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It's time for coffee and company.
Fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety

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Holy crap, I don't know who
the hell we think when we are getting

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off our show. Idiots, the
kids are crying or turning off a country

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for screwing it all. Gold Play
intermurals, Brother, gold Play Intermurals.

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They're supposed to be with your adults, but they're really not. Who's the

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kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me? Now?

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Here's Nick Coffee. When I woke
up this morning, I wondered if we

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would actually be having a show today
because everything was working on my end.

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I noticed zero issue with any internet
connectivity, No technological issues. I mean,

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it's hard to notice any of those, even if they are going on

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as soon as you wake up.
But it was all anybody was talking about

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this worldwide tech outage. Any issues
on your in John, None wasn't even

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to wear until I saw social media
earlier today. It wasn't that long ago

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that we did have an issue with
AT and T yes, and there were

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a lot of people who did not
have cell service, and it didn't last

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like a long time, like a
full day or a week or anything.

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But I mean for a few hours. I feel like there were people who

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couldn't who couldn't use their phone,
like I think you can only use it

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on Wi Fi. And I feel
like that, you know, didn't get

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as much attention as as this,
And I don't know. I mean,

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I'm still I'm kind of fascinated to
see when these things happen, like what

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caused it, because it is a
It is a reminder how dependent we are

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on technology at every I mean and
internet connectivity, that kind of stuff.

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And I guess one little glitch,
one little screw up, can can really,

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uh really mess up a lot of
things for people. But I really

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don't I can't. Again, It's
not like I've made calls to everybody I

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know, but I'm not sure of
anybody that's had issues as far as you

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know, with with their work,
like what they're doing. I mean,

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I guess you work unless you work
at the airport. Apparently that was a

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big that was a huge issue.
And the company is called CrowdStrike. And

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when I read it at first,
and I guess at the time, I'm

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kind of halfway asleep, I'm thinking, like somebody went on strike and that's

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why this is happening because they want
better wages or something like that, and

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in the end it's nothing like that
at all. But yeah, it says

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there was an engineer who pushed an
update that caused a global IT meltdown,

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crashing Microsoft devices, taking down government
IT services in Australia, New Zealand and

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several US states, while disrupting global
banks, media, and airlines. So

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apparently the airline industry has really really
been a mess today because of this.

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American Airlines, Delta, United grounding
all flights to IT outages that came in

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at three o'clock in the morning.
There's a map here that shows the time

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lapse from twelve hours of all the
American Airlines, Delta and United traffic after

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they were you know, told to
you know, I mean, I'd be

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scared to death. I mean,
obviously I would assume that this wouldn't cause

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any issues with you know, the
functioning, the planes being able to be

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you know, functionable, and the
pilots and whatnot. But the coverage of

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it made it feel like, you
know, this was I mean, let

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me give you the quote that I
feel like got more attention than anything,

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and that is one of the let
me see if I can find it here

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is basically some It says, uh, let me see if I had I

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had it pulled up here. Now
I can't seem to find it here.

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Here we go. This is from
the Spectator Index. It says breaking.

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Prominent security consultant Troy Hunt says,
this will be the largest IT outage in

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history. And this is basically what
we were all worried about with Y two

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K, except it's actually happened this
time. I mean, I feel like

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that's an exaggeration, but I'm probably
only saying that because I have not been

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impacted in any way. But I'm
sure, I am sure that everybody that

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was at airports throughout the country today
that was impacted by this, with flights

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being delayed, canceled, I'm sure
they were very patient, very understanding,

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and very calm. In fact,
it would have been nice to be a

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fly on the wall at an airport
today knowing you won't have to worry about

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travel, just kind of going get
in, see if you can get in,

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and just see the you know,
the the shenanigans, the madness.

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You don't fly often, John,
but I mean air been for a long

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time. Airports are there's a lot
of tension in airports. In fact,

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it seems like every day because of
people having the ability to pull out their

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phone and video anything in any moment. Now, I like every day there's

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a new viral video of either somebody
who works for an airline being a complete

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ass and making a fool of themselves, probably getting fired, or somebody at

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an airport who realized, you know, they hit they hit a wall where

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they fully nude not too long ago. Yeah, I mean, there's no

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there's no place I can think of
where you are more helpless than at an

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airport. And it I've never been
at a point where I felt like I

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was about to, you know,
lose my cool or anything like that,

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because overall, I've had very little
issues with airlines compared to you know,

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some people, like I've had a
flight delayed, I've had a flight canceled,

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but usually you know, it gets
worked out and it's not some major

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inconvenience. But others, of course, I'm sure had me Like I hear

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people landing and not being able to
get off the plane for two hours,

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or getting on the plane having to
get off the plane, And you know,

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I've never, fortunately, I've never
had to deal with any of that,

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and it sounds like that stuff's kind
of common this day and age.

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But there the airport just does something
to you. I don't know if it's

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the airport bar where you get too
many drinks in you and you just,

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you know, get more drunk than
you've ever been because you're at the airport

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and times there's you know, time
stopped. There's like it does like there's

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no time at an airport, right, Like you're just you know, you

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can't control anything. So it's just
every you know, you're on their time,

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no matter what you're doing, where
you're going, so you just sit

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there and deal with it. So
maybe just people get maybe people get too

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hammered. But there are people out
there that have probably ruined their lives to

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an extent, who just really embarrassed
themselves, maybe got themselves arrested, maybe

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you know, went viral on the
internet for the wrong reason. And I

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would be willing to bet that maybe
not the majority, but a lot of

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those people are probably normal. But
the airport meltdown, it just you become

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someone you never knew you could be. Whenever you get completely fed up with

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the helplessness of the airline, meaning
that they're not going to you know,

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if you miss your fly, okay, we'll get in line. We'll give

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you a voucher for a free happy
meal and you'll like it. And we're

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not going to take any lip because
we've got all the power, we've got

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all the authority, and you just
lose your cool. I mean again,

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there's no better story than in Nashville. There was a guy who you know,

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he'd done enough complaint and he wasn't
a violent man. He was unhappy

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with the service he was getting.
Nobody was helping him, and he said,

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you know what I'll show him if
you know, if I really want

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to really want to get their attention
and let them know how upset I am,

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I'm going to get naked. That's
what he did. And he had

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to be carried out butt ass naked
at the airport in Nashville. And I'm

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not sure if they made any changes
to their policy, whatever airline it was,

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but they'll remember him and they'll know
that, you know, that's an

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option. Now maybe you will be
a little more courteous unless you want somebody

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to just get completely nude. So
yeah, I'm sure everybody was really calm

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today and understanding of this of the
situation. So the company is is CrowdStrike,

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which have you ever heard of him? For today? Nope, I

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haven't either, So I'm reading here
from our partners over WKHY. The global

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computer outage affecting airports, banks,
and other businesses on Friday appears to stem

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at least partly from a software update
issued by majority of US cybersecurity firm,

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CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike told customers early Friday
that the outages were caused by a defect

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found in a single content update on
its software on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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According to a post on x from
CEO George Kertz, the company's engineers took

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action to address the problem. Goes
on here to say that they told this

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is funny me. Actually they told
customers to reboot their computers and perform other

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actions if they were still having technical
issues. I do love then, no

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matter what I mean. We're talking
about a company that, again I've never

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heard of them, but they are
a major US cybersecurity firm that works with

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you know, the largest you know, I mean, they're they're huge,

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clearly, and they tell you they'll
power down, power up. You call

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Spectrum right now, because your WiFi
is slow. I guarantee you first thing,

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if you tried power down, power
up, reboot, and sometimes,

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and I'll be honest with you,
sometimes rebooting does the trick in every aspect

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of like technology. Like our TV
wasn't working the other day, couldn't get

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it, couldn't get the volume to
do anything. And I always leave the

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TV on, which probably isn't good
for my TV because weally you have a

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Roku, so like it just is
always at that Roku home screen and you

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know that floating screen saver looking thing. So finally, you know, I've

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powered the TV off, powered it
back on, and we were back in

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business. But I'm trying to find
the specifics here because this is one of

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those things that you see on the
internet and it would be really funny if

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true, but like it may not
be true. But apparently there was just

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one person who pushed out an update
that like caused this entire thing. And

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imagine being that guy. Imagine being
the person who you know, maybe prematurely

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did something, maybe you were supposed
to verify if the update was ready,

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and you know, somehow along the
way, you were the one that put

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this in motion that caused everybody you
know to have issues. The funniest thing

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I saw was that like Sports Center, they couldn't they couldn't show anything.

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They were unable to air anything on
TV due to Microsoft crowd that due to

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this Microsoft issue that is again from
CrowdStrike. So on ESPN and ESPN too,

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they were airing the radio shows that
were you know, I guess,

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not utilizing. Yeah, they were
just going live to the unsportsmanlike show,

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but without having any like b roll
footage to show, like it's just on

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Freddie Coleman and Courtney Cronen who are
filling in, which, hey, it's

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good that you had that instead of
just you know, showing a blank screen

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or like just a picture of something. But it seems like everything's good now,

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right, Like I haven't. I
haven't seen any like. It seems

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to me as if things have been
fixed and the issues are corrected. But

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when you have that kind of an
outage, even for like an hour or

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maybe even less than that, I
guess with the airlines, it becomes like

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a next level mess. But if
you've noticed anybody out there that like thinks

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this is some work that there's some
conspiracy to like all of our accounts get

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hacked and stuff like our credit cards
and all that kind of stuff. I

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haven't heard anything, but it wouldn't
surprise me if this is like a preemptive

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like test, like oh, if
we can do this, maybe down the

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line we can actually do something else. It's more devastating. Yeah, I

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mean, I'm not surprised, but
I guess i am a little surprised with

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it's people like that. I know, and I'm like, are you come

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on, like you really do you
think that they want to know your your

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bank account? I mean, like, I don't think it's more. I

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don't think it's so much about the
bank account as much as it is just

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getting everybody offline. Yeah, I
think because we you know, if you're

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it's dangerous to be offline this day
and age, depending upon you know,

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considering how much it's dependent upon every
day. And we learn that today.

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But do you remember when the AT
and T stuff didn't happen? Like I

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you better be careful of people always
thought it was like politics like somehow I

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mean again, you go to Facebook
right now, you scroll long enough on

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your feet, you'll probably see somebody
that is going to have some conspiracy that

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this crowd strike outage has something to
do with the election in November. It's

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one of the it's either going to
be the left or the radical left or

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radical right trying to do something to
bring down the other candidate. And I

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guess that's just the era that we
live in now, all right. It

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is Coffee and Company. Happy Friday, everybody. We made it. The

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a lot of you guys, So
if so, salute and we'll get you

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the company man, mister John Alden
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right now here in Louisvie. I'll
tell you that. I mean, we've

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got beautiful weather again today and we've
got the TBT tomorrow. It certainly looks

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as if ticket sales continue to be
going really well. And we got Gorgie

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Jang in town the TVT account that
is for the Louisville team. The Ville.

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They posted a picture of Gorgee in
Russ Smith and it did something to

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me, man, I could be
wrong, And I reached out to one

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of his former teammates to ask,
and they said that they believe this is

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the case, but they weren't for
sure. This is the first time gorgiy

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Jang has been back in Louisville since
he left, which you know, he's

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from Senegal, and right after he
graduated, I mean, he ended up

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going to the NBA, and he
was in Minnesota for a long time and

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you know, had a I think
a nine tenure career in the league.

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So you know, it wasn't as
if he you know, he didn't.

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This isn't considered his home. He
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I'm sure it's a special place for
him, but you know, know

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that happens sometimes, man, it's
and I think it used to happen more

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than it does now. But there
are probably guys who went to school for

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four years somewhere, played sports,
and just depending upon where life takes them,

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they really don't go back. I
mean, they don't have any reason

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to go back other than just like
maybe do occasionally visit. But if their

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new life post college is across the
country or across the world, it's not

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exactly super convenient. So I just
know this weekend is destined to be great

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because Gorgy Jang is here. I
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hoping he's going to be at the
game tomorrow at one o'clock. But how

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about Gorgs would be nice if he
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his he I remember when Gorgy got
his second contract in the league. That

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was you know, that was when
I It was around the time when I

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was really learning that getting a second
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you really have a chance if you're
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Now, a lot of these guys
don't. They blow a lot of their

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money and whatnot, and hey,
it's their money, they can do whatever

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they want with it. But Gorgy
Jang be in here. I don't know

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how it all came about, but
I know Peyton was recently in Vegas at

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the Summer League doing some networking and
ran into Gorg's and I don't know,

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maybe Peyton asked him to come on
back and take and make a visit and

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check out a lot of his old
teammates. I mean again, I wouldn't

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be shocked if guys like Shane and
I mean maybe even Russ. I don't

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know. Russ and Gorgy probably ran
into each other quite a bit in there

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when Russ was in the NBA.
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if this is the first time that
these guys have really been able to catch

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up. I mean, because I
could be wrong, but yeah, Gorgy

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was Yeah, no, he wasn't. Gorgey was not able to make it

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when they did the twenty thirteen championship
team celebration on the ten year anniversary because

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he was in the NBA still.
I think he was playing with the Hawks

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or maybe with the Spurs. So
glad to have Gorgy back. And I

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mean maybe I'm way off here.
They're going to announce the attendance, I'm

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sure after the game tomorrow, but
I feel like this is going to break

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the record again. It's seven two
hundred is the record for the most those

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people that have attended a TBT game, and Louisville last year wasn't far from

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that. I mean, I think
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fifty five hundred or something like that, and now I think you have so

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many people that experienced it last year
that can't wait to get out there tomorrow

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and do it again. And I
think there's many people like me that,

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you know, I would have gone, but I couldn't go because I was

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out of town. But I'm sure
some people last year were like, yeah,

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I don't really know what this is, like, I'm not going to

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make it a priority to go.
Tickets aren't super cheap, like you know,

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I'll watch when they're on TV,
but you know I'm not going to

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go. Well you should go,
and I'm taking my family, got some

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friends going, and the nostalgia here
is amazing. And I posted this video

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last night. Coriyaltis, who used
to do videography for the Louisvillen's basketball program.

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He was he was kind of kicked
to the curb whenever Pat Kelsey came

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in and brought his crew, which
happens. You know, it happens.

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It's not done, uncommon in that
role. But man, Corey's a great

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guy, does great work. But
he put together a video last year.

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I think it might have been after
their first game, really good cinematic footage

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and it just I mean, I
think it's the best way to show somebody

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what the experience is like if you
didn't go, because I mean it's Louisville

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fans on their feet losing their mind
at Freedom Haul, like Louisville's playing,

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you know, a huge conference game
in January, and yes, no doubt

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about it. A part of that
uncontrollable excitement and you know, just getting

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rowdy is because we hadn't been excited
about a basketball game in a long time.

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And you know what, here we
are. We're excited about the future

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of Louisville basketball, no doubt with
Pat Kelcey. But it's still been a

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long time since we were I mean, I think the last time we were

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really into a game and it felt
like you know it used to feel,

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was when we watched this team play
last year in the TVT. I mean

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Louisville opened up the season. In
fact, before they started the season,

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they lost a game to Kentucky Wesleyan, right, so like said, like

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they were again. There's one thing
I will look back on the Kenny pay

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era and say thank you for is
for being consistent and never giving anybody with

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a brain a legitimate counterpoint as to
why you should not be the coach.

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You know what I'm saying, Like
losing to Wesleyan in your second exhibition game

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with a brand new roster that featured
I mean, in fact, in that

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game, here I go again,
this is where I just block out and

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just can't help myself. But in
that game against Kentucky Wesleyan, Kenny Payne

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only played four and five star players
and lost that. Somebody yesterday asked me

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on the text line after the show
if my whenever I, you know,

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seemingly had a mini stroke and couldn't
finish it. You know that was weird.

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Man. My mom was was grilling
me yesterday asking what was going on.

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I'm like, I can't explain it. I don't know what it was,

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but I'm good now. But somebody
asked if I was at a Kenny

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payin effect, like did I have
PTSD about Kennie Payne on the show?

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And I just, you know,
locked up. So again, I hope

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I see every one of you listening
out there, which we have millions of

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listeners. That wouldn't be possible because
you know they'd sell out. But I

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know there's already gonna be a good
crowd just looking at the amount of tickets

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that are available, but it would
be so great to see them break that

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record in the first game. And
I believe you're gonna do it. I

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really do. I'll give you an
update here as we move along as far

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as what tickets are looking like,
because you can still get tickets in the

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upper sections, and I look today
again, I bought some tickets for some

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for some family that's going to be
going as well. And you know,

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as far as what's available, I
mean the first seat, like the closest

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seat, because it's to me,
it's in Freedom Hall. It's not all

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about being I mean, it'd be
great's great if you can get super close.

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But in the upper sections there's really
not a bad seat because of the

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size of the venue. But if
you if you have you know, if

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you've got an option, I think
you'd rather be closer to center court than

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to the far right or far left. And if you want it to be

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you know, just if you're just
basing it off the closest seat, you'll

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be closer to the far right of
the far left, But it's not it's

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it's probably midway through me meaning like
it's not row a b CD. It's

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it's much further. So, I
mean tickets are being sold, and that

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has me. Now again there's always
this scenario that people buy them and then

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resell them, Like, is that
a thing for this? You know what

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I'm saying, Like, is that
like if you're in the ticket hustling business

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where you find a way to snatch
up a bunch of tickets and resell them

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for more money, would this be
like an attraction? I don't know.

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Again, if there's a TVT spot
where this would be, you know,

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like a place you could do that, I guess it would be here,

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but it's not gonna sell out,
and I think people would be more likely

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to buy a ticket in the three
hundred section that's more affordable than somebody trying

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to you know, double or triple
the price to get into the lower bowl

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because again, you don't really have
a bad seat at Freedom Hall. Gosh,

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somebody asked me this earlier today,
one of my buddies, when's the

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last time I was at Freedom Hall
for a basketball game? I don't.

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I mean, I will remember being
at the at Freedom Hall for the for

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the Kentucky Derby Festival Classic years ago, but that wasn't I mean, I

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don't think it wasn't. I guess
it was the game they had it there,

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but that doesn't really count. There
were like five hundred people there.

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I think the last Freedom Hall game
I was at was the last year they

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played there, and I went to
two or three games that year. I

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was not there when they shut it
down with Kyle Kirk against Syracuse. But

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yeah, then nostalgia is I mean, it's we haven't even experienced yet,

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right the games tomorrow. We haven't
seen these guys play just yet. I

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haven't walked in Freedom Hall yet.
But man, uh, it's gonna be

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amazing and I'm looking forward to it. I'm also looking forward to the rest

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of the show today because we're gonna
have some fun. It's a Friday,

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vibes are strong, as I mentioned, and we'll mix it up. I

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do want to talk some football because
there's a crazy stat out there about Mark

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Stoops that I want to discuss.
And it's not I mean it is.

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It's a It's a stat that when
you see it you think wow. But

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to be fair, it's really not
that surprising. But it brings up the

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never ending debate that really is silly, and that's what makes debates never ending.

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When you know you'll never you'll never
get closure, you'll never get any

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You know you can have your opinion
and nobody will ever prove you wrong.

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And that is if Louisville played Kentucky
scheduling Kentucky played Louisville schedule like, what

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would it look like again? We'll
never know because that'll never happen. But

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it's a it's a it's a debate
that is, you know, never ending.

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Coffee and Company. Philbuth Thornton's right
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about an hour, we will be
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physical therapy. Looking forward to catching
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set four thirty. All right,
so I mentioned not really knowing a whole

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lot about who was impacted in this
uh tech outage, which is what it's

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being described, and uh somebody wrote
it on the text line and said that

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they work in healthcare and there there
was a lot of procedures canceled or postponed

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today because of the the outage,
which, hey, that mean if it's

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related to Microsoft, I'm sure there's
a lot of a lot of industries that

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rely on Microsoft services because you know, they're one of the leaders in the

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tech world. Yeah, it looks
like flights at the airport also here in

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town at Muhammad Ali International were impacted. So hey, if you were impacted,

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that's that's a bummer, and I
hope your day gets better. All

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this was shared yesterday by an account called

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SEC Unfiltered. They have fifty two
thousand followers, so clearly if it's satire,

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if it's you know, they don't
seem to have a legitimate outlet,

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meaning like they're not they're not.
There's not a website or anything. Maybe

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they have a podcast, I'm not
really sure. However, they mentioned Kentucky

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being under you know, flying under
the radar again, Well, actually they're

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reacting to that because that's that was
sort of you know. I mean,

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I didn't hear much of anything about
Kentucky at the SEC media days, not

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from anybody covering the league itself,
not from anybody covering UK. Now,

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I will admit I wasn't out there
looking for UK coverage because you know,

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I just wouldn't do that. And
it's not just because it's UK. It's

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because the coverage from media days is
usually pretty pretty vanilla, to be honest

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with you, but I feel like
it's been at least three four years now,

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maybe even longer that there's been well, you know, Kentucky, they're

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kind of flying under the radar.
Mark Stoops may have something special, you

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know, this and that, and
it seems like the one year where that

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wasn't the case, like when they
had when they brought back Will Levis and

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they were pretty underwhelming that following year. If you guys remember that, that

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I think was kind of their chance
to, you know, really take advantage

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of the fact that others in the
league had kind of given them some love

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and some expectations and they weren't claiming
they were going to win the league.

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But I believe that was the year
that it was Okay, Georgia is the

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team in the East, but outside
of Georgia, it's it's gonna be Kentucky.

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And you know, that wasn't the
case. So I don't I just

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don't think you're gonna see as many
SEC analysts media members kind of prop Kentucky

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up as this sleeper team because they've
kind of done that a couple of times

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maybe more over the years, and
it's never really actually happened. Now,

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they've not been awful, right,
I mean, Kentucky has you know,

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at least, you know, gotten
to a bowl game every year since Gosh,

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I don't know how them this last
time they weren't in a bowl game

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been a long time. So I
also think the fact that Texas and Oklahoma

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are entering the league this year,
it's just that you're not. I just

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don't think you're gonna hear a whole
lot about a sleeper team. I think,

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headline, there's already too many storylines
involved where that would ever be a

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thing. And honestly, you know, Kentucky's a question mark, just like

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a lot of teams. They got
a quarterback who came from Georgia who may

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be the real deal, but he's
not played a whole lot because he was

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playing, he was sitting behind some
other really good quarterbacks at Georgia. So

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there was at least somebody that wanted
to kind of say, hey, look,

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we've been doing this long enough.
Kentucky. You know, their off

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season disrespect thing is like not,
you know, hush, and I'm not

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sure they've been like disrespected, but
you know, I'm sure Mark Stoops and

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00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.400
his team will be able to,
you know, manufacture some disrespect and motivate

407
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their guys and that's whatever. That's
what a lot of coaches do, right,

408
00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:34.480
However, you can get an edge. But this stat is wild to

409
00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:38.799
me initially, when you give it
some thought, it's really not that crazy.

410
00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:44.680
Mark Stoops is just two and twenty
eight at Kentucky against teams that finish

411
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with a winning record in the SEC. All right, John, have you

412
00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:49.839
heard that stat before? Am I
just throwing that at you? And you're

413
00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:53.640
you're just now realizing that. I
feel like you've thrown that stat out before.

414
00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:57.440
I've never known that stat. I
know that they never are successful in

415
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the SEC, and their record,
I mean, I don't know if they've

416
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ever had a winning record in the
SEC in my lifetime. I think they

417
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went four and four a couple of
times. And I've always acknowledged that the

418
00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.000
teams they beat in the SEC usually
don't end up being very good. But

419
00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:14.480
I didn't know two and twenty eight
all time. I mean, that's doesn't

420
00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:18.079
that just sound insane? Just sounds
like they're built off of mediocrity now,

421
00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:23.240
which again for Kentucky's old standard,
that's great, but again, they see

422
00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:26.599
themselves as something better than that.
Now, Yeah, and you know,

423
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.200
I thought, let me see if
I can find the response here Bud Elliott,

424
00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:34.000
who used to he used to be
a writer that just covered Florida State.

425
00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:38.440
Now he works for twenty four seven
Sports more so as a just as

426
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a college football analyst and writer,
and he had a response to that stack

427
00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:47.160
because I don't know if it went
viral. I guess that going viral depends

428
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:48.640
on what you view as far as, like, you know, it being

429
00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.039
a It didn't become a national story. But a lot of people, non

430
00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:56.359
Kentucky folks are reacting to that tweet
from SEC and filters that were like,

431
00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.400
Wow, that's crazy, because again, it just sounds insane, and in

432
00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.000
their defense, it's not. I
mean, it's not that insane. Now

433
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.920
with that said, I mean it's
not good, but there aren't that many

434
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:10.799
teams every year that finish with a
winning record in the SEC. So therefore

435
00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:15.559
you don't even really have that many
chances to to I would say the majority

436
00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.279
of the teams that they've lost to
that have a winning record in the end

437
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:21.680
of the at the end of the
season in SEC play are probably teams that,

438
00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:26.039
like Kentucky's never going to consistently beat. And that's why, you know,

439
00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:27.720
I always say this about I give
Marksoops a lot of credit. He

440
00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:33.160
has absolutely made Kentucky a much different
program than any of us ever thought they

441
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:36.279
would be. And that's but that's
not to say that they're elite. It's

442
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.279
just the fact that they were so
whatever for so long and nobody ever really

443
00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:42.279
cared about football in a major way
because they never really had any reason to

444
00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:45.680
believe they were ever going to be
good. And you know, I don't

445
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.200
know if i'd say that they're like
a good program, but they're certainly not

446
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:55.640
bad, like they're not awful.
And Louisville clearly, you know, has

447
00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:57.240
a five game losing streak to them, which is crazy. And yes,

448
00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:02.039
I'm well aware of Texalon flooding in, like I know that two and twenty

449
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:06.880
eight against teams with an SEC,
with an SEC record, with the a

450
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:10.079
winning record in SEC play, and
yet Louisville still can't beat them. You

451
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:11.480
don't have to, you don't have
to let me know that I'm well aware.

452
00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:17.920
But you know, they they they
don't know how to handle the little

453
00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:21.119
bit of success that they've had because
they've never really had it consistently, and

454
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that's why they sometimes go from you
know, heck, we made a Bowl

455
00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:29.079
game to thinking they're going to potentially
win the East, and that's certainly unrealistic

456
00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:32.599
now considering there's no divisions and George
has been dominant, and you know in

457
00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:37.480
the last few years when they had
divisions. But let's see, let me

458
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:42.480
pull up the like. So Mark
Stoops has gone four and four in the

459
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SEC on two occasions, and that
was in twenty sixteen and two thousand and

460
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seventeen, and those seasons both ended
with Kentucky being seven and six overall with

461
00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.000
two losses in bowl games. They
did have a winning record in the SEC

462
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.039
twice. I will I will,
I will clarify that they went five and

463
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.160
three in the SEC in twenty eighteen, in twenty twenty one, which is

464
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:10.039
the two years they had ten win
seasons, and those were good years for

465
00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:15.680
him, especially the one in two
thousand and eighteen with Benny Snell and Josh

466
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.240
Allen and those guys. So the
fact that you can say Kentucky had two

467
00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:25.559
ten win seasons, two winning records
in the SEC, that alone speaks to

468
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.279
how Mark Stoops has changed Kentucky.
That's not sustainable. That may never happen

469
00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:33.400
again, considering their conference just got
tougher with Oklahoma and Texas being added.

470
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.720
But that's I mean, he's a
he's a made man because of that.

471
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.319
But again two and twenty eight,
I think it also lets you know that

472
00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:45.759
when you do win, you're beating
teams that aren't good in your league and

473
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you're probably getting with like for example, when they beat Florida and LSU in

474
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.160
edwar Duron's last year. I think
that was in twenty twenty one. I

475
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.480
mean, they can't help it.
It's not their fault. It doesn't mean

476
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:02.279
they're not good, but the facts
are facts. They beat those two teams

477
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:07.680
when they were really bad and made
coaching changes much champ Out at ordron Out.

478
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:11.640
I don't think they got fired because
they lost to Kentucky, but that's

479
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:18.119
just those teams weren't and again they
can't help that. But I just I

480
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.640
think this could be a year where
Kentucky fans really kind of decide are they

481
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.799
And I think I said this last
year, and it played out that they

482
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.279
were going to adjust the expectation in
the standard right. They weren't just going

483
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.000
to be happy with going to a
bowl game every year, even though that

484
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.640
never used to be the reality for
them. They've now done that and now

485
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.680
they you know, they seemingly want
to take a step up. And they

486
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:45.359
were really disappointing last year. And
you know, we talk about the lead

487
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.240
up to the Louisville game. They
hated their team, they hated their coach.

488
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.440
I don't think they wanted them fired, but they were very underwhelmed with

489
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:55.519
with the way things went. Devin
Leary wasn't as good as advertised. They

490
00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:00.759
were a really undisciplined team that got
called for a lot of penalty. I

491
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.960
mean, they were sloppy team.
But then they beat Louisville and you know

492
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.880
that certainly helped them finish the season
with another win. They would have been

493
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:12.119
six and six without that, and
you know, I think they've you know,

494
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.160
what are you gonna do? Right? Your coach isn't going anywhere,

495
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.720
But he thought about it, right. I think he wanted to go to

496
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:21.640
Texas A and M and that didn't
work out. So I kind of feel

497
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.319
like this will be a year where
if they are again. I tried to

498
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:27.000
think about it earlier which way I
wanted to go with this take because I

499
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:32.559
don't, you know, I try
to you know, be a little and

500
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:34.759
go against the grain a little bit, and I wanted to say they're gonna

501
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:41.000
be either eight and four and really
surprised teams because you know that's that you

502
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:44.680
know Stoops is still developing well on
defense. This quarterback they got from Georgia,

503
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.960
you know, he's he's he's got
the arm. They've got great receivers

504
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.839
and Barrian Brown and Dane Key,
I mean, talent wise, those guys

505
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.079
did not live up to expectations last
year. But like, maybe they really

506
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.960
break through and have a good year
and surprise everybody in win eight or they

507
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:05.200
go four and eight because you know
they're taking some growing pains because the league

508
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:08.720
got better. But the most likely
outcome is what they always do seven and

509
00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:15.720
six or six and seven or eight
and five, like that's that's probably the

510
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:17.079
most likely outcome, where they get
their eighth win in a bowl game or

511
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:22.000
something like that, because that's consistently
what they've done. And I just don't

512
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:24.640
know, like if they end up
there again were let's say last year,

513
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:29.480
Let's say this year, they end
up having the same record they've had the

514
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:31.880
last two years, So a third
straight season of seven and six and three

515
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:36.680
and five in league play, if
that's the case, Like I feel like

516
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.799
their fan base will be kind of
in no man's land, right. They're

517
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:44.160
gonna feel, I think a little
bit underwhelmed because they want to aim higher.

518
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:47.640
But they're also gonna know like nobody
else that's ever coached here has given

519
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:53.240
us anything close to that being the
consistent bar Bowl game. You know,

520
00:32:53.400 --> 00:33:01.559
seven wins so is far. And
again, a lot of the responses that

521
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.920
I saw from this when the Louisville
and Kentucky fans were going back and forth

522
00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:07.880
with well, of course, with
people mentioning, well, Louisville's lost to

523
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:12.200
loss to them five straight years,
which again we know, but it also

524
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.680
brought up the whole like, I
wonder what Kentucky's record would be if they

525
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:20.079
played in the ACC. I wonder, I wonder what Louisville would do in

526
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.680
those thirty games against those teams with
winning records in the SEC. And the

527
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.799
answer is we'll never know. We'll
never know, but it's probably if we

528
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:31.079
did. If that hypothetical played out, it would probably be what you would

529
00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:37.640
expect. Kentucky would have a better
record, but they wouldn't win the league.

530
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.480
They wouldn't win the ACC like they
believe that they would have been in

531
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.160
Charlotte playing Florida State if they had
Louisville schedule last year. They have nothing

532
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.039
to base that off of other than
the fact that they played in the SEC,

533
00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:50.039
and when they did play Louisville they
beat them. But if you just

534
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.839
want to do a one off game
and that determining okay, well, then

535
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.720
there's a lot of crazy things that
would end up happening in college football if

536
00:33:55.759 --> 00:34:00.640
that's how you if that's how you
reacted just one game. If Louisll played

537
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.119
in the SEC, they would not
I mean, they would lose a lot

538
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:08.320
more games over the years. Would
they be you know, seven and six,

539
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:12.360
three and five? Maybe I happen
to think that they could potentially,

540
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:14.599
you know, with Bram they could
be you know, I think the ceiling

541
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:17.559
would be higher. We'll never know. But it's an endless it's an endless

542
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:21.519
back and forth. And it's also
another reminder, you know, I just

543
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:23.880
wish this game what in the last
game of the year. I know why

544
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:29.559
it is and I know it will
never change, but we'd be talking this

545
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:35.119
game. We'd already been doing it
for weeks now, and it used to

546
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.079
be fun, especially when you have
like again Kentucky. You know, they

547
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.159
I don't know if they feel great
about their program right now. Maybe they

548
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:43.199
do, I'm not sure, but
I know they feel great about the rivalry

549
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:45.559
because they've dominated it recently. And
I know Louisville fans feel like last year

550
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:52.719
was just like the unbelievable Fluke loss, and they feel that, you know,

551
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.280
all those wins that Stoops piled up
against Louisville came against you know,

552
00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:00.199
Bobby at the end. Actually Bobby
would even hear in that last game.

553
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:05.360
And then the last team Bobby coached
against Kentucky he won, So it was

554
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:07.280
the interim coach in eighteen, and
then he lost every game since then.

555
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:12.320
But like only one of them has
come to Brom So I just went it

556
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:16.159
would give us a lot more in
July and August around here. If there

557
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:22.800
was lead up not to Louisville playing
Popcorn State in Kentucky playing you know,

558
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.960
Butthole Tech, but them playing each
other, that would be like, that

559
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.639
would be awesome. And yes,
I'm selfishly saying that because, like you

560
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:32.360
know, it would make this job
a little funner to do in those months.

561
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:36.920
Although Butthole Tech's got a good team
this year. Who's the coach at

562
00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:45.360
Butthole tech. They just hired somebody
new the the longtime coach retired last year.

563
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:46.920
Okay, so sick of the butt? Was the dude from Louder than

564
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:51.360
Life? Yeah, that was him, British accent guy. Yeah, or

565
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:53.519
no, the British accent guy was
a guy had gout no the but yeah,

566
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:58.480
show me your butthole. Nobody goes
full holes what he was saying.

567
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:00.480
Yeah, he did say later in
the night the full holes would come out,

568
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:04.480
which we didn't stay to figure out. But I bet he was telling

569
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:06.800
the truth. I bet he was. All Right, quick break, we'll

570
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:08.800
come back on the other side,
wrap up the three o'clock hour, talk

571
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:14.000
a little more butthole tech right here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right,

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00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:15.559
let's go to the text line five
O two six five three zero seven

573
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nineties the number if you guys want
to text in. So this Texas Nick.

574
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:22.360
I wish I could get in on
the fun in making fun of Kentucky

575
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:25.280
football, but I can't do it
until we finally beat him. I mean,

576
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:30.000
I wasn't making fun of them.
That's a that's a fact stat that's

577
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:34.920
not like you know. And and
again, if you really consider how many

578
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.239
teams annually finish with a winning record
in the SEC. The majority of those

579
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:42.880
losses, I would imagine came against
teams that I mean, there's still losses

580
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.320
nobody wants to lose, but it's
probably teams that you would never expect Kentucky

581
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.320
or a lot of teams to beat. So I'm not I'm not, you

582
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:52.920
know, making fun of them,
and I hope that they can. I

583
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.519
mean, look, I think Kentucky
this year, and in all honesty,

584
00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:59.239
and I didn't, I didn't.
I didn't want to go there today and

585
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.760
I don't have all the information in
front of me to reference, but there

586
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:08.599
was a really good right up on
the portal. And how there are teams

587
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:12.880
out there this year that did not
get a lot of buzz, a lot

588
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.639
of attention because now it's all about
what you did in the portal, right,

589
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:17.599
because it's like the instant gratification of
all this team's going to be great

590
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:22.119
because they did they brought in this
guy and that guy. But if you

591
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:28.119
can retain good players that you've developed
and keep them there, they're not because

592
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.000
they're not in the portal, nobody's
talking about them unless they're all Americans that

593
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:36.159
are returning. And I think that's
a real thing in both sports, basketball

594
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.800
and football. If you brought back
guys that you know, we're pretty good

595
00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:44.519
and you expect them to get even
better. Like, they're not going to

596
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.360
be talked about a whole lot in
the offseason, unless again we're talking about

597
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:51.760
dudes who are returning after all American
caliber seasons. But there's still a high

598
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:57.039
probability that you can have success with
that formula. And Kentucky lost fewer guys

599
00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:59.960
in the portal than most, and
they bring back a lot of really good

600
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.679
defensive players. Dean Walker as a
monster. They got a defensive back whose

601
00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.239
names escaping me. I think it's
Hairston. That's really good. Like Kentucky

602
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:12.320
defense. Kentucky's defense this year should
be nasty. You know, they're undisciplined

603
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:14.320
at times. I mean last year
they got a ton of penalties, so

604
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:15.639
maybe that'll hurt them. But look, I wouldn't make it fun of Kentucky

605
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:20.400
football. And I'm aware, like
Louisville has a massive losing streak to them

606
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:24.079
that I hope ends, and for
the most part, like they that's where

607
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:29.119
you usually see them. I mean, I don't think that's why they won

608
00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:30.280
last year. I mean that last
year. If you really look at the

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comedy of airs for Louisville and you
know what they did to keep Kentucky in

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it, and Kentucky made some plays
too, you know, clearly they did

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their part. But more often than
not in the last I don't know,

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five six years really post Bobby,
you'd see Kentucky just have more physically developed

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depth in the trenches and that matters. And you know, I know Jeff

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is sick about that loss to Kentucky
as anybody. And I mean that,

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you know, I don't say it
like he's calling me every night telling me

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how pissed he is, but like
he's he's one of us. Man,

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he's the coach, but like he'd
have been if he wasn't the coach and

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he was coaching elsewhere and Louisville lost. That way, he'd be pissed,

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because it's impossible not to be.
It's, you know, he's one of

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us. But you know, they
they they intentionally went out and got some

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beefy dudes to give them more depth
on the defensive line when they were,

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you know, scrambling to fill those
final scholarships they had in the portal,

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and some of those guys didn't come
with big credentials and you know, a

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deep, a deep resume, but
they're they're big dudes that are experienced,

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that have played a lot of football, and that's what you need to compete

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against SEC caliber teams. So you
know, I'm not sitting here saying Louis

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is gonna beat Kentucky at the end
of the season. I mean, I

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think they can, and I think, you know, they'll have a good

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enough year to where we're going to
get to that game at the end of

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November and feel pretty good about it. But losing last year made it made

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it to where it's gonna be hard
for me to just be overly confident in

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the game. And I know that
sounds weak, but like last year,

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you you should have beat them,
Like there's no reason you should have lost

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that game, and you were and
you had it too, by the way,

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Like it's again, there's things.
You know, there's letting them run

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a kickoff back, Ray Davis ending
up just kind of being the best guy

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in the field at times. You
know that that I mean, again,

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that's that's Ray Davis. That's credit
to him. But you know, the

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defense really kind of fell apart last
year at the end and that you know,

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had had you had the same kind
of defense that you had, you

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know in week four, Week five, you know, probably would have been

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a different game. And that's not
you know, I guess that sounds like

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an excuse, but either way,
it doesn't matter. You play that game

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at the end of the year,
and it's a game that means a lot

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to everybody. So even if you
are gased because you played eleven games,

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if you're banged up, you know
what. So it is Kentucky, it's

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you know, it's that's part of
it. Do you see this story about

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Caleb Williams John how he wanted to
how he wanted the Bears to pay him.

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No, So this this this is
to me, it's not a huge

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deal, but it's another to me. It's another look as to Caleb Williams

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to me is I don't know.
I kind of feel like he's clown and

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you know, he's shown that he
has some talent, But I happen to

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think he'll end up being a bust
in the NFL because I just I don't

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know if he's going to be able
to lead in an NFL rocker room.

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And I don't say that because of
his eccentric personality and style and all that.

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I just I look, I feel
like, despite never being in an

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NFL locker room, if you're going
to be a quarterback and lead an NFL

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rocker room, you got to carry
yourself a certain way. You got to

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you gotta handle things a certain way. And I've never seen him have any

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ability to do that. But you
know, clearly he's got talent, or

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he wouldn't have been a phenom in
college or in high school and then have

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a good college career and go on
to be the number one pick in the

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draft. But this is just to
me a weird thing. He tried to

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negotiate his rookie deal with the Bears, and he was exploring creative tax strategies.

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So he did not want the Bears
to pay him, you know,

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as a W two employee like the
rest of US Americans that work for big

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corporations. He wanted the Bears to
pay in LLC and having payments treated as

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a forgivable loan, and clearly he
wasn't able to do so. But just

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attempting that to me is like what
are you doing? Like why would you

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think you'd be able to do that, Like, what makes you think you'd

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be able to do that? Well, if that because if that was the

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thing, everybody would do that,
not just in football, but like you

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know, like I don't know,
I feel bad for the Bears because I

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have I have a soft spot for
the Bears for one reason. I love

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Chicago, and I know a couple
of Bears fans who I feel like have

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kind of been miserable. Anytime the
Bears have been like kind of good,

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they end up, you know,
choking. And it's been a long time

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I think since the Bears have been
legitimately good. Colts beat him the Super

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Bowl in two thousand and six.
I think it was yep and that team,

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you know, I guess they were
good enough to make it there.

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But about Rex Rex Grossman being a
starting quarterback in the Super Bowl is going

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to be a trivia question down the
line that somebody's gonna get wrong and not

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believe you that he was the people
who the hell's Rex Grossman? All right,

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Well, we'll take a quick break, we'll come back. We got

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two more hours left to stick around. It's a Friday. As I mentioned,

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the vibes are strong, and we'll
hope to Keep it that way right

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