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The Steam Room

Dawgs & Drums + Maria Taylor

The Steam Room

Turner Sports

Basketball, Sports

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

ESPN’s Maria Taylor enters The Steam Room to talk about giving the commencement address at her and Ernie’s alma mater, the NBA playoffs, farm life and the incredible legacy of Lavonia Matthews. Drummer dude Harry Miree joins to celebrate his Webby win, make us all smile and team up with Charles for a good cause. Ernie thinks you should watch Whiplash. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And that steam is thick today, but it's excellent atmosphere for another episode of the

0:11.0

steam room, which is presented by Tso, the official watch of the NBA, along with Charles

0:17.8

Barclay, Ernie Johnson. Thanks a lot, loyal steam rooms for being with us. Always pumped

0:22.4

up to crank out a brand new episode for you. Oh, yeah, over the next week. Are you in

0:28.1

a good mood today, Chuckster? I'm in a great mood, man. Ernie, I am so pumped for these

0:33.2

playoffs. This is going to be the craziest, I can tell you, 36 years in NBA. I got zero

0:40.1

out there who's going to win the championship, and I cannot wait to get this thing started.

0:45.0

And we'll be talking to Maria Taylor, who is the great Maria Taylor, great Maria Taylor,

0:51.1

who is the host of the ESPN coverage in their studio. We'll be talking to her about not

0:57.5

just NBA, but talking about her commencement address at the University of Georgia. And

1:01.5

she's beautiful. She is just, she is just a delightful human being. And so that's still

1:06.6

to come on this episode. But we always begin with Chuck's first of all. First of all, you

1:13.2

know you have a lot of money when you get high in the materials. I've had direct material.

1:16.3

First of all, you know anybody around a motorcycle who makes millions of dollars, isn't

1:19.5

it? First of all, zero plus zero is zero. Well, I got a cup of things. Obviously, last

1:27.4

weekend, we got into the basketball hall of fame for our show. And I just want to reiterate

1:32.4

what I said last week, man, thanks to every single person who's ever worked. I know you've

1:38.2

been here 30 years. I've been here 20 years. And I know we get a lot of accolades that we

1:43.1

probably don't deserve. But it's because everybody behind the scenes. And I just want to say

1:47.6

thank you. I mean, everybody who's done anything on the show in my 20 years, you're all

1:54.0

a reason we got in the hall of fame. So I just wanted to reiterate that from last week

1:58.2

to say, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's for sure, Chuck, because you don't, you know,

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