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3 Guys Before The Game - Dragon Slayers (Episode 512) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hi there, and hello, thanks so much for giving us your time.
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  We welcome you into episode number five hundred and twelve. Three guys before the
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  game. Episode title Dragon Slayers, Dragon Slayers. You see what they did
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  there? It's actually pretty good. Drexel Is the dragons mountaineers lined up,
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  beat them, slay them. Co'd say they slayed them, extinguished, put
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  the fire out, squelched them. Pretty good game, really good game,
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  fun game, close, fun game. It was a fun game. I'm
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  gonna break that down few mountain neer football as well. Textual healing. Quiet
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  Week, Final exams the week that's we're in now, Quiet week. Yeah,
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  finals are different than they used to be back in the day when they
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  were actually finals. Now I think they should just say this week should be
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  called getting close to the end of semester week. I think there's still finals,
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  isn't there like they used to be when a man was a man?
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  Different deal, comprehensive final exams. Everything you did from the first day to
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  the end, that was a final exam. Well what is it now?
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  How do you know? You don't know? Oh yeah, I talked to
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  kids. Hey tell me a lot easier back then now, I mean had
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  computers now bring books in. We got computers now like they just came about
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  in a second, talk about it and spreads on stats. Coming up,
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  How did West Virginia statistically defeat the Dragons. That's brought to us by Commonly
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  CPA group. They provide value beyond the numbers. Got a little bit more
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  intel on that thing, on the the whole CPA world. Yeah, yeah,
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  Because I may have said once that a lot of CPAs that I know
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  get really nervous around tax season. All right, I made that, may
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  have made that point more, we'll actually confirm that, confirm confirmed. So
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  so I find out from from a few few the folks that live in the
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  industry that what they what bums them out, like their pain point is not
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  necessarily like we know the deadline comes. It's the clown that comes running into
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  our office like three days before. It's got four shoe boxes, two Manila
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  folders, a reused FedEx envelope, just stuff just jammed off and two receipts
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  fell out on the floor on the way into their office. Correct, yes,
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  but then he ran in the parking lot picked them up and they got
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  their wet because it's wet outside, and they just it can and hear it
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  and can I get starting to smudge now you can't tell what it says.
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  Yeah, that is what gives them ankst. It's the late rival. I
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  understand that. Well, maybe CPA should probably act like the airplane people do
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  now. May shut the door, shut the gates. They shut the door.
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  It's just like I've been there, seen that happen before. I just
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  thought it's something me and you almost had one of those happened when weber we're
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  coming back from that gas Parilla ball sprinting multiple airport sprint. I've been there
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  once before. I was coming back. Uh you remember West Virginia played Oklahoma
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  in basketball at the College in Charleston. Wait, we're at the festival.
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  Yeah, so I did the game Blake Griffin on that oklad I was in
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  I was in Arizona. Yes, came back to West Virginia to do the
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  game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when I came back to West
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  Virginia to do the game, I'm in Detroit, Detroit, and I got
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  like twenty minutes before the plane leaves. I get up there, run up
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  because I was switching from planes. The doors shut, I said, and
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  the persons I said, can you open wouldn't open the door. They don't
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  give on that either. So that's what I'm saying. CPA's probably should just
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  close the door to close the gate at a certain point, Like you see,
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  you see some dude out there running towards your in your parking lot.
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  They're running toward it, and you get you can just see he's got three
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  shoe boxes, the FedEx envelope, he's spilling receipts. You just go like
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  closed for business. The challenge is that's easy for the gate attendant because she
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  never you have never seen that gate attendant again, I'm guessing right, she's
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  never ran across you. He never ran across you whatever, whoever? Right,
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  all right, So it's easy to tell you no because never seeing you
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  again. A lot of times those clients that are coming in a little disheveled.
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  Our longtime clients have been around for a while. You want to try
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  and help people. That's what they do. CPA is there to help people.
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  So it's harder to tell those folks know or shut the gate. H
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  So that's what I happen to understand. I understand, I get it anyway,
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  that's why they're nervous. If they're not nervous, they know the deadline's
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  coming. It's just the people. They can run the offense. They're fine,
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  Yeah, they can run the offense, but sometimes they need to play.
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  Sometimes the play call doesn't get in soon enough and they're lead to the
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  play clocks dwindling on them and it's not their fault and they're screaming over there
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  while the coaches are converging and don't get to playing. So what you're saying,
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  I think we could be helpful to them. You think maybe like the
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  state CPA organization, the state account, they probably bring us in. We
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  could probably like speak to their group or something when they have their annual meeting.
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  Well, sure we can do that. Do some meditation exercises, given
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  some deep relaxation. Oh yeah. Final score in West Virginia sixty six the
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  Drexel Dragons sixty Dragons went into the locker room with a two point lead,
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  thirty three thirty one. Interesting game for a bunch of different reasons, because
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  West Virginia did some things that they have not been doing and the things that
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  you have to do to win basketball games. What is it, you might
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  say, Well, they forced an above average number of turnovers from Drexel seventeen
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  to be exact, and this is a Drexel team that wasn't turning an overhole
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  lot, just a hair under twelve per game. And then West Virginia not
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  only got turnovers, they scored off of them twenty two to ten advantage off
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  of turnovers in points. That's plus twelve something else, West Virginia. This
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  has to be the first time this season West Virginia bench outscores Drexels nineteen fourteen.
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  Big yeah, why did it happen? Well, West Virginia actually now
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  has got a little bit deeper bench. And then on Saturday, coming up
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  big parade. Mylar balloons probably have cotton candy floats, floats, trumpets,
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  trumpets and not a regular like it, not like a Louis Armstrong trumpet.
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  There was a short one I'm talking about one of the ones, like a
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  piece of conduit on the end, goes out of about five feet, got
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  a flag hanging down of it. Same guy that works the derby, Aaron
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  Lexington, he needs to make the announcement the nine game suspension is finally over
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  for Kerk Carrisa. I mean, if I'm Kerr, I come out in
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  a top hat for the opening tip, at least warm up in it.
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  At least warm up with a with a top hat and a walking stick.
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  Well it we'll talk some more about that here coming up, but yes,
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  it is a massive addition, getting him back on the heels of Kobe Johnson
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  coming off one of his really good games, six assists, one turnovers.
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  So now you get some real depth and again a team that we've talked about
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  all seasons struggling to find combinations and players and getting guys rests. Suddenly now
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  with a cook a cook back in the lineup, and with Kerk crisis set
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  to emerge, it's funny, it's only two guys, only two guys,
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  but when you were playing six to seven only, that's what a thirty three
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  percent increase in your lineup and your combinations. I do think that's going to
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  help tremendously. Yeah, exactly right. So well, real quick on the
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  drects. One more key because you were headed down that path and we veered
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  off there. The other story. I thought the two main stories for Western
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  has win one points off turnovers, Like you said, two made some shots
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  games a lot easier when you make some threes. Yeah, they finished with
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  seven of them, and two came from people you did not have penciled in
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  at the start of the game that we're going to make three right, Like
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  if someone came up to you before the game is so okay, here deal
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  a Cook and Pat Sumnik are going to get three pointers today, you go
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  like, I'll take that. It won by six. I think that.
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  I think that was the single biggest difference. There's a lot of things,
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  and that was a really well played close game, back and forth with both
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  teams. Either team could have won. Wouldn't have been a surprise Pat Sumon
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  had playing three minutes, but stepping into that three and draining. It was
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  massive and a Cook's minutes. We can talk about him overall here in a
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  minute. The three was huge from him, but he also gave you some
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  really good minutes to the point at one point he was in there and we
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  saw the first game when he came back. Josh had to take a foul
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  and a time out in that first game in order to get him out,
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  just because that adrenaline was kicking. The wind was gone pretty quickly this game.
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  At one point Josh looked out and saw that the guys were tired and
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  took a time out. And as soon as he took it, I looked
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  at a Cook, and a Cook was like waving him off, like no,
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  no, no, God good, don't take me out. I think
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  it was actually for Quinn to get him arrest. But that's how fast A
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  Cook moved forward and played a really significant of that game on Saturday. To
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  underscore the significance of a Cook's play, think about this. He played twelve
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  minutes and six seconds. Twelve minutes and six seconds, so how big of
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  a role could he have in a forty minute game? So he goes two
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  of three, one of one from three, he gets a rebound, he
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  has two assists and he blocks a shot, so you go, okay,
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  but how big was that? Well, when he was on the floor,
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  West Virginia with him is plus fifteen, so it's by far and away the
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  highest plus minus of the game. So a Cook was fifteen, Ofrey Nevey
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  was nine. Seth and Kobe both came in at five, So you can't
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  overhype what role he particularly played in that game. So that plus minus,
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  just to kind of break it down for you a little bit, it's what
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  does West Virginia do when your feet are on the floor. It's an old
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  hockey statistic. You used to see it more in hockey when you're on the
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  ice, what your team doings well, he's plus fifteen in that game,
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  and some coaches they kind of pooh poo it. I'm not saying that's the
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  absolute landmark, but that gives you a pretty good representation that when he was
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  on the floor things went well. Fair way to say that they did,
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  yeah, and he As you look through the different lineup combinations that were on
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  the floor leading to that plus fifteen, those didn't all come at once,
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  but he was in that game in that key critical part of the second half.
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  Really, if you want to know where the game was won, started
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  the second half to about the fourteen mark, just over fourteen minutes. Western
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  You put up seventeen points in that stretch, that six minute run right there,
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  and for a team that had been struggling to score against a good defensive
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  team in Drexel, that was the moment where that switched over and West Virginia
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  took command of that game. Here's the other thing on a Cook that I
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  think you watch going forward that if you're Josh, you have to be thrilled
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  about. You talk about different combinations than things you can do. So first
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  of all, you can play a Cook with Jesse Edwards, which gives you
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  a heck of a back line there on the defense with two six ten two
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  seven footers basically in there with reach. You know what. That gives you
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  a lineup that you're supposed to have at this level, right real, that's
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  what your need to have to have at this level. Okay, go ahead,
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  And then you slide Sleznski into a three at six eight sixty nine.
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  Okay, now you look like a major Power five team, right. So
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  defensively, that creates a lot of problems for teams trying to get to the
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  basket. That's one number two. When Edwards needs a rest, now you
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  can go to a cook as the backup if you need to. Right,
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  something's still going to play some time because you're still going to need his body
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  in there. But now you can put a cook. And you did that
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  Saturday against Amuri Williams, who will talk about in a minute, the talented
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  center for Drexel, and you didn't lose a ton defensively. Williams didn't automatically
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  get to take over that game when Jesse Edwards went out. So I think
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  you have some real options now as a Cook continues to work himself back in
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  jump right in. Was it good? I mean when you looked at the
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  numbers, Yeah, it was good. It played out quite frankly, it
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  played out kind of like we thought it would. It was going to come
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  down to wh made shots. West Virginia made a few more. But let's
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  dive in because I think there's some interesting things we can uncover here. Do
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  Are we still We're probably late enough in the season now. I mean we're
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  at the third mark of the season. You're going to start to be able.
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  Now. I'm not going to put you on this now, but like
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  pairings, the five on the floor, most productive fight come. Yeah,
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  I was doing a little bit of that there with a cook just now.
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  You're starting to get that a little bit. Yeah, we're getting there.
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  As we always say, the numbers become more stable the more games you get.
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  And that's the fun part about basketball. You play so many games you
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  get to the point earlier in the season where you start to identify what the
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  teams are all about. Got it? So we'll get into that now.
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  You were at the game Saturday. I was okay, yeah, I was,
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  thank you for asking a couple points to follow up on with our conversation
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  there. What we just said were the two main stories the making of the
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  shots for West Virginian and in particular hitting some threes. So that's seven.
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  You know, we've certainly seen West Virginia teams here in the past that have
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  made way more than seven threes in a game. But that's seven. Felt
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  like seventeen. It's true, didn't it. Yeah, forty one percent is
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  the key number there, So you shot it well from three. But the
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  kind of like the guy that goes fishing, goes there for about five weeks,
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  he catches one fish in five weeks. All of a sudden, he
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  comes home one day. He got a big old string. He got a
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  big string, he got thirteen fish hanging off of it. You go,
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  like, whoa big day. That's a good day. It was a good
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  day from Western here from three, here's one. In particular, they were
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  four of seven from the top of the key three. So the straight on
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  four of seven. Drexel had only allowed ten threes from there all year prior
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  to this game, and teams were shooting twenty four percent from three in that
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  spot. West Virginia was fifty seven percent from that particular area of the floor
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  straight on top of the key three. I wonder why that one spot.
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  I wonder why they had success defending that, Like, well, why has
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  Drexel? I mean, that's that is a here's here's the simp answer Drexel's.
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  Drexel's game plan defensively was to go under screens and not let West Virginia
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  pump fakem or put it on the floor and get to the basket. They
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  were saying, if you can make a three, go ahead, if it
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  will tip our cap if you beat us, and West Virginia did I mean
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  that you want to boil the game down? That's what it was going under.
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  Yeah, Drexel just said we're going to fight under this and not allow
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  you to beat us off those screens and get easier shots. Go ahead and
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  show me you can make threes. And West Virginia just did. Right.
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  Sometimes it's a simple game. So that was one stat that stood out to
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  me that was pretty interesting. The other part you mentioned that twenty two to
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  ten turnover advantage points off turnover advantage. If West Virginia were to continue that
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  twenty two points off of the turnovers in a game that puts him in the
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  top ten percent of college basketball at the end of the year. Now you
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  won't. I know, you can't do that every game, but that shows
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  you what a big game that was in that particular category. That's an old
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  lingering stat from the press Virginia days. Sure, if we if you go
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  back and take a look at points off turnovers during the press Virginia you ate,
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  yeah, you got a chunk there. Yeah, all right, glasses,
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  let's go through. Let's do some evaluation here based on what we said
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  we thought we would see back on Thursday show. So we talked about the
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  matchup between Jesse Edwards and Amari Williams, Maury Williams, Drexel's six' ten
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  center, that's the conference player of the year, preseason player of the year
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  in their league. Two really good bigs. Williams was a dude in the
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  first half, right, You commented on that a couple times. He was
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  ready to play. He knew that was a marquee matchup. He was wiped.
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  He came to play. Jesse Edwards very solid all game again, so
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  those two lived up to the hype. Williams finished with twelve points, fifteen
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  rebounds, Edwards sixteen points and five rebounds. We talked about Williams in protecting
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  the rim, how good he was at that. Of the nine games so
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  far this season, that was the third fewest possessions for West Virginia that ended
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  in a shot at the rim, so he was a factor inside. But
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  West Virginia had success when it did go at the rim, the third most
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  points on those type of shots all season. Westerrdin was twelve of eighteen the
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  rim sixty seven percent while just shooting sixty one percent on the year, so
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  didn't get a ton of them, but very efficient when it went into the
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  basket. Now, a lot of those came when Williams came out of the
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  game, right And there's I'm going to get into some X and O stuff
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  from this game that I thought was really good both ways. I thought Zack
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  Spiker had a tremendous game plan and made some good in game adjustments. I
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  thought Josh had a couple of counter points there that were absolutely outstanding, and
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  that was one. As soon as AMRII Williams came out of the game,
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  West Virginia just attacked inside when he was away from the rim. So really
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  good matchup that kind of played out as we thought it would. We said,
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  these were two of the slowest paced teams in the country, and that
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  should help West Virginia keep it close and may in the and help them get
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  a win. Well, the game started faster than I think we thought it
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  would. Drexel was really looking for its spots to push. It got more
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  than its average points in transition than it normally does. But in the second
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  half that game slowed and it landed about exactly where the numbers said it would,
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  with possessions in the load of mid sixties there for both teams, So
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  no surprise there. Here was a massive surprise. West Virginia had been living
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  at the free throw line, top ten nationally in percentage of points coming from
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  free throws heading into the Drexel game. But we said Drexel was pretty good
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  about not putting teams on the free throw line. So who would win that
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  battle? Could West Virginia break through and get some free throws? No,
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  is the answer, And here's the further answer. Neither team got to the
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  line nine total free throws in the game combined for the two teams, West
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  Virginia just three of five, Drexel just three. Of four from the free
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  throw line. That was the thing that surprised me the most. And I'll
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  say this, I thought the officials overall. I'm sure each coach could pick
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  out some plays they didn't. They didn't agree with this on but overall,
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  I thought it was pretty good. They let them play. It was really
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  physical. That was like an old school Big East type of physical game,
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  which was surprising. But they let it go all game. They didn't change
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  that in the second half. They didn't change it in the last five minutes.
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  It was just physical throughout and there weren't a lot of free Yeah.
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  That is That's one of the biggest stunners for me coming out of that game
• 22:04
  was how it was officiated. And I agree with you one hundred percent.
• 22:07
  I'm not criticizing the officials because it was consistent from the opening tip to the
• 22:12
  final good. Did they misplays, Yeah, they misplays, it's gonna happen.
• 22:17
  Did the teams missshots, Yeah, the team's miss shots. But what
• 22:21
  I think upsets fans is when they call it one way for a period of
• 22:25
  time and then do a reversal. I'll just tell you this, there were
• 22:29
  no touch files called down Saturn line when Kobe Johnson two hand chucked Luke House
• 22:36
  late in the game. He came down the right side of the lane,
• 22:37
  put up a one hand or off glass that went but I mean, my
• 22:41
  man, he went like like cornerback pushing a receiver off no whistle, And
• 22:48
  that kind of was a microcosm of how the game was called. They were
• 22:52
  whacking it and if you're good with that, play it. And I thought
• 22:56
  ultimately it played to West Virginia's advantage. I thought West virgin is we've seen
• 23:00
  their effort be really good this season. But I thought their physicality and their
• 23:03
  ability to kind of bully Drexel back because that's what Jecksil wants to do,
• 23:07
  right. They want to be physical with you, they want to get their
• 23:10
  points in the pain, they want to put their bodies on you defensively.
• 23:12
  And I thought West Virginia did a good job of countering that on Saturday,
• 23:17
  which surprised me a little bit in that I thought West Virginia may wear down
• 23:21
  under that kind of style in the second half of the last few minutes,
• 23:23
  and they just simply didn't. They stood right there toe to doe. Yeah,
• 23:26
  you know what I think it was. And again this is one of
• 23:30
  those intangibles. It was the end of a four game homestand things had not
• 23:33
  gone well. They knew they badly needed a win. Yeah. I think
• 23:38
  they were desperate. They played like it. They played desperate, and they
• 23:42
  just kind of said, Okay, let's forget about getting tired. We got
• 23:45
  to go out there and that, as you mentioned that first six minutes of
• 23:48
  the second half, they came out, they did and they just said,
• 23:52
  we're going you know, it's gonna be kind of we're gonna, we're gonna
• 23:55
  fire all of our shots. We're gonna we're just gonna battle. And if
• 23:56
  we're still standing when it's over, that good. But that's what I think
• 24:00
  that was. Mentally, they know they needed to win bad Yeah, And
• 24:06
  that's I think that's what helped create a really fun December environment in a non
• 24:11
  conference game that was high level. Right. Drexel's group was into it heavily.
• 24:15
  West Virginia was into it. Both teams, both teams really battle.
• 24:18
  I thought that was just a fun college basketball game. One last thing on
• 24:22
  some numbers, we said to watch the offensive rebounding battle. Drexel was excellent
• 24:26
  on the offensive glass coming in, but even better at keeping their opponents off
• 24:30
  of it. Drexel ended up with fifteen offensive rebounds turned that into fifteen second
• 24:34
  chance points. West Virginia had just nine offensive boards that produced five points there,
• 24:41
  so that one came out to what we thought it would. The Drexel
• 24:42
  would be good on the glass and Western you may not get as many.
• 24:45
  But that's where West Virginia making some shots over rode that stat It didn't become
• 24:51
  a critical factor in a win or loss because you made some buckets there that
• 24:55
  eliminated the eliminated the need to get on the offensive glass so much so that
• 25:00
  was really good. Let's do a couple of things. These aren't so much
• 25:03
  numbers based, but let's stay here for a second, because I thought Josh
• 25:07
  had a couple really good coaching moves to counter. Again, as I said
• 25:11
  earlier, I thought Zack Spiker's game plan was excellent. I thought the way
• 25:15
  they approached it was exactly what they should have done, And I thought Josh
• 25:18
  countered with a couple of really good things. First, we talked last week
• 25:22
  about who was going to make the shots, who was going to step up
• 25:26
  and start hitting threes, and the obvious candidate was Seth Wilson, he's really
• 25:30
  been struggling from distance. And the other night against Pitt, Josh eilerd even
• 25:33
  a couple of times during the game got on him for passing up three point
• 25:37
  shots and just simply said, Seth has to shoot. Shooters have to shoot
• 25:41
  when you're open. You've got to get the ball in the air. Well.
• 25:44
  The thing that I thought Josh did an excellent job of brought Seth Wilson
• 25:47
  into the game off the bench the other day, and as soon as he
• 25:48
  brought him in, immediately ran two sets for him. On the first two
• 25:52
  offensive possessions. He was on the floor to create open threes. Seth bangdam,
• 25:57
  which gave him a ton of confidence and I think gave the team confidence
• 26:00
  by extension that Okay, the seals off, we can make shots today.
• 26:04
  Right. I thought that was huge. Yeah, it is. The game
• 26:07
  is so mental, and you're exactly right. I mean, he came in,
• 26:10
  I had that note. He was. Seth going into Saturday was one
• 26:18
  for ten from three in his last three games. You come out there,
• 26:22
  you hit your first two. It's the equivalent of winning the lottery. Yes,
• 26:26
  all of a sudden, you go like, okay, it's back I'm
• 26:30
  back, I'm good, let's go. It helps your defense, it helps
• 26:33
  everyone around you because it just gives this huge release for the rest of his
• 26:38
  teammates to go like, we're good. Here we go, Here we go,
• 26:41
  We're good. Yeah, we're good. And then he ended up with
• 26:42
  three on the day, which, as you mentioned earlier, were massive.
• 26:45
  I thought the other thing that was good late in the game, West Virginia
• 26:49
  exploited a matchup with Quinn Slazynski and they put him in a two man game
• 26:53
  with Jesse Edwards on a couple of possessions. Quinn's defender was having some trouble
• 26:59
  staying with him in the lane when Quinn was trying to and that's where the
• 27:02
  physical nature helped, because there was some banging between those two and Quinn was
• 27:04
  just bigger and able to push his way into that lane. But the matchup
• 27:10
  was was really good and smart to take advantage of because Amari Williams was the
• 27:14
  help defender there on Edwards. But it put Williams in some conflict because what's
• 27:18
  Williams supposed to do? Does he come over to try and help at the
• 27:21
  rim on Selinsky? If he does, what happens the lob opens up and
• 27:23
  you get it to Jesse Edwards. So it kind of forced Williams to stay
• 27:26
  home on Edwards and allowed Sezlnsky to work a little one on one right there
• 27:30
  to get a couple of baskets down the stretch. So I thought that was
• 27:33
  pretty good too. We mentioned that Amari Williams the Drexel Center had sixteen rebounds.
• 27:38
  He was a dude. Let me give you some names of the last
• 27:42
  time guys had sixteen rebounds against West Virginia. Who were they in the sixteen
• 27:48
  rebound club? Mike Sweetney from Georgetown, big boy who would not only take
• 27:56
  the rebound, he would then just take the ball and squeeze all the air
• 27:59
  out of it. Just an absolute manchild. Blake Griffin had sixteen against West
• 28:06
  Virginia. That probably was that game in Charleston that we talked about December twenty
• 28:10
  nine of seven. Luke Herrong Godie had sixteen at Notre Dame in eight remember
• 28:19
  the center When we first came into the league at Baylor, Rico Gathers the
• 28:25
  undersized football. Yeah for the Cowboys, Land and Lucas you remember him from
• 28:30
  Kansas. They're a big dude. He had sixteen then when West Virginia played
• 28:36
  Texas A and M in Germany, this was seventeen. Tyler Davis had eighteen.
• 28:42
  And then a cat from Murray State in the NCAA tournament game. I
• 28:47
  don't even remember this, he had seventeen. Yeah, but I mean,
• 28:52
  if you get sixteen, you're pretty good player. Let me give you some
• 28:56
  other guys that have had big games. Where's oh this is I mean,
• 29:00
  to get sixteen shows you're a really good player. Here's some of the guys.
• 29:03
  I mean, this is pretty well. Eric Mobley from pitt Zenden,
• 29:07
  Hamilton, remember him from Saint John's. Danie Abrams from Boston College. Great
• 29:14
  player, a great player. Austin Crowchier from Providence. They went to the
• 29:18
  Yeah that many rebounds. Yeah he did play. He had sixteen. Pro
• 29:22
  Uh. Tim James remember from Miami. He was really good. Troy Murphy
• 29:27
  from Notre Dame, Michael Bradley from Villanova. That was in two thousand and
• 29:34
  one. Jr. Van Hoos remember from Marshall. I remember that game he
• 29:38
  had like two hundred. No, he had eighteen. So that's just like
• 29:41
  so Amari Williams, congratulations you put sixteen boards up. That is that's something
• 29:48
  to be proba. He was really good. So I just again, I
• 29:49
  thought it was really good college basketball game. I think if you're if you're
• 29:52
  Drexel, you you should be you should be happy that you played toe to
• 29:57
  toe in this building game. It's West Virginia. You'll also walk away saying
• 30:03
  ugh, that was one. I think Drexel will say to you. They
• 30:06
  think they could have gotten They needed a couple more shots. West Virginia was
• 30:08
  the team that got them. So I think Drexel goes on to have a
• 30:11
  really good year wins in their league. That ends up being a nice win
• 30:15
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  Okay, football, we do textual healing In a second. Beanie Bishop has
• 31:15
  now won two hundred and thirteen All American awards. He's stacking awards here this
• 31:19
  postseason. It really is. Picked up another one today. First Team All
• 31:22
  American from the Football Writers Association of America, adds to his list of Walter
• 31:30
  Camp First Team, College Football Network First Team, Bleacher Report First Team,
• 31:34
  USA Today Second Team, and CBS Sports Honorable Mention of lists that are already
• 31:40
  out. Zach Fraser picked another one up today that was named first Team All
• 31:45
  American Center by the Action Network. Brett McMurphy Stuckey. We've had on Sports
• 31:51
  Line regular those guys named him as a first teamer. He named it.
• 31:55
  He was named. Zach was to four other teams last week. Second Team
• 31:59
  at SI the Athletic USA Today and the College Football Network, So those guys
• 32:02
  continue to get high praise as well they should. Yeah, the WV women's
• 32:08
  basketball play a little three guys coffee there it is. It is, by
• 32:15
  the way, we've got an update on that WV women's basketball team. Yeah,
• 32:20
  off till a good start. Yeah, you could say that's the fiftieth
• 32:23
  year of WV women's basketball and Mark Kellogg, the head coach, as his
• 32:28
  ladies out to a nine and oh start. First time a first year coach
• 32:30
  has had a nine and oh start here in program history. Yesterday they entertained
• 32:35
  Delaware State at the Coliseum Desmont Boulevard and kind of had a pretty good indication
• 32:43
  which way was going. After one quarter of play, it was thirty seven
• 32:45
  to seven West Virginia, and to his credit, coach Kellogg took off the
• 32:52
  press and that was that could have been anyway. They won by a what
• 33:00
  was it finally won by two hundred points sixty ish. It was right there
• 33:02
  where it's sixty some sixty some points West Virginia connection in that story on Delaware
• 33:08
  State the good one. Yeah. Yeah. Canute Curtis's daughter, I think
• 33:15
  she's a sophomore plays at Delaware State and Canute was there. Yeah, and
• 33:19
  nice to have him back in Morgantown. Absolutely one of the all time greats
• 33:22
  Hall of Famer and still leads the school all time in sex if I'm not
• 33:28
  mistaken. So you know the Amityville WHR which is a great one. Yeah,
• 33:32
  ranks among the all one of the all time great nicknames. So he's
• 33:36
  from Amityville, New York. And he was a horror two opposing quarterbacks and
• 33:42
  I think it was on yeah, John Antonic on the radio. I was
• 33:45
  listening. I was cooking yesterday in the kitchen. There was where you normally
• 33:49
  cook because if you do it in your bedroom it makes a mess. But
• 33:51
  anyway, I was listening to the game and Antoni said, when he was
• 33:54
  being recruited by West Virginia, he said, I'm not a defensive end and
• 34:02
  they said, no, no, no, no, you're not. We
• 34:06
  have a position called we have a position called a rush end, a Russi
• 34:12
  end. And John said, from that point end, I'm in Russian.
• 34:15
  You remember when we had him on Three Guys and he told that story like
• 34:19
  he came to town, didn't have any sheets, bed sheets and bed sheets,
• 34:22
  like it was just totally just got yeah, dropped off, dropped here,
• 34:27
  went to towers and like, where am I? What is this?
• 34:29
  I don't know what I'm doing. If you haven't heard that episode, to
• 34:31
  encourage you to go back and listen to that one of the summer series with
• 34:34
  him, it was. It was incredible because he's a guy, all time
• 34:37
  great name, all time great legend, but you just haven't heard a lot
• 34:39
  from him. He hasn't talked very quiet. He had some incredible stories in
• 34:44
  the great one about just when his first day on the practice field. Yeah,
• 34:47
  Rich Brady, I hated seventy eight. Is that what he said?
• 34:52
  Because I didn't even know his name, just knew I hated him. Just
• 34:54
  beat me up all every practice. So it was a really good episode.
• 34:59
  If you didn't get a chance to, yeah, it's good to see him
• 35:00
  back, all right. I was just gonna go into it. I was
• 35:04
  just going to go into a harangue about that. But you know, I
• 35:07
  just wonder with the transfer portal and as easy as it is to depart now,
• 35:12
  how many of these all time great mountaineers would have left if they would
• 35:16
  have been able to leave without having to sit out a year? Sure,
• 35:21
  I mean the names that we talk about in the all time greats, and
• 35:22
  I'm sure including some Hall of famers, they would have never been here because
• 35:28
  it would have been easy to leave. Yeah, and there's there's a lot
• 35:32
  of those stories, I'm sure. But there's also the other stories too,
• 35:35
  like think, think how many guys were here and behind great players that never
• 35:39
  got a chance to pop through that would have been better to play somewhere else
• 35:44
  too. So there's there's both those stories that are out there. Yeah,
• 35:45
  they're both all right, let's do this thing here, good time nowt for
• 36:02
  textual healing. We're checking in with you, and a thank you to everybody.
• 36:09
  So yesterday was the tenth of December Sunday. That was our deadline for
• 36:15
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• 36:20
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• 36:30
  We never did get the printed catalog for Hoppy. Now. Oh, by
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  the way, in case you have nose, Hoppy isn't here today. Have
• 36:36
  no idea where he is wandering around aimlessly somewhere but anyway, we were getting
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  Appreciate that. All right, let's do this thing ready. Okay,
• 39:17
  let me give it pre Let me give a precursor or this or a preamble,
• 39:23
  or let me just say something before we start. We're gonna as if
• 39:30
  you're a regular listener to this whatever it is that we do. At times
• 39:36
  we pick up a particular topic and it and it goes, it goes and
• 39:42
  it runs for a while. Sure, we've had various ones through the years.
• 39:46
  We had a lot of people on land in West Virginia. Yes,
• 39:52
  had a lot of responses to people that own land in West Virginia. They
• 39:54
  would let us know where their land is. Still do it, and that's
• 40:00
  fun. That was we got. We got bombarded by those when that thing
• 40:02
  happened. We hit a point, we hit it, We hit a we
• 40:06
  hit a bone there where people were like, hey, yeah, I can
• 40:07
  completely understand it. There's been a few other things that we've hit on.
• 40:14
  It looks, based upon the most recent couple of shows that we have certainly
• 40:21
  touched a nerve with hankies and with the party line phone. I mean,
• 40:32
  we have touched a big nerve, like a really really like pages and pages
• 40:40
  and pages and nerves with with the things. So I'll say this, We're
• 40:49
  going to read them. We're going to read many. We can't read all.
• 40:52
  We can't read all. We don't read all of the text every week
• 40:55
  because there's just too many of them. But we get the we got it
• 41:01
  party line and hankies, we get it. This will be the end to
• 41:04
  party line and hankies. So enjoy the party line and hankies, and thank
• 41:08
  you very much. But we need we just need to continue to till New
• 41:13
  Gras. Is that fair? Thank you very much? Okay, we got
• 41:16
  it. Is that a lot of people like those party lines? I understand,
• 41:23
  but yeah, we need to keep Yeah, listen, don Neil used
• 41:28
  to say, what you either get better, you get worse. You don't
• 41:31
  stay the same. So we're gonna move textor Hello, this is Stephen from
• 41:38
  the Waterfront Marriott. I've got a question pertaining to the basketball program. Why
• 41:44
  does it seem to be a foregone conclusion that Josh Isilett will not even have
• 41:47
  a chance to keep the head coaching position after the season with the depleted roster.
• 41:52
  How can this season be considered a fair opportunity for Josh to prove himself.
• 41:57
  From what I've seen, it sounds like he won't even be considered to
• 42:00
  remain the coach. It just seems unfair to me, and I feel bad
• 42:02
  for Josh. Thoughts well, I mean, I think that's what's ongoing.
• 42:08
  I think this is I would try out, It's not the right word,
• 42:13
  but Josh is certainly having a chance to show his coaching abilities, his leadership,
• 42:17
  his management abilities, along with the rest of that staff, which,
• 42:20
  by the way, I think those assistants are doing a great job too along
• 42:22
  with Josh and keeping those guys engaged in the work they do in the practices
• 42:27
  and stuff. But I think that's an ongoing open Again, I don't want
• 42:31
  to use word triut because tryout's not the right word, but I think that's
• 42:34
  this is a really difficult, difficult situation. Josh Eilert's been placed in.
• 42:40
  It's also a tremendous opportunity for him to get some invaluable experience that you wouldn't
• 42:45
  have been able to get otherwise. So I would bet we need to ask
• 42:49
  Josh this, but I bet he would tell you. What he's learned in
• 42:52
  the last three months has been like light speed right dog years type of learning
• 43:00
  on how to run a program, how to manage a program, how to
• 43:01
  be a head coach, how to be the main guy on the sideline.
• 43:05
  So I don't whether he'll end up here or not, that's a discussion for
• 43:08
  after the season. But I think Josh absolutely is having a chance to show
• 43:12
  not only people here but nationally what he can do as coach. Yeah,
• 43:15
  I would say this, Steve, and you wright what it sounds like to
• 43:19
  you, he won't even be considered. I don't think that's the case.
• 43:21
  I think that he absolutely, you know, will and is in the midst
• 43:25
  of being evaluated. So I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. Quite honestly,
• 43:31
  Jerry and Eastbank top notch entertainment gentleman always or at least some of the
• 43:36
  time. May each of you enjoy a warm mayonnaise bath over the holiday days,
• 43:40
  but don't forget the handkerchiefs. Gentlemen. I'm writing in support of my
• 43:45
  fellow journalism school grad, Hoppy, who received unwarranted harassment over his use of
• 43:51
  a party line and crank phone. I'm a year older than Hoppy. Grew
• 43:54
  up in Fairmont, where we had a single party phone that when you picked
• 43:58
  up the receiver the operation or answered number. Please. In first grade,
• 44:01
  the nice lady from CMP Telephone came to our school to teach us the latest
• 44:06
  cutting edge technology rotary dial phones. Ah the good days, Signed by COEO
• 44:10
  Texter. How would you distribute blame for the current lack of players on the
• 44:16
  basketball roster? Present staff decisions on rebuilding a roster, trying to build a
• 44:22
  team based on the waiver process. Coach Huggins Nil, thanks for keeping us
• 44:30
  in form. Let's go. I think everything that West Virginia basketball is dealing
• 44:38
  with at this moment is all the unintended consequence of what happened. There was
• 44:45
  absolutely no game plan, no template know how to do this for what happened
• 44:51
  that late in a summer. None zero, No one's that I can recall
• 44:55
  has ever had to go through that. I mean, I'm sure there's been
• 44:59
  some crazy stuff in some programs in the summer, but it obviously is a
• 45:02
  first here. So I don't think you can point any fingers and say,
• 45:07
  oh, this should have done this, like everyone's great hindsight, but the
• 45:10
  unintended consequence is what West Virginia basketball is living through right now. Texter Hoppy,
• 45:20
  as if he was here, I'm with you on the handkerchief. I've
• 45:22
  got a red, a blue, and a green and a white. White
• 45:25
  is going to dinner or church the rest every day. My wife is with
• 45:30
  those other two nd heads. We'll keep up the good fight for cloth nosewipes.
• 45:37
  Tony tough game last night, but always a mountaineer, real deal,
• 45:39
  Neil. Okay, So after the pit game, after the pit game,
• 45:43
  apparently, how'd that get in here? I don't know anyway, Tony brad
• 45:46
  in three longs and two shorts. This guy's good. This is the male
• 45:51
  man who's written in from Mercer County in the past. He just has nothing
• 45:54
  to do but listen because he's just driving all over beautiful Mercer County. He
• 45:59
  says, you asked, I delivered. That's what mailmen do, after all.
• 46:02
  That's all I do every day, I deliver. You asked what episode
• 46:06
  Hoppy hired the soccer coach. It was episode one sixty four on the thirteenth
• 46:12
  of December twenty nineteen. Binge listening to every episode for six months, starting
• 46:16
  to pay off. Good thing. I was listening to that Austin p review
• 46:20
  and retain the information. That's almost exactly four years ago, December thirteen.
• 46:27
  It is almost four Dan's been there for By the way, super shout out
• 46:30
  to those guys. What a what an unbelievable historic season for Mountaineer soccer and
• 46:38
  god dang talking about letting them play in the basketball game. On Saturday,
• 46:44
  West Virginia got absolutely hosed on a non call in the box which should have
• 46:50
  given West Virginia p K and the official swallowed his whistle. Soccer is so
• 46:59
  it just drives me crazy. Unforgiving it is. It just drives me crazy.
• 47:05
  We got a guy punched in the face, they don't, and they
• 47:07
  go to review and they don't. I mean, guy punched him in the
• 47:10
  face. I could see it. I know guys get punched in the face.
• 47:13
  I know when it's on purpose and when it's not on purpose. And
• 47:15
  then they and not calling that was just ridiculous. Nevertheless, heck of a
• 47:20
  run by the boys. Yeah. Good morning, three guys. This is
• 47:23
  Jeff and Edwards, California, sitting here drinking a delicious cup of Mountaineer morning
• 47:29
  coffee, thinking about how fun this football team was to watch. I was
• 47:34
  happy to see the offense come together and needed playmakers. I was very pleased
• 47:37
  to see Double G mature over the season develop into a top notch QB.
• 47:42
  I'm also happy to see the emergence of Jaheim the Dream, Hoddy Tuddy and
• 47:46
  Cole slaw dog Taylor. I wasn't able to see the Mountaineers play in person,
• 47:51
  However, my wife surprised me with Bowl tickets, so I'll be checking
• 47:58
  them out twenty seven December. This will also be my first Mountaineer game since
• 48:01
  the twenty eleven matchup with Marshall's been a while. Good for him. Real
• 48:07
  quick before I go, A few episodes back, Tony made a Hills Department
• 48:10
  store reference brought back a lot of great memories. When I was in elementary
• 48:15
  school, we would get gift certificates to their snack bar for academic achievements,
• 48:20
  and I would use mine on soft pretzels and popcorn popcorn Bagot Hills. Yeah.
• 48:23
  Ps, my dad born in nineteen fifty five had a party line when
• 48:28
  he was growing up in Fayette County, Texter. Hello, two guys,
• 48:34
  first time Texter Tony, You and I had a chance to chat at Rick
• 48:38
  pill Wick and Dave Pills in August Darre in Martinsburg. Yeah, could you
• 48:42
  give Hoppy a break? Senator? A lot of us still use hankies,
• 48:45
  and Tony surprised at your reaction to Hoppy's saying that his phone was three longs
• 48:50
  and two shorts. This picture of a crank phone shows that what he was
• 48:53
  talking about, you had to crank the phone to get the operated attention.
• 48:57
  Once she did, she'd connect you to whoever was calling. Our ring was
• 49:01
  two shorts, one long, too short, and just about every time you
• 49:06
  picked up the phone and someone else would be using it. Sorry, this
• 49:08
  older guys like copy had to be the guinea pigs on those new fangled inventions.
• 49:12
  I love the show and the digs you take at each other. It
• 49:14
  is Tim Fairfield Glade, Tennessee, lived in Charlestown for seventeen years. Of
• 49:20
  all the things that's surprised me about this two long, three shorts? Three
• 49:22
  the shorts too long? You know, you know it gets me. You
• 49:25
  know how on point you have to be to just be randomly sitting in your
• 49:29
  house not expecting the phone. Call that right, that's the thing before even
• 49:32
  call her, ID you didn't know a phone, raphone or who? Don't
• 49:36
  know who it is? Right that it's the phone, but to have to
• 49:38
  identify, like in my era it was just the phone rang or it didn't.
• 49:43
  Right, there was a sound it rang, picked it up to have
• 49:45
  to idea was that our Was that our ring? Right? Because that first
• 49:49
  ring is always gonna catch you. But yeah, was it a long as
• 49:51
  a short? But honey, what was that? Is that a long or
• 49:52
  short? Yeah? That's pretty impressive listening skills by those folks to get it
• 49:57
  right. Well, I guess with the party line, if if you heard
• 49:59
  it, you probably just picked it up. You got to remember if it
• 50:01
  wasn't you, you just hung back up. Back then, people paid a
• 50:04
  lot more attention to things when there weren't so many different stimuli. Nowadays everyone's
• 50:08
  got their head like. You couldn't understand it now because everyone be looking at
• 50:12
  their phone with six different sets of headphones. On it for my kids.
• 50:15
  Three year buds and a antenna with foil on it. Fair enough high three
• 50:21
  guys my husband can relate to hop. He grew up on a farm on
• 50:24
  Point Mountain, Webster County, little community called Wanita in nineteen forty seven.
• 50:30
  His phone number was two shorts and along with the phone you cranked. He
• 50:35
  was also born in his house. Funny stories that his dad had called the
• 50:38
  doctor to come over to the house. Doc checked his mom and said,
• 50:42
  it's going to be a while, but get the towels out in the water,
• 50:45
  boil and and get that whiskey out. We might as well drink while
• 50:47
  we wait. When we were going to get our marriage license twenty nine and
• 50:53
  a half years ago, we had to go up to Butler County Courthouse in
• 50:55
  Pennsylvania. We're getting married where I grew up. We arrived by forty five
• 51:00
  minutes before they were going to close on a Friday, so Nina's to say,
• 51:02
  the lady that waited on us was a bit cranky. She came to
• 51:06
  the question to ask my husband, what hospital were you born in? He
• 51:09
  answered, I wasn't born in a hospital. Grumpily, she asked again and
• 51:14
  again he answered I wasn't born in a hospital. I was born at home.
• 51:19
  She sighed and snorted loudly and asked where he said in Juanita, West
• 51:23
  Virginia. She disgustedly looked, how do you spell that? Well? I
• 51:30
  spell it the way a girl would with the jay. So that's how it
• 51:32
  is. Maybe we're not legally married after twenty nine and a half years,
• 51:37
  since I didn't spell juan Nita correctly. We really enjoy your show. Our
• 51:42
  family owns three Guys shirts. My brother's in Oakela, Florida, who's a
• 51:45
  grad faithful listener, wears his efforting shirts all the Mountaineer games. Thanks,
• 51:50
  and in Webster Springs. Very good. Thanks Ann. That's good Jannita.
• 51:53
  Yeah, so even thirty years ago, people were getting grumpy when it was
• 51:58
  time to leave. Yeah, Friday wan out, Mark and Richie County's got
• 52:01
  a great idea for Hoppy's handkerchiefs. He wants them embroidered to say three longs
• 52:07
  and two snorts. That's a hard to limit text because you never know when
• 52:16
  you're gonna get a gym. There's a lot of gems, get it.
• 52:20
  That's a gem, Mark Strong East Bank guy rights, Tony, You three
• 52:23
  guys, I don't think fully understand how much you bring to West Virginia fans
• 52:28
  and how much you mean to mountaineer nation. You've connected to us in a
• 52:31
  great way. Mountaineers are different and proud of that, and so is three
• 52:34
  guys. Yeah, i'd say we're different. A refreshing podcast that's real,
• 52:37
  not stiff, not rehearse reel. I hope you all will reconsider your thoughts
• 52:42
  of ending this. Thank you all for being real. Go Mountaineers. East
• 52:45
  Bank guy not rehearsed is right. Yeah, you know Charles Godwin's going to
• 52:53
  be playing here at the met Theater this week? Was that this week?
• 52:55
  Four days? Four days? Sold out, four straight days in a row
• 53:00
  minutes? I think, yeah, Oh he'll kill that. He crushed it
• 53:02
  at the Rhyman last week. What do they call that place? The Mother
• 53:06
  Church? Yes, yeah, the Mother Church, superhistoric music venue place?
• 53:10
  Right? Hey, should we answer this call here? What is it?
• 53:15
  Well? That's appropriate? Oh crap, I would have answered it right then
• 53:19
  and there you hang up. Yeah, that was Coach Spiker checking in.
• 53:24
  He's probably had a little time now let things pass, wants to get his
• 53:29
  head clear on this thing. I don't think when do they play again.
• 53:35
  I just head that Updrexel's got the Trexel's got a weird weird like the way
• 53:39
  that they do school Saturday. They're off this week too. They play Albany
• 53:44
  Saturday. Yeah, but it's got nothing to do with their final exams because
• 53:46
  like Drexel, like they're taking their spring finals like in two weeks from last
• 53:51
  year. I mean, it got the crazies, like I'll talk to that
• 53:54
  quarters or I don't know what I think they're on like try days, Like
• 53:59
  I'll call Zach like it'll be like October, like, yeah, kids are
• 54:02
  classes start like it? What do you mean? Yeah, it's different,
• 54:07
  just do it. Didn't realize that, Yeah, Chris and Nashville. About
• 54:09
  eight or nine years ago, I lived in Morgantown. One of my tasks
• 54:14
  at my job was I had to go to the post office downtown in the
• 54:17
  morning, Star City afternoon. Both locations amazing locations, amazing service. Since
• 54:23
  I was there every day. I even remember Roger at Star City, where
• 54:28
  I interacted with at least a couple of times. Nice guy. Glad to
• 54:30
  hear that he's still holding down the fort. By the way, thank you
• 54:34
  for bringing back the West Virginia Connection hat on your website, episode eight hundred.
• 54:37
  It's my new favorite, even though my girlfriend rolls her eyes every time
• 54:42
  I wear it. I don't know why she would do that. I finally
• 54:45
  tracked down this is someone else, this is Grant and Redhouse. Finally tracked
• 54:47
  down a glass of the elusive Kerchievel at Fireside Grill and Tays Valley. Absolutely
• 54:53
  delicious, great taste, not too hoppy hoppy hoppy, keep efforty, Merry
• 54:57
  Christmas. Let's go out here here it is yeah Texter. Hey, three
• 55:04
  guys, thanks for making me laugh so hard that I cried and my stomach
• 55:07
  muscles hurt when you were bantering around about these three long two shorts. Born
• 55:13
  and raised in Clarksburg, have been in Maine, the state of Maine,
• 55:15
  for twenty one years. I try to catch all your shows, share the
• 55:19
  information back home to West Virginia with my brother and a very dear friend from
• 55:22
  childhood. We text each other during all of the games. I grew up
• 55:27
  with my dad listening to Jack Fleming call the games. Keeping up with WVU
• 55:30
  through their sports keeps me attached to all things West Virginia. Now. This
• 55:35
  picture here shows a statue of a crank phone in the town of Maine about
• 55:39
  thirty minutes for me. That's Bryant Pond, Maine. It claims to have
• 55:44
  had the last crank telephones in the country, ending that service in nineteen eighty
• 55:47
  one. So here it is. All the three long and two shorts out
• 55:52
  there. Let's go mountaineers Robin in Maine. It's pretty good. Yes,
• 55:55
  I sent my brother the coffee and the popcorn. He loves it. So
• 56:00
  there you go. That's a big crank phone. There's mad last. They
• 56:02
  were the last ones to use it in nineteen eighty one, he says.
• 56:06
  And there it is. It is the Bryant Pond Telephone Company. And Gil
• 56:13
  Whitman did a great job on that sculpture, tremendous. Well, then he's
• 56:16
  no Jamie Lester texter, longtime listener, first time texter. I think I
• 56:23
  can personally end the hanky tissue debate. Hankies are better for blue collar workers.
• 56:29
  They are more durable, They've got more uses, They're able to withstand
• 56:31
  elements. However, tissues far more practical within an office, classroom, or
• 56:36
  studio setting. They spread less germs. Also, I'd like to congratulate hoppy
• 56:39
  on being the only person to live through the prohibition and ultimately have a beer
• 56:44
  named after him, Rick and Relly Rick. That's good compromise, good mediation
• 56:49
  there. Yeah, so Kritcheval should be over on the tissue side. He'd
• 56:52
  not doing any blue collars. Last show, we talked about picking on each
• 56:57
  other and I said, you know, we picked because we love. This
• 57:02
  is a signed by big coal mining guy in Mullins. Gentlemen, I've worked
• 57:07
  in the coal industry for almost twenty years. The saying around the industry has
• 57:10
  always been leave your feelings at the guard check if you weren't getting messed with.
• 57:15
  In the mining industry, they don't like you. Have you, guys,
• 57:17
  ever heard the things they do to red hats underground? Ha ha ha
• 57:21
  Wow love the show? What do they do? I don't know. Well
• 57:25
  that'll get me ninety two texts one person? Please text Doug in Tampa.
• 57:34
  Great team wins Saturday. Couldn't help but notice the two guys calling the game
• 57:37
  dressed to the nines. Maybe it's time for the three guys tie all kidding
• 57:43
  aside, I did not notice a hoppy hanky. Player of the game has
• 57:49
  to be senator on the analysis elite. Can we have senator every game?
• 57:52
  Thanks Doug and Tampa. So you were there, well, thank you,
• 57:55
  Doug. I was there. I had a good seat for that one.
• 57:59
  Yeah, that had a love fun. Chris down the street from Ted in
• 58:01
  Colorado, so he got two West Virginia guys live down the street from each
• 58:05
  other there in Colorado. Feels so good to get a win, especially at
• 58:08
  home. I think this is the best coach Mountaineer team we've had in ten
• 58:12
  years. I'm one hundred percent serious. When Eilert talks, he talks x
• 58:15
  as and o's, he talks basketball. He lifts his guys up. I
• 58:20
  love the coaching staff. Let's go Mountaineers. Texter, good evening, three
• 58:23
  guys, Jersey Jeff, We met him at the food court. Yeah,
• 58:29
  yes, it was great to hear you guys on the call against DREXL.
• 58:32
  Would be hilarious to hear some three guys like commentary during the game, Tony
• 58:37
  three longs and two shorts. As the Mountaineers come into a two to three
• 58:40
  zone, Johnson swipes the loose ball like an old handkerchief and races up the
• 58:45
  floor like a Lou Wendel marine pontoon boat. Ali up ahead to Jesse Edwards.
• 58:50
  Slam dunk. What a West Virginia connection, Brad, You love what
• 58:54
  we see there? Tony Edward's arms like a fly rod, slim gym from
• 58:59
  Gomar? Does he still off the dunk? West Virginia really efforting to take
• 59:01
  control of the game? Now you go, Jersey, Jeff, here's a
• 59:06
  psychologist, wasn't he? I think that's right? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 59:09
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• 59:42
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• 59:55
  a three guys special, right, now got all kinds of lights and stuf
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  sound system. I've mentioned that awning multiple times. Easy to put up,
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  easy to put down, gives you son if you want it, gives a
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  shade if you need it. Yeah, they've been at it for nearly fifty
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  please do check it out. Lou Wendelmarne Sales dot com, texter Hey,
• 1:00:34
  Tony telephone man, an expert analyst. I'm thirty one. I remember the
• 1:00:38
  very end of rotary phones. Party lines, though, seem like a different
• 1:00:43
  world. We've come a long way from telephone lines literally carrying radio and television
• 1:00:46
  across the country. I bet a few folks put the game on. They
• 1:00:51
  thought they were on Spotify, not on the radio. I turned the audio
• 1:00:54
  on my phone and put the radio feet on. It felt like a Three
• 1:00:57
  Guys show. Here's a screen gearab with intently watching while Spreads is making an
• 1:01:01
  astute point. Yeah, so that wasn't paying attention to you there, Joe
• 1:01:07
  and Charleston. Texter efforting in Disney World with my grandson Beckham's seventh birthday,
• 1:01:14
  and amazing how many people said they listened to the show down there at Disney.
• 1:01:16
  Jeff from Sandyville, So there he is or big probably never surt on,
• 1:01:22
  Yeah, absolutely, thank you, Texter. Mountaineer munch is ordered.
• 1:01:27
  It will likely not make my kids stockings. What they don't know won't hurt
• 1:01:30
  them. Is there a message in the portal defections are from the defensive side
• 1:01:37
  of the ball. That's a good question. Now I would say no,
• 1:01:46
  and I say that because who knows. So when it comes to portal defections,
• 1:01:57
  some kids need to leave because they feel that they won't get playing time
• 1:02:02
  going forward. You've got that. Some kids leave because they don't think they're
• 1:02:09
  getting enough playing time right now, although they feel that they should be.
• 1:02:14
  You got that. Some kids leave because they think they can make significantly more
• 1:02:20
  money going somewhere else. Some kids leave because their girlfriend broke up with them
• 1:02:30
  and they're bummed out. That's not an example that where their girlfriend went to
• 1:02:35
  another school and they want to follow them. You got that. Sometimes that
• 1:02:37
  happens and sometimes who knows, man, So I don't think there's there was
• 1:02:42
  a causation correlation. Hoppy always talks about I'm not sure. I don't think
• 1:02:46
  there's anything there. Jennifer in North Carolina. My now husband's first exposure to
• 1:02:55
  my West Virginia fandom was me screaming at Wilson and my fellow UHS alum Scottie
• 1:03:02
  Jerko in my college apartment during the three Miami game. Thankfully, he married
• 1:03:07
  me anyway, and only after that did I take him home. So after
• 1:03:12
  she gets married, she takes him home for Thanksgiving at my grandmother's huh.
• 1:03:16
  It was then he discovered my fandom was actually a multi generational family trait,
• 1:03:21
  and he was suddenly surrounded by a gaggle of WV fans who not only yelled
• 1:03:25
  at the TV during any DOUBLEV event, but would also expect him to simultaneously
• 1:03:30
  discuss West Virginia's quarterback play with one uncle while being ridiculed by two others for
• 1:03:35
  the lack of gravy on his plate over Thanksgiving dinner. We lost my grandmother
• 1:03:39
  back in twenty twenty, and those large family gatherings are few and far between
• 1:03:44
  now, but listening to you all mix of wvu's sports and the level of
• 1:03:49
  jovial ridicule and harassment that one sorely reserves for those they love takes me back
• 1:03:53
  home to those holiday gatherings. So thank you. This fall, I'm able
• 1:03:59
  to drag my husband and the two boys to the Texas Tech game. We
• 1:04:01
  were at the food court showing down on the tacos. My youngest one goes,
• 1:04:05
  wait, if this is three guys, where's that beer? I pointed
• 1:04:10
  over his shoulder at the kerchievel for sale, and he grinned. Two weeks
• 1:04:14
  later, at a different colleges games with my middle schooler, who went as
• 1:04:17
  the Mothman for Halloween. By the way, they started playing Sweet Caroline over
• 1:04:23
  the loudspeaker. This's a different school. His face lights up and he asks,
• 1:04:27
  can I sing the West Virginia version? Well? They also like spending
• 1:04:30
  time on my family's land in Greenboro County. Hopefully that all means I'm doing
• 1:04:34
  yeah, pretty good at this whole parenting thing, despite neither of them having
• 1:04:40
  ever lived in West Virginia. Thanks for what you guys do to keep WVU
• 1:04:45
  fans near and far connected and formed laughing, and please continue to pick on
• 1:04:48
  each other and go on crazy tangents that take me home. Jennifer in North
• 1:04:56
  Carolina. That's a good one. Thanks Jennifer, appreciate that. Thank you
• 1:04:59
  very much. I covered a lot of ground. Well done. Hey,
• 1:05:01
  three guys. Currently, I know several people that tell me they aren't going
• 1:05:05
  to watch the basketball team this year because they're not very good. These same
• 1:05:11
  people say Nil and the portal are destroying college basketball players are not loyal anymore,
• 1:05:17
  and they should be loyal. Question for you, what's the difference the
• 1:05:21
  players leaving the program because they want more money or these fans leave because they
• 1:05:27
  want more wins. So here's the deal, YOUO. Fans watch, listen,
• 1:05:44
  follow the games for entertainment. That's ultimately what it is. They want
• 1:05:49
  to be entertained by them. And it's really difficult if they don't feel that
• 1:05:58
  they're getting what they want from an experience, whether it's West Virginia or whatever,
• 1:06:02
  it's really difficult to convince them to enjoy it more like, Hey,
• 1:06:08
  enjoy this more like that Oftentimes doesn't work real well. So it's inevitably people
• 1:06:14
  are going to check out because things do change, and they don't like it
• 1:06:17
  as much anymore. And so I don't think I think you you're not going
• 1:06:23
  to win them back. You're not going to win them back. The thing
• 1:06:27
  just changes. I think what's important as far as if you want to go
• 1:06:30
  down this road going forward, it's really important that we at least seed the
• 1:06:39
  younger generation and the younger kids to at least give them a taste so they
• 1:06:43
  can make their own decision. Ultimately, I think you could really get into
• 1:06:45
  trouble down the road if young kids are not introduced to you know, let's
• 1:06:55
  just stay specific to West Virginia. If they're not introduced to it when they're
• 1:06:59
  young and get taste of it and see if they like it, chances are
• 1:07:02
  it never happens. And if you don't do a good job of that going
• 1:07:05
  forward in thirty and forty years from now, you got no fan base.
• 1:07:12
  And I think there are so many different things now days that exist that didn't
• 1:07:15
  exist previous to this, that you could be running a risk. And so
• 1:07:20
  it's incumbent upon schools to really really do a wonderful job to make this something
• 1:07:27
  that they want to at least engage in. It does get harder. Your
• 1:07:31
  attention is split. If you have younger kids, you know this and you
• 1:07:33
  see it firsthand how they just consume differently than we did because of all those
• 1:07:40
  different options. But you know, sports is also cyclical. So when you
• 1:07:44
  think you're down and there's no hope that it's going to turn around, that's
• 1:07:45
  just not the case. Now, does it take longer than you want?
• 1:07:48
  Sometimes, sure it does, but it's all cyclical and it comes back.
• 1:07:50
  And you know, you take a couple of moments this year that Pit game
• 1:07:55
  here, that was one. If you're a younger fan getting introduced to that,
• 1:08:00
  you were around for that twenty four to forty eight hour period before the
• 1:08:02
  game, you got it right and you saw what that was about. If
• 1:08:05
  you were around last year's Pitt Western game, you saw what that was about.
• 1:08:09
  So those moments exist all the time. He's just gonna be on the
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  lookout. Hey, three guys currently, No, it's a different one.
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  Tony and esteem I already read that one. Tony and a steam colleagues,
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  the gambler and the liquor salesman, Dougie fresh from Merle's inlet here want some
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  good news and an often dreary hoops Steeler and Penguin season. As of Friday,
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  December eight, every day the sun sets a little later all the way
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  until June the thirtieth. Tony, don't somehow turn this into a negative.
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  Hope to see y all in Charlotte. Is that true? It's December eight?
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  I thought it was later in December. I always though it was like
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  the longest short day of the year. It was like twenty something. Yeah.
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  I mean, he's a pretty smart guy, not questioning his integrity.
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  I gotta check out. Let's look into that. He probably is on the
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  something. Probably that's true. That's great. Well, you know what I
• 1:08:54
  hanging out on my back deck about eight forty five tonight. You know what
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  that means. You know what he probably means. Maybe the sun is right
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  later. So he's saying the sun sets a little later each day going forward,
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  but maybe it's rising later as well. That's why the days get shorter
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  up until the twentieth, baby, right? Possibly? Okay, John from
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  Oklahoma City. As portal strategy evolves, you guys, do you see guys
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  being allowed to return, and if so, would you set a no later
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  than date for them? Shortene, that'll happen. Somebody will return odds will
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  tell you somebody's return that it's going to be rare. Basically, he's saying,
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  like, Okay, Brad comes to my office, I'm leaving. Coach,
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  you say, okay, fine, you're leaving. You have until January
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  the third to let me know if you're coming back or not. Otherwise you're
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  done. Yeah. I think there's certain ways you can leave and exit and
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  give your intentions why you're looking to transfer that the coaches say, you know
• 1:09:49
  what, Yeah, it's prancing. And then you go to another school and
• 1:09:51
  it doesn't work out. It's probably what he's asking there. Also, you
• 1:09:56
  go to another school, it doesn't work out, you're backing the portal again.
• 1:09:58
  You'd like to return? What happened with somebody? Sure? A dean
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  from Parsons now lives in Fairmont, giving us food suggestions for people going to
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  the game in Charlotte, Wife Baby and I booked a last minute stay in
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  downtown Elkin, North Carolina, way back from a vacation. Lovely area,
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  cool beer garden called the rail Yard. Although it might be chilly in December,
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  several of the shops and restaurants During our stop. We grab some dinner
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  at the Angry Troll Brewing Company could be a pit stop alternative to the Statesville
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  waffle House. PS. Happy birthday to my little mountaineer Camden. He turns
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  one this week, celebrated his first WVU game and win at the Coliseum against
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  Drects. Look at that little dude. Awesome, Tony. He always smiles.
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  When we get to the Camden Park page from your Wonderful Children's book.
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  He oh, yeah, there is. He hold the book. Yeah we
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  could, that's a good picture. Yeah, we could go to Camden Park
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  and ride the Big Dipper. Cutie. They're great at that age. That's
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  before they lose their mind. Run around the house. Uh, Texter greg
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  in two longs in a short Katletsburg. I know it's been a minute since
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  I texted. I'm always listening. I'm chiming in to support Hoppy in the
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  Hanky crusade. I'm a seventeen year third generation railroader. I always carry two
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  of these red and black ones. Their center for snot tears, sweat,
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  or whatever the need may be. Have a blessed day. So once again,
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  do you hear what he said there? He says, I'm a seventeen
• 1:11:38
  year third generation guy in the railroads, and once he got on him,
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  Hankys and the other guy. The other guy justiced. The other guy jumps
• 1:11:45
  all of me and says, I don't know how you're making any analogy between
• 1:11:48
  Hankies and railroad. Well there, I got all these guys, got Uncle
• 1:11:51
  Joe from petticoat Junction. I got this guy here, Greg. I think
• 1:11:57
  an apologies in order. You're making a second half company here on that one?
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  Was that Ted? Ted Ted? Ted? Ted. Ted's one to
• 1:12:05
  jump, yet Ted's always jumping me ever since I said that I wanted bullet
• 1:12:10
  trades Ben in Chicago. I enjoyed listening to you and Brad on the radio
• 1:12:15
  for the Drexel game. It was like a bonus episode. I keep hearing
• 1:12:18
  a level of complaining and disparaging of our men's team by my fellow fans about
• 1:12:23
  our world champions. I think of it this way. When I was a
• 1:12:26
  freshman at West Virginia, we didn't have any true home games. That that
• 1:12:30
  was the boy Asbestos year in this class in two thousand. Watching the basketball
• 1:12:34
  team brings me nothing but joy. They stuck around, they want to be
• 1:12:39
  here. They embody what it means to be a Mountaineer. These young men
• 1:12:41
  deserve our support and I hope they get it from all of our fans.
• 1:12:43
  Ben in Chicago, Texter. With three Big twelves in the Eastern time zone,
• 1:12:49
  is it conceivable that the Big twelve could be tied into an East Coast
• 1:12:55
  bowl on a regular basis in the future, should be in question. We
• 1:12:59
  don't have time to get into it today, but maybe Thursday. I gotta
• 1:13:03
  do some ciphering on this smoke that's coming out about a potential Big twelve ACC
• 1:13:09
  merger. There is some seems that seems like that might be I mean,
• 1:13:15
  don't run with this. Yeah, all I'm saying is it seems like that
• 1:13:20
  is like a a talkable point because of what Charlie Baker, the NCAAHAD NCAA
• 1:13:28
  head, came out with last week regarding this new tier, Like maybe you
• 1:13:32
  do have some other new affiliations down the road. Okay, Now, don't
• 1:13:39
  get on Bobby's message board and say three guys says that the ACC is merging
• 1:13:45
  with the Big twelve. Let's just talk about does that make sense going forward
• 1:13:49
  with the new formation of these superpower conferences. There's a lot of things,
• 1:13:55
  yes, but there's a lot of hurdles there. There. It's a summer
• 1:13:58
  topic we could go for weeks. Uh Dear three guys giving the folksy circa
• 1:14:03
  nineteen sixties homespun direction of your pod. You guys should consider changing the name
• 1:14:10
  to three guys playing checkers or something similar that more closely reflects the new format.
• 1:14:15
  Maybe you could go with three guys sitting on the porch drinking RCI colas
• 1:14:18
  and eating moon pies. Just think of the sponsorship potential for that one.
• 1:14:24
  Tony, you could ride that baby all the way to episode sixteen hundred.
• 1:14:30
  Listening to your pod these days sort of like watching an episode of Andy Griffith,
• 1:14:33
  only it's hoppy as Andy Brad is Barney and Tony is Gomer Pile Shazam
• 1:14:41
  signed by Ozzie and Osage. Let me tell you some Ozzy. There's so
• 1:14:45
  few people that live in Osage. We know. If there's an Ozzie that's
• 1:14:48
  living there, I think that's made up. Take a look at this graphic
• 1:14:54
  for those of you watching after my funeral, I want one of my friends
• 1:14:59
  to take my cellf phone and then text everyone thanks for coming. That would
• 1:15:06
  be great, wouldn't it. I haven't heard anyone doing that I haven't heard
• 1:15:12
  of. That would be a great one massive group text. Good to see
• 1:15:16
  you, Texter. While doing some Christmas shopping, I found these nicely displayed
• 1:15:25
  with a thick layer of dust on them at a clothing store similar to Daniels.
• 1:15:30
  Also, according to Wikipedia, from the late eighteenth century, white hankies
• 1:15:33
  were waved generally by women. Men usually waved their hats to demonstrate approval of
• 1:15:39
  public events. Perhaps that would be a more appropriate use of the future.
• 1:15:43
  Three guys hanky love the show Merry Christmas. That's a three guys g I
• 1:15:46
  doc. There you go, Phil sell those phil cell hankies. He could
• 1:15:54
  probably get them, wudn't. He's got people globally that he's taking. We
• 1:15:57
  have a really veteran buyer that's been working on that, efforting, efforting.
• 1:16:02
  Now this guy is buying this, that's trying to find these hankies. As
• 1:16:05
  a buyer of clothing, he knows his way around the industry. He does.
• 1:16:09
  By the way, one quick shout out meant a nice listener in his
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  crew. On Saturday, Evil Yeah, we had a wonderful dinner, wonderful
• 1:16:16
  postgame meal. It was really good. How would Sean say that I had
• 1:16:19
  a wonderful Sean would say, went to the basketball game Saturday, had a
• 1:16:27
  postgame meal the wine bar, wonderful place, cozy table one A food was
• 1:16:32
  stupid good. I mean stupid good. You've said that like nineteen times.
• 1:16:39
  We told Duke and Abbey the owners there, that's that's rare air that you
• 1:16:43
  were companying that much. Those hot stuff peppers, oh craz it all just
• 1:16:47
  kinds of cheese on top. You know, I'm glad you're giving me the
• 1:16:50
  respect I deserve for giving a compliment about food. You always attack me about
• 1:16:55
  me criticizing food and service, so rarely do it when we were over the
• 1:17:00
  top about this. But I'm fair. When something's good, I'll sing it
• 1:17:03
  and bark it super loud. If something sucks, i'm gonna say that sucks.
• 1:17:09
  Now going there, it sucks. He had a nice little uh hot
• 1:17:12
  chocolate but not cocoa powder, melted chocolate, real melt. Try to do
• 1:17:16
  a drink. Yeah, the whipped cream on top and little teeny little spoon
• 1:17:20
  you put had a tweet out there with did you put you took pictures?
• 1:17:23
  I put four out there. It's very good. Yeah. Anyway, while
• 1:17:26
  we were there. Nice listener came over to the table, Greg who's and
• 1:17:30
  his uh, his table had a big table, a posse over. He
• 1:17:31
  did have a posse. He was very nice. Came over and he and
• 1:17:34
  the white folk, yes both listen. Yeah, so thank you to that.
• 1:17:36
  Yeah, it's good to see those folks. We certainly certainly do appreciate
• 1:17:40
  that. All right, man, we're back on Thursday. Kirchin Bomb's not
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  here, he's on like gone, and he didn't go to Africa again,
• 1:17:47
  did he? NYF? Don't know? Who knows what? Will just be
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  us. We'll be previewing West Virginia and U mass back to our old Atlantic
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