HR 1: National Championship Coach, Cori Close!

Mason & Ireland

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4.5 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ireland is joined by Mike Trudell today in the studio! The crew is joined by special guest, National Championship coach, Cori Close! Cori discusses what it was like winning the National Championship as Head Coach of the UCLA Bruins Women’s Basketball team! The Lakers won last night vs the Warriors and will close out their regular season with two home games tonight and Sunday! Pepe Mantilla and Mychal Thompson will be in for the rest of the show! Ice Breakers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.3	Ba!
0:33.1	Desca, Grout Trudell.
0:35.0	Hey, we made it to Friday, people. Mason and Ireland, Mays still on vacation. We think he's coming back Monday. With him, you never know. He already tacked on a day on the front end of the vacation. M. You think he goes for a back day, too? 50-50. Yeah, I would agree. Brian. He's going to need to recover from his vacation. Exactly. Yeah. B.C.'s here.
0:54.8	Brian, how we doing? Pretty good. It's Friday. Got to love it. Amen. Friday. And Pepe and Michael will be here. And have you ever played Mike Trudell, Popery of Lies? I'm a longtime listener of Povery of Lies. I don't believe that I've actually played. I'll you this, last night, John, we're on the airplane and we're, you know,
1:13.6	we're about to land at one in the morning like usual.
1:15.4	Yeah. And I thought for a second about researching 1950s female movie stars. Wouldn't have a bad move. To get ready for it, but I didn't have the heart to do it. So I may, I don't know how I'm going to do in this one.
1:24.7	All right.
1:25.0	So right out of the gate today here in a couple of minutes,
1:27.3	Corey Close, the coach of the national champion, UCLA Bruins, will join us.
1:33.8	We've been trying to get Corey since Monday.
1:36.5	We had her on the third chair Tuesday night at the Laker game, and she was great.
1:41.6	So she's going to join us here in a couple of minutes to talk about everything that's been
1:44.8	happening with the UCLA women's team.
1:47.2	They are everywhere.
1:49.4	Everywhere.
1:51.3	Morning after the game on Good Morning America that night on Jimmy Kim alive,
1:56.4	Corey did the third chair with us.
1:57.7	They were honored at the Laker game.
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