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AZ does it again! Interview with Coach Tommy Lloyd · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: This is very exciting. University of Arizona is officially in
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  Speaker 1: the final four in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and
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  Speaker 1: we are getting ready to talk to head coach Tommy
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd all about the experience, what they expect when they play.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing Michigan this weekend. It's going to be crazy.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have him on after Livia Dean. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: we welcome you to a very special event, the Fantastic Four.
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  Speaker 1: It's an Arizona story. Tommy Lloyd he the Arizona wildcasts
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  Speaker 1: far ahead to the Final Four. Yes, sir, Tommy Lloyd's
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, coach, Good morning, guys. What's up?
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations man?
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  Speaker 2: Oh thanks thanks man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty fun stuff. But to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably out of the loop. I'm I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: leave my house yesterday, so I don't even know what's
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  Speaker 3: going on in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean, there's only one thing that matters,
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  Speaker 4: and that's the Final Four. That's gotta feel so good.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're a superstitious guy, remember we talked to
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  Speaker 4: you this summer before the season started, and we told
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  Speaker 4: you you would be in the final four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, oh my.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, I need I need proof and receipts. You know
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  Speaker 3: how easy it is to say something and I think
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  Speaker 3: somebody's going to follow up.
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  Speaker 4: Come on now, Yeah, so now every year before the
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  Speaker 4: season starts, we're going to tell you the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: So you're in every year.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Hey, that was that easy all along. Why didn't
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  Speaker 3: we figure that out beforehand?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, so I got to say. I was promoting that
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be on the air with this all morning long. Right,
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  Speaker 1: I get a text from this friend of mine. He says,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, John Jay. If you have a chance, ask
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  Speaker 1: coach Lloyd how great his pickleball court is. Ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, that's what we'll talk about. We're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna talk about the final four. We want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about your pickleball court.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I think I know those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, that's my You know, my pickleball court has
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  Speaker 3: been going unused. I have not played since December twenty third,
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, it's bad that I even remember that.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get back in it after this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Hey, let me ask you a couple of
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  Speaker 1: things about about the games recently, because that there's some
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  Speaker 1: things that I find just so fat fascinating to me. One,
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  Speaker 1: is is it true what I've read? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: watched the game. I saw a lot of stuff on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: But is it true what I heard about your halftime
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  Speaker 1: speech that there was no halftime speech?
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  Speaker 2: No? I mean no, the urban legend grows so fast.
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  Speaker 3: No. Actually, the truth is, you know these tournaments, usually
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  Speaker 3: you're used to a fifteen minute halftime.
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  Speaker 1: You get in a.
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  Speaker 3: Tournament it's twenty so it's really long. And then you
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  Speaker 3: know what it is, Jack Murphy, our assistant, and our
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  Speaker 3: video guys will usually go in, you know, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of minutes after the guys would ever go to the bathroom,
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  Speaker 3: get a drink, and he'll go over some clips from
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  Speaker 3: the actual game and they'll watch them film, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then I kind of stay back in the coach's
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  Speaker 3: locker room just with some of the other staff, will
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  Speaker 3: get my thoughts together, and then I go in and
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  Speaker 3: usually talk for four or five minutes. And I did that.
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  Speaker 3: We did all that, but at the end, I just told.
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  Speaker 2: The guys, like, you know, we have.
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  Speaker 3: We have some good leaders and like listen, and they're
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  Speaker 3: the guys out in the battle, But I told them,
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  Speaker 3: you guys got a few minutes, just talk, figure this
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  Speaker 3: deal out, and let's go kick ass in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: So to live that, that was all it was.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it wasn't me sitting in the other
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  Speaker 3: room doing nothing like biting my nails, freaking out, And
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  Speaker 3: so it wasn't that.
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  Speaker 4: Would you watch games like that Yukon Duke game last
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  Speaker 4: night where there's that just last half second or half
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  Speaker 4: of a second buzzer beater? Do you still get those chills?
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  Speaker 4: Are you still have that mind for basketball where that
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  Speaker 4: that gives you chills too?
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  Speaker 3: I mean you probably your emotional attachment to those moments
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  Speaker 3: has probably changed because you've been scarred by being on
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  Speaker 3: the other sides of them. So like, I think the
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  Speaker 3: first thing you have is like empathy for you know, John,
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  Speaker 3: John and I are really good friends, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: he's just done an incredible job at Duke, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the past couple of years. I don't know people have
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  Speaker 3: you know, dude could be a lightning rock program for
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  Speaker 3: how people feel, which is probably a tribute to them.
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  Speaker 3: But to follow coach k the way he has, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: and and and have that program in the position it
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  Speaker 3: has been amazing. But yeah, I think like you immediately
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  Speaker 3: like have empathy for that guy, and uh and then
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  Speaker 3: and then you then you dissect it and you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: well what went wrong? So because in your plant in
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  Speaker 3: your mind, you know, you're like, Okay, how do I
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  Speaker 3: how do I help our team and avoid that that
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  Speaker 3: decision that player made? Or how do I not put
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  Speaker 3: him in that position? I mean, I think that's where
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  Speaker 3: my mind goes.
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  Speaker 1: I love what you said about Loudelson. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Give me goosebumps. You very emotional. That was very cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's you know, I mean we know
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  Speaker 3: and touson im and I'm driving down Campbell right now,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, Arizona basketball is something special and
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  Speaker 3: in this community, man, they love it. They love it
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  Speaker 3: and uh and and and you know, and then reason
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  Speaker 3: they love it is you know, he's He's the probably
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  Speaker 3: he's the main reason. There's no doubt about it. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think it's always important we honor him
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  Speaker 3: and uh and what he's meant to this community because
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, you you people up in Scott
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  Speaker 3: delfinnis just a little outpost over the border, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and uh and and you know, so we we got
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  Speaker 3: to kind of have our own idea.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, we're from there. I'm from there. We staid
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  Speaker 1: lut onlut used to call our show all the time. Yeah, Hello, hello,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Lloyd, come in.
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  Speaker 2: Check one too, sorry sorry one too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know exactly where are on Campbell. You're right
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  Speaker 1: by that robertos that Yeah, that that little.
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  Speaker 4: That's a bad signal.
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  Speaker 3: Happens all the time right there, exactly right, deal, right
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  Speaker 3: right right right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, so yesterday, but real quick, so I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching the Yukon game. It's over, and they talked
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  Speaker 1: to Dan Hurley. Did you see that when they when
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  Speaker 1: they went to go talk to him really quick at
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  Speaker 1: the end, I didn't. Oh no, we're losing him, Tommy.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do? Sorry? I lost?
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  Speaker 1: So they're interview in him. They start the interview and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, where's my pen, where's my pen? Where's my pen?
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  Speaker 1: And the reporter goes, don't worry, we know you're superstitious.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get you a new pin. He's like, where's my pen?
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  Speaker 1: Where's my pen? He was like freaking out about it,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to know, do you have do you
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  Speaker 1: have a super Is there a superstition you have before
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  Speaker 1: a game, dirty game, after game, anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I honestly have tried to eliminate all that
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  Speaker 3: stuff just because, uh, I mean, I don't want uh
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  Speaker 3: why why want to let my band be taken by
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  Speaker 3: something that we know really doesn't matter. I mean, do
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  Speaker 3: I have routine for sure? I mean a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a routine. But even if that gets broken, I
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  Speaker 3: don't try to get rattled because I don't wanna.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to put myself in that state. He
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  Speaker 2: sounds like he went into but.
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  Speaker 3: But listen, Dan's a hard charging guy who's a great
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  Speaker 3: coach and uh and and that works for him.
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  Speaker 4: That's a big old stage you guys are going up on.
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  Speaker 4: I know you guys are ready for it, but you
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  Speaker 4: got what you keep on hearing This gets me excited.
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  Speaker 4: I know people in Tucson get excited when you hear
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  Speaker 4: all the announcers finally give Arizona credit and say this
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  Speaker 4: is the best team in college basket all the most
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  Speaker 4: dangerous team. That's got to feel good going in. How
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  Speaker 4: do you keep everybody loose and keep that spirit alive?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, first off, you understand that that all these
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  Speaker 3: announcers have recency bias.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so like, uh, I'm sure they're saying the same.
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  Speaker 3: Thing about Michigan today and they should and and I
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  Speaker 3: think for us the most the main thing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: my messaging to the guys is probably isn't any fun
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  Speaker 3: for you guys, is we have to stay normal and
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  Speaker 3: we literally have to treat this like a normal week.
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  Speaker 2: Why would we change our routine right now?
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  Speaker 3: The states aren't any higher than they were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: two weeks ago or or a month ago. And and
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  Speaker 3: I know you maybe they are for you guys, because
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  Speaker 3: people are you have a heightened sense of awareness now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because it is March madness. And so for me,
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  Speaker 3: it's just keeping it normal and then trying to find
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  Speaker 3: real power in that. For our guys is just like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is just normal, and this is right where we
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  Speaker 3: should be and and and obviously we're here. And if
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  Speaker 3: we're going into a fourteen tournament, and I thought the
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  Speaker 3: NCAA tournament is is three fourteen, and you know you don't,
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  Speaker 3: don't worry about sixty four four. And then then if
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  Speaker 3: you want to, if you want to win your four
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  Speaker 3: keep tournament, you gotta win the first game, so you
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  Speaker 3: put your full focus on that. And that's all we do.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not it's not sexy. It's it's like you
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  Speaker 3: guys putting together show. You know, you don't you don't
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  Speaker 3: you know, you don't try to do a better show
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  Speaker 3: every day. You just try to do a really really
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  Speaker 3: good show every single day because it's the number one
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  Speaker 3: seed what And I know, and I know you guys
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  Speaker 3: think I'm giving you.
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  Speaker 2: A coach speak right now, but honestly, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty It's really true how we approach it. It's a
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  Speaker 3: very simple approach and very normal. Like I'm driving down
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  Speaker 3: Campbell right now because I'm going to get my haircut
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  Speaker 3: because I want to get my haircut when nobody else
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  Speaker 3: is there, because I know all these people are crazy
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  Speaker 3: in this town. Right now, normal stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna have a special haircut? Are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: look different tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: You look different.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about getting a couple I'm thinking about getting
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  Speaker 3: a couple of lines put in and make like I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, like my initials shaved in my head and
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  Speaker 3: double nicks in my eyebrow.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go a favorite restaurant in Tucson. Favorite restaurant.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you can't make you give us a couple a
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  Speaker 4: couple of favorites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I love all the charo restaurants. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: love I love this.
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  Speaker 3: This restaurant about my house, Contigo that's at the Wapaloma.
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  Speaker 3: I love Lane. They got great uh Snor and Donks
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  Speaker 3: Momo's right by campus is great. You know, I live
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  Speaker 3: in the little triangle up in the foothills, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where there's a there's a Flemings, there's Vivaci, and there's
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  Speaker 3: Pabolino and then and I kind of frequent those a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I get a lot of takeout breakfast at Baja Cafe.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, how.
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  Speaker 1: About your favorite great favorite Beastie Boys song?
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, you know, actually it's been great for me
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  Speaker 3: and you and you know.
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  Speaker 2: This a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I have developed a really good relationship with Mixed Master Mike,
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  Speaker 3: Like he was coming to all our games in San Jose.
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  Speaker 3: And you can be going to the Final four and
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  Speaker 3: you know, may may or may not be doing a.
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  Speaker 2: Private show one night at the Final four.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So uh yeah, man, that that's there. There's
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  Speaker 3: so many good Beastie Boys songs. I mean, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: even know where to start. My favorite album is fALS,
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  Speaker 3: which one where we're.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about is there a song you put on to
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  Speaker 1: pump you up before a game?
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  Speaker 3: But you know a song that I really like, lady
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  Speaker 3: that I think has been underappreciated. It's called NonStop Disco
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  Speaker 3: Power and and and uh and it's a great, great
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  Speaker 3: song and and really underrated.
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  Speaker 2: So uh have been listening to that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. It's a deep cut. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you'd recognize it on the album.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just it's not one that's on the main playlist,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a really good one.
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  Speaker 2: And you know why I love the BAC Boys, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And and this has taken on a life of its own,
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  Speaker 3: which is great. But I think there's just a true
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  Speaker 3: essence about them that really connected me when I was
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  Speaker 3: young and and where where it's fun, a little bit juvenile,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but then it became more thoughtful as they
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  Speaker 3: got older because they really care for people. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: I feel a lot of parallels to myself with that.
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  Speaker 3: So I believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know, it's the soundtrack of my life.
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  Speaker 3: And here here's my goal.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I remember when.
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of young, and I first like listen
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  Speaker 3: to like my dad led zebbelin eight tracks, and I
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  Speaker 3: started thinking I was pretty cool. And I'm like telling
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  Speaker 3: all my friends now I listened to led Zepplin. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like I was a little different and cool and more sophisticated.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want the VC Boys to be for
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  Speaker 3: this next generation kid.
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  Speaker 2: I think I believe they are led Zepplin.
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  Speaker 4: When they say to me, how are you gonna kick it?
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  Speaker 4: I say, I'm gonna kick it Route Down, and I
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  Speaker 4: mean it. Thank you BC Boys.
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  Speaker 3: I actually love that song Route Down.
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  Speaker 2: That is a great song as well.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, coach, thank you so much for taking time
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  Speaker 1: to jump on there with us. Really really really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: You're awesome. Are you going back to the final four?
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to set you know, my son Dutch and
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  Speaker 1: my wife Blake want to go, so we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: make it happen.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, you gotta make that happen. And he and
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  Speaker 3: your son, Dutch is a great young man. And then
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, guys, the only reason I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: this radio and this interview is because Dutch is in
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  Speaker 3: our program, and and and and and John Jay has
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  Speaker 3: been great to us, so so that's why I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing no other media stuff today. And and your
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  Speaker 3: son is a great young man who's loved by all
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  Speaker 3: and including the sorority girls. He's really.
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  Speaker 1: You're so thank you, thank you so much for saying that.
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  Speaker 1: But you but now that you say that, now I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna jump through. I'm gonna go. I will be at
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  Speaker 1: the final four.
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  Speaker 3: I will.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, in your suitcase. Thank you, guys, Thanks brother,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, love you man. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: The haircut, I have a great one.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. It's so funny when we talking people talk
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  Speaker 1: about your kids like I literally if he would have
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  Speaker 1: gone to you further, I would have started crying.
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  Speaker 3: It was so nice, so nice, especially as someone that's
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  Speaker 3: as respected as Tommy Lloyd.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm so fast man, really good dude like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so fast like how And at some point I
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  Speaker 1: want to have him on the highly successful Judge of
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  Speaker 1: NS podcast because I want to know how do you
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  Speaker 1: learn that stuff to be great? Like everything he does
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  Speaker 1: is just so great, you know. Anyway, the company I
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  Speaker 1: put up his pickleball court was sport Court by, Like
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  Speaker 1: you want to know, Jimmy Fox get hold of Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Fox