WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:08.759 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine 2 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:30.640 day. Now here's Nick Coffee. If you woke up this morning and you 3 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:39.039 were right away impacted by the outage that caused some technological issues throughout the country, 4 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:43.560 you might have assumed that the internet broke because of what happened last night 5 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:49.759 with Hulk Cogan and Kid Rock and just that whole circus. Again not talking 6 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.600 politics, but like, just that whole thing last night was wild, But 7 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.640 it was not that it was, you know, apparently a company that I 8 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:02.159 never heard of that is super, super important to a lot of things we 9 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.920 rely on in everyday life. But I still feel like, you know, 10 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:11.040 for the most part, the reaction to it was not as as you know, 11 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.959 the reaction was a little stronger than the overall impact is certainly the longevity 12 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.840 of it, because right now it seems like things are you know, up 13 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:22.200 and running and working the way they're supposed to. However, I guess the 14 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:27.400 airports are are still struggling because of all the flight cancelations and whatnot, which, 15 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:32.159 as I said earlier sarcastically, of course, I imagine everyone was really 16 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:37.599 calm and understanding with it the airports today, given the fact that we had 17 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.760 you know, countless flight cancelations and all that kind of stuff which we may 18 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:45.959 have, we may have to get to this here within the next uh well 19 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.159 before we get out of here for the weekend. Because we were talking at 20 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:52.359 the end of the show about you know, jobs and positions where people really 21 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:53.879 just get off on the power, like a power trip kind of job. 22 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.159 It's not lucrative, but man, you accept the pay whatever it is because 23 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.920 you've got that power. We've had a lot of people tech and tweeting in 24 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:04.400 different jobs that are like that, and people who work at an airport absolutely 25 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.159 fit that. So I do want to save that for a little bit later. 26 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:12.319 But anyways, back to the uh the worldwide outage, I mean it, 27 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.639 uh. I just assumed that, like, if it's as severe as 28 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.240 there as they're saying, CrowdStrike being down and it being maybe the biggest you 29 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.319 know, tech outage in the history of the world, then like maybe we 30 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.280 don't have to work today. I thought we were going to get a free 31 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:30.840 day off work, because if we've had this kind of an impact technologically, 32 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.919 you know, how can we be on the radio? But luckily we're good 33 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:40.520 we didn't have any issues here. Yeah, it says the airports, banks 34 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:46.520 and certain businesses were impacted the most. It looks like and and hospitals, 35 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.400 which, of course that's kind of scary. But yeah, I think the 36 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.800 scare uh was gone for a lot of people not too long after realizing it 37 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.719 happened, especially around here, because again I'm sure there are some that were 38 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:04.479 affected by but overall, it's like it was pretty minimal compared to the everybody 39 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.879 losing their mind this morning. All right, it's coffee and Company hour number 40 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:09.360 three, five o'clock hour here on a Friday. Let's finish strong before we 41 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.719 get out of here for the weekend. Once again, I'll encourage if you 42 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:16.039 haven't got your ticket chet go get them for the TBT Louisville. We'll be 43 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:21.639 hosting at Freedom Hall tomorrow for the second consecutive season, taking on this Bellerman 44 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.199 team, and I imagine they're getting close to selling this, not selling out, 45 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.879 but breaking the record. I don't think they're gonna sell out, and 46 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.319 I don't even know if that's possible, but I do think they'll break the 47 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:31.560 record for attendance. And if they're gonna do it, I feel like it 48 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:37.319 would be the Saturday game at one o'clock because their next game will be let's 49 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:42.159 see, they'll play on and pull up their region here. They will play 50 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:49.280 on it looks like Monday, Yeah, Monday at seven, which I guess 51 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:51.520 you could still potentially get a decent crowd there, but I just feel like 52 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:57.120 Saturday afternoon, one o'clock that's the best chance for you to get a huge 53 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.479 crowd. And I think they'll be a huge crowd already, but I'm hoping 54 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:02.479 it's one that breaks the record. And I don't know why I care so 55 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:04.599 much about that, because it doesn't mean. It's not like something you're gonna 56 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.599 hang a banner for or anything like that. But I've always felt like this 57 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.479 TBT event that has grown in popularity every year, it could really be something 58 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.800 that we really make our event meaning to where when it you know, when 59 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.480 people who do love basketball, they get into it every year they know Louisville 60 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.519 is gonna have a team they're gonna host, and they're gonna be pretty good, 61 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.920 and they're gonna have a great crowd because you know, this is the 62 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:31.360 kind of I mean, we are unique, meaning that we love college basketball 63 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:36.040 more than most. It's popular elsewhere. But for the most part, you 64 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.839 know, we we love it more than anybody, We watch it more than 65 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:46.560 anybody, and we probably follow former players more than anybody. And that's exactly 66 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.160 what this is. Former players for Louisville and again Lexington. They've I don't 67 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.240 know what their crowd's gonna look like, but they've got a good team. 68 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:57.639 And you know they're in that same boat right if they can get a team 69 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.360 every year. I wouldn't be shocked if they every year have one of the 70 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.199 best rosters and also have you know, some of the best turnouts. So 71 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.639 again, it's already going on right now. There's games that have already taken 72 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:09.720 place, not yet here in Louisville, but they'll play later tonight and again 73 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:13.920 tomorrow at one o'clock. That is when Louisville will take on this this Bellerman 74 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.160 team. So get your tickets if you haven't, and I hope to see 75 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.959 you there. Gorgey Jang is in town. For those who've seen the picture 76 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.000 that is circulating on Twitter, it was great to see it, you know, 77 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:26.920 nearly brought it to here to my eye, seeing Gorky Jang all grown 78 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.040 up now working in the front office with the Spurs and he's back supporting his 79 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.160 guys. That picture of him and Russ Smith was was really cool. So 80 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.600 for those wondering he's not gonna play in the event, be awesome if he 81 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:40.439 did. But I would imagine he'll be there, probably you know, sitting 82 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:43.399 near the bench, maybe on the bench, supporting these guys, and the 83 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:51.120 nostalgia will be will be awesome. All right, let's see here the uh 84 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:54.160 I was gonna do with the textlum, But I'm gonna hold off here because 85 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.399 I'm I don't want to fall into the trap of not reading something before I 86 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:00.560 read it on the air, because then that just you know, Toms, 87 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.040 it puts me in a bad spot. But now I'm just curious about all 88 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:08.839 these power trip jobs. And the reason it came up is because we were 89 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:14.920 talking about the the I guess confuse folks that think that you're not allowed to 90 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:19.079 be recorded in public, and that's completely not true. It may it's stupid 91 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.879 that, you know, anybody would want to just randomly stand around and just 92 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:25.360 film people, but like technically they are allowed to do it. They're not 93 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.879 breaking any laws. And there's always videos of people that work security at certain 94 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:30.959 places that you know, think that, you know, they're misinformed on what 95 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.920 the law is and they end up you know, being billy badass and in 96 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.959 bringing the cops there to arrest somebody, and they then find out that like 97 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.040 they're in the wrong and they got to do the walk of shame. So 98 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.480 anyways, I just thought about other jobs that are like that, where people 99 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:48.240 just kind of have like a power trip and somebody writes in here and says, 100 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:55.319 ad minute work that's in charge of office supplies, No, you cannot 101 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.040 have a box of pins. Didn't we give you a box three years ago? 102 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.000 Like I can totally see that happening. I can think of somebody that 103 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.360 I used to work with at a different job that was like that. Like 104 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.199 they you know, they had a you know, an important position, right, 105 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.319 but they also were in charge of those kind of things and they just 106 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:15.560 knew like if you needed a new if you needed a new stapler, you're 107 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:16.560 gonna have to go through them, and you're really gonna have to make your 108 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.720 case as to why you deserve one, because I've got the power to give 109 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:24.600 you one, and I'm gonna need to be convinced. Somebody had mentioned hoa 110 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.480 people. When you say hoa people I guess you mean like the people who 111 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.439 run your HOA, like in your neighborhood. Oh yeah, they've got to. 112 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.720 I mean that's a thankless job. Whoever would want to be like the 113 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:38.639 leader of the HOA. I mean, God bless you do that. I 114 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.560 don't think so. See that seems like something like there's be zero benefit to 115 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.680 do it. You would either want to just have that power and you just 116 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:47.519 you would get off on walking up to somebody's yard and saying, oh, 117 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.040 yeah, it looks like you're uh, looks like you put a pool, 118 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:55.360 but your poll doesn't fit the requirements. It's gonna have to be taken down. 119 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.199 Like maybe people just really get off on having the ability to do that 120 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.519 and like enforces I mean it kind of makes you like a half assed cop 121 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.639 or something, right, Like you can tell people what they can and can't 122 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:09.120 do. So it's either people who just have the power trip or it's somebody 123 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.720 that is running to be the leader of the HOA just to get rid of 124 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:18.079 the guy who's the worst. Like an anytime I've heard of somebody bringing up 125 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.160 their HOA and like who's in charge of it, I'd be like nine out 126 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.920 of ten times they've acted like this is the worst human being in the world, 127 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.399 and I have a feeling that not all of them are terrible. It's 128 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.040 just like you do have a job to do, Like it's not I don't 129 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.360 even know who runs the HOA in my neighborhood currently, but in my old 130 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.960 neighborhood where we used to live, I remember seeing, you know, just 131 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.679 these endless Facebook posts about stuff and the I don't think the guy who was 132 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:45.799 in charge was really a bad guy looking to you know, be a hard 133 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.840 ass and tell people what they can and can't do. But you also are 134 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:54.080 the guy that if Joe down the street has an issue with something that Billy's 135 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.039 doing across the street, who's he going to go to. He's gonna go 136 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.200 tattle to you to the HOA and expect you to do something. And if 137 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.039 you don't see it as a big deal, then like you're just open for 138 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.720 so much criticism in that position. And I don't know why anybody would want 139 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.039 to do it again unless you just want to get rid of somebody who you 140 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:16.600 think is terrible or you get off on you know, power Airport people are 141 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.679 the absolute like I mean the TSA specifically, you know, no, I 142 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.279 mean it's everybody. It's people who work in the airline, people who work 143 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:30.679 for the airlines, it's the TSA, it's the bartenders. Like I know 144 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:35.320 that, like you deal with a lot of people who are pains in the 145 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.679 are paining your ass and just are a handful. Like I'm like working an 146 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:45.720 airport would suck. But that's led to like just about everybody who works in 147 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:50.159 the airport. They're not really friendly. It's foe. It's it's like fake. 148 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:56.960 It's like passive aggressive politeness, if that makes sense, like saying things 149 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.440 like please and ma'am and sir, but doing it like real direct, like 150 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.159 a kind of like a jerk, and like not everybody is looking to be 151 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.000 upset at the airport. Some people are flying to go somewhere they've never been 152 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.759 and they're on cloud nine. So I just hate that. It's I guess 153 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.960 there's been enough bad apples that most people who work in the airport have had 154 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.080 enough bad experiences that they just treat everybody as if like they they're going to 155 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.519 be again. I think it's like passively aggressive passive aggressive kindness in customer service, 156 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:26.159 and like there's not really a need to yell at people in the TSA 157 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:31.480 lines like backpacks off, laptops out, shoes off, Like you don't have 158 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:35.840 to yell because you know by the time somebody gets up to the line to 159 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.000 do that. Like I mean, it's just this constant yelling is not It's 160 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:46.039 just not necessary. And whenever you like, know that you have like this 161 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.120 is one that always gets me. I love a good airport beer. It's 162 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:54.320 the number one beer in my opinion, not only because it's great because you're 163 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.679 about to travel and you're you know, getting the vibes started with cracking your 164 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:01.279 first drink of the trip, but also you know, I needed to fly 165 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:05.440 because I need to calm myself with a few beers just to kind of, 166 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.320 you know, calm my nerves a little bit because I get scared. But 167 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:15.600 the airport bartender knows when you have a flight boarding, and they know that 168 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:18.960 you're kind of like anxiously wanting them to come back. So you can say 169 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.159 you need to pay, or you need your check or whatever, and they 170 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:24.679 get off on knowing that you're stressed out, You're worried I gotta catch my 171 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.519 flight. Do they see me over here? Am I gonna have to fly 172 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.879 them down? But you also know that if you do, like, hey, 173 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.399 ma'am from like across the way, that'll make her go even slower, 174 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.279 you know what I mean. And they know they've got the power in their 175 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.679 hands. If you're gonna make your flight, oh you're gonna run off without 176 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:45.799 paying, They'll tackle your ass and throw you in jail for that. It's 177 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.159 a power trip. And the people who work at the airlines that are you 178 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:54.159 know, asking information, checking bags and all that, you know, doing 179 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.759 all that kind of stuff. Like those people for the most part, have 180 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.879 been kind enough. But I can just tell their their kindness and just you 181 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:07.080 know, customer service whatever you want to call it, like it's it's it's 182 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:11.000 not real like And again, you probably don't like your job, that's fine. 183 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.159 A lot of people don't like their jobs. But just know this. 184 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:18.000 People that work at the airport where's just where as miserable to deal with you 185 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.600 as you are with us. So just know that. I gotta say, 186 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.279 I know, I know you're pro flying, and I think it's mainly because 187 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.440 you have kids, but anytime you talk about bad airport experiences, it just 188 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.159 reiterates for me that I have no desire to fly anytime soon. Yeah, 189 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.080 it's look it's a convenience thing because you can get to places a lot quicker 190 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.440 if you're going far, and that that's the real reason to do it, 191 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.159 right, Like, you know, it's way more expensive to fly than drive. 192 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.720 Everybody knows that. You save a lot. You know, you spend 193 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:48.120 a lot more time on the commune. Actually, you take a lot of 194 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.320 time away from your trip. Like if you like, if my dad's driving, 195 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:56.000 uh, he's going on vacation leaving I think tomorrow morning and he's going 196 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.960 down to jack Alland Georgia, and that's like a ten to twelve hour drive. 197 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:03.080 I mean, that's twenty four hours essentially of being in the car during 198 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:05.440 your vacation. And like that, if you could avoid doing that, I 199 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.399 would, But again, you got to consider the cost, and you have 200 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.600 to consider, you know, all the potential issues you'd run into in the 201 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:15.960 airport because you're you have no control, Like it's a roll of the dice, 202 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.200 man, if your flight's even gonna take off that day, you just 203 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.799 don't know. And more often than not, I mean, there are way 204 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.320 more flights that go off without issue than have issues. But you know, 205 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.159 it's always a risk. You never know, and you and it's it's not 206 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:31.000 base off airlines. I mean, I'm sure some airlines. And by the 207 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.639 way, the airline like reputation as far as like what's considered the the pores 208 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.840 and what's considered like you know, high class. It is based off of 209 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.039 like the planes and like the you know, the room, like how nice 210 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.720 they are and all that, Like what is it spirit that you just throw 211 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:46.919 them a fifty. They'll throw your ass on the plane and tell you to 212 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.799 find a seat, and you know, maybe maybe you're attached to thet or 213 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.360 something. Put on a helmet, put on a football helmet. We don't 214 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.559 know if this thing is gonna make it there, but hey, it's twenty 215 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.080 bucks, so hop in and we'll see what happens. Like you, But 216 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:05.759 when it comes to like delays and those kind of issues, that's not I 217 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.039 mean, I'm sure you can do a study to see which airlines are the 218 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.960 worst, but they all have those kind of issues, and to be honest, 219 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.240 a lot of them aren't really anybody's fault. Like sometimes that stuff. 220 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.919 Like to be fair to the people who work in the airport, when you 221 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:22.440 are upset because of a flight being canceled or a flight being delayed, or 222 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.039 them not giving you an update on when you're going to take off. The 223 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.919 people you're talking to have no impact on that at all, so you know 224 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.120 you shouldn't be a jerk to them. But here's where I think we are 225 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:39.000 in society. They'll tell you that, I guess just expecting you to like 226 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:43.679 there's no like, hey, I'm really sorry that this happened. Will We'll 227 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.759 do whatever we can. It's out of my control. I know it's inconvenience 228 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.080 to you. Like I think if you just kind of said that, even 229 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.840 if you didn't mean it, and you lay out that like I'm sorry, 230 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:58.440 I understand this isn't inconvenience for you. We're going to do whatever we can. 231 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.519 If you just did it with genuine like customer service, I think you'd 232 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.120 have a lot less people who just lose their minds. I think the people 233 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.200 lose their minds. It's because you know, the airport's really they got you 234 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.360 by the nads, right, Like you don't know if you're gonna actually take 235 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:15.360 off. Oh your flight's canceled. Well, we can't get you out of 236 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.159 here until a couple of days. What are you gonna do? You're gonna 237 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.960 you're gonna have to go you're gonna do, like you can go pay for 238 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.799 a hotel, but they may give you like a voucher to give you ten 239 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.960 percent off, but like you're gonna do what they say if you choose to 240 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.559 fly in the air because if they don't fly that day, I guess you 241 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:31.720 can go book an airline elsewhere, but you're gonna pay more money. And 242 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.679 people don't want to pay more money. So you know, if you just 243 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:41.159 work kind with people, then and I think you'd have people not lose their 244 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.080 mind. But whenever it's such a blatant like, hey, sorry about your 245 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.320 luck, not in those words, but hell maybe sometimes they do say it, 246 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.879 sorry about your luck. If that's if that's the demeanor, regardless of 247 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:56.200 what is actually said, that's gonna piss people off because they're gonna think, 248 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.120 like, who are you don't like, I'm a paying customer, You don't 249 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:02.360 care that you've ruined by trip? And you know what, they don't care, 250 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.039 and you know, cause it's just a job to them. But if 251 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:08.039 you could, and I feel like that's that's part of customer service, is 252 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.960 like even if you don't care, even if you're not personally bothered that somebody 253 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.360 didn't get what they paid for. Like, I think it's your job to 254 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.679 advocate with a company that you work for that you're apologetic and you're going to 255 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.240 really do something about it. We've got to the point now where they may 256 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:23.919 say things like that, but the I say this a lot on the show, 257 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.519 it's oftentimes not really what you say, it's how you say it. 258 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.799 And the people who work in the airlines do not give a damn if you 259 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.879 paid five thousand dollars for a trip around the country and you don't get to 260 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.799 go and you don't get any money, like, they don't care, and 261 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:40.320 they let you know that in certain ways. And that's just where I think 262 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:42.519 we are. Do you have any and I know we talked a lot about 263 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:47.120 the airport stuff already, but do you have like a personal worst experience you've 264 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:52.279 ever had in airport? Yes, and it wasn't with me. So we 265 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.679 went to we went to We flew for the first time two years ago to 266 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:03.279 go to Destin, and that time we were still really my son was a 267 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.279 baby baby well he was a baby. He wasn't like an infant, but 268 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.640 he was a baby. He's probably like just turned two, I think, 269 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.240 So we weren't as worried about him him on the plane. We gi him 270 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:15.960 a bottle and he'll probably fall asleep. With my daughter, it was the 271 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.960 first time she flew and she she's special needs. She's she's intellectually disabled and 272 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:25.640 has sensory issues. And we like we went out of our way ahead of 273 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:27.640 time, and you can you can you can purchase tickets with Allegiant and and 274 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.680 there's an option for you to let them know that and they can be aware 275 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.359 of it. And we had no issues, meaning she was fine and she 276 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.680 loved it it. Actually, I think the noise and whatnot actually kind of 277 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:38.599 calmed her a little bit. So she loved it and we were good. 278 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:41.599 But it was just nice to know that they were aware of that and they 279 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.079 and they checked on us and they asked. But there was a woman behind 280 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:51.720 us on the plane and I don't I don't believe that she had a special 281 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:53.480 I don't I don't know her kids situation, but she had a young kid, 282 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:59.160 probably I don't know, maybe three, and it was a tough plane 283 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:03.559 ride for mom. Like the baby was not was not happy, and you 284 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.799 know, at times she would have to hold the baby when she kind of 285 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.480 wasn't supposed to you know what I mean, Like they tell you to, 286 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.720 you know, buckle up and stay seate, and you know, the kid 287 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.799 was old enough to where she needed a seat, if that makes sense. 288 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.880 And you know, there was just this woman, a flight attendant who was 289 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:23.839 being a real real stickler on this woman trying to console her screaming child who 290 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:29.160 was having a really tough time. And technically they can't like make you do 291 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:30.279 certain things, like they can tell you, like for example, if you 292 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.200 get up go to the bathroom at a certain time and they tell you that, 293 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:37.079 like you're not supposed to see it, but lights on. They're not 294 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:38.720 gonna stop you, but they're gonna let you know like how dangerous it is 295 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:44.759 in some way. So I just remember like thinking the worst of that. 296 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.400 Just you know, it really reminded me of someone who absolutely is just trying 297 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.880 to show off that they're not show off, but trying to really flex that 298 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.000 they have the ability to tell you, hey, hey, mama, you're 299 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.680 gonna have to put your kid down screaming because I said so, and I'm 300 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.759 in shore to this. Like she also would reference the flight and say not 301 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.640 on my plane or my plane. I'm like, lady, I'm like lady, 302 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.119 you know, and it took. It was really hard. My wife 303 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:12.799 and I we're not once to ever be confrontational, and we wouldn't, but 304 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:18.920 it was hard at certain times not to say something to the flight attendant on 305 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.319 their behalf, and then you know, later on when we were about to 306 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:26.000 in fact, it might have been when we landed, we talked to them 307 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:27.640 to the parent and you know, she was like, I've never experienced that 308 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.720 ever, and then the other flight attendant came over and apologized on behalf of 309 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:37.119 the woman. But like, that's just somebody who clearly probably really sucks at 310 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:38.960 life and hates life, and their one thing is that they can tell people 311 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.640 that they're in control on a plane in a place where people are, you 312 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:47.200 know, worried about who's in control and what they're allowed to do. You 313 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:52.440 know, So the hell with that, lady. But yeah, like that's 314 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.279 I'm glad somebody mentioned this one and we can keep this conversation going. I 315 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:57.960 don't care, because this is fun to me. Talking about jobs where people 316 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.519 really just use the authority and think they've got way more power than they actually 317 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:07.039 do. People who work in parking lots, Oh yeah, like people who 318 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.599 control who's allowed to park where. Oh man, they they love the power 319 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.200 they have. And you know what they always do. They call it my 320 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.519 lot, my lot. You're not you're to park there, my lot, 321 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:19.880 And I'm like, it's not really your lot, Like there's no way you 322 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.000 own this place. Good stuff, all right, don't go anywhere, keep 323 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:26.079 it lock right here. It's Coffee and company. Feel about Thorton's on Sports 324 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:32.680 Talk seven ninety. It would be too weird for me to see like college 325 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:37.240 basketball, high school basketball, the NBA change you know, how you end 326 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.440 a game, meaning like you know, when the clock hits zero, whoever 327 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.480 has the most points wins. But man, the elam ending, which they 328 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:49.759 do in the TBT is so awesome. In fact, there's already been some 329 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:55.319 games that have been decided in you know, dramatic fashion because of how you 330 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:56.799 can't you can't just hold the ball and run out the clock. I mean 331 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.759 for those who those who don't know what the elm, because it'll be confusing 332 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.680 to you tomorrow if you've never watched the game that has this, because you 333 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:08.240 know, it's just it's you know, it's not something you've probably ever seen 334 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:12.640 before until unless you've watched this. But what they do here. Let me 335 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.279 just make sure I get it correct. Here the guy who created it as 336 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:21.480 the person I believe who ended up starting this whole tournament. But you know, 337 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:23.640 why hasn't it showing me what it actually is? Here? This is 338 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:33.759 really pissing me off. Here we go because apparently in the last you know, 339 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:38.519 hour or so, is it Josh Selby, one of the former Kansas 340 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:42.720 guards, they were down like five or six, which meant like the next 341 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:47.359 point for the other team means they win, and instead he went on a 342 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:49.200 you know, he went on a crazy, crazy run here. Yeah. 343 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.319 I don't know why they don't. Yeah, It's just designed to preserve a 344 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.400 more natural end of a game finished the elimending calls for calls for the game 345 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.480 clock to be shut off in the fourth quarter. A target score is set 346 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:04.920 by adding eight points to the leading team score. The first team to reach 347 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.839 the target score win. So example, if it's eighty to seventy two, 348 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:11.559 the target score is going to be eighty eight. The first team to reach 349 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:15.839 eighty eight wins. Once the game clock is eliminated, trailing teams are allowed 350 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:19.000 to focus on getting stops rather than preventing the clock from running out. The 351 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:23.359 result this results in great defense and pure basketball possessions all the way through the 352 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:29.960 end. So I mean, again, I'm not going to advocate that all 353 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.960 basketball should do this, but it actually, as far as just a competitive 354 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.359 entertainment, it does give you a really good finish every time for the most 355 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:38.680 part. I mean, I guess maybe not if somebody's up, if it's 356 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:41.920 eighty to seventy two, it could be a game that ends in eighty eight 357 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:47.119 to seventy two. But because you don't have to worry about the clock, 358 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.400 and it's just hey, let's just buckle down and get stops, and when 359 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:55.440 we get the possession, let's go score. It's really entertaining. And you 360 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:57.480 know, last year that's I mean, had Louisville not had to worry about 361 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:00.200 the elam ending and the game that they lost that ended their run and their 362 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:04.079 first appearance in this tournament, they would have they would have probably not they 363 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:07.359 would have probably won. And you know, but that's that's that's what makes 364 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:10.599 it cool. Have you ever watched a game that has this, John, 365 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:15.079 I've watched a couple of TBT games, Oh has it? Has the elam 366 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.160 ending always been a part of the TV t because they watched they started it, 367 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.920 okay, but so it was, it didn't exist before the before the 368 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:29.440 TVT Like the guy who created the TV T n b A actually did it 369 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:32.039 in the All Star Game one year, which I thought was kind of cool. 370 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:34.640 I'm excited to see it because I'm planning on watching the entire Assembly Ball 371 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.519 game tonight. Yeah, Kentucky's teams and Indiana's teams play, if you guys 372 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.440 are interested in watching. I know Indiana's gonna be on the Big ten network 373 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:44.559 and then Kentucky is gonna be on f S two. So yeah, I'm 374 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:47.440 I'm pumped, man. I mean again, I would get into this probably 375 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:49.519 more than the average even when Lowell didn't have a team, But you know, 376 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:52.599 now they do, and I'm hoping they can they can make a run. 377 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.240 So trust me. Not talking politics here, but it just dawned on 378 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:59.240 me because i keep seeing when I'm scrolling through Twitter, everybody's sharing the whole 379 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.559 Cogan video from last night. And I'm pretty sure that in my like I'm 380 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:07.680 thirty six years old, and I think in my entire life, Hule Cogan 381 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.559 has been the exact same agent, looked exactly the same. I mean, 382 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:14.920 if that's the case for me, it's certainly the case for you, John. 383 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:18.240 I mean you're yeah, he'sily recognizable. I mean, he looks like 384 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:19.759 he had. He looks exactly the same as he did the first time I 385 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:22.519 ever saw him. Yeah, I mean I don't know what I mean. 386 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:26.160 How old is he? Oh gosh, let me guess. I'm gonna guess 387 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.440 that Hull Cogan is sixty seven to sixty eight years old. You guess and 388 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:33.480 we'll see who's right you closer? Would you say I said sixty seven or 389 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.200 sixty eight? I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say seventy. Okay, I 390 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:41.400 got it right here? He is he is seventy on the spot turns out 391 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:45.680 one in August. Yeah, and he just married a girl who I believe 392 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:48.960 is like younger than you. I'm probably not, I'm probably exaggerating that, 393 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:53.720 but oh yeah, it's former she and she's something. Uh, let me 394 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:57.680 see here, Sky Daily. Is that is that his most recent wife married 395 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:00.640 in twenty twenty three? Well, I thought he just got married, like 396 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.799 you know, look within the last maybe you know, maybe I'm wrong here, 397 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:07.960 but I did see like there was it might have been like a TMZ 398 00:25:08.119 --> 00:25:11.119 thing, but he was you know he was spotted with his with his bride, 399 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.599 and of course it was a story because you know she's like significantly significantly 400 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.559 younger than him. Yeah, I guess they started. I don't know. 401 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:19.440 I'm trying to see if I can pull up rage here because that's what you 402 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:23.880 all tune in for to see how old hul Cogan's uh hul Cogin's wife is. 403 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:27.640 Doesn't show at least not here, and maybe maybe she's keeping it private, 404 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:30.799 but if you can just see a picture of them together, I think 405 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:34.160 she maybe her and Bill Belichick's girlfriend or friends could be could be. Yeah, 406 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.759 seventy years old. You you got it right, So he's looked so 407 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:40.559 he's looked the same, so that that that also puts it in perspective those 408 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:44.880 because he was old whenever I was not old, but like for wrestler, 409 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.160 he was old when I was born, you know that many years ago. 410 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.799 Since he's seventy all right, Uh, real quick this Uh. Sticking with 411 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:55.279 the TBT our man John Fanta, who by the way, was not able 412 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:57.960 to make it. In fact, he just he doesn't stop working. He 413 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:00.960 works for everybody. He was doing in the Peach Jam coverage because they have 414 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:06.599 those games live on some streaming network and he was doing that and then caught 415 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:07.640 it and then I don't know if he's caught a playing or what, but 416 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.400 he he's now calling. In fact, that's what he's doing. He's starting 417 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.200 off and that's what he was going to RUP for. He's in Lexington, 418 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:19.680 so you think he flew into Lexington and he's doing the two games that are 419 00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:22.759 taking place at RUP tonight and then he'll be in Louisville tomorrow. But he'd 420 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:27.920 put together the top ten players as far as like you know names in the 421 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:32.880 TBT, and he had not ranked. I mean, these aren't ranked. 422 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:34.359 These are just ten players that you know are notable that are playing in the 423 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:38.200 tournament. For Kentucky. He has two of their guys, Eric Bledsoe and 424 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.400 Willie cauley Stein, which you know those two guys were in the NBA not 425 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.559 that long ago. So I mean, this Kentucky team, there's a part 426 00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:48.759 of me that says they're gonna be like really really good and like dominant. 427 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:52.319 But then again, like any team that does this for anytime there's a first 428 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:59.759 time team, they usually struggle. But Willie cally Stein, I mean I 429 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:02.039 think he played for Dallas, maybe just a year or two ago. And 430 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:04.599 then Bledsoe, I mean Bletsoe was a good NBA player for a little while. 431 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:10.720 They also mentioned Russ and Montres Harrel and then Frank Mason the third, 432 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:12.799 who I kind of forget all about him. He played for Kansas, I 433 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.359 mean I remember his career, but he was National Player of the Year for 434 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:19.319 Kansas and he was in the NBA, I feel like for a little while. 435 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.559 Yeah, four years in the league. And then also Thomas Robinson, 436 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:27.319 who, by the way, one of the all time not busts. I 437 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:30.359 mean he was a bust, there's no way around it. But he's one 438 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.000 of the old timers for me as far as a guy that I just assumed 439 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:37.279 was going to be really good in the NBA and it never it never happened. 440 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:41.160 I mean, he he was drafted with the I think he was he 441 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.640 was drafted the fifth overall pick by the Kings and he was in the league 442 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:48.319 from twenty twelve to twenty seventeen, so you know he had a but he 443 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.400 played for like five teams in that amount of time, so it just never 444 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.160 worked. He's been playing professionally ever since in different countries, but he was 445 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:59.400 really really good in college. I thought for sure he would be a great 446 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.799 pro, but it didn't happen. And then some other names here, Yogi 447 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:08.319 Ferrell of course for for Indiana because he's he's still playing pro. Right, 448 00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:11.480 Yeah, I don't know which league or country he's in. It looks like 449 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:18.640 he went to Slovenia and then he also yeah, he actually won two league 450 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:23.960 championships in Slovenia. And also yeah, he was in the NBA for a 451 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:26.720 little while, right he played for the Mavericks. Yeah, man, so 452 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.559 that like this is it's so hard to stay in the NBA because Jogi Ferrell. 453 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:34.440 I mean, was he drafted. I don't remember. I don't think. 454 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:37.920 I think he was a late second rounder. I don't know that. 455 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.400 Yeah, No, he went undrafted, and you know, like this is 456 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:47.359 crazy to me. He was All NBA or All Rookie second team after being 457 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:52.480 undrafted with with the Brooklyn the Mets. Okay, so I remember he went 458 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.000 to the Mavericks. Eventually he was in the league from twenty sixteen to two 459 00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:59.559 thy and twenty one. So, I mean, this is a guy who 460 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:03.200 you know was good early could find I mean it's just men guys like him 461 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.240 it's not him specifically, but just guards. Yeah, smaller guards are you 462 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.039 know, kind of a dom a dozen. But he had I mean, 463 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:12.440 this is a guy who in his second to last year actually no, yeah, 464 00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:15.480 in his second to last year he played for Cleveland and you know, 465 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.960 averaged nine and a half points a game in his second season. That's what 466 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.440 it was. He was with Dallas as and that's what happened in Dallas broke. 467 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:26.440 He was undrafted and ended up getting a chance with the Brooklyn Nets and 468 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.480 ended up doing pretty well for them, and then the next year Dallas signed 469 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:32.640 him and he was on a two year He had a two year run there 470 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.839 in Dallas, and he averaged double figures in Dallas for two seasons and he 471 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:41.720 started twenty one games in twenty eighteen. So you know, that's one of 472 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.680 those things if you're in the league in the first three years after being undrafted, 473 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:49.920 you found your spot, You play significant minutes. I mean, he 474 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.039 played twenty eight minutes per game over two years for Dallas, average double figures. 475 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:56.680 It's just hard to say that in four three, four years you'll be 476 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.480 out of the league, but that's what happens. Man. It's just so 477 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.119 hard to stay around in the league because it's so competitive, especially as a 478 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.279 role player, and the majority of the guys, I guess majority of the 479 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:11.079 jobs in the NBA are role players. Darren Collison, he's playing in this 480 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:17.079 as well, an eleven year NBA player from UCLA. He's playing for Challenge 481 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:22.359 Als and that's a team that's been around for a long time and they usually 482 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.839 are pretty competitive. Some other names, Ryan Botwright forgot all about him from 483 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.720 Yukon. He wasn't He was another one of those really good guards, but 484 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:33.400 he wasn't quite to the level of Shabba's Napier Kimba Walker, but he was 485 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:40.160 certainly a good player. And then Andre Roberson man talk about a random NBA 486 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:44.319 guy that I just forgot existed, Andre Roberson. I don't remember him in 487 00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:48.839 college for Colorado, but I do remember him being that random dude who started 488 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.279 and played a lot of minutes for those Oklahoma City teams that had KD. 489 00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:59.359 Westbrook and Harden. And he was in the league for seven years with the 490 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:02.799 Thunder and not made it back since. I guess he played most recently in 491 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:06.319 the G League. But yeah, guys just kind of they just fade away 492 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.279 from the NBA and you kind of forget they existed. And I mean I 493 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:11.839 act like it's a it's a tragedy, but I mean, look, they 494 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.359 played. If you play in the NBA any any amount of time, you've 495 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.640 you've done something right and you've had a you've had a great, great run. 496 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.759 The other name mentioned here is Shelvin Mack, who I don't know. 497 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.599 Shelvin's played in a long time. I know he's done a lot of TV 498 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:29.400 work, but yeah, he's playing with the with the Butler team. So 499 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.599 I was ready, you're getting me excited. Oh dude, it's gonna it's 500 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:36.880 high level basketball, man, and uh you can you can bet on it 501 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:38.519 too, by the way. That that's yeah, I mean, that's that's 502 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.160 what that alone makes it even. I mean, even if there was no 503 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:45.400 Louisville connections or Indianda connections, I may get in just to, you know, 504 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.160 just because it's fun to bet on basketball. And and yeah, obviously 505 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.440 there's gonna be teams that you're not super familiar with, and there's gonna be 506 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:52.960 teams where the majority of the guys you don't know, but you maybe know 507 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.440 a few players. But at least if you've got some level of reference, 508 00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:59.440 right, like you kind of you kind of know what you're betting on. 509 00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.319 Do we have a final score in the Purdue TBT game? Check it out? 510 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:05.720 Yes, let's take a look here. I did have the in the 511 00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:10.279 Purdue game. I'm not sure if they've updated it yet. Looks like Purdue 512 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.440 lost. Oh my gosh, yeah, the Fort Wayne champs. Yeah, 513 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.279 Fort Wayne Champs. Oh no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm my 514 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:24.559 mistake. Wait a second, it's my fault for asking on the spot. 515 00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:29.960 Okay, without myself. I thought it said eighty three. It says sixty 516 00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:32.039 three. So the Purdue team won seventy five sixty three. I thought they 517 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:37.519 lost seventy five eighty three. So they did win, and some other winners. 518 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:42.839 As far as the local regions here in Louisville and in Lexington, there 519 00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:45.599 hasn't been any games that have gone final yet that I can see. But 520 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.039 yeah, so the first game in Lexington starts at six o'clock. I'm sorry, 521 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.079 No, there's already a game that there's a game at six o'clock, 522 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:57.119 and that is the Auburn team taking on whoever the way Makers are. But 523 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:01.839 there was a Wafford alumni team that played the nof not kidding. The name. 524 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:07.720 Their team name is the nof inn awf and the nof one. So 525 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:09.799 then do you know that references? I don't know, no clue. The 526 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:15.160 noth inn awf that like a Is that a slang way to say North? 527 00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:22.079 I'm guessing. I'm guessing, and I'm sounding very unseasoned right now. So 528 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:22.920 all right, let's gohea and get our last break out of the way. 529 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.079 I do want to try to finish with a little more time than we typically 530 00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:28.240 have. Not a whole lot more, but a little bit, because if 531 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:31.359 you are somebody that is into, you know, the gaming stuff, and 532 00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:34.839 I feel the need but I probably should just ignore it. I feel the 533 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.279 need to remind people, Hey, whatever happens in this NCAA college football game, 534 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:44.880 just understand that it's not it's not real. But somebody simulated twenty seasons 535 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.400 with the current rosters that are on this game, and some of the results 536 00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:51.799 may surprise you. So we'll get to that in a lot more stick around, 537 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.359 one more segment to go here on a Friday coffee and company. Feel 538 00:33:53.400 --> 00:34:00.559 But Thornton's all right, So the athletic I think it was Max Olsen for 539 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:08.360 the athletic. He simulated twenty five different different seasons with the upcoming rosters in 540 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:14.760 this new EA Sports game, and there were a total of sixty one teams 541 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:19.280 that made the twelve team playoff throughout those twenty five seasons. The twelve teams 542 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.239 that made it most frequently Michigan made it twenty three times, Oregon made it 543 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:28.440 twenty two times, Georgia made it seventeen times, Ohio State made it seventeen 544 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:31.440 times, Texas A and m made it thirteen times, Alabama twelve, U 545 00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:36.320 TOA eleven, Miami ten, Clemson nine, Kansas State nine, Notre Dame 546 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:40.119 nine, and Penn State nine. The one that stands out to me as 547 00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:44.440 the biggest head scratcher as to how would they have made it that many times? 548 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:46.000 It doesn't make a lot of sense. It would be Miami and Texas 549 00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.159 A and M What do you think I mean that makes sense? And I 550 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.599 feel like it's probably based on the fact that maybe the ACC isn't as yea 551 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:58.599 as more powerful as all other conference, but also like Oregon, I think 552 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:00.880 Oregon had a much better chance of making the playoff when they were in the 553 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:01.880 Pac twelve. I think the Big ten it's gonna be more competed. Like, 554 00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.119 to me, Oregon and Washington are going to have a more difficult time 555 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.360 than the other way around. Obviously, it's going to be an entirely different 556 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:12.320 yeah, style of play. But they but they still but they have a 557 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:14.559 good foundation, Yeah, I think they do. But they did lose a 558 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:16.599 bunch. But Dan Lanning is a guy who is expected to be, you 559 00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:19.679 know, one of the guys in the future. So maybe they end up 560 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.599 you know, but I don't think anybody in the Pac twelve that's going to 561 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:24.280 the Big ten would with a straight face tell you that, like they're not 562 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:28.920 entering a tougher league. I mean, the back twelve wasn't great, all 563 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.079 right. So in the end, there were forty six teams that made multiple 564 00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:37.440 appearances in the in the playoff. Texas Tech, Nebraska, Virginia Tech, 565 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:39.880 Boston College, Iowa State, and Syracuse are all on that list. So 566 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.360 that's random as hell to me. But Colorado did not make a college football 567 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.280 playoff in any of the simulations, despite having the best quarterback in the game 568 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:52.760 and a top twenty roster, which that's hilarious. That is wild because it's 569 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.559 also just very fitting. That's what that makes that maybe the most realistic thing 570 00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:58.920 I've ever heard about the game, because Colorado is gonna have talent, but 571 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.079 like they don't win at least they had yet. But that got everybody fired 572 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:05.960 up is that they were so highly ranked on this video game because of you 573 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:10.119 know, two things. One, they felt like Colorado having such good numbers 574 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:14.440 would make more people want to play it because of Deon Sanders. Don't know 575 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.000 why people want to do that, but he certainly gets reaction out of folks 576 00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:22.840 that I don't understand. But also it could be that people who you know 577 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:25.559 go through and decide which teams are great don't really follow it that closely. 578 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.719 But you know what, you know, they hear a lot about Deon Sanders 579 00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.440 and Prime and Shadoor Sanders that they just assumed they were going to be great. 580 00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:37.800 So the other snubs here from a power for programs that never made a 581 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:44.960 playoff, Iowa earned zero bids, TCU came up short every time the computer 582 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:49.599 frequently fired their coach. TCUs coach is that Indiana actually played in multiple Big 583 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.960 ten title games but could not break through to the playoff. And oddly enough, 584 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:57.119 UCLA did win one Big Type with Big one ten did win one Big 585 00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.719 Ten title, but was left out that year. So in the simulations as 586 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:07.760 far as as far as the the Heisman, Jalen Milroe won it four times 587 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.000 and Carson Beck won it four times. Dylan Gabriel won it three times, 588 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.000 Will Howard won it twice, as well as Cam Rising who won it twice, 589 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:22.880 and then on the the let's see the conference championships. So in twenty 590 00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:29.920 five simulations of the video game, the Big ten's most frequent winner was Oregon 591 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:35.000 at fifteen, with Ohio State winning four Michigan winning three, which that to 592 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:37.599 me seems I mean again, it's a video game here, I am getting 593 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:39.239 caught up in like this being real, it's not. In the ACC. 594 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:43.559 N C State won it five times, Miami and Clemson won at four, 595 00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:45.440 so did Florida State, and then Louisville only won it once. Kentucky and 596 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:50.440 the SEC. Georgia won the SEC seven times, A and M four, 597 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.800 Florida three, Bama two, Oklahoma two Texas to Kentucky won it twice. 598 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:59.840 So that's what happened in the video game simulation. So do with that what 599 00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:01.239 you will? Get hyped? Yeah, good hype. Have a good Friday, 600 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:04.320 everybody, or a good weekend, I should say, enjoy the rest 601 00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:07.519 of your Friday. I'll see out there Freedom Hall tomorrow, and we'll be 602 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:08.400 back at it on Monday, and I hope you'll join us right here on 603 00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:10.400 Sports Talk seven ninety