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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.
All right, let's get the five o'clock

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hours started here on a Thursday afternoon. Thanks for hanging out with us here

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on Sports Talk seven ninety. It
is coffee and company. My name is

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Nick Coffee. I hope you knew
that. If not, now you do

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the company man, mister John Alden, he's got four hours left before he's

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out of here for vacation. And
uh, I am jealous, are you?

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Guys? I'm sure you're driving up
there to Delaware area? How far

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is I'm the king of driving?
How far is that? Twelve and a

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half hours. It's a pretty good
haul. You got to stop in any

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point? No, you know,
you go straight story, we'll stop when

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we won't like stop over night anywhere? No, Yah, you're asked.

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Just you two going. Yes.
Nice. We haven't had a long trip

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by ourselves since our honeymoon. Really
we haven't married that long. But yeah,

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I mean that's good for you guys. You're you'll I hope you have

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a great time. I mean I
assume you will, so yeah, I'll

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miss you when you're gone, but
you know we'll be We'll be in good

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shape. Austin's gonna be I mean, he's our he's our guy we bring

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in from the bullpen, and it's
nice to know that, you know,

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whenever John is taking vacation days that
he needs and deserves. Uh, it's

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not like a stranger I mean that's
happened before where they'll just bring somebodey in.

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Here is like a weekend part time
producer, and you know it's not

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their fault, but like they get
the call right, uh, and you

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know they get the job done.
It's fine. I'll I'll, you know,

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I'll be able to make it work
regardless of whoever is producing, as

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long as they know how to do
that role. But you know, if

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it's somebody I've never talked to before
and then they're just you know, it's

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very odd to like make them a
part of the show in any way.

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So Austin has become a good backup
for us, and he'll be in the

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saddle all next week. And next
week Thursday, we're gonna have Pat Kelsey

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on the show, which I am. I know that's what's gonna happened.

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I'm trying to make it to where
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him and studio and that, you
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to do. But uh yeah,
and I'm trying, you know, to

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not only make it to where,
well, here, here's what I hope

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to do is either have him in
studio or just do an interview with him

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like we typically do. But I
also want to make it to where it's

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like a like a zoom kind of
thing, to where I can take stuff

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from it and you know, share
clips of it on social and whatnot.

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So yeah, looking forward to that. You know, I did cross paths

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with Pat Kelsey during every week,
didn't get a chance to like, you

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know, shoot the you know what. I'm sure he had no clue of

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who I was. But looking forward
to having him on and looking forward to

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his first season. We'll talk a
little more about the Colemanhawkins situation coming up

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a little bit later on. I
don't have anything to add other than what

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we've already said today and yesterday.
But those that are super super like plugged

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it, and I don't mean just
plugged into where they're keeping up with what's

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going on, but those that overthink
every little thing about Louisville basketball because we're

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just obsessed and we care that much, were so passionate about it. I

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don't think there's really been any reason
to be concerned. I mean, who

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knows what Colemanhawkins ends up doing,
but a couple of things on social media

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in the last week from Pat Kelsey
from Colemenhawkins. Something Pat Kelsey said in

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his conversation earlier today with Ken Spencer
of WHS eleven. If you're somebody that

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overthinks everything, you're probably overthinking every
little thing right now. But I still

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believe he's gonna visit. Don't know
why you wouldn't. I don't think that

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report would be out there if it
wasn't true, but be a massive get

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no doubt, all right, Before
we get back into the big news today,

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which is Danny Hurley being courted by
the Los Angeles Lakers tonight's game one

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of the NBA Finals. And I
said this at the start of the show,

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I think it's going to take me
watching this game and figuring out which

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side I'm in, Like, I
want to have somebody to root for,

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and I you know, usually I
do. In fact, there's rarely been

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a situation where I've watched a game
and I haven't eventually figured out which way

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I'm leaning. Now do I really
care? Probably not. If it's not

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a team that I've bet on,
and it's not a team that I'm a

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fan of, I really don't.
It's not like something that's going to really

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bother me. But I usually find
myself, you know, preferring one team

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or the other to win, and
I don't like either of these teams.

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To be honest with you, I
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Dallas over Boston just because I've always
more so been anti Boston. There's not

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anybody on Boston's team that I don't
like. But yeah, I don't know,

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but I do know what we're going
to do when it comes to the

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wagers and look, DraftKings already knows
that you are the ace here, John,

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because John's been on fire lately and
just guessing, you know, putting

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him on the spot. Hey,
guess which you guess where Indiana's ranked in

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this top forty list, and guess
where I mean, I remember there was

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another example there was the amount of
states that have legalized it. Yeah,

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I asked him yesterday. You know, he's somebody that you know you're not,

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and even if you are, somebody
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which I don't think you do.
It's not like you're paying attention to

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states that you're never going to visit
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But I asked him, Hey,
how many states? And was it

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you guess thirty six? And it
was thirty eight or pretty close. So

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I asked him, hey, you
know, you guess the total score of

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these two teams tonight, Maverick Celtics. He guessed to eighteen and it started

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and I think was it two sixteen
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seventeen, so it's head, Yeah, they're listening to you. So that's

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that's what. I don't know.
If he's gonna bet him, I'm gonna

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bet it. I'm gonna bet the
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tonight. And I'm also gonna take
the over in PJ. Washington's points.

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He's been playing well in the playoffs, and they were initially set at nine

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and a half. They're now to
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taking it. I'm still taking PJ. Washington over eleven and a half.

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Yeah, the numbers here in the
last Yeah. So PJ. Washington is

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over in eight straight games against the
Celtics and is ten and oher on the

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over in his career when he plays
twenty eight minutes or more. And he's

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gotten that type of run in recent
playoff games because he's been playing well for

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him, he's been a really really
nice piece for them. In fact,

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I believe in the series that they
just won, or it might have been,

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it might have been the OKC series, but he was the second leading

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scorer for Dallas in that series outside
of Luca, I mean, ahead of

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Kyrie. So since March sixth,
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a sixteen to four record. They
knocked off the Clippers in six games,

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beat the Thunder in six games,
and then beat the t Wolves in five

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games, who, by the way, happened to defeat the defending champions,

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the Nuggets. So the MAVs are
on fire. They've got the momentum.

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Boston I believe has been a better
team throughout the season. But I don't

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know, man, the Pacers to
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they beat the Knicks, but I'm
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healthy, they are a team that
has more talent, better pieces. But

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the Pacers, despite getting swept,
I mean, they tried to lose Game

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one and they should have won Game
three like it was another game they just

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gave away. Which doesn't mean like
that the Celts, you know, didn't

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deserve it. They swept him.
But my point is this, like,

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when it comes to the momentum of
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I think Dallas is I mean,
I wouldn't be shocked if Dallas wins this

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and six. All right, So
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This is from Adrian wood Narowski,
who broke the news this morning on ESPN

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that the Lakers, despite everybody talking
about JJ Reddick, he believes that it's

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going to be Danny Hurley who they
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the offer hasn't happened just yet.
I would imagine it's going to happen here

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relatively soon, and I wouldn't be
shocked if we get to tomorrow and he's

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decided to take the Lakers job.
We'll never know. You know, he's

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a guy who kind of does things
his own way. I don't think he's

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one that would want this thing lingering
out there because it's only going to bring

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a lot more attention to him,
and I don't think that's what he's seeking.

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But I think he will be the
Lakers coach next year, which kind

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of sounds crazy, But then again, he's proven that he wants to be

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in the NBA at some point,
and timing is on his side, Like

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what does he have to prove?
At Yukon, He's like, think about

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this, if you want to coach
in the NBA on what like what scenario

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could your momentum be any higher than
it is right now? You just went

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back to back national championships in college. Now, I guess maybe if you

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won three in a row and that's
doable. But it's the Lakers, man,

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and the Lakers you could argue is
the best job in basketball at any

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level because it's the freaking Lakers.
Now coaching Lebron. Some would say,

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wow, you get a chance to
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I would look at it as,
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want to deal with that, because
I'm not really sure I'm going to be

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coaching him. I'm pretty sure He's
kind of running the show and I'm just

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along for the ride. That's how
most coaches who have coached Lebron James have

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been treated. But one guy who
did not get treated that way was Eric

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Spolster at Miami. And props to
pat Riley who did not cave and did

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not give Lebron what he wanted.
Lebron wanted. Suposter fired at one point

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and pat Riley stuck to his,
you know, his plan, and they

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had success there. But they had
success after Lebron too. I mean they're

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not they don't won a title since
then. But you know, I think

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the Lakers are wanting to have another
generational type, hire a guy that is

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there that coaches maybe multiple eras of
good teams that win titles. I mean,

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that's easier said than done, but
that's clearly I think they're their strategy

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here, and I think, I
mean, I had to have a hard

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time if he stays at uconnor if
he goes to the Lakers. I just

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have a hard time right now,
with Dan hurley stock being where it is,

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have a hard time thinking he won't
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Meaning stan kyllege to go to the
NBA. But here is wog earlier

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this afternoon. Obviously, the NBA
Finals are on tonight, game one,

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so they've already got their crew on
Hay and they're Kendrick Perkins, Richard Jefferson

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and Wog. Here. Here's what
Woch had to say as far as the

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Lakers having Dan Hurley's attention and now
again, I guess it just comes down

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to what the is and does he
say yes? And I happen to think

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he will say yes. I think
the timeline moves relatively quickly now, whether

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that's the weekend, whether that's early
next week. I don't think that this

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is going to linger with Dan Hurley
having this hangover his Yukon program and having

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the uncertainty about what's next for them
and the Lakers, who at some point

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here really have to get on with
their search. They have been focused on

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Dan Hurley from the beginning and very
quietly trying to lay the groundwork to get

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him interested and open minded and ultimately
committed to come into LA. I'm told

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he's going to be presented with a
massive long term contract that Rob Polenka,

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Jennie Buss, what they're talking to
him about is putting a program in place

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in LA that they want him to
be what they consider to be a legacy

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coach. They've had them in LA
pat Riley, Phil Jackson, coaches who

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spanned a significant period obviously had great
success. It's not fair to put any

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young coach in that category. But
they see Dan Hurley as a coach who

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can be there a long time and
put in place a program and give him

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a lot of voice about what it's
going to look like, what Lakers basketball

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is, what a Lakers player is, and I think build that together.

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That's what they're selling him on.
Dan Hurley has made no secret of his

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ambition to eventually coach in the NBA. Well, the opportunity is not only

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here now, but it's certainly one
of the most storied teams in the league.

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And if you want to win championships, so you know you have to

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have great players to do it.
The Lakers always give you an opportunity if

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they don't have him now, that
they can get them because players want to

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play there. But Dan Hurley,
the Lakers have Dan Hurley's attention right now,

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and this conversation is escalating as we
speak here into the weekend. I

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think that that's that's a really good
I mean, this is it's a pretty

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much a no brainer kind of thing. But you know, there are organizations

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that matter. Matter how good of
a coach you are, how well you

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draft, like, you're just gonna
have a tough time really accomplishing the ultimate

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goal, winning an NBA title and
then sustaining that success because players of all

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the power. Even if you draft
well and develop, a guy didn't have

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to stay with you forever. I
mean, and if you're in Utah,

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I mean they lost. They've lost
their last two guys that they drafted,

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invested in, and developed. One
was the Butler guy, who why is

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he's become so irrelevant in the NBA. I've already forgot his name, Stevens

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and Donovan Mitchell, I mean Donovan. I think they ended up trading him

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because they knew he wasn't gonna resign. But either way, like you know,

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like in LA, you never have
to worry about that. It's not

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going to be about having resources with
money or not having a place that not

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being in a place where players would
want to play. And this is,

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this is what's crazy is that the
one reeal like red Flag if you're Hurly

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here would be you're gonna have to
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a lot of coaches. And are
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no, I don't want you to
draft Brownie James who averaged four points a

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game last year at USC, Like
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maybe you ride it out and realize, like how many more years does

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Lebron have left? And it's worth
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an eight to ten year contract,
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and develop develop players that they draft, develop a culture. And you know,

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I think the Lakers are really smart
in taking this approach because one Dan

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Hurley is a good coach. And
to me, this show's an awareness of

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we can't just keep doing this random
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years ago and now wants to coach, Like, by the hell they hire

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Darvin Ham Like what I mean?
That made no sense? And some coaches

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in the NBA have had success despite
never really coaching other than when they get

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their like Steve Kerr get no experience
he's done pretty well for himself. Now.

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I think a lot of that has
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has two of the best shooters of
all time playing on the same team,

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Jason Kidd. You know, he's
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success when he first got the job. At was he in Brooklyn and Milwaukee?

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I think? And then you know, now he's with Dallas, and

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you know he's having a lot of
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I think, you know, looking
at Eric Spolstra, Papovich is not a

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great example. He is, but
he's been there so long. But one

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of the things that just makes me
not take the NBA serious at some point

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is when they hire coaches. We're
like, who, Like, it's hard

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for me to say that that's a
really valuable position. You know, you

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would think of me. Coaching clearly
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least, like, you know,
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I think at times the NBA has
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man, you really don't like you
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personnel as far as acquisitions, drafting
and whatnot, and like, like you

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like, how how valuable is a
coach when you hire a guy that you

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like who's never done it before.
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I'm a basketball purist who loves the
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I'd like the NBA a little bit
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guys who were coaching there a long
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you knew that, Hey, no
matter what trade has been made, whatever

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guy they draft, whoever retires,
like, you know that that franchise they

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have, you know, they have
this system in place because this coach has

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been there for X amount of years. I mean longest tenured NBA coaches.

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got to be Spolstra and Kerr,
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who's next. I really wouldn't.
I mean, let's see here, Steve

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Kerr was hired in twenty fourteen,
Spolstra was in twenty or two thousand and

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eight. Again, Pop's been there
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tenured coach after that is Michael Malone, who was hired by the Nuggets in

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twenty fifteen, and Taylor Jenkins.
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if you asked me who the Memphis
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guessed that name. I don't even
know if I've ever heard that name.

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But he's been the coach with the
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Bickerstaff career, which I'm pretty sure
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by the Cavaliers. I think I'm
looking at an old Yeah he yeah,

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he was. He was fired by
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Grizzlies, and then the Calves and
then they just I guess they just they

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just let him go. It looks
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sixth longest tenured coach and he was
hired when COVID started think about that,

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like they don't. They just roll
him in and out And you can be

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a coach for three franchises consecutively in
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to me, it's hard for me
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position when you just throw random dudes
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to baby sit your players better.
And I do know when act as if

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these guys haven't deserved an opportunity.
I'm sure they've grinded out and have been

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in basketball their whole lives, but
you know, it's just odd to see.

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I mean, and the NFL has
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little bit with guy. You know, they go the young newcomer, the

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young up and coming offensive mind.
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I'm hoping Danny Hurley does go to
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I won't. I mean, I've
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I, I would want to see
how it works out. And I have

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a hard time thinking anything he does
won't be successful, just because all the

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momentum that he has right now,
he's not perfect, and he wasn't even

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that successful as far as wins and
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on at Yukon. But I'm a
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what would happen if he does leave. We did talk just a little while

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ago with Kevin Sweeney, who covers
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mentioned he believes they would be an
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from within if Yukon loses Hurly,
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Murray could be could be the guy, and he may be in play,

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but it makes total sense. And
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it comes to Luke Murray, you
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a guy that actually does fit better
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and then potentially find himself as an
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see that because Luke's turned down head
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when he was at Louisville, even
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he was at I think when he
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at least one d one job that
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know, it didnt make a whole
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can't win. So if it's not
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the promotion, essentially sounds like it
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also a long time Dan Hurley assistant
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he's actually the associate head coach currently, so I think it'll be from within.

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Therefore, you probably won't see a
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again, maybe some of these guys
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assistant. Maybe they would hit the
portal because if Yukon loses hurly, these

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guys have thirty days to hit the
portal and Yukon, you know, the

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champs do bring back some pretty good
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they hit the portal, you know, it could it could give a lot

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of teams out there a chance to
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They clearly, you know, have
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I wonder how many schools have scholarships
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know you mentioned this earlier. Wouldn't
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Catchings takes that final spot. Yes
in Indiana. Yeah, what led to

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that? Purdue lost their top press
incoming freshman. I should say so Purdue,

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they haven't oversigned, but looking ahead
to next season, there's not anybody

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anticipated to graduate, maybe even go
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to be over, so they can't
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of the thing, gotcha, Okay, that makes sense, all right,

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we got to get to a quick
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side. Talk a little more about
Louisville basketball Coleman Hawkins, and if you

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missed it, you have l just
announced within the last hours. So a

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big home went home series in hoops
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to it. So we'll talk about
that in a lot more again, keep

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it locked right here on Sports Talk
seven to ninety. So you've l announced

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earlier this afternoon that the men's basketball
program has agreed to a home and home

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series with Tennessee, which Tennessee's been
pretty damn good in recent years. They

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still haven't broke through and made a
Final four, but you know, they've

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been consistently a really good team.
I feel like for you know, four

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of the five last five years or
so, maybe longer than that. So

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I love playing competitive games in the
non conference. I know sometimes with that

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there's a risk that you know you
lose, and you know, even if

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you play good teams and you don't
win, you know your strength to schedule

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may be strong, but you got
to win. And I don't know what

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the entire schedule is going to look
like. But with Tennessee included with the

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teams, you're going to play in
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which is a loaded field by the
way, You're obviously going to play Kentucky

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in the non conference, and you
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Challenge. So I feel like this
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to bottom, even though I don't
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I have a hard time thinking teams
like Carolina and Duke won't be,

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you know, up there this year. As far as you know, top

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twenty for sure, probably probably even
better than that. But as far as

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who that next group is, I
don't know. I mean Virginia, I

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don't I think Tony Bennett's Tony Bennett's
days are probably his best days are probably

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behind him. I mean, they
haven't made the tournament. I'm sorry,

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they haven't won a tournament game since
he won the national championship, and they

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have two early exits as four seeds, and then they got embarrassed in the

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playing game last year. So I
don't know, Maybe that you know,

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I hate that the ACC has taken
such a step back. However, I

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do think that that gives Loiville an
opportunity here in year one for Pat Kelce

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to you know, mess around and
be competitive towards the top of the league.

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I mean, think about last year
Carolina and Duke were your best teams

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as far as wins and losses,
and then after that Virginia at thirteen and

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seven, and we know they weren't
scary. I mean, they weren't They

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Probably they didn't belong in the tournament
to be honest with you. Did Pitt

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end up getting in? Were they? Were? They a playoff? I

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don't know why. I feel like
they're always in that play in conversation,

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aren't they? Yeah? But like
you know, they weren't. I mean,

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actually, Pitt with Jeff Cape's teams
at Pitt have literally been mind boggling

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to me. And I guess the
answer is that he's just not a very

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good coach. But in the time
he's been there, not every year,

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but more often than not, I
feel like personnel has not been his problem

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as far as why they aren't good
enough to at least get in the tournament.

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You know, Clemson and Brad Brown. Well, they had a breakthrough

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last year, made it all the
way to the Elite A, didn't they

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They lost in to Alabama and the
Elite eight. So I don't know how

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sustainable that is. I mean,
they've never been good or at least that

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good, other than you know,
this past year, Q Stay. I

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mean, look, the ACC wasn't
good last year, guys. I know

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that NC State was nine and eleven
and May the final four, but don't

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let that make you view this thing
any different than what it actually was because

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outside of Duke and Carolina, everybody
else was whatever. I mean, wake

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Forest didn't get in, and you
know, I mean, the league is

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not that good and I hate saying
it. I wish it was. And

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maybe this year you see Virginia get
back to you know, the good,

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the good Tony Bennett, maybe CSE
in year two with their new coach,

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Red Autry, maybe they take a
step forward. I think Steve Forbes is

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a good coach, but the results
wouldn't wouldn't tell you that he's somebody you

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got to be worried about. So
maybe with all that gives you an opportunity

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to, uh, you know,
to to compete, and the standards should

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never be compete. But you finished
dead last in this league in the last

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two years. Your you know,
your record in the last two seasons in

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ACC Action is five and thirty five. Think about that. Five thirty five

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and ACC play in a two year
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good. So anyways, back to
Tennessee. I thought that the last time

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these two teams played was the epic
game in Freedom Hall when Reyes, Gaines

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and Bryant Northern scored nine points in
very little time to pull off a very

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thrilling victory, one of the more
exciting finishes I can remember in Freedom Hall.

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And I believe it was the first
sort of notable win for Rick Patino

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at Louisville. I know, I
think Tennessee was ranked, might have been

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ranked like twenty four to twenty five
at the time. The coach at that

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point, what was his name,
He was a former Michael Jordan teammate,

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then ended up flaming out there at
Tennessee. You can't think of his name,

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but they had Ron Slay who was
a really good player, and yeah,

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it was a big win. So
the return game will be by the

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way, The game that louis was
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is early. It's November ninth.
Then the return game will be in Knoxville

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the following season on December sixteenth,
twenty twenty five. So they also played.

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They also Louisville and Tennessee also played
in the was it the n I

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the preseason n I T up there in

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New York in the Barclay Center.
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Max's first year. Lost both games, but were competitive against good teams,

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by the way, And yeah,
they'll play them again. So look,

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I love a competitive schedule. I
do, and I think right now,

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as I've said all throughout the week, with the thirteen scholarship players they have,

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I feel like Louisville has a good
enough team to make the tournament and

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again be competitive in the ACC.
That's not asking too much. That's not

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unfair to Pat Kelsey to throw those
expectations out there, and I'm sure he

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would agree. He knows that fans
don't want to hear about a rebuild or

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time. That's why when he was
introduced to us, when asked about you

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know the program, And I don't
know how the question was asked, but

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something along the lines of you know
what Kenny said about it being broken?

405
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.279
He said ready, and hopefully they're
ready. Only time will tell. But

406
00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.519
I don't think his mindset is that
he's going to need you know, he's

407
00:25:56.519 --> 00:25:59.680
not going to need time and patience. I mean, I think we should

408
00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:02.000
be paid to an extent, but
like, this guy wants to win and

409
00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:04.279
he's not afraid for people embracing that, and that's one of the many things

410
00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:08.759
that I like about Pat Kelsey thus
far. So again, I think right

411
00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:12.440
now they're in good shape. But
obviously the addition of Coleman Hawkins would be

412
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:17.200
huge, and he is reportedly going
to visit this weekend. I have no

413
00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:22.640
reason to think that that's not true. But he's he's been. Is cryptic

414
00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:25.319
the right word, because I don't
even know if that's accurate, because I

415
00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:29.119
don't think cryptic can mean like you're
I guess maybe it's somewhat accurate. Cryptic

416
00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:32.319
can be you know, there's like
a coded message that people are trying to

417
00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:33.799
decipher, and I don't really know
what that is. But he's kind of

418
00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:38.319
a loose cannon yeah, well it
may be aggressive, but you know what

419
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.200
I mean. I know what you
mean because I found myself having a tough

420
00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:47.000
time really trying to describe what it
like, what the Coleman Hawkins experience is

421
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.799
on social media because he's not like
mean, he's not a jerk, but

422
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:56.000
he clearly is strategic in what he
posts, rather it be like a tweet

423
00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.039
with a two sentence response, or
just with like emotion or just something real

424
00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:04.880
simple. So yesterday he tweeted,
don't believe everything you hear on you know

425
00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.880
you see on the internet, and
that he's gonna be logging off this app

426
00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.640
for a few days. I don't
know what the hell he meant by that,

427
00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.279
but some people, I guess understandably
so are worried that it might mean

428
00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:18.759
that the reports of him visiting is
not true. I don't believe that,

429
00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:21.880
because I don't think that that ends
up being reported by the folks that was

430
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.480
reported by if it wasn't real.
I know enough to know that they are

431
00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:29.359
pursuing him, they are interested in
him, they want him, and they're

432
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.359
gonna make it work if he wants
to come. So I'm not worried.

433
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:37.839
But there was that tweet yesterday from
Hawkins, and then this answer from Pat

434
00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.440
Kelsey when asked about his roster again. This this to me, this is

435
00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.720
really reaching to think that this means
they're not going to go after Coleman Hawkins.

436
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:48.599
But Kent Spencer of WHS eleven talk
with Pat Kelsey earlier today and asked

437
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:51.720
him about his roster being set,
and you know, his initial answer is,

438
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:52.960
you know, is really why I
wanted to share this. But I

439
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.160
also will let you hear the clip
in its entirety because it should get you

440
00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.440
excited about this team, because again, there's a lot to like with what

441
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.319
he's already added as it stands right
now, do you feel like your roster

442
00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:07.960
ha set? Yeah? I mean
we love the makeup. I love first

443
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:12.160
of all, the fact that we
have a veteran, mature team. Right

444
00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:17.759
we have guys that come from programs
with winning DNA's. We have guys that

445
00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:21.759
have logged a ton of minutes at
the collegiate level, not just played minutes

446
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.400
at a high level college basketball,
but had a lot of success and it

447
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:27.119
won. And you know, I
think in this day and age of college

448
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:32.799
basketball, they say getting old staying
old is very very important. But just

449
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.319
the makeup of these guys, their
basket YQ, their basketball intellect, their

450
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:40.799
experience I think is going to be
one of the major advantages in the hallmark

451
00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:48.200
of this team. So again,
I think Pat Kelsey will probably not try

452
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.759
to recruit the same exact guy every
year, But I feel as if it's

453
00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:53.640
not a coincidence when you look at
the makeup of the guys they have now,

454
00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:59.960
the vast majority of them are experienced
and they've been a part of program

455
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.480
that were successful. Now, no
we're not talking national championship success, but

456
00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:07.839
they're not coming from a losing program
that did not have a culture that resulted

457
00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.880
in winning at least to some extent, and that matters. I mean,

458
00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:18.640
I think there's going to be enough
proof throughout the coming years with the portal

459
00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:23.319
that if you got twenty four points
a game and your team won five games,

460
00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:26.480
you're still probably going to get some
looks, but the film will probably

461
00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.680
show that you were able to get
a lot of points because your team's stunk.

462
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.559
It doesn't mean you're not talent,
it doesn't mean it's your fault your

463
00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:37.000
team lost. But I think coaches
are wise to really pursue guys that one

464
00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:41.880
have the talent and the ability obviously
to do what you need them to do

465
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.319
to play at that level. But
also you're not having to teach them about

466
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.400
like you're not having to. It's
not gonna be a culture shock for them

467
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.599
to join your program when you're trying
to, you know, consistently win.

468
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.920
So we'll see what happens with Colemanhawkins. I don't think there's been any update

469
00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.240
on the situation other than you just
knowing that he's scheduled to visit this week

470
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.480
according to reports twenty four seven Sports
and on three Sports. So fingers crossed

471
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.799
because it'd be a big addition,
no doubt. All right, let's talk

472
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.079
about my friend's over at Eveland and
England. When it comes to buying and

473
00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.440
selling a home, that's never fun
at least, you know, in my

474
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:15.599
opinion, it's not. I mean, it's nice and it's exciting to get

475
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.599
yourself in a new home. Most
purchases of a home or the biggest purchase

476
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.079
that someone will make in their life. And I don't mean, you know,

477
00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:25.759
like the most important, although it
is important, but it'll probably be

478
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:27.880
the most expensive thing you buy.
So it's a big investment and you want

479
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:32.839
somebody that can help you throughout that
process every step of the way. That's

480
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:34.480
going to make it easy for you
that it's going to make sure they're not

481
00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.960
cutting any corners that you end up
in your home and you feel good about

482
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:41.640
that overall process. And that's what
Eland and Eland can do. They're full

483
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:47.039
service residential real estate brokerage. They've
been in business since nineteen seventy six.

484
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They'll help you save money throughout the
process too. You know, there's a

485
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.799
lot that comes with being a full
service residential real estate brokerage, but saving

486
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.079
money is probably what people are going
to notice more than anything, which,

487
00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:59.799
hey, I get it. Money
matters, and the list you're over just

488
00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:03.240
one percent. They also have a
one percent buyer's rebate and those are things

489
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.119
that they do to make sure a
lot of your hard earned dollars throughout this

490
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:08.559
process of buying and selling a home
are kept in your pockets and not you

491
00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:11.839
know, spend elsewhere. So keep
them in mind. It's Eatland in Etland.

492
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You can check them out online at
eatland dot com or give them a

493
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call five two five nine nine twenty
eight hundred. All right, quick break,

494
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.400
we'll come back on the other side. Put the finishing touches on a

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00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:23.640
Thursday edition of Coffee and Company.
We are fueled by Thornton's And this is

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Sports Talk seven ninety a. Right
about five minutes left before we get out

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of here. Until you goodbye.
You want to talk about some food,

498
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:38.559
John, bring on the food.
So the let's see the annual Technomic Top

499
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:44.200
five hundred report is out, which
has given us the updated list of the

500
00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:49.960
top restaurant chains in the country based
on sales twenty twenty three sales. So

501
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.960
this anytime you get into the top
restaurant chains, you got to ask yourself,

502
00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.160
Okay, are they talking fast food? They talk and sit down?

503
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:02.440
Maybe fast casual, which I think
is more of the Chipotle kind of thing,

504
00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:06.200
where you know, it's kind of
fast food. I mean it kind

505
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.799
of is, but you don't have
a drive through. And I don't know,

506
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:10.839
do you have to have a drafted
to be fast food. I feel

507
00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:14.920
like you kind of do. Yeah, But I think some fast casual chains

508
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.400
can also have drive throughs. Yeah, Like I think fast food like you're

509
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:21.519
having a draft through is a big
part of why it's called fast food,

510
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:23.519
because if you're going in and sitting
down and ordering it. Yeah, maybe

511
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:29.079
it takes you. Although I will
say this, I've gone to Mexican restaurants

512
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:31.519
mostly just elm the poll and I'll
order food there and get it quicker than

513
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:36.599
if I order a fast food meal
and there's no line. Like it's crazy

514
00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:40.680
how fast they can get your food
out at certain places. But there's been

515
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:45.359
rankings like this that are it's more
just about like customer survey as far as

516
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:51.680
the experience, like consistency, wait
time, that kind of stuff is just

517
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:55.599
this is literally just on the amount
of money they make, like in sales.

518
00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:59.960
Do you have any guesses to who
the top five are? I'm sure

519
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:04.200
McDonald's is one of them. McDonald's
is number one, and it ain't even

520
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:08.079
close. Wow, fifty three point
one billion coming in at number two?

521
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:12.039
Can I guess? Can keep guessing
you can get this top five? Yes,

522
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.200
I'm not gonna tell you who it
is, but this is the gap.

523
00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:16.319
Fifty three point one is McDonalds at
number one. Number two is thirty

524
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:21.839
one point six. So there's a
twenty two million dollar difference of two twenty

525
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.160
two billion dollar difference between number one
and number two. I'm gonna go with

526
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:29.519
Taco Bell for Taco Bell's number four, So you're not you know you still

527
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:30.960
are? You still are two for
two. As far as just the top

528
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:35.279
five, how about Chick fil A? Chick fil A number three? Okay,

529
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.960
I'm gonna go with Wendy's. Wendy's
is number five. I would have

530
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:44.519
never guessed Wendy's. Yeah you you? Number two is number two's trick questions

531
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:46.799
A trick question, okay, because
I do not think this is fast food

532
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:49.920
restaurant. I don't think that it
is. Oh is it? Is it

533
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.920
like Domino's or something? No?
No Starbucks? Okay, like Starbucks sell

534
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.400
food like I really sell something things
that breakfast food. I feel like in

535
00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.200
the mornings. This isn't something I
say to like brag, because I don't

536
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:06.000
find it to be like impressive.
I've never been to a Starbucks. Never

537
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:09.400
never ordered anything there, never went
inside one, never been a Starbucks guy,

538
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:13.239
mostly because I'm not into coffee,
but like I feel like even if

539
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.440
I was, I wouldn't want to
get it. There. Not no offense

540
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.280
to them. It's just like,
you know, it's probably a lot more

541
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:21.800
expensive, but clearly it's really good. People love it because they wait in

542
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:25.079
long, long lines for it,
and the sales numbers prove that Starbucks is

543
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:30.119
super expensive, are super successful,
and it probably is expensive too. Everything's

544
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:31.800
expensive now, by the way,
no matter where you go now with these

545
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:37.559
restaurants, and by the way,
cost of living inflation all that. Like,

546
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:39.639
you know, we're told to believe
that, or I guess maybe some

547
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:43.840
people just assume that the reason that
we're paying so much more for all these

548
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.280
for everything is because you know,
they have to charge that much. I

549
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:52.320
bet a lot of these places post
record profits because they're just you know,

550
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:54.199
we got to you know, everything
else is expensive, so let's raise the

551
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:57.159
prices of this and that, and
we'll just all chalk it up as hey,

552
00:34:57.159 --> 00:34:59.360
it's what we have to do to
make money as a business. I

553
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.000
think it might've been. And one
of the Walgreens or CBS has recently announced

554
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.280
they were going to, like I
guess it wasn't even like a sale.

555
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:07.639
They're just gonna start, you know, lowering prices. I guess. So

556
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:12.800
the number one thing during all this
inflation that I think, I want to

557
00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:15.000
say it made me mad because it's
kind of a stretch. But then I

558
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:19.880
was I guess surprised to see happen
was when little Caesars finally ditched the five

559
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.440
dollars hot and ready to say we're
no longer doing five dollars, going to

560
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:24.400
make it six. Yeah, it's
probably more than that now. Oh yeah,

561
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:30.760
but yeah, like I don't know
when that changes or how like usually

562
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:35.800
you don't go back right, like, you know, I feel like gas

563
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:38.559
is one thing that can clearly fluctuate
all over the place over years even decades.

564
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:45.639
But if they're able to get business
and make fifty three point fifty three

565
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:47.920
point one billion a McDonald's and thirty
one point six billion at Starbucks, twenty

566
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.440
one point six billion at Chick fil
A, and they're doing well enough with

567
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.440
those prices, people are bitching and
complaining, but they're still buying, and

568
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.599
they're not going to lower their prices
untill they start losing money. Yeah,

569
00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:00.639
I mean, there's no reason for
them too. And what's crazy, and

570
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:02.280
it's also kind of sad, is
that fast food is like it's something that

571
00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:06.199
people I guess just become so dependent
upon that, like they'll pay whatever,

572
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:07.840
right, I mean, they don't
want to cook. Yeah, they're they're

573
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.159
going to fast food because they don't
want to cook. If they wanted to

574
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:13.880
cook, they wouldn't even consider fast
food. I wouldn't think fast food used

575
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:15.559
to be something that I think was
done based out of a convenience for a

576
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.079
lot of people. And now I
don't know if that's the case, because

577
00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:22.920
it's not convenient, it's expensive.
Yeah. So Duncan Donuts came in at

578
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:27.599
number six, Burger King number seven, Subway eight, Chipotle nine, and

579
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.880
Domino's number ten. I like Dominoes. You had Dominoes. Lately it's gotten

580
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.760
better. It has gotten better.
I think of all the pizza chains that

581
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.679
deliver and whatnot, like the Pizza
Pa, Papa John's, Pizza Hut,

582
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.440
Dominoes, those places. I feel
like Dominoes has been on the come up

583
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:42.639
for a while. They've raised the
bar. Yeah, good stuff, no

584
00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:45.159
doubt. All Right, we're out
of time. I can't believe I quickly

585
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:46.199
this show went by. We're back
at it tomorrow. Hopefully you'll join us

586
00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:53.079
for a Friday good vibes on a
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