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It's time for Coffee and Company,
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine

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day. Now, here's Nick Coffee. By all accounts, the Louisville Pod

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Region whatever we're calling it here for
the TBT, the Ville that's of course

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the name of the team. By
all accounts, Louisville is crushing it when

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it comes to ticket sales, right
Like if you go to the TBT social

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media pages, I mean they're bragging
about the amount of tickets Louisville is sold

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so far. In fact, just
an update from earlier today, it's this

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Louisvill leads Lexington in round one ticket
sales, but just under two weeks to

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go. As right now, it
looks like Louisville's got just under four thousand

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and the Lexington has just over two
thousand. So I don't know, Like

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again, seeing Louisville is doing well
and right now they're selling more tickets than

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any of the other cities that is
hosting in the first round of games here,

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but yeah, I feel like it's
still a low number, Like we

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can do better than that, can't
we. And keep in mind, you

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know, if Louisville wins their region
and Kentucky wins. There is in Lexington.

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Their team name, of course,
is La Familiar. They're gonna play

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each other and whoever sells the most
tickets will end up hosting. And like,

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you know, like I want to
go, I'm not gonna go if

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it's in Lexington. So this is
my you know, encouragement to you to

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go buy tickets. All right,
It's Coffee and Company Hour number two here

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on Sports Talk seven ninety. We
are fueled by Thornton's as Jeff Bram had

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a press conference earlier today. We
talked a little bit about the takeaways from

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that in the three o'clock hour and
some feedback from from some folks. This

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Tex says, Nick, I'm with
you. I think this team is going

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to be better, but I actually
happen to think our schedule is going to

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be dramatically tougher, and eight and
four or nine and three is most likely

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could be. Right when you say
dramatically tougher, you know, going to

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Notre Dame, going to Clemson is
I mean those are just places that people

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don't win very often, right,
I mean Louisville can win at Notre Dame.

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They did it last time they were
there. They beat Notre Dame last

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year, and I have a feeling, you know, maybe I'm wrong here,

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I have a feeling with Marcus Freeman. It's either is that his name,

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that's the name of that Notre Dame
coach, isn't it. Yes,

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they're either going to, I think, take a step forward this year and

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be a lot better than they were
last year. Not thought they were terrible,

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but like they're either going to in
my opinion, this year year three

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for Marcus Freeman, they're going to
either take a small step back or they're

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going to take a step forward.
And if they take a small step back,

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I don't think he's gonna last there
that long. I mean, Notre

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Dame didn't fire coaches that often,
and they haven't had to, you know,

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it's Notre Dame. But I again, I think there's a better chance

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that of those two teams, again, tough places to play, usually pretty

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good teams, Notre Dame in Clemson, I think Clemson's gonna better than them.

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I can't really base that on I
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will always be good enough to be
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even though they don't use the portal
and they rarely lose guys. But

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anyways, yeah, those are tough
games. And I think really like,

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if we get to the end of
the season, Let's look at it this

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way. If we get to the
end of the season and you are,

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you know, on the outside looking
in at the ACC championship game and you

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finished eight and four, which,
by the way, like that sounds underwhelming

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as I said it, Yet we
hadn't had an eight and four regular season

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for Louisville football since Lamar Jackson was
here. So you know, we got

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spoiled in year one, no doubt
about that. But if we get to

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the end of the season and you're
eight and four and you didn't get to

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the a SEC Championship game, and
we are saying, wow, Louisville schedule

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actually ended up being tough. Here's
what I think happens. Clemson and Notre

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Dame are consistent top fifteen caliber teams
all throughout the year, and they're just

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they're a little better and they're at
home. Right, maybe you're competitive in

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those games, but you lose Christ
of ball in Miami, have a good

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year with cam Ward there the transfer
from the PAC twelve Washington State kid.

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I mean he's got all the talent, and you know, talent's never been

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a problem for Miami. They just
always seemed to fall short. But they

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weren't bad last year, and you
know, they had a couple of games

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that they literally tried to lose,
it seemed. And then maybe SMU is

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like a surprise. Maybe s CMU
ends up being like a good team in

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the ACC, not to where they're
competing for the playoff, but you know,

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they look as if they're in their
first year a top four team in

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the league. Like I think that's
and let's throw Kentucky out there. Maybe

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Kentucky ends up just being a you
know, a team that you're still gonna

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have a tough time beating. So
I'm not saying that that's how it's gonna

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play out. And what was gonna
lose to all those teams I just mentioned,

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But I think the schedule will be
tougher. But I'm not ready to

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say Louisville has a tough schedule.
What I mean by that is we're comparing

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last year's schedule, this year's schedule, last year's schedule. It wasn't you

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know, It's a little difficult to
dissect because you know, they didn't play

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any complete bums, right, they
didn't play any FCS or G five teams,

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but they also, you know,
the best team they played at the

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end of the season was you know, regular season was I guess Notre Dame.

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And I don't think many people thought
they were great last year. NC

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State ended up finishing strong, but
you know, so I'm not ready to

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say they have a tough schedule,
but it's tougher than last year. But

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that's mostly due to the fact that
last year just happened to be a pretty

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beneficial situation for Jeff Brawm in year
one, with how the ACC decided to

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schedule this tech says Nick. I
hate to say this, but I don't

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care about the ACC Championship game this
year. Just beat Kentucky. Yeah,

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I mean a lot of people feel
that way. You know, we had

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the conversation not that long ago about
how if I had to if you know,

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if I could only well, I
think somebody rephrased the question to where

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it wasn't like such a silly hypothetical, although it kind of still was,

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but it was which one is more
important to Louisville fans? Like, which

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one do you think the fan base
needs more a win over Kentucky and football

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or a win over Kentucky in basketball. And I think because of the situation

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with it being a completely new era
here and both programs kind of starting fresh

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with a new coach. In fact, both programs are starting completely fresh with

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not only a new coaching staff,
but an entirely new team. In fact,

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I saw something over the weekend.
Yeah, so right, there are

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nine teams in college basketball that returned
zero possession minutes from last season. So

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nine teams in college basketball that do
not bring back a single player who played

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for them last year. Louisville and
Kentucky are two of the nine, and

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they're the only two from a Power
five school it, so all the others

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are you know, USC, Upstate, IONA Maryland, Eastern Shore. So

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like that's those are such that's the
bottom barrel of you know, the bottom

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barrel of college basketball to where you're
probably literally reloading your team every year with

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like because you're those programs are so
they're not even mid major, they're low

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major. Yeah, so if you're
good for one of those teams, you're

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gonna try to get the hell out
of there, right, So you know,

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it's completely brand new. So with
that said, I think just ending

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this streak to Kentucky is is needed, is needed in a in a major

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way. So I'm with you.
You know, I don't have anything else

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to add, right, I mean, that's the one thing that I hate

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about that game being played at the
end of the season, because even if

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it was played at the first game
of the season, we still wouldn't know

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anything, right, Like we we
haven't watched Louisville or Kentucky play this year

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in football because you know, and
both teams, by the way, have

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new personnel because of the portal.
That's just how it works. But there's

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no eleven games played prior to the
time when these two play on the last

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game of the season. Do where
you didn't? You have no, Like,

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it's just tough for me to say, like, here's here's the matchup

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that I think could give Louisville a
real advantage, or here's a matchup I'd

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be worried about because you know,
they're gonna play eleven games before they play

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each other. Guys are gonna get
hurt. I mean, it's it's the

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ultimate unknown as far as how to
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But yes, I'm with you.
I hope they'd be Kentucky in a major

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way. And last year was it
was tough. It was tough. All

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right. Let's talk about the short
film that was released yesterday by the Louisville

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men's basketball program. And I watched
it yesterday, and I gotta be honest

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with you, and I know I'm
not the only one who who says this,

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who has said this, I should
say, but I'm just being truthful.

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It was a tough watch. I
just felt like it was over the

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top, kind of corny, Like
it didn't bother me. I wasn't angry

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about it. I wasn't embarrassed as
a Louisville fan, nothing like that.

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But it was just, you know, it was really corny. But then

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I watch it again today and I
guess, now kind of knowing what it

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is like, I feel I feel. I mean, again, even when

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I thought it was corny, I'm
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these are things like creative content online
in the month of July to keep people

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who already are super engaged with the
program right now because they're excited about the

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new era that is the Pat Kelsey
era. I mean, they're gonna keep

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probably releasing these. I don't know
if they're doing it once a week,

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once every couple of weeks, but
you know, like this is good stuff

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to do to keep your fan base
to you know, to keep your you

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know, kind of to hold fans
over, right, hold you over until

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we get to actually watching this team
play. Give us things like this,

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some behind the scenes stuff and we're
gonna eat it up. And that's what

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we're doing. So it's corny,
but it's it's it's to me, it's

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great and it was. It was
so well done. And I'm you know,

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I'm a nerd. Like my biggest
hobby, like something I have such

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an interest in as filmmaking and tomatography. I don't know how that became a

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thing, but like that's just something
I really enjoy learning about. And you

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know, I I kind of it's
kind of like the thing I get into

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that's away from work, if that
makes sense. Like this is I mean,

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I love sports. It's a huge
part of my life and my cult.

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You know, it's it's what I
did. Your hobby. Yeah,

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it's like my it's like my escape, you know what I mean. So,

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I mean, so I was super
impressed with what went into it.

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But like John watched it for the
first time before the show today, and

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that's the first thing stood out to
you. Right, It's like it's a

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it's a it's like a cinema movie. Like it looks like something you could

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be watching it in a movie theater. If you didn't know who those people

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were, you might think you're looking
at Hollywood actors. Yeah, and they

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didn't have a whole lot, you
know, to to pull off as far

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as the the lines, right,
Like the script was minimal, but like

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Peyton Siva and Luke Hancock. Like
again, if I didn't know who those

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guys were, I would say that
those guys are actors. And again,

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it wasn't as if they had to
play a lead role in a feature film.

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The video itself was about three minutes
long, but really well done.

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And I think you I'm gonna play
it, John, because obviously if you

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haven't seen it, you're gonna think
to yourself, you know, But I

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think you can just hear the narration
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what they're trying to what the what
the story is here in this short film,

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and it's about the portal and how
coach Kelsey has completely used the portal

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to build this team. But yeah, here we go. This is this

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and and if there's things like I
feel like you need to know who's saying

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something, I'll tell you. But
this is Operation Revival, a short film.

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Ladies and gentlemen, We have breaking
news tonight. Pat Kelsey, head

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coach for rublemen's basketball. It's just
moments away from entering what appears to be

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the transfer portal at the KFC Young
Senate. So they've got him walking in

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a space suit. Revival. A
live newscast talking about it has captured the

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world's attention as we await further updates
from his team monitoring the mission. So

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this is Cardinal Command Center. Do
you copy loud and clear Cardinal Command Operation

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Revival Ready to rock copy of that
coach caship Portal Activation sequence initiated stand by

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for transition Rock Soviet pauses just to
give you the scene here. And by

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the way, you haven't go you
haven't watched you go check it out.

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It's all over social media. Louisllman's
basketball all their pages has it. But

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that's Luke, Luke Hancock and Peyton
Siva in what looks to be like a

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real command center. As Pat Kelsey's
dressed up like he's about to go to

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space, and uh, he's not
going to space. He's going into the

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portal. And I guess through the
communication there, Peyton is kind of leading

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him on this, on this whatever
you call it, expedition. Yeah,

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exactly that Cardinal Command online. Ready, Coach Kloman opened the portal portals open,

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sir. So that's Coach that voice
you heard there that said the portal's

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opened. So that was such a
subtle part of it that I thought was

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really well done. Coach Brian Clohman
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by the way, when we had
Coach Kelsey on a few weeks ago,

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he actually shared that it was Coach
Clohman who kind of came up with the

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revival thing, which has clearly become
the new slogan here. But he's it's

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almost like he's got like the power
to open it up, which I'm you

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know, as as Coach Kelsey's top
assistant, I'm sure he was heavily involved

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in everything they did within the portal. All right, y'all, let's go

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get some dudes entering the portal.
Now, he looks like an astronaut.

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Comssen or to Coach Kelsey, what
are you seeing there? It's like nothing

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I've ever seen before. It's a
sea a red. We seem to be

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experiencing some technical difficulties. Oh,
I think we may have lost him in

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the portal. Lost our communication with
PK. PK. This is Cardinal Command.

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Please respond. We will update you
as soon as we find out what

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is going on. What we do
know now is that Coach Kelsey's whereabouts are

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currently unknown. Uh oh, doesn't
look good, guys, there's panic.

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Card is your guy Coach Kelsey again, I'm back. Sorry for that brief

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loss of communication. You will believe
what we got in here. Operation Revival

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going as planned, y'all. Can
let Cardination know Louisville Basketball is back,

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appitiating entry back to the yard,
celebration in the command center, and now

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he is returning from the portal his
astronaut suit with the entire team, which

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again he brought back from the portal. So I thought it was really really

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well done. I mean a little
corny, sure, but I just can't

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get over it. Again. I'm
a nerd for this, Tim. I

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can't get over how good it looks
like it's I mean, it is cinematic,

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it's and apparently there's a there's a
an entire crew of people behind the

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scenes that now work in like content
creation for high level athletic programs at big

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universities, right, I mean you've
got a department that, you know,

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you've got three or four people that
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just a basketball program, and then
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So I know JB. Allen,
who's worked at UVL for a long time,

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has was was, I guess,
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with the help of a lot of
other people who also work within the

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creative department with UL Athletics. But
yeah, video creative director JB. Allen

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apparently is the guy who really turned
this into a masterpiece, with the help

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of a lot of other people as
well. But yeah, I mean again,

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if people are gonna like, if
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like Twitter, I mean you're gonna see

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like it's it's a toxic. Is
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or is it Big Blue Nation coming
over it's throwing their two ninety five

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Big Blue Nation. I mean it's
I'm not kidding you. I mean I

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haven't looked at every response to it, but I feel like ninety percent of

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anybody that is either right like like
replying to it or quote tweeting it,

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it's a Kentucky fan just saying,
you know, never change Louisville. You

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know, act like corny cornball exactly. I mean he's I mean, yeah,

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like again, that's the first thing
I said once we knew that Mark

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Pope was going to be their coach. Like, look, I don't know

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what's gonna happen with wins and losses, but like all that yeap and you

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guys were doing about us having a
corny dork like you probably should have some

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self awareness and realize that's not you
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there for rivalry smack talk. That's
probably not one you want to go down

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just because I mean, Mark Pope
maybe a great coach. I think he's

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a good coach. I don't know
good he's gonna bea Kentucky but I think

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he's good coach. I think he's
a good guy. But like he's a

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dork, So I guess that you
know, I I don't have any reaction

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or care of the Kentucky fans are
making fun of it, because that's just

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what we do in this rivalry.
Like if Louisville was on the other end

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in Kentucky made this video, we'd
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that's just how that's how this works. So I feel like there wasn't nearly

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as much backlash last year when they
did the Louisville football videos, like the

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spoof from Top Gun Mavericke. Oh
yeah, I feel like that was universally

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appreciated. Maybe YEAHS weren't super involved
with that one as much, but I

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forgot about that. You're right,
like that that was a big hit,

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like like that that went viral not
just around here, but around like the

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college football internet, Like people thought
that was really cool. It was really

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the same thing, really really well
done cinematic. I just couldn't relate because

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I've never watched the movie, but
it was well done. And yeah,

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I don't know, I don't know
what led to this getting a little bit

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Maybe I don't know. Maybe it's
because, let's be real, they can

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make fun of Pat Kelsey, but
like until he gets a couple of years

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in or there's some results there,
Like they don't really have anything to grasp

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onto, you know what I mean, Like anything Louisville does, they're just

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gonna says corny and lame because it's
Loserville. Because that's I mean, we're

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all getting to know each other a
little bit. But even though we don't

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know a lot about Mark Pope and
his personality and like you know how he's

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gonna do same thing it could be
said about Pat Kelsey. Here's what we

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know as Louisville fans and Kentucky fans. We don't like each other, and

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we're gonna make fun of each other
because it's the rivalry, you know what

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I mean. So like anything I
think right now is gonna be viewed as

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fair game to make fun of because
it's it's all brand new. A year

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I mean, imagine a year ago
me saying that the new coaches for Louisville

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basketball in Kentucky basketball are going to
be Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope, Like

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I would have been laughed out of
town. I mean, I wouldn't mean

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if you'd have told me that and
showed me proof one that'd being awesome that

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you you know, be able to
you know, show me what happens in

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the future. But like I wouldn't
still wouldn't believe it because it just doesn't

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seem in any way, you know, believable at all. But again,

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for me, it's just the fact
that you're still keeping fans engaged with the

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program with this kind of stuff on
social media. I think the TBT,

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which has nothing to do with this
current I mean, if Kenny Payne was

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still here, they'd still have the
TBT, I would believe. But you

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know, Pat Kelsey's gonna be there
Freedom Hall supporting those guys. I'm sure

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whenever Fox does the broadcast, he'll
probably do uh, he'll probably sit in

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and do a you know, an
interview with Fanta, which, by the

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way, how about John Fanta come
into town. He's going to be calling

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the tvt Johnny's going to come join
us in the studio for a show.

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Oh wow, that'll be aweso.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to catching up

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with Fanta, who, by the
way, like I've known John Fanta for

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about five six years now, back
when he just worked specifically for the Big

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East. We've had him on the
show many times. My man Fant is

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blown up like he's he's I mean, he's always been super talented, but

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like, I don't know what's led
to it other than him just continuing to,

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you know, be able to grow
his brand. He did a lot

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of games on Fox this year for
college basketball, and yeah, fantas like,

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I feel like, you know,
I'm gonna be a little starstruck whenever

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I see Fanta in studio with us, because he's he's become like one of

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the guys in college basketball. Does
he carry around the Fanta soft drink?

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I don't know any sponsor they still
make that. I thought it. I

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get Fanta and Fago mixed up.
Okay, Yeah, there is two different

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ones. Which one is for the
gathering of the juggalos. I think that

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I think that maybe I don't know. I just remember the the one of

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Fonta commercials. It was like the
four ladies and they were like always dancing

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around. I always thought those were
really funny. Yeah, so, uh,

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I think Fago is for the for
the gathering of the juggalos icep.

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I mean, I don't think you
have to drink it. I don't think

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you have to drink it if you're
there, vice versa. But like that's

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what a lot of people associate that
drink with and that has nothing to do

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with that. That's like the least
compatible thing for John Fanta, the gathering

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of the Juggalos and same clown Possi. So I don't know, yea,

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if he doesn't have an endorsement deal
with Fanta, he should, I mean,

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that's a swing and a miss if
he doesn't. All right, quick

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break, we'll come back on the
other side. Keep this thing rolling along.

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Get back to the text line.
Appreciate you guys being interactive with us

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today. And look, I know
that everybody's feeling the impact of just everything

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being way more expensive than it once
was. But there is a TikTok that's

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gone viral that I want to play
for you guys that really, I think

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will put in perspective like how insane
it is, not like since twenty twenty,

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since twenty twenty two, two years
ago, the increase that in just

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everything is costs more and it's insane, sad, But well, I mean,

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I guess we wait and see if
it gets better. But like usually

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I feel like prices never go back
down exactly. That's what scares me.

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Like, I don't mean this is
just the new way of life, which

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I hated. It's sad, but
all right, don't go anywhere again.

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It's coffee and company. Keep it
locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety

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so is this insane clown posse?
It is with the song Juggalo Homies.

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I gotta be honest with you.
I don't think I could name a single

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song of theirs, and I'm not
sure I would know them if you played

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them. They were never really my
cup of tea, but you know they

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are. They just music. I
feel like they're so like that they had

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such a cult following, but I
feel like it was because of something other

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than just music. Yeah, I
feel like they really didn't they wrestle at

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some point. I think they were
professionally. The crowd is normally like kind

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of the gothy crowd, but like
they're not like your typical goth if that

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makes sense. I mean they like
paint their face and stuff like you know,

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so, yeah, shout out to
ACP. They're still around, right,

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like they're not. I think they're
not dead, are they? Yeah?

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For some reason, I feel like
they might have made a louder than

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life appearance. It more. Really, I could be wrong. I know

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they're not coming this year, but
it wouldn't surprise. They kind of fit.

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They fit the vibe. Oh yeah, I mean I but but again,

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I feel like that I was gonna
say that's that event has become like

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the biggest rock even still, you
got three six Mafia coming around. Yeah,

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Joey, Valence and Brain. So
didn't Snoop Dogg do it one year

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or something? I was supposed to? I think he was the year that

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COVID gotcha, so he did end
up doing that. Can you name the

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name of the two guys that make
up in Saint Clown Possi? I can't,

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Violent Jay and Shaggy Too Dope.
Violent Jay and Shaggy Too Dope.

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Violent Jay is the guy who if
you wiped off the makeup from his face,

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you might believe that it's Guy Fieri. Okay, you know I'm talking

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about the bond is and then the
other one that's bald is is Shaggy two

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Dope. So anyway, shout out
to i CP. All right, so

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I'm want to turn this into like, you know, a complaining session.

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But if we all could collectively complain
about something I feel like, regardless of

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rooting interest, regardless of what side
of a rivalry you're on, Like,

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nobody can be cool with the amount
of money we're paying for everything, like

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just going to any store. I
mean everything is way more expensive cost of

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living. I mean, it's and
that happens, right, that that happens

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over time, But the drastic change
in like two years is still crazy to

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me. Like it's not surprising.
I guess when you go to the register

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and you check out and you see
a number that you were dreading because you

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knew it was gonna be expensive.
Like I guess eventually you get kind of

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used to that. But it wasn't
that long ago when it was substantially cheaper

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to just live, to just live. So there is the video that has

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gone viral on TikTok from this young
guy who I guess realized he can go

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back and look at his previous Walmart
orders because that's how we get groceries now.

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We buy online. We didn't start
doing it until like a year ago,

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and it's so convenient. I mean, sometimes they mess up and forget

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something. Sometimes you get food that
you didn't order, and obviously you just

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get to keep it. Like somehow
we ended up with two humongous packs of

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ribs which we don't even eat,
but my wife showed them to me.

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She was like, you want going
to make these? And I'm like,

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hell yeah, and they were delicious. So it's not perfect, but it's

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so convenient. Still costs money,
but it's worth it. I mean,

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the amount of money you have to
pay a month just to have that service

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and then you know, you tip
your driver and stuff, like, it's

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totally worth it in my opinion,
especially because of convenience. But this guy's

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been doing it for a while now
and he went back to the you can

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so if you have like a I'm
sure people use the app this way to

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where they just know, hey,
here's here's an order of the essentials that

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I know I'm gonna need every two
weeks. And I go in and I

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just hit reorder and it you know, you don't have to search for it

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anymore, like it's right there.
Well, this guy pulled up his grocery

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order from years ago, two years
ago, in fact, exactly two years

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ago, fifty three items, and
the difference in what it would cost today

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to order these fifty three items compared
to what it costs two years ago is

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is absolutely insane. Let me see
if I can get this video to play

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for you. Here we go,
let's see. I just like look through

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my Walmart history and I found this, like Walmart order from two years ago

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for the whole month worth of groceries
forty five items cost one hundred and twenty

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six dollars. A whole month of
groceries just for me, basically. But

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I did notice this reorder all button, and I wanted to see how much

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it would cost now. Now,
this order of forty five items for one

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month would have cost four hundred and
fourteen dollars. Think about that. The

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same order two years later, fifty
three items in twenty twenty two, it

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cost one hundred and twenty six dollars
and sixty seven cents. Today it would

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cost four hundred and fourteen dollars and
thirty nine cents. I'm sure there's all

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kinds of examples people could really dig
up that really put in perspective how much

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more you're spending. But I think
if you do that as somebody who is

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living not necessarily just check to check. But obviously you don't have a lot

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of disposable income like it would make
you depressed. Even one I mean,

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it's just it's crazy. That's nearly
I thout that that's like a three hundred

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ndred percent increase in cost inflation.
Wasn't that bad? No? Never,

405
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never, never, And you know, I don't. I don't get into

406
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you know, maybe this is a
bad way to look at it, but

407
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it's what keeps me happy in life. I assume I have no control over

408
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:22.279
this, but I don't. And
I know people will say, well,

409
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no, if you you better pay
attention to you vote for Okay, Well

410
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yeah, I mean, but like
I still live my life, just wanting

411
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to assume that, like, just
deal with whatever comes your way, accept

412
00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:38.119
it, and don't you know,
don't get been out of shape about something

413
00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:42.799
like, for example, whoever wins
the election in November. Obviously I have

414
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a preference, but whoever wins the
election in November, Like I'm going to

415
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tell myself, you know, if
it's somebody that I didn't want, I'm

416
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going to say, well, you
know what, Oh, well, like

417
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I got to live my life,
right, you know, I can't.

418
00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:57.839
I can't dwell on it because I
can't do anything about it now. And

419
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you know, but I just I
it's insane to see that big of a

420
00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.839
difference, and this isn't this what
I'm getting. This isn't sustainable right,

421
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.000
Like here, I am turning into
like a political talk show host and I'm

422
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.920
not even really talking politics politics specifically, but the country is not sustainable with

423
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.440
the prices of everything climbing the way
that it is. I feel like companies

424
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continue to just push and push and
push until they start to see a significant

425
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enough of a decrease in customer purchases. And that's kind of what I feel

426
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:36.200
like you're seeing with fast food restaurants. Like I think it's a few of

427
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the You may have even mentioned this
on the show a couple of weeks ago.

428
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I think it was like McDonald's or
Wendy's is putting out a new value

429
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menu, and now that the other
fast food restaurants are trying to do the

430
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same because people just aren't going to
fast food restaurants. Yeah, they they

431
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had. I'm not sure what they're
Here's what I think is happening, and

432
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.440
maybe this is just the way I
choose to look at it. I can't

433
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have no facts to prove this or
anything like that, but I think I'll

434
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probably still post these fast food restaurants, probably record breaking revenue, but sales

435
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:10.240
themselves will be down, Visits will
be down because not as many people are

436
00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.880
going, but the people who do
go are paying forty to fifty percent more

437
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.319
than they did two years ago for
certain things at fast food places. So

438
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.519
they are going to know they can
still get those people to do it,

439
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:25.119
because hey, you've raised the prices
and you're still you're still full at the

440
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:27.400
drive through because enough people, even
if it is hitting them hard in the

441
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:30.440
pockets, they're still going to get
fast food because they don't want to cook.

442
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:34.200
But now you're going to try to
put together a value menu that can

443
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cater to those people who stop coming
because they quite literally cannot afford it,

444
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.759
like they don't have the money in
their account to pay for a meal at

445
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you know, certain places. And
that's I just I think that there's certain

446
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.799
things that just have been well everything
else is expensive, So let's every industry

447
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.680
raise every price and we can't.
There's no like it's not costing them any

448
00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:00.920
more money for certain things, probably
as far as supplying it, you know,

449
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.799
but it's just an it's an excuse
that every industry can use, now

450
00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:07.240
you know what I mean? Yes, that that that's what it takes money.

451
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.359
Nobody's going to do enough digging on
their own to see if it really

452
00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:14.960
matters. And again, like I
think it might have been Starbucks, and

453
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.039
I've never given them business ever because
it's just not my kind of thing,

454
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:21.599
Like there is don't quote me on
that. Maybe it's not Starbucks, but

455
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:25.559
it was one of these places that
you know is expected to post a record

456
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number, you know, of revenue, which you know, to me says

457
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:32.920
that business is great and they're just
charging more people more money because they know

458
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:33.359
that they can and they're going to
pay for it. And look, I

459
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:38.200
guess they're entitled to do that,
but like everything has skyrocketed and it's is

460
00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.039
aggravating when they use the excuse,
Oh, it's just inflation, man,

461
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.519
Yeah, it's inflation. Yeah.
I mean like if I sell, you

462
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.000
know, a used car that is
not that I'm not using, can I

463
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.880
now like just add twenty five percent
and so, well, you know inflation?

464
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:52.279
Yeah, I mean, what do
you? I mean? Like it

465
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.920
it's just an excuse for everybody.
And as you said earlier, and I'm

466
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.119
with you, you don't usually see
us go backs, right, Like the

467
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.720
only thing that really fluctuates is gas
prices. Yeah, that's true, and

468
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:07.960
it can fluctuate in a major way. Ye, be honest with you.

469
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.799
Like, I remember the COVID gas
prices. I mean obviously that was because

470
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:12.599
people were not driving. Yeah,
I mean you could get gas for like

471
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:17.960
a dollar fifty. I feel like, yeah, I miss that. All

472
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:19.720
right, let's go to the text
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So this text says Nick. As excited

476
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.039
as I am about basketball, I
still find it very weird that I can

477
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.440
see our entire team walking alongside Pat
Kelsey dressed as an astronaut and I can't

478
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.240
pick out that many of the guys
on the roster. Yeah, I mean,

479
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:51.240
like that's just that. Look,
this is an extreme roster rehaul,

480
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:57.119
if that makes sense. Is that
a word rehaul restructuring maybe because overhaul is

481
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.400
the word I think I was going
before there. Ye. Sorry, sometimes

482
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.759
that just you know, just blame
it on inflation. Yeah, exactly,

483
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:08.640
it's inflation's fault, damn it.
But this is this is not going to

484
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:13.359
be the norm where you have an
entire new team. In fact, we

485
00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:16.319
talked about it earlier, Kentucky and
Louisville both entire new, entirely new teams,

486
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:20.920
entirely new coaching staffs. That the
only two Power five programs in college

487
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:24.599
basketball, they don't return a single
player that played any any basketball for them,

488
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:30.160
So that's because of coaching change took
place. So the days of having

489
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:36.680
roster continuity like we used to,
that's not happening anymore. But this is

490
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:40.839
extreme, So I think more often
than not, you're going to see some

491
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:45.880
fred You know, maybe a couple
of freshmen come in and they're going to

492
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.519
be new, and you know that
they probably won't be expected to play a

493
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whole lot because again, if if
you're a really good freshman that can make

494
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.079
an impact, you'll find some minutes. But with the portal making it to

495
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.720
where coaches don't have to be young
if they want to be young, a

496
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:01.599
lot of them are gonna want to
be young. So I just think freshmen

497
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:05.960
are going to have a harder time
unless they're elite at really making an impact

498
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:09.119
right away, especially at a top
or Power five program. So I think,

499
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:12.960
you know, the goal is that
you want to bring back the guys

500
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.839
that you want back, and I
think you know, let's say there are

501
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.240
six guys that you that you know
you're you want back. Is the head

502
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:27.279
coach from you from your previous year's
team. I'd say if you get four

503
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.279
of them, you feel like you
did a pretty good job. Because if

504
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:31.640
you get the four guys back,
that means they're happy with their role.

505
00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:37.119
They're being taken care of an NIL
and they're probably expecting maybe even a bump

506
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:38.599
in NIL or a bump in playing
time, like they're going to have a

507
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:42.839
bigger role because they're coming back,
like you're gonna have returning players. And

508
00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:45.519
if you're good and you have the
NIL stuff in place, you may still

509
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.880
lose them to the portal because you
just never know anymore. But that's all

510
00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:52.799
that's best you can do. If
a guy's being paid really well and he's

511
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.400
got a he's got a really good
role where he's get a lot of minutes,

512
00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.680
he's a big factor in what you
do, and he still chooses to

513
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:01.480
leave, Like people are gonna blame
the coach, but like these guys sometimes

514
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:04.920
are gonna leave and it's nobody's fault. They just are doing it because they

515
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:07.880
can. So if you get four
guys back and you get you know,

516
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let's say you bring in three freshmen, Let's say you got five guys back,

517
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:15.679
or let's say you get all six
like I think more often than not

518
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for Louisville. Programs like Louisville,
you're gonna probably see you get thirteen scholarship

519
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:34.280
players. I'd say six to seven
newcomers every year, with seventy five percent

520
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.000
being transfers that are ready to come
in and play right away, and then

521
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the other twenty five percent being freshmen, and it'll fluxuate. Right maybe one

522
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:43.719
year you have a bigger class of
freshmen, so you don't bring back as

523
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many, you don't bring in as
many transfers. So the days of like

524
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.000
just knowing everybody on your team because
everybody came back and the only newcomer is

525
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.760
too is a freshman or two,
that's just not realistic anymore. The game

526
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:59.079
has changed. You know, when
Louisville was preseason top five in the country

527
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in twenty twenty twenty nineteen twenty twenty, of course, the year that is

528
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:06.039
forgotten because of COVID. They brought
back everybody, which is why they were

529
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:07.800
preseason, you know, top five, top ten, opinting on where you

530
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.880
look, because that team, you
know, I thought overachieved in year one

531
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for MAC and then they brought everybody
back. Jordan Warra really showed that he

532
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.320
was a hell of a player,
you know, Dwayne Sutton, I mean,

533
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:20.719
the team was. They brought back
good players, then they added fresh

534
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:24.320
Kimball, who at the time was
a big get pre portal. I say

535
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:28.480
pre portal because nobody called it the
portal until like everybody could transfer, right,

536
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:32.599
like the portal became a thing,
or maybe it just became more known.

537
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.280
But like there used to be dudes
who transferred because they had a grad

538
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:42.000
year or they got injured, and
yet they took a red shirt and they've

539
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:45.519
graduated. They don't have to sit
out, So you know, I get

540
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:49.880
it. Like looking back at especially
these guys who are back in Louisville getting

541
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.039
ready for the TVT like Kyle Kerrich, we watched his journey from start to

542
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.320
finish, Peyton Russ, those guys, even Shane Bhannon, who of course

543
00:35:55.480 --> 00:36:00.519
his you know, journey ended a
little premature due to some other but like

544
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.199
that's just not the way it's gonna
be anymore. It can still happen,

545
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:08.880
but it's going to be I think
an extreme rare situation when you see a

546
00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:14.360
really good team and you look at
their rotation of seven man eight man,

547
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:16.960
and like six to seven of them
are dudes who've been there three years,

548
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:20.320
who've just kind of grinded their way
up. I mean again, it can

549
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.400
happen. It's not impossible. You're
allowed to do it. I just don't

550
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:24.880
think that's how you're going to see
these rosters of all of over time.

551
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555
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Like you don't need any testosterone' you've
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But you know what I mean, Like,

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dudes don't think they need help,
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558
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they're tough, they're macho. Not
everybody's like that, but a lot of

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men are. It's a stereotype and
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you you could be even better.
You know, I wasn't like obese and

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completely out of shit. I mean
I was. I felt like I was

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in decent shape. And I'm like, you know what, man, you're

563
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working hard, your diet has been
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564
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results? And I exhausted all different
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out what I was doing wrong.
And it wasn't really anything I was doing

566
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wrong. It was my body.
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567
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other side, it's called Company Field. Beth Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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This question came in earlier. Were
gonna have a whole lot of time

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left here in the four o'clock hours, So uh, text line we go.

582
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It's the Ellen in Federal Credit Union
tex line. But this question says,

583
00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:15.400
Nick, did you notice the lack
of the Louisville presence in the NBA

584
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.920
Summer League? What's up with that? I did not notice that. I

585
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:22.639
haven't watched any summer league yet.
But you know now that you say that,

586
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:28.119
I can't think of many Louisville players
that I've seen are playing in the

587
00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:32.719
summer league. I mean, the
summer league is tricky because there's not a

588
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:38.119
whole lot of evidence that anybody has
taken the opportunity with a summer league invite

589
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:44.039
to really kind of revive their career. In fact, there's a lot of

590
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.440
examples of dudes who were really,
really good in the summer League that like,

591
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:51.239
it didn't turn out to do to
mean anything. There were guys that

592
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:55.440
were, you know, not that
effective, like for example, Wim Binyama

593
00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:59.119
if you remember last year that was
a big talking point in the summer league,

594
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:02.320
is that he he didn't look like
he belonged on the floor at times,

595
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:06.360
and he ended up having a phenomenal
rookie season. You know, in

596
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:07.639
fact, he was way better as
a rookie than I realized he was.

597
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.719
I knew he was really you know, productive and didn't look like a bust

598
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:15.000
or anything, but he was good. So it may just be that you're

599
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.320
seeing seeing guys that just have decided
like I'm going I now know, and

600
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:22.079
I'm content with the fact that I'm
going to be a professional basketball player,

601
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:23.840
but it's not going to be in
the NBA, So I don't need to

602
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:29.800
go risk injury and play you know, for for pennies in Vegas and and

603
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:32.840
you know, waste my time.
Really, so I think it's pretty obvious

604
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:36.920
that that usually is not a great
resource. But then again, it is

605
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.760
a connection to the NBA. Right
You're playing for an NBA team in their

606
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:43.639
summer league, and that's at least
I guess a foot in the door.

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Maybe Another thing you have to keep
in mind is the is the the Olympics

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are coming up. Like for example, like right now, you've got three

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former Louisville players that are all competing
to try to earn a roster spot on

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the South sud Anne team for the
Olympic Games coming up, and they're in

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training camp. And that's Carlik Jones, Mango, Mattheang and Dingadell who car

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League certainly could be in the in
the Summer League, and I think he'd

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be a good guy to I think
he'd ball out if he got a chance

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to play in the summer league.
So yeah, I mean another factor is

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that Louisville has not put guys in
the NBA in a while, right,

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I mean, who's the last was
David Johnson? I guess David Johnson was

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the last NBA draft pick for Louisville. And you know, I was surprised

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that David didn't play. I mean
he was. He's been in the G

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League really since he got into the
NBA or since he got drafted, and

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you know, he's been effective in
the G League and usually guys like him

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in that position. I feel like
typically end up end up playing in the

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summer league, but he's not,
and he'll be playing for the TBT,

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which is great. At least I
haven't seen that he's on a summer league

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roster. Yeah, David was the
last guy drafted in twenty twenty one,

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and war A drafted in twenty twenty. I'm curious, you know, you

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didn't have a guy drafted in the
last three NBA drafts. I wonder what

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the longest draft is for Louisville not
to have somebody taken in a draft.

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That'd be a good trivia question.
I think I've just found it here by

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looking at the the seventy seven player
breakdown all Louisville players that have ever been

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drafted in the NBA. In nineteen
ninety seven, you had Dwan Wheat and

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then you didn't have another draft pick
until Reese Gains in twenty two thousand and

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three, which again that was the
time where you know, things kind of

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fell apart there at the end for
Denny and you know Rick got here in

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what two thousand and one, So
that's a big factor. That's a big

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part of it, right, Like
Chennanu got drafted and he's obviously playing well

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professionally, and there's just I don't
think there's any benefit from him playing in

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the summer league because he's not going
to play in the NBA. And then

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Donovan and Terry Rozier and you know
those guys, they're they're they're doing well

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enough to where you know, they
don't need to play in the summer league.

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All right, quick break, we'll
come back and keep this thing rolling

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along. Five o'clock hour, coming
up next, talk a little more about

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what Jeff Brohm had to say.
It is press conference earlier today, and

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you know, mix it up here
in the five o'clock hours, So stick

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around right here on Sports Talk seven
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