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Speaker 1: Oh Joe we're gonna get right into it. The last
Speaker 1: couple of days, the US has been on a gold rush. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're piling up the medals, getting melt. We're winning goals
Speaker 1: in places that we really didn't expect to win goals.
Speaker 1: Because the reigning world chap, we're gonna talk about Cole
Speaker 1: Hawker winning the fifteen.
Speaker 3: And hey, fantastic finish, too, fantastic finish.
Speaker 1: He timed it. He timed it perfect. But let's kick
Speaker 1: it off. The USA trounce Brazil eighty seven. They will
Speaker 1: play Serbia for the third time on Thursday and one
Speaker 1: gold medal. The defending World Cup champion Germany played the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Olympic semble medal finalists France and the
Speaker 1: other silver medal in the other semifinal. Devin Booker with
Speaker 1: the USA's leading scorer. He had eighteen points on five
Speaker 1: May threes. The US shot and the ball extremely well.
Speaker 1: O show They were fifty eight percent from the floor,
Speaker 1: forty eight percent from the three, ninety percent from the
Speaker 1: free throw line. Lebron left the game called a melbow
Speaker 1: to the I ended up getting stitched left in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. He had twelve points. Joel Ebi had his
Speaker 1: most out impressive outing in the Olympics. He had fourteen.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Devin Booker had eighteen and Kevin Durant had eleven,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis had thirteen. A man had seventeen to eighty seven.
Speaker 1: They dominated, they started out. This is the way I
Speaker 1: expected them to play, this is how I expected them
Speaker 1: to look, and they've been. They've been winning in dominating fashion.
Speaker 1: You never know who's going to be the hot man
Speaker 1: on the given night, Oh Show, given what we have
Speaker 1: to offer, and for them, guys sacrifice, because every guy
Speaker 1: is the guy on their team, and for them to
Speaker 1: sacrifice shots, to sacrifice, minutes, to sacrifice whatever they're having
Speaker 1: to sacrifice for the commonality of the one thing win
Speaker 1: the gold medal goes and represent the USA and the
Speaker 1: highest form. Kudos to this team. Go silver medal match
Speaker 1: with Serbia. Nikola Jokic is in front of them with
Speaker 1: a chance to go to the gold medal round. Ocho,
Speaker 1: what do you when you watch this game? What'd you
Speaker 1: like about what you saw? I mean, they were they
Speaker 1: having fun.
Speaker 3: I understand the pressures, I understand it's the Olympics, but
Speaker 3: they were out there having fun. Obviously, Brazil's team is
Speaker 3: not of size. They don't really have any bigs down there.
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid, even though when you look at from a
Speaker 3: matchup standpoint that they didn't really need him based on
Speaker 3: his size and being seven to one, But he played anyway,
Speaker 3: and when he did play, he played a little different
Speaker 3: than what we're used to for our bigs. You want
Speaker 3: your bigs inside as opposed to outside. But he played
Speaker 3: the outside game and mid rain was on. He was
Speaker 3: shooting good from the field, he was shooting the three,
Speaker 3: and everybody else was having fun. Devin Booker leading the charge,
Speaker 3: Anthony Evers had a great game, and like you did say,
Speaker 3: everybody contributed in a great way. And listen Steve Kerr,
Speaker 3: I mean his job is very difficult because do you
Speaker 3: think everyone is still happy?
Speaker 4: Do you think everyone is still happy when you look
Speaker 4: at it.
Speaker 3: I know the common goal is the win goal, but
Speaker 3: I know they want to be able to put on
Speaker 3: their skill and represent their country and be.
Speaker 4: A contributor.
Speaker 3: A contributor for the most part as one of the
Speaker 3: reasons why they wont goal. So I think players want
Speaker 3: to get their minutes and be able to score.
Speaker 4: And I think there are there are.
Speaker 3: Still still some rumblings of people not happy with the
Speaker 3: way things are going.
Speaker 1: Well, I think everybody should be happy with the minutes
Speaker 1: they got. If you look at it, the role player,
Speaker 1: the second unit played more minutes than the starters. I mean,
Speaker 1: go start played more than seventeen minutes. And you look
Speaker 1: at Jason Tatum, he had twenty minutes, Kevin Durant had
Speaker 1: twenty one minutes, Bam had nineteen minutest Man eighteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Rick White had the same number of minutes as the starters.
Speaker 1: Only person that didn't play double digit minutes was Tyrese
Speaker 1: halibert Uh he played eight minutes. He was won one
Speaker 1: from the field. But I think the thing now is
Speaker 1: that you know now every team that you face now
Speaker 1: can beat you, So it doesn't matter. It's it's not
Speaker 1: a situation where a coach I need to get my
Speaker 1: ten fifteen to twenty minutes. No, Steve Curry is gonna
Speaker 1: run the guys that he failed. Optionally, the starters are
Speaker 1: gonna start. We'll see how Lebron I see if it
Speaker 1: holds up, I don't see. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: miss any time. Juwel Embiid had a little minor ankle
Speaker 1: injury that he ended up leaving the game in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, whether the third quarter that he left ash
Speaker 1: or the fourth, but he ended up leaving the game
Speaker 1: with an ankle injury. But you know the reigning world
Speaker 1: champs in Germany, we know what the French possessed. They have.
Speaker 1: They have Wimby, they have Gobert, they have four neck
Speaker 1: so they have and and and the UH. The Germans
Speaker 1: they have Dennis Shrewder, they have the Wagner brothers. SO
Speaker 1: and Serbia, we already know who's on that team, the
Speaker 1: three time league MVP, and UH and BOGI. The shooters
Speaker 1: are from the Atlanta UH the Atlanta Hawks. So these
Speaker 1: last three teams UH the potential that the Americans could
Speaker 1: face with place Serbia and the semi finals and then
Speaker 1: potentially UH, Germany or France could beat them.
Speaker 5: And they know that, and so I expect them feel
Speaker 5: on their best behavior.
Speaker 3: WHOA, you gotta look, you got too much dip on
Speaker 3: your chip. Now with that they have they have some
Speaker 3: good players. They have some good players, but the chance
Speaker 3: of them actually beating the US is slim and none.
Speaker 4: That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: You got a better chance that finding Jimmy Hoffer and
Speaker 3: any of the team that are left in contention than
Speaker 3: beating the USA team, especially knowing that because of who
Speaker 3: they're playing, I think the players are gonna raise their
Speaker 3: level of play even more.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The thing is, ojo, is that the one thing Sons
Speaker 1: you say, you never under you never under estimates your opponent,
Speaker 1: and you never overestimate yourself. Okay, and you'll be fine
Speaker 1: because we've there's a reason why the pros have come playing.
Speaker 1: Now remember pros didn't play. Yeah, but you're talking about
Speaker 1: you're talking about a knockout round, now, o Joe. One
Speaker 1: game football. Think about how many teams have gotten Ain't
Speaker 1: no way can lose this game in one game. Anything
Speaker 1: can happen. You a tweet ankle, you are a bad file,
Speaker 1: You are terribly rough, rough game.
Speaker 3: Right, I think, But listen, In order for that to happen,
Speaker 3: hypothetically speaking, yes, they would have to have they would
Speaker 3: have to play horrendous. Everybody would have to be shooting
Speaker 3: horrible from the field. Steph threes wouldn't be falling. Lebron
Speaker 3: really can't get it going. Anthony Evers can't have no
Speaker 3: he's off rhythm, KD not efficient, from the field. I
Speaker 3: just don't see it happening. Even though I understand what
Speaker 3: you're saying. I understand the analogies.
Speaker 4: Never underestimate your opponent, never overestimate yourselves. But it ain't.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't see it happen.
Speaker 3: I see the players raising their level of play, understanding
Speaker 3: it is a knockout stage and not giving anyone a
Speaker 3: chance to even contend or give us that feeling that
Speaker 3: we even have a chance to lose. And I think
Speaker 3: they'll make a statement when they do play. But who
Speaker 3: they play coming up, Yeah, when they play Serbia, I
Speaker 3: think they're gonna make a statement to let to let
Speaker 3: folks know, to let us know we ain't got nothing
Speaker 3: to worry about stayside.
Speaker 1: Plus, also, Joe, you got to realize the whole country
Speaker 1: team is still in it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Home Cookie?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, I heard her home cooking.
Speaker 3: But you come on, now, don't don't don't do me
Speaker 3: like that. No, I'm just saying, And I understand you
Speaker 3: have to play defense. You got to play defense, you know.
Speaker 1: But no, no, look, I'm just saying, I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: naive enough to believe that on a griven moment. Any
Speaker 1: think it happened one game? Do I believe any of
Speaker 1: these teams could beat this team could beat the US
Speaker 1: team four out of seven?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Right, Oh, now give a night.
Speaker 4: Oh so you said to give a night.
Speaker 1: Okay, somebody get hot. We don't believe it. If it's
Speaker 1: still it's just for you goes for fifty twenty ten.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that ain't had maybe on two k, maybe
Speaker 4: on two k parents.
Speaker 3: And I mean he's capable of doing it when we
Speaker 3: see him in.
Speaker 4: The NBA atmosphere, that's different.
Speaker 3: You got to understand the players that are surrounding him
Speaker 3: when he's able to put up fifty fifty whatever that
Speaker 3: whatever the stat line you just put up is. But
Speaker 3: now in this atmosphere you have great plea. He doesn't
Speaker 3: have those elite players surrounding him. He has one one
Speaker 3: of two guys on this team that can contend and
Speaker 3: challenge those on the US team.
Speaker 4: But no, I don't.
Speaker 5: He doesn't need to have that kind of talent.
Speaker 1: He just need to have guys to understand how to
Speaker 1: play international ball, which he has, which they've played together
Speaker 1: more than this team. Remember they put this team together.
Speaker 1: This team has only been together a month?
Speaker 4: Month?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, how.
Speaker 1: Long you think how long you think the Serbian teams
Speaker 1: been playing together off and on?
Speaker 4: By probably hey listen, probably since they would look kid exact.
Speaker 3: Probably they probably came up through the same academy, the
Speaker 3: same you you know, you know how that goes over
Speaker 3: that week.
Speaker 1: That's why I mean, look at shrewd Truder was was
Speaker 1: feever player MVP? Mm hmm, I got this, that's I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean he or overestimated his hand because the Lakers
Speaker 1: had eighty four million.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he said, no, you've been playing kind of.
Speaker 1: Like mid level except chefs exceptions or ten you know,
Speaker 1: ten million dollars deal when he could have had twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars. But that's not have a question, Go ahead,
Speaker 1: I have a question you wouldn't know better than me.
Speaker 1: The fact that he that he turned down that eighty
Speaker 1: four million. Is there a chance he can still get
Speaker 1: it now? Or is that gone?
Speaker 5: That ain't happening. He's not getting one hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 4: That's not happening, even with the way he's playing now.
Speaker 1: Nope, nope.
Speaker 3: Hey, sometimes they tell you to better yourself. This is
Speaker 3: one of the first cases we're betting on yourself and
Speaker 3: then go right.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing, oh Joe, we only hear that,
Speaker 1: We only hear the successes. Or I bet on myself
Speaker 1: and I turned to well what happens when you bet
Speaker 1: on your You know, you bet on yourself and you
Speaker 1: and it doesn't go accordingly. But but I love what
Speaker 1: I saw today. I love the way they moved the
Speaker 1: ball right. Thirty one assist o joh, only eleven turnovers,
Speaker 1: did a good job on the glass, forty six rebounds
Speaker 1: out rebounds of them by twelve eleven offensive rebounds. You
Speaker 1: can live with that. It's gonna be hard the US
Speaker 1: team play like this. You let them shoot fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent from the floor. You're not beating them. You're not
Speaker 1: beating You're not beating them. They shot forty eight, well,
Speaker 1: almost forty nine percent from the three. You're not beating Americans.
Speaker 1: You love them, you one hundred and twenty two points.
Speaker 1: You not beating them like that? Yeah, Oh, Joelnbi didn't
Speaker 1: play the entire second half, so he got nick before
Speaker 1: the half.
Speaker 5: I think they were twenty seven at the half.
Speaker 1: I think they were up like what sixty three thirty
Speaker 1: six something like that. I think it seemed there was
Speaker 1: no doubt. Although we know the Serbians came back and
Speaker 1: beat the Australians. They were down by twenty four and
Speaker 1: they came back and beat them in overtime. But once
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I'm looking at like like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was like, nah, this a rap.
Speaker 5: Now, just make sure nobody in a game like this.
Speaker 1: Oh, Joe, you trying to make sure nobody gets injured,
Speaker 1: you know, he come, hey, come on, Lebron, Hey, Kurby.
Speaker 5: Book, come on, come on, hey, y'all take it over, guys.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a great all around performance, very unselfish. Uh,
Speaker 1: they was. You know, Lebron had nine assists. Obviously some
Speaker 1: great passes to Jason Tatum. But I like this, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be off for tough to beat this team if
Speaker 1: they played like this night. You have a little something
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Speaker 4: Damn while we came.
Speaker 5: Because I like our monetization.
Speaker 4: But okay, my bad, My bad, not bad, I'm bad.
Speaker 1: Look, we know what Kevin Durant is. Would I be
Speaker 1: surprised if KD isn't on the team in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised at all. It's only four years,
Speaker 1: and I know KD. What that'll be year twenty two?
Speaker 1: I think KD is a year to be your well
Speaker 1: will be year twenty one or twenty two for KD
Speaker 1: in twenty eight?
Speaker 4: How how old is he?
Speaker 1: KD? What thirty five, thirty six? He's thirty five or
Speaker 1: thirty six? Thirty five? So in four years thirty nine?
Speaker 1: Hell Lebron forty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if if it's body holds up, I
Speaker 3: mean he should be able to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's be able to, So yeah, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised at all, O Joe, if he's there trying to
Speaker 1: go for a fifth gold potential fifth gold medal if
Speaker 1: they were to go out and close out business and
Speaker 1: do it they're supposed to do in this situation. But right,
Speaker 1: ben Well deserved. We know he's the greatest scorer in
Speaker 1: Olympic history. Now he's the all time leading scorer and
Speaker 1: men's he's the all time leading scorer in Olympic history. Right,
Speaker 1: not just US history, Olympic Historyscar Schmidt, US men and women.
Speaker 1: Oscar Schmidt might be number one from the Brazil. Look
Speaker 1: look at Brazil because he's the one that that that
Speaker 1: made the US go get what do you putting that
Speaker 1: outstanding performance on them? We dropped forty eight on the head.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, if kd Well, if the Brazilian is
Speaker 3: the greatest Olympic scorer, yes, right, I have a question.
Speaker 3: Is kad the greatest NBA scorer of all time?
Speaker 4: In your estimate?
Speaker 1: What you think? I mean, until somebody average fifty four season,
Speaker 1: four four seasons, like we'll will average forty four, average
Speaker 1: fifty forty four, thirty eight. He's a man ever just
Speaker 1: scoring forty four thousand points in the season. It all depends,
Speaker 1: It all depends. Is he the most efficient score. Right.
Speaker 1: I mean people keep saying, so what is lebron if
Speaker 1: one guy has the most points ever been scored, any
Speaker 1: shoots that are high percent? And what we asked about, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's apples, the orangest. Is it Kobe? If
Speaker 1: it Jordan, is it James Harden. Look, we've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like Kevin Durant. A guy that's seven foot tall,
Speaker 1: can put the ball on the floor, can shoot the three.
Speaker 1: He's grad at the mid range. He doesn't fall in
Speaker 1: love with the three, even though he's good from that distance.
Speaker 1: He'll get to the mid range. He can put the
Speaker 1: ball on the floor, get all the way to the
Speaker 1: rim and if your follow, me's gonna make ninety percent
Speaker 1: of his shots. He's very unique in that way. And
Speaker 1: so I mean, analytics, it all depends on what you're
Speaker 1: looking for. Jordan had the mid range. Jordan didn't have
Speaker 1: a three point shot like this. Kobe didn't have a
Speaker 1: three shot like Kevin Durant.
Speaker 4: Right, But when they did shoot from the three, they
Speaker 4: were official though.
Speaker 1: No, they shot Kobe was like thirty four thirty three percent,
Speaker 1: Jordan was like thirty three thirty two percent. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: they weren't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's bad, okay.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, the fact that you just mentioned Jordan
Speaker 3: somebody on Twitter earlier, right, matter of fact, right before
Speaker 3: we start the show. They made a comment. I told
Speaker 3: him that it would be at the top of the show.
Speaker 3: But the fact that you brought up Jordan and you
Speaker 3: would be you would be able to answer it better
Speaker 3: than me. He said, Michael Jordan could not playing today's NBA.
Speaker 3: He would just be an average player.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 3: I just just yeah, listen, that's what That's what they said.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what they're basing that off of. And
Speaker 3: they and then his follow up was the players in
Speaker 3: today's era are much more athletically gifted as opposed to
Speaker 3: what Jordan had to face. I don't know from a
Speaker 3: basketball standpoint. My knowledge isn't as great as yours. I
Speaker 3: just want to hear a short answer on what you think.
Speaker 5: I disagree with you, Okay.
Speaker 4: So even though.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say, he's gonna add I mean maybe,
Speaker 1: because but it's hard to average that without the three ball.
Speaker 1: It depends and knowing Jordan, like we know him, he's
Speaker 1: gonna work on that shot because now you can't follow him.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to hand check below the below
Speaker 1: the free throw lot, and you can't arm, but they
Speaker 1: let your armball. They let you used to put your
Speaker 1: forearm in the guy's back, Dan, Right, No matter what,
Speaker 1: they're just more.
Speaker 5: I would explain it like that.
Speaker 1: So, Joe, when I played in the NF, there were
Speaker 1: only a couple of tight ends that can do what
Speaker 1: I do. Yes, there are a lot more guys that
Speaker 1: are as athletic. I'm not saying they're Jordan, but as athletic. Right,
Speaker 1: do I believe that the skill level there are more
Speaker 1: skilled players now playing than they were back then. Yes,
Speaker 1: just like there are the players now they starting out,
Speaker 1: Oh yo with what that seven o seven camp? They
Speaker 1: going to seven o seven at eight nine years old?
Speaker 1: Known football camps?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: And we first of all, if they were we ain't
Speaker 1: had no money, you ain't going on universe. And Jordan,
Speaker 1: that's fifty dollars seventy five dollars?
Speaker 5: Who got that?
Speaker 1: So Jordan was gonna be Jordan. I mean, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: and I'll say it like this. Great players mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Great player Jordan is a historically great player, a transend
Speaker 1: in any era.
Speaker 3: No matter, that's a good answer.
Speaker 4: That's a good answer.
Speaker 1: I like that, Oh Joe. For the game, Devin Brooker
Speaker 1: said he still doesn't see out of eye with no allows.
Speaker 1: I still don't agree with the comment. I feel like
Speaker 1: all the best talent in the world is in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And that's coming from an Olympic gold mellist who believe
Speaker 1: that being in the NBA champion it's probably harder to do. Devin,
Speaker 1: this was a move point. It was bad. We had
Speaker 1: put this to bed.
Speaker 3: Why he's bringing it up.
Speaker 5: Yes, and I disagree with you.
Speaker 1: It is not harder because you know why, because you
Speaker 1: can play, you cannot run. If anything below your waist
Speaker 1: is bother you, you ain't winning. We've seen guys with toes,
Speaker 1: with arches, with kiles. We've seen guys be able to
Speaker 1: take things up and play. We've seen guys play with
Speaker 1: broken legs. We've seen guys played with what the R
Speaker 1: rate half a just located al boat.
Speaker 4: Ah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: I saw a guy in the Rams, Jack Youngblood, played
Speaker 1: with a broken leg. Tell me what what what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do in track and field with a broken leg?
Speaker 1: You tell me what Olympic sports you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do with a broken leg, devid not.
Speaker 3: You know, I think I think track. I think track
Speaker 3: athletes they do have injuries. The injuries are minimal, and
Speaker 3: their injuries that they can.
Speaker 1: You're not winning.
Speaker 4: They can they can suppress the compete.
Speaker 6: You can't win though you cannot win if anything. Hey,
Speaker 6: but think about it. At that level, we talk about
Speaker 6: the best of the best, the athletes.
Speaker 3: You think they're athletes in Paris that might not be
Speaker 3: injured or might not might have a little knicks.
Speaker 1: And because it's so eat, Remember what did Justin Gallan say?
Speaker 1: Nine seven?
Speaker 5: Ain't catching nine seven?
Speaker 1: So if I if I run nine if I run
Speaker 1: nine eight and you run nine eight and you injured,
Speaker 1: how you beat me?
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: But you know what, see my football since it's coming
Speaker 3: in sothing about when you get.
Speaker 4: To the playoffs.
Speaker 3: When you get to the playoffs, hell, everybody on the
Speaker 3: team is nicked up. Everybody heard at that point, especially
Speaker 3: that far into the season. So when I think about track,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking all you've done, the qualifying, the prelams, it's
Speaker 3: always something you're not one hundred percent healthy. So I'm
Speaker 3: always thinking a's track athletes to get the wear and
Speaker 3: tear of your body to even get to the point
Speaker 3: the qualifying, the being got damn Paris, And I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: maybe there's always something not enough to affect you and
Speaker 3: winning a race, but it's not one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 4: I could be wrong, No, I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: You ain't winning nothing in track and field because everything
Speaker 1: is is leg dominated unless you're a shooter. Now if
Speaker 1: you go saying if you shooting, I got a whull
Speaker 1: hamstring and I'm a shooter and I'm doing archery. But
Speaker 1: if I'm swimming, if I'm doing gymnastics, if I'm running
Speaker 1: most of the summer Olympics, is that it's leg dominated.
Speaker 5: Is from wasting out? What what if you nick and
Speaker 5: hear the faith.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you can't compete, but like you said,
Speaker 1: the levels are so, here's so, here is so even.
Speaker 5: Look a fake about this.
Speaker 1: Look at the look at the time, the distance, Look
Speaker 1: at the time differential between first and field.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you think a guy can be hurt?
Speaker 4: And when when?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Left? When when? The talent is right here? Everything
Speaker 1: is right here. It's down the thousands of a second the.
Speaker 4: Second, the margin of era margin are so slim.
Speaker 1: I got you. We're gonna have special guess tomorrow we
Speaker 1: can ask him. We're gonna ladies and gentlem I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ahead and put let that rabbit out of the rabbit
Speaker 1: out bag and a cat out the hat or whatever
Speaker 1: the case, the cat out the baggy right now, I
Speaker 1: gotta be t sound like Oho, we're gonna have former
Speaker 1: real world record holder and the four hundred meters, the
Speaker 1: two hundred meters, two time Olympic gold medal in the
Speaker 1: four hundred the only man who that Michael Johnson.
Speaker 4: Oh, we got Mike come on the shore. That's gold Man.
Speaker 3: So Michael Johnson, I got a story about I got
Speaker 3: a story about Mike, but I ain't because I aint
Speaker 3: gonna bring it.
Speaker 4: I a't gonna say it because you ain't gonna believe me.
Speaker 4: He ain't gonna believe me. So I'm gonna let him
Speaker 4: tell you.
Speaker 1: So damn he'll he'll explain it to you in the running,
Speaker 1: because that's the thing. Can I get enough races in
Speaker 1: my leg? We see I get you prime example, look
Speaker 1: at a thing more.
Speaker 4: She Oh ay, she's the real deal in eight hundred.
Speaker 1: Boy, we see that. When it's close and you injured them,
Speaker 1: girls beat you. Girls would never beat her when she's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent here.
Speaker 4: Oh no, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: So but you know what, her injury was significant though,
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken, there was a hamstring.
Speaker 1: Right, it was, and she didn't get the training in.
Speaker 1: So now you don't get the training in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and injuries ain't nothing to play with.
Speaker 1: To be able to turn over and to go through
Speaker 1: the rounds.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Maybe if the Diamond League meet, they paying you to
Speaker 1: come over, you just won and one running one rate.
Speaker 1: But when you got to go through rounds, it's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult. That's why. And the expectations,
Speaker 1: that's why you tip your hat off to the favorite.
Speaker 5: You say, vote every year. He went to the Olympics.
Speaker 1: He was the favorite in one hundred and the two
Speaker 1: hundred and the weight of the expectations. And his country
Speaker 1: they they they wait four years for the Olympics. Their guy.
Speaker 1: He had the weight of a country on his back.
Speaker 1: Some of these athletes have the weight of a country.
Speaker 1: We have basketball, we have football, we have soccer, we
Speaker 1: have so many other sports.
Speaker 5: But a lot of these countries.
Speaker 1: They hang their homes. These men and women are national heroes.
Speaker 1: I can imagine the welcome that Julian offer is gonna
Speaker 1: get when she goes back to Sa Lusia. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a country. Listen, I understand when they go back
Speaker 1: to their their their hometowns. I'm sure they're going to
Speaker 1: get a ticket tape parade.
Speaker 4: It's different that different different country.
Speaker 1: Different you saying boat is the most popular Jamaican times over,
Speaker 1: whoever you thought the most the popular Jamaican was other
Speaker 1: than Bob Marley.
Speaker 6: Bob Marley, yeah, yeah, yeah, number two.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So and they hang their they hang they hang
Speaker 1: everything on their Men's and women track team. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: conducive and they're revealing, like why Jamaica because of the climate.
Speaker 1: It's conducive. Look at the states that produced the fast
Speaker 1: Guy Texas the climate, Florida, climate, Georgia climate, California, a
Speaker 1: climate Jamaica. You can go to Jamaica. You're right, you
Speaker 1: might have a storm here or there, but the weather
Speaker 1: is ideal. Right, the Kenyons, Well, why did it's perfect?
Speaker 1: Your bove altitude. You're training about seven thousand feet so
Speaker 1: when you come lungs of flair, Yeah, oxygen. That's why
Speaker 1: you're getting a hyperbaric chamber. Because hyperbaric chamber is altitude.
Speaker 1: That's why they sleeping those they train in that, O Joe,
Speaker 1: they're running, they're sleeping in that. That's why they go
Speaker 1: to where's the Olympic training facility for the US attracted?
Speaker 1: Colorado Springs elevation over seven thousand feet, right, So that's great,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great catching up with a with Mike.
Speaker 5: Oh, Mike, O Joe.
Speaker 1: Gaby Thomas wins gold in the two hundred meters with
Speaker 1: a time of twenty one to eight to two, the
Speaker 1: first American since Allison Felix did it in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Julian our for one hundred meter champ from Saint Lucia
Speaker 1: got set got won the silver, and Britney Brown in
Speaker 1: the US got the bronze medal. Thomas, who's twenty seven,
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest stars in the sport that
Speaker 1: has yet they claim a gold medal. She took the
Speaker 1: bronze in the ben in Tokyo behind Jamaica's Elaine Thompson
Speaker 1: Herra and the Mibias Christine Mambo Mamba. Yeah, as well
Speaker 1: as silver in the four hundred meter relay. Oh they
Speaker 1: beat us, damn yeah, I would say yeah, hell yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Now beat We beat them in the in the World Championship.
Speaker 1: I think they beat us in the Olympics for the
Speaker 1: simple fact man, think about who they had. They had
Speaker 1: Elaine Thompson Harrold who had just run ten sixty one,
Speaker 1: Brazen Price who's running ten sixty, Shrika Jackson, who's like sixty.
Speaker 1: So hell, they could have threw ash on there and
Speaker 1: as long as you don't fall, they gonna at least
Speaker 1: get the silver. But we paid the ass. We paid
Speaker 1: Dass back when in the World Championships. But Gabby is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: She graduated Harvard in neurobiology. I think she got a
Speaker 1: masters degree in epidemiology. Yeah, she's station.
Speaker 4: She went to Harvard too.
Speaker 5: She went to Harvard two damn that's crazy, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 5: and she ran she ran that turn because a lot
Speaker 5: of time, Oh Joe, she alally gag and then turn
Speaker 5: it on on.
Speaker 1: She ran that spread.
Speaker 5: If I'm the if.
Speaker 1: I'm the US team, Ojoe, Yeah, I'm putting ass on
Speaker 1: the four on the four by four, and what leg
Speaker 1: it I'll put it.
Speaker 5: I'll probably put that.
Speaker 4: You can't say any lag because you know she carries
Speaker 4: on the four.
Speaker 5: No, she run the third that I'm saying the four.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure her and sitting in with Glachlin LIBRONI,
Speaker 1: they're both on that team, putting on there. She can
Speaker 1: run some fifty. Yeah, I am putting her on that team.
Speaker 4: Matter of fact of anything, because she's so good. I'm
Speaker 4: not I don't know if the four hundred is her
Speaker 4: expertise or her the fact that she thought about moving up. Listen,
Speaker 4: I would put it. I would put on the first
Speaker 4: leg just to open up everything, just to open it
Speaker 4: up to get us a lead.
Speaker 1: Well, I know there there, Look, there ain't a whole
Speaker 1: lot of there's not a whole lot of teams that
Speaker 1: can try out four women that can run sub fifty.
Speaker 1: We have about six women over there that can all
Speaker 1: run sub fifty right on a fly. Sidney McLachlan can
Speaker 1: go sub forty eight. I've seen her do it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: The reason why I won't Gabby, Gabby is a doll
Speaker 1: and she will fight so even if even if, even
Speaker 1: if you know, like that's not her specialty, it is
Speaker 1: her specialty.
Speaker 5: Her specialty is winning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want her in what she has in
Speaker 1: her on that team. Try to think of the lady
Speaker 1: uh at the I can't think of the white lady.
Speaker 1: She ran second leg last year at there at the Olympics.
Speaker 1: She's one hundred meters and two of the meter specialists
Speaker 1: look up the Olympic team four by four.
Speaker 5: I can't think of her name.
Speaker 1: Oh man, and hey they put her on there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: split forty eight Gabby Thomas on the fly. She can
Speaker 1: run forty eight seconds, right, no, no, no, no. Last year,
Speaker 1: the last limb in Tokyo by four, dam no, the
Speaker 1: four by four in Tokyo, the winning team, it was
Speaker 1: d Lulah Muhammad.
Speaker 5: It was sending them with to lachlan. What was the
Speaker 5: second leg? Name? She also ran second leg on the
Speaker 5: four by one.
Speaker 6: Abby Steiner, ab Winter, Kentucky, Kentucky. Yeah, yeah, got that now, Gabby.
Speaker 6: Gabby is not the one hundred meters like like Abby
Speaker 6: is two hundred and four.
Speaker 1: She can do it. I'm putting Gabby Gabby Thomas, and
Speaker 1: I don't care whose feelings I hurt. I'm putting Gabby
Speaker 1: Thomas as a leg on the four by four. She's
Speaker 1: already gonna run third leg. And the thing is the
Speaker 1: question that I have is because all of our women
Speaker 1: have already qualified and we've already run one hundred and
Speaker 1: two hundred. Are we gonna try out the team that
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the we get the batons the batona
Speaker 1: a round. Are we gonna try out the team that
Speaker 1: we're gonna actually have in there for the finals? Because
Speaker 1: your carry is done, you carry's gonna run anchor right,
Speaker 1: Gabby's gonna run third leg. T t Terror probably runs
Speaker 1: second leg. Ulissa Jefferson will run first leg. Now the
Speaker 1: question is do we let you know, Mackenzie Long or
Speaker 1: do we let some of the other women you know
Speaker 1: okay or a chance? It's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how they play it. But that's one of the questions
Speaker 1: I want to ask, Mike, would you put Gabby Thomas
Speaker 1: on the leg of the four by four?
Speaker 5: We know she's gonna run third leg because she can
Speaker 5: run the curve.
Speaker 1: She's a two hundred meter specialist, so she can run
Speaker 1: the hell out the curve, so I want her there.
Speaker 4: You know what I got a question?
Speaker 3: Yes, let's say, for the sake of argument, hypothetically speaking, yes,
Speaker 3: no allows doubles. He doubles in the two hundred would
Speaker 3: go he doubles? I mean, he doubles go to two.
Speaker 3: So when the four by one comes up, right, yeah.
Speaker 5: He's gonna run.
Speaker 1: Do you do? You do?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 3: You let him triple it or they use one of
Speaker 3: the alternates that you have, well, the.
Speaker 1: Only reason you use the alternate, and you probably would
Speaker 1: because I think, look, fred Is is arrested, Christian Coleman
Speaker 1: is rested, Christian Coleman is gonna lead off, fred Is
Speaker 1: gonna run second leg. I would think that for the finals,
Speaker 1: that they get the baton and they have no miscues,
Speaker 1: Kenny would run third leg, and uh, obviously no one
Speaker 1: would bring it home. So Noah's gonna don't further fulfillable future.
Speaker 3: So you don't you don't you don't think allowing one
Speaker 3: of the altarates to come in allow them the opportunity
Speaker 3: to win gold.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that might, that might it all depey if but right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I'm just to me as this would be.
Speaker 3: This would almost be someone like like a Steve Kirr situation,
Speaker 3: allowing one of the alternates to get an opportunity to
Speaker 3: not only win the prize money, but give them a
Speaker 3: chance at a gold medal. Yeah, instead of just being
Speaker 3: all the way out there in Paris, for nothing as Okay,
Speaker 3: my alternate, maybe I might I might get a chance
Speaker 3: to run, I might not, but I would like my
Speaker 3: shot as well to say I con contributed after taking
Speaker 3: this long ass six hour flight to.
Speaker 1: Be thinking about it. Oh, Joe, we got two guys
Speaker 1: that poll that that was on the podium.
Speaker 5: M hm.
Speaker 1: On that relay team. Fred Curley got bronze. He's run
Speaker 1: nine seven six mm hmm. He's a world champ in
Speaker 1: one hundred meters. He got the silver medal in the
Speaker 1: last Olympics. We got kenneb and there he's running nine
Speaker 1: to eighty seven mm hm. He's gonna be in the
Speaker 1: finals of the of the two hundred. Uh so we
Speaker 1: Christian Coleman is the greatest starter in history, especially in
Speaker 1: American history. Now you want to take Ben, uh you
Speaker 1: know they they they Ben could actually beat the beat
Speaker 1: the gun. So now, because the the blocks have census
Speaker 1: in them, if you go zero point zero, he would
Speaker 1: be actually.
Speaker 5: He was like.
Speaker 1: And out of there. He was thrown. Yeah. So now
Speaker 1: they got censors in the blocks and if you go
Speaker 1: faster than that, they're gonna dig it.
Speaker 5: DQ.
Speaker 1: You but going to get us off to a great start.
Speaker 3: Hey think about this. I think obviously, I'm just this
Speaker 3: is hypothetical. Imagine if Fred Curley, Noah Allows, Christian Coleman,
Speaker 3: Kung Fu Kenny.
Speaker 4: Think about it. If they knew how to play football.
Speaker 3: They they were fast as they are, but had the
Speaker 3: skill set in the control to be able to play
Speaker 3: the game of football.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine? Can you imagine?
Speaker 3: I look think I think about Raheem Moster. Take Raheem
Speaker 3: Moster off the Dolphins and put one of them as
Speaker 3: a running back.
Speaker 4: Imagine him hidding.
Speaker 5: The age played football.
Speaker 4: I know. That's why I say hypothetically.
Speaker 3: I'm just just thinking, what if they had the skill
Speaker 3: set but still had the speed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how crazy would that be? Every time they touched
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 1: Now you look at Bob Hayes. Bob Hayes played football
Speaker 1: at Florida A and M. You see it, and you
Speaker 1: see the way he was built. He was a running back.
Speaker 1: They drafted him, the Cowboys drafted him with the eighty
Speaker 1: eight overall, with the holes that he would give up
Speaker 1: track and field. Nah, it is like, okay, a money come.
Speaker 1: Remember Jesse Owens, he wasn't one hundred, the two hundred,
Speaker 1: the long jump and the four by one, and when
Speaker 1: it came home he had to raise horses to make
Speaker 1: a living. Yeah. Yeah, Bob Hayes said, that ain't gonna
Speaker 1: happen to me. I go right into the NFL. They
Speaker 1: paid forty fifty one hundred thousand a year. Let me
Speaker 1: go and get that money. If they had played football early, right,
Speaker 1: But if you, if you, I don't know, how have
Speaker 1: you've seen they failed? They thin?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, no, yeah, they're small now they small, one
Speaker 6: sixty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm just thinking, I'm just thinking, imagine I
Speaker 3: should have said a receiver then, because one sixty five
Speaker 3: and running back, Ain't that ain't happening.
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm just.
Speaker 1: Trying to ask you them.
Speaker 3: I'm just hey, I'm just trying to picture them breaking
Speaker 3: into the open and players thinking, oh, I'm gonna catch
Speaker 3: because I got an a Oh no, and it don't
Speaker 3: oh and it don't even work.
Speaker 1: No, I've been fortunate. I was in the league when
Speaker 1: Sam Graddy Dotter. Yeah, he won the silver medal in
Speaker 1: the eighty four Olympics. He's from He was moving like that. Hey,
Speaker 1: how tall was that out? Probably about five eight, probably
Speaker 1: about was sixty five.
Speaker 4: Oh, he was taller than Tyreek.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, he got a height on it.
Speaker 5: Okay, they could fly James Jet. I was in the
Speaker 5: league with James Jet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, run on his toes. James run on his toes.
Speaker 1: Man, that you'll call a shallow cross on us.
Speaker 4: You out of there? What a safety was that?
Speaker 1: What you think? Where? Try not to get? Try not
Speaker 1: to get on this highlight tape. That's what the safety was. Hell,
Speaker 1: I don't blame it. God, y'all talk about Xavier Howards
Speaker 1: won sixty five. Xavier Howard played football?
Speaker 4: Wait, you mean Xavier Worthy worried?
Speaker 5: Excuse me play football?
Speaker 1: Anybody the guy that's never played a sport and say,
Speaker 1: you know what said, Well, Julius Peppers played basketball, but
Speaker 1: Julius Peppers played football, and Toyo Gates had played football,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Braham had played football.
Speaker 3: And you think, you think about how fast Xavier Worthy
Speaker 3: is based on the combined time, he come in dead
Speaker 3: last with him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, they had last.
Speaker 3: And it just it's a difference in football speed and
Speaker 3: then elite elite track speed. That's why I would just
Speaker 3: I would just want to see it. I just want
Speaker 3: to see somebody breaking the open and just see it
Speaker 3: because it's a it's a sight to see when Chris Johnson,
Speaker 3: when they used to give Chris Johnson that that pit,
Speaker 3: that that pitch, that second and that second level.
Speaker 4: Mess man, you might might strike up the band.
Speaker 1: Y'all remember what y'all remember? Run remember Mina?
Speaker 4: You remember?
Speaker 1: You remember? Yeah? I remember. I'm mold enough to remember.
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember. He tried football because they
Speaker 1: boycotted the eighty Olympics. He was the face to win
Speaker 1: the hurdles, but they boycotted. He said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play football. Well, he didn't have football instincts.
Speaker 1: On the shallow cross oo on the.
Speaker 4: You must have ran o he ran tow own.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he would right back the track and field. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I mean like it's it's it's subtle nuances.
Speaker 1: Yeah had if they had a background, like and I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about no Pop Warner, but I'm saying, let's
Speaker 1: just say they played high school at the collegiate level.
Speaker 1: I think Area Nighting, Area Knighton played football. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he gave it up. God, you know he was so
Speaker 1: good at track, which I don't blame it, mm hmm,
Speaker 1: but that that's what you're right, that's a different level
Speaker 1: of speed. You gotta say, I don't know how many
Speaker 1: people have ever been to a professional track meet to
Speaker 1: watch him or to watch a practice.
Speaker 5: Then you get an appreciation.
Speaker 1: Station for yeah, to just how fast they are, because
Speaker 1: you think Tyreek, every guy that's on that track. If Tyreek,
Speaker 1: so let that thing here, you know how fast Tyreek is.
Speaker 1: Yeah they got they got thirty five forty Tyreeks that
Speaker 1: ran in the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Yeah but wait, faster, yes, yeah, faster, yes, unbelieved.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's impressive about Tyreek is a man with
Speaker 1: his musculut tret able to run that fast. I had
Speaker 1: Tyreek dropped like thirty he's too heavy now coming in
Speaker 1: dead right last. But but if he's like one sixty
Speaker 1: five maybe yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, he gets.
Speaker 3: Out, especially if he trained, Yeah oh yeah, but he
Speaker 3: hasn't just naturally he's naturally gifted, naturally fast. If you
Speaker 3: add the training that they.
Speaker 1: Go through, man, he might want to go back in
Speaker 1: football because they are. They don't run that much in
Speaker 1: football compared to what they do in track. The work, yeah,
Speaker 1: the work got to beat them two fifties. I listen,
Speaker 1: I went, I went to Kentucky.
Speaker 3: I visited Kentucky to visit my daughter, and you know me,
Speaker 3: when it comes to competing, I can't sit still.
Speaker 4: So I get out there and I want to do
Speaker 4: the training. I want to do the training with him. Man.
Speaker 3: I did two. I did two two fifties, and I
Speaker 3: thought it was over. And then they had the four
Speaker 3: hundred and you had to do the four hundred. They
Speaker 3: had two four hundred, You had to do the four
Speaker 3: hundred and a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, everything is time, bab. There's nothing
Speaker 1: that you just running, Ojo. You ain't just running. Everything
Speaker 1: is time.
Speaker 3: I told I told coach man, I appreciate the opportunity, man,
Speaker 3: but I'm going ahead and sit over here and watch.
Speaker 1: If you're a four hundred meter runner, you're probably running
Speaker 1: six hundred. You running a lot of sixes. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you want to be up that endure it and the strength. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to build up that doors. You want to
Speaker 1: build up that strength. And you're not getting a whole
Speaker 1: lot of rest time. You probably you're running six hundred meters.
Speaker 1: They probably got you turning around in four minutes running
Speaker 1: another one. I don't want no part of that, man.
Speaker 1: Oh that's them track workouts. And I thought I thought
Speaker 1: we were doing something because we oh Joe, you know,
Speaker 1: we run hundreds. We run you know, one ten sprints,
Speaker 1: were running like to run it like the wire receivers
Speaker 1: running back. You're running fourteen you're running fourteen seconds. Get
Speaker 1: forty you run fourteen seconds, right, forty five second break
Speaker 1: taking rest?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: And we would run two hundreds. We would finish in
Speaker 1: about thirty seconds. We take two minutes breaks thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: So we'd run around the track and then we walked
Speaker 1: the time there to take us to get back over there.
Speaker 1: We take off again. Yeah, we run five, we'd rest,
Speaker 1: you know, three minutes, run another five rest, three minutes
Speaker 1: running over five.
Speaker 4: Boy, I remember them days.
Speaker 1: I don't want no more part of that.
Speaker 3: I remember we used to have Remember we had gases earlier,
Speaker 3: earlier in my career in the NFL. We had those
Speaker 3: gases sometime after practice, especially in training camp for those
Speaker 3: for those that didn't come into shape. Everybody had to
Speaker 3: suffer anyway, so they were gonna run us into shape. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you want to, you want to, you know, you
Speaker 3: got the time, you get the rest so you want
Speaker 3: to finish your gases, not very fast, but fast enough
Speaker 3: so you get enough time to rest based on the
Speaker 3: clock how much time you had the rest.
Speaker 4: So either way, you gotta work. You gotta work and
Speaker 4: you gotta run no matter what. But oh man, I'm
Speaker 4: so glad them days over.
Speaker 1: The worst kind of tied to be is out of
Speaker 1: shape tire. You know what I'm saying, ought Joe. That's why,
Speaker 1: Oh you're not gonna get me, because that was they
Speaker 1: found out you tired. Now they're gonna get you. Now
Speaker 1: you mess message the hamstring, you're gonna mess. So I
Speaker 1: make sure I came. I'm talking about the peak conditioning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's that's that's a terrible feeling local to be
Speaker 1: out of shit. I felt bad for some of my teammates,
Speaker 1: and some of my teammates, you know, they didn't make
Speaker 1: you know, they were overweight and they'd have to run hunting.
Speaker 1: But a lot of it.
Speaker 5: I would run with.
Speaker 1: Them, right, They're like, hey, you better, you better ask
Speaker 1: eighty four is you're gonna run with you know what?
Speaker 1: He keep it from running by yourself. I run with you.
Speaker 5: I run with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why, you know, that's another thing I don't
Speaker 3: like with that. It's one thing to be in shape.
Speaker 3: It's the one that it's one thing to think you're
Speaker 3: in shape. It's one thing to think you're in football shape.
Speaker 3: The way we train in off season, and then there's
Speaker 3: a football shape when you're in an organized, structured environment, being.
Speaker 4: Pushed in with the pads on, if the pads on.
Speaker 3: That's why I hate when teams don't have players in
Speaker 3: training camp and they're holding out for money and all this. Listen,
Speaker 3: you can't make up for that type of training by yourself.
Speaker 1: It's different.
Speaker 3: You're thinking you in shape, you're doing all this training
Speaker 3: in the off season, you're getting the training camp and
Speaker 3: on the second and third day you saw from head
Speaker 3: to toe.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Because it's different.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how it do't matter how much you trained,
Speaker 3: how hard you train in the structuring environment is different.
Speaker 3: When people are pulling and pushing on you and you're
Speaker 3: having it, you're having the dodge, folks.
Speaker 4: You can't implement that kind of training. You can't you.
Speaker 1: Get in football shape by playing football football. You get
Speaker 1: in basketball shape playing basketball. Ceed Lamb.
Speaker 4: I don't like what Dallas is doing right And then.
Speaker 3: Because brand Brandon not you. You know you didn't want
Speaker 3: to pay the man in the first place.
Speaker 1: Why wait this long?
Speaker 4: Why wait this long?
Speaker 5: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Now you got to go to another team whenever he
Speaker 3: does get traded. You got to learn a new playbook.
Speaker 3: Even if you are implemented and you're gonna be the
Speaker 3: ex you're gonna be the zas whatever it may be.
Speaker 4: Still, now you got to play yourself into shape. Even
Speaker 4: if you think you in shape, you not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh ya don't know how y'all ran Gassers because okay,
Speaker 1: the way we ran him, we run over.
Speaker 4: We did sideline, the sideline.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, so just what we did. It's got to
Speaker 1: Savannah State. Coach say, only got fifty five sixty uniforms.
Speaker 1: Oh joe, we had like one hundred and ten, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen twenty players on the football team. On
Speaker 1: the football team, goddamn, coach, say, I gotta trim the fat.
Speaker 4: So we so use the gases to do it. Oh
Speaker 4: that's not fair, that's not fair.
Speaker 1: Oh Joe. So over, everybody, get over. Okay, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: back right over back over over, back over back.
Speaker 5: We went to eight.
Speaker 2: Ay.
Speaker 4: Ay, it's only supposed to be down back twice.
Speaker 1: That's it over back over back over. That's it back
Speaker 1: over back.
Speaker 5: That's one. We did that twice.
Speaker 1: Oh don't we practice, nah oh Joe right hand before God,
Speaker 1: oh Joe, about eleven o'clock at night. Man, you have
Speaker 1: heard all them footlocker slamon calls, cranking out. They are
Speaker 1: out of me, They out of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, came back the next day.
Speaker 1: We was down to seventy five players, from one fifteen
Speaker 1: to one twenty seventy five.
Speaker 4: Just that could imagine. I can imagine. That's that's that's
Speaker 4: more torture. Though before we were thinking about that.
Speaker 1: And then we had three hour practice in the sun
Speaker 1: is Savannah. You're from Savannah, y'all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 5: Ojo?
Speaker 1: Now you know your boy, you know I'm running on
Speaker 1: the track. I just you know, in this track season.
Speaker 1: So you know I've been shaped for plus o Joe,
Speaker 1: I ain't about one hundred and eighty two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty three pounds back then, back then my freshman year. Right,
Speaker 1: so I already know how coach we come in, Coach
Speaker 1: gonna get I'm prime, and so you know that they
Speaker 1: try to break, you know, they're gonna try to break it.
Speaker 5: See back then, it is different.
Speaker 1: Now, Oh Joe, I don't know if you got this,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna try to break you first.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I know you're talking about we
Speaker 4: got that.
Speaker 1: So the defensive coordinator, he was in charge of the whistle,
Speaker 1: so he blow the whistle. We take our running. You
Speaker 1: know me, we've been running by ten minutes, right, it's
Speaker 1: all quiet. Ere better, I said, I bet you get
Speaker 1: tired of blowing that whistle before I get tired of running.
Speaker 1: Now he was talking spicy. He blow the whistle, He
Speaker 1: blow the whistle. I said, I tell you what, run
Speaker 1: me till I drop it. Hey, So now my teammate,
Speaker 1: he just blowing the whistle. He blowing the whistle.
Speaker 4: Hey, go mad at you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he mad at me. But he don't know he
Speaker 1: hurting them because I already know. If it's hurting me,
Speaker 1: it's killing them. That's the way I trained. If it's
Speaker 1: hurting me, it's killing them. But I said, I tell
Speaker 1: you what, all I need you to do, coach run me.
Speaker 1: Just don't let the cafeteria your clothes because they gotta
Speaker 1: eat tonight. But keep on, let's keep running. He imagine
Speaker 1: I tell you what, you know, what happened my homeboy.
Speaker 1: But you see my homeboy, he gonna be in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: The head coach, coach David say, Joe, they done have enough.
Speaker 1: I said, See, I told you get tired of blowing
Speaker 1: that whistlefore I get tired of running. Hey.
Speaker 4: Hey, that's when a that's when you know you're in shape.
Speaker 1: Though you don't. I would put it like that.
Speaker 4: Damn some good days.
Speaker 1: You know what. I look back on it, I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: why the hell? That ain't no way, ain't no way.
Speaker 1: Now you could put those kids college or anybody that through.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no.
Speaker 4: Listen, the coaching is different, the coaching the way we
Speaker 4: were coaching.
Speaker 3: Listening about pop warn on, Yeah, ain't no Blahoma. What
Speaker 3: you know about Oklahoma drills? Man, I should know about
Speaker 3: Oklahoma drills.
Speaker 5: Come on and bully in the ring. Y'all play bully
Speaker 5: in the ring?
Speaker 4: You remember the bully?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And they called it Listen you in the ring and
Speaker 4: they call it number.
Speaker 5: I read, I ready, ready with your feet, come on
Speaker 5: with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hell, I remember them days. I know, I forget
Speaker 4: bullying the ring.
Speaker 3: Liberty City Optimists, This might have been ninety two or
Speaker 3: ninety three.
Speaker 4: What's the one where you're laying were laying your back?
Speaker 4: Oklaho Madrid. Yeah, man, listen, used to be nervous, his
Speaker 4: head a heartbeating fast. Oh man, it was some days. Listen.
Speaker 4: The coach back then, the coaching back then, it wouldn't
Speaker 4: even work today. All the coaches to be fired. The cussing,
Speaker 4: the screaming.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you I don't know how it
Speaker 3: was in Savannah, but you give people a better context
Speaker 3: if they saw the coaching, the coaching style.
Speaker 4: Remember the documentary of the Year of the Bull. You
Speaker 4: ever saw that the year the book? Man, Listen, it's
Speaker 4: different based on where we're from.
Speaker 3: I don't know how it is everywhere else, but out
Speaker 3: there in the city and Liberty City where I'm from.
Speaker 4: The coaching.
Speaker 5: Man, Man, I have a team, O Joe. I had
Speaker 5: a teammate.
Speaker 1: He was laying on the ground, try to get a
Speaker 1: rest because you don't hate like he was hurt. And
Speaker 1: the coach reached down there and grabbed him and snatched
Speaker 1: the dude jock five yeah you know you know h
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: He sneak it.
Speaker 1: Told clean off.
Speaker 4: But coach must have been strong as hell.
Speaker 1: Man. Look here, man, we were playing. We played the game.
Speaker 1: I forget who we played the whole Big Dad, Big
Speaker 1: Dad ain't gonna come. I had a teammate we call
Speaker 1: him Hill Minister. Now I call him big Daddy, but
Speaker 1: I do call him past the forward when I'm in
Speaker 1: his presence. But big ass big Daddy about this. So
Speaker 1: we played the game and one of the receivers didn't
Speaker 1: didn't get the plays that he thought he would get
Speaker 1: because he was the opposite of me. I was I started,
Speaker 1: I was the Z. They kind of rotated the other side,
Speaker 1: but I guess after the first and second quarter he
Speaker 1: wasn't doing what he's supposed to and uh, and he
Speaker 1: didn't get a play anymore. So Squirrel I was two,
Speaker 1: he was three. He finished the game, and so we
Speaker 1: ended up losing the game. And the dude and Coach
Speaker 1: Turner had his folded m hm, just like he's standing
Speaker 1: and Coach David was the head coach. Coach Turner was
Speaker 1: the office of coordinator. Coach Turner standing against the wall
Speaker 1: just like this here and the dude mumbling while Coach
Speaker 1: Davids talking. Man, right, I don't know what they're talking
Speaker 1: about he So he's saying it, but Coach Turner could
Speaker 1: hear it? Right? I know Coach Turner. I know he
Speaker 1: know Coach Turner too, because here a year.
Speaker 5: Older than me.
Speaker 1: Right, No, he two years older than me. He was
Speaker 1: a year after my brother. I said, oh boy, I'm
Speaker 1: saying to myself, you, oh Joe, you know how something coming? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you got man leeve, lease stop talking. He wasn't
Speaker 1: talking loud, but he was talking loud enough with Coach Turner.
Speaker 1: Couet hear it. And because I was standing close to
Speaker 1: Coach turn here, he said one more time.
Speaker 5: He's slapping him now five from it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he said, Man, he say, coach you see it,
Speaker 1: just slapped me.
Speaker 5: Coach turn and say, I'll do it again. You'll shut
Speaker 5: the f up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how the coach was back then. Black, that's
Speaker 3: how the coaching was back then.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, all that back talking and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh oh no, oh no. Look when Coach Davis came
Speaker 1: to recruit me, he he's like, son, if I was
Speaker 1: in the NFL, if I had a number one draft pick,
Speaker 1: yess my number one overall draft pick. Yeah, he said, son,
Speaker 1: how you how how? How how did how did you, coach, coach,
Speaker 1: I said, coach, I want to be coach, I said,
Speaker 1: but you can't curse me, real, I said, my grandmother
Speaker 1: never cursed me, right, I said, coach me hard.
Speaker 5: If I'm not doing.
Speaker 1: Something right, say, son, I need you to do it
Speaker 1: like this, coach I do, I said, if you curse me,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a problem. We get a new offensive coordinated.
Speaker 4: Eighty eight came in that curson, Oh Joe, So.
Speaker 1: You know up first, I'm the number one receiver, so
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, we go through the route tree, speed out,
Speaker 1: five yard dot, run it again, okay, cause you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I didn't speed out, maybe I planned it
Speaker 1: and broke out. Maybe you want to see it. So
Speaker 1: I I'm gonna fight that thing. Wow, run it again,
Speaker 1: you know me? Oh Joe, I'm football. That's my ticket
Speaker 1: out of here. All I'm thinking about. Hey, I ran
Speaker 1: it again, speed cut it, quarter back through it, got
Speaker 1: it turned up. Run it again. But the hell, I said, coach,
Speaker 1: I mean, what am I doing wrong? Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Run the moo route again.
Speaker 4: Oh shit?
Speaker 1: Hey, oh Joe, I ain't. I ain't changed word like
Speaker 1: my grandma says. I ain't changed words with it? Right?
Speaker 5: Who dropped him right there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I walked into the locker room right coach. Coach
Speaker 1: David said, hey, where are you going? I said, coach,
Speaker 1: he cursed me. I told him I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Coach David said, hey, he said, Brick, I told you
Speaker 1: don't f with that one I coached you. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: came to the locker room. He came out, O Joe.
Speaker 1: I was already well by the time they got there
Speaker 1: a practice because this at the give in the practice,
Speaker 1: I mean, I do win, got me some out of it.
Speaker 1: To the cafeteria eight. I played in my bed. You're like,
Speaker 1: this is it.
Speaker 4: I'm chilling, You're chilling, hold on, but I want to
Speaker 4: know now you got me. I'm all invested in the story.
Speaker 4: What the hell he made you run the goddamn speed out.
Speaker 1: I'm a big dog. He trying to get everybody attention,
Speaker 1: so he gonna he gonna coach.
Speaker 5: He gonna do that through me.
Speaker 4: Oh, so he trying to attack it, ass you just
Speaker 4: for no reason in front of everybody.
Speaker 1: Trying to show that I'm in control here. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get on him. He didn't realize him. You don't
Speaker 1: need to do that.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do what you asked me to do.
Speaker 1: Right right, But you can't curse me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know a well, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you could survive down here, broy, because hey, listen, the
Speaker 3: coaching here, whether it be the collegiate level I'm about
Speaker 3: even at um, whether it be or not that I
Speaker 3: went there.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just I just know high school level. Again.
Speaker 4: If you if you ever see the documentary of the
Speaker 4: Year of.
Speaker 3: The Bull, you got to tell ass to show you
Speaker 3: just the small little clips and you get to understanding
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. When I played at Liberty City Optimists,
Speaker 3: no in the innocence with them, with them coaches.
Speaker 4: It's about cursing. Yeah, man, listen, matter of fact, hold o.
Speaker 1: Joe, you know when you're in Little League and you
Speaker 1: coming up in high school, I mean that's so you
Speaker 1: know you didn't know any better, right right, right, right right.
Speaker 1: Everybody got the coaches, you know, all the coaches they
Speaker 1: coached everybody like that. But once I got to some
Speaker 1: size and I'm you know, coach Hall. Never coach Hall
Speaker 1: don't curse anyway. So Coach Hall my high school coach
Speaker 1: that's your coaching my mom. My mom graduated high school
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty. He caught all my uncles. My uncle
Speaker 1: started graduating in sixty six, sixty seven, sixty eight. He
Speaker 1: was the driver's ed teacher, so he like knew my family. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: but he didn't curse anyway, right, So tell your story
Speaker 1: each other, and then we're gonna get over to the fath.
Speaker 1: My grandfather obviously had a farm. You know, my oldest uncle,
Speaker 1: he already gone, he got a family, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But the boys, hey, they got to work at the farm. Okay, y'all. Hey,
Speaker 1: mister Barney, the boy really good. My oldest, my second
Speaker 1: oldest uncle named Barti Junior. They called him VJ. Then
Speaker 1: my next oldest uncle, Thurnman, and then James. So my
Speaker 1: grandfather told coach Hall, he said, Hall, I'm let these
Speaker 1: boys play football. Now. If something happened to one of them,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna come here and help me tend these fields. Hey,
Speaker 1: my grandma, they play now, Hey right? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: miss mister mister Poort, ain't nothing gonna happen to him.
Speaker 1: I give you my word, nothing gonna happen my young
Speaker 1: uncle broke his ankle. Ah, coach Haull know this. He
Speaker 1: already my grandfather had told him. So he's sending the
Speaker 1: assistant coach to take James home.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: He pull up there, get out of there. Oh, he
Speaker 1: hopping my grandfather meet him at the door. What the hell? Yeah,
Speaker 1: mister mister Barney, that boy done broke his leg, he said,
Speaker 1: oh he did. Huh, Paul told you what I said, right, No,
Speaker 1: mister Barney ain't telling. He said, I say, if something
Speaker 1: happened to one of them boys, y'all two gonna help
Speaker 1: me ten D fields? Oh and he agreed to that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When mister Barney, I don't know anything about field, well,
Speaker 1: who in the hell gonna help me ten D fields?
Speaker 1: So after that happened, he's like, oul, you ain't getting
Speaker 1: no more of my boys. Well it wasn't but two
Speaker 1: of us, me and me and my brother right right, So,
Speaker 1: had my grandfather not passed, we're not playing no football
Speaker 1: football No hell, now that's funny. Barney Poart didn't play that.
Speaker 1: He old, hey, I wish you to take you my
Speaker 1: home time and people.
Speaker 4: Behave Yeah, you know what that sounded like?
Speaker 5: What you just said?
Speaker 4: You saw the movie Fences, Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, remember Denzel, someone wanted to play wanted to play football,
Speaker 3: and Denzel was like, don't want to play football.
Speaker 4: You need to go find you a trade.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well the trade was you're gonna be working on
Speaker 1: them feet. It wasn't no trade, You're gonna be working heels. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cole Hawker stuns the world. He out kicks Josh Kirk,
Speaker 1: the raining World champ in the fifteen hundred meters race.
Speaker 1: Build as a Barbara because yaka Inger Brison, the Norwegian
Speaker 1: has been doing a lot of talking. He's the reigning
Speaker 1: Olympic champ. Josh Kirk, he's the raining World champ. I
Speaker 1: like what Cole Harker said the other day. He was
Speaker 1: in the race with both of them, and he says,
Speaker 1: I liked where I was. It shows me I can
Speaker 1: run with these guys. So I'm not giving up on
Speaker 1: the gold medal yet. Lor and behold Ingle Britin tried
Speaker 1: to take the paste out what he likes to do.
Speaker 1: He likes to push the race. He likes yeah, but
Speaker 1: he did for twelve hundred meters he pushed the.
Speaker 3: Pace came out of where. Then at the very the
Speaker 3: last ten fifteen meters. That was a good kick.
Speaker 1: But see that's what curve. That's Cur's fault. You never
Speaker 1: let anybody pass you on the inside. You slam the door. Yeah, never, never, never,
Speaker 1: that's one oh one running track running.
Speaker 4: Gotta make it. We gotta make him go around you
Speaker 4: make it difficult, can go around you.
Speaker 3: Yes, he blocked you know, he probably he probably thought
Speaker 3: he can look up at the screen, right, you think
Speaker 3: they're the screen in front of He probably even know
Speaker 3: anybody was on his inside.
Speaker 1: What here is the thing? He probably would inger breasts
Speaker 1: and blocked him the first time. He thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna give up and probably go why because normally what
Speaker 1: they do. You blocked me on the inside, I'll sling
Speaker 1: shot and I'll come why.
Speaker 4: And then make it that much more difficult to Harker said, Nah.
Speaker 1: You're gonna relax and think that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna come up on your inside of get
Speaker 1: got by. He have no juice, So now it's between he,
Speaker 1: Joshua and the goose. Yeah. I mean, but oh Joe,
Speaker 1: I forgot. All I can do is give you my best.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about the time he ran an Olympic record.
Speaker 1: He beat his best by three seconds seconds. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: about a du oh, joe, if I give you my
Speaker 1: best if if if your best, o Joe, you get
Speaker 1: your best route, and a dude, Hey, whether it's a shake,
Speaker 1: whether it's out, whether it's the end, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be, cover your best route.
Speaker 5: What you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they get paid. They get paid too.
Speaker 1: Yes, that man ran three He ran an Olympic record.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the second fastest. That's the second fastest
Speaker 1: American time ever. Bernard Legot got the fastest time, but
Speaker 1: only by fractioning number second right, but it was Cole
Speaker 1: Harker was unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Uh Yaron the Goose.
Speaker 1: The first time since nineteen twelve in Stockholm we've had
Speaker 1: two men to podium m uh in the fifteen hundred meters. Obviously,
Speaker 1: that race is normally dominated by the Kenyons. Uh Ingle
Speaker 1: Britson wanted in Tokyo, but normally the East African nations
Speaker 1: normally do a great job of the way they trained.
Speaker 1: The Kenyons or the Ethiopians or some of those normally
Speaker 1: win that race. But for Cole Harker to do that
Speaker 1: on a big stage, say he our personal best by
Speaker 1: three seconds seconds.
Speaker 4: I mean listen, the field.
Speaker 3: The field, the field, especially in the final, will push
Speaker 3: you to do some extraordinary. Yes, they will push you
Speaker 3: to do some extraordinary every time.
Speaker 5: You got to.
Speaker 1: But see, think about it, that's what it was gonna
Speaker 1: take for him to meddle. That's what I mean. Even
Speaker 1: if he if he runs his best, think about it.
Speaker 1: If he runs three twenty nine, which is a second better,
Speaker 1: he ain't get no medal. He ain't gonna make the podium, right,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. If he runs three twenty eight, he's gonna.
Speaker 5: Get the bronze.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has to run a three second personal best
Speaker 1: in order to get the gold. Yeah, and on that day,
Speaker 1: see oto remember that one day now. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: never been Inger Bristin, never beaten Josh Kerr. But for
Speaker 1: one race, I just need to be better than you
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, gotchaba, not next next week, not next
Speaker 1: not in the anomal League meet to finish out the season.
Speaker 1: Right here, world champ, he'll Olympic champ.
Speaker 3: That's crazy how that works. But again, even though still
Speaker 3: the USA basketball team has four quarters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ain't it ain't happening.
Speaker 1: Vallery Almond won her second consecutive Olympic discus goal, becoming
Speaker 1: the first US woman in the history to accomplish back
Speaker 1: to back goals.
Speaker 5: She won by almost two meters.
Speaker 1: Sixty nine point five zero meters are two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one point one eight four feet, the best of
Speaker 1: the field by nearly two meters. She's unbelievable, tremendous technique.
Speaker 1: She was a former dancer, so obviously her feet are good.
Speaker 1: The rotation, she gets great fan she gets great elevation
Speaker 1: on the disc. She's sensation. She's sensation, and she look
Speaker 1: like it's just like so graceful, so beautiful, effortlessly five
Speaker 1: out of her head.
Speaker 3: I was able to watch that, matter of fact, when
Speaker 3: I saw it when she when she threw the last
Speaker 3: one before winning gold.
Speaker 4: When she threw it, it was veering off to the left.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, God, damn, it looks like it's
Speaker 3: it's it's going off off the field. But I forgot,
Speaker 3: you know, the field, it windens out, it windens out,
Speaker 3: so regards to which way it goes, it's it'll still
Speaker 3: be in.
Speaker 5: And the man's discus, I think, uh.
Speaker 1: The guy from Lithuania, Electna, his dad was the former
Speaker 1: world record holder, won the gold medal. His dad won
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. He's the world record holder.
Speaker 1: And I think he just said the Olympic record at
Speaker 1: this year the lipid but a discus in the disk
Speaker 1: a shop. Yeah, okay, Ryan, crowds won the shot. Letna
Speaker 1: get me from Lithuania. Where are you from Greece?
Speaker 4: That was crowded? The second goal, wasn't it? Second? Second
Speaker 4: to third?
Speaker 1: Third? Yeah? He wound was tokyo in my parents. I
Speaker 1: should have.
Speaker 4: I should have. I should have been a shot putter. Man.
Speaker 1: Man, you ain't throwing that sixteen pounds ball.
Speaker 4: Oh it's sixteen pounds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I could I throw that back by seventy
Speaker 3: five seventy five.
Speaker 4: Eighty yards yards the feat No yards with the right technique.
Speaker 1: No, you ain't got that kind of technique. Man.
Speaker 4: If I could, if I could spend, when I would.
Speaker 5: Spind, Yeah, man, there are very few.
Speaker 1: There are some. There are some shot putters that still glide. No,
Speaker 1: you got a glide technique. I see where you already stand.
Speaker 1: You gotta glide?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm finished spin with it.
Speaker 5: No, you gotta turn your back to the camera.
Speaker 3: Nah, I got a different type of technique. They give
Speaker 3: me torque, So I get some more torque.
Speaker 1: Yes, no you hey, oh Joe, oh Joe, you gotta
Speaker 1: put okay, you got your hair here, you gotta put
Speaker 1: his hand up the turnaround. Yes, yeah, see that's exactly
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. To see there you.
Speaker 4: Go, because I ain't got no, I got my socks.
Speaker 5: No worry about it.
Speaker 4: Hey, I got and you see you see the technique
Speaker 4: in the in in the form though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see that's a glide. But if you watch Ryan,
Speaker 1: he saw, he saw he gets so such great elevation
Speaker 1: on the on the shot right took when he took
Speaker 1: that chalked up when he put that sixteen pound metal
Speaker 1: ball up under here, Yeah, that's a lot of torque.
Speaker 1: That's a three hundred pound man. That's six foot five,
Speaker 1: six foot six, maybe even six seven. So just imagine
Speaker 1: in that little circle.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: He has to put that.
Speaker 1: Ball up front of the rotate and he normally tries
Speaker 1: to ending on his first throw. Once he just that
Speaker 1: first throw in, now he can relax and nobody else.
Speaker 1: He's going for world records. Now he's tried to put
Speaker 1: a sixty a seventy six seventy seven foot throw out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much further he could take it,
Speaker 1: because I didn't think anybody was gonna break Randy Barnes
Speaker 1: record at seventy five ten that he sat in eighty
Speaker 1: eight and I think it was in Sacramento. I remember
Speaker 1: he broke Uf Timmermann's record, the great German. I didn't
Speaker 1: think anybody was gonna get seventy five ten because really
Speaker 1: nobody had been close, right, And then you see crowds
Speaker 1: and starts knocking on the door.
Speaker 5: He's like, could he could he?
Speaker 1: And he did, yeah, and he obliterated the record. I
Speaker 1: ain't not nothing ow, he'd just break it. He shouted
Speaker 1: the record. The United States women's national team pushed their
Speaker 1: ticket to the gold medal round forward Sophie Smith's score
Speaker 1: in the first first half of the extra time to
Speaker 1: lift the United States women's team to a one nothing victory. Remember,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, I think they beat the German
Speaker 1: team for to one in the first round. Nine days.
Speaker 1: If the yeah the place the living gold medal game
Speaker 1: for the first time since twenty twelve, it will play Brazil,
Speaker 1: which upsets Spain and the reigning Women's World Cup champions
Speaker 1: with a dominant for two win. Is Martin still playing?
Speaker 3: Yep, she playing, She played, she plays, She's still she's still,
Speaker 3: She's still there.
Speaker 5: She got suspected, but she I think she.
Speaker 4: Is.
Speaker 5: She for US.
Speaker 4: No, she's playing that game.
Speaker 1: So she was suspend against US too. Oh, she's spent
Speaker 1: suspending the game before and Spain she was.
Speaker 4: I think she comes back our game.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, all right, she's back against US. O Joe, congratulations.
Speaker 1: Women back for the first time since twenty twelve. That's
Speaker 1: a long time, and we normally dominate. Yeah, dominating that.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of a lot of our best
Speaker 1: players begging Rappino, Julie fire all those. Uh, what's the Megan?
Speaker 1: What's the other one? Universe of Florida. Uh, soccer player,
Speaker 1: the one that just.
Speaker 4: Returned, Alex Alex Morgan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the tight Ends wife. She retired. A lot of them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of them. Oh you know, some you know
Speaker 1: having families now some of them, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: Meghan Rapino retired, Julie Foudy has been gone. But I
Speaker 1: forget the other one. She went to the University of Florida,
Speaker 1: and so now this new young blood and new crop
Speaker 1: knows what it's the expectations. Yeah, you're the women, it's
Speaker 1: not the men, where there's not a whole lot of expectation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're they're not expecting the men to beat Argentina or
Speaker 1: Spain Portrait of Trains, say anything. They're not expecting that.
Speaker 1: But the women, if you come back with anything, let's
Speaker 1: to go that we were disappointed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, most definitely, most definitely disappointed. Most definitely be.
Speaker 1: A Ham and all them girls that got us. Girl, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that we're ball now, joe H.
Speaker 4: The volume