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From Sebring to College Basketball We Got You Covered! · Sports Exchange

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Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the second half of our doubleheader to night
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great first sat there in wolver City, man Mouth Show featuring LA sportscaster Fred
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Wallan. Now here we are what the sports have changed? Please be joined
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by George Iicorn. George, welcome back. Hi, good to be on.
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Scott Welcome, I mean hi welcome. Yeah, yeah, welcome back
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to my own show. Good stuff. All right, my corn, are
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you drinking the Mountain dew? Are you drinking the kool aid or what?
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I don't know. It's just regular water. Well I thought he was drinking
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burners. Okay, that's all right, And we have Jacob Chrisner on.
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Welcome back, Jacob, it's water, all right, it's the Jim jn't
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special. Yeah, I'm sure. There you go, yeah and laugh,
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but not lease a man who definitely needs a new pair of sneakers after his
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running with the Big East Tournament. Joelli, So where are you at?
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You in Chicago, New York? Right now? I'm in Chicago finally,
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Okay. Man back to the Wendy City all right, Well yeah, and
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I'm back here in Broward County. I wasn't there before, so you know
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what Joe. One thing I enjoyed about last week's show. We brought John
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had that remote out there in Madison Square Garden, and you actually look like
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a really legitimate remote reporter out there, which is why I had to extend
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you a fifteen minutes. You actually look the part of a broadcaster on site.
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I'm dying. That was pretty good. You might want to save that
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up if you ever get a big time job and use that as your segment,
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because you know what, never knowing those opportunities, you actually look pretty
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good there. So thank you. Well what that said. We're going to
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talk about jb Elis's experience covering the Big East Tournament, the Connecticut winning it
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all, and then you have another storyline that proceeded afterward, Rick Patino declining,
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and I bet so Joe, summarize the entire experience of what it was
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like for you to cover a tournament of that nature. We know the Big
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East Tournament certainly has an incredible history. We know Manison Square Garden is the
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ultimate backdrop for it. So the floor as yours for the next five ten
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minutes. Whatever you need to tell me your story about last week. So
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it was actually an amazing experience. I mean, obviously, the Big East
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is one of the top conferences in college basketball, if not the best,
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one of the top three in my opinion. The coaches of the conference or
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top notch Rick Patito, a legend, Kim English who was in his first
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year, really young, great young coach. You know, it goes on
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and on with you know, all the coaches there that are did a phenomenal
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job. Uh Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley who was coach of the Year from
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the Yukon Huskies of the Big East, who has the team as the overall
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number one seed of the Big Tournament. Now, you know, he did
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a great job. It was great seeing how dominant Connecticut is because you know,
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watching him on TV compared to seeing him live in person, it's a
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much different game. It's a lot quicker than you thought. They have a
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great inside game, they have some good guards that could shoot the ball.
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They're gonna be a tough team for anybody to beat throughout the tournament. I
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think that they're gonna go all the way. You know, and seeing the
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other top teams in the Big East, it showed me that the Biggest should
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have had six teams in the tournament, all the way down from to Saint
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John's, Seaton to Hold Providence, all who didn't make it. I was
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quite shocked at you know, to see that. I at least I thought
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Providence should have made it after winning two games in the tournament. I would
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have loved to have seen Say John's make it. They played Yukon Tough,
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lost by five, and they won the night before against Seaton Hole. And
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Seaton Hole also was a you know, a great team. Yes, Candy,
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I agree, Shaka Smart, great coach. Marquette is a really good
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team. You know what, It shocked me if you got two or three
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Big East teams in the final four, because the three teams that made it
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a role really good teams. They all can dominate a game. And Markette
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is definitely up there. I can see Shaka Smart getting that team to the
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final four. He's a great coach. Loved his answers to my questions,
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you know, listening to him to speak, you know, he definitely knows
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the game. He's more analytical than I had thought. Probably one of the
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most interesting coaches that I got a chance to speak with. Kim English of
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Providence, I thought was phenomenal. I think that team is going to turn
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it around to be really good for years to come with him as the coach.
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I want to see how he does with recruiting now that he's there in
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his second year. You know, SAYT John's did turn down the n I
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T. I was on the Zoom call with Rick Patito that Sunday night,
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and he just did a feel it was the right move because he's losing eight
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guys on the team. He needs to retool for next year to have the
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team just go play. Then I wasn't going to help him. Do I
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agree with it? I don't know if I agree with it. I would
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have liked to have them play the games and with the n IT, but
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that's me. I don't get to make those decisions. But I definitely understand
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it. And you saw a couple of the teams that went to the n
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I T already lost. I believe Seat and Hall lost if I'm correct.
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I was looking at the scores earlier. You know. Then, of course,
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the Big East did extend the agreement with m SG for another four years.
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We got to hear from Commission of val Ackerman, you know about the
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four year extension, which I thought was interesting. You know their arrangement with
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the Garden, so we know that the Big Eastart will be there for at
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least year fifty, which is twenty thirty two. That's the longest tournament in
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any continuous location. You know, I thought it was just overall top notch
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experience. I think the Big East did a great job from start to finish,
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and started with a press conference with the award ceremony on Wednesday afternoon,
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you know, dead after that there was a ton of great games. I
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thought everything was enjoyable to watch. Right ended the chat room, we talk
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about Shata and Marchette. And here's a guy Joe you're going to be hearing
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a lot more of. His name is Blake Lowzinski. I've been on a
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poll with him a few times. This week, I'm bringing in some new
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blood here to try to press things up on a network. Blake Joshua Burstein
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are a couple of guys that you're going to be hearing a lot more about
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over the next several weeks. So these guys are going to breed some energy
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here and you know, so get ready to watch those. And as these
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guys pop in you know, the chat room, I'll acknowledge him Jesse Stabbers
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another guy. So when you start seeing names Joe, George, and Jacob,
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you're gonna realize that this is the future of what we have going on
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here. So how you doing, Blake, great to have you on,
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and was let you know that this is a big time and this is our
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obviously our biggest show on the network, the Sports Exchange, so you know,
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and what we have here is all right. So he's saying that Josh
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is the best broadcaster coming up, Joshua bursty. And by the way,
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Joe, what's good about him is I met him through the Coral Springs Chamber
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of Commerce. And you never know when you're gonna meet sports fans there,
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can't he put up a score seating hole seventy five, Saint Joe's seventy two
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and overtime there here you go. So we're gonna get that chat rolling room
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rolling there. So and of course George, you got a fan out there,
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Blake los Ensky, there you go. Thanks lobbing for you guys to
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come on fire up just so you know. So Joe Ellis, you have
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to get used to the fact that we're gonna have a much more livelier chat.
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So if I throw you guys off there, dame a little. I
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apologize for nothing, and these guys wouldn't let me apologize if they want,
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because I gotta deal with my FaceTime all the time. So you talked about
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your experience over at Manison Square Garden. Let me go into mine, okay,
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because the first two segments here are based on what you went through and
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what I went through. Well, last week gets everybody knows by now I
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covered the twelve hours of Seabring, and then the year before I covered the
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Rolex twenty four. Well, I'm gonna tell you that twelve hours of Sea
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Ring was a piece of cake compared to what I ended up dealing with before,
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that's for sure. So here's what it transpired. I ended up getting
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a driver on Friday. It was in the main panic area and so that
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was day one, Day number two okay. The auxiliary press area was at
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the hotel at the racetrack. So, guys, this is good to up
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here and lessons from the microphone part two. Ready, So get ready goes
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here we go. My first story, obviously, I talked about a driver.
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The second one I had was a Cuban reporter that came to the United
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States when he was really young and ended up becoming a journalist and now he's
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a racing researcher. This guy, he really is, So that will be
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something that ends up getting released before long. Another one I did was on
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an endurance photographer. This person has worked the twelve hours, the twenty four
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hour rais you name it. And you want to talk about a guy who's
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pretty lightweight, Well, yeah, you're sweating all that like you are.
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And it's another thing, but just a giving overview of the event. How
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much INSA racing has grown. There were three hundred and twenty five media covering
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this event three twenty five, and it used to be at around two hundred
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is what there were. Wow, but it gets Yeah, I'm telling you,
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and this is a much smaller arrangement that what you have up in Daytona.
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Let me tell you. And you want to talk about a signal.
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I couldn't get a signal out there, Joe wanting. They want to bring
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it down here and you're going to experience this first hand, you really are.
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You know we're gonna broad your horizons and for sure, but here's the
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kicker. Okay, I knew knowing the hotel like I do. Okay,
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we were going to have a hard time finding a place to do these interviews.
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So there's this lady out here who actually is an automotive painter, and
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I asked her, I'll tell you what. I'll make a deal with you.
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If you let me go ahead and borrow your art gallery for about an
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hour, I'll bring you on the broadcast. And she said, well,
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can I at least be able to get the launch drop from Paduan? Absolutely,
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you can do that. I'll be more prepared for these interviews at one
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o'clock. Anyways, So you know, I had this beautiful woman do she
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shut down her art gallery for one hour, okay, during the busiest race
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of the year at that place. And you know what, she turned away
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one customer in the back, and then she had a sign on the door.
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I said, I told this woman, when are you gonna eat lunch?
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I don't know. Well, you're gonna eat it between okay, one
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and two o'clock and when we're doing these dinner, so I can do that.
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So then I bring her back in here, and we've already got the
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first two in our pocket. I said, all right, le I don't
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want to mention names because I don't want to give it all away right now,
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I say, all right, you're up next. She's looking at me.
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Now, I told you, I promise you. But here's what we're
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gonna do with your interview. I haven't had time to prepare for your interview.
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See what we're gonna do. I'm gonna ask you to talk about your
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business first, okay, and then I'm gonna trill you and rapid fire fire
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up questions. You know how long that interview went? Thirteen and a half
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minutes, wrap my fire rack fire. Yeah, that's the day. We
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don't do kicking in, by the way, So what that said? You
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know, well, the moral story, the moral story is, man,
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you gotta think on your feet. This I've been trying to teach out forever.
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Okay. You know you're never gonna compete with the cars out there,
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So find yourself on out gallery room in the hotel. Keep it quiet so
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you can go out there and get your job done. And you know what,
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all these interviews are can be released in that week or so. Joe,
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you know, what do you think of that as resourcefulness? That sounds
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like it was a great, great time. Yeah, no questions. I
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think you got I was looking for out of upel Is, you got it
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politically wrong. Okay, you know what the answer was. I knew you
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had a lot of your bag of tricks, smoter mouth. That's what I
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know. It's like, yes, it's that's why I thact that you will.
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Okay, bag of tricks? How makes it? How many do you
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think? How many do you questions? You think got those thirteen half minutes?
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You know what, that's a great question. Answering me about the question,
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I would say at least twelve to twenty wow, wow, yeah,
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yeah. I mean I let this woman talk for about two and a half
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minutes off boom. I kept firing them. You know that's it's a cat.
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But you know we'll release it out there. So all right, let's
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go into the chat room. I told Ellis that this is a different animal
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here. They're coming from faithbook, they're coming from YouTube. See Christopher,
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there might be hope for punning fun and after all, with this energy coming
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in here, man, not that they get pun and funny, but we
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need to make sure everybody can tune into all the projects that we'll work on.
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Bunks off to do it. So let's go to the let's go Where
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were we at? All right, we're at Joshua welcoming Jake b Allos bacci
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all she got to fans out here, brother, this guy for the tamer
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okay where he was okay, and now we got hey Blake lose itsky okay.
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And then of course Darcha. I don't know what that means. A
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let's legendary Scott. Thank you, Josh, I appreciate you, buddy,
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and let's keep going out there. Don't mess with who now, oh well,
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he's our fearless leader. Don't know a right glove here, mess with
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Candy. So okay, now you're being gone ahead and put on the spot.
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Ellis okay, jb. If you read Scott's book, yeah boy,
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you must know little stuff about it. Else, man, what everybody read
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that book? You know? I'm not fussing your chop, my agent,
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John, if you're ready, what fuck? There's a book, yeah yeah,
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education one on one for you, all right, Blake Wozinski sixty nine,
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car I said, I keep it going. Oh yes, the professor
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of the peoples out there. All right, So these guys are waiting to
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see what we're going to bring that bad boy on book and Ralph Williams is
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out there as well, all right, our lovable Ralph. Hello guys out
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there, and we're just getting a I picked up with my story, So
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I got to tell you it was a lot of fun with that woman.
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She was a real sweetheart. We were able to use get art gallery and
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get the necessary interviews we had to get done. Then, you know,
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the tale of the whole event. Actually, when you think about it,
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is this, Okay, one day I spent over on the main part of
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the track right by paddock where I could get whatever I need. I know
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exactly how they do a lot of the interviews going forward. And then of
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course I knew that when I was on the other side of the track,
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I was going to look for different angles and a new segment that will be
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coming up and the next week or so, because I'm going to take references
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out of the book and try to associate them with examples, because I want
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this not only to be an enlightening sports show, but an opportunity to educate
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the audience about what it takes for us to do what we end up doing.
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So with that said, you know so, but no, Seabring was
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a lot of fun, you know, the first two times I went there,
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followers seemed like a lot. But when you go to the rollers twenty
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four and you've been through them or race thing there while I was a walk
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in the park, jab the bull, bust, I look at this stuff.
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But look, I'm trying to els you enjoying all these comments or not
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something you're used to? Are they see what I've been doing while you've been
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What are you talking about the rabbit? He's trying to get Harvey in here?
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Is he talking about the rabbit? Now? Harvey is jacuad So so
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Blake's asking me, am I going to any Formula one races this year?
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No? Not really? My life is all a Formula one race anyways,
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So now answer your question. No, I enjoyed Formula one though. But
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INSI racing is really important too, because these are some of the most skilled
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drivers out there. You talk about predominantly racing on road courses, but when
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you talk about INSI racing in general, Okay, you're talking about manufacturers.
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What you're talking about, and all these cars that the manufacturers, these are
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the cars that you end up going in all the time. You know,
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whether it's Mercedes. You talking about money, this some raising circuit has a
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ton of it now, Chris Ler, just to give you a little heads
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up. If I schedule laws and there's no football in the way, there
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is a distinct possibility. Again, it depends on the schedule. I would
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take you to Road America out in Atlantah. Yeah, I've already. I've
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been. Now they've been asking me what am I going to come out there
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and what I'm going to do. Though, Well, Jacob is making easier
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on you than I would elis Okay. All I'm gonna do is Jacob was
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making him carry the briefcases instead. And and he'll get in the airful every
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time I need him to do something. So he's easy to carry the briefcase
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and carry the clipboard. And boy, I'll tell you what, he better
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have your plugs and he'll because I guarantee you he'll go ahead and gallic flower
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ears that I get through it. He'll be thinking Christmas of Jesus Christ,
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Oh God, how do I get trouble with religion? Here? Bring him
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on? Bring Ryan Hoffman on. Yeah, there you got Ryan Huffman come
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to the show. He got some unbelieving I'm going to go to try to
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go to the Austin. Go ahead, Blake, you're out in Texas.
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I'm sure that'll be a fun race for you. And I said, what
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do we got here? Aren't you enjoying these comments? Ellis? This is
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what you, Blake. You need a head. There you go, Blake,
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I can tell you the kind of handtime see on these actual calls that
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we go on called FaceTime. So yeah, all in. Although I think
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when you compare and contrast JV's weekend in mind, you know they both meant
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a lot. I mean, think this guy covering the Big East Tournament,
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these writing stories facs, so then automobiles could produce tars okay, And I'm
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out there, you know, spending a lot of time trying to hunt down
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ideas. And I think that's important because there are totally two different levels.
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But the one thing I could say and Joe was finding out and Jacob will
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that the more versatile in this business that you are, that you cover multiple
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sports, the more valuable you are to your platform or any potential platform.
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A lot of my mentors over the years have gone out there and done that.
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So with that said, there you go, look at that, Look
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at this. All these letters are the older city like at this. See,
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I can't even get created like this in the CHATROOMA let's see, he's
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got to over said, all right, look at this stuff. All right,
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anyway, let me get out of that. I can't see it.
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All right. So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go around the
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horn. We'll Connecticut George repeat as the NCAA champs and everyone can make predictions.
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Well yeah, matter of fact, matter of fact they will. I've
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got them beating Florida Atlantic a one versus eight. Well, first I got
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them beaten Stenson Stetson, and then I got them beaten uh Florida Atlantic,
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and uh, then they're gonna beat Auburn. So yeah, I got them
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going to the championship game where they will play Creighton. I know not many
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people have pulled for Creighton. Most people are going with Marquette. But I'm
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going with Creighton and ken Yukon will do back to back championships. So I
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know, I'm impressed by the I mean pretty much what JB said. I
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mean, they're just an incredible team, well coached, well disciplined. That
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crazy technical files on those two coaches in that tournament, JB. That was
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a weird situation. That was a weird situation, wasn't weird? Oh yeah,
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I mean you know he was talking about some fan or somebody that came
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out of the court and they go and slap the coach with the file.
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I mean, with the t that was weird. I mean, you saw
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a great tournament though, you really did, And you're absolutely right, Joe.
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There's so many good teams and and those teams that were left out of
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the tournament from the Big East that's incredible. And uh, it just goes
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to show you that even though the tournament as big as it is, it's
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still misses the mark in many people's minds because of how many teams cannot make
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it. And we saw that vividly, like you said, with the Big
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East teams and Oklahoma was left out. There are a bunch of teams that
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are mad about it. But no, Scott, I think I'm gonna go
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with Yukon. Is gonna be a great tournament. Michigan's represented by two teams.
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Of course, michign stay in Oakland University, but I don't see them
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going very far either one of those two teams. But looking forward to it,
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I think it's going to be great and and again you know they're in
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a hot seat. They're in the hot seat, man Yukon. But I
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have a feeling they can still do it. Blake's comments and South Florida Tribute
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will be bigger than Dual Sports one day. What do you think, Well,
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hold on, what do you think, like Barstool? I don't know.
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I thought Blake actually brought this up on our phone call today. He
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really did, so I say, well, so, I don't know.
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You know, again, I focused on what we we get that day that
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I'm not going to complain about that. What do you think? Yeah,
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what do you think, Jabie Barstools? Yesterday? South Florida Tributed Satellite Sports
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are already better. It's just about a risk bigger. That was the right
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answer. Yeah, No, I might tell you not bragging or nothing,
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but I'm going to tell you Sideline Sports and Softwork Tribune worked really diligently hard
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to try to make sure that we produce not only con the best content,
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but we try to be very different. And I want to point out something
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that they brought up earlier, and I'm going to mention it now for those
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of you that did not watch last night's edition of Inside the Pitchkin. That's
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a musk watch because we brought on Billy Reagan's junior and this guy here got
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to meet mel Fard junior and coach John Bonamego, And let me just summarize
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what that was like. These guys know a lot of people and and they
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Tribune YouTube channel. If you haven't described, perscribe subscribe yet. So so
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all right, Jacob, you know our school, You think we're bigger,
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better down the world. We see we don't have Jersey Jerry, and we
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don't and you know, the miniature Turtle, and we don't have Frank the
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Tank. We have intelligent people, so we're gonna be bigger than they are,
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that's no question. And just to let you know about the whole thing
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with Oakland, I wanted to be one of those guys that picked the craziest
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story as far as winning my bracket. So I put Oakland as the champion
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just to do it. I put it just to do it. And it's
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like and somehow the miracle happened. I'll I'll be the only one I ever
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did it. So yeah, you know the craziest part about guys like you,
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Christner, if for some reason or another, did you been any money
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on it? At least no, I just had a bracket. You sick
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and man. I can only imagine a return on investment with me if they
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win it all. But at Greg Campy, so you predicted Oakland, Joe
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who you give me your prediction? I like you you cad as Deep they
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have a great team is unbelievable in this he had a double double the first
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half of the championship game. Caravans and other good player Newton, Spencer Castle,
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They're all NBA talent, So I mean, you know, I can't
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see anybody beating them. There's nobody I saw thought that was that impressive real
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quick. On the Big East, Rick Potito made a somebody made a great
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point on what Rick Potito's tweets why the Big East may have only gotten three
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teams. Big East, their TV contracts with Fox CBS, is the one
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that has the tournament. So if you notice some of the other leagues that
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have teams that are maybe shouldn't have been there, that got at large bid.
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They were CBS leagues where you know, the Big East, which is
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a Fox league, only got the three teams. Something to think about.
24:48
Yeah, I never done on me, but you know what, there's probably
24:51
more of this TV thing that meets eye. John. I'm glad you brought
24:53
that up for Josh and all you guys are in the chat room think about
24:56
it and if you want to comment on that as well. So let me
25:00
give you two teams that I would watch out for. Calvin Sampson's due to
25:04
win one. He's been in college basketball a long time, so I think
25:10
Houston would be an interesting choice. And the other one that I would actually
25:14
look at might be North Carolina because again, when you come out of the
25:18
Atlantic Coast Conference, you definitely feel like you've been playing tournament basketball all year.
25:22
So I would go with North Carolina or Houston. I realized I'm going
25:26
with obvious number one seeds, but I don't know. For some reason,
25:30
I think Houston is due. We're not talking five slamon jama but Calvin Sampson
25:34
I think might finally get it right this time. And I know Denzel Snipe
25:37
will be doing cartwheels. You know, that would happen is ucfn U c
25:45
FNN. You know, something like, don't make me say this to you.
25:48
Youf got knocked out by my alma mater in the n T. So
25:52
yeah, buddy, the war and I bore didn't work out well for you
25:56
this particular time, all right. So now, JB, you alluded to
26:00
this a little bit earlier. Now I want to go ahead and bring it
26:04
up a little bit more. FAU could base Yukon in the second round.
26:08
A lot of people thought they should have based them in the finals last year
26:11
if there wasn't for an unfortunate situation with Sandy Ago stayed. But now,
26:18
obviously I do believe that they should beat Northwestern. And by the way,
26:22
Northwestern is coached by former NBA coach and player Doug Collen's son Chris Collins.
26:29
So what do you guys think about FAU and Northwestern. We'll start with you,
26:33
George. I'm going with FAU. Scott. I mean, like you
26:37
said, they've had a very good year, and I think there again a
26:41
team that's very talented. And I mean Northwestern, you know, they've never
26:48
really been any kind of basketball powerhouse, not in my time at least.
26:53
I mean, you know they had a couple of good years, as we
26:56
all know in football, more than a couple of good years. But Christner
27:00
might know more about that because that's his Chicago area where he loves to talk
27:03
about. But I'm gonna go with Fau Scott. I'm gonna have them beating
27:07
Northwestern. I did have that down in my bracket and we'll see from there.
27:11
But yeah, they've had a great year, Fau. All right,
27:15
So let me ask the second part of that question. Okay, do you
27:18
think they have a puncher's chance to upset Yukon? No, I don't,
27:23
unfortunately. I mean, I'm gonna stick with my predictions and then that's where
27:27
I have them being eliminated. But again, you know, these tournaments,
27:33
these teams are so close, so many of them. You know, these
27:37
seeds are so hypothetical. You know, they're so hard to predict what's going
27:42
to happen. You know, I mean, anybody can win, as the
27:45
old saying, obviously in any game, any sport. But I think,
27:48
especially in this tournament, you got some upper teams. You're right, you
27:52
got Yukon, you got Houston, you got Marquette, you got some really
27:55
good upper f or echelon teams, but you also got some teams that can
28:00
really pull up sets. No, go ahead, George finished, I was
28:03
just gonna say, I'm gonna still say Yukon would defeat them. And we
28:07
all know that Dusty may is a hot coaching candidate. We're gonna get to
28:11
that just in the moment, but obviously you're gonna hear a lot about his
28:15
name throughout the tournament. Let's go back to the chat room. Okay,
28:18
Okay, Blake Lozinski, I got f A U F. They you for
28:21
sure because I'm putting a thousand dollars on guy, and they put the money
28:25
away in the mouth of this you, Joshua, I can see why you're
28:27
in our neck of the woods. And of course, Joshua Dusty register may
28:32
Ah. Joshua's into the nickname thing, just like I have to go out
28:36
there and say Joshua Door Bernstein for a lot of us people in Detroit.
28:40
There used to be a furniture store called Joshua Door, which is probably probably
28:45
got the thing when I when he was in my chamber group. Anyway,
28:48
so all right, we're gonna go to Jacob on the same question. All
28:52
right, Jacob first, and foremost is that FAU beating Northwestern. Yeah,
28:56
I do believe that, and be careful with yu Kon. Mind you,
29:00
they might lose the stets and benefit gets enough alcohol anyway, So I mean,
29:03
you gotta get this thing. But but no Fau. Okay, I'll
29:08
give you the second half the question. Do you think they have a puncher's
29:11
chance to beat Yeah, anybody has a puncher's chance. But boy, as
29:15
JB said, Yukon's got a lot of inside game. It's they literally are
29:19
gonna have to force them to shoot there and just get it and hope and
29:25
everybody's got a puncher's chance. Everyone except for Jake Paul. Okay, Joe,
29:33
They're gonna beat Northwestern. That I that. I have no issue with
29:37
Yukon. They have to play their best game. They can possibly play any
29:41
team's beatable, especially in the tournament. But in order to beat Yukon,
29:45
you have to play your a number one game and hope that Yukon plays it's
29:51
C game. Then you have a shot. So I mean, you can
29:53
play your best, that doesn't mean you're gonna win, you know, I
29:56
think Saint John's they didn't play their best game. They lost by five Marquette
30:02
I think played its best game for about thirty minutes and all of a sudden
30:06
it fell apart and they lost by sixteen. You know, and it was
30:08
a close game with eleven minutes to go. So you know, and Marquette's
30:14
a really good team, you know, you kinda is just on that next
30:18
level. Yeah, Well, Troy Gary Kole goes Back's supposed to be back.
30:25
He's supposed to be back for the tournament. The coach confirmed he supposed
30:29
to be playing, So we'll see if that changed first round or past first
30:33
round. He's supposed to be played this weekend. Good hearing from Detroy.
30:37
All right, let me give you my perspective on it. Maybe I might
30:40
have a bit of a different perspective because I'm closer to the Owls and you
30:42
guys are number one. This is a very, very experienced team. They've
30:47
been on a mission all year because they felt like they came up a little
30:49
bit short. The one thing that FAU has that most teams don't is they
30:55
have aactically have all their players coming back from that Final fourteen experience. Does
31:00
it really does? Now? And again, I'll give you something that Penny
31:06
Hardaway told me when I was covering the Memphis game about gladdest Slam Golden,
31:11
Okay, and that's this. This guy here is somebody that you fear,
31:15
you wait, guards the rim, shoots well from the outside, and is
31:19
able to score in the bank. John L. Davis was co AAC Player
31:25
of the Year, a guy that you could be seeing the pros and I
31:27
think you can see Golden as well. So when you talk about the experience
31:33
that FAU has and a school like FAU, to me, you know,
31:38
the way you approach it is you can play for years here where a lot
31:42
of times you know you can. If your coach conventions you to play four
31:47
years here, you're going to be much more pro ready than you would anywhere
31:49
else. Is your team, you be better at your game. And when
31:53
you see all these guys that one or two years of experience and then they'll
31:56
make it, well, these guys are a lot more seasons. So well,
32:00
you know, I know I do believe that they'll be Northwestern. But
32:04
I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'll be the bold one here.
32:07
I guess I'm subjective for saying this. I will predict that FAU will
32:10
be Connecticut. I will and I'll tell you why, because of the experienced
32:15
factor and Dusty May. This guy's a heck of a coach. He really
32:20
is. He's created a press conferences. I asked him a week ago.
32:24
You know, I asked them the same question two weeks in a row before
32:29
they ended up beating North Texas and then Memphis in the same week. You
32:32
feel like your team is ready for de Termine? Now, well, you
32:37
know we're ready, but I need to know more so then you know what
32:40
I do. A week later, they beat Memphis. I ate, okay,
32:45
And here's the thing. Now, I asked them, saying what you
32:49
feel you yeah, I feel much better now than I did a week ago.
32:51
I'll give himself a much better chance. And you know it didn't whether
32:54
they lost to the Temple Owls me in the Semipon, they really did matter.
33:00
I mean because a few people realized that the Florida Atlantic University Els ended
33:04
up beating the Arizona Wildcats during the regular season, and they also had one
33:08
of the toughest strengths of schedules, which is how they got in. And
33:12
my alma man, University of South Florida didn't get in because they had to
33:15
win their way in the tournament, and UA B subsequently got in, but
33:20
Fau had already proven it prison me, And it doesn't hurt when you're on
33:22
national TV on CBS and you beat Memphis and you look good doing it.
33:28
And athletic doctor Bryan White told me before the game that to me, okay,
33:34
the biggest game ever on this campus. So now I think I'm gonna
33:37
predict that they you call it the Homer, And I'll tell you what.
33:40
Will we revisit this conversation next week. I'll either right or wrong and went
33:47
wrong because at least I want the other way. But I understand where you
33:51
guys are coming from. I don't give a puncher chance. I give a
33:53
real good chance. All right, back Detroit, Gary, having seen Northwestern
33:57
close there, this player boom boy ye is really all they got. Okay,
34:01
good to know, Joshua Burnsty back then that is final. Scott Au
34:07
Dusty Register may again the king of the nicknames. Don't worry else you'll get
34:12
one. So if this one, this guy hangs around, okay, they'll
34:15
win. All right, Now, we got a nickname here for let's go
34:17
to the nickname for Christener. All right, we have it on there.
34:23
I gotta see it. I gotta see it. I need to see that.
34:25
I don't know whether that'll sweet, that might be. Yeah, and
34:34
all right, Joshua, I appreciate who's got a cyberdrug. I'll tell you
34:37
that, Michael. You should see him on these bay sign balls. You
34:40
won't be wrong, my frind, Joshua, I hope I'm not wrong.
34:44
And you know I've been eating crow but in the past for stupid stuff.
34:47
But I will see if you definitely got a pretty interesting job. But if
34:52
there's any team capable of doing good things in this tournaments with them, let's
34:57
stay out of the dusty mate thing for a minute. Okay. Would he
35:00
be the ideal choice to replace Juwan Howard? George Eiorn, you're there.
35:05
Yeah, Yeah, he's got to be at the top of their list and
35:08
one of several. But yeah, the speculation is that they got to go
35:15
outside their comfort zone U of M. The Wolverines are going to have to
35:19
definitely do a nationwide search and things just things just folded like a deck of
35:24
cards for Juwan Howard at Michigan. Obviously he did some great things for the
35:30
program right at the beginning, but for the last couple of years have been
35:34
really downers, and unfortunately his very serious health concern with his heart having to
35:40
have surgery complicated matters. But and I know he wanted to stay. He
35:46
said the night before he was fired that I want to stay here. I
35:52
want to remain the coach. Well, Ward Manuel, the athletic director and
35:55
the powers that be at U of M had different plans. But yes,
36:00
Scott, I think he's got to be on the short list. He's a
36:02
great coach, and he's done a great job. And Dusty would bring a
36:06
lot of experience and a lot of well, he's got to bring a lot
36:09
of recruiting because it's a tough job out there. We all know that.
36:14
We all know that with transfer portals and nils and all this stuff, that
36:17
it takes a special guy to really want to be head coach in college football,
36:22
as was men's basketball, ladies basketball, whatever. But yeah, it's
36:28
going to be interesting to see. I would like to see them, obviously
36:30
bring them on board, but there's a lot of other teams probably around the
36:34
nation that feel the same way. Maybe okay, all right, go ahead,
36:38
Joe, Oh well we changed for us. Dusty may would be a
36:45
great choice. For Michigan. There's probably a lot of guys out there that
36:52
would be a great choice that are really good coaches. You know, I
36:54
think what he's doing right now is special. You know. It's when you
37:00
could do something like that with a team that's not at a power conference or
37:04
that's not Duke sh John's you know, North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas,
37:12
that's special, you know, And if you can continue to do it,
37:16
it says what a great coach you are. When you do it in a
37:20
bigger program, yeah, it's a lot easier. You get a lot more
37:22
things that you're not going to get. Like good Zaga, what they've done
37:27
with that program to build it from nothing into a powerhouse. You know,
37:32
that took the work of many people in a lot of years. You know,
37:37
Dusty May right now is in the process of doing that. Depends on
37:39
what type of challenge he wants. Does he want to get the big,
37:43
big name school with a lot of money, Yeah, he'd be great there,
37:45
or does he want to continue to build what he has it turned this
37:49
team into that Gonzaga type school where it could be a year after year.
37:53
Really the choice will be his because the jobs will be there. Whether it
37:57
be Michigan or somewhere else in the future. Blake was I know, Joe,
38:00
we have some news that we want to bring up, but we'll probably
38:02
do it shortly, Okay, So I check the wire services here. I
38:07
thought Tussio was locked up. You know what Blakey is. He's getting paid
38:10
a million dollars a year, you know for FAEU would be able to give
38:15
him another raise. I don't know, but at some point it's hard to
38:16
compete against the Wolverines. Okay, Joshua says he has to hop off cheers
38:21
tribune way up to stay up. Josh O, you are a great asset
38:24
to the program, and obviously people are to be seeing more and hearing about
38:28
you soon. So so, and of course he talks about Curly the paper
38:31
hanger. All right, good stuff. So we have all these little interesting
38:35
nicknames within the reum. So all right, Jacob. Some talks about Dusty
38:38
May. Would he be the ideal replacement for Juwan Howard. Oh, he'd
38:44
be great. And it's like Dusty May be wonderful for that. And another
38:46
one that I had heard from rumor is a couple of different places this week
38:51
was Jay Wright. I'd heard that one too. It's like, I mean,
38:53
that could just be rumor or whatever, but I'm just saying I don't
38:57
blame it because this in the end, and you know what I'm saying,
39:00
we know what he's got, and it's like, but Dustin May would be
39:04
nice, but if he's locked up, he's locked up. But it's like
39:07
Michigan, Michigan's got a lot of pride and this has been horrible. Eight
39:12
and twenty four is awful. They're going on. Not only are they going
39:15
to want an improvement and everything like that, they're gonna want to go for
39:20
the ring right away. That's why I was thinking that rumor came out there
39:23
in the first place. Go get something, so you never know, Dusty
39:27
would be wonderful though, it'd be a start to build it back up.
39:30
Well, Dusty May is forty six years of age. He handles the media.
39:32
Well, he took a program at the beginning that he was hesitant to
39:37
stay with the job because it was he didn't realize it was an advanta shape.
39:40
He thought it was a really big time career mistake. Okay, and
39:45
look what he's done to it. So yeah, you know, there's a
39:46
statue waiting for him out here, if he goes to Joe Ellis Rup route
39:51
and becomes a Gonzaga mark few type of person to me. If Wark Manual
39:57
does not hire Dusty May unless he decides he doesn't want to come, Warden
40:01
Manual should be fired. And I mean fired, okay, and I can
40:07
say that because I work with him up close here. I mean handling the
40:12
media is one thing he doesn't isn't afraid to ask any kind of question.
40:15
But the one thing about Dusty May he can keep his players more than one
40:21
year. He can keep him for two, three, four years, and
40:23
in this day and age in college basketball, you don't see it too often.
40:28
So Warren Manual should be fired if Dusty May doesn't get hired period.
40:32
I don't care about other coaches are out there and my bias, Yeah,
40:37
I hate to see him leave. That you sure it's that great guy to
40:39
talk with, he's well a super nice guy. Then I'm enjoying my time
40:43
with the guy. But it's inevitable that if you'll want to take a step
40:46
and find the right job, and if you can go to the Michigan Wolverines
40:51
and obviously the all time winning is football program and let alone with a stadium
40:55
over one hundred thousand stadium is the whole George Buck thirteen thousand over at Chrysler,
41:01
Yeah about that nice arena. You know, it's funny you say that,
41:07
Scott. Not funny, But it is interesting because a lot of people
41:12
were calling for Ward manual to be fired. Anyways, that's because of the
41:16
stuff that happened with Jim Harbaugh in football. And obviously this whole situation is
41:22
soap opera sort of with Juwan Howard. And again, the health and concern
41:28
is serious. It's not a fun thing. As you know, you've been
41:31
through so much yourself. But I agree with you. I mean, Ward,
41:35
I think he's living. He's living dangerously if he screws this one up.
41:40
I agree with you, Scott. Well, the thing about Dusty Mee,
41:44
like I just momented moments of don't he took an efty program that was
41:47
in shambles and he turned it around into something nobody ever thought it could become.
41:55
Plays in a three thousand seats gym okay, and that place is loud.
42:00
Even Penny Hardaway mentioned that, man, this place is small and it's
42:05
loud, But you know, he could even call up place to his team,
42:08
and I was there on the board watching it, you know, and
42:10
see that you know the I call it the FA Arena. I think it's
42:15
called the eleanor R. Baldwin Arena now because it was thing after somebody else.
42:20
But that place is loud, and I'll tell you one thing you talk
42:22
about electric, you know that place is at and Penny Hardaway, think about
42:28
the old NBA player who's found a good spot in Memphis couldn't even yell out
42:31
place to his players. This guy, yeah, I mean, and obviously
42:37
we know there are lots of home for advantages, but this one here is
42:39
just remarkable. A few weeks ago, I saw us front of ten thousand,
42:45
six hundred change loud, and I'm looking at two venues that I have.
42:50
You know, I'm a US HAVE graduate, but I'm gonna adopted FAU
42:53
graduate. I've adopted them as well adopted alumnus, and I can and I
42:59
take pride in both form because I feel I've had a lot of time vested
43:01
in the bow. Though. You know, again, the only way that
43:06
or manual should be fired is if Dusty stayed. But if he's out there
43:10
and he's available, or you better take it okay, or your honeymoon period
43:15
of being a national championship in football will dissipate faster than you can say one,
43:20
two three. All right. So with that said, Joe, you
43:23
mentioned some breaking news. I'm gonna let you go ahead and break it.
43:27
So go ahead. So first of all, a it's it was opening morning
43:30
for baseball today. The Dodgers played in Korea against the Padres or won the
43:36
first game of the season. But well that was going on. Joe a
43:42
Otani's interpreter was fired by the Dodgers after being accused of stealing millions of dollars
43:51
for him from him in using it to gamble at soccer illegally, and it
43:59
was turned over to the federal prosecutors. According to a report of Bleacher Reports,
44:04
the Dodgers did release the statement they're aware of the media reports, they're
44:07
gathering information and Ipe Mesuhara has been terminated. So he was also the Hideki
44:19
Okajimi's interpreter when he was with the Red Sox in two thousand and seven to
44:22
twenty eleven, so he's had history and being an interpreter. Is that his
44:27
first time working with the MLB, But according to this he was possibly stealing
44:34
as much as four point five million dollars from Otti, and he used it
44:38
to bet soccer. He claims he didn't know it was illegal, and Otadi
44:44
had nothing to do with any of the gambling and it wasn't on baseball,
44:46
So that was just out to see way all right? Interesting, Now let
44:52
me go over some company information first, Okay, to make sure we do
44:54
get to that a little bit. Aff mentioned it earlier. I'll go through
44:58
it all because we have a lot more things on one talk about the old
45:00
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45:02
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So all right, Jacob, let's pick up on where Joe left off
46:01
or Tani and the interpreter. It's not a good situation. This is really
46:06
not a good situation at all, because this is one of those stories that
46:08
can spread and spread very very hard and very very fast. And it's like,
46:14
do we really believe that it's just the interpreter and do we really believe
46:19
that he's just trying to save his buddy. It's like, I don't believe.
46:22
It's like we might have ourselves. This is the biggest star in Major
46:27
League Baseball. They the Major League Baseball does not need this. They're not
46:31
in the kind of league of the NFL as a like NFL can be like
46:35
Broadway an ensemble. You could say something like that, they the league is
46:40
the star even though they're stars. MLB needs a star. It needed Otani.
46:46
And it's like, and if this comes up like this and stuff like
46:51
that, there's going to be a lot of backlash and they or you have
46:54
another thing. They're gonna be like if he gets to stay, does Pete
46:59
Rose get to come back to go to the Hall of Fame? Say that
47:01
Otani did's gamble. There's a lot of pieces to this. Now we're gonna
47:07
see this. This just comes from this just comes from hearsay right now.
47:10
But this is not over by no stretch, no means George, Yeah,
47:17
I think I agree with Jacob. I mean, this could have long blasting
47:22
effects on everything. You know, that huge contract of course, the tany
47:27
got from Dodgers, and it's not a good scene right now from what we're
47:32
hearing. Thanks JB for breaking that news to us. And I'll tell you
47:37
what I couldn't agree more. I mean, this has the makings of something
47:43
that would really really impact the game and obviously impact their greatest player in the
47:47
game today. So I mean, let's get all the facts out first though,
47:52
just like we always say, and let's see what's going on here,
47:57
because this sounds like it's a obviously serious They already fired him the team dead
48:02
as an interpreter, so very serious situation, and we got to really take
48:07
a close look at this one. Yeah, all, I'm gonna say,
48:10
I'm going to take the fit on this right now. I need more information
48:14
right now. On the surface, it doesn't look very good, so we
48:17
need more and won't be the last time we talked about this topic. But
48:21
I felt like while it was hot, as journalists like we all are,
48:23
okay, we had to make sure we get it out there, and that
48:27
opens it up to a lot of people in the chat to talk about it.
48:30
All right, So let's go ahead and put Candy Eveling's comment. Maybe
48:35
she can add a little bit. The interpreter said he wagered on a variety
48:38
of sports, including the NBA college football, but never a bet on baseball,
48:42
court and Thompson. Okay, we'll put that out there. Anybody want
48:45
to respond, so be it one more topic I want to get to tonight.
48:49
Russell Wilson and Justin Fields on the Pittsburgh Steeler. Anytime I bring a
48:53
Jacob Chrisner on, I gotta throw Chicago reference Low and Justice Field because I
48:58
know what kind of a rep reaction I gotta get from mister Christner. I
49:01
mean, come on, don't don't you know? By now? I like
49:05
to a Christmer as much as I can. You know, everybody pastime and
49:12
our network's favorite pastime is me sticking it to Christner's sticking to me anything.
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I am all right, so all right, so Christopher, at least I
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don't know if you're laughed his words and go where piles or mine? But
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anyways, let's get Russell Wilson. Oh my god, all right, get
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it back. Okay, here's JB. How you've known me all four years?
49:37
How how many times did I just drill everybody? Six ways? Was
49:40
about the justin how many times? I mean, it's got to be in
49:45
them, It's got to be in the hundreds of thousands, it has to
49:47
be just from online to everything. I got this one. It's the same
49:52
about as I did, Harden. But here's the thing. You got Russell
49:55
Wilson and Field, And I think this is Russell Wilson's team. But this
50:01
is the best thing for Justin really is, because the thing about the thing
50:08
about Russell Wilson by itself is he's not the same he really is. He's
50:13
he's got the most the best psychological coach in football. He can take a
50:16
deep breath that he makes mistakes. He can do that, and then they
50:21
can be able to learn. If this isn't the whole Denver situation, They're
50:23
both in a better situation right now. I think they'll both play based off
50:28
of injuries or whatever. I think it's a great situation to be very honest.
50:31
Okay, George, I was just surprised by all the quarterbacks shifting around.
50:38
I would have never thought that there would be two big names as they
50:43
as they both landed in Pittsburgh, the Ruining family and obviously their coach.
50:47
I mean, they know what they're doing, and I would tend to believe,
50:52
yeah, there's going to be room for both of them to play.
50:54
The problem is is that you didn't give hardly anything up for him. I
50:58
thought he would have got better than than that, you know, the draft
51:01
choice, low draft choice. I mean, it was just what a slap
51:05
in the face. I mean, I thought the I thought the Bears would
51:07
get off a little bit better than just that. But that being said,
51:12
let's face it, he needed a clean start. He's not going to be
51:15
total control, obviously, we know that. Like you said, it's Wilson's
51:19
team, I'm sure, and and but basically he needs to learn. He'll
51:23
be larning under and tootling under this guy who's uh and some people's mind,
51:29
still a Hall of Fame candidate Russell Wilson, although he's declined rapidly the last
51:32
few years. So I look at it as a win win, I mean,
51:36
I really do. Both these guys needed a fresh start, and they're
51:38
getting it in Pittsburgh. And depending upon the cast that surrounds them on offense
51:43
and defense as well, overall, we'll see what happens. I'm Jack.
51:50
If you want to say something, go ahead real quick, yeah, George,
51:52
really quickly. The thing is JB saw this, my cell and I
51:55
was saying that the best time to have gotten rid of Justin was the trade
52:00
deadline last year, after those two big games. That was his big market
52:04
value, saying that he saw that. Yeah, and so when they just
52:07
kept depleting and depleting, and then that horrible too horrible games against the Packers
52:12
that finished it. Yeah, all right, So with that said, I'm
52:15
going to double off on Hike Forts comments. They got too little for him.
52:19
They really did when they had a chance to train them to Atlanta.
52:22
There were other trade pops plays. I think the return was so much worse
52:24
than they should have gotten for a guy like him. And I'll close out
52:30
the topic after I turn over to Joe, but I wanted to make sure
52:32
we get there. Go ahead, Joe. You know, I look at
52:37
this team from New York that plays in New Jersey, that has a horrible
52:43
starting quarterback that we paid forty million dollars a year for, and I look
52:46
and I realized we could assign Russell Wilson for one point two million. Who's
52:51
better than what we have. And they do business very much like the Ernies
52:54
do the Matras that they are both old school football families that operate the same
53:00
way with loyalty. Could have got Russell Wilson for one point two million.
53:04
They could have traded with the Bears a sixth round pick, you know what,
53:08
They could have given him a fourth round pick, given him a little
53:10
bit more ed. They could have got Justin Fields, who the Bears made
53:15
a trade with the Giants. He got Justin Fields earlier when he got drafted,
53:19
so it could have kind of went full circle. But on to what
53:22
you're saying, Pittsburgh made a great move. If Russell Wilson doesn't perform,
53:27
he got Justin Fields. It's a better situation for both of them, better
53:30
coaching for both of them where they're going to be now. The coach,
53:35
Mike Tomlin is a Hall of Fame coach. He's never had a losing season.
53:38
He's phenomenal at what he does. He now has two really good quarterbacks,
53:45
something he hasn't had for a couple of years. I think that they're
53:50
both going to perform better than they did previously. And I think basically Russell
53:55
Wilson will be the right now quarterback and Justin Field will be the quarterback of
54:00
the future, and I think that they're set up pretty nice. I think
54:04
it was a great move, but it was really cheap to get both of
54:06
them in placed. Great job. Yeah, you know what, y'all,
54:09
I agree with you one thousand percent on this one. First of all,
54:15
as far as Russell Wilson's concerned, Sean Payton never liked him anyways. You
54:20
can tell that he hated Russell Wilson and had to tolerate him and use them
54:23
for a year. And when it became a parent that that relationship was going
54:28
nowhere but south fast, then it became a parent that Wilson's days were numbered.
54:35
So therefore that leads us to Mike Tomlin. First of all, Mike
54:37
Tomlin hasn't have a losing season, has won a super Bowl title. But
54:44
the thing about him is he's going to go to a coach that believes in
54:46
him. There's nothing more important than a coach that believes in you. And
54:52
when he believes in you, then you play much better. Sean Payton just
54:57
didn't like the period. Now whatever sound Payton dust for quarterback, You won't
55:04
be able to blame Russell Wilson anymore. Hotel Well, get ready for process
55:08
answer? Justin Fields? Well again another wrong with holding the clipboard. I
55:14
don't blame Fields entirely. Wouldn't happened in Chicago. He had bad coaching with
55:19
he Didd, he had bad supporting cast. I'm glad he's over in Pittsford.
55:23
You know my opinion, I think the Bears should have kept justin Fields,
55:27
because I'm not so sure Caleb Williams is a solution there either. The
55:30
only thing that he is is the cheaper. He's cheaper for the next three
55:34
or four years. Okay, Jacob, okay, you know, body of
55:37
language. You can move your head if you want me to turn you into
55:39
Jacob Bobblehead Christner, we could go ahead, come up with nickname now the
55:43
Josh. And by the way, Blake, glad to have you on.
55:45
I know your phone ran out of just because you don't listen to our shows.
55:49
I'm sorry, I recharge the battery. We got a couple more shows
55:51
tomorrow, particularly Pundits Funded and Fire Up. So but that said, okay,
55:57
you know to me, the Bears blew with the Fields. You know,
56:00
I'm not that record that he had wasn't his fault. You've got bad
56:05
coaches, you've got bad coordinators, and you have no talent. What do
56:07
you expect the guy to look like? Records are deceating and in Fields case,
56:12
they were, and in the instability you're gonna have stability with Mike Tallan.
56:15
Okay, let me tell you le'beon Bell wishes he never left Pittsford.
56:21
Okay, he wishes he would have gone back Antonio Brown, Okay, for
56:24
all the drama that the clown Brown has, Okay, probably wishes he did
56:30
leave the stable environment of Pittsford. So to me, you're right, I
56:36
mean, Russell Wilson probably will get an extension next year if he performs well,
56:40
and you got Justin Field's waiting in the wings. I don't think Pittford's
56:45
quarterback situation has ever been better. And you know, let me go back
56:49
a little bit in time with Pittsford's quarterback situation. They've had some pretty good
56:52
African American quarterbacks there. You ever heard of Joe Gillum? Yeah, ever
56:57
heard of Cordell Stewart. They're pretty good. Bear. Yeah, But I'm
57:04
just saying so, you know, that doesn't mean anything. But you know,
57:07
the Rudy rule came by, you know, well via the Steelers.
57:10
But my point in this particular situation is that, okay, two quarterbacks with
57:15
fresh start and the X factor as Mike Tomlin, I'll like it for both
57:21
no crime in Fields holding a clipboard, and I wish Russell Wilson well,
57:25
of course, for one point two million dollars not bad. Denver's hook for
57:31
thirty eight million. Anyways, So wouldn't it be amazing if Denver played Pittsburgh
57:37
in the postseason and Pittsburgh knocked them out with Russell Wilson, Oh, Sean
57:42
Payton, I can only imagine what that crow will taste like with yards.
57:49
Yeah, I believe that. So yeah, So anybody have any parting shots
57:54
really quickly? So you got in. I mean we missed its opening day,
58:00
but you know baseball who talks about that anymore? Well, evidently you
58:06
don't. I mean they're playing in Korea. I don't know if that story
58:10
way to open the season a little a little interesting. I don't know if
58:15
I like it or I don't like it. You know, it's at five
58:17
o'clock in the morning. I'm certainly not waking up at five o'clock in the
58:22
morning to say, to watch a baseball game. But interesting, you got
58:24
to go to the sports somehow, you know. I don't know how I
58:29
feel about it. I'm with you. Opening days when it is. If
58:32
they want to go out there and just spand internationally is another story. So
58:36
my party will it's not in this case here. Opening day is when opening
58:40
day really is. I don't care where whether you put them overseas or not.
58:45
But they're trying to grow the game internationally. All right, George,
58:46
I said my party shot alone with Joe, what is yours? My party
58:52
shot is just that that he tried. Reder Wings still have some life.
58:54
Despite the fact that they lost to so many games in a row. They
58:59
came back with a with an amazing comeback over the Columbus Blue Jackets last night.
59:05
So this is an exciting part of hockey. This is great. You
59:07
have so many teams in contingent for the wild card bird. I'm sure Commissioner
59:12
Gary Bentman loves it. And there's a lot of exciting hockey for the next
59:15
three four weeks to see who makes the playoffs. And by the way,
59:20
Joe, they do play the Islanders tomorrow night. Yes, yes, Joel
59:23
Ellens as an Islanders stand So what of was gonna win? I guess right?
59:29
All right, Jacob Chrisper your final party shot and then we'll call it
59:32
a knight. You were right. You're right about that. It's like the
59:37
way that you were saying about with Justin Field is not an issue with holding
59:40
a clipboard. That's completely correct. The thing is everything I bring up.
59:45
It's not just to mouth off, and it's all that kind of stuff.
59:47
The Bears don't have the infrastructure the way like Steelers do in the first place.
59:52
This has been the reason I've been mouthed off for three years. It's
59:54
not hating somebody like some people think playing emotions. The Bear don't have the
1:00:00
infrastructure to do that. They don't have it for Caleb Williams either, And
1:00:04
I'm just saying so. I'm wishing Justin Field very very well. I always
1:00:08
liked him. I just didn't like the situation he was in. I didn't
1:00:13
like all of the all of the highlight magnets that were going into the thing.
1:00:16
While the Bears are losing. It's time for the Bears to get a
1:00:20
brand fresh's new start. I hope it's Jayden Daniels or Debo Nix. I
1:00:24
don't want to see Caleb a round, but I'm also going to root for
1:00:29
Justin to win in Pittsburgh if he gets a chance. Good stuff, all
1:00:32
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