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3 Guys Before the Game - A Visit with Cam Thoroughman (Episode 470) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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Hey, everybody, what's happening? It is time for three Guys before the
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Game. Our summer series continues with one of the toughest pound for pound Mountaineers
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to ever put on. Ever, the basketball suit maybe tougher than some football
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players. Oh, absolutely could have been a football player could guard. You
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know, there are certain people. There are certain people that move away from
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contact. There are others that seek contact. Our boy, he sought contact.
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He was a face in the fan guy. We'd like to say something.
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Yeah, which Riga Triffens cam Thuraman, former Mountaineer basketball player, is
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affiliation news. No, we don't. It's like tomorrow is breaking up.
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It's coming, It's going chill out. Our summer series guest Arizona is cam
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Thurrowman, native of Portsmith, Ohio, six feet seven inches tall, two
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hundred and thirty five pounds. When he played for the Old Golden Blue.
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He has gone been gone now for twelve years. Wow. Believe last season
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was twenty eleven, so obviously he was a member of the final four team
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recruited to West Virginia by John Beeline played for Bob Huggins and has now gone
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on and really successful in the business world, which is one of the reasons
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why I wanted to bring him on here as well. But please, welcome
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to the program, the one and only cam Thurman close. Sir, how
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are you hey, guys? How are you nice to have you with us?
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Pretty good? I gotta I gotta ask, did my wife put you
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up to some of these advertisements? She's been asking for probably the better part
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of a year now for a camper. So now I don't know if I'm
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gonna be able to tell her that I'm on this show or not, because
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she's going to be getting me up for one of these campers. Well,
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what's your what's your wife's first name? Rebecca? She goes by Becca.
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So you tell old Becca, not only can we get her that camper,
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travel trailer, whatever you want, we're gonna put it. We're gonna put
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a hitch on that bad boy. We're gonna go double put a put a
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pontoon. So it's gonna be pickup trush, pickup truck, right yeah,
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pickup truck will haul the trailer and then behind that we'll put the we'll put
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the pontoon boat. They're going to Thuramins. He's gonna need dual axel.
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Ye need dual axel for that. Absolutely we can help you outcam just step
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aside, have back of Collis will hook her up. Yeah. And when
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you need when you need fuel, I mean, when you need fuel,
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you go to Gomart of course. And then obviously, such a big high
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ranking business dude like you are doing all this HR stuff, you're gonna need
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data support and security, you go to Comax. And then of course when
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you when you figure the whole thing out, Um, we got it all
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covered for you, so right, So that's how it works. Yeah,
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you guys should have had me on here a long time ago. Yeah,
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I know, I know we should. So I said, six seven,
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two thirty five is what they listed you when you were a senior. You
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probably aren't any taller. I don't think you've started to shrink yet. But
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how much do you weigh today? Two seventies So you're a five man and
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no more even flirting with a four. That's good. Six seven two seven.
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You know what they call that? That's a man, that's a that's
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a that's a man. So hard lets let's jump in. We'll jump all
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over the place as per usual. But I think I've always followed your career
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ever since you left. You jumped right into the work world and have climbed
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the ladder. So you're in human resources for Marathon Petroleum. You've bounced around,
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walk us through your whole run here, You've been ware, oh,
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Tony, have been a little bit of everywhere. So I went to Marathon
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right out of college. I kind of knew early on that the NBA wasn't
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in my future, and I didn't really want to go overseas, so I
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got my msir master's degree before I left it. I went to Louisiana,
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then I went to Illinois. Then I went to our transportation logistics division for
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a couple of years. Then I went back to Louisiana. Then I went
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to Detroit, and then I went to Bismarck, North Dakota and spent three
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and a half years there. That's where my daughter was born during COVID,
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and probably about three months ago we relocated back to the corporate headquarters here in
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Sinley, Ohio. So now my parents are close, my brother's close,
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my sister's close, so we're close to family and we think we want to
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be here for a while. Ago. That's awesome. He's traveled more than
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Trey Mitchell. Yeah, let me tell you, old Cam wouldn't have been
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a portal guy. No Cam comes in, Cam stays put as far as
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that stuff goes. So, based on how your world works in the employment
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field, do you do you have you done enough moves to tell the company
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Okay, I'm I'm here now, I'm good. Do you think you can
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kind of put it down? Yeah, I mean there's always there's always that,
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there's always a potential for, you know, another couple opportunities. So
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we'll see where life takes this. We are kind of we've been kind of
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let's go where where life goes, and so at this point we've been kind
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of open to anything, and we may be a little bit more picky about
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where we go. Now. My son's and be in second grade. My
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daughter will be starting school here before too long, and we know the impacts
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that can have on a kid to move around and change schools and have to
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come up with new friends and things like that. So we'll take that into
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consideration with any move they come, you know, at us with among I
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counted five different places you've been. Among those five places, which one did
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you like? Which state did you like the most? Which did you like
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the least. That's tough, Tony. I mean, I think the one
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beautiful thing that I've realized about relocating and living in a bunch of different places
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is there's always a reason why people want to live there, no matter.
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You know, when you're in North Dakota, folks will be like, oh
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my gosh, I could not believe you lived in Louisiana. Hurricanes and heat
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and you know, go on, and the opposite's to be told. For
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North Dakota. It's like, oh my gosh, why would you ever move
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there? It's so cold, it's so far away. You know. It's
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like, Yeah, there's a special something about every place that we live that
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we've loved and that we've made it home at that time when we're there and
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we miss it. And so I don't know that I have a favorite,
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but I can tell you, if we ever had time to sit down,
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I can tell you all the good parts about each one. Yeah, let's
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all just real quick. It's a great answer is in your wheels he might
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be running for political office there, that might be one of the all time
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great answers for somebody that's moved a bunch and I don't you know what,
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I don't. I don't chalk that up as as political patronizing. That's justice.
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That's just a glass half full. Guy. Great answer, Yeah,
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very good answer. Yeah. I mean that's as good of an answers I've
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heard on that question. Yes, we're positive in all of this whole crew.
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Yeah. So your your title is human resource management, right, so
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like, get what what does that mean? Because we're we're I'm I'm just
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kind of myopic. I just like know one thing, Like you are an
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announcer, you are a sportscaster, So like, what does that mean?
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What do you do? Oh, Tody, I'm a jack of all trade.
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So it depends on which which organization you're in at that time, because
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HR can be a totally different thing. So let's just take my last goal
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for example, as an HR manager at our Man Dan and Dickinson North Dakota
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Refineries and so there you're a little bit of the you're the faith of the
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facility with the general manager out to the public. You know, you are
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doing the normal HR stuff on a daily basis. You're bringing people into the
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organization, there's people exiting the organization. You're doing, you know, your
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employee relations, You're managing the union contract or a labor free environment and trying
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to keep it that way. So it can be many different things. I
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think that's what I love about my job is I do get do a little
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bit different. I sit on the leadership team of that organization that I'm in.
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Currently, I'm in the what they call the terminals organization. So Marathon
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has about one hundred and ten terminals across the United States, all the way
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from Fort Lauderdale to North Pole of Alaska, and so I have people throughout
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the country that are supporting those places from an HR standpoint, and that's my
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organization. Do you do hiring and firing? Then I don't now necessarily a
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myraal, but the people that work with me or for me, they are
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doing that. Yes, Okay, then you've you've advised them or they consult
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you. What is the how do you close when you're hiring or when you
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have your people hire? And what's your go to brief as possible line When
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you're firing brief as possible. We've probably already made the decisions. That point,
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there's probably not much less to discuss, you know, thank you,
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wish you the best. From a hiring standpoint, I will tell you that
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I've been with this company for twelve years. It's a great company. They've
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taken great care of me. I've watched the great care they take of others.
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The compensation is very good, the benefits are very good, and you
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know, our company culture is at the top. So I would encourage you
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to come in and take a look. Do you have a position for an
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aging announcer? I don't know. I'm sure we can find you. Guys
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something. What is the largest salary amount that you've offered a potential employee?
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You probably shouldn't say that. Shouldn't a big company. It's not like he's
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going over to I don't want to get that word get out seen. People
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know a glass door, they know what people are making. There are several
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hundred thousands for sure. Then there's long term incentive and bonus and those sort
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of things that go on top of it. I mean, there's there's definitely
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some pretty good jobs out there. So you think all inclusive in the package
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as far as all options and everything. You've probably offered someone between four hundred
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to five hundred. Yeah, definitely, see what I mean, you just
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got nil on the brain here. You got to ask questions about all that.
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You just just find an I L I find this stuff interesting. I
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mean, did you ever get a chance to talk about this stuff? That's
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interesting stuff? I you assumed you were talking about me, for aging announcer.
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I think Tony's now pitching forward? What about it? Forget you,
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guys, I'm not aging. I might go talk to Ken. I get
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the weekends up now, I'm on holidays. Yeah. Hey, let's go
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back to your time here. You said something a couple of things interesting there.
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So you get your masters while you were here. So he did an
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undergrand end masters before you got out of here. Correct? Correct? All
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right? Number two, you said NBA wasn't in your future and you didn't
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want to go overseas to play. That's a little bit rare. Why why
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did you know that continuing your basketball? Right? I know there were injuries
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in there, but why did you not want to continue the career? Well,
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A couple of things come to mind, Brad. So Number one,
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I know that basketball was something up probably was not going to do forever.
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And my parents kind of instilled in me that at some point that ball will
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probably stop bouncing, you know. So that's two of you to get an
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education. So while you're there, you know, make it work that it's
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it's free, which is an unbelievable benefit that I'm super grateful and thankful for
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every day. But you know, take advantage of that. Number two.
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I got to go Overseas twice in my college career, once for education and
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once for like basketball. Brian, if you ever get him on the show,
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you can talk to him about the time that him and I spent two
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weeks over in Eastern Europe. We had a great time, but I quickly
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realized there that hey, this is not for me. Yeah because it was
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Eastern Europe, or because of truck Yeah, yeah, I had to go
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a truck. Yeah that's interesting. So let's go even back a little bit
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further than that. So my perception is John bee Line in the West Virginia
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staff or recruit you. Before you get here, you suffer a significant knee
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injury which impacted you for the rest of your career. Can you fill in
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the details and the facts on that, Yeah, I can. I don't
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like to think about it a lot. But yeah, my senior season,
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we were set up, we were hoping to make a state tournament run,
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and I can't remember we were probably five or six. Came to in the
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season and I went up and dunked it, and I came down and four
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my meniscus, which required surgery, required an immobilizer for several weeks, pretty
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much non weight bearing for some time. And you know, I don't know
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that I ever really recovered. And I don't know necessarily from a physical standpoint,
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but just mentally from it. Just it kind of altered my game forever.
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Um. So, and then when I got into college, I had
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another I kept having my knee dislocate. I don't know if you remember that.
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I remember that. Yeah, they probably five or six times my sophomore
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year or freshman. Yeah, it's hard to remember all those years. Um
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but yeah, it dislocated five or six times. So then I had to
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have another pretty serious knee surgery that was like a twelve to fourteen week rehab
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was with Doc who's one of the best trainers ever, by the way,
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but talking about Randy Matter. Talking about Randy Matter, Yep, go ahead,
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Yeah, So you know, I had two pretty good knee injuries.
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And I mean you talk about my career. Yeah, I came there as
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a shooting guard, you know, don Bee Line. I think talked a
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little bit about maybe to replace you know, Hairbear or whenever he was there.
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But I quickly realized that I wasn't gonna fill that role for Hugs.
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And you know, I saw an opportunity to get on the court by becoming
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something that maybe I had not been, you know, the rest of my
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or prior life, and so I seized on that opportunity and it paid off
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for me. So when when you got it, because by the time you
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were a senior, you were averaging twenty minutes a game. So when you
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got in there and as you said, you weren't in there to light it
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up and started shooting from three point range? So what did you understand your
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role to be? What specifically were you supposed to do when you got in
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there, Hoppy, I could tell you the scouting or port for the other
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team, like the back of my hand. I knew whatever play they were
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going to run. I knew every single one of our plays. I knew
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where every single person was supposed to be on our plays. I knew.
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My job was to get the other guys open, to create stots for them
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to make good passes, to walk out the rebound, to guard whoever I
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was put into guard the very best I could. It was the court eventual,
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you know, the little things that we that we always talked about.
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I took a lot of pride in that, and I had to. I
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had no other choice because you know, everyone else is more talented to me.
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In another ways, how valud goes all that bread, Well, it's
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unreal. Let's go back here a second, because we got to pay some
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proper homage to this. This, this is unbelievable what you just said.
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You come in as a six seven shooting guard for John Beeline, So had
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all things being equal, you're a perimeter guy. You would have been a
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great shooter. You would have fit that offense, and we would have talked
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about this six seven guy like a tall two guard. And you shifted all
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of that over to which you didn't say there about knowing all the little details.
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You also became an enforcer and a tough guy and the heartbeat of a
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team. You completely changed who you were as a player and played one hundred,
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one hundred and seventeen games over your career as somebody that you weren't coming
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into West Virginia. That is an unbelievable transformation and story. How do you
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get yourself to that point? You know, I really don't know. Like
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I said, I think I was. You know, I'm a pretty realistic
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guy, and I think always happen. I think it's what's been able to
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help me maybe be successful in my twenty seven in the business world, is
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that I'm realistic and I'm transparent from the standpoint of you know, I could.
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I was with those guys every single day of my life. We've played
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open Jim, we worked out together, and it was pretty quick to realize
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that they were more talented than me and more athletics than me. So it's
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like, all right, if I'm going to get on this court, I'm
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going to have to do something that they don't necessarily do. And so it
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doesn't take long to figure out some places. You know that I had opportunities.
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Your ability to be self aware there is light years ahead of anyone in
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your age group at that time, and it's a great, great statement and
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story for others in this world that we're living in now with the transfer portal
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and everyone runs away when the first hint of adversity comes in. But think
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about it. You're recruited by a John b Line spread the floor finesse game.
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You inherit Bob Huggins, who is a physical we're gonna guard. And
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to me, that's why I've always loved your game and have unbelievable respect for
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you because of what you just said. You just said, Okay, tell
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me what I need to do for you, rather than hey, what can
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you guys do for me to get me ready to go to wherever the next
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level? And because you did that, you enjoyed the ultimate success. You
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had success as a team, you had great friendships, you go to the
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final four. I mean that to me, and then unlook what you're doing
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today and you're having success, like that's what this thing is supposed to be
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able to do, and you did it. So that's why I think you
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might have not scored the most points, but to me, you're an absolute
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massive winner in the real game. Thank you, I mean those are very
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kind words. I think that's what made that team what it is. I
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mean, deni ill, I mean that's a different conversation than that's changing the
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game totally. But I can tell you when b Line left and Hugs came
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in, don't think that that group of eight freshmen that came in together didn't
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start to think about what's our future. Right. We may not necessarily be
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the Hugs type player. You know, John be Line and Bob Luggins are
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about as far opposite, you know, types of games as you can get.
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And we had those conversations a lot and a couple of us did leave,
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but that core group that stayed. Man, the chemistry, the trust,
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the bond that was amongst that group is you know, I think you
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owe a lot of that to that run that we made to go to the
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final four to win the Big East Tournament. That, like what four week
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period of time is probably one of the best ever in Mountaineer basketball. And
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I think you could probably look back to that that window and time when bee
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Line left and Hugs came in, and Hugs told us, look, number
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one, we didn't want to go anywhere. We all wanted to stay together
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and we told each other that. And then number two, I'll never forget
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when Hugs came in he said, I'm not looking to get you know,
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move anybody out. He said, but what I will tell you is us.
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He said, this may be one of the hardest things you ever do
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in your life, which is playing for me. He's like, but it's
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going to be one of the most rewarding things you ever do in your life.
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And I'll remember those words until I died that you know, he took
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great care of us. You know, I'm looking at that roster just for
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to kind of remind people. Cam. So, this was the freshman group
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that you guys came in. You were a freshman, Johnny West was a
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freshman, Will Thomas was a freshman. Campaign was a freshman. Jacob Greene
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and John Flowers and your sophomores were the day Shaun Butler's, the Joe Missoula's,
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the Josh Sowards, the Jared Browns, and the Wellington Smiths and that
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knew what was Alex was a forget though. Let me don't forget. Yeah,
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uh, Donnie and I came in with that group. The sophomore group
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we came in with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right,
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day Shaun group. I just remember that you guys bonded so tightly so
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early that I understand what you're saying, Like, Hey, we're going to
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stay together. I remember we went to from you tell me did we go
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play in Orlando early in your career in the Disney thing, right, and
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I could just see you knuckleheads running around together just having a riot. And
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over in the in the hotel area. You remember like when you guys like
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captured a lizard or something in a sneaker box and you're and you guys are
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running around with you like, hey, man, which guy like like Cam's
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got the lizard inside of a sneak a Nike box And I'm going like,
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I'm thinking to myself, how now hell are we gonna win with these clowns?
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These are the guy, this is the future of Mountaineer basketball. You're
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running around with a big lizard, like, hey got a Liz Area dash,
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we got a lizard in the box. And I'm going, all,
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this isn't gonna be good. This is not gonna we have a group tech.
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We have a group tech together. We actually, I think Smalligan ended
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up bringing that up probably not too long ago, and everybody had a pretty
24:49
good laugh about that. See, and that's it. But it's remarkable,
24:52
and we've said this before on the show many times. It's also a testament
24:55
to you guys, but also Hugs. I think that's some of hugs best
24:57
coaching was his early time time of not saying you have to be exactly like
25:03
the ideal Bob Huggins player. And he was able to meld all of you
25:04
guys, and you've all adapted, not just you, and I just go
25:08
back to it's just incredible where you took yourself to that. And I don't
25:12
know if you guys do this a lot, but I've done this. You
25:15
enter Cam Thurman into Google Cam. You ever do that? You ever put
25:18
your name into Google Cam? Cam Thurman? Duke comes up second, Yes,
25:22
with him stepping out. Was it Gerald Henderson that you stum? For
25:26
those of you that are watching, let's show that video Cam Thurman NCAA tournament.
25:30
Here we get Gerald Henderson tries to pull a punk move. Watch this.
25:34
He pushes Cam down the camp because Cam says, here, I got
25:40
a little bit of that for you. There's your six seven shooting guard that
25:42
came in. Just put a forearm right and Gerald and said, oh is
25:45
that right here? You want to play like that? You want to push
25:48
me in the back. Here's how we're gonna play yeah, you know.
25:49
You know what else comes up is when and by the way, I think
25:52
we should submit this video and see if they can reopen the investigation cam.
25:56
Is when Luke Luke Godi assaulted. Here we go, ready, we got
26:02
watch under the baskets, got the ball arm wept and watch this in a
26:06
way week ago the old arm roll. Oh, poor bunny, Bunny.
26:12
That may have been the only two free throws ever made in my career.
26:18
Yeah, A six seven finesse shooting garden. You're doing that and that's true,
26:21
then then that's what I mean, that's what the remarkable part of you
26:23
is to remake yourself and change who you were and who you became in your
26:27
A legend here for that. Yeah. So you mentioned that you have a
26:33
brother. Were you always a tough guy? Um? Or does that something
26:38
you grew into something I definitely grew into. My brother and sister are ten
26:42
and eleven years older than me. Um. Okay, so yes, I
26:45
was. I was a baby. I was a mama's boy that you know,
26:49
got baby. My dad would be a little rough on me at times,
26:53
but at the end of the day, you know, Mama's tried to
26:56
make sure that nothing too bad ever happened to side. I remember a couple
27:00
of times, you know, she would question some of Hug's coaching moves because
27:04
it was at her baby. She, you know, just couldn't believe that.
27:08
Hey, I want to go back to moving. Since you've moved half
27:11
a dozen times, are there any items that about the third or fourth move
27:15
that you say, why are we still moving this thing? Throw it away?
27:21
Get rid of Why are we moving this for the fifth time? Do
27:22
you have anything like that question? Okay, maybe we should let my wife
27:26
listen to this. Yes, we have had that conversation multiple times. We
27:33
have a couple of boxes downstairs that probably have two or three different moving stickers
27:37
on, and it's like we didn't even know we've had that, But we
27:41
keep it. We keep it. You never know when you might need it.
27:45
There you go. Hey, when you're when you're out walking about,
27:47
you say six seven. So we see six seven guys all the time on
27:49
the court, but that in life when you're walking around, you're a big
27:52
dude. Right when you walk in the room. How many times does your
27:56
basketball career come up? How many times does West Virginia basketball come up in
27:59
your daily life? A lot? And a lot more here lately than probably
28:04
ever before. So I would say not on a daily basis, but a
28:11
weekly basis for sure, especially with all the different people I meeting in this
28:14
new job, um, and at the corporate headquarters where there's a there's probably
28:18
several thousand people here at the office. So you know, good. I
28:22
hope you're wearing that flying WV right in right amongst those Ohio so you got
28:26
a lot of Ohio state, and I hope you're Walton right into the meetings.
28:30
Yes, it's exhausting here when you if you were playing today with nil,
28:37
what would be what would be your money? What would be the money
28:41
you deserve? You know what? That's one of the things that's been a
28:48
little bit. I don't know what the money is. I don't know what
28:52
Some of these guys are getting, um crazy, some of them getting crazy.
28:57
What are some of the guys that are mountaineers today? One hundred fifty
29:00
two hundred, five hundred eight hundred. You said it earlier. With the
29:03
contracts you've been offering, Yeah, the head however, they don't get options
29:10
for the future. UM. I think you can like security company, big
29:15
heavy machinery company. Well, he needs something tough, like some kind of
29:19
like security system like tough guard. Have you or have you equipment heavy equipment,
29:23
tough terrain you got to dig into. I think cam you m I
29:29
think you see Walker machinery. Yeah, yeah, exactly, you could make
29:33
I think he would make No, I think he can make probably twenty five
29:36
to fifty thousand dollars. He'd have a market. Yeah, way he played,
29:40
there's a market. Yeah, absolutely he could. Yeah. And now
29:42
now that's just straight home, that's just straight cash. Now there's other things
29:45
we could probably you know, what could jails? Could you do for well,
29:48
he'd probably likes to, you know, outdoor fishing and hunting, you
29:51
know, something in the world of them, maybe side by side or some
29:55
gear or something like that. You would have some issues licensing with Haron Goati's
29:57
people, but she kind I think that different. But you could have that
30:00
close on a T shirt that would sell a lot of T shirts. Or
30:03
stepping over Gerald Henderson again, you kind of fuzz out Henderson so you can't
30:07
tell it's him, so you don't have to pay Duke any royalties, but
30:10
you're stepping over him that how many T shirts would that have sold? You
30:14
print those in a couple days after he does that be a ton of T
30:17
shirt? Do you do you do you miss it? Do you miss it?
30:19
Do you ever have pangs? I do miss it? Um. People
30:26
always ask that question, and I always say I miss it. I don't
30:29
know that I would sign up to go right back and do it again.
30:32
Um, but I definitely miss it. And my left knee definitely has Martha
30:37
ritis in it already from just the surgeries and the beating and the banging.
30:41
But I don't regret it ever one bit. Like I loved that experience so
30:47
much. It made me who I am today. I would not be the
30:49
person I am without that experience, without Coach Huggins. So you know,
30:56
very blessed to have that in my life. Do you need to hurt right
30:59
now? Like this moment? It does not hurt right now. Good.
31:02
Are you coaching your kids at all? Yes? I do coach my son.
31:07
Um. I've coached baseball and then I also coach basketball. Right while
31:11
we were in North Dakota and my son got into hockey. But I can't
31:12
even get on the ice. Yeah, that would not be good for the
31:17
knee. Yeah, that would be good forcer on the ice. Yeah.
31:23
Four on the skates. Do you do you like the coaching part of it?
31:27
I do, yes, And my son tells me he wants me to
31:32
coach him. So that's really all that the only thing I need. Here
31:33
you go. Yeah, look, I know it's early. I get oh,
31:37
here we go, Here we go recruiting time. I know, I
31:40
know it's early, but I mean, as you kind of watch him a
31:42
little bit and see him run a little bit. How how the hips,
31:47
what's the what's the twitch? Was he does he got Does he have a
31:49
little bounce? Do he get something to him yet? No, it's too
31:53
early. I tell my wife, I don't know that he has that killer
31:56
instinct at him yet. And you know, if he started to show the
31:59
spurts up it in this past baseball season. We just finished h this past
32:02
week, and he's starting to show a little tenacity, a little you know,
32:07
killer instinct. Here we go. Yeah, just let it never too
32:10
early. How Yeah, you're still trying to tell him to shut to share
32:13
with his toys, and then you want him to go drill somebody in the
32:15
field. So that's a tough time. Jam's got it, right. You
32:16
gotta just wait. Yeah, it'll develop like wine right, it'll develop trying
32:21
to tell a little body's to pass the ball to the other guy, not
32:22
just go take it from him all the time. It's a tough message.
32:27
Which which one of your former teammates? Do you stay the closest with?
32:30
Johnny? Yeah? By far? How's he doing? What's that? How
32:35
his world? They had a baby? Right? Yeah, he's done good.
32:37
We have girls that are about three months apart. Kenn's three months older
32:43
than Gabriella. Um. I just was out there and La a couple of
32:50
months ago. We played in the member of guest golf tournament out there in
32:53
southern California and spend a week together. That's not fair. He's got a
32:59
better and stru probably didn't you do? Let me let me let me ask
33:01
you, let me ask you something. Chances are that golf tournament. Wasn't
33:06
that a municipal course? Was it? What was the name of that course?
33:09
I'm trying to think of it. I'll mention it was it crazy night.
33:16
Do you know what it is? It was really really nice. I
33:21
enjoyed it, like, do you know what the name of the court?
33:22
Do you know? What are you getting? What are you getting at?
33:25
Johnny West isn't playing at putt putt. That's what I'm saying. Johnny's probably
33:30
got something that was it was it was it a world class place that's called
33:34
the Madison Club's Place. Okay, I mean it's not the Masters, but
33:38
okay, I didn't know if you like you went gave me the like you're
33:40
gonna give me a pebble beach or something like that. So I'm looking at
33:46
this roster of when you were a baby. Okay, think about these cats
33:52
and what they've become day. Shaun Butler's in the league, Joe Missoula is
33:57
in the league. Johnny West in the leagu league. Joe Alexander played for
34:00
over a decade. Derris Nichols is a Division one head coach. Alex Rooff's
34:06
here on staff. Campaign's doing really well on the financial business. Jared Brown,
34:12
he was a guest here. Um one of the more memorable podcasts that
34:15
we had, he was cutting someone's hair cam while while we interviewed him.
34:20
Had had the buzzer in the background. Um, Wellington's doing well. John
34:25
Flowers is into more things than whatever. And obviously Jamie is doing well.
34:30
I see him every once in a while when we're on the road and we
34:31
head towards kind of the middle of the country. Um, so look at
34:35
that, man, that's that was a fantastic group of guys that have all
34:37
gone on and done really really well. Yeah. I think there's a lot
34:44
of success to come from acts. I got to go to the Greenbriers this
34:46
past springing and playing that game changer outing. I got to play with a
34:52
really cool guy, Ryan leg I know he's a big supporter. Yeah,
34:58
yeah, man, he's a his family. They were a lot of fun.
35:00
But I got to k Um and Um John and a lot of different
35:07
guys, and that was really cool to go back and see a lot of
35:09
folks. So the Madison Club membership fees are reported to be a half million
35:15
dollars, with an annual fee of seventy five thousand dollars. It's just a
35:19
little club, hoop, just a little just a little, uh little little
35:22
club off the side of the road. Probably it's one of the ten most
35:24
expensive golf clubs in America. Huh. Interesting, Cam he said it was
35:29
nice. Well, yeah, I think it was nice. Said it was
35:30
nice from him. Hey, by the way, I didn't mention Teddy talking
35:34
it. What's Teddy doing. You know what I have talk to him.
35:37
Probably I think the last guy I heard you as a doctor? Okay,
35:42
did you do that? I was, I was just I didn't know what
35:45
he was doing. But he was one of the all times. He was
35:46
wonderful too, just absolutely great. Loved him, loved him. All right.
35:52
Well, listen a couple of things now that I have your phone number.
35:55
Um, he's gonna apply for one of this No, no, I'm
35:59
gonna make sure that his wife here's this podcast. So I'm gonna do everything
36:02
I can because you need to get you need to get her one. You
36:06
need to get her one of those travel trailers. And we're giving ten thousand
36:09
dollars off. And if you're ding donging around and a half a million dollar
36:14
country club, you can drop it. I'm right, I mean right,
36:15
Brad, I mean we'll give it's a pretty good offer. Well, I
36:17
mean, as he was a guest, he didn't say he paid for the
36:21
country club. Same difference. I mean, listen, as Will Wade would
36:24
say, that's a strong ass offer ten its ten thousand dollars off that thing
36:30
at Burdette Camping and visit them. Um, fantastic, All right, brother,
36:35
Thanks so much. I know you wander around here every now and then
36:38
make sure you you say hello when you come into town. Sure, I
36:43
hope you got it? Uh, continue success all right, my man?
36:46
Thank god, thanks, take care of good to talk to you, various
36:50
cam Thuraman. Same as people belong to that golf club. I'm just I'm
36:54
reason now I'm obsessed with his golf club. Yeah, you went with a
36:58
couple, Give it to me. Who else? Who's on? Who?
37:00
Who belongs? Let's see you give me a minute go ahead of your next
37:04
thing. And I was just gonna, I was simply gonna say that the
37:07
folks at Burdett Camping have that unbelievable offer. And I just want to continue
37:14
to stress that that if you know you're interested, or someone that you know
37:17
is interested, why wouldn't you go to the only warranty forever RV dealer in
37:22
all of West Virginia. Visit them at Burdettecamping dot com. Three guys also
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secure and deficient for twenty five years. And you think it would be illegal
37:37
to put Hauler RV and pontoon all three of them be an illegal hall illegal,
37:49
probably pushing that. Just yesterday I saw a guy who handles that for
37:53
the state police. I can check with it, but I'm sure that would
37:55
be yeah problem. Hey, you know what you gotta people? Let me
37:59
ask you a question. Yeah, I those easy passes. I mean,
38:02
he called down that DMV for me because I've been wondering like them. So
38:07
I went up to New York. I've always wanted to get one of those
38:12
easy passes. Okay, I thought you did get one. I did,
38:15
so I always wanted to get one. I got to get one because sometimes
38:16
I go to North Carolina sometime, but I don't go to New York and
38:20
watch hardly a though. But anyway, I went up there to that Syracuse.
38:22
Then you wanted to get you one? Yeah, So I go to
38:24
the rest stop there, and I'm in New York State and I and I
38:28
stop at the rest stop and uh, and I saw right at the counter
38:30
they're selling them, and I go, well, heck, this is perfect.
38:35
I don't have to eat, you don't have to go online and have
38:36
them send it to mess And I can I buy one of this? He
38:37
said? Sure? So I buy it, set it up it works fine,
38:42
zips and tips it. So do I not get the West Virginia resident
38:45
discount? Now? When I go down there to Beckley at the toll thing
38:50
in Beckley because I bought it in New York State? What I look like,
38:52
Donnie DMV. I don't know how said. I just said. You
38:57
were talking to people down there? Why why would you get the discount?
39:00
They don't know that you have anything to do with West Virginia. When you
39:01
put in New York. No, but when you put your address in and
39:05
when you put your credit card on there, it's a West Virginia address.
39:07
So does that give you the West Virginia discount? When you email me the
39:14
info, I'll find out. That's awesome about you? You just gave him
39:15
a segment for them. Aw that's the ten thirty three segment coming up tomorrow
39:19
on talk line. What if you're out of state? But what if you
39:22
buy it out of state? That's all because I was Okay, I'll what's
39:24
joining us now on talk line. I'll just recently I heard from a West
39:30
Virginia resident. I'll get to the bottom of this. I'll just email me
39:37
and I'll ask, I'll just delete. I'll just get rid of the one
39:39
from West or from New York State, and I'll just get buy a West
39:43
Virginia and if that'll give me the disco. So it was an easy pass.
39:45
It's an easy say. It works in all states, but you get
39:47
like I think, if you're a resident in the state, you buy it
39:51
and you get a cut. I don't care about New York State. I'll
39:52
pay full freight. I don't want to pay that full freight down the turnpike.
39:55
Yeah, I got to that's a Actually, that's a pretty good question.
40:00
Play on talk line tomorrow. This is great. I'm gonna do that
40:02
only if you listen at ten thirty three tomorrow. I got a hunch I
40:09
have. I have a hunch. We won't even take that long by the
40:13
time this gets released. Our great three guys audience, Look, don't waste
40:17
your time anyway. Here's some members at the Madison Club. Chris Jenner irving
40:25
A's off. I don't know who that is, Cindy Crawford, Phil Knight
40:29
of Nike La Fitness founder, Lewis welch Apple CEO, Tim Cook, Oh
40:35
Cook belongs h But then interesting, it's very very It's it's not only golf
40:39
course, but an upscale residentiary. What do you how much of a brad?
40:44
How much you they get a paper month there for food? Now I
40:46
have to break the kids here to eat because you know they're gonna charge us
40:50
anyway, so we have to eat at the club. Did Johnny say that
40:52
to Cam? Cam? You know, I got to spend one hundred and
40:54
four million each month and food. We're gonna come over and get a get
40:59
a blt in a beer sixty eight dollars. That's okay because I got sixty
41:05
eight thousand. I got to spend this month in food. We don't have
41:08
none of not one of us has that problem doing of what having to fill
41:15
a to buy a certain amount of food. Yeah, we don't want,
41:17
but you do because I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm gonna joll me check
41:21
on m by the way real quick before you get to the side. That
41:23
was fun catching up with Cam. Yeah, that's why I wanted us to
41:27
do that, because he's always good. He's right in that, so I
41:30
always I will always say guys like him. Nathan Adrian did that same thing,
41:35
came in as something different, transformed himself in terms of what type player
41:38
was now Nate's gone back the other way and gone back to more of what
41:42
he was in high school. A score a perimeter guy. But it's it's
41:45
always a great credit, I think to those guys to come in and become
41:47
something you're not at this level, all right, that's hard to do,
41:52
man. Yeah. A couple of pieces of business getting closer to the formal
41:59
announcement of our trip down to Greenborough County. Three Guys on the road Friday
42:04
Saturday, July twenty eighth and July twenty ninth do a Friday event Saturday event
42:14
details coming in penning the calendar editor. Is it sell pencil? Because I
42:19
got it? I got him trapped. Now, folks, they can't walk
42:21
away now. I have a s my schedulers asking if that's official? It
42:24
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43:22
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43:24
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43:42
of water. That's what I've found, Okay, selling well, hmm what
43:47
I'm told, Yeah, yep um. Also, hold on, what are
43:53
you doing over there? You've missed like the last three things. He just
43:55
scheduled you for an event. You don't even know that we're talking about the
43:59
call. You don't even know what are you doing Sorry, I was trying
44:00
to I got customer service on d m V. On the DMV, I'm
44:06
gonna send this question. I get an answer. You're really doing show prep.
44:08
One other thing, says customer service. You're doing show prep for another
44:12
show customer Customer Service Center, West Virginia Turnpike. Hello, my friend.
44:21
Hey, also, um, but we got we got some text throw your
44:23
name around, Tony CEDI just hey, textual healings coming in a second,
44:28
but first you know. On that episode eight hundred website, we also have
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44:49
it says efforting on that thing. That'll be nice for Goldbrush game this fall.
44:52
Yeah, and there's some on the back of it too. Does it
44:54
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back. Oh says three guys. That's why I wanted to know if I
45:31
had three guys. All right, let's do this, do this, do
45:34
this, do this now? Question said, what did we're not comm into
45:58
You're going to Greenborough County. Don't tell anybody. You're gonna have a big
46:02
time, and you're I got your ast stay in the whole time. You
46:06
can't run. You might try to run and high, but not this time.
46:10
When we leave, we'll leave that day Friday, probably after your show.
46:16
Okay, who's driving, we're going together. We can we'll figure it
46:22
out. We can see you hither one. Okay, never mind, schedule
46:27
will go. You're probably the guy that when you go down you're probably the
46:30
guy that when you go down to Greenbrik County, you're the guy that goes
46:34
like, no, I don't go through Summersville. I go all the way
46:37
to Charleston, then cut across on the interstate. No, I probably every
46:42
great West Virginia. I get off in Beckley, and I go to Nettie
46:46
and then I head south down the mountain, and then I go on to
46:50
sixty. You don't go to Beckley, you don't even go close to Sorry,
46:53
Summersville. Drive fifty through Summersville, I take the left. I go
46:59
to Nettie, Nettie South and then I get on sixty and then I go
47:04
to sand Black Church, a former Meadwest maincome plant, passed the big lumber
47:13
yard. There sixty post office right there in front of you at the stop
47:17
Black Church. I've actually stopped at that post office and mailed or something.
47:28
Why why why did you stop at that post office? How did you have
47:32
it all the way with you to that post office? Then you would you
47:36
just look, there's a post office. Okay, I gotta go down here
47:39
and mail this. Because because I have lived in West Virginia all my life,
47:45
and we've traveled West Virginia, sometimes you just end up places, end
47:47
up doing things right, you know, like I was in the post office
47:51
where I was in just happens. Sometimes things just happened like that that never
47:54
happened to you. Like, Okay, I've stopped at a random post office
48:00
hours from my house to mail something. No, that's never happened that You're
48:04
glad it was there though worked for you. I think it did waiting for
48:07
a reply. So topic number one on textual healing. I've come to this
48:16
understanding this week, and it's this that no matter what, and I mean
48:30
no matter what, people are going to have an opinion and they are going
48:37
to be on both ends of the spectrum, regardless of what the situation is.
48:43
And I'm not talking specifically about the Bob Huggin situation. I'm just saying
48:46
just things. People are set in certain opinions and it does not matter whatsoever
48:55
where you particularly go. And so a generalized theme of several of texts that
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we receive this week have been that it's either been I'm here on this situation
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or I'm here on this situation as one eighty as you can be. And
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so my point to all of that is this, do you notice that as
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well? Yeah, that's what I mean. So it doesn't right. Well,
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a couple of things. One is that we live in a very polarized
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environment, and I think it starts with our politics and our media is all
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very polarized. So the nature of the discourse pushes people, tends to push
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people to polar opposite positions. I think that's I think that's first. So
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I acknowledge that, whether it's news or politics or sports or whatever, also
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people who are motivated to comment are more likely to be in those polarized positions.
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That's a great point if you have, If you have, somebody goes
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in. I see both sides, and I'm not really sure. I'm trying
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to sort it out. I don't. I don't think these people are inclined
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to comment. I think that I think both your points are dead on.
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I think that second points absolutely accurate. The conversations I've had live in person
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this week, it's it's numbered more than it does. I've been out more
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have been have been different than the ones I've seen online. It's been more.
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Oh, yeah, I understand that. I understand why they landed here.
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I understand why they It's been more understanding than the ones I've seen online,
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where it's very dug in. Yeah. Texture, As it has always
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said on this program, there's always a West Virginia connection. I am currently
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in San Diego attending a space weather research conference, probably representing WVU. I
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should add I was randomly assigned a roommate who was from the Paul. After
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a long first day, we went out for drinks and got to talking about
51:04
our histories and homes. Needless to say, after a few minutes of talking
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about my great home state, he decided to tell me about his aunt.
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Where do you think she currently lives? That's right, Huntington, West Virginia.
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How in the world do I make a San Diego, Nepal West Virginia
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connection. I have realized that this is a universal law and not just a
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coincidence. Signed by Josh from Morgantown, currently messaging from a British pub in
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southern California. That's a good one. It was a great It was a
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great three great connected dots right there. I love those, of course,
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of course, Dalton and Greenbrier County writes He's concerned surprise uson, say,
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Kempel County, Hey, Tony, when this? When is the Greenbrier County
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event? I hope I don't miss it. If I hope I haven't missed
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it. No, Yeah, we're good, Dalton. I'm gonna see you
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there. July twenty eighth. July twenty nine, Texter Ren Baker as Captain
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Chaos. Insert picture if you had a picture to go here, there it
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is there he is so Ren's had a lot of stuff going on there.
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I now Ren is a wrestling fan. I don't think he would ever if
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Ren wrestled professionally. I don't think he'd be a masked man. I think
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he'd probably just go like, here's where I am man. Right, he
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does like wrestling. I had him on my public affairs program today, you
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know, saying he's been a little busy. His family's finally moved here,
52:37
and he says he's been so busy. He still doesn't have the code.
52:39
I guess he lives in a gated community, doesn't have the code. So
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every time he has to do I try to get somebody to let him in.
52:45
Yeah, be a little busy, A little busy, um texter.
52:52
Finally I have found kerchival work night at a hotel. Finally paid off Joey
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from Princeton. So, Joey from Princeton. He got himself some wings there.
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Huh Yeah, give him a Mason jar and that is in the West
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Virginia bistro Crisp Clean. Yeah, thank you, Joey Good used responsively text
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her mister SEC Paul Feinbaum open season on cheating thoughts. The message is clear.
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This is what finebomb said recently. The message is clear, cheat like
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crazy, don't stop until you win. I never thought I would say that,
53:30
but it is the truth. It simply does not matter any more.
53:35
He said that said that on a morning talk show there in Alabama. It
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mattered before in the SEC. Well, I think his point is he's fired
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up that lsu Um got basically a hand slap. And also, you know,
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I got a little clarification there. I will wade you see it too.
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No, it's ten games, ten games suspension, two years show cause.
53:58
Okay, so what's that mean? Nine conference? He's gonna miss ten
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games as a coach, but they put a show cause on there. But
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he's still coaching. So this is the thing. What's why put the show
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cause on? It's for his next job. When he gets fired at this
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job, then he has a two year show cost. But go ahead,
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just in the intern, just go ahead and coach, say it out loud,
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as I just did say it out loud again. So Paul, wait,
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and you wonder why the NCAA takes shots. Well, yeah, so
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Paul that's Paul fine Bomb's entire that was the thesis that he was saying.
54:29
He was saying, wait a second, there's cheating because the NC double A
54:34
doesn't absolutely hammer people. So if you know you can go seventy five miles
54:39
an hour in a sixty zone and never get a speeding ticket, you're gonna
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go seventy five miles per hour. But if you go to Somersville and you
54:47
know you're getting pulled over on the side of the road, if you go
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fifty five, then you don't go to When you go to Somersville, you
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know what you do. You pay attention to the speed limit. You know
54:57
why, because they enforce it. And fine Bombs point is, let me
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tell you something, if they just started hammering people, people wouldn't cheat as
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much as they did or are, or would or what. That's his point.
55:10
That's exactly what his point is. Well, using the speeding analogy,
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it's like saying, you got caught going one hundred miles an hour, but
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we're not going to give you a ticket. We're going to give you a
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warning. But if you're caught going one hundred miles an hour again, then
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maybe you'll get a ticket. But that would be next time, right,
55:29
because this time it doesn't matter, or probably you won't what's that? Or
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probably you won't the probably you won't, yeah, or next time it'll be
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jeez. I mean it's just whatever, Go do what you gotta do.
55:38
Get guys. You know my stamp that should be our next shirt. Just
55:44
get guys. Whoever's designed our shirts, that's trying to get guys, that's
55:50
my shirt. People complain about tampering, their tampering, they're probably so let
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you tamper, go tamper, Go get what you got, Go get guys.
55:57
What would you do if you were coach, go get guys? You
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would just say, go get guys. Whatever don't matter. I mean,
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no one's looking out for you, no one feels sorry for you, and
56:07
people are gonna fire you if you don't win, true, true, So
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go do what you gotta do to win. Okay, until everybody else stops.
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That's the thing you can't. If you're gonna playment you get bonus points
56:19
for playing by the rules. No, you get bonus points by what you're
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supposed to do. No, in fact, you get fire. Coach gets
56:24
fired, and the new ad is gonna say, you know what, you
56:27
know what he did wrong, played by the rules, So we're gonna fire
56:30
him. If you got a tamper and poach, tampering porch poach, people
56:35
are poaching your rosters. It's what's come to. Yep, get guys.
56:43
New T shirt in gold blue lettering, Get guys. No what, I
56:51
don't know if that'll sell Afford Afford. I'm gonna buy one, start wearing
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on the show. It's my I've been saying that for yours, Get guys.
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Affredy should sell effding. Whoever came up with that one should say dot
57:02
dot or is effything? Period? Open ended says right there, just open
57:07
ended like that. You like people want to go get guys. I saw
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a great one today. Went into a business this morning, went into a
57:16
business this morning. Uh, dude had a white T shirt on blue lettering
57:23
Clean and Crisp Fresh said. It was a West Virginia T shirt. Said
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Rich Rodriguez football camp. I thought it was great. I thought it was
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great. It was because you know what made it neat, because it's like,
57:38
where did that come from? And it's still it's not like the guy
57:42
he's painted in it and it's got holes and that like that's how you most
57:45
of the times you see that, right, like he's had it and he
57:47
just pulls it out. Yeah, and it's like literally that old. But
57:50
like he told me where he got it, It was in a box.
57:53
It was in a box at the coliseum and like just got pushed away somewhere
57:59
and it was still fresh. No one had ever worn it, and so
58:00
it was like perfectly clean. It was just like it was a throwback retro.
58:05
Yeah, it's solid retro. Yeah, that's kind of like what I
58:07
wanted to do with that Buffalo Brave stuff. You know. But that's but
58:12
the great thing about that is that's real. That's real. So you see
58:15
like a young actor, actress or twenty five years old and they have like
58:20
a Pink Floyd shirt on, Like get out of here. You can go
58:22
to the Pink Floyd concert. Yeah, Rolling Stone even got the Rolling Stones
58:29
concert. Yeah, out of here? You went right Philly? You see
58:31
him in Philly? Who Stones? I saw him? I've seen him twice?
58:36
Yeah where once in Cleveland and once in Washington, DC? You saw
58:42
you saw yes too where Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh twice. Who's the greatest concert performer
58:47
you ever saw that? You just went still in your head today going like
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WHOA, what a shot? Tell you? Let me tell you the opposite
58:52
of that. I saw Bob Dylan. You're gonna start screaming about Bob Dylan.
58:55
I saw Bob Dylan. I know you did. Tell you that's already
58:59
probably because guy. Remember and I saw my wife and a long time Bob
59:02
Dylan fan. I saw him song here to Colo see him, and about
59:06
halfway through each song, I thought, I think I know what he's singing.
59:10
I think I know the song here. So as a concert it wasn't
59:14
great, but like, yeah, I saw Bob Dylan, so this is
59:15
like check a box. Uh, but he was just he was in a
59:19
mumble mode. Yeah, I don't know he was Bob. I don't know.
59:22
I don't know that just Bob Dylan. Yeah, everything sounded like that.
59:25
But did you buy concert T shirts when you go? No? Or
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those that one nothing though they didn't have T shirts. Then we all wore
59:35
merchant suit fedora at that had a wonderful time at the event. You didn't
59:43
do that. See I'm a I'm a sucker for shirts. You got in
59:45
one of the that is my thing. Oh that's cool, though you got
59:47
him like, remember when I mean it could be a youth softball tournament.
59:51
Oh really, youth karate van hanging me one of those shirts. I'm a
59:54
big sucker for T shirt. I didn't know that. I just said it's
59:57
always you should wear one out a class sick next time and bring I don't
1:00:00
know if I have his man, I should. You know how many wrestling
1:00:02
T shirts I had when we'd go to those wrestling events, how many?
1:00:06
Like everyone, I mean everyone i'd go to, I'd go. We do
1:00:07
a stand at the merchandise thing. Once went with a buddy who's still around
1:00:14
that his credit card declined. Oh he was hot. He was trying to
1:00:17
buy like a curt Angle shirt. They declined his credit card. To this
1:00:22
day, he swears it's the facility's fault. It wasn't. It was him
1:00:25
had a problem with his card. I offered to buy. I'll handle that
1:00:29
hare ging me your shirt. I'll get your curt Angle. I'm buying a
1:00:31
rock T shirt. Curd, how much? How much you pay for those
1:00:35
stupid fifty forty bucks? Stupid? It's just put it right on every day.
1:00:40
I'm a big sucker for T shirt at event. Guy, I'm that
1:00:43
guy. Oh, that's good. It's honest. I might be able to
1:00:45
take some orders for some gear when we go down there Greenbrier County. Take
1:00:50
efforting T shirts. Probably I get some of those sixty dollars no fifty if
1:00:58
you buy a bag of coffee with it? Now, what would you charge
1:01:00
for an efforting T shirt? And by the way, are you if you're
1:01:04
not gonna get like because you can get bad T shirts? I mean bad
1:01:07
quality. I've been I've been quite emphatic, and Brad knows us. When
1:01:10
I talk to these guys, I say, we're not selling any blank As
1:01:15
soon as you pull it over your head, it's stretched out down. This
1:01:17
is one hundred percent ring spun cotton fabric, weight of six point one ounces
1:01:22
per yard to the second power two hundred and six point eight slash G slash
1:01:27
M to the second power. I told those guys, I want to sell
1:01:30
good stuff. I don't want anything bad. I was told it was nice.
1:01:37
I haven't seen it. Okay, all right, that'll do it.
1:01:42
That's it. No more texts. Is that what's happened, To the best
1:01:45
of our power, To the best of our power, we're not going to
1:01:51
do one of these on Sunday. Don't count on it. I'm busy.
1:01:57
Our goal is not to be here on Sunday. Oh what's this about the
1:02:00
conference? Yeah, seriously, that's that's the next one coming. That'll be
1:02:05
the next one coming. I want I want you. I want you to
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