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3 Guys Before The Game - Spring Football Recap (Episode 460) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hey, welcome in, everybody. It's time for your favorite, my favorite,
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  We had to Coloradeo football team. All the sense get cut. I just
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  by I forgot. I'll send this picture to Taylor while we're talking here.
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  I made the stop at Gomart coming back off the road more the famous Flatwoods
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  one. Yeah, right, great, Yeah, that was great Gomart going
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  down or coming back coming back? Yeah, coming back was a good stop
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  and it was a good stop. Made it too. Made it from Charleston
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  to Flatwoods, clocked in at forty seven minutes twenty eight seconds s and Charleston
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  to Flatlets forty seven fast. Excuse me, probably slow down too fast.
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  You need to get home. I understand that, but that's too fast.
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  You had to be okay to get I made that drive many many times from
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  Charleston to Flatwoods and forty seven minutes. You were going ninety. Nah,
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  that's a little bit extreme. You were going too fast. You were going
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  I mean we're going above eighty five. Hundreds of times you were going too
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  fast. Here's the deal. I was drafting, got a car in front
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  of me. I was actually going sixty two. It was pulling me.
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  No, you were going eighty five. Three guys brought to us check the
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  mileage by go Mark, go for good time gems when you got there.
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  Don't you worry though that? I mean when you when I make that drive,
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  I worry about deer. Yeah, you know, it really makes you
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  worry about the deer. When you're ripping up the road here and you look
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  to the right side and you see them there, you see their heads like
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  underneath them the ditch. There. You go like, did you buy a
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  reci ech? What did I get it? Going? Mark? Coffee?
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  Stupid? Would you get like a frozen burritowner? I got a big bag
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  M and M PEU got a big bag of pen and M and m's and
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  I'm eating those. And by the time you get up to like a big
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  bag like with the ziplock part of it. No, it wasn't zip lock,
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  but I'm eating them. And it's like, now, what time is
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  it? Now? Ten something? Ten thirty? I'm going like, this
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  is a beautiful dude, isn't like really good? You need these right now?
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  You're really this is a smart, smart move. On that point,
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  you'd relinguished control of the Mark Rose FOURD right, that's correct. Yeah,
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  somebody else was a driver at that point I pulled over. I pulled over
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  a driver. Michael for Gale had taken the wheel, first time he had
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  ever driven a pickup truck in his life. Excuse me, first time West
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  Virginian heah born in Bread. How could he Taylor County? Taylor County scale
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  one to tend his nervous level when he took the wheel, he was more
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  nervous talking about driving it on the way down. When he jumped in,
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  it was like a beautiful glove onto a ham. He took off because he
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  had threatened to go about fifty five sixty. Yeah, on the way.
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  I bullied him, made him go ninety. Well, he was cooking along.
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  They were pretty good, like seventy five, like instantaneously off that ramp
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  and I said like, see this is good. He goes this is smooth.
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  I said, yeah, it's smooth. Mark Rose four. They not
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  play him. Did he go ten and two on the wheel or did he
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  one hand the thing? No? No, he ten two, ten and
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  two. He was sport. He kept his sport code down because we were
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  coming from the weird Yeah, it was really weird. He always take sport
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  cut off for a long drive, right, And so we were at the
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  we were at the Charleston Scholarship dinner, so everyone was all dressed, called
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  fancy. So he did he kept I don't know why did he keep Why
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  did he keep his coat on? The heater in there? And so by
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  the time I get over to the passenger side and now he's got a blazer
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  on, it looks like he's a chauffeur. Do you ever think about that?
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  That's a good point. Well, if you were sitting in the back,
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  maybe the most important question did he look like Hunter did? When Hunter
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  drove the car? I tried so bad to get the angle on that picture,
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  because that's the ramp coming up that ramp. I was like working it.
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  I'm working it and working it and working it to try to get that
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  angle, and had could not get that head's space. Hunter's head is huge.
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  That's what the thing is. I don't know that. That's the reason
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  why stuff like that. I'm sitting there trying. I'm going low like I'm
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  down on the seat, trying to get that angle to make it look like
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  for gals like on top of the steering well, I couldn't get it.
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  That's got to be I don't think that was your truck. There's Hunter.
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  See what gets me on that. I'm not as focused on Greg's head.
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  It's that the steering wheel in the knee looked like they're on the floorboards there.
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  It's incredible, incredible. So for Gail didn't look like that. No,
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  I'll send it over. It looks like a like a pilot he does.
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  That's one of the all time great pictures. All right, Taylor,
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  I sent you for Gail's picture. You can you can put that up there
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  in a little bit. And Uh, this is really gonna infuriate Michael because
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  the last thing he wants is he hates publicity to begin with, so he's
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  gonna drive off the road when he Yeah, yeah, Taylor just guffawed.
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  Taylor just gaffied across the other way when he saw the picture. So well,
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  that's a good thing. This is a bonus episode today. We weren't
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  originally scheduled to have this because we're completely off the road, off the rail
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  early. I haven't even finished the three Guys this episodes, So if this
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  one's terrible, but it's bonus. Yeah. It's one in the once a
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  year Now summer series. This is the second one this week. Normally spring
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  game we're supposed to go one a week, but we said no, we
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  love these people too much. Yeah, we gotta go too a week.
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  There's spring game stuff to talk about. West Virginia's gobbled up every transfer in
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  the basketball portal. I mean, wait to say, what did you just
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  say? I said you gotta go two a week. You didn't say you
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  gotta go, You said we gotta goday two weeks? Do you have a
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  mouse in your pocket? Well, I'm not gonna be around for a while.
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  How long? Two weeks? Huh? Two weeks after today? You're
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  leaving for two weeks, two weeks going out out. Yeah, and this
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  is how the Beatles broke up. I'm gonna spend some time with Yoko.
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  I'll be back. I'll be back in a couple of guys. But we
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  wanted but we wanted to make some all music. So there's for Gale there
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  and I did the best I could to try to get But he looks like
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  a normal human. He looks like he's driving a hearse right, And do
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  you have a ring light on him? Like? Is there a ring light?
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  Sees it look like that lash. I think it may have had some
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  form of a flash device on there. I'll tell you what though. He
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  is ten and two. He is ten and two on the hands. Yeah,
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  when you drive to Marcolo Rose f one fifty, you don't play around.
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  You're driving straight right, So he got his tile on two, don't
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  he? Yeah, I don't know. I kind of dozed off, maybe
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  the last time. Well, Monday was a unique show because we had a
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  special guest in Mike Florio, and I didn't want to do what we normally
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  do when we have a guest and then we go do the textual healing and
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  that is hey, thanks so much for being with us, walk off the
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  set and we're going to go to text healing. I have too much respect
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  for Florio to do that, so we didn't do any textual healing on Monday
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  show. We will do textual healing like a lot of it coming up here
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  in this show. Also, we haven't had conversation yet about our live event
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  from last Friday, which was our second live event. Weather was just perfect,
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  perfect, just wonderful. And there you go. There are some of
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  the for those of you that are watching, whether it be on the Metro
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  News channel or on the YouTube channel. Um, there's there. It is
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  some of the shots from our event. And it was super fun. That
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  is a really good that's our Hall of Fame room here at the studio.
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  That's a senator. He was having he was having some fun. And um,
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  then what we do is, yeah, there's that lady. Let's to
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  hold that one for a second, Taylor. That gentleman with the microphone,
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  Oh, thank you. The gentleman with the microphone. That is Charlie from
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  mid Lothian. And so that's the guy that runs that Kroger gas scam that
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  now incorporates. Now he's got like a whole tribe of people. Harsh pushes
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  the window on the Kroger, pushes the envelope on the Kroga heat. So
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  he explained how he did it. That's what he was explaining. I's got
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  three family members they pull in. Um, it's it's pretty amazing. Wait
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  till the musical genius in that shot too. Yeah, yeah, there is
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  that sob man. Yeah. Okay, Now, folks behind Charlie with the
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  blue shirt and glasses on, that is Gerald Gerald is a native of Mullins.
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  There's Gerald again, There's there's there. I was conversation. I was
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  conversating with Gerald right there, and he was that's the Pall Mountain goat guy,
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  Hoppy. Yeah, that's that's the that's the guy that figured out that
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  the pal Mountain coming up on one nineteen. If you see it, West
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  Virginia will cover in football. If you don't see it, the Mountaineers won't
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  cover. He confirmed, that's one hundred percent percent. He confirmed it to
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  you right standing right here in the studio here. He did real thing.
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  So that that was me. That food was so freaking good. Oh,
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  my sweet mercy, was it? Oh look Hoppy having a little brisket,
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  I mean Hoppy wood perch avail. That's a nice shot. I did.
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  I ate only brisket. I had no sides. You didn't have any of
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  the pulled pork. No, you just went only brisket. Mac and cheese
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  was great. No, the pulled pork was really good. Because I love
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  brisket. I was coming off a bad brisket experience and I had one helping
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  a brisket, nothing else. And I had had some stomach issues and I'm
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  not gonna get into but I had helping a brisket and it was so good.
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  I had a second helping of only of only brisket, and I told
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  Kane that, Kevin Kane, I said, best brisket once again I've ever
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  had. And you're a Texas you know we've had Look, we've all had
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  barbecue a lot of different places. Right, Yeah, I mean, and
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  I say this with all sincerity. It was the best briscut I've ever had
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  again, and I got a Texas week Tony. You might want to think
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  about expanding our beer business because it was where can I get the brisket?
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  Yeah, well we'll go into that. I'll give you credit. Excuse me,
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  I'll give you credit. There are times when you have a tendency to
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  exaggerate. You did not on this. You said two things. You said
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  the food will be a plus, which I didn't doubt you there because I
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  had had Kevin's food. I knew you were right, and you said there
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  would be a ton of it. You were concerned about his promise of the
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  quantity, right that Pete. Basically it wasn't all you can eat buffet,
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  right, That's what he was saying, And you were you had some reservations
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  about that. It wasn't all you can eat buffet. Question we had when
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  I went through the look and cheese, look at it killing it. That's
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  Jason, one of the famous Lawnmore guys. Battery. So we're eating mac
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  and cheese. Was excellent. So that mac and cheese. I got to
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  the end of the assembly line and my plate was totally covered, right,
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  I had to have some mac and cheese. Didn't have a second plate.
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  Put it right on top. Put it right on top, like it was
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  whip cream on a Sunday. I'll just put it right on top. It
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  was really good. Food was great. We had a great time. Food
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  was everything was great. The weather was absolutely perfect, the location, the
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  food, the beer, the whole deal. It was really good. Now
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  the question is, unfortunately we did not time stamp these still photos, and
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  we don't know if that photo was taken of Hoppy at four thirty pm,
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  five thirty pm. Six Let me help you. There definitely wasn't six o'clock.
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  There was only there There's only a seventy five minute window that it could
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  be. Excuse me, there's only a seventy five minute window in which Kergival
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  was available. To be photographed. What happened from when we got there after
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  the live event here, walked across the street, got their little after four,
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  right a little after four, he was out before sports Line began that
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  evening at six o clock. First report came to me, there's Hoppy standing
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  by me. This is why I was so surprised. First report to me
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  came in at five fifty one that he had left the premises m and then
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  multiple other reports following at fifty three, fifty five, and fifty seven,
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  which is when the race was finally called. All precincts reporting at fifty seven
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  felt comfortable going with the news that Kerchival had left the building. It did
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  spread like wildfire, like people were running up like he's gone, He's gone.
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  He left what I during our thing? Like I yelled at the first
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  person, I said, there is no way he left. He sat on
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  that stage. We talked about it on the air and off. He said
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  he would be here for a while tonight. Heat on the during the live
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  event, I went over seven forty one PM for you. That's how sure
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  I was. I made the statement, the food's going to be the best
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  you've ever eaten, and he'll be here till after seven forty one, and
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  my guy left at five five one Eastern thoughts. So I really enjoyed the
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  day, and I enjoyed the you know where we asked questions and answer questions
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  and you know, meeting everybody. And then we got over there and sun
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  was out and the beer was flowing, and I crushed like three beers.
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  Yeah, went down easy. Yeah, and the first and you were having
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  the aforementioned stomach issues. I had some stomach issues. Won't go into detail,
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  but I had not no excuse. I had not felt great all week.
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  But you know, I'm trooper. I'm in and you're playing again.
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  I'm playing. I'm playing. You were hurt not injured, right, so
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  I'm playing. Okay, So I had like killed the first one, kind
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  of sipped the second one, eight had the third one, and it was
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  hot and we were standing out there and I had some nice visits. I
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  sat down. I made a point of not just like sitting down for five
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  so I could sit and talk to somebody for fifteen minutes to get you were
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  very interactive while you were there. Good visits. So I'm talking to you
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  right, we're standing up, enjoying stand up enjoying his debut as an Auctioneer's
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  right. I think that's when I was arching. We look, we were
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  enjoying it. I mean you were killing it as an auctioneer. We will
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  did You did do a nice job as a auctioneer. But I'm having my
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  I have the chance to be an elite level auctioneer. Elite. I'm not
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  sure a chance to be an elite level. I'm I'm not gonna go elite
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  because I don't know much about it. But I mean, you did a
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  good job with the It was a good debut. You get some things to
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  work on it. It was a good debut. Go ahead. So I'm
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  standing here, I'm drinking my third beer. I'm talking the bread and Tony,
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  you're up there and you're droning on and on like you know, just
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  like like I gotta go home. So I did you text Karen while you
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  were standing there against the fence with me? That was a pretest. I
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  was a text that was beforehand, and I was finishing my beer. It
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  would take her twenty minutes to get there. So I was finishing my beer
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  talking to you. Tony's going on and on. I said out, didn't
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  you ever look when you were in college, seriously in college, and we
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  all went to parties and Cheff and dractor. Weren't you ever at a party
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  at whatever time and you're you're you're holding a beer. God knows how many
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  beers you've had, and you go, why do I have this beer?
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  Why do I have this beer? Why am I drinking this beer? Why
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  am I still standing here? Yeah? I'm going home? Yes, been
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  there there. It would usually be at about two forty five. A.
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  Yeah, I don't. I know, I know, and I did.
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  I felt kind of bad about but I just sure, okay, right after
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  I apologize, I apologize if there are folks I didn't get to talk to,
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  but I did have some good visits. And it was selfish of me.
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  I acknowledge it was selfish. Now it helped the brand. Yea,
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  it helped the brand that you are an absolute whack job. Well, I
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  think that's a little harsh. No, I think, I know, I
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  think, I think. I think it further underscores that here's the thing that
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  I came away with. Here's what I came away with. I mean,
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  if you do heavy, if we do do the this is the best I
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  told you this earlier today or this week. If we ever do do one
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  on a stern wheeler or on a boat, are you going to escape?
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  You're gonna have to pull a Houdini or a David Bland with a life jacket.
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  Have somebody. He'll already arrange that. Somebody will be battling up alongside
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  jumps in one of those dudes of the Somali pirates. They'll come up on
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  the side with a with a little raft with a motor bore. Here for
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  Kirchival. Everybody don't move, We're here for Kirchival. Nobody gets hurt.
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  Kirchival walks out. I'm the captain now. That's for those who've seen Captain
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  Phillips. Hey, Tony, Tony, seriously, you did. It was
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  a well organized event, nicely done. I mean I think everybody enjoyed themselves.
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  It was really well done. I have very little to do with it,
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  to be quite honest with you. So just Dave Gruver, our guy,
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  Dave the brain, the brains, Kelly Aersman upstairs, our administrative assistant
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  for George Pelletier. She gets everything perfectly set out there, um and just
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  everyone the folks at Chestnut Brew Werks, Bill was great, he explained,
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  Yeah, how long one can keep kirchivel before it starts to lose it's buzz
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  there. It is beautiful cans designed by Natasha WBC hop that worked with our
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  brand to help us with things. They were on end. They were tremendous.
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  It's fun and a great group of attendees for the second I mean we're
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  two for two groups of attendees. They were awesome. I loved them.
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  Great questions at the event. Yeah, it was really good. So we'll
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  do another one of those. Don't know when, but we'll do one outside
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  either outside of Morgantown. I love that, by the way, And you
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  know you wouldn't think because it's I mean it's right downtown. That is that
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  Corey Chambers and Tim Bowling there, look like go back to that. Oh
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  yeah, there's some heavy hitters right there, Corey Chambers and Tim Bowling.
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  I mean, my goodnes us nice to have those guys there. It's a
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  fun event. So thanks to everybody that can. Yeah, we'll do another
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  one at some point if three of the guys can come together at least for
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  a night. But we'll have fun. Oh Bill, you know there's Bill.
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  Bill's explaining the whole whole deal on bears. This is good. There's
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  Reverend Reverend Kevin Kane, Rev. keV. He's the guy that cooked all
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  the food and we we don't all he does with hooks he does. We
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  uh. We donated over to thousand dollars. Because of the generous nature of
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  these folks. We um sold one of our bourbon barrels auctioned it off.
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  We got eleven hundred dollars for the burn. No, man, that thing
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  was going did stay through that. As I said, I am a high
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  I don't do I don't do like saucer cups hoppy. I do high level
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  stuff. I mean than a thousands, probably the lowest level that all go
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  Kerchival helped with that bidding. By the way, well may have been a
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  little bit. Man. Man, your auction ring skills were pretty strong.
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  Yeah, they were for the debut. I'll be working this weekend down a
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  Greenbrier. I got an event Saturday, do you really Yeah? Yeah,
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  I'm doing the Cancer Gale. I do eight eight live auction items. I
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  was just gonna say they're more items. Yeah, all right, yeah,
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  let me tea. We need to have a glass of water with you.
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  Keep, there's there's there's gonna be eight items. So you know what else
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  makes it really good? A lot of money in the room. Yeah,
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  a lot of money in the room. Yeah. So anyway, great event,
• 21:26
  well done. Okay, so now let's jump into some sport related stuff
• 21:30
  before we do textual healing. Spring football is now completed. West Virginia in
• 21:37
  a thriller that came down to the last kick of the game. Fifty three
• 21:41
  fifty one was the final. If West Virginia had missed the field goal,
• 21:45
  they would have lost three points and that would have been a fifty one fifty
• 21:48
  defensive final. But Danny King was Danny King at the end, right that
• 21:55
  stepped was Danny King stepped up and he banged it easily. Yeah, he
• 22:00
  and they win. So anyway, no injuries, huge and one penalty the
• 22:06
  entire game. That's also very important. Other than that. El Senatore,
• 22:12
  Yeah, you were there, had some you had some people around you there,
• 22:17
  you were watching the game. Takeaway. Yeah, when we get done
• 22:21
  to it. Met some nice listeners at the game too. We'll talk about
• 22:23
  here in a minute. So a couple takeaways. I'm gonna just go down
• 22:26
  the list and then we can dissect each one quarterbacks. First thought Garrett Green
• 22:30
  looked really good. Thought it was excellent, ran the offense well, had
• 22:33
  a couple of scramble plays, which you expected, but I thought he threw
• 22:36
  it tremendously well, had great command of the offense. So I thought Garrett
• 22:40
  Green really looked excellent in that game right there. Looked to me to be
• 22:44
  the best of the two quarterbacks on that particular day. I know there's a
• 22:48
  lot to go. C J. Donaldson played more Tony maybe than I thought
• 22:52
  he was going to do, and took some contact. I mean he was
• 22:55
  running right up in the middle of line with full contact. Illustrates again Hoppy
• 22:57
  we already know this, but straights again having a big back like that,
• 23:02
  I mean, when he just gets up in there, it is hard to
• 23:03
  keep him for less than three yards there he was, So that was impressive
• 23:07
  and good to see him back in Cole Taylor tight end LSU transfer again,
• 23:12
  stuff we had talked about, but then you actually see it. Passed catching
• 23:15
  tight end six seven, big target. He had a great nearly one handed
• 23:19
  catch, caught another ball. He looks like he could be a real weapon
• 23:22
  in the passing game. So I think you're gonna see the tight end quite
• 23:26
  a bit. Tony. You mentioned the kickers. You mentioned Danny King,
• 23:27
  he was really good. Hayes the transfer from Georgia State. Before that kick
• 23:32
  to end the scrimmage there end the game, they had a little competition.
• 23:36
  I think it was between the third and the fourth. They put the ball
• 23:38
  spotted at the thirty one. That the hold at the thirty one, So
• 23:41
  a forty one yard field goal hop both kickers banged it through easily, would
• 23:45
  have been good from fifty. In fact, I was kind of hoping they'd
• 23:48
  back him up to fifty to see the leg. But both of them really
• 23:51
  good. Again, small sample size, but they looked good defensive backwise.
• 23:55
  This was one play, but made me optimistic here for some of these guys.
• 24:02
  One of the defensive backs we've talked a lot about, Montrey Miller,
• 24:04
  the transfer from Kent State. Has to be a guy that isn't just plugged
• 24:08
  in and plays twelve or thirteen games. He's got to be really good,
• 24:11
  right. They need some defensive backs to step forth. There was a play
• 24:15
  second half, I believe receiver down the left sideline press box side that had
• 24:21
  gotten loose on a fly pattern last year. That was one of those where
• 24:23
  we saw that a lot, and there was a ten or fifteen yard gap
• 24:26
  at times between the defensive back and the receiver. This time ball goes up
• 24:30
  in the air, receiver had the defensive backbeat Miller all of a sudden closes
• 24:34
  and closed hard, gets his hands up, knocks the ball away one play.
• 24:38
  I get it, but that was an encouraging sign from him in particular.
• 24:42
  So not a ton of overarching, huge themes coming out of there,
• 24:45
  but those are five or six things that I liked that stood out on Saturday.
• 24:49
  In addition, after the game day or so after the announcement that West
• 24:56
  Virginia has added another receiver from Baylor. Jalen Ellis comes to WV from Baylor
• 25:03
  at one time, extremely highly recruited, four stars out of high school,
• 25:07
  sixty three, one hundred and eighty four pounds, great speed guy where they
• 25:11
  have him ten four in one hundred, Yeah ten four yeah, ten four
• 25:17
  in thee hundred. Has not caught a whole lot of games or a whole
• 25:19
  lot of balls. He's appeared in thirteen games at Baylor, caught five passes
• 25:25
  for one hundred and forty one yards, and he also had a touchdown high
• 25:30
  school. He was a USA US Army All American selection, which obviously means
• 25:36
  that he was extremely highly sought after. The three other schools in Auburn,
• 25:41
  Utah, and Texas A and M all seeking his services. So West Virginia
• 25:45
  obviously looking for someone to force teams to defend deep field and so he's a
• 25:52
  guy with wheels that could get down the field and get people out of the
• 25:57
  box. If West Virginia is going to be a run dominated team, can
• 26:00
  you create a threat with verticals that will force safeties to play back in coverage
• 26:07
  and get them out of the box. If in fact, West Virginia is
• 26:10
  going to be a heavy run dominated team, which we expect obviously them to
• 26:14
  be, that's an intriguing prospect because clearly a position of need we've talked about
• 26:17
  there, the receiver positions wide open in terms of returning production. You need
• 26:21
  some guys. He mentions his high school credentials. I believe he's a four
• 26:23
  star coming out as well. So he's a guy that comes in and you
• 26:26
  hope it's one of those situations guys where it's it's a change of scenery leads
• 26:30
  to more production. Who knows why he wasn't getting more opportunities at Baylor.
• 26:34
  You hope getting here kind of unlocks that. And we've seen that from other
• 26:37
  guys in skill set wise. That's what you need. And what's been a
• 26:42
  challenge for West Virginia for the last couple of years stretching the field. Yeah,
• 26:45
  no question, Yeah, yeah, So there will be others. They
• 26:48
  will go and they will get into this portal and they will get other guys,
• 26:52
  defensive backfield help, defensive line help. That's how this thing is going
• 26:57
  to play out. So what are they gonna look like when they open this
• 27:00
  season up against the Nitney Lions of Penn State. Real super generic version is
• 27:07
  they will be a run dominated team with a bevy of depth at running back.
• 27:12
  They will have quarterback or quarterbacks that can threaten you with their legs.
• 27:18
  They will have a tight end that can catch the ball. The receiving corps
• 27:23
  will be a re recreated group because of so many losses, and you're gonna
• 27:32
  try to hold the ball, You're gonna try to run the ball. You're
• 27:34
  gonna try to put your defense out on the field as little as possible and
• 27:37
  play old school football. That's what it looks like I did find it interesting.
• 27:42
  Neil Bowden opened the scrimmage there with a little trick play to start through
• 27:48
  it will pass back to quarterback. Yeah, press fox was the came around
• 27:52
  they threw it. Yeah, it's like that. Put it up. I
• 27:55
  like it. So here we go and it's going to spend a practice working
• 27:57
  on that. Yeah. Basketball wise, for the Mountaineers, the portal continue
• 28:04
  to giveth to WUVU ray kuon Battle Montana State a year ago average just a
• 28:12
  whisker under eighteen points per game. Highly sought after transfer portally has played four
• 28:18
  seasons to at Washington too. At Montana State statistically, he's a wow,
• 28:23
  different kind of a body, strong who likes to get through in contact,
• 28:27
  can score it. So he commits to West Virginia after visiting this weekend and
• 28:34
  significant. So now you talk about cleaning up your roster and redoing this thing,
• 28:41
  right, well, yeah, go ahead. So Joe Toussant and Trey
• 28:45
  Mitchell from last year are back. Jose Perez, who was on the team
• 28:48
  last year but unable to play because of the NC double A deal, he
• 28:52
  returns, and now you add Jesse Edwards from Sarah use Kirk Caresa from Arizona.
• 29:03
  Now Rayquon Battle makes six. I'm sure I'm forgetting. Yeah, the
• 29:08
  other Manhattan, Manhattan, the Manhattan Transfer. So the seven, and then
• 29:14
  you got Mo and you got Josiah. Yeah, so I'm already conquo.
• 29:19
  Now I'm at ten. And then Seth Wilson, Kobe Johnson, if they
• 29:25
  do return, that would give you your twelve. And then James Bell,
• 29:30
  James Bell, Jimmy whether or not he goes football or not. So there
• 29:33
  you go. Man So West Virginia by you know who knows. But West
• 29:38
  Virginia is getting national recognition for its ability to bring these players in. Again,
• 29:44
  we warn you like disclaimer on this stuff. Yes, awesome. You
• 29:49
  went to the store and you got really good groceries. You got really good
• 29:52
  groceries, but you don't know how they're going to taste until you cook it.
• 29:56
  And so how does it come together? How does it? How does
• 30:00
  it come together? They'll go to Italy and August, they'll play, They'll
• 30:06
  get together, they'll have more opportunity to spend time within one another. You
• 30:10
  don't know what this product's going to be until they actually play the first stage
• 30:17
  you'll be non conference. Then the next stage you'll be league. You just
• 30:19
  don't know. But at least you begin this is the big part. At
• 30:23
  least you begin with a chance on the talent thermometer. That's where I come
• 30:29
  from on this. And you're of course right. So there's the disclaimer.
• 30:32
  I'm not gonna do the disclaimer. I'm just gonna go optimism hoppy. I
• 30:34
  think we set up here all the time and talk about who are your guys.
• 30:38
  You gotta have guys who do you get the ball to and tell you
• 30:41
  to get out of the way. You gotta have players. You got to
• 30:42
  have players. You're in the best basketball league in America. This roster,
• 30:45
  Tony, you just went down it. You have multiple options now with lineup
• 30:48
  combinations. You've got multiple guys that can score it. You've got a defensive
• 30:52
  stopper inside and edwards. You've got talent. You go into this league and
• 30:56
  instead of sitting here and going, well, Loko can so look at did
• 31:00
  you see what? Did you see what Texas Tech in there? Now?
• 31:03
  Other teams in the league are saying that about West Virginia. They're saying,
• 31:07
  did you say you got another transfer out of there? And you're right on
• 31:10
  battle. You get a guy that was ninety nine percentile in points per forty
• 31:14
  minutes. You get a guy that was ninety fourth percentile in scoring in the
• 31:17
  paint. So it's a guy that can hit a three, but he's really
• 31:19
  a score. He's an eighty percent plus free throw shooter. Somebody that can
• 31:23
  get to the line and make them. We know that's important for West Virginia.
• 31:26
  So you've got multiple guys, and you sit here as you get ready
• 31:30
  to go into next season with talent, and you have no shot if you
• 31:33
  don't have the talent. Now, maybe it doesn't work out, maybe they
• 31:36
  don't come together, maybe they get some injuries. Who knows. A million
• 31:38
  things can happen, but you're going into battle with a ton of talent.
• 31:41
  And I like that for this program, And listen, I give them a
• 31:45
  ton of credit. Guys. Just two years ago, they seemed lost in
• 31:48
  terms of how the portal would work. They seemed confused on how it should
• 31:52
  work. They have done a one eighty, and quite frankly, I give
• 31:56
  them an A plus grade up to this point in how they've handled the portal,
• 32:00
  how they've handled nil. They've remade that program and put themselves in the
• 32:04
  situation to be one of the most talked about teams of the offseason nationally hobby
• 32:08
  nationally. Yeah, they've they've done a great job on the portal and this
• 32:12
  latest edition, ray Kuon Battle, you go back. I went back yesterday
• 32:15
  and I watched the highlights of the game against Kansas State. Now that's an
• 32:20
  Elite eight team. That's a team to West Virginia play. That was a
• 32:22
  very very good basketball team. Rayquon Battle lit him up twenty seven points.
• 32:25
  He's scoring inside, he's scoring outside. All this guy's a scorer. So
• 32:29
  you know you're getting a guy that can score against the kind of talent that
• 32:31
  you're going to play against weekend and week out in the Big twelve. So
• 32:36
  I think that's that's a great edition. And he's played a lot of basketball,
• 32:38
  right. The second thing is, Tony to your point, is what
• 32:42
  was one of the reasons that this team of West Virginia this year had success
• 32:45
  later in the year because they had good leadership. They had coach Stevenson,
• 32:47
  they had you know, EMMITTT. Matthews. They had guys that provided leaderships
• 32:52
  that older guys, and that team geled. You didn't hear anything. There
• 32:55
  weren't the kind of problems that teams often have. So again, you do
• 33:00
  have the pieces brand, like you talked about, can there be some leadership
• 33:02
  there? Can they come together and be as as unified as this team was
• 33:07
  this previous season? Right, you can spend a lot of time. We
• 33:10
  were just kicking it around last night about lineups and how do you make everyone
• 33:17
  happy or how do you play? As far as shots go, guess what,
• 33:22
  Jose Perez is a volume shooter, right, Ray kwon battle. You
• 33:30
  got a lot of shots of this past year in Montana State. Trey Mitchell
• 33:34
  needs to get shots. You're with me, right, So how that comes
• 33:39
  together will be super interesting to see. Can guys leave their ego on the
• 33:45
  bench and go play for the for the overall good? So we talked a
• 33:50
  battle last night on sports Line, and I asked him that question because if
• 33:52
  you're looking at surprised by the way that Hoppy didn't book them on talk line
• 33:55
  before we were able to get them, a little surprised we were able to
• 33:58
  get in my up his Hoppy Kurt, and he hasn't said okay, we'll
• 34:02
  take you tonight, then good to see you. So if you look at
• 34:06
  he and Perez's stats in terms of usage percentage and ability to shoot it.
• 34:10
  Both of them are at the far end of the spectrum for their respective leagues
• 34:15
  that they're coming out of. So we talked to Rayquon last night and just
• 34:16
  said, well, how are you going to have to adjust your game as
• 34:19
  you come back up to the power five level and play at West Virginia.
• 34:22
  He was great, had ananswer Ford He's ready, he's expecting some double teams.
• 34:24
  He's gonna work on making the extra pass and he's got to be patient.
• 34:28
  But yeah, that's a question how do those guys fit together. The
• 34:30
  good part is you've got multiple options when you need a bucket. Now you've
• 34:35
  got guys that can score, and scouting report wise, you've got a lot
• 34:38
  to plan for with these guys. When when Tray Mitchell might be your third
• 34:43
  scoring option, that's pretty good. That's where I talk about you've amassed some
• 34:47
  talent. Now, Jesse Edwards, who averaged a double double. We don't
• 34:51
  even talk about him as a primary offensive option, but he is in the
• 34:53
  post and he sets up really nicely for three guys that want to score and
• 34:59
  go to the basket. Now you've got an a lead offensive rebounder and Jesse
• 35:01
  Edwards to crash if the shot doesn't go in. You've got some nice parts
• 35:05
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  well, very nice. Can we throw another picture up real quick before we
• 36:37
  get in textual healing? Sure? We want to give a shout out to
• 36:39
  our guy. You guys will know David Kurtz. There's some spring game hob
• 36:43
  ran into David train guy, the guy, the gentleman that took the train
• 36:46
  to Austin, Texas for the football game. He just got back, just
• 36:50
  back. He was there, great, very nice. So I enjoyed catching
• 36:52
  up with When David met Mike from Salem, Virginia as well. Okay,
• 36:57
  and then Justin that led with just and came up, said big listener to
• 37:00
  the show, thank you love listening to you. Lead with Hoppy will know
• 37:04
  me. I met him at the legislatures, that one guy you met at
• 37:08
  the legislature, Hoppy one. Everybody came up the spring very nice, very
• 37:13
  nice. Sorry I didn't make it there. Man. Now we can we
• 37:17
  certainly, we certainly can understand that. Speaking of Texas, the Mountaineer baseball
• 37:23
  team, Yeah, ranked number eighteen in the nation, left today for Waco.
• 37:30
  They'll play three against the Bears tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
• 37:35
  Had Tevin Tucker on last night. Great great story of battling through injury and
• 37:38
  adversity in his four seasons and he is absolutely cranking that. He's the Big
• 37:44
  Twelve Conferences Player of the week. Bat in three seventy, hitting the heck
• 37:49
  out of it, just having an unbelievably fun season. Talk to a guy
• 37:52
  this morning, don't have this confirm talk to a guy this morning. Went
• 37:57
  on to a buy tickets for next week Wednesday. Pit couldn't get them stand
• 38:01
  standing room only standing room onely's all they had. It's three dollars, three
• 38:08
  dollars for standing room only. But I was telling him, how have things
• 38:12
  changed from the days of Holly Field, Right, you couldn't draw family and
• 38:16
  friends, And now these games next week will be Oklahoma coming in for a
• 38:22
  Friday, Saturday Sunday, and it looks like tickets are just exploding. Right.
• 38:25
  Yeah, there's a ways to go in the season, so I'm not
• 38:29
  saying this is where they're going to get, but this has the vibes of
• 38:31
  the Minoah season just a few years ago. Right when I went to the
• 38:35
  regional crowd was great, packed every night, didn't matter if it was a
• 38:37
  weeknight or weekend. So this team, this Mountain, your team is rolling.
• 38:40
  They're hitting the ball well, and they've gotten really good pitching in these
• 38:44
  big twelve Series games right against TCU last weekend, Oklahoma State the series before.
• 38:47
  So you know they can hit if that pitching can hold up, especially
• 38:52
  early in the weekend. They got a chance here to be pretty special State.
• 38:54
  They stole the thrilled them four. J. J. Weatherholt back to
• 38:59
  Grand Slams too. Every time we have a Mountaineer baseball player on sports line,
• 39:06
  they're undefeated. No, we mean this. They're great interviews. Like
• 39:10
  every time we get done it and we go to the commercial and we go
• 39:13
  like baseball is undefeated. Every single one of those kids have been fantastic just
• 39:16
  this year, Weather Holt, Grant Hussey, and Tevin Tucker last night all
• 39:21
  a plus excellent. You don't have that on your show, do you.
• 39:24
  What's that? We interview people that aren't normally interviewed, and so as a
• 39:30
  result, sometimes it's a struggle for them because it's a unique situation where you're
• 39:36
  normally interviewing people that are used to being interviewed. So you don't walk away
• 39:39
  from many interviews on talk line and go like that was terrible. Well,
• 39:44
  I find the skill set of the person asking the questions plays a big role
• 39:47
  in the effectiveness of the interview. It's kind of arrogant. I'm sorry,
• 39:52
  did your microphone stop? Oh? Is your microphone off? Oh? And
• 39:55
  what a shame? What the worst time possible for an electrical layer. That's
• 40:00
  horrible. Hate to see that. Okay, it's really bad that happened.
• 40:06
  We'll get our tech crew on that. Hopefully we'll have you in twenty to
• 40:07
  thirty minutes. Now, Hey, one more basketball note before we do textual
• 40:13
  healing. You're saying, well, what do you second? So you're saying
• 40:16
  you can get a good interview off of anyone. No, I was just
• 40:20
  teasing. I was just being a wise guy. But no, I have
• 40:23
  you know what makes what makes a good interview Someone who's interesting and is willing
• 40:28
  to answer questions. Yeah, and a good interviewer, I think is somebody
• 40:31
  who listens to the answers. Somebody asked me the other day, they said,
• 40:35
  why do you interrupt people? I interrupt people because I if I hear
• 40:38
  that, I think somebody has already answered the question and it is starting to
• 40:42
  repeat or digress, I'll interrupt. Okay, I'll give you. I'm with
• 40:46
  you on man. I interrupt and also listen to the answer because oftentimes the
• 40:50
  answer will prompt another question related to something they said. You can go a
• 40:54
  little bit deeper with hey. One other basketball note before we start textual heal.
• 41:00
  In a day in which high schoolers don't get scholarship offers, we've got
• 41:05
  one here in Morgantown. Sharon's young has been formally offered by wvu's basketball staff
• 41:13
  head coach Bob Huggins. And so for those of you that may or may
• 41:16
  not know. Sharon Morgantown High has led them to two state championships in the
• 41:22
  last three years, and the other year they didn't win it. It came
• 41:25
  down to a last second shot. So he's their point guard and he has
• 41:31
  received an offer. He's been receiving offers, but this is his first Power
• 41:36
  five offer. He's a rising senior and he's out there on the AAU circuit
• 41:42
  right now. Plays with a team out in the Western Ohio So since Nata
• 41:47
  area and they went out last week they were in Omaha. I think they're
• 41:52
  in Texas this weekend. This is when all the coaches are out. This
• 41:54
  when you play big boy basketball. And after his performance last week end,
• 42:00
  the phone started buzzing. And West Virginia has known him him he's been in
• 42:04
  that building since he was a little kid, and so he gets the offer.
• 42:07
  It was hard to do as a high school kid. Now I would
• 42:10
  think it'll continue to buzz now that he's holding a West Virginia offer. But
• 42:13
  super talented. He can he can do it all. Score, can pass
• 42:15
  it, can run the floor, a couple of things that jump when you
• 42:17
  watch him. He's effortless when he plays right, which is always an indication.
• 42:22
  It's hard to judge high school and making that jump, but one thing
• 42:24
  you want to look for, how how effortless do they make it? And
• 42:28
  he's won court vision is tremendous, can move it, has a high IQ,
• 42:32
  lead them in scoring, rebounds, blocks, like does all of it
• 42:36
  from the point guard position. Super talented kid, gret Good to see him
• 42:39
  get an offer. We've been watching him since he was little as good to
• 42:42
  see him get an offer. The best way to describe him as effortless and
• 42:45
  so by that, when people play the game and they seem like they're gliding
• 42:50
  floating, those are those Those are the guys that are different and they're the
• 42:53
  different things. Some guys, you know, it's a labor You can see
• 42:57
  a laboring while they're playing. He floats, you know what. We saw
• 43:00
  him, of course at the state tournament the last couple of years, but
• 43:04
  I saw him this year at the tournament and you're watching, you go,
• 43:06
  oh, he's different. Different, he's different speed, and he is one
• 43:09
  of the unique guys. And I've told him this a bunch. He's old
• 43:14
  school when it comes to passing the ball. He's a point guard that's actually
• 43:19
  distributes him. He's got great floor vision. As you said, he's fun
• 43:22
  to watch. He gets the ball to the right spots. Now his game
• 43:24
  would have to change in college. He would be a distributor in college.
• 43:27
  He don't need him to score. He would be a distributor and has handles
• 43:30
  and he's tough. So yeah, I've had that hand had a fairly I
• 43:36
  mean fairly significant hand injury lait in the season. Brad came back and just
• 43:39
  came back in town for the tournament and led him to the champions. Stepped
• 43:43
  right in and continue to go super hard work artist. So he'll be fun
• 43:45
  to watch here through the offseason. A you circuit his TN he mention,
• 43:47
  then his senior year next year at MHS, let's do this thing. It
• 43:57
  was by the way, it was good scene, Dave. It's sob At
• 44:00
  the event Friday, he does those things when we took our picture with him,
• 44:08
  he does those things like those music producers. Do you notice that kind
• 44:13
  of got down there, gave you a pose more than just stand. Yeah,
• 44:17
  he didn't. He wasn't posing. Look at sea, what's that mean?
• 44:22
  Exactly? Like? What's he doing there? Actually? Actually, don't
• 44:24
  mind it. I don't mind it. Either as says, they's sending some
• 44:28
  form of a signal. The three of us are standing there smiling like goos,
• 44:31
  just like is he saying like, Okay, anyone that's in my tribe
• 44:36
  that knows me, I'm giving these guys the green light. Even though they're
• 44:40
  three old dudes. They're cool. That's what it's about him. It's about
• 44:46
  his that's his identity. He's being an eye guy. There. No,
• 44:50
  no, he's not being an eye guy. That's just maybe that's his identity.
• 44:52
  That's but there are two ways. Hey, before you get started,
• 45:00
  Sir Taylor Tyler Tanner what's his name? Tanner sent me a quick note on
• 45:04
  the Baseball Undefeated interviews. Don't forget Blaine Traxel talented picture. We had him
• 45:07
  as well. Yeah, he was really excited. Undefeated. All right,
• 45:10
  let's seere we go. Thanks Tanner, Textual Healing. Gentlemen, Thanks for
• 45:16
  a great event on Friday, great food, great beer, great stories.
• 45:20
  A special thanks to Hoppy, a fellow j school graduate, for sitting down
• 45:23
  with us to share a few stories. Cellen Clarksburg class in nineteen seventy and
• 45:28
  six. Okay, see, we're just glad that you had the opportunity to
• 45:31
  have that chance to talk to him, since he was there for four minutes.
• 45:36
  Texter, I'm sorry, Scopes, but while watching the YouTube clip of
• 45:43
  you working hard as a brewmaster, I could not help myself but to realize
• 45:45
  that you literally are two thirds legs. This is not a drill. You
• 45:51
  are literally two third legs. I can't thank you enough for being the voice
• 45:54
  of my generation's greatest sporting endeavors. And look forward to your cameo and the
• 45:58
  next Animal Planet document tree on the behavior of Giraffes with all due respects,
• 46:02
  CD and d C A picture there. Now you've moved on. You've moved
• 46:06
  on from hunting to brewing. Yesescopes, you may be legs. Now there's
• 46:09
  gonna be a few texts coming in and addressed to Legs. Oh he is
• 46:12
  tall? Giraffe might be a little bit too from too much. Hey,
• 46:17
  three guys, I share Brad's affinity for Resea's eggs, but recently I purchased
• 46:22
  a bag of the new Resea's thins. While the chocolate exceeds the peanut butter
• 46:27
  in this iteration's ratio, they are worth a try. Looking forward to seeing
• 46:30
  the three of you on twelve October for the WV Houston game. The Mountaineer
• 46:35
  Lums and Houston Town will throw a tailgate for you that you won't disappoint.
• 46:38
  All the brisket and text mex you can eat. Sincerely, Dana in Houston.
• 46:45
  He lost a running back this way, double digit touchdown scorer from two
• 46:50
  years ago, so he's got to replace one of the best quarterbacks in school
• 46:53
  history, one of the most productive receivers in college football last year, and
• 46:57
  a talented running back from two years ago. Will West Virginia be They won't
• 47:01
  be favored going there now? Probably probably not, who knows. Frank writes
• 47:07
  in Happy Brad Tony. I was disappointed in the Coach Covat show. I'd
• 47:14
  gotten used to your three to four hour shows, and then you throw a
• 47:15
  one hour show in the next just not long enough. Having a native born
• 47:19
  West Virginia and complain about a county lacking a country lacking cultural depth, that's
• 47:24
  pretty ironic. This was a you hoppy. When you berated the continent of
• 47:29
  Australia, it would be like Iowa natives or the Illinois Native me complaining about
• 47:32
  a state having boring scenery along the highway. Unless we're complaining about Texas signed
• 47:37
  by Frank. You were very very unfair to Australia. Did not articulate that
• 47:44
  well the whole continent. Hey, three guys, I had a chance to
• 47:46
  take in the spring game. Good times. QB number one wears number six
• 47:52
  in my opinion. I took Brad's advice visited Homegrown Pizza my wife and daughter.
• 47:57
  They were skeptics when we pulled in, but the food did not disappoint.
• 48:00
  My wife asks, are we doing doing dessert? I said, oh,
• 48:04
  yeah, nutter butter for me, and I clucked my tongue in my
• 48:07
  best spread voice. I also highly recommend the Cannoli signed by Travis and Lincoln
• 48:13
  County. Excellent. Travis, Yeah, the Cannoli's excellent as well. He
• 48:15
  won Jason's had nut of Butters this last weekend. Kurchel nice multiple he won
• 48:21
  Jason and Tulsa writes, Hey, guys, I loved Coachkovich giving you a
• 48:24
  gentleman's game. It gave me an idea too. I'm gonna start using that
• 48:28
  phrase elsewhere when I'm asked, hey, how are we looking for hitting our
• 48:31
  deadline on my project? It'll be sorry so a gentleman's project. When I
• 48:37
  get asked by a police officer if I knew how fast I was going,
• 48:39
  Sorry, sir, it's a gentleman's car. Perhaps most useful e the next
• 48:43
  time I'm enjoying an expensive meal and asked if i'd like the check, I'll
• 48:45
  say, sorry, it's a gentleman's restaurant. I'll let you know how that
• 48:49
  works out. I love your show. It is interesting in it because it's
• 48:52
  one of those sports that and I think tennis is likely to degree too.
• 48:57
  You know, Brad wearing other sports like football and basketball. What do you
• 48:59
  do? You get away with what you can, right right? You get
• 49:04
  away with what you can and hope you don't get caught. You know,
• 49:07
  golf, tennis, probably all sports like that where you really are, Um,
• 49:12
  you're more, you adhere more to the rules. Agreed, Oh you
• 49:15
  don't agree? Yeah, that's pretty fair. Most there's some guys that cheat
• 49:19
  around here, and people moveing around a little bit. What do you got
• 49:22
  a story? No, nothing to do with WV golfers, But I mean
• 49:25
  guys that go out there and play around this. I mean just guys that
• 49:29
  go out and golf, play golf. They cheat scrambles, kick the ball
• 49:32
  moving on a notorious golf cheaters, A lot of golf cheaters. Something not
• 49:36
  in the organizers, not in the real stuff. But you guys that play
• 49:40
  recreationally, she learned those tournaments. You get to scrambles, there'll be a
• 49:45
  little pencil whipping going on, as somebody used to say, whipping, pencil
• 49:49
  whipping. Oh yeah, oh yeah. We'll tell you about it. Talk
• 49:54
  a couple of well known cheaters, cheaters and as you no cheaters never win.
• 50:00
  Hello, gentlemen, Logan from beautiful Greenborough County. I want to invite
• 50:06
  you guys in my college graduation at the Convention Center in Beckley on six May.
• 50:10
  I attached one of the pictures from my announcement. You'll definitely see the
• 50:14
  West Virginia vibe. This picture was taken me by a church member who I
• 50:19
  call family. Inside the church that I minister in White Sulfur Springs named the
• 50:22
  Redemption Center. We got a website. You guys are always welcome to attend.
• 50:25
  By the way, tell them Logan sent you. Well, I'll tell
• 50:30
  you Logan, you know I'd love to be there, but hoppy, we
• 50:35
  can't get them to stay across the street I don't think we'll get them down
• 50:38
  to the event, but we wish you're the best and said to me that
• 50:42
  you're not going to white sulfur. Yeah, Texter Tony. Normally I would
• 50:47
  agree with you, especially when it comes to food, but when it comes
• 50:50
  to the quarterback situation this year, I must disagree. I think they need
• 50:53
  to go to with the guy who makes the most plays and live with the
• 50:57
  mistakes no matter how many they make. If he's a home run threat,
• 51:00
  then the other guy isn't. There's no defense for that. Give me the
• 51:04
  playmaker over the safe guy. Signed by Josh and Morgantown. I'm still with
• 51:07
  you on food. So Josh, I would say to you this, this
• 51:13
  is what you said in your text. You said, I think they need
• 51:15
  to go with the guy who makes the most plays and live with the mistakes
• 51:20
  no matter how many they make. Are fricking kidding me? So we're gonna
• 51:25
  be good with six interceptions? And after the game you go, why pull
• 51:30
  him? He always has a chance to make a big play. No,
• 51:32
  you can't do it. There's a there's a very very small margin for win
• 51:36
  and lose. And what a coach is it? What a coaches say after
• 51:38
  every game, Brad about mister what they say, mistakes turn it over too
• 51:44
  much. Gottess didn't make a play. But it's mistakes at this level usually
• 51:52
  not always. We've seen a million games. What the team that let the
• 51:55
  other teams screw it up? Yeah, exactly. Oh, they made four
• 51:59
  mistakes, just over four times turn West Virginia turned over to none. They
• 52:01
  turned over four times. You got to win. During the rich Rod run,
• 52:06
  West Virginia annually was one of the better teams in the country and not
• 52:09
  turning it over. And that was one of the few examples of a team
• 52:15
  that could have survived some turnovers with that explosiveness. Right, And we said
• 52:17
  the same thing about the Will Greer era too. Right, there were some
• 52:22
  games where you just went, well, what'd you I mean four set there?
• 52:23
  And then I remember that first half against Kansas when they're like three picks,
• 52:28
  but you really weren't worried. You're like, Okay, you live with
• 52:30
  that. He's gonna come back and make a bunch of place for you.
• 52:30
  Most of the time, it's not. You've got to be able to limit
• 52:34
  mistakes. And I think that's especially true for this year's version. Yeah,
• 52:37
  when you don't when you don't have a real greer that you know can light
• 52:40
  it up for you. Right exactly earlier in the program, we showed you
• 52:45
  that picture of Charlie from Midlothium. He writes Scope spreads and the guy who
• 52:50
  left early once again had a great time at Friday's event, and Kirchival cans
• 52:55
  kudos to everyone that had a part in the efforting to make this happen.
• 52:59
  Nice to meet the guy on the other side of the wall. Taylor Tyler
• 53:01
  Puttnham Windfield. With all due respect, I have to admit I'm not much
• 53:06
  of a beer drinker, but I will never turn down a Kerchivel thanks for
• 53:09
  having us. Thank you than wonderful Texter Scope senator and Hoppy Hoppy Hoppy.
• 53:15
  That Mike Florio's segment is the most inspiring thing I have ever seen. Wow.
• 53:21
  Oh well, I'm glad you loved it. We love Mike, love
• 53:23
  it when he's here. Just great guest, terrific. Florio has well thought
• 53:29
  out, articulate points about a lot of things. I mean, there was
• 53:32
  a lot of content. There was got a lot of things in his head.
• 53:36
  Yeah, there's a lot of things. Yeah, I mean, obviously
• 53:38
  he reads a ton doesn't sleep much. I was gonna say, how does
• 53:43
  he do what he does? And just like I'm gonna write a book,
• 53:44
  I'm gonna read a book. I'm gonna write a book, and I'm gonna
• 53:46
  be on Yeah his motor burns hot. Yeah, Yeah, he got him.
• 53:52
  His motor burns real hot. I told Tony afterwards that you write great
• 53:54
  content in there. I could have done another hour on some of the Mob
• 53:59
  stories too. Yeah. You're getting in that area right, there's some good
• 54:02
  stuff there. Texter Hey, Three guys after listening to hearing a previous texted
• 54:07
  message that Charleston Dirty Bird Baseball experienced a Hoppy have something to add. As
• 54:12
  a long time and listener and an umpire in the Atlantic League, I'd like
• 54:15
  to invite Hoppy to a game. I'll leave the tickets at the gate for
• 54:17
  him and a guest of his choosing. This way, he can experience a
• 54:21
  seat, a hot dog, and even the beer, although it may not
• 54:24
  be kurchiveil. If Hoppy takes me up on this offer. As I'm calling
• 54:28
  the balls and the strikes behind the plate, at some point, I will
• 54:30
  drop a hoppy Hoppy Hoppy to call a batter out on strikes. Love the
• 54:36
  show as always. Annie McPherson from Hurricane like that, it'd be awesome.
• 54:45
  Texter, Oh, here's the doctor, Professor Vinnie in the Chicago area.
• 54:52
  Three guys. The Mike Florio interview was phenomenal. He has great insights into
• 54:55
  the league, and his grounded take on the NFL Draft was great. He
• 55:00
  also does a great job of busting your chops. It's probably the first three
• 55:04
  guys pod I've listened to were Brad and Hoppy. May have only said two
• 55:07
  words between the two of them. On a side note, it seemed like
• 55:10
  as Mike was cutting in and out at times, was he just pulling back
• 55:15
  from it or was he talking keep up? Well, So here's the deal.
• 55:17
  These microphones are awesome that we use, but they are so unidirectional that
• 55:23
  watch this. If you're watching I go over here, you can see how
• 55:27
  like I'm really off Mike, Like right, you gotta get right into this,
• 55:30
  baby. And because neither these two knuckleheads and Mike were not wearing headphones,
• 55:35
  they didn't know that they were going off Mike. If you wear headphones,
• 55:37
  then you know when you're on it when you're not. But these guys
• 55:39
  like to keep their hair fancy, not us. He's talking about Mike.
• 55:43
  Yeah, you guys do a good job, because it would Mike would do
• 55:45
  when he because he was doing a good job of making eye contact with all
• 55:49
  of us. So yeah, he was occasion to us. That's what the
• 55:51
  van's talking about. So yeah, these are michotuitously through that a shot in
• 55:57
  he did. I mean the producer, I mean, you do the show,
• 56:00
  maybe you should supply headsets. Well, guess what, I guess I'll
• 56:08
  only have to bring out two headsets for the next two weeks. I'm not
• 56:12
  wearing a headset. I'll just have to bring out because only will be two
• 56:15
  of us out here, and they're kind of man the station Brandon and Barrackville.
• 56:22
  Listening to Tony talk about his Hall of Fame speech reminded me of another
• 56:25
  legendary Italian sports journalist, Raymond Barrone, and his speech after receiving an honorary
• 56:30
  degree from his ELM Moter. Ray thanked his entire family forgot to mention his
• 56:35
  wife, Deborah hi jinkson sued Go Watch season eight, episode seventeen. Also,
• 56:39
  I'm a diehard mountaineer fan and bleed blue and Gold. But don't ever
• 56:44
  pass up the magical moments spent with your newborn child and your wife, even
• 56:46
  for the Mountaineers. In fact, it's what all mountaineers would expect. That
• 56:51
  will There will be more games, but only one chance to spend with the
• 56:53
  new baby. Let's go Mountaineers. That was the gentleman that asked us if
• 56:57
  he should go to the game. He didn't. We need to get a
• 56:59
  report back what he decided there. Yeah, I think we guilted him into
• 57:01
  a ps A few suggestions for your summer series, Kadisha bu Can and Ashley
• 57:06
  Lawrence, marry the Mountaineer and Killian Cardinal. Yeah, that would all be
• 57:09
  good. Text her a good Yeah. Oh. I attended the live event
• 57:15
  on Friday and I had a great time. You guys do it right.
• 57:17
  And Tony, you weren't joking about the brisket delicious? Thanks again for the
• 57:22
  access and I hope you enjoyed the Burghers cookies. Yeah, gentleman from Baltimore,
• 57:27
  the process of cookies chocolate on top. You're waving your head. No,
• 57:31
  didn't know. I got him. Yeah, where I was just gonna
• 57:34
  say where all this I got yours? I got your guys, we're going
• 57:37
  During happy hour, I was chatting with Bill and Amber and complimenting on the
• 57:42
  delicious Kerchivel. Bill asked me what I enjoyed about the beer? What what
• 57:45
  beer I enjoy it? I said, rye IPA's Bill replied, nice old
• 57:51
  school recipes. So I respectfully offer this suggestion for the future under the craft
• 57:55
  beer category of the Three Guys brand Three Guys rye Ipa signed there by Dan
• 58:01
  in Maryland via Beckley rye Ipa text or three Guys. Unfortunately I was not
• 58:08
  able to attend the Kircheville Can release party, but it was your guy's fault
• 58:13
  that I did. While you guys are lollygagging around Morgantown running a small Italian
• 58:17
  restaurant out of your home kitchen, dressing mannekins, and discovering the concept of
• 58:22
  a ballpark Frankfurter, I felt obligated to take Texter or friend of the program
• 58:27
  Douggie Fresh up on his offer of his Myrtle Beach backyard for a three guys
• 58:30
  meet up. After two rounds of golf, many seafood feast and a cookout
• 58:35
  sunset, all that was missing was a can of the finest beer in the
• 58:37
  land. So going forward, if you guys still want to have be homebodies
• 58:42
  and not leave the Morgantown Metroplex, I'll gladly continue to be a Three Guys
• 58:45
  outreach traveler, whether on Stern Wheelers or Madagascar Safari's, I will be their
• 58:51
  nate in the canal valuable. Huh great, that's palm tr on the left.
• 58:58
  That's nice. M m it's myrtle beach. That's Merle's inlet, right,
• 59:06
  Merles, Merles? Was that the texture? I think I thought it
• 59:09
  was Muriels? No murals, he knows. Just stop what he's right?
• 59:16
  You're wrong? Stop all right? Hey, guys in there many times mike
• 59:22
  in and he spelled this a h I A stake A stake here today,
• 59:29
  Well you made a mistaken They kept going as if I was making the mistake
• 59:30
  when I was the one that was right. Now. Well, well,
• 59:32
  okay, I know you didn't. Well night, he didn't. Well now
• 59:36
  I did. I'm sorry I didn't. I was not accepted. Move on,
• 59:39
  I don't even know. I don't even know you anymore. Hoppy,
• 59:45
  Hey, guys, mike In he spelled at a hi a mike in,
• 59:49
  Ohiah, I was listening to the Florio episode and I got to the part
• 59:52
  where you all talked about how we listeners and readers become connected to each of
• 59:55
  you through the media you provide. Being a thre therapist, it made me
• 1:00:00
  stop and ponder this phenomena. I can clearly not speak for all, but
• 1:00:05
  here is what my musing has determined. We first connect because of you.
• 1:00:09
  Let me start again. We first connect with you because of our love for
• 1:00:14
  the sports teams and leagues you provide content on. Most of us would love
• 1:00:17
  to be closely linked to the program at WVU, to be able to walk
• 1:00:22
  in and say hey, Hugs or hey Neil, and to truly have their
• 1:00:27
  ear, if even for a little while. Through you, we get that
• 1:00:30
  connection delivered in the snippets you provide in this podcast, on sports line,
• 1:00:35
  or even live broadcasts. We know that each of you provide your own somewhat
• 1:00:38
  biased, yet honest account of what is happening or may happen. We become
• 1:00:44
  connected through the laughs you provide us in this chaotic world that we live,
• 1:00:49
  laughing and exercising our humor muscle that is too often minimized in this day to
• 1:00:52
  day grind. Not to mention the struggles of our favorite teams over the last
• 1:00:57
  few years. I am grateful for the insight after losses and victories. I
• 1:01:01
  am grateful for the stats that help me stay focused on what's important in our
• 1:01:06
  game plan and whether we are able to execute it. And I am grateful
• 1:01:08
  for your non for you non WV guys who have come to love this state
• 1:01:14
  like those of us who have been raised here. Intellectually, I know your
• 1:01:17
  lives encompassed so much more than you share with us, and that there was
• 1:01:22
  so much about those lives we know nothing about. Yet through these moments in
• 1:01:25
  the media you provide for our consumption. You feel like a good friend or
• 1:01:30
  a family member that we can relate to through our mutual interests. I was
• 1:01:34
  happy and proud of Scopes for his hunting success. I laugh when Spreads gets
• 1:01:38
  giddy over clouds, and I feel sympathy for the Dean when you guys bust
• 1:01:44
  on him for being over a hundred. You really should have more respect for
• 1:01:46
  your elders. Lol. Thank you three guys. WHOA, that was kind
• 1:01:51
  of a good text. I kind of got to that, didn't it hoppy?
• 1:01:52
  Really? That that was? That was couchwork right there. That's good
• 1:01:58
  to know, very well analyzed, to know I was well done, professionally
• 1:02:01
  analyzed. Yeah, we could maybe make him the official. We got a
• 1:02:08
  beer, we're gonna have coffee, we got a peril, we got merchandise
• 1:02:12
  coming out, and we'll have our official counselor text back with your number.
• 1:02:16
  How much per hour? How much fifty minutes? You don't get a full
• 1:02:20
  hour? You in fifty minutes. I would like you to counsel Hobby so
• 1:02:22
  he'll stay longer at our live events. WV Baseball puts up fourteen against PSU.
• 1:02:29
  Does WV put up more in its season opener against Penn State? A
• 1:02:32
  boy good grant from grant grant from Parkersburg sends us a picture. This is
• 1:02:40
  Bob Huggins and Jay Konts right now. You think we need one more?
• 1:02:45
  You think we need one more? All right, we'll go get one more.
• 1:02:50
  That's pretty good. That's uh that Oceans eleven, Oceans eleven, great
• 1:02:54
  movie. I'll tell you what for for the five for the five movies I've
• 1:02:59
  ever seen in my life. If I could hit him once in a while,
• 1:03:00
  right, see al Pacino turn eighty three this week? What was that
• 1:03:07
  movie we like? We like a son of a woman. Son of a
• 1:03:12
  woman's tremendous acting. Joe and Charleston off are Yeah, Joe and Charleston.
• 1:03:21
  I agree with Mike Florio about the draft over exposure. It's all TV now.
• 1:03:24
  I missed the days when you get up and watch it all day Saturday.
• 1:03:28
  The Mountaineer remains in great hands after the rifle passing. I heard Mary's
• 1:03:31
  interview on sports Line. She's so poised and humble, has a great future
• 1:03:36
  ahead of her, and Michael appears to have those same qualities. I'm proud
• 1:03:38
  of both of them. Michael. Michael worked a spring game the New Mountaineer,
• 1:03:42
  and then he was at the event in Charleston the other night. The
• 1:03:45
  Big twelve in social media has helped that tradition cut out over the past decade,
• 1:03:50
  going back to Rebecca in two thousand and nine, all of them have
• 1:03:52
  been memorable in their own way. Signed by Joe in Charleston, Greetings TC.
• 1:04:00
  The safest way to address him? Is it an eye or a y?
• 1:04:03
  At the end, we may never know. How does he know all
• 1:04:08
  of those convoluted numbers? Oh, that's right, he pays for them and
• 1:04:12
  the David Copperfield of broadcasting. Now you see him, now you don't hopy
• 1:04:15
  kergival m Texter, gentlemen, I cannot tell you how awesome you and your
• 1:04:25
  staff Dave Gruver included were. When my wife and I find out that your
• 1:04:30
  kid's sports schedules had shifted and put us in a direct conflict with the kirchivel
• 1:04:35
  can release event, we were so bummed out that we could not make it.
• 1:04:39
  I mean, Kevin Kin was going to serve us brisket. The beautiful
• 1:04:43
  human officiated our wedding on our farm, on our land right here in montague
• 1:04:46
  A County. Oh, so Rev keV did their wedding. Yes, we
• 1:04:50
  paid him the honorarium gluck. So this is what happened. These folks that
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  are writing this couldn't attend our event, but they had paid for two tickets.
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  So yes, you were gracious enough to let my wife still pick up
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  our merchandise for the event, and you took a picture with her there.
• 1:05:08
  It is made sans hoppy, of course, and we inadvertently wound up the
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  first to receive the cans of kirchi al that is bragging rights for life Quick
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  Kids. Sports Weather Center recap of that weekend Travel Baseball and Bridgeport Friday evening
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  one travel basketball in Cleveland A High Saturday and Sunday one up three down.
• 1:05:31
  Fifth grades basketball different up there, Yeah, their fifth grade basketball is different
• 1:05:34
  up there. Back to travel Baseball and Bridgeports Sunday night. You can make
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  it back in time to play in two of the three games that day.
• 1:05:43
  M lined up the one to championship. Thanks for having us hell of a
• 1:05:50
  weekend. Sorry we missed your show. You guys are the best, though.
• 1:05:54
  Dan and Heather in Morgantown. There you go. She's great. She's
• 1:05:57
  a nurse, right, yeah, awesome, and she was very nice.
• 1:06:01
  They were great. Yeah. So she ran in here Friday before the event.
• 1:06:06
  You were somewhere. You were were at your desk, still working right
• 1:06:11
  to commentary some She said, could Hoppy be available for this picture? I
• 1:06:15
  said, hell no, he's gonna leave it early anyway, just to be
• 1:06:16
  the two of us. Thank you the time I was here, I had
• 1:06:21
  a really good time. Text or Tony. These long days of sunshine are
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  fan fantastic. You know, the days getting longer. I just wanted to
• 1:06:30
  thank you for always reminding us how little time there is before the days start
• 1:06:32
  getting shorter. Again when it comes to football season though, so I can't
• 1:06:38
  complain too much. These days are longer, you know, speaking of nothing
• 1:06:43
  to do with what we're talking about. Guy told me the other day longest
• 1:06:47
  longest longest note in a song, longest note in a song is it's um
• 1:06:56
  Bill Withers Happy Day. He holds that note eighteen seconds. You know.
• 1:07:00
  I heard that song just the other day where he holds that note. Yeah,
• 1:07:04
  you know who told me that? A guy that I would never in
• 1:07:06
  a million years expected. It was on my trip to Charleston. It was
• 1:07:12
  Michael for Gale. We're talking about Backley, talking about slab Fork, talking
• 1:07:15
  about Bill Withers, and he said, you know, he holds that note
• 1:07:17
  and a happy day for eighteen seconds. That would be like it was stunning
• 1:07:23
  because like you, Brad, you hate music, so that would be like
• 1:07:26
  you would never get that from you. For Gale told me eighteen seconds he
• 1:07:30
  had you know, he had a wonderful voice. And there's for you.
• 1:07:35
  I heard that just the other day. And I heard that note and I
• 1:07:40
  thought that was before all the editing that goes on. Yeah, these days,
• 1:07:44
  I'm like, oh, we can't. I heard it this morning for
• 1:07:46
  the first time since I heard that it was eighteen seconds and I specifically listened.
• 1:07:49
  I went like, WHOA remember the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
• 1:07:55
  By the way, Well, sure absolutely, text three guys. I love
• 1:08:01
  the show. I've listened for a long time. You always keep a military
• 1:08:06
  guy up in connection with Mountaineer Nation. Only complaint get some more baseball talk.
• 1:08:11
  Come on, Randy Mazie and the boys are rolling, and we got
• 1:08:15
  screwed last year by not making the tournament. Penn ranked twice now first slipped
• 1:08:20
  up against Kansas, bounce back ranked higher. Now last game against Penn State
• 1:08:27
  had grand slams from Hussy and Weatherhold and crushed him. I catch at least
• 1:08:31
  a little bit of each game on ESPN Plus. And the season has gone
• 1:08:34
  on, I see more and more fans at Wagner Field. They are currently
• 1:08:39
  ranked eighteenth. Keep winning. Could they again host a regional for the third
• 1:08:45
  time? Let's go Hugs is truck crushing the transfer portal. Can't wait to
• 1:08:50
  see him on the court next year. Zags thought they were going to land
• 1:08:54
  the best transfer in the class. Hope nope. Hugs added another justin currently
• 1:09:00
  friend Midlothian, Virginia were Midlothian. We're huge. Think they should do a
• 1:09:03
  live event in Midlothian. Jessa liked the show from earlier. Then here he
• 1:09:08
  heard the baseball talk from earlier, talked about those Shayeah Texter Hello, three
• 1:09:13
  guys, I finally got it. Why send you three a message of positivity
• 1:09:18
  when I can just mention how I told my wife that I was efforting to
• 1:09:23
  clean the basement, even though I didn't dust the walls like she had asked
• 1:09:26
  me to. Anyway, I'm sure you'll mention how good the baseball team is
• 1:09:30
  doing, but we'll stats bring in the stats for us. Well. It
• 1:09:34
  so happens that I have a few for you. Did you know that as
• 1:09:39
  a team, West Virginia is number forty four or higher in thirteen offensive batting
• 1:09:45
  categories. Here's a few examples. Tied for twenty seventh with two hundred and
• 1:09:51
  twenty eight walks, tied for twenty fifth, hit by a pitch with seventy
• 1:09:56
  one, twenty five with four hundred and thirty hits, tied for sixteen with
• 1:10:00
  nineteen doubles, eighteenth in the country of the four nineteen on base percentage,
• 1:10:03
  tied for twenty first with three hundred and thirty six runs scored, tied for
• 1:10:08
  twelfth, with ninety one stolen bases, tied for fifteenth with one lost percentage
• 1:10:13
  at seventy three percent. In my humble opinion, this is probably one of
• 1:10:16
  the best offensive teams West Virginia has ever had. Now the only thing that
• 1:10:19
  is lacking is a great defense and pitching. But when you look at their
• 1:10:24
  ERA at four thirty one and WHIP at one thirty six, both good for
• 1:10:30
  thirty fifth in the nation, not too shabby. These stats are for all
• 1:10:35
  games played through twenty five April. I'm hoping the baseball team continues its success
• 1:10:41
  and is able to secure hosting a regional I must also congratulate Lay Huggy Bear
• 1:10:45
  and soon to be world champion Mountaineer basketball team for assembling what appears to be
• 1:10:49
  a great team. Thank you all for all you do and keep up the
• 1:10:54
  good work. Od Rod and Hoodbridge, Woodbridge, Virginia. All of a
• 1:10:59
  sudden, I just went down there. It started a little bit to be
• 1:11:01
  Sean mcdonnough and then it ended with done crickey, Oh, thank you for
• 1:11:05
  all that you do and keep up the good work. You can catch mcdonnah
• 1:11:11
  doing hockey. He's doing the NHL playoffs. He sent me a text the
• 1:11:15
  day that I was up at Syracuse. He said, so sorry that I
• 1:11:17
  could not be there, but I'm doing the National Hockey League Standley Cup playoffs.
• 1:11:21
  When he called in last summer announced that you were going into the Hall
• 1:11:26
  of Fame there at Syracuse. How did how did he open it? How
• 1:11:29
  did it soundly opened? Tony? It's Sean. Just wanted to call in
• 1:11:36
  hope all as well you and your lovely family. It was the best,
• 1:11:41
  so hoppy. He was in the press Fox doing the getting ready to the
• 1:11:44
  Yankees Red Sox game. Yeah, I think I was here. He made
• 1:11:45
  time to call us. In his introduction at the Syracuse event, Um Andrew
• 1:11:53
  Catalan for CBS. His NFL partner is Steve Tasker. Yeah, Tasker lives
• 1:12:00
  in Buffalo. So Tasker drove over that night to be there for Andrew.
• 1:12:04
  And so Andrew brings Tasker up. After the thing's over and people are taking
• 1:12:10
  getting their pictures made, people getting their picture made, and Tasker comes up
• 1:12:13
  and Catalan says, hey, um, Tony, I want you to meet
• 1:12:17
  Steve Tasker. And for the life of me, I just could not here's
• 1:12:23
  don kriky in my head guy, because before Catalan worked with Tasker, task
• 1:12:28
  with Don crist and I just wanted to go this is along with Steve Tasker.
• 1:12:40
  And so I'm talking, I'm talking players of all time and you're introduced
• 1:12:45
  to him, and all you can hear is Don c did you I'm gonna
• 1:12:47
  Steve, this is Steve Tasker. Did you say, Okay, I know
• 1:12:54
  you didn't do it, but did you subconsciously kind of drift a little bit
• 1:12:57
  into it? Into it? Just a little bit in see the voice?
• 1:13:00
  Yea, when I was going like I'm going this, I'm laughing inside my
• 1:13:03
  heading, Steve Tasker. It's third down for the Cincinnati Bengals. We welcome
• 1:13:11
  you back, twenty four twenty the Bengals on top of the Browns down.
• 1:13:15
  Cricky along with Steve Tasker. McDonough has a lot of krikey in him.
• 1:13:25
  Yeah, he'll bring it down in there. Yeah, I'll bring it down
• 1:13:27
  in What do you sound like when he called the show Tony? It's Sean
• 1:13:32
  Colleen from Yankee Stadium. Oh, he's the best. He does. I
• 1:13:40
  think we've talked about this. He does hockey different than a lot of other
• 1:13:44
  hockey play by play announcers, because I mean he does a little bit more
• 1:13:47
  of not doing every play, giving you more of text of context rather than
• 1:13:55
  every past most most TV hockey is mostly absolute on it. Play by playing
• 1:14:00
  was TV hockey? Yeah, yeah, so like if he was doing you,
• 1:14:03
  he'd go. Now the puck has turned back into the West Virginia zone,
• 1:14:08
  picked up by Kirchival, who will leave a public event in his honor
• 1:14:12
  quite frequently, and the headman's at a head over center ice. Right.
• 1:14:16
  Yeah, here's Kirchivill has got a beer named after him. He doesn't care,
• 1:14:19
  leaves events early. He doesn't care. Here's Kirchiville behind his net,
• 1:14:29
  claims an illness had him leave early from a public event. I will when
• 1:14:33
  I left, I left purposely because I didn't want to give I didn't want
• 1:14:38
  to get caught. So ill you were caught given the volume of reports coming
• 1:14:44
  in the The puck clears over the blue line, picked up by Kirchiville,
• 1:14:48
  who's not hesitant to contact his wife to pick him up early at a public
• 1:14:53
  event in his honor named after him. There. Now the net's empty because
• 1:15:02
  Kirchival pulled early and that's a goal they score. Where was Kirchival? He
• 1:15:11
  left early, He's in the locker room. There's still twenty there's still fourteen
• 1:15:15
  thirty four to go here and the third Kirchival's left the ice. Who would
• 1:15:21
  have ever thought of this in humanity? Not only now has Elvis left the
• 1:15:28
  building, but so has Kirchival sweating. You bring it all on yourself,
• 1:15:39
  I know. And now because you left early, we're formally we're gonna formally
• 1:15:45
  issue you a two week suspension. Maybe you bring it on yourself. It's
• 1:15:51
  your fault. I'm gonna kill you, and it's your fault that I'm doing
• 1:16:00
  it. You really do. I'm gonna have to call in from the road
• 1:16:10
  so I don't get it's a live show, so I can do that.
• 1:16:13
  We're gonna miss you. I mean, you show up to your show all
• 1:16:20
  the time, every day. You never leave at before two hours is over
• 1:16:24
  on talk line like it never comes back. At the eleven forty five breaker,
• 1:16:27
  there's no one sitting in the chair, just an empty chair, just
• 1:16:31
  a bump from music trailing in. You're the only one that you do this
• 1:16:34
  too. We're the only ones that you do this too. True we're getting
• 1:16:39
  it well. I usually don't drink kirch a aile during talk line. Yeah,
• 1:16:43
  textures. I should have had somebody with me, you know, like
• 1:16:45
  we're gonna bring some church bol probably Let's get you. Let's get you a
• 1:16:49
  nice tea here that's in hoppy water for the rest of the night. You're
• 1:16:55
  done, gentlemen, on behalf of Jason John and myself, we want to
• 1:16:59
  say thank you for the wonderful experience we had last Friday, a live podcast.
• 1:17:02
  The food and the drinks that the apothecary top notch and it felt great
• 1:17:05
  to be outside for this event. Highlight for us was having Scope Spreads and
• 1:17:11
  Taylor stopped buy and hang out with us at our table Hoppy. You stayed
• 1:17:15
  longer, but all of us would have cashed in on the under for you
• 1:17:17
  leaving early again. Personal highlight winning the bourbon barrel and knowing that that donation
• 1:17:24
  is going to go to a wonderful cause. It touched me very deeply.
• 1:17:26
  Yeah. So the money will go to Rev. Kev's organization called The Source,
• 1:17:31
  which helps people in a bunch of different ways and food and also in
• 1:17:35
  constantly. You fellows are wonderful people. We proud to call your friends nice
• 1:17:41
  new Thanks Jennings, thank you very much for his awesome He made that big
• 1:17:45
  help. I think he indicated he was about three kirch of als in two
• 1:17:48
  when he was bidding. But he stayed text, fought through it, through
• 1:17:54
  it, got through it. What you been? I want to get you
• 1:17:58
  now. Man. If I would have probably I probably should have stayed there.
• 1:18:02
  Jennings and John and Jason. Yeah, there's the guys right there.
• 1:18:05
  Those are the two guys folks with the hats on that helped Brad get away
• 1:18:10
  from the major lawnmower situation that he had when they said, uh, your
• 1:18:14
  batteries. Had to call them the experts couldn't fix it. Kerchival. Yeah.
• 1:18:16
  I talked to them and I said, a unique malfunction. No I
• 1:18:21
  No. I talked to the guy. I said, it wouldn't start.
• 1:18:24
  What's the first thing you do to Gustad? Check the battery? Brad learned
• 1:18:29
  the valuable life lesson? That was what I had already done that? Okay,
• 1:18:33
  fair, last one? So then you move on? I did.
• 1:18:36
  I thought I had already done that. Yeah, okay, fair if you
• 1:18:40
  mowed yet? No, no, there it is right there. No I
• 1:18:46
  didn't because we needed a new battery. But thankfully last week I got wonderful
• 1:18:50
  people, folks over at NAPPA. People. Yeah, folks at NAPS.
• 1:18:55
  Shout out the map. Shout out to NAPA, Caroline, Kevin, Mark
• 1:18:58
  Amtower, Greg Paris delivered it up, delivered the battery, put it in,
• 1:19:03
  fired it right out. Yappa delivered the battery. Yeah, yes,
• 1:19:08
  and put it in. My guys, you got a lot of people,
• 1:19:12
  a lot of people. So we'll be mowing here in the next day or
• 1:19:14
  so at a video of that. Not to get a citation here, it's
• 1:19:18
  a little long, gotta get to last one. But thanks to the NAPA
• 1:19:23
  folks, Jeff and Parkersburg. Here, I'm requesting NASCAR right. Well,
• 1:19:29
  I can't say enough about to find people on the NAP. But where's that
• 1:19:30
  Look? Where are they located in Morgantown? All over just one up on
• 1:19:35
  Well, they're all over twenty six story lost stores. Can't vo can't thank
• 1:19:39
  enough folks on NAP. But listen, I didn't want to bring this up
• 1:19:41
  here before I started cutting this lawng but they didn't go to sleep last night.
• 1:19:45
  We blowed that. We blowed that engine up there. Uh, during
• 1:19:47
  time trials on Friday, and they spent up all night long and they got
• 1:19:51
  in there and they worked round the clock. So I just can't think they
• 1:19:55
  come out here this morning. They gave me this mower back. It fired
• 1:19:58
  right up there and we ran it and it was a really great ship.
• 1:20:00
  So I can't think enough folks from NAPA. They're just trying to get some
• 1:20:02
  video when I go out, So I wear my NAPA hat when I go
• 1:20:05
  out to just Great. I want to shout out to all the people from
• 1:20:09
  there at NAPA. A big NAPA sticker right on the hood, Power Last
• 1:20:13
  One, Jeff and Parkersburg. Here, I am requesting a new bingo.
• 1:20:16
  Card mine does not have Last Suppers or Jim Funerals on it. And we
• 1:20:23
  all know it's just a matter of time before you get around back to talking
• 1:20:26
  about Peter asking Matthew to pass the T and L hotdogs. Thanks for the
• 1:20:30
  show and I love the Mountaine years in the portal. Oh that was an
• 1:20:36
  exercise was We're gonna miss you hop so hopple just to recap so he'll be
• 1:20:44
  back in time for the Penn State preview. Yeah, the day were by
• 1:20:46
  the way, never mind, no go I don't think I'm gonna be well,
• 1:20:53
  I know you're not gonna be here for that. You're gonna be you
• 1:20:55
  are gonna miss that. Do you want us? Do you want us to
• 1:20:59
  effort and find a replacement? A regular replacement? Remember when Carson Johnny Carson
• 1:21:05
  started to phase out of his show, Jay Leno became the de facto host.
• 1:21:12
  Do you want us to effort and find a third person to replace you
• 1:21:15
  when you're not here? That kind of hurts to think about that. I
• 1:21:20
  don't want to get replaced, but I mean I understand what you're saying.
• 1:21:23
  We would never think about a replacement if you would be in attendance. So
• 1:21:28
  again it's on you. Would you want us to start thinking of a name
• 1:21:31
  or two center? I think we've got some time on that because in the
• 1:21:36
  summer series it's always traditionally been the guest has become the third guy, So
• 1:21:41
  we don't want him around to the summer anyway, that's what you're saying,
• 1:21:44
  Well, he hasn't been I mean, this is unusual that he's here doing
• 1:21:45
  this one. Well, Corey, he has not been around in this in
• 1:21:48
  the summertime. Right here in the summer series, he's usually not here.
• 1:21:51
  You don't have to talk, so you don't think we should be here anyway.
• 1:21:56
  We didn't want it here anyway. Good hey, Less, and enjoy
• 1:22:00
  your trip. We're gonna take care of it. We're good. I thought
• 1:22:02
  maybe Less say I'm sitting right here. Well, we were surprised that you
• 1:22:06
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  week to continue our summer series of interviews. Hoppy, thank you so very
• 1:23:20
  much for being with us in it's the program's entirety. You've been here.
• 1:23:24
  It's been my pleasure. It's been our pleasure to have you. Thanks everybody
• 1:23:28
  for listening. And our website. Our website is going to open up here
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  in the not too distant future. Episode eight hundred dot com is the U
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