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Speaker 3: is Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: I'm behind the mic, so no behind the board, so
Speaker 2: good luck to me and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: We've already got a stumbling block. But if you can
Speaker 2: hear us, let me know. Cool, it's Tuesday. Thanks for
Speaker 2: coming in, Dave.
Speaker 3: Good. I do hear you, So everything's good on my end.
Speaker 2: I can't hear me, which might be the best thing
Speaker 2: that ever happened to radio. Well, keep talking, I can hear. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 2: welcome to Tuesday show. Yeah, Action Pack. Did you watch
Speaker 2: your game last night?
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: I watched the game on beautiful ESPN Plus. Look look good?
Speaker 2: Did I continue to hear that they're having issues a little.
Speaker 3: Bit here and there.
Speaker 5: There was few times where they just kind of dropped
Speaker 5: out and there was no signal for a second, but
Speaker 5: they were they looked.
Speaker 3: They looked fine when they were on the air. They
Speaker 3: were good. Yeah, that's good. You were you were there
Speaker 3: in person, which.
Speaker 2: Was a certain person, and I watched the game, wrote
Speaker 2: a column about it, kind of a calumn game story,
Speaker 2: and it was it was what it was. They you know,
Speaker 2: went out to that big lead.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: It reminded me of the big leads that Loot had
Speaker 2: with Luke Walton and Channing Fry and these guys, and
Speaker 2: they were just blitz teams, you know, blitz them and
Speaker 2: then it would just kind of be coasting. That's what
Speaker 2: happened to this game that they took the twenty three
Speaker 2: to four lead. I think it was they went twenty
Speaker 2: to zero I think at one point. Yeah, and you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: this is going to be fun. In fact, I tweeted,
Speaker 2: can we just call it a run rule and go home?
Speaker 3: Because you was going to be like the.
Speaker 5: Game was decided literally in the last in the first
Speaker 5: you know, two minutes of the game.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and then they kind of kind of mismatch.
Speaker 2: They kind of held steady the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: But there was one of one of my questions to
Speaker 2: Tommy was how difficult is it to and you know
Speaker 2: how this how difficult is to to keep a pedal
Speaker 2: on the middle like that when you're twenty five, you're
Speaker 2: kind of just playing.
Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, you want to get guys a chance to play.
Speaker 5: There were people you know, you know on that roster
Speaker 5: who it was their first real game, you know, so
Speaker 5: that I guess they were talking about some post game
Speaker 5: or some game game time jitters for some of the
Speaker 5: newer players, a couple of.
Speaker 3: Freshmen, a couple of transfers.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: It's different than the exhibitions, different red blues. So these
Speaker 5: were real, real you know, games account for statistics.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get used to these late night games.
Speaker 2: Duke in two weeks is going to be a late
Speaker 2: night game on a Friday on Friday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we'll see.
Speaker 2: But that's that's that's the aberration because everyone's going to
Speaker 2: want to get to that game. I've heard tickets are
Speaker 2: upwards of three four thousand dollars. Really, yeah, wow, some
Speaker 2: in some spots. Right, it's got to be.
Speaker 5: One of the more high demanded games we've had here
Speaker 5: in a long time.
Speaker 3: Well in forever, let me see.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they had that in Sean's time,
Speaker 2: although I wasn't as close to that program when when
Speaker 2: I left the paper, But I'm thinking the last time
Speaker 2: this happened, and you were probably still in the business
Speaker 2: at the TV show when North Carolina came in, uh,
Speaker 2: with the demand for that thing. But it was in
Speaker 2: one hundred seven hundred eight hundred dollars. Yeah, particular, you're
Speaker 2: talking nineteen or two thousand and six seven around there.
Speaker 3: It was a Saturday game. Marcus Williams was still here
Speaker 3: Chase day, like maybe two in the afternoon. It wasn't ye.
Speaker 3: It was a perfect, perfect timing and they just.
Speaker 2: Got destroyed and they just, yeah, this didn't show up.
Speaker 3: It was terrible.
Speaker 2: They had just come back from the California That was
Speaker 2: the beginning of the well, it was probably the end
Speaker 2: of the end of Loot's time, you know, he was
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven something like that. Didn't show up,
Speaker 2: didn't play, and they were just not very good. That's
Speaker 2: probably outside of his first year or so. That may
Speaker 2: have been his his worst team. I think it was
Speaker 2: one of his worst losses. Uh yeah, well even even
Speaker 2: possibly I'm giving three. I can't remember the final of that.
Speaker 2: I know it was double digits in the twenties. Maybe LSU.
Speaker 2: They played LSU over LSU got crushed by Stromole swift
Speaker 2: jobari why I think it was. And then they the
Speaker 2: Utah game, Utah game in the tournament, the lead eight
Speaker 2: where they just got blitzed. That may have been the
Speaker 2: worst loss of all time in margin wise. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: I'm sure you were there or were you there for
Speaker 2: the biggest What then in Denver, Denver when they lost
Speaker 2: in UNLV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was that was crushing. Was crushing underneath that
Speaker 3: right at me? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And then eighty eight of course when they just didn't
Speaker 2: Steve didn't shoot the ball. Well, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: what's going on. Yeah, is it maybe not qued up
Speaker 2: or something. It's strange. I don't know, but I can
Speaker 2: hear everybody. I hope we can get some calls in
Speaker 2: at some point. Let me tell you what the show
Speaker 2: looks like. Today we'll talk more about basketball day and
Speaker 2: thanks again for coming in. Sure we have uh, we
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Speaker 2: I think he covers the Sun. I can hear him static,
Speaker 2: but it's not not me. That's strange. And uh so
Speaker 2: he's there at the three seventeen hour in about ten minutes,
Speaker 2: then we're going to have at four seventeen, we're going
Speaker 2: to have uh oh, Michael Eb, Michael Eb. Yeah, Michael
Speaker 2: lov I just want to touch base with him. He's
Speaker 2: been busy with the football program, obviously, Jube. He covered
Speaker 2: or watched the UA women's game last night and then
Speaker 2: he was there for the men's game, so he's working
Speaker 2: double duty last night's game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just it was one of those days
Speaker 5: we had both games were on the plus it's very rare.
Speaker 5: So yeah, the four o'clock start for the women's game,
Speaker 5: I was watching some of that. Joe Vavassini on the
Speaker 5: call there, she's gonna, you know, continues her commentary role.
Speaker 5: She was on the PAC twelve network for a lot
Speaker 5: of years. So good to see the head coach back.
Speaker 5: And then followed up by the men's game later on.
Speaker 2: Right, he's good, right, Yeah, no, no, no, long day.
Speaker 2: Melbach was on that right with mill Buck was on
Speaker 2: with and Sutton during Sundon. I got to get him
Speaker 2: on the show too. He was good last time he
Speaker 2: was on. Yeah, he's good. A year and then Matt.
Speaker 2: Matt was kind of talking about who, uh I think
Speaker 2: was it Townsend or no? No, maybe a Waka who.
Speaker 2: He reminded he didn't have a measurable for him. Do
Speaker 2: you I put something on the on the old Twitter.
Speaker 3: The only thing I was said, your chance thouars? Did
Speaker 3: you hear me?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You can hear me?
Speaker 6: I can hear you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay you couldn't you had them off? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael writes, is not a battle. I went with
Speaker 2: geene Edgerson because he's more defense any offense. Well, he's
Speaker 2: more defensive offense, and Waka Waka was is not mostly defense.
Speaker 2: He's not an offensive guy, right right, So, but he's
Speaker 2: a big body kind of like those both those guys,
Speaker 2: and they take up room different than the real big guys.
Speaker 5: Came in last night and had a chance to play.
Speaker 5: So that was kind of fun to see Crevious on
Speaker 5: the on the court for the first time. Henry played
Speaker 5: until until he left whatever.
Speaker 2: How did he look on philm on the TV? Because
Speaker 2: to me, he's like lost some weight. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's the truth, but my eyes maybe been deceiving.
Speaker 5: He's he's still big, you know, there's nobody even close
Speaker 5: to his side out there, so he had that one dunk.
Speaker 5: I want to say, you know where he was prettym
Speaker 5: he made a nice move and got close. There's nobody
Speaker 5: really could even contest. Well, he looks he makes Henry
Speaker 5: look small. Yeah, those are two big guys. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean there's again, if they're gonna be if they can
Speaker 5: be mobile, because they're they're going to face other teams.
Speaker 5: They are going to have you know, that quality six
Speaker 5: nine guy who's pretty athletic that they might have trouble with, right,
Speaker 5: But you know, if they're just dominating some six five
Speaker 5: seniors or six five center, they're gonna have their way.
Speaker 3: Right Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's funny because the first game we saw,
Speaker 2: we saw a lot from Townsend, Townson, right, uh and
Speaker 2: uh waka early in the exhibition game, so we kind
Speaker 2: of glimpse of the other guys and what they can do.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, Dave, I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna come down to what we always expect the
Speaker 2: perimeter players, right, you know, Jean Bradley, kg Lewis and
Speaker 2: Love and.
Speaker 3: They all played great last Yeah.
Speaker 5: Really, their numbers were good and I mean that's basically
Speaker 5: what you know, what won them the game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you even notice?
Speaker 7: Love?
Speaker 3: And this is a serious question.
Speaker 5: Early on he kind of set the tone. He hit
Speaker 5: that three, like right off the bat, and then he
Speaker 5: made a couple. I think he had like seven of
Speaker 5: their first nine points something like that. Yeah, and after
Speaker 5: that he just kind of, you know, he was he
Speaker 5: was out there.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what they want from him. Not
Speaker 2: you don't have to do everything. You don't have to
Speaker 2: score a lot of points. He was seven for fifteen
Speaker 2: some like that efficient for him three four eight maybe
Speaker 2: from the three point line, so you know, you don't
Speaker 2: have to score twenty five to get noticed. I think
Speaker 2: his role is going to be exactly that. Just be efficient,
Speaker 2: be smart, and I think the scouts will find you.
Speaker 2: I still and you and I have talked about this,
Speaker 2: where he's last on the list of the NBA guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you're thinking he's an first team All American? How
Speaker 2: is that happening?
Speaker 5: I don't know how that's possible. I don't know what
Speaker 5: we're What are we not seeing?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: That's the questions defense? You know, you hit on the head.
Speaker 2: What are we not seeing? And that's the question. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then again, how often do you get paid the
Speaker 2: NBA scout.
Speaker 3: Exactly, me too, I mean, wait, there's got to be something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you're scoring twenty points a game, you're
Speaker 5: the team leader, you're doing pretty much everything that you're
Speaker 5: asked to do, and you're still in an All American.
Speaker 3: But the NBA scouts are looking at something else. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what.
Speaker 2: Right, and he's got well, what do we talk about
Speaker 2: when you're young, you're eighteen nineteen years old. Well, he's
Speaker 2: got potential, he's athletic, he's got a ceiling. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: got all He's got all that except for the high.
Speaker 3: Sleek because he's about twenty three years old. True.
Speaker 2: But but if you're capable and you're good, what's the
Speaker 2: point what's the difference?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, did he go to that Combine thing
Speaker 5: last year so he just didn't test well there or
Speaker 5: what was circumstances?
Speaker 3: It's that's the question. I don't know. They told him
Speaker 3: that he needed to come back.
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna make more money here anyway, for whatever
Speaker 2: he's making.
Speaker 5: Than going to some G League situation or Europe or something. Right,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm sure he wants to play in the
Speaker 5: in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Have you been to a G League game?
Speaker 2: No, neither, Why and guess what I might've venture to
Speaker 2: guess that a lot of people have never been to
Speaker 2: a G League game, So those arenas are not full,
Speaker 2: They're not even half full. So the atmosphere is totally
Speaker 2: different than a college game where everyone loves you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know I've been to I'm trying to
Speaker 5: think of where I was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've not been to a G League.
Speaker 5: In fact, I haven't really have never really lived near
Speaker 5: a G League team. I guess the Bay Area has
Speaker 5: had them, and LA has one, but you know, there's
Speaker 5: not been one in Arizona if I'm not mistaken, So
Speaker 5: we haven't really been exposed to that. Games rarely on television,
Speaker 5: so sometimes, like you said, sometimes you'll see them and
Speaker 5: there's one hundred people in the stands right there.
Speaker 2: Occasionally like kind of S two ESPN two right or
Speaker 2: something like that, you or whatever, But you know, why
Speaker 2: not come back, make a few hundred thousand and be
Speaker 2: beloved for the next eight months.
Speaker 5: Or six months, whatever it is, Yeah, and then see
Speaker 5: what happens, because you know he'll I'm sure he'll get drafted,
Speaker 5: I would think, but you know, maybe not in the
Speaker 5: first round.
Speaker 3: And that's that's why he writes kids.
Speaker 2: Well, you know who you know a guy who was
Speaker 2: not drafted in the first round who obviously had a
Speaker 2: fantastic career until he shut himself in the foot almost
Speaker 2: literally was Gilbert Gibber was the second round guy. You
Speaker 2: think he's even have his sophomore year. A lot of talent,
Speaker 2: but a knuckle ahead kind of you know, right, uh,
Speaker 2: and had a fantastic career out or he outside of
Speaker 2: here Be area guy who was ever two years three years?
Speaker 5: Didn't he get a first round contract or wasn't there
Speaker 5: some deal when he came out that he was still
Speaker 5: going to get first round money or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember that because he was like the thirty.
Speaker 2: He was like the first thirty. Yeah, he was like
Speaker 2: thirty two thirty three.
Speaker 5: He was real close, right, Yeah, you just got to
Speaker 5: you know, didn't you have Chase On?
Speaker 3: You had Chase On?
Speaker 4: Chase On?
Speaker 2: Yes, he's the second rounder sick around. Yeah, he lasted
Speaker 2: six seven years. Yeah, it's a pretty good run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no it is.
Speaker 2: And I said he was the best recruit that ever,
Speaker 2: Lutz said that he was the best recruit to ever
Speaker 2: come to Arizona under his under his.
Speaker 3: Time, well, Luke Walton was not a first round pick. No,
Speaker 3: there's been a lot of ten years. Probably there's been
Speaker 3: a lot of them.
Speaker 2: You can go through the list, and that's the whole
Speaker 2: thing is I think one of the things or marks
Speaker 2: during Loot's time. I'm not sure if that's the case
Speaker 2: with Sean, but they were ready for the NBA. They
Speaker 2: knew what to expect, they knew the drills, they knew
Speaker 2: the plays, stuff like that.
Speaker 5: He wanted them to have a career, not just go
Speaker 5: get picked in the first round, get your one little contract.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe big contract.
Speaker 5: But then Lut's was always was always talking about I
Speaker 5: want these guys to last out there. The Sean Brooks
Speaker 5: is the world to play, like seventeen years.
Speaker 3: Very much so.
Speaker 2: And he was the second round guy. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think he I think he was the second round think so. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so a lot of the list, a lot of the
Speaker 2: lists were second round guys, but obviously NBA worthy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're going to take a break here in about a
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, guys. Hey, now on the phone, I'm I'm
Speaker 2: Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver. We're kind of discombobulated, but hey,
Speaker 2: welcome everybody.
Speaker 3: Are we on the air. That's yeah, we on the
Speaker 3: You saw bookman from p h n X in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: How are you saw?
Speaker 2: Thanks for the helping us with the confusion. M HM,
Speaker 2: get us out of Houston. Welcome to Redio Live. Hey,
Speaker 2: I just our person, my my first time doing these
Speaker 2: crazy things here. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to town.
Speaker 2: How is it being back in McHale Center. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: no question. You've been out for like five six years, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: no question. Uh what did you make of the team?
Speaker 19: H m hmm.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, no question.
Speaker 3: And you're exactly right.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can have as much success as you
Speaker 2: can in November, December, January, and February, but you're measured
Speaker 2: in March.
Speaker 3: And we've seen what happens in March. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I always feel like they're they're they always sit back
Speaker 6: and take a look at, you know, what they could
Speaker 6: do better and what kind of adjustice they can make.
Speaker 6: And I and I'm sure that getting to the final
Speaker 6: four is obviously at the top of the list. And
Speaker 6: I'm sure they learned a lot from last year, and
Speaker 6: they learned a lot from the year before, and they'll
Speaker 6: consistently make those those adjustments as they go along.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking to Sew a little bit of a
Speaker 2: p h n X in Phoenix. Uh, you're covering, you're covering.
Speaker 2: What are you covering now? Because I know you were
Speaker 2: covering the Suns for a while.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so right now, you know, I'm doing some some
Speaker 6: content for for Arizona Basketball or Arizona you know sports,
Speaker 6: Arizona Walkout Sports.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then I still do my show with Eddie Johnson,
Speaker 6: which the Suns related and and you know NBA related.
Speaker 6: So uh, that's how I keep myself busy and in
Speaker 6: the content space outside of my my duties.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Fall City Network.
Speaker 3: Yes, So what are you kind of looking for down
Speaker 3: here or for Wildcat Sports?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I just do you know, supple mail content,
Speaker 6: you know, things that will attract people to our channel,
Speaker 6: things that maybe we don't discuss on our live show
Speaker 6: with Mike Luke, you know, the things that nature. I
Speaker 6: got another pod kind of in the works. Hopefully it'll
Speaker 6: come through here in the next week and we'll be
Speaker 6: able to do it with a former uf A player
Speaker 6: every week once a week. So it'll be a strictly
Speaker 6: basketball pod, which I think a lot of people would love.
Speaker 6: And you know, really last night and wanted to see
Speaker 6: this team in person and see what they were all about.
Speaker 6: You know, we'll get the feel for what this version
Speaker 6: of the Wildcats is going to look like before they
Speaker 6: get into Wisconsin and Duke to start. You know, really
Speaker 6: next week.
Speaker 2: I think you've been here time or two since you've left.
Speaker 2: You're here for the end of Sean, right, you know,
Speaker 2: near the end of Sean. What do you make of Tommy?
Speaker 6: I love them, I love them, I think you know.
Speaker 6: I know sometimes he'll get a lot of flak just
Speaker 6: because to the whole March Madness performances and you know,
Speaker 6: coming up short of expectations. But I just really love
Speaker 6: his approach, how he wants to try and develop his players,
Speaker 6: not only before the season but during the season, because
Speaker 6: there is those are two different animals, right, and you
Speaker 6: got to attack them appropriately. I just love where his
Speaker 6: head is at. I really do. I think he's one
Speaker 6: of the most cerebral coaches in college basketball, and he
Speaker 6: doesn't get enough credit for that. And I'm you know,
Speaker 6: you'd be hard pressed to find another leader of your
Speaker 6: program that does more with less than Tommy. You know,
Speaker 6: he doesn't have McDonald's all Americans on his roster, but
Speaker 6: hell if you would know after a year or two
Speaker 6: in their program. And that's the thing that tells me
Speaker 6: that he's he's a really, really, really good coach. He
Speaker 6: knows how to develop these players. He gets them to
Speaker 6: the league, and even last night when he was talking
Speaker 6: about Vsar and Crevius and their flexibility on defense and
Speaker 6: what they have to work on and talking about, you know,
Speaker 6: just developing them to feel confident and comfortable in those moments,
Speaker 6: not only for you know, the tournament, but also for
Speaker 6: their own future careers. And Dad, I mean, you can't.
Speaker 6: You can't if you're a if you're a parent and
Speaker 6: you have a player that's about and you have a
Speaker 6: kid that's about to go play for Tommy Lloyd, you
Speaker 6: got to feel a thousand percent confident in the development
Speaker 6: of their future, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty amazing too when you think about the roster,
Speaker 5: the makeup of it. You know, you've got transfers, you've
Speaker 5: got international players, you've got freshmen, you've got guys who've
Speaker 5: been around the program for now for you know, three
Speaker 5: or four years. Talk about just the challenges of being
Speaker 5: a head coach in this in this day and age
Speaker 5: where it's such a mixture of talent and you just
Speaker 5: try to put it together and and and make sure
Speaker 5: it's good.
Speaker 3: By March, Well, you know.
Speaker 6: What's so funny is I think about this a lot,
Speaker 6: because you know, when I first got to Tucson, I
Speaker 6: had I had applied to be the head coach over
Speaker 6: at Ironwood Ridge and and one of the reasons you
Speaker 6: know I was I was one of the last too,
Speaker 6: is the running and the coach that they chose, you know,
Speaker 6: had a lot of relationships with a lot of club programs,
Speaker 6: and at the time, I don't think I realized how
Speaker 6: deep that really runs. And to be a coach is
Speaker 6: kind of similar. You have to have not only connections
Speaker 6: all over the place, but you also have to have
Speaker 6: such a good kind of focus on every little level,
Speaker 6: not only on the recruiting side for high school, but
Speaker 6: also the transfer portal nil in house. You got to
Speaker 6: keep your players happy. Like I used to think, man,
Speaker 6: that would be a dream job to be a college
Speaker 6: head coach and recruit around the country and then come
Speaker 6: back and you know, coach your program. I don't think.
Speaker 6: I think being a college coach, granted it pays very well,
Speaker 6: is probably one of my like maybe my fiftieth choice
Speaker 6: of occupation, just because it just seems so daunted. This
Speaker 6: is so tireless, tiring, Like there's just so much work
Speaker 6: that you have to do to prepare yourself for success, man,
Speaker 6: And you've got to be you got you gotta be
Speaker 6: a special dude, and you've got to have a really
Speaker 6: good team around you to be able to pull that
Speaker 6: off as well.
Speaker 3: Say, you have to have good coaches.
Speaker 5: Jack Murphy has got, you know, great connections around the world,
Speaker 5: as does Tommy, so you know that's worked out for them.
Speaker 2: Well, let me say this, if that's the fiftieth job,
Speaker 2: I think college football would be fifty first.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it'd be one hundred and fifty first.
Speaker 3: That's why you're Alma monitored with football.
Speaker 2: You know, you have this guy who has this dream job,
Speaker 2: came into a good situation, and now you see this.
Speaker 6: I don't wanna. I don't wanna. I don't want to
Speaker 6: disrespect Brett Brannan because I think his heart is in
Speaker 6: the right place. But the thing that I keep going
Speaker 6: back to right now is as you were taking over
Speaker 6: the program, you knew what the expectations are. And so
Speaker 6: when I hear you know things like you said in
Speaker 6: his press conference earlier today, I believe about you know,
Speaker 6: expectations and not really having the talent to meet up
Speaker 6: to those expectations because of injury and blah blah blah,
Speaker 6: like kids don't want to hear that. Nobody wants to
Speaker 6: hear that. And a good coach, I'm sorry, a good
Speaker 6: coach will find a way to overcome most of those.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that they should be undefeated. I'm not
Speaker 6: saying that they should be you know, heck, you know,
Speaker 6: a five hundred record right about now, I think I
Speaker 6: would live with because of all the injuries. But they've
Speaker 6: looked largely uncompetitive, they've looked disorganized, and the development has
Speaker 6: not been where it needs to be, even from you know,
Speaker 6: just a schematic standpoint. And that's the thing that really
Speaker 6: gives me a lot of pause for concern, because you
Speaker 6: can't how do you develop anybody if they don't know
Speaker 6: what they're doing on a day to day basis, And
Speaker 6: that's problematic.
Speaker 3: No, I think you pegged it on the head.
Speaker 2: Early on, there were a lot of there were a
Speaker 2: lot of penalties, a lot of disciplinary things that you
Speaker 2: could think, you know, how does this happen? And it
Speaker 2: continued to happen, and then the injuries happen, and then
Speaker 2: it just kind of steamroll to the end.
Speaker 3: What do you what do you make of it? What
Speaker 3: do you make of this? Is he going to survive
Speaker 3: the first year? We think that he's got to survive
Speaker 3: because there's no money.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, listen, I think that they could always
Speaker 6: find the money if they really really want to. But
Speaker 6: I don't think he's going anywhere. I think desiret read
Speaker 6: Francois has a huge decision to make, and I think
Speaker 6: the decision is kind of easy if you look at
Speaker 6: the financial aspect of this. Get rid of the entire
Speaker 6: coaching staff outside of Brett Brennan. Maybe Dwayne A. Keena
Speaker 6: obviously want to keep him, but offensively, that whole staff
Speaker 6: has got to go, and you got you're going to
Speaker 6: hire somebody that you believe in for the future of
Speaker 6: this program if Brennan does stumble again next year, and
Speaker 6: I think that's going to be the route that they take.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, no, I totally agree.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, that seems to be kind of
Speaker 5: the way things are done in college sports these days,
Speaker 5: where they go after the assistance, which is a shame,
Speaker 5: but that's kind of how it's gone.
Speaker 3: But I you know, Steve was saying how this has.
Speaker 5: Kind of been an ongoing thing all you remember, like
Speaker 5: the first or second week, there was some comments I
Speaker 5: think got there was you know, some players were in
Speaker 5: the wrong position or they were in the wrong places
Speaker 5: on on on some of the pass plays, and the
Speaker 5: timing has been has been pretty bad really through most
Speaker 5: of the season, which you know, I doubt they'll fix
Speaker 5: that then in the last three weeks, but you know,
Speaker 5: I guess maybe changes are ahead.
Speaker 6: Well not only that, but like you know, you just
Speaker 6: mentioned that the the receivers not knowing what routes to run. Uh,
Speaker 6: And then if you look at if you really look
Speaker 6: hard on tape and you you look as you know,
Speaker 6: sometimes it's kind of difficult to see the the the
Speaker 6: all twenty two angle unless you got you know, access,
Speaker 6: But if you ever get a chance, look at the
Speaker 6: receivers and the way they run their routes. If if
Speaker 6: they're not the primary route runner, some of those receivers
Speaker 6: are taking plays off, which obviously, if you're a defense
Speaker 6: and you can key in on that, you're going to
Speaker 6: start to shift over to where that primary target is.
Speaker 6: And again, I just I really feel like this is uh,
Speaker 6: this is just really disorganized on a lot of different levels,
Speaker 6: and it's going to be up to coach Brennan to
Speaker 6: fix it, and he better because the way this makes
Speaker 6: me feel right now is very sing esque.
Speaker 15: It just be.
Speaker 6: So if you didn't know Brett Brennan before and know
Speaker 6: how much he loves this program. How would you if
Speaker 6: you if I showed you both of those teams, right
Speaker 6: if I showed you a sumlling team in year two
Speaker 6: or three and Brent Brennan's team in year one or two, like,
Speaker 6: would you be able to identify which is which?
Speaker 3: He's?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the good thing is that, like you said,
Speaker 5: Brent wants to be here, which is maybe what Kevin
Speaker 5: didn't really care too much about.
Speaker 3: You want to be here, but you're still not doing
Speaker 3: anything that's problem.
Speaker 5: Hopefully you know he's got he's got the motivation of
Speaker 5: warning to still be in Tucson and still be at
Speaker 5: the U of A.
Speaker 3: And you know, hopefully he's open to the changes. It'll
Speaker 3: probably be asked.
Speaker 6: If I think he'll do whatever it takes to try
Speaker 6: and write this ship. I do think that. But does
Speaker 6: he have does he have the ability? Does he have
Speaker 6: that the touch to be able to execute that at
Speaker 6: a high level.
Speaker 2: That's the thing that I don't know about right Well,
Speaker 2: the good thing is you have plenty of content to
Speaker 2: talk about. I will too when you're doing for sure,
Speaker 2: Jump security, Buddy, Jump security.
Speaker 3: Saul, thank you very much. I hope to get you
Speaker 3: back when you have a chance.
Speaker 6: Anytime, fellas. I appreciate it. Thanks Dade.
Speaker 3: Well wait wait, wait real quick? How can they find you?
Speaker 3: How can people find you?
Speaker 6: You can follow me at saul Underscore Bookman, or you
Speaker 6: can follow the Azy Wildcats podcast through pH and X
Speaker 6: Sports on any YouTube. Uh well on YouTube?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, great, thanks, so appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Thanks guys.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 2: I think what we're not going to do is we're
Speaker 2: not going to go to break because I think we
Speaker 2: use the brake our weight year to get back. I
Speaker 2: think I know what was going on. So we'll say
Speaker 2: we're gonna go all the way live here with you
Speaker 2: and me, Dave. Great, listen to Saul. He he's on
Speaker 2: the money with a lot of things, at least, how
Speaker 2: I think, because if you did put these things together
Speaker 2: and says who's who and what's what, and and maybe
Speaker 2: you've got to give him a lot of leeway, and
Speaker 2: you probably do because of the first year stuff and
Speaker 2: YadA YadA, But but he's right I mean, you look
Speaker 2: at things and they just don't feel right right well,
Speaker 2: I mean, I hate.
Speaker 5: To make it a big pictures situation, but there's it's
Speaker 5: kind of a you know, a lull around the u
Speaker 5: of A these years, the last year or so, and
Speaker 5: for this to happen and us now think you know,
Speaker 5: and now we're gonna have to try to pay off
Speaker 5: another coach again. They're already paying for two athletic directors.
Speaker 5: They're still paying for a president who's not here.
Speaker 3: I didn't even think about the ad. Yeah, they're still
Speaker 3: paying these people, these guys off.
Speaker 5: So I don't think that's going to be happening anytime soon, right,
Speaker 5: But but you know, it's the worst possible time to
Speaker 5: have a really bad football season. Sure is that people
Speaker 5: are going to be, you know, calling for this and
Speaker 5: just throwing out ideas that they're not they're not there.
Speaker 2: Well, here's your issue too, because you're out there going
Speaker 2: or you were out there trying to get some money
Speaker 2: from people who love this program or love this school
Speaker 2: school pretty much rather than sports. But sports was the
Speaker 2: gateway to your conversations, right well, for me, yeah, for
Speaker 2: you and for people like you, because you know, you're
Speaker 2: trying to get money and what's the connection.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's the the UFA is still raising
Speaker 5: three hundred million dollars a year. And it's not all
Speaker 5: for athletics, no, no, no, no, there's people giving.
Speaker 2: But the conversations are, hey, how about that football team
Speaker 2: sometimes so so there's that and and like now they
Speaker 2: have a buy and they come back and they play Houston,
Speaker 2: give me a gift, no matter how many people are
Speaker 2: going to show up for that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on a Friday night late late stars. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: where do you generate money? Yeah, so they'll be lucky
Speaker 5: to get you forty thousand because you're you're a nice
Speaker 5: guide day. I don't know, I'm thinking twenty five, maybe
Speaker 5: thirty if they're lucky.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I hate to be poo pooing it, but it's
Speaker 2: just realistic. Friday night, you says, Friday night, eight o'clock
Speaker 2: e thirty whatever, it is, late game.
Speaker 3: What are you for?
Speaker 2: Both teams not very good? Right, Remember, Tucson on a
Speaker 2: good day is forty five forty. This is Tucson on
Speaker 2: a bad day. And here they are, you know, basically
Speaker 2: at the bottom of the the Big twelve. Oklahoma State's
Speaker 2: the only other team that doesn't have a win in
Speaker 2: the in the conference, So that's kind of sad.
Speaker 3: So circumstances of events.
Speaker 2: So, Youvey, I think many thought that there could be
Speaker 2: changes yesterday, that he would bring in some change from
Speaker 2: maybe at the assistant level or whatever. I'm not too
Speaker 2: sure about that because you know, you have three games left.
Speaker 3: What's it? What's it mean now? No, I don't think
Speaker 3: it means much.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: Plus, these guys have been out recruiting. I'm sure too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and that's probably what this week is for with with
Speaker 5: with the buy. You know, I'm not sure you want
Speaker 5: to break up everybody.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: Usually these coaching moves kind of happen as the season,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe in that December period with the season's
Speaker 5: over and you know, other teams are getting ready for
Speaker 5: bowl games and you know, shuffling coaches during the holidays
Speaker 5: for their family.
Speaker 3: Mean, it's a tough business, it really is. You know,
Speaker 3: you move out a.
Speaker 5: Couple of coaches here, You've got to take a couple
Speaker 5: of coaches from somewhere else.
Speaker 3: It's hard.
Speaker 2: There's a reason why they get paid a lot of money. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that's also you know, it's also you know, party.
Speaker 2: You're right, it's part of that business. Part of the business,
Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, you rated on
Speaker 2: what success. Yeah, your wins and losses, and if those
Speaker 2: don't happen consistently, you're not the coaching anymore. Yeah, no
Speaker 2: matter how good of a guy you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: One of the things I always was wondering about too,
Speaker 5: speaking of coaching changes, was moving Ricky Hunley and Chuck
Speaker 5: Cecil kind of off the staff. You know, maybe that
Speaker 5: was their decision, maybe it was Brent's decision, but that
Speaker 5: never has really been explained. And those are two iconic
Speaker 5: members of the U of a family. Maybe they didn't
Speaker 5: want to coach anymore.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure. No, that's a good question, Dave.
Speaker 2: It's probably something that power will be is assumed, or don't.
Speaker 2: They don't want to ask the question, you know, because
Speaker 2: you get an answer and then you know this is
Speaker 2: but don't say anything.
Speaker 3: But people know, people know.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was such a big deal to get
Speaker 5: them here to begin with a couple of years ago,
Speaker 5: and they were all out to the staff and Jed
Speaker 5: Fish is going to bring in, you know, these former wildcats,
Speaker 5: and then they're gone.
Speaker 2: The first year, asked me about that supermodel. I'm David
Speaker 2: was their name again?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Just okay, whatever, just Steve, you were dating that super
Speaker 2: Go ahead and asked you were dating a supermodel? Oh yeah, yeah, Dave.
Speaker 2: I don't like talking about it now, you know. I'm
Speaker 2: just we're not together anymore. But I don't want to
Speaker 2: get into the details. You know what. You could talk
Speaker 2: about the engagement, but when it's over, you like, can
Speaker 2: we not talk about that? And that's what the situation
Speaker 2: is with your two guys, right, Although they're they're very
Speaker 2: prominent because Cecil Chuck is still on the field every
Speaker 2: now and again, and Hunley's still doing his stuff recruiting
Speaker 2: or talking to the kids and stuff like that. So
Speaker 2: they're kind of involved but not involved.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, and you know, they're now over thirty
Speaker 5: years away from their playing careers here and a lot
Speaker 5: of the kids maybe don't know who Ricky Henley was
Speaker 5: or what he did and what Chuck did, how important
Speaker 5: they were. But I think a lot of the fans
Speaker 5: who've been around for a long time just kind of
Speaker 5: wonder why are they not there anymore?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: Maybe they'll call in good.
Speaker 2: I hope I can get him on because he saw
Speaker 2: me the first time with these phones. Oh no, it's
Speaker 2: like panic in the streets. Yeah, we can talk more
Speaker 2: about basketball. I think I think it was a star.
Speaker 2: They they they've already labeled these guys the Baltic What
Speaker 2: are they calling them? Yeah, there's the Baltic bigs, the
Speaker 2: two the two big guys.
Speaker 3: Who said that? Who called them?
Speaker 2: Since the headline? I haven't even read the story from
Speaker 2: last night. Yeah, oh that's that's that's cool. I just
Speaker 2: like Corey called him. I like to call them passport
Speaker 2: you you know, because there's so many people.
Speaker 6: But it is what it is.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how he does.
Speaker 2: Uh. I agree with him with assault in terms of
Speaker 2: the development of the guys. They get better as they
Speaker 2: as they move along the system.
Speaker 6: Some did not.
Speaker 2: Boswell did not, but he had the kind of like
Speaker 2: fun and games issues. Yeah, wasn't taking things seriously. Bollo
Speaker 2: couldn't hit free throws, but he was pretty good. So
Speaker 2: it worked for some people some people, doesn't, you know.
Speaker 3: I just wonder.
Speaker 5: I mean, they've they've stuck around, they've got hurt. Both
Speaker 5: guys got injured in the last couple of years, and
Speaker 5: they've they're still here, so they must have they must
Speaker 5: have some good thoughts about Tommy and just the way
Speaker 5: the program could go. And sure, you know they're going
Speaker 5: to play professionally someplace, maybe not in the US, but
Speaker 5: they can go back to their countries and develop even more.
Speaker 3: They might have to take a pay good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but though I'm still confused on the international payments
Speaker 2: because I don't think they can get paid upfront.
Speaker 3: They have to wait for the nil situation.
Speaker 5: And a lot I mean, I don't want to get
Speaker 5: too deep into it because I didn't really read the
Speaker 5: entire article, but a lot of it, a lot of
Speaker 5: today's election has some importance to college athletics. Well who
Speaker 5: there's Ross Ellinger wrote a big piece on Yahoo about that,
Speaker 5: and you know, I suggest people look at that and
Speaker 5: just sort of see kind of what, uh, what's out
Speaker 5: there and what some of the Congress people will be
Speaker 5: looking at in terms of N I L and Title
Speaker 5: nine and uh, you know other things in college athletics.
Speaker 15: So there's.
Speaker 3: Thing, but it's on Yahoo. You didn't read the.
Speaker 2: Entire thing, No, it was just so that's me. You know,
Speaker 2: it's very long, very long. Yeah, and nobody reads that stuff.
Speaker 2: But no, I'll read it just for background because there's
Speaker 2: no question and it's funny because there was something thrown
Speaker 2: out there. I think it was Utah And it doesn't
Speaker 2: surprise me at all about nil where you know, Dave,
Speaker 2: Dave Silver's getting paid one point five million dollars. The
Speaker 2: rest of the group that he's that's protecting him makes
Speaker 2: you know, fifty thousand dollars exactly. And there's a disconnect,
Speaker 2: there's a there's a jealousy or whatever word you want
Speaker 2: to use because you're making that and we're making you
Speaker 2: look good.
Speaker 5: Well, they're paying all this money, you know, most of
Speaker 5: are paying for the quarterbacks put you know, let's be serious.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm sure Noah is making the most and
Speaker 5: they have an X amount of dollars they can spend
Speaker 5: and they're going to get this what twenty million dollar
Speaker 5: budgeted money here soon. So they're gonna that's what teams
Speaker 5: are doing. It's going to be like a professional franchise
Speaker 5: where you have to, you know, figure out what you
Speaker 5: need and how much these guys are going to want
Speaker 5: and who's going to get the most. And it's gonna
Speaker 5: I'm sure there's going to be moments in locker rooms
Speaker 5: where you're looking around down the row and going, man,
Speaker 5: that guy's making like ten times more than I'm making.
Speaker 3: Sure, why am I trying to protect him? Don't we
Speaker 3: see that in the workforce anyway?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And you know what, do you think the kids are
Speaker 2: oblivious to that or not oblivious but immune to that.
Speaker 3: No, it's part of what we're witnessing.
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question I felt that all along at
Speaker 2: the beginning. When when you know X is getting paid
Speaker 2: a ton, what what's the offensive lineman gonna say? I'm
Speaker 2: opening holes for the guy, look at me, at my chopliver. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure that's happening in a lot of places.
Speaker 2: Look at Florida State their quarterback who transferred in and
Speaker 2: they're horrible. They're horrible, and and he's making tons of money,
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, this is what I paid for?
Speaker 5: Well some of these you know, some of these kids,
Speaker 5: the who's the quarterback in Nebraska that he's an Arizona guy, right,
Speaker 5: was it Riola or something? And he's making it a fortune,
Speaker 5: you know, and the rest of his team is not
Speaker 5: making anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then how are they doing? Not very good?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's it's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 2: In fact, did you see the commercial on Doctor Pepper,
Speaker 2: those kind of clever commercials were the kid from Texas.
Speaker 3: The yours is yours? I say his name?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So he's the court you know, the main quarterback,
Speaker 2: and they call in and says, we need a backup,
Speaker 2: we need a backup.
Speaker 3: Well I'm not a backup, you know.
Speaker 2: And there about him back and I may not have
Speaker 2: the famous name and man, yeah, the good looks or whatever,
Speaker 2: but I'm no backup. And this guy's probably making a
Speaker 2: ton of money from that commercial. Yeah, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: here's here's an issue. These guys are making tons of
Speaker 2: money and what about this teammates? Yeah, well that's again.
Speaker 2: But the same can be said too in professional sports.
Speaker 2: I mean, Steph Curry's making you know, sixty million a
Speaker 2: year or whatever, and there's other guys that are probably
Speaker 2: making a million. Sure, sure, sure, sure no, But guess
Speaker 2: what's on if you're if you're making a million and
Speaker 2: you're worried about that, there's always a chance of not
Speaker 2: making the million and being cut right. You know. See,
Speaker 2: there's a difference to me in terms of well, you know,
Speaker 2: you're here you're good enough to make that million.
Speaker 3: But at this level, at this level, it's a different dynamic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure you had it yours your work.
Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't where you know, TV personalities, you know
Speaker 2: making this or someone else is making this. We tried
Speaker 2: not to, you tried not to. No, nobody's that, but
Speaker 2: it it happens to you probably know that. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: happens in our pistol. Well, this guy's covering this, and
Speaker 2: this guy doing this, and this is what he makes.
Speaker 2: It's all everyone seems unfair, but it's not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not. One of the good things about doing
Speaker 3: sports was it was like, you know, we we would
Speaker 3: just do it. We did it.
Speaker 5: It was ours to do. But there's certainly some competent.
Speaker 5: There used to be a pretty good competition in the newsroom.
Speaker 5: You know, in the morning they get together and they
Speaker 5: talk about what are we going to do today? Who's
Speaker 5: covering this? And you could just tell, you know, the
Speaker 5: top priority stories would go to certain reporters. So that
Speaker 5: was going on, but that was part of the business.
Speaker 5: And experiences is a factor there too, and.
Speaker 3: In some cases right right, and if you're good, they're
Speaker 3: going to give them to you.
Speaker 7: Right right.
Speaker 2: If you're not good, they're going to say, Okay, here's
Speaker 2: the here's the dog catching the man, or the men
Speaker 2: catching the dog.
Speaker 5: Now, I was thinking we were talking about the election
Speaker 5: and stuff, just just quoting some of the stuff here.
Speaker 5: They were talking about being college sports decision makers on
Speaker 5: at least three fronts. One of them is comprehensive congressional
Speaker 5: college sports legislation, the interpretation and enforcement of Title nine
Speaker 5: as it relates to athlete revenue sharing, and the debate
Speaker 5: over college athletes as employees. So those are things that
Speaker 5: Congress can be deciding and these university are gonna have
Speaker 5: to play by those rules.
Speaker 2: This is a dumb question because I know you you
Speaker 2: read it for a long time. Aren't you glad? Or
Speaker 2: are you glad that you're out of this business?
Speaker 15: See?
Speaker 3: Did you have any background in this?
Speaker 5: It's hard knowing we're you know, we're doing basic nuts
Speaker 5: and bolts of teams and games, and all of a
Speaker 5: sudden this becomes such a big story.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 5: You really need to hire you know, a business sports
Speaker 5: business these days. Sure, that's why there's these types of websites.
Speaker 5: That's what that's all they do.
Speaker 2: Let's cover this, you're you're right, You're right, you have
Speaker 2: to be specialized in what they're doing. But I'm talking
Speaker 2: more about the personalities because, uh, you know, there were
Speaker 2: a lot of we've covered cocky kids before. You know,
Speaker 2: guys who who who know their stuff that does the
Speaker 2: stink and blah blah blah, and you deal with that.
Speaker 2: But now it's but there's stuff doesn't stink and we
Speaker 2: got a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Then and then and then they're kind of hell with
Speaker 2: the kid gloves because I know, I know some of
Speaker 2: the callers don't feel this way, but uh, they're hell.
Speaker 2: They're treated with kid gloves and they're kind of fair game.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know if you would treat them as
Speaker 2: fair game, but they're they're making ten times what you
Speaker 2: and I make. Not that that's a jealousy, but they're
Speaker 2: professionals now.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, they're bringing the money to the school. That's
Speaker 5: always been the argument, right, But like I said, there's
Speaker 5: things happening today maybe in politics that could even affect
Speaker 5: more of what's what we've seen in the last five years.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure universities have a close eye on on
Speaker 5: the election as well. Just for that, you know, among
Speaker 5: other things. For that reason, athletic departments, you know, they're
Speaker 5: maybe not to go too far off subject, but I
Speaker 5: mean the u of A has a pretty strong presence,
Speaker 5: as do most universities in Washington, d C. So when
Speaker 5: things like this pop up, I was around meetings where
Speaker 5: Robert Robbins at the time was and he would be,
Speaker 5: you know, be right in the middle of Washington lobbying
Speaker 5: and talking to legislators and being involved in those kind
Speaker 5: of those kinds of stories. So yeah, kind of crosses
Speaker 5: over a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, no question, it's a strange world we live
Speaker 2: in and it's not going to get any better anytime
Speaker 2: soon because no one really has the answer. Although those
Speaker 2: questions that was a deliger yeah brought brought up, I'm
Speaker 2: sure they're going to be pressing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Plus, today we get the first college football football playoff
Speaker 5: poll comes out, So it's another big story that's going
Speaker 5: to be looming that we have not had a chance
Speaker 5: to cover in the last ever. So you know, have
Speaker 5: all these games coming up in December and January and
Speaker 5: twelve team playoffs, so that's all going to be unveiled
Speaker 5: later today too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to take a break here in about
Speaker 2: a minute or so and then talk to Michael Ebb
Speaker 2: for seventeen I'm not too sure I'm gonna do breaking news.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll just continue to talk. We'll talk maybe news
Speaker 2: of the day or up the sounds, gonna go through
Speaker 2: some stuff at the top of the hour. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure how I'm gonna make that segment my own when
Speaker 2: when we come back on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I missed
Speaker 2: those interns. I'll help you here, Okay, great, great? Do
Speaker 2: you have your your your mac book there?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay cool. I'll have money in here, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: let me see it. Let me let me text somebody
Speaker 2: here just to se Yeah, get out of here. We're
Speaker 2: pretty much done for this moment here in about a minute. Okay, Dave,
Speaker 2: thanks for for doing this, Thanks for hanging out with me.
Speaker 2: And you're here and probably not the rest of the week. Right,
Speaker 2: you're you're too busy. Whatever you want this week?
Speaker 3: Next week? Can you get to back tomorrow?
Speaker 2: May be back tomorrow, although we do have the interns
Speaker 2: back to take control of this show.
Speaker 3: Let me take the break and come back. We'll see