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[00:00:00] I love it, take projection Welcome everybody to Takin On Sports, IMTD, that is Greg. Greg, how you doing man? It's been a minute Man, it has been a little bit, but I'm good. How are you tonight, sir? I'm good, enjoying some rare, nice springtime weather deep into May here in Alabama Yeah, I'm sure

[00:00:28] Yeah, which I'm sure means a hellacious storm is coming around the corner, but you know Probably, probably, yeah That's how it goes Yeah, it's always one fun thing explaining to friends from different parts of the country is if it's usually hotter than hell this time of year and if you get a little break in nice weather, it probably means some bad weather is coming the next couple days Absolutely, absolutely

[00:00:56] Well man, it is, like we said, it's been a minute since we came to y'all We're happy to be back We got a lot to catch up on, or touch on Where do you want to start? You want to start with the NBA playoffs since we're currently watching the end of this game three here in Indiana? Yeah, we might as well go on Start, start Start there, so let's see, we're in the conference finals right now, of course

[00:01:24] How do you feel about these matchups? Like, does it surprise you that any of these teams are here? Did you expect something else? Do you think they deserve it? Just, yeah, go ahead

[00:02:03] I mean, I like the two, man. I mean, I like both matchups You know, I guess the biggest pride for a lot of folks was Boston, but I mean, New York I mean, they just did their thing You know Yeah, even before Tatum went down, New York was controlling that series They were winning that game regardless I mean, it was a freak little fall I mean, nothing crazy really happened there But I mean, they were good when it seemed like But I don't know

[00:02:33] You know, you never know But I just had a feeling of mixing and winning that series regardless Yeah, they certainly seem like they really came to play against a team that usually controls them Right But yeah, I think, you know, you feel bad, of course, for Jason Tatum Because that probably means most of his next season, too, is out the window Yeah, it's tough, right But yeah And then for Yeah

[00:03:01] But, you know, I think, I mean, I like both these series I think, you know, this Knicks pace yesterday has been fun I mean, we had a craziness in game one where the Knicks of 15 were less than three minutes and lost At home, in the garden In the garden Yeah It used to be one of the few still real home court advantages Just because the garden gets crazy Like when it's When it's a big deal

[00:03:31] When it's rocked Yeah, it's a tough place But Yeah, no, I agree with you It's an old school series For guys like us Grew up in the 90s Had those great Knicks and Pacers series Of course, the infamous, you know, Reggie Miller game You know, the seven points and Eight points and however many seconds it was Wow So, yeah, even when the, you know, before the series We knew it was going to be at least fun And maybe not quite as

[00:04:01] Hard You know, as those 90s series used to be But Oh, yeah, those used to be Oh, yeah, yeah Super Super hard But we knew these two teams You know, especially New York You know, they got chips on their shoulders You know, Indiana was here last year And they got a great young core themselves Absolutely Yeah, and these They have Cleveland pretty easily And that was my big surprise That'd be a better kind of shocker Yeah, that was my big surprise

[00:04:29] Because Cleveland looks so much better than the rest of the East And all throughout the season And then Indiana just Really Yeah Dominated them Yeah Yeah I mean I guess really it's not so surprising Because Indiana's I think probably one of the most underrated teams I mean, they're very Super talented I mean Have all the pieces I mean, they have Rick Carlisle Obviously he's already won the championship with Dallas

[00:04:59] I mean, he has Plenty of experiences And as a coach And the deep playoff runs You know, with the Pacers In the past And Nick I'm assuming the Mavs And then You know, back with the Pacers again And so, man He's experiencing this I mean Yeah No, yeah And then, you know But you don't feel bad for Cleveland Because, I mean You would have thought Man, this is their time I mean For sure, yeah Wide open Especially, you know With, you know Boston You know, losing Tatum

[00:05:29] And likely not even going to be there anyway Like you said They just And like I said They were just so good During the regular season You thought No way No way is this team losing Before the conference finals If not Right The NBA finals And You just wonder now And you hope If you're a Cleveland fan That you don't That management doesn't panic And, you know Shake up the roster too much That they just go Try to get that one piece You know That's missing Right I think for the most part You just try to run it back

[00:05:58] As best as you can Yeah I mean I think you just Keep your core Might get a couple I mean No one has a Zach Samosh Every year You might get a Couple of role players But, yeah Man, you keep that core The same Run it back Obviously It's not broken You know They just ran into An Indiana team That's A hell of a team Right now Yeah No, exactly And I was gonna ask you If you thought That this Pacers run

[00:06:28] Was kind of one of those Like teams of destiny runs But then they blew A 20 point lead tonight And New York's up two With under three minutes To go here So We'll still We'll see how this ends I was about to say Yeah We'll see how this ends Right now Because if they win That's 3-0 With another game at home Tomorrow Or this week Yeah That's It really does feel to me Like a

[00:06:59] A team That Keep having crazy Comebacks They've had a crazy Comeback against Cleveland They've had a crazy Comeback against The Knicks Yeah I don't even remember Who they played In the first round Four So yeah Who was the five seed This year Was that It's been It's been so long And when I'm in New Orleans For that Jazz Fest work I am just Literally Turned off To the rest of the world Yeah Time stops Exactly The only thing That is

[00:07:28] In my world Is You know Working that festival Setting it up Doing it Breaking it down And then like You know Once or twice You know Getting out with some Friends in New Orleans You know Our old buddy College buddy And friend of the Take Of course Nate Barfield Nice Yeah Got you know Out with him And folks You know Go ahead and give him Some free advertising This is the one free one Nate Everything else You gotta pay for us If you're in New Orleans Go check out His new restaurant

[00:07:58] Hot Stuff Opened up last year It's a good old Old fashioned Alabama Style Meat and Three Done up Nate's way There in the heart Of uptown In New Orleans It's damn good food Y'all It's hot stuff And this is the end Of the free advertising Okay But uh No yeah Back to the series Yeah it's been In the end It just feels Yeah you mentioned The comebacks In this series In the Cleveland series Just the way They're winning games I mean that Halliburton shot

[00:08:28] To tie it In game one That crazy bounce Just the way Yeah the turn And shoot It's I don't know It just seems like Yeah it's hard to Yeah but if they If they hold If they come back To win here It's hard to argue They're going to the finals If If they do lose That's a hell of a win For the The Knicks In a must win game On the road Down 20 To come back Put some confidence Back in you Exactly Yeah And you know We got Game one I mean the way They lost game one I mean that shit

[00:08:57] Has to shake you To the Core Core I mean just your Confidence I mean You were up so big At home The crowd's going Crazy I mean There was no way The Pacers Were going to come back And then the threes Just kept running Yeah Yeah they just Kept dropping Tyrese Halliburton Has just gone up Another level This series Yeah Probably everybody Says he's overrated Man stop that Yeah he He turned to Oh can he Get the shot off here Oh Brick

[00:09:28] Not a Not a good shot There by Myles Turner But yeah It's been a fun Series so far Oh here goes A good Nice Nice pass Oh good Uh oh Hmm Nobody wants to Make that big shot Right now I'm playing Uh yeah Oh Good outlet Minute Minute 37 Two Man This is gonna Come down To the last It is Yeah

[00:09:57] Uh crazy Uh Yeah man No this is gonna Be fun We're gonna be Distracted here for a Little bit folks Until this game's Yeah I will But uh Let's talk about the Other series Out in the west OKC Minnesota You mentioned You mentioned it's the The story of that one Is you know Ant-Man Versus SGA The two bright Young stars Two new faces Of the league Potentially Uh you know Taking over You know You know Ant went through Steph Curry You know Sometimes you gotta Yeah

[00:10:26] Literally you know Take these uh Beat the Yeah You beat the man Exactly Yeah Beat the man Yep that's right And That's a That's a start They done Minnesota did twice In fact He took out LeBron And uh Yeah And uh And the Lakers Pretty convincing Fashion Yeah And um And then this series Started And OKC Uh Two easy Pretty easy wins

[00:10:56] Not you know Super Yeah In the end Yeah By the end of the games It was clear OKC Was winning both And then Looking like they were Going to take uh Or excuse me No No Never looked like They were going to Take game three No game three Was just No yeah It was all Minnesota And Anthony Edwards Yeah They knew it was a must win They were at home And And they did what They needed to do Uh Yeah for sure So we got a 2-1 series There That's been That I hope

[00:11:26] Gets as good as we Thought it could be Uh After this win You know Yeah I'm about to So Um Cause sometimes I wanna see 7 Yeah exactly And sometimes You want a nice floater there Jalen Brunson Uh Sometimes you get these Series that go 6-7 games And all the games Are blowouts And so we hope We start getting Some good games Here Right Last second In that west Yeah Uh Like you know That's what you can say About this series Here in the east Is These games have been Crazy And gone down

[00:11:55] To the end Every game Is coming out To the last second Yeah Um Yeah so we're Under a minute here In New York Up to Even tonight Even tonight You had a feeling The Knicks were gonna Hit a run Like Yeah Yeah When they were I mean when the Pages were up Big in that first half And And when they got It to The 10 At the end Of the third That's all We're about To have a game Yeah Yeah That was big For them to get It that kind of Close Just a few Possessions You know Uh And

[00:12:25] That's a real That's been a big Thing in this Playoff Just uh Like no lead Has been safe In any series No Yeah For the most part Like this You can't You can't Take anything for granted In these series For points Yeah Doesn't matter Yeah The games themselves Yeah have been like that Oddly though The series Have been pretty Like once a team Gets out in front They've kind of Taken it Uh Right We haven't had any Crazy you know 3-1 Comebacks or anything Or No

[00:12:55] But uh I mean really This is the first Drama Has been the Knicks Yeah Well Well I guess The Denver I mean the Denver Denver Minnesota Went 7 But Like that last game Was just so terrible Yeah Denver just got smoked Game 7 was over Halfway through the Third quarter If not earlier Yeah Um Yeah And you know And then we We talked about Having to go through Those teams That was you know SGA and OKC Going through Uh Oh

[00:13:25] That's not good When Josh Hart went down And immediately Grabbed his knee Yeah That's Hopefully Hopefully He just banged it On the floor And Uh But yeah No you know OKC literally Had to go through You know Joker And the Nuggets And granted You know As a Nuggets team It's not the same As that championship Squad was And You know Aaron Gordon Injury You know He clearly wasn't Himself in that Last game But He played He played He played He played with a lot of heart

[00:13:55] He did Um But yeah That's That's one of those teams That's a good Good way to Segway into Next thing I have my notes For the teams eliminated Are there anything That really interests you Any teams In particular That stick out As You're very interested To see what they'll do With their roster The three I got Were what we just talked about One The Nuggets And then the other two Are the Lakers And then the Bucks With the whole Giannis thing I'm really Oh yes Yeah But yeah Who are you looking at Yeah

[00:14:25] I mean really You look at Denver I mean When they won that title Two years ago We really thought I mean I know we talked about it here We thought man This could be a Dynasty I mean They seem to have No weaknesses They ran through the The You know NBA finals And And they seem to be A team that was on And then last year They Minnesota upset them And then this year You know They fired their GM Their coach And Right before the playoffs You're like Man

[00:14:55] Is it really that bad Did you fire both of them Usually one goes But both And then all They got their coach It sounds like Rick Adelman's son As the coach And He seemed to I mean They seemed to respond To him pretty well There for For the series You know For the playoffs So it'll be interesting But yeah You want to know I wonder You know Are they going to Keep You know Are they going to Try to run it back You know Is Are they You know Is Russ done In Denver

[00:15:25] You know Obviously Joker's not going Anywhere But you know I mean Are you able To keep You know You know You know Does Gordon stay Does You know How long You know Does Murray Want to go somewhere To beat a guy At some point Or is he cool With his role I don't know Has he You know Would a team Want him as a guy Because his Inconsistencies Really are A big reason Yeah When he's

[00:15:54] When he's on He's amazing He is Yeah I don't know Yeah We didn't see Playoff Jamal You know 100% of the time This year No You know And he's had Those couple of Game 5s Or you know You know 40 some points He's had some amazing Time Or game 7s Not game 5 Excuse me Yeah I'm with you I think I'm really interested To see what Denver Does there

[00:16:23] In terms of Roster retention What they do Because I feel like After the title The front office Really did that team No favors And you know You got to retool You know You can't You know It's very rare That you can actually Run it back With the same guys Even go back To like The Bulls Dynasties You know They change it up A lot You know There You know Yeah Absolutely Yeah Obviously You got your

[00:16:53] Big pieces You know You're not Like you said You're not Doing anything With Joker If you're Denver You want to hold on To Jamal Murray too But after that You know Everything's open And sometimes You know If you got A lot of money Tied up in a guy Like you know Say Aaron Gordon Even as much As he means to that team Would it be More beneficial To trade him And get See what you can get Get a couple Cheaper pieces And try to You know Add some more So yeah I'm really interested In that The Lakers You know They're always Going to be Covered

[00:17:23] Because they're The Lakers They get Some much Yeah They get Some much Coverage I mean But it is Really interesting To see what That front office That team does There Trying to give JJ Reddick A squad And trying to see How they Bridge the gap Between The LeBron era And the Luke era Yeah Yeah That'll be Interesting You almost Wondering Is LeBron Going to run It back again Is he done Like who knows I don't think We'll know For a little bit I mean I don't think He'd want to

[00:17:52] End his career Losing like that But man He's still I mean It's still Impressive though You know He sits out More games And stuff And I don't Know But I mean At 40 I mean He's still Playing better Than 70% Of the league 80% Of the league It's crazy It's wild Yeah But I mean Obviously It's not It's not Anywhere Where they're No one Scared of the Lakers Like that

[00:18:22] I mean You know No one's Intimidated by The Lakers I mean It sounds Good on Pay-Per-View You have LeBron You have Luka But no one's Scared of the Lakers They're not Intimidating in Any way No one feels Like they can't Beat the Lakers So I mean They're going to Have to figure Something out Because right Now I mean There's about Six I mean Most of them Playoff teams Probably could Have beat the Lakers Honestly In the West So I mean They're still A playoff team But I mean

[00:18:51] They're definitely Not a title Contender by any Means So No But you know The Lakers They always find Them do stuff I mean Obviously They pull the Luka traits I mean Obviously They Do what they Can But I think The other thing Too is Some of that Magic I don't think People Some of these Players I mean Obviously I don't think There's as much Interest In going It used to be Oh cool I'm going to go Be LA Be a Laker

[00:19:21] I don't But the world That we live in Now and all The social media And everything I don't think It's such a big Thing Everybody Oh I got to Go be a star In LA You could be A star Anywhere I mean You could go Live an LA Lifestyle In the off season I mean I don't think It's as big As the pill As it once Was So I think That hurts Them a little Bit With just Where we are In the world But Yeah I think Obviously We're still The Lakers But It's not As easy As it once Was No for sure Yeah

[00:19:51] And you mentioned With guys Wanting to go there It's You can be a star Anywhere You don't have To go there You know It's more about If you just Want to play For that name You know Like Like any sport You know Like you know You're a Yankees fan That's That's part of the Appeal of why Guys sign There Is because They get to Play You know Put those Pinstripes On Yeah All the History Exactly Yeah You know And that's We see that And if you If you help Bring them a Championship Then you're Somewhat of a Legend Exactly You know Yeah Exactly And like I Said We see that Across all

[00:20:21] Sports You know You see it In soccer When you They still Get an offer To go somewhere Like Real Madrid They take it Because Yeah Exactly Yeah That's It's a different Level There are certain Franchises around The world That are a Different level And the Lakers will Always be one Right I mean You're at least Going to think About it Exactly Yeah

[00:20:51] You might not Always go But you're Going to It's going to Yeah Exactly It's going to Be a decision You got to At least think About it In the shower No Absolutely If not Sit down And I think It becomes More appealing To more people Once LeBron Is gone Honestly Yeah Yeah And you know It becomes You know Right now LeBron That was a horrible Shot Yeah It was That was a Terrible It Wasn't even needed It was

[00:21:20] They needed To get off a shot Yeah But I don't Yeah That's Rough It looks like The Knicks Will pull this On out Bar in a miracle But that was A rough Who was that Is that Siakam Oh yeah But that means The shot clock's off They went They were down Four They needed to get Yeah but Jesus No one cut to the basket Either Everyone was outside The three point line Nobody cut to the basket To give them A quick Quick two there It's a huge win For the Knicks though Yeah huge On the road

[00:21:50] Come back from 20 Cut You know The series is now 2-1 So they They got to the Lifeline now Pressure's a little bit More even now For game four Yeah For sure Yeah You know Off season stuff I mentioned Milwaukee You know There's been rumors That Giannis Is going to Explore his options Giannis is gone Yeah I mean I think Giannis Is gone I mean Obviously That whole

[00:22:19] That whole Situation I mean The Bucks Are done I mean They I don't know That They had a little You know They had the one Championship I mean That's big For Milwaukee But I don't think They ran that Thing right No yeah I didn't think They got rid of Bootenhoser I didn't think That was I thought That was Crazy And of course You know They had the coach And they fired him And immediately Brought in Doc

[00:22:49] And that hadn't Worked out for real Man No yeah That's Much like Denver What Milwaukee Has done after Their title Has been Questionable at best I mean Trading away Drew Holiday You know He goes and Helps the Celtics Win the title Yeah You know Bring in Dame Which you know Good but It wasn't Super working out This year Before he got hurt Yeah It wasn't a Necessary move I mean It wasn't like I don't

[00:23:18] I didn't hate it You know I got it I didn't hate it But they didn't The pieces around them You know They're still Depending on Chris Middleton And you know He just was Never healthy And now He's going to Be leaving He's gone You know You don't really Have the other Pieces there So yeah I'm with you I think That And I think Milwaukee would Probably be Better served To just call it What it is You know Get as much As you can Get a haul For Giannis And go on And start Get some good Picks back

[00:23:48] Because You know All of their Picks are gone You know This is great news If you're a Pelicans fan Because now What you thought Picked You know Their Drew Holiday trade You know You thought these Milwaukee picks Might not be worth much But Now there's potential That they'll be worth A whole lot Absolutely And you know We'll get to the This year's lottery In a second But yeah That's a really Interesting situation I think Milwaukee Needs to accept You know Giannis is 30 now

[00:24:18] He turns 31 At the end of the year I mean He's getting I mean He's had some Injuries now So Exactly You know Those big guys Always wear down Faster too But you Yeah You gotta get him While he still Has the value That he has I wouldn't want You don't want To keep him Too long Yeah exactly If you're Milwaukee Right now Giannis does not have Will not have More value Than he has Right now Yeah You don't want To turn into

[00:24:48] An beat situation Exactly Exactly So you Yeah You'd best be Served Getting him Out of there And hopefully In maybe a Three team Or something Where you can Get some picks Because You know If he wants To go to A contender You can't Trade him To a contender For picks Because those Picks aren't Going to be Great Yeah A lot of Contenders Have already Traded Exactly Yeah So You You gotta Do something Fancy But I think That you Have to You have To move On

[00:25:17] Even if The picks You get Yeah Even if The picks You get Aren't gonna Be top Five Like you Need something And you Need to Free up Cap room And you Need to Do something To get This team To get To the next Area And you Say thank You for Yeah He's been There what Like 10 Years now He's Brought you A title Yeah Yeah He's never Really complained Get me Out of Here At any Point So

[00:25:47] Yeah Seems like A good Guy So I mean It's been A good Run I mean You gotta Think I mean What have The Bucks Really been So I Mean You know They You know When we Were young They kind Of had a Cool little Run With Ray Allen And big Dog Glenn Robinson And But Outside of That I mean This has Been the Best The Bucks Have been In our Lifetime And we Of course We weren't Around when Luau Cinder was There Before He was Kareem In the 70s

[00:26:17] So I Mean They You know Probably Exceeded What most Bucks Fans Would have Ever hoped For Obviously Once you Win a Title You feel Like oh Man we Could do This all The time Obviously That's not The Hasn't Worked out As some May have Expected It to But yeah You At this Point You just Cut ties Do your Best you Can Get as Much As you Can And Hopefully Don't Fall off The edge Of the Earth Now Without You Honest Yeah

[00:26:47] Yeah So that's You know That's one Thing to Watch That probably Would be Biggest piece Of the Offseason If He does Actually move You know In trade Season I've seen Some wild Yeah I mean of Course it's All rumors And people Make crazy Things up All the time So sometimes You wonder What You know Some of the Things I've Seen for Yannis I'm like Wow That's Wow You better Win You better Win the title Real or Anything But yeah I've seen

[00:27:17] Some crazy Some crazy Things out There So Yeah Let's see Though But Let's talk About that Lottery Now Of course Happened A couple Weeks Ago Now And With a What 2.8% Chance Whatever Your Dallas Mavericks Nico gets bailed Out And Dallas Mavericks Get the Number one Pick And Cooper Flag

[00:27:47] As a Result Wow They've Already Come out And said They had No interest In trading To pick Right Yeah That's Already Been Said Yeah And why Would You I mean Just Cause You Untapped Potential So Much Upside I mean Yeah You gotta You gotta Your next Face of the Franchise After you Just Traded Away Luka Yeah Yeah You gotta You gotta Go that Route See how It goes I mean Obviously If You know

[00:28:17] Things Could work Out nicely I mean If If You know Eventually Kyrie Comes back AD Stays Healthy Cooper Flag With the Other big Men in There Derek You know Derek Lively And the Other Guys I mean Man I mean It looks A lot Less bleak Than what It did So We'll See how It all Plays Out Hopefully You know He Lives up To the Potential I mean Obviously We know How good He can Be You know And everybody

[00:28:47] You know Turns that on In the NBA But I mean He seems to be A hard worker Pretty humble Guy So I Think he'll Worst case Scenario If he's not A superstar He'll be A solid Guy I mean I don't Think he'll Be At I mean He seems To At least He'll At least Be a Solid piece Worst case Scenario If he never Turns into

[00:29:16] A superstar Yeah No I think Like you said His floor Seems to be A starter You know Multiple Time all star Probably And you know At least a guy That can contribute In a big way To a playoff Slash title team Yeah My worst case Scenario He's averaging Like 16 And 10 Exactly That's not That's not Shabby You know That's not Shabby at all But yeah I mean The upside Could be amazing I mean

[00:29:46] Obviously We saw Times at Duke When you're like Man this dude Is amazing I mean He definitely Doesn't necessarily Look like a Basketball player I mean He has a body More of a football Type guy But I mean Way more athletic Than you would Ever think Just by looking At him I mean Super athletic Dude And You know We We shall see How that all Plays out If you're But man Is it I mean Obviously

[00:30:16] It looks so rigged Oh man Especially Especially When people Yeah Especially when People started Pointing out Other things Like You know You just Didn't think About like The You know The year That the Pelicans Got Zion Was you know Right after They traded Away AD And the Year they Got AD Was the Year when They had to Trade away Chris Paul So it's like Or no It was the Year that

[00:30:46] They Someone bought Them That's what It was The league Took over Ownership of Them And then You know All of a sudden They get the Number one Pick for The new Owner You know It's like Oh Okay And then They're You know Obviously The Cleveland Getting LeBron And Cleveland Having back To back Number ones And Yeah They got Kyrie The year Of the The decision And LeBron Going to Miami So yeah There's some Yeah Oof Yeah That's some Questionable

[00:31:15] Things out There And of Course The original Thing was Of course The Knicks Back in the Day with Their Cold Yeah Envelope To get A cold Envelope To get Patrick Ewing And you I mean This Yeah I mean Definitely The conspiracy Guys have a lot To work with I mean It's not Wild I mean If you're A Wizards Fan How pissed Are you Oh man Wizard Wizard And Jazz Fans But For the Most part Just the Wizards Existence

[00:31:45] I mean It's been Sad Yeah The last Ten years Have just Been Terrible I mean It's been Bad Just I mean They get No breaks They never Win the Lottery Like Nothing good Happens to Them at all No yeah It's Yeah It's been a Rough life I mean Whatever You know The last time I remember The Wizards Actually being Decent Was when Gilbert Arenas Was really A star Yeah He had

[00:32:15] A nice Little run But even Then they Would always Always play LeBron Yeah In the playoffs And that Didn't End up well For them Did they Make the Playoffs With John Wall I feel Like They made A playoff Run one Time Recently But it Ended Quickly Yeah This has Not been Good Everybody Leaves Leaves Washington Yep Ever since They changed Their name You know If they Would have Stayed The Bullets You know What I'm

[00:32:45] Saying And that's Still the Dumbest Reason Because Crime rate Was high So Change Name Back to The Bullets And move Back to Baltimore There you Go Yeah But no Yeah It's rough For Utah The worst Record They didn't Get it Pelicans Were also In that Top four Chances And they Fell to Seventh Yeah Which I've Seen That's rough That is Tough Yeah That was Real tough But

[00:33:14] It's not Because Honestly Outside of Cooper Flag And both Players From Rutgers It's not It's not An amazing Draft class At all It's okay There's Probably Yeah It's definitely Better than Last year And there's Probably some Contributors Deeper Than But I mean If you're not In that top Five Exactly Yeah Falling out Of that Top five Was rough For those

[00:33:44] You know And especially You know You consider The Mavericks They get that After trading Away Luka They get that And then Number two Is the damn Spurs Who had the Shitload of time Exactly You mean Tell me now They're gonna be A number two Pick to that Roster With Wimby And oh Man That's insane I mean Castle Turned into Somewhat of a Stark I can't even Think of the Guard that went There You got Deere

[00:34:14] And Fox Yeah That's him Yeah I mean He got hurt But obviously Yeah You got The Spurs Reloaded I mean Obviously The biggest Thing of course Is who's Gonna be The coach Because Pop Obviously Is done Yeah Pop's Done Yeah Finally Set down With his Health And Yeah It's Tough Yeah Tough way To go out Definitely Not the way He wanted to Or anyone Wanted him to But Man is Certainly In the Conversation Of best

[00:34:44] NBA Coach Of all Time Absolutely I mean I hate The Spurs But Man He's just A Man Amazing Coach Seems like An amazing Guy Off the Court Yeah Obviously He's an Asshole To Sidelight Reporters But that's Kind of a Stick I'd say More than Anything Yeah He's like A loving Asshole To them In a way Yeah Yeah Yeah But man Just Just Man And you Know All his Former Players Love him I mean Absolutely Love the Guy

[00:35:14] So Yeah I mean And you Know Five Titles And uh Yeah Over the Span of Years He did It too That's What Always Impressed Me The most About The Spurs Was That they Did it So good For so Long I mean It wasn't You know Five titles In a matter Of ten Over the Long stretch That they Did In

[00:35:44] Three different Decades Technically Right Late 90s Title 2000 Yeah And then And they Were dominant In that little 2000 Little run Though Oh yeah They were Three and Five year Period I mean Yeah That was The height Of the Tim Duncan Manu Yeah That was The height Of their Dun I Forever Remember It was a Terrible Finals But I Just remember It The Finals Against Jason Kidd And the Nets And they Just

[00:36:14] Easiest Sweep You've Seen It was Just Damn Man Yeah That was A good Nets Team I mean You had Top of The game Jay Kidd Vince Carter Was Elite level Richard Jefferson Was a Solid guy I mean That was A good That was A great Nets Team If you Look back At it I mean I don't think I'm going to Talk about It much Now Because of The way They got House But That was A hell Of a Team Yeah I mean They just They just Kept running To the wrong Team In the Final And they They had The Spurs And then

[00:36:43] Before that They were One of the Lakers Victims That Three-peat Yeah Yeah Yeah No That was Yeah That was Some good Nets Teams They just Unfortunately Couldn't Get the Last piece There But No Yeah Yeah Tough Tough Break For some Teams Pelicans Fans Have been Trying to Soothe Themselves By saying That Well Steph Curry Was a Number Seven But not Everyone's Going to Be Steph Curry And

[00:37:13] That's Obviously Not a That's why He's a Once-on-a-lifetime Guy Yeah But That's Another You know Talking about Teams That's another Interesting thing Is the Warriors Yeah Yeah You're right You have to Think his Career's Coming to An end Sooner Than Later I mean He's Already Kind of A GM Guy At his Alma Mater So How You know How much Time Does he Have Left How much Does he Have a Desire To keep Going I mean

[00:37:43] You know They're Just What can They do With that Roster Because It's not A good Roster It's not Yeah It's It's Really Not You know Some of Those guys Haven't Quite Worked Out The way They Thought Or Hoped I Think Jimmy Butler Was a Great Addition I Think He Yeah It's A good Try But He's Also Got At End Of His Career Yeah So Yeah He's At The End Of His Career I

[00:38:19] He Live Doctor If You're A Dubs He's A Great Piece There No Yeah And He's He's The It's The Perfect Place For Him To End Up He Might Have Been You Know A Contributor Or A Solid Guy On Another Team But His Role Yeah His Exactly His role In Golden State Was The Perfect Role For Him And You Know He Really Turned That Into A Great Career But Yeah If You're If You're A Dubs Fan You Gotta Look At

[00:39:00] Wiseman I Don't I Don't Know Why He Was So Bad Obviously That Didn't Work Out But Yeah The Warriors That's Worrisome Yeah If You're A Warriors Fan You Know The Rest Of The West Teams You Know They're Loving It Because Finally We We

[00:39:30] Got Time Before That Obviously We Gotta Finish These Series Out Let's Move On Let's See What Else Is The Big News This Week Of Course Oh NCA Baseball And Softball are On The Headlines This Week We Some Great Softball Yeah Some Absolute Great Softball Super Regionals This Week And

[00:40:01] Unfortunately Yeah Exactly Unfortunately Their Draw Was Against Oklahoma And That Went About As Well As You Can Expect Yeah Yeah I Mean You Know Game One Was Frustrating Because We Had Ten Folks Got On Base Seven In Scoring Position And One Hit Yeah No No Hits With Runners In Scorer Position Only One Hit With A Runner On Base All Game And That Was

[00:40:30] Yeah And Really I Mean They Had Two Good Hits I Mean We The Pitching Was There So That Was Our Chance And It Didn't Go You Know They Had The Home Run And Four Time Defended Champs This Is Their

[00:41:02] Ninth Straight Ninth Straight College World Series Appearance They Will Go Ahead Yeah They Played Tennessee That Would Be A Great Great Matchup Them Versus Pickett And Tennessee Phenomenal Pitcher Probably Best In The Country Right Now Outside The Texas Tech Lady Oh Yeah She Was Dealing Against Florida State Yeah But

[00:41:32] For The Alabama Thing And You know I Watch A lot Of South But I Don't Know To Keep Up With The NIL Stuff And All That Supposedly We're Not Very Good At We're Very Low On Numbers Compared To The End Of The The The Staff Doesn't Get Paid A lot We Don't Have Much NIL

[00:42:02] And You Know We're Gonna Oh Man It's Without Without History It's Like They I Understand Women's Sports Sometimes Don't Get Nearly As Much Money But And In Today's SEC We're Gonna To Say Where We're At We're Gonna Have To Keep Dilling Money Cause Nath No Absolutely Yeah That's Yeah That's The Nature Of The Beast Now And We're Going To Figure That Out And There Probably

[00:42:32] Are Conversations To Be Had About Yeah Is This You Know Has Coach Murphy Done As Much As He Can Do There The Hitting You Did Improve Overall During The Season But Yeah That's The Thing This Season Was Started Off So Bad You Know We Didn't Win A Series Till Mid April Which Is Not And Really I Thought This Team Overachieved

[00:43:01] I Mean We Got A Regional I Didn't Know If They They I Mean We Weren't Going To Beat All You Twice In The Same Season Nobody Does That So Yeah That Was A Tall Task That

[00:43:44] But Yeah I Think You Said There Are Some Questions That Need To Be Asked At Least Some Conversation Need To Be Had Surround The Program In NIL And In The Coach And Cause You Gotta Get Back To That Level Like You Said This Is A Program That For You Know Was Behind Football At Alabama Yeah It's The Most Consistent I Mean Gymnastics And Softball Outside Football Been Most Consistent We Were In School Were The Consistent Programs Yeah Exactly

[00:44:14] Honestly And I Mean The Thing Though I Mean Obviously It's Hard It's Hard To Get To Oklahoma City And We've Done That 15 Times And That's Amazing But You Know It's Been 13 Years Since We Won The Title And I Get It's Hard To Do And You Know We But You Gotta Think About It If This Is Football There Be A lot More Talks About Switching

[00:44:43] Coaches And A lot You Know There Be A Lot Less Oh This Is Great As Is Yeah There Be A Lot More Conversations That Be But It's Still A hell Of A Season For What It Was I Mean I Think They Overachieved For Considering How Things Started And You Know We Just Ran Into A Buzzsaw But Yeah You Know Hopefully They Get Some Things Figured

[00:45:13] Out Add Some Pieces Out The Portal Because Obviously There's Going to Be Portal pieces That Could Be Added Hopefully We We Have An Amazing I Think A Great Field For The Oklahoma City This Year Of Course The Four Time Defended Champs Are There We Got Two New Folks In Texas Tech

[00:45:43] Ole Miss Who Never Been So That's Always Cool Yeah I'm Sure Fellow Taker Mallory Is I've Not Seen Her Social Media Post So She Could Be In Heaven Right Now Yeah Big Time First Time Ever I Mean They Went Into A Tough Series At Arkansas And Arkansas Team They Had A Hell Of A Season Man If You Are An Arkansas Fan Right Now You Have To Hate Ole Miss Even

[00:46:13] More So Than You Already Did That's Already A Decent Rivalry But The Rebels They Put 58 On The SEC Basketball Tournament They Were Eliminated By In The SEC Baseball Tournament And Now Super Regional Man Ole Miss Is Just And This Is Arkansas Team Did Man I Really

[00:46:43] Thought This Was Their Time To Go To Oklahoma City Finally They You Gotta Think Of Some Of The Stuff In Sports In General You Had The Complete Breakdown In The Elite Eight Was It

[00:47:13] The Sweet 16 Eight With Tech It Was Sweet 16 16 You Had That Complete Breakdown Of You Thought This Was To Finally Get Through Softball That Didn't Work Out And Of Course You Go Back To That 2018 College World Series Where They Had Oregon Stay On The Ropes And Drop The Foul Ball Tough Tough They Had Some Tough Breaks There

[00:47:43] We'll See Maybe Baseball Can Come Through For Them You You Mentioned It's Great Field We Got Oklahoma And Tennessee Florida And Texas Are The Other Two Teams In That Bracket That Side Of The Bracket On The Other Side You Mentioned Ole Miss And They Go Against Texas Tech Who Upset Florida State Yeah The Most Dynamic Pitcher She Just And Then You Got A Couple You Know You Got

[00:48:13] UCLA Team That's Been There Before No Stranger To This This Stage And Then 16 Seed Oregon Yeah Who Who's Been There Seven Times Yeah Also No Stranger You Know You Know We Talked About As Good As The SEC Has Been The Standard Before You Know The Conference Got Brutalized Of Big Ten But The Pac-12 Pac-10 Was The Standard In Softball For Many Years Yeah For A long Time

[00:48:43] The Pac-12 Was Yeah But Yeah It's It's Interesting To See These Sides Of Bracket You Know You Got Your Three SEC Teams Or Four Excuse Me One Side Is All SEC Yeah You Know With Oklahoma And Texas And Florida And Tennessee And On The Other Side You Got You Know Two Big Ten You Know Former Pac-10 Teams And UCLA And Oregon Texas Tech Ole Miss There You Mentioned The First Timers The 16C Technically Because You Know Oregon Only Had To Beat Liberty Who

[00:49:13] Came Out Of When OU Is Playing It Is 90% OU Yeah But There There Is Pretty Close Oklahoma City

[00:49:43] But There Are Some Great Yeah Great Potential Matchups There Absolutely Let's But Yeah Should Be Fun And I Can't Wait To Watch It On The Other Side The Guys Side Baseball Wrapped Up Conference Tournaments This Week Are Tied A Second Round Lost To Tennessee Which Unfortunately Meant They Will Not Host A Regional That Was I Was Hoping We Might But They Now It's The Regionals Tonight As far As Who's Hosting And It Was Eight

[00:50:13] SEC But We Were Not One Of Yeah You You Gotta Think And You See Tennessee Is One Of You Gotta Think If Alabama Been To Pull That Game Out That Might Have Flipped The Script I Mean There Was A Couple Of Ones I Mean Obviously If We Won That Last Weekend Series Against Florida Yeah That May Help Out Yeah Yeah And Then Man The Tennessee You Know We Had Just Come Back In The Top Of The Six Went Up Six To Five And Bottom

[00:50:43] Of The Six Immediately Tennessee Took It Back And Then Port It on Yeah Rough Way To Go Out But They Projected As Probably A Two Seed In Some Regional Somewhere Last One I Looked At Was The Florida State Regional Tallahassee So That's Of Tough But We'll See Where It Ends Up It's It's All About If You Can Get Hot Exactly Yeah This Is A Team They Got The Players Man Justin

[00:51:18] Next Year's MLB Draft Luckily We Get Him For One More Season So He Stays Yeah I Think We're Amazing That We Kept Them This Year I Think Next Year May Be

[00:51:49] Arkansas Southern Miss UCLA Vandy Who Did Win The SEC Tournament Ole Miss And Florida State But Yeah Go Ahead Where You No That Van Not Saying Just About Alabama You Know Hell Of A Season Overall I Mean Over 40 Wins For The Team I Mean Lost No Midweek Games For The First Time Ever I Believe You Know Didn't Get Swept All Season And A Winning Record In The SEC So Those Are Some Things That I

[00:52:19] Think Show That We Can Hang With Some Teams You Know If We Get The Right Matchup And You Know Kind Of Like Basketball Getting Out Of The SEC Might Be The Best Thing For The Tide You Know Playing Somebody New New Outside The Conference I Get The Most Worrisome Thing Is Our Pitching You Know Our Relief Is So That's Going To Be Interesting But We Have We Had The Bats To Hang With Folks If We Can Put Some Runs

[00:52:48] Up Yeah Even In For Alabama To Get A Host Spot You Know So They Wouldn't Have Them As Their Two Seed Cause You Know It's Going To Be A Tough Task For Any Team Yeah That's A I Just

[00:53:19] Don't Want To Go To SEC Region Honestly No Yeah Like You Said Let's Get Out The Conference Yeah And Prevent That Or What I Don't I Mean

[00:54:06] I And Then You Look At You Know Who Is Hosting UCLA Is Hosting I Mean We Know Their History I Mean I Mean Whether We're SEC Or Not I Mean It's Gonna Be Tough I Mean Obviously The ACC Clemson North Carolina Florida State Man But I Mean North Carolina House Clemson In That ACC Championship It Was Crazy Did Yeah And Then You Know If You Look

[00:54:36] At Right Now Going Into This I'm Saying Vandy Is Looking Very Good And Things Can Change But Right Now I Mean The Way I Mean The Way That I Mean They Fell Off A Little Bit After Their Little Run But Seemed To Be Back Back On

[00:55:06] It End Of The Season I Think Like 16 And Six To End The Season So I Mean They Have Been Hot As Of Late So I Think That's Not The Team You Want To See But We All Know It's All About Runs There And If You Can Get Hot At The Right Time You Know We Seen Some Weird Things Happen In Regionals And Super Regionals And Baseball Especially So Yeah And About

[00:55:44] That Selection Show For That Is Monday Morning At 11 Central Time It Should Be A Fun Tournament There As Well Let's See Elsewhere Just Covering The Stay In College Real Quick Some Big News Earlier This Week The NCA Or College Football Playoff Committee Announced That They Will Change Seating For This Year's Playoff They Will Just Do Straight Seating Yeah We Talked About That Which Just Means That No

[00:56:14] Longer Do The Conference Champs Automatically Get Those Buys It Will Just Be Seated 1 Through 12 Yeah In The Top Yeah They'll Get The Bump But Yeah Boise State Never Again Will You Host Yeah Exactly Yes So Sorry For Boise And Arizona State But Again Also You Know It's It's One Of Those Things Where Like You Know They Got Those

[00:56:44] Buys But They Also Didn't Get To Host A Game At Home So That's The Change I Want To See With Those Teams You You Gotta Have More Games On Yeah Exactly Yeah Although I Have Seen

[00:57:14] So We Do Have A Bracket For What It Would Have Looked Like This Past Year Would Have Been 12 Seat Clemson At 5 Seat Notre Dame So That Might A Good One And They The Winner Of That Would Have Faced 4 Seat Penn State You Had Boise Notre State Way And They Would Have Gone To Indiana

[00:57:44] And That Team That They Not Match Up Of Course They Would Have Gone On To Oregon Oregon Benefits From This Because That Means They Don't Have To Face Ohio State In

[00:58:16] Tennessee Yeah Yeah That That Arizona State Team And That No Fear They Had Yeah That Would Have Been And Speaking Of Tennessee You Probably Get A Texas Ohio State Much Earlier Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Tennessee Would Have New The 10 Yeah And They Of Course Winner That Would Have Faced Two Seed Georgia So Yeah

[00:58:46] There's A Lot Of Changes No Notre Dame Georgia Unless You Know In The We We

[00:59:40] Exactly Yeah You Mentioned Of Course Possible Texas Ohio State Second Round Game A Little Bit Earlier And Then You Know With Georgia Sitting There As a Two Seed Either They Get A Rematch With Tennessee Or Upstart SMU If They Pull The Upset In Knoxville They

[01:00:10] See It Yeah This One Year Until You Know Who Knows What Happens After The Next Round Of Whatever And They Expand The 16 Teens It Sounds Like We're Getting To 16 And Eight Four SEC Four Big Ten Big Ten And Two From The Big Twelve And Two From The ACC And And I Mean Obviously You Know The ACC And The Big Twelve Are Just Trying To Hang On You

[01:00:40] Know They Kind Of In For The Ride I Mean They Don't Have Much Bargaining Power So I Mean They Eventually Down The Road We're Going To Get Away From You Know I Think A Lot Of People Talking About We're Going To We've Talked About It's Going To To More

[01:01:10] To The NFL Model Of You Know Divisions Regions More So Than Conferences Yeah It Just Seems Seems Like It's Only Amount Of Time Because That's The Way That The Big Ten And SEC Are Just Basically Forcing It To Be Yeah I Mean I Don't I Mean I Don't A

[01:01:49] A Bid And Then You Have Six At Large Spots Yeah It's It's More Than Enough For The SEC And Big Ten To Get In Multiple Teams Yeah I Don't I Don't Like It But Obviously That's For The TV Revenue So They're Going To You Know You Hope That At Some Point The Bubble Burst And Know

[01:02:19] Who Who Knows We'll See Yeah That's The Biggest Thing Is What Actually Comes Of That As Far As You Know If You Have Come To A Number That You Only Have This Month N. I L And Yeah And We'll See How That Goes And If It Is Because

[01:02:49] employees of the schools that changes a lot of things and I don't think you know sometimes that sounds good but man you have to think eventually employees can get fired so that's a slippery slope yeah this is a yeah be real interested to see how that goes and we just hope that at the end biggest thing I'll say about that no matter

[01:03:17] how y'all come to the solution don't get the government involved please no please no we can't even figure out real issues that affect everybody let's be honest most of these folks aren't watching sports like that they're here to get their name in there get their policies and whatever else I don't care what side you're on no

[01:03:46] yeah no let's keep the government out of our football yeah and so I mean we the only government the only government interference I want to see is a unless they pass a bill that says we have to bring back the old conferences you know bring back the Big East bring back the Southwest Conference bring back the Pac-10 oh yeah do it right if we're going to do it do it right yeah and keep the playoff but yeah so

[01:04:16] you know of course like you said we've been gone a while we missed some stuff of course the NFL draft happened you know we don't need to talk too much about that it happened it's been gone but were you happy with the Cowboys draft or is there anything specific you want to talk about from it you know I thought it was I mean it went okay you know I was I mean obviously we had other plans in place you know I was you know we got Booker there so I mean I wasn't mad that we got him but you know

[01:04:45] kind of one of my receiver but of course we got George Pickens after so that kind of alleviates that whole conversation but I did like the biggest thing I liked about our draft I liked getting Booker kind of that replacement from Martin I also like the running backs we got later guys but I mean we got the running back from Texas and then the Clemson guys so I mean you know we've been deprived of a running back got some you know young guys in there that had decent

[01:05:14] college careers so we'll see but you know I think Dallas we usually draft well it's just what we do with free agency that's been our problem but we usually solid job what do you think about the Ravens I mean I liked it you know having Malachi Starks fall to you in the first round you can't complain about that especially when that's exactly you know one of the most needed we needed to get Kyle Hamilton you know

[01:05:44] a partner in crime back there unfortunately you know there's some news our Darius Washington our other safety got a big injury either I can't remember now but Achilles or ACL during training or just training in his house or whatever it was something crazy so he's going to be out for probably this year but still that's huge you get Starks I like that guy from what Marshall that edge rusher White I think yeah

[01:06:14] thought that was a good pick they got you know some more secondary help you know drafted cornerback drafted a late receiver what's his face too I know but no I really enjoyed it or I really liked what the Ravens did this year yeah they Mike Green that's the guy I'm thinking I knew it was a color Mike Green he's our second round the edge rusher you know he's got some definitely some

[01:06:45] character issues he needs to you know take care of that's something that the Ravens you know have been good at in the past yeah and we hope that we got a lot of offensive line help got Emory Jones from LSU I like that pick in the third round oh yeah great pick yeah got a big tackle from Alabama A&M and I think we got one more guy later in the draft another offensive guy I think another LSU guy actually real late like I say

[01:07:15] got a couple cornerbacks got a looks like I think a linebacker and stuff what's his name that guy from Cal yeah Teddy Buchanan that's his name yeah and then of course you got a kicker in round six Tyler Luke from Arizona Justin Tucker was officially released yeah so you know terrible way for you know the great career to end but that's on him yeah but doesn't look good yeah

[01:07:44] it doesn't look good and now the Ravens are moving on and we hope this kid from Arizona is and they signed someone else too I think after the draft but yeah and then we got one of the Colorado receivers too LeJonte Wester okay yeah so I yeah I'm pretty happy with the way they drafted and I'm pretty happy that the Steelers still don't have a quarterback yeah yeah yeah it looks like

[01:08:14] we'll have a tough schedule next year but yeah I'm happy with the way the off season has gone so far and we'll see you know Baltimore loves doing those post June 1st free agent sign-ins too oh yeah so I'm sure there's a couple more pieces to be added there yeah is there anything else though let's see what else do I have oh and of course another big piece while we were gone Pete Rose was reinstated man that

[01:08:44] like what come on man he's gone now like I mean that happens all the time I mean overall you like it but it's like man yeah you know yeah exactly why I you know I've said I've probably said on here before but anybody knows me knows my feelings in the Hall of Fame are quit being so holier than now if you're the writers you know with with the

[01:09:13] steroid guys and even guys you know we got guys like Ty Cobbs in the Hall of Fame he's a just world class piece of shit so yeah come on you know I mean we we have people they didn't want to each role a unanimous guy exactly what are we doing here yeah we it's not about the writers yeah it's not about your feelings or the sanctity of the game it's about what they did while they were playing the game absolutely and so yeah Pete Rose bet on it

[01:09:43] Pete Rose has some other shady shit and as a guy yeah Pete Rose may be a questionable guy as a baseball player one of the best to ever lace it on one of the greatest of all time and that's all that should matter for the Hall of Fame in any sport yeah because I mean in any sport you know you're gonna have two questionable guys I mean every sport's had it I mean that's just people are people there's city there's talented people that are great characters and there's plenty of talented people

[01:10:13] that are complete assholes and do horrible stuff but on the field yeah I mean obviously you know Barry Bonds if he never gets in that you know that's the one probably I don't know if we'll ever see him get in yeah and yet could have got in off his pirate's career exactly yeah that is what people don't realize he before even like so the consensus seems to be that it was around 2000

[01:10:43] or so that it really showed that he was juicing and stuff it was definitely post the Maguire so as a home run chase because you know that's what that's pretty much what yeah forced his hand as he were to put it but if you look at his stats before that he was a hall of famer already that guy was a multiple time MVP in the early 90s yeah but yeah so that's they keep running to the Braves in the 90s

[01:11:12] exactly yeah I mean yeah Barry Bonds multiple ran into twice with the Pirates and then again with the Giants once he moved there in 93 it's what's called the last great pennant race when you need it to win your division to get into the LCS yes and you know the Braves and Giants you know were both together in the NL West because you know that made sense but the Braves won it and you know it went down to

[01:11:42] a one game playoff it was an absolutely outstanding pennant race and yeah but like you said Barry so my computer made a weird noise at me and I do not know what it was anyway anything else from you want to touch on before we get out of here

[01:12:12] I mean it's been a lot of stuff I think we did a pretty good time actually from honestly to college softball and baseball it's been a good softball great world series coming up the

[01:12:41] baseball tournament always lives up to the expectations spring sports kind of gets less talked about but right now is a great time in sports right now so yeah you got the NHL Eastern Western Conference finals even though I guess East

[01:13:11] I mean there haven't been a competition no yet East hasn't been much of a final but yeah Stanley Cup playoffs always great NBA playoffs great you got your softball world series got the college tournament coming up yeah baseball you know major league baseball is kicking you know we didn't even talk about that but that's kicking in high gear Ronald Acuna back for the Braves first pitch you saw yeah and then hit another one later in the series but I'll tell you

[01:13:41] right now if the Braves don't figure out the bullpen it don't matter how many home runs Ronnie hits that's that bullpen is atrocious right now and it blew another game today and it's hmm but no yeah I agree with you great great time in sports right now absolutely perfect you know kickoff to the summer here shortly but all that said Greg so what is done up real good for you just yeah

[01:14:11] I mean it's been a lot but I would probably say just end of the school year for my kids I'm about to have an 11th grader and a 6th grader so that's crazy it goes so fast I know you got a little guy still but man enjoy it because man when you look up one day what the hell happened how did we get to this point so but yeah so yeah so I'm kicking into gear with college stuff with my daughter

[01:14:40] you know the 11th grade is kind of that time when you start figuring out what you really want to do and where you want to go so be an interesting time how about you you know I'll say for this week just being back home you know like I said we were out of town for almost 7 weeks working and then we did take a trip to the beach after Jazz Fest was over to kind of relax kind of a combination Mother's Day birthday and just

[01:15:10] try to relax trip to the beach but it's been good to be home sleep in our own bed get back into you know and you know get back to my to-do list and you know get on with it but yeah it's nice to be back home and you know I think I was saying before we started recording but some unusually good weather here right now not too hot

[01:15:40] not too stormy but we'll see but thanks y'all for listening we missed y'all glad to be back hope y'all missed us as always subscribe give us good ratings or likes or whatever you do wherever you listen to us check out all the podcasts on the Alabama Take family of podcasts check out thealabamatake.com you can find them all there and you can find a bunch of other stuff there too I know I think

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[01:16:41] we know what it is but yeah as always keep it done up real good yourselves out there folks we will see you next week Greg buddy have a good one good soon