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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Doug Gottlieb.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in.

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Speaker 1: This is all Ball A really good response from last

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Speaker 1: night's a kind of emergency pod with Joel Klatt. People

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Speaker 1: ask all the time about this life, if you will, right,

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Speaker 1: So my day today and this is on a Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: when we play tomorrow on a Wednesday, this was legitimately

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Speaker 1: my day. I didn't I didn't sleep great, and so

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Speaker 1: I was up at five am watching film until six

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Speaker 1: thirty am, and then I went downstairs one of my

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Speaker 1: assistant coaches, Andy Ground, who's actually was my high school coach.

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Speaker 1: He lives with me, so we talked some strategies, some

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Speaker 1: practice stuff from about six thirty to seven fifteen. I

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Speaker 1: then had popped into the office and I had to

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Speaker 1: sign some holiday cards for our biggest donors, and then

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Speaker 1: we went and had breakfast with my athletic director, Josh Moon,

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Speaker 1: and Kayla Carr Carrius who's our women's coach, with one

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Speaker 1: of our donors, Alisa Dollon, who's just the sweetheart of

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Speaker 1: a lady, and she was telling stories. She's a hoot.

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Speaker 1: So that was literally from eight thirty to nine, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it takes fifteen minutes to get to our

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Speaker 1: house was eight forty five breakfast, but I was there

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Speaker 1: at eight thirty and everybody know I was on Lombardi time,

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Speaker 1: So from eight thirty till nine nine I was there.

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Speaker 1: Then I had a race back. I had practice already

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Speaker 1: planned out, and we started film at ten o'clock. I

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Speaker 1: walked in at nine fifty two. I think film started

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Speaker 1: at ten. We were all We did film for twenty minutes,

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Speaker 1: then we practiced from ten to twenty to noon, then

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Speaker 1: metics the staff from noon to twelve thirty, then prepped

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Speaker 1: from my radio show from twelve thirty to one, then

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Speaker 1: from one to four did my radio show and that pod,

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Speaker 1: and then at four o'clock I had a couple other

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Speaker 1: I had phone calls with the donor. I had a

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Speaker 1: meeting with a player. I went down to our practice

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Speaker 1: gym because every player had to make one hundred threes

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Speaker 1: and make a hundred free throws, and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: go and talk with some of the guys that were

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Speaker 1: in there. Then I came back and we had two

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Speaker 1: recruits who were coming to campus. Their flights were delayed,

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Speaker 1: so they landed. I took pictures with them, then we

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Speaker 1: had meetings with them. We watched film with them, then

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Speaker 1: we went to dinner with them. Then I came home,

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Speaker 1: we recorded this pod. That's a full excuse my language,

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Speaker 1: that's a full fucking day right there, right and oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: by So now I'm home and I'm gonna watch some

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Speaker 1: more Santa Barbara film. Get ready for our game tomorrow

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Speaker 1: against really talented out shows and we don't know if

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Speaker 1: their point guard, Mira Little is going to play, so

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Speaker 1: we got to like kind of prepare a couple of

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Speaker 1: different game plans. He's really really they're very talented, they're

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Speaker 1: a good team, and he didn't play in their lost

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Speaker 1: to Utah Valley, so there are numbers. I think they're

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Speaker 1: one forty five in the Ken Palm, but they're better

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Speaker 1: than that. They're probably top seventy five when they're healthy. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: so we got a heck of a game tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: that's my day. But because of the response to the

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Speaker 1: emergency pod, and because as Aeron Margrelovski, I've started following

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Speaker 1: this kid on Twitter and he's like this huge college

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Speaker 1: basketball fan, going a game after game after game after game,

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Speaker 1: and he's got wisconsintized and he's a GB fan. I

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Speaker 1: was like, we got to throw this guy on. So

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Speaker 1: without further ado, you can fall him on social media.

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Speaker 1: Aeron Margholovski, who is. He's not a world traveler, but

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Speaker 1: he's a national traveler, watching as many college basketball games

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Speaker 1: as any human being I've ever heard of. Okay, So, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: I've been following you on social media and I love it.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to the text from your mom tonight. That's

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Speaker 1: freaking cool as well. But tell me about your background.

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Speaker 1: Where does your love for hoops come from?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 4: Basically I always played when I was a little kid,

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Speaker 4: and we'll actually kind of reference back to Green Bay

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Speaker 4: when I was little growing up, my grandpa would always

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Speaker 4: take us to the Wisconsin Green Bay games, so we

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Speaker 4: That was way back in the days with like Keifer

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Speaker 4: was like that was the highest level basketball we really

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Speaker 3: So that was kind of always like those were the

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Speaker 4: Able to play kind of all through my youth. That

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when high school went high school.

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Speaker 3: It's Bondul High School.

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Speaker 4: It's about a twenty five minute drive outside outside of

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Speaker 2: So played Varsiti there.

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Speaker 1: Then what did you do for college? So?

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Speaker 4: For college, I went down to I was at Butler

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Speaker 4: University down in Indianapolis. Again, it was kind of basketball influence.

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Speaker 4: They were always, you know, a cool, cool basketball program

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Speaker 4: there those Final Four runs when I was a kid,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, this is this would be great,

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Speaker 4: I ended up moving down there to Indiana. That's where

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Speaker 1: So what what is school like when you're in Indy

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Speaker 1: and you're a basketball fan?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: What did you only go to Butler games? Did you

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Speaker 2: Like? What was it? What was that experience like for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So when I was in college, I unfortunate didn't have

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Speaker 4: So for me, it was pretty much all Butler games

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Speaker 4: when I was When I was in college, I didn't

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Speaker 4: of an after college when I all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: Like what am I doing? I should get there? Like

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Speaker 4: those are awesome, awesome venues.

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Speaker 3: And that was kind of.

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Speaker 4: Where the whole thing started, was like these spots are

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Speaker 3: Why not go there? And yeah, just kind of snowballed

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what year was this that you first started

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was it was back in the twenty

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Speaker 4: made it up to Mercyhurst University in Pennsylvania. That was

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Speaker 2: So so what do you do for an actual living?

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Speaker 4: So I work actually in uh in Carnmeal, which is

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Speaker 3: Normal life.

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Speaker 4: What what what is I'm a I'm a financial systems

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Speaker 4: and it's the title. So it's, uh, it's pretty boring

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it, but it uh, you know, listen.

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Speaker 2: I I wouldn't ship on your job.

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Speaker 1: They might one of your people you work for might

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Speaker 1: be listening to this podcast.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's the best. It's amazing. I love it.

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Speaker 3: I do really like the people I work with, and

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Speaker 3: I like I like, I like our pot.

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Speaker 2: But there you go, there you go. Now we're now

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Speaker 2: we're doing better.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So uh, I want to get to the places

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Speaker 1: you've gone in a minute.

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Speaker 2: But let's start with this kind of schedule.

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Speaker 1: So when did you come up with the idea of, Hey,

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Speaker 1: this year, I'm just gonna go out and see ball

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Speaker 4: I've made some trips up there to see her as well.

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Speaker 4: I've made sure to pair them with basketball. But that

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Speaker 2: So and and did she play basketball?

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Speaker 4: No, she did not she uh she I don't know

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Speaker 4: So I've I've don't worry. I've exposed her to plenty

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Speaker 1: So she had to go, oh, we were so bad

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Speaker 1: in the first half too.

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Speaker 2: Good game became a good game as I can have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, who's that kid from Wisconsin?

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Speaker 2: Yeah Jason uh snia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that was it. He uh he kind of.

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Speaker 2: Broke his he broke his leg later.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right after that, I know, I was like.

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Speaker 2: This is it.

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Speaker 1: It's an interesting thing. So, you know, we we we.

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Speaker 5: Had one of those years.

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Speaker 1: Obviously last year is tough, but it was like it

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Speaker 1: seemed like every game there was somebody like Jason where

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Speaker 1: where was a kid from Wisconsin that GB didn't recruit?

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Speaker 1: And they hit a fucking three and turn and stare

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Speaker 2: Hey, dude, I didn't funk. I wasn't here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you know, sorry, Like you know I would have

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Speaker 1: recruited you, but you weren't available when I got the

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Speaker 4: There's really no arena I've been too that's like it

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's get to your tour. This year, Game

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Speaker 4: Me and a buddy and my friend Owen, we went

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Speaker 4: down to that. It was the Field of sixty eight

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Speaker 4: It was at eight am, got up. It was such

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Speaker 2: But how did you get down to South Carolina? You

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Speaker 3: We drove down at the weekend.

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Speaker 3: But I just took some PTO didn't have to go

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Speaker 1: So so you're at USA, yep, but somewhere too.

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Speaker 4: it was a really really good time and met lots

441
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 4: of great people down there too.

442
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:12,200
Speaker 1: So okay, then then then we're so you you're Alabama, Mississippi,

443
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,920
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi.

444
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,679
Speaker 3: Then where yep? So the next day I went up

445
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 3: to Memphis.

446
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,240
Speaker 4: I was Memphis versus San Francisco and that's at the

447
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 4: Arena in downtown Memphis. It's the home of the Grizzlies

448
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 4: as well, which I will say, their fan base is

449
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,120
Speaker 4: really really passionate, like they were locked into the game

450
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 4: from the tip. They were very, very very passionate, but again,

451
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,479
Speaker 4: like it's just an MBA arena.

452
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 3: It's massive.

453
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 4: It's really tough for a program even as good as

454
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 4: Memphis to fill.

455
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,439
Speaker 3: So I did really enjoy that one.

456
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was one where it's like, wow, this

457
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 4: is a huge space for just not a lot of people.

458
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 4: But it was overall a very good game and and

459
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 4: San Francisco is a fun watch too.

460
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,719
Speaker 1: So okay, So when you're when you're not now you're

461
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 1: in the South, yep, when you're traveling around and drawn,

462
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: you know you're kind of on a beer budget, right yep?

463
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 1: Where are you eating? Where are you stopping? What are

464
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 1: you what are you doing? Like where you're staying? What

465
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,120
Speaker 1: is this adventure like in terms of hotels as well?

466
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 4: So, uh, I will generally try when I'm driving, especially

467
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 4: if I've got like a lawn travel day, because I'll

468
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,360
Speaker 4: usually get up and find like a coffeehouse to work

469
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 4: at if I'm if I'm working remote for the day,

470
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 4: So I'll generally try to cover a lot of ground

471
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 4: at night. And what that usually means is I'll just

472
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 4: find some rest area and I've got a nice little

473
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 4: setup in my trusty Red Prius that's outside and I'll uh,

474
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 4: I'll just kind of camp over for the night, and

475
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 4: then it gives me yeah, and then uh, it's not glamorous.

476
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 4: It's not glamorous by any stretch. But I kind of

477
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 4: thought like, hey, like I can either do a couple

478
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 4: of days and and stay in a hotel, or like, hey,

479
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 4: I can do a whole really long, ridiculous road trip

480
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 4: and we can make it work out of the prius.

481
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: So okay, but you're talking to me now from a hotel,

482
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: so you you violent on some level?

483
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:01,360
Speaker 3: I am?

484
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 2: I am.

485
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 3: I did.

486
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 4: I have on occasion been like I kind of do

487
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 4: need like a bed tonight, and today was one of

488
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 4: those nights, so I I did.

489
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 3: I'm in uh, I.

490
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 4: Mean Greenwood, Mississippi right now. So I ended up just

491
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 4: making the stop after after tonight's game.

492
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: So okay, we'll get to Greenwood in a second.

493
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 3: All right, So we got a lot of games to cover.

494
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: Here, yeah, I know, after Memphis anyway.

495
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 4: Uh So after Memphis, this was one of my really

496
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 4: long haul ones. Anthony Roy last year was at Green Bay,

497
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 4: so I decided I wanted to go.

498
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 3: Out to see him play because he's at Oklahoma State now.

499
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 4: So I was like let's do it. Let's make the

500
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 4: trip to Oklahoma State. It was Oklahoma State, Texas, A

501
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 4: and M. It was a great game, and yeah, Oklahoma

502
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 4: State smoked him. It was awesome and the arena was

503
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 4: phenomenal and people were great. But Roy was hurt so

504
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 4: he didn't play, which was too bad. But everything else

505
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 4: was great. I I had such a good time and

506
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 4: still Water, the the venue is great.

507
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 3: There's so much.

508
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 4: I didn't realize there was such a wrestling school. I

509
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 4: maybe should have been more tapped in on that, but

510
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 4: I I just had no idea.

511
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was wrestling Hall of Fames right there.

512
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was the other thing.

513
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 4: I was like, I knew were the baseball and the

514
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 4: basketball and the football, but not wrestling. So but now

515
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 4: it was a It was a really really fun game.

516
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,719
Speaker 4: Their student sections phenomenal. D Like, it was just it

517
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 4: was so much fun. And then yeah they smoked them,

518
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 4: so it was a nice little win.

519
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so after Stillwater, then wear too.

520
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 4: So after still Water, this is when I kind of started.

521
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 4: That was my furthest West stop. So I started trekking

522
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 4: back and I went to SIU Edwardsville. Sure did they

523
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 4: even I gotta They played Indiana State. So my brothers

524
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 4: drove down from Wisconsin and we met up at that one.

525
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 3: Got to go too together.

526
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 4: And they have a pretty like it's a pretty small

527
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 4: it feels kind of almost like a big high school gym,

528
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 4: but they had a really good student section.

529
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 3: They had a really uh they have a lot of hype.

530
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 4: Last year they made uh I think last year they

531
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 4: made the tournament for the first time, and uh so, yeah,

532
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 4: everybody was really excited, like that was probably one of

533
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 4: the most full gyms I've seen all year at this point.

534
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 3: So and uh yeah, it was really fun. They lost unfortunately, Indies.

535
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 4: It kind of kind of shot really well that day,

536
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 4: but uh yeah, it was a it was a cool

537
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 4: little stop.

538
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 3: And I got to see what my brother so's that's

539
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 3: a good time to you.

540
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: What's your brother do for the me?

541
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 4: My brother is actually a well he's an Amazon driver

542
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 4: to make money, but he's actually a high school basketball coach.

543
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 4: So where at Bondable he is the uh he is

544
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 4: the C team coach.

545
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: They have a team.

546
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 3: Yes, we have a seat team.

547
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 4: I know we're pretty small, but uh yeah, he said

548
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 4: they got he said they lost by forty tonight so

549
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 4: unfortunately he might have to work on his coaching skills.

550
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: But it's probably it's probably not his nose, probably Jimmy's

551
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: and Joe's.

552
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's uh, the varsity is good. We got

553
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 3: a good SEA this year, but yeah, they.

554
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: It is the Does the team play against other SEA teams?

555
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 4: Yes, typically or if it's like a bigger school there. Uh,

556
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 4: I know they puted like Bayport's like fourth team. I

557
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 4: don't even know what they call that, but somewhere in

558
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 4: that somewhere in that level.

559
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: Okay, from Edwardsville then where too?

560
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,719
Speaker 4: Yes, so from Edwardsville we went up to Champagne together.

561
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 4: That was Illinois Texas Tech. Because I think that's another

562
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 4: like really cool State Farm Center, Like they always packed

563
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 4: that place.

564
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, they gets so loud in there.

565
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 4: And I had been to that one before, but never

566
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 4: with the student section there, and that was just like

567
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 4: a whole nother wrinkle at that really makes it like

568
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 4: such a fun environment. And that was probably like Jason

569
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 4: Topping had a huge game, but that was really the

570
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 4: uh I can't remember goes to Stakovich's breakout game when

571
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 4: he was just going crazy.

572
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 3: So that was a super fun one.

573
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: All right, did your brother stay with you for the

574
00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: next game.

575
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 4: No, so he actually and and this is kind of

576
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 4: where my my travel gets a little ridiculous. So I

577
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 4: was in Champagne and the next night I went to Bradley,

578
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 4: which is in Peoria, which logical conclusion would be.

579
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: Just go for the hour.

580
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: How far is that? Uh?

581
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 4: I believe it's like an hour and a half something

582
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: like that, But I in keeping in line with I

583
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 4: am in India at times. I did drive back after

584
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 4: the Illinois game, so I worked the next day in

585
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 4: Indy and then when I got done with work, I

586
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 4: drove to Peoria watched it. It was a Bradley ut

587
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 4: Martin game. Yeah, it was a good game, you Tam.

588
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 4: Martin is a They're a really fun team. I kind

589
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 4: of wasn't familiar with them at all, but I they're

590
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 4: a good team, and I know they've upset a few

591
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 4: teams already this year, but yeah, they they I was

592
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 4: kind of going in like, Okay, Bradley will probably win

593
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 4: this by a bunch, and U team Martin really was

594
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 4: like kind of the better team all game. So it

595
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 4: was a It was definitely a a fun watch.

596
00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 1: Former former Green Bay head coach Brian Mortal Yeah. Yeah,

597
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: and Edwardsville's coached by former Green Bay assistant Brian Brooni.

598
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, we bought the green Bay Connections there.

599
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 1: I beat them last year.

600
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 4: Yes, that was one of the that was it was

601
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 4: s A U I and uh in Western Illini, I

602
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 4: think right away, right.

603
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, okay, So after after Peoria, then.

604
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 4: Where after Purity, I finally had like a rest day

605
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 4: where it's still like a normal day in Indy. But

606
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 4: after that I went down to I did a football

607
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 4: game in Louisville, and then I went to uh Cimo

608
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 4: Southeast Missouri State, which is in Cape Gerardo, Missouri, which

609
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 4: is a hike. I everyone's in a while with these,

610
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 4: I'll be like, I'm just gonna see you know.

611
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, I'll just go there. I'm not gonna

612
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 3: look at the drive time. It was far.

613
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 4: It was it was like a six hour drive from

614
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 4: from Indy, so a bit of a hike down there.

615
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: But it is amazing how many things are within like

616
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: a five.

617
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 3: Hour Yes, it's like you could literally.

618
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: Hit probably I don't know, fifty schools within five hours.

619
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's so many.

620
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 4: I haven't even gotten to the ball, Like I've been

621
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 4: kind of systematically like Okay, i'll get this one next,

622
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 4: and there's still like I've still have been to Marshall.

623
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 4: Marshall's like three and a half hours and I just can't.

624
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 4: I haven't found a date that works.

625
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: Okay, so you go down where I'm sorry, Southeast.

626
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're played Saint Thomas, which Saint Thomas is a

627
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: very good.

628
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: Uh that is good. They kicked out of us.

629
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 3: Yes.

630
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 4: I don't know how to say the kid's name. I

631
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 4: think he's number four. It's like Minisalle something like that.

632
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 4: He's a really good player, like really good.

633
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, mart Markette High School.

634
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: They have a lot of Wisconsin kids and they're good.

635
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 1: Which is why did you want to play? That's why

636
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:48,719
Speaker 1: I don't want to play yet.

637
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 3: But yeah, I play them.

638
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: I got to play in the next two years.

639
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 4: I know they're they're they're a good team, like they're

640
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 4: my I met up with a friend down there and

641
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 4: he was like, I think we got a good shot today.

642
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 4: And I was like, do you know like anything about

643
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 4: some towns. He's like no, And I was like, they're

644
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 4: pretty good, Like they're really they shoot the ball really well,

645
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 4: they don't turn it over there.

646
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got Nick Nick Kanowski is awesome. Yeah.

647
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they have a lot of really good players

648
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 4: and uh and and they're also just a very cohesive

649
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 4: team as well.

650
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 3: They they do a lot of things, right.

651
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: Yep, Johnny's built an incredible program. Yeah, sure, they're They're

652
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: they're really good. Okay, So after after you saw that dismantling,

653
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: then what.

654
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 4: Yep, So then I went up to this was another dismantling.

655
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 4: I went up to Saint Louis. I've always been a

656
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 4: big fan of Josh shirts ever since he was in

657
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 4: Indiana State. So uh and they're really good this year

658
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 4: as well, so it's like I'll go check them out.

659
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 4: They played Grand Canyon and I was kind of thinking

660
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 4: that'll be a really good game, and Saint Louis is

661
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 4: really good. They kind of just smoked them. There wasn't

662
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 4: a it wasn't really ever a doubt. They have a

663
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 4: via I know they have a Milwaukee on their team

664
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 4: as well. I can't remember. I'm kind of bad with

665
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 4: the names if you haven't figured out, but yeah, they

666
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 4: it was kind of the same as the first one,

667
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 4: like they just really smoked him.

668
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and and Grand Canyon, uh one of my

669
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: former assistants went there. Oh yes, yeah, Jordan m Yeah,

670
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: I was a big Connell legend. He was.

671
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 4: He was like when I was in high school, Like

672
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 4: he was like the bast you know. It was like

673
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 4: Jordan McCabe man like because he was. I always loved

674
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 4: telling people like Tyres Halibert and Tyler Hero were seniors

675
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 4: in Wisconsin the same year and either one player of

676
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 4: the Year and like it wasn't because they didn't like

677
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 4: they deserved it and didn't get it. Like there was

678
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 4: another kid who was better, and it was McCabe.

679
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: Like he was just so incredible, uh and as good

680
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: a person as his as he was player. That's okay,

681
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: So okay, So Saint Louis. How far is Saint Louis from.

682
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 4: From It was about four hours, So I've I've made

683
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 4: some trips over there to see Uh.

684
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 3: I got to baseball team, so a big Brewers guy.

685
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 4: So I made a trip over there, and I think

686
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 4: it was like three and a half hours to see

687
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 4: the Brewers. So so yeah, I figured I'd make their

688
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 4: turn trip for basketball.

689
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: Okay, then where next stop?

690
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 4: So I was I was talking to uh to your

691
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 4: producer earlier. I typically do D one. I've been trying

692
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 4: to work in some more D two and D three.

693
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 4: I I haven't been good at it, but I did

694
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 4: get a D two game in I had never been

695
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 4: to the University of Indianapolis in uh in Indy, India,

696
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 4: so I did that. As this was on a Sunday,

697
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 4: I did that. It's like a nice little day stop.

698
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 4: They put Grand Valley State, which is like a top

699
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 4: of the line D two program, So Grand Valley State

700
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 4: kind of beat him. But that gym was great. It

701
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 4: was super old. It had like the most uncomfortable bleachers

702
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 4: you've ever sat on. They're like nothing about it, but.

703
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: Like it was great. It was incredibly uncomfortable.

704
00:32:58,560 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 3: Just like it.

705
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: Go get I get it. I I absolutely get it.

706
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: I get it.

707
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 3: But uh, but you got to go.

708
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: You need to go to Northern Michigan or Michigan Tech.

709
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 4: I know that's I've I've actually been looking. That's on

710
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 4: the possible plans. The only problem is planning to go

711
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 4: up there in the winter seems risky. So I kind

712
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 4: of got to have some.

713
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: I mean, they really know how to handle the snow there,

714
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: right because they get so what you gotta do is

715
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: got to come through GB, Hey be my guest at

716
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: the game and then go up. It's like four hours

717
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: up to the up from from from from here.

718
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 4: It's a bit of a hike, but yeah that's uh

719
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 4: that's it is a hike.

720
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 3: Hey, you have to remember I I'm used to it.

721
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 2: No, I get it.

722
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: The issue with the UP is it's like literally the

723
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: end of America. Yeah, yes, it's the end of.

724
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 2: You know.

725
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, you're on roads and it's like there can't

726
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 4: possibly be anything past this.

727
00:33:58,520 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 3: And then it's like, hey, here's the talent.

728
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, so you go see D two you Indian,

729
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: but make sure he was you know, that's you, Indy.

730
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: It's a different school than I you Indy, which is

731
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: under you know, which is the old I E p

732
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: U I that's that's yes. When we saw us play, okay,

733
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: so then then we're after you Indy.

734
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 4: Uh So I wanted to Purdue that night with my friends.

735
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 4: That was the actor dam and talk about game. Yeah.

736
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 4: Acron is a good team too.

737
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good.

738
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: They're gonna be They're gonna be a threat in the

739
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 3: MAC this year.

740
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: Uh. I think they're the favorite and rightfully so, yeah,

741
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: we saw them in the Virgin Islands. We lost ye

742
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: in the first round. They lost to you on the championship. Uh,

743
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: they're really athletic, very well coached. John Gross does a

744
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: very good job. They're they're goo.

745
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a he's an incredible coach. And like I

746
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 4: feel like they're every year they're they're good.

747
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 3: And yeah. So uh then what was the stop after that?

748
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 4: So then I had another like nice little break to

749
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 4: be in Indie, get my work done and uh be

750
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 4: in the office and uh. Then this was about the

751
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 4: time I was like, hey, like I have a girlfriend,

752
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 4: I should probably go see here. So I was like,

753
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,399
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start making my way out to you, out

754
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 4: to Massachusetts. So I did make some stops along the way.

755
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 3: I went to.

756
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 4: Uh the first one was Ohio played uh Bethune Cookman

757
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 4: at uh down in Athens, Ohio. Yeah, and uh yeah,

758
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 4: that was a really good game. Bethune Cookman is a

759
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 4: very good team. I know they've given a few schools

760
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 4: some scars already that I don't think when they schedule it,

761
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 4: we're thinking like, hey, that'll be a by game, should

762
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 4: be easy, and.

763
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: No people know.

764
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 1: So Regis is the coach. I think he's the director. Yeah,

765
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: he is, and they do a deal where they because

766
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: he's the a d he can decide what they want

767
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: to do with their money. So they play like seven

768
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: eight guarantees it goes straight to their and I l

769
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: and I think they pay their guys as they go.

770
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a weird deal. But they have talent, yeah,

771
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: I know they have and does a good job. It's

772
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: just it's just hard to win those games. So yeah,

773
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: what was Ohio Us Arena like?

774
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 4: So that one was very like and it's kind of

775
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 4: the case of a lot of a couple of the Macarins,

776
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 4: like ball States, very similar, but it's just kind of

777
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 4: like this giant bowl and the seats feel like they

778
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 4: go all the way up to like the top of

779
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 4: the roof and.

780
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: It's like too big and old and needs to be redone.

781
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and like there was a parking rant, like the

782
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 4: parking lots like under the arena. It's it's very uh,

783
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 4: it's very strange and like again, like a lot of

784
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 4: these schools have kind of more modern aretas. Now I

785
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 4: never checked what the opening date on that one was,

786
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 4: but it was it was definitely an old one. But uh,

787
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 4: it was like a cool spot to watch a game

788
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 4: like it kind of feels like everybody is right on

789
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 4: top of the court.

790
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was a great game.

791
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 4: I think, uh, I think the Thune Cookman forced like

792
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 4: a myssterree at the buzzer was able to hold on.

793
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 3: But but yeah, it was a it was a really

794
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 3: fun launch.

795
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're outuating with Matthew Sits and you stopping

796
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: in Athens. That where yep.

797
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 4: So then that I went up to Ithaca, New York,

798
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 4: which is a home of Cornell University. So it was

799
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 4: Cornell played Colgate and that was probably the best game

800
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 4: I saw the year. It went to double overtime.

801
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 2: That's my guy as my guy, Benny, Yeah, he's there.

802
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben Cleedy, our former point guard starting.

803
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: I remember.

804
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 4: I remember he uh because I was at the Green

805
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 4: Bag game last year in Indianapolis. That was not one

806
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 4: of his finest games. But I do enjoy Washington as

807
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 4: a player. Yeah, and it's cool to see him again.

808
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 4: So so yeah, that was one of the best.

809
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 1: So what Cornell's place like, It's very.

810
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 4: Much like a it's very much like a high school gym,

811
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 4: Like it's got the wooden bleachers you enter in like

812
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 4: a little lobby type area like a high school would have,

813
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 4: and then you go ahead and go up the bleachers,

814
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 4: like it definitely feels a lot like a high school venue.

815
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was a it was a what kind

816
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 4: of lacked for the venue was really cool for the game.

817
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 4: So went to double overtime. Cornell was able to hang

818
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 4: on and that was one of ones. I was driving

819
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 4: that night to Massachusetts and I was kind of having

820
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 4: a I was texting my girlfriend and she was I

821
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 4: was like, the games in overtime, Like, of course I've

822
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 4: got this long drive after and now it's an over

823
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 4: and I usually love overtime games because that means it's

824
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 4: a great game. She was like, oh, can't you just leave?

825
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 4: And I was like, I could, but it's an overtime,

826
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 4: as I think I gotta I think I gotta stick

827
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 4: it out. So and then it went to a second overtime,

828
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 4: and uh, yeah.

829
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 3: I didn't have to make that one.

830
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: How far.

831
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 3: H it was.

832
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 4: It was a little under four hours and it was

833
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 4: on a lot of back back roads with a lot

834
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 4: of deer.

835
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 3: It's not not a fun drive.

836
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: But uh, you mean, so you roll in it?

837
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 4: What time I got there just before one am.

838
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 3: Yeah it was I make good time, but yeah I did.

839
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: Uh.

840
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: I did feel a little bad on that one. I

841
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 3: had to. I had to make that one up to.

842
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: Her, so she hang with her.

843
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 4: So I was so basically like she's a she's a

844
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 4: ballet dancer, so she's typically like really busy with stuff

845
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 4: during the day.

846
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: This is kind of how the whole thing started.

847
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 4: Was like she was always really busy with her stuff,

848
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 4: and I was like, well, I'm sitting at home board August,

849
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 4: I go to an arena and uh so I was

850
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 4: there for I believe it was. I got there Thursday

851
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 4: and then I left again on Tuesday. But I did

852
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 4: fit some more games in the interim while she was

853
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 4: busy and stuff. So the first one I went down

854
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 4: it was a doubleheader. It was at the Mohegan Sun Rena, Connecticut. Yeah,

855
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 4: it was really nice and I was kind of my

856
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 4: brother's like, hey, we should we should plan to come

857
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 4: here sometime, like this could be a fun little watch

858
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 4: of basketball. But that was It was Boston University and

859
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 4: Harvard played the first game. Boston University won that one,

860
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 4: and then Providence beat up on Penn State in the

861
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 4: second game. So that was a I typically I was

862
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 4: a little conflicted, like I never know who her roofore

863
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 4: with the Big East Big Ten. But it was cool

864
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 4: all the Providence fans there, so I kinda I kind

865
00:39:59,080 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 4: of leaned into it.

866
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, definitely definitely root for Providence in that situation.

867
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: Otherwise you could get shipped, you could get rough and double,

868
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: very very passionate fan base.

869
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're super I'm again, they're uh, they're very upset

870
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: about the Butler game this weekend and the officiated and

871
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 4: that might have accompanied it.

872
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 3: So we've been.

873
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 4: Okay.

874
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: So after after Moagan's then you go back to Massachusetts.

875
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, back to Massachusetts and then again the next night.

876
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 4: It was like, she's busy. So I went down to Yukon.

877
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 4: It was Yukon Bryant. Yukon won by a million points.

878
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 4: That was at their arena in downtown Hartford.

879
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just got redone, didn't it.

880
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I forget to change the name on it

881
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 3: was like the Excell Center, so.

882
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: It was I don't know what it's called now, but yeah, yeah.

883
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I forgot the name already. But yep, I went

884
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 4: down there for that one. That was cool again too,

885
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 4: Like Yukon's another program so much history. I really wanted

886
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 4: to get to a women's game too, but like I

887
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 4: just like they were never they were home, but like

888
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 4: at weird times, and I never could make it work.

889
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 4: But but yeah, like they have all the banners for

890
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 4: women's basketball, for men's basketball. It's incredible what they've got

891
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 4: going on there. So that was really cool one to visit.

892
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: Okay, and then and then uh, let's.

893
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 4: See where did I go? Oh after that, this was

894
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 4: my last stop. Row went back to Massachusetts. I went

895
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 4: over to Holy Cross, which is I learned this they

896
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 4: have a national title.

897
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 3: Didn't know that. I thought I was well versed in

898
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 3: my basketball history, but I didn't.

899
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 4: I didn't know Bob Couzy. I know, everyone's like, how

900
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 4: did you not know that? And it's like I do

901
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 4: all the other ones. I just that was a gap

902
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 4: of my knowledge.

903
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 1: So it was a little before your time.

904
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, just just to touch I was like, I'm pretty

905
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 4: good up to like the fifties. At least it was

906
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 4: in forty seven, so I was like, that's a little

907
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 4: My grandpa wasn't even alive then, but uh, but yeah,

908
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 4: so they played Ciena. That was a good game, seantle one,

909
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 4: but uh, that was a cool arena. It's right next

910
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 4: to their hockey their hockey rinks in the same same buildings,

911
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 4: so check that out as well.

912
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 3: It was a cool little spot.

913
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 4: So it's got them in the trip and then uh

914
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 4: then yeah, so this was where my schedule got just

915
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 4: my friends were kind of making fun of me, like

916
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 4: what are you doing? So I needed to get back

917
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 4: to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. So I was like, okay, I'll

918
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 4: I'll drive down and I'll get a flight over to

919
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 4: uh Over home for the for the break. And but

920
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 4: I was like, I can fit. I can fit another

921
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 4: another game or two in here. So this was probably

922
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 4: the weirdest Giving gone to all year. It was an

923
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 4: Army played East Texas A and M and it was

924
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 4: at Fairley Dickinson's Arena.

925
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 3: It was part of one of those mts.

926
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 4: Where they have like the three teams, so you got

927
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 4: the weird, weird matchups and uh yeah. That was when

928
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 4: I was looking at tickets and I was like, it's

929
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 4: someone like thirty bucks to sit courtside. And I was like,

930
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 4: all right, we're gonna do that. That sounds fun. And

931
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 4: so yeah, I went and said sat courtside at the

932
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 4: Fairley Dickinson Arena to watch two teams that didn't play there,

933
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 4: and uh, it was awesome. Like again, you've you've been

934
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 4: around basketball a little bit more than MESU, but just

935
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 4: to see like those aren't considered like the top tier

936
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 4: D one, but like how strong and fast like the

937
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 4: players are when you're that close to it's ridiculous, Like

938
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 4: sure you could never like imagine that. That's how good

939
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 4: even like low level D one players are. It was

940
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 4: just incredible. So and uh, I have a lot of

941
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 4: friends that are perdue fans, so I made sure to

942
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 4: take plenty of pictures of like the banners from twenty

943
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 4: twenty three and and all the accompanying stuff. So I

944
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 4: made sure to kind of make sure I got my

945
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 4: shots in on them.

946
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: I got I gotta share a story with you. So

947
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: this is, yes, this party.

948
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 3: It's very cute.

949
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: One of my dogs. So I don't have the volume

950
00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: of stops that you have. But last year my son

951
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: turned sixteen. He lives in Oklahoma, his mom. So I

952
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: bought a car here and I drove it down. Uh

953
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: it's like an old four runner. I drove it down

954
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: to and I rented a car to drive back, and

955
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: I was I stopped it at Hutchison, Kansas at the

956
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: JUCO National Championship. So but I had two of my

957
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: dogs with me, so I stopped outside of hutch In

958
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: hutch at the dog park in Hudginson, Kansas and let

959
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,959
Speaker 1: them run for like forty five minutes or an hour.

960
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: Yeah well no, yeah, they had that long car ride,

961
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: but it had been like four hours. But then they

962
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: were going to be in the car while I was

963
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,919
Speaker 1: watching a couple of JUCO games. So I'd come out

964
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: like at halftime, let him out, and then go back

965
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: into the game whatever. So that's my that's that's my

966
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: and I did, Uh, I've done the car, slept in

967
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: the car before, Yeah, I sign should I actually kind

968
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: of dig that. My issue with it is, uh, my

969
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 1: issue is always when if it's cold, what do I do?

970
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: And yeah, hot, what do I do?

971
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 4: So that's where I think we're going to work around.

972
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 4: It's a it is a hybrid, so it doesn't use

973
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 4: too much gas. If I just like let it run

974
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 4: over night, lock the doors.

975
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 3: So thankfully, that's how I've been getting past that. I

976
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 3: tried one night.

977
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 4: I was like, I've always seen the stories in like

978
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 4: Scandinavian countries they'll let their like little kids sleep outside

979
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 4: just to the cold.

980
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, maybe that'll help you sleep better.

981
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:34,720
Speaker 3: It didn't.

982
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 4: And uh and yes, so I've thankfully been doing that.

983
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 4: This would be a much worse, much worse run if

984
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 4: I was, if I was doing.

985
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: It with the sleeping bag. You have blankets, what do

986
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: you do?

987
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 4: I have plenty of blankets, yet I have plenty of pillows.

988
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 4: My car looks like a bomb went off right now.

989
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 4: It's not good.

990
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: How many miles in the car.

991
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 3: This year? I think I've probably put somewhere between ten

992
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 3: and fifteen thousand miles.

993
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: It's not bad. I would have thought a bit more.

994
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, it hasn't been too bad, but it's

995
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 4: still a lot for uh, for like a two month

996
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 4: stretch in the winter.

997
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, but yeah, okay, so we're fairly fairly ridiculous.

998
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: I know what that, I know what that. I know

999
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: what that gym looks like with the weird kind of

1000
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: shapes on the Yeah, the.

1001
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 4: Weird sil and yeah, yeah it's the track around its

1002
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 4: super strange.

1003
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 3: But yeah, yep.

1004
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 4: So uh then this was I drove down. I was

1005
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 4: actually gonna go to Villanova, but I severely underestimated how

1006
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 4: much traffic there is it about because the game got

1007
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 4: done at four o'clock. Severely underestimated how much traffic there

1008
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 4: is in the Greater New Jersey h area when it's

1009
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 4: four o'clock on a weekday. So I ended up pivoting.

1010
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 4: I went down to Ryder, which is in just outside.

1011
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 3: Of Trenton, New Jersey. I saw a Rider play copp

1012
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 3: And State, which there. Yeah, it was their gyms very small,

1013
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:57,959
Speaker 3: like IM saying it's.

1014
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 4: A high school gym. Isn't even really like most high

1015
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 4: school gyms are big than their gym is. But it

1016
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 4: was still like again super cool. You see like Division

1017
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 4: one basketball and bat.

1018
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: Was that the game they won because they've only won

1019
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: one game?

1020
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 3: Was that one cop And State won?

1021
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 2: Uh?

1022
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 3: They were it was their first.

1023
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 4: Uh it was Compon State's first like non con win

1024
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 4: and like against a D one school in like thirty

1025
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 4: five games or it was something ridiculous going back in years.

1026
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 4: So yeah, that was cool to see. That was kind

1027
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 4: of saying like, hey, I want to know what Coppin State.

1028
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 4: I gotta go more Coppon State games. But we'll get

1029
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 4: to that later. It didn't work out.

1030
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 3: For them, but.

1031
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: Okay they were too.

1032
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 4: So this was where I drove to Philly Airport again,

1033
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 4: did the whole sleep in the car, got the early

1034
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 4: morning flight back to back to Appleton so that I

1035
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 4: could be home for Christmas or not Christmas Thanksgiving, did

1036
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 4: that and uh so.

1037
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 3: It's home for Thanksgiving. Got to watch Packer win.

1038
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 4: That was all good, and then uh I flew out

1039
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 4: Friday morning back to Philly, picked up my car again,

1040
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 4: and I did another MTE at the Palusterra in Philly.

1041
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 4: So it was Hofster played LaSalle and then Merrimack played Penn.

1042
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 4: But that was when I just like, the plus are

1043
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 4: so cool. Yeah, there's supper history in there. I just

1044
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 4: couldn't stop smiling the whole time. I was just like

1045
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 4: sitting there looking around, like I can't believe him in

1046
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 4: the Pluster, Like how fun is this? And it like

1047
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 4: just when you think of all the different players and

1048
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 4: coaches and and even like fans going back almost one

1049
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 4: hundred years that have gotten Sea games in that arena,

1050
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 4: Like just how incredible that is that you're like sitting

1051
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 4: in the same seats basically, And yeah, it was a

1052
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 4: great time. So and yeah, then then my next step

1053
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 4: after that I went up to. I did another MT

1054
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 4: This was in a This was in Easton, Pennsylvania, which

1055
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 4: is where Lafayette is.

1056
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: So it was, uh.

1057
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 4: I love the if you haven't figured out yet, I

1058
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 4: love when it's like two random schools that aren't like

1059
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 4: it's not their home gym and you get like Lemoyne

1060
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 4: versus Monmouths was the game that day?

1061
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 3: Like the other teams are home teams.

1062
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 4: You really only have like family and maybe like one

1063
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 4: or two fans that have come for the game.

1064
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 3: Sure, and the gym is super quiet.

1065
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 4: Can you everything the coaches are saying, everything the players

1066
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 4: are saying, Like it's such a cool Again, I've got,

1067
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 4: you know, coaches in my family and like to be

1068
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 4: able to hear all the different things, like you wouldn't

1069
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 4: even think about that a D one basketball coach has

1070
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 4: to and their assistants have to think about in a game,

1071
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 4: Like I always love that, and I love the big

1072
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 4: crowds too, but like those quiet gyms are just like

1073
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 4: kind of special when you're really into basketball. So sure, yeah,

1074
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 4: I was able to. I saw it was Lamoy Momouth

1075
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 4: and then Lafayette played ball State so that was that

1076
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 4: was the worst shooting game I was probably seen all

1077
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 4: year by by ball State. I gave a Ball State

1078
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 4: friend a little crap.

1079
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: Oh, is that the game that they had like thirty five.

1080
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 4: Yep, thirty seven points. I I never got any confirmation

1081
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 4: on this, but there was a weird like it was

1082
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 4: a super bright flashing light out of the rafters and

1083
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 4: it only happened during the Lafayette All State game. Nobody

1084
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 4: on the court said anything. I don't think they me noticed,

1085
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 4: but but both teams shot really poorly that game, and

1086
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 4: I I kind of had some thoughts like, is that

1087
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 4: is it the light or am I just like not

1088
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 4: going crazy?

1089
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 3: But maybe that's.

1090
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 4: I only I only knew about it, So that's the game.

1091
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 4: But uh, but yeah it was. It was a rough

1092
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 4: go for them.

1093
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: That was not their their They fay around and scored

1094
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: like ninety seven the next game.

1095
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 4: Well yeah, and that kind of went back into my

1096
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 4: little conspiracy theory, was like, see they can shoot. I

1097
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 4: I thought something might have been wrong, but uh, but

1098
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 4: yeah they uh they picked up a nice one. I

1099
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 4: think that was against Lamoine too, who was like the

1100
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 4: two and o team going in the end of that day.

1101
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 4: So so yeah, that was a nice little nice little

1102
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 4: stop and then uh again, I worked my way back

1103
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 4: up to Massachusetts. Uh so I stopped at Fairfield was

1104
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 4: my last stop perform and back up there. I saw

1105
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 4: Fairfield back the day play Green Bay. I was back

1106
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 4: and we had when we had Alec Brown and Keeper Sykes.

1107
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 4: I remember making my mom go because Fairfield had a

1108
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 4: cool deer logo and I was like, I want to

1109
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 4: see them play. They never come to the Midwest, so

1110
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, time to go see them.

1111
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 4: So so them point New Hampshire. They have a they

1112
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 4: have a conic kid as well that Hampshire does, so

1113
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 4: I was able to check out that one and and yeah,

1114
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 4: Fairfield was able to pull it with it. They got

1115
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 4: a nice brand new arena up there that was really

1116
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 4: cool and everything.

1117
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,240
Speaker 1: So that's a redown one right in their campus. It's

1118
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: really cool.

1119
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really nice. I had somebody from Fairfield

1120
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 4: showed me around it. Really it was awesome. I had

1121
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 4: a really good time there and then where so this

1122
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 4: is where I actually took like a little bit of

1123
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 4: a break. I went back to Massachusetts and then I

1124
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 4: did have to We had like a little work thing,

1125
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 4: so I had to fly back to Indy I did

1126
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 4: work in a Butler game. It was Butler Eastern Michigan

1127
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 4: at at Hanklefield House. Those are always like Hinkle's so cool.

1128
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 4: There's just like so much history there. Uh they had

1129
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 4: those incredible final four runs a few years ago.

1130
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think when they redid it, I think they

1131
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: made it better. I really do. It's amazing.

1132
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 4: And uh that's always been kind of the thing, like

1133
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 4: they They've done so many things to you like preserve

1134
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 4: the history but also make it like a nice place

1135
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 4: to watch basketball. So like, anytime I get to back there,

1136
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 4: it's just special. So many good memories from school, going

1137
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 4: with my buddies and sitting in the student section and

1138
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 4: everything like that. So well, those days are a little

1139
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 4: past me. Uh, I still love going back and geting

1140
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 4: to see everybody.

1141
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 3: So and then yes I did.

1142
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 1: That was h.

1143
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 3: That was a little later. What was my next stop

1144
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 3: after this?

1145
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 5: Oh?

1146
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 3: Then know what it was? It was a So I

1147
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 3: went back. I had a nice little weekend with my girlfriend.

1148
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 4: She had her had her ballet shows, so I got

1149
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 4: to go see the nut Cracker.

1150
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 3: I watched her perform.

1151
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 4: U took a nice little weekend off for basketball, and yeah,

1152
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 4: then I left Massachusetts. I went back down to New

1153
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 4: York because her sister goes to Clemson, so in turn,

1154
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 4: her dad has become a big Clemson fan. So we

1155
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 4: went to the Jimmy d Classic at at Madison Square

1156
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 4: Garden and that was my first time there. It was

1157
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 4: so cool, like another one, and it's like, I can't

1158
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 4: believe I'm in Madison Square Garden right now. And we

1159
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 4: may have gotten really cocky when Clemson went up like

1160
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 4: twenty points in the.

1161
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 3: First half and then watch them lose on a buzzer

1162
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 3: beater that kind of stunned us. But other than that,

1163
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 3: it was really fun.

1164
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, and then a different experience for you because

1165
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: you're not used to cheering for any money.

1166
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,399
Speaker 4: No, no, usually I'll usually I'll try to like I'll

1167
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 4: throw in some class for the home team stuff like that.

1168
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 4: But uh, but yeah, and typically I'm pretty much like

1169
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 4: I'm just there to watch basketball, check out who's good,

1170
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 4: who's playing well, everything like that. So uh but yeah,

1171
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 4: that was the uh. I stayed with him, and then uh,

1172
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 4: then I flew back to Indians. We had another work

1173
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 4: thing and so that was the whole We had a

1174
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 4: work thing. But I also was like green Bay's playing

1175
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 4: in Indianapolis. I gotta go to like, I gotta make

1176
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 4: sure I'm in India around this time. So yeah, me

1177
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 4: and my me and my roommates went down for the

1178
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 4: Green Bay I You Indie game at at the Jungle,

1179
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 4: which we won, which I was very excited about.

1180
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: I was.

1181
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 4: I was sitting right behind the Green mid bench. I

1182
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 4: was very hyped up about it.

1183
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you learned the new words.

1184
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 4: My friends thought it was very very funny, but again

1185
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 4: it was it was.

1186
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 3: It was a good get.

1187
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 4: We we started with the press a little bit at

1188
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 4: the start and some of the shots were falling, but

1189
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 4: like we were able to pull away. Preston Rudinger is

1190
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 4: such a good player. It was a really good second half.

1191
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 4: We also got like c J. O'Hara and Lebron Thomas

1192
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 4: both had been games as well, so it was nice

1193
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 4: to nice to see a victory because I was last

1194
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 4: year we we had a bad second half of loss

1195
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 4: and stuff.

1196
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 1: I was there, Yeah, that was that was there too. Oh,

1197
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: I was, I was there too. That was the going.

1198
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: What was Radford like? Because we were gonna play Radford

1199
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 1: and then the game kind of fell through.

1200
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 3: So Radford's was.

1201
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 4: It was a very cool little it's like a big

1202
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 4: indoor track type facility. They got the bleachers set up on.

1203
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 4: That was another game that was against cop and State,

1204
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 4: but they yeah, they hit a nice little setup. It

1205
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 4: was a Sunday afternoon. There was like hardly anybody there,

1206
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 4: but it was a pretty cool like spot to watch

1207
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,720
Speaker 4: a game. Uh, they had a guy score fifty three points.

1208
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: I think that was the game you're at.

1209
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, he he just went nuclear.

1210
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:48,959
Speaker 4: It was crazy. I've never seen anything like it. But yeah,

1211
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 4: that was a that was a cool one. And Radford's

1212
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 4: and like Bradford's kind of in the middle of nowhere,

1213
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 4: so that was kind of another one. Like it was like, hey,

1214
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:57,359
Speaker 4: I gotta I'm going through there. They got a game,

1215
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 4: like I gotta go see it, and it was cool

1216
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 4: because the end up seeing a guy I think it

1217
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 4: was the Big South record in points. It's like I

1218
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 4: can always say I saw the guys that the Big

1219
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 4: South Conference record and points scored when I was, you know,

1220
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 4: a dumb twenty some year old and hanging out in Virginia.

1221
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,479
Speaker 4: So yeah, that was very very cool.

1222
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: What's the game you're most looking forward to coming up?

1223
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 3: Most looking forward to?

1224
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 4: So I would say last year, the the NIT finals

1225
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 4: are always a Hinkle, or they have been the last

1226
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 4: few years, and Chantanooga won. They were a really good

1227
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 4: team last year. They lost their conference tournament and ended

1228
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 4: up making the n T and they have like an

1229
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 4: incredible stretch of games. They want to getst a lot

1230
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 4: of bigger schools to make the n T finals, and

1231
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 4: they end up winning the NIT at Hinkle. And I

1232
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 4: was really stunned by like how much their fan base

1233
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 4: showed up Channa Nuga is not exactly it's within the

1234
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,760
Speaker 4: five hours, I think, but it's not like super close.

1235
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 4: They showed up a ridiculous amount of hink All. That

1236
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 4: was probably the reason they won. They had such a

1237
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 4: good fan base. And I actually did a different podcast

1238
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 4: after that and I said, like, hey, like I was

1239
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 4: so impressed with how good Chantity the fans were at

1240
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 4: the n and they stitched it over like a little

1241
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 4: video and montage from the n T and invited me

1242
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 4: down for games. So I'm gonna go down there in

1243
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 4: a few weeks after after the winter break, and I

1244
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 4: think they played Furman. It's on national television, so I'm

1245
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 4: gonna check that one out. And I'm really excited for it,

1246
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 4: so it should be it should be a good game.

1247
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: Okay, I have three questions for it. Yes, first one

1248
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: is when are you coming back to Green Bay.

1249
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 2: For a game.

1250
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 3: I have to figure that out because I have a

1251
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 3: couple of trips home plan. But you guys are always

1252
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 3: like at Robert Morris or other stuff.

1253
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 4: So I'm currently in the process of working that in.

1254
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 4: I'm thinking maybe maybe when you guys play Milwaukee. I

1255
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 4: gotta look at the schedule a little closer.

1256
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: January fifth, Yeah.

1257
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 4: January fifth, But it's definitely the list or the very weird,

1258
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 4: weird Monday game.

1259
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: I don't really know that it's.

1260
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 3: Because there's nothing else. There's like no other games that.

1261
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 4: Day, so you guys, there are a few there, like

1262
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 4: mostly again like the Swax Schools and I think the

1263
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 4: Ivy League play by that night.

1264
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 3: But yeah, you guys will be front and center.

1265
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: So and then what what's your what's your next game

1266
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: that you're you're playing on going to?

1267
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 4: Next game is Middle Tennessee State Tennessa State tomorrow up

1268
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 4: in Murphy's Borough, Tennessee. So I know those are two

1269
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 4: usually pretty good teams out of Conference USA. So yeah,

1270
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 4: we'll be driving up there. Got a little half day

1271
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 4: from tomorrow, so finshed up my shift in the morning

1272
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 4: and then use my uh my precious, precious time off

1273
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 4: driving up to Tennessee.

1274
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: Would you like help getting tickets?

1275
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,959
Speaker 4: I mean, if you have any, I won't turn it down.

1276
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 4: But again, if it's if it's too much of an obligation,

1277
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 4: like don't feel don't feel any pressure.

1278
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 3: But it's always.

1279
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: Appreciated as out here's that works. I mean, I'd love

1280
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: to tell you that it's it's a I mean, I'll

1281
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: either do it, or I'll have my my director of

1282
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: ops Kaine the captain do it, or just all I

1283
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: gotta do is textra call the the opposing the coaches

1284
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: of those games and they'll leave you some tickets.

1285
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be awesome if you, if, if, if you

1286
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 3: got the time for it. But uh, but again I

1287
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 3: don't wanna. I don't want to stick. I don't want

1288
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:25,919
Speaker 3: to stick too much on you guys.

1289
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: So what is the what's what's the one that you're

1290
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: that what's your uh your white whale? What's the one

1291
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: place you most want to go? You haven't been for England?

1292
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 5: Uh?

1293
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 4: We walk ntil today. It was actually Mississippi Valley State.

1294
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 4: That was kind of if I can ever you went.

1295
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: To Missispie Valley State, Yeah, that's where I.

1296
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 3: Was that tonight. So uh what was that like?

1297
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 4: It was It was very uh well, it's in the

1298
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 4: middle of just absolutely nowhere here in Mississippi.

1299
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 3: It's break times, there's not a ton of students on campus.

1300
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 4: But uh, like it was just super we cool, Like

1301
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 4: I'm in the Mississippi Valley State. Like it was kind

1302
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 4: of always one. It was like, if I can get

1303
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 4: to that, that'd be awesome. But you look at it

1304
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 4: on a map and you're like, when am I ever

1305
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 4: going to be in It's an I been in Mississippi.

1306
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 4: I don't even know how to pronounce the town. So yeah,

1307
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 4: I kind of made their priority. I was like they

1308
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 4: were hosting Tarleton State, which is a non CONN game.

1309
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 4: They almost never have non con home games that are

1310
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Speaker 4: against D one opponents, so I was like trying to

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Speaker 4: make the trip, trying to drive down so uh so yeah,

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01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 4: this was my uh this was kind of it up

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01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 4: until today and and they kind of got smoked, which

1314
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 4: was too bad. But uh but yeah, it was a

1315
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 4: really cool atmosphere and like you see people who are

1316
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Speaker 4: uh they were die hard Mississippi Valley State fans, and

1317
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 4: like it's cool to see as some of these mid majors.

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01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 4: My friends actually will give me some crap about how

1319
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 4: much I care about Green Bay basketball, and I'm like, hey,

1320
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 4: like it's this is like my team and everything, and

1321
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 4: and like it's cool to see like other people who

1322
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 4: could also appreciate that that it's you know, very meaningful

1323
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 4: to what might be like kind of a throwaway program

1324
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 4: that you only see if playing by games, if you're

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01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 4: only paying attention to the top levels of college basketball,

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01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 4: and be like, no, like all these schools that you

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Speaker 4: know might not be always in the forefront, they have

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Speaker 4: like these really passionate people behind there, behind their programs

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Speaker 4: and in their fan base, and like that was really

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01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 4: cool to see down here, You've ben out what's considered

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01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 4: like almost a mean program of of of college basketball

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01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 4: that still exists. So I definitely definitely enjoyed that.

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Speaker 1: Aaron, Okay, so what's your what's your white Whale?

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01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 5: Though?

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Speaker 1: What's the place you're like, man, I someday I'd love

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01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: to get there.

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Speaker 3: That's a good question I have.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you didn't come to see us play Kansas.

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01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 4: I that was on that was on the list. It

1340
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 4: was on the list, and then I got roped in

1341
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 4: with a buddy, but I did get some flag for that.

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01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 4: But yeah, I would say, uh, Allen field House is

1343
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 4: definitely up there. I would also Cameron Indoors another one

1344
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 4: I haven't got t yet that I really like to do.

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01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 4: I would also say a little more obscure things. Something

1346
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 4: I really want to do one day. Maine is the

1347
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 4: furthest like northeast school in the United States.

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Speaker 3: I would love to do Maine.

1349
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 4: And I would love to somehow work in doing like

1350
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 4: one of the San Diego programs in some kind of

1351
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 4: close stretch of time to you know, do do each

1352
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 4: corner of the country. So I'd say that's kind of

1353
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 4: my like thing I want to do next. I want

1354
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 4: to maybe maybe experience with the cross country lifestyle a

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Speaker 4: little bit.

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Speaker 3: But we'll see. Uh well, we'll see if that comes

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01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 3: to fruition. It's on the list.

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01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: It's it's it's on the list. Yeah, well, uh, this

1359
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. I mean you need to you need

1360
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 1: to either record a blog or take some nose whatever.

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01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: That's just you're getting experienced stuff that's so incredible in

1362
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: your twenties and see all these things.

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01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of been my My thing is like,

1364
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 4: it's not gonna get easy any easier to do this

1365
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 4: as I get older. And it sounds crazy to a

1366
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 4: lot of people, but I've had a few people to

1367
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 4: be like, oh, that's so cool, and it's like I'm

1368
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 4: glad somebody. Like there's been so many times in this

1369
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 4: on this journey that I've I've just been like, man,

1370
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 4: it's really cool that I got to got to do this,

1371
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 4: Like I got to go to this spot or see

1372
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 4: this thing, and like it's just been very like very rewarding,

1373
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 4: I would say, as much as it sounds crazy, but

1374
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 4: it's been a very like rewarding and fun journey. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: I've I've been trying to I've been trying to work

1376
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 4: in a little better. I've been trying to do like

1377
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 4: the little post game recap things like that to get

1378
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 4: a little better better at the.

1379
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 3: Disseminating the information out to people.

1380
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 4: But uh, but yeah, I mostly just do because I

1381
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 4: love basketball and I love traveling and this is a

1382
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 4: great way.

1383
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 3: To mix the two together.

1384
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: So pretty cool, It's pretty cool. Well, listen, it was awesome.

1385
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: I had no idea about your level of excitement and

1386
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: fandom towards GB. So really so that yeah, so now

1387
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 1: we got to get now, we got to get you

1388
01:03:58,040 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: up here.

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01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, after have to I've that's uh yeah, uh. I

1390
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 3: would definitely say I always put bother.

1391
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 4: One because their mama mater, but but after that yet

1392
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 4: it's it's definitely Green Bay. I do really I need

1393
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 4: to need to make a trip home at some point

1394
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 4: and get another another game. I neither of the Rest

1395
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 4: or a Crest Center in there, So yeah.

1396
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: Like the best non conference opponent in the years that

1397
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: the Crest. Tomorrow, You're not here. It's amazing place.

1398
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 3: It was funny at one point.

1399
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 4: At one point, I knew it was gonna be Mississippi tonight,

1400
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 4: and I said, how ridiculous would it be for me

1401
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 4: to get from Mississippi to Green Bay by whatever tips tomorrow?

1402
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 4: And I kind of looked it up and I was like,

1403
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 4: I could do it. But it's really fun, really fun. Yeah,

1404
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 4: So I will be watching. I'll have I usually have

1405
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 4: the games pull.

1406
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 3: Up on my phone.

1407
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 4: I'm usually not like I try to watch the game

1408
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 4: in front of me, obviously, but I usually keep tabs

1409
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 4: on the score and everything.

1410
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 3: Like that.

1411
01:04:57,480 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 4: So I'll be following the one and and yeah, I

1412
01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 4: hope movie we can get a nice, nice non com

1413
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 4: went so yeah, but looking forward to it.

1414
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let me know when you're coming up,

1415
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: let me know those games, text me of those games

1416
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 1: in advance. Now you have my number.

1417
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 3: Awesome, Yeah, and I can.

1418
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure I can always get you some get you

1419
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: a ticket or two for when you go to these games.

1420
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: I can only tell you on the other side. You know,

1421
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: I've always been a fan and I was a player

1422
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: and now being a coach, like I wish we could

1423
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: clone you, you know more people like you who just

1424
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: love ball want to go seetball and appreciate it for

1425
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: all it is.

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01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1427
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 4: I always try to like get my friends to taggle

1428
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 4: on or something because a lot of times have no idea,

1429
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 4: like there's even a game going on, and.

1430
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, come and watch, like it's really high

1431
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 3: level basketball.

1432
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 4: It's you know, it's not NBA, but it's it's some

1433
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 4: of the really really really talented players that are playing

1434
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 4: down the road at.

1435
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 3: Gym's where like you can sit right there and see everything,

1436
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 3: like it's.

1437
01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 4: Awesome and and yeah, so I'd encourage anybody like I

1438
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 4: don't check out your team near you, Like, don't check

1439
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 4: out a team that's maybe a little further away than

1440
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 4: near from you. And like it's really cool some of

1441
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 4: the different games and players have gotten to see that,

1442
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 4: Like just you wouldn't have got if you're sitting on

1443
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 4: your couch and doing whatever.

1444
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: So and if if you saw him this year, he's

1445
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance you'll see him at a different

1446
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 1: school next year. This crazy thing works, you know, Yeah,

1447
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: that's how it works. Well, Aaron, listen, I'm have all

1448
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 1: college basketball coaches. We love your passion, so I'm gonna

1449
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 1: try and get you. Just do many of these games

1450
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 1: as possible. Awesome, be my guest when we come up

1451
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: to GB. Make sure you reach out. We'll take care

1452
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: of you. And thanks so much for joining me on Allball.

1453
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me on this was this was

1454
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 4: really cool. So I appreciate the opportunity.

1455
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:49,680
Speaker 3: It is awesome.

1456
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: Okay, well that was great. I just it's so funny

1457
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: he talks about old school, and he's talking about like

1458
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: five ten years ago, Like the old school is old

1459
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: old school. Nonetheless, it's great to have like the next

1460
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: generation of huge huge college basketball fans. Tomorrow, the gauchows.

1461
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: I'll get a pot after that. In the meantime, though,

1462
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: my thanks to Aaron for joining me and sharing with

1463
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: all of us his tail. I mean, just think about

1464
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: that car ride to car ride to car ride, sleeping

1465
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 1: in your Prius, randomly popping in on your girlfriend who

1466
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: lives in Massachusetts, showing up for work, and then after

1467
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: we're getting in your car and going to see a game.

1468
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe if I was in my twenties and I, yeah,

1469
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: I just got my twenties. For a long time ago,

1470
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: I was playing basketball and I was working to ESPN,

1471
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:46,800
Speaker 1: So maybe that maybe he's actually living the dream. In

1472
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: the meantime, I truly appreciate you joining me. I look

1473
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: forward to the next time we talk. This is all

1474
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 1: ball

1475
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 3: App