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Well, well, well, well, look who we found. Look who
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we found. Oh my goodness, it's great, great to have you old
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boy back here. If there were a fourth guy and three Guys before the
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Game, it'd be him, all right, no question might yeah one point.
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He did more shows than hobby ladies and gentlemen. It's three Guys Before
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the Game, Episode four seventy one, and our special guest is our old
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boy, Nathan Adrian. He is back from the mother Country after a successful
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run in Italy this past season, all the way to the championship series.
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We'll talk with him about out that, talking with him about his new line
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enough for ward points for enough gas to drive to Italy. I have to
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I'll have to do the rest of it. I just kind of scratched it
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out there, but I think that's what it is. How are you a
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big boy? I'm doing good, buddy. Are you good? It's nice
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to have you back. Good, glad to be home. It was a
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pretty long run. You left last August and you didn't come back until a
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couple of weeks ago. You were that's a run. That's a run.
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That's as long as I've been over there by at least a month. And
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look at him, he's worn to a knob. I mean, what do
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you mean by that. I mean he's lost weight. That's the first thing
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I noticed about him. He's lost weight. I mean, it was a
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long season. I thought you could have asked that more diplomatically when you did
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that before the show started. I agree, kind of asked if I was
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sick? Didn't yes, exactly right? Exactly how it came out like,
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hey, Nate, you and I Yeah, I'm used to people asking me
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that after they look at it because I have a light green complexion. No,
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I'm serious. I mean that's a grind. All I was suggesting was
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Nate, and you agree, it's a grind. No, it definitely isn't
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hard for me to keep weight on during the year, so eleven months of
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it, I don't have much time to put it back on. But dude,
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isn't that a good problem? I mean in the sense that that when
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you're done playing, that's gonna be a good problem. Well, when I'm
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done playing back here not working out all, be back on. So you're
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at two twenty five right now. You went over there to thirty five to
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thirty five. Yeah, so this was your longest day. So okay,
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so do the math force now how many So you've been how many places?
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Now, France, Ukraine and Italy twice, France, Ucros so forth.
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So you just flins your fourth season season. Let's put that in perspective.
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Can we put this in perspective? The little kid, the little kid over
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there from Grafton Road that went to South that went to the high school over
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there, went to the high school. Then he went to the college over
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here, the university. Well, yeah, I went over to the university
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there. And now he's just finished his fourth season as a professional basketball player.
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All internationally. Pretty good deal, living overseas, pretty good deal.
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It's hard to be getting paid to paid bastball. Well I understand that,
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but you got to now will you? Will you admit to us? I
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mean we had our concerns because there was a generalized belief before you began your
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professional career that you pretty much had a radius like by the time, like
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if you got to like Lost Creek, right, if you got to Lost
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Creek, then you were like, I'm way too far away from home.
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I gotta get back. I'm pretty sure there's a poll going around town of
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what data i'd come back that first year. Not many people that the whole
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year. You know, it's like a it's a it's a there's a so
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the overhead on the overhead. Yeah, not many people had that. Nathan
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say, Nathan would say, I'll go anywhere at all. I'll go anywhere
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at all, but I got to be home by Wednesday. So what change
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do you think that allowed you to go from I'm not sure if I want
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to leave West Virginia too, I just spent ten plus months, ten and
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a half months over in Italy. Well, you just gotta do it.
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I mean, it's pretty simple when you say it like that. But once
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you leave and you know you can't come back. I was never raised to
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quit anything, so I knew I wasn't going to quit it. And then
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you just kind of get used to being over there. Now it's pretty comfortable
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for me. Were there moments there in France so that you thought this isn't
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exactly what I thought I was gonna be. Yeah, those first two weeks
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where you're sitting over there by yourself, Yeah, nothing all day, and
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then come home for Christmas and real nice and you got to get back on
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a plane and go back over and that trip I had a two and a
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half lay over at a train station outdoors in January. There was a moment
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of trains going the other way. Do you fit into a coach seat when
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you fly or do you fly first class? No, I'm flying coach.
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Um. Anytime there's an upgrade hundred thousand dollars, I'd do it, though.
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Good. Yeah, it's not comfortable. I mean, that's a that's
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a that's a ride. That's a ride. So you had a really good
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season this year with this team, first year that you were with this particular
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team. You guys ran it through all the way to the championship. Huh
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yep, we ran through the championship. You finished the regular season in first
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place. Um, I think we exceeded anybody's expectations for the team. So
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it was it was a good year for me to get back after having surgery
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last summer. The do you guys get a bonus for winning the league.
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For winning the league, you get one, get a little bit. You
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get a bonus for every round winning the playoffs? Okay, good, okay
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good. So we made a little bit, a little bit extra, little
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extra money. Um, walk us. Remind us the surgery that you had
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last offseason and how you feel I double sports heard on both sides. I'd
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get them both fixed. Um, they don't bother me at all anymore.
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Awesome, awesome. Any hesitation on it when you started back or whe you
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full go once you were ready, I mean once I got back into work.
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Now you can tell it's still tight, but that's just healing from surge.
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Any time you get surgery, takes well to trust your body to be
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able to do what it was supposed to do. So by the time I
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got to the season, I think a month in, I was forgot about
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it. Turn it lifts, forgot about it. We were, as you
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know, probably Nate here on this program, always very complimentary of the officiating
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of all sports. But I was looking at a stat in the championship series
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when you all played Vinoli Cremona. That's right, Venola Cremona. And in
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the third dessert last night, I know in the third game of that series
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they shot brand they shot twenty nine for not them, Venoli shot twenty nine
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free throws, okay, and four ley his team was called for twenty five
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fouls. I mean, what were you all getting hosed there? Or what?
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Go ahead? You can say it now, you can say it now.
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I guess it doesn't really matter that you're fishing. Was horrible all year?
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Was it? Oh my god? Ways or against you? I would
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define that both ways usually yeah, SOMETI times against US. I never say
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for US. Um, I would never say that even if it was but
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um they shot twenty nine free throws, yeah they were. We were also
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shooting a lot of threes because we got down early, so I'll give them
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that. Um you guys hanging on your what yeah, yeah, it was
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one of those things. If you're any bigger, they can do whatever you
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want to you. But as soon as you hit back bow then any European
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you get all the flopping and somebody throws the head back. That's a foul.
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Do you think Truck's been over there? Truck Bryant and he teached them
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the head flock. I'm sure he was good at it. Can you interact
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with the officials? They don't like it. They know, they don't like
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when I talked to him. We talked to him in the English. They
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don't like it. Did you get teed this year? One? Oh?
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First one since high school? Really? Really? All right? Set it
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up? What happened often? Well? Anything? Something? Anything? I
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made a shotguf foul, looked at the ref under the basket and just yell,
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come on in the ref at the top of the key. Teed me
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up one. Even the guy I was talking to you go, hands extended
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after you always, hands were up in here before the team always. That's
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the rest of the top of the key. New English. I don't know.
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I didn't even coss I just so coop in his face. No,
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you're like getting to take a step towards, not running backwards showing up the
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official. Had you been lippy all game? Yeah? Upon further questioning,
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so what's their what's what's the officials demeanor like compared to American officials? Are
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they standoffish? They are? Yeah. By the time my four years in
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college, I could I mean at the same time, I knew all the
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rest of my fourth year, right, so I could talk to him.
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They would talk back to me over there. You say something, they're not
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they're not helping out. You asked my question. They're not explaining anything to
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you. So they'll they'll they'll give you the stone wall when you ask a
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question like, hey, what'd you have over there? This is nothing?
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Nothing. How How well did the coach your head coach speak English? Good?
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Yeah, he was a good coach. I had a good time with
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him. It's probably probably my favorite coach I've had over season. Why what
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did he do that you liked? Just very He was young, he was
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active, um got into the games a lot um very animated coach, which
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most Italians are. But right, where was he from in Italy. What
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part you know, I don't know. Okay, was how was Fabio Valentinia
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getting you the ball? Good Fabio, it was a good point guard.
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Okay, just checking. That's it. That's all I got proud of himself.
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So the city that you guys, the city that you guys were representing,
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is how big? I think it was sixty thousand, Okay, maybe
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a little more so, like a Morgantown sized city. Not a big place,
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right, and you'd get people got into this thing. People got into
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I think our arena Hoole held five thousand and fifty five hundred. We'd have
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at least four game, right and when there there are what active people?
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What does that mean? That means it doesn't matter if they're young old they
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are standing up screaming double birds to the rest the whole game. They're not.
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They don't whistle, do they that's not they don't whistle them bad cause
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they're not whistlers. Every moore do we have drums and stuff, clappers those
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sort of things, heavy drums since we had flares flares, Oh my god,
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the last players talking about players. The last game, it was ninety
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three degrees out. There's no air conditioning. The gym has no air conditioning.
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Nowhere is air conditioning, So it's one hundred degrees in the gym with
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five thousand people in there. And then the second half they started lighting flares
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off at one end and it felt like an oven, like the like,
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what do you mean the team? The fans just lighting flares and put on
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Notice that's a fire, no wonder. The officials are standoff. People are
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coming at them with stuff, light people on fire. One of the punch
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walking off the court, Well, see really doesn't want you run in his
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mouth at one of your games? Yea, the second game of championship,
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is that right? Someone came out and got someone came out to someone leaned
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over the rail and took a shot. We do not condone that. Here
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on three goals before the game that playing about the officials, we're shooting flares
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out them. So yeah, oh they're they're road flares. They're not shooting
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them. They're just road flares. They're just fires. So what do they
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get? So when you're on the road, what do they get after you?
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Because you're the leading score so they're on you right pretty hard. I
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don't understand them, so I don't care well. I think you get the
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general idea, But what's it mattered to me if I don't know what they're
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saying? Do they so you get the ball? Do they give you the
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instant boo you know how like they do that? No, not much,
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Boots. They don't tarr you, Boots. It's more of more of a
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screaming at you. Why wouldn't you enjoy that? All right? I mean,
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why wouldn't you? That's the perfect thanks for having us? Yeah,
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I remember, like the road fans, there's a cage around there. They're
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in a cage. Excuse me, Yeah, they're in cage like a chain
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link fence cage in front of the fan. The fans are enclosed in.
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I'm saying. They are behind one of the baskets. There is a cage
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and that's where they have the next separate door. They bring them in through
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the separate door and they're in a cage. Who's them the fan the opposing
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teams fans when they come on the road, Oh my gosh, when they
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come on the road, right, Nate, Yeah, when they come to
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our gym, when they come to your gym, they're inside of a cage,
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so their own for their own protection. Jeez. Yeah, and fans
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climb that fence one time to give it thee because a cage matching suit.
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Yeah, oh you have riot please at every game? Really yeah? Carbonari
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is that what they are at the car No big deal. Don't worry about
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allan fields. Easy to the hell. Well, yeah they do that.
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They'll like fireworks something. It's South South America. They'll like fire They'll get
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a big pack of fireworks. They'll just light him off. Greg Laurens came
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to one of my games this year. Yep, okay, towards the end,
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he got in trouble because two women in front of him got in a
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fight. Any videoed and they caught him and she came up and yelled at
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him, took his phone and deleted it. Greg just wanted to show it
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on the in circa TV. Everybody, yeahead, just showing the game.
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They need a second camera shot, just showing the fans. Well they are
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you have a T shirt, tosses or anything. Shoot up, shopping cart
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shootout, settle somebody down. There's no fan interaction. They don't have the
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they don't have the shopping cart shootout. I'm heading back over with you.
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We're gonna start that. We're gonna take that, throw a flare in your
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buggy, get you an Ni L deal over there for the Kruger shopping cart
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shootout. I told him I'm gonna get the three guys in my jersey somewhere
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for a TBT. Be good. Yeah, that'd be all right, right,
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we would be a prime with that. Yeah. Or I saw the
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placement. If they say, hey, you can't have it in New Jersey,
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he's just gonna get a fake tattoos right, even better, like someone's
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got the fight right here, like put it right here. So when he
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goes to the fall line, they give you that, Yeah, we'll negotiate
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you. I love it. So now you're back here. You were in
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Vegas last weekend. I was in Vegas running around, huh, running around
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man Lydia. Yeah, so what's Lydia doing now? But for those who
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don't know, Lydias is actually a better athlete than the sister. Graduated from
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Morganton High in WV go ahead, four times state champions. I knew she
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was a champion. YEA, four times that's pretty good. So she doing
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just graduate PA school from Yeah, up on the hill and West Liberty,
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West Liberty give you in Italy for a while, a little rusty on his
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geography. We got it, West Liberty Hill and Wheeling got it. It's
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close enough. And she's moving to Nashville, really, yep, just to
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hang out in nash She finds a job. So many people in Nashville.
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That's the facial blown up in it. Oh yeah, it's all used to
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be for young people. Now yeah, do you consider yourself young? No,
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you're done. I'm done. You're done. You felt that when you're
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in Vegas. This is my last run. I looked at her in the
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third day and as I can't do it anymore. Hey, they had that
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big giant sphere up yet, No, that was I've seen that thing.
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It's impressed. What is it? It's unbelievable, Taylor, if you can
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find that real quick while we're talking about this, Vegas just unveiled this gigantic
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sphere that's like all led. So they change it out. They've had it
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looking like a basketball for the summer league. They have it looking like an
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eye the other day. That follows in. It's it's unbelievable how this looks.
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And apparently, I think from what I read the inside it's the same
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thing. So they when they do concerts, the whole Doome is a light
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display. Oh my god, just what they bring it. That's pretty well.
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Yeah, so they're gonna do concerts in there. They say the acoustics
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are perfect, state of the art facility. But the outsides all led you
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can see it from it's it's massive. If they go there, yeah,
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for about five years now, yeah, but he he can't get it done.
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Excuse me, excuse me to say it for five years. We've got
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to be in Vegas for shows. We're still not in Vegas for shows.
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We are going to Greenborough County. Well, let's start. Takes takes one
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man with courage. We are going down to Greenborough County. Hold on,
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real quick. Here is if you're watching on the video person, that's okay,
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that's not even as that. You can't even tell what that is yet.
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Just wait here you go. Now you're starting to see it a little
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bit. Wait till they draw back on this thing. It's huge. It's
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two point three billion dollars, is it? Okay? So even that that's
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like, okay, that's fine. It's on the strip, off the strip,
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well you can see the strip. Yeah, but wait till it goes
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into like a basketball and the the eye is freaky. Look at this thing.
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Wow, but look at the road going bright bye? Look how big
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the thing is? Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, you're right, Yeah,
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that's big. Weak behind it yep, And I forget the property it's
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on MGM built it, but it's not on an MGM property, but their
20:07
partners in the in the project. But it's like inside it's an event place
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for concerts. Yeah, apparently the whole inside is just like that. So
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the whole concert is gonna be lit up. But you just missed that.
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You didn't assist it. Interesting, Okay, anyway, moving along, Yeah,
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well done. How do you have a lot of knowledge about that?
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He's Vinny Vegas over there. Why wouldn't he know? No, he's not
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figured. Well yeah, I mean he helps. I mean he's in the
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industry. Well, he is in the industry. This is what tells boys
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gave a heads up. This is what tells me that he's not at the
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elite level of the NBA Scout because if he was really at the NBA Scout
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level, all he does now is just scout college guys. They don't send
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him to Vegas, they don't send him to if you if you really had
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like that, how do you know? I haven't had an opportunity to go
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to Vegas, but I said no because of the show responsibilities. How do
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you know that you would have gone? Probably? Would you would have gone?
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Be sitting here with you clowns, you would have gone. So when
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when'd your decision come? Where do you play next year? So you're hopefully
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you're five, you're five and five? Where are we going here? I
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mean, we don't know where I'm going yet. Um, still waiting for
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my passport, our Italian passport. Um, we're supposed to come when we
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have a hear in October tenth. So hopefully that all guess pushed through pretty
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quick and I have that for the year. It's all the documentation and now
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we're just stamped waiting for the hearing. Dual citizen, I know, I
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think that's awesome. I like that. Yeah, that helped me a lot.
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So I'm not real sure about next year yet. Got some options quick
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go back because that then you don't have to count as an American against the
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limit right when you're a dual citizener. Necessarily it depends on the country in
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Italy, I would count as a European non as an Italian. So what
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that does is it still counts against the six non Italians you're allowed to have
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a team, but that doesn't count as a visa. So what it is
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is they're only limited to six visas they're allowed to get. So you know,
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if I don't take a visa, they can essentially have room to make
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a move if they want to. Does it get you any more money or
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not? Necessarily it does? Oh okay, good, and you had you
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had three Americans on your team two two in the second division. Okay,
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then you can hours there a limit on number of Americans or just non Italians,
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just non Italians. Okay. You develop any language skills yet some I
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could get through a conversation. Oh I couldn't speak it, I could understand
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what they were saying. Cool, Yeah, cool, Pretty, it's a
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pretty language. Hard. Yeah, I'm sure there's all the yeah, I
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man, it's probably in the middle. Sure it's harder ones, but yeah,
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yeah, it's pretty. That's pretty. Um. We talked to you
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about this before the Ukrainian situation. You've got to look at that and just
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go like, oh my god. Yeah, I try not to look at
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it too much. Because you were in Ukraine. I wasn't ki No.
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I was in Nikolaife, way down south on the Black Sea. Yeah,
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your Crimea is in your Chromea, it's west of it. Think about that.
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Let me just think about that, all right. So you've been to
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France, you've been Ukraine now Italy twice, and u wherever else you go
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here? So all right, so hold on, are we not talking food?
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Yeah? Let me get at food update every time it comes back,
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and let the trees updates. Where are we at with this food? Where
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I was this year was a lot better. So last year I was way
23:42
down south. It was a lot of well it was better for me.
23:45
A lot of fish, a lot of white pastas. All right. This
23:49
year I was up near Bologn You all right, which is meat east more
23:52
meat, A lot of precudo, A lot of yeah, lot sausage and
23:57
sausage, A lot of that stuff. Um red sauce. Yeah, um.
24:03
They got well, they're not a fight. Bologna and four Lee four
24:07
Lee as they called him, Cappelletti. Uh huh, Bologna has tortellini.
24:11
Yeah, pasta wars I'm gonna say they're the same thing. But if you
24:15
say that there they're not. They get all very very all fired up,
24:18
very regional about that, kind of like, yeah, they're noodle stuff with
24:22
meat and cheese. Yeah, exactly, that's good. What was your favorite
24:25
dish? It's called les trisa pretty pasta chiati. Okay, what do we
24:30
got in it? A little them in their noodles, um, little spiral
24:33
noodles with it's a meat sauce. It's an orange meat sauce with sausage in
24:38
it. Okay, okay, that was my go too. Yeah, so
24:42
that area there is the is the like he said, those heavier meats,
24:47
pork meats. One restaurant you frequent in frequent had para five that I frequent
24:52
did this year. I had a little rotation going this year. Very good.
24:57
They knew when you walked in. Yeah, yeah, I knew what
25:00
I was getting. Did you go out to eat most days? It depends
25:06
when I was alone. No, when I'm alone, I cook. Um.
25:08
When luck is there, we got out the most most nights. Um.
25:11
Then when my friends are there to come. We have a wedding date
25:15
set. By the way, speaking, what are we doing? It's gonna
25:18
be at random day somewhere in Italy. That's what's gonna end up being gave
25:22
us a random day, like maybe on a Tuesday or Wednesday or random Tuesday.
25:27
All right, fine, I'll go with that. I'll go with that.
25:30
Um. All right, So how long before you know where you're going?
25:36
Hopefully soon? Most years I've been waiting around until August. I don't
25:38
want to do that again. So if we get a good enough deal come
25:42
across. I'm I'm not gonna wait around this year. And you are TBT
25:45
in it? All right? Excellent? Aren't You're tired? I don't have
25:53
a choice. I mean I'm either playing TV T or working out. It's
25:56
not much different. Okay, yeah, Hoppy, he's a professional athlete.
26:02
It's not like he goes summer school. I mean, this guy, he's
26:04
got to play ball. I took my week off. He's ready. Okay,
26:07
he's ready. It feels physically, he feels good. What's your what's
26:11
your? UM? I mean, what is how marketable are you? I
26:15
mean you've have you four years going to fifth year. He's the leading scorer
26:18
on the team fifteen some sixteen points a game. You all had a great
26:22
year. So are you pretty marketable guy in the whole European league. Where
26:27
do you? Where are you? Um? So the way it works,
26:32
very marketable in the second division again, I mean there's a few teams that
26:34
wanted me to come play for them in that league to get back to the
26:37
first league. They're basically going to make you do another proof of year and
26:41
offer me like the same money I made last year, um, which you
26:47
kind of just have to do if you want to get back up to that
26:48
league. Um. But then there's other markets. I'm like looking around in
26:53
Japan really yeah, but some different stuff, um, Japan? Yeah,
26:59
never find that stuff. You have an agent, Yeah, I have an
27:02
American agent. Then I have a Greek agent who they work all the European
27:06
markets in Asian markets and they find all that stuff for me. Wow.
27:08
So Japan, So that's a serious option, yep, I think. Uh.
27:12
While I'm waiting for his passport still, I'd like to go see what
27:15
else is out there for a year? Interesting? Okay? Interesting? Kevin
27:22
Joneses love Japan. Everyone I know is gone in Japan loves love it.
27:25
Money's pretty good, right, Money is better? Money is better? Is
27:27
it? Yeahney's better. You'll have that'd be great. That'll be good.
27:32
That time difference a difference. I think it's thirteen hours. Yeah, I
27:34
think it's certain areas. That's a that's a pretty good thing he told me
27:37
earlier today. You know, tell him, you tell him your snow your
27:41
snow trivia on Japan. Well, this is a Kevin Adrian, Oh your
27:45
dad, what is your questioning? This? Questioning it? A heavy Lam
27:53
family is known for throwing out facts a quarterings. Yeah, apparently right in
28:00
the cross hair shold Japan most snow per square mile of any country in the
28:06
world. Huh, yeah, he said it. I'm gonna I'm double checking
28:10
to say it again. Japan has the most per square mile of anywhere anywhere.
28:15
Must be true, Vin, Kevin, Kevin Adrian said it. It
28:19
must be true. I'm going with it. Kirchivill efforting, see google ruin
28:26
my family. Yeah, because I used to throw stuff out. He used
28:29
to throw stuff out. No one say with confidence, boy, oh boy,
28:41
then here we go. What not even in the top ten. You
28:45
might have heard of the country called Switzerland, Kevin see I questioned when he
28:48
said Kevin may missed on that Norway, Sweden, rasta Finland, Iceland,
28:56
Yeah, Greenland. Let me see, it's a big country. Bulgaria,
29:02
Albania, Roman, I mean, Japa is not, Kevin, wouldn't just
29:06
throw that out? Yeah? Would have closed it? In Asia? At
29:11
the Asian continent have the most? Would you ask it most? Which country
29:17
has the most snow per square mile? Oh, that's what you asked,
29:21
which I think is what Kevin, That's what I was told. I don't
29:23
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So before we started rolling tape, you were over at the basketball practice
30:03
facilita give me your give me your takeaway. Here I think I hope we're
30:15
past all the departures departures. I think if you get a couple more guys
30:22
in that can hold their own, I think we're gonna be solid. I
30:23
mean we still have good players. Ray Kuan is supposed to be great.
30:27
He went there today. Um Jesse Edwards is giant and he can move,
30:32
so I think he's gonna have a good year. And there's still guys that
30:36
are developing this year. I mean the coaches that they have now are gonna
30:40
be more skill development guys. We got Dashawn, It's worked in the NBA.
30:44
Alex is one of the hardest working guys that came through here and played
30:48
professionally and he knows what he's doing. Then if you have Jordan doing ball
30:52
handling and all that good stuff, then I think with three or four months
30:56
before the season that they're going to develop them pretty good and we'll seeho we
31:00
can get out there. Josiah Harris a guy we probably haven't talked enough about
31:03
it. He's got it. He's got a shot to be really good.
31:04
More playing time, he's gonna get more shots, good body length, right,
31:07
Harris should play a role. He's gonna have to play a role.
31:11
Um. I think he's one of those guys that's going to benefit from the
31:15
skill development. Um, it's still roll. I think he has a chance
31:18
to be good. And I think once he gets through games, gets through
31:22
these first games playing against lesser teams, I think once he gets his confidence
31:30
up, I think he'll be solid. And he's only a sophomore, so
31:33
he got three more years and hopefully that I can shoot too. From the
31:36
outside, I can't even say that anymore. No, you can't when you
31:38
look at all of the turmoil. As far as I'm not talking about here,
31:42
I'm talking about just the transfer portal in the movements of guys. What
31:48
what goes through your mind? Having not been here all that long ago,
31:51
to see just these guys four and five schools, I just think that they
31:56
gotta do something to get control of it. Um. I know there's some
32:00
rules on transfers, like you can only transfer once before you're graduating, all
32:04
that, which I don't quite understand. How these guys are going to five
32:07
schools If that's a rule, sure that no enforcement? Yeah, there's just
32:12
no enforcement behind it. No, woman, I don't know. I don't
32:15
like it. If you're gonna do it like this. I think you gotta
32:19
start signing contracts. That's the only way anybody's gonna be able to build a
32:22
team. There needs to be a shorter cutoff day to when you're transferring.
32:28
I don't see any reason why it's past May thirtieth, two months after the
32:31
season. I don't understand how you're not. Don't know if you're happier or
32:36
not at school. People leaving in June, you're just leaving giant holes and
32:39
obviously different situations and what we're in. I mean, if something happens like
32:45
that and a coach has to leave, then you have to give players a
32:46
chance to leave. I think, I mean that's always been a thing for
32:50
coach leaves and you didn't go there. You're right there to play for a
32:52
guy if he leaves, you should be able to go wherever you want to
32:54
go. But other situations in a normal year, there's got to be more
32:59
limitations to it. Yeah, is just crazy right now? About that?
33:04
What about that you mentioned? It is signing a contract bad? You're all
33:07
into that. I mean what about players say I want to I want you
33:09
to sign, I want you to come here, I want you sign it
33:12
to your contract. I think I don't see any problem with it. I
33:15
mean, if you're gonna pay them like professionals, and that's what they're doing
33:19
now, you have to treat them like professionals. Where you're signing a contract
33:22
and if you want to leave, you're paying them buyout. You got to
33:24
give them money back to the school for what they invested in you. If
33:29
you want to get out of your second year, either the team that wants
33:31
you's gonna have to pay the buyout or you're gonna have to pay it out
33:34
of your pocket. I mean, that's the way it just works. If
33:37
you're making money like that in the school's investing in you like that, there
33:39
should be some investment back. I think it makes sense. Thoughts on that,
33:46
mister, Freedom of Movement. Yeah, I've been saying that it's gonna
33:50
they're gonna get an in house. You're gonna figure out a way to do
33:52
something similar to that. Yeah, I've had no issue with that. I've
33:54
been saying that since the beginning. That's what's coming. What the way it's
33:57
happening now is agree with Nate's it's unsustainable because you can't you don't know what
34:02
you have. That's the issue. You don't know what you have as a
34:05
coach. I get that having to rerecruit twenty four seven is a little much.
34:09
I am still for player movement. I am still for players getting a
34:13
cut of the millions, one hundreds of millions of dollars that are floating around
34:15
out there. I think those are all good. You put some guardrails in,
34:17
but I think eventually it's got to come in house, and these schools
34:21
and these entities have the ability to make their own offers. They have to
34:25
have the ability to make their own deals with these players. I think that's
34:29
where it's headed. He's got to get everybody on the same page, which
34:30
I have said many times too. That's the hard part, getting all of
34:34
these schools and all the decision makers to agree then move it forward without getting
34:39
sued and losing. That's the biggest challenge here. It's not the it's not
34:44
the philosophical part of that. You could sit in a room and come up
34:46
with that. It's the actuality. It's doing it that it's hard to do
34:51
the problem with it is you start you have essentially what is it's I'm gonna
34:57
say it against the professional players now, but you have three hundred and fifty
35:00
three professional teams that you have to get to a degree onto what it is
35:05
unless you break it up into the power five, what's nine major question?
35:09
And then you get each one basically in their own league to agree to something
35:15
okay, And so even then you can't get agreement. You can't get agreement
35:19
on campuses. You go into campuses and find the top five decision makers on
35:22
a campus, and it's hard to get consensus. Then you broaden that out
35:25
to a league like the Big twelve, and now you're bringing in fifty or
35:29
sixty people that all have strong opinions. That's the challenge. If you've sat
35:34
in those rooms, you know that's that is where the thing falls down.
35:37
You can't get everybody to agree what you should do. And the folks in
35:39
the SEC and the Big ten aren't interested in what the MAX says. No,
35:44
No, that's why they need to be separate intities. Okay, And
35:45
now we're moving to the part where the people in the SEC in the Big
35:49
ten rooms aren't interested in what the PAC twelve, a SEC and Big twelve
35:52
have to say. So now that power five or six is becoming less and
35:55
less, so you're getting more fragmented in this thing, not less. Hey,
36:00
Nate, do you have this is going to take it in a direction
36:02
that I might want to go. Do you have any costs associated with what
36:07
you do? Do you have to pay for anything? Uh? Once I'm
36:13
there? No, No, No, I don't. Um. The team
36:15
covers the apartment, They cover your car, um, plane tickets, essentially
36:20
everything you need to live there that you can't. I mean obviously, if
36:22
you sent me over there try to find apartment, I'd have no idea what
36:25
to do. So they just they take care of all that essentially what they
36:29
tell but they're not They don't. There's no assessment fee off of your salary
36:32
from you. No. What the way they negotiate our contracts is net,
36:37
So they only tell what gets to me is the net number. Now they
36:40
might negotiate as a gross number, which includes your salary, taxes, plane
36:47
tickets, housing, car, but what eventually gets to me is the net
36:52
number. See, but probably the gross there's there's all that stuff factored into
36:57
the gross. Yeah. What I'm what I'm trying to get at is,
37:00
Brad, you'll probably disagree with this, is that if you're gonna play,
37:02
if you're gonna pay college players as professional players, or pay them. Then
37:07
they may they may have some obligation to the college because the college is providing.
37:14
They're providing this, you know, the classes the school, they get
37:17
a scholarship, they're providing the place where they play, they're providing the venue,
37:22
they're providing the schedule, they're providing everything else. So if you're gonna
37:24
get paid five hundred thousand dollars to play college, maybe you over the college
37:28
something back. Maybe you got to pay for your tuition, maybe you gotta
37:31
pay for whatever, So you might That's that's what I'm trying to get.
37:35
If you're gonna be paid, but like a professional, you may have some
37:37
obligation coming back to the entity that is providing that venue for you to earn
37:43
that money. Okay, okay, okay, you're gonna pay me five hundred
37:47
thousand dollars, yeah, okay, okay, okay, fine, that's a
37:52
fair deal. Well I'm saying they're making none now, so you're gonna pay
37:55
me five hundred and fifty thousand back. Okay, Soul done sign yet paying
38:00
one hundred thousand and twelve back. Okay, So well yeah, well that's
38:02
fine. I mean, the point being if you're gonna pay somebody five undre
38:05
thousand dollars, I don't think they should also get a free scholarship. Why
38:09
well, I think because there's there's a cost, because the university is also
38:13
is paying that cost to the school. The athletic department is paying that cost
38:15
to the school. I'm just saying, in the professional world, there there
38:21
is a there. You just don't get all the money. There is a
38:22
cost associated with with what you're able to do that the team is absorbing,
38:28
and I think you've got to give some of that back. I wouldn't agree
38:31
on the scholarship because you're still I mean, the school's getting something out of
38:36
you playing for them. At the end of the day, it's still free
38:40
advertisement for a school, not free. Obviously you're paying something but the school
38:45
and a lot of people don't notice. The athletic Department has essentially nothing to
38:50
do with the school. The like school tuition is not paying anything towards the
38:54
athletic department. The LA department is paying, is paying the school for the
38:58
scholarship. The Yeah, So the university really has nothing to do with the
39:05
athletic department in that sense. So I wouldn't agree that players need to pay
39:08
their own tuition, but they do. I mean they do have to pay
39:13
their own apartment. Like, they're not giving them free apartments unless they have
39:15
an NIL deal with an apartment guy. If that makes sense, Hoppy,
39:21
I think your thesis there based on Nate. So they'll say, Okay,
39:27
you're gonna make five hundred thousand dollars. Well, they'll come back and they'll
39:30
say, well, it's six hundred thousand gross. Your that's gonna be five
39:34
hundred thousand. That's how I think those guys would negotiate those deals. Like,
39:38
if I'm representing a player, I'm gonna say, what's the number.
39:40
You're gonna say it's five. It's gonna be we're gonna pay them six hundred
39:45
thousand dollars gross five hundred net. Okay, fine, we'll do that deal.
39:50
That's what I think it will happen. We're not paying you back.
39:52
Well okay, well either way, it's let's say it's five hundred thousand dollars
39:57
gross and we're gonna subtract tuition. That's fifty thousand dollars. Want to subtract
40:01
whatever, you know, whatever you want to come up with. So this
40:05
is your net. Okay, but then every school better be doing that or
40:08
you're at a recruiting disadvantage, right, I understand, I understand that.
40:12
Okay, So now that's a whole nother thing. Now you're trying to get
40:15
sixty schools to agree upon. Yeah, I know, And it's just kind
40:17
of a fantasy. I just think rather than just paying a college player eight
40:22
hundred thousand dollars and a scholarship, that university should get something back at they're
40:30
getting exposure and they're making money back if that player helps lead their team to
40:34
more wins. I think I'm down three one on this. Well. I
40:37
mean, as we've said, of all the great players that have come through
40:40
this, have they not made some money for the university? For God's sakes?
40:45
I mean, I'll answer the question for Yeah, when I arrived here,
40:46
the budget was seventeen million for the athletic department nineteen ninety six. What's
40:51
the budget now, hope? What's over one hundred or just say one hundred
40:53
freasy numbers? Is that as they have, they made some money over the
40:57
years. The money is that losing money, that's the that's the that's not
41:00
necessarily athletics. That's the university side. That's that's their issue. No,
41:04
I think athletics is tight right now too. But Pat White and Steve Slaton
41:07
contribute to some of that major Harry down So they've helped raise some right,
41:12
So that's I mean, they're not gonna give that money back. They're raising
41:14
them. They're making money for the university as well. The university is not
41:16
just along for a free ride here. July the twenty eighth and July the
41:21
twenty millions. July the twenty eighth, July the twenty ninth, we're gonna
41:24
be down at Greenboro County do an event on Friday, and then on the
41:28
twenty ninth Saturday, we're gonna have a big time, big old When is
41:31
it a big When is this Friday? Saturday? July twenty eighth and July
41:36
twenty ninth, big questions? Where the wives are going? That's really hanging
41:38
out there. We encourage people to come out on the twenty ninth, which
41:44
is the Saturday, and uh, this is gonna be a big time event.
41:47
We're gonna have this. I got's got some reconnaissance on this earlier today.
41:54
So Saturday morning we're gonna spotlight local foods local businesses and green Bere County.
42:00
We're gonna do this in Ronseiffort front of up front of the road there.
42:02
They're going to close the road off for us in front of Sportsman's tavern
42:07
and um our folks from our folks from and close the road. People are
42:14
gonna be really happy with us. I've been there. It's not a big
42:15
deal. No, it isn't. It's it's a great road to be able
42:20
to be closed. No, seriously, of all roads that could be closed,
42:25
is the best one. This is going extremely well. This is the
42:29
coffee from um our folks at Mountain Table and this Mountaineer morning roast that we
42:36
put on the market. You know, I was reading about that. I've
42:37
been drinking this for a couple of weeks now and it really truly is super
42:42
good. And the other morning, while I was waiting my Bruce cycle to
42:45
be completed, I did start reading about this, because every good thing has
42:50
a good story to it, right. So these bags, I mean,
42:52
they're not like fancy schmancy bags that you get like at Starbuck. So here
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43:02
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43:40
doing good and doing great and helping West Virginia businesses. So the folks at
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Mountain Table will be there on that Saturday, the street will be street will
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com. All right, what's the date again? On that twenty eighth Friday,
44:20
the twenty ninth is a Saturday, twenty eighth, we're gonna do something.
44:23
We're ranging transportation. Yes, we're riding down a big clown car.
44:29
Drive down in a big oscar Meyer Wienermobile. When you make that left hand
44:32
turn in Somersville and you start going down on Nettie and Charmcote, that winermobile
44:37
is gonna have a tough time sledding through to go buy that Gomart there where
44:39
you make that turn coming the other way in that too, we gotta get
44:44
a big We're gonna stop at the Gomart. Oh yeah, Nate, we've
44:47
been doing some public events. We did two public events here. Pretty fun,
44:51
Yeah, yeah, pretty fun. Where are you the twenty eighth,
44:54
Nittie hopefully stilling the tvt Oh that's true. Yeah, we're leaving the t
45:00
EBT to go down and do this, and then we're coming back make it
45:01
to the regional championship on that Sunday. We'll be back. We're gonna start
45:06
the TBT. Hand you out for one game, then come back after you
45:08
advance on. Don't screw up, all right, don't screw up all right.
45:14
So football wise, your boys a Blaine Stewart you yep yep. Football
45:20
poll came out today as we record world champion Mountaineers. Ooh, just made
45:28
but just made Nate's eyes a roll. There it is, man, it's
45:30
not good to see. I don't know about this. West Virginia picked dead
45:36
last, not even close, one hundred and twenty nine points. Cincinnati is
45:42
thirteenth at two O two. A couple of observations. The three of the
45:46
four newcomers are at eleven, twelve and thirteen above West Virginia. Another observation
45:52
is West Virginia will not play the team pick to be first Texas or the
45:54
team picked to be second Kansas State, or the team picked to be ninth
45:58
or tenth Kansas Riowa State. Reactions Go ahead, Bridge, Well, I
46:08
mean, listen, I know there's nationally, there's not a lot to hang
46:14
your hat on in terms of returning guys that jump. I understand that.
46:19
I also understand that when Athlon put that quote out there from a supposed Big
46:22
twelve assistant coach that claimed West Virginia had no talent, it was more like
46:28
what he said, a group of five type of tea. I understand that
46:30
probably had a lot of traffic to some of these guys that are looking at
46:34
the surface level and placing a vote. I get that. I also talked
46:37
to somebody today that knows their way around a sports book pretty well and said,
46:42
if he can find a yes no on this, well West Virginia finished
46:45
last in the Big twelve yes or no, he'd put everything he owns,
46:47
plus every dollar that he could find from anybody else on the no. They
46:51
won't finish him last. I tend to side with that. I mean,
46:54
I get it, I get where the expectations are, I get where it
46:58
is I find. I mean, you can play this back and I'll eat
47:00
my words in December if it comes to fruition. I hope. I don't
47:04
think West Virginia finishes last and the picked twelve. I'll say that. Give
47:07
me the no, the yeah, I know. I would take the know
47:09
too. A couple of things. One is that it means today. It
47:15
means a lot because there's not a lot of football news and the poll comes
47:19
out and people are paying attention to it. You're picked last today, it
47:22
means a lot. Ultimately, it doesn't mean anything, okay, because you
47:28
haven't played a game, so this is just and you don't know what any
47:30
of these tas. Okay, you know who's coming back, you know some
47:34
things like that, but you have you really don't know what I mean.
47:37
Could you have picked some of these teams? Could you have picked Kansas last
47:40
year? Could you have picked Kansas out of the season they had, especially
47:44
starting out? So you really don't know. So does it mean something today?
47:47
Yes? Ultimately no. Can I give you a little historical perspective,
47:52
well that these polls are always wrong? Go ahead with him? Well,
47:54
no, I'm not saying that. But so this is West Virginia's twelfth season.
47:59
In the first year ever, twenty twelve, West Virginia was picked second.
48:06
That was coming off of the Orange Bowl. First year in the league.
48:08
Pick second finished eight, twenty thirteen, picked eight finished eight, twenty
48:15
fourteen, picked eight finished six, fifteen, Pick six finished five, twenty
48:22
sixteen preseason seven finished third, seventeen, pick sixth fifth finish, twenty eighteen,
48:31
pick second finished fourth, nineteen, picked eight finished seventh, twenty picked
48:38
eighth finished six, twenty one, pick six finish six, twenty two.
48:45
Last year, picked eight finished nine, twenty three picked fourteenth finished question mark.
48:55
Here's another point about this is that somebody has to be last at Okay,
49:01
and you could probably pick Brad five or four or five of these teams,
49:05
you could pick a last somebody. Somebody has to be last. And
49:07
if you're just sort of you don't know all the teams, you're in the
49:09
media and you're just like, okay, well, West Virginia, the coaches
49:13
on the hot seat, uh, they got you know, who's going to
49:15
be the quarterback the key position because and neither one of those have played a
49:21
lot, they've lost some guys on defense, so you can make an argument
49:25
for that spot. Right. Well, yeah, and here's here's one of
49:29
the things I've said. I'll go back to it now. And I know
49:30
I realize it's not the end all be all, but it is a good
49:32
starting point. I think you start to go to season win totals and where
49:36
Vegas or DraftKings in particular, has these slotted. You've got to go working
49:39
from the bottom up, West Virginia. At the bottom up. You've got
49:44
to get all the way into number eight or in the number nine Kansas before
49:49
you get to anybody over five and a half win, Right, So,
49:51
it's ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen are all right there,
49:54
and then nine, eight, seven are one win above. So you've got
50:00
basically from seven down six between four and a half and six and a half
50:04
win. So there's a lot of movement within that lower part of the league.
50:07
And I'm not I'm not sold Baylor's gonna finish sixth. Oklahoma's got to
50:12
show me a lot. I know they've got. I mean, I got
50:13
guys, fine Texas, I mean, here we go with Texas again.
50:15
I'm not saying Texas is gonna fish fourteenth, but they've got to show me
50:19
something. Oklahoma they were a dumpster fire last year. Oklahoma State's got problems.
50:27
I mean, here's they who voted Oklahoma State one? Who's the first
50:30
place vote for Oklahoma State. How do you justify that? I don't know.
50:35
So again, give me the no whatever whatever you want to make the
50:37
no price all lay heavy juice on the no. I don't think they finished
50:40
last. There's a lot of movement in the bottom half of that league.
50:43
You're ready, somebody's taking the field you already. Yeah, time for some
50:52
textual healing. I mean, wouldn't you looking at your microphones? Are on.
51:09
Yeah there would you look at we live, Yeah shows Live, Lap
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show you guys Ready Texas text at seven and a half wins there four hold
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on now I'm locked into this. Go ahead, continue on without us and
51:25
four first place volks for Texas. Thank you, Nate, Texter, Michael
51:30
and Clod and Curly. I'm listening to the cam Thuramin episode Live. You
51:36
guys never failed to make my day a little brighter. I'm looking forward to
51:38
meeting Tony at inside the huddling Charleston. Could be some fudge delivered. Oh
51:45
very good. I like that. Fat problem is, I don't think we
51:46
ever We never were able to finalize the Charleston date because we want to regatta.
51:52
That was a great opportunity for there wasn't because we wanted to run a
51:58
dog on boat up and down the river and they said no, once the
52:00
boat goes in, it sits there. Oh really, yeah, that's why
52:02
we didn't do that. Okay, you checked on it. Oh yeah,
52:06
we offered it. Okay, yeah, we offered it. Text her.
52:12
I'm excited to see the young guys as new assistance. But the thing I
52:15
think we will miss most is Ronnie Everhard's head coaching experience. We will have
52:20
plenty of energy over there, but betting we can go ahead and chalk up
52:23
an exit and o loss at some point this season. On the other hand,
52:28
if they have a final four coaching staff with a backcourt McCabe, Ruoff
52:30
plus front court of Butler, Eilert and Damar, asked Brad where he would
52:35
put West Virginia's odds on a coaching staff, Natty Bright, if they put
52:38
the team together, I'd give him the favorite role. I mean, who's
52:42
stopping that team? Yeah, I mean I think, Yeah, champions rarely
52:46
get minus odds. That's a minus odds. They're the heavy favorite. I
52:50
think, Nate agree. I agree, Nate. How tough it did?
52:53
You got a whole new staff. How tough is it? How tough is
52:58
that going to be? I think it's what I mean, And in different
53:06
circumstances, I think it'd be tough. Um this year, you have I
53:09
mean, you have everybody in there that's been doing this. Josh has been
53:14
there for seventeen years. It's not like he doesn't know what he's doing,
53:16
you know what I mean. I think the hard part for him is going
53:20
to be not hard part, But what's gonna be the most challenging part is
53:23
going to be in game coaching, just being comfortable being on the sideline,
53:28
being the man making decisions. But he's never been bad at anything he's ever
53:34
done, so I don't I don't think he's gonna have any issue. And
53:37
then you've got young guys that know the game better than anybody. You got
53:39
day Shaun, who's played everywhere in the world. You got Alex's played everywhere
53:43
in the war, you got Marked Christ. He was incredibly still good,
53:46
by the way, it's still shoot a little bit. Yeah, Yeah,
53:50
stays back and just drop dropped the babies down. Yeah. Text her,
53:57
Hey, guys, I'm here in Vegas for the wsop O World Series of
54:02
Poker. Yeah listening. You know who this is is? Jason and Tulsa
54:06
Brad Okay, Yeah, listening to the cam Thuramin episode. I love how
54:09
we're already trying to make his seven year old a killer. Also love how
54:15
Tony asks a totally innocent question and Hoppy has to start throwing terms like Donnie
54:20
d m V around, Does that happen? Does that happen often? How's
54:24
it going? Gee? Who am I? How's it going? Howard what's
54:27
up? Gee? Who am I? What's up? Wally? Love the
54:29
show? I got you an answer. I send it to you. Texter.
54:38
Here's some advice for the new head basketball coach if he wishes to succeed
54:42
and continue as the head coach. Get guys. I came up with that
54:46
all on my own and plan to make a T shirt because of its unfathomable
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deepness and impact. Gonna make millions. Thanks. I love the show.
54:53
Thank you. Let's go get guys. Thank you. I suggested that it
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was a should be a T shirt. Good guys. On the last second,
54:59
Get guys. How long have I this? By the way, can
55:00
I just throw into one other number A Bradston? Yes? Okay, So
55:05
there's a fuse Draft Kings. There's eleven teams in this big twelve from seven
55:10
and a half wins to four and a half wins, Eleven different teams in
55:15
that tide of a window. And if you take Fan Duel's number for West
55:19
Virginia, which it had been at Draft Kings for a while at five and
55:22
a half, then it's from five and a half to seven and a half,
55:23
eleven different teams with the range. So I'm just backing up some numbers.
55:29
Yeah, there's a lot of potential movement in this league. And by
55:30
the way, those numbers that you just cited are more relevant for a preseason
55:36
poll than that correct. Okay, texture I enjoyed the interview with cam Thurrowman.
55:44
It gave me something to do when my power was out on Independence Day.
55:47
A few thoughts. Easy passed West Virginia. Discount is only available if
55:52
you buy it in West Virginia. I'll defer to the Dean and if he
55:54
has a definite answer. Speaking of the Dean, Ivan Irving as Off is
56:00
the longtime manager of the Eagles. He won Jennings in the Canal Valley.
56:07
Yeah, I took care of that. An easy past thing. Got it
56:08
ordered. It'll be coming in here. Speaking in to send, I put
56:15
that in the mail today down their Star City post free returns or you on
56:17
the hook for the postage. I paid to five Bucks guy. By the
56:21
way, the postal guy at the Star City post Office, ye off the
56:24
chart. Nice customer service, really good, really good customers. Why did
56:30
you buy one in New York? I mean, as I was in New
56:32
York and I thought I always wanted to get one of these. I didn't
56:35
I didn't have any idea that you got a discount if you were in West
56:37
Virginia and bought it. No big deal. Okay, you took care of
56:39
Matthew and Boone County. Matthew and Boone County. I've been efforting lately to
56:45
get some of that Three Guys coffee. I hope it's as good as the
56:49
interview with Cam was this past week. Now the two of the three guys
56:52
have their own theme. Will Tony get his own next? And will he
56:55
come out at an event like Rick Flair? Yeah, it'd be nice.
57:01
Reference uh Dino in Morgantown rights Chao Amici. I ordered my three guys merch
57:07
last week, one effort in t a kerch of l hat and a sticker
57:12
yes set for my YETI cooler. Gotta tell you, shipping is a little
57:15
slow, but I'm excited to receive and display. Also, I'm a big
57:19
event T shirt guy as well. Brad, you talked about this one secret
57:22
about big events. You can go to the same knockoff T shirts outside for
57:27
half the price when you're walking or stuck in traffic when you're leaving. My
57:30
favorites are the Pearl jam in Pittsburgh T shirt from nineteen ninety six and my
57:35
West Virginia NI T basketball championship shirt in two thousand and seven. That's one
57:38
where they spelled it wrong. Chow Dino in Morgantown. They spelled West Virginia
57:43
wrong on the n I championship T shirt at Madison Square Down. You remember
57:46
the spelling, You do remember that misspelling? Yeah? How did they do
57:49
that? Yeah? You know, Final four? Post final four is a
57:53
good time to buy their merch just like the after the concert. After the
57:58
Final Four, they had some gray deals back in twenty I'm with him on
58:02
the big event T shirts. So you said that last show happy fourth saw
58:07
this at the Huntington Beach fireworks and I thought of you guys. Take a
58:10
look there, big thing ice cream resee snickers. I'm still researching Hoppy.
58:15
This is the gentleman that sent us the gummies from Colorado. He's now moved.
58:20
He's now moved to California. He says, I'm still researching next Hoppy
58:25
package. I'll be there before Penn State kicks. Signed by Frank from Huntington
58:30
Beach, formerly from Boulder, Colorado. He's hitting all the hot spots.
58:36
Yeah, Texter gentleman Logan from beautiful Greenborough County wanted us to know that if
58:43
they got a movie theater down there in Greenborough County. He says, when
58:45
we're down there in Lewisburg, you can watch Indiana Jones and Openheimer. They'll
58:50
be playing then. Just in case you guys want to catch a movie while
58:52
we're down there. Yeah, good to know, Thank you, Texter.
58:58
Hey, guys. Looking ahead of the basketball, Heason passed the transfer portal
59:00
drama. Could spreads set some lines on how coach Eilert will be dressed on
59:06
the sideline? Could we see kerch of Al the new coffee brand gets some
59:09
signage on a potential islet pull over from a like a NASCAR driver hoping to
59:15
hear effortin Alan the Morgan tone naken win. I don't think Josh won't go
59:17
suit, Willie Josh wall go suit? Oh you think? Oh? Do
59:22
you really? Yeah? I don't think you will? What you won't go?
59:25
Those nice quarters that pullovers last year? I think a good look.
59:29
I think that those coaches are not gonna If he's gonna wear a suits,
59:30
you know the rest of the guys got to wear a suit. Those guys
59:32
aren't gonna wear suits. They don't need to go back to suits. They're
59:35
gonna go quarters zip. Hey, dude, you're overseas. Suit on.
59:38
They wear a suit overseas. Wow, everything everything has become quarters zip.
59:44
Here. I'm just saying, across the board has been quarter zip. Everyone's
59:49
wearing quarter zips. Suits look good. Well, you don't tell us where
59:52
I mean that we work at. It'll pick him? Hey the lines,
59:54
now pick him? Do you hear what he said? Favorite, got a
59:58
sharp sit next to me, got a go pick him. Gotta take a
1:00:00
bet on the other side. Did you hear what he's still? He said?
1:00:04
Suits look good? I mean we work at a clothing store. I
1:00:06
know. I'm just saying, Oh, speaking of that, what hold on?
1:00:09
I got a couple shout outs each of the last two times I've been
1:00:13
there in my shift at Daniels Daniels. Yeah, I hope you know his
1:00:15
shift, sir, Yes, I know you do. Okay too. The
1:00:17
most recent Jesse Cotter from Houston was in Texas Euston, Texas, visiting Morgantown
1:00:24
High w View grad Back in town. He was visiting stops every year.
1:00:28
It gets his stuff. We spoke each of the last two guys Hopupe was
1:00:31
over, I was actually folding. I look over. I look over and
1:00:36
Jesse standing in the Jesse standing in the aisle. Tom cleag also did this.
1:00:40
Tom from New Martinsville. Of course, he was in getting fitted for
1:00:44
his daughter was having a wedding. So both of this happened two separate occasions.
1:00:46
Last two shifts at Daniels, I'm folding same section. I look over
1:00:51
and they're standing there, Jesse most recently and Tom earlier. So I'm folding
1:00:55
and Jesse like, I look over and Jessica big smile, He goes,
1:00:59
you actually do work here, And I kind of chuckled me because I thought
1:01:01
that was a joke. And I said, not only not a joke.
1:01:05
You see me folding. I'm not just standing here. No jokes on this
1:01:07
show. I was folding. I said, do you need me to do
1:01:08
a mannequin here? So you had to do a mannequin, so very nice.
1:01:13
How do you do the longest leeve shirt and not and keep it from
1:01:15
wrinkling. There's a whole process. You gotta gotta fold them in, lay
1:01:17
it down, flat, fold the one side, fold the other side.
1:01:21
I can't hold the bottom up. Yeah, but I do that. But
1:01:22
I you gotta laid it down flat. You can't be in a hurry.
1:01:25
You gotta just take your time. Yeah, I can't get that right.
1:01:28
Yeah, I'm bringing in Have you show mold it in Peter Malar shirt folded
1:01:31
in fold. Well, that's nice. Those guys straight in the stacks.
1:01:34
So Jesse and Tom thank you for saying those guys saw you there. Yeah,
1:01:37
it's great. Phil doing all right? Doing great? Yeah, good,
1:01:39
doing great. I'd standing so say hi, I'll being on my shift
1:01:44
next week. So you you're gonna be over there hooping up until you're a
1:01:46
leave town. I'll be over there. You guys went golfing in Vegas or
1:01:51
just uh no? What what? What do you? What do you shoot
1:01:53
for a round? I'm about a twelve thirteen handicap. That was pretty good,
1:01:59
not bad for two months out of year. Yeah you go, you
1:02:02
guys like you could you do a lot of these golfing trips right with all
1:02:05
your boys? From one year we got twelve of us ago. Once a
1:02:08
year we alternate. One year we go down to like Pinehurst or Myrtle.
1:02:13
The other year we go to Glade Springs. Was I was I talking to
1:02:15
you about Pinehurst. I went to Pinehurst last year or something for the first
1:02:20
time. That's a that's a neat place, especially do you golf. No,
1:02:24
no, well it takes a little away, you know it does.
1:02:28
But it's just a neat place. I told you the story. It was
1:02:30
a guy from New England, a guy from New England, I think the
1:02:37
last time you were alway the guy from New England who was a pharmacist.
1:02:44
Story Now, it's a story from a pharmacist from somewhere in New England and
1:02:46
he came down there, married the farmer's daughter. It came down there,
1:02:51
got this land and was going to be like a health spa area and that's
1:02:54
how it started. And all the all the houses and buildings look in New
1:02:59
England style. H there, it's a little museum there too, So alright,
1:03:07
might as well, hey, might as well leave it on this high
1:03:08
note. We'll ask ask Nate. It's a pretty town. I was there
1:03:15
once, three guys before. Thanks, thanks so much for being with us.
1:03:19
Brother. Well, good to see it. You're gonna get you're gonna
1:03:22
hey, you're gonna listen. Let us know where you're going to play next
1:03:25
season. Before you let anyone else know we'll release it because Hoppy's worried that
1:03:30
Pete Thamil will have it first. I'll tell you as soon as I sign
1:03:35
it, like, don't let it like. If Poppy sees that Thamil goes
1:03:39
sources former mountaineer Nathan Adrian to resume career in whatever we wherever you're going,
1:03:45
Hoppy, he he'll have to go back on medicine again. I can do
1:03:52
that. He's currently on a one story streak over Pete Thammil. He's he's
1:03:55
and he's and he's high on that one. I'm gonna ride that for Thank
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