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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Exploring the latest headlines and in depth conversations. It's the
Richmond Weavers Show on one oh four nine Fox Sports
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now for riches take on sports. Here's Richmond Weaver ready to.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Roll right here on the Tuesday edition of The Richmond
Weavers Show presented by Ingles Markets one oh four nine
Fox Sports Upstate. And you know you can join the
conversation eight six y four two four zero five four
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
Again that number is eight six four.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Two four zero five four eight zero. As we are
in a full force here on this Tuesday edition, mister
Trey Falco behind the board and behind the mic as
usual you sir, and a lot to talk about today.
Oh yeah, yes, we heard right there. At the top
of the hour. We're going to talk about John Mattier
and the allegations of sports gambling right and how that
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is proliferation, not only in terms of we know there's
more and more legal gambling that is available now, but
there's also the scenario playing out where there's more and
more type of information that is available for people to
see your efforts, to see where you might be, to
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see your location, and I'm just curious as far as
why we feel the need to have that type of situation.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So we're going to dive into some of that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Also, I do want to talk a little bit more
college football as we're getting oh so close to college
football and the opportunity of kicking off the twenty five season,
so we'll start taking a look at some of the expectations.
I don't know, we've talked a little bit about of
some of the expectations, but I want to dive into
a little bit more relative to the top twenty five
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of the ap pole that just came out, So we'll
take a look at the top fifteen, some of the
win totals that we have right now and how that's
going to play out. So we will dive into that also.
But now we have a jam Pack studio because we
do have a guest here in studio, mister Marcus Brown,
co founder of the Junkyard Hits Studio.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
He is here back once again.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's been a minute since you yes, and I wondered
if you forgot how to get here.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, because you were running in hot Running in hot
getting out of school of traffic is something else, you know.
I don't think. But I hadn't been in school in
quite some time. But those school buses a whole job.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yes they will.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, and remember this is the beginning of the school
year for Greenville County, so yes, exactly. So there is
a change that happens that you have to get adjusteditude
because you get through summer and you're like, oh yeah,
the mornings and the afternoons are a little bit different,
and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
When school's back in. Oh yeah, it's a madhouse out there.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I was one of those that didn't learn quick enough.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, you're here, so that's the most important thing. And
glad that you're back in study with us because we
got a lot to talk about. I know you're involved
in so many different things, so I understand that. So,
but you do also understand the power of sports. Oh yeah,
and it's been a big part of your life.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Your dad played at Clemson, you played at Newberry. So
what's your memories this time of the year as not
only as a kid, you know, getting ready for college football,
but even as a player getting ready to be amped up,
ready for the season.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well, yeah, I mean, this is the time of the
year that you've been waiting for. I literally just seen
where a lot of the teams posted like their team photos.
So it's like you're putting on that game day uniform already.
You're getting the pictures taken, You're starting to feel the hype.
You got the media days getting you ready to go.
You got a little bit of talk going from both sides. Yeah,
and you're ready to go. You've been playing pretty much
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for this team that you're playing this first game for,
you know, five six months already been preparing. Oh yeah,
so you're almost ready to just get it out the way.
You're ready to get it owing. You're well prepared, you're
hyped up, and so it's time to put your money
where your mouth is pretty much. You know, all the
work that you put in, it's time to put on
the show for everybody. So now this is the exciting
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
How much do you miss some of the summer workouts now?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I don't know. Yeah, that's the thing. You were always like,
oh do you miss football? And I'm like certain aspects
of the game, like yeah, summer training and everything like that.
It's all fun. But like I said, you're waiting to
get to the game, like we all play sports. We
play for game day. It's a competition exactly, And so
you know, you've been beating up on each other all
through fall camp, through the summer, and so you're ready
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to go hit somebody else at this point in time
of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So I think that's one of the biggest things.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I've talked to so many different people, especially my
podcast Rich Take on Sports, Switch your podcasts alumni. Yeah, so,
no doubt, and one of the things that comes up consistently,
and it's the theme of and I know it's probably cliche,
but it's the brotherhood, but it's the locker room. They
missed that, they missed the camaraderie. Yeah, and they miss
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not so much obviously the physical toll of the workouts,
but it's that you're there with one of your guys,
one of your dudes, one of your teammates, and you're
both experiencing.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The same the same thing.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Nothing brings you closer together than some common struggle, the
common goal, common struggle. So yeah, some of those guys,
I mean from young age. You think you've played with
some of these people from five years old all the
way up, and you know, especially if you went to
college together, you know, especially nowadays, I think you know
a lot of people they've known each other so long,
so seven on seven's everything. They get to knowing each
other and they go to school together. So I mean,
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these are your brothers pretty much at this point, Like
to this day, I have some of my best friends
that I met through playing sports that you know, they're
just as much my brother as my actual brother is.
So no, that's definitely a part that you miss of
the game because then once it's gone, it's like you
keep in contact and it's there, but it's not the same,
you know, being in that locker room working out together,
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playing together.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So Marcus Brown is our guest co founder of the
Junkyard Hits Studio. Go check it out here in Greenville.
There's also a location in Malden Ann and Anderson make
sure you check that out.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
We'll talk about that a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
But I wanted to know also, do you ever have
I mean, has there ever been a point in your
time your life that you don't remember being a Clemson fan.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I mean, I'm trying to think that in walking maybe
you know, yeah, as long as I can remember, I've
been able to walk in I think as long as
I can remember, I've been a fan of the Clemson Tigers,
and that's just growing up there. That's what you're you're
raised for. You don't know anything different than that. I
remember somebody asked me the other day. They were like
they were talking about going to like Clemson games. They're like,
have you ever been to it? I was like, I
don't think I ever missed a home game until I
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actually like started going to my own games.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, No, it's just a part. It's in your blood.
Whether you want to be or not, it's there.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It is in your blood and obviously in your blood.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Your dad played at Clemson and had a lot of
success there and being able to not only individual but
team success and everything. What about when Clemson was able
to win the national championship in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Where were you when Shaun Watson hits Hunter andfro Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah, I mean I was. I was watching the game.
We let's see, so I was back in Newbury. We
were watching the game and you know, just hear excitement
and enjoy because union it's been so long. I don't
know how long it'd been at that point.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What, yes, one?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, so yeah, thirty something years right there, so long overdue,
and you could just kind of feel the energy. I
think throughout that entire you got a lot of friends
that played on that team, and you always think about that.
It's like, Okay, what are these national championship teams look
like in you know, January of that year leading up
to it, right in that summer where they're going through it.
What do they look like in March when they're going
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through springball? And you know, knowing people on that team
and getting to be around a lot of those guys
was really cool to see that, and they had that energy.
I think as soon as that year start, you could
just tell like, Okay, this team's different.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's right, And I think there was something too. They
had something else to prove, coming oh so close to
beat in Alabama the previous year, and that seemed to
be also a team a Clemson team the year that
they lost in Phoenix, that it was somewhat of an
unexpected team. An unexpected I wouldn't say Cinderella, but they
definitely seem to be a team that nobody would have
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thought would.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Have been there.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And then to give Alabama a game that they did
that surprised a lot of people, but they had that
fuel because they were oh so close and you talked
about the struggle.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, well, and then they had that experience. They've tasted
it once. I think that comes. I mean that's why
you see the teams like Alabama and things like that
have been successful so many years. It's experienced. They've they've
been there, they've done that, they've been on the big stage.
And so sometimes for a newer team to kind of
step into that, you almost have to be twice as
good to beat that team because it's like you're brand
new to that area and you know the environment. A
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long season, that's a much lesser season.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Right season was it now?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Fifteen games? So that's a long season. That's a lot
of wear and tear on your body. So having that experience,
I think going into the second year for them, they
were able to They knew what it took to get there,
and then they just had to finish the job.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, one of the guys that you know very well
that was on that national championship team, mister Ben Bullwear
we co founded the Junkyard Hit studio.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
How did you guys meet?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
So we became friends. I mean we played against each
other in high school and kind of I knew who
he was, probably more than he knew who I was.
But then all through college they my best friends lived
with him, and so when I'd come home in the
summertime we were off, I would be with them all
the time, hanging out, pretty much lived with them for
the whole summer. And so that's how we became really
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good friends. And then post college, me and him worked
out and trained together and started the gym, and it
just kind of long story short, and went into the
gym from there, that's right. Yeah, But you know, just
we were just like minded people that were very driven,
loved to work hard, and so we were just like,
this is something that we want to do and happen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Why a gym, though, well, I think.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
You know, we were lot more strong than we were smart,
Like we know how to pick up some heavy weights
and tell people to work hard. So we were like, well,
let's let's do this so we can get paid exactly,
and we both we were already doing it, so we
were like, we might as well make money to work out.
So yeah, then the gym started, and then you know,
we kept our parents in shape and you know, It
was for them just as much as it was for us,
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because they were like, well, we need to do something.
So we got them in there, and then we got
them involved, and then it just we realized we had
something that people enjoyed doing, and it just kind of
grew word of mouth, and one location to another location.
Now three locations, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, the Greenville location, they're in the po West Village
over there? Is it twenty twenty that's when that officially
opened exactly, But the Anderson started.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
In twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So now looking back seven years wild, yeah is it?
I mean it came. Do you have words to describe
what seven years after.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I mean opening it flies by. I mean a lot
has been learned throughout those years. I mean when you
look back on it, it's just a blink of the eye.
It goes by super fast. But living it out, it
was definitely not that fast. You know, you could feel
all of it. I mean, and it was like you know,
outside looking in, it's very quick growing. But you know,
day in, day out, long long hours. I mean, if
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there was twenty seven hours in a day, we.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Found them, Yeah, I bet you did. And we worked
all of them, no question. What were some of the
most difficult times.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I mean definitely getting it off the ground and getting
it started. I mean, we don't know what we don't know,
and we were learning, so you know, me and Ben
would be in there first of all, both of us
waking up early knowing good will only one of us
need to be there, but we wanted to be there.
We were enthusiastic, We loved it. We were young, and
so early mornings, late nights, Like I used to think,
waking up at six in the morning it was hard.
(11:48):
Now we wake up, you know, we were waking up
at like three thirty at one point, and I'm just like,
I might as well not even go to sleep, because
at that age, you know, you still want to stay
out late, go out, do whatever you did. And at
that time we lived right above a bar, so even
even if we wanted to go to sleep early, there
was no chance it was And you know, being he
is the lightest sleeper you will ever meet in your
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absolute life. Like, there's so many stories of him where
he's not able to sleep. It's just unreal. But we
lived in an apartment. Like I said, Main Road was
right there, bar was right downstairs. I'm pretty sure they
had the speaker downstairs right underneath his bed, so, I
mean he had the blackout curtains, he sleeps, he slept
with earplugs in. I mean, there was anything, and so
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it was probably affecting him a little bit more than me.
That's why he's bald now and I'm not. But yeah, no,
that was definitely a tough time. And we built that
gym pretty much from the ground up. It was just
a vacant building. We went and we did the concrete
in there, we did the plumb in, electrical, if you
name it on how to build a building, we did it.
We did in there. And so getting that one started
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was very rewarding, but also very much a challenge.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I had to be a big time challenge because I
think to what you described, I mean, how.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Did you know what to do? You didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We didn't necessarily, And I don't mean that in disparaging ways.
It's just that you were inexperience.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You're exactly right. I mean, we had really good mentors
and business minded people in our corner that allowed us
to avoid some of those detrimental mistakes that some small
businesses would make. Very early on because like I said,
we knew how to work out and we knew what
we wanted and we could paint the picture, but we
didn't necessarily know how to get to that point. So
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very thankful for a lot of people that allowed us
to use buildings. There's like temporary spots rent free. Helped
us out with all the construction and just like business
licensing and permitting and a lot of the things that
you don't think taxes. Yeah, and you know, finances and
all those things. Like I said, I can add up weights,
but doing taxes, I still got to have somebody.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
For that exactly. Yes, No, I uh several times.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I think I withdrew from accounting class twice at Clemson.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, I didn't like it. Yeah I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And I like stats, you know, I mean I talk
about stats all the time. I mean, I can analyze stats.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
For some reason, it's just different numbers.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It is.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't understand how accounting can be so challenging, at
least from my mental side of things. Marcus Brown is
our guest in studio here today on the Tuesday edition
of The Richmond Weavers Show, presented by Ingles Markets. Co
founder of the Junkyard hit studio. So, describe what makes
Junkyard Hit Studio different.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Different for us, I would say there's a couple of things.
I think by the way we coach, in the formatting
of our workouts. When it comes to group fitness, I
would like to say that we keep a very functional
focus in a majority lifting focus, where some could be
more high cardio. We are a low impact functional weightlifting
studio pretty much. So it's all free weights. So we
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don't do barbelle And it's not that I'm at anything
against Barbeillo. I love it, but teaching that to a
lot of people at a quicker pace. Yeah, And that
was kind of part of when we decided what kind
of g we wanted to do. We were like, Okay,
it can't just be like what we like to do.
It needs to be what does everybody else like to
do as well? And what is going to be like
the next thing? And then like, how can we be different?
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And that was a big part of it, And so
we do all of our workouts based on music. So
we actually created a program that takes the music and
then correlates the beats to the music so that it
changes the colors in the room and that's what controls
your intensity and effort throughout the machine stations of the workout,
but then it can also with the movements as well
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and kind of tell you what's doing, mean, what to
do during the class based on the movements and the colors.
So it's almost a coach within the class with your
coach that's actually coaching you. And so that was one
thing that made us different. Like our coaches. When we
first started, we were huge on like only hiring athletes
and that was like a big thing to us. And
I'm training some coaches right now too, and we've recently
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kind of know straight off that cause it's hard to
really have a very specific coach because yeah, you can't
find all of them, and at some point as we grow,
you know, you've got to be able to have different
varieties people because not everybody likes that intense, you know,
just young coach that can just do everything. You know,
you need somebody that looks more like they do or
you know, has similar experiences and things like that. So
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you know, we have moms, older, younger coaches, you know,
people that didn't always start out in the best amount
of shape and then have gotten in shape. We've had
some coaches that started at the gym for their very
first class and then now have become coaches, So we
have a wide variety, but from the beginning, and I
think a lot of our coaches still have it too,
and it's something that it's really hard to teach, but
athletes have it because they've been doing it their whole life.
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Is that edge about competing and understanding that it's the process,
not just the end goal, and they're willing to do
the hard things for a little while knowing that the
end goal is going to be there, but they're they're
not new to the struggle, and I think that's important
for our coaches to be able to relate to the
clients that are brand new coming in, but then also
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for themselves to always be challenging themselves to be better.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, no question. Well, you know, I'm a fan.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I've been going since twenty twenty when the Greenville location
opened up, and for me, one of the things that
I thoroughly enjoy about it is.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You don't have to think absolutely, you.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Just walk in and they've got to work out. You've
got to work out ready, and to your point, you
can just get going and they'll coach you through it.
And also, I think one of the misconceptions, especially from
newcomers or first timers, is that, oh, when you're in there,
you've got to keep up with everybody else.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's at your pace.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And that's what I love about the coaches is that, hey,
you can modify exact you don't have to if you
need to walk right here on the treadmill, you can
walk right.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And everything can be modified. And yeah, that's a good
thing about a treadmill too. You could be at a
twelve and I could be at a one. At the
end of the after five minutes, we're still gonna be
standing right beside each other.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
You might be a little more sweaty than I am. Right, Yeah, No,
people can come in there, and that is a misconception
for sure, But any and everything can be modified or
go at your pace. It is a challenging workout, but
it's supposed to challenge you based on where you are
exactly right. You wouldn't want to come in there to
a workout and not get a workout in right, So
it's like you don't want to come in there me,
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for example, and then do what my mom's doing because
it wouldn't be a challenge to me, and then vice
versa for her, She's not going to come in there
and do what I'm doing. But we can both go
in there challenge ourselves. We'll both be tired at the
very end of the day, and then you go home
and you get something out of it. But that's the
that's the point of going to a gym to work out.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's right, you're going, but you also have a coach
who can sometimes push you a little.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Bit exactly well, I need that little Nutice might.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Give you that little bit of a push.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And to your point, it is ultimately a competition amongst
with yourself, yes, based on where you were yesterday. And
I think that's part of it, not to say there
are certain times I will look.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Over at that you see what that person is running
next to me.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
A little friendly competition, that's right. That's and we want
that environment, right like that's from that's bringing our athletic
background to a corporate world of commercial working out right,
and we expect that we want that there. There's good
things that come from competition. But at the end of
the day, like you said, it is you versus you
and your competing ins yourself. But it's always nice to
have that little extra push, whether it's from the person
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beside you or that coach coming up behind you. And
it's like, you need that. If you want to be
good at something, you have a coach.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You definitely do in many areas of your life. And
I would say just about all areas.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I think that's anywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
That's anywhere, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
All Right, We're going to continue this Tuesday edition another
Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets, with our guest
in studio, Marcus Brown, co founder of the Junkyard Hits
Studio here in Greenville, Malden and Anderson.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Much more right after this.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Live from the Ingles Studios downtown Greenville, right here on
North Main Street as we are on the eleventh floor
of the Canal in Durrance Building. And a little bit
of a hazy day. Talking about humid. My goodness, it
was so humid earlier this morning.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I've been walking outside waiting for it to be cool
like it was last week. Yes, it's just not there.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Not there, No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And if the sun was fully out, we'd be set
a blaze.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It'd be weltering.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The windows are even like fogged up this morning in
my house and I'm like, dang, okay, you got that.
Pump's right. Yes, I do have to have it cool
at night to sleep. You talk about ben and having
you know, everything, we have to be certain way and quiet,
and I do need it to be cold at night sleep.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
My ac went out the other week and it was
the opposite of cool in there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I can only we got it.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
We got it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, there you go. Okay, well, as long as long
as you got it worked out.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Marcus Brown is our guest here in studio on this
Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show, presented by our
good friends at English Markets. All right, so, Mark, is
I do have something that I'm curious from your perspective
because of your age and not saying.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Anything what I'm trying to say about it, trying to
say just.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Where you are in life and also with you too
trade because you know, for me, the whole world of
technology and social media, that's not what I was raised on. Again,
I was born in nineteen seventy one. Yeah, so I'm
old man.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Block over here.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Not even that basically right.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I mean, I remember the rotary phone, you know, does
the dial in, you know, with your fingers and dig
digit that type of stuff. But the news just came
out John Matteir, quarterback at Oklahoma who transferred from Washington State,
according to some of the reports, is that on his
Venmo account back when he was a freshman at Washington State,
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he paid a former teammate and put the tagline in
there sports gamembling, and that is obviously a no no
in the NC Double A and obviously in professional sports
also can't be betting. Can't be betting. It's frowned upon.
It's frowned upon, yes, exactly. So he's come out and
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has said, you know, those allegations are false.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was a joke.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I'd never bet on anything. There's no sports gambling. So
there's more to the story that's going to come out.
I do understand that. My point is is that with
social media and the phone and the Snapchat, Instagram, all
of that in the Venmo, why would somebody want to
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continue to have all of their information public? And like
Venmo because I do use Venmo to with my kids
and a lot of other transactions, which I love. I
love that we have that type of technology that you
don't have to write a check anymore, and I know
my kids wouldn't even know what the hell of check
is basically, you know. And but from that perspective, though,
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you do have the ability to have your transactions on
Venmo private, yes you do, but I see so many
people they just have them public at all.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And I asked that just for you and Trey, because
you're younger and you grew up more in this type
of environment. And you're even younger than Marcus Trey. I
shouldn't say that much younger, but you are a little
bit too, yes, oh yeah, okay, all right, well never mind, okay,
(23:41):
But the point is is that you know, I'm twenty
plus years older than you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Guys. Am I missing the boat here?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
No, I think people just don't think about it. It's
such a small thing that like, yeah, you do have
the option to like make it private, but at the
time you're probably thinking like, well, I have nothing to hide,
and yeah, I mean I don't know, and I could agree,
and you know, especially young and in college like when
I used to, I mean even now, we'll vemo each
other or vemo people. So that little honestly, that that
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little caption at the bottom where you have to put
what you're vemo for is honestly more of an annoyance
than anything. So yes, we put whatever. Like if I'm
sending somebody something, I'm gonna put god knows what on
that thing, Like I'll probably just click the first three
emojis that are on my phone and just go from there,
Like I could be paying rent and it would be
a picture of a car and a piece of pizza
on there, Okay, And it's like, you know, who had
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no telling right, So for him to do that, was
it the smartest decision and what was he thinking about it?
Probably not? But is there a chance that he is
telling truth and it just not have anything to do
with what it says it is? That could be very
liable as well too.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, and Trey you chime in, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I mean I look at it first of all, like
I don't know, Like it's obviously not my bank account,
but I don't know. I don't want people knowing what
my finances are and where they're you know, Yeah, so
if I keep it private in that sense, But also.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
To your point, that's annoying. But even like, yes, I've
I've been paid through like my realtor.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
He used to pay me occasionally through Venmo, And I mean,
it would be the dumbest stuff that you'd write on there,
But it doesn't matter because we're the only ones to
see it, and we're the like we know what the
money's for. So like the sports him writing sports betting
or sports gambling or.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I'm sure it's just a probably a throwaway.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
I mean at the end of the day, I don't
necessarily know that you're gonna be able to prove it anyways,
Like even if you go through, because he sent it
to a friend, so you'd have to go through.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
You have to figure out the friend. You go, Okay,
where'd the friend take that money? Where did it go?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Like, there's no way to really prove it. I don't
know that there's a paper trail. So at the end
of the day, I don't know, Like why does it
really matter? And it's to that point. Also, I noticed
that people are digging into like they found arch Mannings
as well.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, look at arch.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Manning is like he's writing dumb stuff on there.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
We all do it exactly. I think it just depends
on who you're a fan of, and if this is
the opposing team. You're gonna dig, You're gonna find a
way to make a flaw.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's right, all right. So here's his quote, or here's
his statement. John Matterier did put out a statement, and
he says, quote, the allegations that I once participated in
sports gambling are false. My previous Venmo descriptions did not
accurately portray the transactions in question, but were instead inside
jokes between me and my friends. So that's to your
(26:23):
point there, Marcus. I have never bet on sports. I
understand the seriousness of the matter, but recognize that, taken
out of context, those Venmo descriptions suggest otherwise. I can
assure my teammates, coaches, and officials at the n C
DOUBLEA that I have not engaged in any sports gambling.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
End quote there.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Yeah, well I can tell you too. And I'm not
going back for the guy because I have no skin
in the game. But I could see a very likely scenario.
Hey man, you think I can kick this ball and
put it in that trash can?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Sure, what twenty bucks? Twenty bucks?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
All right?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
And then he puts it down. That's gambling.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah yeah, And it's an inside joke.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It is an inside joke, and I tend to again,
I have no idea about any of this how it happened,
because it was, you know, a few years ago. But
it seems very logical and rational what you guys are describing,
because I do understand from a personal standpoint. Yes, well,
I don't have to write, you know, the exact I
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don't have to write the exact description.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
And it wasn't a big deal until he became a
big deal. If he wouldn't do anything, nobody would have
ever even seen it anyway. So that's why I'm thinking
that they were fishing a little bit, But I doubt
that it is what it says it is.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, and I've seen some of the posts talking about,
oh well, now you know, is he going to be
able to play this season? Instill n C Double A
is going to investigate. Well, I can promise you it'll
take the n C Double A five years before they
go through the investigation. So he will be playing opening
day for I can promise you that and preventables.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
He wants to make sure that quarterback is going to
be playing.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
If he has anything to say about it, he will
be blamed.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's right, all right, let's take a look at some
of the latest headlines.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It's only one game, and that's.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
To take care of Benn hitting the latest headlines. It's
the daily rundown, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Speaking of quarterbacks, how about this In the NFL, Green
Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love. Yeah, well, under he went
through a procedure on a ligament on his left thumb.
He suffered the injury in the preseason opener and the
team is hopeful that Jordan Love can return to practice
(28:43):
next week, but they do expect him to be ready
for the regular season opener. Is there any chance that
Jordan Love might miss some time? And Tray, we talked
about it yesterday. NFL quarterbacks, you better have a backup
because there's going to be a chance your starter is
going to get hurt.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Yeahli Willis, he looked pretty good last year when he
had to step up and come in for Jordan Love
for what like two three games when Love went down
that first game.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We shall see. Yeah, you never know, we shall see.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I think it's very interesting. Also in the NFL, Odell
Beckham Junior has decided to retire, as he played for
the Giants, Browns, Rams, Ravens and Dolphins. He announced that
earlier today. When you hear Odell Beckham Junior, what do
you think of immediately Marcus.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
The one hand catch? Of course, right? I mean he
made it cool again, he made it cool.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I mean, is that not the best catch in NFL history?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I would say it's it's up there. I've seen some
really good ones. I think there's maybe a couple that
I know of, one specifically that there was a flag
on the play made by mister DeAndre Hopkins. Oh yeah,
there was a really good one, but it was a
flag play, so it didn't didn't count. Yeah, but I
would say the ones that do count, then that was
definitely best one. I only thought that out there just
because you know that's a hometown. I gotta go to
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bat for him, Daniel Hi got to hold that representation.
But no, definitely top catch probably in all of football history.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I have to say that is the best catch I've
ever seen based on the situation, and of course it
is against the Cowboys, my favorite team, right.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
But it's also for a touchdown. Yeah, and that's what
that's what's insane. How he catches it and if you
slow it.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Down, literally was three fingers, yes, three fingers.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I mean it's incredible.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I'm biased the Santonio Holmes and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
That's right, that's footwork then, yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So there is something to be said, as I just mentioned,
at least it was for a touchdown. Uh, it's about
the context of the catch and what it means in
terms of the game and how it affects the outcome.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
For a Super Bowl win.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, I mean that's pretty impressive, Yes, exactly. As a
Pittsburgh Steeler fan, Yeah, that is definitely big for you, right.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
As long as long as you weren't doing no sports betting.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Right, that's right? All right?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
How about this in college football? Though we know the
Pac twelve got blew up, all of that's done. But
due to conference realignment though to former Pac twelve schools
Washington State and Oregon State, they will have a rare
regular season home and home series this year, so they
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actually will play each other twice in the same season
and in the regular season, not like in a conference
championship or anything. So, as a Clemson fan, would you
like to see Clemson in South Carolina play twice in football?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
As a fan? Yes, As a player, I would not
want them to do that, like, because beating a team
twice is so hard and it's like it's the same
thing over and over, right, So it just it's a challenge,
I think from coaching perspective because you got to run
probably completely different schemes. If you lose. Yeah, it's nice
because you get you get your chance to pay them back. Right,
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you can win, But also that can it can ruin
a season, right, you can see that really mess up.
Like coming from D two football, we have a playoff
system where we've always had it and we'll play a
team in the regular season and then play them early
in the playoffs. And it's not the same thing. It's
very hard and you lose that you can win the
first time, great, right, you lose that second one, it
could be in your season or you know, now mess
(32:31):
up Bowl of Bowl standings or anything like that. So
I don't love the fact of playing a team twice.
But from a fan perspective, yeah, I'd love to see
Clemson Carolina play twice.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'd be I think it could be absolutely crazy. Not
so much in the regular season now, I love that
in college basketball you can do a home and home series.
In college basketball, we know the seasons are different all
of that. But can you imagine, and I've talked about
this for the state of South Carolina, if Clemson in
South Carolina obviously played in the Pall Metal Ball and
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then later.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Meant like the playoffs. Yeah, oh, it could be big.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You're talking about intents. I mean that would be insane.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
I always used to say, you know, it's like, I'm
not a not a Carolina fan, but I would always
love for them to go undefeated and Clem's go unfeeded,
just so they could play each other at the very
end of the year and it just be like the
most hype game you can ever imagine.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
But then now with the playoffs, they could do it twice, right,
I play and then play again. So you know, I'll
always cheer for them until it's you know, that day.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
So there's my point too, is that I am a
huge believer that you want both teams to be really good.
So South Carolina go win all the games until you
play Clemson.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Exactly. You cheer for your state and then your conference
so because you want your conference to be strong, but
then you also want that rivalry game because it's no
fun if one team is ten and oh and the
other one's.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Seven three whatever it is, it worth three and seven,
three and seven.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It definitely makes it different because if you win, you
want to say I'd beat a hell of a good team, yeah,
rather than oh, well, i'd bottom dweller that season in
our rivalry game.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
No, you don't want that, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Also in the NFL, another quarterback, Tyrod Taylor, underwent arthroscopic
knee surgery and will miss the remainder of the preseason,
according to head coach Aaron Glenn for the New York Jets,
and the Jets are hopeful that he will be ready
for Week one.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Versus your Steelers. Jets curse man.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Justin Fields dislocates his toe and now Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
What is happenings?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
They are all right.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
We talked about yesterday the UFC that they are moving
away from the pay per view model and have signed
a deal that they will be on CBS and mostly
on Paramount Plus a seven point seven billion dollar deal.
And now Dana White has also come out and said
(34:54):
that in twenty twenty six, Fight Night at the White
House on fourth of July is absolutely going to happen.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Hey, trying to do things a little different.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
You have.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Is going to do it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And he's pulling President Trump in the mix here too, So.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
That's the other If it's not happening, Old Donald's gonna.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Make Yeah, there's going to be some entertainment value, there
is no question. All Right, that's some of the latest headlines,
and we'll continue this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver
Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this eight six
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eight zero. That's the number to the Ingles Hotline right
(35:44):
here on this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weavers Show,
presented by our good friends at Ingles Markets. As we
are continuing here in studio, mister Marcus Brown, co founder
of the Junkyard Hit Studio here in Greenville, Malden and
Anderson also former player at Newberry College. So we're talking
all things college football, and now Week one of college
(36:07):
football is August thirtieth, but we do have this thing
called Week zero zero August twenty third. All right, I'm
a big believer we need.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
To do away with Week zero.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
You don't like Week zero, no, just call it week one.
I guess, yeah, you're right. I mean I could see
it being called Week one for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
If that's what if we're going to have August twenty
third as the first game that's being.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Played, just have a Week one. We don't need to
play have these gimmicks.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I was playing Devil's Advocate. I was never a Week
zero player anyways. Any team I ever played on it
was always Week one, exactly. No point in Week zero, right,
that was an extra scrimmage day for us.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yes, no, we need to have Week one, but we
do have that August thirtieth, a big time slate of games.
When you're talking about Texas and Ohio State, the number
one and number two teams in the coaches poll, in
number one and versus number three according to the Ape Pole,
then you also have that weekend. You've got Syracuse and Tennessee.
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You've got Florida State and Alabama. You've got Miami and
Notre Dame. And then you also have, yes, LSU and
Clemson Battle of the Valley, the Battle of the Valley,
which one can claim the real death Valley? And I
think Clemson has as a Clemson fan, Yes, I've got
the orange colored lenses on right now. Uh, there needs
(37:27):
to be and you don't want to focus on the
revenge factor, but there still has to be a bad
taste left after that National championship game with Joe Burrow
and the LSU Tigers just balled out there in the
second half.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I mean, they definitely haven't forgot. Yeah, no, they they
remember that. And I'm sure that is being played plenty
of times over the loud speakers jumbo tron during practice multiple.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Times, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
All Right, So there's obviously a lot of games to
kick off the season, so to speak, big time matchups,
and I do like that, but I'll I was also
just looking at through the rest of the matrix of
games that are going to be going on, and I
know right now these teams are not going to be
still ranked where they are relative to Week ten of
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the college football season, but just in case they did,
this is the matchups that we would have take a
look at.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
This.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
So November first is going to be a day that
could potentially.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I've already seen it, yes, seen it.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Penn State versus Ohio State number two versus number three.
This is according to the eight peop Pole number ten,
Miami number sixteen, SMU eleven, Arizona State versus twenty two
Iowa State, thirteen, South Carolina versus twenty one Ole miss
Texas Tech at twenty three versus Kansas State, Oklahoma eighteen
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versus number twenty four Tennessee, and Georgia number five versus
number fifteen Florida.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
That's a hell of a college football Saturday right there.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Absolutely. I've seen a tweet earlier on X it was like,
my wife better not ask me to do anything November.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
First, That's right, Yeah, already marking the calendar and blocking
those days off.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
As a man, we might not plan ahead for too
many things in life, but November first is marked on
probably ninety five percent of guys. As cat.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I think there's a lot of people that already have
that would mark there. And I want to take a
look in just a little bit just in terms of
some of the expectations for some of these teams, because
it's one thing when you're looking at SMU and number
sixteen right now, but were they a flash in the
pan last year and you know, how are they going
(39:40):
to play? They've got a quarterback coming back Lashly, the
head coach.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
But again, can.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
They live up to the expectations and being able to
be a team that almost.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yeah, sixteen is going to be a that's a high
ranking for them. I think, well low, I guess they'll be.
They'll be lower down on the pole as you know.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I think they're Yeah, I think they're better.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I mean they could potentially, I think be you know,
close to top ten if they keep have a season
like they did this past year and went out. The
ACC has some strong teams in there, so they have
the you know, the road roadmap to kind of be
able to drop down in ranking for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
And speaking of expectations, how about Miami exactly, Carson Beck,
the new quarterback transferring from Georgia. You can't tell me
there's not some expectations there at Miami.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Paid quarterback Inloe ball better.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
He better, Yes, And we know that Miami has definitely
opened up the check book in Mario Chrystobaul and somewhat
of the pressure because last year you had lightning in
a bottle with cam Ward h Yeah, and all you
had to do is go beat Syracuse and you couldn't
do it. And I'd opened the door for Clemson to
be able to get into the ACC championship game. So
now how will you follow that up and how will
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there be an opportunity of using that as some type
of fuel to Okay, reset, let's get refocused and let's
have a hell of a season. But their schedule is
not necessarily easy either against Now. The beautiful thing, though,
is what I love Marcus though about the college football
playoff now with the expansion of to twelve teams, and
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I think it will go to sixteen at some point.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
But you can lose a game, yeah, and you're not
out of it.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
And honestly, it takes a little bit of pressure off
teams to where they can play a little more freely
and like I said, even down the stretch where you
know that late season loss against a rival team or
something might not have as big of an effect on you,
to where you just got to make it into the playoffs,
because once again, in the playoffs is anybody's game.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
At that That's right, and we talk about that quite
a bit. Just get to the playoffs, just got because you.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Never know because and it might be one of those scenarios.
So you get to the playoffs and the number one
team gets upset oh yeah, and then all of a sudden,
your pathway to a national championship opens up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
So it's going to be the team that can continuously
get better each week.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
No question.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
All right, We're going to continue to get better as
we're going to take this quick break and we'll come
back and wrap up our one of The Richmond Weaver
Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this, wrapping up
our one of this Tuesday edition of The Richmond Weaver
Show presented by Ingles Markets, right here on one of
four nine Fox Sports Upstate, as we are jam packed
here in the studio of course, mister Trey Falco behind
(42:18):
the board and behind the mic as usual, and our
guest Marcus Brown, co founder of the Junkyard Hit Studio
here in Greenville, Malden and Anderson. Make sure you check
that out, and we're going to give you some more
details about where you can find out more information about
that as we will continue our two. But I did
want to talk real quick before we hit this top
(42:39):
of the hour break because there's something about trying to
replicate certain things but not be a copycat. And it's
okay to lean on somebody's else's ideas.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Yeah, sure, creative, there you go.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I like that one.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
But there's something with what we've seen the NFL be
able to do the schedule release right, Okay, they own
that right, And there's something unique about how the NFL
releases their schedule and they drip it out. Well. I
don't know if you've seen, but the NBA has started
doing their own drip of the schedule release and coming
(43:21):
tomorrow at two o'clock, you'll have more of the NBA
schedule release. But they've started giving you a sneak peek.
And I'm under the belief though, Hey, I get it, NBA,
but you're not the NFL, right, and I'm a basketball guy. Yeah,
I love the NBA for sure, but you don't have
(43:43):
to try to force it. I feel this is forced
that the NBA is seeing something has been successful with
the NFL.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
It's a trend.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
It is.
Speaker 4 (43:51):
They see it's trendy, and they're like, hey, if it
works with them, let's try it.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Let's try it.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
And I don't know if it's the right move by
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Do they need that?
Speaker 5 (44:00):
I don't know what they need because I definitely feel
like any of these sports organizations are falling behind the NFL.
So everybody needs something. I think you do something like
that and you take it and you make it your own.
At that point it doesn't feel it's forced. But if
you're if you're following verbatim what the NFL is doing, yeah,
it's gonna come off its forced. It's going to come
off as a hacky and oh, we're just trying to
be the NFL because it sells well.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Yes, and I understand that, Yeah, and there's something to that.
You can also make it your own, agreed. And now
the question would be how how do you make it
your own? But you've got to be careful that you
don't just follow what another entity is doing, and especially
the NFL, because it's it's not going to come across,
(44:41):
in my view as authentic. And that's why I even
look at when you're talking about conferences and how they're
especially you know, when I'm saying conferences, I'm talking about
college football and how the SEC versus the ACC And
you don't have to continue to try to prop your conference.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
I'm not a big believer in that.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
I know they have to right now because it's all
they're trying to make sure that one conference seems better
than the other conference. But just because the SEC started
it acc Big twelve, you don't have to do it either.
Just let them, let them have it, and you just
go and play your games and you get your teams
(45:23):
in the College Football Playoff and that's it, and win
and win, win exactly.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
No, Ultimately it does count down to winning.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Well.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
They and the SEC honestly was able to do that
for a while because they were winning, That's right. And
I think tables have turned lately well.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
The past two champions we know in the College Football
Playoff have actually come from the Big Ten, Michigan and
Ohio State. And so that's where we'll also see some
of the expectations. We talked about it a little bit
Ryan Day next year, but also I want to dive
into a little bit more expectations from some other teams,
including the South Carolina game Cocks and some of the
(46:00):
win totals, the over unders. We'll take a look at
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Again that number is eight six four.
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Two four zero five four eight zero. As we are
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Trey Falco behind the board and behind the mic as
usual you sir, and a lot to talk about today.
Oh yeah, yes, we heard right there. At the top
of the hour. We're going to talk about John Mattier
and the allegations of sports gambling right and how that
(00:59):
is proliferation, not only in terms of we know there's
more and more legal gambling that is available now, but
there's also the scenario playing out where there's more and
more type of information that is available for people to
see your efforts, to see where you might be, to
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see your location, and I'm just curious as far as
why we feel the need to have that type of situation.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So we're going to dive into some of that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Also, I do want to talk a little bit more
college football as we're getting oh so close to college
football and the opportunity of kicking off the twenty five season,
so we'll start taking a look at some of the expectations.
I don't know, we've talked a little bit about of
some of the expectations, but I want to dive into
a little bit more relative to the top twenty five
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of the ap pole that just came out, So we'll
take a look at the top fifteen, some of the
win totals that we have right now and how that's
going to play out. So we will dive into that also.
But now we have a jam Pack studio because we
do have a guest here in studio, mister Marcus Brown,
co founder of the Junkyard Hits Studio.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
He is here back once again.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's been a minute since you yes, and I wondered
if you forgot how to get here.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, because you were running in hot Running in hot
getting out of school of traffic is something else, you know.
I don't think. But I hadn't been in school in
quite some time. But those school buses a whole job.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yes they will.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, and remember this is the beginning of the school
year for Greenville County, so yes, exactly. So there is
a change that happens that you have to get adjusteditude
because you get through summer and you're like, oh yeah,
the mornings and the afternoons are a little bit different,
and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
When school's back in. Oh yeah, it's a madhouse out there.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I was one of those that didn't learn quick enough.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, you're here, so that's the most important thing. And
glad that you're back in study with us because we
got a lot to talk about. I know you're involved
in so many different things, so I understand that. So,
but you do also understand the power of sports. Oh yeah,
and it's been a big part of your life.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Your dad played at Clemson, you played at Newberry. So
what's your memories this time of the year as not
only as a kid, you know, getting ready for college football,
but even as a player getting ready to be amped up,
ready for the season.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well, yeah, I mean, this is the time of the
year that you've been waiting for. I literally just seen
where a lot of the teams posted like their team photos.
So it's like you're putting on that game day uniform already.
You're getting the pictures taken, You're starting to feel the hype.
You got the media days getting you ready to go.
You got a little bit of talk going from both sides. Yeah,
and you're ready to go. You've been playing pretty much
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for this team that you're playing this first game for,
you know, five six months already been preparing. Oh yeah,
so you're almost ready to just get it out the way.
You're ready to get it owing. You're well prepared, you're
hyped up, and so it's time to put your money
where your mouth is pretty much. You know, all the
work that you put in, it's time to put on
the show for everybody. So now this is the exciting
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
How much do you miss some of the summer workouts now?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I don't know. Yeah, that's the thing. You were always like,
oh do you miss football? And I'm like certain aspects
of the game, like yeah, summer training and everything like that.
It's all fun. But like I said, you're waiting to
get to the game, like we all play sports. We
play for game day. It's a competition exactly, And so
you know, you've been beating up on each other all
through fall camp, through the summer, and so you're ready
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to go hit somebody else at this point in time
of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So I think that's one of the biggest things.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I've talked to so many different people, especially my
podcast Rich Take on Sports, Switch your podcasts alumni. Yeah, so,
no doubt, and one of the things that comes up consistently,
and it's the theme of and I know it's probably cliche,
but it's the brotherhood, but it's the locker room. They
missed that, they missed the camaraderie. Yeah, and they miss
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not so much obviously the physical toll of the workouts,
but it's that you're there with one of your guys,
one of your dudes, one of your teammates, and you're
both experiencing.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The same the same thing.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Nothing brings you closer together than some common struggle, the
common goal, common struggle. So yeah, some of those guys,
I mean from young age. You think you've played with
some of these people from five years old all the
way up, and you know, especially if you went to
college together, you know, especially nowadays, I think you know
a lot of people they've known each other so long,
so seven on seven's everything. They get to knowing each
other and they go to school together. So I mean,
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these are your brothers pretty much at this point, Like
to this day, I have some of my best friends
that I met through playing sports that you know, they're
just as much my brother as my actual brother is.
So no, that's definitely a part that you miss of
the game because then once it's gone, it's like you
keep in contact and it's there, but it's not the same,
you know, being in that locker room working out together,
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playing together.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So Marcus Brown is our guest co founder of the
Junkyard Hits Studio. Go check it out here in Greenville.
There's also a location in Malden Ann and Anderson make
sure you check that out.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
We'll talk about that a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
But I wanted to know also, do you ever have
I mean, has there ever been a point in your
time your life that you don't remember being a Clemson fan.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I mean, I'm trying to think that in walking maybe
you know, yeah, as long as I can remember, I've
been able to walk in I think as long as
I can remember, I've been a fan of the Clemson Tigers,
and that's just growing up there. That's what you're you're
raised for. You don't know anything different than that. I
remember somebody asked me the other day. They were like
they were talking about going to like Clemson games. They're like,
have you ever been to it? I was like, I
don't think I ever missed a home game until I
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actually like started going to my own games.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, No, it's just a part. It's in your blood.
Whether you want to be or not, it's there.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It is in your blood and obviously in your blood.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Your dad played at Clemson and had a lot of
success there and being able to not only individual but
team success and everything. What about when Clemson was able
to win the national championship in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Where were you when Shaun Watson hits Hunter andfro Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah, I mean I was. I was watching the game.
We let's see, so I was back in Newbury. We
were watching the game and you know, just hear excitement
and enjoy because union it's been so long. I don't
know how long it'd been at that point.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What, yes, one?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, so yeah, thirty something years right there, so long overdue,
and you could just kind of feel the energy. I
think throughout that entire you got a lot of friends
that played on that team, and you always think about that.
It's like, Okay, what are these national championship teams look
like in you know, January of that year leading up
to it, right in that summer where they're going through it.
What do they look like in March when they're going
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through springball? And you know, knowing people on that team
and getting to be around a lot of those guys
was really cool to see that, and they had that energy.
I think as soon as that year start, you could
just tell like, Okay, this team's different.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's right, And I think there was something too. They
had something else to prove, coming oh so close to
beat in Alabama the previous year, and that seemed to
be also a team a Clemson team the year that
they lost in Phoenix, that it was somewhat of an
unexpected team. An unexpected I wouldn't say Cinderella, but they
definitely seem to be a team that nobody would have
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thought would.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Have been there.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And then to give Alabama a game that they did
that surprised a lot of people, but they had that
fuel because they were oh so close and you talked
about the struggle.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, well, and then they had that experience. They've tasted
it once. I think that comes. I mean that's why
you see the teams like Alabama and things like that
have been successful so many years. It's experienced. They've they've
been there, they've done that, they've been on the big stage.
And so sometimes for a newer team to kind of
step into that, you almost have to be twice as
good to beat that team because it's like you're brand
new to that area and you know the environment. A
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long season, that's a much lesser season.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Right season was it now?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Fifteen games? So that's a long season. That's a lot
of wear and tear on your body. So having that experience,
I think going into the second year for them, they
were able to They knew what it took to get there,
and then they just had to finish the job.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, one of the guys that you know very well
that was on that national championship team, mister Ben Bullwear
we co founded the Junkyard Hit studio.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
How did you guys meet?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
So we became friends. I mean we played against each
other in high school and kind of I knew who
he was, probably more than he knew who I was.
But then all through college they my best friends lived
with him, and so when I'd come home in the
summertime we were off, I would be with them all
the time, hanging out, pretty much lived with them for
the whole summer. And so that's how we became really
(09:36):
good friends. And then post college, me and him worked
out and trained together and started the gym, and it
just kind of long story short, and went into the
gym from there, that's right. Yeah, But you know, just
we were just like minded people that were very driven,
loved to work hard, and so we were just like,
this is something that we want to do and happen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Why a gym, though, well, I think.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
You know, we were lot more strong than we were smart,
Like we know how to pick up some heavy weights
and tell people to work hard. So we were like, well,
let's let's do this so we can get paid exactly,
and we both we were already doing it, so we
were like, we might as well make money to work out.
So yeah, then the gym started, and then you know,
we kept our parents in shape and you know, It
was for them just as much as it was for us,
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because they were like, well, we need to do something.
So we got them in there, and then we got
them involved, and then it just we realized we had
something that people enjoyed doing, and it just kind of
grew word of mouth, and one location to another location.
Now three locations, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, the Greenville location, they're in the po West Village
over there? Is it twenty twenty that's when that officially
opened exactly, But the Anderson started.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
In twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So now looking back seven years wild, yeah is it?
I mean it came. Do you have words to describe
what seven years after.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I mean opening it flies by. I mean a lot
has been learned throughout those years. I mean when you
look back on it, it's just a blink of the eye.
It goes by super fast. But living it out, it
was definitely not that fast. You know, you could feel
all of it. I mean, and it was like you know,
outside looking in, it's very quick growing. But you know,
day in, day out, long long hours. I mean, if
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there was twenty seven hours in a day, we.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Found them, Yeah, I bet you did. And we worked
all of them, no question. What were some of the
most difficult times.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I mean definitely getting it off the ground and getting
it started. I mean, we don't know what we don't know,
and we were learning, so you know, me and Ben
would be in there first of all, both of us
waking up early knowing good will only one of us
need to be there, but we wanted to be there.
We were enthusiastic, We loved it. We were young, and
so early mornings, late nights, Like I used to think,
waking up at six in the morning it was hard.
(11:48):
Now we wake up, you know, we were waking up
at like three thirty at one point, and I'm just like,
I might as well not even go to sleep, because
at that age, you know, you still want to stay
out late, go out, do whatever you did. And at
that time we lived right above a bar, so even
even if we wanted to go to sleep early, there
was no chance it was And you know, being he
is the lightest sleeper you will ever meet in your
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absolute life. Like, there's so many stories of him where
he's not able to sleep. It's just unreal. But we
lived in an apartment. Like I said, Main Road was
right there, bar was right downstairs. I'm pretty sure they
had the speaker downstairs right underneath his bed, so, I
mean he had the blackout curtains, he sleeps, he slept
with earplugs in. I mean, there was anything, and so
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it was probably affecting him a little bit more than me.
That's why he's bald now and I'm not. But yeah, no,
that was definitely a tough time. And we built that
gym pretty much from the ground up. It was just
a vacant building. We went and we did the concrete
in there, we did the plumb in, electrical, if you
name it on how to build a building, we did it.
We did in there. And so getting that one started
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was very rewarding, but also very much a challenge.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I had to be a big time challenge because I
think to what you described, I mean, how.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Did you know what to do? You didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We didn't necessarily, And I don't mean that in disparaging ways.
It's just that you were inexperience.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You're exactly right. I mean, we had really good mentors
and business minded people in our corner that allowed us
to avoid some of those detrimental mistakes that some small
businesses would make. Very early on because like I said,
we knew how to work out and we knew what
we wanted and we could paint the picture, but we
didn't necessarily know how to get to that point. So
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very thankful for a lot of people that allowed us
to use buildings. There's like temporary spots rent free. Helped
us out with all the construction and just like business
licensing and permitting and a lot of the things that
you don't think taxes. Yeah, and you know, finances and
all those things. Like I said, I can add up weights,
but doing taxes, I still got to have somebody.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
For that exactly. Yes, No, I uh several times.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I think I withdrew from accounting class twice at Clemson.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, I didn't like it. Yeah I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And I like stats, you know, I mean I talk
about stats all the time. I mean, I can analyze stats.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
For some reason, it's just different numbers.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It is.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't understand how accounting can be so challenging, at
least from my mental side of things. Marcus Brown is
our guest in studio here today on the Tuesday edition
of The Richmond Weavers Show, presented by Ingles Markets. Co
founder of the Junkyard hit studio. So, describe what makes
Junkyard Hit Studio different.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Different for us, I would say there's a couple of things.
I think by the way we coach, in the formatting
of our workouts. When it comes to group fitness, I
would like to say that we keep a very functional
focus in a majority lifting focus, where some could be
more high cardio. We are a low impact functional weightlifting
studio pretty much. So it's all free weights. So we
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don't do barbelle And it's not that I'm at anything
against Barbeillo. I love it, but teaching that to a
lot of people at a quicker pace. Yeah, And that
was kind of part of when we decided what kind
of g we wanted to do. We were like, Okay,
it can't just be like what we like to do.
It needs to be what does everybody else like to
do as well? And what is going to be like
the next thing? And then like, how can we be different?
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And that was a big part of it, And so
we do all of our workouts based on music. So
we actually created a program that takes the music and
then correlates the beats to the music so that it
changes the colors in the room and that's what controls
your intensity and effort throughout the machine stations of the workout,
but then it can also with the movements as well
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and kind of tell you what's doing, mean, what to
do during the class based on the movements and the colors.
So it's almost a coach within the class with your
coach that's actually coaching you. And so that was one
thing that made us different. Like our coaches. When we
first started, we were huge on like only hiring athletes
and that was like a big thing to us. And
I'm training some coaches right now too, and we've recently
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kind of know straight off that cause it's hard to
really have a very specific coach because yeah, you can't
find all of them, and at some point as we grow,
you know, you've got to be able to have different
varieties people because not everybody likes that intense, you know,
just young coach that can just do everything. You know,
you need somebody that looks more like they do or
you know, has similar experiences and things like that. So
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you know, we have moms, older, younger coaches, you know,
people that didn't always start out in the best amount
of shape and then have gotten in shape. We've had
some coaches that started at the gym for their very
first class and then now have become coaches, So we
have a wide variety, but from the beginning, and I
think a lot of our coaches still have it too,
and it's something that it's really hard to teach, but
athletes have it because they've been doing it their whole life.
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Is that edge about competing and understanding that it's the process,
not just the end goal, and they're willing to do
the hard things for a little while knowing that the
end goal is going to be there, but they're they're
not new to the struggle, and I think that's important
for our coaches to be able to relate to the
clients that are brand new coming in, but then also
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for themselves to always be challenging themselves to be better.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, no question. Well, you know, I'm a fan.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I've been going since twenty twenty when the Greenville location
opened up, and for me, one of the things that
I thoroughly enjoy about it is.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You don't have to think absolutely, you.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Just walk in and they've got to work out. You've
got to work out ready, and to your point, you
can just get going and they'll coach you through it.
And also, I think one of the misconceptions, especially from
newcomers or first timers, is that, oh, when you're in there,
you've got to keep up with everybody else.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's at your pace.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And that's what I love about the coaches is that, hey,
you can modify exact you don't have to if you
need to walk right here on the treadmill, you can
walk right.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And everything can be modified. And yeah, that's a good
thing about a treadmill too. You could be at a
twelve and I could be at a one. At the
end of the after five minutes, we're still gonna be
standing right beside each other.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
You might be a little more sweaty than I am. Right, Yeah, No,
people can come in there, and that is a misconception
for sure, But any and everything can be modified or
go at your pace. It is a challenging workout, but
it's supposed to challenge you based on where you are
exactly right. You wouldn't want to come in there to
a workout and not get a workout in right, So
it's like you don't want to come in there me,
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for example, and then do what my mom's doing because
it wouldn't be a challenge to me, and then vice
versa for her, She's not going to come in there
and do what I'm doing. But we can both go
in there challenge ourselves. We'll both be tired at the
very end of the day, and then you go home
and you get something out of it. But that's the
that's the point of going to a gym to work out.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's right, you're going, but you also have a coach
who can sometimes push you a little.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Bit exactly well, I need that little Nutice might.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Give you that little bit of a push.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And to your point, it is ultimately a competition amongst
with yourself, yes, based on where you were yesterday. And
I think that's part of it, not to say there
are certain times I will look.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Over at that you see what that person is running
next to me.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
A little friendly competition, that's right. That's and we want
that environment, right like that's from that's bringing our athletic
background to a corporate world of commercial working out right,
and we expect that we want that there. There's good
things that come from competition. But at the end of
the day, like you said, it is you versus you
and your competing ins yourself. But it's always nice to
have that little extra push, whether it's from the person
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beside you or that coach coming up behind you. And
it's like, you need that. If you want to be
good at something, you have a coach.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You definitely do in many areas of your life. And
I would say just about all areas.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I think that's anywhere.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
That's anywhere, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
All Right, We're going to continue this Tuesday edition another
Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets, with our guest
in studio, Marcus Brown, co founder of the Junkyard Hits
Studio here in Greenville, Malden and Anderson.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Much more right after this.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Live from the Ingles Studios downtown Greenville, right here on
North Main Street as we are on the eleventh floor
of the Canal in Durrance Building. And a little bit
of a hazy day. Talking about humid. My goodness, it
was so humid earlier this morning.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I've been walking outside waiting for it to be cool
like it was last week. Yes, it's just not there.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Not there, No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And if the sun was fully out, we'd be set
a blaze.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It'd be weltering.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The windows are even like fogged up this morning in
my house and I'm like, dang, okay, you got that.
Pump's right. Yes, I do have to have it cool
at night to sleep. You talk about ben and having
you know, everything, we have to be certain way and quiet,
and I do need it to be cold at night sleep.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
My ac went out the other week and it was
the opposite of cool in there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I can only we got it.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
We got it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, there you go. Okay, well, as long as long
as you got it worked out.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Marcus Brown is our guest here in studio on this
Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show, presented by our
good friends at English Markets. All right, so, Mark, is
I do have something that I'm curious from your perspective
because of your age and not saying.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Anything what I'm trying to say about it, trying to
say just.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Where you are in life and also with you too
trade because you know, for me, the whole world of
technology and social media, that's not what I was raised on. Again,
I was born in nineteen seventy one. Yeah, so I'm
old man.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Block over here.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Not even that basically right.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I mean, I remember the rotary phone, you know, does
the dial in, you know, with your fingers and dig
digit that type of stuff. But the news just came
out John Matteir, quarterback at Oklahoma who transferred from Washington State,
according to some of the reports, is that on his
Venmo account back when he was a freshman at Washington State,
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he paid a former teammate and put the tagline in
there sports gamembling, and that is obviously a no no
in the NC Double A and obviously in professional sports
also can't be betting. Can't be betting. It's frowned upon.
It's frowned upon, yes, exactly. So he's come out and
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has said, you know, those allegations are false.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was a joke.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I'd never bet on anything. There's no sports gambling. So
there's more to the story that's going to come out.
I do understand that. My point is is that with
social media and the phone and the Snapchat, Instagram, all
of that in the Venmo, why would somebody want to
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continue to have all of their information public? And like
Venmo because I do use Venmo to with my kids
and a lot of other transactions, which I love. I
love that we have that type of technology that you
don't have to write a check anymore, and I know
my kids wouldn't even know what the hell of check
is basically, you know. And but from that perspective, though,
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you do have the ability to have your transactions on
Venmo private, yes you do, but I see so many
people they just have them public at all.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And I asked that just for you and Trey, because
you're younger and you grew up more in this type
of environment. And you're even younger than Marcus Trey. I
shouldn't say that much younger, but you are a little
bit too, yes, oh yeah, okay, all right, well never mind, okay,
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But the point is is that you know, I'm twenty
plus years older than you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Guys. Am I missing the boat here?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
No, I think people just don't think about it. It's
such a small thing that like, yeah, you do have
the option to like make it private, but at the
time you're probably thinking like, well, I have nothing to hide,
and yeah, I mean I don't know, and I could agree,
and you know, especially young and in college like when
I used to, I mean even now, we'll vemo each
other or vemo people. So that little honestly, that that
(24:12):
little caption at the bottom where you have to put
what you're vemo for is honestly more of an annoyance
than anything. So yes, we put whatever. Like if I'm
sending somebody something, I'm gonna put god knows what on
that thing, Like I'll probably just click the first three
emojis that are on my phone and just go from there,
Like I could be paying rent and it would be
a picture of a car and a piece of pizza
on there, Okay, And it's like, you know, who had
(24:33):
no telling right, So for him to do that, was
it the smartest decision and what was he thinking about it?
Probably not? But is there a chance that he is
telling truth and it just not have anything to do
with what it says it is? That could be very
liable as well too.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, and Trey you chime in, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I mean I look at it first of all, like
I don't know, Like it's obviously not my bank account,
but I don't know. I don't want people knowing what
my finances are and where they're you know, Yeah, so
if I keep it private in that sense, But also.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
To your point, that's annoying. But even like, yes, I've
I've been paid through like my realtor.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
He used to pay me occasionally through Venmo, And I mean,
it would be the dumbest stuff that you'd write on there,
But it doesn't matter because we're the only ones to
see it, and we're the like we know what the
money's for. So like the sports him writing sports betting
or sports gambling or.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
I'm sure it's just a probably a throwaway.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
I mean at the end of the day, I don't
necessarily know that you're gonna be able to prove it anyways,
Like even if you go through, because he sent it
to a friend, so you'd have to go through.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
You have to figure out the friend. You go, Okay,
where'd the friend take that money? Where did it go?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Like, there's no way to really prove it. I don't
know that there's a paper trail. So at the end
of the day, I don't know, Like why does it
really matter? And it's to that point. Also, I noticed
that people are digging into like they found arch Mannings
as well.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, look at arch.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Manning is like he's writing dumb stuff on there.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
We all do it exactly. I think it just depends
on who you're a fan of, and if this is
the opposing team. You're gonna dig, You're gonna find a
way to make a flaw.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's right, all right. So here's his quote, or here's
his statement. John Matterier did put out a statement, and
he says, quote, the allegations that I once participated in
sports gambling are false. My previous Venmo descriptions did not
accurately portray the transactions in question, but were instead inside
jokes between me and my friends. So that's to your
(26:23):
point there, Marcus. I have never bet on sports. I
understand the seriousness of the matter, but recognize that, taken
out of context, those Venmo descriptions suggest otherwise. I can
assure my teammates, coaches, and officials at the n C
DOUBLEA that I have not engaged in any sports gambling.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
End quote there.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Yeah, well I can tell you too. And I'm not
going back for the guy because I have no skin
in the game. But I could see a very likely scenario.
Hey man, you think I can kick this ball and
put it in that trash can?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Sure, what twenty bucks? Twenty bucks?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
All right?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
And then he puts it down. That's gambling.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah yeah, And it's an inside joke.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It is an inside joke, and I tend to again,
I have no idea about any of this how it happened,
because it was, you know, a few years ago. But
it seems very logical and rational what you guys are describing,
because I do understand from a personal standpoint. Yes, well,
I don't have to write, you know, the exact I
(27:26):
don't have to write the exact description.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
And it wasn't a big deal until he became a
big deal. If he wouldn't do anything, nobody would have
ever even seen it anyway. So that's why I'm thinking
that they were fishing a little bit, But I doubt
that it is what it says it is.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, and I've seen some of the posts talking about,
oh well, now you know, is he going to be
able to play this season? Instill n C Double A
is going to investigate. Well, I can promise you it'll
take the n C Double A five years before they
go through the investigation. So he will be playing opening
day for I can promise you that and preventables.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
He wants to make sure that quarterback is going to
be playing.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
If he has anything to say about it, he will
be blamed.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's right, all right, let's take a look at some
of the latest headlines.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It's only one game, and that's.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
To take care of Benn hitting the latest headlines. It's
the daily rundown, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Speaking of quarterbacks, how about this In the NFL, Green
Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love. Yeah, well, under he went
through a procedure on a ligament on his left thumb.
He suffered the injury in the preseason opener and the
team is hopeful that Jordan Love can return to practice
(28:43):
next week, but they do expect him to be ready
for the regular season opener. Is there any chance that
Jordan Love might miss some time? And Tray, we talked
about it yesterday. NFL quarterbacks, you better have a backup
because there's going to be a chance your starter is
going to get hurt.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Yeahli Willis, he looked pretty good last year when he
had to step up and come in for Jordan Love
for what like two three games when Love went down
that first game.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We shall see. Yeah, you never know, we shall see.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I think it's very interesting. Also in the NFL, Odell
Beckham Junior has decided to retire, as he played for
the Giants, Browns, Rams, Ravens and Dolphins. He announced that
earlier today. When you hear Odell Beckham Junior, what do
you think of immediately Marcus.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
The one hand catch? Of course, right? I mean he
made it cool again, he made it cool.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I mean, is that not the best catch in NFL history?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I would say it's it's up there. I've seen some
really good ones. I think there's maybe a couple that
I know of, one specifically that there was a flag
on the play made by mister DeAndre Hopkins. Oh yeah,
there was a really good one, but it was a
flag play, so it didn't didn't count. Yeah, but I
would say the ones that do count, then that was
definitely best one. I only thought that out there just
because you know that's a hometown. I gotta go to
(30:02):
bat for him, Daniel Hi got to hold that representation.
But no, definitely top catch probably in all of football history.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I have to say that is the best catch I've
ever seen based on the situation, and of course it
is against the Cowboys, my favorite team, right.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
But it's also for a touchdown. Yeah, and that's what
that's what's insane. How he catches it and if you
slow it.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Down, literally was three fingers, yes, three fingers.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I mean it's incredible.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I'm biased the Santonio Holmes and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
That's right, that's footwork then, yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So there is something to be said, as I just mentioned,
at least it was for a touchdown. Uh, it's about
the context of the catch and what it means in
terms of the game and how it affects the outcome.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
For a Super Bowl win.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, I mean that's pretty impressive, Yes, exactly. As a
Pittsburgh Steeler fan, Yeah, that is definitely big for you, right.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
As long as long as you weren't doing no sports betting.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Right, that's right? All right?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
How about this in college football? Though we know the
Pac twelve got blew up, all of that's done. But
due to conference realignment though to former Pac twelve schools
Washington State and Oregon State, they will have a rare
regular season home and home series this year, so they
(31:34):
actually will play each other twice in the same season
and in the regular season, not like in a conference
championship or anything. So, as a Clemson fan, would you
like to see Clemson in South Carolina play twice in football?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
As a fan? Yes, As a player, I would not
want them to do that, like, because beating a team
twice is so hard and it's like it's the same
thing over and over, right, So it just it's a challenge,
I think from coaching perspective because you got to run
probably completely different schemes. If you lose. Yeah, it's nice
because you get you get your chance to pay them back. Right,
(32:09):
you can win, But also that can it can ruin
a season, right, you can see that really mess up.
Like coming from D two football, we have a playoff
system where we've always had it and we'll play a
team in the regular season and then play them early
in the playoffs. And it's not the same thing. It's
very hard and you lose that you can win the
first time, great, right, you lose that second one, it
could be in your season or you know, now mess
(32:31):
up Bowl of Bowl standings or anything like that. So
I don't love the fact of playing a team twice.
But from a fan perspective, yeah, I'd love to see
Clemson Carolina play twice.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'd be I think it could be absolutely crazy. Not
so much in the regular season now, I love that
in college basketball you can do a home and home series.
In college basketball, we know the seasons are different all
of that. But can you imagine, and I've talked about
this for the state of South Carolina, if Clemson in
South Carolina obviously played in the Pall Metal Ball and
(33:00):
then later.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Meant like the playoffs. Yeah, oh, it could be big.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You're talking about intents. I mean that would be insane.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
I always used to say, you know, it's like, I'm
not a not a Carolina fan, but I would always
love for them to go undefeated and Clem's go unfeeded,
just so they could play each other at the very
end of the year and it just be like the
most hype game you can ever imagine.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
But then now with the playoffs, they could do it twice, right,
I play and then play again. So you know, I'll
always cheer for them until it's you know, that day.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
So there's my point too, is that I am a
huge believer that you want both teams to be really good.
So South Carolina go win all the games until you
play Clemson.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Exactly. You cheer for your state and then your conference
so because you want your conference to be strong, but
then you also want that rivalry game because it's no
fun if one team is ten and oh and the
other one's.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Seven three whatever it is, it worth three and seven,
three and seven.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It definitely makes it different because if you win, you
want to say I'd beat a hell of a good team, yeah,
rather than oh, well, i'd bottom dweller that season in
our rivalry game.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
No, you don't want that, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Also in the NFL, another quarterback, Tyrod Taylor, underwent arthroscopic
knee surgery and will miss the remainder of the preseason,
according to head coach Aaron Glenn for the New York Jets,
and the Jets are hopeful that he will be ready
for Week one.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Versus your Steelers. Jets curse man.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Justin Fields dislocates his toe and now Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
What is happenings?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
They are all right.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
We talked about yesterday the UFC that they are moving
away from the pay per view model and have signed
a deal that they will be on CBS and mostly
on Paramount Plus a seven point seven billion dollar deal.
And now Dana White has also come out and said
(34:54):
that in twenty twenty six, Fight Night at the White
House on fourth of July is absolutely going to happen.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Hey, trying to do things a little different.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
You have.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Is going to do it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And he's pulling President Trump in the mix here too, So.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
That's the other If it's not happening, Old Donald's gonna.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Make Yeah, there's going to be some entertainment value, there
is no question. All Right, that's some of the latest headlines,
and we'll continue this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver
Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this eight six
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eight zero. That's the number to the Ingles Hotline right
(35:44):
here on this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weavers Show,
presented by our good friends at Ingles Markets. As we
are continuing here in studio, mister Marcus Brown, co founder
of the Junkyard Hit Studio here in Greenville, Malden and
Anderson also former player at Newberry College. So we're talking
all things college football, and now Week one of college
(36:07):
football is August thirtieth, but we do have this thing
called Week zero zero August twenty third. All right, I'm
a big believer we need.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
To do away with Week zero.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
You don't like Week zero, no, just call it week one.
I guess, yeah, you're right. I mean I could see
it being called Week one for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
If that's what if we're going to have August twenty
third as the first game that's being.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Played, just have a Week one. We don't need to
play have these gimmicks.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I was playing Devil's Advocate. I was never a Week
zero player anyways. Any team I ever played on it
was always Week one, exactly. No point in Week zero, right,
that was an extra scrimmage day for us.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yes, no, we need to have Week one, but we
do have that August thirtieth, a big time slate of games.
When you're talking about Texas and Ohio State, the number
one and number two teams in the coaches poll, in
number one and versus number three according to the Ape Pole,
then you also have that weekend. You've got Syracuse and Tennessee.
(37:05):
You've got Florida State and Alabama. You've got Miami and
Notre Dame. And then you also have, yes, LSU and
Clemson Battle of the Valley, the Battle of the Valley,
which one can claim the real death Valley? And I
think Clemson has as a Clemson fan, Yes, I've got
the orange colored lenses on right now. Uh, there needs
(37:27):
to be and you don't want to focus on the
revenge factor, but there still has to be a bad
taste left after that National championship game with Joe Burrow
and the LSU Tigers just balled out there in the
second half.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I mean, they definitely haven't forgot. Yeah, no, they they
remember that. And I'm sure that is being played plenty
of times over the loud speakers jumbo tron during practice multiple.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Times, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
All Right, So there's obviously a lot of games to
kick off the season, so to speak, big time matchups,
and I do like that, but I'll I was also
just looking at through the rest of the matrix of
games that are going to be going on, and I
know right now these teams are not going to be
still ranked where they are relative to Week ten of
(38:14):
the college football season, but just in case they did,
this is the matchups that we would have take a
look at.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
This.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
So November first is going to be a day that
could potentially.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I've already seen it, yes, seen it.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Penn State versus Ohio State number two versus number three.
This is according to the eight peop Pole number ten,
Miami number sixteen, SMU eleven, Arizona State versus twenty two
Iowa State, thirteen, South Carolina versus twenty one Ole miss
Texas Tech at twenty three versus Kansas State, Oklahoma eighteen
(38:50):
versus number twenty four Tennessee, and Georgia number five versus
number fifteen Florida.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
That's a hell of a college football Saturday right there.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Absolutely. I've seen a tweet earlier on X it was like,
my wife better not ask me to do anything November.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
First, That's right, Yeah, already marking the calendar and blocking
those days off.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
As a man, we might not plan ahead for too
many things in life, but November first is marked on
probably ninety five percent of guys. As cat.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I think there's a lot of people that already have
that would mark there. And I want to take a
look in just a little bit just in terms of
some of the expectations for some of these teams, because
it's one thing when you're looking at SMU and number
sixteen right now, but were they a flash in the
pan last year and you know, how are they going
(39:40):
to play? They've got a quarterback coming back Lashly, the
head coach.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
But again, can.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
They live up to the expectations and being able to
be a team that almost.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Yeah, sixteen is going to be a that's a high
ranking for them. I think, well low, I guess they'll be.
They'll be lower down on the pole as you know.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I think they're Yeah, I think they're better.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I mean they could potentially, I think be you know,
close to top ten if they keep have a season
like they did this past year and went out. The
ACC has some strong teams in there, so they have
the you know, the road roadmap to kind of be
able to drop down in ranking for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
And speaking of expectations, how about Miami exactly, Carson Beck,
the new quarterback transferring from Georgia. You can't tell me
there's not some expectations there at Miami.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Paid quarterback Inloe ball better.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
He better, Yes, And we know that Miami has definitely
opened up the check book in Mario Chrystobaul and somewhat
of the pressure because last year you had lightning in
a bottle with cam Ward h Yeah, and all you
had to do is go beat Syracuse and you couldn't
do it. And I'd opened the door for Clemson to
be able to get into the ACC championship game. So
now how will you follow that up and how will
(40:54):
there be an opportunity of using that as some type
of fuel to Okay, reset, let's get refocused and let's
have a hell of a season. But their schedule is
not necessarily easy either against Now. The beautiful thing, though,
is what I love Marcus though about the college football
playoff now with the expansion of to twelve teams, and
(41:15):
I think it will go to sixteen at some point.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
But you can lose a game, yeah, and you're not
out of it.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
And honestly, it takes a little bit of pressure off
teams to where they can play a little more freely
and like I said, even down the stretch where you
know that late season loss against a rival team or
something might not have as big of an effect on you,
to where you just got to make it into the playoffs,
because once again, in the playoffs is anybody's game.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
At that That's right, and we talk about that quite
a bit. Just get to the playoffs, just got because you.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Never know because and it might be one of those scenarios.
So you get to the playoffs and the number one
team gets upset oh yeah, and then all of a sudden,
your pathway to a national championship opens up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
So it's going to be the team that can continuously
get better each week.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
No question.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
All right, We're going to continue to get better as
we're going to take this quick break and we'll come
back and wrap up our one of The Richmond Weaver
Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this, wrapping up
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Show presented by Ingles Markets, right here on one of
four nine Fox Sports Upstate, as we are jam packed
here in the studio of course, mister Trey Falco behind
(42:18):
the board and behind the mic as usual, and our
guest Marcus Brown, co founder of the Junkyard Hit Studio
here in Greenville, Malden and Anderson. Make sure you check
that out, and we're going to give you some more
details about where you can find out more information about
that as we will continue our two. But I did
want to talk real quick before we hit this top
(42:39):
of the hour break because there's something about trying to
replicate certain things but not be a copycat. And it's
okay to lean on somebody's else's ideas.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Yeah, sure, creative, there you go.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I like that one.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
But there's something with what we've seen the NFL be
able to do the schedule release right, Okay, they own
that right, And there's something unique about how the NFL
releases their schedule and they drip it out. Well. I
don't know if you've seen, but the NBA has started
doing their own drip of the schedule release and coming
(43:21):
tomorrow at two o'clock, you'll have more of the NBA
schedule release. But they've started giving you a sneak peek.
And I'm under the belief though, Hey, I get it, NBA,
but you're not the NFL, right, and I'm a basketball guy. Yeah,
I love the NBA for sure, but you don't have
(43:43):
to try to force it. I feel this is forced
that the NBA is seeing something has been successful with
the NFL.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
It's a trend.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
It is.
Speaker 4 (43:51):
They see it's trendy, and they're like, hey, if it
works with them, let's try it.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Let's try it.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
And I don't know if it's the right move by
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Do they need that?
Speaker 5 (44:00):
I don't know what they need because I definitely feel
like any of these sports organizations are falling behind the NFL.
So everybody needs something. I think you do something like
that and you take it and you make it your own.
At that point it doesn't feel it's forced. But if
you're if you're following verbatim what the NFL is doing, yeah,
it's gonna come off its forced. It's going to come
off as a hacky and oh, we're just trying to
be the NFL because it sells well.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Yes, and I understand that, Yeah, and there's something to that.
You can also make it your own, agreed. And now
the question would be how how do you make it
your own? But you've got to be careful that you
don't just follow what another entity is doing, and especially
the NFL, because it's it's not going to come across,
(44:41):
in my view as authentic. And that's why I even
look at when you're talking about conferences and how they're
especially you know, when I'm saying conferences, I'm talking about
college football and how the SEC versus the ACC And
you don't have to continue to try to prop your conference.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
I'm not a big believer in that.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
I know they have to right now because it's all
they're trying to make sure that one conference seems better
than the other conference. But just because the SEC started
it acc Big twelve, you don't have to do it either.
Just let them, let them have it, and you just
go and play your games and you get your teams
(45:23):
in the College Football Playoff and that's it, and win
and win, win exactly.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
No, Ultimately it does count down to winning.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Well.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
They and the SEC honestly was able to do that
for a while because they were winning, That's right. And
I think tables have turned lately well.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
The past two champions we know in the College Football
Playoff have actually come from the Big Ten, Michigan and
Ohio State. And so that's where we'll also see some
of the expectations. We talked about it a little bit
Ryan Day next year, but also I want to dive
into a little bit more expectations from some other teams,
including the South Carolina game Cocks and some of the
(46:00):
win totals, the over unders. We'll take a look at
that as we'll continue our two of the Richmond Weaver
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