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Welcome in everybody. It is time for another edition, another episode, another
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chapter in the days of our lives. This is Three Guys Before the Game,
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Episode five forty eight, and the title is staffing up. Newcomers coming
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on board, players, coaches, stocking up the shelves for the Mountaineer basketball
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program. Little by little, rosters starting to come back. And by the
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way, we are now paying the winning tickets on the over under for players
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remaining from last season's team. We're kind of on it. I took the
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under all the way. I'm cashing number was set at one and a half.
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Believe cashing. I'm cab. When it's said and done, it's gonna
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be one. Last Man's Standing. It's a Bruce Springsteen s song, Hoppey
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Last Man Standing, one of his one of his recent albums within the last
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couple of four years or so. Last Man's Standing was a song It's gonna
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be It's gonna be O free Neve a very different look, new coaches,
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new players, everything new everything. I mean, recognize them that way.
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Everything is new. Three Guys before the Game, we'll get into staffing.
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We'll get into football basketball in the NBA. How about the Mountaineers making some
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noise. Players, coaches, we'll talk about that, plus your texts on
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not more than thirteen hours ago, on my way back up the road.
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Flawoods. Oh yeah, that's the flat. That's the two go marts next
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to each other, not one, but two, Yeah, right next to
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each other, twice as nice. Which ones you hit? The not the
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went right and kept just you know, took the left end boom. Very
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very friendly late right, Yeah it was. It was heading toward eleven,
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but get that post on the way home, on the way back up,
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and made a horrific, uh, stunningly food decision. Bad food decision,
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of course you did. Stunned by that development. Yeah, give us the
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tails. It didn't hurt me, It didn't physically hurt me, but I
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just know that was not what I was supposed to be eating at that hour
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of the night. So I made it. That could have been last night,
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could have been six months ago, could have been nineteen ninety nine,
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and we'd be having the same conversation here. So as control the road,
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it went to a gomart made a bad food decision. So air number one.
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What do you not want to eat in the dark on the road at
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that hour anyway, Klondike Bar, that chocolate hall, that chocolate falls off?
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Those are good though. Oh it's not a matter of if the chocolate.
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If it breaks off in a piece, you might have it on the
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lap the whole way home and not know it caught a piece on the pants
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caught it. And that wasn't like I was wearing jeans because I was coming
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back from that big engineized Daniel suit. I had had a hard chef nor
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Marks had a hard chef nor Mark suit. You dropped it on your pants?
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Yeah, instantly? Did I picked it up? I didn't see any
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residents. Well that helps, yeah, because you could have been all the
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way into Fairmont before you realize exactly, and then it's just kind of melt
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it down and you got a shot. Then you're going to see Phil saying,
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hey, you just need a whole new suit, right, and then
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the other deal on that wass are heard? I mean I understand that bad
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decision. Yeah, and let me take a bet. I know the klondike
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was not the only thing you got. Yeah, correct, and not paired
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it with something weird too, Yeah, not weird, not weird at all,
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conventional for me. Peanu M and ms. Okay, okay, that
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works. So I went and did you Did you manage the consumption of the
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pean of Eminem's or did you tear the top off and drink it? Yes?
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Drank them? Do that taste good? You always do that. Don't
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do that because you get a great experience in the mouth when you got all
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that crunching going on all the day. I agree, But you can you
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can get like a couple of crunches throughout the bag. Needed to fall asleep.
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I needed to go to sleep. Peanut M and M is definitely when
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you drive down road a one at a time, one at a time.
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I'm multiple the time too. I just don't drink it. Yeah, you
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gotta have one. He's right on that. I'm totally with him on the
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theory. I'm just saying the livery mechanism to get it, like he literally
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tears the bag, tilts his head back and drinks the bag. But that
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then you don't get to sustain the joy. But you got a lot of
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residue going on there that goes last for a long time. I'm with a
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lot of residue. Those actually go together, all right, that's not actually
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that you're working on things all the way up to the Roanoke exit up Stonewall
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there. Oh gosh, Yeah, it's good. It's the it's the treat
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that keeps on giving. Plus a water right yeah, I head water head
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water anyway, if you so, he's done way worse than that, oh
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yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it always brings back memories because that was
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the trip that I was coming back from once where Greg Hunter took the wheel
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that was how the whole fly rod slim gym started, because he's the same
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thing. Hunter had a fly rod slim gym holding the steering wheel and then
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his head was about a millimeter from the from the ceiling, and it was
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disproportionate, and it looked like the steering wheel was an oreo. He had
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grown to nine three nine foot at three and the steering wheel was like at
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his ankles. Yeah. So anyway, fuel And by the way, I
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hit fuel two times going down. Excuse me, I bought Gomart fuel two
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times. Jane Lou or not Jane Lou. The gas away exit, Oh
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sure, got fueled sixty two exit sixty two gas away exit. And I
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filled up there because I had to drop my vehicle off, got another one,
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came back up the road, filled up at the flatwoods. I I
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got cherry truck there. Yeah, the truck. Yeah, I took care
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of Gomark yesterday to Phillips. What are you driving? Ripped on two different
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he dropped one vehicle off, picked up another one. He had to tag
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out the truck there at the Roe's four, then got his another one and
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headed down the road. So it's like a vehicle swap. I got it
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okay, and the new one I have drives by itself. Does it really?
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Yeah? Have you trued you do it instantly? You didn't see how's
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it works? Like a kid, right, he can't help himself. You
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like it scary but good? Really talked to the guy, talked to Marky.
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Yeah, Marky the road told me said, I'm just telling you,
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once you start doing it, you'll never be able to go back to anything
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else. Okay, put that thing on there. You you have to keep
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no, you have to keep your eyes straight, cameras checking your head.
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And you have to keep your hands on the steering wheel. Oh, your
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hands stay on the way. It's not like, yeah, that's called driving.
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No, but you don't do anything. But you don't do anything with
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your hands. It's just literally they're they just stay there. You're not doing
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anything. It just needs to touch. You're not doing this. Okay,
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and it goes down seventy nine. Did you grab it around the first turn?
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I was very close to holding it in case it didn't do what it
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was supposed to do. This is what flipped me out. I'm in the
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left lane. I want to get back to the right lane. Flip the
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signal up turn signal, it goes. It did it over, it goes.
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What about if you're like passing, I mean obviously it notices, oh
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yeah, more gas or put it'll put the brakes on if you're if you're
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in the same lane, it'll put the oh yeah, automatically planned to go
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to you put it in like punch it in, Go for good times,
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I mean, there's here's the reality of all of that. In the
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back seat there, just print the text would have been done so off.
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He's not driving, So obviously that's that's the step. But the interesting thing
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is, and this is why I kind of like, only one of the
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reasons you do wish I was younger. I want to see what that things
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in twenty years, because I don't think there's any question. In a matter
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of a decade or so, you literally will not be You don't have to
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pay attention, probably don't have to pay it in ten years, fifteen years
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from now, like it will just go. I'm not sure you want to
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see that, because in twenty years AI is going to be doing to play
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by play of the game. Yeah, that's true that I was listening to
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a podcast last night. Do you know that the three platforms that are developing
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AI have accessed and either stored or accessed all printed material, so much so,
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in fact, copy that they went to YouTube and took everything off all
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videos, transcribed it and took that to Yes, took that to they have
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all known knowledge, Yes, store and still looking for more and looking for
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more. So you listened to the same New York Times podcast that I did.
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Yeah, as first reported. He called me. He was like,
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look, kid, he called me with that news first reported by you.
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I go, dude, how about this that the other day? Well?
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How about am I blowing your mind with these songs we've been making? Oh
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yeah, but here's the here's the thing I thought, I thought that was
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amazing. But two things. One is, oh, by the way,
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a lot of it's copyrighted, so there's that issue. And oh, by
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the way, some of it is wrong. Not the music. But no,
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we're talking about the music. I'm not talking about the songs. I'm
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talking about the material that there's no question is a steal, there's no question.
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And they're claiming fair use. They're claiming fair use, like it's such
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a big deal that don't worry about the copy right thing. We're making the
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world better, you know, I'm not sure. I mean, yeah,
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that was a that was a really good I mean, you think it's a
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good thing until something that you generated shows up. Oh I know, Well
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that was it, so you Yeah, that was a great podcast. That
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was really good. Yeah, it was really good. Hey, thanks for
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coming in. Hey listen, maybe we could do a pot talk line right
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there. Maybe we could do a podcast today. What do you think,
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Well, let's talk about it. Maybe not three guys. So this show
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today is going to be all over the place because, as if you couldn't
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tell already, start on that. Yeah, last night, the annual Mountaineer
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Athletic Club Scholarship Dinner took place in Charleston, and uh, several hundred people
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there. I don't know how many is it. I don't know if it's
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five hundred and six, whatever it is, but a great crowd and John
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Beeline was the special guest. It was Darren Derees's first shoal event in Charleston.
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And you know what you come away with at this point in w v
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U athletics that I think if you were going to do a graph, you're
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on an uptick. Here, You're on an uptick. Think about this.
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On the so we did, we did five head coaches with a little Q
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and A. So you had Darren Devrees, right, So that's what you're
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getting about. You had Darren Devrees. You had Mark Kellogg, he didn't
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have a bad debut season. You had Neil Brown, right, he kind
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of he kind of had a little bit of a season. You had a
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little bit of a season. Should have been touched there. Yeah. You
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had Jen Greeney, the new volleyball coach who took over a Washington State team
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they had won zero matches and when she took over, Washington State went to
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eight NCAA's in a row. Great higher and then on the other and Dan
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Stratford, who men's soccer coach who Hoppy hired at the Universe good hobby by
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higher and so he thinks he'll be pre season three women's basketball be preseason h
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football will probably be a preseason top twenty five, right, And obviously coach
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Greeney is starting from scratch, and then obviously Darren is starting from scratch.
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But you know what you got, you gotta you gotta you gotta wave,
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you gotta wave coming up. Compare that to a year ago at that same
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dinner, it was like things were a little every week good point. Everyone
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was kind of like walking around like sideways, like uncertainty. Uncertainty reigned supreme,
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now unsettled. Now I think you got optimism and you have true excitement,
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little momentum now yeah, yeah, absolutely, just everything you said,
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Tony. Plus the basketball thing has been a struggle obviously, But what does
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a new coach give you hope? Hope? Right, Like, hey,
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start a new new new players, and it gives you hope, It gives
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you anticipation, new things are titillating, right, Yeah, so you got
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that. Yeah, I'm sure it was a great night, Tony, Yeah
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it was. And then John Beelin being there, and it's great that John
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Beelin comes back. I mean, he's a guy that was only here five
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years, just five years, but it feels like that he is linked to
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us, doesn't it. Yes, I think that he wants to get back
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involved, and I think that Ren did a really nice thing of bringing him
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back in. And that was the first time he came back. He did
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like a little clinic thing for JD. Collins and Fairmount a couple of summers
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ago, but that was the first time he was back at a WVU event
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since he was gone. That's seventeen years, has been that long, which
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that's a great guy to have back, a wonderful ambassador. If he's tied
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to your program again, elicits some unbelievable memories for everybody that was around during
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that time period and really neat because guys he was in the era of it's
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hard to leave. It's hard to leave a place and not have everybody all
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over you, and he's one of the few that's been able to exit.
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And some of that was helped, admittedly by Bob Huggins being the guy that
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followed him. Guy at that level with that kind of success that eased the
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transition from John into Hugs. But I think that's a wonderful even if it's
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a semi and bachelor role. He's got a couple of schools to serve there.
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But I think that's a huge win for mountaineers everywhere to have him back
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involved. He's in Wren wants to honor that five team. Yeah, this
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coming year, twentieth year. Great, that'll be the twentieth anniversary. And
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hopefully he says, here's the issue. He goes, thirteen of my guys
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that were at West Virginia are coaches. He said, Probably, John said
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that, Yeah, probably can't. Thirteen thirteen are coaching. Probably can't do
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that in basketball season. Wow, how about that? That's that's wild.
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Yeah, over his span and wonder why those teams had high basketball I ked
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exactly what he said. He said, I was successful because I had really
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smart players. Told a story about Joseph Missoula. Now he's busy right now,
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he's he's got things on it. What's he doing now? Went back
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up near home, near Rhode Island somewhere. So I had told the story.
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I remember when Joe's on his visit, I walked into the office for
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whatever reason, and Joe was just kind of sitting there near the near the
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desk, either he was waiting to go home or waiting to go in to
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see John or that's the first time I ever met him. And he told
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the story last night when he offered Joe Missoula a scholarship and they brought him
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back to the airport wherever. Joe was in tears, so happy to get
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a scholarship offer from West Virginia, and that's how the whole thing started.
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Now he's leading a team that's a minus eight thousand favorite in its playoff series
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against the Heat. Now. John also did point out Mike, Mike win
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and Natty Yeah win a world he might win the worlds now. John did
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also mention but if they don't, they have to Okay, Yeah, well
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I want to talk about that because I was we need to spend a little
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time on NBA because Mountaineers are flying high in that event right now. So
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John mentioned that the Joe that you see today on the sidelines is a different
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Joe than when he was here. Yeah. I think John used the term
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he was a pain in the ass. That's that was the term that he
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used. He was a wild child. Yeah, and he called him in
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and had a conversation with him. I forget at what point young in his
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career basically said, dude, like, do you want to you want to
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be successful? Your practice habits are like non existent. And he said he
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turned the light on and off it went and off it went. So that
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was good. Good to see him. Uh. He said, there's no
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way he would ever play the one three to one again. Reason said,
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you can't do it anymore, he said, because you know what he said,
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because it opens you up for layups and three point shots. And guess
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what everybody's doing now. Layups and three points corner three would be devastating.
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They just park people in the corner. You think a key more Warwick might
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come underneath the basket and dunk it at the top of his head. That's
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the thing. He also said, if he coached again, he would pick
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up the pace of play. He would fire more, take more threes,
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take more threes. And he said he was looking at a sports reference dot
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com, which is a great sight. And they had I think they made
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the third most threes in the country in one of his seasons here. They
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were living on that obviously, so they were ahead of their times. Yeah,
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I tell you what else he did. And this, for whatever sticks
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in my mind, was I remember covering his kind of press availability. We
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might have carried it live when he announced he's leaving. Is that he made
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an announcement here he addressed the press. He did every interview and a lot
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of times, Brad, what a coaches do they're going leave? Leave?
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You know what happened? Oh, I don't know there and he did that.
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I thought that was a very classy thing to do. I just remember
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that that that was just a proper way, professional way to handle that,
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because it's never popular when you leave if you're successful. Correct, he has
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the don Neelan gravitas. I think that he can come back in and go
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anywhere and people are going to give you, you know, the way that
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it's supposed to be for a former coach, Like you're revered, you're respected,
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they love you for what you did. That's the way it's supposed to
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be. And when you say when you when you say John being one of
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those teams, you what do you instantly do? Smile? Smile? Instantly
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smile? Yeah. Fun times. All of the current coaches are perspiring over
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may one reason because that's the deadline that the portal will close, so everyone's
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worried. Mark Kellogg even mentioned it. He goes like, I, you
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know, I'm just waiting for May one to be over, so I know
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what the heck my roster is. You'll be able to get kids after that
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because there's going to be more kids in the portal than have places to go.
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You don't have to be landed, you just have to go in.
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If you're a player, you have to be entered into the portal then,
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So every coach is concerned that they've got players, you know, pulling a
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Shawshank redemption go on underneath that, going Underneathan coming out through the wall.
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So hop you and I have been I'll bring you in this because you never
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fought me on this. I've been pro player movement, pro payer player paid
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for years, right, been very outspoken about that. I still am still
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completely am. I do acknowledge they do have to find a way to get
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to a point where you can serve both entities in this because I get what
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those coaches are saying, the fact that you have to worry about your roster.
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Basically three hundred and sixty five days. I know there's a couple windows.
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That's really difficult, right, that's really difficult. Again, we've talked
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many times, too restrictive for decades, probably too liberal, over corrected.
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The market will settle itself, but you've got to get there. I do
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see what these coaches are saying when they have to sit here in May and
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not exactly know because you're worried about the next wave of transfer parties. I
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agree with you completely. I mean that you have to have more constraints on
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the movement, not that you can't move, but that when you can move,
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and when coaches know what they got absolutely and that's all just about being
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able to manage. Okay, that's being able to manage while giving the players
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an opportunity to move and giving the coaches a chance to manage what they have.
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Yeah, and given the players an opportunity to make what they're worth or
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what the market will bear, and do all that. I think you can
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achieve that there is just as we often talk with college sports, there's a
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lot of things you can say are easy philosophically that are very difficult to get
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to when you get down in the weeds and are trying to legislate. I
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get it. But I am sympathetic to that side of it, that the
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constant roster turnover is very difficult to know where you are with the team.
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And you know the other thing is that while empowering the individual, you got
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to be careful about its impact on everybody else, right, Yes, so
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that I mean that because every movement, especially something like what every movement can
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is not just is not just isolated to that player. Yeah, and I
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think that's what coaches are trying to manage now, is that team building aspect
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and the not just the culture and the locker room camaraderie, but the individual
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playing talents and pieces you need. So yeah, it's challenge, there's no
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question about that. Starting to hear more and more among chief people involved in
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this world, the administrators, that we're moving toward some form of employment.
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Sure, there's going to be some model of employment, and how you pull
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that all together is going to be unbelievably interesting to see how that looks,
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because, as you know, Ren Baker will often say, you know,
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there's good things to be in an employee, there's also a lot of bad
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things to be an employee, which would take away things that student athletes currently
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get. So it's not utopia, but that is the lean. But what
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is this thing is going? I mean, that's the thing. I think
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sometimes we make the mistake of saying it's got to be utopia, it's got
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to be perfect. It isn't, nor has it been. It hasn't been
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perfect before, So you're not going to get to a perfect solution. That's
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the point of a negotiation. There's going to be some give and take,
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and both sides of that have to have to be willing to do that.
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microwave exactly. Or that time sister Mary was cutting those Campbell soup labels all
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right, all right, with that paper, all right, with that paper
23:25
cutter, and she was trying to cut the labels as there weren't more of
23:26
those. That was a rudimentary tool in the classroom. That wasn't that.
23:32
It has that big giant paper cutters, just big blade, which little kids.
23:37
Well, at least there's adults spreading around here because we are in classrooms.
23:41
Yeah, it's a wonder somebody to stick their finger in here, all
23:44
right, since the last time we got together, way off track, now,
23:47
way off track. The basketball staff at WUVU is growing, as head
23:52
coach Darren Devrees formally has announced the hirings of Chester Frasier, who comes to
23:57
WUVU from the University of Illinois, as first reported on the show. We
24:03
really didn't first report it, but everyone always likes to say that. And
24:07
then Nelson Hernandez, who joins WVU from Oklahoma State where he will serve as
24:14
player Personnel Director. And then in addition to all that, coming from the
24:22
University of Nevada, we've got Corey Butler Barnett. I'm sorry, Barnett,
24:26
excuse me, Corey Barnett, and he is in. And so now you've
24:32
got three assistants, and you have Hernandez. And also today you have the
24:41
director of Operations being named. Who's a familiar face. It's Trent Michaels,
24:45
who has been with us for a really long time. He first started off
24:49
as a student manager, became head manager, joined the staff graduate assistant,
24:55
served as the Dobo Director of Basketball Operations last year, and he will retain
25:00
that position, and that's great. Trent's wonderful, does a fantastic job,
25:04
has a ton of institutional knowledge as to how this whole thing works day to
25:11
day, and then when you're out on the road, we're to go,
25:12
we're not to go, how to do this, how to do that,
25:15
And so the staff is coming together. We also had a couple of visits
25:19
this weekend and to no surprise, Sincere Herris from Illinois joins the Mountaineer roster
25:26
and Amani Hansbury, also an Illinois transfer, joins the Mountaineer roster, one
25:33
from Ohio, one from Baltimore. These were expected after the hiring of Chester
25:38
Fraser and so West Virginia Lands. Both of them so extremely high pedigree high
25:45
school recruits, but to this point have not done anything in the college space
25:52
that makes you go wow. So obviously betting on the come. Two four
25:56
star guys start with Harris from Lebron James High School, Saint Mary, Saint
26:00
Vincent. It was told to me by a coach in the business when they
26:06
were talking about Harris, who, as you mentioned, sat out last year
26:08
at Illinois, so you don't have a lot to go on last year.
26:11
But hopey, it was said to me, which is one of the great
26:12
compliments from the from the basketball industry. One of the great compliments you can
26:18
give a player is he's got a little bleep to him. Got a little
26:22
bleep to him, hopeyah, a little something to him, bleep to him.
26:26
So that's Harris comes in, what six' four tony, So you
26:30
get some decent size there in the back one six seventy. Yeah, so
26:33
you got some size there. Hansbury comes in as a six to eight as
26:36
you mentioned, four star out of high school from Baltimore, played for a
26:40
legendary program over there, brings you some size. He did play some minutes
26:45
this season against Illinois three or four handful of times. He played double digit
26:48
minutes last game, put up eight points against the two time defending national champion
26:53
Yukon Huskies in that game. So these are guys that you have. As
26:57
you mentioned, Toll highly regarded coming out of high school looking for a fresh
27:03
start. Their first experience into college wasn't what they thought it was going to
27:07
be. So do you get some guys that are now ready they understand they
27:10
were at a very very good Illinois program that's won a ton of games.
27:14
So come from a winning culture. What can they do on the floor.
27:17
Are these guys that say, Okay, now I get the college game,
27:19
I'm ready to go. Here's my chance to start again, you certainly hope.
27:22
So starting with some good size and some good high school pedigree at least,
27:26
Yeah, good Stewart. So you add in kJ Tenor, who had
27:30
originally committed to Drake, and he'll come in as a high school senior,
27:36
so he'll be a true freshman kJ Tenor. And these are the scholarship guys
27:40
at this point ofry Nevey, Sincere, Harris, Amani, Hansbury, Tucker
27:45
devrees and to this moment, no, a fair account. But I don't
27:48
think that's going to last. And so you've got five on scholarship. And
27:52
then you've got aident Tagalo and Nelson the football player, who obviously would be
27:57
very limited and what he would be available to do, so obviously a lot
28:02
more fruit to harvest here before we call the roster. Go. Yeah,
28:04
you got some work to do. But now that you've got the staff in
28:07
place, now you can come together. What are we looking for? What
28:08
do you need? What do you need to plug in here? And those
28:11
discussions are ongoing again. As we mentioned that Portal's going to continue to have
28:15
players in it. And the one thing we often talk about hop for a
28:18
situation like West Virginia's in when Tonny you used the correct terminology earlier, it's
28:23
a complete rebuild. There's never been a better time to rebuild your roster,
28:27
the ability to go in and get some talent or some guys like Harris and
28:30
Hansbury that are looking for a fresh start, that are looking for a new
28:36
place to go restart their career. There's a ton of those guys out there
28:38
now that'll quickly move into the question of Okay, how do you meld all
28:41
those new pieces together? But for now, go out and continue to get
28:45
guys as they are. Yeah, So let's jump into the NBA involving the
28:48
Mountaineers Mike Gansey and the Cleveland Cavaliers involved, Joe Mizula and the Celtics involve
28:56
Deuce McBride is Involvedduce had a game of games in game number one of the
29:03
series against the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, highest plus minus in Knick's history in
29:07
a playoff in a playoff game. And I think this is correct, and
29:11
I haven't we've been driving. I didn't look it up yesterday. That has
29:15
to be the best playoff performance in the NBA by a Mountaineer since Jerry West.
29:21
The only others it could be, potentially would be Fritz Williams when he
29:26
played for the Milwaukee Bucks, and maybe Rod Thorne. I'll have to dig,
29:32
but that very well could be the best playoff performance since Jerry West by
29:36
a mountaineer. I'm just trying to think, Oh, you don't have to
29:38
think hard. You ain't got think real long hair hoppy. He had twenty
29:45
one to three and four in that game and hit five of seven to three
29:49
pointers, and he was the story of the game. Well he was a
29:52
story afterwards. Jalen Brunson, their MVP candidate, was asked after the game,
29:57
what allowed you to win the game and what was the key factor in
30:00
winning this game? Gave a two word answer. Deuce McBride was how Jalen
30:04
brunts an answer, I tell you what a great I watched the game last
30:08
night, most of the game. I mean just Philadelphia and New York.
30:11
That's a great NBA series. Okay, yeah, two yeah, two historic
30:17
teams. How many times have they played? I mean people, my age
30:19
growing up, watched that, watch that, uh, those two teams play
30:22
and to see Deuce out there, I mean getting real time, you know,
30:26
making making a difference in the playoff pretty exactly. He's he's really guys
30:30
moved to what we thought he would become the Knicks with that new contract this
30:34
winter for him and moved a bunch of guys off that roster. He'd been
30:37
in a log jam there for his first couple of years in the NBA.
30:40
They clearly saw what he could be because they finally got rid of some guys,
30:44
moved him out of the way, and he's a dude. Now he's
30:45
playing a significant role on a team that really not only did the number two
30:49
seed in the East that should be matching up against Boston there in the final.
30:52
Yeah, I mean they're to nothing over Philly right now. That's gonna
30:55
start with that. So what's their takeaway on all of this is that pretty
31:00
it's fun. It makes it more it's more interesting. Yeah, it's awesome,
31:03
And I know Ho for me is a guy that's liked the NBA for
31:07
a long time, certainly makes it much more worth watching. I know others
31:10
that really haven't followed the NBA are gotten involved in it. For what's it
31:14
been a long time since you've had this kind of rooting interest, and now
31:17
to have three teams in the East that you can follow. I know Javon
31:21
Carter and the Bulls had the playing game, but they didn't get far.
31:22
You've got that going as well. So it's a blast and watching. So
31:27
not only is Deuce fun to watch, but this story with the Boston Celtics
31:30
and Joe Mizzoula has the potential to be just fascinating here over the next couple
31:34
of months. I mean, that's a prohibitive favorite. If you look on
31:37
DraftKings right now, they're plus one thirty to win the whole thing. The
31:41
next closest is the defending champions, the Denver Nuggets plus two to twenty.
31:45
The next closest Eastern team is the Bucks at plus sixteen hundred. So they're
31:51
a prohibitive favorite in the East to get to the NBA Finals. It's you
31:56
would think they would. It's just you want to be in that position.
32:00
At the same time, there's so much pressure. It's both because anything short,
32:04
yeah, anything short of winning at all is going to be seen as
32:07
at just supports no doubt, and I think that team listened. They have
32:09
had an unbelievable historic run through this and here in the coming weeks, I'll
32:15
round up some of those numbers. One of them. They they've had a
32:19
twenty point at least a twenty point lead in exactly half of their regular season
32:22
games in the NBA. Think about that kind of dominance. Kris Kristin Porzingis
32:28
Is, Christoph Porzengis is maybe the key to that if he stays healthy.
32:32
The seven three, seven, four, seven to two, whatever he is
32:36
is such a matchup problem and a difference maker. You know, they call
32:38
him the Unicorn, a pretty good hob one in kind. There's what they're
32:42
saying with Tatum, with Brown. They've they've got a chance there if Porzingis
32:46
can stay healthy. But that's a big gift here as you run down the
32:49
next couple months this NBA season, Monder football talk coming up in just a
32:52
second Textual healing still to come. It is a grand time of the year
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That's lou Wendell Marine Sales dot Com. We should probably get our producer Austin
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like when we do that, read to take a punchdown of the live the
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live look at the water. That'd be kind of neat because that way the
34:15
picture will be different. You know what you should get is it's look nice
34:17
in those doc slipside. Don't they I just went to the website. Sure
34:21
they have video. We should just run the video. Yeah, I mean
34:24
it's looks like fun. I mean, well, sure it's fun. How
34:28
long before you go out? What they're selling is fun. They sell family
34:31
fun. Wait a minute, brand first time listener for they sell family fun.
34:37
It's nice soon coming soon. Hey, look, you think of a
34:39
pontoon boat, you think of it like chugging along now? Yeah? Yeah,
34:45
three guys specially behind him water sal Yeah. I mean, what do
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you want to put back there? That's what you can put back there.
34:51
They've got that twenty twenty three try Tune Venture eighty five, twenty three footer
34:55
from Avalon. Got a Honda one fifteen on that thing and just absolutely gorgeous.
35:00
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35:04
eight thirty till five Sunday open one till five on deck on the front of
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that and for one of those aqua mats out there, so we do up
35:13
an aqua mat out the front. Hop you'll get that coconut hop, you
35:16
get that coconut oil out there. I don't think they recommend that not anymore.
35:21
That used to be back if it's bad now, Yeah, not supposed
35:23
to do that, all right? Cool? Ummmmm no baby Tropic Thunder number
35:30
three tropic, No, not tropic thunder, tropic whatever it was, Yeah,
35:35
brown bottle. Uh, I have to look this Spic Thunder is a
35:40
movie. I have to look up. Uh, I thought there, I
35:44
have to look up Rod Thorn's playoff games. Let me go, I'll look
35:49
while you're doing that. You're busy. Uh. Rod did never never scored
35:52
more than twenty oh really, so he's out of the competition. Most he
35:55
had was fourteen nineteen sixty seven Saint Louis against San Francisco's Warriors, lined up,
36:04
had fourteen all lined up. Yeah, so we'll get that on Fritz
36:09
William as well. But I think I think my statement may win. I
36:12
think that might be the best productivity in a playoff game since Jared West West.
36:16
Jerry West playoff stats played in one hundred and fifty three games. Did
36:22
that sounds right? Think about that two seasons worth? Yeah, average twenty
36:24
nine points, good, five rebounds, five and a half rebounds, and
36:30
six assists. Yeah, over one hundred and fiftyeven that's why he's been inducted
36:35
into the Hall of Fame three times. Yeah, he cut off series record.
36:38
You know, they always struggled in the champion playoff series record sixteen and
36:43
twelve. Playoff series record sixteen to twelve. A lot of those ls to
36:46
Boston, Yeah, pretty good. Boston Conference finals appearances, two championships won.
36:54
Yeah, one yeah, yeah. I mean there's always the Celtics.
36:57
And he hit that shot against the Knicks from mid court out of the guard.
37:00
Don't ask him about that, Okay, I won't bring it up,
37:02
so you can bring it up. I mean, just it's because he took
37:06
the loss his heart like didn't matter. Yeah, he did, didn't matter
37:08
because they lost the game. The great Ones care, oh, the great
37:12
Ones? Yeah, yeah, absolutely care. It's still a little bit of
37:15
this. Shall we shall we? Oh? Yeah? Fourteen years in the
37:22
NBA field goal percentage? Brad? What is going on with your voice?
37:28
Can I get Can I go get you a gallon of honey and just lather
37:31
your throat? What are we doing? Brad? Can you get him a
37:35
fire hydrant's worth of water? There's stuff coming back. I've he was down
37:38
there for that. I was sick. Yeah, you're fighting throat and it's
37:40
just like it won't go. It won't Jerry Weston fourteen years, his field
37:47
goal percentage brad field goal percentage sixty plus no field goal percentage free throw for
37:58
forty seven from the field, free throw eighty one percent. Pretty good pick,
38:05
good player. I think rond Fritz Williams might have had twenty two in
38:07
a playoff game. Really, Deuce may have work to do. Yeah,
38:13
you's got a ton. We'll effort that. See if we can get that.
38:16
The guy just had a game of his life. We're going I'll do
38:19
better, He'll do better. On come on, do you gotta do better?
38:22
I wonder if he's gonna come in for his camp again this summer,
38:24
came into town last year. If he does, we'll we'll do our best
38:29
to get him. Get him in here, three guys before the game.
38:31
Episode eight hundred. Dot Com as the sponsor of Textual Healing, and I
38:36
want to start off with thanking everyone. On our last episode when Mark Kellogg
38:40
was here, I brought out the state of West Virginia ce met outline and
38:51
I said, if you guys are interested in perhaps buying one of these,
38:54
we're gonna We're gonna see if there's an interest to them and then we'll figure
38:58
out the logistics of like what do they cost, how do you ship them?
39:02
And all that kind of stuff. Got great response, So we are
39:07
going to the next step of figuring figuring out how to ship them because we've
39:12
ruled out a Manila envelope. Yeah, that's totally out of the question.
39:15
Truck because he's got twenty five pounds. About twenty five you can't ship that
39:21
can Oh yeah you can ship it. Yeah, you can ship it.
39:24
Sure. Oh, guys over Star City to take care of that, won't
39:27
they post service? Well, they're an option, Yeah, they're they're not.
39:30
We just have to load them up individually and driving. Eh. It's
39:34
probably more of a ups thing, isn't it. Well, yeah, we're
39:37
looking we're looking at various options. You mean Davis, Yeah, Davis,
39:40
Okay, Davis, and those come in different colors. So anyway, thanks
39:44
to everyone for doing that. A lot of people want this, Why wouldn't
39:49
you? It's great, I've got one or a nice piece. Texas is
39:52
Tony. I think I would like one of those state outlines. But it
39:57
doesn't seem to me like Kaiser is well represented. It looks more like Romney.
40:04
But although Romney in Hampshire County is the first county in state. Kaiser
40:08
needs more light. Everyone here loves everything mountaineers. You don't have to include
40:15
this, but please send it to my address, and he gives me his
40:16
address. I hope you have been to the Stray Cat Chimmy Shack in Star
40:21
City, the old hot dog stand. Coach Kellogg goes and gets the best
40:27
Chimmy Changa you've ever had. There. You go the lineup. They are
40:30
good. We've had them last night. They have this reception before we have
40:36
our dinner in Charleston. A lot of people there are hundreds. And I
40:40
came across this young lady and she identified as a P one listener that is
40:46
Nicky Randolph awesome and she does not miss a beat, loves the show Nicky's
40:52
on it. Yeah, and she told me that she'll be in attendance at
40:57
our CPA event that's coming up. That's a week from this coming Friday.
41:02
We're down there. We're going to be speaking to the West Virginia Society of
41:07
Certified Public Accountants. Regular listeners know I've had a strong and very very great
41:14
relationship with the Certified Public Accountants across the state and they're hosting an annual event
41:20
down in Charleston, and she is fired up. She will be there.
41:25
Nikki will be there and for all you CPA's out there and I no need
41:30
to tell you this. You've been doing nothing since April to fifteenth, so
41:34
we'd love to have you there. And it's going to be the three of
41:37
us doing a live show. And we're going to do this. It's not
41:42
going to be recorded. It's just going to be for that group there and
41:45
we're looking forward to doing it. We're just gonna we're gonna riff. We're
41:47
going to talk about a bunch of stuff and we're going to answer questions.
41:51
It's one of the all time comebacks. What's it? Oh? Yeah,
41:53
it is comeback considering what he did, considering what he said, Yes,
41:58
how expensive he was to the whole profession that works so hard. Well,
42:02
I mean refra it may maybe I shouldn't say it's an all time comeback.
42:06
We don't know what we're walking into. Yeah, it might this might be
42:08
we might need he's been setting this up handle logicians. Do I need to
42:12
get involved and see if there's like a second stage, like two part stage.
42:15
He sits on one. You and I go to the other just in
42:19
case it turns a great point. Because we don't exactly know. We think
42:22
we're going in there all puppy dogs and ice cream, there might be some
42:24
pointed conversation there. Given Tony's history, I think I've been misrepresented in my
42:30
comments. All I simply said was, why do CPAs get so nervous every
42:35
year when April, when the text downline approaches. Why do they get nervous
42:37
like it's the first time they've ever gone through the drill. Maybe they're busy,
42:40
Tony, maybe stand busy. Do you think when you're getting ready for
42:45
a big broadcast and it's five minutes before air and people start coming up to
42:47
you, going, hey, Tony, how he like that? No?
42:50
Does he like? You know? He does that? No, he doesn't
42:52
know. He doesn't unless he's trying to negotiate for free deck furniture exactly at
42:58
UCF And then he'll talk to the person and even as his producer screaming at
43:00
him to get get down famous story on time? Is there time? You
43:12
know who else I ran into? When's that thing next Friday? Or next
43:15
Friday? And I hope those three? Now you think how many people are
43:17
gonna be there. It'll be fun. Uh one hundred and fifty to two
43:21
hundred. Oh good, nervous? What'd you think it was small? We
43:23
are vastly outnumbered. I'm not. You're walking in by yourself and I walking
43:28
into what happens? What happens? They also invited They invited us to lunch
43:31
too. So you think I should look at the food? We have a
43:34
taster. Yeah, I'm looking forward to being with the West Virginia Society.
43:38
A Certified Public accounts Judy Proctor, she's a she's the lead there. She's
43:43
terrific. You have to be a CPA to go to that. Yeah,
43:47
you gotta belong to the group. I think they might have some other folks
43:51
in there. They heard Hoppy was going to be there, So their friend's
43:53
gonna be there from Conley CPA. Oh yeah, I think mike' sai.
43:58
Yeah Mike. So also last night I ran into, Uh, you're familiar
44:02
Hoppy with the Boone County pig Roast. Yes, yeah, to raise money
44:07
for WV scholarship. So I walk in. So I've known these young ladies
44:10
for a long time, Doctor Sarah Fraser and doctor Samantha Fraser. Uh,
44:16
there. They are both all the best, well known, they're they they're
44:21
the best, simply the best, unbelievable supporters of the mountaineers. Trying to
44:25
get me to go down to that pig ross this year on thirteen of July,
44:29
and uh, I don't know if I have something, but they do
44:34
it. That Boone County pig Ross has raised a lot of money for students
44:37
to come to WV. I think those two have surpassed Quincy as if there's
44:42
an event, yes, those two are there. They're the best at TBT,
44:46
any kind of event. They're there, absolutely great support, great supporter.
44:49
So it was great to see the two doctors there. Maybe one of
44:53
you could fix Hoppy's throat. I apologize, I can't get past it.
44:59
Plus allergy season great, everybody knows that. Of course you knew that,
45:07
Glenning. What are you laughing about over there? H oo? Obvious observations
45:29
take some al arrest that Glenn Glenning. Glenn Ferris writes two and a half
45:38
guys, I really enjoyed the latest episode with coach Kelloggie appears to be a
45:44
great cultural fit, more importantly, a tremendous coaching leader. It was also
45:47
interesting to hear the half guy Hoppy revert to his radio swapping shop program.
45:53
When the Senator mentioned his need for a new inner tube much like his ragged,
45:59
crusty hanky, the Dean was happy to match spreads with Chuck and is
46:02
used too. I'm certain the Senator will forego a used tube and the safety
46:07
risk to his family and friends, and move a new one from lou Wendell
46:12
Marine Sale are thank you, thank you, go to lou Wende'll get a
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new one. Stuff, Hoppies, Buddy, Chuck's got a dry rot inner
46:21
tube took off of a rick caterpillar. Hey, Chuck takes good care of
46:27
his stock. I'm sure he does weed eater for me too. I forgot
46:34
to ask about that. Last Saturday the Monument Avenue ten k running Richmond,
46:39
Just letting you know that my family represented West Virginia the entire way efforting.
46:45
We watched three guys and listen all the time, Tim and Betsy DoD we
46:49
may live in Virginia, but we'll always call West Virginia home the mothership.
46:54
Absolutely, so we got that. And there they are word efforting running that
46:59
dog hobby. Was the last time you ran a ten k? I haven't
47:02
run a ten k in a while. I could, I could, I
47:06
could probably gut it out. Yeah, I know, you come more like
47:08
three or four, but I could gut it out. You used to run
47:10
that old well, that Wheeling Lbie's big boy up them hills. Ran that
47:14
twice twice. That was hard. That's a hard race. Which one Charleston,
47:19
Oh Wheeling Wheeling, that's it. That's brutal, straight up hill,
47:22
that one and that one hill the first hill like about four miles three miles
47:25
in not good? Uh texter, Hey, three guys, have any of
47:32
you read When Pride Still Mattered? The biography of Vince Lombardi. The first
47:37
part of the book is fascinating, giving insight into early college football. The
47:42
two most striking things are that Army was the first to play specialties on both
47:45
sides of the ball. Rodney Gallagher is just an old school ballplayer, and
47:51
Pitt was so brazen and paying its players that Notre Dame refused to play them.
47:54
Thank you so much, Evan in South Charleston. Hmm, interesting,
48:01
Hey, three guys, is Rodney Gallagher slowly turning into Brandon Hogan two point
48:07
zero? Both were high school quarterbacks. Each played their first year at West
48:10
Virginia had eerily similar statistics. Hogan caught twelve balls for sixty seven, Gallagher
48:16
caught ten for seventy four. Then they made Hogan moved a corner his sophomore
48:22
year. Now Gallagher is getting to look there. What do you think the
48:25
potential is for a significant role for him there. I love listening to you
48:30
guys each week read from Jersey. You know, that's a fair question because
48:34
do you think this is I know you talked about Oliash Show, but you'd
48:37
think this thing with the Gallagher on defense is something they're just experimenting with in
48:42
case they have to do something or go to the dime or do you think
48:45
it's real, Senator? It sounds as if it's just a way to get
48:52
another one of your great athletes on the four okay field in this particular case.
48:57
Okay, so, and Neil was pretty pointed to say, he's still
49:00
on a receiver, he's still an offensive guy. They feel like there's some
49:02
runway for him on the offensive side ball that's got to mix in and see
49:06
if you can get your best players on the field. You know, he's
49:07
been saying that for a while. Neil has right, they've they've started with
49:12
That's that's been a mantra going into last season. In this season is get
49:15
our guys on the field, right. It started with the defensive backs and
49:17
the cross training between safeties and corners. If you can play, you're an
49:21
athletic dude. Get on the final field somehow, so we'll see where it
49:23
goes. Okay, howdy guys. First, I loved the episode with coach
49:29
kell Loogg. What a great coach, great person he is. Second,
49:32
here's another example of there's always a West Virginia connection. As I'm making my
49:37
way to Lubbock this past weekend for the baseball series there, I stopped for
49:40
breakfast at Denny's in Amarillo. There a server named Diane spotted the flying WV
49:47
on my shirt. She was positively giddy to see a West Virginia. Turns
49:52
out her father was born and raised in a one hundred. Of course he
49:55
was, even though he later raised his family in New York State. He
49:59
would take his ki back to one hundred every summer as Diane was growing up.
50:02
See the picture of their bread She and her will you stop shutting your
50:07
mic off? She and her siblings have such fond memories of those summers that
50:10
they're planning a family reunion back in West Virginia. Before I could tell her
50:15
how much she'd made my day, she exclaimed how thrilled it was to meet
50:20
me. She was thrilled. I propose that three guys officially proclaim Diane in
50:24
honorary West Virginia. Done. We'll do that by the powers invested in me
50:30
by Lou Wendell Marine Sales, Gomart and Comac's Business Systems. Diane, I
50:37
hereby decree you as an honorary West Virginian God, bless hundred and the hornets.
50:45
Here's your property text. Now, that was Joe Mock in that picture.
50:47
He's a P one listener and he went to down to that baseball series
50:52
in Lubbick this past weekend and he he was there for about two and a
50:54
half games worth, had a head home, had to leave, had to
51:00
leave there. Where's he? Where does he live? Does he live in
51:02
Texas? No, he lives. He lives in the round. I mean
51:06
he was a guy that adopted Eric Stevenson out there near a round rock.
51:08
Boy, how did he get the luve buck? I mean, that's just
51:10
got flu I was gonna say you can't drive, so he could. I
51:15
mean, but he could. That's why he had to leave. That's why
51:16
he had to leave because the dog gun baseball went so late. Yeah,
51:23
have you guys seen this on the interwebs? This is a pencil sharpener video.
51:29
Can you show that? Because I've heard something he turned that pencil sharp
51:34
What actually goes on inside the sharpeners? The guy gets it, gets us,
51:37
gets a chainsaw and he kind of puts a sharpener on that and then
51:40
she pulls that thing back out there and boom, wait a minute, that's
51:44
not really Yeah, that's probably real. Yeah, every every time he put
51:52
a pencil inside of a sharpener, there's a little man with a chainsaw lumberjack
51:55
and he shaves it off to the chain side. I know how a pencil
52:00
works. I just I'm looking at that. I don't have a real good
52:04
view, and I thought, is that really something somebody created? Or am
52:07
I just getting as Yeah, okay, never mind, it's cute. AI.
52:15
That's the new response. That's the new response. Anytime like someone does
52:19
something wrong, you just go it a speaking what what? What is it?
52:23
Is it? A I created? It was a joke. I don't
52:25
know. I don't know what it was. I don't know. It's a
52:28
funny little thing. Like the joke is, every time you stick a pencil
52:31
in a sharpener, how does it work? Well, there's a little man
52:35
sitting in there, and he changed, you know what the joke is.
52:37
I just don't know how they created what it was, and you guys don't
52:42
have enough curiosity to try to figure it out. Yeah, correct in this
52:46
particular case, I do not, Okay, receiver, I wasn't going to
52:51
spend a whole lot of time on that one. Okay, move on,
52:53
finn Uh. Apparently there were a lot of mistakes made by me in the
52:57
last episode. What you made A lot of mistakes? A couple, you
53:02
made one or two. So here's this one. This is a lot.
53:06
This one was a learning experience for me, gentlemen, I am shocked.
53:09
Shocked. I tell you during Tony's Mistake Corrections Tour last episode with Coach Kellogg,
53:16
that he did not correct his egregious mistake from that same episode of saying
53:22
and I think I heard this right that the Elton John song Empty Garden was
53:25
about Versace's death. What the song co written by John's lifetime writing partner Bernie
53:32
Tappin is about John Lennon's death. It's a tribute to Lennon. The title
53:37
empty Garden. Hey Hey Johnny, it's my favorite Elton John song. If
53:42
you know, you know, keep up the good work. Love the pod,
53:45
Ben and Scott depot. So I always thought that dog gun thing was
53:52
about Versace. It's about makes it completely understandable because he got killed in New
53:58
York where Versace got killed in Florida. Thank you very much, Ben and
54:02
Scott Depot. Texter Letty Brown's having a really good game for Arlington of the
54:09
UFL. Will Clark too, go Mountaineer. So Letty Brown's playing in the
54:14
UFL Will Clark. Will Clark's got to be getting old, isn't he.
54:17
He've been playing for a while. Yeah, yeah, good for Letty.
54:22
Let the effort, Anthony Becks. Team's rolling in that league, aren't they.
54:24
The BattleHawks played Lewis played four three up and one down. I think
54:29
the only loss they had was like that two hundred and six yard field goal.
54:32
I like Anthony in a coaching role really, and he's been successful ever.
54:37
He's done right. Longtime pro. What do you broadcast for free?
54:40
ESPN Jets for a long time. I think it'd be a really good coach.
54:45
Is a really good coach? Well, Neil Brown gets the Auburn job,
54:49
he comes back and stop coaches here. Let's keep doing what he's doing,
54:52
stacking stacking games. Sam and Fairfax Virginia rights Hi guys class of two
54:58
thousand and seven, mountaineer here and semi frequent listener. I'll work on that.
55:04
Listen to what was playing inside the stadium after the FA Cup semifinal between
55:08
Manchester United and Coventry City in England, one of the biggest soccer tournaments in
55:14
the world. Please roll that Bean videos. I just hoped the launch pot.
55:17
It's been a turnable oftennoon for they give us series with that can listen
55:23
to the song of the background to finish the season. Well, you're right,
55:32
oh right? Or put everything into that? Oh my gosh, So
55:37
how did that get started? They? I told the Senator during our pre
55:42
production meeting earlier that you weren't invited to hop you. I still would love
55:46
to know why Country Roads has become the global phenomenon that it is. There
55:52
needs to be a better answer. Then it's a catchy tune something. What
55:59
is it that makes it viral. I don't know's it was a huge song.
56:07
It is easy to sing, it's easy to remember. It's a good
56:14
crowd song. Bred you were in the all three great points there at the
56:17
end. Jeez. I just wonder if there's something in the rhythmic nature of
56:22
it that makes it more. It's a you know what, well, yeah,
56:27
let me go a little bit deeper. It is if you want to
56:30
get more philosophical. It's a home song. It's a song about the longing
56:34
for a place. In our case, it's West Virginia, but it could
56:37
be any place, right, take me home country roads to the place I
56:43
belong. Sure, and that's a very strong draw for anybody and everybody.
56:47
How's that? Oh? Pretty good? Will Clark, who turns thirty three
56:52
May fourth, played for the Bengals twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen, Tampa Bay
56:57
twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, Saint Was BattleHawks twenty twenty, Detroit Lions twenty
57:01
twenty, New Orleans States twenty twenty, Arlington Renegades twenty twenty three. Wow.
57:07
Good for him, Yeah, still playing, still grinding. Texter three
57:14
guys. I was inspired by he could play and sampled heavily from your buzz
57:17
Cut episode with Jared Brown. That one was awesome. I hated that episode.
57:22
That was great. I interviewed outgoing mountaineer mascot Michael Hagar. He won
57:28
the National Mascot Hall of Fame Greatest Community Impact Award and was on track to
57:31
set the West Virginia record for most appearances in one year a splendid run in
57:37
my favorite interview. By the way, Hoppy needs a bumpin' stinger for his
57:40
hoo segment. Hoppy's obvious observations bring back his bike bell ringer ding Ding,
57:46
ding ding All the basket signed by t Bone in Roanoke and Michael Hager,
57:52
the outgoing mountaineer I'd like to offer up. Texters has some Jerry Porter Gallagher
58:00
as a nickname for Rodney Gallagher since pac Man's been taken. Yeah, that's
58:07
a good one. Yeah. Under this Textter says, under no circumstances should
58:10
he be called RG three, which was suggested by a Metro News personality that
58:15
should not be named. I love the show, Pete from Pennsboro. Yeah,
58:22
I think Jerry. I think Jerry Porter Gallagher's that's pretty good. He
58:24
says that this applies to Jerry played some wide receiver, he said. I
58:29
also think he ran a series or two option quarterback. I can't remember the
58:32
game of the year. I'm ninety percent sure that yeah he did. Yeah,
58:36
probably kicked a field goal or two. It was a freak. He
58:37
was a really, really good athlete. To lot, I've told the story
58:40
too many times, but that Nerf came out with the ball that had the
58:45
wings on it and had like some fuselage, and we're at the insight dot
58:47
com bole. He threw it from an end zone out of the back of
58:51
the other end zone one hundred and twenty yards with a Nerf ball. H
58:54
he spent some time in the show as well. He did. He's pretty
58:58
good. Yeah, he'll go on a list of misused mountaineers, well miss
59:04
misused. He was too good at too many spots, didn't have one natural
59:08
position, was too good and alluring. I see why that staff always said,
59:13
we need help here. Yes, let's put him here. Now,
59:15
we need some help here. Let's he can do that, let's here.
59:17
Correct. But it's unfortunate for him. I think that in hindsight, it
59:22
would have been here's the guy we need to get the ball to Okay,
59:25
yeah, right, yeah, they then did they did? They got there?
59:31
Ben and Wilmington, North Carolina. Not DOUBDV related, but I figured
59:36
this would be a good show, good question for the slow text season.
59:40
This past season, I watching an ACC regular season game Jay Billis was working
59:45
after an official review. He mentioned offhand that sometimes reps have a different cam
59:49
wrangle that are not available to the TV broadcast. I wonder if you guys
59:53
have any idea what he was referring to. I always assumed refs just had
59:57
access to the TV cameras. My first inclination on the answer is that no,
1:00:04
they just look at what TV's giving them. I'll have to ask about
1:00:07
that. Jerry Porter was an All Biggie selection as an all purpose back.
1:00:12
Yeah, do whatever you need, right, whatever you need was with the
1:00:15
Raiders two thousand to two thousand and eight, and then was one year I
1:00:20
think in Jacksonville. Yeah, Jacksonville for a year had caught two hundred and
1:00:23
ninety five passes thirty one touchdowns. Drafted in the second round. Evan and
1:00:34
Iowa playing both ways. Ironman football Rodney Gallagher, iron Rod Gallagher, West
1:00:39
Virginia Rules opponents with an iron rod sign by Evan and Iowa. Our boy
1:00:52
was there last night, by the way, Jenny's oh at the Charleston event,
1:00:57
of course he was, Yeah, he was there. I got that
1:01:00
picture off. Still'll get to get you some events in so. Yeah.
1:01:04
So we came in a side door and he give us the side door access
1:01:07
point. Yeah. Well, he is trying to get into the CPA event
1:01:12
that we're going to do next Friday. He does not belong to the West
1:01:15
Virginia Society of Public Certified Public Accounts, but he said he's like the treasure
1:01:21
for like his fantasy league team. So he's going to try to qualify under
1:01:24
that condassault to get accounting types of duties. And there's a treasure. There
1:01:29
is a little known console in the CPA constitution. You're the treasure of your
1:01:32
fantasy football league. Might be able to get in. Yeah. By the
1:01:36
way, Porter tore his achilles in training camp with the Montreal Alouettes and that
1:01:43
had a season ending and apparently career ending surgery. Yeah, last one here.
1:01:49
I think this would look great near my bourbon barrel lid. I know
1:01:52
several people that would like to have one. He's talking about the the ce
1:01:58
meat statue I might have to put a small all flying Gold WV by Morgantown
1:02:01
or my hometown of the strawberry festival, Mike and Myrtle. Where did they
1:02:07
get through strawberries? Tony? Why'd you do that? I was just gonna
1:02:10
say, it's the end of the show. Let's just move along. We
1:02:13
got to got out of this without any controversy, and you had to do
1:02:15
that. You know who first broke that news to me? You know who
1:02:19
broke that. You'll know this Brad. You know who broke the news to
1:02:21
me on Twitter? Over it? Did anything? He was going to get
1:02:25
involved. Yeah, there was a guy trying to strong army anyway. You
1:02:31
know who for the first told me that they're not all the strawberries come from
1:02:35
ups Your County? Or boy who Chris Wallace who's from Buchanan. Oh oh
1:02:40
oh, I think he took it pretty hard when he found out as a
1:02:44
kid. Wait a second, all these berries aren't growing in ups Your County?
1:02:47
Does it ever say they were all going Upshur County? Or they just
1:02:51
honoring the strawberry? Yes, yeah, so that's it. That's the thing.
1:02:54
Sure, I just kind of thought that they were all that's your mistake,
1:02:58
not theirs right. First of all, are you're not gonna have strawberries
1:03:00
in the spring. When's the strawberry festival coming up right spring? Yeah?
1:03:06
I mean that's why they got to bring him in. Strawberries are going to
1:03:09
be in in like August in West Virginia. What's the matter. There's an
1:03:14
honor in the strawberry correct. Yeah, so you missconstrued then took a shot.
1:03:19
Correct, Yeah, so that was all You're bad. First for me,
1:03:23
First for you, I think they should invite you down to have people
1:03:28
throw strawberries at you. No, I don't think. I don't think we're
1:03:30
gonna do that. Don't think it's a big festival. It's a big deal
1:03:35
right here. I've been there a couple of times. I got an invite
1:03:37
last night to Colton Days. That's a huge. Oh yeah, that's a
1:03:39
huge, extravagant. Virginia is festival. Every place has a festival. Why
1:03:45
not. I mean, there's stuff to do. Move on before he offends
1:03:47
more than he's already offended. Well, we have the Colton people on top
1:03:51
of him. Now, people are good people. Luckily, fest gonna say
1:03:54
something. You know who went to Colton? You know who went to Colton
1:03:58
days once. Who who is the guy from Airplane the commedian? He was
1:04:03
there once? Really, yeah, he was there. They've had some people
1:04:08
there Calton dates met him once. Did you really? He was coming out
1:04:12
of the West Virginia State Capitol. I can't tell you why. And they're
1:04:15
lobbying. It might have been. Did you say hey, Shirley and he
1:04:17
said, don't call me Shirley. I'm a very nice guy, very nice
1:04:20
guy. Told him I'll love him this movies. He's very nice. That's
1:04:24
good. That's good. The side and adventure. All right, we're going
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