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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.
I thought about going outside during the uh

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during well, not going outdoors,
but just walk into the window here at

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four Street Live to see if the
weather was getting nasty yet. But how

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we're set up, I wouldn't really
be I would actually have to walk all

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the way outside and like leave where. I mean, you can't really tell

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in four Street, can you,
I guess are We're such a shaded area

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compared to you know, downtown Louisville, it's tough to really tell what the

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weather's truly, like I feel like, yeah, I mean, I guess

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the best way would be just walk
out of these doors here where we are,

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just take a rite and you can
see through that like alleyway as far

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as like what's happening out on the
street. That is one of the benefits

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of being here at Force Street Live, which I do love our studio setup,

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but we have a covered garage that
we park in every day, and

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like even the walk from the office
to the car is covered, and you

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know, we're kind of weather protected. So it's another one of the perks

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we have when it comes to,
you know, being located here. I'll

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say this. My wife's done in
Lichfield right now, and she says,

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tornado sirens are going off. So
I don't know the situation down there,

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but it doesn't sound good if you're
hearing tornado sirens. Yeah, not great,

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So I don't I have not seen
outside. I actually started the show

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today mentioning that I feel like it's
going to be another one of those days

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where the look outside when I leave
here will be much different than when I

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arrive because we've got tornado warnings.
This is from our own, I say

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our own, because our partners are
over there at WLKY and they are blessed

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with the great chief meteorologist that is
Jay Cardosi. But he's got torn warnings

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in effect and the storm is moving
northeast. So the latest update here,

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uh, is that Breckenridge, Grayson, Harden County's tornado warning until five forty

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five. So again that's that netwhere
Lichfield is, Grayson County, Yes,

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so Harden County, you say that
though, yes it is both. I

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know it's kind of in that general
area. Breckinridge, Grayson and hard And

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have a tornado warning and in effect
till five forty five, and it looks

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like storms could be popping off in
southern Indiana. And I'm I'm saying popping

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off because that's literally what it says
here on the wok wive breakdown. So

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yeah, it looks like it's not
currently right here in the Louisville area,

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but certainly close and could be heading
our way. So everybody else stay safe.

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What do we do if something were
to happen, I don't know.

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I mean, wouldn't that be something
that I don't want that to happen.

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There was one day where I got
really scared because we were you could hear

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like how I mean you could hear
it. It look if you're in your

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home, you can clearly tell.
You can hear pretty clearly if a storm

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is there, and it's it's pretty
serious where we are. I mean we're

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in a huge build. I mean, like it would be there's no windows

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where we are, you know,
if something that was happening unless somebody came

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and told us, because we could
hear, like, I mean, was

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it thunder or was it was it? And we thought it was a storm,

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but I think it was the air
show for thunder over but there was.

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There was one time where we were
leaving right at six o'clock and the

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latest traffic update that came through was
like the wind had had completely blown a

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semi truck over in the middle of
the interstate, like in southern Indiana.

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And at that point I was a
little worried, but thankfully, you know,

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we were. It wasn't as bad
when whenever I walked out of here.

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But yeah, stay safe, everybody. I know the wind is expected

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to be pretty brutal. I think
the the worst of it is believed to

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be north of us, but as
we've learned over the years, they're not

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They're not often times correct, So
hopefully everybody can stay safe. All right.

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It is Coffee and Company here in
the five o'clock hour. We are

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fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven
ninety nit coffee. That is me the

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company mana John all In alongside.
Been a busy show so far today,

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We've been all over the place.
That's kind of what happens here on this

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show periodically, and certainly whenever we
are in the month of July, where

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you know, we wait impatiently for
football season to start, but we will

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get basketball in July with the tvt
and I want to encourage Louisville fans to

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buy tickets if you haven't, and
I'm not getting any kind of you know,

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I'm not getting any kind of benefit
from from telling you to do that.

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There's no business relationship here with the
TBT in myself and our company or

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anything like that. But I do
want Louisville to have a great turnout because

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that'll help these guys potentially get out
of their own little region here that they're

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hosting in Louisville. And also,
if they sell more tickets than the UK

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TBT team in Lexington and both teams
advanced out of their own regions that they're

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hosting, the team that sold the
most tickets Louisvill or Lexington will be able

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to host. And I want Louisville
to be able to host, so again,

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I hope that they can break that
record. Right now, they've got

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rough lif the thirty seven thousand,
thirty seven hundred tickets that have been sold

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for the first game, and it's
still, you know, a couple of

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weeks away the record. We talked
about it a couple of weeks ago,

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maybe it was last week when they
announced this this cool thing they were doing

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with the ticket sales really deciding who
gets to host. I think the record

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is under eight thousand, between like
seventy five hundred and eight thousand, and

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I mean, yeah, you'd clearly
have to really put in some some you

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know, you'd have to double what
you're doing right now. But I don't

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think that's that I don't think that's
that crazy. Like, I think you

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could do it. And you know, I know I've said it many times,

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but I really do believe that for
this event, the TBT Louisville and

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Lexington for that matter, like this
could this could be our thing. I

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mean, obviously there's gonna be a
lot of other participants and whatnot, and

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you're not gonna win it every year, and neither team's ever won it.

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In fact, this is just the
second time Louisville's ever had a team,

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and I'm not Yeah, Kentucky had
a team I think many years ago and

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they got humbled and I think they
lost both games and went home with a

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team that was full of former UK
guys. So but we care like this,

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this is our time to shine.
And maybe that's not the right way

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to describe it, because again it's
not really UK basketball or U of L

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basketball. It's former players competing for
money. But we're still gonna care about

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it because some of these guys like
Russ Smith and Peyton Siva are guys that

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played here in Montrez, Harrald,
Kyle Kerrick. I mean, these are

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legends here, So you know,
I just feel like this is something we

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will be interested in more than most. We've already shown that with the ticket

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sales up to this point and the
turnout at last year's event. But I

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think, you know, you make
a run here and you get out of

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your own region, which Louvell wasn't
able to do last year. I mean,

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that'll even I think take it up
a notch for the next year.

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And I've talked about it here and
there as far as the the guys that

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I just hoped would play but for
some reason didn't, And there's so much

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more that goes into it. And
I've had some people that were part of

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helping last year's team together that have
kind of confirmed, like it's not just

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like, hey, do you want
to play, Sure, I'll show up.

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Like you know, these guys who
don't live here, they're not going

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to pay for a hotel for a
month, they're not going to I mean,

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like these guys are clearly probably doing
it because they just mean, I'm

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sure there's real excitement about being able
to play in front of Louisville fans once

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again. Because to be fair,
when these guys are playing professionally and it's

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not in the NBA, I mean, they're not playing in front of crowds

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like like what you're going to see
freedom all. I mean maybe in certain

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situations depending on where they play overseas, but you know, I'm sure there's

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more to it than just money.
But let's be real, the biggest motivator

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for these guys, I think is
money. So it's one thing to you

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know, spend a couple of nights
and have to cover your own you know,

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travel and stay and whatnot. But
like, you know, think about

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how much it would cost if you
are Shannano and Owaku. You don't live

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here, but you want to be
here for two straight weeks getting ready and

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you know you got to get a
hotel. Well, I'm sure he's not

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going to get a cheap hotels parakly
gonna want to stay somewhere nice and you

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know it, it's not easy to
just throw a team together with guys that

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you know could probably play. You've
got to make it attractive enough for them

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to want to do it. So
yeah, I'm excited. We'll have that

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before you know it and think it'll
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I think? Yeah, July nineteenth
is when the TVT gets rolled.

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Yeah, so it starts on the
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be that Saturday at Freedom Hall.
So hope to see you guys there.

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I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna
be rowdy. Hopefully they sell bush light

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at Freedom Hall. I don't know. It was never old enough to drink

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beer when there were games at Freedom
Hall, so we'll see. I doubt.

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I doubt they have bush light.
I don't know. They do have

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the Kentucky State Fair there at the
fairground still, so maybe that that gives

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me it, that gives me,
you know, some hope that they may

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have bush light. Maybe they'll sell
the corn cans that help out help out

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farmers and stuff like corn cans,
the ones that they're the cans that have

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like not like corn in them,
but like the design of the cans,

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like a corn cobbo oh, you
mean like the bush light cans. Yes,

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okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look those are

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those are a big hit during the
summertime. But I'll take it anyway,

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bottle can, with the corn can, with the old school logo, I'm

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loyal, all all different types of
bush light. All right, So let's

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see here too quickly recap where we've
been. For those just now joining in

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on the fund, we did talk
about not conference realignment, but really,

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I guess more than anything, conference
Media Days that are coming up, because

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you know, that is talking season
that gives you a you know, another

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sign that college football will be here
sooner rather than later. But it's always

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a tease because there's rarely a whole
lot that you know that comes out of

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it. And the ACC. I
mean, look, Louisville's fortunate to be

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in the ACC and not left out
like other schools were many years ago.

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But at some point, like everybody's
got to just read the room and acknowledge

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this thing for what it is.
I mean, I don't mean like just

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close down the league because that wouldn't
happen, but like I know, when

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the ACC Media Days happened later this
month, there's going to be this notion

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that everything's fine from the commissioner and
probably some other ads, And I don't

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expect them to to, you know, take the podium and talk about,

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you know, the death of the
league and how much it sucks, like

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that's not realistic. But like I'm
so overhearing that they're third in the power

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for when it comes to revenue,
like as if that's something worth bragging about.

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Well, how about you do some
creative things to make some more money.

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How about you do some creative things
to close that revenue gap. How

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about you, know, you,
as the commissioner, Jim Phillips, do

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something to maybe have Clemson in Florida
State drop their lawsuits. I mean,

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that's it is crazy to say it
out loud. You have two members of

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the conference that have the most value
as far as brand and reach, and

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that's Clemson in Florida State, and
they're suing the conference and the conferences countersuing

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them, like it's ridiculous. So
the media days for your conference, it's

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usually just a big kumbah yah,
right, like it's what it is.

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But nobody in the ACC can feel
as if like things are going great,

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right, And that's unfortunate, and
it makes it even worse when I see

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the Big Twelve, which right now
does not have the exact same revenue that

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the AEC has. Right now,
they're in fourth place, but you know

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what, they're going to get a
new deal before the ACC can re up

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THEIRS. And they've got a commissioner
in Brett Yormark who has really been creative

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and innovative and trying to keep eyeballs
on the league doing things that other leagues

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would not do in order to bring
more revenue, like, for example,

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right now they're in fourth place as
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The Big Twelve is they're the first
conference that threw it out there. We

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may change our name. We may
be you know, All State Big twelve

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or okay, whatever was like what
I can't think of the I think there

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was an actual insurance company, one
of the big corporations that you know is

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in the insurance game that has already
been I guess discussing with the Big Twelve

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to have naming rights. It's going
to be the something something Big twelve conference.

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Well I don't know what that kind
of money would look like, but

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you know what, it wouldn't shock
me if it's enough to be distributed between

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the members to where maybe their neck
and neck with the acc And you know,

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they've launched their own radio network where
twenty four to seven, you're gonna

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have a big twelve conference radio station
on the tune in app. Again,

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I don't know what kind of money's
involved there, but it's something, you

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know. So I just I wish, you know that the ACCOUD would step

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their game up a little bit now. To be fair to Jim Phillips,

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he inherited the league in this awful
situation with the grant of rights arrangement,

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but I just don't get any sense
that he's proactively trying to improve the league

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and make you know, And there's
no perfect solution, right because the reality

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is this. I feel like Clemson
in Florida State probably feel pretty good about

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their likelihood of landing an invitation.
They may already have a behind the scenes

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invitation to the Big ten of the
SEC and if they know that, then

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they're gonna do whatever they can to
try to get out of it. I

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mean, the gloves are off.
They fouled a lawsuit, so it's not

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like they're hiding the fact that they
want to leave. But I wish Louisville

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at some point would be in the
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losing somehow. I mean, if
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like you still exist, I suppose
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who are you gonna go get that
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yes, the same can be said
for the Big Twelve. They lost Texas

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and Oklahoma and there's nobody they can
go get that's going to it's going to

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you know, close that or to
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eyeballs on the league. I've said
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they've got the cool factor going,
and certainly the ACC doesn't. So all

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right, uh, let's see here. I'm trying to manage the clock because

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obviously we don't have to go to
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to get into something that's going to
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do this. So I found this
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will too. So the Team USA, of course, they're getting set to

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head off to Paris and probably dominate
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if you really look at the roster, I mean, the fact that the

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worst player for Team USA this go
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tells you just how loaded Team USA
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But there there was something that kind
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surprised a lot of people, and
it surprised me a little bit too,

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to be honest with you, But
it was how many players are unable to

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spin a basketball on their finger?
When I say that, John, do

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you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, like the Harlem Globe Trotter's typical

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little little spinny thing. Yeah,
like where you can just keep slapping the

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ball around and it's just spinning.
And yes, I'm glad you said.

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I'm glad you said the Harlem Globe
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whenever I uh, whenever I whenever
I think of that. But the by

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the way, don't is your internet
working? Yes? Anytime I click click

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on a link. Anytime I click
on a link, now it says my

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connection is not private. Yeah,
my Internet's working. Can you you can

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click on stories and stuff. So
I just opened up another Twitter tab.

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Let me try to find something else, like go to go to CBS sports

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dot com. This is great live
radio. But like I now can't,

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I now cannot reference what I was. Yeah, I'm on CB it lets

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me do it. Okay, I
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but I can't. Well again,
it's crazy to me that people used to

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do live talk radio before the Internet. But the difference is they would hold

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the newspaper in front of them,
right, and that kind of what they

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would do. There's still some people
to do that in this building actually,

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but you know, like, what
does this mean? Your connection is not

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private? Okay, I don't care. Turn on enhanced I mean, come

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on now, I mean I can't. I mean, can you open other

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links that take you elsewhere other than
CBS Sports. Hmm, Nope, nothing's

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working. I did just get a
an email from let's see here. This

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is again great live radio here.
This is about the VPN outage notification because

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I got that earlier. Yeah,
because that was back at three o'clock that

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I said that have something to do
it, says the erper, Because again

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I have connection, like the Internet
is connected and it is like I'm connected,

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but I can't, like it's not
letting me do anything. It's see

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the email I got is talking about
an outage in San Antonio, which I

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wouldn't think would affect us, And
I know that's where the lead iHeart headquarters

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are, but I wouldn't think that
that would have anything to do with Louisville.

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Anyways. There are a handful of
NBA players on on of course,

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Team USA that cannot spin the basketball
on their finger without you know, without

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it falling within like a few seconds, and that had like the Internet losing

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their mind, like wait a second, these guys, these are some of

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the best basketball players of all time
and they can't spin the ball on their

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finger, and you know, like, I don't think it's that big of

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a surprise. I'll be honest with
you. I can't do that. I

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mean I'm not an NBA player,
but like I played basketball a lot,

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but I've never been able to do
that. Like I can. I can

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hold it in my hand, like
in my palm and just spin it and

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then you know, you know,
kind of lift it up to where it

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gets to my middle finger and then
I can like maybe slap it one time,

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but then it's gonna fall like there's
some people who can do it.

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For there are people who probably have
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player that may not. Actually it's
not it's not at all something you need

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to be a good basketball player.
It's really just something you kind of teach

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yourself how to do. But I
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lot of really good basketball players,
not just in the NBA, maybe college

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players that have that they would not
be able to do that. And it

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just I don't know. It's to
see it turn into like a national thing

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where people were losing their mind because
Steph Curry couldn't do it. Was was

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wild to me. Are we doing
live it support here? We could be

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all right? So it's just Google
Chrome, which and I'm on Microsoft Edge.

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So there's the difference right there.
Oh you don't use Chrome not here?

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Why? I don't know. I
think whenever I first moved into the

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studio, I defaulted Edge and I
just never left it. I like it.

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I mean, obviously there's a reason
having gone to Chrome. And I

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think you're also an Android Gaal,
Let's be honest. I think Edge might

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be the better browser though, Oh
there's you are. That's you would get

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more pushed back from that than you
would doing the Android iPhone. Thing like

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Google Chrome is is it's synonymous with
the Internet. I get it, But

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you know what else. It used
to be synonymous with the Internet. Internet

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Explorer. Oh no, Internet Explorer
sucked for fifteen years. But I feel

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like it used to be back in
its day, but it was. It

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never had a heyday. It was
the only one. That's true. You're

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look, you're a lot younger to
the Internet than me. Like Internet Explorer

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was always a piece of garbage.
It never worked. And then I mean

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you had Chrome, of course,
which I think is great. You have

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Safari, you can use you have
Firefox, and I will say Microsoft Edge

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is by far the best browser that
they've ever had. But which is the

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same thing. I mean, it's
it's it's the new version of that.

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But I e was trash and never
worked, right, But yeah, I

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don't don't. I don't know what's
going on because now I can go to

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sites, but I can't click on
anything. So anyways, good time for

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a break. Then we'll figure it
out again. If anything, I'll just

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give props to all those that did
talk radio for you know, many many

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years without having the Internet to help
them. It's a different time. Even

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if I'm not using the Internet,
but I know it's not working. I'm

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spas it out, man. I'm
like, without the Internet, how can

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I There's no way I could do
this? All right? Stick around.

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As much as I've called the conference
media days before football season really a tease

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because it's talking season and it just
makes me even more hungry for football season

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actually start. And usually coaches give
you, i mean canned answers, right,

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they they they're excited about their team, really like what we have here,

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you know, just the cliches that
you hear. It's usually not that

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interesting. But there's always at least
one coach or two along the way that'll

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say something that'll get some attention.
They'll get people talking. They'll you know,

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say something controversial, say something really
funny, you know, for example,

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Dino Babers. I remember at the
two thousand and seventeen acc football kickoff,

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Dino Babers was walking near It was
one of the in the I think

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it was the hallway of the hotel
the I think of the name of the

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hotel they put it in it's in
the same hotel every year, but they

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the players coaches were kind of making
their way I think for like a big

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team photo or something like that,
and Dino baber As, a Syracuse head

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coach at the time, had walked
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twice as if, like you know, like just kind of odd, and

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I think Lamar looked at him like
what are you doing, and he said,

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I just wanted to tell my team
it is it is possible to touch

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you, because they certainly couldn't in
last year's game. So that's kind of

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funny, right, Like that's self
deprecating, that's kind of funny, showing

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some personality. But we do have
an example today of a coach that you

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know wasn't funny, but said something
that you just can't say. I mean,

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I don't want to act as if
like it's the end of the world,

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but like this is really avoidable and
really stupid. And it's none other

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than Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State,
who, by the way, has always

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been pretty upfront about what he thinks
and what he believes and doesn't doesn't usually

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care what people have to say about
it, which I think there's clearly some

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value in that as a person,
but you also just like have to like

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I'll just let you guys hear what
he said. But he has a star

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player, I mean, one of
the best running backs in the country.

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Ali Gordon was arrested for a dui
last week, and he did make the

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trip for the Big twelve media age
today with Oklahoma State despite his recent arrest,

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and Gundy had said that it was
because he still wants him to be

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accountable, uh and you know,
not run from it and be able to

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kind of face questions he's going to
get about it from a mistake that he

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made and gundhy, I suppose when
trying to like minimize it. This is

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this is what he had to say. And this audio is not great because

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it's somebody who just recorded it from
their from their from their phone. It

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looks like while watching it on TV. But you should still be able to

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hear it, and I mean you
just can't, Like, I mean,

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it just is really stupid. First, Okay, so I looked it up

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on my phone. What would be
the legal limit like in Oklahoma's point and

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oli was point one. So I
looked it up and it was based on

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body way not to get into the
legal side of it, but I thought,

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really, two or three beers or
four. I'm not justifying what all

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I did. I'm telling you what
decision I made. Well, I thought,

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I've probably done that a thousand times
in my life, and you know,

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it's just fine. So I got
lucky. People get lucky. So

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I mean, he's claiming that the
decision he made for him to not miss

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any games is because he wasn't hammered. He was just over the legal limit,

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and then went on to say,
well, I've done it a thousand

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times, meaning you've had you know. I mean, what he's essentially saying

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is that, like ever, you
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I mean, like, is that
like or you know, I shouldn't

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say he's saying that you should do
it, but to then say that you

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I mean, that's a coach saying
that I've had four beers a thousand times

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and then and then got in the
car and drove, Which even if you've

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done that, don't say that as
the coach of us. Don't do that.

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I mean, even if it's the
truth, and you just are that

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addicted of being honest, like you
just I mean, you're just setting a

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bad example. I feel like for
the rest of your team. You know,

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he's bringing up body weight too,
like you know, like for him

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to be point one or which is
I guess it wouldn't be point zero.

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I guess it's point zero eight is
the legal limit. I guess he was

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point one to oh, not point
zero one, because if it's point zero

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one, that would mean that he
wasn't drunk. He wasn't and he wouldn't

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be I mean, that's not a
duy. If you get pulled over and

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you had a beer or two and
you're you're at zero point five, if

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you are of legal age, you're
not getting a DUI like, you're not

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that that you've not had too much. But he brought a body weight,

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which makes me feel like, you
know, he's almost saying like for him

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to get to a one point oh
or a zero point one whatever it is,

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like the you know, two point
slightly above the legal limit of zero

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point eight. I mean I got
the the way I heard that was as

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if like it would take a lot
for him to be at that because of

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his size and weight. I mean, he's a running back at a high

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level college football program. I mean, you can give answers that aren't super

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politically correct and boring, and you
know it sounds like you're reading it from

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a prepared statement from their university pr
People like you could avoid saying that and

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still give an honest answer. But
I mean, even if it's true,

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you just shouldn't go out and say
I drink and drive all the time and

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I'm lucky. And are you lucky
because you haven't killed somebody? Are you

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lucky because like you just haven't been
pulled over? Like that's just that's such

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an avoidable thing that is going to
end up being a major talking point from

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the big twelve media days. And
you know, Gundhy, if anything,

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he's consistent, you know, I
mean, he's he's he's never shied away

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from, you know, saying whatever
the hell he wants. But I mean,

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I mean, here's the thing.
It's definitely going to put the attention

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on him and not so much the
player. And that's what he's always you

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know, wanted it to be.
If you go back to his famous oh

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come at me, yeah, he
I mean, that's really that's what he

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It's funny though, because he's that
I don't think of that initially when I

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think of him anymore. Whereas for
the first you know, ten years of

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his career, I did. But
he's, first of all, he's been

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a pretty successful coach, but he's
also you know, put his foot in

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his mouth, set things and and
don't I don't even know if he's been

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like crazy controversial. He's just been
different than most coaches, which isn't necessarily

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a bad thing. But I mean, how many coaches in college football would

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say that, not because like,
you know, it's the worst thing in

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the world. It's just like,
why are you He's just stupid? And

406
00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:57.240
I don't know, I feel like, in a way, maybe I'm overreacting

407
00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:00.839
about it a little bit, but
to say that you're not minimizing what he

408
00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:04.480
did, but then bring up like
weight, how close he was to the

409
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:07.200
legal limit he was barely over,
and then saying that you've done it a

410
00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.480
thousand times in your life, like
you actually are minimizing it, like it's

411
00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:14.240
not a big deal and that's why
you decided not to suspend him any games,

412
00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:17.160
and that the university is going to
deal with some other punishment that'll have

413
00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:21.960
nothing to do with with football.
But yeah, I mean, don't don't

414
00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:25.039
drink and drive. And I'm look, it happened. If people have done

415
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.319
it, and it's it's cost them
their life, and it's cost somebody else

416
00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:32.519
their life because they hit them.
Like you know, it's it's there are

417
00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:36.680
enough examples to where it shouldn't be
something that has just done so casually the

418
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:41.839
way that it is. But yeah, I mean, if anything, Gundy

419
00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:44.720
has taken the attention off of his
player, because I think it's the attention

420
00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:48.160
is now going to be uh is
going to be on him. So there

421
00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.240
you go. It looks like the
Internet is fixed, which my panic attack

422
00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.799
is now over and uh he shout
out to Google Chrome. Now yeah,

423
00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.920
Google Chrome has come through. Just
a simple power up, power down the

424
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.119
computer. But I just close up
Chrome and opened it again and now we're

425
00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:07.079
up and running. And this isn't
this isn't actually controversial. This is actually

426
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.440
kind of funny, to be honest
with you. But guns just different and

427
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.240
I could appreciate that. I actually
like that in coaches that are and I

428
00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.039
don't mean you have to have some
big bull personality, but just you know,

429
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:21.200
don't feel like you've just got to
give coach speak at all times.

430
00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:25.000
And certainly that was not coach speak
what he just said about his player's DUI.

431
00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:30.160
But earlier, somebody, I guess
was treading lightly with the question because

432
00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:37.759
you know, it's an obvious question
that's expected, but you know it well,

433
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:38.519
bit it this way. I'm trying
to find the actual quote. But

434
00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:41.720
a reporter said, Hey, coach, I'm sorry, but I have to

435
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.599
ask you this question. What can
you tell me about, you know,

436
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:49.720
your thoughts on now coaching in the
same conference with prime meaning Deon Sanders,

437
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.720
which, like you wouldn't ask anybody
else what it's like to coach in a

438
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.400
league within Like I'm sure there's a
new coach in the Big Twelve this year

439
00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:00.039
that's not Deon Sanders that nobody's gonna
ask, Hey, what's it like to

440
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:02.759
be in the same league with this
guy? Deon Sanders has what four wins

441
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.880
to his name as a as A
as A as a Colorado coach. Like

442
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:10.720
you know, he's clearly a legendary
player and poor personality, but like it's

443
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:12.319
just the Deon Sanders stuff has annoyed
me more than I thought it would be.

444
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.920
It'll be different if he actually reproves
that he can win. And I

445
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.160
know last year you know, they
they were in year one and all that,

446
00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.720
but like nobody's going to be shocked
deep down if Colorado is asked once

447
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:25.880
again this year, Like let's just
be real with ourselves. So anyways,

448
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:30.400
with all that said, Gundhi responded
to the question, that's it, that's

449
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:34.160
what you are apologized for having to
ask. I thought you were gonna ask

450
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.839
me who I was going to vote
for in November. Like he's clearly very

451
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:42.319
politically open about his thoughts and whatnot, which there's something wrong with that.

452
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:45.119
You have, you know, you
can, you know, you've got to

453
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.079
be prepared to deal with you know, the way people react to that,

454
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:49.359
right or wrong. But like,
hey, I have no problem if somebody

455
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:53.359
wants to be you know, I
think you can be pretty open about your

456
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:59.319
beliefs but not make everything political and
be an ass about it. But yeah,

457
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:02.480
I'm I'm curious to see in twenty
four hours from now, will that

458
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.319
be Like not, it's not gonna
be the lead story in all of sports,

459
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:08.519
but like that's not something that a
coach would be expected to say,

460
00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:12.400
or I mean, I doubt he
gets in trouble because he's kind of a

461
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:18.400
made man there in still water but
I kind of feel like there's no scenario

462
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.680
that those that kind of work in
pr for the university as athletic director,

463
00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:23.359
like they can't be happy that he
said that. No, but it was

464
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:26.759
just within the last you know,
twenty minutes or so. So it hasn't

465
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.200
become like a big story yet.
Maybe I'm way wrong. Maybe it won't.

466
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.960
Maybe it'll just be you know,
Gundy being Gundhy. We shall see,

467
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:40.119
all right. So we talked about
we have talked about video games a

468
00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:44.519
lot more here than we ever would
because of the NCAA EA Sports game that's

469
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:47.559
coming out here. It's coming out
any day now, Like it's it's got

470
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:48.200
to be getting here soon. Yeah, I don't know why. I can't

471
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:51.720
think of the exact day, but
I think I think it might be soon

472
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:55.079
within the next week or so.
And everybody's all bricked up and excited,

473
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.519
and you know, the nostalgia's going
to be there, and you know,

474
00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:00.680
some people probably will quit their jobs
and just play this game, and that'll

475
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.400
be sad, but you know,
that's the love that people have for this

476
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:10.880
video game. But the this is
another video game story that you know,

477
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.559
doesn't surprise me. But maybe gamers
will be surprised to hear this. So

478
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.680
you may not even have known this, tonge, because you're not a gamer

479
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.799
either. But did you know the
NBA had its own NBA two K League?

480
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.200
No? I didn't know that.
Yeah, So the NBA had like

481
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:32.960
a draft and Woje broke the story
on Twitter years ago when they launched it.

482
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.559
And gamers, people who are like
really good at two K get drafted

483
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.920
by NBA franchises and there's a league
where like this is the guy who plays

484
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.119
for the Mavericks, doesn't play for
their team. You know, he's a

485
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:48.319
five foot eight, two hundred pound
normal dude, but he's a gamer and

486
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.799
he plays as the Mavericks in the
two K league, and and you know,

487
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.000
he became kind of cool. It's
dead, it's like nerdy, but

488
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.079
like it's like I kind of see
what they're going for. Well, it's

489
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.279
cool when it comes to like you
know, like it's a cool idea,

490
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:05.440
but like, yeah, it's not
a business. Like who I mean,

491
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:07.000
how are you watching that? Yeah? How do you monetize that? Yeah?

492
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.680
And the reason I bring it up
is because at one point, and

493
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:14.480
this is crazy, this like I
remember talking about this on the show when

494
00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:15.680
I was on at noon. This
is how long ago it's been since this

495
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:22.319
whole thing became a thing. That
the NBA G League minimum was lower than

496
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:28.160
the minimum salary that these gamers had, and it made the NBA realize,

497
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:31.920
uh, oh, we can't have
video gamers making more than people who play

498
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:36.759
in the G League. So they
upped the minimum salary for the G League

499
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.160
players because of that, And I
just remember thinking like that is crazy,

500
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:43.359
like how little? Like why would
anybody play in the G League if you

501
00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.640
can, you know, go overseas
and make triple that. I mean,

502
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.240
the minimum of the G League was
like twenty six thousand dollars a year,

503
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:52.359
which you know, if you're playing
playing the game you love and you've got

504
00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:57.599
other money than whatever. But anyways, the league is now like done.

505
00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:02.880
So it says here that, yeah, the NBA two K League may very

506
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:07.799
well be dead. This is from
somebody who reports on sports gaming, E

507
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:10.960
gaming. I guess just what they
call it, just uh, there's a

508
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.079
new CEO for There was a new
CEO appointed for the NBA two K League

509
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:19.640
that had an eight minute zoom call
pretty much laying off the entire league.

510
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:22.599
Uh, and they're going to go
on a hiatus with rumors to reformat the

511
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.920
league uh and play with NBA players
and celebrities instead of because again, these

512
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:32.079
gamers are interesting to other gamers,
but that's a small, very segmented group

513
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:36.839
of people. If you've got like
each week a player for the team that's

514
00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:38.799
going to be playing against another team
that's got another play like that, that

515
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:42.079
that to me is not interesting.
I don't. I don't. I mean

516
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.519
I sound like an old boomer here. I don't know how people watch other

517
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.200
people play video games for hours on
end. It happens like, I mean,

518
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:51.799
it's a real thing, and I
don't on twitsch Yeah, I don't.

519
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:53.000
I don't get it. I mean, it's it's clearly a big I

520
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.279
mean, there's enough people doing it
to where like, you know, I'm

521
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.519
not, I'm not like there's a
market for it, yeah, even if

522
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:04.519
it is a knee. Yeah.
But you know, like I'm not surprised.

523
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.639
But the reason this story came up
is because just five years ago the

524
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:13.599
Ted Leoni sis I guess he was
the former CEO of the two K League.

525
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.000
He said, quote, I believe
that in ten years an NBA two

526
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.639
K player will be a more well
known, popular and better compensated player than

527
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:29.159
Lebron James. It's just the math. They expected the gaming boom and in

528
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.199
the end it's over in five years. So just you know, that's insane.

529
00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:35.320
Yeah. Look, I know video
games are super popular. I just

530
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:39.760
you know, I can't relate.
I used to love video games. Yeah,

531
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:47.360
video games, video games. Yeah, I love video games, and

532
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:54.079
then I lost my virtuinity. And
that's why I'm gonna win tonight. Let's

533
00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:55.760
throw it to break, we'll come
back and wrap it up. On the

534
00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:01.400
other side. Yeah, out of
surprise, it's now the only thing I'm

535
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:06.440
really seeing on the on the timeline
here on Twitter on the four U side,

536
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:09.159
which is uh, Mike Gundhy's comments
beca. I mean essentially what what

537
00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:14.400
he what he said was that what
he did, that he's illegal, that

538
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.159
you shouldn't do, which is,
you know, driving to the influence.

539
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:21.440
I mean, I've done it a
thousand times in my life and it's been

540
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:23.840
fine. So I'm lucky. And
that's why I decided not to suspend him

541
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:27.519
any games. If anything, the
man is just honest. I think that's

542
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.400
a that's a I mean, I
think that's the god's honest truth. For

543
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.840
Mike Gundy, how we've used the
situation. Uh but you know, I

544
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:42.360
mean peak Mike Gundy, no doubt
about that. All right. I feel

545
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.679
like for the last few weeks,
every now and then in the last segment,

546
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:46.880
when we have very little time,
always end up finding a way to

547
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:53.119
sneak in something about Hawktua girl.
Last week it was the confirmation that she

548
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:57.079
let everybody know all the horned up
dudes on the internet. She'll never have

549
00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:01.800
an OnlyFans account. But now she's
now started booking appearances and she's got her

550
00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:06.960
first appearance that's gonna be at a
Miami club and John she will make thirty

551
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.519
thousand dollars for the appearance, just
dancing. No, I mean just to

552
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:13.360
be there, just to be there. I mean I'm not talking about a

553
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:15.119
strip club. Ok But I mean
I said club, not strip club.

554
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.480
Right now, you've got me thinking
I said strip club. That's just where

555
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:22.519
my mind went in the well.
Okay, but she has to wear it

556
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.880
to a jersey because it's like a
dolphins thing. I'm not sure. Okay,

557
00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:31.039
that's nice marketing right there. But
I mean, God bless America,

558
00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:35.519
right, I mean, she goes
viral on the internet for saying something like

559
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:39.599
that, and there's no way in
her mind anybody could have envisioned. Uh,

560
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:43.159
there's no way in her mind she
could have envisioned this thing playing out

561
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.800
the way it did to where you
know she's now. I mean, it'll

562
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:50.639
it'll die down, right, like
she'll probably have a normal life again in

563
00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.599
you know, maybe year or two. I don't know, but for now

564
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:57.719
she's gonna be able to cash in, and uh, you know, good

565
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.880
for her, I guess good for
I think the biggest surprise to me is

566
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.880
that she was so young, like
she was twenty years old. I think,

567
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:06.800
so she is she even gonna be
able to get into this club?

568
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.679
I could have swore heard on one
of the clips that came out that she

569
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:14.559
was just twenty one. Okay,
maybe she just turned twenty one. Can

570
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:16.960
you how do you have to be
to be a bartender? That's a good

571
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.159
question. I don't know, because
I feel like you can. I don't

572
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:22.840
know. Maybe there's something to where
you can. I don't know, and

573
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:25.719
it's probably different in each state,
but you know whatever, she worked at

574
00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:30.199
some factory and now she's quit that
job and she's gonna be making appearances and

575
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:37.840
probably selling merch and you know her
life has changed thirty thousand dollars just to

576
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:42.280
show up somewhere. It's good work
if you can get it, it is

577
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.559
good work, all right. Good
work to you, my friend today,

578
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:49.280
and thank you everybody for hanging out
with us. We'll be back at tomorrow.

579
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:51.639
Stay safe. I have no clue
how bad the storms are, because

580
00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.800
you know we're in the cave here, but yeah, sounds like more tornado

581
00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:59.320
sirens were going off near Etown.
That's the last I saw, So stay

582
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:00.280
safe out there. We'll be back
at it tomorrow, and I hope you

583
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.760
guys will join us right here on
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