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October 29, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 6: You're trying to make it worse?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Well, okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know, 24 hours ago, we got the news that
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  Speaker 3: we had long been expecting to get at some point.
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  Speaker 3: And we knew it was going to be sad. It
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  Speaker 3: was going to be tough. But ultimately, we knew that
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  Speaker 3: we would still have EJ around. He would still be
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  Speaker 3: doing stuff. An hour ago, this hits my news feed,
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  Speaker 3: and just everything comes to a grinding halt.
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  Speaker 8: Chip Howard Sports Talk today, and I promise we're not
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  Speaker 8: going to be so melty.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to be down, but the opening segment
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  Speaker 3: of today's show basically... changed an hour ago.
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  Speaker 8: This is Chip Howard Sports Talk, taken over today by
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  Speaker 8: Jason and Jared. Jason Cornelius, Jared Hicks here on Sports Radio,
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  Speaker 8: 1150 AM, The Zone, 93.7 FM. And, yes, we will
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  Speaker 8: talk sports, but also Chip, he does it himself, but
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  Speaker 8: he gives us the leeway to talk about things that
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  Speaker 8: are important.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and again, we're... There... I don't want to be
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  Speaker 3: overly sad. I mean, it's sad that we have lost
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  Speaker 3: Sir Patrick Stewart. But it's also a celebration of the
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  Speaker 3: fact that this was a man who basically, for those
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  Speaker 3: of us on this side of the Atlantic, didn't really
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  Speaker 3: know who he was until about 40 years ago. Because
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  Speaker 3: Next Generation starts in 87. But that's very key. It's
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  Speaker 3: key because we are in the 60th anniversary of Star
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  Speaker 3: Trek in general. So there is some significance to this.
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  Speaker 3: But when he comes– when he appears as Captain Jean-Luc Picard,
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  Speaker 3: he brings a gravitas to what most people at that
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  Speaker 3: point thought was a very– I don't want to say corny,
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  Speaker 3: but basically.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no. People thought Star Trek was corny as all get-up.
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  Speaker 3: Because largely you had a fan base that was very
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  Speaker 3: passionate and would skew very weird– into that passion. And
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  Speaker 3: here you have an, and not just an English actor,
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  Speaker 3: but a Shakespearean trained actor who brings a, a level
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  Speaker 3: of gravitas and, and just, uh, iambic patameter beauty to
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  Speaker 3: science fiction in, in, in a part that you actually feel, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you could see this man being a captain
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  Speaker 3: of just about anything.
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  Speaker 8: First off, I just want to say, I've known him
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  Speaker 8: since the 80s when Excalibur came out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying the vast majority of Americans.
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  Speaker 8: And you brought up another very good point when it
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  Speaker 8: comes to him and what he did to Star Trek. Because, again,
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  Speaker 8: that was the nerdy kind of genre of science fiction
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  Speaker 8: back then. at least because of television.
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  Speaker 3: And, and again, and, and also, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: no offense to William Shatner, but at that point, he
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  Speaker 3: played it very campy. He played it campy. And, and
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  Speaker 3: he had kind of become a, a, a character of
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  Speaker 3: himself to the point where when he does Saturday night live,
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  Speaker 3: I believe in 1986. So about a year before next
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  Speaker 3: gen comes out, he does the, the sketch where he
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  Speaker 3: goes to a Star Trek convention and, and tells all the,
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  Speaker 3: the nerds get a life. Um, But what's funny– and
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  Speaker 3: then what's funny is conversely you go ahead to what
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  Speaker 3: was I believe 1991, 1992 when Patrick Stewart hosts. And
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  Speaker 3: of course the most famous– there's two famous things from
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  Speaker 3: that episode. First is the way he pronounced salt. And
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  Speaker 3: the second one was the erotic cakes sketch. It showed
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  Speaker 3: that– because previously most people didn't realize he could do humor.
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  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: He has those capabilities. And that was the beauty of
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  Speaker 3: getting to see him over these past four decades is
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  Speaker 3: just to know the wide range of That this man had.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, he's hilarious. He's looked like– he and Morgan Freeman
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  Speaker 8: have looked like they were 80 since they were like 20.
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  Speaker 8: I know. And so that's just one of those things also.
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  Speaker 8: But I was going to say at least– and now
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  Speaker 8: I'm showing– continuing to show my nerddom. Like he brought
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  Speaker 8: like a– I won't say he made Star Trek cool
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  Speaker 8: because it was still science fiction. And for longer, like
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  Speaker 8: science fiction has really just now started to come out
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  Speaker 8: and people will embrace it a lot more. But like
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  Speaker 8: he made Star Trek, like you said, he brought a
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  Speaker 8: gravitas to it. He brought a seriousness to it. in
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  Speaker 8: so many of those episodes of The Next Generation to
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  Speaker 8: where that's why it lasted for so long. And without that,
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  Speaker 8: it doesn't branch out into all these other genres that
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  Speaker 8: we see now. Paramount Plus is loaded with Star Trek stuff,
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  Speaker 8: and it does not happen without him and that show.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Next Gen was the first show created specifically
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  Speaker 3: for syndication and an hour long, ran for seven seasons.
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  Speaker 3: was very successful in fact uh you know uh sir
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  Speaker 3: pat i'm just gonna say sir pat from uh he
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  Speaker 3: had he had regrets about leaving the stage to go
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  Speaker 3: do television and he even said if i knew it
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  Speaker 3: was gonna go for seven years i would have never
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  Speaker 3: agreed to it but at the same time he said
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  Speaker 3: i can't imagine my career without it yeah because of
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  Speaker 3: what all it allowed him to do we've got a
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  Speaker 3: couple clips I want to play first if you'll do
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  Speaker 3: the second clip this is from Next Gen the TV
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  Speaker 3: series this is early on but again it just shows
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  Speaker 3: how he could take a just beautifully written word but
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  Speaker 3: in a science fiction show and turn it into compelling drama.
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  Speaker 9: Question your loyalty.
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  Speaker 10: You know There are some words I've known since I
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  Speaker 10: was a schoolboy. But the first link the chain is forged,
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  Speaker 10: the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first
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  Speaker 10: freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. Those words were uttered
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  Speaker 10: by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I mean, You could put that into stone, and
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  Speaker 3: that applies for all of humanity.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the way he reads that, the way he... And again, radio.
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  Speaker 3: You don't even have the visual medium. Find the clip.
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  Speaker 3: Watch how he just manifests his face to convey this, again,
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  Speaker 3: just beautifully written... Powerful words. And by the way, the
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  Speaker 3: judge is a fictional character. This was written specifically for
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  Speaker 3: the episode. But of course, we're going to get into...
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  Speaker 3: Part of the nerdom is also the fact that when
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  Speaker 3: we get to 2000, it's perfect that he would be
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  Speaker 3: Charles Xavier.
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  Speaker 5: There is.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, obviously there are, and I can't think of
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  Speaker 8: them off the top of my head, but there are
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  Speaker 8: very few roles that a person... is perfect for. And
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  Speaker 8: he could not have been better cast. There is no
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  Speaker 8: other person. Again, as superhero movies are coming out and
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  Speaker 8: X-Men's coming out, there is zero other person that could
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  Speaker 8: have been Professor Charles Xavier. Period.
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  Speaker 3: Let's think about this. 1989, Michael Keaton is completely panned
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  Speaker 3: as being cast as Batman until we see it. Robert
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  Speaker 3: Downey Jr. in 2008. There are major reservations about him
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  Speaker 3: being Tony.
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  Speaker 8: Stark in Iron Man. And he is now, yes, he
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  Speaker 8: is synonymous with that.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, going into the X-Men movie, Hugh Jackman was
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  Speaker 3: a completely unknown. And you're casting him as the most
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  Speaker 3: important comic book character, dare say, of the last 50
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  Speaker 3: years in Wolverine. But there was no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 8: None.
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  Speaker 3: When he agreed to be it. Because I'm sure there
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  Speaker 3: was some hesitation from his part. No, that's another thing.
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  Speaker 3: on to another title.
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  Speaker 8: Unknown project.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, other than Blade, there were no other superhero
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  Speaker 8: movies that had done really anything. Especially on the Marvel side.
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  Speaker 8: On the Marvel side, yes. Marvel superhero movies. I mean, yes. Batman,
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  Speaker 8: but Batman was the only thing. Since Superman in the
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  Speaker 8: early 80s with the Christopher Reeve Superman, there still wasn't anything.
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  Speaker 8: batman did that then here comes blade they're like okay
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  Speaker 8: we can do this so yeah even for him like
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  Speaker 8: that was a huge leap even though it was.
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  Speaker 3: A huge leap and it probably if nothing else gave
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  Speaker 3: some credence to that hey they're fox is serious about
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  Speaker 3: this you've got sir pat or sir patrick stewart ian
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  Speaker 3: mckelland who was a longtime friend of his from the
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  Speaker 3: stage uh agreeing to be uh magneto but um You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've been listening to Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner's podcast,
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  Speaker 3: Dropping Names, and it's a fun listen because all they're
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  Speaker 3: talking about is Hollywood. But the one thing they keep
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  Speaker 3: coming back to is just how much fun it was
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  Speaker 3: to be friends with Patrick Stewart because, you know, again,
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  Speaker 3: what you see on the screen is not who he
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  Speaker 3: is necessarily behind the scenes. He is funny, but more so,
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  Speaker 3: and this is probably the most impressive part, you can
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  Speaker 3: recite a line from any Shakespearean play, just a line,
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  Speaker 3: he will be able to pick up from that line
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  Speaker 3: and keep going. That's just the recall and mentality he
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  Speaker 3: has about performing Shakespeare. And he's done it so many times.
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  Speaker 3: He's portrayed these same characters in multiple different ways. It's,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, again, not trying to be sad, trying to celebrate,
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  Speaker 3: but this was just one of those You know, we
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  Speaker 3: did the show, it might have been two years ago,
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  Speaker 3: when I said, okay, who are the actors, who are
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  Speaker 3: the musicians that when they inevitably pass, as they all will,
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  Speaker 3: is going to hit you hard? And, again, he was
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  Speaker 3: 86 years old. You kind of knew it would eventually happen.
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  Speaker 3: You just hoped that it wouldn't happen, especially before Doomsday
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  Speaker 3: comes out, as he will be in Doomsday, and I
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  Speaker 3: believe he's filmed... He's also already filmed footage for Secret Wars.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we don't know what context he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be in either of those. But fortunately, we will have
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  Speaker 3: him at least for those last two movies as Charles Xavier.
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  Speaker 8: We are going to take a quick break, come back,
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  Speaker 8: and I promise it's not just sad.
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  Speaker 3: Now we go to sports.
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  Speaker 8: No, because I want to talk about, and it will
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  Speaker 8: be for sports, but I also do want to talk
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  Speaker 8: about Ernie Johnson. Yes. And what... This means what they
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  Speaker 8: have done, again, for sports broadcasting, what he's done, what
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  Speaker 8: that show was, and what it's going to mean going forward,
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  Speaker 8: especially with some of the things that you and I
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  Speaker 8: were talking about the other day. We'll be back in
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  Speaker 8: I really forgot about the feedback part of this, of
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  Speaker 8: the song.
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  Speaker 17: It's like.
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  Speaker 8: And then it came back and I'm like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 8: the feedback that they were doing for me, I was like,
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  Speaker 8: what did we do here?
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  Speaker 3: I just... I cannot hear that song without just seeing
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  Speaker 3: the video in my head and then the VH1 pop-up
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  Speaker 3: video notes popping up about tracking shot $ 275, 000.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I forgot about pop-up video. I mean, it gave you
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  Speaker 8: a lot of good information about the video.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it was the perfect way to repackage
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  Speaker 3: music videos because, yeah, you're going to watch them, but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times you just are going to have
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  Speaker 3: them on. But when you're trying to keep up with.
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  Speaker 8: All the little tidbits. With all the little literal pop-ups
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  Speaker 8: that they have.
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  Speaker 3: Without that, I would not have known that R.I.P. Duncan
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  Speaker 3: Sheik needed a break after barely breathing.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Chip, our sports talk today taken over by Jason and Jared.
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  Speaker 8: We are on Sports Radio 1150 AM, the Zone 937 FM.
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  Speaker 8: We love everybody continuing to listen to us on these
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  Speaker 8: days that Chip is out, and he's allowing us to
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  Speaker 8: continue to play radio here for the last decade plus.
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  Speaker 8: So thank you all on this wonderful Thursday afternoon. First segment,
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  Speaker 8: a little more sad. I mean, again, if you are
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  Speaker 8: any kind of science fiction fan at all, you're going
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  Speaker 8: to miss Sir Patrick Stewart as he has passed away today.
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  Speaker 8: What was going to be the biggest news for you
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  Speaker 8: and I, specifically going yesterday, getting ready into today, was
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  Speaker 8: Ernie Johnson... announcing that he is stepping down at the
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  Speaker 8: end of this season from inside the NBA. And you
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  Speaker 8: and I talk so much about the business side of sports,
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  Speaker 8: and you and I were huge on this when TNT
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  Speaker 8: lost their NBA rights. And we're trying to figure out
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  Speaker 8: what was going to happen to inside the NBA because, again,
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  Speaker 8: there is no– the casual fan– does not watch the
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  Speaker 8: pregame shows, the casual fan doesn't watch the postgame shows.
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  Speaker 8: I would dare to say most times they're not watching
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  Speaker 8: the games on the other networks because there is no
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  Speaker 8: lead-in and there is no end. People were watching NBA
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  Speaker 8: basketball because they would tune in to watch NBA tip-off
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  Speaker 8: and then they would stay to watch or tune back
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  Speaker 8: in to watch inside the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, halftime report and obviously after. If you want proof
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  Speaker 3: about the significance of Inside the NBA and specifically Ernie Johnson,
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  Speaker 3: Kenny the Jetsmith, Charles Barkley, and the addition of Shaquille O'Neal,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to look at NBC's Football Night in
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  Speaker 3: America and look at the cavalcade of clown car replacements
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  Speaker 3: that that show has had on what is arguably the
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  Speaker 3: most watched show NFL game each and every week.
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  Speaker 8: It's the best game of the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: And typically, when that show hits the airwaves, all other
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  Speaker 3: football games have ended. But NBC has tried every amalgamation.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, they even tried to recreate the Glory Days
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  Speaker 3: of SportsCenter by having Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick hosting
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  Speaker 3: at one point. And that couldn't work. Now.
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  Speaker 3: You have perpetually smiling puppet Jason Garrett. I do like
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  Speaker 3: the addition of Maria Taylor. And I will say this.
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  Speaker 3: Bringing in former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach.
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  Speaker 8: Mike Tomlin.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin, thank you. When you get on air, your
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  Speaker 3: brain just wants to lock up. I've thoroughly enjoyed him
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  Speaker 3: because I thought we were just going to get Boring
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  Speaker 3: coach speech and kind of, I don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: Bill Belichick-esque draft, but no, I mean, he's straightforward. He's
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  Speaker 3: calling stuff out. He's saying it.
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  Speaker 8: Like it is.
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  Speaker 3: But you look at that show has tried so many
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  Speaker 3: different personalities, and yet inside the NBA has been a stalwart.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For 27 years.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you look at it from what NBC is trying
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  Speaker 8: to do now that they have the NBA again, and
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  Speaker 8: this is where I was saying when you and I
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  Speaker 8: were talking the other night, like, Tracy McGrady, Carmelo Anthony,
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  Speaker 8: and Vince Carter are three of the very best basketball
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  Speaker 8: players to have ever played, and they are unwatchable. They
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  Speaker 8: are absolutely unwatchable when it comes to pregame, postgame, halftime, everything.
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  Speaker 8: And what's Kenny and Shaq and Charles have been able
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  Speaker 8: to do is... And they say it. And if you
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  Speaker 8: haven't watched... their the special that they did two years
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  Speaker 8: ago inside the like it talks about like and it's
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  Speaker 8: kind of like what I think you and I do
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  Speaker 8: like we don't take ourselves seriously when we do this
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  Speaker 8: we take the show seriously and We try to make
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  Speaker 8: sure that we put on something very nice. People say, well,
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  Speaker 8: we don't take ourselves seriously. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 8: makes a difference and what Inside the NBA has been
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  Speaker 8: able to do. And Ernie says that all the time.
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  Speaker 8: He's like, I come on here, I try to let
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  Speaker 8: these guys do what they do, and I just try
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  Speaker 8: to steer the ship. And for 20, 30, no, he's
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  Speaker 8: been there. Was it 27 years for him or 34?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for him, it's... He's been with Turner, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: for 34 years.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, that's where I was getting confused.
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  Speaker 3: Because when he was first brought on, he was like,
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  Speaker 3: you're in charge of baseball. So you host the baseball show.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: And then I think a couple years into that, then
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: he was like, now you're going to head up our
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: NBA coverage. And then once Charles and then Kenny came on,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: that's when they developed the show inside the NBA, if
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I understand the timeline right. But I think so much
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: of the success of that show stems from the fact
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Ernie has a– has both that personality but also that
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: professionalism that you can't help but feel like you've got
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: to rise up to. I mean, Charles and Kenny and
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Shaq love having fun, and they'll banter with each other,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: they'll sometimes go at each other, and we've all seen
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the clips of when things get a little too heated
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: to a degree. But the fact of the matter is, Ernie...
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Even talks about in his stepping down speech that just
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: the amount of work it takes to prepare has taken
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: a toll on him, especially at his age and with
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: some of the health issues he's dealt with. And I
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: think that's what has made that show so successful is
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: his preparation in addition to being able to bring out
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: the best in your personality. Because anytime he's doing... you know,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: March madness coverage.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah. Which I'm so, when he said he's still
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: going to be like that, that at least made me smile.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: He does. He, he's able to, he was able to
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: do that from day one when, when that arrangement started
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: and man, has it already been over a decade? So
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: you knew, again, we kind of knew this day would
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: eventually come. We especially knew something That this ESPN basically
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: contracting the show out from Turner was probably not going
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: to be long for this world just because of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: way the mothership works.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: Well, and I'm glad you brought it up because that
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: brings up like it. I was glad when they made
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: the announcement that it was going to continue. But you
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: could also tell that it was never quite a good time.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: a good puzzle piece or a good fit over at
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: ESPN because, and I heard somebody who was talking about
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: this yesterday, they had, and they didn't abuse it, but
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: they had free reign at Turner. Like the time for like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: there was no hard time out. Like there was like
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: the game ended and they're like, all right, how long
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: are you going to go? And you could fully recap,
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: really give them the ability to have a little fun,
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: but talk about the games that were going on and
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: you learn from that. With ESPN, it is such a
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: shortened cookie, like not even cookie, just the briefest non-real
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: version of what that is. And plus... It's not every
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: night that they've been on that NBC has their coverage.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: And that's something even Charles has said. He's like, I
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: thought we were coming over here to do this. And
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: ESPN hasn't even allowed them to do that. And so
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: it's just like, that's what I'm glad to say. It
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: was obvious that there was going to be, this wasn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: going to be as long as anybody wanted. Even if
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: Ernie didn't come on it. And he's too professional to
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: say how it's being done now isn't what I want
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: to do. But that has to play a part.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, I'm sure it does. And also, everything
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: going on behind the scenes, I mean, they're even bringing
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: it up on the show. It's like, you know, we
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: started with Turner, and it was WBD, and I guess
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: now we're Skydance. Y'all, that is just a mess in
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: and of itself, and I cannot imagine anyone who has
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: been working for either of those entities... just having any
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: kind of feeling of job security.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: No.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Because that is the dynamic that, unfortunately, so much of
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: our media is moving into, these uber-conglomerates where it is
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: largely driven not only by private equity, but a lot
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: of debt that has to be repaid. And guess what?
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: People aren't watching... these traditional platforms to the same degree.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: So how you make your money back is going to
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: largely be through advertising and paying those stupid contracts. But
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: it's largely through advertising, which means you've got to have
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: these hard outs and shortened broadcast windows because you're trying
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: to cram as much advertising time in as you can,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: as we'll talk about when we get to college football.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: If you want to know where the breaking point is
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: going to be, It's going to be these ad breaks.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: So anyway, like I say, I'm glad we get the
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: rest of this year. I'm glad he's still going to
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: be doing projects. He even talked about the production company
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: he started up. I love that he's still going to
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: be doing March Madness. I would love to see him
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: involved more with Major League Baseball. Of course, next year,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: probably not even going to have it, so he'll have
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: more time to figure that out. But yeah, I mean,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: you cannot understate... How great this show is, and if
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: you want proof, look how many Emmys it's won, and
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: especially consecutively compared to everything else.
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: Compared to everything else, and I get it from the
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: dollar standpoint. Again, you and I talk about it, and
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: we're going to talk more about it in this show.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: The business of sports, and especially now the unfortunate side
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: effect of the business of sports broadcasting. However, and probably
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: because TNT didn't have anything else to do, like when
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: it came to their NBA broadcast, that's also why they
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: probably didn't have the money to really go up against
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: NBC and the Mothership and Prime to really keep that going.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: but their show showed and why ESPN wanted to grab
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: it showed that people will watch a good broadcast that
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: can have fun, but is going to also really break
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: down sports. And I don't think the, and I'll just
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: say it. I don't think the Pat Macification of, of
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: everything is, is really taking the, that viewpoint into it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: I mean, Game day isn't the same anymore. And yet
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: you can look at the evolution from both, because I
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: know they started around the same time, but the evolution
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: of game day with the evolution of inside the NBA.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: You have a, whether it is Reese Davis or Chris
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: Fowler before that, that were right there and very prepared
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: in how to drive the show. You have the funny guy,
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: whether it's Coach or Charles Barkley. You have the good
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: former player, whether it's Herb Street or Kenny Jetsmith. And
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: you just keep that going. And so you can see
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: that evolution. And now, like, if they're going to pull...
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: Because you and I can both agree inside the NBA
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: is not like they're going to because Charles isn't going
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: to keep going. No, there's zero because his contract's up
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: at the end of this year, too. And so if
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: Ernie's not going to be there, Charles is not going
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: to be there. And I think if Charles is not
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: going to be there, Shaq will be will not be there.
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: I don't think Kenny will be the first one to
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: say he's not doing I think. If Charles and Shaq stayed,
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: Kenny would stay. With whomever they tried to bring in
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: the host. Charles is not going to stay because he's
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: not going to be there. You saw how he broke that.
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: They were all sad. Charles was distraught with that. And
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: he had to know, obviously.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sure this was a discussion that EJ had with
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: them probably over the weekend so that there was plenty
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: of lead time to come into it. But It's still
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: tough once the camera and the lights are on.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: And he's actually saying it and showing it with the
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: emotion that he has had. But yeah, how these pre-
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: and post-game shows are is just... Inside the NBA was, again,
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: the Emmys show it. It was the gold standard of that.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: And I think too many of the networks now have
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: gotten away from that. thinking that it has to be
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: all the fun part of things, and we're not seeing
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: what makes... Again, why do they keep winning Emmys?
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: And we don't see that. No.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: And again, for the last decade, every network has tried
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: to replicate what they do with their respective shows. Some
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: have come close. I flat out said Paramount Plus's Champion
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: League team That's probably number two, and then obviously once
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Inside the NBA rolls off in its current iteration, I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: going to say that's an easy number one. But a
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: lot of that is also Kate Scott. She has those
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: same dynamics Ernie has from the standpoint of you have
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: these personalities, Terry and Henri, Jamie Carragher, Big Meeks. It
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: would be real easy to let that kind of go off.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the rails because you've got an Arsenal, Man City, and
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: a Liverpool player together. But Kate's able to just keep
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: it fun, but also make it informative. And that's where Ernie,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I think, excels.
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's where he lives.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: That is what these shows are supposed to be. And
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: if you look at all the other shows, that's what
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: they've gone away from because they think people don't want that.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: They just want betting odds.
• 30:02
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  Speaker 9: I'm Caleb Rapley, and today we are jumping out to
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  Speaker 9: the Polaris Fun Center phone line to visit with the
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  Speaker 9: head coach of the A & M Consolidated Lady Tigers
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  Speaker 9: volleyball team, Ms.
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  Speaker 22: Laura Korenik. Coach, thanks for joining me today.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 9: It has been a fantastic regular season for your Lady Tigers,
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  Speaker 9: 34-8 record, going 12-2 in district play, ending up with
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: a share of the district championship.
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  Speaker 22: So how proud are you of your team.
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  Speaker 9: And the great performances that they've put up over the
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: last few months?
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  Speaker 25: I'm super proud. It's a great group of girls. We
• 33:20
  Speaker 25: are actually pretty young coming into this season. We lost
• 33:24
  Speaker 25: six seniors last year that all played at the state finals.
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  Speaker 25: And so just having to fill in those shoes and
• 33:30
  Speaker 25: having a new group of girls come in and for
• 33:32
  Speaker 25: them to be able to have such a great season
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  Speaker 25: with that kind of youth, I'm really super proud of them.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, so like you mentioned, very young team. And that's
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: one of the things about high school athletics and any sport,
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: no matter the size of the school, it's always very
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: interesting at the beginning of a new season to see
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  Speaker 9: what freshmen and sophomores are going to have to step
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: up and contribute. With your Lady Tigers, it looks like
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: they've all done a very good job. As I mentioned, 34-8,
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: that's very hard to do. in the district that you're in.
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: So who are some of the players that have stepped
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: up this year that maybe weren't as big of a
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: part of the team last year but are really contributing
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: this season?
• 34:18
  Speaker 25: The first one that comes to mind that has really
• 34:21
  Speaker 25: stepped up this season is Macy Downing. She took on
• 34:26
  Speaker 25: the role of libero this year, which is not something
• 34:28
  Speaker 25: that she did last year. And so she's been on
• 34:31
  Speaker 25: the floor. She's played every set of every game this season,
• 34:35
  Speaker 25: even injured. She went out there and she played. She
• 34:37
  Speaker 25: couldn't serve, but she still played for, I think it
• 34:39
  Speaker 25: was like two or three games. And so just her
• 34:43
  Speaker 25: being on the floor, she's super small and scrappy and
• 34:47
  Speaker 25: a great communicator. I think that's been a huge part
• 34:50
  Speaker 25: of our success is just having her be vocal on
• 34:54
  Speaker 25: the floor and just get out there and get after it.
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: Now, this is only your second season as the head
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: coach at A & M Consolidated. Last year in your
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: first season, went all the way to the state championship game.
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  Speaker 22: A great run.
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: Unfortunately, came up short to Highland Park in the final.
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  Speaker 9: So how much did that game and that run last year,
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: you know, really show you what this program is capable
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: of and add that hunger to get back.
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  Speaker 22: To the top?
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 25: I think all of the girls coming in this season,
• 35:25
  Speaker 25: you know, we were, we made it so far and
• 35:28
  Speaker 25: it's like, okay, how do we do this again? How
• 35:30
  Speaker 25: do we, how do we replicate this and how do
• 35:31
  Speaker 25: we make this happen? Um, and so a lot of
• 35:33
  Speaker 25: conversations have just been about, you know, the day in
• 35:36
  Speaker 25: and day out grind. Um, and then just being a
• 35:39
  Speaker 25: great team. I think that's one of our big goals.
• 35:41
  Speaker 25: And one of the things that we really focus on is, uh,
• 35:45
  Speaker 25: team first mentality and like whatever your role is, whether
• 35:47
  Speaker 25: you're playing a bunch, whether you're sitting on the bench, um,
• 35:50
  Speaker 25: you're supporting the team and you're helping us grow. We
• 35:53
  Speaker 25: have a, we have a group of girls that don't
• 35:55
  Speaker 25: get a whole lot of playing time, but they contribute to,
• 35:57
  Speaker 25: they have, they have been a huge part of our
• 36:00
  Speaker 25: success because of how hard they work at practice and
• 36:02
  Speaker 25: how much they challenge each other. And the other thing
• 36:05
  Speaker 25: is just like having fun. We try to not focus
• 36:09
  Speaker 25: too much on what other people are doing and just
• 36:11
  Speaker 25: focus on what we do. And so that's, you know,
• 36:14
  Speaker 25: we wanted to make it back to the state championship again,
• 36:17
  Speaker 25: and we knew we're going to have to go through
• 36:18
  Speaker 25: some tough opponents to get there. And we scheduled a
• 36:21
  Speaker 25: pretty tough, preseason we played Duncanville twice you know and
• 36:25
  Speaker 25: they're ranked in you know the top five and six
• 36:28
  Speaker 25: day so we played against a really some really good
• 36:31
  Speaker 25: opponents and I think got just got a lot of
• 36:33
  Speaker 25: experience and got a lot of assurance of what we're
• 36:35
  Speaker 25: able to do against really good teams so.
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: Both of the two seasons that you have been the
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: head coach for the Lady Tigers over 30 wins in
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: the conversation for the district championship last year and then
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: getting a share of it this season So a lot
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: of times when there's a new regime, a new head coach,
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: any sport, any level, a lot of times there's at
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: least one season of figuring out the new system. But
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: what has allowed you to step in and this year
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: and last year have immediate success?
• 37:08
  Speaker 25: Well, I think, I mean, I just have to say
• 37:10
  Speaker 25: it's the group of kids. Last year having six seniors
• 37:15
  Speaker 25: was tough because you don't want to just go in
• 37:17
  Speaker 25: and change everything. They had a lot of success. the
• 37:20
  Speaker 25: previous year before I came. And so there's things that
• 37:23
  Speaker 25: they were doing that, that worked. And so we wanted
• 37:25
  Speaker 25: to use those things and capital capitalize on those and
• 37:28
  Speaker 25: then try to add some, you know, some new things
• 37:31
  Speaker 25: to our program. Um, I think a great, I have
• 37:35
  Speaker 25: to give credit to our strength coach. Uh, he's been here.
• 37:38
  Speaker 25: This will be his fifth season. And so like last
• 37:40
  Speaker 25: year's seniors, he had them for four whole years. And
• 37:44
  Speaker 25: I mean, we're, we're a pretty like salty team in
• 37:47
  Speaker 25: terms of like being in really good shape. Um, we're small,
• 37:51
  Speaker 25: but we're fast and we can jump high. And I
• 37:53
  Speaker 25: think a lot of that goes to what we do
• 37:55
  Speaker 25: in off season and what we do in the weight
• 37:57
  Speaker 25: room and things like that. So I would say that's
• 37:59
  Speaker 25: a big contributor of coming in and being able to
• 38:01
  Speaker 25: walk in for two years and have, you know, so
• 38:04
  Speaker 25: many wins is we have tremendous athletes, like they're trained
• 38:06
  Speaker 25: to be athletes. Another thing that I think is really
• 38:10
  Speaker 25: super important with like all of my girls play club
• 38:13
  Speaker 25: that helps me out so much. So they play volleyball
• 38:16
  Speaker 25: at a high level and, walking in the door. So
• 38:18
  Speaker 25: we get to just add to that and figure out
• 38:20
  Speaker 25: how to put all the pieces together at that high level.
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: So as we get ready for the first round, the
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: bi-district round of the UIL Volleyball State Tournament in 5A
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: Division I, I imagine that it's difficult for you and
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: the players to not look ahead to later on in
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: the playoffs. where you maybe match up again with Highland
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: Park in the state championship game. But how difficult is
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: it for you to keep your players focused on just
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: taking it one round at a time?
• 38:58
  Speaker 25: I would say this group is not too bad. Our
• 39:01
  Speaker 25: leaders on the floor have had a lot of experience.
• 39:04
  Speaker 25: Kendall Newton is a junior. She's our setter. And then
• 39:08
  Speaker 25: Harper Koenig, she's an outside hitter. She's a six row,
• 39:11
  Speaker 25: you know, she plays all the way around. They both
• 39:13
  Speaker 25: played at the state tournament and they know it is,
• 39:16
  Speaker 25: it is one day at a time. It's one point
• 39:18
  Speaker 25: at a time. And so that's something that we talk
• 39:20
  Speaker 25: about a lot in huddles and timeouts. And, you know,
• 39:23
  Speaker 25: if we're down by two or three points, we're like,
• 39:25
  Speaker 25: it's okay it's just two points like we we can
• 39:27
  Speaker 25: make this up um i know the future is also
• 39:32
  Speaker 25: a huge motivator for us because we could potentially see
• 39:35
  Speaker 25: cshs again in the fourth round um if we can
• 39:38
  Speaker 25: both make it there i know that was a huge
• 39:40
  Speaker 25: contributor of us like of our success last year we
• 39:43
  Speaker 25: were like we're not we want to see them again
• 39:45
  Speaker 25: we want another chance at them So that's something to
• 39:48
  Speaker 25: look forward to, I guess. And it kind of motivates
• 39:51
  Speaker 25: the girls and makes it fun, makes it more fun,
• 39:54
  Speaker 25: you know, kind of having that long-term goal. And, of course,
• 39:57
  Speaker 25: Highland Park would be amazing. If we could go match
• 39:59
  Speaker 25: up with them again in the state finals, that would
• 40:01
  Speaker 25: be just fun and kind of meant to be, I guess.
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: So you mentioned the Lady Cougars of College Station split
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: with them this year, winning at home, losing on the road.
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: But how much does having that rivalry of having a
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: school that, You know, all of the players are very
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: familiar with each other.
• 40:19
  Speaker 22: I mean, I would imagine a lot of them probably
• 40:21
  Speaker 22: grew up together.
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: But how much of an advantage is it for both
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: schools to have such a heated rivalry that both teams
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: are always very good? So it's kind of the iron
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: sharpens iron mentality. How much fun is that rivalry?
• 40:37
  Speaker 25: I mean, it's so much fun. You have girls that have,
• 40:41
  Speaker 25: like you said, they play junior high ball together. They
• 40:43
  Speaker 25: play club together. They've grown up together. So it's very
• 40:49
  Speaker 25: intimate whenever you're playing them. Like, you know them. We
• 40:51
  Speaker 25: kind of know each other in and out. And so
• 40:53
  Speaker 25: I think it makes it even more of a challenge
• 40:56
  Speaker 25: to beat each other. So it's just so much fun
• 41:00
  Speaker 25: having that cross town. And we're both, you know, Coach
• 41:05
  Speaker 25: and I are both excited to hopefully see each other.
• 41:07
  Speaker 25: I think our alignment, I mean, Montgomery and Lake Creek
• 41:10
  Speaker 25: are both also have a really good chance. They're both ranked.
• 41:15
  Speaker 25: And Division II likes 5A. They're both ranked really high.
• 41:19
  Speaker 25: We're all just kind of hoping all four of us
• 41:21
  Speaker 25: can make it to the regional finals and, you know,
• 41:23
  Speaker 25: match up with each other again. It would just be
• 41:25
  Speaker 25: so much fun, and it would just go to show
• 41:26
  Speaker 25: how great the teams are that we're competing against on
• 41:30
  Speaker 25: a day-to-day basis.
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: So your first game of the playoffs is against Porter.
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: What are going to be some keys to success for
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: your Lady Tigers in that one?
• 41:39
  Speaker 25: I mean, I think the same thing for most games
• 41:41
  Speaker 25: we walk into is we control our side of the
• 41:44
  Speaker 25: floor and what our game plan is. We're not super big.
• 41:48
  Speaker 25: We have a couple of people that swing really hard, like,
• 41:51
  Speaker 25: all the time. We're very well-rounded on front row. We
• 41:54
  Speaker 25: have a lot of tools. And so our goal is
• 41:57
  Speaker 25: to always try to use all of them as much
• 41:59
  Speaker 25: as possible, spread our offense out. And that makes it
• 42:03
  Speaker 25: easier for us to get easy shots off of that.
• 42:07
  Speaker 25: We always try to serve aggressive. If we can get
• 42:09
  Speaker 25: people either get easy points off of serve or at
• 42:13
  Speaker 25: least get an easy ball coming back at us off
• 42:15
  Speaker 25: of their serve-receive, that's always a game plan for us.
• 42:18
  Speaker 25: We just try to focus on making sure we do
• 42:20
  Speaker 25: those things on our side of the floor and just
• 42:23
  Speaker 25: relentless defense. We've really focused on that the last six
• 42:26
  Speaker 25: weeks or so, just not letting balls drop and just
• 42:29
  Speaker 25: keeping the ball in play and wearing other teams down.
• 42:33
  Speaker 25: We've done a great job of that. Those are kind
• 42:34
  Speaker 25: of the three things we're going to focus on just
• 42:36
  Speaker 25: throughout playoffs. It's for sure the first round.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: All right, Coach.
• 42:39
  Speaker 22: Well, I appreciate your time today. Good luck on this
• 42:41
  Speaker 22: playoff run.
• 42:43
  Speaker 25: All right.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 17: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 19: But yeah, just a chance to take a breather and
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  Speaker 19: enjoy kind of the other things. You know, Aggie volleyball,
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  Speaker 19: just enjoying a weekend of not having to stress.
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: Look, I love college football.
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  Speaker 19: It'll always be A & M first, but If you
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, a lot of people, when A & M' s not
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  Speaker 21: doing good, they'll kind of turn off.
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  Speaker 22: But I still love college football.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'll watch.
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  Speaker 19: Saturday, it'll be all day for me. Absolutely. And it's
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Every week, we have a new scandal. We have a
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  Speaker 7: is infected, and it's gross. But on Saturdays, I'm in
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  Speaker 7: my chair watching it.
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• 49:04
  Speaker 9: When did this come out?
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: 19... Okay, album.
• 49:06
  Speaker 24: Comes out in 1989.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: But Black Cat is released for the charts in 1990.
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: And you've played them before, and I loved when you do.
• 49:25
  Speaker 17: Mm-hmm.
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: Cult of Personality.
• 49:29
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: By Living Color. Mm-hmm. Do they affect Janet coming out
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: with this, you think, or was that.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: No, I mean.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Well, honestly, I think you have to talk to.
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: Jimmy Jam and Terry?
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimmy Jam and Terry, because, again, so much of
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: that album is them just basically pulling all their talent
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: and pulling the best from Janet and putting things together. Because, yes,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: the album... tells a story, but obviously there's a couple,
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: there's a couple tracks, Black Cat, Love Will Never Do
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Without You, uh, that kind of sit outside of that
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: narrative that she's trying to tell through, through the album. Um,
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: but I'm, I'm, I'm guessing, you know, they're, they're up
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: in Minnesota, Living Color is, is Chicago-based band. And so
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: there may, there may be some, some effect to that.
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: Some effect to that.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: But I mean, I, I think it also just stems
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: from the fact, you know, They were cast off from
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Prince and his empire.
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: And Prince was heavily guitar related.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: And when I say cast off, not that he had
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: anything wrong with it. It was just when Prince goes
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: in a different direction, they were kind of left on
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: an island. And then from that, they become the producers
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: that they become.
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  Speaker 8: going to continue the conversation that y'all just had while
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: we were off the air when it comes to the
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: World Series. And I realized, I mean, now it's just
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: facing the music of how casual of a baseball fan
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: I have become in the fact that I did not
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: watch a single game of the World Series. Not one.
• 51:19
  Speaker 19: Why?
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: And this, again... I don't know and or care anything
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: about Milwaukee and Tampa Bay.
• 51:27
  Speaker 25: Period.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: And I would dare say.
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: Had it been any of the larger market teams, obviously
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: if it would have been my Braves, I'm going to
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: watch that. But, like, I don't care about Milwaukee or
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Tampa Bay. And I'm like, man, I am the. When
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: y'all were talking about, like, did you watch? I'm like,
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: not a game. Not a single game.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Truthfully, I only watched two and a half. I watched
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: the last two because I knew we were hosting today.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: So I at least wanted to. To be up to
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: speed on it. And I've kept up with baseball largely
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: through podcasts this year. Yeah, I mean, I pay attention
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: to scores and the storylines and things like that.
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: But, I mean, I will.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Also say this. And we all know it's the fall classic.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: We all know it's going to come towards the end
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: of October. But, man, those games were going up against
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: some heavy competition in the football world. Both college and NFL. And,
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: you know, if you're making a choice... And.
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: Here's the other thing, going back to, again, the business
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: of sport, the business of broadcasting, and keeping your casual fan.
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: The other reason why I didn't watch, because this wasn't
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: on a major channel every single, throughout the playoffs. Sometimes
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: when they're on FS1, I don't know how to, I mean,
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: I know how to find it, but I'm not going
• 52:36
  Speaker 8: looking for it. And that is an issue. And when
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: the world, again.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: I have to admit, in the world of streaming platforms,
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: so a la YouTube, YouTube TV, Hulu Live, things like that.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: I'm really missing channel numbers. Same, same, same.
• 52:53
  Speaker 8: I hate scrolling alphabetically to the F's or to the T's.
• 53:00
  Speaker 8: I was just thinking that the other day.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: And that's what I love about when I go to
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: restaurants that still have direct TV. I know to tell
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: them ESPN's 206. TBS, it's 239. I'm tired of looking
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: for icons.
• 53:16
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 53:17
  Speaker 12: So I have Sunday Ticket because I'm a student. And
• 53:20
  Speaker 12: every single Sunday, obviously, what am I going to do?
• 53:22
  Speaker 12: Watch Sunday Ticket and also the local games. I'm so
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: sick and tired of having just to scroll down and
• 53:29
  Speaker 12: seeing a thousand different channels just to find NBC, ABC,
• 53:33
  Speaker 12: whatever not.
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: It is the worst. So, yeah, as a casual fan
• 53:39
  Speaker 8: of baseball, those are the two dominating factors as to
• 53:42
  Speaker 8: why I didn't watch not a single game. One, like
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: I said, it's Milwaukee and Tampa Bay. I could care less. But, too, yeah,
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: it is. It is very difficult. Even the playoff games.
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: It was difficult to find the playoff games and what
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: was going on.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: I guess the only compelling thing for the casual sports fan,
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: if you're not a diehard baseball fan, because they'll watch.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, most diehard baseball fans have the MLB app
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: because that thing is a thing of beauty. You can
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: select favorite players. You can see instant highlights, get instant stats.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, it is what you imagine playing. all technology
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: at your fingertips being. The only reason for the casual
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: sports fan to watch this is to see Jacob Mizorowski.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Because brother throws heat. Like he's throwing 100 miles an
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: hour like it's nothing. And he could... I mean, if
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: he was in a large market, which... Inevitably, you know
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: he probably will be, although it's going to be interesting
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: to see the dynamics of the Dodgers as this whole
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: thing shakes out. But he is the next great pitcher.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: For all the pitchers that we've seen over the year
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: that we thought was going to be the next big thing,
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: the Kerry Woods, the Strasburgs, all these guys, He inevitably
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: looks like he's going to be the next big thing,
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: but playing for Milwaukee, which is an Olic Aquin term
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: for the good language, which, by the way, if you're
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: in my generation, you cannot hear the word Milwaukee without
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: thinking of that. For everyone else, that joke is completely
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: lost on you.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: But.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: To see him pitch as dominantly as he did, that's
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: part of the reason why in our conversations, I'm not
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: surprised this ended in a gentleman's sweep because the Brewers
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: pitching this year has just been so dominant.
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  Speaker 8: After the top of the aisle, we're going to come back.
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  Speaker 8: We'll get into some college football. We'll definitely get into NFL.
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  Speaker 8: You're listening to Chip Howard Sports Talk, taken over by
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  Speaker 8: Jason and Jared. Sports Radio, 1150 AM, The Zone, 937 FM.
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  Speaker 1: Brazos Valley Flooring and Design has been around a while,
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  Speaker 1: over 25 years. Chuck and the great staff over there
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  Speaker 1: have been Been putting flooring and granite countertops in homes
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  Speaker 1: and businesses. They have over a million square feet of flooring, carpet, tile, laminates, wood,
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  Speaker 1: plus the huge granite building next door where they cut
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  Speaker 1: everything to exact specification and If you're anything like us,
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  Speaker 1: we're not real good at decorating, but they have people
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  Speaker 1: on hand that will help you make those kinds of decisions.
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  Speaker 8: Whether you're doing one room, building a new home, own a.
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  Speaker 1: Duplex, entire office building or apartment complex, these are the
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  Speaker 1: people that get it done day after day after day.
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  Speaker 1: It's Brazos Valley Flooring and Design, right there at Rock
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  Speaker 1: Prairie and Old Welburn Road in College Station.
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  Speaker 27: Brazos Home Care has been voted Best of the Brazos
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  Speaker 27: for Best Senior Care Services. Brazos Home Care is a
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  Speaker 27: family and Aggie-owned home care agency providing excellent care to
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  Speaker 27: the Brazos Valley and surrounding communities. Brazos Home Care is
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  Speaker 27: proud to continue serving seniors with compassion, dedication, and excellence.
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  Speaker 27: And veterans and surviving spouses could be eligible for VA
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  Speaker 27: benefits to help pay for the service. For more information
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  Speaker 27: and to set up a consultation, go online at BrazosHomeCare.com.
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  Speaker 16: Fall in Aggieland means Messina Hoff. Cheering on the Aggies,
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  Speaker 16: enjoying a vineyard tour and tasting, or staying overnight at
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  Speaker 16: the Villa Bed and Breakfast, Messina Hoff is the perfect
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  Speaker 16: place to meet up before or after the game for
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  Speaker 16: great food and wine. Enjoy quarterly wine selections, savings on wine,
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  Speaker 16: and exclusive member events like their Fall Member Bash on
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  Speaker 16: November 8th by becoming a Messina Hoff VIP Wine Club
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  Speaker 16: member online or on your next visit to one of
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  Speaker 16: their four locations. Fall in Aggieland means Messina Hoff. Visit MessinaHoff.com
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  Speaker 16: to learn more.