WEBVTT - Hour 3 – Bill Simmons, John Calipari

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<v Speaker 1>You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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<v Speaker 2>Final Hour. In this Monday, we'll hear from the Arkansas

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<v Speaker 2>head coach John Caliperry, Bill Simmons on loan from the

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<v Speaker 2>Ringer to talk about his Celtics documentary. This hour brought

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<v Speaker 2>DP show Best and Worst of the weekend. What you

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<v Speaker 2>saw that you liked, you didn't like?

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<v Speaker 3>Seaton?

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<v Speaker 2>What's the poll question we're going to go with in

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<v Speaker 2>the final hour of this program. Yeah, we've been doing

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<v Speaker 2>We got a couple of them up there right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of them we've been getting some suggestions for. But

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<v Speaker 2>let's see what you have called the traveling violation at

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the Maryland Colorado State Gamekay. Right now,

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<v Speaker 2>fifty six percent of the audience are saying no, okay, no,

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<v Speaker 2>they wouldn't have what I watched initially, I was, I

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<v Speaker 2>was comfortable with it, and I don't have any you know,

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<v Speaker 2>dog in the fight. I just it's weird. How what

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<v Speaker 2>is allowable now? And you almost have to train your

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<v Speaker 2>eye to go. No, it's like James Harden. He taught

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<v Speaker 2>us to train our eye. And you could go back

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<v Speaker 2>to whether it was sharonas Marshall Onas who played for

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<v Speaker 2>Golden State. You know these European players coming in with

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<v Speaker 2>the euro step. Okay, you had to train your eye

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<v Speaker 2>with that initially. But you know that's one of the

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<v Speaker 2>few buzzer beaters that we've had. It's been not exactly

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<v Speaker 2>March Madness. I think the suggestion was march me miss

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<v Speaker 2>all right, we'll get to more phone calls coming up.

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<v Speaker 2>Coach cal will join us as well. A little bit

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<v Speaker 2>of football news, Aaron Rodgers meeting with the Steelers on Friday.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think there was any other information other than

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<v Speaker 2>I think it was eight hours that they met with

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<v Speaker 2>Aaron Rodgers. And the Giants have had Jamis Winston, but

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<v Speaker 2>that doesn't take them out of the running for a

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<v Speaker 2>quarterback in the first round. You're probably going to have

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<v Speaker 2>three quarterbacks taken. Jaln Milroe and if you go back

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<v Speaker 2>to during the season when my source who's an NFL scout, said,

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<v Speaker 2>there's Lamar Jackson feel about Jalen Milroe, the Alabama quarterback.

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<v Speaker 2>He ran a four to three forty at that size.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody going to find a way to take him. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if he's an end of the first round,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe second round. He's going to be a project. Jackson

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<v Speaker 2>Dart's going to go in the first round. And if

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to circle the team, I would circle. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll let you guys play the guessing game here, So

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<v Speaker 2>guess the team that I think will take Jackson Dart,

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<v Speaker 2>the Old Miss quarterback, in the first round. Todd, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to start with you Cleveland, all right, seton the

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<v Speaker 2>team that will take Jackson Dart in the first round.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh and how about I'll go down a little further.

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<v Speaker 4>Maybe Indianapolis, Okay, Marvin, the Miami Dolphins, all right, Paul,

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<v Speaker 4>the way you're pumping.

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<v Speaker 5>This up, I'm going with the Dallas Cowboys.

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<v Speaker 2>The Pittsburgh Stealer. Come on, how about that Pittsburgh Steelers

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<v Speaker 2>number twenty one. I think we'll take Jackson Dart in

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<v Speaker 2>the first round. Maybe I have Aaron Rodgers there, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>he can help him mentor Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart looks

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<v Speaker 2>like a first round draft pick like he and he's

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<v Speaker 2>got a star name too. That's a good name to

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<v Speaker 2>be a quarterback. I'm Jackson Dart. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>If it was in a movie, though, I'd be like,

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<v Speaker 4>this movie is so stupid, Like, can't you just give

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<v Speaker 4>him a real name, Jackson Dart?

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody would ever be named to that Live on NBC

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<v Speaker 2>Golf Channel, streaming on Peacock and the Texas Children's Houston

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<v Speaker 2>and Open. That'll be coming up at the next week.

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<v Speaker 2>That's on Golf NBC and Peacock. A couple of phone

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<v Speaker 2>calls in here Sean in Indianapolis. I Sean, what do

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<v Speaker 2>you have for me today?

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<v Speaker 3>Hey?

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<v Speaker 2>Dan?

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<v Speaker 6>Best and worst of the weekend? It has to be

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<v Speaker 6>the shot of the tournament with Liam McNeely of Yukon

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<v Speaker 6>hitting my over.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>And then the worst is the worst is just the

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<v Speaker 6>officiating and the reviews at the end of the games

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<v Speaker 6>just making it take forever and it just it just

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<v Speaker 6>takes the excitement out of the end of the game.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I know. And I don't know if it feels

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<v Speaker 2>like every year we kind of complain about the same

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<v Speaker 2>things of how it's called uh, you know, swallow a whistle.

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<v Speaker 2>You know the big teams, you know, the favorites they

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<v Speaker 2>get called. I mean we do this all the time.

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<v Speaker 2>Ye see.

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<v Speaker 4>I have a little bit of a hard time with

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<v Speaker 4>my brain reconciling the idea. I'd rather them just get

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<v Speaker 4>the call wrong and do it quicker, then take a

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<v Speaker 4>second and get it right.

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<v Speaker 2>I really have a heart.

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<v Speaker 4>I get the flow of everything, but like may, can't

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<v Speaker 4>we just get the calls wrong and just have it

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<v Speaker 4>move along faster.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'd brought this up to fans before that, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>they're like, oh, thanks forever. It's not instant replay. I go, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I know. But their job is to get it right.

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<v Speaker 2>If they give you the technology to do it right.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like you go into the SAT and they give

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<v Speaker 2>you can have a calculator for the SAT. So it'd

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<v Speaker 2>be like if you went in and you go, uhh,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't I don't want the essay, I'm not going

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<v Speaker 2>to use my calculator. They give you all the tools

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<v Speaker 2>to be able to get the call right. It's when

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<v Speaker 2>they don't get it right, when they've used replay, that's

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<v Speaker 2>when I have a problem. But the stoppage. Yes, But

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<v Speaker 2>as Seaton says, if I said to you, hey, they're

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<v Speaker 2>totally going to blow this call against your team and

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<v Speaker 2>you're going to get bounced from the tournament. But they're

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<v Speaker 2>going to do it real quick. Are you okay with that?

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<v Speaker 4>It's going to happen in a nice quick manner, like yeah, heck, yeah, great,

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<v Speaker 4>that's exactly what I want. Yeah, forget about the technology

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<v Speaker 4>to get it right, even if it takes an extra

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<v Speaker 4>thirty seconds.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want that. Yeah, Jerry in Austin, Texas, Hi, Jerry,

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<v Speaker 2>what's on your mind?

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<v Speaker 7>Hey?

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<v Speaker 8>Dan sixty sturdy tool five. I got a comment, a request,

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<v Speaker 8>and a best and worst to feel allowed.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, cool, best and.

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<v Speaker 8>Worst Michigan State making it to the Sweet sixteen. Thank god, man,

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<v Speaker 8>I love that. But worst is that my brackets busted

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<v Speaker 8>because I had Saint John's like a lot of people. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 8>and Patino call in it, but he didn't make it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Rick was not in a good mood at the

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<v Speaker 2>end of the game. Thank you for the phone call there, Jerry.

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<v Speaker 2>He was asked by a reporter the following question, You had.

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<v Speaker 3>RJ on the bench, you know, for a pretty long

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<v Speaker 3>stretch at the end.

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<v Speaker 9>Was that just because he just didn't wasn't making him

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<v Speaker 9>or was there something more to it?

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<v Speaker 10>I played thirty minutes. It's a long time, so he

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<v Speaker 10>was tired. No, played thirty minutes, and I went with

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<v Speaker 10>other people. You already know the answers, Roger, you're asking

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<v Speaker 10>leading questions. Geordy know it, So don't ask leading questions.

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<v Speaker 10>Geordy know why he didn't play?

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<v Speaker 3>Was there one play with ARJ that made you sit

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<v Speaker 3>him the last five minutes?

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<v Speaker 10>You know he was three for seventeen. You know he

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<v Speaker 10>was oh for three, So you're answering your own I'm

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<v Speaker 10>not going to knock one of my.

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<v Speaker 2>Players, although you just recited his stats and that I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what he played thirty minutes. And then the

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<v Speaker 2>reporter goes, was he tired? No, he was not, So

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<v Speaker 2>what's the thirty minutes mean? He had his chance to

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<v Speaker 2>prove himself and he didn't do it in thirty minutes,

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<v Speaker 2>And as a reporter, you have to ask that question.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the biggiest player of the year. And as

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<v Speaker 2>Jay Billis pointed out, and I said the same thing

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<v Speaker 2>in the first town, take it to the hoop. You

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<v Speaker 2>had some guys in found trouble. Get inside. Hey, my

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<v Speaker 2>jumper is not dropping. Can you dribble? Can you get

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<v Speaker 2>to the hoop? Can you put some pressure on them?

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<v Speaker 2>Can you get some you know, fouls called? I just

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<v Speaker 2>didn't understand that, Yeah, Marvin.

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, my biggest player of the her is playing forty

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<v Speaker 9>one minutes. Yeah, I know there's forty minutes. He's playing.

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<v Speaker 9>More than that, he's playing every single second. It's the

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<v Speaker 9>NCAA tournament.

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<v Speaker 2>He would have all this week to rest. But I

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<v Speaker 2>just didn't understand.

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<v Speaker 9>That, Like in living and dying with your players that

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<v Speaker 9>got you to this spot.

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<v Speaker 2>Bob and Florida. Hi, Bob, what's on your mind today?

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<v Speaker 8>So can you hear me?

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<v Speaker 11>Now?

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<v Speaker 2>I can, Bob.

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<v Speaker 11>Okay, I needed a microphone desk. My best, I got

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<v Speaker 11>a best and the worst for you, and I also

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<v Speaker 11>got a stand of the day for you. So stand

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<v Speaker 11>of the Day, pick the theme you want to use

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<v Speaker 11>the stat of the day after I give you my

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<v Speaker 11>best and horse. Okay, Dad, thanks for calling back. My

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<v Speaker 11>best is the cyclones. My cyclones got it with they

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<v Speaker 11>had ten points but about two minutes to go. But

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<v Speaker 11>my worst is they still lost.

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<v Speaker 6>Okay that stand of the day, Dad.

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<v Speaker 2>All right. Uh, go ahead, real quick, give me your

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<v Speaker 2>stat of the day.

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<v Speaker 11>All right. My stant of the day is watching the

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<v Speaker 11>Tennessee women on Gute and they put a stant up

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<v Speaker 11>that said that Tennessee made one hundred and twenty two

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<v Speaker 11>substitutions on the first half. Apparently there were substituting five

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<v Speaker 11>players at a time.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, well, thank you, Bob. We'll keep an eye

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<v Speaker 2>on that. Jerry and Cincinnati. Hi, Jerry, what's on your

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<v Speaker 2>mind today?

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<v Speaker 3>DP?

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<v Speaker 6>Thanks for taking my Callim Colling about Sean Miller. I'm

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<v Speaker 6>Xavier Alumm and a fan thirty years after being a

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<v Speaker 6>stepping stone for the past twenty years, and all these

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<v Speaker 6>coaches leaving familiar programs, this is the first time I'm

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<v Speaker 6>not but heard about it. R Nile budget for the

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<v Speaker 6>athletic Department's three point one million Texas is probably twelve

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<v Speaker 6>fifteen million. If Sham Miller wouldn't the left, I'd be like, dude,

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<v Speaker 6>what are you doing? Get out of here now?

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<v Speaker 2>I get it. I just Xavier gave him a chance

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<v Speaker 2>after what happened in Arizona. I know, once again, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>very naive that I believe in loyalty, or at least

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit of loyalty here. But that's why I

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<v Speaker 2>have no sympathy for these coaches like ah anil transfer

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<v Speaker 2>portal gonna drive me out of the business. Okay, you

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<v Speaker 2>guys use the transfer portal to take jobs all the time,

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<v Speaker 2>and you guys are getting well compensated. So stop. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's the wild Wow West out there. We can

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<v Speaker 2>all agree with that, but who allowed it to get

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<v Speaker 2>to the wild Wow West. The players didn't have any control.

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<v Speaker 2>They found loopholes. That's it. Not going to compensate, not

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<v Speaker 2>going to compensate. I would hear this even when I

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<v Speaker 2>was playing. I would get the you know how much

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<v Speaker 2>an education cost? Yes, yes I do, but they put

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<v Speaker 2>in I mean, it's a full time job being a

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<v Speaker 2>football or basketball player at to major university. It just is, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you're getting a free education. But you're trying to tell

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<v Speaker 2>me that what Johnny Manziel gave to his alma mater

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<v Speaker 2>was just an education. That's it. I mean, let's not

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<v Speaker 2>be naive with it. Everybody can get paid. I wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>say everybody gets rich, but everybody can get paid. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>We'll take a break, still hoping to hear from coach

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<v Speaker 2>cown Fritzi trying to track him down. Up next, we'll

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<v Speaker 2>talk to Bill Simmons about his documentary on the Celtics.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, we'll talk to Bill Simmons, great sports writer, podcaster,

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<v Speaker 2>and he is the executive producer of the HBO docusearies

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<v Speaker 2>Celtic City, the history of the team from their founding

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<v Speaker 2>to the twenty twenty four championships. So there's a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of great interviews in there, a lot of great footage,

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<v Speaker 2>old archival footage, and it premiered back on March third.

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<v Speaker 2>It can be streamed on Max with new episodes debuting

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<v Speaker 2>Monday nights through April twenty eighth. As we make way

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<v Speaker 2>for Bill Simmons joining us on the program. Bill, how

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<v Speaker 2>are you? How's morale?

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<v Speaker 13>I'm great? Great to see it great for a long time.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, it has a better game college basketball NBA. As

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<v Speaker 2>far as the esthetics of watching.

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<v Speaker 14>It, you're asking the wrong person, because I love the

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<v Speaker 14>NBA and college hoops. I have trouble with March madness.

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<v Speaker 14>I just have trouble with especially what I grew up

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<v Speaker 14>with in the eighties, where you felt like you got

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<v Speaker 14>to know these guys over the course of two, three,

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<v Speaker 14>four years, and this year, especially now in the l

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<v Speaker 14>l era, it's just, you know, it's like a fantasy

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<v Speaker 14>draft where you just reset the rosters every year. So

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<v Speaker 14>I think that combined with the style of play, Like

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<v Speaker 14>I went to two NBA games this weekend, Lakers, Bulls,

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<v Speaker 14>and the Bulls were incredible. Okay, see Equippers last night,

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<v Speaker 14>which was like a Round three playoff game, and that

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<v Speaker 14>I was really impressed by the Quippers, how good they were.

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<v Speaker 14>And you go to games like that and you watch

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<v Speaker 14>college and it just to me just feels like such

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<v Speaker 14>an inferior product. So I think unless unless you went

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<v Speaker 14>to one of these colleges, you grew up rooty for them,

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<v Speaker 14>or you just have a major gamly problem, it's fine.

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<v Speaker 14>March madness is fine, but I'm still taking the.

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<v Speaker 2>NBA when it comes to awards, and I got to

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<v Speaker 2>vote on these. I'm sure you probably got to vote

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<v Speaker 2>on NBA awards. And the MVP is always a tricky one.

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<v Speaker 2>And I got criticized because I didn't vote for Barkley

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<v Speaker 2>and didn't vote from alone when they won, I voted

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<v Speaker 2>for Jordan. I think, you know, seven or eight years

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<v Speaker 2>in a row.

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<v Speaker 13>History has remembered you. Finally for that one.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it wasn't a stretch to do that. But

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<v Speaker 2>like Joker, Joker is not going to win the MVP,

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<v Speaker 2>but he is the best player in the NBA SGA

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<v Speaker 2>who didn't play well in the game. You know, the

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<v Speaker 2>win against the Clippers is going to win. I just

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, are we do we follow the Academy Awards. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>it's your turn, your time to win something. Are we

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<v Speaker 2>doing that with awards or have we been doing that

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<v Speaker 2>with awards?

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<v Speaker 11>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 14>I mean I would probably put myself in the highest

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<v Speaker 14>percentile of people who stupidly care about.

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<v Speaker 13>This the most.

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<v Speaker 14>Like even when I wrote Mysketball book, I did a

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<v Speaker 14>whole chapter about the MVP and tried to correct every

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<v Speaker 14>injustice every year on the pod the last four or

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<v Speaker 14>five weeks of the season, I'm trying to grind it

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<v Speaker 14>out and make sure you get to the right place

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<v Speaker 14>with somebody. I think the difference this year is SGA

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<v Speaker 14>is incredible and I actually think he's now becoming a

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<v Speaker 14>little bit underrated, Like he's having I think one of

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<v Speaker 14>the best scoring seasons in the history of the guard position.

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<v Speaker 14>Like what he's doing this year, you can put against

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<v Speaker 14>any Jordan regular season, you can put against. It's as

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<v Speaker 14>good as any Kobe season or better except for two

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<v Speaker 14>thousand and six. It's up there with West. It is

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<v Speaker 14>one of the best guard scoring seasons of all time.

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<v Speaker 14>And he's doing it night after night after night. And

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<v Speaker 14>the thing that I care about, and you know, right now,

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<v Speaker 14>with twelve games left.

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<v Speaker 13>I think I'm going to vote for him.

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<v Speaker 14>The thing I care about is every time he goes

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<v Speaker 14>against whoever one of the other best guys in the

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<v Speaker 14>league is, he's either better than them or is equal

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<v Speaker 14>to them, right, So that matters. The fact that his

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<v Speaker 14>team is the best team in the league and he's

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<v Speaker 14>the centrifugal force of that. That the fact that I

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<v Speaker 14>haven't seen really anybody stop him, even last night at

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<v Speaker 14>the Quipper game. I know what his box score was,

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<v Speaker 14>but I went to the game like it was just

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<v Speaker 14>one of those nights, like it was the ball was

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<v Speaker 14>just rolling around the rim, bouncing out like he couldn't

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<v Speaker 14>buy a break the whole night, he was still getting

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<v Speaker 14>the shots he wanted.

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<v Speaker 13>So I think he's been awesome.

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<v Speaker 14>I am probably the number one Joker cheerleader anyone in

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<v Speaker 14>the mainstream media. I just think he's one of the

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<v Speaker 14>best ten to twelve players of all time.

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<v Speaker 13>And he's certainly the best player of this generation.

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<v Speaker 14>But you know, I don't know what if OKC wins

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<v Speaker 14>sixty nine seventy games and SGA's gonna average thirty three

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<v Speaker 14>a game and have fifty to thirty point games and

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<v Speaker 14>do all the stuff he's doing.

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<v Speaker 13>I think it's a fair one. I think it's the

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<v Speaker 13>right vote.

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<v Speaker 2>You think Joker's already one of the twelve best players

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<v Speaker 2>in the history of the game.

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<v Speaker 14>I think he's definitely he's at least moved into that class,

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<v Speaker 14>you know, And this is another thing I probably care

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<v Speaker 14>about too much, and I redo my pyramid every year

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<v Speaker 14>with the Tears, and I'm a huge loser. But he's

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<v Speaker 14>at least in that group with Jakeem and Shaq and

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<v Speaker 14>Moses in that kind of territory.

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<v Speaker 13>And I think when you're.

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<v Speaker 14>Talking about the best offensive players year after year who

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<v Speaker 14>can both get their stats and make everybody better. To me,

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<v Speaker 14>he's in the bird magic area offensively, and I mean

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<v Speaker 14>you know me well enough Dan to know like I

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<v Speaker 14>wouldn't say that lightly, but when you think like he can,

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<v Speaker 14>how he can elevate his teams, the stats that he

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<v Speaker 14>just gets to night after night, like just the experience

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<v Speaker 14>of watching him day to day where it's like he'll

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<v Speaker 14>just put up a thirty five twenty and fifteen and

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<v Speaker 14>we're like, WHOA a big game for the Joker last night.

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<v Speaker 13>We're almost like numb to it at this point.

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<v Speaker 14>So, yeah, he's I think he's one of the best

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<v Speaker 14>offensive players I've ever seen. So yeah, could he win

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<v Speaker 14>three MVPs in five years or war? I'm not sure

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<v Speaker 14>it matters. I just think he's in the combo now.

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<v Speaker 2>Historically, yeah, we're talking to Bill Simmons and the show

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<v Speaker 2>HBO docu series on Max Celtics City. When did the

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<v Speaker 2>idea first start? The genesis of it.

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<v Speaker 14>Might have been before COVID or right around COVID, when

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<v Speaker 14>we found out the Lakers were doing a multi part

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<v Speaker 14>thing for somebody, and you know, the Boston thing kicked

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<v Speaker 14>in immediately got competitive or like, well we got to

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<v Speaker 14>come up with a better one than theirs. Theirs is

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<v Speaker 14>already coming gone. But you know, we I got together

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<v Speaker 14>with Connor, who I created thirty for thirty with, and

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<v Speaker 14>just try to figure out, like, man, if one of

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<v Speaker 14>these franchise things was ever going to work, because obviously

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<v Speaker 14>there's going to be a few of them that are done.

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<v Speaker 14>This is probably the one with the highest upside because

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<v Speaker 14>you can tell the story of eight decades of the NBA.

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<v Speaker 14>You can tell a lot of things about America through

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<v Speaker 14>the Celtics, you know, whether you talk about race or

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<v Speaker 14>drugs or business or the evolution of the NBA, things

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<v Speaker 14>like that, and then the characters and I found out

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<v Speaker 14>I'm sure you felt the same way. During the last Dance.

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<v Speaker 14>I was shocked by how little people knew about anything

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<v Speaker 14>before the two thousands, about the NBA. It's almost like

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<v Speaker 14>most people felt like the NBA started when Shaq and

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<v Speaker 14>Kobe had the Three Peet so like they had the

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<v Speaker 14>Rodman episode in the last Dance, and the people in

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<v Speaker 14>my life were like, wow, that Dennis Rodman. He was crazy, huh,

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<v Speaker 14>And I'm like, what, Like, you don't remember this. So

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<v Speaker 14>we just felt like there was such an upside with

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<v Speaker 14>the whole Celtics story going from Koozy to Russell and

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<v Speaker 14>you know, all the way through the seventies and how

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<v Speaker 14>it intersected with Boston was a big thing because it's

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<v Speaker 14>a story about the Celtics.

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<v Speaker 13>And the city.

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<v Speaker 14>But now, like the One Tonight, it's really that there's

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<v Speaker 14>three straight kind of Bird era episodes in a row,

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<v Speaker 14>and the one Tonight is about Boston and Philly in

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<v Speaker 14>the early eighties and Bird kind of ascending, and it's like,

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<v Speaker 14>this is the first one where I feel like, if

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<v Speaker 14>you're probably under maybe sixty, or maybe you're over I

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<v Speaker 14>don't know, over twenty five, you're gonna remember all the

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<v Speaker 14>aspects of this. And then from people under twenty five,

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<v Speaker 14>I think they're going to enjoy it. So it's been

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<v Speaker 14>an amazing project to work on.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how tricky this was for you. Maybe

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<v Speaker 2>that's not the right word, but you want to get

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<v Speaker 2>a mass audience with this. You know that it's regional

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<v Speaker 2>with the Celtics, but you want to make it national.

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<v Speaker 2>The race part of it with Bill Russell when the

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<v Speaker 2>Celtics is very very powerful, But how do you factor

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<v Speaker 2>in making this for maybe mass appeal or the casual

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<v Speaker 2>basketball fan.

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<v Speaker 13>Yeah, you're trying to do both, and it's also an

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<v Speaker 13>old school documentary.

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<v Speaker 14>I don't there's not a lot of these long multi

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<v Speaker 14>partiers anywhere on the and the HBO model I think

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<v Speaker 14>actually favors us because one of the ways documentaries and

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<v Speaker 14>docuseries have changed this decade is they most of the

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<v Speaker 14>places dump all of them at once, right.

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<v Speaker 13>And you just binge it, and you're binging it and

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<v Speaker 13>you're also doing something else, and you know, you can

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<v Speaker 13>just zoom through something and whatever.

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<v Speaker 14>Maybe you watch six episodes of something and you really

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<v Speaker 14>only concentrate for half of it. I think in this case,

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<v Speaker 14>like we're making nine one hour movies here, we're trying

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<v Speaker 14>to tell a bigger story than just hey, here's the

0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:21.800
<v Speaker 14>Celtics and was this game incredible?

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<v Speaker 13>Like we're really trying to dive into some stuff, and.

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<v Speaker 14>Especially how a franchise intersects with a city and a country,

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<v Speaker 14>you know.

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<v Speaker 13>So I think for us, we just I felt this

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<v Speaker 13>way when we.

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<v Speaker 14>Did you know, the first thirty thirty for thirties and

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<v Speaker 14>some of the other stuff I worked on, Like, if

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<v Speaker 14>something's good enough, people are gonna find it.

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<v Speaker 13>So I think that was our mission this whole time.

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<v Speaker 13>Can we make this good enough?

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<v Speaker 14>That somebody is going to be suspicious of it and say, maybe, eh,

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<v Speaker 14>I don't mean to see that. I don't really care

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<v Speaker 14>about the Celtics, like care about basketball. You're gonna enjoy

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<v Speaker 14>watching this, like and I think that's.

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<v Speaker 13>The spot we got to.

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<v Speaker 2>But also I go back to the first time I

0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.480
<v Speaker 2>went to the Ballard. So I'm working at CNN, Celtics

0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.920
<v Speaker 2>are in the NBA Finals, and all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 2>you walk into that building and okay, it's esthetically not pleasing.

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<v Speaker 2>It was, you know, a dump, but you felt like

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<v Speaker 2>it was a stage. Like it was a Broadway stage

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<v Speaker 2>when I when I was growing up, seventy six or

0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.240
<v Speaker 2>Celtics on Sunday afternoon. The way the building was lit,

0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.159
<v Speaker 2>it just looked like a Broadway show. Yeah, I just

0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.840
<v Speaker 2>I could not wait to shoot hoops on that floor.

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<v Speaker 2>And I would go there three hours early. Bird would

0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.160
<v Speaker 2>be in there, whether he's shooting or he'd run. You'd

0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.480
<v Speaker 2>run around the upper deck and I would just wait

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<v Speaker 2>until he was done. And if that ball was out there,

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<v Speaker 2>I went over it absolutely absolutely, And so I was

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<v Speaker 2>very fortunate that you know, you had Magic and Bird

0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:56.720
<v Speaker 2>being there. When Magic hits the skyhook and so when

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<v Speaker 2>I see it, it brings back the memories of and

0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:02.840
<v Speaker 2>maybe I didn't appreciate it as much I loved it,

0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.879
<v Speaker 2>but even looking back, it was I mean, that was

0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:11.760
<v Speaker 2>unbelievable rivalries, unbelievable talent, and the personalities, the characters, the

0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.560
<v Speaker 2>all time greats that came out of those matchups. I

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<v Speaker 2>just I loved reminiscing about it, and it gave me

0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:20.840
<v Speaker 2>I'd look forward to the Bird episodes because I got

0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:22.960
<v Speaker 2>to spend a lot of a lot more time with

0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.840
<v Speaker 2>Larry than I thought I was going to. But that

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<v Speaker 2>was the fun part of it. I don't know when

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<v Speaker 2>you first said I love this, this team is me.

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<v Speaker 2>It's my DNA.

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<v Speaker 14>Yeah, I mean my dad got one season ticket in

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<v Speaker 14>the seventy three seventy four season. He's had him ever since,

0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:40.920
<v Speaker 14>so it's I think he's like the fifth oldest season

0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:42.800
<v Speaker 14>ticket older. So he would carry me in when I

0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:45.200
<v Speaker 14>was a kid. And then eventually we got two tickets

0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:47.680
<v Speaker 14>right before Bird showed up. But we went to the

0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:53.000
<v Speaker 14>triple overtime game, which we covered in episode three. And yeah,

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<v Speaker 14>I think one of the cool things about the seventies

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<v Speaker 14>and eighties, first of all, in the fifties and sixties,

0:24:57.760 --> 0:24:59.879
<v Speaker 14>basketball was it was.

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<v Speaker 13>A minor league sport, but it was.

0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:05.800
<v Speaker 14>It was the fourth sport. Baseball was the biggest. Football

0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:08.879
<v Speaker 14>was right there behind it, and honestly, hockey was bigger

0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:13.199
<v Speaker 14>than basketball. They created basketball because the hockey owners wanted

0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:16.560
<v Speaker 14>to fill their buildings on the days where they didn't

0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:19.800
<v Speaker 14>have hockey. So it took, you know, fifteen twenty years.

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<v Speaker 14>They had a bunch of weird racial quotas and a

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<v Speaker 14>bunch of like pretty unseemly stuff, and it wasn't really

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<v Speaker 14>until the mid sixties that the league started becoming the league.

0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:30.480
<v Speaker 14>You go into the seventies and it was still pretty

0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:32.520
<v Speaker 14>rinky dank for the most part. Right, they had the

0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:36.440
<v Speaker 14>one TV contract, the ABA showed up, so some of

0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:39.520
<v Speaker 14>the players weren't even in the league. And you know,

0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:42.159
<v Speaker 14>in that trip ol t game, it started at nine

0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:45.520
<v Speaker 14>to seventeen at night. The Boston fans said, they're all

0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:48.560
<v Speaker 14>blue collar fans, they'd been out since four in the afternoon,

0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:53.440
<v Speaker 14>and they're hammered, and you know it was they charged

0:25:53.520 --> 0:25:56.920
<v Speaker 14>the quarter after second overtime, one guy jumped the referee

0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:58.840
<v Speaker 14>like that's just what the era was like. And then

0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:01.280
<v Speaker 14>as you you go to the eighties and the nineties,

0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:05.480
<v Speaker 14>the league starts to shift. Jordan shows up, All Star Weekend,

0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:10.120
<v Speaker 14>Stern Bird versus Magic, and it kind of rounds into

0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:12.080
<v Speaker 14>where we end up in the nineties. But it took

0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:13.640
<v Speaker 14>a long time to get there, and there were people

0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:15.560
<v Speaker 14>like us that really loved the league. But it was,

0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.280
<v Speaker 14>you know, a contrary opinion. To tell somebody your favorite

0:26:19.280 --> 0:26:22.800
<v Speaker 14>sport was the NBA, it was like, what really? And

0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:26.600
<v Speaker 14>now it seems like they have probably the most famous

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<v Speaker 14>players out of any sport. It's not the biggest league,

0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:31.600
<v Speaker 14>but I think they have the most famous players.

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<v Speaker 2>Who was your favorite interview in this docu series?

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<v Speaker 13>You know, I was stunned by how good Robert Parrish was.

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<v Speaker 14>I think when you do these and we interviewed like

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<v Speaker 14>one hundred people, you're always hoping for a couple ones

0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:49.600
<v Speaker 14>you didn't expect. And Parish was somebody who was pretty

0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:51.920
<v Speaker 14>quiet when he played to called them that they nick

0:26:51.920 --> 0:26:53.760
<v Speaker 14>them the chief after the guy in the one floor

0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:57.359
<v Speaker 14>over was in Cuckoo's nest who never talked, but he

0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:00.440
<v Speaker 14>just had a lot of like forty year of pent

0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:03.520
<v Speaker 14>up stuff to say, and he was really charismatic. And

0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:06.119
<v Speaker 14>you do these things all right. Part of the issue

0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:07.560
<v Speaker 14>we had was a lot of the people from the

0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:10.000
<v Speaker 14>first three episodes weren't alive anymore, you know, and so.

0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:11.840
<v Speaker 13>You're cheating with different old footage.

0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:13.880
<v Speaker 14>And our director of Laurence still did a great job

0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:18.560
<v Speaker 14>kind of weaving footage of people who weren't around anymore

0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:20.920
<v Speaker 14>and making it seem at least a little lively. And

0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:23.960
<v Speaker 14>once we get into the eighties, then we have everybody,

0:27:24.560 --> 0:27:27.159
<v Speaker 14>you know, so like Michao Parrish, we got Larry, all

0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:30.680
<v Speaker 14>these guys, all these guys are great, and then you know,

0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:33.200
<v Speaker 14>we got KG. Was probably the last one we got

0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:36.119
<v Speaker 14>because I think he was a little maybe suspicious of

0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:38.159
<v Speaker 14>the thing and you're not going to move this. But

0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:40.800
<v Speaker 14>kg's interviews of Basic that was the other one where

0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.080
<v Speaker 14>he's just he's just like that at all times.

0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:45.000
<v Speaker 13>So you just turn a camera on and he's KG.

0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:47.320
<v Speaker 2>But Isaiah didn't want to do it.

0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:51.080
<v Speaker 14>Now we're you know, and I know Isaiah, and I

0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:52.800
<v Speaker 14>knew why he didn't want to do it. I think

0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:56.040
<v Speaker 14>he felt, you know, I think the Last Dance and

0:27:56.119 --> 0:27:58.520
<v Speaker 14>some other sports documentaries that have happened over the last

0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:02.360
<v Speaker 14>ten years, nobody wants to be in somebody else's doc

0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:04.840
<v Speaker 14>when they're like the other team in the sports movie, right,

0:28:04.960 --> 0:28:08.000
<v Speaker 14>like when we the first thirty thirty thirties we did

0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:10.800
<v Speaker 14>we get anybody, you know, and people say, Hey, we're

0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:12.400
<v Speaker 14>doing this documentary, can we come film?

0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:12.840
<v Speaker 13>You're sure?

0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:16.479
<v Speaker 14>And that started a shift in the mid twenty tens.

0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:19.520
<v Speaker 14>And I get it, you know, like if somebody was

0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:23.320
<v Speaker 14>making a documentary about ESPN, I don't know if I'd

0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:25.359
<v Speaker 14>want to be in it, you know, I don't know how,

0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:27.520
<v Speaker 14>And I'm sure you would feel the same way, like, wait,

0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:28.920
<v Speaker 14>how am I going to be portrayed?

0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:29.720
<v Speaker 13>So I get it.

0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:32.920
<v Speaker 14>But it also makes these things a little bit harder

0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:34.840
<v Speaker 14>and an increase the degree of difficulties.

0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:37.200
<v Speaker 13>So we didn't have We didn't have Barkley either.

0:28:37.320 --> 0:28:40.640
<v Speaker 14>Barkley will talk to like, you know, a lamppost about basketball,

0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:43.200
<v Speaker 14>but some of the people that are the on the

0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:44.520
<v Speaker 14>other side, they just don't want to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Congrats on it so far, Bill, good to catch up

0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:49.200
<v Speaker 2>with you again. Thanks for joining.

0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:50.760
<v Speaker 13>Yeah, good to see you too. Thanks.

0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:54.960
<v Speaker 2>That's Bill Simmons. He is bringing you Celtic City. He's

0:28:55.000 --> 0:29:00.760
<v Speaker 2>the executive producer HBO and tonight another episode and it'll

0:29:00.760 --> 0:29:02.840
<v Speaker 2>be going through April twenty eight, We'll take a break

0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:05.360
<v Speaker 2>Arkansas head coach Dohn Calliperry. Next.

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<v Speaker 1>Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan

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<v Speaker 1>Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific

0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:15.000
<v Speaker 1>on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP.

0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:20.080
<v Speaker 2>John Caliperi Hall of Famer Beat Kansas Beat Saint. John's

0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:24.040
<v Speaker 2>got Texas Tech coming up this Thursday. Back on the show,

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<v Speaker 2>Back in the sweet sixteen, Look who is Look who

0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:32.720
<v Speaker 2>proved he could still coach? Congratulations there, John, Thank you

0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:33.640
<v Speaker 2>Dan Patrick.

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<v Speaker 3>That's the ugliest top I've seen in the Wow. It

0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:41.480
<v Speaker 3>befits you though, So it's it's it's good.

0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:44.520
<v Speaker 2>Well what's uglier your sport coat from this weekend?

0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:47.760
<v Speaker 3>Or like that sport coat?

0:29:47.960 --> 0:29:51.040
<v Speaker 2>Hey, you won with it. It looks a whole lot

0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:54.240
<v Speaker 2>better when you win. And this is this is a

0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:55.360
<v Speaker 2>gift from Adam Sandler.

0:29:55.920 --> 0:29:58.080
<v Speaker 3>This is Yeah, you're out hitting golf bolls. But do

0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:01.000
<v Speaker 3>you would you? Would you? I think it's in the

0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:05.720
<v Speaker 3>bag to go this weekend, that sport coat. Yeah, it's

0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:06.280
<v Speaker 3>in the bag.

0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:10.320
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'll travel with it. Okay. And when you're done

0:30:10.360 --> 0:30:12.760
<v Speaker 2>with it, maybe you could send it to the man

0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:14.640
<v Speaker 2>cav I will I'll.

0:30:14.560 --> 0:30:18.320
<v Speaker 3>Deliver it to the cabin in Maine. Okay, I'll hand

0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:18.880
<v Speaker 3>deliver it.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you an underdog?

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<v Speaker 7>Yes, yeah, I'm fine with that. Like, look, most of

0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:31.000
<v Speaker 7>my career was should and Wooden can't, won't. I mean

0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:34.280
<v Speaker 7>we've been the underdog. You remember you match, you came

0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:36.000
<v Speaker 7>up and did some games, you went on the court,

0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:39.240
<v Speaker 7>shot air balls and you know some of the stuff there,

0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:42.560
<v Speaker 7>and the Memphis the same thing, and you know, we

0:30:42.680 --> 0:30:45.480
<v Speaker 7>had a pretty good run at Kentucky and there was

0:30:45.560 --> 0:30:50.200
<v Speaker 7>that eight nine year period where yeah we were the one.

0:30:50.360 --> 0:30:54.560
<v Speaker 7>But you know, most of my career I've been that

0:30:54.880 --> 0:30:57.600
<v Speaker 7>and so I'm fine in that role. I'm comfortable in

0:30:57.680 --> 0:30:59.960
<v Speaker 7>the role. I'm just trying to make sure my team

0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:01.920
<v Speaker 7>miscomfortable in that role. Yeah.

0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:04.640
<v Speaker 2>I was going to ask you, are you telling them

0:31:04.760 --> 0:31:08.080
<v Speaker 2>it's nobody believed in US, US against the world. No,

0:31:08.480 --> 0:31:08.920
<v Speaker 2>none of them.

0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:11.760
<v Speaker 7>No, I'm just saying we're the underdog, and every time

0:31:11.880 --> 0:31:14.200
<v Speaker 7>they play in those kind of games, they play well.

0:31:16.320 --> 0:31:20.200
<v Speaker 7>I think, look, we're at that point in the year.

0:31:20.760 --> 0:31:23.720
<v Speaker 7>The whole thing is how do I get them to

0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:28.920
<v Speaker 7>have that mindset that we had against Saint John's Because look,

0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:32.880
<v Speaker 7>there's two things happened. We went two for nineteen from

0:31:32.960 --> 0:31:38.720
<v Speaker 7>the three and gave up twenty eight offensive rebounds, but

0:31:38.880 --> 0:31:42.960
<v Speaker 7>still one. We played to win. Don't matter what happens,

0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:45.880
<v Speaker 7>don't matter they got a rebound. Just keep playing and

0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:49.640
<v Speaker 7>we keep them in that attitude and that mindset. It

0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:51.080
<v Speaker 7>doesn't mean you're going to win, but it gives you

0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:52.040
<v Speaker 7>a good chance to win.

0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:57.880
<v Speaker 2>How do you keep the relationship or whatever with Patino

0:31:58.520 --> 0:32:01.240
<v Speaker 2>out of going into a game, coaching a game and

0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:04.080
<v Speaker 2>making it about the game, that it's not about you

0:32:04.240 --> 0:32:04.800
<v Speaker 2>against Rick.

0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:09.280
<v Speaker 7>If you went through the year we went through when

0:32:09.320 --> 0:32:12.400
<v Speaker 7>we were zero to five, when we were one and six,

0:32:13.120 --> 0:32:15.320
<v Speaker 7>and they said they got no chance of making the

0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:18.480
<v Speaker 7>NCA tournament. When you're playing games, you're not worried about

0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:21.680
<v Speaker 7>the other coach, you're about survival. I wasn't worried about

0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:25.840
<v Speaker 7>match and went no chess game. I wasn't he out coaching.

0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:29.760
<v Speaker 7>I didn't care. It was about let's just win, because

0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:34.360
<v Speaker 7>what these kids went through, they deserved good to happen

0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:36.200
<v Speaker 7>because they came together.

0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:40.320
<v Speaker 3>They became one heartbeat, and well, what did you do?

0:32:40.880 --> 0:32:41.440
<v Speaker 11>What did I do?

0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:42.640
<v Speaker 3>They knew if they.

0:32:42.640 --> 0:32:45.360
<v Speaker 7>Didn't come together, they were gonna lose every game and

0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:48.600
<v Speaker 7>they figured this, You know what, I'm so worried about myself.

0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:52.680
<v Speaker 7>If I worry about the team more than myself, maybe

0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:55.080
<v Speaker 7>it's easier. And they found out it was easier.

0:32:56.600 --> 0:33:00.960
<v Speaker 2>How do you balance coaching right now and the transfer

0:33:01.040 --> 0:33:05.080
<v Speaker 2>portal all in the same week of preparing and transfer

0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:06.160
<v Speaker 2>portal starts today.

0:33:07.040 --> 0:33:13.640
<v Speaker 7>Well, we yesterday was a kind of long day, got

0:33:13.680 --> 0:33:16.880
<v Speaker 7>a lot of film work done, got practice plans prepared,

0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:20.800
<v Speaker 7>the staff meetings where we were doing everything, and then

0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:23.760
<v Speaker 7>in the end I said, all right, let's let's talk now.

0:33:24.360 --> 0:33:30.320
<v Speaker 7>Before you can figure out portal, don't you have to

0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:34.760
<v Speaker 7>know who's coming back and who's leaving. So I don't

0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:39.560
<v Speaker 7>know of anybody in these sixteen teams that is sitting

0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:41.640
<v Speaker 7>down with players and say are you coming back? Or

0:33:41.640 --> 0:33:43.120
<v Speaker 7>you can put your name into portal with you know.

0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:49.560
<v Speaker 7>So it's just difficult right now. But we've got names

0:33:49.640 --> 0:33:52.600
<v Speaker 7>and you know. And what I would say with anybody listening,

0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:55.120
<v Speaker 7>if you want to get better, if you want to

0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:57.640
<v Speaker 7>be challenged, if you want to really play with good

0:33:57.720 --> 0:34:02.720
<v Speaker 7>players be coached as oh, you've already gotten there to

0:34:02.840 --> 0:34:06.640
<v Speaker 7>be hugged and challenged and make you uncomfortable, and then

0:34:06.720 --> 0:34:09.800
<v Speaker 7>you come with me, you come to Arkansas.

0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:14.279
<v Speaker 3>But right now we're not on the phone with anybody yet.

0:34:14.560 --> 0:34:17.239
<v Speaker 3>My staff. Maybe I shouldn't say that. My staff may

0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:18.880
<v Speaker 3>be but I'm not.

0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:24.480
<v Speaker 2>When will you be open or paying more attention to

0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:25.440
<v Speaker 2>the portal yourself.

0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:29.319
<v Speaker 7>If there's a young man that we know is really,

0:34:29.440 --> 0:34:31.799
<v Speaker 7>really good and he wants to do this and wants

0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:34.280
<v Speaker 7>to talk to me, he won't believe this, I probably

0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:37.440
<v Speaker 7>get on the phone with them and say, hey, let's

0:34:37.520 --> 0:34:42.080
<v Speaker 7>do this. But short of that, it's probably mostly staff.

0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:43.080
<v Speaker 7>You know.

0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:46.400
<v Speaker 3>My hope is that we have a group We have

0:34:46.560 --> 0:34:47.719
<v Speaker 3>some guys that won't.

0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:50.920
<v Speaker 7>Be back because they're graduated out or they're going to,

0:34:51.400 --> 0:34:53.000
<v Speaker 7>you know, put their name in the draft and all that,

0:34:53.760 --> 0:34:57.120
<v Speaker 7>but there is another grouping of players who are really

0:34:57.239 --> 0:35:02.160
<v Speaker 7>good that probably need more time that we do that.

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<v Speaker 7>We already have three guys freshmen signed. And I'm gonna

0:35:06.920 --> 0:35:09.399
<v Speaker 7>say this again, and I said it after I'm still

0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:13.920
<v Speaker 7>recruiting freshmen. I'll recruit the best freshmen. And as you

0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:16.800
<v Speaker 7>saw last game, three of them played a lot of minutes.

0:35:18.880 --> 0:35:22.840
<v Speaker 7>But I can't recruit seven or eight freshmen. So we

0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:25.600
<v Speaker 7>got one more freshman. We're trying to get we've.

0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:29.680
<v Speaker 3>Got three one that you know, they're they're all really good.

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<v Speaker 7>Okay, but we're trying to get one more and then

0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:38.200
<v Speaker 7>who comes back, and then probably a couple of transfers,

0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:39.479
<v Speaker 7>and that'll be our team.

0:35:40.800 --> 0:35:45.000
<v Speaker 2>Is the SEC of football conference or a basketball conference.

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<v Speaker 7>You're trying to get me in trouble. Last time I

0:35:47.440 --> 0:35:50.920
<v Speaker 7>said something like that stuff, people went nuts. And then

0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:54.920
<v Speaker 7>you find out that you know, they're investing in what

0:35:55.080 --> 0:35:55.480
<v Speaker 7>they want.

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<v Speaker 3>So I look it.

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<v Speaker 7>I told our baseball coach, who's there were number one

0:36:03.480 --> 0:36:06.399
<v Speaker 7>in the country, and you know right there, they're gonna

0:36:06.440 --> 0:36:10.960
<v Speaker 7>win a College World Series. Every game they played every weekend,

0:36:11.320 --> 0:36:14.400
<v Speaker 7>they knew they could win or lose. What about the

0:36:14.480 --> 0:36:18.200
<v Speaker 7>football you want to say, Vandy, Well we got Vandy. Yeah,

0:36:18.280 --> 0:36:22.839
<v Speaker 7>go play Vandy, go play them. Now, well we could

0:36:22.880 --> 0:36:27.239
<v Speaker 7>play Mississippi. Yeah, go play Mississippi, Play Arkansas Tennessee, and

0:36:27.320 --> 0:36:30.359
<v Speaker 7>you get beat. I mean that's what happens. Well it's

0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:35.720
<v Speaker 7>now basketball the same way, and its top to bottom.

0:36:36.680 --> 0:36:39.719
<v Speaker 7>Our bottom two teams would have figured finished in the

0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:41.880
<v Speaker 7>top half of most leagues.

0:36:42.920 --> 0:36:46.320
<v Speaker 3>They were that good. But they got into this league

0:36:47.200 --> 0:36:47.800
<v Speaker 3>and they started.

0:36:47.920 --> 0:36:50.360
<v Speaker 7>It was like Oklahoma when thirteen and oh beat people

0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:52.880
<v Speaker 7>got in the league and couldn't win early. We were

0:36:53.000 --> 0:36:56.879
<v Speaker 7>zeroing five to start, and I knew we weren't bad.

0:36:57.760 --> 0:37:04.040
<v Speaker 7>I wasn't sure, but five and we survived it. And

0:37:04.239 --> 0:37:07.759
<v Speaker 7>now it looks as though how many SEC teams are

0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:10.560
<v Speaker 7>in the sweet sixteen seven you don't know?

0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:16.200
<v Speaker 2>Ask your people seven. Okay, Yeah, you underestimate me. And

0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:17.680
<v Speaker 2>that's when you make a mission.

0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:18.640
<v Speaker 3>Always under it.

0:37:18.800 --> 0:37:26.719
<v Speaker 2>Yes you have, and I've always overestimated you. Uh finish this.

0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:28.680
<v Speaker 2>We will make the final four.

0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:33.719
<v Speaker 3>If the other team doesn't make twenty threerees.

0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:35.239
<v Speaker 1>That's it.

0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:36.960
<v Speaker 3>That's it.

0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:41.440
<v Speaker 2>Well, don't screw it up. Now you got this far.

0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:44.200
<v Speaker 2>You got to go further than Kentucky, don't you.

0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:49.359
<v Speaker 7>No, not worried about them. This is what's happened for us.

0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:54.160
<v Speaker 7>This season has been the most rewarding season. I've had

0:37:54.200 --> 0:37:57.880
<v Speaker 7>seasons where we won more games and won national titles

0:37:57.960 --> 0:37:58.759
<v Speaker 7>and final.

0:37:58.560 --> 0:37:59.640
<v Speaker 3>Fours and Elite eights.

0:38:00.000 --> 0:38:04.120
<v Speaker 7>I've had all those, But what this team has been

0:38:04.239 --> 0:38:09.680
<v Speaker 7>through to survive it, it's been as rewarding as any season.

0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:13.880
<v Speaker 7>It talks a lot about the character of these kids,

0:38:14.160 --> 0:38:18.919
<v Speaker 7>how they were raised, that they could withstand the onslaught Dan.

0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:23.240
<v Speaker 7>These kids all of them have pianos on their backs

0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:24.440
<v Speaker 7>because of nil.

0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:28.120
<v Speaker 3>Well, they're paid, they should do this, and they're trying to.

0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:32.520
<v Speaker 7>Live up to expectations. It's a piano. Families are involved

0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.080
<v Speaker 7>more than ever before.

0:38:35.320 --> 0:38:36.400
<v Speaker 3>Why nil?

0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:40.400
<v Speaker 7>And then social media and you know what the worst

0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:43.759
<v Speaker 7>is for the kids talk radio. I mean, all that

0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:47.560
<v Speaker 7>stuff is out there that they got to deal with

0:38:48.080 --> 0:38:52.240
<v Speaker 7>and then the expectations are winning pianos on their backs.

0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:57.279
<v Speaker 2>Good to talk to you, Thanks Danny.

0:38:57.480 --> 0:39:00.600
<v Speaker 7>I need to know the cabin. Do you have a

0:39:00.719 --> 0:39:03.640
<v Speaker 7>studio in the cabin in case you want to do

0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:04.160
<v Speaker 7>it up there?

0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:04.480
<v Speaker 2>Yes?

0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:09.480
<v Speaker 3>I knew it. I knew it. Do you let your

0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:11.520
<v Speaker 3>guys come up and stay or do they got to

0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:12.280
<v Speaker 3>go to a hotel?

0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:17.399
<v Speaker 2>No, they don't get invited. It's like Mike right, you're

0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:18.360
<v Speaker 2>very selfish.

0:39:18.440 --> 0:39:21.600
<v Speaker 3>But you know what's great, You've been consistent your whole life.

0:39:21.640 --> 0:39:28.359
<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Thank you. Coach John Caliperi, Arkansas head coach.

0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:31.759
<v Speaker 2>All right, this day and sports history, Paulie, what do

0:39:31.840 --> 0:39:32.360
<v Speaker 2>you have for me?

0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:34.280
<v Speaker 5>Still soca?

0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:34.680
<v Speaker 2>That one?

0:39:34.760 --> 0:39:38.200
<v Speaker 5>In nineteen thirty six, the Detroit Red Wings beat the

0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:41.440
<v Speaker 5>Montreal Maroons one zero. First goal not scored until the

0:39:41.560 --> 0:39:44.640
<v Speaker 5>sixth overtime period of the Stanley Cup semifinal.

0:39:44.680 --> 0:39:45.279
<v Speaker 2>That's a weird one.

0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:48.760
<v Speaker 5>Muhammad Ali in nineteen seventy five knocked out Chuck Webner

0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:51.560
<v Speaker 5>in the fifteenth round. That propelled that into the movie

0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:52.480
<v Speaker 5>Rocky Down.

0:39:52.360 --> 0:39:57.840
<v Speaker 2>The Road that Chuck Webner went fifteen rounds. You know

0:39:57.920 --> 0:40:00.880
<v Speaker 2>what I did over the weekend. I went to Wiston, Maine.

0:40:01.960 --> 0:40:05.240
<v Speaker 2>That's where the Ali Liston fight was held in nineteen

0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:09.040
<v Speaker 2>sixty five. And I'm part of a documentary on Muhammad Ali.

0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:12.560
<v Speaker 2>They're building a statue of him in Lewiston. There's no

0:40:12.719 --> 0:40:15.680
<v Speaker 2>other statue in America of Muhammad Ali, but they're going

0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:17.560
<v Speaker 2>to be putting up a statue at the end of May.

0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:20.840
<v Speaker 2>Part of a great group doing a documentary on that

0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:26.719
<v Speaker 2>fight in Lewiston, Maine. And some of the footage interviews

0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:29.800
<v Speaker 2>are really really remarkable. Let me see if I have

0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:38.360
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty Louisville beat UCLA its first NCUBA championship, and

0:40:38.560 --> 0:40:41.000
<v Speaker 2>most of these on this date have to do with

0:40:41.080 --> 0:40:44.120
<v Speaker 2>winning chan Cincinnati beat Ohio State to win its second

0:40:44.120 --> 0:40:49.320
<v Speaker 2>straight NCUBLEA championship. All right, let me see, let's go

0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:51.000
<v Speaker 2>around the room. What we learned on the program Tod

0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:52.120
<v Speaker 2>did you learn anything today?

0:40:52.200 --> 0:40:52.480
<v Speaker 11>I did.

0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:54.720
<v Speaker 4>With the lack of cinderellas in the top seeds advancing,

0:40:54.760 --> 0:40:56.680
<v Speaker 4>It's kind of March Chalkie Madness.

0:40:56.960 --> 0:41:01.120
<v Speaker 2>Okay, you're gonna stay with that wall to Wallston to finish, Satan.

0:41:01.160 --> 0:41:07.200
<v Speaker 2>What did you learn today? More like March Marvin? What

0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:08.120
<v Speaker 2>did you learn today?

0:41:08.360 --> 0:41:10.400
<v Speaker 9>Bill Simmons cares about MVP awards?

0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:14.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah he does. It is Marv Madness, by the way, Sure,

0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:16.719
<v Speaker 2>yes it is. I got to get my sweatshirt, my

0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:20.520
<v Speaker 2>Marv Madness sweatshirt. Paulie, would you learn today? Coach cal

0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:22.120
<v Speaker 2>sticking with the sport code? Yeah?

0:41:22.560 --> 0:41:22.840
<v Speaker 6>Why not?

0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:25.760
<v Speaker 2>Todd? What did I learn on today's program?

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<v Speaker 6>Except for maybe the Duchies in Florida, Maryland?

0:41:28.080 --> 0:41:29.960
<v Speaker 9>They have the best starting five, the crab five, but

0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:30.880
<v Speaker 9>they have no depth?

0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:34.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah they don't. The starters scored seventy of the seventy

0:41:34.560 --> 0:41:38.200
<v Speaker 2>two points that they scored. Let me see anything else.

0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:40.960
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