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Speaker 1: But while they turn home this Tuesday for a showdown

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Speaker 1: with the Seattle Kraken Houck Trappers just after seven pm.

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Speaker 1: Here every goal, every save, and every game changing moment

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Speaker 1: right here on your home for a wild hockey kfen.

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Speaker 2: Have we apologize for the outdated Minnesota gold and goal

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Speaker 2: for Daily Update. It's a little old, but that's what happened.

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Speaker 3: I like u Clia's chances in that game.

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Speaker 2: Well, what I'll tell you, that's what will happen when

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Speaker 2: you take that last segment of nine to noon so late,

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Speaker 2: which it's just it pushes everything back. It's just a

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Speaker 3: I always love that one.

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Speaker 2: It'll happen when that happens. I do like Ucli's chances.

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Speaker 3: I'd put money on them.

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Speaker 2: Joe Smith, Michael Russo, you're familiar with the both of them,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're right for the Athletic, correct. They cover the

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Speaker 2: This morning am, bright and early. Now do you think

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Speaker 2: they were writing intil six am, like they were burning

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Speaker 2: you think that's just when the Athletic decided to release it,

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Speaker 2: Because if you remember isn't it schefter, We will have

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Speaker 2: Maybe yes, I guess it's always possible, but.

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Speaker 1: I don't think in the athletics case, and they might

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Speaker 2: Well, this wasn't necessarily a gamer. This is a story

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Speaker 2: Five Burning Questions for the while ahead of the playoffs

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Speaker 2: and Inevitable Star Series.

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Speaker 3: Five Burning Questions, Five Burning Questions.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and Tannaby, I think these have burned so long

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Speaker 2: and it's a five alarm fire. You and I have

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Speaker 2: discussed these, well, you've discussed them, and I've eaten my

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Speaker 2: But they have the questions we've talked about. I just

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Speaker 2: to Rose and I'd like to ask him what would

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Speaker 2: you do or what? And then what do you think

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Speaker 2: they'll do? And the first one would be the goaltending

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Speaker 2: rotation you have volstead in gus Bus what do you

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Speaker 2: would you do if you were the coach? Would it

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll have like a set plan

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Speaker 2: And did you say that you like Gus buzz But

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Speaker 2: You would think we have one somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Who's the odd man out? Who fills out the bottom six.

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Speaker 1: This gets wild fans going because and then it kind

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Speaker 1: going to come down to Bobby Brink and Danila Yuroff.

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Speaker 1: Bobby didn't play this weekend the two games, and I

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Speaker 1: does Bobby bring better offensively? Can he score more goals

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Speaker 2: when they acquired him, he'd had some standout years with Detroit,

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Speaker 3: Or yeah, one of the better players late.

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Speaker 1: No more, we basically give up nothing for him, like

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Speaker 2: And has he not had a really good year?

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Speaker 1: Because I don't think you need to go all in

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Speaker 2: They don't have him. That's okay too, because I like

433
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 2: our netline team. We'll take our final break of the

434
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 2: program and touch on a little of this, a little

435
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 2: of that, with the emphasis on the land next come

436
00:22:47,040 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 2: in and brung him on the van. A couple thirteen

437
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 2: fourteen past Common Man program, someone's describing the show as

438
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 2: hospital waiting room radio.

439
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 3: Uhuh.

440
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 2: I tend to agree it's hospital with either one. I'm

441
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 2: not sure. I just like the sound of it, you know.

442
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 3: Me.

443
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 2: I'm all about how words sound like uh bbia and

444
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: yabba dabadoo and that acadaca, just like the way words

445
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 2: sound together. For me, this is the most wonderful time

446
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 2: of the year. Get Home seven o'clock live from on

447
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 2: Golf Channel. Shambly McGinley, McGinley and rich Lerner breaking it

448
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 2: down for us incredible, and you know it's it's it's

449
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 2: the kind of things I make fun of other people for.

450
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 2: I get that. You know, like if you were watching

451
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 2: some breakdown of the National Hockey League and I say,

452
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 2: I have the saucer pass here and look at look

453
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 2: at the way he stacks his pads, and I was like,

454
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 2: it is just hockey. And it's the same thing with golf.

455
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 2: But I don't care for the masters. I love it.

456
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 2: I love when they break it down and start talking

457
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 2: about the amen corner by the way tenneby in church

458
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 2: when you go and you know you end a prayer,

459
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 2: do you say amen or aimen? I say it has

460
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 2: to be amen, because they don't call it amen in

461
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 2: the corner call it he has to say so in church,

462
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 2: I was amen. I know we've had this discussion, uh

463
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 2: tenneby as well. I'm gonna ask you again anyway, are

464
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: you when it comes to sports sports sports? Are you superstitious?

465
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example, like there are some baseball

466
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 2: players when they run out into the field, they touch

467
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,640
Speaker 2: first base on the way out there. And I would

468
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 2: suggest that to all the twins because that's the only

469
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 2: time they're ever going to touch first base all year,

470
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 2: and by the looks of it, but you know they'll

471
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 2: have these little suit like you don't touch the baseline

472
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,199
Speaker 2: or like with the wild you know, don't walk on

473
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: the logo in the locker room. Do you have any

474
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 2: of those at all that you do with that you've.

475
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: Had with I don't think so. I don't know what

476
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: the word I'm looking for is. I don't I don't

477
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 1: say it's is it going to be habits or No,

478
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: that's not the word I'm looking for. But like I

479
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: always ritual, ritual, Yeah, well, like like for playing hockey

480
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: like I always I always go left to right on

481
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 1: my shin pads, okay, and my socks and my skates.

482
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: But it's not It's not like I think I would

483
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: have a horrible performance on the ice if I happen

484
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 1: to go the other way.

485
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: You would have a horrible performance if you hit like

486
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,719
Speaker 2: a piece of chocolate cake before? What is it when

487
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 2: you eat.

488
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: Any bad food? I can feel now at the same

489
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 1: it's on the ice. Yeah, so you can't do that.

490
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 2: The reason I bring that up is I ran into

491
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: an Associated Press Sports Sports, Sports, your whole life, just

492
00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 2: sports story leading up a preview of the Natty. Yukon

493
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 2: must overcome Michigan's dominance to establish a basketball dynasty in

494
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: a national title game. This would be their third. Do

495
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 2: I have that right? And how did I miss all

496
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 2: of this? How did I miss that? Yukon has won

497
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,880
Speaker 2: two of the last three national championships and this would

498
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 2: be three in the last four years. We haven't seen

499
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 2: anything like it since I believe the days of John

500
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 2: Wooden when they won like eleven in a row. They

501
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 2: have a chance to win three titles in four years.

502
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 2: The story says there's a dynasty bruining college basketball, and

503
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 2: in a perfectly fitting twist, Yukon can cement that status

504
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 2: by overcoming a Michigan powerhouse that is racking up historically

505
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 2: impressive numbers, hoping to go down as one of the

506
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 2: sport's greatest teams itself. Connecticut trying to become the first

507
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 2: program since John Wooden's UCLA behemoth of the nineteen sixties

508
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,360
Speaker 2: and seventies to win three championships or four year span.

509
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 2: So I did have that right. Maybe I read this

510
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 2: and I didn't remember. While Michigan's trying to cap off

511
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 2: arch mad a string of dominance the likes of which

512
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 2: were last seen by this very Yukon program, and they

513
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: won it all in twenty twenty three twenty twenty four,

514
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 2: Wolverine's are six and a half point favorite. I bet

515
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: MGM sportsbook. Both teams will be missing, not missing key players,

516
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: but questionable. They both say they'll play no matter what hurt. Right,

517
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 2: But yeah, one of it was in the boot after

518
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: the last. Yes, that was the Yukon guard. Solo ball

519
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 2: in a team game. You really don't want your name

520
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 2: to be solo ball, do you? You know it's basically

521
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 2: a hero ball and then the London board guy has

522
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 2: like I think, a twisted knee and a twisted ankle

523
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 2: bolt and never nevertheless, and they didn't look like he

524
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: was going to come back in the game. They helped

525
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 2: him off the court, went to the locker room. I

526
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 2: think he came back and then went to the locker

527
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 2: room again. But nevertheless, the Wolverines are the first team

528
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 2: to score ninety plus points in five straight tournament games.

529
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 2: They're trying to become the fifth team to win six

530
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 2: tournament games by double digits. The other four ONEI in

531
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 2: North Carolina twenty eighteen, Villanova, and both of those recent

532
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 2: Yukon teams. So Yukon has been as dominant as well.

533
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 2: But I'm looking at this as I go further into

534
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: the story, it says Hurley looks for a title and

535
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: a tailor. One key casualty of all this Yukon success

536
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: hurley sideline where he has worn the same blue suit

537
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 2: at March Madness, dating as far back as twenty twelve

538
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: when he was coaching Rhode Island. That's the same blue

539
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: suit for fourteen years. You've got to be kidding me.

540
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 2: He also wears the same socks and underwear. That's gross.

541
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 2: I hope he does wash them between I'd like to

542
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 2: think so elements, hopefully between games.

543
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 3: But by looking at him, I can't rule that out.

544
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: He also wears the same socks and underwear and eats

545
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 2: eight M and ms before games. He counts them out.

546
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: What colors are they? Well, none of them are green.

547
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: You've got to be kidding me. Are they all blue? Blue,

548
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: and red?

549
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 2: Hurley said, The pants are fine. It's the jacket that

550
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 2: is really. The lining is a problem. There's like three holes.

551
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: When I stick my arm in the right, there's like

552
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: three different places you can stick your off and if

553
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: you can see it, it's like the lining coming through.

554
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to get a tailor in the offseason.

555
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 3: Just thought of that. Now, Well, what do.

556
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: You think he's making a year? Six million, eight million,

557
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 2: ten million? How much does a coach of his nature make?

558
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: Let's say it's ten million dollars.

559
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 3: Not enough to get you to the fool, I would

560
00:29:59,280 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 3: get to the grave.

561
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: This is this is what I tell people all the time.

562
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: Ten millions of taxes is really elect sis. And I

563
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: gotta be honest. By house, buy yourself a car, by

564
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: your mama house. You spend a vast save use law.

565
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: Can you make that last? But yeah, I never get

566
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: yourself a news that the super you're not winning because

567
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 2: of the suit. But of course I say that had

568
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 2: he decided, let's say his wife said, look it, it's embarrassing,

569
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 2: get a new suit. If he goes and gets a

570
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: new suit and he loses, I guarantee you he's going

571
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 2: to say it was because of the suit.

572
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna bring up, though, is how

573
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: long has he had this check? And you say it's

574
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: been thirteen fourteen years, he's been twelve. He's been They

575
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: haven't won the national titles every single one of those seas.

576
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: At some point they had to have games or seasons

577
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: in which that's correct. He didn't let no obvis In

578
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: the last four years they've had lots of success, But

579
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: at some point. The whole point of superstition is I

580
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: got to wear this that we can do well. Well,

581
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: you didn't know what all that entire time. There's moments

582
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: you've you've had games where you've lost, wearing that you

583
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: might lose tonight wear in that suit.

584
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: There is an old saying called dress for success. He's

585
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 2: dressing like he looks like a mess. That's what he's doing,

586
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: thanks very much. And then the underwear in the socks

587
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 2: things I mean is that can't be since twenty twelve.

588
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 2: Wear have to have disintegrated by now.

589
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: There's no way the socks have to have holes in him,

590
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: the band on the underwear has been stretched out, I would.

591
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: Think, because you would you know, even I'm sure he

592
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 2: takes care of himself, and you know he maybe he's

593
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 2: you know, working in over tom workout what you would think.

594
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: He probably put on a couple thirteen fourteen pounds over

595
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 2: the years, and it's just how does it even fit

596
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 2: it for him? Man? You know, he does look pretty fit.

597
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 2: I mean, he certainly doesn't have some good looks like

598
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: he's in good shape.

599
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: But even just every time you put it up all

600
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: your legs, sometimes just stretching it a little bit, it's

601
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: like and.

602
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: Then I wonder are they boxers? Are they briefs? And

603
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 2: then and if they're white, they're all dingy by now,

604
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 2: right unless you're putting them in floro. It's just disgusting

605
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: to think about. It's like, dude, get a grip, Come on, man,

606
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: get a new suit, get some underwearing socks. I'm his wife,

607
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 2: I demanded, do.

608
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: You think this is all made up? Because he's gonna

609
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: have like an underwear socks endorsement coming out of the

610
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: Final four? Getting the story out there, then he's gonna

611
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: make money. He's been profit off of me. Haven't listened

612
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: for the last hour to get your eyesight back. It's better,

613
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: but I still think I might.

614
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: Have something wrong with my eyes. I don't know, maybe not.

615
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: I mean I don't have those before. Have you ever

616
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 2: stared into the sun for like eight or ten seconds

617
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: and then when you look away all you see is

618
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: spots everywhere.

619
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 3: I shouldn't stare at the sun.

620
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, but I'm saying if you ever do

621
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 2: you know you just catch a glimpse of it. I

622
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 2: wasn't staring at the sum but that's what it seemed like.

623
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: And maybe it was because I was talking to a

624
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 2: couple of salespeople and I was They add their back

625
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 2: to the windows, and I was looking out the window.

626
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 3: But I couldn't.

627
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 2: I panicked and I called my wife, Who's the first

628
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 2: person I calls my wife anytime I think she thinks

629
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 2: I'm a hypochondriac and I am. I haven't sent her

630
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 2: a text apologize and saying, look, I know you think

631
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: I imagine all these things.

632
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: She's a saint. No, I would just ask Rosie. He's

633
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: got all the malady questions.

634
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: Speaking of Rosie, this text message says, did you and

635
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 2: Tenneby get the invite to hang out with Rosen and

636
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: Shelby to watch the night's National championship game because they've

637
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 2: always watched it together for so many years now, it's forever.

638
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: It's been twenty five thirty years they've watched it together

639
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 2: and they've only known each other for about eighteen years,

640
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: so it's amazing that they still watched the game together.

641
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 3: We did not always love that one.

642
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 2: We did not get that.

643
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: You and I could just go to like the nearest

644
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: Perkins to his house tonight, and I'm sure he'll go

645
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: there because he's a huge fan of Perkins.

646
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 2: He loves Perkins. Yeah, he loves the the Monte Cristo sandwich,

647
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 2: but he didn't know what was included in Monte Cristal sandwich.

648
00:33:58,560 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 2: Pretty sure loved it.

649
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 3: I always love that one.

650
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: So there's that. So yeah, I just found it amazing

651
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 2: that he's wearing the same suit and he's it's just

652
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 2: but I guess that's what you gotta do them.

653
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 3: He's got to have more superstitions in that.

654
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 2: Well, that's it. Yeah, Well the M and m's thing

655
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 2: is even, you know, because the color ain't going to

656
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 2: make a difference. I don't think. I mean, I don't

657
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 2: know how to break this to Bobby. Is it Danny

658
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 2: Hurley or Bobby Hurley? What's his name?

659
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: Bobby was the point guard the duke back in the

660
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: Christian Latner Grin, I would assume, So I think they

661
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: might be brothers.

662
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: So I don't know if Danny knows this. But like

663
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 2: the color of the eminem doesn't change the flavor. So

664
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 2: like a green one isn't like a lime flavored eminem,

665
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: red one isn't a cherry flavored or strawberry flavored eminem.

666
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 2: The black is chocolate flavored. There's no question about that.

667
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 2: But it's it's they. It really doesn't make any They

668
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 2: are brothers. They are their dad was a basketball coach. Okay, sweet,

669
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 2: good for them. So we'll see how it it goes tonight.

670
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question.

671
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 3: Tend to be they're not twins?

672
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 2: Though no one other story I saw NBA related. Will

673
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 2: will toss a bone out to the basketball community. This

674
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 2: story was updated on Saturday. Athletic piece by Eric Nem.

675
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: NBA says facts remain in dispute as Ante t Coompo

676
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 2: Bucks investigation continues dayline Milwaukee, calling it quote against my

677
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 2: nature to sit out games. Bucks forward Jannis Ante Takumpo

678
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 2: insisted he is healthy enough to play, but is being

679
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 2: held out by the only team he has reaped entered

680
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 2: in his thirteen year NBA career. A league investigation into

681
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 2: the matter, as first reported by The Athletic, is ongoing.

682
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 2: On Saturday, the NBA gave an update on the investigation,

683
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: saying that quote certain facts remain in dispute unquote, particularly

684
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: around whether the Bucks provided Anti Takumpu with a path

685
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 2: to return. Here's what the NBA said Saturday. The investigation

686
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 2: has found that the Bucks scheduled the honest to work

687
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 2: out last week and three on three scrimmages as part

688
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 2: of his return to play process, but he declined to participate.

689
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 2: There is a disagreement as to whether the team requested

690
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 2: that Jannis participated in a group workout earlier this week,

691
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 2: and the league is continuing to monitor the situation. The

692
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 2: NBA has been looking into Antie Takoumbo's situation. A source

693
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 2: briefed on the situation told the Athletic and has been

694
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: engaged in conversations with the Bucks. The NBA Players Association

695
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: previously issued a statement asserting that the Greek Freak was

696
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: healthy and being withheld from games part of a tanking

697
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 2: effort by the Bucks. Here's what Aunte Takoumpo said before

698
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: Friday's game against the Celtics. Tent to me, you know

699
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 2: who you're dealing with. So for somebody to come and

700
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 2: tell me not to play or not to compete, it's

701
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 2: like a slap in my face. So I don't know

702
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 2: where the relationship goes from there. I've never seen a

703
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 2: case of a player saying my caliber of player. That's

704
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: like I'm saying it publicly. I want to bleep and play,

705
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I don't think i've seen this.

706
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 2: So if there needs to be an investigation, great, there

707
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 2: should be. I don't know there should be until we

708
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 2: can figure something out. I'm available to play, but I'm

709
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 2: not in the game. I'm available to play today right now.

710
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 2: I'm available. Do I look like I'm not available? I

711
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 2: don't see myself in the first twelve. I don't see

712
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 2: myself in the starting lineup. I don't know what game

713
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 2: is being played right here. I just don't want to

714
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 2: be a part of it. Wait, hold on, all the

715
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 2: dot doun is what I lost? I did? Yeah? You

716
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 2: know where the extra test text you no notification?

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00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 3: Is he lost the dun dune done?

718
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 2: Yeah? Do you think we can ever find that?

719
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: Of course, good because that's one of my favorite sound

721
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: bites of all time.

722
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 3: You won't ever text notification?

723
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you make of this tenemy? I mean

724
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 2: it aunt Didakopo is basically saying I want to play,

725
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 2: and now there's this workout that he apparently didn't participate in.

726
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 2: And of course that's what the team in the league

727
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 2: is saying. But if by I mean, he's pretty front on,

728
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 2: pretty adamant that I want to play. I'm ready to play.

729
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 2: They won't play me this And you know we discussed

730
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 2: there's another story I found in the athletic we might

731
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 2: get into tomorrow. That is it's saying the tanking is

732
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 2: worse than you even believe, because it started spelling out

733
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 2: what I did my teaser earlier today about you know,

734
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 2: like since the All Star break. You know, it's since

735
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 2: February fifth, it's just been awful. As far as the

736
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 2: teams that want to be that first round pick or

737
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: want to be one, two or three, they are going

738
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 2: far and above normal tanking practices. I mean, it's it's

739
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: it's as obvious as it can get. And so it's

740
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 2: just and you know, we discussed this too. If you

741
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 2: are a fan of a terrible team and a terrible

742
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 2: city with terrible fans in a terrible stadium, and you

743
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 2: know you need that player, you know, one player, as

744
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 2: you said, Tennaby can change the trajectory of a franchise overnight.

745
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 2: One guy. Look at what Webbin Yama's done for for

746
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 2: San Antonio. Look what Joker did for Denver. Look what

747
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 2: Edwards did for the Wolves. There are guys that they

748
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 2: can change Doncic or Donsick, however you want to use

749
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 2: pronounce it today for Dallas, I mean, they've changed these teams.

750
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 3: Is this tanking though?

751
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: Because right now they're eleventh in the East, they're ten

752
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: games behind tenth, so they they can't even cat. They

753
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: can't make it, They can't make a playoffs spot. And

754
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: at this point, you know, could they maybe move up

755
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: a spot or two. You know, they can move up

756
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: maybe one spot and get one spot worse, but they

757
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: are going to have when it comes to NBA Draft lottery,

758
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: they're going to have the tenth the tenth spot, okay,

759
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: and there's really not moved. There's not a whole lot

760
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: of room for them to move up from that other

761
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: than chicag if they got worse in Chicago over the

762
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: next four games. Right to me, this is and this

763
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: has been done in other sports, has been done in

764
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: the NHL. They're trading them this summer, and they don't

765
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: want to put them in a position to have an heaven.

766
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: They don't want to be They don't want him to

767
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: get hurt, where then all of a sudden, your asset's

768
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: gone this summer and you can't trade them because it

769
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: does really know, and then they're very little out of

770
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: tanking at this point for where they're at, but they

771
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: know they're trade them. And you know this happened in

772
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: the NHL where before the trade deadline, Hey, we're going

773
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: to sit this guy out, not because he's hurt, but

774
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: because it's basically they're admitting he could get traded and

775
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: we don't want to get hurt before the game starts. Now,

776
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 1: it's not as to as much of an extent probably

777
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: as they've dealt with with Giannis.

778
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 3: Sure, and I'm guessing that's what it is.

779
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 2: No, that does make sense because remember we were even

780
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 2: going to trade for him earlier.

781
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: Yes, he almost got traded before the deadline.

782
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: That's what that is. So it's not a tang.

783
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's deals then that are probably like,

784
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: all right, we'll just make that deal in the summer,

785
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: or we'll tinkered a little bit in the summer. Yeah,

786
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: So he's gone, and they don't want to put him

787
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: in harm's way where he can ruin those trades because

788
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: as much as they don't want to lose him, he

789
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: can bring a Hall back if you know he's gone.

790
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 2: Well, the matter of fact, they're doing a story right

791
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 2: now on TV on ESPN as the New for two

792
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 2: until three they do the NBA Today or whatever, and

793
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 2: it says NBA investigating Bucks and how they're handling onto

794
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 2: Jakumpo's health. Well, now again, so now I have to admit, well,

795
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 2: I was going to say, now I'm sort of siding

796
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: with the team a little bit, but then it goes

797
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 2: back to the whole idea of the ticket buyers that

798
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 2: want to watch the Milwaukee Bucks play. You want to

799
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 2: see Antey Coompo, But I mean, I guess you have

800
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 2: to look up for the franchise and if he really

801
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 2: has a if you're really concerned about injury issues, that

802
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 2: would jeopardize what you can get in return for him. That,

803
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: I it's hard not to understand. For the Franchi.

804
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: Also unfair to the player. Yeah, now, Yiannis is gonna

805
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 1: be fine. He's going to make money and go wherever

806
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: he goes. He'll make a lot of money. But a

807
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: player could be in a spower head. They're not losing

808
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: dollars because you're sitting them out, sure, right, they're not

809
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 1: getting the same stats as they normally would for a season.

810
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 3: So it's.

811
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: But if I'm Milliwauk, I understand it. You don't want

812
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: to torn a cl and then all of a sudden

813
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: you can't trade them this summer and you'll never get

814
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: the value back that he's and right now you can

815
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: get a load for him and you risk so you

816
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: risk never getting that value back again, and they're playing

817
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: for nothing.

818
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 3: They're out of the playoffs. I get it.

819
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that makes some sense, so it's not

820
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 2: as controversial as I wanted it to be. I wanted is. Yeah,

821
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 2: there is an investigation, but they might be barking up

822
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 2: the wrong tree. But I mean, if a guy wants

823
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 2: to play wants to play, I don't know. I always

824
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 2: what is it called? Did not play? Coach? Your decision? Right?

825
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 3: DNP Yeah?

826
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 2: DNP boy. We had a great time today, didn't you.

827
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: That's so much fun. If we're having fun, the audience

828
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 2: is having fun. And thanks for having me, Timmy, you

829
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 2: as well. We really did enjoy being with you today.

830
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 2: We're back tomorrow at twelve noon, unless we've got a

831
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: late if we've got a PJ. Fleck show, you know,

832
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 2: we just had a We just had.

833
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 3: A latest go for before. We might have one.

834
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 2: We might have one tomorrow. I might have one with

835
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: uh Don the head coach of the gal.

836
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: Can we do like a baseball coaches show or something?

837
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 3: What other spring sports are there?

838
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 2: I'm all for it. We'll see you tomorrow at twelve

839
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 2: big ticket JG there next year on the family on

840
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:31,480
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