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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 just watched for the fourth time.

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I believe the video that the Louisville
men's basketball Twitter account put out yesterday of

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what it looks to be. I'm
sure it was a workout practice type situation,

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but it kind of looked, you
know, the highlights they put together

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were looked. It came from an
open run, right, and it's all

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the newcomers, and I'm excited.
I'm trying not to get you know,

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worked up and overly excited about,
you know, highlights from an open gym

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type setting. But man, I
think Pat Kelsey has a lot of really

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pieces and I can go both sides
with it, meaning like I don't know,

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like if your worst player is gosh, I wouldn't even I don't want

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to say name because I don't want
to make it out like I'm thinking these

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guys are terrible. But the vast
majority of the guys they brought in in

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the portal are are you know,
good players. Some could be really good

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at this level, but man,
just the highlights and again it's just highlights.

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I'm sure if you watched from start
to finish, you'd see some plays

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that might concern you, and guys
making mistakes. They're not perfect, but

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they're gonna have shooting. They've got
a lot of experience, they're balanced,

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and they're versatile. Doesn't mean it's
gonna be great. Doesn't mean anything as

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far as how many games they're gonna
win. But I really feel as if

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this this roster was was put together
not just to you know, make sure

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we have enough guys because you're starting
from scratch, but there was clearly a

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method when it comes to the personnel, and that matters. That means something

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right, and every coach should be
doing that, not just you know,

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hey, let's just go get two
guys because we need to. Let's find

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the right fit. And most of
these guys come from a winning culture.

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You know, most of these guys
have played for teams where balance was a

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big factor. To wear like,
there's not a guy on this team that

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I think comes in as like the
guy that is leaving a situation where he

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was getting twenty two shots a game. I mean, to be honest with

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you, the guy who's coming off
the best season individually for Louisville not at

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Louisville, of course, because none
of these guys played at Louisville last year.

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It's Terrence Salwards Junior, who was
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and he had a huge role,
no doubt about it. But you know,

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he played thirty minutes average seventeen points
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three and a half assists. But
prior to that, he averaged fourteen points

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a game and five rebounds a game
off the bench. So like, this

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is a guy who was the sixth
man of the Year in the Sun Belt

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prior to be prior or yeah,
prior to being the player of the year

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in that league. So I'm bullish
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think they could be They could be
pretty good. You know when I say,

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I could go both sides with it. You know, if I wanted

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to play Devil's advocate, you know, do you have a guy like do

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you have a pro on this team? And I don't know, But you

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don't need that to be good.
Like, you know, you might need

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a pro here and there if you're
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win a national championship. But as
we've discussed, the college basket Like,

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let's go back to what we talked
about yesterday, and I'm not sure if

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we did this in the five o'clock
hours, So I apologize if this is

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something that you that you heard yesterday, and we're not gonna spend as much

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time on it. But the crew
at the Field of sixty eight, they

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cover college basketball as well as anybody. They did. With the Olympics about

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to come up, they made a
team USA that is just college basketball players

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and I thought that was interesting.
But how many of a lot of these

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guys are still in college available to
be selected for this list? Because they're

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not NBA guys, they might get
drafted, they might, you know,

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spend it a year in the g
lea a year on a two way contract.

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But some of these guys on this
team could do that potentially, I

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mean that could potentially happen for you
know, Chucky Hepburn or I'm I mean,

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I really think, to be honest
with you, as much as you

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know, he kind of was was
an out of nowhere guy that was available.

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I think Noah Waterman has an NBA
skill set with as a six ten

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six' eleven big that can stretch
the floor and shoot it, so you

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know, like, you don't need
to have guys that are surefire NBA players

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to be a really good team that
could accomplish something in college basketball. So

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again, Mark Mark Sears, John
L. Davis, Cooper Flagg, Ryan

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Kawchbrenner, and Alex Caravan. Those
that's the starting five according to the field

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of sixty eight as far as the
you know most because again, if you're

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putting a team together that go compete
for the team team us say, you're

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doing it based off what talent and
like, you know, players that are

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right now really good. Cooper Flag
is the only guy that for sure I

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think we know is gonna get drafted. The others are Hunter Dickinson, R.

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J. Davis, Hunter Salas good
Aari Richmond, Coleman Hawkins. Again,

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not to say those guys would never
play in the NBA if they came

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out this past season, but clearly
there's a reason they decided to come back

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and not go to college and not
go to the NBA. So yeah,

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I know football will be here before
basketball, and I'm super excited to see

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what Jeff brom can do in year
number two. I still think that team,

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despite the schedule being tougher, and
it's going to be tougher, Like

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they could be better, maybe substantially
better than last year and not have the

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same record just because of how the
schedule shapes up. And again that's not

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me telling you that their schedule is
just you know, one of the toughest

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in the country. It's just a
lot tougher than last year, which again

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speaks to the fact of last year's
schedule just you know, being very uh

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favorable, manageable as we like to
say, instead of just saying, you

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know, the schedule was weak,
which it was to an extent. I

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mean, it wasn't the worst schedule, and they even the teams they played

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that everybody said sucked. Some of
those teams still end up having winning records,

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but you know it didn't have you
know, Clemson in Florida state on

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it all right. It's coffee and
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about that, see how you can
fix that. All right, So about

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a couple of people ask this on
the text line, and you know I

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was going to get to it at
some point, and now thanks the time

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to get to it. But John
shared some news earlier today on his social

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media. We've had some people on
the text line asking does this mean that

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John is leaving Coffee and Company?
And unless I'm wrong, it does not,

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right John, that is correct,
I am, You're correct, not

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the Texters. I'll definitely be sticking
around at iHeart and doing Coffee and Company.

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I mean, I have to change
the name of the show exactly,

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but officially the company man. So
I'll just start by saying congrats to John

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who has landed a new opportunity along
with you, know this show. He's

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not leaving us, which you know, I would have a panic attack if

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that was the case. But John
previously worked and I guess he still does

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now until I believe next week,
next Friday. Yeah, he works as

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a producer and really a part of
it of an Indiana sports show that takes

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place every morning weekdays and it's on
I believe a few different radio stations throughout

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the state of Indiana, and it's
a very much, I you, a

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Hoosier centric show. And he has
parlayed that into an opportunity now elsewhere to

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do his own show and not just
be somebody that is sort of behind the

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scenes producing and you know, contributing, but kind of running it. He's

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going to have his own show covering
the Hoosiers. So I'll let you give

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the specifics here to our listeners because
I know you're super excited about it.

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Yeah, I'm very excited. I
haven't revealed a ton of details yet,

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like the name or the logo,
that type of stuff, but I'll be

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working for Hoosier Illustrated. They're part
of the Full Ride network. They're kind

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of a they've been around for a
couple of years and they're they've I'm just

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really excited to work with Alec and
Kyler. There are guys who I've worked

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with previously and I'm just so,
who's your had a loss for words?

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Honestly, it's something I'm very nervous
about and even talking about it right now,

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I'm nervous. But I'm just super
excited to finally be able to do

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something that I've always i saying it's
a dream of mine because it's it sounds

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kind of corny, but it really
is. No. I mean, look,

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you have You've put yourself in a
position to where you are being brought

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in by a network, a site
that has a built in following that covers

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Indiana. Who's your athletics mostly basketball, football, and recruiting, and that's

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that's I mean, Look, you
could do it by yourself and do a

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great job, but this, I
mean this is something to where they clearly

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know they know your chops and know
your your you know your skill and what

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you can do. So I'm excited
for you because I've oftentimes tried to delicately

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encourage John to, you know,
not necessarily take risks, but like I'll

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put it this way, whenever I'm
not here when I'm on vacation or whatever

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it may be, or if I'm
just going to be out. I have

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for a while just wanted to give
the show to John and him do whatever

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he wants to do. And that's
not I mean, to be honest with

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you, that that wouldn't be normal. There are people who've been doing who've

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done radio a lot longer than I
ever have, and probably have had a

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lot more success than I ever have. But a three hour show by yourself

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is not something that a lot of
people. I mean, I have people

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to this day that tell me like, I don't know how you do it,

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and I'm like, well, it's
not. I mean people sometimes you

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get used to it, right like
you you make it work, and to

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be honest with you, that you
were, I mean, it wouldn't be

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able to it wouldn't be done without
you, Like it's you have to have

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somebody that is comfortable being with being
a fixture within the show. And that's

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the best part. I mean,
the first time I ever worked with John,

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it didn't take but maybe a few
weeks for me to connect more with

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him and say, hey, I
want to I want to work with you.

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I don't know how we make it
work. I don't know what we

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do, but in some form of
fashion, I want to work with you.

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I think you have exactly what it
takes. You clearly want to do

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that. You're not just here because
you want to get a hot take off

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on the radio. You you know, you care about what you know.

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And that's one thing that you know. Mason corny to some people, But

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John cares about this show. And
I don't mean, you know, like

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he cares that he has a job. He wants the show to be successful,

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regardless if it's something he's saying or
having any real role in in regards

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to the content. And that's hard
to find. Uh. It used to

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be, but things have changed,
right Like, John, you're fresh out

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of college somewhat, and a lot
of folks who went to school for the

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same thing you did, I think
they realize, Hey, like that's a

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grind, and you may do it
for a long time and never get the

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opportunity to actually kind of have your
own your own platform, right Like,

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It's just it doesn't happen people.
And this might sound insulting to some people,

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but a lot of people don't like
to put forth the amount of effort

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that you have to nowadays to do
that kind of thing. And here's here's

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what I'd say. I get it. I understand, like I respect it

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like it's it's it's it's understandable.
But you know, you've never once ever

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made it about you. You have
always done anything I've needed you to do,

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You've been able to do it.
And uh it. You know,

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I don't sound like I'm unappreciative anybody
else I've ever worked with, but having

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someone that actually wants each and every
day for the show to be as good

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as possible is valuable to me in
a way that I really didn't know.

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I mean, And if somebody's just
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I'm coming in from three to six
and I'm gonna I'm gonna produce the show

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and I'm gonna get out of here
and whatever happens happens, Like if that's

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your mindset, like I don't,
I can't say that you're I mean,

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you're doing your job. But your
your willingness to like care and always want

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to go above and beyond has always
stood out to me. So I always

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wanted you to, you know,
not just think about that when it comes

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to this show, that you produce
and the other show that you produced for

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many years, but also take that
towards something that where you're you know,

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it's your lane, it's really your
your baby essentially, and that's that's that's

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kind of what this this is.
So though I'm happy for you, it

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happen to be Indiana fans that just
listen to the show because I guess maybe

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you find some entertainment value for us. Maybe you'll check it out. We'll

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be on Who's Your Illustrating on YouTube
and I don't know all the different other

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platforms that will it'll be available on, but it won't have like a radio

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affiliate at least off the bat that
type of a thing. But check it

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out. I'm excited. It'll it'll
air the week of Big Ten Football Media

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Days, which I believe is in
a couple of weeks, and that's when

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we'll get things started. I'm really
excited. So Who's your Illustrated dot Com

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is the website, and uh,
they've got I mean, they've got great

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content. The site looks super clean
as somebody who used to independently run one

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of these things for many many years. Uh. I said that the first

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content is so, it's very well
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And I don't know. If I
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we would compare to others, but
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market we probably talk Indiana more than
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don't think anybody does talk Indiana at
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it's clearly not our biggest base.
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show that that in these stations that
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enough coverage in this market. So
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of it here with John and now
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you to join him over and who's
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post game show as well? Like
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So there will at the I got
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thoughts real quick. Anyway. I'm
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John a heads up when I was
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coming today, and honestly, I'm
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because it would have made me probably
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as well. I don't know if
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for them to be live. Obviously, I plan on doing the Louisville postgame

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shows with you as well, so
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that off to work out with that, But that's the gist of what's going

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to happen. Well, I'm happy
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opportunity for you to really, you
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know, take on a different role
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the other show you'd worked on for
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even if it's not just live but
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Indiana fan base basketball wise specifically,
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massive. I mean I don't know
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but you know, true Donovan,
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his what do you call it?
The what's the the app discord? In

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his discord, there are different channels
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just get in there and it's just
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close. So congrats to you,
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in and listen, and I know
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So it's who's your illustrated? And
give John a follow on Twitter if

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you're not already. He's ald In
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is the Twitter handle? And who
designed their logo? Who's realistract? I'm

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jealous? It's it doesn't look good. It looks good. It's very sleek,

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good stuff. So anyways, all
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get to a break before too long. And I want to make sure I

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manage the five o'clock hours as best
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this instead of diving right into a
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line about Pat Kelsey that I want
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can't give a great answer to,
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we were just talking at the end
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to be paid. Even before nil
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getting you know the bag right,
like you know, a lot some people

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got in trouble for it, others
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players were being paid, probably not
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it was happening. So somebody asked
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the past and there's clearly gonna be
no further punishment. Who can you tell

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us Nick got a lot of money
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gonna give it some thought during our
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for reasons that that may not be
expecting, Like I don't I'll save it

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because I could throw a few names
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hesit. I don't want maybe they
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they've probably talked about it before.
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thought during the break. As far
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is something interesting to talk about,
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business out there and piss him off. And I also believe it or not,

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what other schools were doing, which
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thing and the Katita Pale stuff.
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but I do want to give a
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listeners. This young man I can
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uh, he's you know, he's
he's older than me, but he's still

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on the younger side. His name
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is somebody that has listened to to
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I since I got here eight years
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he's great. I have partnered with
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Rev And you know he's he's a
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him being a listener. Great guy. His wife Amy is great as well,

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and he is all over the news. I mean, he's getting more

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TV time than I've ever gotten.
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for saving her life after her car
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his name. So I'll read to
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over at WS eleven, but I'm
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But says here Don Simpson is lucky
to be alive after her car caught on

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fire last week at the Chase Bank
on Bargstown Road, and credits a bank

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employee was saving her life. Simpson
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car at Costco before stopping at the
bank to use the ATM. Shortly after

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arriving, and employee told her that
her car was smoking. Quote as soon

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as I pulled in, it started
smoking. And I hit the and I

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hit the call button, she recalled
to me. It didn't register. I

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couldn't get out because I was so
close to the median. The next thing,

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the next thing she knew, her
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Chase employee Allen sprang into action.
Quote. I got up, ran to

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the window to see what I was
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he said. When Alan ran outside, he said he noticed Simpson messing

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with money and urged her to get
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of the vehicle. After she exited
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yards away from the car. Alan
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nearest fire station, which was a
block away. I knocked on the door

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and said, a lady's car is
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to the bank extinguished the fire with
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video of the picture that I'm looking
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like her car is fully in golden
flames, like it's absolutely like, I

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mean, it's I mean, if
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don't know, that's one of those
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like what's going on in your mind
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hopefully she would have made her way
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of froze, like not realizing what's
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like hey, come out on this
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as they were as it says,
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had she still been in there,
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But that Simpson is now behind the
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her insurance company with a new outlook
on life quote. It feels amazing just

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to know they cared more about me
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faith in humanity. It's still unclear
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Simpson says she's just happy to be
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transportation. So shout out to Alan, a great dude who I've always known

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as a great dude. It doesn't
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to know it. But I'm happy
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is because it's a good story.
And man, we need more of those,

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don't we. I'm with her.
This is a nice reminder of the

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good that's out there in humanity.
So Alan Stone, you are the man

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always appreciates your friendship and you're awesome. All right, quick break, we'll

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come back on the other side.
We'll try to finish strong here before we

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get out of here for the weekend. It's Friday, it's five o'clock hour.

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Let's have some fun. You imagine
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eighties when this song came out.
This is part of a soundtrack too,

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by the way, the movie Teen
Wolf. But can you imagine walking up

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to a woman and saying, ain't
no point in dressing the kill because you

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won't be standing still? She'd follow
over. I'm not really sure that means,

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like, I mean, you could
still dress nice and move around and

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dance, but like you know,
just an electric line. Good stuff here

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on a Friday, all right,
So I've been doing some behind the scenes

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producing scheduling, I should say,
And we're going to finish strong here with

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a conversation with the one the only
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He's going to join us coming up
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so looking forward to that. But
let's get to some good questions that

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come in on the text line.
So this text I actually went back and

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forth with this texture because I felt
like I knew where they were going and

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they confirmed. So the question initially
was could Pat Kelsey be the first coach

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to truly make the adida's partnership a
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of said, you know, do
you mean because the other coaches didn't and

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me and this text are kind of
on the same page, and I won't

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speak for them, and you don't
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he clear he brought Adidas to Louisville.

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Like that's like Rick Patino brought Adidas
to Louisville and it was a super lucrative

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thing that Louisville is still benefiting from
now. They would be with a brand

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like Adidas or Nike one way or
the other. But like the Adida's relationship,

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which is wild to think that.
It's kind of how Rick Patino's whole

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time here ended with the Adida's shoe
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that kind of stuff. But Rick, you know, this is going to

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sound like I'm kissing his ass,
and it's going to sound like I'm just

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the most naive person. And that's
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sound, and it's not really what
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someone who has an ego that would
allow him to ever Like if dudes were

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getting getting benefits to play for Rick
and like shoe companies were helping out,

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not to say he wouldn't want it, but Rick is such a and that's

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why a lot of the guys who
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that came here, that didn't work
out. It wouldn't a compatible fit.

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If Rick thought you were paid to
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not want you because he thinks you
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That's that's who he is, especially
during that time. So the Christian Dawkins

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documentary was and I don't know how
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HBO. It was so well done. But Christian Dawkins confirmed what I always

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believed was pretty obvious, and that
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to anybody, not because he wasn't
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the He's a choir boy who didn't
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being broken, but his ego would
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three times in my life. Only
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him, like, you know,
in a conversation that maybe lasted, you

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know, a little bit longer than
his encounter with Karen Cipher. If I'm

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being honest with you, so you
know, like he you know, and

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again who am I Like, I'm
nobody, but like like he's someone that,

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like you don't get that close to
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Rick. So the notion that like
Adidas wanted to be rubbing it like put

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it this way, Bill self was
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Merle code. Those guys He's buying
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the Peach Jam, like Bill self, what he really benefits from from yucking

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it up and being one of the
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most unrelatable person ever. I mean, like I'll never forget it. He

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did a show at Tumbleweed with the
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Loop one time and he was looking
around. He said this on the air

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by the way looking around while sitting
there doing the Coaches show, and he

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said, what country are we in? Like he he we are, all

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pleads to him. So on the
Adidas thing, like even if the the

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the cause, let's be real.
Rick Potito, certainly in his prime at

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Louisville, is a bigger name than
Bill self, and no offense to Bill

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self. He's now in that group
two championships. But Bill self will play

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the game with the boys because these
guys got stupid, but they got drunk.

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They were intoxicated on rubbing elbows and
being cool with the coaches that run

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college basketball. Rick ain't let you
in the circle to do that with him

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because he's the godfather. So had
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the you know, had he been
doing what Bill self was doing and some

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of these other guys were doing,
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would have. But you know,
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used all the time, and that
was this It was hard to recruit.

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It was hard to recruit elite players
because even though they may not care about

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a tournament band, they don't want
to go to a team that's like,

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that's that's what people think of him. Oh they just got hit with a

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two year postseason band. Like there
really was a cloud the entire time Chris

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Mack coached here. Not to say
he would have landed all these players,

407
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because let's be real, he's not
the name that Rick matino is. But

408
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he could have benefited from it,
and he wanted to, but it was

409
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hard, Like it was not easy
to go get elite recruits because of that.

410
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And you can say, well,
others were doing it. Yeah,

411
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other like others like Bill's elf who
you know again and larger than life coach,

412
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well not larger than life coach as
far as personality, but like it's

413
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different at Kansas. And you know
what, Bill self got an extension when

414
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they got in trouble, which gave
those recruits pretty good assurance that, you

415
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know what, they're gonna be okay, little of a fire Repertino, which

416
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essentially made people think they know they're
guilty and they know they're gonna get in

417
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trouble. So can he payn He
wouldn't wear Adidas, he had coaches on

418
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his staff, we're Nike, Like, you're not gonna get any help from

419
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that. So that's a good question. I think Pat Kelsey's clearly going to

420
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embrace Adidas. He already is,
and he might be the coach that actually,

421
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really, you know, we see
some benefit from being the highest paid

422
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partner with the Three Stripes brand.
And by the way people can talk in

423
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Nike, clearly has more. Nike
is a bigger company, they have a

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bigger circuit, the eybl and you're
always gonna be you can't just recruit kids

425
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from Adidas. But Adidas has some
really good players as well. And I'll

426
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tell you this, a guy who
may being the number one player in America

427
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in the twenty twenty five class.
His name is Darren Peterson and he is

428
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an Adida's kid, and he apparently
bawled out yesterday at the Peach Jam and

429
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it sounds like him Carlos Boozer's kid
are going to be one A, one

430
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B in this class. And he's
already visited Kansas, He's going to visit

431
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USC and Louisville is believed to be
the other school in the mix here.

432
00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:27.680
So again, I'm not getting Pat
Kelsey and coached the game here yet.

433
00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:32.319
Let's be real. However, if
in fact, you know, they get

434
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Darren Peterson on campus, they've got
some momentum, They've got the Nile money

435
00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:37.039
that is there. I mean,
that could be, that could be like

436
00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:42.279
because Louisville, in my opinion,
has never landed a kid where you really

437
00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:47.440
felt like their Adida's affiliation was a
factor. They've lost kids for that,

438
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:49.920
no doubt. And they've had kids
that have come in and they were Adidas

439
00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:53.039
guys, but like, you know, it didn't feel as if that was

440
00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:57.599
that was a huge factor. So
you know, we'll see. I mean,

441
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:00.799
there are some really talent players on
the Adida circuit. That and by

442
00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.079
the way, Donovan Mitchell is still
an Adida's guy, one of the highest

443
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:06.960
paid guys with Adidas. Like that
that can help you too. All right,

444
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quick break, we'll come back on
the other side. Finished the week

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strong with our man, doctor Eric
McElroy pro Reha physical therapy. So it

446
00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:18.480
looks like the you know, the
weather tomorrow gonna be ninety and sunny,

447
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.519
which you know is hot. But
you know, at least if you can,

448
00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:25.839
you know, get around a pool
and maybe avoid some of this humidity,

449
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:26.960
that could be you know, it's
still gonna be hot as hell.

450
00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:30.000
I can't there's no way to like
sugarcoat it, enact as if that's not

451
00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:34.680
going to be extremely brutal conditions.
But I do plan to be at a

452
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.839
pool tomorrow for my nephew's birthday party, which which will be enjoyable. But

453
00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.720
man, next week is gonna be
hot. I mean, ninety six is

454
00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:47.039
the high for Monday and Tuesday.
Yeah, gonna be warm, gonna be

455
00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:49.240
a scorcher, and I guess that
you know, that's that's that's what happens.

456
00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:52.519
Happens this time of year. So
a lot of beers are going to

457
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.240
be drank. I know that for
sure. And uh, you know water,

458
00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.079
mix in some waters, because you
know, when it's hot outside and

459
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:02.519
you're pounding beer, it could it
could feel as if hey, that's you

460
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.759
know, that's that's quenching the thirst. But man, it's not necessarily hydrating.

461
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.559
So so stay safe out there.
All right, let's bring it in.

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He's doctor Eric McElroy from pro Rea
Physical Therapy. How we doing,

463
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Eric? Doing great? Nick?
I love your public service announcement. You

464
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:21.119
just drink plenty of water when you're
pounding beer. Yes, put it on

465
00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.400
a T shirt. If you're pounding
beers, mix in some h mixing some

466
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:27.559
water, some hydration. It's certainly
essential. So uh real quick. I

467
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:32.680
wanted to get to the USA team
USA the basketball team, of course.

468
00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:36.279
I think this roster currently that's about
to go head off to the Olympics and

469
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represent the United States is as good
as a roster that we've had in quite

470
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some time. I mean, we've
always dominated when it comes to basketball,

471
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but occasionally there's guys that, for
other reasons just decide not to play.

472
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And I think right now there's one
guy not playing that I feel like,

473
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if we're going to include the best
this country has to offer as far as

474
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talent, uh, he's not playing
and it's because he's coming off of an

475
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injury. And that's John Morant.
I mean, John Morant kind of not

476
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.240
a forgotten guy, but he had
some issues a couple of years ago,

477
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and he had an injury last year. But I think when healthy, John

478
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.559
Morant is somebody that is clearly good
enough to represent Team USA. But it

479
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:11.720
sounds like he's now cleared to play. I mean, he's not going to

480
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.160
go to the Olympics, but he
only played nine games after coming off that

481
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:19.279
suspension because of a torn labrum and
his right shoulder. You know how with

482
00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.680
that injury, you know, the
timeline it seems to be, you know,

483
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:25.559
pretty pretty typical. But I feel
like the shoulder is one of those

484
00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:27.839
things you know, he's probably gonna
be a little rusty. Like it's like

485
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.319
when you're rehabbing that injury, I
imagine you're not doing you know, the

486
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:36.680
actual basketball activities that you're going to
be doing in a game. Oh,

487
00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:40.039
absolutely, absolutely not. And I
think you know, we kind of take

488
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.960
for granted coming back from a shoulder
injury for basketball. I've got a guy

489
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:48.079
right now coming back from an injury
from a shoulder injury, and he's also

490
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.240
returning to high level basketball. And
I think what you know, we forget

491
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is not just their ability to go
up and rebound or defend or for a

492
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.119
post player or you know, block
a shot, but you know, the

493
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.799
ability to shoot from all areas of
the court over and over and over again

494
00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:10.119
throughout a game and do it effectively
and with accuracy. And you know,

495
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:14.240
those are things we call it appropriate
reception. And also you know, developing

496
00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:18.640
their neuromodor control. Getting all that
back and basketball is extremely important. And

497
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I think that you know, those
are things that as you you know,

498
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.599
rehab a basketball player back, such
as John Morant, as active as he

499
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.160
is on the court, he's all
over the place, he is rebounding,

500
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.720
he's shooting from all over the place, he's dunky, he's doing whatever he

501
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:34.480
has to do. We have to
think about those things because the goal is

502
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:38.880
for him to come back and play
as if he wasn't hurt, and so

503
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:41.880
you know they're gonna shoot with weighted
basketballs. You know, as part of

504
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.680
the rehab process. It's not just
the stuff that you would see quote unquote

505
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.680
in the click. It's things like, you know, getting him in the

506
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:53.000
gym, starting with a weighted ball, progressing that, you know, oversized

507
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:56.319
balls, liner balls, speed.
You know, there's a lot of things

508
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:03.519
that go into the rehab process.
Did we lose your Hello you there?

509
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.240
Oh, did you lose me?
No? I got you, We got

510
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.519
you? Sorry about that. So, I'm sure there's all kinds of different

511
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:14.839
ways in different sports where a certain
injury can occur. But with a torn

512
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:18.359
labram, I mean, is there
a with basketball players you mentioned you're you're

513
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.240
treating an athlete that's coming off of
that as well that's also a basketball player.

514
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.480
Is there a common theme as far
as how that how that occurs?

515
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.359
Uh? Yeah, I mean a
lot of times if in basketball can come

516
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.440
from a fall, uh you know
for sure, like falling an outstretched arm

517
00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.160
or uh, you know, going
up and you know, we it's it's

518
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.079
a violent when you're content, Like
when you go up and you contend to

519
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:44.319
rebound for instance, that can be
a violent play. You know, I

520
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:48.079
think we take that for granted,
uh, and that can create you know,

521
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:52.920
an anti or dislocation of the shoulder
or movement of the shoulder. Uh,

522
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.400
that can create a laborl tear.
Dislocations create a different type of label

523
00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.359
tear. It's called a bank guard
tear. But there's other label tears that

524
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:04.000
can happen. It can happen from
hanging on the rim, something silly like

525
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:07.920
that makes sense. No aggressive violent
dump. Sorry, my kids are getting

526
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:13.400
out of car. Oh good.
So there's things like that can happen that

527
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:17.200
can create shoulders and injuries in basketball
that we we take for granted. Obviously

528
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:21.480
we see falls and you know,
somebody gets undercut, things like that,

529
00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:25.440
but there's also things that can happen
just defending a player or challenging a shot

530
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:31.079
or like I said, you know, unfortunately really cool aggressive dunk where they

531
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:35.559
have to hang on the rim or
something can really create injuries of the shoulder.

532
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.119
Doctorrek McElroy, prot have physical therapy, is our guest joining us here

533
00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:42.759
on Sports Talk seven ninety. So. We did talk last time about Connor

534
00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:46.079
McGregor and his injury situation. He
was not able to be part of one

535
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:49.920
of the most recent UFC events.
That of course was a big, a

536
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.880
big fight that was promoted, and
we now know that a pinky toe injury

537
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:58.519
has been a factor in that.
And I've had some issues with toes,

538
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.119
not the pinky but Dustin Poitier,
of course, a big, big UFC

539
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:05.720
fighter, well known, he's he
was quoted yesterday in the story saying a

540
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.720
pinky toe doesn't sound like a reason
to pull out of a fight. I'm

541
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:12.240
gonna share my thoughts on that statement
and then get yours. That tells me

542
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:15.920
that Dustin Pourier has never actually had
a toe injury, because those things may

543
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:17.519
seem like, oh, you're being
a whim, but man, toes are

544
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:23.920
important well, especially when you're in
a sport that requires the level of kicking

545
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:28.880
and striking. This balance too,
right, yeah, and balance? Now,

546
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.000
you know, generally speaking, your
fifth metatar soul, your and your

547
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:37.799
we would call it the fifth philangye
of the toe. Actually not necessarily the

548
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.599
pinky toe. But you know you
could get away with not having that toe.

549
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.279
I mean, you know it's it
would be way more concerning obviously to

550
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.200
lose a big toe. I mean, that could end a career of any

551
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:53.440
athlete for that matter. So you
know, could you know, I could

552
00:33:53.440 --> 00:34:00.680
see where someone may be challenging how
legit it is. I do think that,

553
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:05.920
like we talked about last time,
you know, these athletes, small

554
00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:07.960
change makes a big difference. You
know, the talent gap is not that

555
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:13.400
big when you the further along you
get in any sport, including mixed martial

556
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.519
arts. Now used to be bigger
in mixed martial arts, but now it's

557
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.400
not, especially when you know you
have an athlete like Connor McGregor who's been

558
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:25.599
around, he's older now he's not
as young. And you know, little

559
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:30.639
things, small things make a huge
difference and can lead to the difference between

560
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:34.559
winning a fight and losing a fight. And like you just said, his

561
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:38.119
balance, his ability to stabilize on
that foot, to kick, to defend,

562
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:43.480
to you know, to defend a
takedown, you know, to all

563
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.440
of those things that you know,
to generate power. If it's his lead

564
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:50.800
foot and he's going to strike somebody, he can't put his weight correctly on

565
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:54.159
that lead foot to generate power into
his punch, that's going to impact his

566
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:57.920
fight. And you know, the
goal is to win. And if he

567
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:02.119
doesn't feel like he's capable to fight
at the optimal level. That's his choice,

568
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:06.599
and he can pull out of that
fight, all right. So back

569
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:09.280
to the scorching temperatures that we've got
coming our way. In fact, it's

570
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:14.039
hot as can be outside right now. It seems what advice would you give

571
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:17.400
for those who still want to work
out outside, Like, obviously, if

572
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:20.840
you've got a gym, there's probably
still gonna be hot in there, but

573
00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:23.199
it's temperature controlled. But you know, I was on my way in today

574
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.960
leaving the neighborhood and I saw somebody
who lives the street over and they're out,

575
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.639
you know, running not you know, it's a normal thing for them,

576
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:31.840
And I'm just thinking, like,
man, I hope that's safe.

577
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:36.920
Oh yeah, And real quick,
Nick, can I go back on the

578
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.760
on the pinky toe thing real quick? Just the one thing I will say

579
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:45.079
about about sports. Every sport's different. And if I have a you know,

580
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:46.840
I can play some sports where I
could get away with a pinky toe

581
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:51.639
injury, fracture you know, fifth
benut of tar soul injury, and I

582
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:53.719
say a fracture, and there's other
sports you can't. So I do think

583
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:55.920
that we have to keep those things
in mind that it's all you know,

584
00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:00.320
and it could be even positioned driven
in some ways. So anyways, as

585
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:05.199
far as people getting out, you
know, first of all, use common

586
00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:09.000
sense. I think we lose that
sometimes in healthcare or anything in our own

587
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.199
health. You know, when it's
really hot and you're gonna try to get

588
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:15.760
out in exercise, you know,
you go to the cooler periods of the

589
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.639
day, the mornings, maybe into
the evenings if it's not too late.

590
00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:24.360
Obviously, you got to hydrate ahead
of time. Hydrating the day of is

591
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:29.760
not gonna work. You gotta continuously
hydrate, uh, and to the point

592
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:35.000
where you know your body is staying
hydrated before you go into whatever activity that

593
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.159
is. The other thing is is
hydrate slowly so you don't want to jug,

594
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:42.639
you know, chug a bunch of
water. You end up just urinating

595
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.400
most of that out inter city doesn't
absorb it as well. So you know,

596
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:50.639
when we hydrate sipping water throughout the
course of the day, or you

597
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:52.800
know, as you're building that up, if you know you're gonna be really

598
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:54.039
active and hanging out, or even
if you're gonna go out and party,

599
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.719
you know you should be hydrating.
You know, over a period of time,

600
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:00.320
not just trying to chug it all
once and then your body's only gonna

601
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:05.119
absorb so much. I mean,
it just can't. So those are things

602
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:07.599
that I would think about in food. I mean, you know, we

603
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:10.719
think about water. Water is the
medium to get electrolytes to your to the

604
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:15.679
muscles so you don't cramp or have
issues. It's not in itself what creates

605
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.280
the hydration, so the electrolytes do
that. Now, obviously there are drinks

606
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:23.599
that have you know those in them. Now, fruits, you know,

607
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.960
make sure eating a lot of fruits, even vegetables, things like that that

608
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:30.360
are going to give you, uh, those electrolytes that allow you know that

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your body's gonna utilize uh and I
actually utilize utilize it more effectively because generally,

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again we're eating those at a different
type of taste than trying to chug

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a gatorade, where a lot of
that's just going to be urinated out.

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So you know, keep those things
in mind when you're when you know you're

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gonna be active and you know you're
gonna be doing things that are gonna challenge

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in the heat of the day.
And yeah, that's all I got.

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Eric you are the man. I
appreciate you making time for us as we

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get the weekend started. Stay hydrated, stay safe. We talk sooner,

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right, my friend, that sounds
good. Nick talk you all right?

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Take care again. That's doctor Eric
McElroy from pro Rea Physical Therapy. Always

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appreciate the conversation. Very informative stuff
as always, so good stuff. All

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right, we're out of here.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed yourself. Uh.

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If not, we'll come back on
Monday. We'll try it again. Have

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a good weekend in everybody,