Feb. 17, 2026

Winter Olympics Recap, College Hoops & NBA All-Star Weekend Reaction

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Winter Olympics Recap, College Hoops & NBA All-Star Weekend Reaction

In this week’s episode of The Height Differential, Nick and Neil recap the Winter Olympics, from Ilia Malinin’s stumble to Team USA gold in the monosled, plus all of the surrounding Olympic drama and controversies. They break down the latest action in college basketball, discuss the biggest storylines around the country, and ask the big question — did anyone actually watch NBA All-Star Weekend?

This conversation delves into the latest happenings in the Olympics and college basketball, highlighting key performances, controversies, and athletes' personal stories. From unexpected outcomes in figure skating to the dominance of the US women's hockey team, the discussion captures the essence of competitive sports and the pressures athletes face on the world stage. In this episode, the hosts discuss the current state of college basketball, focusing on teams like Louisville, Florida, and Miami Ohio. They analyze the implications of conference tournaments and the pressure on teams to perform. The conversation shifts to the NBA, touching on the All-Star weekend and the ongoing issue of tanking. The hosts also delve into NFL offseason moves and provide updates on NASCAR and golf, highlighting the resurgence of certain players and teams.

Takeaways

The Olympics showcase a variety of sports and personal stories.
College basketball is heating up with significant upsets and performances.
Figure skating can be unpredictable, especially under Olympic pressure.
Bobsledding features unique athletes and inspiring stories.
Curling has its own controversies and requires integrity in judging.
Athletes often face immense pressure during the Olympics.
Ice dancing judging can be controversial and subjective.
The US women's hockey team is dominating their competition.
College basketball features standout players making headlines.
The Olympics bring out the best and worst in sportsmanship. Louisville is showing potential as a Final Four contender.
Florida's front court is among the best in the country.
Miami Ohio's unbeaten streak is impressive despite a soft schedule.
The pressure of conference tournaments is similar to Olympic pressure.
Miami's strength is questionable due to their weak schedule.
St. John's is on a winning streak, showing improvement.
UConn's fan support is lacking despite their success.
NBA All-Star weekend has lost its appeal to fans.
Tanking in the NBA is a significant issue affecting competition.
Tyreek Hill's return to the Chiefs is anticipated.

Chapters

00:00 Olympics Overview and Initial Reactions
01:50 College Basketball Highlights and Insights
04:25 Olympic Figure Skating Drama
06:34 Bobsledding Breakthroughs and Personal Stories
09:39 Curling Controversies and Competitions
12:32 Olympic Spirit and Athlete Experiences
15:33 Ice Dancing Controversy and Judging Issues
18:29 US Women's Hockey Dominance
21:29 College Hoops Updates and Player Performances
38:25 Louisville's Rising Potential
40:13 Florida's Front Court Dominance
41:25 Miami Ohio's Unbeaten Streak
43:44 Pressure of Conference Tournaments
45:26 Evaluating Miami's Strength
47:15 St. John's Resurgence
49:45 UConn's Fan Support Issues
51:44 The NBA All-Star Weekend Dilemma
58:50 Tanking in the NBA
01:07:10 NFL Offseason Moves
01:09:27 NASCAR and Golf Updates

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Give it to me.
Ready to do this?

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Sure.
It is the height differential.

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That's the six foot 6, Neil, I
am the four foot 10.

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Nick, we are back to talk a lot
of Olympics, talk some college

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hoops.
Did you watch the NBA All Star

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weekend?
Tyree kills.

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Tyree kills just got cut.
There's a lot of things to talk

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about before we get into it.
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But it's all it's all Olympics
all the time right now.

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I'm I'm dialed in, I'm dialed in
and we got the bobsleds coming.

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Bobsleds just started, got the
the twos and the fours coming up

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well.
I'm not going to lie and I get

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it, it's it's pretty new, but I
had no idea there was such thing

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as a mono sled.
I did not know that there's a

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one person bobsled.
I didn't either.

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First time that I that I've seen
it, but apparently there's an

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American, this Alana Myers
Taylor, Alana Myers Taylor who's

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pretty good at it.
He's pretty good at it.

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Well, for people that are
watching live and don't want it

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to be spoiled because it
happened earlier today.

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He went into today, I think she
was in 3rd place.

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German had had the lead and then
she had the ride of her life and

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got her first gold medal at 41
years old.

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One years old.
Has this is her 6th medal

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overall, which ties her for
Bonnie Blair for the most medals

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by American woman in Winter
Olympics history.

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She also becomes the second
black woman to win an individual

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gold medal in the Winter
Olympics.

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She won her first medal of
bronze way back in 2010 in

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Vancouver.
But this is what's cool about

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the Olympics.
You see it, people try time and

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time again to get that elusive
gold and Elena Myers Taylor was

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able to do that.
And really, that's what this is

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all about.
Yeah, no, it's a cool, really

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cool story.
Like I said, she's the most

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decorated African American
athlete, female athlete, women

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in the Winter Olympics, 6th
career medal.

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And she finally, finally and
probably, most likely got on.

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Maybe she's going to come back
in four years, but age of 41, I

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feel like your Olympic time is
running out as you're getting

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older.
So for her to finally get that

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gold medal, you know, maybe this
is the way she goes out on top.

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Yeah, but but watching the model
sled or however they mono Bob or

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mono sled or however they call
it, like a lot of them are,

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they're not youngsters.
A lot of them have a lot of

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experience.
I I don't know if the bobsled

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allows you for your career to to
go a little longer, but Cali

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Armbruster Humphreys is who came
in who got the bronze medal that

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she got her fifth medal in in
Olympic history.

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And she won the gold four years
ago when they debuted the mono

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Bob.
So pretty cool that she got gold

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four years ago.
Now comes back and gets the

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bronze and Myers Taylor is able
to get the gold.

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But she talked about all
Humphreys talked about was how

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cool it was to be able to get a
medal after becoming a mom.

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I guess she recently become a
mother's got her her kiddo with

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her there.
That's cool.

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And and Italy.
So just a lot of cool stories in

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the Olympics.
But learning about a new sport

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that you didn't know about when
you already love the bobsled and

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then you want to learn there's a
one, one man or one woman

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bobsled.
It's it was, it was cool to

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watch.
I was locked in.

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So you think in four years we
got a chance of doing this?

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Should we do it?
Should we should we start

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practicing now, get start
training for I don't know where

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the Winter Olympics are in four
years, but I.

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Think they're in France?
Not 100%.

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Maybe you and I should get out
there and start training for

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this.
I mean, I'll be right up our

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alley.
Does AI don't think people are

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normally very tall for the
bobsled?

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But I also don't think they're
super short, so I think the

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height differential us both
being at 2 ends of the spectrum

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probably does not bode crazy
well for us to be great

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bobsledders.
Be like a be like a true

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underdog story, you know, maybe
give it a shot.

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I just jumping in, that thing
just looks so tough.

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It does look tough.
But even with one person, it

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looks tough and then you combine
that with the four man when

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they're they got to time it
perfectly.

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It's just but watching them go
75 miles an hour down that chute

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where it looks like they're
losing their back end right away

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and somehow they don't do it.
It's another cool thing is you

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don't ever watch the sports at
any other time.

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There's no chance that some
random Saturday you're just

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going to turn on and start
watching Germany and the United

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States and a random.
Bobsled well, if it wasn't the

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Olympics, think I don't think
you'd be able to find it on TV

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and they're just the right
there's not regular season mono

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bumble sledding.
There's not the New York the New

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York bobsled team versus the
Atlanta bobsled team on a on a

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Saturday on ABC.
I don't think that that's the.

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Way should we start that league?
Good, yeah.

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I could see, like, curling, I
feel like it's everywhere during

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the Olympics.
No matter what channel you turn

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it on, it seems like curling is
always on, Yeah?

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I mean, there's a lot of curling
teams, but yeah.

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Is that something that they
could capitalize on to where

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they're it is like a curling?
Like no, no, because we say this

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every year.
Like the only time we watch

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curling is during the Olympics
and we all think it's cool and

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we're all watching it.
We're all dialed in and we, we

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have the same argument.
Like, oh, what if we did a

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credit?
Then nobody cares.

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Nobody like we forget about it
next week.

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We're going to forget about it.
We're not even going to miss it.

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We're not going to miss curling
next week.

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Like it's, it's nice to have a
two week.

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It's nice to have a little two
week run and you know we'll see

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you again in four years.
And I will say this about

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curling.
I enjoy it, but it's slow.

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It's very slow.
It is so.

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Slow, I mean it's you're not
going 80 miles an hour down ice

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you're.
Oh, and they just take so much

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time in between.
Shots.

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And they do.
They're on a timer, but yeah.

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I got that, what, 38 minutes of
thinking time for the whole

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match.
I think it varies whether it's

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mixed or or double S or
whatever, but they've got that

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the thinking time.
But it's just there's so much

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time in between shots.
There's ten shots per end.

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It feels like you got to get it
to where there's two or three

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left before you even realize
what's happening because the

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setup shots, we don't know
enough about those shots.

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So it's it's a sport that you
can turn it off and then come

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back on 15 minutes later and see
the end of the end and see how.

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You know what makes curling more
exciting is cheating scandals

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and teams telling each other to
F off.

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That's what I'm here for.
I'm here for the curling.

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I'm here for the curling fights.
Give me some.

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Who is it just the Canadians
that are cheating?

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That's what it seems like.
I mean they got caught red

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handed on both the men's and the
women's side.

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So why are they so adamant that
they're not cheating?

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Because the I don't know.
Because they you're not going to

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admit to cheating.
You cheat, you ain't going to

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admit to it.
So Canada is playing.

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Who are they playing when they
get?

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When it's Sweden.
Was this OK?

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So Sweden and they say something
to him in the middle of the

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match?
Yes, basically.

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Hey dude, you're cheating.
You're touching it over the what

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do they call it, the horse line
of some kind?

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Something hog line, Yeah.
The hog line.

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Yeah, you're, you're touching.
Well, he let's go with the hand.

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It's a double touch.
You can't touch any part of the

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rock.
What do they call it?

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A rock?
Stone.

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Stone.
The granite.

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The granite stone.
The stone, yes.

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Yeah, dude, we do.
Not you can only grab it by the

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hand, you can only touch the
handle.

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But when he let's go with the
handle, he pokes it with his

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finger too.
And it's clear.

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Well, it's clear.
Obvious.

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Oh, yeah.
Like it's clear.

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Like his or his, his past the
line.

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And he just gives a little, a
little.

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Well, the Swedish the the the
Swedish guy was even like bro

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what?
We got it on video.

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I'll show you the video after
the match is over and he just

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responds with AF off.
Right.

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And you can't go back in time.
Like obviously they can't go

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redo the match, but I don't
think can they do video review

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during the match because, I
mean, it was pretty obvious that

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he touched it after the line.
Yeah.

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And then the very next day, the
Canadian women get penalized for

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the same.
Exact there are no judges.

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Somebody explained why there's
no judges in curling like they

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had to like, like after this
happened, the IOC them brought

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judges in for the next match to
keep an eye on it.

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And you know when, when, when
that happened, obviously they

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didn't cheat and.
So are they supposed to

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officiate it themselves?
Yeah, I think yeah, it's kind of

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like it's like a self efficient
to like call your own fouls type

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game.
But they ended up bringing in

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like 2 of bringing up some
officials in their next match

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and candidate end up losing.
They couldn't cheat and so they

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lost.
Yeah, I just and they had to be

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looking for it the the next day.
And the women got caught.

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They got called for the for the
same thing but dude like it's

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obvious that you were like I
don't know if you were doing on

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purpose but you clearly touched
the thing after.

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Crosswords like so like he let's
go but he pokes it with his

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finger.
What's that extra little poke

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doing?
I don't know.

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I don't know enough about it.
What's the extra?

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I need to know what the exit
poke, I need to know what the

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little poke did like, did it
like give you just that extra

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little oomph to get it down the
ice a little bit quicker?

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You're like, you know, you.
Oh, I didn't throw it hard

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enough.
Let me poke right like.

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It would have to be like some
kind of adjustment, like I

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didn't feel like I you.
Just poke it.

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It wasn't the throw I wanted,
but maybe this little little

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touch right here will fix it.
But yeah dude, like the world

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cur curling, like the
association was all upset about

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the language that was used.
It's, it's a tragic.

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It was, I love it.
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I mean, like this is like, yeah,
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this sportsmanship that Nah,
let's, let's let's get some

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heated competition going.
I like it, especially in a, in a

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competition such as curling
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action going on.
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you said, so you need a little
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little bit.
So you wanted curling, kind of

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professional wrestling?
No, like a hockey fight.

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We don't need wrestling.
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little hockey fight.
Do you want?

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Do you like the trash talking?
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Or do you?
Last week you talked about how

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figure skating needs to bring
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Kerrigan, like stuff we're
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Do we need to go that?
Far we need when you see, when

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you see some drama for these
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drama.
That's what gets people.

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People pay attention when
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We would have been talking about
curling anyways, but.

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We wouldn't have been talking
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True, and we wouldn't have been
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and their and their junk and the
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but yeah.
Or, or the what was it the cross

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country skier who wouldn't have
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skiing if oh dude didn't bawl
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cheated on his girlfriend?
So see, the drama brings

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interest and that's what that's
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It does.
It's what do.

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We got a little bit more than a
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Olympics Sunday.
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final day.
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far, I think has to be Aaliyah
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the quad God on on Friday he
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clearly in first with all he had
to do was just basically through

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90% of his program and he would
get gold like he was up by that

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much.
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it's just the automatic and poor
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doesn't like does A1 instead of
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and ends up falling all the way
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Doesn't even medal 21 years old.
His first Olympic Games.

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You can hear him talking to his
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saying that he wishes he could
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And four years ago when he was
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So I was like, that experience
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because the bright lights of the
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Championships, national
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It happens once every four.
And he admitted that, you know,

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he just did, could not succumb
to the pressure of the Olympic

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lights.
Yeah, no, like it's, it's the

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biggest stage in the world.
You know, your Olympic window as

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an athlete is not very long.
Like you said, it happens every

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once every four years.
So you know, at most you're

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competing in what, 2-3 if you're
lucky, more than that.

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But you know, in these sports
all over the world, like kids

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start, start doing figures
getting they're younger and

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younger and younger.
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but basically the time they can
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So, you know, 21, you're still
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I think he he'll come back in
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this experience as a, as a
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and he'll be better for the next
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But you know, the next one might
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So the pressure is even going to
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that you get because there's
going to be some young guns

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coming to get you.
Yeah, it, but I will say this

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like, dude, Can you imagine how
disappointed you would be?

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Yeah, when it's right in front
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Especially when you're in first
by that laughter, the what would

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you call the short program?
Yeah, and coming in, you are

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heavy, heavy favorite.
You're one of the most

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publicized athletes in the
Winter Olympic Games as a whole.

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It's all right in front of you.
And to just be absolutely

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devastated the way that he was.
But dude, being in sports, like

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you're going to lose most the
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Like in a team sport, only one
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So there's a lot of times where
you have to deal with adversity

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and you learn about people more
in lost than you ever will in

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any win.
And the fact that he went up to

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the guy who won the golden medal
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and then did his interview and
talked about how, you know, the

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guy was disappointing.
And just the lack of experience

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I think played a key role.
But I was just really impressed

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with the way he handled
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Yeah, I mean, that's what you
expect out of American athletes

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like we, we're, we, that's.
Not all what you.

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Get we are class here in America
like we're not like Canadians.

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We're not telling people to go F
themselves.

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Like we, we shake your hand and
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You were the better athlete that
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That's what that's what America
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We are class athletes and we we
respect our opponents.

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But dude, Scott Hamilton's in
studio with Mike Tirico and he's

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almost in tears, like talking
about it.

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That's how like he was
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I just, it was such an
unexpected thing.

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And it just goes to show you in
sports, you just never know.

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You just you just never know.
And just I hope that he comes

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back in, in four years because
it would it would be fun to

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watch him try to regroup it and
win the gold at four years

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after, you know, everybody
thought he was going to do it.

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Another the the US women's
hockey team, yeah, dominate.

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They're now they're now in the
gold medal match against Canada,

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the team they already beat 5 to
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Set a record for shutout most
most what minutes or whatever in

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in Olympic history.
Straight shut out.

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Well, they haven't allowed a
goal since their first round

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Robin match.
They're 11 and O in the

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knockout, 11 goals to zero in
the in the knockout stage and

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now they play a Canadian team
that they already be 5 to

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nothing in in the round Robin.
Do we need to look out for the

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Canadians to be to be cheating a
little bit?

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Nah, not worried about them.
Not worried about them at all.

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This women's team is just
dominating.

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I mean, dominating.
Was it 1-2?

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Five straight shutouts.
I guess at the longest streak,

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shutout streak in Olympic women
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women's Olympic history beat
Canada. 5 Nothing already.

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I mean, here's the scores. 5
Nothing over Finland. 5 Nothing

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over Switzerland 5 Nothing over
Canada. 6 Nothing over Italy. 5

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Nothing over Sweden.
Nobody's touching them like they

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are dominating.
Not worried about Canada.

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Put your third stringers in.
Yeah, this one's open.

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It's icing off.
OK, It's it's done.

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The quad glide.
We just talked about the quad

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God losing when everybody
thought there was no chance.

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Now this is a little different.
It's a team sport.

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It's a team sport.
No, this, this.

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They're a freight train.
Nobody stopping them.

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Just give us the gold, right?
You also have the you also have

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the Miracle on Ice in 1980.
Like it's it's been known that

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miracles can happen on the ice.
Do you want, do you want to be,

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do you want to be the adversary
in the Canadian movie, The

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Miracle on Ice, the 2026
version?

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Like, don't get too cocky over
there.

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It's in the bag, give them the
gold.

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And then there's one one more
scandal.

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You were telling me about the
ice dancing scandal.

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Yeah, this is some now this is
some real BS here.

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I mean, I can't pronounce their
their names here.

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I don't know.
But yeah, this Madison Shock and

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Evan Bates, the two US ice
dancing pair, apparently just

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put on a flawless routine.
Absolutely flawless.

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Should have won the gold I.
Mean you watched it live and you

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were like, this is just a
flawless performance.

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Yes, I did not.
I did not.

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But it looked flawless to me.
To me it looked flawless.

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But to the judges, even the
judges, I mean like look at

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this.
So the controversy is so Chalk

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and Bates, out of all they've
got, 12345 out of five out of

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nine judges had them at the top
score basically said they

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deserve gold.
Which means four of nine had

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France as the top scorer, so
it's only one more.

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That's OK.
What one?

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What one more is one more you
know not, but that's not only

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that, but.
We're not talking 8 out of nine

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here, we're talking 5 out of
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Five out of nine.
But what the controversy is, is

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the French judge had France
eight points better than the US.

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No other judge like when they
voted France number one that

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they had what, by 4 points, 2
points, one point, like eight

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points?
Well, French judge who just

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straight up sabotaged the the,
the voting or sabotaged the the

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judging just to to put us so far
down that France ends up winning

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by less than a point.
Less than a point.

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Well the US judge is the only
one that had the US by more

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than.
Oh also the span.

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The Spanish judge had France by
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That's awesome trash.
And the US judge only had the US

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by 4 points, so if the US judge
just increases that by a couple.

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Let's go on point.
But you know, we but we, we,

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like I said, we we're a fair
country where Americans don't

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cheat.
We don't cheat.

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We don't need to cheat.
We don't cheat, we don't need to

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degrade some other country just
to fraudulently give the our own

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country a gold medal like this
French judge did.

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Like this is just absurd.
Also, in what sport should you

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ever be allowed to judge your
own team?

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I think it would make a lot of
sense.

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You just throw out like you
can't judge your own country.

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Both of them to be crossed.
Out I would agree.

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You don't get to judge your own
country.

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You sit this one out, you vote
on all the other car.

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You you judge all the other
countries.

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And then you remove the
controversy.

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Yeah.
And.

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And the US will win a gold
medal.

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And the US wins the gold medal.
Exactly because that's what you

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know, what fair and honest
people would do.

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But once again, other countries
don't play fair.

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France cheating Canada.
Do you think, did they bribe the

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Spaniards to get a couple extra
points there too?

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Because.
Yeah, probably.

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They probably were like, hey,
you know, if you, you know, you

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knock the US down, we'll get
you, we'll get you some

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baguettes and we'll get you some
eclairs, some fresh baked

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eclairs.
After the, after the, the, the

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program's over.
It'd be how they probably bribed

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them.
And then the the French team

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afterwards, amid the
controversy, was basically

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saying we didn't have our best
routine.

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If we would have had our best
routine, we would have won by

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even more.
No, you should have, first of

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all, if you would have had your
best routine, maybe.

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But you didn't have your best
routine, and you should have

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lost because you didn't have
your best routine.

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And I'm I'm going to put you on
the spot because I don't know

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what's the difference between
ice dancing and figure skating.

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Is there no jumps?
Guessing 1 is more of a dance

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than I guess more dancing.
I mean you you play a song and

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you dance to the song.
It's like a a rhythm type thing

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I think.
Well, they dance to songs in

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figure skating, too.
No, that's like a like a ballet.

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They kind of just like just
skate along and it's kind of

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like a like if you were going to
a ballet, it's like if you were

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going to a ballet, it's like
the, the figure skating, the

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short programs and I feel like
ice dancing, it's more

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fast-paced.
You compare.

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Figure skating to ballet and
you're comparing ice dancing to?

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To like Broadway show.
Broadway show, Yeah.

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Yeah.
So ice dancing is like going to

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watch Grease the Cats.
The cat to Grease.

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Yeah.
What are some other famous

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Phantom of the Opera?
Sure.

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Or like what's the what's
Hairspray or something like

428
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,200
that, Yeah.
Like Hamilton?

429
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:00,920
Are we getting the Hamilton?
Level, I don't know about

430
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,040
Hamilton.
Like something where you're

431
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,120
dancing, you know, like a
Broadway show and.

432
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,560
Then figure skating is like
going down it's.

433
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,400
Going to Swan Lake, Yeah.
It's like if you're going to

434
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,960
Swan Lake or something, you
know?

435
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:16,640
I think this is one of the worst
analogies, maybe of all time.

436
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,560
Are you going to disprove it?
I don't have any idea.

437
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,960
Thank you.
I do think in ice dancing they

438
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,360
might not leave their feet.
OK, I think that might be the

439
00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:27,480
difference.
Oh God.

440
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,240
But also don't want to be quoted
on that because I have no idea.

441
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,080
I have no idea either, but
that's just my guess.

442
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,480
Like in figure skating, the
pairs, like the dudes throw the

443
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,160
girls so high up in there
they're like 1314 feet in the

444
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,480
air at times doing spins.
Do you ever get concerned on

445
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,800
these, like when they on the
figure skating pairs that

446
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,760
they're throwing the girls up in
the air and they're swinging

447
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,520
their legs out, like at some
point somebody's going to get

448
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,240
cut?
Well, didn't that happen in the

449
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,600
movie?
It did happen in a movie, yeah,

450
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,720
but I feel like in real life,
this.

451
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,160
Is did it happen in blades?
Of glory.

452
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,920
It was blades of glory, yes, but
I feel like in real life,

453
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,920
there's going to be a real life
scenario or blades of like

454
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,320
somebody's going to swing their
leg around and it's just going

455
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,680
to slice off somebody's ear or
something, you know, like.

456
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,240
I think that's why it happened
in the movie because everybody's

457
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,440
like, how is this not happening?
And then they're like dude, why

458
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,840
don't they just get 2 dudes
together and then they can throw

459
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,840
them even farther.
They can both throw each other.

460
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,520
But do you agree?
To me, it looks dangerous.

461
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,160
I'm actually surprised that it
has not happened, and maybe it

462
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,800
has and I just don't know it.
But they look like they're

463
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,720
coming very close to each other
on these blades.

464
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,520
I just all I know is it's
happened between Will Ferrell

465
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,360
and Napoleon Dynamite.
Yeah, that's true.

466
00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,280
That's it.
Was it even them that it

467
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,360
happened to, or was it somebody?
Else I don't.

468
00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:40,720
I have no idea.
What about competitors?

469
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,680
I don't remember, I haven't seen
that movie in forever.

470
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,000
But yeah, it it is crazy how
high they throw them.

471
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,480
And yeah, dude, those skates are
sharp.

472
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,720
Yeah.
And I guess it is a little bit.

473
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,000
Is it?
I don't know how crazy it is

474
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,080
that somebody hasn't at least
lost a finger.

475
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,080
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.

476
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,800
Awful.
But we still got women's figure

477
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:06,720
skating.
What else?

478
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,240
We we still got the the men's
hockey.

479
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,920
Men's hockey, we got the 2, two
and four man bobsleds got the

480
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,400
curling.
The men's curling gold medal

481
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,000
game is Saturday in the women's
of Sunday.

482
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,920
So you know, still a lot of
medals to be had. the US sitting

483
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,680
in 3rd place in the medal count
with six goals and 19 medals

484
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,400
overall, trailing Norway and and
Italy.

485
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,600
But you know, we're right in the
thick of it.

486
00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:33,360
The women's hockey team will
take care of their business.

487
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,640
The men's hockey team will
hopefully take care of their

488
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,040
business.
We'll get a couple bobsled

489
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,080
victories and bring this thing
home.

490
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,320
What do you know?
1 sport that just looks like the

491
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,000
absolute worst.
The moguls.

492
00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,960
The scheme.
Is that where they're like

493
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,440
they're bouncing their legs left
and right?

494
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,080
Yes, I swear to God my my legs
will break off after the first

495
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,440
one.
Yeah, that does look like it

496
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:57,960
hurts, Yeah.
How that?

497
00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,320
How do they do it?
I don't know.

498
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,640
And then they have to do flips
and stuff and they're racing

499
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,000
each other, but it's not really
a race.

500
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,800
It's still based off of points
from the judges because you're

501
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,880
doing all these flips and you're
trying to get extra bonus

502
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,880
points.
So it does matter how fast you

503
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,200
go, but it doesn't matter how
fast you go, dude.

504
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,880
I ain't.
I ain't touching the moguls.

505
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,520
No, I'm with you.
Also, did you see the dude that

506
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:24,440
got his, what the skiing does?
Is it the slalom?

507
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,000
Yeah.
Where they're going past the

508
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:26,560
tanks.
Yeah.

509
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,040
He got, he got racked pretty
good by one of those things.

510
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:30,720
And you just hear it.
Go watch.

511
00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:34,720
And he just stops.
No, I didn't.

512
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,120
And yeah, he just, he right,
right in the jewels, man.

513
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,880
Right, Right in the jewels.
That's terrible.

514
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,360
All the skating sports leave.
No, I'm out.

515
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,800
I do enjoy watching, I got like
the downhill.

516
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,160
I like to watching the downhill
except for when Lindsey Vonn leg

517
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:54,440
basically fell off but they had
to have 4 surgeries to reattach

518
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,440
it.
But other than her crash that's

519
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,800
it.
Like the the speeds that they

520
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,000
go, it's very impressive.
I love watching the downhill.

521
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,520
And dude, just Speaking of
Lindsey Vonn, like knowing

522
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,720
you're already going down that
hill with what is already with

523
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,560
his already a torn up knee and
you tear it up even more and

524
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,800
you're did.
You see the pictures she posted?

525
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,480
Yeah, it's awful, but you still
they have no regrets.

526
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,280
Like I have no regrets.
I would do it again.

527
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,640
Like at that point your your leg
is basically just being held

528
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,080
together by skin.
Yeah.

529
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,880
Like your bones are just all
over the.

530
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,840
Place I mean, I'm not her and I
believe her when she says it,

531
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,880
but I think I would have a
little bit of regret going out

532
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,480
there with no with the tornado
already and then my leg about to

533
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,080
fall, especially after I've
already won the amount of medals

534
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,800
that she's won.
I mean she's been here and she's

535
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,080
been in the top of the sport
before.

536
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,280
She's got nothing left to prove.
Like maybe if this is because

537
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,480
this is meant most likely her
last Olympics, so she was going

538
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,960
out no matter what.
So I kind of understand it more

539
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,640
that way, but I mean, I don't
think it's worth it.

540
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,080
Look, they're they're built
different.

541
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,400
It's an addiction and you love
to do it.

542
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,880
And look, if the Olympics were
next year, would she have skied?

543
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,040
No.
Like if they happened every

544
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,240
year, she wouldn't have skied.
But this every four year element

545
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,680
just brings this into the
equation.

546
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,520
And yeah, she probably shouldn't
have skied, but who's going to

547
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,320
tell her she can't?
Who's going to be the doctor to

548
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,960
be like, no, well, I think all.
The doctors told her that and

549
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,640
she just ignored that
environment.

550
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,520
I think they told her they
thought.

551
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,120
She found the one doctor.
She found the one doctor that

552
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:40,920
said, yeah, go ahead.
Not really.

553
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,760
If they had a real medical
license, who knows?

554
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,640
But she found somebody.
So yeah, go ahead.

555
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,520
No, I'm all, I'm all in on the
Olympics.

556
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,680
Excited to watch the US Olympic
hockey team just take care of

557
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:58,760
Cannon and the title and see if
they can win the most gold.

558
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:02,120
We still got a chance like you
said and we also are now in the

559
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,080
heat of college hoop season.
We we talked last week because

560
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,160
we did the show on Wednesday
about Arizona going down to

561
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,840
Kansas despite Kansas playing
without Darren Peterson.

562
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:20,680
And then Arizona goes from
undefeated and then they lose to

563
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,400
Texas Tech on Saturday as
Donovan Atwell hit some big

564
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,920
threes down the stretch.
Nebraska, remember, they did the

565
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,120
same thing this year where they
went undefeated and then lost

566
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:36,520
two in a row.
What else?

567
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,720
We got Cola Pete did not play in
the second-half for Arizona,

568
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,720
which I haven't heard what his
prognosis is going to be, how

569
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,800
long he's going to be out.
But if he's out for a little bit

570
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,360
that that could be an issue.
And another thing with Arizona,

571
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,800
and yeah, they're a great team,
but their lack of three-point

572
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,920
shooting, they're one of the
worst three-point shooting teams

573
00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:02,520
in the country.
They rank like in the three

574
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,800
hundreds based on three points
made per game.

575
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,880
And in today's era where
everybody's shooting threes, you

576
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,440
wonder if that's eventually
going to bite them.

577
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:15,000
Think it kind of did over the
last week with Texas Tech's win

578
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,360
over Arizona.
They now have wins against Duke,

579
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,520
at the Garden, at home against
Houston, and at Arizona.

580
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,360
I know they got 6 losses, but I
don't know if a team in the

581
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,560
country's got three wins as
good.

582
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,360
As those are the best three
wins, I think you can, I'd put

583
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,520
those up against anybody.
There's no absolutely.

584
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,520
JT Topham was just an absolute
problem for for Arizona and

585
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,600
Christian Andersen continues to
there.

586
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,760
If not the they are one of the
best scoring duos in the

587
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,800
country.
Iowa State loses the TCU, then

588
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,000
comes back at home and just
absolutely routes Kansas.

589
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,040
Kansas beats Arizona without
Darren Peterson, gets Darren

590
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,600
Peterson back and then gets
smoked.

591
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,320
Charlie did.
They did get smoked.

592
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,680
Darren Peterson only had 10
points in that game, was 3 of 10

593
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,080
from the field, so he came back
but didn't have his best game.

594
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,000
Kansas is now 8 and 2.
They've played 10 games this

595
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,160
year without Darren Peterson.
There are 8 and two in those

596
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,560
games.
There are 11 and four with him.

597
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,840
Yeah.
Milan Montsilovich for Iowa

598
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,760
State goes 4 for 9 from three
leads in the scoring.

599
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,080
Dude is shooting.
He's making almost 4 threes per

600
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:41,440
game which ranks second in the
country and he is shooting 51%

601
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:47,280
from 3 which leads the country
and dude is like 66106 eleven.

602
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,200
That's impressive.
You're shooting over 50.

603
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,840
Would you say 50 percent, 51?
Percent leading the leading the

604
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:54,680
country.
Jeez.

605
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,000
Just kind of running down,
keeping it at a Big 12.

606
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,840
BYU needs overtime to beat
Colorado, right?

607
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,840
Goes off for like 39.
But the the story of this game

608
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,120
was Richie Saunders, who's we've
talked about on the show several

609
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,440
times.
Looks like his career

610
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:19,200
unfortunately is over as it was
announced after the game that he

611
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,640
tore his ACL.
And all right, BYU does not

612
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,800
really have a signature win.
They got a good team that I

613
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,840
think can make a run, but
without Richard Saunders out,

614
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,800
they get really so and puts up
way more pressure on Debonza and

615
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,600
and right.
Yeah, it's going to be hard for

616
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,960
them to overcome.
I think, like you said, not a

617
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,640
signature win.
They have a lot of good wins.

618
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,600
They're competitive in a lot of
games, you know, but without,

619
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,640
yeah, without Saunders, they're,
I think that's going to be the

620
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:52,280
end of them.
Mike L Brown follows up 45

621
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:58,880
against NC State with another 29
in the win over Baylor in Fort

622
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,000
Worth.
Just kind of an odd non

623
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,680
conference game in Fort Worth in
the middle of the season.

624
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,560
In front of 4000 people.
It wasn't wasn't the best crowd

625
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,000
like.
A closed door scrimmage, almost,

626
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,360
it seemed like.
It was the all, everything about

627
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,600
it was just kind of was just
kind of odd.

628
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,800
And Baylor has had a lot of
injuries this year.

629
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,320
You got you got to see James
dodge.

630
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,160
You play in person.
Yeah, I think he actually had

631
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,520
one of his better games.
He has not been living up to the

632
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,880
to all that hype and all the
talk that was everything was

633
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,080
talking about him coming back.
But Mike Al Brown in the last

634
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:39,560
two games, 74 points, 14 to 21
from 316 to 16 from the line, 12

635
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,640
rebounds, 8 assists and eight
steals.

636
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,480
I left off the 8 turnover.
Yeah, you can leave those out,

637
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,840
but no, it's good enough to
where he wins the solid 1 and

638
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,200
Naismith Player of the week,
National Player of the week

639
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,640
honor.
So good for him.

640
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,440
Just another freshman.
We talked about how good all

641
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,240
these freshmen have been.
He's just another one that

642
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,480
continues, continues to to
elevate this freshman class that

643
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,760
they're doing something special.
They've all taken their turns

644
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,840
kind of this week or throughout
the year, show them, show them

645
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,520
what they can do.
And obviously Michael had had

646
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,440
the the lower back injury that
kind of set him out, but he's

647
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,120
kind of getting in a groove and
playing as well as anybody in

648
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,960
the country right now.
And if he's playing that way,

649
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,800
it's exciting.
When he's healthy and how good

650
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,760
he can be, I mean, this
Louisville team can be a, a

651
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,720
Elite Eight Final Four
contender.

652
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,120
You know, like with him healthy
and with Conwell playing well

653
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,120
and, and everybody's starting to
gel together, you're like,

654
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,880
especially now in February is
now's the time you want to start

655
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,520
playing your best basketball.
And Louisville's healthy and,

656
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,560
and Brown's playing his best.
So they're, they're rolling.

657
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,880
They're rolling.
Florida takes care of Kentucky

658
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,960
in Gainesville.
Really, I didn't think Kentucky

659
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,960
played that bad in this game.
Mark Polk, kind of.

660
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,400
He's shortened up his rotation a
little bit, but we've talked

661
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,920
about Florida and we know how
good their front court is, the

662
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,360
best in the country.
But when you're getting that

663
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,400
kind of performance from from
Xavier and Lee, you're getting

664
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,600
closer shooting like that off
the bench.

665
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:14,560
It's going to be is the
Florida's starting to really

666
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,040
separate themselves from
everybody else in the SEC and

667
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,920
they're really starting to put
themselves back in that

668
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,639
conversation to potentially run
it back.

669
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,600
Yeah, like this is the Florida
team that we all expected when,

670
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,280
you know, when the year started
like they were, they were what

671
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,800
pre season #1 start the year
coming off the national

672
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,000
championship.
They struggled early in the the

673
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,840
November, December lost right
out of the gate.

674
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,040
It's a really good Arizona team,
but struggle had some losses

675
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,560
early, had that loss to to
Missouri and everybody was like,

676
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,120
what's going on?
And then ever since then, not

677
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,360
only are they winning, they're
they're winning by a lot, like

678
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,760
23 over Alabama.
You know, they'd be Georgia by

679
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,120
20 the game before Kentucky.
And then they had Kentucky down

680
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,840
double digits for most of that
game, end up winning it by 9.

681
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,280
So they're beating good teams
and they're beating good teams

682
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,480
by a wide margin.
This is the Florida team that we

683
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,240
expected and the Florida team
that could, in my opinion, they

684
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:11,160
could still win it all. 100% and
dude they're front court in the

685
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,960
game against Kentucky.
They almost had Condon Hawk and

686
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,040
Chin Leu.
Chin Yelu I struggle with his

687
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,400
name.
All three almost had double

688
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:25,520
double S Condon had 14 and 11
and Chenya Liu had 10 and 11,

689
00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:29,800
and then Hawk had 17 and 8.
Like, it's just their front

690
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,480
court is unbelievable.
Boogie Flan did not have the

691
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,680
best game, but because Xavian
Lee, I mean, he really kind of

692
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,720
got him rolling at the beginning
finishes with 22 points.

693
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,520
If you get one of those two guys
to show up and then you get some

694
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,280
help from the bench along with
that front court, I I think

695
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,200
Florida's going to be, they're
going to be a problem for a lot

696
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:48,720
of teams.
Yeah.

697
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,600
Yeah, well, we had a great game.
We came out firing from three

698
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,880
early, kind of built that lead
right out of the gate.

699
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,280
And yeah, like I said, Flan was
only two of 10 from the field

700
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,280
and eight points, and you know,
they still won by 9.

701
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,840
It could have been even more.
Miami Ohio remains unbeaten,

702
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,320
beaten Ohio on last Friday
night.

703
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:16,440
It was the first mat game on
ESPNI Think in over 20 years on

704
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,720
the The main ESPN.
But the here's the here's the

705
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,960
news.
The news from this Head coach

706
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:29,440
Travis Still says he will wear a
Speedo at Selection Sunday if

707
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,720
Miami, Ohio remains undefeated.
I like it.

708
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,960
I mean, I like the, I like the
the cop, a little motivation for

709
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:35,760
the team.
I guess.

710
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,640
You get your coat, embarrass
your coach on national TV by him

711
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,840
wearing a Speedo.
But we'll get their schedule.

712
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,360
It's not difficult.
I mean, it's not difficult.

713
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,680
Their hardest games going to
come against a 16 and 10 Bowling

714
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,640
Green team on on February 20th,
but they got that game at home.

715
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,120
I mean, their next game is
against UMass on the road.

716
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,480
They're 15 and 11, but everybody
else they play has a losing

717
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:02,160
record or they're at 500.
Like they play Toledo and my and

718
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,160
Ohio University are both 500.
And then Eastern and Western

719
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,120
Michigan both only have nine
wins on the season.

720
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,720
So it's not a difficult Rd.
I mean, if they can get past

721
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,240
that UMass and Bowling Green
game, I think you're going to

722
00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:16,640
see him wearing a Speedo on
national TV.

723
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,920
Look it we've talked about their
schedule, one of the softest in

724
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:27,920
the country, but a lot of other
teams in college basketball have

725
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:32,160
had soft schedules.
How many of the other teams are

726
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,400
sitting there?
25 and now.

727
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,880
Yeah, none of them.
So regardless of their schedule,

728
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,720
I think they deserve credit,
obviously, for remaining

729
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:45,600
undefeated.
Do you know why Travis still has

730
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:51,040
selected this as the reason, or
is this as what he will do if

731
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,320
they remain undefeated?
No.

732
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,040
So at their home games, the
men's swim, the both the swim

733
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:03,120
teams are there in and they wear
their uniforms for almost every

734
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,280
home game.
So there's a reason behind this

735
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:06,600
madness.
He just doesn't want to show

736
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,000
everybody off his body on
national TV like the swim teams

737
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,320
have been there supporting them.
So obviously to kind of show

738
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,560
some support back.
This is what what he said he

739
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,440
will do and we've talked about
it.

740
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,280
I still think they might have to
win the tournament to get into

741
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,680
the big dance.
Yeah.

742
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,920
So, Todd, could you imagine
you're sitting there at 30,

743
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,720
whatever it is, and oh, and you
lose in your conference title

744
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,440
game and you get to go to the
NIT.

745
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,440
You won loss all year.
I mean, they they've got the

746
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,440
only competition.
I mean they got Akron who's

747
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,240
sitting there at 11 and one in
the conference.

748
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,160
They're 20 and five overall.
Miami beat Akron at home earlier

749
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,120
in the year by but only by two.
So it's not a foregone

750
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,960
conclusion, you know, that
they're going to win this

751
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,400
conference tournament.
You get Akron on a on a neutral

752
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,000
site.
Yeah, no, you're right.

753
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,640
It never is.
But I mean, there's some teams

754
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,840
that in this conference that
have played Miami close and

755
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,200
Miami just always somehow finds
a way to win.

756
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,000
We we thinking at some point
maybe that luck runs out and

757
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,920
that one possession game flips
the other way.

758
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,360
And you know, they're sitting on
their couch or they're sitting

759
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,120
at the NIT and watching,
watching somebody else think.

760
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,160
We've talked about the pressure
of the Olympics, like those

761
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:27,080
smaller conference tournaments,
they're very similar because

762
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,680
look, it's you either figure out
a way to win or you're going

763
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,720
home.
Because there ain't no second

764
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,320
chance.
There ain't no automatic or, you

765
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,120
know, the select the committee
picking you to get in the

766
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,120
tournament.
So there's going to be a lot of

767
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,600
pressure on them going into that
tournament, even if they are

768
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:49,720
undefeated.
And it'll be fun to watch to see

769
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:52,640
what they can do because if they
don't win, they're going to be

770
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,600
on the bubble.
And I wouldn't be surprised if

771
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,320
that bubble got popped.
And we, we just know how much

772
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,200
the committee loves these 500
Power Four teams that.

773
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,160
Nobody cares to see I'm in the
big dance.

774
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,080
I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm curious,
how good do we think Miami is?

775
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,760
Like you said, like they're soft
schedule, but a lot of teams

776
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,480
have some soft schedules and
they're not undefeated.

777
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,120
Like how good do you think this
team is?

778
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,920
Like, I don't know.
It's it's hard to compare them

779
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,640
because I don't, I look at their
schedule.

780
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,360
I don't even know what their
best win is.

781
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:25,600
See.
Let's see.

782
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,720
They they're out of conference
schedule.

783
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:34,040
They did not play a single Power
14, so they haven't played

784
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,560
anybody of substance out of
conference play.

785
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,240
Like I said, we we talked about
this a couple weeks ago.

786
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:43,760
Their schedule ranks near the
bottom in the country.

787
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,120
It's really bad I'm looking at.
Like in the three hundreds.

788
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:47,080
Yeah, I'm looking at it right
now.

789
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,000
It's really.
Really.

790
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,200
So they they got to win and
they're Akron is.

791
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,200
If I had to pick, if I had to
look at it, Akron probably is

792
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,440
their best win and that's not
saying much.

793
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,240
But.
Like I said, they undefeated,

794
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,240
they haven't lost.
They deserve some credit for

795
00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:07,240
that and it'll be fun to watch
the rest of the way.

796
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,800
Anytime you're the last
remaining undefeated team, that

797
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,360
is an accomplishment in itself.
I think you you need to get to

798
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,760
what about 30 to 31 and O 32
enough to to get into the dance.

799
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,680
That would be getting them in
themselves into the conference

800
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,240
title game before they lose,
yeah.

801
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,160
Great Johns has now won eleven
in a row.

802
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:33,880
They'd be Providence by 10.
The in the UConn game I talked

803
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,360
about Dylan Darling coming off
the bench and really kind of

804
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,400
being big at the end of that
game.

805
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:43,720
In the last two games since he
had 23 in the win over

806
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:47,280
Providence, he's averaging 20 a
game in his last two last year

807
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,640
he averaged 20 a game at Idaho
State.

808
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,120
But before this little run of
his he's only he only had 4

809
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,840
double digit scoring games.
So they've really got a new

810
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,160
weapon off the bench.
But the story of this game was

811
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,480
Duncan Powell just straight
taking out Bryce Hopkins.

812
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,360
Yeah.
Bryce Hawkins formerly played

813
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,680
for Providence.
Duncan Powell's been all over

814
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:07,800
the place.
Played at Georgia.

815
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,920
Tech last year, yeah.
Played at two other schools

816
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,240
before that.
I don't remember who they were

817
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:16,480
off off top of my head, but what
a dirty dirty play.

818
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,120
But.
No, it was dangerous.

819
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,520
It was dangerous.
It was dirty.

820
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:24,120
I mean, it really has no place
in the game and you know, you

821
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,920
don't blame Bryce Hopkins
reacting the way he reacted and

822
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,160
and then pal just double s down
and just comes out and throws a

823
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,400
punch like dude it.
Might not be an idiot, but

824
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,240
you're acting like an idiot.
Have you seen his hair?

825
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,360
You've seen his haircut.
He's got one of the worst

826
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,160
haircuts in the history of any
sport, not just college

827
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,840
basketball.
Like what is it I?

828
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:44,680
Don't.
I don't know.

829
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,000
It's like a poof.
What do you tell there's?

830
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,560
Got to be a name for it right?
This bald.

831
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,080
Your bald all over except for
the bottom back of your head.

832
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,040
It's just the straight.
It's just a bottom poof.

833
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:59,520
That's it, just a bottom poof.
And he's bald completely and

834
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,120
he's like, no, I don't want any
hair on the top.

835
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,680
Just ball it all up and put it
by my neck.

836
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,520
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah.

837
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,560
But dude, with just such a dirty
foul.

838
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,000
It was.
Yeah, it was.

839
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,120
It was and.
I get it, your your team's not

840
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,720
very good and Kim English is
probably, I don't know if he's

841
00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:17,440
going to come back next year,
but they've had a terrible year.

842
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,560
They almost beat Yukon, but and,
and they did beat St.

843
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,640
John's early in the year, but
other than that, they just

844
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,040
haven't had a ton of success.
Dude, St.

845
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,080
John's, everybody was high on
St.

846
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,880
John's and Rick Pitino at the
beginning of the year.

847
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,360
They lose a couple games early
and everybody kind of gets down

848
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,760
on them.
And now they've won 11 or oh,

849
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:39,080
including a win against UConn
and Andy Katz has got them.

850
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,960
Andy Katz has got them at at six
in the country, I believe in his

851
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,720
top 10.
I mean, I don't know if I'd put

852
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,720
them that high, but no, they're
rolling.

853
00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:49,880
And you know, and this is what
Rick Pitino teams do come

854
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,200
February and come March, this is
when they play their best

855
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,240
basketball.
And this is no different.

856
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:57,000
He's got him playing Rick Pitino
basketball.

857
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,440
And you know, hopefully the the
end result for them is a little

858
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,600
bit better than it was last year
when they got bounced in the

859
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,960
second round unexpectedly as a
two seed.

860
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,440
You know, hopefully, hopefully
they have more success than that

861
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,720
come this season.
But they're rolling the garden.

862
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:16,800
The garden is electric.
Andy Cassie got him at 5:00.

863
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,800
Five.
Come on, Andy.

864
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,600
I'm not respect Andy Cass, but
come on, Like that's, that's

865
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,040
ridiculous.
I guess the last thing kind of

866
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:30,720
keeping in the in the Big East,
UConn wins.

867
00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:33,280
I struggled with with Georgetown
at home.

868
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:39,880
The the story of this game to me
was you, you know, Danny Hurley

869
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,040
don't care.
He says, well, yeah.

870
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:48,760
And evidently in the post game
handshake with Ed Cooley, Ed

871
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,600
Cooley says basically, dude,
where, where are your fans?

872
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,960
Like what?
Where is your student section?

873
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,480
Like what's going on here?
Like you guys are good.

874
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,880
Like why are you not getting
support?

875
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:07,880
And Danny Hurley goes into this
5 minute diatribe in in his post

876
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,800
game presser.
He continuously calls stores

877
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:16,520
Kinetic Stores Connecticut, the
basketball capital of the world.

878
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,960
Thoughts on that?
I mean, within the in the last

879
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:21,680
couple of years, they've been
the basketball capital of the

880
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:22,640
world because they've been
winning it's.

881
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,920
Because the women's and the men
have won so many.

882
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:26,040
Championships.
The men have just.

883
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,720
Yeah, I mean, the women are
always up there.

884
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,400
I mean, the Yukon is the women's
basketball capital of the world.

885
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,120
There's no doubt about that.
Well, I mean, the men, men have

886
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,920
a bunch, too.
And they've especially recently

887
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,160
when they went back-to-back.
Yeah.

888
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:42,320
Like you look at the pictures of
that place and like Ed Cooley

889
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,200
was right, it was empty.
Like where's the support?

890
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,440
They announced the attendance of
10,244 and the capacity of that

891
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,920
arena is 10,167.
So they announced the sell out

892
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:53,760
which the.
Students.

893
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,440
The students just didn't.
Show which you would announce

894
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,720
the sell out if the you know, if
you sell the tickets, then

895
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,280
that's your attendance.
But yeah, no, that place was was

896
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,320
not very full.
I don't understand why.

897
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:06,760
They've got themselves a great
team up there.

898
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,160
I can't.
There's not much to do in

899
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,040
Storrs, Connecticut.
I don't know what else you got

900
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,320
going on on a Saturday there's.
Nothing.

901
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,120
Else to do Go watch a really
good basketball team play.

902
00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:19,400
Like, I don't know what where
they are or what they're doing,

903
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,560
but I can't imagine there's much
else to do get to the games.

904
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,400
He says you can criticize me,
but I have some equity.

905
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,440
Yeah, I've won two
championships.

906
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,680
He does.
Which he has, Yeah, he says.

907
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:37,040
You don't come to watch a game.
It's not a effing social event.

908
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,880
We need our fans to come to the
game and be loud as shit from

909
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,520
the start.
It needs to be a madhouse.

910
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,640
And then he talks about how it's
a madhouse at Creighton, it's a

911
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,560
madhouse at Xavier, but it's not
a madhouse at UConn.

912
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,520
I don't blame you.
If the students aren't showing

913
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,080
up, he he's not wrong.
Yeah, I.

914
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,040
Mean, I don't know if this has
happened at other games or if

915
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,000
it's I mean it has to be a
recurring trend if he's, you

916
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,440
know, going to say something,
but if it is a recurring trend,

917
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,040
you know, that's that's kind of
sad because, like I said,

918
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,600
they've they've they've been
really good lately.

919
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,640
They've been good this year.
It's stores Connecticut.

920
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:16,760
I don't know what else you're
doing.

921
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,400
Just go go out to these games,
watch this team.

922
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,400
They're they're fun to watch.
They're very good.

923
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,320
They could win a national title
again.

924
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,000
I don't know.
What do you think they're doing

925
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,280
the stores?
I don't know like, but I'll be

926
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,640
honest, this is a problem
everywhere.

927
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:34,760
Like little little Jimmy.
Didn't want to take Didn't want

928
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,560
to take Winnie on a Valentine's
Day date, to the stores, to the

929
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,080
UConn basketball game against
George.

930
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,280
That's not.
Or maybe that was the problem.

931
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,360
They were all doing Valentine's
dates and they didn't their

932
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,000
their girls didn't want to go to
the game.

933
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,760
Maybe.
They didn't want to share a

934
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:52,880
Nacho or or a an ice cold soda
with one straw. 2 straws.

935
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,440
Why when you can cuddle up on
the couch with a blanket and

936
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,440
drink cocoa and watch it on your
70 inch TV?

937
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,960
And I think that's a lot.
I mean we've seen this all

938
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:08,520
across the country like these.
It's just hard to get 22,000

939
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,840
people in a.
They don't have the capacity for

940
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,440
22,000.
I'm saying 10,000 people.

941
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,560
It's.
Not just happening in stores

942
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,400
like it's, it's happening at.
Other places it is it is, but

943
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,840
this is only a little 10,000
seat arena get that's.

944
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,640
That's students.
Students go to games.

945
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,280
Like this is all a part of your
experience.

946
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,680
You go to a college that has one
of the best college basketball

947
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,560
programs in the country, Take
advantage of them.

948
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:31,800
Go to these games.
Yes.

949
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:32,640
Be loud.
Yeah.

950
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,000
Like, follow Danny Hurley's
advice.

951
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,600
The dude has equity.
He's won two championships.

952
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,600
It's part of your responsibility
as a student to go support these

953
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,760
student athletes in your school
and to be a fan and to be loud.

954
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:48,000
Yes, like go.
Look, and I'm and I'm I'm

955
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,720
talking to a guy who went to all
the Indiana football games,

956
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,200
Yeah, when they were winning,
when they were 1:00 and 11:00

957
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:55,920
and 2:00 and 10:00 every year.
We were there.

958
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,720
We weren't very loud because
there wasn't much to get loud

959
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:00,360
about back then, but we were
there.

960
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:04,960
Hey, that first possession, let
me tell you, y'all were on your

961
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,520
feet trying to get that stopped,
weren't you?

962
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,360
Oh yeah, Oh yeah, first.
Possession.

963
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,720
Yeah, early in the game, yes, we
were loud.

964
00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:15,320
And then after that.
And then the beers wear off and

965
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:20,600
you're down 60 to 14 and.
I mean, you can only do so much.

966
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,160
I didn't love hard.
You if you're up there cheering

967
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,160
when they're down 60 and you're
screaming on 3rd down to get a

968
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,600
stop, there's you got some kind
of mental.

969
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:31,440
As a student, you were a
student.

970
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,480
What Bellarmine University did
you go to Knights Hall?

971
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:40,800
No, No, do not.
OK, Do not.

972
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,240
If you were, or if you were a
student at UConn, would you have

973
00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:46,160
gone to the games?
Yeah, there's nothing else to do

974
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:50,680
in stores.
We go fly to Hartford, there's

975
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,640
nothing to.
Do So what else were you doing

976
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,560
as a student?
What else were you doing as a

977
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,000
student instead of going to
Nights Hall?

978
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,240
I didn't have a ton of school
spirit, but when I was commuting

979
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:03,560
back and forth to bellamine, I
would say I have a lot more

980
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,960
school spirit with bellamine now
than I do did then.

981
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:09,800
You and Carl just lock
yourselves in the basement, play

982
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,560
video games instead of
supporting the nights.

983
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:14,760
Yeah, we drove up to Southern
Illinois and hang out with Snap

984
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,640
Palmer and the guys a lot.
Who was your who was your head

985
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,320
coach at Bellarmine when you
were there?

986
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,920
Was it?
Was it Bob?

987
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,640
Was it Bob?
Wasn't Bob?

988
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,880
It was, no, it was, it was
before Bob.

989
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,480
I don't remember his name, but
they were, they were not very

990
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,640
good.
I, I was a manager all four

991
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:39,320
years in high school and I had
talked to potentially like

992
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,400
trying to go to UKU Bell to be a
manager.

993
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,520
And then I got more scholarship
money to go to Bellarmine.

994
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:45,560
And I was like, yeah, I don't
want to be a manager at

995
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:50,120
Bellarmine.
In bus trips instead of flights.

996
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,960
Yeah, well, I mean, I was used
to taking flights at that point.

997
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,960
I at that point in my life, I
think I'd flown once when I took

998
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,000
a basketball trip to Florida.
Well, twice, Florida and Vegas.

999
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:05,520
So we, we had some good squads
at PRP back in the day.

1000
00:51:06,240 --> 00:51:07,960
Should, should have won it all
in my senior year.

1001
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:12,560
That still hurts.
Did you watch any of the NBA All

1002
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:17,880
Star festivities this weekend?
No, I saw I saw Taco fall.

1003
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,400
I was on somewhere like we were
brownies and I saw the celebrity

1004
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:26,160
game on and some for some reason
Taco fall at 7 foot 3 is out

1005
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:30,880
there dunking on like actresses
and and actors and whoever else.

1006
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,280
Kind of weird.
But no, I did not really watch a

1007
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,040
single minute.
I had no idea what happened on

1008
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,880
NBA Saturday night.
Heard it was terrible.

1009
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,640
I did see Dame Lillard won the
three-point contest with no

1010
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,080
Achilles, but other than that,
no, didn't watch that.

1011
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,200
Didn't watch a single minute of
the actual All Star.

1012
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:47,520
What do they call it, a
tournament now?

1013
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,200
Yeah, we had, we had a women's
basketball game last night that

1014
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,560
we were we were work.
I was working and you were at.

1015
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,520
So no, did not watch any of it.
Here's here's here's my thing,

1016
00:51:58,280 --> 00:51:59,360
and I get it.
I know why.

1017
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:06,000
But both of these things start
at 5:00 Eastern Saturday and

1018
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:14,040
Sunday, and I know it's because
of the Olympics, but that's what

1019
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:19,800
cost me from watching like I
would have watched NBA All Star

1020
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:21,880
Sunday night if it.
Was Yeah, I probably wouldn't.

1021
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:23,880
Watch that like.
I probably would have watched

1022
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,280
some of that yesterday too, if I
if I was home, yeah.

1023
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,680
So at one point, at some point
NBC maybe gets too much sports

1024
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:35,760
to where they and also like
your, your Olympic coverage is

1025
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,680
delayed anyways.
So you're basically preempting

1026
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,960
you're moving the NBA All Stars
Sunday night to 5:00 so you can

1027
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,440
run delayed coverage of the
Olympics.

1028
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,600
I had I had the three-point
contest and the dunk contest on

1029
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,000
in the background.
What day was it on it?

1030
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,400
Was it on NBC?
Yeah, it was on NBC.

1031
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,440
Dane Wang was was cool.
He he beat Devin Booker.

1032
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:01,440
The dunk contest was.
Terrible.

1033
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,440
The skills challenge.
Is that a thing?

1034
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,200
No, I think they just did those
team things where they had two

1035
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,120
current players and a celebrity
passer.

1036
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,680
It was, it's all goofy.
There was a lot of people that

1037
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,480
said the tournament was was good
yesterday.

1038
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,080
Yeah, I heard the effort was
better.

1039
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,800
They had two, they had a World
Team and then they had two USA

1040
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,600
teams, one with kind of rising
stars and one with with more

1041
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,520
veterans.
I don't even know who won.

1042
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:30,920
It was one of the US team.
It was one of the.

1043
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,040
I didn't even, I didn't even
look it up to.

1044
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,320
I just wanted to see if you
watched it.

1045
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,800
I didn't even look up to see who
won.

1046
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,960
The team was the team stars,
Team Stripes, the world and

1047
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:41,920
somebody.
No, no.

1048
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:43,400
Was it?
I think it's just three teams.

1049
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,480
OK, Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.

1050
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:47,640
And I'm not even looking it up.
I don't care.

1051
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:53,640
But I know a lot, like when I
was a kid, NBA All Star game

1052
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,560
weekend was one of my favorite
weekends of the year.

1053
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,040
And I don't know if it's just
you getting older.

1054
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,840
I don't know if it's the the
product sucks.

1055
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,120
It's because the players don't
care.

1056
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,880
My like back in the 90s, Jordan
was in the dunk contest,

1057
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,440
Dominique was in the dunk.
I think the stars participated

1058
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,480
in all these other events that
wasn't just the game.

1059
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,000
And then when the game came
around, they all took pride in

1060
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,160
beating the crap out of each
other.

1061
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:22,040
Like they took pride in and you
know, lock Jordan wanted to lock

1062
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,640
down Kobe or something like
that.

1063
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,480
You know, like they, they took
pride in stopping each other and

1064
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:31,840
then now it's just like, yeah,
yeah, nobody, nobody cares.

1065
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,000
Just for fun, which is fine.
I don't blame him.

1066
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,960
I don't care.
It's just you're not going to

1067
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:38,360
get the view.
Like nobody's going to watch it.

1068
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:41,720
Yeah.
And but you got to get guys like

1069
00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:45,000
DJ Edge from you got to get him
to participate the dunk contest

1070
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:47,520
like a rookie that's probably
going to win Rookie of the year.

1071
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:52,200
Like he even turns it down.
Like who are these?

1072
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:57,480
Like how many non people, people
that enjoy basketball but aren't

1073
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:01,480
watching the NBA every day know
who these four players are in

1074
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,760
the dunk contest?
I I don't think very many.

1075
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:09,640
Like Carter Bryant No, but like,
like what's why, why?

1076
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,760
Like why don't they like why,
why why don't the stars

1077
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,760
participate in the dunk contest?
Like they say they're going to

1078
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,680
get hurt.
I mean, I don't know of anybody

1079
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,240
that's gotten hurt in the dunk
contest yet.

1080
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:18,840
Maybe it has happened.
I just don't know about it.

1081
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,880
But I or recall ever hearing of
somebody hurting themselves in

1082
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,440
the dunk contest.
Get out there.

1083
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:26,760
No incentivize.
I mean, I don't know how you can

1084
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,640
incentivize us because they're
all making millions already.

1085
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:31,920
So I don't think an extra
$1,000,000 is really going to

1086
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,240
move the needle for them.
But how do you incentivize these

1087
00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:36,320
guys?
I don't know, but like, it's

1088
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,640
made.
It's made people endorsement

1089
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,600
money and sponsorship money like
Harold Minor was.

1090
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,480
Only reason people knew who
Harold Minor was is because he

1091
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,120
won the dunk contest.
Yeah, the only reason people

1092
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,520
know who Matt Mcclung is because
he won the dunk contest.

1093
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,240
Look what the dunk contest did
for like, I know Vince Carter

1094
00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:59,000
already was a huge star, but him
winning the dunk contest just

1095
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,320
increased his stardom
exponentially.

1096
00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:04,440
It did it with Blake Griffin,
like it did it with Nate

1097
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:08,440
Robinson.
Like, I don't understand why

1098
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,600
they can't get better players in
the dunk contest.

1099
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:18,280
I just, well, the last really
good one we had was what, Zach

1100
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,360
Levine and Aaron Gordon.
Yeah.

1101
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,840
And that was what, 10 years ago
now?

1102
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,760
Aaron Gordon was a good one.
Yeah, I don't know.

1103
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,520
It's and look, we say it's the
same thing every year and they

1104
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:35,080
keep trying new stuff.
I I don't know how you fix it,

1105
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,400
but the fact that I hardly
watched any of it.

1106
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,720
I mean, it's same with the Pro
Bowl.

1107
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,800
I mean, they're really the only
All Star game that's the the

1108
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,560
people pay attention to was
baseball, because it's an actual

1109
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:51,240
game and you know, they stars
actually try.

1110
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:54,120
But and then hockey, hockey
figured it out last year with

1111
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:56,760
the Four Nations tournament.
Like that was awesome.

1112
00:56:57,240 --> 00:56:58,960
That was awesome.
People loved that.

1113
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,160
And you know, the obviously
they're not doing it this year

1114
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,800
because the Olympics is going on
and all those guys are are over

1115
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,000
in Italy playing for the
countries.

1116
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,400
But you know, they figured it
out last year.

1117
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,960
So I don't know.
It's there's ways to figure it

1118
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,960
out.
I just don't have those answers.

1119
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:17,560
No, and neither does the NBA,
and they're trying to figure out

1120
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:18,960
answers to keep people from
taking.

1121
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:22,680
Look what the Bulls did a couple
weeks ago.

1122
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,920
It's just this, it's gross.
Like they don't even get a first

1123
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:27,360
round draft pick.
They just got rid of all their

1124
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,080
players.
They just got rid of everybody,

1125
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:34,240
got 40 mil, 47 second round
picks because they wait too long

1126
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:37,920
to get rid of everybody.
Everybody sees the talent in

1127
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:40,120
this year's draft.
So no, if you're not going to

1128
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:41,920
make the playoffs, you might as
well be as bad as you can

1129
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,120
possibly be.
And now Adam Silver's talking

1130
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,920
about all these.
He's got maybe plans to prevent

1131
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:53,680
people from taking, but is it
like stopping the season at some

1132
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,080
random point in the middle and
that's where you do the lottery

1133
00:57:56,080 --> 00:58:00,480
or not have the lottery at all
and doing free agency for for

1134
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,440
rookies.
Like all these things have been

1135
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,560
talked about.
I don't they're not going to

1136
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,480
change it.
They're not going to change

1137
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:07,960
anything.
It's just going to keep being a

1138
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,640
lottery.
I mean, you can't you can't

1139
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,000
pause the standings in the
middle of season and say that

1140
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,880
that's it.
Like, no, that's stupid.

1141
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,920
Free agency is just absolutely
stupid as well.

1142
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:22,160
But like I told you and like, if
you want to like make it a true

1143
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,640
lottery, like they have this
draft lottery where the ping

1144
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,440
pong balls are bouncing around
it, but it's a weighted lottery.

1145
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,080
So like the usually the worst
teams are drafting either first,

1146
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,960
second, third, maybe drop the
4th, I don't know, but you're

1147
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,920
still up there.
Put 32 ping pong balls in a

1148
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:37,560
thing no matter where you
finished.

1149
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,200
Let's have a true, true lottery
drop.

1150
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,080
So you're drafted in all 32
spots just randomly?

1151
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,160
Yeah, I don't want that.
Either why not?

1152
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,080
I mean, they talk about how like
then they could just pick and

1153
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,160
choose who gets like in there's,
there's, I don't know, like.

1154
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,480
Make it random just.
You can get first place teams

1155
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,800
getting the 1st place pick, then
they get the rich get richer.

1156
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,400
So what But.
Right now, the way that's.

1157
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,760
Just the way that you're luck.
Well, that's just the luck of

1158
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:10,640
the draw, yeah.
Well, do you just draft the

1159
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,200
first 3 randomly and then it
goes in order of record?

1160
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:17,640
Nope, I'm putting off 32 and
grinding those balls up all 32

1161
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:20,240
teams.
And if, if the Oklahoma City

1162
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,000
Thunder somehow come out with
the top pick and they draft

1163
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,240
Peterson, then they're going,
you know they're going to win

1164
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:27,520
the title for a couple more
years.

1165
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,160
But just put them all in there.
It's randomized.

1166
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,520
Look, let's go.
You know who doesn't have to

1167
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:38,600
worry about tanking?
All the soccer leagues across

1168
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,480
the country that.
Yeah, Could you just get

1169
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,040
relegated to?
Have the relegation system.

1170
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,240
I mean, relegation system.
I love the relegation system,

1171
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:48,200
except there's no you're not
going to relevant, you're not

1172
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:51,760
going to relegate the the
Chicago Bulls to the G League.

1173
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,640
God, I would love it.
Wouldn't it be the best?

1174
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,920
Like you've got all these little
these cities across the country,

1175
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:02,280
like trying to put together
like.

1176
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,200
Real teams with players that
aren't affiliated like have a

1177
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,080
not a true minor league system,
but true lower levels.

1178
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:10,920
Yeah.
And they're trying to get up in

1179
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:13,280
the NBA, so.
We're going to have the Chicago

1180
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:17,000
Bulls playing at the Northeast
YMCA against the flag against

1181
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,480
the against the Middletown
Masters like.

1182
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,520
There wouldn't be any taking.
No, there would not be any

1183
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:28,840
taking but.
I know the EPL does not have to

1184
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,360
worry about tanking.
No.

1185
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:36,640
And we worry about this in every
sport except for baseball.

1186
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,920
I wouldn't say people take on
purpose in baseball.

1187
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:42,760
Taking in football is kind of do
you really take in football?

1188
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,000
I to a point, not as bad as the
NBA.

1189
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:48,960
The NBA is the.
Worst.

1190
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:53,560
It is the worst.
But you just look back at that

1191
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:57,720
Bengals, Dolphins game, the
draft before Joe Burrow and the

1192
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,880
Bengals are down, what, 21
points, something like that with

1193
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,000
Andy Dalton.
And they go back and they

1194
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,440
they're now like 14 with under a
minute.

1195
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,520
They get a touchdown, get on.
So I can't get a touchdown,

1196
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,560
force overtime and somehow lose
in overtime.

1197
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,840
But if they win that game, they
don't have Andy Dalton or they

1198
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,440
don't have Joe Burrow.
We have two.

1199
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,800
We all know how that would have
worked out, so yeah.

1200
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:26,440
So losing that game, maybe there
is there's a little bit of

1201
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,200
taking in football, but it's
it's the worst in in the NBA.

1202
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,120
I guess we'll close with a
little NFL.

1203
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,760
Tyreke cut by the by the
Dolphins.

1204
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,720
He vows that the cheetah will be
back.

1205
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:49,200
He's 31 years old.
Neil What we ever see the

1206
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,360
cheetah again?
Yes, yes, we will see the

1207
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,840
cheetah again and I'll give you
one guess as to where you're

1208
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,360
going to find him.
He will play for he will play

1209
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,520
for an NFL team when back when
he's healthy.

1210
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:00,960
Where do you where do you think
asked him to show up?

1211
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:05,680
Yes, he will be back with
Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and

1212
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,920
the Kansas City Chiefs.
It is already a foregone

1213
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:09,520
conclusion.
That's where he's going and

1214
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:12,480
watch he's going to somehow he's
going to be productive and we're

1215
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,440
all going to be like, God, I
thought this dude was gone.

1216
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,480
No, I expect him to be on a
Super Bowl winning Chiefs team

1217
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:22,160
now all of a sudden, like that's
just how it's going to work.

1218
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,160
Out you just said the Chiefs
were dead last.

1219
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:25,080
Week.
They are dead.

1220
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:27,480
They are dead, but now.
They get tiring back and they're

1221
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,280
not dead.
No, they're still dead.

1222
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,760
But watch.
Yeah, I, I expect, I think

1223
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,560
that's one place where he hold
fit.

1224
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,360
He knows that system.
He knows those guys.

1225
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:38,040
I think he probably would want
to go back to Kansas City.

1226
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:39,920
I think Kansas City would take a
flyer on him.

1227
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,120
So that's where I expect him to
end up.

1228
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,280
Yeah, like all that I could see
happening.

1229
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:54,840
And you know, we've been doing
this since August now somehow,

1230
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,400
and this is the first time we
really haven't been football

1231
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:02,880
centric because football's over
at the end of the football

1232
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:06,560
season.
We finally got like our art

1233
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:11,320
where we actually argued and
it's about Sam Donald and

1234
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:13,200
whether he's a top ten
quarterback.

1235
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,640
All week this week you were
talking about Sam Darnold and

1236
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,000
how I think you probably have
him up in the top five in your

1237
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:21,880
rankings.
Now I've dropped him to like

1238
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:25,080
#14.
So after the show last week,

1239
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:29,320
this argument continues on text
throughout the entire week where

1240
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,680
you're acting like I think Sam
Darnold's MVP.

1241
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:35,680
All I.
Said is he's the 9th, 10th best

1242
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:38,080
quarterback in the NFL.
He just won a damn Super Bowl.

1243
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:40,520
He's been a number one seed for
two years in a row of two

1244
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:42,960
different teams.
And you're acting like you've

1245
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:46,000
got him all the way back at 28
when you've got him at 11 on

1246
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:49,200
your own list.
So I've got him at 9 or 10 and

1247
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,080
you've got him at 11:00 and
you're acting like.

1248
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,160
You know, I've got him at like
#15 now 16, keeps dropping.

1249
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:58,440
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you're ready to put a

1250
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:02,960
Hall of Fame jacket on the guy?
Hey, he keeps doing do this for

1251
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,000
three or four more years.
You stop that.

1252
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,880
Stop.
You're so you're saying if he

1253
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,120
doesn't do this for three or
four, so if the next four years,

1254
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,920
if he gets four more 1 seeds and
two more Super Bowls, he's not

1255
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:18,640
in the Hall of Fame.
That's absurd.

1256
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:22,320
No, your defense is going to
carry you to the Super Bowl.

1257
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:23,720
He ain't going to carry you the
Super Bowls.

1258
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:26,440
Eli Mating got 2.
We'll do enough to get you to

1259
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,680
the Super Bowls.
Eli Mating got 2 and we'll be in

1260
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:29,800
the Hall of Fame.
Because he's better.

1261
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:32,200
The Eli Manning is better than
Sam Darnold.

1262
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,320
Don't just say yes.
Yes.

1263
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,400
But The thing is you should say
right now is yes.

1264
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,840
You're correct, Neil.
Eli Manning is better than Sam

1265
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:42,000
Darnold.
Come on.

1266
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:43,440
We'll just wait till the end of
that cruise.

1267
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:47,360
All right, you know one thing
I'm surprised you haven't

1268
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:51,120
brought up yet?
A sport that you used to love as

1269
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:57,600
a kid, The Daytona 500.
I didn't watch the second.

1270
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:00,800
You loved that.
You were a big NASCAR guy.

1271
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,840
Grow up, were you not?
You would call.

1272
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,720
Yeah, like in the late 90s when
it was cool.

1273
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:07,560
Yeah, honestly, I'm, I'm, I'm
with you.

1274
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:08,680
I used to watch it back in the
day too.

1275
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:14,760
Late 90s early 2000s NASCAR 98
NASCAR 99 on the on the

1276
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:19,360
PlayStation was was a great.
Game so you're not you.

1277
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,680
Get frustrated, you get
frustrated, you go backwards.

1278
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:22,840
See how many people you can take
out.

1279
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,240
I actually did that as well.
Yeah.

1280
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,480
That was.
So what you're saying is, is

1281
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:30,880
you're, you're not, you're not
joining any NASCAR fantasy

1282
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,200
leagues like Kyle Ray?
I I couldn't name 5 drivers in

1283
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:39,400
the current NASCAR fields.
I don't know, but Tyler Reddick

1284
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:43,680
was your Daytona 500 winner on
the last lap.

1285
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:47,480
Came from third one.
Everybody crashed.

1286
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:50,800
It seemed like he's the only one
that apparently came out came

1287
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,920
out on stage.
Is he #45?

1288
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:56,600
Yes, yes he is.
Because he's a Jordan.

1289
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:58,960
He's a Jordan.
Jordan Jordan's first.

1290
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:02,480
It was Michael Jordan's first
dates on a 500 as a team owner.

1291
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:07,960
Yeah, so good for him, Jay.
But no I I did not watch the

1292
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:13,760
second I watched mine.
Both of my nephews play.

1293
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:18,560
Zeke had 6 points and then Wes
had two and then I watched golf.

1294
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:23,840
And Scotty Scheffler, who on
Saturday they're talking about.

1295
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:27,240
Dude, his streak of top 10s
looks like it's going to come to

1296
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,920
an end.
The man ends up one stroke away

1297
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:35,560
from from getting into the
playoffs 63. 9 under 63 on the

1298
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:39,480
last day.
Dude had three eagles and three

1299
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:44,000
bogeys and shot 63.
Yeah, it was looking awesome.

1300
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,280
There's the. 3 footer, yeah.
No, he's just a machine.

1301
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:50,360
He's an absolute machine.
He's going to win his fair share

1302
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:54,600
of tournaments again this year.
But your boy Rick start out

1303
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,640
first two rounds, I thought he
he was right there and then the

1304
01:06:57,640 --> 01:06:59,040
wheels kind of fell off a
little.

1305
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,920
Bit the wheels especially came
off on 6 on Saturday where he

1306
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:07,360
put in native area, dropped,
then hit it back into the native

1307
01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:08,920
area where he could actually hit
it.

1308
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:10,760
So he hit it out of the native
area.

1309
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:16,240
He's now hitting four and puts
it back in the other native area

1310
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:19,680
drops and then up and downs it
from like 100 out for A7.

1311
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:25,240
Yeah, that's 73 on Saturday.
Killed him, but I mean, he's

1312
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,160
playing some good golf.
Maybe time for 19?

1313
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:31,600
Three top 20s to start the year,
but you got to get you got to

1314
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:36,280
get inside the 50 of the World
Golf Rankings by Houston to get

1315
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:39,800
into the Masters.
A top five last weekend where

1316
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,360
you got a chance would have
done, would have got him inside

1317
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:46,040
that top 50.
So he has not played, he has not

1318
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,040
played well at Pebble Beach for
his career.

1319
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:54,480
So Friday was kind of a it was a
really good round for him.

1320
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:58,400
I still think 19th is his best
ever finishing Pebble.

1321
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:00,560
He's playing the best golf he's
played.

1322
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,000
I feel like the best golf he's
played in years, is he not?

1323
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:05,600
Played really well at the end of
the year last year but it all

1324
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:08,120
came late.
Is this is Ricky Fowler back?

1325
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:12,240
Not saying that yet, but you got
to play better on the weekend.

1326
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:13,960
You got to play better on the
weekend.

1327
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:16,279
And he he was just saying
yesterday too.

1328
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,120
Dude.
Colin won for the first time and

1329
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:27,200
since Zozo's I think 2022-2023
just shot 62 or 63 on Saturday

1330
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:31,359
to get in. 62.
Get in position and then just

1331
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:36,840
kind of didn't play great on
Sunday, but did enough.

1332
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:41,439
Did enough?
I'm just I'm happy golf's back.

1333
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:46,319
Yeah.
And look, we we can start

1334
01:08:46,319 --> 01:08:48,960
talking the Derby trail to here
over the next couple of weeks

1335
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,240
preparations.
We had the preparations will

1336
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:53,760
start.
I've said they're they're right

1337
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:55,960
around the corner.
They've already started.

1338
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:57,640
Yeah, the we'll.
Get into the bigger.

1339
01:08:57,640 --> 01:08:59,680
Ones, that's the major ones,
Yeah, those are the minor ones,

1340
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:04,279
but yes.
No, I'm excited to get off here,

1341
01:09:04,279 --> 01:09:07,399
watch some Olympics and we got
Houston, Iowa State tonight.

1342
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:10,080
Yeah, what's going on right now?
Actually, I was looking at that.

1343
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:14,479
It is 3533 cyclones with 2 1/2
in the first half.

1344
01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:22,080
Dude and then on Saturday, all
on ESPN, you got Arizona at

1345
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:27,920
Houston, Michigan at Duke and
Iowa State, BYU, which the BYU

1346
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:30,600
game has lost a little bit of
Lester now that Richie Saunders

1347
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,359
is out, but I.
Thought the Michigan Duke game

1348
01:09:32,359 --> 01:09:34,160
is a neutral site.
You sure about that one?

1349
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:35,600
It might be neutral, It might be
neutral.

1350
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:40,359
But you know, another weird
light season neutral site, non

1351
01:09:40,359 --> 01:09:41,840
conference game, but that's a
big one.

1352
01:09:42,359 --> 01:09:44,080
So yeah, that'll be, that'll be
a great one.

1353
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:46,760
Dude, we didn't even, we're
going over college hoops.

1354
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:48,640
We didn't even talk about
Michigan because there's so much

1355
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:50,840
going on.
Another 30 point win.

1356
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:53,120
They have 1030 point wins this
year.

1357
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,640
Yeah, 10, yeah.
They beat UCLA by 30.

1358
01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,120
UCLA is going to make the
tournament.

1359
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:04,080
Yeah, no, Michigan is.
It's the most since Duke in

1360
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:06,680
9899, and you remember how good
that team was.

1361
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:12,680
I love the Duke 9899 team, yeah.
So Speaking of the first time

1362
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:15,680
Duke wins my 30. 8:00 tonight or
37 tonight.

1363
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:19,480
So Duke's rolling as well.
So Saturday's showdown be a big

1364
01:10:19,480 --> 01:10:22,080
one.
But is this the first time all

1365
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:26,160
year, believe it or not, that
Michigan has been #1 they had

1366
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,440
not been #1 until until this.
Even after beating Gonzaga and

1367
01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:30,640
Auburn and all the rest of
those.

1368
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:35,360
Teams. 40 by 40 Yeah, I.
Think Gonzaga beats Kentucky by

1369
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:36,920
40?
Like right around that same

1370
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:38,480
time.
So Michigan would beat Kentucky

1371
01:10:38,480 --> 01:10:39,800
by 80, is that what we're
saying?

1372
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:44,320
Dude, there's the way Kentucky
played that Vanderbilt game.

1373
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:48,000
They very well might, but.
They're getting together.

1374
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:49,160
I don't know.
They're getting together.

1375
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:52,360
They're playing better.
I I, they, they weren't ever

1376
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:54,840
going to win on Saturday, but
that was more just because

1377
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:59,120
Florida's better and Todd Golden
was very open about their $22

1378
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,720
million roster.
Nice little dig on that one.

1379
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:05,160
Yeah, no small all.
Right.

1380
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:10,160
You got anything else?
Appreciate everybody who turned

1381
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:15,880
in alive.
Oh, oh, we got we got some

1382
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:16,800
views.
We got some views.

1383
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:20,160
So appreciate everybody watching
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1384
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:21,920
next week.
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1385
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:26,000
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1386
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,320
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1387
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:30,240
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1388
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:32,280
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1389
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:37,800
But for the 610 nil, I am
identity three weeks in a row.

1390
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:43,080
I called you 610.
Yep, very smart.

1391
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:50,200
I get in the two that the
numbers mixed up for the 66.

1392
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:54,840
Neil, I am the 410.
Nick, we will talk to you next

1393
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:55,840
week.
Thanks for listening to it's

1394
01:11:55,840 --> 01:12:06,800
differential. me, idiot.
Stupid.

1395
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:10,960
What an idiot.
How do you be so stupid?

1396
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:13,320
You can put that's what you're
doing that on purpose.

1397
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:15,280
So that'll go as your your
closer.