3 Guys Before The Game - Nathan Adrian's Last Dance (Episode 637) - 3 Guys Before The Game

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Put it down. Here we go till we get started.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're just in here throwing stuff.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around, and already it already has begun. Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome in. It's time for three guys before the game.
Episode six hundred and thirty seven. I don't know if
I've ever used this line before, but we got a
good one for you. This is significant. We're gonna make news.
We're making news. The name of the episode says it all.

(00:33):
This is Nathan Adrian's last dance. Is that the documentary
it's over, Nate's here. We're making news. Everyone knows right
the whole Michael Jordan thing. Michael Jordan's last dance detailed
is last season, Brad, It's last season with the Bulls. Well,
this is kind of sort of that, Nathan, and we'll

(00:54):
let you. We'll let him talk since he's here. Thank you.
You gonna put sneakers away.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Don't let it make the announcement.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I think people got it when he says last dance.
I think they know what it means.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay, but it's up to him to be able to
say it. All right, Well, welcome back, Nate.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
You can see how things have gone since you've been gone.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Very argumentative.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
I know he is. I'm a little concerned for him.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Man, we'll talk about that in a little bit. Hi, Nathan, Hey, buddy,
wonderful to have you back again.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Good to be here, welcome home, Thanks to see you.
Good a friend of the program, longtime friends of the
program former host.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, when you mean, after all those advertisements, I should
have bought stock.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean he didn't need to go there. Yeah, I
mean we're we're capitalists, as you know.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
I mean I was doing this.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
We didn't have a sponsor exactly. Yeah. Back in the
old early, a long way back, when Kerschievell used to
take off the whole winner and go down to the
legislative session. We'd bring Nathan in and we'd have a
big time. And uh, what time goes back?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Is this a two full announcement today?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
It might be? It might be. So you're back from Japan,
got home win May first? All right? That ended how
many years of professional basketball for you?

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Seven?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
See, we were trying to we were doing that Matthew today.
So you set out for your first two after graduation
two and a half, a lot of stuff going on,
and then you began Ukraine, Bordeaux first, Bordeaux first.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
And you had that little teeny tiny car that's.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Right, five hundred yeah, uh, and then you had uh
and then you went to the Ukraine. Remember just no,
remember we had that that, we had the whole thing
about the.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Ukraine six only six three years in Italy and then Japan.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
What do you mean six?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
I miscounts six years, not seven?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
How many in Italy?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Italy one, France.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
One, Ukraine, Italy one, Japan.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Six years of pro bawl? All right, so go ahead
and make the announcement.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Uh, that's it for me. It just got some ankle issues,
Achilles issues that I don't really want to deal with,
and I got other things going on now. So just
time time to be home.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
You feel good about that decision?

Speaker 4 (03:58):
I feel very good about it. I got what I
wanted out of it. I think I accomplished a lot
more than a lot of people, and myself thought I
was going to get out of basketball, and I have
no regrets about it.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Awesome, it's a good run. That's a nice run.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
France, Italy, Ukraine, Japan. And you went to your thirty
You played basketball till you were thirty, early on the dot.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's pretty awesome professional basketball.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
So physically, ankles just wearing out achilles, you would have
to have surgery if you were to keep going.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, left ankle. I got my ankle bones deformed and
banging up against my tibu, which wouldn't be a huge surgery.
Just had to shave it. But I got a bone,
another bone deformity growing into my right achilles where it attaches,
and they would have to sever my achilles and shave
the bone and then reattach it.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
So that's a yeah, it skipped that one.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yep, that's a year. It's a year of recovery anyway.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So but it doesn't affect if you're just walking.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Around now, It doesn't affect normal life.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Did it hurt this season?

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah? I had issues all year.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
I never could get it right.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, nothing they could do about it. They you know
how much pain did you play?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
It hurt?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Did it hurt worse than having your arm in two
separate places playing against Gonzaga?

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Well, thankfully their rules are not. Thankfully this year their
rules are a little more stringent. I couldn't get the
three injections before every game, So no, it didn't. It
hurt worse than that.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
There's a statute of limitations over on this three injections
before the game.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
What are they going to do now?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Nothing? So you were doing that when you were playing here,
You were getting three in your shoulder.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Ah No, I was getting one of a butt, just
a regular toward all shot and then I don't even
know what they put in my shoulder.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
It was a painful one. How often was that happen? Before?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Every game?

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Before every game.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Year after my after I tour it in the Big
twelve to first game of the Big twelve tournament, and
then yeah, every game after that, I stopped warming up.
I was just getting injections, trying to get it loose.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
What happened remarkable, Nate. How did you feel? How much
pain were you in when those after the game, when
you're not feeling as much pain, so you're doing what
you normally do. How much pain were you in when
the injections wore off?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh a lot?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
I mean once those were off, you just kind of
feel everything. Yeah, you put it through third in the
game and through all that process. So once those were out,
had won fun. That's why the back to backs. When
the NCAA tournament, you played Saturday, Monday, Sunday, Tuesday, whatever
they hurt.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
How many games did you play this season?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
The sixty? How many? Sixty?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Every Saturday, Sunday and a few Wednesdays.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
God, you appeared in all sixty.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Fifty nine of them?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Why COVID one, So that's the only game I missed,
but no, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
They have an iron Man Award in Japan. You should
have gotten it.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, he was like that, here, let's see, just noted.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, in my career, I've missed.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Six games in six years.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Six years.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
No, no, since I school. Really, I played in every
single game in college. I broke my foot in high schools.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
You would have been the all time scoring leader at Morgantown.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Well, I probably sure on broke it anyway.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, but at least you would have had for a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
But anyway, Hey, you've been out of the country, but
they have this thing now called load management.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
I can't do it. I've practiced. I didn't miss a
single practice game.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
I just feel bad.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
What do they always say?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
The best ability is availability?

Speaker 2 (07:24):
There it is.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Would they have sent you home if you started to, uh,
not practice in not play.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
M I don't know. I didn't want to go down
that road because the contracts technically guaranteed unless you miss
practices or so, they technically would have to be the
ones telling me I'm too hurt to play, right, And
the translations I got were It's okay, gosh, keep going.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
How was the communication there, because that was Japan or Italy,
those are all those are all one thing. Japan's a
whole different culture, different deal.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was completely different. The language bearer was much tougher.
Even the majority of the players, like Japanese players I
played with, couldn't speak English. We had a translator and
our assistant coach spoke really good English, so they would
translate everything. But yeah, just communicating talking through things was
not hard.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
That was the hardest one by far, by far.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, it's fascinating. Just think of where you were European countries,
you go to the Far East. I mean, as we say,
just you know, wrapping the whole thing up like he's
a globalist, that is, That's that. Those are life experiences.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I hit all the countries I wanted to play in,
which were Italy and Japan.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
So does West Virginia still have some of our former
student managers in that Japanese league you were playing.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, Taka Hero Maury, the one that was here when
I was. He was a head coach in my league.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
He's a head coach.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now about how many times you play them?

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Six times?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Right?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:58):
We only won one?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
How about that?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
They're doing good? They made the playoffs. I mean, it's
all over now, But yeah, they exceeded expectations. He had
a really good year.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
That had to be weird though, You're you're lining up
to play and you're looking down there he is. You
guys were together here and you're there facing off. In Japan,
it's i'll talk here. I don't want to speak for him.
But the way they play is very different than the
other Japanese team.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is that very rough and rugged? You think you might
have learned that.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Picked up on a couple of things.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Fouled every possession because they couldn't call.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Everyone that's right? How about that?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
How was the how was the game? Was the game
different there? And if so?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
How uh? Yeah, it's very different. So in Japan you're
only allowed two Americans on the court at the same time,
so you have three Japanese guys out there at all times,
and the Americans kind of are looked towards to score
the ball more, take control of the game more. Wherein
you're I mean, and you could have five Americans on

(09:58):
the court and they're Italians know I how to play
very well because they've grew up in that. So it's
more team woring than your a lot of team playing
I'm not saying it's not team worriing in Japan, but
it's just different. Guys are looked at to do different things,
and it's coached different. A lot of European coaches go
over there and struggle because they're trying to play European
ball and it just doesn't work as well.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
How would you describe the style there.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
It's a little faster, more up tempo.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
A lot.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah that's about more isolation.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, more isolation. Or you've not run as many set plays,
you're not running as many motion offenses. It's just kind
of fast break makes something happen quick. And so would
you post up or would you shoot? Set up on
the wing and shoot threes. I was like fifty to
fifty this year, a lot more post up than usual
because if you get a switch, you got a Japanese guy.

(10:50):
Any of they're just small. But the majority of the
Americans they do hire are centers and for big men
because that's just what they don't have available to them. Yeah,
every team had a guy six eleven seven big monsters.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
The games called how they call the games, uh.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
For the guards, very TICKI techy for the big men.
You can hack whoever you want let it go.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Really?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Oh that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Did you get teed up ever?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Not one?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
No?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, did you complainly?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Just figure they wouldn't know what you're saying anyway, so
you couldn't know what I was saying.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Number one.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
So I mean I would say something to them and
they just looked at me and then kind of put
an endo my argument.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
All right, I think they probably knew what you were saying,
but they were probably.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Just any trash talk. No really, no, very little.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
I mean between Americans sometimes, but Japanese guys are way
too respectful.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Now, what about your former student manager, who's the head coach?
I would I would think at some point if his
team kept following you that you did a drive by
and said, like, dude, what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Get him off? Did you get off that? Oh?

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, I love the way they played.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
I'd rather games be like that rather than just calling everything.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, we're going across any other big twelve players, anybody
we'd know.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
I don't have to think about that. Not Big twelve.
Matt Harms played to Purdue. Yeah, shoot, I might think.
I mightna think old school biggiest justin Burnell, oh Connecticut yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yea yeah. Saint John's Okay, Saint John's Yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, God,

(12:30):
I'd have to think about that.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
So, of all the places that you played you were
full health and in your peak prime, where would you
go back? Where did you love to play the most? Oh?

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Italy? For sure? It just felt Yeah, I mean it
got to the point it felt like a second home
to me. It didn't feel like I'm moving somewhere I'm
unfamiliar with. Yeah, you know, I could speak a little
bit enough to go to a restaurant and figure out
my way around and figure out knew that the grocery stores,
new to drive, just knew how everything worked. So it
just felt comfortable.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
I don't know if that counts. I mean, you're he's
a citizen of the country, so he can't answer that.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
You got the passport, don't.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
You just got the passport, So I'm not even going
to use it.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Sorry, when you go back over, you can flick it.
I had that nice Maroon, You got the Marie now
I know. So I would think that because you had
good experience there, you probably at some point go back.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh, I'll definitely go back daily.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Yeah, if I ever have free time or one trible
that's where I want to go. I mean there's parts
of Italy League. I haven't been to room.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh my goodness, all the time.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Three years, haven't been in the room. My girlfriend Lucky
went nine different times and I didn't go one time.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Did you ever fly through and just connect out of room? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Connect you very familiar with, but you never never got
to see any of the sites, never got the walk
around there. And it's something I really want to see
because that old historical stuff is just awesome to me.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
What'd you learn about yourself as a pro basketball player?

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Number one? I learned I can leave here and be okay. Uh.
That was a big concern of mine because I mean
even in high school going to fight to go away
to like when I try for the national team, had
to go stay in Colorado for a week. Didn't like it,
just shut down, kind of didn't play well. Just didn't
like being there, going to camps, any kind of camp

(14:21):
like that. Just never really liked being gone from here
for too long. So you know, that first year was rough.
The second year was rough, but that was mainly because
it was Ukraine. And then it got easier after that.
So that was the biggest takeaway I got from it
was just growing as a person.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, learned a ton man, Yeah, learn a ton Like now,
I think you just gonna have this reservoir of confidence
that comes with that. So no matter what you deal
with going forwards, Like, dude, I've been in Ukraine, I've
been in Japan, lived in, lived in just like I
got this. Yeah, And I think if you don't do
those kinds of things, then you probably lack hoppy when

(15:03):
you agree. If you don't have world experiences, that sometimes
that may hinder your confidence.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
So just what Nate said, you know, when you travel,
it just increases. There's anxiety, there's fears, things happen. You know,
you're a long way from home, But that increases your
confidence significantly. Just life simple.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
Common just figuring out to go to a grocery store
and how the checkout works, and going to a restaurant,
figuring out how they seat you, how you order, how
you pay, just all kinds of different things. It just
makes you put you in uncomfortable situations. You have a
little anxiety about it, and you get through it and
everything's fine.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
So how did you handle that?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Stuff.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Did you have somebody with you to help you or
did you just roll in and figure it out ask
for help?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Most of the time I had somebody show me the
first time, and then you kind of figure it out.
It's really nice when Lucky's with me because she's not
scared of any of that stuff. Like if a restaurant's full,
I'll stand outside and she'll go in.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
And you'll get the table, get a table and give
me a wave.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
And that's that's the only point we're all going.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
I mean, it's it's it's nice. As you all know,
it is difficult. The language Beryer makes it difficult. However, However,
if you go to a restaurant, they know you want
to eat. If you go to a hotel, they know
you want a room. You know, if you go to
a bank, they know you want to do something.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
So there is life advice from Hoppy Well that just walk.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Into a bathroom, right.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
I mean, it could be tough, but still you it's
not like you're trying to buy property, no, you know,
I mean I haven't attempted that.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
As a citizen, though you get some you'd be able
to do that.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Get it done, yea.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
When you look food Italy.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
No, No, I mean in Japan, it's just incredible and
you can get it just walking down the street and
just get a stick of it. Just keep going, Kobe Beef.
It's as good as people say, dude.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
But you can't either lot the butter the fat content,
and it will will knock you out right.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
Really, I didn't have too much of a problem.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
A high level athlete. He's burning that off professional athlete.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Yeah, you can't definitely can't sit down eat a twenty
two ounce right key bone of it.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
But yeah, I had too much one night, and it
was just like yourself. You thought it was just like, what
the hell was that? I just ate three sticks of butter?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
You ate too much?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's it was a first. I probably should have wrote
the date down and marked it. Okay, let's go back
back basketball wise. So like you're this gangly kid over
at South Middle School and way back, Yeah, go all
the way back, gangly kids South Middle School, and you've
got these big long levers and people say, kid's gonna chance,

(17:48):
you gotta be he's going to be tall. But there's
one thing to be young and tall, and then then
and then, but there's a lot of young thought young, tall,
thin kids. But you did it, dude, like you played
major college basketball when people said, I don't know coming
out of Morgantown High, Yeah, I'm not sure. You know?

(18:11):
Is he soft? Is he not soft? Like the metamorphous
that you went through, damn near the the caterpillar to
the butterfly. To me, that's like, that's your story. Like
you became questionably soft coming into college to a hard
nosed enforcer in a very big, physical basketball conference and

(18:35):
then you go play a half a dozen years of
pro ball. That's a hell of a story. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
I think the questionably soft tag I was given to
was mainly because of my how skinny I was.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I mean, I was skinny. I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
I was always I mean I wasn't allowed to be soft.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I know, oh yeah, one hundred percent, but but I
wasn't allowed to be soft.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
That was always in me. But getting in with Andy
Ketler and putting weight on and being able to do
something with that and then just endure the big twelve
and hugs and all of that goes in with that.
It's definitely was a huge change.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
But your We've said this about you before. I think
your your ability to adapt to your role was pretty wild.
So perimeter based in high school to interior based enforcer,
bang defense, rebound, then back to offensively really skilled when
you got to the professional level overseas. That's a pretty
wild swing in what your responsibilities were, what you were

(19:35):
asked to do, and what your game was and became,
don't you think? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (19:38):
I do, And honestly, I think that's something that with
the way college basketball is now, people are going to
lack when they get to a professional level or anything
else they have. They're not going to have the ability
to do different things and succeed in different roles as
you have to be not everybody that goes in plays
in Europe is the start of the team. You got

(19:58):
to go back to being a role player. And part
of what made me adaptable in every situation I was
in was, like you said, when I came in, I
was a perimeter player, just shot threes my freshman year
and that completely changed because the system changed and what
was needed of me changed and instead of oh I
don't want to do.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
That, you just have that choice. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
So I adapted, found a way to make it happen,
and by my senior year was successful.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Doing it, Yeah, and then went back the other way.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
When I went back the other way because that's what
was needed that year. In certain years it wasn't needed,
and I did other things.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, pretty remarkable. It's a great story. But you're right
is because you were thin, people couldn't project out what
you were going to be. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
I mean I thought I would go from one hundred
and ninety pounds my senior year to two forty.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
And when you're six, When you're six nine and play
on the perimeter, there isn't a lot of banging to
go on to label you as tough. Right, So some
of that's did.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
You ever have did you have or have a moment
in college where he said I ain't into this, I'm done,
or oh yeah you did.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh my sophomore year I wanted to quit. There's a point.
I forget what game it was. I was sitting on
the bench struggling injuries and just wasn't playing well, and
just I was like, why why am I doing this?
I'm taking a lot of heat from people on the
outside for no reason, not no reason. There was a
very good reason, but I don't know. It just wears

(21:30):
on you that.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Just stuck it, just.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Just stuck with it, with it, I mean, just because
it got hard. You don't just quit. That's just never
what I wanted to be. I didn't want to be
known as a quitter. I didn't. I mean, that's just
something you got to live with your whole life. When
you quit playing a sport or quit doing something, you
got to be able to live with it the rest
of the time. And I just kind of looked at

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it at a longer point of view than just what's
happening right now. And that's why I went back and
played again after I retired after college. I just didn't
feel like I got everything out of it that I
wanted to get out of it, and now I do.
So that's why I feel comfortable with where I'm at now.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's pretty wild too.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
We kind of jump past that that period, and yeah,
there was a lot going on for you. But that's
that's pretty hard to do too. Step away for two
years and then restart the thing and get back in it.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, it's not.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Easy, no, And uh, you know, I don't know I
still played, you know, I'd go over and practice a lot, actually,
so I knew I could still play, just had to
get back in shape. I don't know how much you
remember that time, but I did get up to two seventy.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
You know what, I kind of do recall that.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yeah, I got pretty quid today.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
What are you now?

Speaker 4 (22:46):
As you said, all right, I'm two twenty five, but yeah,
I when I went to France, I think I was
two sixty, and when I came home for France, I
was too twenty.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Wow, you lost forty there.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yeah, wasn't making much money. So I was eating chicken
and potatoes everything.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Right, I remember that they do potatoes those they do
do those potatoes well there though, as Jacque poup pond thing,
we kind.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Of market just right down the street, down the street.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, spent ten bucks on chicken and potatoes.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, did you have you said? Did you weren't making
much money? And you were not. We don't have. You
don't have to tell us how much you were making.
That's your business. But did you at any point did
you make what you would call like, oh, that's pretty
good money. Did you make good money?

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Did you last five years?

Speaker 4 (23:32):
I mean after that first year, but I mean that
first year.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
You haven't played for two years. He had shoulders surgery.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Nobody knows what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
You get that entry.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Low do what you did? Yeah, go back to when
you said you were thinking about uh sophomore, you were
taking heat. I remember one of the television shows at
that time when you were here that you read nasty
tweets really that were directed at you. They collected them
all and then you read them on air. So there

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was a lot of that, wasn't there. There was a
lot of that.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
I can't say for sure, but I think I got
more than anybody because you're from the age from here,
people already think I was just given because of different circumstances.
So you know, I got it, I understood it. But still,
I mean, you're nineteen. Where's sure?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Looking back? Who cares?

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Right?

Speaker 4 (24:30):
That's a much more mature perspective than nineteen year olds have.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Who cares about the misspelled texts from somebody's basement?

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Just that's it?

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Why would someone do that? Why would someone text?

Speaker 4 (24:45):
That's a whole different conversation.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
There's a whole there's probably multiple shows as to why
people do that. The short is it makes them feel
better about themselves.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Anybody ever come up, but anybody come up to your
face and say it no.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
One time somebody was driving in truck and you out
a window. Never in front of me.

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Speaker 1 (27:13):
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Speaker 3 (27:15):
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Speaker 2 (27:19):
What do you want to go? People on the I
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Speaker 3 (27:22):
Two for Ford, the ideal for probably two. Kids are
getting older. Probably two at a time.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Works.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Kind of engine.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
You got enough? You got? Is it one or two
on that thing?

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Enough?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
You got enough engine?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah it works a few more years. Might have to upgrade,
but we're okay right now, Okay, thanks for.

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Speaker 2 (28:52):
Hey, Nate, how was the healthcare by that? I mean
training facilities because you know, again you're talking about injuries
were dealing with. I mean, how was that over there?

Speaker 4 (29:02):
Here's a fun fact for you. My personal trainer, or
not a personal trainer, our team trainer, our head trainer,
graduated from West Virginia University.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Of course, of course, why wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
They studied under the tutelage of DUC matter.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Is that right? Did you know that before you got there.
I found that out there that is a West Virginia connection.
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Not many people are aware that aren't in the world
of athletic training. But wvu's program is nationally renowned, world
renowned and getting ready to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary of existence.
That was John Spiker fifty years ago was the founding
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(29:50):
we got dudes in the NBA, we got people all
over the place and including in Japan.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Come a long way since those ammonia tablets and fema.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Jesus, they still use.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
A hydroculator though every time I got something wrong, my
mom tells me to put horse liniment on it.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Absolutely, you're a third right, So I asked you this
recently when we were just chatting on the phone. You
would coach in the future if everything hadn't changed the
way that it has changed to become what it has become.
Is that fair?

Speaker 4 (30:29):
That's fair. I don't know at what level or at
what I would want to do, but to me, the
point of college sports is to get a kid in
when he's eighteen and develop them into someone who can
be successful after playing I mean after playing professionally or

(30:51):
at whatever else they do in their life, right, that's
just not the point of it anymore. You're going out
and getting a full new team every year, getting twelve
new guys in and just trying to throw band aids
on things, and you just don't have the control or
the relationships. That is what attracts me to college sports.

(31:12):
I think, I don't know, I can go on a
whole rant about college sports. They're just going in the
wrong direction. So it's hard to care as much as
a fan. A lot of fans develop relationships with certain players,
certain guys, certain qualities about people, and that's just gone.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I mean, look, I get that and that that is
a common feeling. But let me let me be provocative
and ask you this. You played West Virginia, had a
successful career at that time. People are paying them fromenous
amount of money for tickets, they're sponsors, coaches are making
a bunch of money. Would it have been fair for
you to get a portion of that? Say some of that?

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Absolutely, I'm not saying that's unfair. I don't think there's
anything wrong with that. I just think there should be
more limitations on the movement, the movement, I don't you
made a decision for a reason. If your coach leaves, yeah,
transfer fine, nobody has any arguments with that. But just
because you want to, I don't know, to me, sign
a contract three years, four years, whatever you guys agree

(32:22):
to yeah, I mean you could even put money stipulations
in it. And if you play this, will you get
this money? If you play this, will you get this money?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Like what?

Speaker 4 (32:29):
I don't know. There's a whole lot of things you
could do with it. But I just think guys coming
one year and leaving is not good for anybody.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
I do think you know, if you if you try
and back yourself out and listen to conversations going on
around this, I do think that's where we're headed. I
think there is a general perception or acceptance now that
the money is what the money is. I don't know
how you can reasonably argue that these guys shouldn't get paid.
I don't know what the I don't know if there
ever was a reasonable argument, there's certainly not now. The movement,

(33:00):
and more and more importantly, the constant movement, the twenty
four to seven potential for movement, to me, seems like,
that's what you've got to get rained in in some form.
And there does have to be the ability to get
out of the agreement you signed when your coach leaves,
as we just saw at West Virginia, that changes that
equation significantly. But it seems to me if you talk

(33:20):
to folks, that's what causes the angst more so than
the dollars.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
And you have in no other college sport. I mean
I'm not to college. No other sport do you have
that you can do?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
I mean, right no, you sign a contractor you go
I get nobody's signing contracts right now. I'm not saying
about this about right now. I just think that's the
only healthy way for things to improve. And I think
on top of that, you're gonna have to get the
conferences together. I just don't know how you do it
with the whole NCAA. But if you're going to share revenue,

(33:51):
it has to be split equally between schools in a conference,
and each team or whatever has a cap on what
they can spent or you're going to lose all competitive
nature of it. Nobody can compete with schools that have
unlimited money. Texas A and M can throw whatever money
they wanted. Anybody Oklahoma, Texas like these schools can just

(34:14):
pay more.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, you gotta have self policing. And this will be
old news by the time you're listening to this. But literally,
as we're recording here, report comes out that the nc DOUBLEA,
So Charlie Baker, who's the head of the NCUBA, made
an announcement this afternoon we're recording Tuesday afternoon May that
the NCAA will give away its enforcement of amateurism to

(34:38):
the power conferences, the SEC, the Big Ten, the Big twelve,
and the ACC will now be in charge of enforcing
the House settlement terms, including the NIL clearinghouse and the
revenue sharing cap, not the nc DOUBLEA. Wow, so significant.
That's what we kind of always thought that they eventually

(35:00):
the power for conferences, we're gonna control this. Now the
question becomes, what's that Look, So.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Here's what's significant.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
That's on the heels of a report from Yahoo Sports
that came out earlier about this, So that's kind of
trailing the report that was out there. So a couple
things to me significantly. We'll move on to something else.
The fact that all of the power fors are together
in this that is significant, and that's important, and I
think number one, but number two, if you read into
this a little bit and go read some of those articles,

(35:29):
guess what the big sticking point is with everybody. Guess
what everybody's having angst with the clearinghouse. The clearinghouse has
raised a lot of red flags from some people, and
who could have seen that coming. So there's a lot
of work to do. And this isn't just a blanket
victory here that you've moved out of the NCAA. Those
institutions still have to decide to follow the rules. And

(35:51):
the next hurdle that's coming that group is putting together
documents reportedly that will supersede state laws that.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Are in place.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Some of these states have put state laws in place
that say they are not going to be held to
NCAA rules or this group's rules. This particular group is
now saying they're going to put rules in that say
they supersede state laws. Well, you think some lawyers will
have some.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Fun with that saying that.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
So there's a lot of lawyering still to go on,
but maybe a little bit of movement that you've got
all the power force at least coming together.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
But as you said, the clearing house is the is
the way around the revenue sharing correctly, right, So that's
what I mean, Like if schools are basically sharing the
same amount of revenue, but if you can get around
it through well, yes, this is what this student athlete,
this is what not student athlete, this is what this

(36:41):
athlete is valued at.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Well, that's that's the point some that this organization is
saying that should help. The clearinghouse is there to help
normalize that and not let you pay. As you know
I've always argued, is there's no way that thing stands
up in court number one and number two if you
read in that there's some specific rules within the clearinghouse
that say if it comes from say a publicly traded company,

(37:06):
they aren't subject to the clearinghouse, and those publicly traded
companies can do whatever they want. So there's a lot
lot of runway left here to get to some sort
of agreement.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
But to Nathan's point, we're moving in that direction hopefully,
because you're right, if all basketball becomes in football for
that matter, but in basketball, people can get their hands
around this a little bit more. If all this becomes
is a six month TBT team. Then guess what this
thing is going to go the route of the TBT
and people are going to go like this after a while.

(37:37):
Don't care, don't care, don't really, don't see money to
watch them, don't see that. I've seen that show. Don't care.
We've got to get some more teeth into this thing
for a little bit more so it can be more solid.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Well, at the same time, the cost of the fan
participation sure continues to run.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Absolutely. You know, I talk about this all the time.
That final four team that West Virginia had in twenty
ten would have never been together. Nope, John be as
great teams would have never been together. Your team that
had a great run. I mean you guys would have got
picked apart. There would have been guys gone. That's what
stinks to me. That's what hurts me is I would
just like to have an opportunity to keep teams together.

(38:13):
If guys make money, I'm totally cool with that. But
it's just this bouncing. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
But at the same time, at the same time, just before,
when we were having our pre show meeting, we were
talking about.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
You, we really don't have pre show meetings. No, don't
talk about that. Don't bring that name up because that
was something Hall of fame, Hall of famish.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Okay, well we'll talk about it later in the break room.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Oh no, no, no, you can bring up someone else.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
We were talking about, say what a great year he had,
and we all enjoyed watching Jevon Small, and we'll remember
Javon Small for a long long time. For here's a
player you never would have had had if you didn't
have this mobility.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
I know that's right, I know, I know.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
I don't think one guys great year outweighs seeing a
group come together and build over four years to become
a successful team. I think I think people can remember
the final four longer th they remember Jevan. That's no offensively, Han.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
But Florida Gator fans had a pretty good year. They
wanted old Natty, were hanging Natty here. You're gonna have
fun with it.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
You think that can happen?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
You can put a team together, yes, yeah, And I
and I do think side of that.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
You could do it, Nate, you could.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Had West Virginia been been in the old rules with
a coach leaving after one year, and the and the
transition from the from Hugs to Josh to Darren to Ross.
In the old rules, we'd be staring down a long
time of waiting to rebuild the thing, and now you
have the ability to restart it a lot more quickly
than you did.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
You can build it back now, dude, you can build
it back.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
I'm saying a school like I is going to have
to have just an absolut the incredible one off. Holy crap,
we got lucky because as soon as we have a
team good enough to go to the Sweet sixteen, guess what,
they're all gone.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yeah, player retention is gonna be huge. I agree, I agree.
Be all right, unless unless rules wise, we come up
with something that puts a little bit more stickiness into
their retention. It will.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Everybody, just chill out. It'll get there, just takes some time.
Three guys will get there.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Three guys before the game is We'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
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Speaker 2 (42:03):
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Speaker 1 (42:06):
By the way, Congratulations to your boy Blaine. Oh yeah,
we're excited about that. Blaine Stewart and Nate friends since
they were little weebels. And obviously Blaine now with the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers football club of the National Football League,
so he's doing well.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
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Speaker 1 (42:26):
Good for him.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Gives me somewhere to visit the winter.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Sure you guys, did you guys do he did? They
didn't do the come over and visit this year? Uh,
Blaine was going to and then job change. You got
that job and then that changed. I had one for income.
Who came which Ryan? Ryan, He's always in.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
He's always He's never missed a year.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yeah. Nick didn't come over.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Nope, Nick didn't.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
He's guys are getting older. Started then they got real jobs.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
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Speaker 2 (42:55):
I gots assortment.

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Of a big bag.

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What's in there? Jealous? This so as uh Nate and
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Such an old persons statement. I've been going to the
physical therapy from my it banish. It's been all kinds
of trouble.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
At Peak Health. And Travis is one of the physical
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(43:41):
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What I got that bag? Can I ask you to
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Speaker 1 (44:07):
We've mentioned he do you ever ride read dirt bikes?

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Haven't done that one time? My dad over ship?

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know Rev Cav. Right, so we've been talking about the
massive event is coming up June twelfth through June fifteenth.
You know this since you were raised here, The high
Point National uh motocross event coming up every year right
in Mount Morris. So Hoppy is going to ride a bike.

(44:43):
We're going to be there on Friday, June thirteen. Rev
cav is going to be there serving barbecue and Hoppy
is going to be on a bike and he's going
to go for a run. You got to check it out.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
This isn't a flat track though, right, he's not going
over any jumps.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Oh no, it's not flat.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Wait a minute, wait wait.

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Speaker 1 (45:46):
It's over. It's over one thousand dollars. So you must
buy the tickets online before the thirty first of May.
You must be present to win, and again put in
three guys when you check out if you buy tickets
to this event. One of the biggest events out there
in the motocross world. So do check that out high
Point MX dot com. We'll talk more about that. When

(46:08):
is that?

Speaker 2 (46:09):
When's that come up?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
June? Yeah, middle of Gien. Yeah, we're gonna be there
Friday the thirteenth. That goes June twelve through fifteen.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Wait a minute, I'm riding on Friday the thirteenth.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
He's going over jumps on Friday thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Evil and evil.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
I have I think I have a homeless Dave says,
I have a training session coming up.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
You do you think this is for you to know
that he's training, he's training?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
What can go wrong?

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Everything?

Speaker 2 (46:38):
I think you think it bands are problem.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
I was going to say, make sure your TA bands, hopey, get.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
The peak, hell folks on alert on standby.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Well, hell with that, get the helicopter, get the life
flight thing out there.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Just part that don't cover. You don't need to jump. No,
I'm no, I'm not leave that to the professionals. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Have you ridden a cycle a motorcycle in the past, hopy.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
A long time ago. I had a motorcycle?

Speaker 1 (47:00):
You did?

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:01):
First, I've heard of that a long time ago. Okay, cool, cool, Okay,
Well you stay you got anywhere? Can you stay around
for textual heal? Those one textual healing?

Speaker 3 (47:10):
So when is that thing coming up?

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Middle of June?

Speaker 3 (47:12):
So how long does he have is a month? Three weeks?

Speaker 1 (47:14):
He's got less than a month. He's got three weeks
there not a training going on here. Plus he's got
to go to the PT for the IT band. Plus
he's doing all other kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
What's the thing on your desk you want me to.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Get when you go to my desk. Yeah, there's just
a blue bag with two little handles on it to
gifts from gifts from a listener that have been sitting
down my desk. We've got to do it this episode.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
Because yeah, why go ahead and tell him why.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
I've been starting to eat them.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
It's almost have seen it. Well, he did offer me
some yesterday finally, but we were down to like the
final cookie.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Give some of those two and we'll get it to him.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
All right, you do this. Hoppy's going away.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
You can start recording now.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Yeah, Hopy's going away. Hoppy's going away for a second.
Let's one, two, three go here. Textual Healing is gonna
come back with a bag. Textual Healing is brought to
us by episode eight hundred dot com. That's where you
can buy all of our stuff, from our coffee, to

(48:13):
our apparel to our popcorn. Can I make a Can
I admit something to you? They probably not pass dietitians
in health code. Sure you know what I had for
breakfast this morning? Had my normal had my normal coffee, cappuccino,
and about three quarters of a bag of our new

(48:34):
Home Run three oh four popcorn.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
I'm sure that was awesome. You probably got a little yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Sugar, Spike probably didn't need the sugar that early in
the morning. Probably houred well together. Though. Let me just
tell you something that's fantastic popcorn. It truly is Home
Run three oh four. It's available on the site. Mountaineer
Munch is also there, but the Home Run three.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Or four is our new and with the coffee was
a nice flavor palette there.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
So I had a couple of coffees, then I took
some mice tea. I got more caffeine to me than
I'll do it. It's really good, really good. Okay, So
text line, as you saw there is always open. We
got stuff that is that is going on, and we
begin with this one. This is a first on Three Guys,

(49:22):
The Three Guys gender reveal. Baby has finally arrived. Nathan,
we announced a gender reveal of a listener's baby on
this podcast. It's been a while ago, and now we
are delighted and thrilled to announce that Carson Reid Brinkley

(49:45):
was born on May seventh, two thirty nine, in the afternoon,
at six pounds and twelve ounces. Healthy look at that,
and the sweetest little boy you could imagine. Morgan and
I are glad that you guys could be a s
I'm all part of it. Maybe one day he'll suit
up for the old Golden Blue if we're lucky as
his ones. He says, it is a great day to

(50:07):
be a mountaineer, wherever you may be. Let's go mountaineers
Joey and Morgan Brinkley in Princeton, West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Hold on variation in your quote there, put that back
up if you could, Jake, it's a great day to become.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Oh that's mountaineer. That's cute as he was just born. Awesome.
Now let me also say something parenthetically, not about Carson,
but about this. The distance between this studio and my
desk is no more than up and down the stairs
in forty eight seconds. Our boy Kerchival made a detour,
just saying probably poor buddy. It band bladders completely shot.

(50:50):
I hate to see the gist side most feel. Texter
says that the portaland NIL need modifications. The portal axe
as a conduit to move athletes all around the country.
The money from NIL fuels the movement. Some may attend
three or more institutions. I struggle to understand how men
and women float and earn a degree. The times, the

(51:12):
term student athletes and athlete students sound the same, but
of completely different meanings. Athletes students are students in school,
prioritizing doing well in their sport over their academic performance.
I recently heard a guest on Three Guys say I'm
here to play ball. He is, by definition an athlete student.

(51:33):
There is a form of auditioned negotiations and contract agreements
only to say a small percentage of those athletes across
sports will be classified as athlete student. But what becomes
of these pay for play athletes when their time is expired?
In fairness, it should be noted WVU as a combined
APR of nine eighty nine. West Virginia's nine eighty nine,

(51:54):
five points higher than the NCAA's overall four point average. Yeah,
it's George and Glenn and Daniels. Different world, man, different world,
No questions changed.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Saw Jevon and Eduardo walk this weekend?

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Oh that's awesome their degrees.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Yeah, here's something I didn't know about this at all.
Can we show that next picture please? Jake? So you
delivered commencement hobby at Shepherd. I did didn't know about
that at all. Didn't messure that us. How'd it go?
It went?

Speaker 2 (52:21):
I thought it went very well. Also received an honorary
degree from the university.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Did you really that's your third honorary degree You've got
Wesleyan Shepherd and WVU, Now, holy were they pissed that
you transferred out of there and went portal at Shepherd
to come to West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
I did go portal, but I hope you didn't give
some portal discussion or been rant on the portal there
since you used it to leave their finances?

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Did they? Were they aware that you didn't graduate from there?

Speaker 2 (52:48):
They were aware, But I said that I came to
WVU because w had a broadcast journalism degree program at
the time. Shepherd did not.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
But then I had a didn't need to take a
shot at Shepherd.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Over the gig, but announcemant just killing your curriculum.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I will tell you this that they were very specific,
wonderful people. They're President Hendricks and the folks there is
They said no longer than seven minutes. So I started out,
you've heard me do use this line before. And I said, uh,
that thanks for inviting me for the commencement address. And
I said, I'm a talk show host. I can go
all day, sure, to which there was like a brad

(53:27):
a groan, a groan. I said, however, President Hendrix has
limited me to seven minutes, which was met with mild applause,
followed by and the better news is I'm already one
minute in, which was met with yeah, thunder, not thunders applause,
but so yeah. I brought it in Tonio like that.
I brought it in at about six thirty.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
I do you what I learned that from Happy a
long time ago. Man, keep it short, in and out.
I heard one I don't want to mention. I don't
even know this person's name, but I was told recently
someone received as someone was told seven minutes and they
turned the microphone off at forty five.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
True, really at a commencement address or something else or
something like that kind of a thing.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Yeah, I thought, hop he knows how to hit a
hard break.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Though. Oh, I'm surprised he didn't end it like that.
It's six fifty five on my watch. Let's pause for
a hard break. You're listening to Metro News, the Voice
of West Virginia.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
I will tell you this that and I'm sorry I'm
gonna have to look up the name, but sitting next
to me on the on the stage there was the
chairman of the Board of Governors for Shepherd who played
Shepherd's on Shepherds football team as the left tackle on there.
So we had a lot of we had some football.
So absolutely while they were getting to the l's and

(54:49):
the j's and the graduation announcements.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
If you're a regular listener, you're familiar with the unbelievable
support that we've gotten out of weird and Texters, says
Great Senior Tony at the Pittsburgh stop of the Coach's caravan.
Please send my sincerist apologies to a mister John S.
Marshall for diverting our entire Olashuck Klan to Pittsburgh instead

(55:13):
of going to the Wheeling Caravan. Event hoppy they that said,
we had a fantastic time in the burg. In fact,
such a good time that my mom and aunt are
heading back to the Wheeling caravan. So let's be honest.
Your homemade bread might have a little something to do
with it. So here we go show these pictures. So
this is this is the Olashuk gang, right, those donna

(55:35):
is there she Hoppy has made numerous Pepperoni rolls and elements,
so go ahead flip through those. So that was there,
and then you got the head football coach, you got
the athletics director. He was in there. And then we
just had we just took a bunch of pictures. We
just just took a bunch of pictures. So one of
the dudes in the picture, there you go, there's Ross.

(55:57):
He was getting his first Ronnie rolls for Ross. So
Brian right, the nephew out of Chandler, his own, and
he comes up to me and he says.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Frequent texter.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Yeah. He says, hey, I got something. I got some
stuff here for you. Talk about international travel. He works internationally.
He says, I was in Greece recently. Don't know if
you know if he ran into Oliver Straw's dad or whatever.
I don't know what's going on. Then was in Australia
and he brought me this bag of stuff which has

(56:30):
been on my desk for a long time and so
I've opened it. Carmelo Kohalas are freaking awesome. This is
These are tim Tams, which I think best thing from
Australia I've ever had. These are basically mint Girl Scout

(56:51):
cookies that we have here, only four times the size
and the crunch left. Yeah, there's some cherry ripe this thing.
I opened one of these, already had one of these.
There were two and they're violet crumbles like sponge candy.
That was really really good gummies. I don't know the
kind of gummies that most people use nowadays, but anyway,

(57:12):
it was all good. So Brian, this great family, great family.
It's pretty wild here.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Is good and Nate, is it true they have like
all kind of weird flavored kit cats in Japan?

Speaker 4 (57:26):
That is true. I had an orange kit cat.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Try that orange is good Orange. I've had the orange good.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
It was sobby, don't they It was Zobbie could cat.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Yeah, we've had those here.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
That's that's where you're seeing this.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Texas says, since you guys are big swag gear, guys,
have you been following John Gruden and his box openings
of college sports gear? West Virginia's got to get with
the program and get him a box. I think it's
only a matter of time before Austin over at football
and Kyle over at basketball for WV. I would think
they're gonna send him a box full of stuff.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
They I watched way too many of this.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Oh dude, they're really good.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
You know how much I'm into gear. Oh you love gear.
Love that when the box.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Shows it next one very serious.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
We could just replace that. We could do a box
opening here of gear. Colar Austin sending them. Hearbles just
opening on the show.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
Who could be fine too.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Grudin's already got enough gear over there.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
He's got a lot.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
I he's got age, send it here, take care of it.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Hey, three guys, just wanted to let you know. I've
been listening to you all since the first episode. I
operate heavy equipment. Listen to you every day plus sports line.
Reason for texting my dad, who I would say, My dad,
who was what I would say, one of the most
loyal WV fans lost his two and a half year
battle with cancer second of April this year. He didn't

(58:44):
listen to you all, but I always would let him
know what Old Tony, Brad and the Hobster had to say.
He would tell stories of listening to pregame with Jack
Fleming and Wodio O'Hare as they drove to the games.
We've had season tickets for football since nineteen eighty two.
He was in the hospital when we needed to renew
our tickets and I asked him about them, and I said,

(59:07):
are we still going to go get them? And he said,
of course we are. After he passed, I contemplated on
how I would be able to go to the games
without my best friend watching with me. I know my
dad would want me to keep the tradition going and
continue to go and take my son with me. So
that's what I'm going to do and continue listening to
The Best Sports Guys podcast. Here's the episode eight hundred
and to the Best Dad Ever Jim Gonno love you, Pops,

(59:29):
And this is from Jim and Jamie. If you show
me that picture there they are man in the stands,
and those memories obviously are everlasting, and we send our
deepest sincere apologies or sympathies to you on your loss,
but at the same time, know that he's always going

(59:52):
to be with you when you're in those stands. And
then I was thinking about that picture in the sense
that how many other people have that exact memory of
decades and decades of being with family members, many who
are no longer with us, And that's the true essence
of that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
It's kind of the whole point of college sports right there.
And that's the stuff we always talk about as the
as the TV networks try and navigate this through to
niche this down to just a few schools. That's what's wrong,
what's right, that's what that that's what college sports is.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
A Nate, We're talking earlier about the you know, the
mean tweets, mean texts from the jerks. Did you when
you were playing? Did you also know maybe because you
grew up here, you knew what like a story like that,
like how much Mountain Athletics mean to people?

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Oh? Absolutely, I knew.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
I mean it meant that to me growing up. Me,
my mom and dad and brother used to drive from
Fort Ashby to come over to go games. We used
to you know, I remember going to the coliseum when
I was four years old. You know, just stuff like that,
that's what makes you want to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Yeah, shout out Fort Ashby? How long were you there?

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Five years? From when I was three until I was eight?

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
First I've heard of that. Texter says, I really love
the show. I'm old enough to remember the facilities building,
not to be that guy, but the correct pronunciation is
shot in freude. Thought you would want to know Jeff
and Winchester, Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
I think I said Shade and freyd and got it
wrong and whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Got a problem here and Brad, this is something we
had to deal with On Friday last week, Charlie from
Midlothian Rights watched episode six three six. I'd like to
offer two comments. The first involves those throwback football helmets.
When I saw those for the first time, my immediate
reaction was to the color of the state. Was that
big screw job by Bubba of UNC to the men's

(01:01:48):
basketball team. The second is in regard to the pink
while your rod slips. The best prank involved someone returning,
say at like three o'clock into their office, and you
put the time on the slip. You say it was
ten point fifteen. Call arrives and the message reads, your
wife wants to know where you keep the fire extinguisher.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
I looked at because if you were gone from ten
to fifteen to three, how would you know?

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Somebody called?

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Yeah, and you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
Know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
But anyway, so last Friday, after the late morning last Friday,
I'm I'm home, I get a phone call I'm on
the lawnmower, right, but I looked down and see who
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
I didn't think he mowed the lawn.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Yeah, non stuff, love it anyway, I look down, I
shut them over, and like most times, I just look
at it and call him back later. Director of Athletics, Okay,
call me, and so I started out. I learned down. Okay,
said what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
And instantly I could tell we got problem. We got problem?
Hey said hey. I said yeah, I kind of knew
before he even started talking where this thing was going.
So on our last episode, I may have said that
Wren called that blue on those new unis Teal Heal

(01:03:15):
and Brad. We had a conversation kind of like that
blue that you've got on right there, and you said,
and I said, I think there's going to be a
line of WVU apparel that's going to be in that color.
So I said, yeah, he goes, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
What, and I jumped out, I won't leave you alone
on an eye from there. Yeah, I jumped in and said,
it's not Teal. I don't know why Teal is out there. Well,
it's not a Teal color. I tried to say, I
don't know why Wren called it teal.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
I tried to go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
I tried to state my case to him, and then
he said, well just hang on. He goes, let me
get Brad on the line. So he three wayed really,
oh yeah, So we three waded. All of a sudden,
Skippy comes on the line.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
There, pretty impressed how he handled the technology.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
He's out the front of he's out front of that stuff.
He's putting calls together all the time with these people,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
So I got conferenced in.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
So he got conferenced in. He said.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
I said, I was not knowing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
I said, we got a situation here. He goes, what's
the deal? He goes, I never said teal. So we
went back and looked at the tape. Now he really
never did say teal. He has used the word.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Turquoise, turquoise on it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
It's not which I pointed out, so but he but
he was right, and we said we would make an attraction.
He did say turquoise.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
He never said a teal.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
He did say turquoise, not teal. That's arm seeing it's not.
I mean, I don't think it's turquoise either.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
It's light blue. I mean, just put what's in an.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Effort to be correct in the criticism. Okay, Okay, it
wasn't teal. Teal was never mentioned. Okay, so we have
to correct that. For the director of athletics, you can
call teal.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Turquoise color is in the eye of the beholder. But
there's gonna be such stuff out. There's gonna be some
stuff out in light blue.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
And there that's it. We'll just land on that. That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Ren did not say teal, But it's gonna be. It's
a light blue color, is what it is. It's just
it's very similar to that similar. There's some questions about
exactly what light blue is going to be used.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Oh there is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Yeah, there's some questions about that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
They didn't have pms back in the fifties or sixties
whenever those uniforms.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Sixties, So they'll work through it. But it will be
a light blue with gear to follow.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
It's like what color we got. But for the record,
Red did not call it teal at any point that he.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Was very honest in saying he may have used the
word turkoise.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Yes, which he did admit to turquoise, but not teal.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Yeah, just for the record, fair enough. Yeah, Hey, Jake,
let's go through some pictures here. Recently we've had some
pictures that we haven't been able to get into as closer. Lydia.
You guys know Lydia.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Sure, well, Lydia?

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
You know Lydia.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Why do you surprise?

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
I know Lydia? How did you know Lydia?

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
Lydia? Who?

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Lydia from Fairmont? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Maybe not?

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
So hey put that the other So that's Lydia. Saw her?
Oh no, no, no, lydiad So she's a huge mountaineer fance.
She met her at a baseball game, and also she
was at the D's luncheon last week. Good to see her.
A huge mountaineer fan. Also ran into these other folks recently.
Now that is Tommy Boy from Independence. He's the one

(01:06:11):
that's in a seven and nine bottles of.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Root beer, bought out the entire store wherever he was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Yeah, so that was good. Great, So I saw him
at the baseball game. Tommy boys, great dude. And then
let me see here Jenny's Jennings down there in Charleston
without his beard and he won Jenny's. And then Jeff
the tire guy, Oh no, that's rusty roast. He's got
all our coffee there. Sure good to see him. And

(01:06:36):
then it was Jeff from that's Jeff the tire Guy
not to be confused with Jeff the bread guy in Parkersburg.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
He's got one of the original shirts. OJ he does.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Yeah, he's a good dude.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
He did a better job of taking pictures. I had
some had some great interaction Saturday at the baseball game,
including CJ. Bill Son CJ. Bill the cookie guy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Yeah, sure, absolutely Cookiesj's a good due ude.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
A couple of those cake pops there, Misbill.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
This time of the year, don't see some other folks do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Here's turquoise.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Yeah, Paul and Tampa Hoppey wants to know the best.
When's the best time of the year to come to
a Mountaineer game to see the leaves at the peak?

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Mid October?

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Maybe, so he was saying, I'm thinking twenty five October
for TCU. I said, that's too late.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
You know, it kind of depends a little bit. Twenty
five October might be a little late, but it can
be one thing down here and another thing of a
Cooper's rock.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Right. Oh yeah, I'd say this. Yeah, I'd get here
earlier than that. You just don't know. Georgian Hong Kong
now lives in Charleston. One of my rare texts listening
to you're talking about who gets into the Hall of
Fame with guys playing for just like one year. The

(01:07:54):
key is many play as many places as you want
before you come to West Virginia. But then at least
your last year then you could be eligible. So he's
going graduation route Forrest and Morgantown. Hello, gents, long time
since I reached out. I spent two hours on the
tarmac waiting to take off this week while listening to
your last episode. That inspired me, and I thought, since

(01:08:16):
Hoppy is only in the office one to two days
a month, true, while you were out as probably needed,
So he made this for us. Take a look at this.
It's actually a three guys. It's actually three guys. Now,
if you get up to that thing close enough, it's
absolutely hilarious.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
What it says while you were.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Out that yeah, so gone.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I probably should have while you were away.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Yeah, but it's got like all of our little lines
and all of our people that are watching this will
get the like to see that. Yeah, there's a lot
of funny stuff in there. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:49):
I don't know that from that was from Forrest run
by Nikes. Nate would have no idea what that You
know what a pink slip isn't he? How about this one?
Just got this one today? Today I started my internship.
I looked at my phone on my desk and saw
the famous while you were out note Pats. So another like,
there acts some person started an internship today and there's

(01:09:11):
a pink slip and they're still in use. So that
says while you were out, what the heck?

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
I looked upstairs in our supplies closet. We don't have
any of course, we don't tell Nate what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
So I mean I get the premise while you were gone,
what happened? Yeah, no one could leave a message.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
Yes, And so our point was like, if you were
out of the office, you had no idea what was
happening until you got back, just out driving around aimlessly
to your meetings, you had no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Anybody was like somebody Wren would not have been able
to get in touch with Tony. There would be a
note at the office where they had to schedule a meeting.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
I would have got back. He would have got in
from the lawnmowing, and there would have been a note
a director would like to see you at three pm
and you have to get dress to shower up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
You're going for a meeting. There is.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
That's from today, Guys, somebody's on an internship and they're
still using that stupid thing. Good Lord, Phil and Ashland, Kentucky.
Since you had a Mothman reference to start the show,
I thought i'd show this picture. A few years ago,
my wife bought me a six foot wood outline of
the state. I recently had it painted to highlight different
areas of the state, including the Mothman's home town. Take

(01:10:27):
a look at that. So you've got the Mothman up there,
upper left got a bear over and toward the penhand
got a bear loose in the eastern panhand.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Did you see what that note said? Said? While you
are out your typewriter arrived.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
Texter. They still exist at Donut Connection in Kanas City,
the infamous peanut donut. Remember I was raving about the
peanut don't there they are? Peanut is a good donut.
Matt from Morgantown, I need this, Hello.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
I'd eat that whole basket, you'd eat your.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Breadth is pretty wide.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
Matt says, I wanted to. I had the pleasure of
meeting Brad at the final Mountaineer baseball game. It was
great to chat all things Mountaineer sports, and I appreciate
him chatting with me for the last three innings. I
was there. Great to meet you. Hope to chat again soon.
Let's go Mountaineers.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
I had a great talk with Matt for more intel.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
Wow, Tim and Vienna, my wife and I went to
the baseball game Saturday. Game wasn't great. We had the
chance to eat Revkev's barbecue for the first time. It
was outstanding. We both agreed some of the best brisket
we've ever had. Does he have a place where he
announces a schedule of places he's going to be so
he only cooks in Morgantown. I would go to the

(01:11:48):
source dot Hill. Probably shouldn't say that when it's a church,
it's got the barbecue. Rev caviby Are He gave me
dispensation on that. It's the source WV dot org something
like that. But then they'll they'll have their schedule. Let'll
cook like once a month at the church and you

(01:12:08):
come pick it up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Hey, Tony, you mentioned a couple of those texts w
baseball game. We know they've been struggling right, lost the
last four, but they're heading into the Big Twelve tournament
and on Thursday they'll play the winner. I think of
Texas Tech and some of the Cincinnata Cincinnati and so
I was looking this up. I was trying to find
something to say about and Brad, this applies to you
because you played baseball about streaks. You know how streaks

(01:12:30):
are on baseball, right, Hank Aaron said, Oh my, My
motto was always keep swinging. Whether I was in a
slump or feeling badly or having a horrible time off
the field, the only thing to do was what Brad,
Keep swinging, Keep swinging, got to show up, keep playing,
keep playing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
So so you know what the Big Twelve champion Mountaineers
are going to do this week. We're gonna take their buye.
We're gonna take their number one. See the whole tournament
and go into Arlington there, keep swinging. Yogi Bar Yogi
Bear had a good quote about when he was asked
about being in a slump. He says, I'm not in
a He says, I ain't in a slump. I'm just
not hitting.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
You should have asked her dad raising her, did he
ever tell her.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
No, No, she won't take no for an answer.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Well, no, how many states are the hand eight?

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
There's only two others?

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Well, Greenland might be in there.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Text her, how about this one? I walked in my
son's basketball tournament in Houston, Texas. Woman was there taking
the money. She saw my West Virginia hat. She says,
West Virginia used to date a guy who played basketball there.
I said, really, who's that? She said, Selden Jefferson. Always
a West Virginia connection. Always Selden was good. Selden was

(01:14:58):
a good player, involved in what I think was one
of the greatest head to head mono almano battles that
I've ever seen, And that was Seldon against Antonio Daniels,
West Virginia bowlding Green n it game. Daniels who would
go on to in the Coliseum, Danels, who would go
on to play for over a decade. I would imagine

(01:15:20):
in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
It was a top five pick.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
He and Selden just matching hoops. Great game, Nate, Who.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Is your most memorable one on one college days mono
A mono? Anybody standing?

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
Yeah, No, one stands out not to me. One on
one matchups for me.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Niang old George's was tough to guard Georgia's. He gave
it the full Georgians. He didn't even give me the George.
He just Georgia's.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
H I'm still playing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
He has a career. They got a career man. Good morning, Tony,
Brad Hoppey. This is Rue from Bachana and I hope
this isn't too long, but here it goes. This is
pretty neat. This past Friday was a fireman's parade for
the West Virginia Strawberry Festival, and my dad, not feeling well,
asked if I would take his jeep and meet the
WV mascot and ride with them in the parade with pride.

(01:16:14):
I said, sure, I knew Cad was the new Mountaineer mascot.
By the way, Caid Kincaid's the new Mountaineer mascot. He's fantastic.
He's from Fayetteville. Last week at the Mountaineer baseball game,
Wren came up to me, had a tupperware container and
brought me un freaking believable peanut butter fridge from Caid's mom.

(01:16:36):
She made it for Bren and for me. Nice it
was missus. Caid Missus Kincaid, whatever you do for a living,
stop it just make just make the peanut butter fudge,
because that was breathtaking. Wow, it was absolutely fantastic. Anyway
back to my statement, So his dad's been driving around

(01:17:01):
in the estrawberry festival close to here. So I pull
up to my spot in the lineup and lo and behold,
it was not kid. It was the alternate mountaineer Rachel
Morgan cad was at the baseball game. Rachel was sent
to the parade. Let's give Rachel a three guys, shout out,
what an outstanding young lady, What an outstanding job she
did representing West Virginia in the pride of our state.

(01:17:24):
Look at this. Look at that jeep. Now, Brad, you're
a cheap guy like that. That thing is sweet. And
I know Rachel, I know her parents, and she is
absolutely just terrific. And go ahead, Jakie flipped through some
of those picks. There she is. That is that's that'd
be like a good picture, like in a major sports
illustrated like blowout type thing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
A nice job.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
That's that's gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Good to see Rachel on there. It's just big. In analytics,
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
That's interested did not know first I've heard of that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Do you ever notice that in the promotions that you
see on Sports Channel where they have the mascots involved.
I rarely have I ever see the Mountaineer, which seems
like a natural to me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
Yeah, they like them big headed, Yeah, goofy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Wouldn't I mean the mountain wouldn't the Mountaineer be sure natural?

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Yeah? Sure, sure. We had a nice run there. We
had a nice run with that all state commercial in
the football thing where they spelled West Virginia wrong, not
going on. There was a little bit that was a
good run. That's good publicity right there, right money last one,
Brad from Charleston.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Off up the money. Best mascot in America?

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
I pay him was accordingly, summer season is in full effect.
They got my season football tickets picked out last week.
I might be more excited that I got the seventeenth
row for Red Rocks to see Charles Wesley Godwin flying
out from Charleston west by god Sure would like to
meet this awesome artist Brad from Charleston. So so Charles

(01:18:49):
is playing Red Rocks like in the fall, like October
headlining it. Yeah, he was in the UK this weekend.
Hot really he did? He did Glasgow, man Chester and
Royal Albert Hall in London. Is that right? He's doing
all right now? You know, Charles Wesley, don't you because

(01:19:10):
if you took your shirt off right now and spun around,
we got some c WG lyrics on your school lyrics.

Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
That lyrics no one knows exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Really that was back in his Vandelia fame when when
he had a three person group with Charles's first band
was Vandelia and Nate's got the lyrics to West Virginia
Highway on his how many? How many? How many? Do
you have the full chorus out there? What do you have.

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
Awake in West Virginia? I have won.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
If I awake in West Virginia, I have won.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
I did not know you had ink?

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
Oh yeah, he got a little ink. It's hidden, it's safe.
I mean, it's fine, it's fine. So yeah, congrats to Charles.
He continues to do extremely well. Yeah them that tour
has started that he's going to play a couple of
dates on its arted last week Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan
the Outlaws tour and they were in the West Coast

(01:20:07):
this past week and California, Arizona and when it comes
this way, he's definitely doing Charlotte with those guys and
one other date.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
That's how. That's unbelievable. That's outstanding, very well deserved.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Yeah, he's hotter and hot.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
I haven't seen him since the Three Guys Tailgate? Says
the what three Guys tailgate? Oh yeah, Charles Wesley's.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Been he kind of busy, He kind of busy, so
like but yeah, so he was an early adopter of
Charles Wesley, very very early, back in the Vandelia days. Well,
this has been good, really truly appreciate you coming in
as he can see everybody, nothing changed, still chaos, mayhem, just.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Further announcement that now he's like taking my place.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
Is that no, no, no, no no, he's got stuff
to do yet, business interest. You have business interest, he's
got like that personally, he's got stuff to do. Nothing
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Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
What the next, Well, the break room, we'll have a discussion.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
It's fluid. It's gonna I feel really good about some
of the guests we have coming up efforting.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
We're around a lot of them. Yeah, working on scheduling,
We're around a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
We're we're working towards them, but just kind of hanging
there and things will go by quick. And then plus
we'll update Hoppies training for the upcoming event. At the
high point in June. This is gonna be really nice,
really nice.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
And probably something could happen and Hippo would come into play.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
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