles. That guy didn't have a good film session the punt
• 47:14
  return because he just gets greased like he should have gone backwards to try and
• 47:17
  head, Gary Off not come at him, just turned to run and ran
• 47:21
  straight to the pilot. Split two guys, Yeah, thanks for having me,
• 47:24
  but as being serious too about that. The social media that that plays
• 47:28
  got it was up for XFL play the Play of the Year. There's no
• 47:30
  doubt. There's there's gems and scouts that are all over that. You gotta
• 47:34
  think right, And then they're looking at a guy saying, all right,
• 47:36
  he was close. Why didn't he make it here? We can concussion?
• 47:38
  Okay, why didn't he make it here? COVID He's gonna get a look,
• 47:42
  he's gonna go, and they're gonna go. How the shot they're gonna
• 47:43
  go? How's his attitude? His attitude? He couldn't be any better.
• 47:45
  Orn call Anthony. What's Anthony gonna say? Exactly? Great kid? Get
• 47:49
  him in camp, good for him, keep an eye on him. Hopefully
• 47:52
  that would that'd be a great story. Awesome, that'd be a great story.
• 47:58
  Um. As you can tell by now, Kurt huels out he's on
• 48:00
  that two weeks sabbatical. I don't know what he's doing anyway. So he
• 48:06
  going like India or something like that. Lama Gascar, it might be a
• 48:10
  Madagascar bringing the bringing our guy home. He's coming home pretty soon. We're
• 48:15
  gonna lunch with him. But I'll tell you what, it hasn't stopped the
• 48:20
  texts. Oh that's nice, by the way. I mean, I know
• 48:38
  you know this because you just you came off a nice stretch of it.
• 48:40
  I've been working the yoga remains undefeated too. We were on that early.
• 48:45
  All these guys we take, we identified yoga early. We're at the cutting
• 48:49
  cutting edge of it. I just want to point that out to you.
• 48:53
  But not that bad yoga guy. You know, that bad yoga guy,
• 49:00
  the one that the ESPN did the thirty for thirty on the audio all that
• 49:04
  Bakram Bam. That was an unbelievable podcast series. Though, is he dead?
• 49:07
  I don't know, bad guy. He needs no a bad, bad
• 49:12
  man bad. But the yoga's key. So that's the other thing too.
• 49:15
  It's hitting it the core, the functional strength and the stretching of the yoga.
• 49:22
  That's really also one of the keys. Yeah, of course I've got
• 49:24
  a major injury, so I got to take a sabbatical from that crew.
• 49:29
  All right, here we go, three guys before the game Textual healing um
• 49:36
  follow up. This guy says Hoppy is making the rounds on national shows.
• 49:42
  Now. I just saw him on CNN. Is that true? Yeah,
• 49:45
  he's been doing a lot of that. Not one plug for the podcast though
• 49:47
  he missed his opportunity. He should take notes from Mike Florio how to plug
• 49:52
  your show A great point and that true, it's a great point. So
• 49:54
  you know what. The more and more is coming into light on this deal.
• 49:58
  Not only does Hoppy he's sometimes he comes when he wants to come here
• 50:04
  and does the show when he wants to do and then he doesn't promote properly
• 50:07
  when heat when he's off. It's true, but given how little he's here,
• 50:10
  I don't know how well he could promote it because he doesn't know if
• 50:13
  it's live taped or if we're on once a month or twice a week.
• 50:16
  He doesn't know, so I don't know that he'd be the great promotional vehicle
• 50:20
  either. He could at least mention the brand solid wear a hat. Why
• 50:23
  when he goes on CNN and with a beer it could have one of his
• 50:25
  beers in his hand, cannabis beer in a ball cap that says three guys,
• 50:30
  I mean I'm down there in Greenborough County. This weekend meeting with Dan
• 50:34
  down at Sportsman's Tavern and Ron Siffort, he's got the three guys hat.
• 50:37
  I didn't notice it initially. I walk in to the Sportsman's Tavern there and
• 50:42
  meet him out front and like the hat on. Yeah. He goes,
• 50:45
  hey, get my picture made here? And I said, well absolutely,
• 50:47
  and I look over, Dang, you got a three guy's hat off.
• 50:51
  We don't even have one of those. No, we don't. Really,
• 50:53
  I haven't one. I don't have one. He's ahead of the game.
• 50:55
  Our boy Dave gave him one. Okay, very nice father. Way was
• 51:00
  it the same one that was in front of the Eiffel Tower. It's a
• 51:01
  different one. The two hats out there. It's a different hat from Ronseffort
• 51:07
  to the Eiffel, from Ronsfford to Paris and all points in between. That
• 51:09
  about sums up this show. Yeah, right, Eiffel Tower to Ronsford.
• 51:14
  It's great. It was great. Pizza's out there and Ronsefford on Saturday,
• 51:20
  good sixpence pizza. Yeah, got this cat, young guy him and has
• 51:29
  made a mobile. Pizza oven made a mobile. Pizza oven was it's not
• 51:32
  a trailer, brings it out in front of Sportsman's Tavern there and Ronsford they
• 51:37
  do they pop up, it's a pop up. They spread the word I
• 51:39
  get there line was like off the chart people ordering these pizzas. It was
• 51:45
  perfect. And then I ate it. Would you get on here it's just
• 51:46
  cheese? Or did you get some margarita? And then we had one that
• 51:50
  would had a bunch of different stuff on it. And I'm not just saying
• 51:52
  this to say that I think. I mean when I make a when I
• 51:55
  promote a food, you know it's for real, right, because I will
• 51:58
  crush and say things are bad fairy and I went on during our event,
• 52:02
  I said, this bar, this, this brisket's gonna be the best you've
• 52:06
  ever eaten, right, and got rave reviews, Rave reviews, So I
• 52:08
  you know that pizza. And I've been al Pacino line, I've been around
• 52:19
  from the son of a woman. I've been around, I told Joan while
• 52:25
  we're eating this and groo, I've been around. I've eaten margueritea pizza in
• 52:30
  Italy as good as good, without a shadow of a doubt, as good,
• 52:39
  loved it, crushed it. Could have had six of them, that's
• 52:43
  a shock, could have had six of them, really good anyway, shout
• 52:47
  out Sportsman's tavern. Uh. Texter, Hey, three Guys. I would
• 52:52
  absolutely love to hear from James Blockingham Palace o'conquo, especially his journey from tennis
• 52:59
  player to Power five basketball players. Super excited for more of the summer series
• 53:02
  signed by Chelsea Parkersburg by the way of Wyoming County. Chelsea, we'd love
• 53:07
  to have James on, but we have an age limit here for guests and
• 53:12
  he's only fourteen. No, that's not true, he's fifteen now. No,
• 53:16
  in all seriousness, Chelsea, we are efforting that as we speak,
• 53:21
  he's got a busy week of finals here, but we hope to get him
• 53:25
  before he returns to the UK for a break. Texter, Two Guys and
• 53:31
  the Wayward Sun. I have calculated out that you will get eight hundred episodes
• 53:37
  of Three Guys, because at three events a year, you will have to
• 53:40
  do another five years a show to build up Hoppies endurance so that he can
• 53:45
  attend the event from start to finish. Okay, that might be a slight
• 53:50
  exaggeration, but if you can, and there's a type of sell three yard
• 53:59
  long slim Jim's and seventy five pound Reese's eggs. Then all fair signed by
• 54:02
  Frank and Clarksburgot hear from him, Texter or Hey, three guys. I
• 54:08
  never thought I'd experience the same pain as other listeners of this podcast until yesterday
• 54:15
  to support coach Mazie in West Virginia baseball. I was wearing the sweat shirt
• 54:22
  attached in this photo as I walked into the classroom. What do I hear?
• 54:27
  Hey, nice wonder Woman's sweatshirt? Jack quite upset. I did not
• 54:32
  hesitate to correct the classmate and point out the obvious baseball written underneath the flying
• 54:37
  WV. With all due respect, I doubt Wonder Woman will be hosting a
• 54:42
  baseball regional this year. Thanks love the show, Signed Jumping Jack, Mount
• 54:45
  Vernon, Iowa. I continued to be floored by the wonder Woman thing.
• 54:52
  I had never heard that before until that text message came in a few weeks
• 54:57
  ago. I'd never heard that, not once. Never have I had one
• 55:00
  person say to me and all my trap I've been around as well, round
• 55:05
  warned that logo in a lot of states other countries never had a wonder Woman
• 55:10
  reference, neither of I. Jack tell the people on Mountain Vernon to get
• 55:15
  it together. I could see maybe the old WVU baseball logo, remember that,
• 55:22
  Yeah, maybe that, Maybe that would be more wonder one. I
• 55:25
  don't know. I can't uh text or scopes. I am chortline as I
• 55:32
  write this, while spreads and the guy who shows up occasionally give you grief,
• 55:38
  you continue to deliver. I like this. You told them you were
• 55:42
  going to kill a boar, and you did with one shot. It was
• 55:45
  asleep, They're you know, real quick on that because I'm not gonna let
• 55:49
  that go on check. There was some speculation that came up at the live
• 55:52
  event that the boar may have been shot already. Were go ahead figure that.
• 55:57
  I was just going around. I'm just reading the text. One theory.
• 56:00
  You told them you were going to kill a boar, and you did
• 56:01
  with one shot. You told them you could be an elite level auctioneer,
• 56:06
  and you delivered before my very eyes. Saturday night at the WVa Cancer Gala.
• 56:10
  You were on far I lost track how much was raised after the ear
• 56:16
  ring price took my breath away? What was the total take on the night?
• 56:22
  Tell those guys next to you to never question your abilities. Count me
• 56:25
  on Team Scopes listeners since episode one Thomas from Thomas, keep up the great
• 56:31
  work. And this is written by you, Thomas from Thomas. It's not
• 56:36
  me. I mean, obviously people do it. So I'd lost track how
• 56:40
  much was raised after the ear ring price took my breath away. So eight
• 56:45
  items, eight items at the auction Saturday, the earrings went for twenty eight
• 56:51
  thousand dollars. Excuse me, the ear rings went for twenty eight thousand dollars.
• 56:58
  Eight carrots, eight carrot diamond total take was ninety four thousand dollars on
• 57:06
  eight items. So Thomas from Thomas apparently is once again validating my claim that
• 57:15
  I'm not doing small boys stuff elite level auctioneer. I'm not doing saucer cups,
• 57:20
  I'm not doing I'm not doing Uncle John's you know whole from the garden
• 57:23
  that he always used to use. I'm not doing that. I do elite,
• 57:27
  high level stuff. I had more reservations about your boar hunting skills and
• 57:31
  your auctioneer skills, and again the boar hunting skills have recently come to light
• 57:35
  with some new information. I didn't have any doubt you could auctioneer, and
• 57:39
  that's awesome what you guys did down for the Cancer Institute, and you played
• 57:43
  a nice role in that. I think you would also admit that, just
• 57:47
  as Jimmy's and Joe's are important to the coaches success, you had a nice
• 57:53
  room of talent as well. Would that be fair? What are you saying?
• 57:58
  You're saying, I'm saying you had a heck of a room of talent.
• 58:00
  So I'm saying to be elite, I think you've got to be able
• 58:04
  to go out to the estate sale in rural America and take some spoons and
• 58:09
  take a couple of spatulas and go out. Let's see how you do that.
• 58:14
  You don't think if I walked into Hardy's with the ear rings I could
• 58:16
  have gotten I don't know. I think you. I mean again, the
• 58:20
  schedule. You get some good schedulers. You didn't get the Neil Brown schedule
• 58:25
  where somebody put you behind the eight ball. You've got a nice schedule,
• 58:29
  schedule you use some wins. One again, with all due respect to your
• 58:31
  auctioneer skills, because I've I've seen the auctioneer. I knew that beforehand.
• 58:36
  You do have the future. You have a lot of potential. Well,
• 58:38
  I am available for I am available for high auction items people want to do
• 58:43
  that. I can do that, but you're you're probably making some very good
• 58:45
  points, probably making some good points. It's all about the Jimmy's and the
• 58:52
  Jones. Really, that's right, Hey, three guys. Jim from Preston
• 58:57
  County in reference to finding a permanent replacement for part time, I'm hoppy if
• 59:00
  you do, it will only make it easier for him to miss episodes.
• 59:04
  Also, like Brad, my lawn person under the transfer portal after about thirteen
• 59:07
  years of loyal service, and like Brad, decided to do it myself.
• 59:12
  However, I've got a small yard, so went to purchase a push mower
• 59:15
  and found a malching battery powered one. I charged up the batteries, got
• 59:20
  the mowing last week. Tip for anyone planning on buying a new mower.
• 59:23
  Gas mowers cut grass. Battery powered mowers, beat it up and leave it
• 59:28
  standing. Ran over the same tall blade of grass four times before it tapped
• 59:34
  laid down. I don't know, maybe they don't sharpen the blades on battery
• 59:39
  powered mowers. Whatever's going on with them, I don't like it. Maybe
• 59:44
  misguided, but I again, I'm hyped up for football and hoops. Having
• 59:46
  good seasons. Hope they do as well as Mazie's crazies. Go mountaineers.
• 59:52
  Thanks for all you guys you do for us. That is about the best
• 59:53
  line I've ever served. Ran over the same tall blade of grass four times
• 59:58
  before it tapped on, laid down good hey boy, when your lawn person
• 1:00:05
  enters the trancherportal, it's traumatic. Yeah, still efforting line text here.
• 1:00:09
  This is Winston and Princeton probably not his real name. All this Kirchivl conversation
• 1:00:15
  has me curious as to what type of beers you gentlemen typically enjoy. Are
• 1:00:21
  you light beer guys, or do you favor more craft IPA types. I
• 1:00:24
  don't drink personally, just get prescribed some of God's greenery from arthritis, however,
• 1:00:30
  but I'd like to make an exception next time I'm in Morgantown for a
• 1:00:34
  Kirchivel. Thanks for all you guys do for a great state. Real quick,
• 1:00:37
  so as you were on your southern tour here, Kurtchivel very well received
• 1:00:40
  down there. They've been super supportive of the kurtch of Ail. It's awesome
• 1:00:44
  so and someone even called it the Kirchivel, which is perfect. Probably should
• 1:00:49
  that probably should be the official name. So I went to the Briar Garden
• 1:00:52
  and it was really super neat to see there. Days right there, that's
• 1:00:55
  me inside the Briar Garden, says Chestnut brew Works. The Kerchival. It's
• 1:01:00
  I love that. I want the kerchi Vel. Yeah, So they have
• 1:01:01
  it there, and that's a really nice place. There's Nick on the right
• 1:01:06
  of the picture. There. He's a guy to make sandwiches. Black,
• 1:01:07
  good, good dude, and show I went in the back of the kitchen.
• 1:01:12
  He showed me the oven, the whole thing. Really nice. Good
• 1:01:15
  dudes, good dudes. And I want to say I apologize. I think
• 1:01:20
  the gentleman in the green is Michael. If I'm not mistaken, I hope
• 1:01:22
  it is. Anyway, they have it at the Briar Garden. Then I
• 1:01:25
  went Sportsman's Tavern and I had me one of them kirch of veils with that
• 1:01:29
  pizza. While you're having the pizza, good comba. And I told Joan,
• 1:01:32
  I said, this is bumming me out. She says, what's bumming
• 1:01:35
  you out? I said, I could sit here right now and just have
• 1:01:40
  more pizza and more of these. You would have been Getty to stay there
• 1:01:44
  all day and end of the evening best out. I would just like and
• 1:01:45
  just take me home, take me home. Meanwhile, what kind of beer
• 1:01:52
  do I like? I like Kirchi veil by that I mean this, I
• 1:01:55
  like um. I like Belgian we eat beers. That's mine. I don't
• 1:02:01
  like stuff that's super super hoppy and super bitter. That's not my that's my
• 1:02:07
  deal. I like. I like Belgian wheat beers, so like hoppies.
• 1:02:10
  Beer is like perfect hoe garden hoe gardens really, I like hoe garden a
• 1:02:15
  lot, boulevard wheat. I don't know if they have boulevard wheat up here.
• 1:02:20
  I think they do up here. That's always in Kansas City. That's
• 1:02:22
  kind of stuff. I think Senator where you on that spectrum? Uh something
• 1:02:27
  just easy, easy, drinkable. Yeah. That's what we found on this
• 1:02:30
  beer deal, folks, is that while a lot of people there seems to
• 1:02:37
  be a vocal group that like the extremes, in other words, the heavy
• 1:02:43
  heavy beers or heavy IPAs or things like that. But what we've learned is
• 1:02:47
  that while there's a there's a group that likes that, that's a small group.
• 1:02:51
  And anytime you talk to people that make beer. They say it has
• 1:02:54
  to be People just want drinkable. That's what they want. They want pleasant,
• 1:02:59
  easy drink. The majority of people want that, Yes, the majority
• 1:03:01
  do. And then there are those that like different, you know, which
• 1:03:04
  is part of why Bill landed where he did exactly. Texter gentleman as a
• 1:03:10
  listener and generally just a guy, he likes to figure things out. I
• 1:03:14
  think I know why we see Hoppy cutting out early so often. Host will
• 1:03:19
  be good on the hit show Seinfeld. George figured out that he needed to
• 1:03:22
  leave on a high note. We created this mess. Pat White and CBS
• 1:03:27
  made this guy a household name. We call him the Dean. Niell a
• 1:03:30
  beer for him and thinks he's gonna stay on point. Hell no, I've
• 1:03:32
  got somebody order in my sandwiches for me as well. Love listening, efforting
• 1:03:37
  the stern wheel thing in the greatest Middle Ohio Valley region. By the way,
• 1:03:42
  is there a communication gap between your beer gurus and Parkersburg only metro in
• 1:03:46
  the state without Kircheville. I can han solo that stuff where it needs to
• 1:03:52
  go if called upon. Signed by Chris and Marietta via Mullins. Yeah,
• 1:03:57
  we're embarrassed by it. It's a bad, bad thing. We need to
• 1:04:00
  get to Parkersburg. Need to take some seconds. Just need somebody to reach
• 1:04:05
  out from Parker's birth that would like to service a serve it it can that
• 1:04:09
  can happen, Yeah, I mean right, yeah, absolutely absolutely, somebody
• 1:04:14
  reach out. Open for business. Let the state slogan at one time,
• 1:04:18
  Yeah, open for business. I think it was is that that we can
• 1:04:21
  say that for the Kerchival open for business. Yeah, we're open for business.
• 1:04:26
  Just like Brett your mark when he took over at the Big twelve.
• 1:04:28
  He's so we're open for business. He got a lot of things going on.
• 1:04:32
  Games in Mexico. You're seeing that. Mexico basketball, Mexico football,
• 1:04:36
  move on, just read them, Texas Rutger Park basketball. I gonna want
• 1:04:41
  to go to Mexico for a game? Well I think it's happening. Well,
• 1:04:43
  that may be that. Don't take a home game away from Morgantown to
• 1:04:45
  get to Mexico. Why didn't say we were, Brett. I'm just saying
• 1:04:47
  that, Brett. Do you think we have time zone problems now? Now?
• 1:04:53
  If it's an away game, okay, whatever, I had this thought
• 1:04:56
  earlier than I'll be taking a home game from Morgantown to Mexico. I thought
• 1:04:59
  I thought about this earlier today, respect in Mexico. Sure you're great.
• 1:05:02
  Um, you know I've advocated for um ten years of eligibility. I was
• 1:05:09
  so far ahead of all of that. Yeah, right, I think you
• 1:05:11
  give that. So now I'm thinking today when I read that last thing about
• 1:05:15
  playing games in Mexico, basketball in Mexico, football, potentially some games in
• 1:05:18
  Mexico, and then this summer at Rutger Park in Harlem, like in West
• 1:05:24
  Virginia's also going on a summer tour to Italy. Like this thing is getting
• 1:05:29
  close to potentially being like a ten month deal. When are you gonna play
• 1:05:34
  in Rucker Park July? Right? Aren't you gonna play in July? You're
• 1:05:43
  playing Rutger Park in July. You go to Italy in August, you come
• 1:05:46
  back in September, you start drills in September now, and practice starts in
• 1:05:50
  October. There's things about a ten month season. Let's okay. I mean
• 1:05:54
  it's year round, so I don't mind it. I'm just saying like it's
• 1:05:56
  good. It's yeah, I'm totally four, but it's it's why you imagine
• 1:06:00
  lake you're like where you play. Well, we played at Rocker Park in
• 1:06:04
  July. I played about four or five six games there. Then we went
• 1:06:06
  to Italy, played four or five games there. Then we came back home,
• 1:06:10
  started non conference. We're gonna be down in Florida at a tournament and
• 1:06:13
  then we're just gonna mean, is it because I mean it's professional? Well,
• 1:06:17
  yeah, it's definitely that. It's a professional thing. Now, he
• 1:06:20
  let listen. Let me just say this though, Can I just say this,
• 1:06:24
  Yeah, as much as Westford Ina travels in the long distance, it
• 1:06:27
  has to travel for games. Can we just keep some games in Morgantown.
• 1:06:30
  We don't need to get further away from Morgantown. I'd like to get closer
• 1:06:33
  to Morgantown than further away. Just for the record, Okay, but you're
• 1:06:38
  not talking to me. I'm not advocating. I'm simply you know, I
• 1:06:43
  report. Well, I'm not talking to the Big Twelve either, because they
• 1:06:44
  don't listen to us, because if they listened to us, the time zone
• 1:06:45
  thing would be fixed. So I'm just I mean, I'm just talking to
• 1:06:47
  the listeners now. I mean, the Big Twelve isn't gonna listen to what
• 1:06:50
  we say. So my point just is get closer. I don't want to
• 1:06:53
  get further away, you want to get in all due respect Mexico vacation there
• 1:06:57
  before. I love it, very nice. Yeah, great time. Yeah
• 1:06:59
  absolutely. I would rather go down and play in Blacksburg than I would go
• 1:07:02
  to Mexico. Sure, now Dana is gonna give up one of his home
• 1:07:06
  games. Yeah, you're gonna play in Mexico against Houston. Okay, fine,
• 1:07:13
  I don't think that would ever. Was that a big deal of Houston
• 1:07:15
  were to lose a home game they don't draw? Well, that's what I'm
• 1:07:18
  saying. So if every time I watch a Houston game, every time I
• 1:07:20
  watch in a Houston game, it looks like it's an active bomb threat,
• 1:07:24
  like there's no one in a stand. So that's my point. So if
• 1:07:26
  you want to take one from there, albeit it. I mean, Dana
• 1:07:29
  likes Mexico, right, so if they want to take one of Houston's games,
• 1:07:32
  totally on board. Just stay away from here, don't take any more
• 1:07:35
  out of here when in Mexico. Don't schedule it and say you're playing Texas
• 1:07:41
  Tech in Mexico, right, unless it's a Texas Tech home game and they'd
• 1:07:45
  want to move it to. Yeah, no matter where you're traveling and get
• 1:07:48
  the times unfixed. Do you want to go to Mexico? You can take
• 1:07:53
  a pontoon boat from lou Wendell Marine Sales. Just put it on a trailer,
• 1:07:56
  bring it down, have a time of your life. Lou Wendell located
• 1:08:00
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• 1:08:03
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• 1:08:16
  Just like three guys? They sell Family Fund? Is that what we saw?
• 1:08:21
  Family Fund? Was told the boat that I frequent. Yeah, when's
• 1:08:26
  that going in available this week? Seriously? I mean the snow to day
• 1:08:30
  didn't help, but heard its It'll be available later in the week in the
• 1:08:34
  weather sting season. Coming you're in as Deans, are we coming? I've
• 1:08:41
  been around to the lake. We coming, Chee Lake. We coming,
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  Hey go Mark, we coming, slim Jims, we coming. Rec's Yeah,
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  by the way, Yeah, we had received some intelligence, some recon
• 1:09:01
  that we were supposed to get like a shipment or reseas. It's a great
• 1:09:04
  point. Have not seen those, have not seen those? And I'm in
• 1:09:08
  dire need because just had one of the got one of those, um one
• 1:09:12
  of those big packs. You can buy an individually, but they also come
• 1:09:15
  into big packs. And there's eight of them in there. Yeah, I
• 1:09:17
  only had a couple. Went to have one the other night. Gone,
• 1:09:25
  that's a that's a bummer, that's a that I need to be replenished.
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  Yeah, yeah, you can sign up. Would you look into that we're
• 1:09:32
  supposed to be getting that shipment? Looking at it, Well, I'm kind
• 1:09:34
  of trying to send a subliminal message to the account executives are listening. They
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  to goomart dot com slash three Guys. Hey, three guys. This is
• 1:10:26
  Jared and Charleston. My wife and I are having our first baby in October
• 1:10:29
  and we are having a shower in July. My wife says I can help
• 1:10:32
  with planning this shower, so I thought I would reach out and see if
• 1:10:36
  we could go ahead and set up a hoppy kerchival event in Charleston to do
• 1:10:40
  a live three Guys show at the shower. Tony could even use his elite
• 1:10:45
  auctioneering skills to auction off some items to pay for the forthcoming hospital bill,
• 1:10:48
  with a great way for three guys to spread their appeal and to the female
• 1:10:50
  audience and future Three Guys listeners. Yeah, I think that that's a great
• 1:10:56
  idea, but I'm not sure anything has been more misplaced than us at a
• 1:11:01
  baby shower. I don't I mean, I appreciate you, my man.
• 1:11:04
  I don't think your wife would appreciate that. Yeah, do you agree.
• 1:11:09
  I'm with you. I want to. It would be disappointing if we don't
• 1:11:12
  do something in Charleston in a live event this summer. It would be disappointing.
• 1:11:16
  Probably not at a baby shower, but just in Charleston. Yeah.
• 1:11:19
  Well tell you what, Jared, probably not gonna do it at your house.
• 1:11:24
  But if you come by like we'll do like an offering, like come
• 1:11:27
  to our event in Charleston, will pass the hat. See what we can
• 1:11:30
  raise. Yeah, Texter Eric from Kenna. Only four old school clocks are
• 1:11:39
  at the Raleigh County Airport. Note they are boycotting Central time. They got
• 1:11:44
  Germany but no Central. Shout out to Raleigh County Airport. They they got
• 1:11:50
  what they get, must have an East. They must have an East West
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  Mountain in Germany, which makes all the sense in the World's good for you.
• 1:12:01
  No Central, say Central right there. I got your Central right here,
• 1:12:06
  thank you. I've never been to the Raleigh County Airport. I don't
• 1:12:13
  think I have either. Yeah, hey, three guys. The impressive baseball
• 1:12:17
  crowds got me to thinking about how supportive WV fans are when a Mountaineer team
• 1:12:21
  is good over each of your careers. Do any particular games stand out for
• 1:12:28
  you for the atmosphere, either good or bad in any sport? Personally,
• 1:12:32
  I can think of two. First twenty eleven LSU game. I've never been
• 1:12:35
  in the stadium when it was as loud and electric as it was for the
• 1:12:40
  start of that game. It was at a different level from even the Pit
• 1:12:43
  Tech and a Maryland game I've attended during the same time frame. So from
• 1:12:50
  a good standpoint, like absolutely bonkers, bizarre, I'm gonna go so super
• 1:12:57
  old on you that you're gonna make your head hurt. Eighty four West Virginia
• 1:13:03
  BC when they beat Flutie and and Freddie Smalls and Matt Smith had late sacks
• 1:13:14
  on him. It was explosive loud. Now it's been it's reached that level
• 1:13:21
  at other times, but I mean, to me, that was like crazy,
• 1:13:26
  can't hear yourself the most, the most forlorn quiet leaving the stadium every
• 1:13:36
  ninety six Miami. I mean it was like church letting out, walking out
• 1:13:44
  in ninety six Miami because at that time, like normally when I leave,
• 1:13:48
  now like everyone's gone, But then I was going over to do the post
• 1:13:55
  game at Jammers Restaurants. So you've left early. Either I was going to
• 1:14:02
  Jambes or Jammer Jammer, I don't know it was Jammers wasn't up in ninety
• 1:14:08
  six, Okay, so Jambs. I was going over to jamb So I
• 1:14:11
  was literally leaving when the crowd was walking out because I needed to get over
• 1:14:15
  there. That might have been up anyway, whatever, And it was church
• 1:14:21
  after the punt block. I'll give you a couple. You know, that
• 1:14:27
  stupid pitt game was the biggest gap between nuts and quiet. That pregame pit
• 1:14:34
  game was awesome. Post game quiet, uh basketball. A couple of basketball
• 1:14:42
  stood up. The one we've talked about, the one before Pitt on the
• 1:14:44
  on the Pitts Nagle loose ball dunk that was that was chaotic. And the
• 1:14:48
  early first five, six, seven minutes of that Connecticut game when Drake Jones
• 1:14:56
  had one hundred and thirteen points to start, Jim Calhoun losing his mind.
• 1:15:00
  You're three deep around the concourse. Fire Marshal must have had the day off
• 1:15:03
  on that one. Did not come in and check us. That one's way
• 1:15:08
  way up there. That was bonkers that night. That was bonkers. That
• 1:15:11
  was a good one. Yeah, that was crazy. That's really I mean
• 1:15:15
  that was good anyway. J D from the Southern coal Fields continues, So
• 1:15:18
  his second game is the game that she'll not be spoken of. What you're
• 1:15:20
  referring to if you need a hint, It was rich Rod's last game.
• 1:15:24
  Surprisingly quiet. This is what he says, though he's going against you,
• 1:15:28
  So I know what he's saying, Yeah, quietly. On the walk to
• 1:15:30
  the gate, there was just a weird, uneasy energy among the fans.
• 1:15:32
  I've never felt that vibe before or since amongst a large group of people.
• 1:15:36
  It's almost like everyone was headed back to court to hear the jury's verdict regarding
• 1:15:41
  their guilt or innocence. Very strange. See my ongoing the vantage point of
• 1:15:46
  on the field before the game. So I'd always take groups of sponsors down
• 1:15:49
  on the field before the game and we'd stand right by the tunnel getting the
• 1:15:53
  smoke right when we do, all the smoke machines coming out. That was
• 1:15:57
  bonkers down there because of the quantity of people that were there. I mean,
• 1:16:00
  my man Tie from American Home Makeover was the name of the show,
• 1:16:05
  still doing it. He was on last night. The wife had it on
• 1:16:08
  an HGTV wearing a hat. Now I said to her it was current or
• 1:16:11
  a rerun, no new going down to these downtown areas developing some commerce and
• 1:16:15
  things like that. He was on that show. It's kind of a partnership
• 1:16:17
  show, that couple from Mississippi. Yeah, he was working with them in
• 1:16:23
  Unison. They were kind of there and I said, he's got a hat
• 1:16:25
  ONZI did he go balled? She didn't know. Well, he was there.
• 1:16:29
  Did you know he was there? That was one of those you talk
• 1:16:30
  about how crazy that night was. They were doing that house down in Fairmont
• 1:16:34
  is why they were here. Called our office with the day or two before
• 1:16:39
  the game to add to the craziness. Hey, can we come in to
• 1:16:43
  get the crew in with Yeah, sure, come on up. Everybody else
• 1:16:46
  is here, Come on in one more, won't hurt Texter Logan from beautiful
• 1:16:53
  Greenboro County. Definitely a good weekend for a baseball team. Beat Baylor all
• 1:16:57
  weekend. One thing I noticed every time I'm a new boxing movie gets released,
• 1:17:02
  West Virginia wins the game that weekend. Back in March, I watched
• 1:17:06
  Creed three opening night beat Kase State in basketball. Past weekend, Big George
• 1:17:13
  Foreman release We beat Baylor and baseball maybe for the Penn State game in the
• 1:17:16
  Pit Game. Rocky movie should be rereleased. I graduate from college this weekend.
• 1:17:23
  I want to thank you guys for making my last few semesters really special.
• 1:17:26
  Congratulations sincerely, Logan, Class of twenty twenty three. Congratulation. He
• 1:17:30
  invited us to his graduation, but it's either one for all or all for
• 1:17:35
  three, and since Hoppy's not here, we won't be able to be in
• 1:17:38
  attendance. That was nice looking thank you text, or hey, three guys,
• 1:17:43
  when will you be announcing the release of your second beer? It will
• 1:17:45
  obviously be called Hoppies Irish exit al. He just kind of dissolved Dounee Pete
• 1:17:54
  Pete Pennsburgh Texter Scopes spreads and suspended. Last episode should have been titled Off
• 1:18:01
  the Rails. You clowns have me chuckling so hard on my walk. People
• 1:18:05
  gave me really strange looks and wondering if I needed medical attention. Since Hopey
• 1:18:11
  will be suspended the next two weeks. As stat in the official box score,
• 1:18:14
  should be dnp SD Scopes's decision. Thanks keeping summer series interviews going p
• 1:18:19
  one Jennings, Thank you Jennings, very good. It could be the name
• 1:18:23
  of the podcast. Off the Rails, Texter, Hey knuckleheads, Chuck from
• 1:18:28
  Lumberport. What about our diamond Boys? What a weekend for Mazie for Coach
• 1:18:32
  of the Year, Big twelve Possible Nation, Keep it up, love the
• 1:18:34
  show, Mazie in the Mountaineer baseballers are just I mean, they're just.
• 1:18:43
  They're having a Disney movie season, which is awesome. I went over last
• 1:18:46
  night to his show that it's not on the radio, right or a video
• 1:18:56
  kind of like a fireside chat deal. We called it a a smoke,
• 1:19:00
  right, old school smoker. That's what it was. Well, there it
• 1:19:03
  is. There's a picture. Okay, very good. So it's at Monday's
• 1:19:06
  which is over here near White Park, and it was. It was awesome.
• 1:19:15
  He is funny as heck. Brings two players with him. They each
• 1:19:20
  have Mike's miss Amanda, Randy's wife is there as well, and my man,
• 1:19:26
  he just he just riffs. I'm talking about heavy funny stuff, heavy
• 1:19:31
  heavy funny stuff. And SHARE's a ton of insight. As you know,
• 1:19:38
  baseball it's got more nuanced, a lot of nuanced than any other sport.
• 1:19:42
  And he those folks there, man, they break down games like you I
• 1:19:45
  mean, like, hey, coach on this particular situation, had a two
• 1:19:49
  one count on this and you walked out. I mean, it's really it
• 1:19:53
  was. It was wonderful, funny, funny. Only got three more left,
• 1:19:59
  so get there about it starts at seven, Get there about four if
• 1:20:02
  you want in, because it locks out and they aren't rolling. Man.
• 1:20:08
  Oh we're in a May and JJ Weatherholet still hitting nearly five hundred and they've
• 1:20:12
  got a million guys we could be talking about. But Weatherholt continues to be
• 1:20:15
  absolutely elite. Yeah, don't disagree. Texter Brandon and Raleigh Monday Night Game
• 1:20:23
  seven Rangers Devils. I made my girlfriend come watch a couple of minutes just
• 1:20:27
  to listen to Sean McDonough. After a couple of his famous ad libs,
• 1:20:31
  I thought it was time. I then played her the Tony Curiti impression and
• 1:20:36
  we both could not stop laughing. Maybe on the next United Bank Playbook with
• 1:20:42
  Hugs, you can do your impression the whole interview, just to see how
• 1:20:45
  he would react. I'm sure with his bubbly personality when doing those segments,
• 1:20:49
  he would appreciate it just as much as we did. If he doesn't like
• 1:20:54
  it, just remind him you two are a Hall of Famer just like him.
• 1:20:58
  Thanks for you all that you June, congratulations on the Hall of Fame.
• 1:21:02
  Bob Huggins, successful basketball coach and a member of the Hall of Fame.
• 1:21:11
  Did you do Seawn impressions when you lived with him? No. The
• 1:21:15
  first time I ever heard of Shawn impression was Jason Bennetti, which you can't
• 1:21:19
  tell if it's actually Sean or Bennett. He did it on this podcast.
• 1:21:23
  Yes, he did. That's the first time I heard it. Actually,
• 1:21:29
  Jason did that imitating Sean on a Red Sox broadcast. Certainly was wonderful and
• 1:21:35
  cordial, but he did imitate Sean, and he did admit that. Sean
• 1:21:40
  has since heard that, and Jason was worried, but to no avail.
• 1:21:45
  Sean was very very appreciative of the imitation. Now you and Sean are longtime
• 1:21:54
  buddies. Lived with him in college, called in on your Hall of Fame.
• 1:21:57
  He was kind enough to join us and did the introduction there. Does
• 1:22:00
  he know you do an impression to him? No? I just hope no
• 1:22:01
  one sends this to him. How did he sound when he first when you
• 1:22:05
  when you when you hit the phone line, you looked over and said Sean
• 1:22:09
  from Boss Hollywood, and you hit the line, what happened next? Why
• 1:22:12
  do you keep doing what it? Tony? It's Sean. You love that,
• 1:22:18
  don't you? Because exactly he's the best. He does do he he's
• 1:22:27
  awesome. So I've been lessening to him well before I knew you or your
• 1:22:30
  connection with him. I've always thought he's just fantastic. One of the top
• 1:22:32
  two or three voices of my lifetime. He's great on hockey, wonderful announcer,
• 1:22:39
  did the World Series on CBS when he was twenty five years of age.
• 1:22:43
  That's amazing. Joe Carter's homer to win it for the Blue Jays.
• 1:22:46
  Sean was on the call off Mitch Williams Fantastic broadcast Family. Yeah, I
• 1:22:56
  guess he had a buddy of mine text me said, Sean had an unbelievable
• 1:22:59
  call last night in the game. Yeah, I haven't heard the call yet.
• 1:23:01
  Brandon was listening real quick. One more thing on Sean. So you
• 1:23:04
  lived with a bunch of guys that have gone on to tons of broadcasting success.
• 1:23:09
  Do they do Sean impressions now? Because he's got an impressionable I mean,
• 1:23:13
  you can do an impression to him. That's a really I don't know,
• 1:23:15
  but we all did impressions of other announcers when we were together. Yeah.
• 1:23:21
  The one memory that stands out we would go to a suite in the
• 1:23:27
  dorm and watch football on Sundays like a bunch of guys. Yeah. So
• 1:23:31
  when you think about it right now, you're talking about the current voice of
• 1:23:35
  the San Francisco forty nine Ers, the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals, the
• 1:23:41
  voice of the Philadelphia Flyers, Sean all in the same room together. Yea,
• 1:23:47
  and my man Sean at that time, Parcels, Bill Parcelsers. He
• 1:23:51
  would put on these big radio shack headsets and put the cable into his pocket
• 1:23:57
  and he would he would walk down in the sweet shot. Sean would while
• 1:24:01
  doing the game and he would give it. He would give it, the
• 1:24:04
  whole Parcels thing. Yeah, because his dad and Parcels were boys. Yeah,
• 1:24:08
  those dad's Will McDonough who it was the forerunner of journalists coming onto television
• 1:24:14
  too. I mean, he was an NBC so far because he was he
• 1:24:18
  was a writer. He was just pa famous for that. Now writers are
• 1:24:21
  on all the time, but Will was one of the first guys to then
• 1:24:25
  cross over and talk. So that's the one thing. And we would just
• 1:24:28
  sit in there and we would do imitations like everyone would just red. Do
• 1:24:31
  you remember like who had the best one and who was it of? Like,
• 1:24:35
  were you doing Don Cricky at that time? I think I was because
• 1:24:38
  Ricky and you doing mcdonno your two best Someone someone sent me a video yesterday
• 1:24:44
  last night and said and gave me a CBS thing off YouTube with Cricky and
• 1:24:51
  Steve Tasker and they're throwing it to him from the studio. I'm a boy
• 1:24:56
  and like they go listen at the fifty three second mark, and I listened,
• 1:25:00
  and there and there it was how he goes a big day here for
• 1:25:04
  the Cincinnati Bengals. Did we welcome you in Don Krikey along with Steve Tasker.
• 1:25:13
  Yeah, it was pretty spot on. I wish when you met Tasker
• 1:25:17
  last weekend you would have done Krikey two Tasker. Yeah. When I was
• 1:25:21
  like a one month a bunch of years ago, there used to be a
• 1:25:25
  network, a radio network national called r KO, which was a prominent network,
• 1:25:29
  and Krikey used to do a sports update every morning. I was doing
• 1:25:33
  sports in the morning. It would come over in the network line like about
• 1:25:36
  like eight twenty and so like every morning, like we would have to record
• 1:25:42
  it and then we would play it back and it was National Sports. So
• 1:25:46
  he would go like, this is done, krikey, And then when his
• 1:25:50
  old que was always that's sports. This is done krikey on r KO.
• 1:25:59
  You Don Cricky's so good. The one time I was around the real Don
• 1:26:02
  Cricky, I had to hide outside the office for a minute to compose myself
• 1:26:08
  before I went in to meet Don Cricket. He came into our office.
• 1:26:12
  He was in Shelley Poe's office there right just inside. Heard the voice and
• 1:26:15
  I heard it, but it took him like his Tony here, it's Tony
• 1:26:17
  years that Don Crey. So it went out and I could see it,
• 1:26:19
  like from my office, I could see in there that it was actually Don
• 1:26:23
  Kricky. Yeah. I thought there was no way I'm not meeting Don Criky
• 1:26:25
  here, but I had to get I positioned myself outside the office of Shelley's
• 1:26:29
  office so they couldn't see me, but I could hear him. And when
• 1:26:31
  he was like, I was laughing so hard because all I could hear was
• 1:26:34
  your impression. I had to gather before I went in. See I roomed
• 1:26:39
  with, so Sean was in the suite two room suite. But Craig Minervini,
• 1:26:44
  I've told you what. Craig Minervini was my roommate, right And Craig,
• 1:26:48
  I mean I meet to this day. He makes me just like cry.
• 1:26:54
  He was so funny. His brother is a professional comedian with um the
• 1:26:59
  real big comedian. Well, they all broke out together, Eddie Murphy and
• 1:27:01
  Seinfeld and his brother Ritchie. They're all Long Island guys, and Richie had
• 1:27:08
  the east Side Comedy Club in Huntington, Long Island. They were all a
• 1:27:10
  pack. And um, who's Kevin James. Kevin James and Kevin James and
• 1:27:15
  Ritchie are like huge buddies. And Ritchie has been in a lot of Kevin's
• 1:27:20
  movies and they got Craig to be anyway, Craig is Craig could have been
• 1:27:25
  a comedian just I mean, pee yourself funny. And he did Marve Albert
• 1:27:32
  and did a spot on Marve Albert, so he was doing pretty good.
• 1:27:38
  Oh yeah, and um that's when Marv judged a Marv Albert contest and Craig
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  was one of the three finalists, and they did it at the Garden And
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  this was relatively after Greig, but at that time Craig his first job out
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  of college was he was the guy that interviewed wrestlers on WWE, and so
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  in between that he did he did the Marv Albert Soundlike contest and so he
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  did his speel and then Marv came up to him and he knew Syracuse connection
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  and Marv said to him, he said, and uh, so you're doing
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  the the wrestling and he goes, yeah, he goes, uh. He
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  said, don't make it last too long. That words of wi be could
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  you get pigeon holed there? You get pigeonholed into that industry and which it's
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  fine. I mean if you want to stay in that fine, but like
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  if you want to hop back over, it's probably a lot easier nowadays to
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  hop back over, but back in that day, yeah, don't don't stay
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  too long. And yes, thank you, Marv. Nickabocker's lead seventy five
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  seventy four, um last one here. I don't know if I can get
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  this to Taylor in time. No, I'm just we'll do it maybe next
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  time. Texter, Greg and Katlitzberg good day, fellow thoughts for a new
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  exit motto after a walk off win, Hoppy has left the building. Thanks
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  for having us question. How many football starters contributors have we lost to the
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  portal this spring compared to last Yeah, I think that's exactly right. So
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  it's seventeen this year. I think that's right, and it was fourteen last
• 1:29:18
  year. I think, yeah, ish or maybe reversed. Greg says very
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  much enjoying the summer series kickoff, keep out the up, keep up the
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  outstanding work. He did not say keep up the outstanding articulation. Um.
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  Yeah, so pretty much an even one at this point. At this point,
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  all right, my goodness, time is blown. I think we've done
• 1:29:45
  about as nuts of damage as we can. It's another long one. So
• 1:29:48
  when you're out there shoveling your driveway, now this will be a good listening.
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  Right now, we're at one thirty minute hour thirty all right, So
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  wait a second, Taylor, just Taylor just came in. What's he got?
• 1:30:00
  Uh, yeah, I'm gonna skip it, Taylor. We'll try to
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  do it next time. But I had the I had the recording of Kricky
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  saying, get do it next time. Yeah, we'll do it. We'll
• 1:30:06
  remember Taylor. We'll put a put a reminder on that. Okay, we're
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  efforting um to do continue our summer series. Working on some guests, a
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  couple of good ones in the hopper. Yeah, we got some working on.
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  We got some, we got some, we got some verbals, and
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