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3 Guys Before The Game - Storm, Mayo, Brawl (Episode 510) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  don't have anything in North Carolina. Yeah, I might just have a little
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  bit. Gotta do a little bit today. Cool. Still have twenty days
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  to preview the match, so we got to start today. Start today.
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  I've got a couple of things. Yes, did you know that when the
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  game is played on the twenty seventh of December, it will be the fifteen
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  year anniversary of West Virginia North Carolina Pat White in that Bowl game it was
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  Minicky Carcare Bowl at that time, Right, and Rich had Pat run at
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  seventeen one hundred consecutive times, and that King Jeffries caught the ball behind his
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  back? Was that was Stu, you're you're conflating to Pat White? Deals
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  You're right? That was to was this to? Yeah? Right? That
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  was too I know that was Pat Lasier number thirty one interception far side right.
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  And Pat White threw for like three bills, played for three fifty three
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  touchdowns, ran for about fifty Also not to be forgotten, in that George
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  Foreman visited us in the radio booth, he did. I never remember that
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  part of it, but uh, the uh Rich made Rich made Pat run
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  two hundred times in a row against Georgia Tech. Yeah, after the uh
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  Calvin Johnson, all right, that was that game? Correct? That was
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  that game? Yeah, cany Keith Tanny was grabbing around the ankle, couldn't
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  get him down. That was that game. You're saying, Jeffrey Show,
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  that was a gator That was a gator ball. That was a gator ball.
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  You're right, You're right, I am. Yeah. It was also
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  though, that the bowl game against the mother ship Virginia, was it?
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  That was? Yeah, that was Rich's first bowl game and that was that
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  tire tire. That's when the Virginia banned. That was the end of it
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  for them. Well yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep,
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  yep, yep, yep. Is that where we're gonna start? Yeah?
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  Where do you want to start? Well? No, I mean are
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  we gonna go? So basically what you're asking me is do we go Saint
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  John's first and hold the mail? Or do we go or do we go
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  right into what? So what you're so giddy? You got to say that
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  that is that is an absolute perfect joke for you. You are giddy.
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  You got to just use that And I tell you because you used it and
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  it was Key Nicks as the receiver, right, what'd you call him?
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  Keem Jeffries Team Knicks caught it behind his back, That's what I kept saying,
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  far sideline. Yeah, Geez caught it behind his back. So interestingly,
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  I wouldn't have remembered this. Do you know who was on the play
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  by play call for that one? Which game? The Minukey car care Ball,
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  the West Virginia one? Who was it? Was it Sean? Did
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  Sean do the game? He did? I don't think he'll be doing this
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  year's wonderful game. Big Bull certainly like my condiments, and Mayo certainly would
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  be one of them. That was fun. That was a fun ball that
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  you know we often use that exam Sorry, I jumped you. I'll just
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  say this one thing that I'll see the floor to you. That's that's a
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  bowl I often reference when people want to get out there and hammer bowls and
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  don't like bulls and they don't like it and it's not fun and there's no
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  benefit, and there's too many and I'll give my standard disclaimer. I'll give
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  it all through bull season, I realize I'm on the far end of the
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  spectrum. I love them. I can't get enough of them. Hoppy,
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  we work a bunch of them. I understand that. But I wait all
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  year for football. So if you can give me more football and more games,
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  I'm in. But that's what I always point to as that was an
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  off the radar bowl. Normally you wouldn't have thought anything of that. That
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  was a fun game, a great matchup. That locker room was giddy to
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  have won that game, no question, All right, go ahead, Just
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  that came Jeffries is the minority leader of the House of Representatives. Well,
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  your words are flat, so sometimes things mold together. You just did you
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  just did two hours of that stuff. Geez man, Okay, go ahead,
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  what are we talking about? Yeah, where do you want to start?
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  What are we doing? I need to hold the mail. Well done
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  on your part, so we should follow your lead because that was a good
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  play on this card. Let's do it chronologically, and let's hold the Mayo
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  for now, and let's jump into Friday night's date against the Red Storm of
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  Saint John's the Big East, the Big twelve Battle did not get the result.
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  Oh heck, we haven't even mentioned yet about soccer. Uh, it's
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  only gonna be only going to have a chance to play for the World Championship.
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  Had the coach on, excuse me, had the coach on this morning?
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  Really? Huh, wasn't that good? How's he doing? He's doing
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  great, He's doing extremely well. He's in the final four. What do
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  you say about injuries? Did you talk to him about that? Oh?
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  He didn't. I missed the boat on that. We did you talk to
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  him about like geopolitical spectrum and climate? Are you talking to me? They?
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  Well, they got behind, you know one nil. Oh, I
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  know I was there. Well, then you talk about it. You were
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  there. I mean, they got behind. But then you know, rallied
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  one three to one. And he said when he came here four years ago
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  that he didn't he did not think that going to the final four was out
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  of the question. That was he thought it was achievable. And they've recruited
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  internationally and you know, now you're in the final four. Man, did
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  he go on the thing? Did he thank you for hiring him? No,
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  we didn't. That didn't come up. I mean, but he was
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  very you know what I was thinking of doing, Senator, go find that
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  episode. We need to find out when he was hired. Yeah, well
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  find that episode because it was a Thursday or a Friday show when our boy
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  leaves the set on his phone cutting the deal, cutting the deal to get
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  Stratford hired. Here, you should see the buyout on that I got for
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  him. Yeah, I bet you did. I was telling him earlier.
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  I went, Hey, the entire contract. I went, and where I
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  where I watch from? I watch at the fence behind the other the visiting
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  team's bench area. So when they scored that first goal a minute fifty four
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  in, I mean they they were jacked on that. Marymount was so yeah,
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  they were absolutely and I went like, oh no, don't tell me.
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  This is one of those mountaineer moments where you get to the top,
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  you put your hand on the top of the the absolute pinnacle, and then
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  all of a sudden, someone kicks your hand. Here's what Stratford said that
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  they that Loyola Marrymount Lions. The Lions came out and did something they had
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  not done all season because they they tend to be more of a defensive team,
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  and they went immediately as they did and took West Virginia a little bit
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  by surprise. West Virginia kept her cool, right it was early. If
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  you're going to give up a goal, give it up early and came back
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  in you know one. So they a tank the flank is what they did.
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  My soccer knowledge is limited, but they they they aggressively, attacked offensively
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  and bought less than two minutes in they get a goal, almost had one
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  before that. Now are going to Louisville there they are. It's pretty huge.
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  It is huge, really huge, amazing when you think about it.
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  You got Marshall and West Virginia, you know, both literally contending Marshall one
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  obviously when it did, and they're still in the mix this year. It's
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  pretty amazing. And Marshall's out, Yeah, I understand that, but I'm
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  just saying, like, just to have two schools from the same stage within
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  a window of two three four years that are legitimate contenders as Virginia Tony,
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  as you know, is the center of soccer, of collegiate soccer in America,
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  right m h absolutely, I think it's fantastic. All right. Anyway,
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  So Friday's basketball contest Red Storm and Saint just seventy one year old Rick
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  Patino in attendance, and uh be interested to see what happens with those dudes.
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  See what yeh be really interested to see what happens with those dudes.
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  I know they're going to gel. I know they're going to get better.
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  West Virginia is one player away from winning that game. No doubt. Kirk
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  Careisa plays in that game on Friday. You beat those guys. It was
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  there, it was there. You have Kirk Caresa against Virginia, you win
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  that game. I'm giving a ton of credit to this Mountaineer basketball team and
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  this coaching staff at this point because they are putting together game plans that puts
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  them into position to win games. Obviously, we know what happened against Virginia.
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  It was right there for the taking. And then you are down too
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  with two minutes to go in this game on Friday, you have a really
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  bad turnover they go up for It makes it hard. But the whole game
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  plan for West Virginia was to do something out of the ordinary, and it
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  was hard to do and it was hard to watch because they were draining the
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  clock on offense. So they wouldn't get into a track meet with Saint John's.
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  Because they did get into track meet with SMU and it didn't work well.
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  So to their credit. They made that game the way that it needed
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  to be, but it was ugly to watch Tony. I the it's unfortunate
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  because it was there and that would have been a quality win over a team
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  there's probably going to be okay. And like you said, when Saint John's
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  gets it together, number one. Number two is that you know once again
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  you just you know, Brad, how much have we talked about with teams.
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  You just don't have much margin. Frewery just don't have much margin.
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  And Jesse Edwards gets a little foul trouble, so then you know that's a
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  problem for you. And then when he's out of there, Soriano is I
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  mean he had a big game. But also I think the officials are still
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  horse from blowing the whistle. I mean West Virginia had a chance though with
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  the free throws they shot whistle eighty eight percent, had a great whistle,
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  shot eighty eight percent in the first half, second half shot sixty one percent.
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  I did the math. If you shot eighty percent in the second half
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  on free throws, it would have been a one point game because you went
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  to the line in the second half twenty six times and made sixteen. If
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  you made twenty one of twenty six, you'd have been a one point game,
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  so they had chances at the free throw line. Yeah, there were
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  a couple of things we talked about on Friday on when we do this show
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  Thursday Thursday, so we talked about Soriano. He ended up being very good,
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  talked about that matchup with Edwards said Saint John's won't shoot many free throws,
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  That's not what they did. They shot more than they normally do with
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  twenty but you just had a massive advantage plus seventeen points at the line.
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  So yeah, you needed to make a few more in the second half to
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  try and get over the hump. But that's also why you were in that
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  game so long, is because you shot so well and so many different You
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  went to the line twenty three more times than they did, so that was
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  what kept West Virginia in the game. The other thing we talked about in
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  the Scotting report, we said Saint John's is as good to offensive rebounding team
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  as there is in the country. Where they were again, plus they had
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  eighteen offensive rebounds. Now West Virginia had fifteen, so you didn't get blown
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  out in that category, but second chance points for Saint John's were massive in
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  twenty six to twelve. Yeah, it's a difference plus fourteen. It's moved
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  Saint John's into the second best offensive rebounding team in the country as we sit
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  there today. So that was it, and I think you said it well,
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  this staff a lot of credit and credit to these players that are the
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  are outmanned in terms of numbers and having to go with a such a little
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  bench to stay in there and fight and battle like they have. Give them
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  a ton of credit. It just would have been nice for them and at
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  least one of these two games Virginia Saint John's, You're right there, could
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  have had both. Would have liked to see them get at least one.
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  Yeah. So now the thing is you just have to hang together because we're
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  down to two more games with this nine game suspension for kerk Carisa. He'll
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  return a week from this coming Saturday when WVU plays against Massachusetts in Springfield,
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  but you're gonna be without him again Wednesday against an improved pit team significantly improved
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  from where we have seen them in the last two seasons. And then on
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  Saturday you take on a Drexel team that, oh, by the way just
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  beat number eighteen Villanova in Philadelphia on Saturday. They had a Big five extravaganza
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  there at Wells Fargo. You know, back in the old days they'd play
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  a triple header at the Palaestra, three teams, three games, six teams
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  obviously, and they did the whole thing back in the old days. You
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  remember at the Pilaster, the first basket scored in the game, they throw
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  streamers on the floor. Well, they did that at the Wells Fargo on
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  Saturday. They had a three game deal. It was a big to do,
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  and Drexel beats Villanova, made eight threes. Now they got a rough
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  week. They play against Princeton tomorrow. Princeton's really good, really good,
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  so they'll come in with a Tuesday game and then they offer a couple to
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  come in here. So that'll be a big to do, And obviously it's
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  going to be a really intriguing game because the head coach of Drexel is friend
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  of this podcast, has been a guest on this podcast. Yeah. Morgantown
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  native Zach Spike, former intern, former intern here, another one that Hoppy
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  chased out of the business. I think he's doing okay. Hey, doing
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  fine. They're doing a good job. That don't look past that team.
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  The thing that will help West Virginia, and that is the pace. The
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  Dragons are slow as well. They don't they don't push up tempo, but
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  you're gonna have to be ultra efficient if you're West Virginian, and so far
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  that's been a challenge. Offensively, the Dragons have moved into third nationally in
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  effective field goal defense, so they're gonna guard it. They're gonna make it
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  difficult that game. You're not gonna get many possessions, so you've got to
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  find a way to score when you do get those possessions. All right,
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  let's jump in here on the pit. Panthers will hit the music. Oh
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  what what I forgot? I gotta get my boys music actually music related here.
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  This is a segment. You know, I'm we've just been overall talking
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  in general. Right here. Now we're gonna get into some stuff. Hey,
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  you want Scotting report, don't you? I do? Yeah, it's
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  coming, Yeah, hang in one second coming, and then you want to
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  find out where pick she likes to shoot it from? Right? Yeah,
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  I want all that. Yeah, Hoppy, are you going to the Oh
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  yeah, I did see that the first NCAA net rankings are out, you
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  probably saw those Pit comes in at number sixty, West Virginia at two O
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  nine. Oh lord. And I also look while I was doing that,
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  I look at the Now it's early, it's way early, way early,
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  Okay, But I looked at those net rankings for several of West Virginia's opponents
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  going forward. Houston, Yeah, one, Houston, we have a problem.
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  Houston, we have a problem. Surprise you, Houston, go ahead
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  and give number two. I think that will be Hyu. Excuse me,
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  b Yu Now big twelve number b y U. B Yu is two,
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  Baylor is six, Iowa States thirteen, Cincinnatis fourteen, Oklahoma is nineteen.
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  I mean Kansas is sixteen. This skeed And again that's that's way, way,
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  way early. But boy, this this league schedule, Tony, it's
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  not early. It's not early because the last several years, when we've done
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  really really well in the net rankings, that's where we are. That's where
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  we were starting. It's gonna be rough. You know, you're not gonna
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  Confidence. You know hoppy is having continuity? Yes from their team of
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  experts. They got it. They do it every day. Posted that bad
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  boy, what you got? All right, let's dive into pitt glasses on
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  Hopy. We're getting serious. Go all right, First and foremost, pit
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  comes in here having lost two games in a row to Massurra Massura as some
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  say, and Clemson they've actually lost. They've played four consecutive games against what
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  we'd consider power five or power six when it comes to basketball conferences. They've
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  lost three of those four. They went down to Florida, beat Oregon State,
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  lost to Missouri, and lost to Clemson. Their wins over North Carolina,
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  A and T. Binghamton, Florida Golf Coast, Jacksonville, and that
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  Oregon State team I mentioned, so their best win is over one seventy eight
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  in the Ken Palm rankings Oregon State. The rest of them are sub or
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  north of two forty three in those rankings, so against their better teams,
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  they've been challenged a little bit. Here's what they do. Don't force many
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  turnovers two hundred and eighty seventh nationally, so that'll be good for West Virginia's
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  offense. Should be able to get into your sets on the offensive end without
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  having to worry about too many forced turnovers. They are also pitt is very
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  good on the glass. Hoppy watch this one. Twenty fifth in offensive rebounding,
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  but fifth in defensive rebounding. So that's going to be hard for West
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  Virginia to get those second chance points. Where can it score? Be efficient
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  on offense, get back to getting some free throws, But the second half,
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  the second chance points on the offensive glass may be tough against this Pit
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  team. Pit's in the top three percent nationally when it comes to their offense
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  getting second chance points, their defense or their opponents in the bottom three percent
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  in that category. Set that again, what'd you say, Pitt's in the
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  top three percent when it comes to second chance points. So much like we
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  just said that was a key for Saint John's getting the win, that's going
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  to be a key for Pitt as well. You've got to try and keep
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  them off the glass and don't allow them to offensive rebound and put it back
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  in. Pitt's opponents are in the bottom three percent on second chance points,
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  so offensive glass both ways is probably going to determine this game. Pitt gets
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  to the free throw line pretty well forty fourth nationally. Oregon State's about the
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  only team that's been able to get to the line. A bunch on them.
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  As we've said over the years with West Virginia and it's continued this year.
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  Free throw attempt rate has been a big factor when West Virginia struggled a
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  bit offensively. It's been able to get to the line and score some points
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  there. So watch that. West Virginia is eighth nationally hoppy eighth nationally in
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  percentage of points that have come from free throws. So West Virginia needs to
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  get to the free throw line to have a shot in these games and keep
• 23:06
  its offense in it. Now, let's really get in the weeds pit on
• 23:08
  the offensive end. They like to get to the rim and shoot threes,
• 23:14
  kind of modern basketball rim and three rates very big. Nearly one third of
• 23:17
  their shots come at the rim. They're above the national average in percentage of
• 23:22
  threes from each of the five spots behind the three point arc, so they'll
• 23:26
  shoot it from all over. Their best spot is the right corner, shooting
• 23:30
  fifty percent from the right corner three spots, so West virgin is going to
• 23:34
  have to keep an eye on that. West Virginia has guarded the rim well
• 23:38
  as you would expect with Jesse Edwards in there. So that's a pit team
• 23:41
  that wants to get there against the rim. Against a West Virginia team that
• 23:45
  defends it pretty well, that probably will help determine the game. Which of
• 23:49
  those two things holds true. Can Pit score at the rim or will West
• 23:52
  Virginia be able to keep them out? Watch that coming up on Wednesday.
• 23:57
  I'll give you another one. Teams have not shot it well. That right
• 24:00
  corner spot that Pitt's very good at. Teams are shooting just twenty five percent
• 24:03
  against West Virginia from that spot. So watch the rim, watch the right
• 24:08
  corner. See where that goes well in the West Virginia offense. Sure you
• 24:12
  got the glasses on. Go ahead, all right as well? Keep rolling
• 24:15
  okay? Defensively for Pitt. They give up points at the rim. Opponents
• 24:18
  are shooting sixty six percent in those situations. They also give up the right
• 24:25
  elbow mid range jumper inside the three just outside the right elbow, and they
• 24:30
  also give up right corner three. So they like to shoot them, they
• 24:33
  also give them up. Here's the downside. Unfortunately, none of those zones
• 24:38
  match where West Virginia likes to shoot or has success from. The closest is
• 24:44
  the right corner. West Virginia shooting thirty five percent from that right corner spot,
• 24:48
  which is about right on the national average. Where does West Virginia shoot
• 24:52
  well from basket under the basket, Well, they do shoot weltering all right,
• 25:00
  here we go, hold on its floating. What do you want to
• 25:03
  know where they shoot it? Well? From here? Like where is West
• 25:06
  Virginia's hot spot? Where do they where do they shoot the most effective?
• 25:10
  Well itft left wing threes are pretty good, over thirty three percent. They're
• 25:18
  slightly above a national average. They're about thirty four percent from there. They'll
• 25:21
  give you a little little left baseline from two. They haven't shot many of
• 25:27
  those though, just eight attempts from there. It's only two percent of their
• 25:30
  shots. That's about it. Jesse Edwards played Pitt twice last year when he
• 25:37
  was a member of Syracuse. When he met them the first time, he
• 25:45
  went eight points, nine rebounds, didn't take a ton of shots, four
• 25:48
  out of eight. When he met them at Pitt, he went up and
• 25:53
  got seventeen and seven and didn't shoot well from the foul line. He was
• 25:57
  five of eleven from the free throw line in five of eleven from the field.
• 26:02
  So two games last year he averages twelve and a half and sixteen eight
• 26:14
  rebounds in two games. Pace is important here. In two of Pitt's three
• 26:18
  losses, to Missouri they only scored six points in transition and against Florida only
• 26:23
  seven. Those are two games where they've been held in single digits in transition.
• 26:27
  So if West Virginia can control that pace and keep them from getting out
• 26:32
  and running, you like West Virginia to hang around in this one little So
• 26:33
  you say put the brake on again. I think they're going to have to
• 26:37
  listen. I think you're gonna see that until you get a couple bodies back
• 26:40
  for West Virginia, then maybe you can pick your spots and run a little
• 26:42
  bit. But I think until then, yeah, you're gonna watch slow down
• 26:45
  a little bit. Yeah, okay, what else? So what's the line
• 26:52
  going to be? Based on? Ken palm? What do you think it
• 26:55
  goes pit? Probably favored by a couple That's what I think. Two three,
• 27:00
  all right in that range. Yep, yep, yep. Be a
• 27:03
  great one to get weird. Start time, Hobby, nine pm. You'll
• 27:07
  have your warm milk and you'll be under your covers. They listening to quarter
• 27:11
  teaspoon of sugar in there. You mix it up in a night night tim
• 27:14
  for Hobby. By the way, I was talking with the director of athletics
• 27:19
  Friday, and they are still pursuing the Raquan battle situation. We know that
• 27:25
  Rocky g and Ola Morganton attorney's representing Ray Kuan and is trying to see if
• 27:30
  they can do something legally on that front, and that I forget the terminology,
• 27:36
  but maybe you know. Butrin Baker said they're going to apply for something.
• 27:40
  They're they're taking another step to try to get the n cuale A to
• 27:42
  take another look at it, saying there are extenuating circumstances which the nc double
• 27:48
  A did not consider. So w WV is going to the mats for battle.
• 27:52
  Yeah, and when we when we've seen a couple of these go on
• 27:55
  to get a turn of decision, that's what has happened. So what the
• 28:00
  heck is? The words are something, uh, yeah, you know what.
• 28:07
  Let me anyway, it's another avenue to pursue to try to get him
• 28:14
  eligible. And you also have the Cook a Cook situation, and there could
• 28:18
  be movement there. So we'll see one way or the other where that is
• 28:23
  going to resolve. And after this week Kirk creases back, so he won't
• 28:26
  be available for Pitt won't be available with Drexel. Then he comes back off
• 28:32
  the suspension list, and will I will obviously help tremendously when he returns three
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  Coffee Clatch, we intend to do that. Ray Kwan's attorney probably has other
• 29:42
  things he's doing as well. We're making sure we are communicating just so everyone
• 29:47
  knows what each other is doing. I expect in the next day or two
• 29:49
  we will submit a request for reconsideration. I'm hoping the young man gets a
• 29:55
  chance to play. He's a wonderful person. He's been through a lot.
• 29:57
  So there is another avenue that w you can pursue, and they are pursuing
• 30:00
  it. He said, in the next day or two. That was on
• 30:03
  Friday, So there's your Friday. So the request for reconsideration would be out
• 30:07
  there no later than Wednesday of this week. I think is when they'll hear
• 30:10
  back and say like, yes, we'll reconsider, which I think will they
• 30:14
  will get a reconsideration, And then you think so, I think we'll get
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  a reconcern. That doesn't mean that's just they're going to look at it again.
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  That doesn't mean you're likely to get approved necessarily one way or the other.
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  Just said, okay, we'll reconsider if you think you have something that
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  we don't know that you can offer to this again, you do that,
• 30:30
  I who was it? Maybe you? I forget who tells me these things?
• 30:33
  But that there are there might be a National Native American Organization that is
• 30:38
  getting involved, that wants to get involved as well. Maybe Rin said that.
• 30:44
  I don't know where you got it, but I think that's very likely.
• 30:48
  I think it's caught their caught their attention, caught their attention. Saw
• 30:51
  the NCAA sun A post out on Friday. Friday, Thursday late was the
• 31:02
  last day of Native American Month, and the NCAA posted something touting how many
• 31:07
  Native Americans participate in NCAA athletics. You know, the one that isn't exactly
• 31:15
  right, exactly right? Yeah, don't tell me about those, tell me
• 31:19
  about the ones they all right, So chronologically, shall we? Shall we
• 31:27
  talk? Mayo? Sure? One word to describe West Virginia's Bowl invitation stunner.
• 31:37
  I mean, you know who was predicting this, absolutely no one.
• 31:41
  It wasn't even in play because there is no affiliation. So horse trading went
• 31:48
  on, and I mean it was going on, and if you were following
• 31:51
  it yesterday afternoon, I mean literally literally as of two pm, two pm,
• 32:00
  like WVU had no inclination that they were even on the board, and
• 32:06
  then you know, about three ish it starts to I mean, but the
• 32:09
  acc because they were so staggered, I think by Florida State not getting into
• 32:15
  the College Football Playoff like they were like WHOA. And if you were following
• 32:19
  it through Brett McMurphy, who I think had probably the best handle on all
• 32:23
  of these things, he could tell like, there's a conference call going on,
• 32:27
  we don't know where these schools are going at this point, and it
• 32:30
  was late we knew West Virginia was in. Then as to whom the opponent
• 32:35
  was, I think time will tell there was some pretty good stuff going on
• 32:39
  in the back the back of this whole thing in order to find West Virginia's
• 32:44
  opponent. It was if they weren't the very last bowl spots to be filled,
• 32:49
  they were right among them, all the ACC schools at once everything else
• 32:52
  was slotted. Listen, I'll jump in here off. I think West Virginia
• 32:54
  landed in an A plus position here to get a bull that you're not normally
• 32:59
  associated with, To get it in Charlotte, which is basically an extension of
• 33:02
  West Virginia, To get it between Christmas and New Year's as a time slot.
• 33:06
  Those are the two things you always hope for if you're a West Virginia
• 33:08
  administrator. We'll get into the matchup here in a little bit, and we'll
• 33:12
  talk about if that's a good one or not. But I think from a
• 33:15
  location, a date, and an opponent with a big brand like North Carolina,
• 33:19
  I think that's a massive, massive win for West Virginia in this I
• 33:22
  agree completely. I mean, Charlotte, it may as well be in flat
• 33:25
  woods. I mean, I mean all the respective flywood. I seventy seven
• 33:30
  is an appendage of West Virginia. I mean people will go there. I
• 33:34
  mean, do you remember that when West Virginia went to the Continial Tower Bowl
• 33:37
  Rich's second year, whatever it was. I mean, West Virginia's just flooded.
• 33:40
  The place flooded, the place West Virginians can go there, will go
• 33:45
  there. They'll go to North Carolina, They'll go to South Carolina Mirtle Beach,
• 33:47
  and they go to Florida. So I mean they'll go to Charlotte.
• 33:50
  I think that's great. And like you said, Brad, it's a national
• 33:52
  opponent. They faded a little bit, but still in North Carolina that's a
• 33:54
  national brand. And maybe as we get into to the matchup, maybe just
• 34:00
  maybe their quarterback will be eyeing his NFL prospects and will decide he wasn't doesn't
• 34:06
  want to put himself at risk by playing in a bowl game, which would
• 34:08
  be fine with me. No reason that young student athlete should put any not
• 34:13
  none at all, put himself in harm's way whatsoever. That young man should
• 34:15
  rest himself up, get ready for the preparation for the NFL Draft. And
• 34:22
  I hope the ESPN A CBS spends a lot of time now is saying Drake
• 34:24
  may I think, well, Brad, it's gone up. Most have him
• 34:28
  is one of the first couple of quarterbacks off the board. So I'll be
• 34:30
  I'll be stunned if Drake could be in the top. They got him in
• 34:32
  like number three overall. But do you remember what happened last time we played
• 34:37
  those dudes and the Oscar Davenport Oscar. That wasn't the last time, but
• 34:40
  it was ninety six stable Oscar Davenport. Were we sitting there going, yeah,
• 34:45
  there's starters out there? Was his name, t J. Yeats.
• 34:49
  That sounds right, that's a good call, That's what it is. I
• 34:51
  think it might have been. Oscar takes on Bowl MVP. All of a
• 34:53
  sudden, Oscar's running around there like the the the precursor of Pat Mahomes running
• 34:59
  a round. Well, but I will say this, if May's out,
• 35:04
  they're gonna have to do some work. He's thrown ninety eight percent of their
• 35:07
  passes this year. The backup has thrown six. Connor Harre season six West
• 35:12
  Virginia connection Wannie Galloway on the staff that's right at the University of North Carolina.
• 35:17
  Connor Harrell has thrown six passes, completed four. He's played in three
• 35:22
  games. Jefferson bow As has thrown one pass and completed one. So that's
• 35:28
  what you have there, by the way, I had on a spokesman from
• 35:31
  the Bowl earlier today, Miller Yoho. Miller Yoho from the Bowl. First
• 35:37
  thing he says is I'm from West Virginia. He did not come on of
• 35:40
  course, he is seriously from Charleston. I would say this when it comes
• 35:46
  to sponsorship activation. We've obviously never played in this game. They in my
• 35:55
  just top of mind awareness. Yeah, there's no one that does a better
• 35:59
  job of bul of sponsorship activation than the Duke's Mayo people. Absolutely, because
• 36:04
  like I have, I've never been to the game, like I all I
• 36:07
  know is I got images in my head of dudes eating mayonnaise sandwiches and people
• 36:13
  getting mayonnaise poured on top of him, like they won that game. You
• 36:16
  know, in a world you're like, you're getting it. They're gonna come
• 36:19
  into your radio booth with with a Snickers bar with mayonnaise on it and say,
• 36:22
  here, you wanna try it. Last time I was there, remember,
• 36:25
  George Foreman was selling that that Yeah, that I just told you.
• 36:29
  At the beginning of the show, George Former was there. You said you
• 36:30
  don't remember it. I don't really. Hey, remember George literally opened the
• 36:35
  show say no, yeah, George Thrumm was there and he dismissed it,
• 36:37
  waved me all comes back, and now he comes back and says, hey,
• 36:39
  remember last time we were there, George Forman was there. You see
• 36:42
  how he just did that. The only reason I brought it up because you
• 36:44
  reminded me. That's the only reason I remember it. I mean I was
• 36:46
  in the I was standing there in the was doing the game. I mean
• 36:50
  you want me to sit there and go, hey, Champ, I mean
• 36:52
  the game's going, Yes, everybody else, I'm doing the game your color
• 36:55
  commentary, Dwight, Did everybody talk to him? I can talk to him.
• 36:58
  I got stuff going on on the field. Old I was just standing
• 37:00
  with time out. You're sitting there any time out, your feet up on
• 37:04
  the desk. Fine. I think the whole time he got on the air
• 37:07
  with you, I talk to him. That was great. I think I
• 37:09
  think what happened was he came in and you said, Foreman, of course
• 37:14
  he did not beat Muhammad Ali. I should have given a little coat sell
• 37:17
  And there he is Foreman champ back in the corner. Muhammad Ali. He
• 37:22
  was classic great. He was a great guys. I just remember his hands.
• 37:28
  Oh my gosh, we're absolutely like like you shake his hand, it's
• 37:31
  like like this was his glove. Like his hand was as big. I
• 37:36
  just remember that. Hey, hit hit the stinger real quick. Oh he's
• 37:40
  got something. Hit the stinger. One second. Here I got you want
• 37:43
  short one sure, breaking news, breaking stats news, brought you by the
• 37:51
  Conley Cepia Group. Hey, bonus segment. Drake Mays probably not playing,
• 37:55
  as we just established, It's too bad he's not. This would be a
• 38:00
  matchup, might be the best bull quarterback matchup of the postseason. Two elite
• 38:06
  quarterbacks playing in this game. Ready for some numbers. Yeah, here you
• 38:09
  go, he's gonna get You're gonna get the Drake May stats in before he
• 38:13
  pulls out of the pull out, So I'm gonna got him in now.
• 38:16
  Drake May led the country in big time throws. No our stat We've used
• 38:20
  a bunch from Garrets, right, this category isn't he So Drake May led
• 38:23
  the country with thirty four. I mean, he's a great quarterback. He's
• 38:27
  gonna be one of the top picks in the NFL draft. Sure, Garrett
• 38:30
  had twenty nine, fourth nationally for Garrett Green, who got snubbed from Big
• 38:36
  twelve honors, twenty nine, Right, nationally. I didn't say he was
• 38:38
  fourth in the Big twelve. I say it was fourth nationally big big time
• 38:42
  throw percentage because number of passes. Drake May threw a bunch more passes.
• 38:46
  Right, Yeah, he was ninth in the nation in big time throw percentage,
• 38:51
  which is pretty good. That's a nice that's a nice year. Nice
• 38:52
  number. If you're ninth in big time throw percentage the percentage your passes that
• 38:57
  were big time throws. If you're ninth, you're probably on nflr That's very
• 39:00
  good for Drake, really good. How about if you lead the nation in
• 39:04
  big time throw percentage as one Garrett Green did ten percent of his passes.
• 39:08
  We talked about that last week when he was here, led the country in
• 39:13
  big time throw percentage. Garrett Green did not conference, which he did that
• 39:15
  too, country Nation. Then here's the other part. I mean, Drake
• 39:20
  May fairly mobile, had the thirty best pro football focused run grade of any
• 39:25
  quarterback. So he's a really good passer. But he could also take off
• 39:28
  thirty your top thirty in those street on you huh scoot, Yeah, top
• 39:31
  thirty. That's pretty good. Sure he can throw it, he can run
• 39:34
  it a little bit, Garrett Green. Yeah, that I just had led
• 39:37
  the nation in big time throw percentage, third best quarterback run grade in the
• 39:42
  country. Third, Well, you would have had an elite an elite quarterback
• 39:47
  matchup, truly one of the best of boll season. If Drake may decides
• 39:51
  he wants to play in this game. I hope he doesn't though. Yeah,
• 39:55
  so listen, how about those numbers. That's well, that's a great
• 39:59
  compare. I mean, you're kind of reconsideration. Can can the Big twelve
• 40:02
  coaches reconsider the player honors? Conference honors? No, they're not going to
• 40:08
  do it. But you know what else? Hit me this morning? God
• 40:13
  host, there, I'm just saying, yeah. This morning, while I
• 40:15
  was there'll be preseason something this morning, while I was doing my squad thrusts
• 40:22
  am I jumping jacks, something hit me like, have we put are we
• 40:27
  given enough love to West Virginia finishing as the number one rushing team in Power
• 40:30
  five? I say not, probably not. I say not. No.
• 40:35
  We talked about all season, but as it finishes, put it into context.
• 40:38
  Now, think about where it was. I mean, if you was
• 40:44
  one hundred the first year under Neil Brown, it was it was anemic.
• 40:47
  You were struggling to run. And every time we did this show, you'd
• 40:51
  come in and say, all right, can we get one hundred to one
• 40:53
  hundred yards rushing? That was the number. I vividly remember that that was
• 40:57
  the number. Could you get to one hundred today? Yes? It was
• 41:00
  the number, and that's huge. They should put something up there over at
• 41:02
  that football stadium. Hang a banner, hang a dog one banner, hang
• 41:07
  the banner number one in rushing. That helps when you're recruiting, saying offensive
• 41:10
  linemen come in, go and your running backs, we care about running them.
• 41:15
  For other mobile quarterbacks. After Garrettstone, he would like that too,
• 41:17
  exactly. But this young man, may I mean, can you get me
• 41:22
  a number on him? I need to talk to him about safety precautions.
• 41:24
  He needs to step away from this game. I saw one that has him
• 41:30
  going to the Patriots as a third pick. Right, Yeah, I'll be
• 41:34
  really surprised if he plays. They could potentially have some defensive guys that opt
• 41:37
  out of this as well. I wouldn't hurt any feelings. Yeah, I
• 41:40
  mean, we just want those young guys to stay safe. They haven't been
• 41:43
  great against the run this season. He's back to the glasses eighty ninth nationally
• 41:49
  and rush yards eleventh in the acc rush defense run. Now, that's part
• 41:54
  of part of the intrigue of this game. And again, I know there's
• 41:57
  three weeks to talk about it, but here's just a little bit more that
• 41:59
  I'm looking for. You know, you're not gonna have Zach Fraser in the
• 42:01
  middle. You'll have to see if a guy like a Doug Nester that's really
• 42:06
  battled those injuries here these last few weeks, if he's able to go,
• 42:08
  or if it makes more sense for him to not in this So, I
• 42:12
  think you're gonna get a chance. Even if Nester plays, you're gonna get
• 42:15
  a chance to see what that reconstituted line will look like for West Virginia.
• 42:17
  So I'm anxious to watch that. You know, that's part of where I
• 42:21
  think these games have morphed a little bit, and I think West Virginia's in
• 42:23
  that swing mode here. I think this would be a really nice cherry on
• 42:27
  top for this season to get a ninth win over a North Carolina type of
• 42:30
  team and close the chapter on this year and say tremendous season. But I
• 42:34
  also think there's some look ahead for them next year with all these guys that
• 42:37
  they bring back, especially on the offensive side, and the excitement, and
• 42:40
  I think you're going to get a chance to see some of these guys play,
• 42:44
  especially on that offensive line, because that's going to be a topic over
• 42:46
  the summer, is how effective are you without Zach Fraser. I mean,
• 42:51
  that's a massive piece that's coming out there, and we know you've got some
• 42:53
  guys that can return, but watching some of these younger guys play in this
• 42:57
  game, I think will be interesting. Rad going back to guys you might
• 43:00
  lose by the same token. Does a Beanie Bishop not play? Does a
• 43:05
  Leak Coba not play? With on an already thin defense, Love a couple
• 43:09
  of guys like that. Leek Koba is from North Carolina, you would hope
• 43:13
  maybe that would be helpful to him. Maybe. You know, Beanie Bishop
• 43:19
  is not someone that's on draft boards right now where everyone's going to run to
• 43:22
  try to get Beanie Bishop playing in a game like this again, to pro
• 43:25
  do more tape and better. I don't know, you just don't know.
• 43:29
  These games to me have become the equivalent at the lower level, not in
• 43:34
  the college football playoff. They become the equivalent to soccer friendlies when two soccer
• 43:40
  teams play against one another their exhibition games and it's called a friendly they play
• 43:45
  against That's what these have basically morphed into. Yeah, that's why I say,
• 43:51
  I think there's a lot to look towards next year where you can get
• 43:52
  some younger guys in and play, and if you win, it's great.
• 43:54
  I think you celebrate the heck out of it. And as we've seen West
• 43:58
  Virgina before, if you lost in it, all right, you flush it
• 44:00
  and you move on and you're not out anything. It's yeah, I think
• 44:02
  it's absolutely just some exhibitions and chance to see more football. It's a chance
• 44:06
  to play some guys. I think there's a lot of benefit to it,
• 44:08
  and to your point, this could not have been a better Bowl game for
• 44:12
  West Virginia. You can stay home for Christmas, you can leave on the
• 44:15
  twenty sixth, you can watch the game on the twenty seventh. You want
• 44:19
  to come back home the twenty seventh, you can, you can stay overnight
• 44:22
  the twenties in, you're home for New Years. This is like made for
• 44:28
  West Virginia Bowl game. You couldn't have asked for something better other than obviously
• 44:32
  an upper tier Bowl, especially given that you can get to so few road
• 44:37
  games easily. If you're a West Virginia fan. I mean, this is
• 44:38
  an opportunity here if you haven't if you didn't have season tickets and didn't come
• 44:43
  to a game in Morgantown, and you couldn't get to any away games,
• 44:45
  it's a chance if you're in that area, head over and catch them in
• 44:47
  person. I think it's tremendous for him. Okay, it's great. Not
• 44:52
  going to spend a ton of time on this, but we will in later
• 44:53
  episodes. But what happened yesterday to Florida State obviously is just a massive,
• 45:01
  massive talking point right now today but it also and I don't want to jump
• 45:07
  it too big, but like, what does it mean in the future.
• 45:13
  And I know this is the last year where you had the four I get
• 45:15
  all of that. But a guy Hoppy that your son works with, by
• 45:22
  the name of Tom for Nelly, you're familiar with, and Tom's good.
• 45:27
  I thought Tom said something and they were doing a podcast of some sort.
• 45:31
  He said this, and this is kind of I think perfectly communicates what we
• 45:37
  have often talked about in this mass expansion mode that schools are in, which
• 45:43
  takes away from the true meaning an essence of collegiate sports. And I'm gonna
• 45:49
  play it for you, and it's what we have been saying, and it
• 45:55
  also is that direct shot of what we're forced to accept. ESPN has done
• 46:04
  a wonderful, masterful job of making us all think that the only thing that
• 46:07
  matters is if you're in the National Championship hunt, you matter. If you
• 46:13
  don't, you're you're out. If you're not in your your you're you're of
• 46:19
  no consequence. So this is this is what he said on a podcast yesterday.
• 46:23
  I just want to make a plea to the listeners, to the people
• 46:27
  watching college football fans, in general, and this is the basis of what
• 46:30
  I have. It's been part of the foundation of my complaints the entire time.
• 46:35
  Don't let them devalue conference titles. Don't let them devalue beating your rival.
• 46:39
  Don't let them devalue the feeling that you have every Saturday during the fall
• 46:44
  watching your favorite team play, win, lose, whatever. Do not devalue
• 46:47
  that just because television networks want you to think that the only thing that matters
• 46:52
  is winning a national title in a college football playoff system that has actual,
• 46:58
  no real kind of guideline set down to determine the teams other than we get
• 47:01
  in a room at the end of the year and we picked the teams we
• 47:04
  think should be in it. It doesn't matter. The national title is not
• 47:07
  the most important thing in this sport. It has never been the most important
• 47:12
  thing in this sport. Your relationship with the sport is more important than anything.
• 47:15
  Your relationship with your rivals, your relationship with your conference. Keep that
• 47:20
  at the forefront. Don't worry about this bullshit because that's all it has ever
• 47:23
  been, and that was proved finally and emphatically today. There you go.
• 47:29
  I think that says it well, said We've said that from the beginning,
• 47:31
  though. We talked about that with Oregon and Oregon State and Oregon State getting
• 47:36
  out there getting just pushed off the ledge for doing nothing wrong. Listen,
• 47:39
  if you were a part of that pit West Virginia game earlier this year and
• 47:43
  we were over there doing our three guys before the game food court, when
• 47:45
  University Avenue is packed up in every direction, there were any national networks commenting
• 47:50
  on that. There weren't any national game day shows rolling into town to cover
• 47:53
  that. That was an awesome experience. I only agree with Tom. We've
• 47:58
  been saying that for a lot lot longer. I mean, all of us
• 48:00
  have been around college sports for long enough now you don't need anybody else to
• 48:05
  tell you how valuable it is. And West Virginia, I think is right
• 48:07
  in the forefront of that. You're You're a school that the networks aren't going
• 48:12
  to come around and love very often. And yet there's generations of West Virginians
• 48:15
  that love college football. So I think he's right when he says, don't
• 48:20
  let them take that from you. And I think this Bowl game is a
• 48:22
  good example. It's another chance to get together with friends and family and enjoy
• 48:25
  a football game, and is it for the national title? No? Does
• 48:29
  that mean it can't be fun? No? Right, it can still be
• 48:32
  a really fun, great experience. It's going to be fun. It's going
• 48:35
  to be packed out with Mountaineer fans, fun the you know what Tom said
• 48:42
  is is exactly right, and Brad, you say that all the time,
• 48:45
  and I agree, I agree with that completely. But look, the national
• 48:49
  networks are they're looking for. I mean, what moves the needle, okay,
• 48:52
  and what move if you turn on national radio shows, it's all about,
• 48:57
  you know, the top teams. It's it's not about any of the
• 48:59
  other teams. It's all about whether Forest Day got screwed, which is a
• 49:02
  legitimate story obviously, But you know what, That's what I've always liked about
• 49:06
  college football is the bowl structure is that you can be the champion of a
• 49:10
  bowl. Okay, you're not gonna be the national champion, but you can
• 49:15
  be the champion of the Duke's Mayo Bowl, you can be the champion of
• 49:17
  whatever bowl and you know what, you get a trophy for being a champion
• 49:21
  of the bowl. And I think that's tremendous. Your season doesn't have to
• 49:23
  whereas in basketball, your season. If you're in the tournament, season ends
• 49:27
  with a loss, you can end with a win and a championship. I
• 49:30
  thought, really what this did though, guys, it highlighted what a what
• 49:34
  a ridiculous system is in place. It really just did. It had no
• 49:38
  chance of succeeding from the beginning. You should have been able to see that
• 49:42
  some year you're going to have one school that's left out. That doesn't make
• 49:45
  any sense to be left out. And I get the injury situation, and
• 49:47
  we've seen that in basketball for years, right, you see that happen.
• 49:52
  But what a ridiculous system this is. And I'm sure the group of five
• 49:53
  teams are standing up screaming right now saying, well, welcome to the party.
• 49:57
  They've been saying about the exclusion forever. So it to be highlighted,
• 50:00
  because here's the thing, Alabama beating Georgia and not getting in with their resume,
• 50:06
  there would have been a problem. That would have been a problem there.
• 50:07
  If you let Alabama in. You can't not let Texas in, who
• 50:10
  beat that Alabama team. So they did have a case, So I understand
• 50:15
  that. But again, if you're Florida State man, you have got to
• 50:16
  be hot because here's the other thing they did. They won their conference,
• 50:20
  which everybody says on that Committey's that's important and it mattered for Alabama and Texas.
• 50:23
  That's what got him in. But they also went out. Guys,
• 50:27
  we talked about West Virginia being one of six to play two Power five schools
• 50:30
  in the non conference. So did so Florida State played LSU and played Florida
• 50:36
  And I think you asked the question, Tony, and will talk about this
• 50:37
  more as it goes where that plays in down the road now that you're expanding
• 50:42
  the college football field, So win your league and you're in. But I
• 50:45
  think if you're a conference like the Big Twelve, that's what you have to
• 50:49
  be on high alert for. That a second place Big Twelve team in one
• 50:52
  of these years when maybe should be good enough to get in there starts to
• 50:57
  get looked over and passed over because there becomes about these Big two when you
• 51:01
  keep jamming SEC in Big ten down everybody's throat and you can watch the Big
• 51:06
  Ten this year. There are some bad football teams in that Big ten.
• 51:08
  So be careful when you're telling me how good strength the schedule is. At
• 51:12
  the top of the Big Ten. When you're beating up on some teams that
• 51:15
  have no business in that discussion, that's where if you want to look down
• 51:19
  the road, that's where the Big twelve has to be on guard and make
• 51:22
  sure it's doing everything it can to keep its programs competitive, bringing in top
• 51:27
  athletes and being very good so that you can't get screwed on the back end
• 51:30
  of that twelve team play You know what, you know, what happens is
• 51:34
  that with the fourteen playoff is the last couple. The last week really made
• 51:39
  a huge difference because Florida State was failing the eye test, right, they
• 51:45
  looked okay, I mean, the defense looked great, but they looked okay
• 51:46
  against Louisville. They just had a second loss. Whereas Alabama, the way
• 51:52
  they won the Auburn game and the way they beat Georgia, the previous number
• 51:54
  one team had lost a game. So I mean, well, wait,
• 51:58
  wait, wait, regardless of what the committee says the eye test got,
• 52:01
  whether they acknowledge the extent of the eye test, I think was gigantic for
• 52:05
  Alabama. So a fourth and thirty one throw to the back of the end
• 52:07
  zone on an offensive pass interference call that wasn't wasn't called. That's what gave
• 52:13
  Alabama the eye test. You want to use that for an Alabama saying is
• 52:15
  it should have lost that game. If you want to use that, don't
• 52:19
  use that as your example. That freakin' Auburn game they should have lost.
• 52:22
  Throw the penalty flag on a basically a hail mary that was it was not
• 52:28
  the reason it was. Well, what I'm saying is that was a play
• 52:30
  that everybody saw, didn't see the rest of it. And then they go
• 52:34
  out and they beat Georgia and so then you're like, Wow, this team's
• 52:37
  hot. This is a hot team. I mean, who's better today,
• 52:39
  Alabama or Florida State. Well, obviously it's not floor six as another quarterback,
• 52:44
  But that's not what this is about. If we're just going to pick
• 52:45
  teams out of a hat, then let's just assign the tess question. So
• 52:49
  there, and that is that the question. Top ten Louisville team there to
• 52:52
  win its conference title with its third string quarterback. Should you get more credit
• 52:54
  for that than Alabama needing a missed call and a basic hail throw At the
• 53:00
  end, you want to compare those two things, well, I want top
• 53:04
  ten team, they went out and they didn't look great. They beat a
• 53:06
  top ten team of the third string quarterback. How many points should you get
• 53:08
  for having the depth that your third string quarterback can get you a win when
• 53:13
  Alabama's starter almost couldn't get them a win against a bad Auburn t Okay,
• 53:16
  but then they go out and they beat the number one team in the country.
• 53:20
  I understand that, But you can't just pick which game you want because
• 53:22
  it's the last what I'm saying. But but there is there Florida stated.
• 53:28
  But Florida opened the season with a non conference win over the guy that's going
• 53:30
  to win the Heisman? Should they get more points for that? The what
• 53:35
  I'm trying to suggest is that I think that subconsciously members of the committee see
• 53:39
  what happened over the last week or two and are influenced by that, whether
• 53:44
  they admitted or not, should be one thousand percent wrong. Then let me
• 53:47
  ask you this. They did what they're supposed to do when a conference title
• 53:51
  that you say is important. They scheduled difficult teams more than most teams in
• 53:54
  the country did that and won every one of their games. Let me ask
• 53:58
  you this. Alabama barely gated by Steven A. Smith had a point.
• 54:02
  If Dion Sanders was the coach at Florida State, would Florida State have gotten
• 54:07
  into the playoff? He says, yeah, probably would. Why because it's
• 54:13
  all for the show, it's all for entertainment, it's all for ratings.
• 54:16
  Does the committee go, you know, we're taking this thing out. We're
• 54:20
  taking this thing out for bid as time goes on, we need big numbers.
• 54:23
  We TCU impacted this decision. They do not want a national semi final
• 54:30
  or a championship game turning into a boat race. And that's why people within
• 54:36
  college football should scream and not stop screaming because you know what, you know
• 54:40
  who doesn't do that and can't do that? Or the Arizona Diamondbacks and attractive
• 54:45
  TV property in the World Series, they still got en, didn't they.
• 54:47
  Right, There wasn't somebody sitting in a room that said, you know,
• 54:50
  one, can we find a way to get the Yankees in there? We
• 54:52
  got to slide the end. They didn't do that. So if that's going
• 54:55
  to be the case, and listen, you know that's the case, scream
• 54:59
  and holler and don't allow that to happen. Right, That is incredibly wrong.
• 55:02
  That you can do that. And because here's the thing, and I
• 55:06
  could, I could turn around, Hoppy and take your argument. I'll make
• 55:07
  the argument for Alabama two. I could do that as well. I just
• 55:10
  think this, if West Virginia were in this situation, all see West Virginia
• 55:15
  being put in this situation. Yes, And here's the other thing, real
• 55:19
  quick, I don't need to stand up here in grand stand and apologize for
• 55:22
  the Florida State brand, right, I mean yeah, they don't need my
• 55:24
  help. They didn't come to our defense when we were getting screwed, So
• 55:28
  I don't need to do that for Florida State's brand. I'm doing that because
• 55:30
  I could see West Virginia in this situation, and I'd want to blow towards
• 55:34
  the whole thing. Well, that's that's a fair point. If this burn
• 55:37
  it all down, if this happened to West Virginia, there would be a
• 55:39
  special session of the legislature. I'm in Florida. Florida's just announced they want
• 55:45
  they're doing that, Are they really? Yeah? Yes, I mean they
• 55:46
  were doing it. I mean we would be we would we would have gone
• 55:50
  live yesterday. Yes, we would have gone live and still be live today.
• 55:52
  Twelve I and that's far. My emotion in defending Florida State is that
• 55:57
  I could win. We don't care about Florida, so I don't care what
• 56:00
  happens. For say, I could see West Virginia being stuck in this situation.
• 56:02
  Hundred percent fair. That's my point on this. You ready to do
• 56:06
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• 56:10
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• 59:37
  this or not. I remember I was attack viciously. Excuse me, I
• 59:42
  thought of people came in a lot of people came in on this. Brad,
• 59:45
  do you have your text? I do somewhere. I missed the whole
• 59:50
  you don't use handkerchiefs anymore? And I went home. Not everyone agrees with
• 59:53
  that. Okay, well go ahead, Sam and mineral Wells, writes Texter.
• 1:00:00
  I'm pro hanky ps. I'm also pro watch out for deer. That's
• 1:00:04
  what he wants us to say when people leave textor. This is Hank from
• 1:00:07
  Hancock County, probably not his real name. My friends call me Hanky.
• 1:00:10
  I want to commend Hoppy on two things. Hiring the best soccer coach ever
• 1:00:14
  and always carrying a handkerchief commends you. Does Hank carry one? He didn't
• 1:00:19
  say that he did, Texter, Evan and Iowa. I have not seen
• 1:00:22
  a hanky since my eighty five year old grandfather died twenty two years ago.
• 1:00:27
  Hopefully you don't double it as a pocket square texter Jeez. I sat on
• 1:00:30
  the wooden bleachers in the bowl of the old stadium, passing a jar and
• 1:00:34
  watching the Mountaineers play while you guys were still at home, eating fruit loops
• 1:00:37
  and washing cartoons like Hoppy. I carry a laundered, a neatly folded bandana
• 1:00:44
  in my hip pocket nearly every day, because well, I'm a grown ass
• 1:00:49
  man, Thank you, my friend. A tissue is a single used tree
• 1:00:52
  based dainty that you fellers must rely on a ladies to proffer from their purses
• 1:00:57
  whenever you are in need or use your sleep. My bandanas are almost infinitely
• 1:01:01
  reusable, come in blue and gold, among other colors, and have infinite
• 1:01:05
  uses. I can bend down and stop a child's nose from running, or
• 1:01:08
  tie it tight at your armpit and prevent you from bleeding out. I've used
• 1:01:13
  it to wrap a piece of cornbread, last something out of my backpack,
• 1:01:16
  tie it down my rifle scope to keep fog off the lenses, filter water
• 1:01:20
  and air wipe my brow. Used it to cover my head in the sun,
• 1:01:23
  mopped up a mess, and offered it to the person in the pew
• 1:01:25
  next to me. I put it up to my face each time I sneeze,
• 1:01:30
  if the people around me, if there are people around me, especially
• 1:01:32
  inside a car or a plane, as any gentleman should do. And I
• 1:01:37
  don't have trouble an old lady. Have to trouble an old lady for something
• 1:01:42
  from her purse. They're my germs. It's my pocket. My wife and
• 1:01:45
  I both enjoy the show. Keep on going, Mark from Madison, thank
• 1:01:47
  you, Mark. Well, they are his germs until he offered it to
• 1:01:50
  the person in the pew next to him. Then then they just give it
• 1:01:52
  soon. So what he cited was multiple uses is what he's saying. PS
• 1:01:55
  watch out for deer at the point multiple use it. Well, what if
• 1:02:00
  you're bleeding out and he's got this big hanky, I take you might have
• 1:02:05
  accept it at that point, the big the big hacker, you cough up.
• 1:02:08
  I probably wouldn't then accept your hanky. You know what, It's both
• 1:02:14
  to be true. I can accept the hanky if I'm bleeding out, but
• 1:02:16
  don't want to sneeze and blow into that and put them back in my pocket.
• 1:02:21
  You know I can. I can handle both of those things. But
• 1:02:23
  then then you are acknowledging there is a use for it is that right,
• 1:02:29
  So it's good to have handy to half. Look, I don't really care.
• 1:02:31
  I'm wanting to a survey done twenty twenty, so this is dated information.
• 1:02:36
  But I'm sure it's pass us. Did two hundred and seventy million people
• 1:02:38
  used a tissue? I think you can? Is that real? Is that
• 1:02:43
  true? Yeah? It's true. When I bring numbers, do I bring
• 1:02:45
  true numbers? Spreads on Stat's got a hack? I got a hands tissue
• 1:02:50
  numbers I gotta. I'm gonna see what the stead is on handkerchiefs. I
• 1:02:52
  didn't. I did not know. My wife said, thank you for the
• 1:02:57
  email. Park say. I told I went home and I told him about
• 1:03:00
  the kerfuffle we had about it, and she said, I told, I've
• 1:03:04
  told you that before. Nobody uses handkerchiefs in Yo. Go Karen, Go
• 1:03:10
  Karen. And you know I just somewhere missed it along the line. You
• 1:03:14
  know I missed the memo. Mark scot your back. Thank you, Mark,
• 1:03:22
  HM go ahead and okay, text her. The handkerchief to me is
• 1:03:29
  like a bib on a baby. No matter how cute the baby, you
• 1:03:31
  still think I'm not touching it. Text her, gentlemen, and I guess
• 1:03:43
  Brad and Tony. I carry a handkerchief and it comes in handy. I
• 1:03:46
  have two young mountaineer fans and another arriving next month. Spills, running noses,
• 1:03:51
  tears, et cetera. Are all inevitable. I launder those, but
• 1:03:53
  start each day with a fresh one. Occasionally I'm able to offer my hanky
• 1:03:58
  to a stranger in need along with the keep it. They're cheap, and
• 1:04:01
  while not necessarily disposable, I don't ask for them to be returned well played.
• 1:04:04
  I've taken the ribbing from being old fashioned, but no one who needed
• 1:04:09
  a hanky has ever turned one down. Ben from Hurricane ps be employeed.
• 1:04:13
  You're sending this while listening, and it just so happens. I'm wearing suspenders
• 1:04:16
  too. While sharpening your pencil on a pencil. Yeah, not one of
• 1:04:24
  the fancy electric ones. No, I'm talking about the crank. Yeah,
• 1:04:28
  I love the crank. Then just make sure why you're doing to catch the
• 1:04:30
  shavings of the pencil sharpeners are coming down to Yeah, be sure and empty
• 1:04:33
  that. Yeah, empty it, or just put the waist basket right underneath.
• 1:04:36
  Sometimes when that thing is that plastic container would crack a lot in those
• 1:04:40
  old school pencil sharpers, so sometimes you didn't have it. You had to
• 1:04:43
  put the waist basket then right underneath so it would drop directly down in yep.
• 1:04:48
  I'm sorry guy, I just got to do this one text here.
• 1:04:50
  Look, so I got something bust. I'm not hiring a coach, but
• 1:04:56
  okay, all right, here we go. Uh first off, green up.
• 1:05:00
  So it was awesome. He mentioned that he'd liked to play golf.
• 1:05:01
  Son and I are big golfers Mountaineer fans. Picture attached. When Winfield won
• 1:05:05
  the state title, we might be able to help get his goal of being
• 1:05:08
  scratched golfer. We'd love to play around with him this summer. Based on
• 1:05:12
  the nil conversation, if he would have his picture made with us, we
• 1:05:15
  would pay for his golf and lunch. Don't want to break any NCAA rules.
• 1:05:18
  Thanks Glenn and Gavin from Scott Deepot. Look that there you go.
• 1:05:24
  That's a lot of hard work. Wait a minute, you can't. You
• 1:05:25
  can give them money, but you can't pay for their lunch. You could
• 1:05:30
  say, Garrett, I'm going to pay you a name, image and likeness
• 1:05:33
  fee if you would play golf with us. That would be the service that
• 1:05:38
  he provides, and lunch will be included in this service that I'm providing.
• 1:05:42
  That would be a I what if I was another school and I wanted to
• 1:05:45
  take his third best rest grade in the country and make it part of my
• 1:05:48
  team and wanted to drop off two big suitcases of money. Because you can
• 1:05:53
  do that, You can do that. I mean, yeah, if you'd
• 1:05:55
  like the young man to come play for your institution, even though in the
• 1:05:58
  rules it says don't, you still can't do that. That's how that works.
• 1:06:00
  That's exactly how that works. And you also you can call him any
• 1:06:02
  time, day or night, any at any point, you can call them
• 1:06:06
  Texter Garrett Green is an impressive young man. Kudos to his parents. I
• 1:06:11
  loved his quote, I'm from Florida, but I grew up in West Virginia.
• 1:06:15
  True or faults, Hudson Clement can be in all American by the time
• 1:06:17
  he graduates. Question is lay up shot redundant? Thanks again for keeping us
• 1:06:23
  attached to the state and the university we love. I'll go in no particular
• 1:06:28
  order, like, do you call it a layup shot? It's a great
• 1:06:31
  one. I say. There are certain people if you wanted to be like
• 1:06:34
  specific. A layup is a type of shot, jump shot, hook shot,
• 1:06:42
  layup shot. I tend to lean into. Yeah, you can say
• 1:06:45
  it's a layup shot. I don't agree with you. I do you do?
• 1:06:48
  Yeah, layup shot? You say, Kobe Johnson inside for a layup
• 1:06:50
  shot? Well no, not all the time. No, I don't think
• 1:06:55
  you did that. People say that I do say that. Oh no,
• 1:06:58
  wait, people get on me for saying a free What do they say free
• 1:07:00
  throw? I don't know what that. You know, there's certain people that
• 1:07:04
  sit at home and wait for you to say something. They just wait all
• 1:07:08
  day. Just not me, but like there are certain people that just try
• 1:07:11
  to find the most like silly ass stuff to make a big thing over.
• 1:07:16
  There are people that live their lives for that. So I don't know whatever.
• 1:07:21
  Anyway, can Hudson Clement be an All American by the time he graduates?
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  I mean, I don't know, Show me what is what is he
• 1:07:29
  gonna do? Is he gonna go catch eighty five balls and like score fourteen
• 1:07:33
  touchdowns? Yeah, he could be an All American. I mean I mean
• 1:07:36
  saw him Saturday? Who saw him Saturday? He was at the game,
• 1:07:42
  saw watching his alma water Martinsborough Bulldogs and his brother who was pushing pushing for
• 1:07:47
  Hudson's state record eight touchdowns in one game. Murphy Clement had six for rushing,
• 1:07:53
  two passing as Martinsburg claimed its tenth title since twenty ten. Understand again,
• 1:07:59
  ball coach was there. Head ball coach was there. Coach Stewart was
• 1:08:01
  in attendance as well, and Blaine Stewart was there. You big ovation for
• 1:08:03
  the head ball coach. I watched. I watched the game before I went
• 1:08:06
  over to soccer, and I saw Neil there was he a goal post sitting.
• 1:08:11
  Yeah, he goes under the goalpost. Done, he does. He
• 1:08:13
  went ends on to the left left. I didn't want him to see it
• 1:08:15
  on. Coach Stewart, Blaine was there, I saw too. Sure.
• 1:08:19
  Longtime WV fan remember my first attendant game sat at Old Mountaineer Field, Crisp
• 1:08:25
  sixteen degree day, my father and younger brother under a blanket with a propane
• 1:08:30
  gas heater to keep us warm. It didn't really didn't really need the heat
• 1:08:33
  because we watched Mike Sherwood and Bob Gresham and Braxton heat the stick to Villanova
• 1:08:40
  thirty to twenty. Love your show and all you do from Mounton Nation.
• 1:08:42
  I'll tell you what. Here's your an propane gas heater. A propane heater
• 1:08:45
  into the safety was a stadium security probably a little bit different back then.
• 1:08:48
  You just brought in a heater today. Did that fit in the clear bag?
• 1:08:54
  Well, that might have been so long ago before plastic that was.
• 1:08:59
  Start chopping up those wooden bleachers at old Mountain her Field and use those for
• 1:09:01
  kindling. Jake originally from Preston County, now living in West Texas. I
• 1:09:06
  coach middle school basketball. We played two games back on Thursday night for seventh
• 1:09:11
  grade. Our first game Thursday, we won on a putback at the buzzer.
• 1:09:15
  That was our thanks for having us moment, except we were at home,
• 1:09:19
  so it was thanks for coming moment. Those moments were great at any
• 1:09:23
  level. Sure that texter tell Garrett his unpaid bills in grease at that bar
• 1:09:28
  taken care of. I know a guy signed by Nick the Greek Texter.
• 1:09:31
  Hey, three guys, I was the proud of you three. It took
• 1:09:34
  ninety plus minutes before the show went off the rails last episode. Very good
• 1:09:38
  job also getting it back on track. I'm of Hoppies generation, so yes
• 1:09:43
  to hankies, thank you for Signed by Frank and Clarksburg fres W. Texter
• 1:09:48
  fellas second time, long time watching the Garrett interview while at work. Not
• 1:09:53
  surprised at all to see that Hoppy is a pointer finger only Texter. So
• 1:09:58
  we had a shot at you, Hoppy nerd. You were texting during the
• 1:10:01
  last show a lot and you were going one finger but he stabs at it.
• 1:10:05
  Yeah, he doesn't thumb text it. Now, you know what?
• 1:10:08
  I can't I just always do that. I don't, I can't do that.
• 1:10:11
  Well, we're just happy you got away from your razor phone and your
• 1:10:15
  you've moved into Oh, operator, operator Alice, can you get can you
• 1:10:19
  get me an open line? I need to make a call. Did you
• 1:10:23
  have a party line growing up, Hoppy? We had Oh gosh, I
• 1:10:27
  can't. I shouldn't even tell this. We had a We had a party
• 1:10:30
  line and it was not a dial up. You had a box and you
• 1:10:34
  would ring like in our number. Excuse me, sis, we had a
• 1:10:39
  party line and you had a box. You're making your hand. Your crank
• 1:10:43
  had a crank had a crank initially and it was like your number was like
• 1:10:48
  three longs and two shorts. What the hell does that mean? What the
• 1:10:54
  hell is three longs and two shorts? In eighteen seventy two, it was
• 1:11:00
  it was we lived out in the country and on a farm, and that
• 1:11:03
  was three longs and two short met like ring ring, ring, ring ring.
• 1:11:10
  That was like our number. Get the shirt printed, you get that's
• 1:11:16
  a teacher. We just got a T shirt. Three long shorts, that
• 1:11:23
  was our number. So I'm incredulous. I don't know what to say.
• 1:11:28
  What does all of the would you do this? Yeah? You crank ring
• 1:11:30
  ring ring, ring, ring ring? You have if you want to call
• 1:11:32
  somewhere, I mean, how does that work? You know what your number
• 1:11:39
  is? So you'd hear the phone and you'd hear like, was that three
• 1:11:44
  longs and two shorts was? Because everybody got on the party line got the
• 1:11:47
  same thing, got it, got all the rings. So they might be
• 1:11:51
  calling, like somebody down the road and you're like, no one, was
• 1:11:55
  that three longs? And you'd pick it up and go hi, as kirtibles
• 1:11:58
  Oh, I was calling Mabel. Okay, sorry, I talked you later.
• 1:12:00
  I mean that's and eventually we digt a regular dial phone. But am
• 1:12:04
  I in a dream? I mean longs too short? What century. Was
• 1:12:10
  this in? I mean, like, did you go to a saloon with
• 1:12:15
  Matt Dillon and ms Kitty? I mean, what in the hell word were
• 1:12:19
  you in? When was this like eighteen eighty six? This was like nineteen
• 1:12:26
  Okay, I was born, Yeah, I'll be here. Comes. I
• 1:12:30
  was born in a one room cabin. Is the next line? Were you
• 1:12:33
  and I was born? I was born in nineteen fifty five in a hospital
• 1:12:39
  eighteen fifty five? Or is that like in a tub of water? Where
• 1:12:43
  were you? Did Doc Blanchard come and see it with like a medical bag?
• 1:12:47
  Hang on, honey, Marcus Welby's coming into deliver hoppy? Oh longs,
• 1:12:55
  two shorts? Double check? That was my brother, But I think
• 1:12:58
  that was the number. Hey, Nick, was it three long? Was
• 1:13:02
  it three longs and two shorts? Yeah? It was two long, three
• 1:13:06
  shorts. I'm a little older than you guys. This was like nineteen sixty,
• 1:13:10
  nineteen sixty one, nineteen sixty two, nineteen sixty three. Okay,
• 1:13:15
  what are you doing over there? I got this package delivered to us.
• 1:13:17
  On Friday. I attended an event and these wonderful people that we know,
• 1:13:25
  Martha and Charlie, they attended both of our three guys live events here in
• 1:13:29
  town. You remember Hoppy, that was the gentleman that climbed, Yes,
• 1:13:32
  Mount Kilimanjaro or whatever it was. So I saw them and yeah, yeah,
• 1:13:36
  yeah, they scaled the mountain. Yeah, so I I saw Martha
• 1:13:40
  Martha's was it killar or base camp? I don't think it was killing Manjarro?
• 1:13:44
  Then it was only thing I could think of. No, I don't
• 1:13:45
  think it was. She's pretty interesting. She takes foreign internationals and brings them
• 1:13:54
  on trips and brought them to New York City recently, and she said hello
• 1:13:59
  guys. When I did Hershey, Pennsylvania and saw all the interesting reces,
• 1:14:02
  I thought of you guys. I couldn't help getting some for you to try.
• 1:14:05
  I got the maple garlic rub for Tony people. Garlic, Yeah,
• 1:14:09
  maple garlic salt rub that you could put on stuff to try with his grilling.
• 1:14:13
  We live in southwestern Pennsylvania where the garlic and maple comes comes from the
• 1:14:17
  Covered Bridge. Garlic is owned by our friends the Pritz I hope you enjoy.
• 1:14:24
  Signed by Martha and Charlie Mitchell, the World Travelers. So she got
• 1:14:28
  us see shapes. She got us Recee's nutcrackers, which you probably would take
• 1:14:36
  holiday season to the Nutcracker ballet. And she also got us recye peanut cup
• 1:14:43
  minute look at trees and shapes of that. But they're a delightful confident and
• 1:14:48
  they were asking about you to make sure that you were all right, and
• 1:14:51
  I said, yeah, he's fine, and thank you guys, sir.
• 1:14:57
  They're great. They're just p one, superb people. I think it was
• 1:15:01
  base camp. Yeah, thanks Martha, Charlie Texter, I'm looking at I'm
• 1:15:09
  looking right now on episode eight hundred dot com. I'm looking for the elusive.
• 1:15:12
  I know the Mothman Peter Malar half quarter of Zip Hoodie when I was
• 1:15:17
  taken aback by the Vitreo, all elicited by the Mothman p. Six sixty
• 1:15:21
  six Texter toward TC. Little did I know. Only a few minutes later,
• 1:15:26
  poor Hoppy Hoppy Hoppy would be insulted with hatred, acrimony, and hostility
• 1:15:30
  around his usage of the two hundred and forty old handkerchief. Garrett Green is
• 1:15:34
  a gym and a fine young man. We're lucky to have him lead our
• 1:15:38
  football club. Let's go Mountaineers. Sign mister Poker from PoCA with Land in
• 1:15:43
  Tayse Valley. Thank you? Isn't it nice? That? Also reflecting on
• 1:15:47
  Garrett Green, I mean he said tony thousand percent he's in Anybody can call
• 1:15:53
  him, but his thousand percent he's in it. That's one thing you don't
• 1:15:55
  have to worry about for next season in a land where you have to worry
• 1:15:59
  about everything. That kid Texter Metro News getting a shout out during the final
• 1:16:03
  PAC twelve championship. There it is hoppy, there's Herb Street and Fowler and
• 1:16:06
  they're running the ticker all Friday night. West Virginia returning head coach Neil Brown
• 1:16:12
  says West Virginia a d rend Baker tells Metro News, did you send that
• 1:16:17
  to Pete Samil? I might do that. I might send it to Pete
• 1:16:21
  to him. Yeah, I am going to send that to Pete. I'm
• 1:16:25
  gonna say, Yo, your boy, Kerchievell's strutting big time. Yeah.
• 1:16:30
  Even though that's I mean, in fairness and Brad can cut me to the
• 1:16:34
  quick here is that for many that's a non story because and I've been milking
• 1:16:41
  this non story now for about a week with Neil Brown coming on saying God
• 1:16:45
  willing he would be the coach next year. He expects to be the coach.
• 1:16:46
  The work here is not finished. He and his family like it here,
• 1:16:49
  enjoy it here. So that was that, and then Rinn Baker saying
• 1:16:53
  that you know, they haven't worked out any tesn't talked to his agent as
• 1:16:57
  of our interview, but that he fully he's going to be back, that
• 1:17:00
  he's a coach, he's going to be back. So I just wanted to
• 1:17:02
  I know that was a kind of a given, but it had not been
• 1:17:04
  said publicly, and I wanted to try to lock that down. That's understood.
• 1:17:09
  I understand why you asked it. Yeah, completely understand that. But
• 1:17:14
  it was also the biggest non story of all stories, because after he after
• 1:17:17
  he got to seven, it was like it was a nonstose. I mean,
• 1:17:25
  yes, I get I get it, I get it, I get
• 1:17:27
  it. I understand why. But it was like, yeah, okay,
• 1:17:29
  fine, all right. I mean I'm not I'm not criticizing you're asking it,
• 1:17:33
  but it was like, well, but it needed to be said at
• 1:17:38
  some point. It still needed to be said. At some point. When
• 1:17:42
  does it it need to be said? Though? Now, what year do
• 1:17:45
  you are we going to do this every year? You do it every year
• 1:17:48
  now with coaches, and I'm gonna take me a lot of coach. How
• 1:17:51
  do you just when to do this when not to do it? It was
• 1:17:56
  No, it's not a non story. It's it's it started out he was
• 1:18:00
  when he got seven, he was coming back. Yeah, by the way,
• 1:18:02
  he's a bad person. Why bad person? Why? Because he just
• 1:18:08
  opened up these shapes here and I might have I might have thirty three of
• 1:18:12
  them before the end of the show. I told you, have you ever
• 1:18:14
  had those? Can you get these a gold? I don't know. I've
• 1:18:17
  not seen the shapes. It's usually the trees are the are the more readily
• 1:18:20
  available. The boot, it's the ratio. It's Santa's boot. Look at
• 1:18:24
  that, Look at hoppy Santa's boot. I mean it's all going Santa's boot.
• 1:18:28
  Or no, it's a stocking. Wait, Santa's boot. If this,
• 1:18:43
  if this, if if we could, if we could swear on this,
• 1:18:45
  I would have just busted your ass. Three long rings and shorts.
• 1:18:49
  I made a mistake. Look Santa's boot. Well, they got a bell.
• 1:18:56
  Can we hang on Santa's boot next to the chimney? They got a
• 1:18:59
  bell, they got a stocking, they got a bell, they have a
• 1:19:02
  snowman, and they got a stocking which I think looks amazingly like Santa's boot.
• 1:19:11
  They're very good. You're as as big a dummy as I am.
• 1:19:16
  Hey, one of those orders need to be in for episode eight Hunter ten,
• 1:19:19
  twelve ten, Get Everything there by twelve ten, Episode eight Hunter dot
• 1:19:23
  com coffee, the popcorn, Peter Millar gear efforting shirts. I love the
• 1:19:28
  episode with Garrett, says a text. I just feel the love and humbleness
• 1:19:30
  to this state and the culture here. Loved when he proclaimed he was a
• 1:19:33
  mountaineer no matter who calls. Right now, I'm like a little kid on
• 1:19:36
  Christmas Eve waiting to see who gets to play the world champion Mountaineers on the
• 1:19:40
  basketball. I believe in this coach. I believe in this roster. Our
• 1:19:45
  problems are pretty apparent with depth. Do you think we will have a clear
• 1:19:49
  identity of this team by the time Big twelve play starts or an effishing offense
• 1:19:55
  good spacing is going to be enough? All good? Thanks, then good
• 1:20:00
  things take time. But just wanted to get your thoughts on what you guys
• 1:20:02
  are seeing from this team being identity wise, with or without our missing pieces
• 1:20:06
  sitting on the bench Seth and Charleston Bred. The return of Carisa means complete
• 1:20:14
  the sentence. The return of Crisa means a lot because somehow it's gonna change.
• 1:20:20
  It will change a lot. I mean, I'm not gonna put a
• 1:20:25
  number on it yet till we see it, but it will help significantly help
• 1:20:29
  in two parts. One, he's just really good. Can shoot the three,
• 1:20:31
  can distribute the ball, can push it, can handle, it can
• 1:20:34
  do all of the things you want your point guard to do. Gives you
• 1:20:36
  another body, another really good player. And then it allows a Kobe Johnson
• 1:20:41
  who's gained invaluable minutes to become a key piece as well. He can come
• 1:20:45
  off the bench, he can start over and slide it start at the two
• 1:20:48
  guard if you want, which then puts somebody else able to come in and
• 1:20:51
  spell those guys. So I think he's massive, and I think will the
• 1:20:56
  identity to answer the textras question, will the identity be known by the No,
• 1:20:59
  I don't think of, because you won't have these guys playing together long
• 1:21:01
  enough that that'll start to come out. During pety you start think if you
• 1:21:03
  had a Cook, if you had Ray kwon Battle, if you had I
• 1:21:06
  mean, you got to know what the roster's gonna be. Things change,
• 1:21:11
  I mean, every addition, every piece changes, the complict, the whole
• 1:21:15
  deal. Hello, gentlemen, I found your YouTube channel about a year ago
• 1:21:23
  and I've absolutely enjoyed it. Sorry to hear it won't be around much longer.
• 1:21:26
  And I've tried to watch other channels covering the World Champion mountaineers, but
• 1:21:29
  they just suck. Sorry, I can't think of another word to describe how
• 1:21:31
  bad they are. As a forty eight year old man who has a handkerchief
• 1:21:34
  on my person and an extra one in my vehicle at all times, I
• 1:21:36
  don't get hoppy. Thank you. Brad may know stats and what makes a
• 1:21:40
  great reseason, Tony may know food and how to hunt sleeping animals, but
• 1:21:44
  Hoppy understands a Kleenex may not always be available. Absolutely love the show.
• 1:21:47
  Born and raised in Raleigh County, been living in the middle of enemy territory
• 1:21:50
  Hokey Country since nineteen ninety eight. Go Mountaineers, Jesse, Southwest Virginia.
• 1:21:56
  I think the handkerchief thing is trending my way it is, you guys were
• 1:22:00
  hilarious. Hard to find tissue MM tissues is hard to find. I don't
• 1:22:03
  see you around right now. I'm seeing here. You don't have pockets in
• 1:22:09
  your pants? Yeah, and I got a handkerchief in my pocket. I
• 1:22:12
  couldn't carry a tissue at the only handkerchiefest thing if I had just sneeze right
• 1:22:15
  now, I don't see do you have a handkerchief? What do you have
• 1:22:16
  in your pocket? Do you have a tissue? Do you have a tissue
• 1:22:19
  in your pocket? I don't need to show you what's in my pockets.
• 1:22:21
  But if I wanted a tissue, I could. But so you don't have
• 1:22:25
  a tiss on my sleeve, which is basically what you're doing. I mean,
• 1:22:28
  I could just do it right on my sleeve. I'd still continue to
• 1:22:30
  wear it like you would continue to wear your hanky. So what's the difference
• 1:22:32
  winning? I'm winning on the handkerchiefs. You can on seventy million people with
• 1:22:40
  tissues. I'll get some. You think you're in the ballpark of that.
• 1:22:44
  You do have four textures on your side, and I'll go with that.
• 1:22:46
  These my people, that's your win. That's I'm winning. Oh what is
• 1:22:54
  that? What is it? What are these white things that are readily available
• 1:22:57
  that I could use that's not a tissue. It's not a tissue. Oh,
• 1:23:00
  but I couldn't use it to say, what does it clear my nose?
• 1:23:03
  Oh? I don't even know what it is. Oh, it's piece
• 1:23:08
  of coffee. Payvailable will you asked? What would happen if I sneezed?
• 1:23:11
  I think I could do it right into that. Oh, and then you
• 1:23:14
  know what I could do with this? I could throw it right away,
• 1:23:15
  so I don't put the germs back onto my person. Move on. Well,
• 1:23:18
  that's just me. I think if I had a cup of our game
• 1:23:26
  day grand coffee right now, paired with the recy cup, that's a nice
• 1:23:30
  pairing. Be better than be better than a piece of file at, it'd
• 1:23:32
  be good. It's a great pairing. Yeah, three guys, John from
• 1:23:35
  Nashville. I got tears in my eyes when Garrett Green shared his story of
• 1:23:41
  how he handled the loss against Houston. Paid a visit to the cancer patient
• 1:23:45
  named Katie the morning after the games told me everything I need to know about
• 1:23:47
  this young man's character and exceptional mentality. No matter where Garrett Green ends up
• 1:23:53
  in life, he can't miss Texter scopes. As a twenty seven year old
• 1:24:00
  railroad employee, you are completely incorrect with the railroad employee handkerchief correlation. For
• 1:24:06
  the record, aside from the WV horrible hanky I had as a lad in
• 1:24:11
  the early eighties, I have never owned a handkerchief nor used one. Coupled
• 1:24:15
  with your National rail System comment proved that you should please stop opining about railroads.
• 1:24:23
  Signed by Morton k c via Kanos City, mort I don't know,
• 1:24:27
  man Mort's onya like maybe in my memory somewhere, maybe like when guys like
• 1:24:33
  cowboys used to jump on trains and rob them, they have handkerchiefs over their
• 1:24:36
  faces. Was that where I'm thinking of that? It might be what you're
• 1:24:41
  thinking of, Like the horse comes down to the side next to the engine,
• 1:24:45
  and then like guy's got a mask and he jumps in like all right,
• 1:24:47
  give it to me, and then you couldn't identify him. Yeah,
• 1:24:50
  you can't identity And then as he's riding away because it's really dusty, then
• 1:24:53
  if he had to sneez or blow his nose, he had it right there.
• 1:24:55
  Dual purpose. That's probably what I was thinking, probably Morton, Kansas
• 1:24:59
  City via kan Cities, Texter Chawimichi, responding to the Kerchieville handkerchief debate.
• 1:25:06
  Yes to a hanky in a dress suit pocket for style, No to a
• 1:25:10
  hanky for snotting up and putting back in your poppy pocket. Sorry, hopgasm,
• 1:25:15
  That's all right, your choice, Texter. On a football school,
• 1:25:20
  futbol, give coach Stratford a long extension and a big buy out. Need
• 1:25:25
  more stadium seating at the Delesque Signed Mick from Spencer in Phoenix, Texter.
• 1:25:30
  They were filled Saturday, right, oh yeah when you sold out shoulders shoulder
• 1:25:35
  first text born them mountain near nineteen thirty seven away game. Thanks for having
• 1:25:41
  us home game, Thanks for coming back, hurry back, Texter. No
• 1:25:44
  longer a landowner, however, my special place in West Virginia Route forty two
• 1:25:47
  is across the Potomac from Kitts Miller, Maryland. Signed by Junior from Columbia,
• 1:25:51
  South Carolina. There they are standing there, husband and wife. Yay,
• 1:25:58
  hey guys, Thank you so very much, Texter. After hashtag efforting
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  my salvation as an usher at church this morning, I thought of a thanks
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  for having us for home games. Have a great week, signed by Wayne
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  and Kluxburg. That is a good one, Texter. In response to the
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  last episode number one handkerchief number two. Don't judge early twentieth century football schedules
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  by twenty first century standards. After all, West Virginia, Wesley and Washington
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  and Jefferson were our biggest rivals one hundred years ago. Three. Yes,
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  this has been a tumultuous year in WVU sports, especially in the leadership ranks.
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  Shane is dismissed, Don Plitze White leaves abruptly without a word. Bob
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  Huggin's self destructs in the basketball program is down to a handful of players,
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  all the questions about Neil Brown's status. The volleyball coach resigns. Hopefully there
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  are no more surprises in the remaining days signed by cl And Klucksburg. Yes,
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  there has been a surprise. Cl It's three longs and two shorts.
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  No one knew that was a surprise, nor that Hoppy was raised by wool
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  Texter. Dear ed Mountaineer in old North State here, doctor Ed, I'm
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  sorry, doctor Ed Mountaineer and the Old North State Here. Mayo bowl tradition
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  is that the losing teams played by play an ouncer has a large bowl of
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  mayonnaise dumped on his head. Let's go Mountaineers. There it is Hoppy Duke's
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  mayo. There you go, it's twangy. You say you have that in
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  your house, but yeah, I get a picture. I've got it sitting
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  in my fridge right now. It's good. We're big Duke supporters. Really
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  yeah, gotta go kick to it. It's just it's just it's yeah,
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  I mean, it's it's a it's a healthy it's a healthy mayo. Isn't
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  Yeah, it's not good. You're not gonna go well, I can't have
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  it very good good mayo? Okay, Dukes? Is that like a Hellman's
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  rival Dukes they lock up? They lock up Helmans and Dukes. They go
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  like, let's let's go loser leaves town. Duke's very good textor Charlie from
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  Midlothian, here's our guy. Your guy's banner provides so many opportunities for texts.
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  This text may cause me to receive some kidding from Tony and Brad,
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  But Hoppy, I've got your back. NOA, I too am old school
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  and I carry a handkerchief in my pocket every day just for those emergency situations.
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  It does get replaced whenever used. However, by the way, I
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  saw a post on a Facebook from a Bubba read that describes Zach Fraser's last
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  play as the Mountaineers run away tow truck. That's good. That's very well
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  doing. Ben from Youngstown would love to give your thoughts on this message to
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  college football fancy I played that from Tom Forneli texter, Hey Scope Spreads and
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  Quirky the Clown Color me shocked that West Virginia for once ends up with a
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  decent bowl game rather than playing in the Dots and Independence Bowlden Shreveport. I
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  must say I'm pretty excited as an employee of a company based in North Carolina
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  who also makes substantial contributions to UNC, to be possibly be going to the
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  bowl game for next to nothing at all. I have family in the Charlotte
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  area as well as the fact that I live less than two hours up the
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  east. Can't wait to cheer on the Mountaineers from a town Let's go Jordan
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  and vast North Carolina Texter Rob from Ripley, Hello, Ripley, you're on
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  the air. A big fan from the sylum Ma Jordy. You just wanted
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  rece sticks. Hoppy, hoppy hoppy. I'm efforting to get some kercheveled to
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  the town downtown Gucci Kroger's here in Ripley. My wife, Ronell is an
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  avid listener mountaineer fanatic, celebrated thirty years of marriage. We love our mountaineers.
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  You guys give us a good laugh every week. Let's go so they
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  I haven't had one llion right now. Let me tell you something.
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  Right now, I eat everything in that picture, including the back, because
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  I'm about ready to do you hungry. Oh Texter, good afternoon, my
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  friends. I need your assistance. I plan on attending the Bowl game.
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  I need to know which three guys apparel would be most appropriate. Thanks for
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  having us efforting. Quarter Zip. Also, Tony, you may recall last
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  time I went to a game in Charlotte. I was with your esteemed honorable
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  statistician going to see the Steelers versus the Panthers. We had a lovely conversation
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  with you on our trip, and I requested some food recommendations for Charlotte,
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  which our boy summarily dismissed and then fed me at the waffle House in Statesville.
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  With all due respect to the waffle House, it ain't a Ruth's Chris.
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  Any chance you can adequately shame our honorable friend into a better dining experience
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  for this game. Signed by Jeff and Rally County. So he's talking about
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  honorable House of Delegate Jeff Campbell, Yes, my longtime statistician. Yeah,
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  and I think I think soup taking into waffle house was a nice call.
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  Yeah, it's nice food there at the waffle House's waffle waffle toast. I
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  think good Jeff and Rally County. Maybe I've been looking for a little bit
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  something different Soup, Honorable Soup Campbell. I mean I wouldn't consider him.
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  He'll never be confused with a food connoisseur. I mean he goes for quantity,
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  I think, rather than quality. Look, man, you're driving down
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  the road, you're looking for a place to stop. Wawfule house that works.
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  I would say this, Hopefully the weather will be nice there. Oh
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  yeah, I might go the three guys quarter zip as the outer layer underneath
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  with the thanks for having a shirt. If a win then follows, it's
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  a great thanks for having us. Yea, it's good because you're in Charlotte.
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  Thank everybody for having us. Ends the season? Yes, right,
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  yeah, perfect. The weather might be like my see that is that is
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  the That is the great double usage of thanks for having us, because if
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  it doesn't turn into the the kind of half taunt you want to give to
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  this right, the thanks for having us can just be to the Bowl committee
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  who did is going to do a great job with hospitality. You'll probably enjoy
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  your time there, and you can still be a thanks for having I just
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  had another thought, just had another thought. Yeah. January one, nineteen
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  ninety two, the Honorable Jeff Campbell and I drove from the from Beckley down
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  to the Peach Bowl last Peach Bowl at Fulton County Stadium, North Carolina State
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  against East Carolina. I did the game and the Honorable Jeff Campbell did stats.
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  It was a great game. If I recall went then last, you
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  know it was the last. It was a walk off pass touchdown. Soup
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  counted every waffle house the entire trip. He could tell you to this day
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  how many there are from Beckley to Atlanta. Just thought it just as I
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  came in my mind. Sounds like an exciting trip you all had. That
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  was great. Count groundhogs too. How about this? They gave us a
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  bottle of peach wine. Yeah, the Bowl committee did it for the Peach
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  Bowl. They gave us peach soup. Still hasn't opened his, which is
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  now vinegar anyway. Yeah. Really, this is Drew Hughes from Pratt,
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  West Virginia. Wanted to share this artificial intelligence masterpiece. I docked it up
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  a little. There you go mountaineer, just taunting the uh, the North
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  Carolina mascot. There's old Jonathan Jonathan's head there on that thing. And Jonathan
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  certainly he's been on the area doing some curls. I've been curls. Last
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  Mountain here munch efforting. Stuff looks nice, all right. I don't know
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  what we resolved, if anything, but I knew no. We went an
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  hour in thirty three minutes. So we got that going for us, which
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  is nice. And we're going on awful long Huh. These are getting long
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  and you guys are about seventy five percent of it. Oh come on,
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  yeah, maybe not, maybe fifty percent. I'll call you later. Three
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  I got. Feel like I'm aging out. The phone thing sent you to
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  a different I mean, stunned miss. This might be it. Eh,
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  it's like, you know what, that's gonna work out perfect. We're down
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  to our final episodes anyway, so it's about ready. It's about all ready
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  to say night night, see y'all be good,