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3 Guys Before The Game - Garrett Greene Visits (Episode 475) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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All right, fine, I lied, all right, I fine, fine,
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I lied. I mean I didn't mean to lie. I didn't.
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I didn't think well, I said, I'm talking about I said. What
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I said was last episode with Quincy Wilson was the end of the summer series.
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But just but just before, I mean, just before the door is
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to close, just before the door is ready to close. Lucky, Lucky,
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lucky who we have here. He was just walking down the street,
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he was, Yeah, he was just coming down to see he said,
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he Garrett, you got a couple of minutes. I know practice doesn't start
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really till about tomorrow, so could you get us in here? And yeah?
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Who worked it out? I mean yeah, I mean he was just
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walking, just walking again. Now I fib it. This is an historic,
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been on a pontoon? Yeah? Yeah, Florida, Yeah, exactly.
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like we're in a band. I feel like I've we've been together since Friday.
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We have. I feel like we've been on tour, and they like
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we're always together. We got a few hour break on Sunday and it's back
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at it like another set, got another gig tonight, you got the gig
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today. We're back together. It did feel like we'll talk all about our
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trip to Greenbrier County later on, later on, later on Levicy, later
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on in the Quinnwood, later on in the program. But here's why this
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is an historic This is why this is an historic edition of Three Guys Before
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the Game with Garrett Green of the Mountaineer football team, because we have recently
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celebrated the second year anniversary of NIL. It was in July July one,
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two years ago. So now we're twenty five months in and Garrett becomes Garrett
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becomes the first ever NIL sponsored guest of Three Guys Before the Game. Isn't
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that right? Yeah? So no, we're on it. No, we're
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on it. And of course, as you, as everyone knows, we
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played by the rules, right we play. We played by the rules.
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And so Garrett's appearance on Three Guys Before the Game is presented by our guy,
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fine looking Phil at Daniel's Men's Store of Morgantown, selling quality men's clothing
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for over fifty years. Phil hasn't been there all now sixty in fact,
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the sixtieth anniversary sale going on right now at Daniels. If you hustle,
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have you better hurry? You better hurry? How long does that last?
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Might have come to an end yesterday, but you better hurry over it might
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get a couple of days of extension. Don't worry time out, Gary,
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you ever called time? I was always going to be kneel on the sideline
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call the time you ever call one? Uh? You know, if if
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I'm feeling good enough about it. Okay, so we're gonna call one right
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now. We're gonna call one right now, and here's the time out.
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I think Phil will extend that for three guys. If you say I'm here
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for the sixtieth anniversary sale that I heard on Three Guys, beim. You
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gotta do a couple buzz words on this. Yeah, So Garrett, Garrett
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is here um compliments of Daniel's Men's Store of Morgantown, the premier clother of
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the state of West Virginia. Not only unbelievable suits, which I've seen you
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styling before, looking very nice, very and I heard Birdie told me that
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when you enter into the stadium this year, when you do the man trip,
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that you may you may be threading out from Daniels. Yeah, we
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may have. We may have some special stuff in the words special from Daniels
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everything like have you guys talked about it and he like, you think maybe
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like one just one game, like top hat, walking stick and like five
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pocket watches, something like maybe over the top. Maybe my mom would allow
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it. I would wear cowboy boots. Um, I would bring the boots
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out the python skins. But I'm not sure that the mom would allow that.
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Yeah, I can understand anyway. So not only unbelievable fine war but
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also the single best and I say this in all sincerity, the single best
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selection of the really good looking, really soft feeling, the good good WUVU
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gear. It's all there from Cutterbuck, Peter millar Um. You've got a
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bunch of other people that just horn legend worn like that, he that he
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designs, that he designs, and so like you go to other places,
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go I saw someone wearing I saw hoppy, I saw bread wearing that.
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They go, well if you if you're not in Daniels, you're not getting
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that and you can visit them as real quick. The other thing, I'm
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happy to assist when I'm there doing my shift as well each week. So
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happy to assist customers when they come in if need be. We'll talk more.
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You think he's kidding now he is, So we'll talk more about that
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later. May may have a picture someone sent in a you um in operation
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at Daniels, So working on a mannequin or folding. Yeah, you were
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doing some a little bit of both. Yeah, a little bit of both.
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Bring an in scene and that's I leave that to Phil. Phil does
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all the measuring. Okay, So how are you man? Do well?
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Everything's good, yeah, and join join the last few days of the summer
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until you know, we get rolling on tomorrow. So what's the summer been
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like? How much did you have a chance to get home? So I
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was I was home for the fourth of July. That's kind of a Statele
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you got to go back to floor. Um, but I came back up
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here Friday after the fourth and I've been up here ever since. When you
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guys went to Germany as part of the Chambers School program, was that off
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time for the rest of you guys, Yes, so that could have been
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a time where that could have been the time that I was home. But
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I mean your Europe's not bad. Europe was a good spot today. Hey,
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hey, listen, that's a new T shirt. Can get break that
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one down. Europe's not bad, not bad. You were at the Manning
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Passing Academy, y. Yeah, how was that? It was unbelievable experience.
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Yeah? What was it like being with being with all the best quarterbacks
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in college and then you know, all of us collectively getting learned from the
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Mannings. Um was was their football royalty? That whole family is so just
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to be in the same space as them, learned things work out with them.
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Was was truly an unforgettable experience. What one one or two things you
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took away from those guys. Yeah, mainly uh Peyton he uh, he
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broke down film with us and he kind of went through his week by week
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process on how he prepared for four different teams. So he basically had it
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as as a digression in the week, not just watching you know, a
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ton of stuff one day and then fizzling out. He had a set progression
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every single every single day leading up to the game. So that's something that
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I wrote down and I hope to implement this year. Yeah, that's good,
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good stuff. Those Peyton's pretty big boys at bigger, a lot bigger
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than me. He's a big boy man. I mean, there's a there's
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a few guys that just have that size, like Jeff Hosteller obviously who you've
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seen host Runner. I mean, look at those guys and you go like,
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good golly, big dudes. But anyway, that's pretty interesting. So
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how how was he How did he teach you guys how to watch film compared
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to what you had been doing. He kind of just broke it down kind
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of as a as a progression, like you don't start off max squatting the
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heaviest way possibly, you know, you work to it, and that's kind
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of what That's kind of the way he presented it to us, that you
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know, you watch, you watch all the big stuff first, and then
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as the week gets on, you start watching certain cutups, certain cutups,
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and then by Friday, the night before the game, you're just reviewing notes
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and getting ready to rock. Yeah. How do you grade yourself as a
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film watcher compared to how you were when you first came into what you're gonna
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do this coming year? Yeah, I think when I first came in here,
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I really didn't know what I was doing. I mean in high school,
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I really didn't didn't watch a lot of tape because I was just better
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athlete than anybody. But I think learning from learning from dagy Uh and then
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last year learning from JT on how they prepared and how they watched film,
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I think every single year I've gotten gotten better with my preparation. So I'm
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looking forward to to preparing well this year. Is that the biggest change for
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you off the field preparation or is on the field right there as well?
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I think I think they both go hand in hand. Um. I think
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as I mature and as I've matured over the last few years. You know,
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obviously my body's change, which I'm not the biggest guy, but now
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I'm up to like two oh three. And then also when my body matures,
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my mind's also maturing. So I'm learning more about more so about what
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defense is doing, more so than our offense, because offense really hasn't changed
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in three years. So learning more about defense, how to prepare for him,
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and how to attack them. So you feel like you know your side
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of things. But okay, so everybody always says it's so fast when you
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first arrived, athletes are bigger, faster, stronger than the game is moving
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so fast. You're starting to feel that now how much it's slowed for you
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looking over the defense. You know, But in twenty twenty, that is
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my second spring practice, and I felt like I was drinking through a fire
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hose. Um. But now you know, I'm kind kind of getting comfortable
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with with all the guys and you know, being able to command the offense
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and control the guys. I feel good about it. So here's my perception
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of watching you. I'd like to get your take. Yep, when you
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first got here and you're running around, and I mean you're running around,
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you you're you're even when there wasn't a drill going on, you were running
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around. Yeah, and you just mentioned the word maturity. So look at
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yourself if you had the skycam on you, when you first got here,
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What were you doing? And how has how has that changed? How would
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you change? You know, I think that I was just I was just
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a kid. And you know when I first got here, I mean I
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was, I was you're young, young? Yeah, I was eighteen,
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nineteen years old. You know, here I am almost twenty two. You
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know, I've you know, I've gotten wiser, I hope with with my
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age. But I say age like like I'm that old? Uh your respect
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to the three of us, that's what you're saying. But he looks specifically
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you. I mean I said, that's fine, that's okay. I kind
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of shot a glance to everybody. But no, I think I think that
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you know, being around a ton of good guys, being around a ton
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of great coaches. Um, you know, i'd probably say day day has
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been the biggest help to me in my career. Um. You know,
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watching the way he prepared every single week has really sculpted me into into part
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of the person and player that I am today. Yeah. Have you always
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been the alpha dog leader? Because you are even when you first got here,
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and I know you were saying, like I do might do some things
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differently. Yeah. Um, I always viewed you kind of like the wild
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horse that was in the stable and just kind of like running, just like
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chooling around, going like gonna be a good horse one day, but right
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now he don't know where the hell he's going. Um, so were you
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always that guy? I would assume that you were a Little league baseball all
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the way growing up kids followed you. Yeah. I mean I've always I've
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always loved you know, my dad. He always sends me the h he
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always sends me the poem the man in the arena. So you know,
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growing up, I always wanted the ball in my hands. I always wanted
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I was one of my my turn at the last, last inning, last
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minute of the game. So it's kind of always been my mentality to always
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want the ball in your hand. Yeah, you're so you you always wanted
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to be that guy, but it's very competitive at this level, and it's
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been uncertain as to when you would be that guy. Okay, and this
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season will be huge, obviously. At what did you have any point it's
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your career thus far, where you thought, you know, it's not gonna
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work out, I gotta leave. Did you ever think that? Oh?
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No, I never never, never thought to leave. Leave the program.
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You know this this state means so much to me and my family. You
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know, they welcome to kid from Florida, a little boy from Florida with
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open arms, um, and it's really really helped me become the man I
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am today. So I never once thought about leaving. You know. My
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dad always just told me just stick it out and good things come to those
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who wait. So you know, I waited, paid my dues in you
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know, I'm looking forward to it. And that's so true, man,
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which is the opposite of the normal thought process nowadays. I mean, kids
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run into the portal with great regularity, and I'm so excited for you because
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I want the story to be written, what with like, oh yeah,
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sometimes it just pays to chill out, wait your turn will come and then
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you can flourish. Not not that kids shouldn't, but man, I've just
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seen through the years. I've seen what red Shirts do when kids get a
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little bummed out that they're going to red shirt for a year, and then
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I've seen them when they're in their fourth in their fifth year, and you
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go like, yeah, that was really really good. So patience is huge.
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Where are you at academically? And I got nine degrees, probably a
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dissertation doctor. I mean, well when you think Brad med school, Semell
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left to med school. Now, so you get my undergrad in December,
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okay, and then I'll start my MBA next January. So I should should
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graduate my MBA from West Virginia in December twenty four. Well that's the goal.
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When you sit here the night before practice begins, nervous, anxious,
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excited? Will you sleep tonight? What's the what's the mindset as you get
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ready to go all of it? You know this this the Suller coming out.
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But it's kind of like kind of like your dog on the first day
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at dove hunting. You know, he's he's itching, he's itching, ready
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to go get the birds. So I'm looking forward to, you know,
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getting out there running around with the guys, you know, putting the ball
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in the end zone. Um, just just you know, ready, ready
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to We've we've busted our butt this this whole summer. So actually get get
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to go out and play the game. We love. You know, we're
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all fired up for that. Um. What was when the first poll?
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When the poll came out, and so West Virginia has picked preseason fourteen,
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what was the conversation among you guys. Yeah, I think that ever since
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West Virginia was a state, it's always kind of been West Virginia against the
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world. Um, And you know, our team we embraced that. We
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love that. Um. You know, we love being the underdogs. Some
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some of the West Virginia's best teams they were counted out. They were the
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underdogs. So we look forward to embracing that and shocking the world. M
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are you the Starter's let's see have to fall camp? Do you think you're
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the starter? Um, let's see have to full camp. Well, god,
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I mean hoppy. I mean, obviously he's gonna compete. He's the
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job. He's going to compete for the job. I don't I don't think
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he's gonna go into preseason camp. But say, I hope I finished three.
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I mean, obviously he wants to be the starter. But there's conversation.
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I understand that. I understand that, Big Garrett. One of the
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great questions is by mounting your fans, is who the starting quarterback will be.
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I'm just asking what the people want to know. Sure, that's all
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I'm doing. Yeah, I think he just gave you the answer. I'm
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gonna compete to be the starter. You you plan you you plan to be
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the starter. Yeah, I mean that's always the goal. So you know,
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I'll check back in with you here in a couple of years. I'll
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give him what you text me. I'll tell you text, I'll tell you
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what if he said no, we're gonna ask him to leave right then.
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We're gonna ask him to leave right then, because you gotta be that You
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gotta be that guy. Uh, As I said earlier, we're gonna bounce
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around. Ye. Let's talk about the European vacation. It wasn't vacation,
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you guys. The fifth quarter program is pretty wild. There's a continuing series
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of events that you guys build up to and the culmination of it was that
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trip, uh to Germany? Is it? Everyone is? Are the only
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people that are allowed to get in business school? Guys? No? So
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I'm sports management, Okay, it's my major. Okay, you know you
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just have to Yeah, we got we got mike button right see that cough
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button? Look at that right there? Oh yeah you can pressed Hey,
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umpy never used. But you just have to apply and do and do uh
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do interviews for it. But you know, it's a phenomenal program and you
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know, truly one of a kind in college football. What blew your mind?
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Like, what's the what are the give me two lasting memories you guys
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over there? Um, probably just seeing all the you know, I haven't
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been to Germany since I was thirteen years old, so kind of being able
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to experience Germany as a real adult, right, better than a little kid.
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And they're probably seeing Santorini. Um, Santorini Greece's you told me about
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that before, like you guys, Wow, wasn't it? Oh? It
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was? It was phenomenal. It was unbelievable. What a what a spot,
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what a view? Um? You know, I look forward to going
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back one of these years. So that's when you guys broke apart, right,
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So everyone had the opportunity like after a period of time. Okay,
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now you guys can go traveler who went to Greece with you? It was
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me, Grayson and Will scoonover US three went to Greece and so scoonover providing
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military protection. You have some embassy cars or something like that. I got
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this. I'm totally good, guys. I got he had support and so
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it's just like picturesque, just like wow. Right, just phenomenal. I
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mean you look it up and it looks exactly exactly how it does you know?
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Twenty four to seven? How about food? Best food you had while
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traveling over there? Best food I had? Uh was like a three euro
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chicken euro in Grease. That was the best food by far Me and Grayson
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were loving thoms those, Yeah, we were loving those were by by three
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four day while we were there. And you told me you guys worked out
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there? Yeah, you worked out okay, So what was the work?
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What was it, Harry? Here we go, hop first mountaineer workout in
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Grease. What did you do? You know there? There's a lot of
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beaches in Grease, right, yes, so it was a lot of curls
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and a lot of apps. Just showing it off? Did you did you
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show it off? I mean you guys don't You didn't look you guys didn't
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look like you were from there. So did you get people that were from
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there? Um kind of going like, oh, look at those guys,
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American cowboys. The linen shirt may have changed their mind. That was the
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first purchase in Grease. You got one of those, the linen shirt,
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the no collar. Yeah, it's I mean it's pretty easy to morph in
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button. Yeah, completely. Now, if you really wanted to become full
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Greek, you should have had like five cigarettes going at the same them.
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Dude, attack of the conditions a little bit. Hey, them dudes like
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the smoke. Huh. Did you notice that a lot of people just kind
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of lightening up burners all the time? Ce Santorini was was really touristy.
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Okay, so there's there was a lot of Americans there. But when we
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went to Athens people were there, fired them up, Yeah they were.
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Yeah, it's like it's like nineteen fifty six still there as far as that
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goes. Yeah, how about how about your golf game? You played golf
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at Pete Dye this week and you had who was playing golf with you?
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I mean Frasier. We were down there play That would be Zach Frasier.
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That would be Zach Frasier says, Zak can really hit it. Huh,
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Zach. Zach is a phenomenal golfer. Seriously, first I've heard of this.
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Yeah, he's phenomenal. Watching him hit the ball is uh. Especially
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even though Zach, if you're watching, I got you yesterday. So he
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drove hold on real quick before we get to Frasier. You shot what at
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Pete Dyke put that? So we were playing in Uh, we were playing
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in like a charity tournament. So we were just kind of I mean,
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we were just we were just hitting the ball around. But like Frasier shot
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eighty two out there, I've shot eighty one. Really, Frasier Zach good.
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I think if me and Frasier played ten times, it'd be five to
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five. I think. So does he hit it like with the clubbers?
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He just throw the ball between his legs, No, what's it called?
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He hits it with it? He hits he can hit it. And then
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probably the best part of his game is his touch around the greens, which
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is shocking for that big of a guy. But his his touch around the
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green is phenomenal. Would he be a guy that could do like anything?
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Is he one of those guys like if you all went out and played baseball,
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he could play Like first, He's not better than me at baseball.
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I'll put that on record. I just baseball. I just asked if he
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could play. Yeah, he can. He could play corn hoole um,
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he's uh do all. I wouldn't wrestle him either, No, I've tried.
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You don't you don't want to do that? Did not? Do you
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all have any side money going on that game? No, he's he's been
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scared to play me because I've been playing some pretty good golf recently. So
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he didn't want to go. So he doesn't want to lose the uh,
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lose the ego on the golf course. Best round you've ever shot? Um,
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I shot, I shot eighty back home, my home course, back
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home. Tell me I've heard baseball, baseball obvious. Your dad, your
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dad's still in the game. Yeah. So he's the assistant director of player
22:18
development for the Brewers system. Does that mean he's pop? Is he all?
22:22
Is he just constantly moving from one spot or is he based in He's
22:26
so he's based out of Nashville. He just moved to Nashville, UM actually
22:30
this year. So he'll he'll spend a few days in Nashville and then he'll
22:33
shoot off to one of the affiliates, whether it's Carolina, you know,
22:37
Biloxi, UM wherever, Phoenix, and his career was what he ascended into
22:44
the game. What was his whole deal? So he uh, he got
22:47
drafted out of drafted out of high school, Um. But then my granddad,
22:52
he's he was a coach at Miami Dade. Um. He's actually he'd
22:56
never say this, but he's in the American Baseball Coaching Hall of Fame.
23:00
Wow um for his job there. So he wanted to go play for for
23:04
his dad. So he went there and then he got drafted and then he
23:07
was kind of he always says he was a basketball player, like basketball is
23:11
his first love. Larry bird Is is his favorite player. He got the
23:15
height, okay, so like he's like six three okay, so he's a
23:18
big dude. Um, and both of his brothers they played Division with basketball,
23:22
and you know, he loved basketball, but you know, baseball was
23:26
bay Baseball was his calling. So he played thirteen years professionally. He played
23:30
five years in the Big leagues. Um, and then I think two thousand
23:33
and five he started coaching for the Brewers and he's been there ever since.
23:37
How good were you, uh, baseball? I mean, how good were
23:42
you? That was all right? I mean I mean held my own Okay,
23:45
So if you just said I'm just going straight baseball, where would you
23:48
have ended up? I mean, do you want to you want the real
23:52
end? Like what I really think yeah, I'd be playing professionally if I
23:56
would have would have stuck with baseball. Um, that's what I think.
24:00
And you know, I obviously have one of the best best coaches right in
24:04
my household. Right, I felt I felt good about baseball. But how
24:07
torn were you in that path though? Right, there's obviously a lot of
24:11
baseball background right there. How torn were you? How close was it to
24:15
saying I love this game of football, but man, baseball, there's a
24:18
future there. Yeah, I think baseball was Baseball was my first love for
24:21
sure. Um, but you know, my dad, he was super supportive
24:23
that, you know, no matter what what sport I was, he just
24:27
wanted to be dad. He told me I coached for a living, I
24:30
don't want to coach you. So he was super supportive in my decision.
24:33
And you know, growing up as a kid, especially in the South,
24:36
college football as king. So it was always my dream to be to be
24:38
a college quarterback. You know, it's never really my dream to to play
24:42
in the playing professional baseball. I thought it was just cool because that's what
24:45
my dad did. But it was always my childhood dream to you know,
24:49
play college football and be a quarterback. Yeah, it's pretty wild. A
24:53
lot of people dream that very few get to actually do it, and you
25:00
have and you are. So that's those are good. Yeah, those those
25:04
are really good. So with your dad, I mean, you probably got
25:08
a lot of locker room axis, right, Yeah, So that's I think
25:11
that's part of who I am as a person was growing up, growing up
25:15
in the locker rooms. And I think that's why I kind of carry a
25:18
sense of confidence and sware to myself. Is that, you know, I
25:21
saw I saw it from when I was five years old. Like my dad,
25:25
I remember we spent he brought me out to instructional League, which is
25:27
in the fall. It was kind of like in between school starting, and
25:32
he brought me out there for like three weeks. I was five years old.
25:34
And he wakes up every morning at five thirty he gets to the stadium.
25:37
So I was I was at the stadium at five to thirty, you
25:40
know, shagging balls, you know, making copies for him, doing whatever.
25:44
So I think that's part of part of my development as an athlete and
25:45
player. What's what's the difference. Where is the line between confidence and cocky?
25:52
You know, I think cockiness is just thinking that thinking that you're gonna
25:55
win just by showing up. And I think confidence is you know, having
25:57
prepared, doing your work, paying your dudes, and you know, being
26:00
confident in all the work they've put in that you know it'll it'll give you
26:04
a chance for success. Oh he's he's a little too young for those eighty
26:08
three Brewers. Yeah yeah, Paul Mall toward Cecil Cooper. Name what made
26:17
your leaguer left an impression on you. So one of my dad's, uh,
26:22
probably my dad's favorite players Martine Malnado for the Houston Astros. Um,
26:27
he won the gold Glove a few years ago and he gave I guess you
26:30
get three gold gloves and get he gave one of them to my dad.
26:33
So my dad's my dad has that in his office. And you know,
26:37
my dad would never say this, but he's he really is one of the
26:40
best. He's the best catching instructor in the world. That's what he does,
26:42
that's his passion. Um. So I think Martine Malnado is probably my
26:45
He's probably my favorite baseball player of all time. Um, you know,
26:48
I wore he gave me. He gave me Geared. I had Maldi on
26:52
my neck when I when I was catching. Um, so he's my favorite
26:55
player and you know he's he'll be he'll be a family friend for life.
26:59
Going back to what you said, you see those dudes in the clubhouse,
27:02
right, So you learned, Okay, you learn how to act and you
27:06
learn how not to act because these are these are professionals, and I've been
27:11
in those clubhouses and I've seen that you just have different personalities. Like some
27:15
dudes are completely great dudes, and they're cool and they're chilled and they're great
27:19
and they're supportive, and then you got other guys that are just absolute d
27:22
bags. And I think you probably saw both of that, right, and
27:26
you kind of learned, I'm not doing that. Don't want to be that
27:30
guy. Yeah, that's kind of what my dad. You know, I
27:33
can talk talk all day about about my parents, but my dad he always
27:36
told me that, you know, sometimes you learn more about what to do
27:37
what not to do, than what to do. And you know, he
27:41
every every time that situation would come up, or you know, someone would
27:45
mess something up, he'd be like, Garrett, like, that's you want
27:48
to know what not to do? Do that? Do this instead? So
27:51
I think I think it was a phenomenal experience and you know, definitely,
27:53
definitely one that not many kids get get Was that on Instagram this past?
27:59
Was it the winner or the fall? Your mom throwing the ball? That
28:02
was Mother's Day? That's Mother's Day. Arm she brings it. She's the
28:07
athlete, I mean right, yeah, she's she's super athletic. Um,
28:11
she's more like than then she gives herself credit for. Yeah, so what
28:14
did she play anything in high school? College? What did she she played?
28:17
She played soccer all throughout high school. Okay, but you could tell
28:19
she's bouncy. Yeah, she worked, she says, that's where I get
28:22
my twitch from. See is from her. But you know, my my
28:26
dad, he traveled so much, um that he was gone out of the
28:32
house. So I remember, like I was being six years old, you
28:33
know, throwing football as hard as I could to my mom and and you
28:40
got yeah, so you know I remember that. That's one of my most
28:45
vivid memories of my childhood is in the backyard throwing up the hill to my
28:49
mom with the I think it was a black XFL football from my first first
28:56
yeah. Yeah. The The offense will be coordinated by Chad Scott this season.
29:03
Obviously, Neil will have a hand in that as well. What was
29:06
your takeaway from spring ball when they put the stuff in as far as what
29:11
this is going to maybe look differently than it was a year ago. Yeah,
29:15
I think talking with coach Scott a lot is uh kind of his um
29:21
whole m o as the coordinators, you know, to put our guys in
29:25
the best positions to make plays. So, you know, guys like Cole
29:27
Taylor, Devin Carter or CJ. Guys like that, put them in great
29:30
situations to where they don't have to think too much. We just get the
29:33
ball to them and they can go make plays. I think that's kind of
29:37
what what he wants to do is just find creative ways to get the balls
29:41
our playmakers. Yeah, more designed runs for you or you just gonna take
29:45
off when you feel like it. All right, I'm just gonna run the
29:48
offense to the best of my ability. Um, you know what, whether
29:51
that's Scott he's getting I mean, he's just he's stonewall. And yeah,
29:59
you know, whether whether I got to hand the ball off to CJ twenty
30:02
thirty times a game, I gotta throw it forty times a game. You
30:03
know, whatever it takes to win. You know, I want to do
30:06
yeahs or run it for two oh five. You'll do that too, whatever
30:08
it takes. You're getting nothing out of this. I'll get nothing. I
30:11
mean because hoppy, you're handling like a deposition. I mean, just go.
30:15
I am watching suits right now, so I'm well versed in my lawyer
30:19
talk. So you handed very well, yeah, very yeah, real quick
30:25
that you mentioned a couple of the new pieces wide receiver wise with Taylor and
30:27
Carter, nice weapons. Those are gonna be good additions to the program.
30:30
Huh yeah, I mean Cole Taylor is is uh freak. I mean he's
30:34
the one he gets off the bus first. Yeah, nice big target for
30:37
He's a big guy, and you know he's he's got great phenomenal hands.
30:41
Um. And then Devin, Devin's just a physical freak. Um. You
30:44
know, and you know we're not going to discount um. You know ej.
30:47
Horton, who's the transfer from Mars. He can heard, he can
30:51
he can fly. Yeah, I mean he's got real real speed. Um.
30:55
You know Jeremiah Aaron, you know who I'm looking forward to to watching
30:59
this year. Um. And then you got Cortez Braham pressing Fox. You
31:03
know you got a ton of guys that they know if paid their dues and
31:06
you know, put in the work this summer pressing. Fox catches everything.
31:08
He catches everything. Really. Yeah, he's uh, he's he's he's got
31:12
some hands. Yeah, but you know, you're the second guy that has
31:15
talked to me in the last three days about E. J. Horton saying
31:18
like it was C. J. Donaldson talking to him Friday and he said
31:25
vertical threat. Yeah, he's got real like that's that's real speed. Yeah,
31:27
but you can't too. We had Malachi Roughing in here doing what was
31:30
what was that called micro internship? Is that what that was? Yes,
31:33
it was. He says, you're right there, one of the top five
31:36
fastest guys on the team. True right, thanks to his mom. Yeah,
31:38
thanks to my mom. Yeah, what I need to I can,
31:41
I can get it go. What's a fast you ever clocked out? GPS?
31:47
I don't hold back. Let's go maybe like you get twenty one?
31:49
Oh yeah, twenty one? It shook off, twenty one off play over
31:55
he's just gonna be an over and didn't I think I hit twenty two and
31:57
a scrimmage? Uh in tw twenty one? I think it matter getting old
32:01
can't you get that again? What's the matter, old old man? It's
32:05
the weight. I had twenty ones this summer, so you know, hopefully,
32:09
hopefully with some adrenaline, I'll be able to get twenty thirty two.
32:13
He's put on twenty guys put on twenty pounds. I make him a break.
32:15
Yeah, yeah, what's the biggest thing food wise that change to help
32:20
you put twenty We have a lot of listeners that want to take twenty off,
32:22
but for those of the footing the guy sitting to his right. But
32:27
for the few people that want to what was the biggest food diet change you
32:30
made to gain that white? You know, it kind of kind of sounds
32:32
gross, but you know, my dad being in athletics, and he when
32:37
he was playing, he played, he played in the big leagues at like
32:38
one sixty five at sixty three. Yeah, so he was he was small,
32:44
Like at the end of the season, he'd be like one six if
32:45
he'd started like one eighty five, and then throughout the year he'd lose it.
32:47
So he said, he um, it was like two scoops of mashed
32:52
potatoes, chocolate milk, and two hard bowled eggs at the same time.
32:58
I mean, like that's your meal where you go to bed. Um.
33:00
So I've done that. I did that all all winter and all summer.
33:05
That's cool. Yeah, I mean it's it doesn't taste great going down,
33:07
but you know because you're mixing you're eggs. That's three of my favorite food.
33:17
It's it's the order, it's the order of descension. Yeah, yeah,
33:21
it's how it goes down. Garrett, I don't want you know,
33:24
we gotta get your dad on here. I want to talk to your dad.
33:27
I mean to be one sixty five and catch in the show. I
33:30
mean that's a grind. Yeah, you know, I'm sure my dad would
33:35
would love to come on, but you know he always told me that,
33:37
you know, this is your show. I just want to be dad.
33:38
So you get you're asking that on a one off, a nuttrition side of
33:45
things, because that that really is where it's changed. I know you followed
33:46
your dad's regimen there, but it's just so different than it was fifteen to
33:51
twenty years ago. How much easier does that make it for you? Food's
33:53
available all the time, advice is available all the time, protein shakes available
33:58
all the time. That I would think that just eliminates the thinking part of
34:00
that, which has got to be a huge help. Yeah, you know,
34:04
I think with the help of Haley Um and her staff, along with
34:07
Mike Joseph, I think we have the best best staff for putting weight on.
34:10
Like I came in at like one seventy something and you know now I'm
34:15
up to two o two, right around two hundred, um, So I
34:17
think they've done a phenomenal job putting me on a plan and showing that I
34:22
follow that plan. Yeah, the nutritions changed unbelievably, dude. And when
34:27
you go over, when you're in the locker room, the the beverage center.
34:30
Is that what y'all call it the snack area? Yeah, like it's
34:36
it's refuel the fueling station. Again, I bring this up fifty two times
34:39
a week. But the fact that we've gone from you can't give them cream
34:43
cheese on a bag lor it was a violation to what it is now.
34:45
It's just like it is awesome. Yeah, absolutely awesome, just a whole
34:52
different. Access is incredible now, Yes, which is where it should be.
34:53
Yeah, absolutely, I remember real quick, I'll tell this story and
34:58
it wasn't all that long ago. Within the last two decades when I was
35:00
working in the department. I was sitting with one of the schools all time
35:05
great players will go unnamed right now. One of the schools all time great
35:07
players had just finished playing, had not yet been drafted in the league.
35:10
We were sitting there just before lunchtime, late morning. I said, all
35:14
right, what do you got. What's the plan? He said, well,
35:15
I got just finished one workout. I've got another one coming later,
35:17
but I'm gonna head down. I'm gonna get something to eat. Went to
35:20
a subshop, said I'm by, I gotta buy a twelve inch sub today.
35:22
I'm gonna have six of it for lunch. I'm gonna save the other
35:24
six for dinner. This was a guy that was three weeks from being drafted
35:28
and playing here. Within the last two decades, that's where that ends changed,
35:32
and that fueling and refueling has come. Miles and miles. Yeah,
35:37
well it should it should should yeah, well should have been up. Yeah,
35:43
don't get me going. That's that horsecrap NC double A with their rules.
35:50
That is what ultimately has screwed them now because they tried to play absolute
35:54
iron fisted, not facing any reality whatsoever. Let's hammer these kids on things
36:01
like you can't give them cream cheese, right, you talk about majoring in
36:06
the minors. That's what they were concerned about. And then they went to
36:08
the Supreme Court and got their ass absolutely whipped. And now everything is just
36:12
crazy because of that, because of that mentality. That's the mentality. Anyway,
36:16
I digress, as I said earlier action yea further action in the third
36:21
quarter, uh as I said, Garrett first ever NIL guest sponsored here on
36:27
three guys before the game, presented by Daniel's Men's store. His appearance.
36:30
Not only is giving him some clothes, but also fifty million dollars for this
36:34
appearance. Now that's not confirmed. You do not have that confront What I
36:37
was getting to a question, Oh oh sorry, that's all right. Just
36:40
since he's not answering, since he's not answering any of years, I might
36:44
as well ask him, because, UM, give me your take on NIL,
36:49
because you're I mean, you're in that first group. You came in
36:52
there wasn't you're leaving there is. Give it to me. What are your
36:55
thoughts on it? I think it's a it's a great thing when you correctly.
37:00
Um, you know, I don't think that there should be any tampering
37:04
or you know, anything along those lines. But I think it's it's a
37:07
great, great opportunity for guys to be able to, you know, especially
37:09
guys with with families and people they have to support back home, you know,
37:14
to make extra money to help support them. I think it's a great
37:15
thing because you know, college athletes, you know, and a lot of
37:19
the college towns are are the face of the town. So I think it's
37:22
great that they're able to capitalize that, and you know, I hope help
37:25
their families out. Yeah, I think, oh, here we go.
37:30
Head knows he's already got it. Which you agree with that sentiment, so
37:36
start with that whatever you're about to say, as you agree with that sentiment,
37:38
which sentiment what you just said about Nil, you think it's good your
37:40
pro player getting paid? Yeah, get paid? Yeah, yeah, good
37:45
paid. I got some issues overall, but yes, fun. Well,
37:47
we talked about this many many times. They the college is screwed it up
37:52
by stringing a at and swallowing a camel years ago and not letting not sharing
37:55
the revenue, by not sharing the revenue for generations. That was the screw
38:00
up. Putting all the money into coaches, into facilities, and having essentially
38:04
free labor. That was a huge mistake. Now you're finally getting conversated.
38:07
But okay, So in a game where you are playing, assuming whether you
38:13
start or coming to leaf, and there's something you get, there's a late
38:15
hit on you, there's a little scrape, you get up, you're a
38:19
little feisty. Who is the first player on the offense to come to your
38:23
side? Who's gonna first, Who's gonna help you out into scrape? Who's
38:28
the first one? Probably probably the big boys up front, they'll be right
38:32
there. Yeah, I mean, I think Kansas stated happened last year.
38:36
Um and you know the line line wasn't too happy with that. So I
38:39
think Jacque Hubbard handled business. I think on that. Um, So I'd
38:44
probably say any one of the five big boys up front will be there quick.
38:47
Yeah, I think so okay, because they know me. They know
38:51
me that you know, I'm not the biggest guy, but especially when when
38:54
it becomes the d lineman. So I think that they'll chip Will you chip
38:58
back? I was just gonna say, you'd like to talk out there?
39:00
Yeah? I love it. Uh, I love it, but you know,
39:05
I've I've had to learn that, you know, I was much worse
39:07
in high school, but I've had to learn that. You know, the
39:09
quarterback because that play clock goes, so after one play, you gotta looked
39:14
at silent for the next play because it can't be strun around yet it's not
39:15
stopping for anybody. Yeah, what you're normal when you start trash talking.
39:21
My guests would be this normal trash talk starts. Let's say you run the
39:23
ball, you run out of bounds, and you get a good you get
39:28
a significant play. Is your first piece of trash talk normally to the defensive
39:31
back as you give the ball to the official and start heading back. Gonna
39:35
be here all day, It's gonna be a long day. You're starting with
39:37
that one? Is that normally an entree to it? It's probably something like
39:40
that, just maybe a little more not not family friendly. Um, but
39:45
you know, I really don't know no what I say. It just just
39:47
come just comes out. It just kind of happens. He's got to get
39:51
back, like he says, it's got to get back. Yeah, because
39:52
that it's not like high school where they gotta wait for the ball to be
39:54
said. I get it, you know, Um, what is it on
39:59
that? So? What is what is that like when you know there's a
40:02
big play, you just ran, you're gassed, and now you're you're you're
40:07
waiting for the play. Right. Do you ever have an issue like the
40:10
play in man? Well, if I bust a big run, Um,
40:15
I'm just worried about getting my breath back. A lot of times I'm like,
40:16
all right, we can we can wait for the play to gain and
40:19
I can get it in with twenty seconds left. Just let me get my
40:22
breath back. But I mean sometimes I want to play faster than then,
40:27
you know, the game plan calls for. But you know that's why I'm
40:30
the player and there the coach. Yeah, okay, Um, what's your
40:34
most what's your favorite memory on the field so far in your career? Um,
40:39
I think it's I think it'll be tough to beat um the Oklahoma game
40:44
last year. I think that, you know, it was just a culmination
40:47
of a lot of things, a lot of work, you know, a
40:51
ton of people believing in me from back home, from up here. Um,
40:54
a lot of people believing in me and trusting in me. Um.
40:57
So I think you know, I remember sitting after uh watching that game,
41:00
or sitting after on the field with with my dad, my brother, and
41:05
my mom, you know, and just just really being thankful and blessed that,
41:08
you know, I chose to come up here because the school, the
41:10
school means the world to me. Yeah, you got a little scoop to
41:14
you there, man. Boo boo is that I'm just looking back? You
41:16
had you had that that touchdown in the fourth quarter, leven yard touchdown,
41:22
rope wrong way, that's all right, wrong way makes something happen, No
41:24
matter that's makes something happen. That's his version of the major Harris's the wrong
41:29
way, right, wrong way. Whatever of a throw. Now he just
41:32
ran it in a minute ago. That was a hell of a throw,
41:35
right. You mean the fade worked, Yeah, it did that fade or
41:37
back shoulder though, that's more back shoulder. Yeah, boom, your down,
41:43
put your head down, run through somebody. That's it. That's it.
41:45
So no matter what happens, you will always be the guy. It
41:50
led West Virginia. It's first ever Big twelve victory or Oklahoma. Yeah,
41:52
the defense really picked me up, um, you know, keeping them within,
41:57
keeping him. I think it was twenty three twenty so he keeping off
42:00
keeping an offense like that on the twenty points you know, defense played play
42:05
phenomenal. Um. You know, I think I don't think our tight ends
42:07
got enough credit for that game, trailing Davis and Brian Plindy. I think
42:10
they they played their butts off. Um. You know, we're in allowed
42:14
to counter that game, and you know they were they were they were getting
42:16
in the hole every time. And then obviously our all line and you know
42:20
wide receivers Bryce, they played their hearts out. Speaking of defense, that's
42:23
one of the questions heading into this season is how much better the defense will
42:27
be this season? Back end, specifically that you win against all spring,
42:30
a bunch of different guys back there now should be some talent that should groups
42:34
should take a step forward this year, shouldn't it. Yeah, I think
42:37
they will take a step forward, and you know it all it all falls
42:38
onto or they'll all follow. Aubrey Burks UM. I think he's one He's
42:43
one of the best players I've ever played against. UM. And he has
42:47
a real knack for the game. Um. You know, he feels things
42:51
that you shouldn't feel as a defense. As a defender, UM, so
42:53
I think if if he when he gets the guys going in the right direction,
42:58
I have confidence in him. Give me a couple of newbies that people
43:00
might not be aware of right now that during workouts of summer are throwing it
43:05
around a little bit that you're going like, that's a cat. Um,
43:10
let's think offense or defense. People people don't know about yet. I mean
43:15
people know about Rodney, but um, I mean where do you think there?
43:20
He's done a great job this this summer. Um. He graduated later,
43:23
his high school graduated later, so he missed the first first couple of
43:28
weeks of summer. But you know he's done a phenomenal job picking up the
43:30
playbook. You know, in all of our player practices, he's made some
43:34
plays. Um. But the guy probably is a Noah Massi from Texas.
43:39
I believe he's a he's a he's a big guy, but he can run.
43:43
He's got great hands. Um, he's probably a guy that I don't
43:45
think many people know of, but he's he's gonna be a guy. Okay,
43:50
there's a name. But how about okay, flip back to defense for
43:52
a second. You're lining up, you were looking across at the at the
43:55
first string defense. Who was a guy you made sure you knew where they
43:59
were? Um, other than Aubrey Burks. Um, I'll go three levels.
44:04
I'll go secondary, linebacker, D line, probably Aubrey Burks in the
44:07
second, Aubrio Marcus Floyd in the secondary. That they're both players, they
44:12
both they both see the game in a special way. Um. And then
44:15
Lee Koba at Mike linebacker, Um, he's he's probably you know, he
44:21
gets off the bus first again he looks the part um, and then Sean
44:23
Martin. Sean Martin looks you know, he's he runs with the with the
44:28
mids, so he runs with the tight ends and linebackers and stuff, and
44:30
he plays defensive line. So he's a super athletic guy. So you know,
44:34
every time I make sure I know where those three are. Obviously we
44:37
know Sean Well from Bluefield, great size, awesome high school career. So
44:42
a year ago West Virginia opens at Pitt The electricity of that game was tremendous.
44:49
And this year it's going to be Penn State one hundred thousand plus,
44:53
So how much do you think about that? Do you start visualization now for
45:00
that game? How do you how do you gear up toward that? I
45:06
think that one of the ways to gear up for a big time environment like
45:09
that because that's one of the premiere, premiere environments in a night game seven
45:14
thirty kickoff in Happy Valley, I think, just work, work every day
45:17
because that you know the game will be there. So I think whenever you
45:22
get caught up, caught up in looking looking too far ahead, that's where
45:25
the anxiety and you know, all that stuff comes in. But I think
45:28
if you just take it day by day, prepare for that game, and
45:30
I get caught up in the moment and then you know you just gotta go
45:34
play ball. I think the last frontier that hasn't properly been handled yet in
45:40
college sports. We're we're at nutrition and sleep. Now we're starting to get
45:44
that and respect that properly is sports performance and mental preparation and mental training.
45:51
We're are you on that spectrum? Do you do much of that? Yeah?
45:54
We have a we have a phenomenal sports psychologist, doctor Sophia Um.
45:59
I work with her every every every week Um along along with a lot of
46:02
other guys. She's phenomenal at what she does. She played she played tennis
46:07
in college, so she's she kind of gets being an athlete, and you
46:09
know, tennis is different than than football. Tennis and golf where you're the
46:14
only person out there. You can't blame oh he missed a block. You
46:16
know, this, that and the other. It's all on you. So
46:19
I think she brings a unique perspective to to the mind game side of things
46:22
more kind of things. Has she given you as far as coping or do
46:25
you do visualization? Like how do you get yourself ready to go? Yeah?
46:30
I think she You know, our biggest thing, um with with this
46:35
this summer was just not not making things more than they are. Um,
46:38
you know, just you know, this is a game that I love.
46:42
Um but I said, it's it's a game. You know, it's not
46:44
life or death. And I think that's when I'm playing the best is when
46:46
I'm playing free, playing within the rules of the play but playing free and
46:51
you know, just going out and playing ball. Otherwise you get that paralysis
46:54
by analysis. Yeah, exactly did she have to did you have to get
47:00
you to change any way that you thought about the game? And like and
47:04
said, well, in start of thinking about it this way, think about
47:06
it this way kind of more so, just like there's how to differentiate you
47:12
know, playing and then thinking she calls it, there's a playbox and then
47:15
there's a think box. Coach Saracca, who was the offensive analysts in twenty
47:21
twenty one, I brought she He brought that idea to me and I brought
47:23
it Sophie and Sophia really liked it. Um where the think boxes everything you
47:28
do pre snaps, so what are these safeties doing, What's what's going on
47:31
here? And then the playbox you should have no thoughts, You're just going
47:35
to playing ball. Well yeah, you get to that point though, then
47:37
it's then you see things, but there's just reaction. It's yeah. So
47:42
that's been the biggest thing that that me and her have been working on this
47:45
summer is just continuing to be consistent where you have those two two pit two
47:51
spots when what's your biggest Let's do two things here individually, what is your
47:57
absolute that you want to accomplish in the next month here when camp starts.
48:01
Okay, I personally want to get better at this, this, this and
48:06
team wise, where do you think you guys need to really fine tune coming
48:10
out of spring as you get ready to go. Yeah, I think personally
48:14
I just want to want to continue to get to get more comfortable, you
48:17
know, throwing the ball every every single down. You know, obviously the
48:21
game plan is not going to call for that every week, but you know,
48:23
be comfortable to where if they need me to throw the ball forty times
48:27
a game, there's no problem with that. And then I think team wise,
48:31
I think we just want to be an efficient and explosive offense. So
48:35
I think just you know, getting getting explosive plays. But then also part
48:38
of my job is to get our athlete, our best athletes with the ball
48:42
in their hands in space. So I think that's kind of a both team
48:45
goal and individual goal for me is to get our athletes the ball in space
48:51
and just watch them run, will watch them go do their thing, because
48:53
that's why they're here, that's why they're special. Yeah, we always laugh
48:57
at this time of year because every single I mean for fifty now, for
49:00
one hundred and fifty years, every time camp starts, these are the two
49:05
biggest themes. Everyone says. We had the we had the hardest offseason conditioning
49:09
that we've ever had, and our team chemistry is the best ever, closest
49:14
we've ever been, closest we've ever been every single year, every single year.
49:20
Now, these guys could go down the absolute crapper once October comes.
49:22
But like, hey, it was the greatest chemistry. Okay, fine with
49:25
that being all right, that's that's fine. True. Do you feel are
49:31
you feeling this team? Yeah, I've all all the confidence in the world.
49:37
And you know every guy in that locker room, Um, you know
49:39
you said it, but it's I've been here. This would be my fourth
49:43
season here, here it comes, here, it comes ready, go ahead,
49:45
go ahead, say it, say it, just to make sure you
49:46
say it. Get it on record, go ahead. And this has been
49:50
this has been one of the toughest off No, but yeah, man,
49:55
you but you do believe that. Yeah, I feel good about everything.
49:59
Jokes aside um, and you know I'm trying to just go put the ball
50:01
in the end zone. Yeah. But one of those things this we haven't
50:06
We've got a long time here without talking about it collectively. We've talked to
50:07
individually. This offensive line has a chance to be really elite. Right,
50:10
You've got some individual pieces back that are excellent. Thomas Remac mixing in last
50:15
year was a great piece coming in for the injured commitder So this line,
50:19
you've got to have a ton of confidence as the quarterback coming in behind this
50:22
group. Yeah, I have all the confidence in the world and those guys.
50:25
You know, I lived with Doug and Fraser Um last semester Doug moved
50:30
out because you got married. But you know, I'm close with all the
50:34
guys. I know they have I know they have my back, and you
50:37
know, I have all the confidence in the world that, you know,
50:39
whatever we ask them to do, whether it's past set every every single down
50:44
or run block every single down, I have all the confidence in the world
50:46
in them. Yeah. Well you hit this earlier when you said this that
50:51
West Virginian's you know that kind of the basse foundation philosophy is tell me what
50:54
I can't do, and I'm gonna show you what I can do. And
50:58
I think that's the right mindset this year, like Neil said at media day,
51:01
like, well, you can pick us last. That's fine. We're
51:04
not gonna finish last. Yeah right, we're gonna be You don't know what's
51:07
going on inside the walls of our locker room. So I think from that
51:10
standpoint, you're right. Um, it's the years that West Virginia has always
51:15
been Oh it's gonna be up here and you get this, but these are
51:20
the fun seasons where you show that you're not what you thought. Yeah,
51:24
exactly, so dress wise here from fine looking pills. If you're given the
51:30
opportunity, you said your premier footwear would be snake boots. Yeah, I
51:36
mean, if if I had to pick, if I had to pick,
51:38
when I really wanted to put something on boots. Yeah. The mom's not
51:42
crazy about him. Well, she just like she likes her boy. And
51:45
you know, loafers and dress shoes and it's nice. Johnston and Murphy's over
51:49
there. Fail got a big selection of the Johnson Murphy too. Of course
51:54
he's got Cole Hana and Cole Taylor. How about to fit on the jacket
51:59
because he's not a big guy, but he's got broad shoulders, So how
52:00
are you gonna Well, he's gonna be a great fat That's why Phil is
52:04
the best. He'll taylor the jacket right to my shot, right right,
52:07
He'll bring it right in there, nice little form fitting. How do you
52:09
go the shorter pant? He does shan young guys that are in shape.
52:14
That's a little shorter pants short. If you see the shorts, I got
52:19
the five and a half and she seems shorts some today you can go with
52:22
that. So but pants, no sock, go with the loafer. Yeah,
52:25
my my dad hates it. But you know, I'm a tighter ish
52:29
pants. I don't like that tight pants stand tight, but tighter and then
52:32
you know, cut right above the anklest know. What about those dudes when
52:36
you were in greased you see what did you they have the capri pants over
52:38
there? Did you see those guys? Were you where you stand? Tweeters
52:42
that's what I call him. I call him tweets. What's what's the what
52:45
are your thoughts on that? Would you do it? No, wouldn't go
52:50
that wouldn't Yeah. At the beach, I'm a big I'm a big you
52:53
know, khaki pants and flipops guy. That's about the closest I'll get to
52:59
caprice. But it's here a beach guy. Though. The capris do serve
53:00
a purpose there. You're walking on the beach there, take the flip flops
53:04
off, your pants on the bottom. Aren't going to get the water up
53:07
on you you walk through there, or you just wear shorts short, but
53:09
it might be a little cooler than when you get off the beach. You're
53:12
having a drink or two there at the bar. You gotta have a little
53:14
pant on now. Yeah, if it's if it's, if it's that cold,
53:16
you go bathing suit bottoms and then a hoodie and a wetsuit and a
53:21
wetsuit as well. Well you went along on top, short on top,
53:23
you could reverse that on the bottom, short sleeve shirt. I solved your
53:27
problem, solid. Might you pick that up? Or you get you get
53:32
three? You get three things to eat forever? No, just your favorite
53:37
three meals. Um. Probably you know I'm gonna go basic here, cheeseburger.
53:45
Really, I love a good burger. Interesting um, and then probably
53:49
blackened grouper is is my gotta have some? Um? And then I love
53:58
shrimp. Shrimps always been. I just made some last nights. Yeah,
54:01
Shrimp's always been since I was a kid. Um. I actually stopped eating
54:05
shrimp for a while. What's that religious reasons? Well, because I found
54:09
out that that's why flamingoes get pink. It's because they eat too they eat
54:14
some shrimp, So I thought I was gonna turn pink. Excuse me,
54:16
that might be an excuse me. Yeah, I was like six, and
54:22
I stopped stopped eating shrimp for for like two three years. Who told you
54:25
that your brother. Yeah, I think so figures. Yeah, I think
54:29
we were down to Orlando and he told me that at the hotel and I
54:31
never watched. Yeah, I didn't eat shrimp for like three years after my
54:35
brother. When I was younger, my brother, my brother told me that
54:39
I wasn't born in our family, that our parents were taking a drive on
54:45
a Sunday they found me in a mud puddle. Hey, fact, Yeah,
54:50
I was little like last week, as flamingos dined on algae and Brian
54:57
shrimp, its body metabolized. Is the pigments turning its feathers pink? Ye,
55:02
your brother was right, he was on it when she was. One
55:06
big difference. He doesn't have feathers. Feathers that we know, of which
55:09
the six year old, the six year old me did not realize that.
55:13
Yeah, exactly. So no, no dessert, they're in the mix.
55:15
What's your dessert situation? Not a dessert guy? You know my mom.
55:20
The name probably isn't the best, but it's called death by chocolate. She
55:22
does it every single every single uh Thanksgiving a Christmas. Um. I haven't
55:28
had thinks. She brought it up last year for Thanksgiving, but that's probably
55:31
my gift what's in it? It's it's got cool whip, chocolate pudding,
55:36
brownies, heath Bar mix, underrated, up, stacks up on top.
55:42
Yeah, layers it up and it's it's phenomenal. I think they sell it
55:45
a go mart. I'm sure I'm not mistaken. I'm looking at a picture.
55:49
Your mom comes up to how many? Like? How does she do
55:52
games? How does she? So? My mom? My mom loves loves
55:54
being in control, so she doesn't. She doesn't. Not the biggest fan
55:57
of flying. So she lives. She lived up in Georgia now, so
56:00
she she drives up, drives up through Charlotte and boom, just comes on
56:05
up, comes on up. So she went to she went to every single
56:07
home game last year and then she saw my my my last start at Oaklahoma
56:13
State, which was which was special. Um so yeah, So m and
56:16
my dad when I comes to every game, he doesn't really have and you
56:20
know it kind of times up perfect where my season's his off season, so
56:23
he's able to come come to all the games. All right, So you
56:27
had a tough day, You need to talk to somebody. Your first calls
56:30
to your mom or your dad? What do what do I want? Do
56:34
I want to be heard? Or do I want the problem to be solved?
56:38
What a great response? A great response, it's a great response.
56:44
You want to be heard? I think I'm definitely going to my mom.
56:49
You know, my my mom, she's one of my best friends. Um,
56:52
you know, I could talk to her about anything, and I already
56:54
know what the what the response is for my dad would be, he's gonna
56:59
talking to fix it. I mean if I just texted him like, hey,
57:01
Dad liked it would just be okay, um, and then you know
57:09
I'd call him later and we'd figure it out. Um. But you know,
57:14
I love both my parents, UM, and I both see them as
57:16
you know, two of my best friends. Though. I can go go
57:19
with them to with anything that's awesome, that was really good that I want
57:23
to be heard? Or do I want the problem solved? Because you like
57:27
your dad? That's what he does, Like, Yeah, that's his every
57:29
day Like, let just turn that pitch right around on you guys. Yeah,
57:32
I try to come in on the hands you've gotten the best of me.
57:36
Yeah, My dad's my dad's no no real fluff. He just wants
57:38
all right, what do you like? What do you need? He doesn't
57:40
really want want the SOB story. But my mom should listen. Yeah,
57:44
I get it, I get it. Hey, I gotta tell a hassee
57:49
Florida State, West Virginia connection thing Maruci bats you know that story. I
57:57
don't know the story. But actually he's from he was here athletic. Yeah,
58:01
because at the manicamp. Actually, um, that had us in a
58:06
dorm of four guys. So it was me, me Quinn, yours quarterback
58:10
from Texas, Garrett nus Meyer, the LSU guy, and then Michael Pratt,
58:15
the two lane guy. So we were all four. So I got
58:17
close to Garrett and uh to Garrett's funny but um, the that guy,
58:22
the rootie back guy. He came in and introduced him stuff to uh,
58:27
to me and I talked talked to him for a little while. He told
58:30
wa, he gave me the connection. No, No, they always let's
58:34
coaches time out here. So that was a hell of a We're person.
58:37
Yeah, get together. So yours the Texas quarterback, significant cutting of his
58:44
hair in the off season. It looks great, looks great. It's great.
58:46
So when you when you're watching him, you guys are doing drills.
58:50
What's what's his deal? Now? You got your chance? Yeah, he's
58:52
a phenomenal, phenominal player. You know, he can really throw the football.
58:54
But you know, my biggest takeaway from that is he's a really genuine
58:59
dude. Um. He is who he is, UM, and he's not
59:01
changing that for anybody. And he's a great dude. We had a blast,
59:05
you know, working with each other, um and pushing each other and
59:07
then also kind of kind of getting to know each other. Yeah, you
59:09
don't have to play him. And he's interesting at the Manning cap because he's
59:13
being pushed by a Manning coming behind. Yeah he's there. Yeah, Well
59:19
that's awesome, dude, this is good. Have you enjoyed this? Oh,
59:22
it's been a blast. Have you done other podcasts? None that have
59:25
been this fun? So he just a plus despite coming in here, despite
59:30
the deposition questions A Kirchell tried to hit you. Yeah, but thankfully I'm
59:35
in tune tune with my lawyer, lawyer and stuff. But watched a lot
59:39
of suits very strong for there's a chance there's a chance. I'm not I
59:45
mean possibility. I'm not gonna say it, but like when you get back
59:47
and you see Neil here, like tomorrow, something Neil's gonna say, Hey,
59:50
you do the podcast, and you go like yeah, and he said
59:53
it won't be too Farling Hobby tried to get you one to be a surprise.
1:00:00
I think within the first three questions, you take the under yeah,
1:00:01
I'd take the under run. There'd be three, probably three under yeah.
1:00:05
All I did was asked the question that the Mountaineer Nation wants to know.
1:00:08
I'm sorry, I was doing my job. I mean, yeah, I
1:00:12
mean I think you can answer. You can well, I mean some of
1:00:14
it's a given. I mean what I mean, Yeah, the answer was
1:00:16
a rhetorical question. No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't rhetorical at
1:00:20
all. It's not a rhetorical question. It was a question, legitimate question,
1:00:24
which he handled with a plum. I mean, he he could have
1:00:28
you know, he's he's still obviously he's been asked that maybe a time or
1:00:30
two before. Yeah, and he's answered, I'm speaking as though he's not
1:00:35
here. Yeah, He's just said, well, he's got to he's got
1:00:37
let's keep talking like he's not here. He's got two of the all time
1:00:40
great media handlers, and Michael for Gale and Mike Montoro, Right, Mike
1:00:46
and Mike. That's that's actually who I did my internship with the summer or
1:00:51
not with not with them directly, but yeah, and they in the communications
1:00:54
department. Yeah, I mean those two sport management major. Yeah, those
1:00:57
two guys are those two guys are top show. Yeah. Yeah. Now
1:01:04
probably when he get back with him, it'll probably be those two guys ago,
1:01:07
Like, what about Hoppy? What Hoppy try to pin you up against
1:01:10
the wall? What Hoppy tried to do? He tried, but you know,
1:01:15
no, you took it. He handed head, He read, he
1:01:17
read the he read the blitz coming from the side. It was a hot
1:01:23
Yeah. Slid the protect. He came up to line, slid the protection.
1:01:27
Right, Yeah, we're all good. We're all good, good,
1:01:30
all right. So we've reached that time in the show where we say bye
1:01:32
to you. I know you wanted to stay protextual Hill actually, I mean
1:01:37
that um phenomenous segment. But we don't with all due respect, but we
1:01:43
certainly, we certainly don't want to make you late. But folks, in
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1:02:29
I don't know if you know this or not, but Hoppy over there he
1:02:31
has his own craft beer, does it? Yes? Yeah, it's very
1:02:36
it's a crisp, clean alone. It's very good. Yeah, we got
1:02:40
it here. Well, it's in town. They just took they just made
1:02:43
the latest batch. I may be able to effort and maybe get I need
1:02:46
to go by you're twenty one plus years of age, twenty two in October.
1:02:52
You can hook him up being yeah he's there. Yeah, that'd be
1:02:54
a good way, right, be a good way. Maybe post on a
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Saturday after the ye after a Saturday, you got to get carves back into
1:03:01
him after a Saturday, and although it is a very regroup in February,
1:03:07
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1:03:12
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get that thing up. You know, maybe I've often a prison at the
1:03:54
moment. I mean, what a what a intelligent um. Yeah, what
1:04:03
a guy who just who is comfortable in his shoes, you know, come
1:04:06
from his answers, not intimidated by questions, handles what he can handle.
1:04:12
Definitely definitely handles the inevitable question. Got it together. It will be easy
1:04:16
for fans to root for it has been easy to root for it, right,
1:04:18
I mean, yeah, exactly, Yeah, a great point, great
1:04:21
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was self possessed, self possessed, calm, confident. Yeah, that's what
1:06:00
I was looking for. Really happy for him, thanks to just Is he
1:06:04
gonna be the starter? We'll see. That's why we have camp. We
1:06:10
have camp. That's why we have camp. Right? Does he not understand
1:06:15
how camp works? I don't know. He gets the last question. I
1:06:18
know, but doesn't he understand? Thank you, Brad. Every job's open,
1:06:23
especially asking now. Yes, I think he'll be the starter. Okay,
1:06:26
thank you. Wait a seconds, back wall, do you forget?
1:06:30
Wait a second, what are you coming back in? Wait? What did
1:06:31
you get sunglass? I'll tell you want to forget those? He didn't get
1:06:36
those at the dime store? All right? Man? I like that.
1:06:43
Garrett Green returned a guest for guys, pay him some more. N I
1:06:47
Alley came twice. It was great too. He just walked right in again.
1:06:53
Like it right, open door policy here on the podcast. If your
1:06:56
guests come back in, sure, we love it. Absolutely it'd be great.
1:06:59
Okay, So textual healings on now, and we're gonna spend some time
1:07:05
here talking about our first ever public outing for three guys outside of Moningilia County.
1:07:15
So this past weekend we had talked to you folks about it. We
1:07:17
were going to Greenbrier County a two day event. We did a Friday event
1:07:21
for the wonderful folks of communities in schools in Greenbrier County and then on Saturday
1:07:30
we just literally hung out in Ronsfford in front of the Sportsman's Tavern. So
1:07:35
first off, first, let's do this. The food that we had on
1:07:39
Friday was made by chef Paul Smith along with Emily Isaac, and Chef Paul
1:07:46
Smith is the James Beard Award nominee. There. He was off to the
1:07:51
right when we were doing on A Q and A and he's fantastic. He's
1:07:55
a West Virginian, graduated from Charleston Catholic, went to CIA, that's Culinary
1:08:00
Institute of America and as I said, just most recently nominee for the James
1:08:03
Beard Award. And Emily Isaac, they collaborated on this and Emily is the
1:08:09
owner of a wonderful wonderful restaurant in maybe the premier restaurant in Greenboro County,
1:08:14
Humble Tomato, which is located in Lewisburg. So we had a ton of
1:08:17
fun and there's some of the food that those folks had put together. I
1:08:24
absolutely had a crush FESTI you ate that whole plate of sliders right there.
1:08:30
You were you Camp Brad and are visiting. You went over and held your
1:08:32
visitation I did there by the food hold right there on that picture back corner,
1:08:38
left corner. Those are those little s'mores that they made. Yeah,
1:08:42
a little non traditional take on the s'more problem was Kurchavill. They're almost so
1:08:45
small. I think I took down a whole row of those. Well,
1:08:48
the food was, it was just it was just outstanding, just outstanding.
1:08:53
If you Jack, if you go back to the other picture there, if
1:08:57
you go back to the previous picture, you may notice that when we were
1:09:00
talking as Chef Paul, it wasn't really bright because the power went out.
1:09:08
For those of you that are in the area, you knew there was a
1:09:11
storm that went through there knocked the power off for well, it was every
1:09:15
bit of eighteen hours by the time it came back on. It went off
1:09:18
bolling five ish. The game had to be stopped. No score on the
1:09:23
scoreboard there. So anyway, thanks to everyone there because despite the fact that
1:09:28
we didn't have power except for the battery generator on the pau, there was
1:09:32
no air conditioning and it could have been an easy way to me to say
1:09:36
no, I'm gonna check out. And folks did not sucked that event right
1:09:41
there, pack people standing around the sides, awesome questions. They were tremendous
1:09:44
and stayed. When it was over, everybody kind of filtered out into the
1:09:47
street, was a little cooler and we continued to visit. It was really
1:09:51
nice. Yeah, so special. Thanks to Adadelie Isaac owner of the Humble
1:09:54
Tomato, and Paul Smith. Also, I want to show you a couple
1:09:58
other pictures. This was on Saturday, mo. This is the flavor Mutt
1:10:01
and the folks from Mountain Table, so Chef Chad Jones and um uh that's
1:10:10
Mountain Table. Yep, that's the Mountain Table. That's where those are the
1:10:12
folks that make the uh the coffee through the Mountaineer Morning Coffee. Rise and
1:10:16
Shine with Mountaineer Morning. Start your day with West Virginia West Virginia Way and
1:10:21
they roast it there. And there's the folks from Mountain Table, Nadine and
1:10:28
Alex and right there there is the Combo, the Combo event, the Flavor
1:10:33
Mutt and Mountain Table. They were selling stuff the sour dough bro I talked
1:10:39
to Chad Man, he's got that down to Lake. You got some of
1:10:43
that Brandtleaf gone, gone gone. You ate it all yesterday, Karen and
1:10:46
I ate it Saturday and Saturday Sunday gone. Okay. Rank it eleven out
1:10:51
of ten. It's a nine. I mean the ten, it's tremendous.
1:10:58
I was really a cost. So now he's cooked. He's baking that out
1:11:00
of the Sportsman's Tavern. That's where his base is. He cooks there.
1:11:04
And then that building we were in next door if you went behind the back
1:11:08
there, So he's getting into the restaurants. That's starting to get big distribution.
1:11:11
It's fantastic. Also, one of the guests that we had on Saturday,
1:11:15
Mark Bow, the Mark Bow of Barnwood Builders, was there. And
1:11:20
there's Mark and getting ready just finished their eighteenth season of Barnwood Builders and all
1:11:28
the fantastic stuff that they have been able to accomplish giving a great deal of
1:11:32
publicity and recognition to the state of West Virginia. And um, that was
1:11:39
really good chatting with him too, it was it was great. And Mark
1:11:42
and Barnwood Builders have had this tremendous success. I'm sure it was more than
1:11:45
they ever could imagine for But now they're just they're just rolling and they really
1:11:49
stay true to West Virginia and West Virginia values and the people they just they
1:11:54
just they just live it. And Mark, it was great for him to
1:11:57
be there because he was I don't know if you noticed he was hired there.
1:12:00
It was man, he was just in Ligonier, PA the day before.
1:12:04
So we appreciate that. You mentioned Brittany. Excuse me, Brittany,
1:12:09
you get into that. Yeah, okay, go ahead. What's his deal?
1:12:15
Tax Green get Nancy at tax garret and now he's like, wants to
1:12:18
go. You got the damn thing in front of you. It's right here,
1:12:21
Well you do, you're not even looking at it doesn't follows his own
1:12:25
rules. Also, the fine folks from Rolling Stove and the Greenbrier Dairy.
1:12:32
So yeah, those are the dudes from the Rolling Stove And that was a
1:12:38
nice big food truck and they had created burgers with each of our names.
1:12:45
There was the you guys were burgers. I was a Philly cheesteak, You
1:12:47
were a Philly cheeseakes. So look, so you see the burgers creedy ghost
1:12:50
pepper ghost pepper burger, and they said that. I says, is that
1:12:57
ghost pepper hot? And the guy said, hotter than the hinges of is
1:13:00
what he told me. That would have hurt, But I would have liked
1:13:02
to have tried that too. And then the hoppy Blue jam was a blue
1:13:06
cheese burger down there. That was That was good. And then the Mountaineer
1:13:11
mushroom Swiss, of course goes without saying. And then the other one was
1:13:15
the how Steak Sandwich. It's the How's the Philly How's the Philly steak sandwich?
1:13:21
Good talking with those dudes. And there about the Greenbrier Dairy we left.
1:13:27
Our last thing we did was the Greenbrier Dairy got a big cow,
1:13:30
and um, we got milkshakes from there, and I got the cheese.
1:13:36
You didn't hit the cheese yet, have you not? Yeah? But they
1:13:40
made us American sheddar. They made us butter cheese, and they make their
1:13:43
own mustard right here in West Virginia right there at the green a mint Oreot
1:13:48
mint Orio. I went straight chocolate and the cow's they ranked. The cows
1:13:51
are in Frankfurt, about twenty minutes away from where they were serving. I
1:13:56
mean you get like, if your cow is twenty minutes away from where you're
1:13:59
getting the milkshake, strong probability pretty good, Yeah, I mean, we're
1:14:03
not talking about any synthetic cow, you know down there. And then Brittany
1:14:08
Masters and the folks from the Communities in Schools. So there's Brittany to the
1:14:13
right, obviously, and that was the that was the organization that we raised
1:14:19
the dollars for. The Communities in Schools program is unbelievable. In short,
1:14:27
they try to take kids that may potentially be overlooked and they helped them in
1:14:36
so many different ways, mentoring them, identifying them early so that they have
1:14:42
an opportunity to get through the educational system and blossom, because if you don't,
1:14:48
and if they don't, then chances are they'll never know what's out there
1:14:51
in front of them. Tony, I know, we each of us talked
1:14:54
to her for a long time and she was really passionate, Brad about what
1:14:59
she's doing, and as we talked about, so many of these children in
1:15:01
West Virginia, not just West Virginia, but that's the state we're most familiar
1:15:03
with, coming from environments where education is not valued. Their parents or parents
1:15:09
not getting them up to go to school, they're not reinforcing their homework or
1:15:14
what they need to do, and so these kids fall far behind and the
1:15:16
teachers alone can't be expected to do everything. So this community program enlists people
1:15:21
to help sort of fill in the gaps and pull them off. Yeah,
1:15:24
she was great. I thought she did a wonderful job of explaining the need
1:15:27
and where those dollars go and how it helps those kids in Greenboro County and
1:15:31
across the state, but this specifically in Greenboro County. Tremendous, tremendous impact
1:15:35
they're making. So that was awesome. Thank you everyone for coming out in
1:15:40
Greenborough count We've got more of these things coming up in It was I know
1:15:44
that what you all say about me that I don't get out and I don't
1:15:46
talk to people, but I talked to everybody. You did Friday and Saturday.
1:15:51
You do so uplifted. That's a good word, yeah, because you
1:15:57
know, we just to get sometimes with what I do, you get sort
1:16:00
of caught up in the controversy and stuff. It was just really really nice
1:16:03
to be with very genuine warm people. Bread. It just felt so welcoming.
1:16:09
It was. It was invigorating. So many great people, huge mountaineer
1:16:12
fans down there right. Listeners to the podcast just I thought it was a
1:16:15
great you know, over two days, twenty four hour period where they're awesome
1:16:19
visit to uh Ronsford. I thought, yeah, from the text line,
1:16:24
oh, hold on real quick. I don't know if he saw this.
1:16:27
This was, you know, how he talks about getting out and talking to
1:16:29
the folks, which he did. I thought he was very social and tremendous
1:16:31
job. But he also had his own security crew that is blocking people off
1:16:35
from getting to him. He had usher one at a time in there,
1:16:40
so he didn't get a crowded but his own security crews got the law enforcement
1:16:43
dudes there, they were awesome, great, they were awesome. One of
1:16:45
those guys played football, Tommy was a linebacker mixed over into fullback a little
1:16:51
bit there. Yeah, we had a great, great conversation about old school
1:16:56
rich back at Glenville. So the law enforcement guys, they were tremendous.
1:16:59
Yeah, yeah, that was great. Uh, Texter says justin brace Colorado,
1:17:04
it's an instant rivalry Country Roads versus Rocky Mountain High. They can play
1:17:09
for the John Denver Trophy. Now that's something to think about that. Why
1:17:14
wouldn't you when Colorado West Virginia play played for the John Denver Well, I
1:17:17
think you go further. I mean that there's the connection to Texas Tech.
1:17:19
So it basically becomes a Commander in Chief trophy where it's got it's three different
1:17:25
problems, right, I mean you got Texas, tex got a John Denver.
1:17:29
Yeah, so commander in chief type of trophy, John Denver in Chief
1:17:32
Trophy. Gary from Beckley writes, kudos to Kevin Jones. I feel he's
1:17:38
elevated himself to the greatest of all time. Out near a squad. He
1:17:43
puts them in there with Jerry West, Rod Thorne, Round, Fritz Williams,
1:17:45
and Dayshaun Butler. Yeah, Jerry West bar pretty high. Vin.
1:17:51
Kevin is really good in that TBT. How about nights, I mean he's
1:17:55
a dude. Who else is pretty good? How about heard that they got
1:17:59
a shot they do well? Sure they do? Hey, Hoppy, did
1:18:01
you have anybody on from her down on your show today. I had Travis
1:18:04
Jones. I'm efforting John Elmore. Oh good, here what he said,
1:18:10
Brad, he's efforting John Elmore. You know what I'm gonna You know what
1:18:13
I'm doing? Are you efforting? I'm gonna come in and get him tonight.
1:18:15
That's fine. I'm gonna spite Hoppy. I mean, is it in
1:18:18
about time? No, I ain't all about Hoppy. I think that's one
1:18:21
thing we learned this weekend on this trip. It's all about Hoppy. When
1:18:27
we got there at that house and we went in there and you said,
1:18:30
hey, Tony, my bags in the back of my car, would you
1:18:32
get that for me? And then when you said and make it quick?
1:18:35
I thought that was I thought that was totally totally out of character. I
1:18:41
thought that I thought that was get that and make it quick. By the
1:18:45
way, where's my water? Where's my where's my limon water? Texter?
1:18:53
I get a small dose of that West Virginia camaraderie almost daily here in Chicago.
1:18:58
I'm almost always wearing some type of WV gear, and I now expect
1:19:02
someone to comment on a daily These are random people I pass by on the
1:19:06
sidewalkers stores. For example, today I'm walking down North Broadway and in my
1:19:11
Chicago neighborhood, Lakeview, when a young man I was passing on the sidewalk
1:19:15
said loudly, go Mountaineers, per scopes. There's always a West Virginia connection.
1:19:19
Again. Enjoy your weekend, Hey, three guys. Jim in Preston
1:19:23
County. I loved the Quincy Wilson episode. I will never forget watching the
1:19:27
run. When you put your shoulder into defender and hurdle him five yards epic,
1:19:31
great episode. Wish him nothing but the success, except when he plays
1:19:35
my West Liberty Hilltoppers. Thanks for all you do, even for Hoppy when
1:19:39
he decides to show up. That was nice. This is Jim and Charleston.
1:19:43
I just wanted to let you know that Taylor Tyler Tucker County Kennedy Consolidated
1:19:49
is alive and well. I've read some good articles from him this week in
1:19:53
the Gazetter mail and in Friday's paper. Reader's got to see his smiling face.
1:19:59
Good to have some new blood at the paper. Are they still publishing?
1:20:02
I thought they did. They moved, they moved to Sunday paper to
1:20:06
side. Oh, but they still published the paper. Oh yeah, well,
1:20:10
yeah they don't. They don't publish every day. But the big thing
1:20:13
was they just went from Sunday the Sunday papers on Saturday. Now, oh,
1:20:15
I got you. Was Taylor have a column or something or this picture
1:20:18
in it? I don't know. I did not see it them. You
1:20:21
ever noticed that when you were like young and those guys always had their picture
1:20:25
in their column, And then when you saw him in real life, you
1:20:28
realize the picture had been taken thirty one years earlier, and they looked nothing
1:20:31
like that picture, kind of what my picture looks like on the website.
1:20:35
Texter Ben from Pittsburgh. With the bar exam being done, I decided to
1:20:42
look up what to expect in the officer training school. I'll be going through
1:20:45
the Army Jag Corps. It appears it's quite possible I'll be encountering a wild
1:20:50
boar during land navigation. So I was hoping scopes as an expert boar slayer,
1:20:56
could give me some insights on how to defeat a boar without a fire
1:21:00
arm. Did he just drop in and he went to law school? I
1:21:01
was likely, by the way, and I was going to the Jag Corps.
1:21:04
Well, done, Ben, and he's going bore hunt, but he
1:21:06
might not be able to. How do you think Tony was ahead? I
1:21:12
mean, Tenny, you can jump in and give your thoughts since you were
1:21:14
the actual on the hunt. But I would say, is the way to
1:21:16
do it if you want to follow Tony's blueprint is just make sure the thing
1:21:19
is sleeping or been heavily drugged before you get there. Yeah, and then
1:21:23
you'll have a good chance of making sure your shot hits directly and achieves the
1:21:28
goal. Fair. Yeah, fair, he's running around, but then the
1:21:30
then the sedative kicked in. Yeah. I'm just getting minds taken unhead,
1:21:34
multiple shots. Miss saw a thing yesterday? Got an elephant? Well,
1:21:43
elephant elephant ran away from the circus in Calabria, Italy. Oh my gosh,
1:21:49
in collaborate probably the province of clubs all over the news. If you
1:21:53
look up, look up elephant Italy circus you'll see it come up. So
1:21:59
the elephant takes off in Calabria. There's a small little town. Sure,
1:22:02
well, and he went to a supermarket parking lot. Here's what he was
1:22:08
walking night down the road. You see it? Hop, Yeah, big
1:22:10
old elephant and uh and finally, folks from the zoo or the folks from
1:22:15
the circus looking down the street. Yeah, just walking down They got video.
1:22:18
People in their cars are just laughing, like heck, Giganta, they
1:22:21
said, Giganta alefante. Yeah. So anyway, it's good mutual friend of
1:22:29
ours. It's in Collabia right now. Left to reach out and see if
1:22:30
he saw the elephant. Yeah, seriously, somebody's driving down the street and
1:22:34
the elephant is the elephant just took the exit. He walked a supermar not
1:22:39
in a hurry. No good to see everybody leisurely stroll text to get that
1:22:45
night out of the circus. Where to go? I'm off today. It's
1:22:47
Tuesday. Take those dams, take those damn peanuts. I'm done. Uh
1:22:54
Hey, guys, greetings from my annual summer vacation in Indian Beach, North
1:22:58
Carolina. As you can see, I have my three guys beach survival kit.
1:23:03
Nothing better than watching the waves roll onto the sand while sipping on some
1:23:09
kirchivel as I'm munching on a go March fly rod and topping it off with
1:23:14
the perfect peanut butter to chocolate ratio. Recent my favorite time of the year,
1:23:18
because I know when I get home the anticipation will be riding high with
1:23:21
football season. Here's to you, guys efforting to episode eight hundred and beyond
1:23:27
Roll Tribe and let's go him out. And here is Ryan from Bridgeport.
1:23:30
At least set up those those Kirchivels at cold too. That's nice. Hey,
1:23:33
quick note. Ran into three guys listener Joe at Dick's Sporting Good yesterday.
1:23:40
What were you doing there? Shopping for your upcoming trip? Shopping?
1:23:46
Let's stop, we'll stop by Joe. Hey, three guys speak, Three
1:23:48
guys listening. Awesome, Thanks Joe? He worked there? Or was he
1:23:51
just shopping? Works? There's worker? Oh yeah, works there? Thanks
1:23:57
Joe, guys. I'm sorry for the long text. I hope it's worth
1:24:00
a read. So do I. I graduated with Quincy and on Saturday mornings,
1:24:03
I was calling w w VA, where the late George Kellis hosted a
1:24:08
talk show to hype the most dominant high school player I've ever seen. This
1:24:12
is our baseball picture from June of nineteen ninety. Check out his baseball pants.
1:24:17
There's Quincy. It was never in doubt what his destiny would be.
1:24:21
A big calves back then as you also mentioned two other good men, John
1:24:28
S Marshall where the S stands for service. Absolutely the goat of insurance agents,
1:24:33
nothing like the guys that Tony disparages from time to time. True,
1:24:39
into a couple insurance agents visit. Yeah we didnt. Yeah, I think
1:24:46
I don't know. What's that they talked to you? Oh, I talked
1:24:49
to him. The dude with the blue shirt. The guy with the blue
1:24:56
blue was golden blue. I don't know which. Anyway, the there was
1:25:00
TV. Ted Valentine, my buddy Corey and I started working at Woodview golf
1:25:03
Course in New Cumberland nineteen ninety six. We're making two dollars an hour cash
1:25:09
with unlimited golf and food. Ted used to live This is Teddy Valentine's talk
1:25:13
about Ted used to live in Weirton. Spent his summers playing in a skins
1:25:15
game with retired mill workers. Ted started taking us up to the scrambles as
1:25:20
his ringers and had a tournament in Wellsburg. Drunk competitors started harassing us.
1:25:26
That was right after Ted had assessed Bobby Night not one, but two,
1:25:30
but three technicals in one game. That's true, Yeah, it is true.
1:25:32
Oh that was a huge thing led to his demise in the big In
1:25:38
the Big ten, Ted didn't work in the big tent. After that they
1:25:40
booted him. All three justified, oh, absolutely, Ted's never missed a
1:25:44
call anyway. Ted walks over to these guys who are drunk and harassing us
1:25:47
and said, I'm going to end up in the media again, this time
1:25:51
for whipping your asses if you don't stop harassing these three young men. They
1:25:57
never said another word, and we won the tournament. One more thing,
1:26:01
Quincy may have gotten some nil money. In nineteen ninety nine, Mountaineer Park
1:26:09
bought Woodview and hired a new GM, the local States senator who just happened
1:26:13
to be instrumental in expanding gambling. There are some that felt this perhaps was
1:26:17
a political and il deal. I was transferred, against my wishes, out
1:26:21
of the pro shop and onto the grounds crew. At first, I thought
1:26:26
maybe it was political because my grandfather had run against him from mayor of Warton
1:26:30
and lost in ninety one. But then I realized something much bigger was at
1:26:33
play. My replacement was none other than Quincy Wilson. My shift on the
1:26:39
grounds crew was usually over by the time Quincy got to work and let's just
1:26:43
say we spent a lot of time having fun and hitting golf balls on the
1:26:46
range, and no one ever gave Quincy a hard time about it. So
1:26:51
Quincy got the call into the pro shop. This guy got booted back down
1:26:55
to the grounds crew. Now, you know, probably for quincy buoyant personality
1:27:00
probably sold some of those highly priced shirts that in that Quincy was the guy
1:27:05
who could run the ball. Yeah uh, Texter. He also said it
1:27:11
was great to hear him on the PASCA podcast Cancnity's back. All right,
1:27:15
here we go, Texter. Hello, I loved the summer series. I've
1:27:19
been lucky enough to get some of the Kirchivel three times and in West Virginia,
1:27:26
Seneca Lake, Ohio, and Lake Anna, Virginia. Here are a
1:27:30
couple pictures sharing it with my brother in law, Briant, at each lake
1:27:33
on pontoon boats. Of course, I hope you guys are still afforting to
1:27:38
get the Kirchivel to the Northern Panhandle. Robin Benwood, He's got three different
1:27:43
pictures of him and his brow drinking Kirchivel all over the dog done. How
1:27:46
they get that in Virginia. Good work, crowd, they drove it down
1:27:49
there. He picked it up here and then went down to the lake and
1:27:51
brought it with Okay, I'm sorry, I thought, Virginia nice, very
1:27:56
nice, excellent. Thank you. Haven't heard from this cat in a while.
1:27:59
Our boy by Jason and Tulsa, Hey, guys. On my way
1:28:01
to Vegas again, while enjoying the Quincy Wilson episode, I saw him on
1:28:05
campus once. I remember thinking his quadriceps were like giant redwoods. It looked
1:28:11
like he could let leg press a full grown bush elephant. By the way,
1:28:14
on my previous trip to Vegas on the show Big Today. By the
1:28:17
way, on my previous trip to Vegas, I cashed in Event number seventy
1:28:23
four of the World Series of Poker by finishing five hundred and thirteen out of
1:28:28
five thousand, two hundred and seventy two players, and I also cleaned up
1:28:32
in the cash games, so WV was well represented. I also took Brian
1:28:38
Harmon at one hundred and fifty to one to win the open, so that
1:28:42
worked out pretty well. And he says, tongue clock, one hundred and
1:28:46
fifty to one. That's right, there's a slip. There's a slip.
1:28:49
Nice hit, Brad, that's it. That's a nice hit. Yeah,
1:28:53
I mean, how do you that's just a like West Virginia guy, like
1:28:57
just play it. Good job. Yeah, that's all right, he says,
1:29:00
avoiding WinCE Vince Woolfork, juking Sean Taylor and trucking Brandon Merryweather on my
1:29:06
way to the end zone. Yep, that's yeah, pretty good. I
1:29:11
love the show. You've bet twenty five. Yeah, that's nice as your
1:29:18
head of the Vegas Yeah, yeah, that's you're probably just shut it down.
1:29:23
Come home, stake ja Yeah. Jason continues ps post travel update.
1:29:29
Well, I was getting off the plane. The guy sitting next to me
1:29:31
decided to finally ask, are you a WUVU guy? Seeing that I was
1:29:36
wearing a WVU fleece and a WVU shirt, I said, that'd really be
1:29:41
something that if I wasn't, wouldn't it? He said, Dude, I'm
1:29:44
a frog TCU person. To this day, hands down, the best tailgating
1:29:48
experience I've ever had was in Morgantown. I did shots of moonshine out of
1:29:53
a bowling ball and that was somehow the worst part. All I could say
1:29:58
to him was, well, yeah, we're professionals. Very good boy.
1:30:08
Hey three guys, the use of the word big, as in Big ten,
1:30:14
Big twelve and cardinal directions is a terrible naming scheme for leagues and conferences
1:30:19
today. How long until Brett your Mark shops the naming rights to the league
1:30:25
around Bucky's athletic conference, the Gomart Premier League, the trophy would be a
1:30:30
giant bronze, big goal just spitball in PS, it's very quaint that Hoppy
1:30:35
thought that the abbreviation of E ed MF was g rated. For his information,
1:30:41
the following would also be correct. WTF wait till Friday, LMFAO leave
1:30:48
my FreeDOS alone. ALI love the show. Pete and Pennsboro, I understand,
1:30:56
didn't I mean who will didn't write? Pete and Pennsboro is always good.
1:31:00
It like he'd be a p one Texter for quality and creative right.
1:31:04
I don't think Pizza's real name though, yeah, probably not Texter. Ron
1:31:09
Sifford is widely considered to be a French expression meaning no power, no problem.
1:31:15
Big Thanks to the Big Three for making it a glorious day to be
1:31:19
a mountaineer. PS. My lovely wife and I snuck out of town with
1:31:24
the last two four pails of Kirchivel. Go get them boys. That's our
1:31:29
guy, T Bone right there. T t Bone is just terrific, terrific.
1:31:33
Yeah. Absolutely had a fun, fun time talking with him and his
1:31:38
wife. They made all they made the trip down to Roanoak and uh,
1:31:42
it was great. It was great. It was fun. It's a good
1:31:45
day, man. That was really cool. Everybody wanted to be there.
1:31:47
Everybody was in a good mood. Yeah, really good U texter, gentleman
1:31:54
Logan from beautiful Greenborough County. Great pleasure to have you guys down here this
1:31:58
past weekend. Great talks with all all of you. Uh, not just
1:32:01
about WVU but life in general. Definitely a summer moment I'll never forget.
1:32:05
We hope to see you guys again. Thanks for everything you do. So
1:32:08
there's Logan. That's Logan there. Now you knew him. Are you met
1:32:11
him right, Brad? Yeah? Yeah, it talks extensively with Logan.
1:32:14
Yes, Logan came early, stayed, yea, he did, he was
1:32:19
he was committed. He put time in. Thank you, Logan, thank
1:32:21
you. He I mean he might be a football player because at times he
1:32:26
was applying press coverage. He was great, Yeah, getting right up in
1:32:29
there. Very involved in a local church there. Yeah, probably told you
1:32:32
about. He's also a system manager over there at the Auto zone. He
1:32:35
is, of course or is he dumb manager? Oh? The assistant assistant
1:32:39
working his way. He used to work delivery, he was in charge.
1:32:42
Now he's in charge system managers, in charge of the commercial account you know.
1:32:45
Also real quick, we had a chance to spend some time with the
1:32:47
fine folks at Briar Garden well well mentioned on this show, Ross Martin Meredith.
1:32:53
Yeah, wonderful Veil Broad over there. That wasn't nice. I was
1:32:59
kurch of there. So here's some good food Ross brought out. Let me
1:33:01
tell you. Let me tell you this one, folks, let me tell
1:33:03
you this is a good one. Field Brontware. I tell you, if
1:33:09
you're a regular, you know that Hoppy had some wandering issues in our first
1:33:14
two events. He just took off when we were in Morgantown twice, not
1:33:18
once, but twice, took off. Well, as you know, we
1:33:23
had him captured this weekend. Couldn't go anywhere because I drove your vehicle right,
1:33:29
So we do the event in the Sportsman's Tavern on Friday night and that
1:33:34
kind of okay, wraps up and I don't know what it was about ten
1:33:36
o'clock now, and our boy Kerchival says, we're going to the Briar Garden
1:33:43
and I looked at him, like, well, excuse me. I think
1:33:45
he said it twice. Yeah, go to Briar Garding. Go to the
1:33:48
Briar Garden. I went like, you're gonna go to the Briar Garden,
1:33:50
Like you're not. You're not like getting us right now. Hey, let's
1:33:54
get back to this place. I gotta go to bed. So we go
1:33:56
to the Briar Garden, which I love the vibe. I told Meredith,
1:34:01
I just love what they've done there, and it, um, it's fantastic.
1:34:08
So ross great restaurant tour bar operator. We get there and he pulls
1:34:14
the move that you have to do if you're the owner of an establishment.
1:34:18
You go up and he says, can I get you guys like you guys
1:34:23
gonna eat? You guys hungry? You guys hungry, and then he basically
1:34:27
says, let me take care. When the owner of the place says let
1:34:30
me take care of the order, you know here it comes because it was
1:34:33
great awareness because yes was the answer, which is always the answer, right,
1:34:38
And we kind of looked at each other for a minute, like what
1:34:40
do you want? And he goes. He immediately went hand up and said
1:34:43
I'll take care of it. I'll bring a little bit of everything. Yes,
1:34:45
yeah, exactly, perfectly perfect, you handle it, and he was
1:34:48
perfect. He didn't handle it. So he brings in and my man has
1:34:53
got this German sausage place in New York City that's been making sausages since nineteen
1:35:00
thirty has this has this stuff brought in on a big sausage airplane just lands
1:35:05
at Louisburg. Just a big sausage plane. Keeps it cold. But he
1:35:11
made he had he gave us several different things. But the veal, the
1:35:15
veal brought hey plus with the mustard dipping the mustard, little dip in the
1:35:18
mustard. Holy potato salad. Was that good? And then hop you had
1:35:24
you made friends there, like you were talking with some people from the live
1:35:27
Golf turned golf. There were two people there from Live Golf because the live
1:35:30
Golf tournaments is this week right from Minnesota. Of course she was that's right,
1:35:33
yeah, that's right. So speaking of food, so we crushed it.
1:35:36
We crushed it there. I might I might have hit it harder than
1:35:40
either one of you, which is shocking possible. We were in there pretty
1:35:44
good. Were you okay? But it was because there was a lot of
1:35:45
conversation because also at our table former w V assistant Paul Moran under Bobby,
1:35:51
so there was both Schembeckler, Woody Hayes Bobby Bowden's story. So you were
1:35:56
at times you were talking about when I'm diving in on that pretzel, shutting
1:36:00
that thing up. It was good, just was awesome, right talking to
1:36:03
people having a broad having a cold beer. I mean, it was really
1:36:06
so unusual for you to actually, you see it's for me to see you
1:36:11
enjoying something. It was really special for me. Normal Yeah, I don't
1:36:15
no. Normally your own work, all busy, all the time, you're
1:36:19
nervous putting lip putting that lip bomb on because you're nervous. What happened finally
1:36:25
to see a chill out. We did have fun. I had had fun.
1:36:29
Brad and I were standing looking at You're gonna look at her boy.
1:36:30
He's actually having fun. Look at her boy. Look at her boy.
1:36:33
Her boy's having fun. I got, you know, I got in kind
1:36:36
of a groove starting down Ronsfort. All right, where's the next place we're
1:36:43
going to? Like college again? It was anyway? So that was so
1:36:47
we pounded food hello, and then Dave was Dave took care of us all
1:36:56
to Sam Black Church rain now ro money, how many falls through about the
1:37:02
place we stayed beautiful, beautiful yes, Lewis burd Yes, thank you,
1:37:11
thank you, thank you very much. That was great. That that was
1:37:14
how we feel like we should travel. Whether we ever will again, I
1:37:20
don't know, but that's how it feels like it should be. Well,
1:37:24
that is how I do travel. You're the guy always looking for the next
1:37:28
motel six. That's the way, respect um. Also, so we crushed
1:37:33
the food there and then Braden from sixpence pizza, Oh my gosh. On
1:37:40
Saturday morning, so I ate at Briar Garden and all I had was coffee.
1:37:45
All I had was coffee the next morning and they put that little miry
1:37:50
maple syrup. We probably should talk about that as well. Alex brought that
1:37:54
up so I will document on the show. I get shamed for it all
1:37:57
the time. I need to have stuff in my cost roppy, right,
1:38:01
I'd like to wean off that, but haven't been able to yet. So
1:38:04
I went up to the mountain table stand Alex right there, pulled out some
1:38:09
of our coffee and was making me a cup. And then he will maple
1:38:12
syrup there. He said, Hey, try will maple syrup in here.
1:38:15
Now, didn't stir it, didn't stir it in. We'll treat at the
1:38:17
bottom when you get there. Yeah, that was good. That was really
1:38:20
good. This coffee mountain. Your morning doesn't have bitterness to begin with,
1:38:25
but if there is any hint of it, it just takes that down there.
1:38:28
And it's not like it's not like you're drinking cereal milk. I'm just
1:38:30
telling you, it's a perfect little thing. Next time you get black coffee,
1:38:33
whatever black coffee, and obviously you can buy ours at episode eight hundred
1:38:36
dot com. But just sprinkle a little bit of maple syrup, just a
1:38:40
drizzle of maple syrup, and don't do anything with it, and just play
1:38:43
with that a little bit. It'll make it. It'll make a special.
1:38:46
So anyway, so I don't eat anything. And now it's two o'clock the
1:38:50
next day. Last time I'd eaten was about ten thirty at night, So
1:38:55
now it's two o'clock. So my fast was like fourteen plus hours. My
1:38:59
boy Braden brings in well Groover, broad Groover, brought guy. Our guy
1:39:03
brought four pizzas over and my boy over here, Brad. I mean he's
1:39:09
having a he's having a conversation with officials. Were over there and my boy
1:39:14
Kirchill was sitting down. I said, Hoppy might have said like it might
1:39:19
be too much pizza there. I looked at him and said, like,
1:39:21
see, really there's too much pizza. I'll just tell you this. By
1:39:27
the time I was done, there was four empty boxes. Yeah, we
1:39:30
destroyed it. Well, you aren't the only one eating. How good was
1:39:32
it now? Did I awesome? Because I had had it before in April?
1:39:34
Did I overhype it little sausage pepperoni? Did I overhype it over?
1:39:39
Rust? Was perfect? It's really good. It's really good. So thanks
1:39:43
sixpence. You know what we need to do. This is what we need
1:39:45
to do. Do you think there's anyway when football season starts here we go.
1:39:51
Do you think there's any way you can come up with an idea here
1:39:54
on August we would put this in place. This is what this is what
1:40:00
happens could have had this. I know where he's gonna go. I know
1:40:01
exactly what he's thinking. Probably should have said this in April. He's gonna
1:40:04
say it in August. Here I'm thinking here watch us, because yesterday I
1:40:09
was walking Charles Barkley. If you look at fine looking fills. To the
1:40:13
left of fine looking fills on the University Evans Avenue site, there's a there's
1:40:16
a lot a cement a lot right, a big area. Yeah, you
1:40:23
go get my boy, you go get my boys. Sixpence. Have him
1:40:28
bring the pizza, have him bring the pizza wagon up. Okay, you
1:40:31
go to rolland stove the food truck. By the way, that truck was
1:40:34
designed in Charlotte sells these burgers. Why couldn't you on game day bring those
1:40:41
folks in there and set that thing up. We don't have to ask Phil,
1:40:44
why couldn't you set that stuff up in there? And then when folks
1:40:46
come to him out near games, they can go to the three I'm gonna
1:40:49
call it the Three Guys food court, and they can they can have it.
1:40:55
Idea, they can have a taste of what everyone because not everyone's gonna
1:40:59
get down to Greenboro. Apparently we can bring them up here and football Saturdays
1:41:03
they go over there. Food area set up on University Avenue. We're fine,
1:41:08
you know where I'm talking about. That's that's actually, of course,
1:41:11
it's a good idea. It's actually a good idea. A lot of times
1:41:13
you come up with stuff that may say you can't exit. That's not bad.
1:41:15
That's really good. Now we would just have a pizza, those sandwiches,
1:41:17
a little kerchivl Yeah. The guy that owns Rolling Kick maybe get the
1:41:20
coffee in there. That's good. That's a guy. That's a good idea.
1:41:24
A guy that owns the Rolling Stove food truck. His daughter lives.
1:41:29
His daughter lives in Morgantown. She like he could just drive the truck up
1:41:32
when he comes up for the games. I don't know if he's got pepps.
1:41:35
It's a convenient thing. But right, it's not a bad idea.
1:41:40
Well, thank you, that's not a bad idea. Four hundred and seventy
1:41:42
five episode you finally give me. I got a good idea. I gotta
1:41:45
get moving. Here's the basically all there is a challenge with it. So
1:41:48
what well, because they make those pizzas from scratch, Yeah, and so
1:41:55
you put in your order and it was about fifteen or twenty minutes, which
1:41:57
is fine. You know, waiting for good food can mean can the mountain
1:42:00
your fans are walking to the game, can they stop and say, I'll
1:42:01
want to get with these delicious pizzas. Okay, it's going to be twenty
1:42:04
here's what you do. Here's what here's the picnic tables or something. No
1:42:08
pre order, pre order, or just go right into pills then and buy
1:42:12
you a couple of shirts while you're waiting, look around, then come back
1:42:15
out your pizza. That would work, all right, that'll work too,
1:42:17
All right, that'll work right. You guess at what do we have this
1:42:19
promotion? Now? Who do we have to ask to see if we could
1:42:21
make this a lot happen. Well, here's where things always fall down.
1:42:25
Now, the execution of the idea is give give it to grooverer, Give
1:42:30
it to groover, then it'll get done. He doesn't have a home.
1:42:34
I think he did. I mean he has a home. Well, it
1:42:38
wasn't really firmly established, asking I asked him. I thought he established it
1:42:42
quite well. And you're still sitting there like you're looking at a ghost for
1:42:45
like, no, I asked, I asked Dave Gruber, I said,
1:42:48
where do you live? And that that started like a twenty minute long and
1:42:56
we never did get an exact answer. Have Jack clipped that audio and send
1:42:59
it today? That's that's Heave listens. That's a good idea by you.
1:43:02
Stunned by that. I knew there was food coming, I didn't know.
1:43:06
Is that? I mean he thought about that? Old Dave's already You know
1:43:09
what else we talked about down there at Greenboro County? Hey, yuh?
1:43:13
Anyone bring up the moth Man down there in Greenboro County? Nope, Nope,
1:43:18
yes they do. I had no Mothman conversations. I don't know what
1:43:21
you're talking about, Texter. One person did it was? But Texter,
1:43:28
Nate and mount Airy Meryl or any of it. Mount Airy Maryland. Isn't
1:43:31
that the Joe Alexander mount Airy Maryland. But to believe that's outside of Frederick,
1:43:36
I believe, No, that's down on you're thinking, I don't think
1:43:41
North Carolina, North Carolina. You think in North Carolina Maryland version, everyone's
1:43:45
got a mount Airy. No. When I was here, in my mind,
1:43:48
Texter, longtime listener, first time Texter, I made a visit to
1:43:55
the land of confectionary goodness in Hershey with my family this weekend. We were
1:44:00
perusing Chocolate World when suddenly I stumbled upon the motherload of Rese's. They had
1:44:06
all kinds, regular and crungy, even some kind of plant based version.
1:44:14
I couldn't help but think every time I turned a corner that Brad would be
1:44:17
there, lurking, trying to stuff his pockets, akin to Dana in a
1:44:21
Red Bull store. However, the fine folks at Hershey must have decided that
1:44:27
selling Resea's shapes out of season was blasphemous. No eggs, no trees,
1:44:32
nothing. Surely one of you clowns knows someone up there to effort in to
1:44:36
get this travesty corrected. I mean, it's the horse's mouth of Reseas,
1:44:41
and they got no shapes to get shapes in there, surprising Hershey's probably knows
1:44:45
what they're doing well. They said that if they don't have shapes, natest
1:44:51
As the reces man one says, you gotta get busy living or get busy
1:44:56
die tremendous reshow in those gentlemen, Peanut Butter Chocolate. Thank you all so
1:45:00
much for the wonderful event at the Sportsman Tavern and Ron Sifford Saturday. My
1:45:03
friend Barbe and I enjoyed the atmosphere and we appreciate each of you taking time
1:45:08
to talk to us. The food and the coffee from sixpence Pizza, Greenbrier
1:45:13
Dairy Mountain Table is the top notch. I plan on coming back to the
1:45:16
area in the near future and spend a full weekend exploring the area. Idea
1:45:19
for a future And this is on the Stern Wheeler. During the regad we
1:45:23
tried to do the Stern wheeler. I wanted to do the Stern wheeler.
1:45:28
I wanted to go up and down the river on the Stern wheeler. What
1:45:30
happened? They said that you can't go up and down the river on a
1:45:33
Stern wheeler. The Stern wheeler has got to be parked. Oh really yeah,
1:45:38
And then so then we got into talking do we bring to Pa Denny
1:45:41
from pent from Pittsburgh down there and go up and down the river. Because
1:45:44
Pa Denny got no problem going up and down any river, just go up
1:45:46
and down the river. So that's why the Stern wheeler thing didn't happen,
1:45:49
because we want a big ass Stern wheeler with like one hundred and twenty people
1:45:54
on it going up and down the water. Why would you want to be
1:45:57
in a boat and just sit We want to go up and down the water.
1:46:00
Is that too hard? Apparently? Apparently it seems to be the verdict
1:46:05
beat. So we're open up two guys in a rowboat in a canoe.
1:46:13
So that's why that then didn't happen. If we do something in Charleston,
1:46:17
we're supposed to go back to Greenboro County. Yeah, we're wants to come
1:46:21
on. I was a blast. That was that textureim? He didn't read
1:46:25
who that was from? P one Jennings, he is the only person listen
1:46:30
to this. That was our third event and he's been to all four of
1:46:35
them. Let me say that again. That was That was our third event
1:46:42
and he's been to all four of them. That's a riddle because like a
1:46:45
hundred years ago, Brad and I on a Saturday morning before a Mountaineer game
1:46:51
said hey, test case. Just for the heck of it, We're going
1:46:55
to hang out at Phills on Saturday morning before the game. And Jennings came
1:47:01
and he was there. That's also how we got involved with Sproul. Correct
1:47:06
Mark Sproul and time producer, this profect time producer. And that's so that
1:47:11
was like there was like a nine people during the course of an hour or
1:47:15
two showed up, maybe more, and Jennings was one of them. Jennings
1:47:18
is like the fifth Beatle, you know, I mean, oh yeah,
1:47:20
he's definitely Pete Best. Awesome, thanks Jennings. Plus he had one of
1:47:25
those nice efforting shirts on from episode eight hundred dot com. I did not
1:47:28
stitched. I did not know that the efforting T shirt. The efforting is
1:47:31
stitched. It's not like silk screened on there, not like yeah, did
1:47:34
you see that it was stitched on there? It was stitched on, Like,
1:47:38
uh, what do they call that? Tackle twill? Oh wait a
1:47:46
minute, I'm still getting him Texter, Wait a minute. This is who's
1:47:51
this from? It says, uh from Jack? What's he got? The
1:47:58
longest Three Guys episode ever, by my quick perusal, one hour forty eight
1:48:01
minutes. Currently were one hour forty seven minutes two minutes. Hold your water,
1:48:05
here's another one. Hello. I met Brad at Daniels a few weeks
1:48:11
ago while I was picking up my suit from my daughter's wedding. The suit
1:48:15
was fit perfectly due to travel logistics. The groomsmen were unable to get their
1:48:20
tuxes from Daniels. As you can see by the photo to the groom's father's
1:48:26
tucks didn't quite fit. The jacket was as bad as the pants. After
1:48:30
an emergency trip to Daniels, he was as good as new. I just
1:48:34
wanted to give a shout out to Daniels and fine looking Phil for saving the
1:48:40
day. Signed by Tom in New martins Vision. So, I mean,
1:48:44
that's what so, so you see what happened? Do you see what happened?
1:48:49
They went and got their tuxes someplace else, and they get back and
1:48:54
my man is wearing crabbers, he's wearing those those capris that we were talking
1:48:58
about with Garrett earlier, and so he runs over the Phils and Phil's guy.
1:49:03
Would that be Harry could have been? Harry could have been here.
1:49:08
I mean multiple tailors, He's got World International tailors. They fixed him.
1:49:12
He said, PS, we need to effort getting Kerchival to baristas in New
1:49:19
Martinsville. That's a great story about Phils. Two kinds of people in the
1:49:25
world. People want to help you and people don't want to help you.
1:49:28
Who wants to help you? Phil, Tom walked in the store one day.
1:49:30
Yeah, and I'm over there folding shirts. I was on the left
1:49:33
side of the stores you walk in, folding stacks, making sure they were
1:49:36
nice and eat He looks over. I could tell someone looks. I look
1:49:40
over at him, and he's laughing and true and to god, he said,
1:49:43
you really do work here. I thought you guys were just joking around
1:49:45
when you said that you're there. Of course you help somebody. I'm shifting,
1:49:49
like, what do you need? We'll help you out. Sure.
1:49:51
Last text, last text of the longest three guys ever, from what we're
1:49:56
being told, does Jack have somewhere to go? I mean, he's got
1:50:01
to be back to school in three weeks. It's gonna be late. This
1:50:04
one keeps going scopes, spreads and hoppy. Soon I will draft my fantasy
1:50:09
football squad for the season. I was thinking of the naming the team the
1:50:14
fly Rods Slim Gyms out of respect for the show. Well, thank you.
1:50:16
I was wondering if you guys had any better suggestions for clever names.
1:50:20
Also, do any of you play fantasy football or have a yearly league that
1:50:25
you participate in. Thanks? Jeremiah in Stonewoodwoods, Flower I think that slim
1:50:30
Jim's a great name. I do not. I do not participate. Three
1:50:33
clowns would be another one. Yeah, yeah, I played daily. Excuse
1:50:39
me, I played daily. I can't. I can't do the season long
1:50:43
because I wouldn't be able to show up on our Saturday broadcast because I'd be
1:50:45
too invested in my tight end off waivers that week and wouldn't miss all our
1:50:48
stuff. But daily on Sundays, where you just get up, you pick
1:50:51
your team on Sunday, really, and you go to work and you reset
1:50:55
it the next Sunday. Innocent. Yeah, Okay, it's less overall commitment,
1:50:58
easier to do on a week by weeks. Some weeks, I mean
1:51:00
where that Wednesday I gotta trade somebody I gotta get. Yeah, so I
1:51:03
played daily fantasy. Okay, I don't. I don't have time. I
1:51:08
mean, once football starts, I don't even know where I am. So
1:51:12
I know I don't do that, But that would be good. I mean,
1:51:14
I know, you know, you learn all the players that way keep
1:51:15
something. I'm keeping a little money, and I'm about player about making a
1:51:18
little money. I get it. I'm trying to win money. Each understand
1:51:21
what he's thought I'm naming player. Yeah, take a little cash on that
1:51:25
out of draft game, thank you. Um so just playing for fun,
1:51:30
fun, I'm making money. So this is uh the end of the Uh,
1:51:35
this is the end of the show. We are so are you.
1:51:39
We have to go. But um so, this is the last day at
1:51:41
July. So camp starts Wednesday. They're gonna they're gonna meet tomorrow. Wednesday,
1:51:47
they're on the field. Neil's doing his first press or Thursday. So
1:51:56
we're gonna shortly start doing two a week. Shortly start doing two a week.
1:52:01
They won't go this long, but we'll shortly start doing two a week.
1:52:04
I don't know if it's this week or next week. I have to
1:52:08
figure it out, okay, um apparel, coffee and a big bag of
1:52:15
skittles available on our website at eight episode eight hundred dot com. That's episode
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like hoppy like skittles might not be there just yet. They're trying to definitely
1:52:24
coffee in gear. We got gear. We got gear, all over the
1:52:27
stuff we got we got all kind of gear. Coffee again. Um tis
1:52:30
the season and we will effort to u Kircheville, by the way, is
1:52:35
out. New batch was just done right all over the Chestnut brewerks popped a
1:52:40
new batch. It's all over the state now again. So if you've been
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searching for Kircheville, let us know. But it's it should be. It
1:52:46
should have been distributed post taste special. Thanks to Garrett Green for coming in.
1:52:54
He was presented by Daniel's Men's Store of Morgantown. Stop by and see
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fine looking Phil. Wellus. I'm gonna ask Phil if we can use that
1:53:00
parking lot on game day, bringing a food truck and things like that.
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It'd be awesome. Twenty wants all is closed to smell like pizza. How
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there's worse smells that pizza. It was good. It was good pizza.
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1:54:40
how long is this bad boy? He's pretty close our fifty four.
1:54:45
Well, Garrett was really good, he was and we hadn't done text in
1:54:47
a long time. They won't be this long going forward, But how's it
1:54:51
next time? We're just gonna do a telephone for Garrett. Senator Hoppy,
1:54:58
our producer jumping je Carlson. Maybe he told us it's the longest show ever
1:55:01
because he's got to go to the bathroom. He's been sitting back over there.
1:55:04
We're out, be good Seal