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Winter Olympics Recap, College Hoops & NBA All-Star Weekend Reaction · Height Differential

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  Give it to me. Ready to do this?
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  Sure. It is the height differential.
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  That's the six foot 6, Neil, I am the four foot 10.
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  Nick, we are back to talk a lot of Olympics, talk some college
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  hoops. Did you watch the NBA All Star
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  weekend? Tyree kills.
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  Tyree kills just got cut. There's a lot of things to talk
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  All that helps us out, helps more people find the pod.
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  But it's all it's all Olympics all the time right now.
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  I'm I'm dialed in, I'm dialed in and we got the bobsleds coming.
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  Bobsleds just started, got the the twos and the fours coming up
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  well. I'm not going to lie and I get
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  it, it's it's pretty new, but I had no idea there was such thing
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  as a mono sled. I did not know that there's a
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  one person bobsled. I didn't either.
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  First time that I that I've seen it, but apparently there's an
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  American, this Alana Myers Taylor, Alana Myers Taylor who's
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  pretty good at it. He's pretty good at it.
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  Well, for people that are watching live and don't want it
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  to be spoiled because it happened earlier today.
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  He went into today, I think she was in 3rd place.
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  German had had the lead and then she had the ride of her life and
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  got her first gold medal at 41 years old.
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  One years old. Has this is her 6th medal
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  overall, which ties her for Bonnie Blair for the most medals
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  by American woman in Winter Olympics history.
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  She also becomes the second black woman to win an individual
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  gold medal in the Winter Olympics.
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  She won her first medal of bronze way back in 2010 in
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  Vancouver. But this is what's cool about
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  the Olympics. You see it, people try time and
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  time again to get that elusive gold and Elena Myers Taylor was
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  able to do that. And really, that's what this is
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  all about. Yeah, no, it's a cool, really
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  cool story. Like I said, she's the most
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  decorated African American athlete, female athlete, women
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  in the Winter Olympics, 6th career medal.
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  And she finally, finally and probably, most likely got on.
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  Maybe she's going to come back in four years, but age of 41, I
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  feel like your Olympic time is running out as you're getting
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  older. So for her to finally get that
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  gold medal, you know, maybe this is the way she goes out on top.
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  Yeah, but but watching the model sled or however they mono Bob or
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  mono sled or however they call it, like a lot of them are,
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  they're not youngsters. A lot of them have a lot of
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  experience. I I don't know if the bobsled
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  allows you for your career to to go a little longer, but Cali
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  Armbruster Humphreys is who came in who got the bronze medal that
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  she got her fifth medal in in Olympic history.
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  And she won the gold four years ago when they debuted the mono
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  Bob. So pretty cool that she got gold
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  four years ago. Now comes back and gets the
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  bronze and Myers Taylor is able to get the gold.
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  But she talked about all Humphreys talked about was how
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  cool it was to be able to get a medal after becoming a mom.
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  I guess she recently become a mother's got her her kiddo with
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  her there. That's cool.
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  And and Italy. So just a lot of cool stories in
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  the Olympics. But learning about a new sport
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  that you didn't know about when you already love the bobsled and
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  then you want to learn there's a one, one man or one woman
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  bobsled. It's it was, it was cool to
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  watch. I was locked in.
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  So you think in four years we got a chance of doing this?
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  Should we do it? Should we should we start
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  practicing now, get start training for I don't know where
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  the Winter Olympics are in four years, but I.
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  Think they're in France? Not 100%.
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  Maybe you and I should get out there and start training for
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  this. I mean, I'll be right up our
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  alley. Does AI don't think people are
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  normally very tall for the bobsled?
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  But I also don't think they're super short, so I think the
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  height differential us both being at 2 ends of the spectrum
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  probably does not bode crazy well for us to be great
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  bobsledders. Be like a be like a true
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  underdog story, you know, maybe give it a shot.
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  I just jumping in, that thing just looks so tough.
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  It does look tough. But even with one person, it
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  looks tough and then you combine that with the four man when
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  they're they got to time it perfectly.
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  It's just but watching them go 75 miles an hour down that chute
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  where it looks like they're losing their back end right away
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  and somehow they don't do it. It's another cool thing is you
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  don't ever watch the sports at any other time.
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  There's no chance that some random Saturday you're just
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  going to turn on and start watching Germany and the United
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  States and a random. Bobsled well, if it wasn't the
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  Olympics, think I don't think you'd be able to find it on TV
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  and they're just the right there's not regular season mono
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  bumble sledding. There's not the New York the New
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  York bobsled team versus the Atlanta bobsled team on a on a
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  Saturday on ABC. I don't think that that's the.
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  Way should we start that league? Good, yeah.
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  I could see, like, curling, I feel like it's everywhere during
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  the Olympics. No matter what channel you turn
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  it on, it seems like curling is always on, Yeah?
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  I mean, there's a lot of curling teams, but yeah.
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  Is that something that they could capitalize on to where
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  they're it is like a curling? Like no, no, because we say this
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  every year. Like the only time we watch
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  curling is during the Olympics and we all think it's cool and
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  we're all watching it. We're all dialed in and we, we
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  have the same argument. Like, oh, what if we did a
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  credit? Then nobody cares.
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  Nobody like we forget about it next week.
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  We're going to forget about it. We're not even going to miss it.
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  We're not going to miss curling next week.
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  Like it's, it's nice to have a two week.
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  It's nice to have a little two week run and you know we'll see
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  you again in four years. And I will say this about
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  curling. I enjoy it, but it's slow.
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  It's very slow. It is so.
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  Slow, I mean it's you're not going 80 miles an hour down ice
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  you're. Oh, and they just take so much
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  time in between. Shots.
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  And they do. They're on a timer, but yeah.
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  I got that, what, 38 minutes of thinking time for the whole
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  match. I think it varies whether it's
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  mixed or or double S or whatever, but they've got that
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  the thinking time. But it's just there's so much
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  time in between shots. There's ten shots per end.
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  It feels like you got to get it to where there's two or three
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  left before you even realize what's happening because the
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  setup shots, we don't know enough about those shots.
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  So it's it's a sport that you can turn it off and then come
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  back on 15 minutes later and see the end of the end and see how.
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  You know what makes curling more exciting is cheating scandals
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  and teams telling each other to F off.
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  That's what I'm here for. I'm here for the curling.
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  I'm here for the curling fights. Give me some.
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  Who is it just the Canadians that are cheating?
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  That's what it seems like. I mean they got caught red
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  handed on both the men's and the women's side.
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  So why are they so adamant that they're not cheating?
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  Because the I don't know. Because they you're not going to
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  admit to cheating. You cheat, you ain't going to
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  admit to it. So Canada is playing.
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  Who are they playing when they get?
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  When it's Sweden. Was this OK?
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  So Sweden and they say something to him in the middle of the
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  match? Yes, basically.
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  Hey dude, you're cheating. You're touching it over the what
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  do they call it, the horse line of some kind?
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  Something hog line, Yeah. The hog line.
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  Yeah, you're, you're touching. Well, he let's go with the hand.
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  It's a double touch. You can't touch any part of the
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  rock. What do they call it?
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  A rock? Stone.
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  Stone. The granite.
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  The granite stone. The stone, yes.
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  Yeah, dude, we do. Not you can only grab it by the
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  hand, you can only touch the handle.
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  But when he let's go with the handle, he pokes it with his
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  finger too. And it's clear.
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  Well, it's clear. Obvious.
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  Oh, yeah. Like it's clear.
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  Like his or his, his past the line.
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  And he just gives a little, a little.
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  Well, the Swedish the the the Swedish guy was even like bro
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  what? We got it on video.
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  I'll show you the video after the match is over and he just
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  responds with AF off. Right.
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  And you can't go back in time. Like obviously they can't go
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  redo the match, but I don't think can they do video review
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  during the match because, I mean, it was pretty obvious that
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  he touched it after the line. Yeah.
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  And then the very next day, the Canadian women get penalized for
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  the same. Exact there are no judges.
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  Somebody explained why there's no judges in curling like they
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  had to like, like after this happened, the IOC them brought
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  judges in for the next match to keep an eye on it.
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  And you know when, when, when that happened, obviously they
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  didn't cheat and. So are they supposed to
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  officiate it themselves? Yeah, I think yeah, it's kind of
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  like it's like a self efficient to like call your own fouls type
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  game. But they ended up bringing in
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  like 2 of bringing up some officials in their next match
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  and candidate end up losing. They couldn't cheat and so they
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  lost. Yeah, I just and they had to be
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  looking for it the the next day. And the women got caught.
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  They got called for the for the same thing but dude like it's
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  obvious that you were like I don't know if you were doing on
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  purpose but you clearly touched the thing after.
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  Crosswords like so like he let's go but he pokes it with his
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  finger. What's that extra little poke
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  doing? I don't know.
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  I don't know enough about it. What's the extra?
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  I need to know what the exit poke, I need to know what the
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  little poke did like, did it like give you just that extra
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  little oomph to get it down the ice a little bit quicker?
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  You're like, you know, you. Oh, I didn't throw it hard
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  enough. Let me poke right like.
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  It would have to be like some kind of adjustment, like I
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  didn't feel like I you. Just poke it.
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  It wasn't the throw I wanted, but maybe this little little
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  touch right here will fix it. But yeah dude, like the world
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  cur curling, like the association was all upset about
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  the language that was used. It's, it's a tragic.
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  It was, I love it. I love it.
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  I mean, like this is like, yeah, the Olympics or sportsmanship
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  this sportsmanship that Nah, let's, let's let's get some
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  heated competition going. I like it, especially in a, in a
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  competition such as curling where there's not a lot of
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  action going on. You know, it's kind of slow like
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  you said, so you need a little bit of drama to spice it up a
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  little bit. So you wanted curling, kind of
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  professional wrestling? No, like a hockey fight.
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  We don't need wrestling. You know, it's kind of like a
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  little hockey fight. Do you want?
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  Do you like the trash talking? Yeah, yeah.
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  Or do you? Last week you talked about how
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  figure skating needs to bring back the Tonya Harding, Nancy
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  Kerrigan, like stuff we're taking people's knees out.
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  Do we need to go that? Far we need when you see, when
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  you see some drama for these sports, we need a little bit of
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  drama. That's what gets people.
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  People pay attention when there's drama well.
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  We would have been talking about curling anyways, but.
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  We wouldn't have been talking about Canada and Sweden.
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  True, and we wouldn't have been talking about the ski jumpers
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  and their and their junk and the needles like we did last week,
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  but yeah. Or, or the what was it the cross
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  country skier who wouldn't have been talking any cross country
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  skiing if oh dude didn't bawl his eyes out on TV because he
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  cheated on his girlfriend? So see, the drama brings
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  interest and that's what that's what we need.
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  It does. It's what do.
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  We got a little bit more than a less than a week for the
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  Olympics Sunday. I think Sunday is the final,
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  final day. The the story of the Olympics so
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  far, I think has to be Aaliyah Milanin of the United States,
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  the quad God on on Friday he went into the the long skate
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  clearly in first with all he had to do was just basically through
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  90% of his program and he would get gold like he was up by that
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  much. Everybody's talking about how
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  it's just the automatic and poor dude falls multiple times,
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  doesn't like does A1 instead of a four on one of his quad jumps
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  and ends up falling all the way from 1st to 8th.
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  Doesn't even medal 21 years old. His first Olympic Games.
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  You can hear him talking to his dad after his score is revealed,
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  saying that he wishes he could have gone.
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  And four years ago when he was 17.
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  So I was like, that experience would have helped him here
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  because the bright lights of the Olympics are real and World
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  Championships, national championships happen every year.
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  It happens once every four. And he admitted that, you know,
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  he just did, could not succumb to the pressure of the Olympic
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  lights. Yeah, no, like it's, it's the
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  biggest stage in the world. You know, your Olympic window as
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  an athlete is not very long. Like you said, it happens every
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  once every four years. So you know, at most you're
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  competing in what, 2-3 if you're lucky, more than that.
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  But you know, in these sports all over the world, like kids
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  start, start doing figures getting they're younger and
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  younger and younger. So like they're training from
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  but basically the time they can walk.
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  So, you know, 21, you're still in your prime.
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  I think he he'll come back in four years and hopefully use
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  this experience as a, as a learning, a learning lesson and
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  and he'll be better for the next one.
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  But you know, the next one might be it.
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  So the pressure is even going to be even even greater the older
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  that you get because there's going to be some young guns
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  coming to get you. Yeah, it, but I will say this
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  like, dude, Can you imagine how disappointed you would be?
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  Yeah, when it's right in front of you.
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  Especially when you're in first by that laughter, the what would
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  you call the short program? Yeah, and coming in, you are
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  heavy, heavy favorite. You're one of the most
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  publicized athletes in the Winter Olympic Games as a whole.
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  It's all right in front of you. And to just be absolutely
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  devastated the way that he was. But dude, being in sports, like
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  you're going to lose most the time.
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  Like in a team sport, only one team wins the last game.
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  So there's a lot of times where you have to deal with adversity
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  and you learn about people more in lost than you ever will in
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  any win. And the fact that he went up to
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  the guy who won the golden medal and congratulated him, He was
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  and then did his interview and talked about how, you know, the
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  guy was disappointing. And just the lack of experience
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  I think played a key role. But I was just really impressed
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  with the way he handled themselves.
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  Yeah, I mean, that's what you expect out of American athletes
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  like we, we're, we, that's. Not all what you.
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  Get we are class here in America like we're not like Canadians.
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  We're not telling people to go F themselves.
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  Like we, we shake your hand and we congratulate you.
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  You were the better athlete that day.
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  That's what that's what America is.
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  We are class athletes and we we respect our opponents.
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  But dude, Scott Hamilton's in studio with Mike Tirico and he's
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  almost in tears, like talking about it.
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  That's how like he was emotionally distraught.
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  I just, it was such an unexpected thing.
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  And it just goes to show you in sports, you just never know.
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  You just you just never know. And just I hope that he comes
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  back in, in four years because it would it would be fun to
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  watch him try to regroup it and win the gold at four years
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  after, you know, everybody thought he was going to do it.
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  Another the the US women's hockey team, yeah, dominate.
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  They're now they're now in the gold medal match against Canada,
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  the team they already beat 5 to nothing.
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  Set a record for shutout most most what minutes or whatever in
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  in Olympic history. Straight shut out.
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  Well, they haven't allowed a goal since their first round
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  Robin match. They're 11 and O in the
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  knockout, 11 goals to zero in the in the knockout stage and
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  now they play a Canadian team that they already be 5 to
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  nothing in in the round Robin. Do we need to look out for the
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  Canadians to be to be cheating a little bit?
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  Nah, not worried about them. Not worried about them at all.
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  This women's team is just dominating.
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  I mean, dominating. Was it 1-2?
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  Five straight shutouts. I guess at the longest streak,
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  shutout streak in Olympic women in Winter Olympic history,
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  women's Olympic history beat Canada. 5 Nothing already.
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  I mean, here's the scores. 5 Nothing over Finland. 5 Nothing
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  over Switzerland 5 Nothing over Canada. 6 Nothing over Italy. 5
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  Nothing over Sweden. Nobody's touching them like they
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  are dominating. Not worried about Canada.
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  Put your third stringers in. Yeah, this one's open.
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  It's icing off. OK, It's it's done.
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  The quad glide. We just talked about the quad
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  God losing when everybody thought there was no chance.
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  Now this is a little different. It's a team sport.
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  It's a team sport. No, this, this.
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  They're a freight train. Nobody stopping them.
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  Just give us the gold, right? You also have the you also have
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  the Miracle on Ice in 1980. Like it's it's been known that
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  miracles can happen on the ice. Do you want, do you want to be,
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  do you want to be the adversary in the Canadian movie, The
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  Miracle on Ice, the 2026 version?
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  Like, don't get too cocky over there.
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  It's in the bag, give them the gold.
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  And then there's one one more scandal.
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  You were telling me about the ice dancing scandal.
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  Yeah, this is some now this is some real BS here.
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  I mean, I can't pronounce their their names here.
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  I don't know. But yeah, this Madison Shock and
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  Evan Bates, the two US ice dancing pair, apparently just
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  put on a flawless routine. Absolutely flawless.
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  Should have won the gold I. Mean you watched it live and you
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  were like, this is just a flawless performance.
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  Yes, I did not. I did not.
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  But it looked flawless to me. To me it looked flawless.
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  But to the judges, even the judges, I mean like look at
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  this. So the controversy is so Chalk
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  and Bates, out of all they've got, 12345 out of five out of
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  nine judges had them at the top score basically said they
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  deserve gold. Which means four of nine had
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  France as the top scorer, so it's only one more.
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  That's OK. What one?
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  What one more is one more you know not, but that's not only
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  that, but. We're not talking 8 out of nine
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  here, we're talking 5 out of nine.
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  Five out of nine. But what the controversy is, is
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  the French judge had France eight points better than the US.
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  No other judge like when they voted France number one that
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  they had what, by 4 points, 2 points, one point, like eight
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  points? Well, French judge who just
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  straight up sabotaged the the, the voting or sabotaged the the
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  judging just to to put us so far down that France ends up winning
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  by less than a point. Less than a point.
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  Well the US judge is the only one that had the US by more
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  than. Oh also the span.
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  The Spanish judge had France by 5 points.
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  That's awesome trash. And the US judge only had the US
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  by 4 points, so if the US judge just increases that by a couple.
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  Let's go on point. But you know, we but we, we,
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  like I said, we we're a fair country where Americans don't
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  cheat. We don't cheat.
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  We don't need to cheat. We don't cheat, we don't need to
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  degrade some other country just to fraudulently give the our own
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  country a gold medal like this French judge did.
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  Like this is just absurd. Also, in what sport should you
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  ever be allowed to judge your own team?
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  I think it would make a lot of sense.
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  You just throw out like you can't judge your own country.
• 19:54
  Both of them to be crossed. Out I would agree.
• 19:56
  You don't get to judge your own country.
• 19:58
  You sit this one out, you vote on all the other car.
• 20:00
  You you judge all the other countries.
• 20:03
  And then you remove the controversy.
• 20:05
  Yeah. And.
• 20:07
  And the US will win a gold medal.
• 20:08
  And the US wins the gold medal. Exactly because that's what you
• 20:11
  know, what fair and honest people would do.
• 20:12
  But once again, other countries don't play fair.
• 20:16
  France cheating Canada. Do you think, did they bribe the
• 20:20
  Spaniards to get a couple extra points there too?
• 20:22
  Because. Yeah, probably.
• 20:24
  They probably were like, hey, you know, if you, you know, you
• 20:27
  knock the US down, we'll get you, we'll get you some
• 20:29
  baguettes and we'll get you some eclairs, some fresh baked
• 20:32
  eclairs. After the, after the, the, the
• 20:34
  program's over. It'd be how they probably bribed
• 20:37
  them. And then the the French team
• 20:41
  afterwards, amid the controversy, was basically
• 20:45
  saying we didn't have our best routine.
• 20:47
  If we would have had our best routine, we would have won by
• 20:50
  even more. No, you should have, first of
• 20:53
  all, if you would have had your best routine, maybe.
• 20:54
  But you didn't have your best routine, and you should have
• 20:56
  lost because you didn't have your best routine.
• 20:58
  And I'm I'm going to put you on the spot because I don't know
• 21:01
  what's the difference between ice dancing and figure skating.
• 21:05
  Is there no jumps? Guessing 1 is more of a dance
• 21:08
  than I guess more dancing. I mean you you play a song and
• 21:13
  you dance to the song. It's like a a rhythm type thing
• 21:15
  I think. Well, they dance to songs in
• 21:17
  figure skating, too. No, that's like a like a ballet.
• 21:20
  They kind of just like just skate along and it's kind of
• 21:24
  like a like if you were going to a ballet, it's like if you were
• 21:26
  going to a ballet, it's like the, the figure skating, the
• 21:29
  short programs and I feel like ice dancing, it's more
• 21:31
  fast-paced. You compare.
• 21:33
  Figure skating to ballet and you're comparing ice dancing to?
• 21:38
  To like Broadway show. Broadway show, Yeah.
• 21:41
  Yeah. So ice dancing is like going to
• 21:43
  watch Grease the Cats. The cat to Grease.
• 21:47
  Yeah. What are some other famous
• 21:50
  Phantom of the Opera? Sure.
• 21:53
  Or like what's the what's Hairspray or something like
• 21:56
  that, Yeah. Like Hamilton?
• 21:59
  Are we getting the Hamilton? Level, I don't know about
• 22:00
  Hamilton. Like something where you're
• 22:02
  dancing, you know, like a Broadway show and.
• 22:04
  Then figure skating is like going down it's.
• 22:07
  Going to Swan Lake, Yeah. It's like if you're going to
• 22:09
  Swan Lake or something, you know?
• 22:11
  I think this is one of the worst analogies, maybe of all time.
• 22:16
  Are you going to disprove it? I don't have any idea.
• 22:19
  Thank you. I do think in ice dancing they
• 22:22
  might not leave their feet. OK, I think that might be the
• 22:26
  difference. Oh God.
• 22:27
  But also don't want to be quoted on that because I have no idea.
• 22:32
  I have no idea either, but that's just my guess.
• 22:34
  Like in figure skating, the pairs, like the dudes throw the
• 22:38
  girls so high up in there they're like 1314 feet in the
• 22:41
  air at times doing spins. Do you ever get concerned on
• 22:45
  these, like when they on the figure skating pairs that
• 22:48
  they're throwing the girls up in the air and they're swinging
• 22:49
  their legs out, like at some point somebody's going to get
• 22:52
  cut? Well, didn't that happen in the
• 22:54
  movie? It did happen in a movie, yeah,
• 22:56
  but I feel like in real life, this.
• 22:58
  Is did it happen in blades? Of glory.
• 23:00
  It was blades of glory, yes, but I feel like in real life,
• 23:02
  there's going to be a real life scenario or blades of like
• 23:04
  somebody's going to swing their leg around and it's just going
• 23:07
  to slice off somebody's ear or something, you know, like.
• 23:09
  I think that's why it happened in the movie because everybody's
• 23:12
  like, how is this not happening? And then they're like dude, why
• 23:15
  don't they just get 2 dudes together and then they can throw
• 23:17
  them even farther. They can both throw each other.
• 23:21
  But do you agree? To me, it looks dangerous.
• 23:23
  I'm actually surprised that it has not happened, and maybe it
• 23:26
  has and I just don't know it. But they look like they're
• 23:28
  coming very close to each other on these blades.
• 23:31
  I just all I know is it's happened between Will Ferrell
• 23:33
  and Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, that's true.
• 23:35
  That's it. Was it even them that it
• 23:37
  happened to, or was it somebody? Else I don't.
• 23:39
  I have no idea. What about competitors?
• 23:40
  I don't remember, I haven't seen that movie in forever.
• 23:44
  But yeah, it it is crazy how high they throw them.
• 23:48
  And yeah, dude, those skates are sharp.
• 23:50
  Yeah. And I guess it is a little bit.
• 23:55
  Is it? I don't know how crazy it is
• 23:57
  that somebody hasn't at least lost a finger.
• 23:59
  That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
• 24:03
  Awful. But we still got women's figure
• 24:05
  skating. What else?
• 24:06
  We we still got the the men's hockey.
• 24:09
  Men's hockey, we got the 2, two and four man bobsleds got the
• 24:12
  curling. The men's curling gold medal
• 24:15
  game is Saturday in the women's of Sunday.
• 24:19
  So you know, still a lot of medals to be had. the US sitting
• 24:21
  in 3rd place in the medal count with six goals and 19 medals
• 24:25
  overall, trailing Norway and and Italy.
• 24:28
  But you know, we're right in the thick of it.
• 24:31
  The women's hockey team will take care of their business.
• 24:33
  The men's hockey team will hopefully take care of their
• 24:35
  business. We'll get a couple bobsled
• 24:37
  victories and bring this thing home.
• 24:40
  What do you know? 1 sport that just looks like the
• 24:43
  absolute worst. The moguls.
• 24:48
  The scheme. Is that where they're like
• 24:50
  they're bouncing their legs left and right?
• 24:51
  Yes, I swear to God my my legs will break off after the first
• 24:55
  one. Yeah, that does look like it
• 24:56
  hurts, Yeah. How that?
• 24:57
  How do they do it? I don't know.
• 25:00
  And then they have to do flips and stuff and they're racing
• 25:02
  each other, but it's not really a race.
• 25:04
  It's still based off of points from the judges because you're
• 25:07
  doing all these flips and you're trying to get extra bonus
• 25:09
  points. So it does matter how fast you
• 25:11
  go, but it doesn't matter how fast you go, dude.
• 25:15
  I ain't. I ain't touching the moguls.
• 25:17
  No, I'm with you. Also, did you see the dude that
• 25:19
  got his, what the skiing does? Is it the slalom?
• 25:24
  Yeah. Where they're going past the
• 25:26
  tanks. Yeah.
• 25:26
  He got, he got racked pretty good by one of those things.
• 25:29
  And you just hear it. Go watch.
• 25:31
  And he just stops. No, I didn't.
• 25:34
  And yeah, he just, he right, right in the jewels, man.
• 25:38
  Right, Right in the jewels. That's terrible.
• 25:42
  All the skating sports leave. No, I'm out.
• 25:44
  I do enjoy watching, I got like the downhill.
• 25:46
  I like to watching the downhill except for when Lindsey Vonn leg
• 25:50
  basically fell off but they had to have 4 surgeries to reattach
• 25:54
  it. But other than her crash that's
• 25:56
  it. Like the the speeds that they
• 25:57
  go, it's very impressive. I love watching the downhill.
• 26:00
  And dude, just Speaking of Lindsey Vonn, like knowing
• 26:03
  you're already going down that hill with what is already with
• 26:07
  his already a torn up knee and you tear it up even more and
• 26:12
  you're did. You see the pictures she posted?
• 26:15
  Yeah, it's awful, but you still they have no regrets.
• 26:19
  Like I have no regrets. I would do it again.
• 26:22
  Like at that point your your leg is basically just being held
• 26:25
  together by skin. Yeah.
• 26:28
  Like your bones are just all over the.
• 26:30
  Place I mean, I'm not her and I believe her when she says it,
• 26:33
  but I think I would have a little bit of regret going out
• 26:36
  there with no with the tornado already and then my leg about to
• 26:39
  fall, especially after I've already won the amount of medals
• 26:43
  that she's won. I mean she's been here and she's
• 26:45
  been in the top of the sport before.
• 26:47
  She's got nothing left to prove. Like maybe if this is because
• 26:50
  this is meant most likely her last Olympics, so she was going
• 26:53
  out no matter what. So I kind of understand it more
• 26:55
  that way, but I mean, I don't think it's worth it.
• 27:01
  Look, they're they're built different.
• 27:03
  It's an addiction and you love to do it.
• 27:08
  And look, if the Olympics were next year, would she have skied?
• 27:13
  No. Like if they happened every
• 27:15
  year, she wouldn't have skied. But this every four year element
• 27:19
  just brings this into the equation.
• 27:21
  And yeah, she probably shouldn't have skied, but who's going to
• 27:25
  tell her she can't? Who's going to be the doctor to
• 27:28
  be like, no, well, I think all. The doctors told her that and
• 27:30
  she just ignored that environment.
• 27:32
  I think they told her they thought.
• 27:34
  She found the one doctor. She found the one doctor that
• 27:37
  said, yeah, go ahead. Not really.
• 27:40
  If they had a real medical license, who knows?
• 27:42
  But she found somebody. So yeah, go ahead.
• 27:46
  No, I'm all, I'm all in on the Olympics.
• 27:49
  Excited to watch the US Olympic hockey team just take care of
• 27:53
  Cannon and the title and see if they can win the most gold.
• 27:59
  We still got a chance like you said and we also are now in the
• 28:02
  heat of college hoop season. We we talked last week because
• 28:06
  we did the show on Wednesday about Arizona going down to
• 28:09
  Kansas despite Kansas playing without Darren Peterson.
• 28:14
  And then Arizona goes from undefeated and then they lose to
• 28:20
  Texas Tech on Saturday as Donovan Atwell hit some big
• 28:25
  threes down the stretch. Nebraska, remember, they did the
• 28:29
  same thing this year where they went undefeated and then lost
• 28:32
  two in a row. What else?
• 28:36
  We got Cola Pete did not play in the second-half for Arizona,
• 28:42
  which I haven't heard what his prognosis is going to be, how
• 28:46
  long he's going to be out. But if he's out for a little bit
• 28:49
  that that could be an issue. And another thing with Arizona,
• 28:54
  and yeah, they're a great team, but their lack of three-point
• 28:56
  shooting, they're one of the worst three-point shooting teams
• 28:59
  in the country. They rank like in the three
• 29:02
  hundreds based on three points made per game.
• 29:04
  And in today's era where everybody's shooting threes, you
• 29:07
  wonder if that's eventually going to bite them.
• 29:10
  Think it kind of did over the last week with Texas Tech's win
• 29:15
  over Arizona. They now have wins against Duke,
• 29:18
  at the Garden, at home against Houston, and at Arizona.
• 29:23
  I know they got 6 losses, but I don't know if a team in the
• 29:25
  country's got three wins as good.
• 29:26
  As those are the best three wins, I think you can, I'd put
• 29:29
  those up against anybody. There's no absolutely.
• 29:32
  JT Topham was just an absolute problem for for Arizona and
• 29:37
  Christian Andersen continues to there.
• 29:41
  If not the they are one of the best scoring duos in the
• 29:45
  country. Iowa State loses the TCU, then
• 29:50
  comes back at home and just absolutely routes Kansas.
• 29:54
  Kansas beats Arizona without Darren Peterson, gets Darren
• 29:58
  Peterson back and then gets smoked.
• 30:00
  Charlie did. They did get smoked.
• 30:05
  Darren Peterson only had 10 points in that game, was 3 of 10
• 30:09
  from the field, so he came back but didn't have his best game.
• 30:12
  Kansas is now 8 and 2. They've played 10 games this
• 30:16
  year without Darren Peterson. There are 8 and two in those
• 30:18
  games. There are 11 and four with him.
• 30:23
  Yeah. Milan Montsilovich for Iowa
• 30:27
  State goes 4 for 9 from three leads in the scoring.
• 30:32
  Dude is shooting. He's making almost 4 threes per
• 30:36
  game which ranks second in the country and he is shooting 51%
• 30:41
  from 3 which leads the country and dude is like 66106 eleven.
• 30:48
  That's impressive. You're shooting over 50.
• 30:50
  Would you say 50 percent, 51? Percent leading the leading the
• 30:53
  country. Jeez.
• 30:58
  Just kind of running down, keeping it at a Big 12.
• 31:00
  BYU needs overtime to beat Colorado, right?
• 31:05
  Goes off for like 39. But the the story of this game
• 31:08
  was Richie Saunders, who's we've talked about on the show several
• 31:12
  times. Looks like his career
• 31:15
  unfortunately is over as it was announced after the game that he
• 31:19
  tore his ACL. And all right, BYU does not
• 31:23
  really have a signature win. They got a good team that I
• 31:25
  think can make a run, but without Richard Saunders out,
• 31:28
  they get really so and puts up way more pressure on Debonza and
• 31:31
  and right. Yeah, it's going to be hard for
• 31:33
  them to overcome. I think, like you said, not a
• 31:36
  signature win. They have a lot of good wins.
• 31:39
  They're competitive in a lot of games, you know, but without,
• 31:43
  yeah, without Saunders, they're, I think that's going to be the
• 31:46
  end of them. Mike L Brown follows up 45
• 31:52
  against NC State with another 29 in the win over Baylor in Fort
• 31:58
  Worth. Just kind of an odd non
• 32:01
  conference game in Fort Worth in the middle of the season.
• 32:04
  In front of 4000 people. It wasn't wasn't the best crowd
• 32:09
  like. A closed door scrimmage, almost,
• 32:11
  it seemed like. It was the all, everything about
• 32:13
  it was just kind of was just kind of odd.
• 32:16
  And Baylor has had a lot of injuries this year.
• 32:20
  You got you got to see James dodge.
• 32:21
  You play in person. Yeah, I think he actually had
• 32:25
  one of his better games. He has not been living up to the
• 32:27
  to all that hype and all the talk that was everything was
• 32:30
  talking about him coming back. But Mike Al Brown in the last
• 32:34
  two games, 74 points, 14 to 21 from 316 to 16 from the line, 12
• 32:39
  rebounds, 8 assists and eight steals.
• 32:42
  I left off the 8 turnover. Yeah, you can leave those out,
• 32:45
  but no, it's good enough to where he wins the solid 1 and
• 32:48
  Naismith Player of the week, National Player of the week
• 32:51
  honor. So good for him.
• 32:52
  Just another freshman. We talked about how good all
• 32:54
  these freshmen have been. He's just another one that
• 32:58
  continues, continues to to elevate this freshman class that
• 33:02
  they're doing something special. They've all taken their turns
• 33:05
  kind of this week or throughout the year, show them, show them
• 33:08
  what they can do. And obviously Michael had had
• 33:12
  the the lower back injury that kind of set him out, but he's
• 33:15
  kind of getting in a groove and playing as well as anybody in
• 33:18
  the country right now. And if he's playing that way,
• 33:20
  it's exciting. When he's healthy and how good
• 33:23
  he can be, I mean, this Louisville team can be a, a
• 33:27
  Elite Eight Final Four contender.
• 33:30
  You know, like with him healthy and with Conwell playing well
• 33:33
  and, and everybody's starting to gel together, you're like,
• 33:35
  especially now in February is now's the time you want to start
• 33:37
  playing your best basketball. And Louisville's healthy and,
• 33:40
  and Brown's playing his best. So they're, they're rolling.
• 33:43
  They're rolling. Florida takes care of Kentucky
• 33:48
  in Gainesville. Really, I didn't think Kentucky
• 33:50
  played that bad in this game. Mark Polk, kind of.
• 33:53
  He's shortened up his rotation a little bit, but we've talked
• 33:57
  about Florida and we know how good their front court is, the
• 34:01
  best in the country. But when you're getting that
• 34:04
  kind of performance from from Xavier and Lee, you're getting
• 34:07
  closer shooting like that off the bench.
• 34:10
  It's going to be is the Florida's starting to really
• 34:14
  separate themselves from everybody else in the SEC and
• 34:18
  they're really starting to put themselves back in that
• 34:20
  conversation to potentially run it back.
• 34:23
  Yeah, like this is the Florida team that we all expected when,
• 34:25
  you know, when the year started like they were, they were what
• 34:28
  pre season #1 start the year coming off the national
• 34:30
  championship. They struggled early in the the
• 34:35
  November, December lost right out of the gate.
• 34:37
  It's a really good Arizona team, but struggle had some losses
• 34:40
  early, had that loss to to Missouri and everybody was like,
• 34:44
  what's going on? And then ever since then, not
• 34:47
  only are they winning, they're they're winning by a lot, like
• 34:51
  23 over Alabama. You know, they'd be Georgia by
• 34:53
  20 the game before Kentucky. And then they had Kentucky down
• 34:57
  double digits for most of that game, end up winning it by 9.
• 34:59
  So they're beating good teams and they're beating good teams
• 35:02
  by a wide margin. This is the Florida team that we
• 35:04
  expected and the Florida team that could, in my opinion, they
• 35:07
  could still win it all. 100% and dude they're front court in the
• 35:11
  game against Kentucky. They almost had Condon Hawk and
• 35:13
  Chin Leu. Chin Yelu I struggle with his
• 35:17
  name. All three almost had double
• 35:19
  double S Condon had 14 and 11 and Chenya Liu had 10 and 11,
• 35:25
  and then Hawk had 17 and 8. Like, it's just their front
• 35:29
  court is unbelievable. Boogie Flan did not have the
• 35:32
  best game, but because Xavian Lee, I mean, he really kind of
• 35:36
  got him rolling at the beginning finishes with 22 points.
• 35:39
  If you get one of those two guys to show up and then you get some
• 35:42
  help from the bench along with that front court, I I think
• 35:45
  Florida's going to be, they're going to be a problem for a lot
• 35:48
  of teams. Yeah.
• 35:49
  Yeah, well, we had a great game. We came out firing from three
• 35:51
  early, kind of built that lead right out of the gate.
• 35:54
  And yeah, like I said, Flan was only two of 10 from the field
• 35:58
  and eight points, and you know, they still won by 9.
• 36:02
  It could have been even more. Miami Ohio remains unbeaten,
• 36:06
  beaten Ohio on last Friday night.
• 36:11
  It was the first mat game on ESPNI Think in over 20 years on
• 36:16
  the The main ESPN. But the here's the here's the
• 36:20
  news. The news from this Head coach
• 36:23
  Travis Still says he will wear a Speedo at Selection Sunday if
• 36:29
  Miami, Ohio remains undefeated. I like it.
• 36:31
  I mean, I like the, I like the the cop, a little motivation for
• 36:34
  the team. I guess.
• 36:36
  You get your coat, embarrass your coach on national TV by him
• 36:38
  wearing a Speedo. But we'll get their schedule.
• 36:40
  It's not difficult. I mean, it's not difficult.
• 36:43
  Their hardest games going to come against a 16 and 10 Bowling
• 36:45
  Green team on on February 20th, but they got that game at home.
• 36:50
  I mean, their next game is against UMass on the road.
• 36:53
  They're 15 and 11, but everybody else they play has a losing
• 36:56
  record or they're at 500. Like they play Toledo and my and
• 37:02
  Ohio University are both 500. And then Eastern and Western
• 37:05
  Michigan both only have nine wins on the season.
• 37:07
  So it's not a difficult Rd. I mean, if they can get past
• 37:10
  that UMass and Bowling Green game, I think you're going to
• 37:13
  see him wearing a Speedo on national TV.
• 37:17
  Look it we've talked about their schedule, one of the softest in
• 37:21
  the country, but a lot of other teams in college basketball have
• 37:27
  had soft schedules. How many of the other teams are
• 37:32
  sitting there? 25 and now.
• 37:33
  Yeah, none of them. So regardless of their schedule,
• 37:37
  I think they deserve credit, obviously, for remaining
• 37:40
  undefeated. Do you know why Travis still has
• 37:46
  selected this as the reason, or is this as what he will do if
• 37:51
  they remain undefeated? No.
• 37:54
  So at their home games, the men's swim, the both the swim
• 37:58
  teams are there in and they wear their uniforms for almost every
• 38:03
  home game. So there's a reason behind this
• 38:05
  madness. He just doesn't want to show
• 38:06
  everybody off his body on national TV like the swim teams
• 38:11
  have been there supporting them. So obviously to kind of show
• 38:14
  some support back. This is what what he said he
• 38:17
  will do and we've talked about it.
• 38:22
  I still think they might have to win the tournament to get into
• 38:26
  the big dance. Yeah.
• 38:28
  So, Todd, could you imagine you're sitting there at 30,
• 38:31
  whatever it is, and oh, and you lose in your conference title
• 38:34
  game and you get to go to the NIT.
• 38:36
  You won loss all year. I mean, they they've got the
• 38:40
  only competition. I mean they got Akron who's
• 38:42
  sitting there at 11 and one in the conference.
• 38:44
  They're 20 and five overall. Miami beat Akron at home earlier
• 38:48
  in the year by but only by two. So it's not a foregone
• 38:51
  conclusion, you know, that they're going to win this
• 38:52
  conference tournament. You get Akron on a on a neutral
• 38:55
  site. Yeah, no, you're right.
• 38:57
  It never is. But I mean, there's some teams
• 38:59
  that in this conference that have played Miami close and
• 39:01
  Miami just always somehow finds a way to win.
• 39:06
  We we thinking at some point maybe that luck runs out and
• 39:09
  that one possession game flips the other way.
• 39:10
  And you know, they're sitting on their couch or they're sitting
• 39:14
  at the NIT and watching, watching somebody else think.
• 39:19
  We've talked about the pressure of the Olympics, like those
• 39:22
  smaller conference tournaments, they're very similar because
• 39:27
  look, it's you either figure out a way to win or you're going
• 39:30
  home. Because there ain't no second
• 39:32
  chance. There ain't no automatic or, you
• 39:35
  know, the select the committee picking you to get in the
• 39:38
  tournament. So there's going to be a lot of
• 39:41
  pressure on them going into that tournament, even if they are
• 39:44
  undefeated. And it'll be fun to watch to see
• 39:49
  what they can do because if they don't win, they're going to be
• 39:52
  on the bubble. And I wouldn't be surprised if
• 39:55
  that bubble got popped. And we, we just know how much
• 39:58
  the committee loves these 500 Power Four teams that.
• 40:03
  Nobody cares to see I'm in the big dance.
• 40:06
  I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm curious, how good do we think Miami is?
• 40:09
  Like you said, like they're soft schedule, but a lot of teams
• 40:11
  have some soft schedules and they're not undefeated.
• 40:13
  Like how good do you think this team is?
• 40:16
  Like, I don't know. It's it's hard to compare them
• 40:19
  because I don't, I look at their schedule.
• 40:22
  I don't even know what their best win is.
• 40:24
  See. Let's see.
• 40:27
  They they're out of conference schedule.
• 40:28
  They did not play a single Power 14, so they haven't played
• 40:34
  anybody of substance out of conference play.
• 40:37
  Like I said, we we talked about this a couple weeks ago.
• 40:39
  Their schedule ranks near the bottom in the country.
• 40:43
  It's really bad I'm looking at. Like in the three hundreds.
• 40:46
  Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
• 40:47
  It's really. Really.
• 40:48
  So they they got to win and they're Akron is.
• 40:52
  If I had to pick, if I had to look at it, Akron probably is
• 40:55
  their best win and that's not saying much.
• 40:59
  But. Like I said, they undefeated,
• 41:02
  they haven't lost. They deserve some credit for
• 41:05
  that and it'll be fun to watch the rest of the way.
• 41:07
  Anytime you're the last remaining undefeated team, that
• 41:10
  is an accomplishment in itself. I think you you need to get to
• 41:15
  what about 30 to 31 and O 32 enough to to get into the dance.
• 41:21
  That would be getting them in themselves into the conference
• 41:23
  title game before they lose, yeah.
• 41:27
  Great Johns has now won eleven in a row.
• 41:29
  They'd be Providence by 10. The in the UConn game I talked
• 41:33
  about Dylan Darling coming off the bench and really kind of
• 41:36
  being big at the end of that game.
• 41:38
  In the last two games since he had 23 in the win over
• 41:43
  Providence, he's averaging 20 a game in his last two last year
• 41:47
  he averaged 20 a game at Idaho State.
• 41:50
  But before this little run of his he's only he only had 4
• 41:53
  double digit scoring games. So they've really got a new
• 41:55
  weapon off the bench. But the story of this game was
• 41:59
  Duncan Powell just straight taking out Bryce Hopkins.
• 42:02
  Yeah. Bryce Hawkins formerly played
• 42:04
  for Providence. Duncan Powell's been all over
• 42:06
  the place. Played at Georgia.
• 42:07
  Tech last year, yeah. Played at two other schools
• 42:10
  before that. I don't remember who they were
• 42:12
  off off top of my head, but what a dirty dirty play.
• 42:16
  But. No, it was dangerous.
• 42:18
  It was dangerous. It was dirty.
• 42:20
  I mean, it really has no place in the game and you know, you
• 42:24
  don't blame Bryce Hopkins reacting the way he reacted and
• 42:27
  and then pal just double s down and just comes out and throws a
• 42:30
  punch like dude it. Might not be an idiot, but
• 42:34
  you're acting like an idiot. Have you seen his hair?
• 42:36
  You've seen his haircut. He's got one of the worst
• 42:38
  haircuts in the history of any sport, not just college
• 42:42
  basketball. Like what is it I?
• 42:44
  Don't. I don't know.
• 42:45
  It's like a poof. What do you tell there's?
• 42:47
  Got to be a name for it right? This bald.
• 42:49
  Your bald all over except for the bottom back of your head.
• 42:52
  It's just the straight. It's just a bottom poof.
• 42:54
  That's it, just a bottom poof. And he's bald completely and
• 42:59
  he's like, no, I don't want any hair on the top.
• 43:01
  Just ball it all up and put it by my neck.
• 43:02
  Yeah, I don't know. Yeah.
• 43:04
  But dude, with just such a dirty foul.
• 43:06
  It was. Yeah, it was.
• 43:08
  It was and. I get it, your your team's not
• 43:11
  very good and Kim English is probably, I don't know if he's
• 43:14
  going to come back next year, but they've had a terrible year.
• 43:17
  They almost beat Yukon, but and, and they did beat St.
• 43:20
  John's early in the year, but other than that, they just
• 43:22
  haven't had a ton of success. Dude, St.
• 43:26
  John's, everybody was high on St.
• 43:28
  John's and Rick Pitino at the beginning of the year.
• 43:30
  They lose a couple games early and everybody kind of gets down
• 43:32
  on them. And now they've won 11 or oh,
• 43:34
  including a win against UConn and Andy Katz has got them.
• 43:39
  Andy Katz has got them at at six in the country, I believe in his
• 43:41
  top 10. I mean, I don't know if I'd put
• 43:44
  them that high, but no, they're rolling.
• 43:46
  And you know, and this is what Rick Pitino teams do come
• 43:49
  February and come March, this is when they play their best
• 43:52
  basketball. And this is no different.
• 43:54
  He's got him playing Rick Pitino basketball.
• 43:57
  And you know, hopefully the the end result for them is a little
• 44:01
  bit better than it was last year when they got bounced in the
• 44:03
  second round unexpectedly as a two seed.
• 44:07
  You know, hopefully, hopefully they have more success than that
• 44:10
  come this season. But they're rolling the garden.
• 44:13
  The garden is electric. Andy Cassie got him at 5:00.
• 44:17
  Five. Come on, Andy.
• 44:19
  I'm not respect Andy Cass, but come on, Like that's, that's
• 44:23
  ridiculous. I guess the last thing kind of
• 44:26
  keeping in the in the Big East, UConn wins.
• 44:30
  I struggled with with Georgetown at home.
• 44:34
  The the story of this game to me was you, you know, Danny Hurley
• 44:39
  don't care. He says, well, yeah.
• 44:43
  And evidently in the post game handshake with Ed Cooley, Ed
• 44:48
  Cooley says basically, dude, where, where are your fans?
• 44:52
  Like what? Where is your student section?
• 44:54
  Like what's going on here? Like you guys are good.
• 44:57
  Like why are you not getting support?
• 45:00
  And Danny Hurley goes into this 5 minute diatribe in in his post
• 45:07
  game presser. He continuously calls stores
• 45:11
  Kinetic Stores Connecticut, the basketball capital of the world.
• 45:16
  Thoughts on that? I mean, within the in the last
• 45:19
  couple of years, they've been the basketball capital of the
• 45:21
  world because they've been winning it's.
• 45:22
  Because the women's and the men have won so many.
• 45:24
  Championships. The men have just.
• 45:26
  Yeah, I mean, the women are always up there.
• 45:27
  I mean, the Yukon is the women's basketball capital of the world.
• 45:30
  There's no doubt about that. Well, I mean, the men, men have
• 45:33
  a bunch, too. And they've especially recently
• 45:34
  when they went back-to-back. Yeah.
• 45:37
  Like you look at the pictures of that place and like Ed Cooley
• 45:42
  was right, it was empty. Like where's the support?
• 45:44
  They announced the attendance of 10,244 and the capacity of that
• 45:49
  arena is 10,167. So they announced the sell out
• 45:53
  which the. Students.
• 45:54
  The students just didn't. Show which you would announce
• 45:56
  the sell out if the you know, if you sell the tickets, then
• 45:58
  that's your attendance. But yeah, no, that place was was
• 46:02
  not very full. I don't understand why.
• 46:05
  They've got themselves a great team up there.
• 46:06
  I can't. There's not much to do in
• 46:09
  Storrs, Connecticut. I don't know what else you got
• 46:11
  going on on a Saturday there's. Nothing.
• 46:14
  Else to do Go watch a really good basketball team play.
• 46:17
  Like, I don't know what where they are or what they're doing,
• 46:19
  but I can't imagine there's much else to do get to the games.
• 46:23
  He says you can criticize me, but I have some equity.
• 46:27
  Yeah, I've won two championships.
• 46:29
  He does. Which he has, Yeah, he says.
• 46:32
  You don't come to watch a game. It's not a effing social event.
• 46:37
  We need our fans to come to the game and be loud as shit from
• 46:41
  the start. It needs to be a madhouse.
• 46:44
  And then he talks about how it's a madhouse at Creighton, it's a
• 46:47
  madhouse at Xavier, but it's not a madhouse at UConn.
• 46:53
  I don't blame you. If the students aren't showing
• 46:56
  up, he he's not wrong. Yeah, I.
• 46:58
  Mean, I don't know if this has happened at other games or if
• 47:01
  it's I mean it has to be a recurring trend if he's, you
• 47:04
  know, going to say something, but if it is a recurring trend,
• 47:07
  you know, that's that's kind of sad because, like I said,
• 47:10
  they've they've they've been really good lately.
• 47:12
  They've been good this year. It's stores Connecticut.
• 47:15
  I don't know what else you're doing.
• 47:16
  Just go go out to these games, watch this team.
• 47:19
  They're they're fun to watch. They're very good.
• 47:21
  They could win a national title again.
• 47:24
  I don't know. What do you think they're doing
• 47:26
  the stores? I don't know like, but I'll be
• 47:29
  honest, this is a problem everywhere.
• 47:31
  Like little little Jimmy. Didn't want to take Didn't want
• 47:34
  to take Winnie on a Valentine's Day date, to the stores, to the
• 47:37
  UConn basketball game against George.
• 47:39
  That's not. Or maybe that was the problem.
• 47:41
  They were all doing Valentine's dates and they didn't their
• 47:44
  their girls didn't want to go to the game.
• 47:46
  Maybe. They didn't want to share a
• 47:47
  Nacho or or a an ice cold soda with one straw. 2 straws.
• 47:53
  Why when you can cuddle up on the couch with a blanket and
• 47:56
  drink cocoa and watch it on your 70 inch TV?
• 48:00
  And I think that's a lot. I mean we've seen this all
• 48:03
  across the country like these. It's just hard to get 22,000
• 48:08
  people in a. They don't have the capacity for
• 48:10
  22,000. I'm saying 10,000 people.
• 48:13
  It's. Not just happening in stores
• 48:15
  like it's, it's happening at. Other places it is it is, but
• 48:18
  this is only a little 10,000 seat arena get that's.
• 48:21
  That's students. Students go to games.
• 48:23
  Like this is all a part of your experience.
• 48:26
  You go to a college that has one of the best college basketball
• 48:28
  programs in the country, Take advantage of them.
• 48:30
  Go to these games. Yes.
• 48:31
  Be loud. Yeah.
• 48:33
  Like, follow Danny Hurley's advice.
• 48:35
  The dude has equity. He's won two championships.
• 48:37
  It's part of your responsibility as a student to go support these
• 48:40
  student athletes in your school and to be a fan and to be loud.
• 48:44
  Yes, like go. Look, and I'm and I'm I'm
• 48:48
  talking to a guy who went to all the Indiana football games,
• 48:51
  Yeah, when they were winning, when they were 1:00 and 11:00
• 48:54
  and 2:00 and 10:00 every year. We were there.
• 48:56
  We weren't very loud because there wasn't much to get loud
• 48:58
  about back then, but we were there.
• 49:01
  Hey, that first possession, let me tell you, y'all were on your
• 49:04
  feet trying to get that stopped, weren't you?
• 49:06
  Oh yeah, Oh yeah, first. Possession.
• 49:09
  Yeah, early in the game, yes, we were loud.
• 49:11
  And then after that. And then the beers wear off and
• 49:16
  you're down 60 to 14 and. I mean, you can only do so much.
• 49:21
  I didn't love hard. You if you're up there cheering
• 49:24
  when they're down 60 and you're screaming on 3rd down to get a
• 49:27
  stop, there's you got some kind of mental.
• 49:29
  As a student, you were a student.
• 49:31
  What Bellarmine University did you go to Knights Hall?
• 49:33
  No, No, do not. OK, Do not.
• 49:40
  If you were, or if you were a student at UConn, would you have
• 49:43
  gone to the games? Yeah, there's nothing else to do
• 49:46
  in stores. We go fly to Hartford, there's
• 49:50
  nothing to. Do So what else were you doing
• 49:52
  as a student? What else were you doing as a
• 49:54
  student instead of going to Nights Hall?
• 49:57
  I didn't have a ton of school spirit, but when I was commuting
• 50:00
  back and forth to bellamine, I would say I have a lot more
• 50:03
  school spirit with bellamine now than I do did then.
• 50:07
  You and Carl just lock yourselves in the basement, play
• 50:09
  video games instead of supporting the nights.
• 50:12
  Yeah, we drove up to Southern Illinois and hang out with Snap
• 50:14
  Palmer and the guys a lot. Who was your who was your head
• 50:17
  coach at Bellarmine when you were there?
• 50:19
  Was it? Was it Bob?
• 50:22
  Was it Bob? Wasn't Bob?
• 50:24
  It was, no, it was, it was before Bob.
• 50:27
  I don't remember his name, but they were, they were not very
• 50:30
  good. I, I was a manager all four
• 50:33
  years in high school and I had talked to potentially like
• 50:39
  trying to go to UKU Bell to be a manager.
• 50:41
  And then I got more scholarship money to go to Bellarmine.
• 50:43
  And I was like, yeah, I don't want to be a manager at
• 50:45
  Bellarmine. In bus trips instead of flights.
• 50:50
  Yeah, well, I mean, I was used to taking flights at that point.
• 50:53
  I at that point in my life, I think I'd flown once when I took
• 50:56
  a basketball trip to Florida. Well, twice, Florida and Vegas.
• 51:00
  So we, we had some good squads at PRP back in the day.
• 51:06
  Should, should have won it all in my senior year.
• 51:07
  That still hurts. Did you watch any of the NBA All
• 51:12
  Star festivities this weekend? No, I saw I saw Taco fall.
• 51:17
  I was on somewhere like we were brownies and I saw the celebrity
• 51:21
  game on and some for some reason Taco fall at 7 foot 3 is out
• 51:26
  there dunking on like actresses and and actors and whoever else.
• 51:31
  Kind of weird. But no, I did not really watch a
• 51:33
  single minute. I had no idea what happened on
• 51:35
  NBA Saturday night. Heard it was terrible.
• 51:37
  I did see Dame Lillard won the three-point contest with no
• 51:39
  Achilles, but other than that, no, didn't watch that.
• 51:43
  Didn't watch a single minute of the actual All Star.
• 51:46
  What do they call it, a tournament now?
• 51:48
  Yeah, we had, we had a women's basketball game last night that
• 51:51
  we were we were work. I was working and you were at.
• 51:53
  So no, did not watch any of it. Here's here's here's my thing,
• 51:58
  and I get it. I know why.
• 52:00
  But both of these things start at 5:00 Eastern Saturday and
• 52:06
  Sunday, and I know it's because of the Olympics, but that's what
• 52:14
  cost me from watching like I would have watched NBA All Star
• 52:19
  Sunday night if it. Was Yeah, I probably wouldn't.
• 52:22
  Watch that like. I probably would have watched
• 52:23
  some of that yesterday too, if I if I was home, yeah.
• 52:27
  So at one point, at some point NBC maybe gets too much sports
• 52:31
  to where they and also like your, your Olympic coverage is
• 52:35
  delayed anyways. So you're basically preempting
• 52:39
  you're moving the NBA All Stars Sunday night to 5:00 so you can
• 52:42
  run delayed coverage of the Olympics.
• 52:46
  I had I had the three-point contest and the dunk contest on
• 52:49
  in the background. What day was it on it?
• 52:52
  Was it on NBC? Yeah, it was on NBC.
• 52:54
  Dane Wang was was cool. He he beat Devin Booker.
• 53:00
  The dunk contest was. Terrible.
• 53:01
  The skills challenge. Is that a thing?
• 53:04
  No, I think they just did those team things where they had two
• 53:08
  current players and a celebrity passer.
• 53:11
  It was, it's all goofy. There was a lot of people that
• 53:15
  said the tournament was was good yesterday.
• 53:18
  Yeah, I heard the effort was better.
• 53:21
  They had two, they had a World Team and then they had two USA
• 53:23
  teams, one with kind of rising stars and one with with more
• 53:26
  veterans. I don't even know who won.
• 53:29
  It was one of the US team. It was one of the.
• 53:31
  I didn't even, I didn't even look it up to.
• 53:33
  I just wanted to see if you watched it.
• 53:34
  I didn't even look up to see who won.
• 53:35
  The team was the team stars, Team Stripes, the world and
• 53:41
  somebody. No, no.
• 53:41
  Was it? I think it's just three teams.
• 53:43
  OK, Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
• 53:46
  And I'm not even looking it up. I don't care.
• 53:49
  But I know a lot, like when I was a kid, NBA All Star game
• 53:53
  weekend was one of my favorite weekends of the year.
• 53:57
  And I don't know if it's just you getting older.
• 54:00
  I don't know if it's the the product sucks.
• 54:03
  It's because the players don't care.
• 54:05
  My like back in the 90s, Jordan was in the dunk contest,
• 54:08
  Dominique was in the dunk. I think the stars participated
• 54:11
  in all these other events that wasn't just the game.
• 54:14
  And then when the game came around, they all took pride in
• 54:17
  beating the crap out of each other.
• 54:18
  Like they took pride in and you know, lock Jordan wanted to lock
• 54:22
  down Kobe or something like that.
• 54:23
  You know, like they, they took pride in stopping each other and
• 54:26
  then now it's just like, yeah, yeah, nobody, nobody cares.
• 54:32
  Just for fun, which is fine. I don't blame him.
• 54:35
  I don't care. It's just you're not going to
• 54:36
  get the view. Like nobody's going to watch it.
• 54:39
  Yeah. And but you got to get guys like
• 54:41
  DJ Edge from you got to get him to participate the dunk contest
• 54:45
  like a rookie that's probably going to win Rookie of the year.
• 54:47
  Like he even turns it down. Like who are these?
• 54:52
  Like how many non people, people that enjoy basketball but aren't
• 54:57
  watching the NBA every day know who these four players are in
• 55:01
  the dunk contest? I I don't think very many.
• 55:04
  Like Carter Bryant No, but like, like what's why, why?
• 55:09
  Like why don't they like why, why why don't the stars
• 55:11
  participate in the dunk contest? Like they say they're going to
• 55:13
  get hurt. I mean, I don't know of anybody
• 55:15
  that's gotten hurt in the dunk contest yet.
• 55:17
  Maybe it has happened. I just don't know about it.
• 55:18
  But I or recall ever hearing of somebody hurting themselves in
• 55:22
  the dunk contest. Get out there.
• 55:24
  No incentivize. I mean, I don't know how you can
• 55:26
  incentivize us because they're all making millions already.
• 55:30
  So I don't think an extra $1,000,000 is really going to
• 55:31
  move the needle for them. But how do you incentivize these
• 55:34
  guys? I don't know, but like, it's
• 55:36
  made. It's made people endorsement
• 55:39
  money and sponsorship money like Harold Minor was.
• 55:43
  Only reason people knew who Harold Minor was is because he
• 55:45
  won the dunk contest. Yeah, the only reason people
• 55:48
  know who Matt Mcclung is because he won the dunk contest.
• 55:51
  Look what the dunk contest did for like, I know Vince Carter
• 55:55
  already was a huge star, but him winning the dunk contest just
• 55:59
  increased his stardom exponentially.
• 56:01
  It did it with Blake Griffin, like it did it with Nate
• 56:04
  Robinson. Like, I don't understand why
• 56:08
  they can't get better players in the dunk contest.
• 56:11
  I just, well, the last really good one we had was what, Zach
• 56:18
  Levine and Aaron Gordon. Yeah.
• 56:20
  And that was what, 10 years ago now?
• 56:22
  Aaron Gordon was a good one. Yeah, I don't know.
• 56:28
  It's and look, we say it's the same thing every year and they
• 56:31
  keep trying new stuff. I I don't know how you fix it,
• 56:35
  but the fact that I hardly watched any of it.
• 56:39
  I mean, it's same with the Pro Bowl.
• 56:41
  I mean, they're really the only All Star game that's the the
• 56:44
  people pay attention to was baseball, because it's an actual
• 56:47
  game and you know, they stars actually try.
• 56:51
  But and then hockey, hockey figured it out last year with
• 56:54
  the Four Nations tournament. Like that was awesome.
• 56:57
  That was awesome. People loved that.
• 56:59
  And you know, the obviously they're not doing it this year
• 57:01
  because the Olympics is going on and all those guys are are over
• 57:03
  in Italy playing for the countries.
• 57:05
  But you know, they figured it out last year.
• 57:07
  So I don't know. It's there's ways to figure it
• 57:09
  out. I just don't have those answers.
• 57:13
  No, and neither does the NBA, and they're trying to figure out
• 57:17
  answers to keep people from taking.
• 57:21
  Look what the Bulls did a couple weeks ago.
• 57:22
  It's just this, it's gross. Like they don't even get a first
• 57:25
  round draft pick. They just got rid of all their
• 57:27
  players. They just got rid of everybody,
• 57:29
  got 40 mil, 47 second round picks because they wait too long
• 57:34
  to get rid of everybody. Everybody sees the talent in
• 57:37
  this year's draft. So no, if you're not going to
• 57:40
  make the playoffs, you might as well be as bad as you can
• 57:41
  possibly be. And now Adam Silver's talking
• 57:45
  about all these. He's got maybe plans to prevent
• 57:48
  people from taking, but is it like stopping the season at some
• 57:53
  random point in the middle and that's where you do the lottery
• 57:56
  or not have the lottery at all and doing free agency for for
• 58:00
  rookies. Like all these things have been
• 58:02
  talked about. I don't they're not going to
• 58:04
  change it. They're not going to change
• 58:06
  anything. It's just going to keep being a
• 58:07
  lottery. I mean, you can't you can't
• 58:10
  pause the standings in the middle of season and say that
• 58:13
  that's it. Like, no, that's stupid.
• 58:15
  Free agency is just absolutely stupid as well.
• 58:18
  But like I told you and like, if you want to like make it a true
• 58:22
  lottery, like they have this draft lottery where the ping
• 58:24
  pong balls are bouncing around it, but it's a weighted lottery.
• 58:27
  So like the usually the worst teams are drafting either first,
• 58:30
  second, third, maybe drop the 4th, I don't know, but you're
• 58:32
  still up there. Put 32 ping pong balls in a
• 58:36
  thing no matter where you finished.
• 58:38
  Let's have a true, true lottery drop.
• 58:41
  So you're drafted in all 32 spots just randomly?
• 58:44
  Yeah, I don't want that. Either why not?
• 58:49
  I mean, they talk about how like then they could just pick and
• 58:53
  choose who gets like in there's, there's, I don't know, like.
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  Make it random just. You can get first place teams
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  getting the 1st place pick, then they get the rich get richer.
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  So what But. Right now, the way that's.
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  Just the way that you're luck. Well, that's just the luck of
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  the draw, yeah. Well, do you just draft the
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  first 3 randomly and then it goes in order of record?
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  Nope, I'm putting off 32 and grinding those balls up all 32
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  teams. And if, if the Oklahoma City
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  Thunder somehow come out with the top pick and they draft
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  Peterson, then they're going, you know they're going to win
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  the title for a couple more years.
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  But just put them all in there. It's randomized.
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  Look, let's go. You know who doesn't have to
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  worry about tanking? All the soccer leagues across
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  the country that. Yeah, Could you just get
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  relegated to? Have the relegation system.
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  I mean, relegation system. I love the relegation system,
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  except there's no you're not going to relevant, you're not
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  going to relegate the the Chicago Bulls to the G League.
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  God, I would love it. Wouldn't it be the best?
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  Like you've got all these little these cities across the country,
• 1:00:00
  like trying to put together like.
• 1:00:02
  Real teams with players that aren't affiliated like have a
• 1:00:06
  not a true minor league system, but true lower levels.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah. And they're trying to get up in
• 1:00:10
  the NBA, so. We're going to have the Chicago
• 1:00:13
  Bulls playing at the Northeast YMCA against the flag against
• 1:00:17
  the against the Middletown Masters like.
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  There wouldn't be any taking. No, there would not be any
• 1:00:25
  taking but. I know the EPL does not have to
• 1:00:28
  worry about tanking. No.
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  And we worry about this in every sport except for baseball.
• 1:00:37
  I wouldn't say people take on purpose in baseball.
• 1:00:40
  Taking in football is kind of do you really take in football?
• 1:00:45
  I to a point, not as bad as the NBA.
• 1:00:48
  The NBA is the. Worst.
• 1:00:48
  It is the worst. But you just look back at that
• 1:00:53
  Bengals, Dolphins game, the draft before Joe Burrow and the
• 1:00:57
  Bengals are down, what, 21 points, something like that with
• 1:01:00
  Andy Dalton. And they go back and they
• 1:01:03
  they're now like 14 with under a minute.
• 1:01:06
  They get a touchdown, get on. So I can't get a touchdown,
• 1:01:08
  force overtime and somehow lose in overtime.
• 1:01:12
  But if they win that game, they don't have Andy Dalton or they
• 1:01:14
  don't have Joe Burrow. We have two.
• 1:01:17
  We all know how that would have worked out, so yeah.
• 1:01:19
  So losing that game, maybe there is there's a little bit of
• 1:01:26
  taking in football, but it's it's the worst in in the NBA.
• 1:01:34
  I guess we'll close with a little NFL.
• 1:01:37
  Tyreke cut by the by the Dolphins.
• 1:01:40
  He vows that the cheetah will be back.
• 1:01:43
  He's 31 years old. Neil What we ever see the
• 1:01:49
  cheetah again? Yes, yes, we will see the
• 1:01:51
  cheetah again and I'll give you one guess as to where you're
• 1:01:53
  going to find him. He will play for he will play
• 1:01:56
  for an NFL team when back when he's healthy.
• 1:01:59
  Where do you where do you think asked him to show up?
• 1:02:01
  Yes, he will be back with Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and
• 1:02:05
  the Kansas City Chiefs. It is already a foregone
• 1:02:07
  conclusion. That's where he's going and
• 1:02:09
  watch he's going to somehow he's going to be productive and we're
• 1:02:12
  all going to be like, God, I thought this dude was gone.
• 1:02:16
  No, I expect him to be on a Super Bowl winning Chiefs team
• 1:02:19
  now all of a sudden, like that's just how it's going to work.
• 1:02:22
  Out you just said the Chiefs were dead last.
• 1:02:24
  Week. They are dead.
• 1:02:25
  They are dead, but now. They get tiring back and they're
• 1:02:27
  not dead. No, they're still dead.
• 1:02:29
  But watch. Yeah, I, I expect, I think
• 1:02:31
  that's one place where he hold fit.
• 1:02:33
  He knows that system. He knows those guys.
• 1:02:35
  I think he probably would want to go back to Kansas City.
• 1:02:38
  I think Kansas City would take a flyer on him.
• 1:02:41
  So that's where I expect him to end up.
• 1:02:45
  Yeah, like all that I could see happening.
• 1:02:47
  And you know, we've been doing this since August now somehow,
• 1:02:55
  and this is the first time we really haven't been football
• 1:02:58
  centric because football's over at the end of the football
• 1:03:02
  season. We finally got like our art
• 1:03:06
  where we actually argued and it's about Sam Donald and
• 1:03:11
  whether he's a top ten quarterback.
• 1:03:15
  All week this week you were talking about Sam Darnold and
• 1:03:17
  how I think you probably have him up in the top five in your
• 1:03:20
  rankings. Now I've dropped him to like
• 1:03:21
  #14. So after the show last week,
• 1:03:25
  this argument continues on text throughout the entire week where
• 1:03:29
  you're acting like I think Sam Darnold's MVP.
• 1:03:32
  All I. Said is he's the 9th, 10th best
• 1:03:35
  quarterback in the NFL. He just won a damn Super Bowl.
• 1:03:38
  He's been a number one seed for two years in a row of two
• 1:03:40
  different teams. And you're acting like you've
• 1:03:42
  got him all the way back at 28 when you've got him at 11 on
• 1:03:46
  your own list. So I've got him at 9 or 10 and
• 1:03:49
  you've got him at 11:00 and you're acting like.
• 1:03:52
  You know, I've got him at like #15 now 16, keeps dropping.
• 1:03:56
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're ready to put a
• 1:03:58
  Hall of Fame jacket on the guy? Hey, he keeps doing do this for
• 1:04:02
  three or four more years. You stop that.
• 1:04:05
  Stop. You're so you're saying if he
• 1:04:07
  doesn't do this for three or four, so if the next four years,
• 1:04:11
  if he gets four more 1 seeds and two more Super Bowls, he's not
• 1:04:14
  in the Hall of Fame. That's absurd.
• 1:04:18
  No, your defense is going to carry you to the Super Bowl.
• 1:04:22
  He ain't going to carry you the Super Bowls.
• 1:04:24
  Eli Mating got 2. We'll do enough to get you to
• 1:04:26
  the Super Bowls. Eli Mating got 2 and we'll be in
• 1:04:28
  the Hall of Fame. Because he's better.
• 1:04:29
  The Eli Manning is better than Sam Darnold.
• 1:04:33
  Don't just say yes. Yes.
• 1:04:35
  But The thing is you should say right now is yes.
• 1:04:37
  You're correct, Neil. Eli Manning is better than Sam
• 1:04:39
  Darnold. Come on.
• 1:04:42
  We'll just wait till the end of that cruise.
• 1:04:44
  All right, you know one thing I'm surprised you haven't
• 1:04:47
  brought up yet? A sport that you used to love as
• 1:04:51
  a kid, The Daytona 500. I didn't watch the second.
• 1:04:58
  You loved that. You were a big NASCAR guy.
• 1:05:00
  Grow up, were you not? You would call.
• 1:05:02
  Yeah, like in the late 90s when it was cool.
• 1:05:05
  Yeah, honestly, I'm, I'm, I'm with you.
• 1:05:07
  I used to watch it back in the day too.
• 1:05:08
  Late 90s early 2000s NASCAR 98 NASCAR 99 on the on the
• 1:05:14
  PlayStation was was a great. Game so you're not you.
• 1:05:19
  Get frustrated, you get frustrated, you go backwards.
• 1:05:21
  See how many people you can take out.
• 1:05:24
  I actually did that as well. Yeah.
• 1:05:26
  That was. So what you're saying is, is
• 1:05:28
  you're, you're not, you're not joining any NASCAR fantasy
• 1:05:30
  leagues like Kyle Ray? I I couldn't name 5 drivers in
• 1:05:34
  the current NASCAR fields. I don't know, but Tyler Reddick
• 1:05:39
  was your Daytona 500 winner on the last lap.
• 1:05:43
  Came from third one. Everybody crashed.
• 1:05:47
  It seemed like he's the only one that apparently came out came
• 1:05:50
  out on stage. Is he #45?
• 1:05:54
  Yes, yes he is. Because he's a Jordan.
• 1:05:56
  He's a Jordan. Jordan Jordan's first.
• 1:05:58
  It was Michael Jordan's first dates on a 500 as a team owner.
• 1:06:03
  Yeah, so good for him, Jay. But no I I did not watch the
• 1:06:07
  second I watched mine. Both of my nephews play.
• 1:06:15
  Zeke had 6 points and then Wes had two and then I watched golf.
• 1:06:19
  And Scotty Scheffler, who on Saturday they're talking about.
• 1:06:24
  Dude, his streak of top 10s looks like it's going to come to
• 1:06:27
  an end. The man ends up one stroke away
• 1:06:30
  from from getting into the playoffs 63. 9 under 63 on the
• 1:06:35
  last day. Dude had three eagles and three
• 1:06:39
  bogeys and shot 63. Yeah, it was looking awesome.
• 1:06:44
  There's the. 3 footer, yeah. No, he's just a machine.
• 1:06:46
  He's an absolute machine. He's going to win his fair share
• 1:06:50
  of tournaments again this year. But your boy Rick start out
• 1:06:54
  first two rounds, I thought he he was right there and then the
• 1:06:57
  wheels kind of fell off a little.
• 1:06:59
  Bit the wheels especially came off on 6 on Saturday where he
• 1:07:03
  put in native area, dropped, then hit it back into the native
• 1:07:07
  area where he could actually hit it.
• 1:07:09
  So he hit it out of the native area.
• 1:07:10
  He's now hitting four and puts it back in the other native area
• 1:07:16
  drops and then up and downs it from like 100 out for A7.
• 1:07:21
  Yeah, that's 73 on Saturday. Killed him, but I mean, he's
• 1:07:25
  playing some good golf. Maybe time for 19?
• 1:07:27
  Three top 20s to start the year, but you got to get you got to
• 1:07:31
  get inside the 50 of the World Golf Rankings by Houston to get
• 1:07:36
  into the Masters. A top five last weekend where
• 1:07:39
  you got a chance would have done, would have got him inside
• 1:07:42
  that top 50. So he has not played, he has not
• 1:07:46
  played well at Pebble Beach for his career.
• 1:07:49
  So Friday was kind of a it was a really good round for him.
• 1:07:55
  I still think 19th is his best ever finishing Pebble.
• 1:07:59
  He's playing the best golf he's played.
• 1:08:00
  I feel like the best golf he's played in years, is he not?
• 1:08:03
  Played really well at the end of the year last year but it all
• 1:08:05
  came late. Is this is Ricky Fowler back?
• 1:08:08
  Not saying that yet, but you got to play better on the weekend.
• 1:08:12
  You got to play better on the weekend.
• 1:08:14
  And he he was just saying yesterday too.
• 1:08:18
  Dude. Colin won for the first time and
• 1:08:20
  since Zozo's I think 2022-2023 just shot 62 or 63 on Saturday
• 1:08:27
  to get in. 62. Get in position and then just
• 1:08:31
  kind of didn't play great on Sunday, but did enough.
• 1:08:37
  Did enough? I'm just I'm happy golf's back.
• 1:08:42
  Yeah. And look, we we can start
• 1:08:46
  talking the Derby trail to here over the next couple of weeks
• 1:08:49
  preparations. We had the preparations will
• 1:08:51
  start. I've said they're they're right
• 1:08:53
  around the corner. They've already started.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah, the we'll. Get into the bigger.
• 1:08:57
  Ones, that's the major ones, Yeah, those are the minor ones,
• 1:08:59
  but yes. No, I'm excited to get off here,
• 1:09:04
  watch some Olympics and we got Houston, Iowa State tonight.
• 1:09:08
  Yeah, what's going on right now? Actually, I was looking at that.
• 1:09:10
  It is 3533 cyclones with 2 1/2 in the first half.
• 1:09:15
  Dude and then on Saturday, all on ESPN, you got Arizona at
• 1:09:22
  Houston, Michigan at Duke and Iowa State, BYU, which the BYU
• 1:09:27
  game has lost a little bit of Lester now that Richie Saunders
• 1:09:30
  is out, but I. Thought the Michigan Duke game
• 1:09:32
  is a neutral site. You sure about that one?
• 1:09:34
  It might be neutral, It might be neutral.
• 1:09:35
  But you know, another weird light season neutral site, non
• 1:09:40
  conference game, but that's a big one.
• 1:09:42
  So yeah, that'll be, that'll be a great one.
• 1:09:44
  Dude, we didn't even, we're going over college hoops.
• 1:09:46
  We didn't even talk about Michigan because there's so much
• 1:09:48
  going on. Another 30 point win.
• 1:09:50
  They have 1030 point wins this year.
• 1:09:54
  Yeah, 10, yeah. They beat UCLA by 30.
• 1:09:57
  UCLA is going to make the tournament.
• 1:10:00
  Yeah, no, Michigan is. It's the most since Duke in
• 1:10:04
  9899, and you remember how good that team was.
• 1:10:06
  I love the Duke 9899 team, yeah. So Speaking of the first time
• 1:10:13
  Duke wins my 30. 8:00 tonight or 37 tonight.
• 1:10:15
  So Duke's rolling as well. So Saturday's showdown be a big
• 1:10:19
  one. But is this the first time all
• 1:10:22
  year, believe it or not, that Michigan has been #1 they had
• 1:10:26
  not been #1 until until this. Even after beating Gonzaga and
• 1:10:29
  Auburn and all the rest of those.
• 1:10:31
  Teams. 40 by 40 Yeah, I. Think Gonzaga beats Kentucky by
• 1:10:35
  40? Like right around that same
• 1:10:36
  time. So Michigan would beat Kentucky
• 1:10:38
  by 80, is that what we're saying?
• 1:10:41
  Dude, there's the way Kentucky played that Vanderbilt game.
• 1:10:44
  They very well might, but. They're getting together.
• 1:10:48
  I don't know. They're getting together.
• 1:10:49
  They're playing better. I I, they, they weren't ever
• 1:10:52
  going to win on Saturday, but that was more just because
• 1:10:54
  Florida's better and Todd Golden was very open about their $22
• 1:10:59
  million roster. Nice little dig on that one.
• 1:11:02
  Yeah, no small all. Right.
• 1:11:05
  You got anything else? Appreciate everybody who turned
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  in alive. Oh, oh, we got we got some
• 1:11:15
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• 1:11:16
  So appreciate everybody watching live and we'll we'll be back
• 1:11:20
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  But for the 610 nil, I am identity three weeks in a row.
• 1:11:37
  I called you 610. Yep, very smart.
• 1:11:45
  I get in the two that the numbers mixed up for the 66.
• 1:11:50
  Neil, I am the 410. Nick, we will talk to you next
• 1:11:54
  week. Thanks for listening to it's
• 1:11:55
  differential. me, idiot. Stupid.
• 1:12:07
  What an idiot. How do you be so stupid?
• 1:12:11
  You can put that's what you're doing that on purpose.
• 1:12:13
  So that'll go as your your closer.