397 - Love Out of Bounds: Rebound of Love: A Ref’s Story: Whistle of Love

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4.8 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Ref Nate is the #1 draft pick in the NBA Ref Draft. But when he falls in love with a player named Raz Hummler, will his personal feelings interfere with his ability to call the game fairly? For the first time in his life, this ref is going to take his shot. Lost scripted episode written in 2021. With Nate Ruess, @tom_on_here, Charles Austin, Andrew Hudson, and Alex Branson E1 on Patreon: www.patreon.com/e1podcast

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0:00.0	The following is an archived musical from 2021 that we never recorded until now,
0:04.8	and the songs were never finished, so we're winging it.
0:07.5	It's the first and only blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
0:11.6	Ladies and gentlemen, we will begin the first round
0:15.4	with the first overall pick in the 2021 referee draft.
0:20.5	The referees choose refnate out of Referee University!
0:27.6	Now on to round two with the second pick.
0:32.6	Ref Nate was ranked top in the nation in college.
0:36.6	He was in the Ref Final Four,
0:39.0	reffing his heart out at the top level.
0:41.5	In the Ref Final Four, people basically are watching the refs make good calls.
0:46.5	The players are just actors pretending to play,
0:49.0	so the refs can make their calls.
0:51.2	Right.
0:51.8	These days, they make you ref for at least one year in college before you
0:55.9	sign that big league deal. I know. I'm a basketball coach in the famous NBA. Perhaps you've heard of it?
1:02.9	Well, of course I've heard of it. I'm the head ref in the NBA. I coach all the other refs,
1:07.8	kind of like how you coach the players. Our roles are diametrically opposed, but our positions of authority and leadership
1:14.6	within our respective organizations give us a camarader
1:17.6	to the detective and the head robber from the movie Heat.
1:21.6	Now go on. Tell me about this ref Nate.
1:24.6	Will he make fair calls that will allow my players to do their best?
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