All right, welcome in broadcasting, live on the road at the Fireplace in
Middletown. Come by and see us. Dave Jennings out here with me.
Uh, Dwight Witton is dealing with family and issues. And uh he's lost
his uncle, which is basically his the facto father, so we Uh Dwight
is dealing with that now. He's uh twy, He's just a great human
being. He's been with his uncle every day for weeks, going to spend
time with him, dealing with the facility, dealing with the government and all
that, and and this just has come to a head. Obviously he's passed
away. And uh and he is is there with the family, So we
we send our prayers in love. What we're dealing with is the smell of
smoked Ribbi burgers, the smell of broughtwurst, the smell of hot dogs roasting
on an open fire. And are a closed smoker. The hog Fathers are
here, yeah, and they're gonna be here again tomorrow here at the Fireplace
in Middletown, the one year anniversary tomorrow. Most things ten percent off,
half off Dano seasonings tomorrow to have beef sliders, chicken wings, jalapeno,
cheddar, sausage, brisket and ribs, and they're brisket melt in your mouth
kind of stuff. Gus is producing back at the studio. John, of
course, in the news room, Good morning. I might try to get
you smoked Ribbi burgers today is what we're having. Oh I would kiss you
if you did that. Oh well, ok, it's not on the menu.
I won't bring it. We made that up, all right, uh
Mark Pope, Yes, Martin Pope. Oh man, I saw the smoke
rising out of Lexington right before the hire. I will say this. There
was a couple of long faces in the sales staff who are Big Blue Nation
this morning when they walked in. Uh so, I don't know what the
problem is, to be honest, Okay, listen, guys, they did
exactly. Mitch Barnhart did exactly what he was supposed to do. You kick
the tires on Jay, right, You happy in TV? Yeah, kick
the tires on Billy Donovan, You happy in Chicago? You get on the
jet, you hit up Drew, you hit up what's his face up at
Yukon? Yeah, and hardly do that. And now what you're left with
after they say no it's unfortunate they said no, But not surprising is you
have that next tier, the next group of candidates, which include Iowa State's
coach, Arizona's coach. Now what's the difference. So what do you do?
You go with the guy that's gonna say yes. At that point,
you essentially have the same candidate. You don't want the optics swinging for the
fences and missing, but then having the mid tier guys turn you down.
So you go to Mark Pope. He plays a good brand of offense.
They have a lot of assist, shoot a lot of threes. It's a
fun style of basketball. I mean it's he's coming out of the same crop
that Pat Kelsey came out of. All these guys have similar experience, and
that's that's where we are in college basketball. The number of sexy names you
could count on one hand, correct, and they did what they had to
do. They did this little piggy and well, those are toes. No
one wants to date the Kardashian I mean that was part of the issue.
I don't care how much it is. I don't want the drama every single
day. I'd rather stay where I am, where I'm a hero. And
not take that. Remember Tubby is the one that said it's the job you
don't want, but you can't turn down. Well, apparently that has changed.
It's the job you don't want and I can turn it down. So
that's where you are. Basketball is taking a back seat because of the nil
and the unlimited time as you can transfer rules right, So now it's made
coaching less fun and coaches are like, I'm gonna make a lot of money
anyway. I'm not going to Kentucky where they're gonna grill me every single day.
Gus, you follow this pretty hard. And Mark Pope and now Kelsey
at U of L. I mean, we're used to Hall of Fame coaches
walking through the door. That's not happening at either school, Gus, It's
not. And I was following along because I'm having to keep track of all
the drama right now. And boy, Matt Jones had a Twitter space last
night which that first time I'd ever done jumped into one. There were twenty
three thousand, twenty three thousand people in this Twitter space as they were discussing
this, and this was ten something though last night, and yeah, oh
they were big mad people, just not happen. There's a hashtag trending this
morning that is fire Mitch on Twitter. They want Barnhardt's head for bringing in
Pope. But let me be the optimist a minute. He's a former player,
he knows, he knows he won under Patino as a national championship as
a player. He understands that, he understands, he understands Big Blue,
he understands Big Blue Nation. He's got a wide open offense. It sounds
like somebody being optimistic about the Wildcats. Guys, It's exactly what it sounds
like. There's two other things. There's another thing that he brings that will
help out the players in that he's a former NBA big man himself. At
seven to two, we've got what Avishich is what seven two, seven to
four very raw talent. I think Pope could help mold him into a dominating
center and get his foot work down, getting rebounding better, and get his
body positioned better. We already know the kid can shoot. And plus with
that wide open offense, you've got Reed Shepherd and you've got Perry coming back,
and they could break some scoring records. All right, who's the sexy
name that you didn't try to get well, the Bruce Pearl and Rick Patino
are the two the big nation wanted his seventies and yes it's it's a Louisville
fan can can tell you you can't go back. We tried it with Bobby
Patrino when it was a complete disaster. Rick's getting Oh they'll be there for
fifteen seconds. Yes, I know, yeah, David, Okay. So
the best tweet us all last night there was some of them were on fire.
Uh, but it's the tweet said Cal clearly doesn't want to be in
Fayetteville and nobody wants the Kentucky job. What have we done? Like?
What what is going on? And basically that is true. If you watch
any of the videos of Caliperry, he just he he is not He doesn't
want to be in Faetteville. That is the bottom line. His eyes say,
why am i? He and Mitch didn't get along for quite some time.
There was a bit of a power play. Yes, Cal wanted to
stay, Yes, get Mitch out. It worked out the opposite way,
and he's not happy about it. He wasn't going to just retire, so
he took the best available gig, and he doesn't look happy. Now,
this is where politics cross lines, right Obviously, The story now is Kraft
Kelly Kraft wanted to use some of the UK players as their advertising when she
was running, spending eleven million dollars to come in third, and she wanted
to use the player and cal Perry said, no, that's not happening.
So the Crafts pulled their money from basketball and put it in football. So
and that's where they're going to keep it for now. So I agree with
him on that. By the way, using players for policies, well,
how many times did a billionaire say here, no, yeah, never ever
they never hear no. Oh, what's cute about? The NII probably saw
this. The NCAA wants to try to eliminate the multiple transfers by saying,
if you want to transfer a second time, you have to meet certain academic
requirements. Kids aren't even going to school if they are. Instead of that,
if they want to transfer a second time, make them do what they
did when they transferred before the portal sit out a year. It is gonna
be interesting to see. I don't I'm trying to even if Louisville and Kentucky
had a year or two apart where they got all new coaches, right,
and I don't think I mean Louisville and Kentucky both have new coaches starting next
and there's four new coaches in the state. Yeah, oh, four new
coaches Western, Louisville, Kentucky and Morehead. Wow. Yeah, so it
is. It's gonna be fun to watch this. Obviously, Mark Pope is
not the sexy pick, but that who the pick is. They haven't announced
it officially yet, but they think it's close to five point five million dollars
a year and a five year deal. Now he has a lot more head
coaching experience. Yeah. One Kenny Payne yeah, correct, correct, Yeah,
we'll make that has a system. Yes, he knows what he's doing,
right, Yeah, a sexy name, yeah, and in in the
in the interim here, uh steady, not that sexy. He did point
out it's kind of difficult to recruit at b YU because you guess, Drake,
what is it? Uh, you can't you can't have a by the
way everywhere. Yeah, and you have to take a year where you do
a mission trip in Africa wherever, and you have to have five girlfriends.
No, that's not true to manage that, didn't they kick a guy off
their basketball team because he and his girlfriend hooked up. I think that's actually
the case, right, you can't have sex on campus. Yeah, and
they are like, he violated the campus rules and where everybody's like, what's
that, We're like, oh, we can't say it, but here's some
ideas. Yeah, I mean, are you kidding me? Yes? And
now he's gonna go to Kentucky where obviously limited resources and all that. It
was Brandon Brandon Davies was kicked off the b YU basketball team for violating the
quote honor code for hooking up with his girlfriend. Well he had the honor
code, but it was good on her. Stop it but bump. All
right, So we are at the fireplace at Middletown. Please come see us
again. Louisville and Kentucky now have their coaches again. There hasn't been an
official note, but five point five million dollars for five years sounds pretty reasonable
for Mark Pope to come to Kentucky. I think both schools made good calls.
Yes, I really do in cheap calls, like not cheap, but
before Yeah, Louisville. Louisville did well in this, and Kentucky went from
having to pay this guy thirty five million dollars and go find a coach to
uh, hey, we don't have to pay the thirty five million, and
then we just reduced our coach, our coaching pay by half. What you
need is a competent to more competent coach, but better yet, a roster
builder that can do it every single year. And by the way, post
roommates. When he was at Cardinal Cardinal Jams, Jeff Shepherd was Jeff.
Yeah, it was Jeff Shepherd almost at Allen Shepherd, and I was like,
no, that's and part of this too, could be to keep a
read around. Yeah, now that that's what I'm saying is temporarily that's at
least a good sign that the roommates are best friends and they can say,
hey, you know, hope your son's days. Yeah, you know.
Uh so, all right, a big blue nation will react all day all
day. Were they going to be happy with anybody? Yes, but outside
of the first day. But the ones that call, the ones that were
mocking Louisville Fan after Kelsey was hiring, go, now that we're looking for
us, you will We'll show you why we're Kentucky and your Louisville. Well
guess what. Yep, that's that attitude. I told you when Mike Norvel
was Alabama wanted him. Yeah. Yeah. One of the tweets was,
so when we take your coach, yeah, are you gonna be mad or
proud? Yeah? Yeah, that's the fan base you're dealing with. Yes,
yes, all right, okay, so let's move to the other top
story. Everyone our age uh knows. O. J. Simpson as is
the juice Paul culture wise, he was the nineteen nineties before that, running
through in the eighties, running through airports, hurtling chairs for her. Yes,
he was one of the first black people that they would put in a
national TV commercial. He was the crossover personality, a million dollar smile,
smart, good looking. Everyone loved O. J. Simpsons. He was
Nordberg. He was Everyone loved him. And then obviously what happened in nineteen
ninety four which glued us to all the television. Bob Costas was on NBC
This Morning, Yeah, talking about that day when it went screen split screen.
You can blame that or credit that for the twenty four hour news cycle
and all the talking heads on cable TV, and then they interviewed, so
they showed a video of a couple of the jurors later, right, and
the jurors said, did you all quit just because you all hated lapd and
they and they're like ninety percent of the jury. Yeah, revenge for the
Rodney Keane situation. Exactly right, It's exactly right. It's exactly right.
So one hundred and fifty million people watched the verdict and a handful of lawyers
that weren't very good lawyers got their own TV shows. Yes, yes they
did. And the Kardashians came out of that. And the whole glove a
quit thing. Yeah, you watch him trying it on. First of all,
it was covered with blood, so it's shrinking. Yeah, yeah,
And he's got another glove already on his hand right there. It's kind of
obvious why it doesn't fit. And that was just the last second thing when
he when he saw him, Johnny Cochran saw him in like before anybody was
there, trying to get the glove on. He was like, bingo,
that's what you're going to do and told him to stro We made it about
race, and then of course all of the characters, from the prosecutor to
the Marcia Clark Marcia Clark. Did you know she She'll tell you. She
goes. I didn't think I was going to get this O. J.
Simpson trial, She goes. I went and got a perm for the first
time in my life, She goes in. It was a huge mistake that
I got the perm and now one hundred million people watching and making fun.
Okay, terrible was a boon for Court TV. Oh my god, them
on the map. Okay, So the board, let's go to j CPS
board. John, I heard you in the top of the hour news.
Two of the six j CPS board members are going to not run for re
election, and I think people are gonna be unhappy because it's the one that
that's not not not the one that's doing. District seven's Sarah McIntosh and District
four's Joe Marshall have said they will not seek to retain their seats in the
upcoming election in November. What is the process? That's it just an open
seat, open election appointed? How does that work? No, that that
they're if I understand what I when I was reading correctly to do the story.
Their term is up. So they're not going to just run again in
November to seek the seat UH. Anybody they're they're considered open school board seats
UH for the upcoming election, and anybody that wants to run to fill those
seats has until June fourth defile as a candidate. Parents that don't like the
way things are going, somebody strap them on and let's flip this board.
There has been a narrative that said, if you really want to change the
board, you're never going to do it through voting because people don't pay attention
and they don't care. It's the same reason with the judges. You don't
flip judges because no one knows who they help outside of the president sator.
They don't know. You don't pay attention to anything. So here's an alternative
of thought pattern that maybe Frankfort would go with, is instead of doing a
million a couple of million dollar study on what you know, if they got
h for JCPS, was splitting up the district, just switch the law.
Because the governor picks the board at U of L and picks the board at
UK. You're telling me that the governor shouldn't pick that for JCPS also,
So flip it to that and maybe you get the board you want. You
probably get five liberals. Again, well no, well looks but year's in
the second term. That's it. So I remember this. Are they going
to get a conservative governor in the next term? Probably? Probably, But
Matt Bevan had a guy in place that was looking for accountability in the school
systems and the firsd you know, the guy would think he's wearing his dad's
suit. He had to pick suit on. But the very first thing that
Governor Bashier did at the behest of the board in the school districts was fire
him. Yeah. Yeah, so Andy put a competent board together. I
doubt it. Yeah, no, not anytime soon. But that's a call
on that, all right. So and again, yes, they got rid
of bussing for about fifteen to sixteen thousand students. They had no choice,
there are no bus drivers. But do you know, you say, though
the folks around here don't pay attention to the elections for school board, do
you think after what's happened this year and everything has come to light, they're
paying more attention. It might be more interested in who they're voting for.
No, because the last term, when all of it was going into the
toilet, they had four count them, four more conservative board members running for
seats that running for seats, they flipped exactly zero of them. So no,
I don't agree with that. I think I think people don't know or
don't pay attention. It's just what day after day we gave the names.
Yeah, alf the time, these people get elected because of name recognition.
That's all it is. I think I remember remember the jab like five years
ago, all the jingles. Everyone had, the jingle, Oh I know
that name, that's my favorite jingle. All right, uh, Gust,
do you have the joke of the day? No, all right, let's
joke, Gus. Do you have the immunity music ready to go? I
don't have that either. I'm all kinds of Okay, I got you.
I got there's a Caliaphe music on the button bar to you. By the
way, when you're here at the fireplace, come by for free lunch today,
free lunch at the fireplace. Come bine seats and middy. Okay,
gotcha, I'm looking for it. Oh, by the way, a street
bridge will be shut down Friday afternoon. That's kind of big news. Only
only three hours, only two and a half hours they're gonna be it will
be fully reopened weather permitting by five pm today, all lanes, both directions.
They finished the repairs. Are we feeling good about our bridges? No,
I'm not, No, not really? All right, So in lieu
of the art, I'm gonna I'm gonna be brave. Give me the ball.
I'm going to the hood. George out, immunity music. There it
is, there, it is, there is, there is We make it
happen. Woo right, this is gonna be Aggie joke Friday. So hey
fellas, Hey, hey go Why did God create armadillos? I don't know,
John, Why did God create armadillo so Aggie's could have something to eat
on the half shell? Not bad? April twelve, twenty twenty four,
The Tony and Dwight Show, David or Dwight will be back on Monday.
Gus is producing. Johnny's got the news, and we got plenty of it
to talk about. Keep it where you got it. We'll talk to Bloomberg
in this crazy mix of a market up and down all week long and not
a lot of good. We'll find out a Friday, we'll turn it around.
On news Radio eight forty w h an all right, we are broadcasting
live from the fireplace in Middletown. Come by for free lunch today is smoke
Ribbi burgers, brots and hot dogs. About eleven forty five ish. Eleven
forty five ish would be the guy. All right, we're going to talk
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are you doing happy? It is Friday, We're at a barbecue. We're
at a you know, we're getting barbecue today, so I'm feeling pretty good.
I know how do you guys get that deal we've been trying. They
won't. They're not giving it to us. No, no, no,
I will, I will, I will send it to you. And you
guys get like cracked crab and stuff like oh yeah, New York. No,
seriously, no, we get like bottled water. There's a bottle of
water for your next break. Thank you. All right, you're gonna need
more than bubbled water to get through the day today. Oh, we got
stuck futures lower yeah, dows down on the many futures as we like to
call them, going into the open, down two hundred and forty point and
P five hundred, down forty nasdak down one hundred and ninety one. Now
bank earnings they kind of suckle little bit. That's part of the problem.
Also, we've got a report just out showing stronger than expected import prices,
so we've got inflation worries. Midi's tension, as you've been talking about,
sources a Israel bracing for a possible attack from Iran. Drones and missiles could
be used. This does have the potential to trigger an all out regional war.
That's what's got investors really. World gold futures right now, they're sitting
at an all time high, and we've got crude oil higher as well.
Ford Bronco story for you, and it's not one related to OJ. The
government's Auto Safety Agency looking into a Ford Bronco recall. This is for gasoline
leaks, guys, from cracked fuel injectors that can cause engine fire. Sounds
bad, right, but the problem is actually US officials say in documents that
the remedy doesn't actually fix the leak, so presumably that's what they're looking at.
It's not clear if that's actually true. And when was the last time
you were in an auto race? Been a while? Formula One speeding ahead
with efforts to make the Grand Prix more of an everyman kind of thing.
Now Liberty media trying to make the auto race, with the reputation of being
for the elite, you know, Kings and Queen's, more accessible for fans
in the US, especially families who want to experience it more I guess like
a football game. And as I mentioned, we are looking at a lower
open right now for stocks today this Friday session, with a lot of concerns
about inflation, and we do indeed have that lower open with the news Radio
eight forty WHS Bloomberg Money Report. I'm Denise Pellgreney By. I wonder who
Morgan Wallan's favorite basketball coach of all time was? Mark Pope. No,
probably Bobby Knight. Oh yeah, throwing a chair out a window. He
won't do a second a jail in the middle of the day. In the
middle you mean he got dark in the middle of the day. It was
spectacular, by the way, and by the way, again, we made
fun of it, and it seems stupid, but I enjoyed ninety eight percent
totality. Extra weird, weird, all right. Grill Masters are here today,
the hog father So we have a huge event here at the fireplace tomorrow
for their one year birthday. That's right, So they've been around for one
year. So Dwight would say, so when when you have melts in your
mouth brisket? Yeah, you wonder, how do I get it there?
How can I do that? I don't know where to start. You start
at the fireplace. They have the knowledge, they have to get it,
the equipment. Yeah, for all skill levels. Yes, they'll learn you.
We're gonna talk to Molten right now with the hog Fathers, but we're
first going to get our engineered hook up a third headset as we're sitting here
to talk. Don't worry again. I told you for about three hours this
afternoon. The Second Street bridge, or when I get yilled at by old
folks in Saint Matthews, it'd say it's the Clark Memorial brands. Stop.
Yes, the Second Street brand. Well you cross it. Then Tomorrow,
by the way, is the one year anniversary. So it'll be their second
yes, their first birthday as they're one, and then they'll go into their
second seat there too, and they'll have chopped beef sliders, chicken wings,
smoked wings. It's jalapeno cheddar, Sasha's brisket and ribs. Ten percent off
almost everything here and half off the delicious Danos seasoning Moulton. How are you?
Oh? Hang on? We is he turned up? I don't think
you gotta make sure everybody is there. You go do it again? Do
it again? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hot fathers.
Everybody here ready to rock down to describe what we have on the plate today
for free lunch. Well, today we have some uh Rabbi burgers, ground
Rabbi burgers, oh, nice, fresh brats, yes, and some hot
dogs. Oh, I'm in Yeah, I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it.
And then of course tomorrow one year. You believe we've been doing remotes
out of here for about a year and you kind of jumped on board in
the middle of the way, and it's been a great run with the with
the Hogfathers. Do you start cooking for tomorrow today? I've got a brisket
on right now, and I've got two giant uh chuck roast, yeah,
pounds apiece? Yeah. Man, smoker now yeah. Uh. They sell
the smokers here and you can start with the least expensive and move on up
to the big daddy Lincoln and Cadillac of these bad boys. And you don't
have to pull it behind your car. I mean you can do that if
you want. They have patio sized ones, larger ones, whatever you need,
it's here. But they're idiot right Oh most definitely, yeah, yeah,
I mean if I can do it right, you know, Dwight and
holding all them, they're not offended by that. Oh, most definitely.
Why I'd screw this up. Yeah, they have the idioprit but it really
has changed the game. And I knew that because of Dwight, Because Dwight
bought one. Uh, and I think it was reluctant to do it,
even like he was like, oh okay, I'll buy. It's kind of
cathartic for him to have a process, to have time consuming task. Yeah,
it helps him. It helps it absolutely. And he's become this chef.
He brings in food all the time. The station. You're just like,
oh my god, risk it. He's gotten really all that gosh.
You you're asking about the brisket. Yes, so here's the secret. You
put it on one of these pellet grills at one hundred and ninety degrees at
about seven o'clock in the evening. You shut it, You do your rest
of your evening, You go to bed. You get up the next morning.
You check the temperature of the brisket. It's got probably about one seventy
You wrap it, turn the temp up another couple of hours. You've got
mouth water and grazel. What is your rub of choice? I like just
a very basic two parts coarse ground pepper sixteen mesh black pepper to one part
salt, kosher salt. I use diamond crystal because it's flaky, and then
a half a part of granulated garlic, and you mix all of that up,
and just so amazing how often the best recipes are very simple. Yeah,
what's the resting? What is that? Why do we rest the meat?
Okay? So resting brisket face, that's the other part. So once
you wrap it and you take it off, you want to let it rest.
Okay. So this brisket that I've got on right now will probably go
about twelve to fourteen hours. I'm going to wrap it in a foil and
I use a special well, I use aluminum foil, but I call it
the foil boat method. So I'll leave the top exposed so that it builds
a nice crust, but all the juices congregate in the bottom. And then
when I take that off, I'm going to rest it down to about a
hunt at about one hundred and fifty degrees, and I'm going to rest it
overnight. Now is the pal wa wait wait wait wait? Why are we
resting it overnight? Okay? So the reason that you rest the meat is
to let it relax, let it reabsorb the juices. That's what's gonna give
you your your juiciness. Now the pellet grill, because I have an offset
would one and that takes some maintenance and refueling, and it's kind of a
paint. On one side there's charcoal and on the other side you're doing you're
smoking, and you're controlling the temperature with the damper and gotta keep re upping
with the pellets. Is that electric then, well, it's electric. It's
a it's a there's an augur that just pushes the pellets in and just creates
the smoke the heat. Yeah, do you have to refuel during this time?
No? I mean most of these will hold about twenty pounds of pellets.
So depending on your temperature, the higher the temperature, the faster the
pellets are gonna burn. You're pretty good at just the weber, buddy,
Yeah, I am pretty good, all right. Okay, if you get
into this thing, man, you're gonna get fat. Yeah. Well,
Becky's a vegetarian, so oh yeah, spending on meat for me, it
just doesn't it doesn't happen to still roller eyes going so fish. So,
Dave, you have an offset smoker? Uh huh. So the big roasts
that are on the smoker right now are on a big off set. Oh
okay, yeah, so every forty five minutes, I got a head head
back over there and make sure that my temp is right. Yep, yep,
add some fuel yep, all right. Molton is his name. He's
with the Hogfathers. We're gonna have lunch here. What do you think about
eleven thirty ish forty five ish or something like that. Okay, elevenish,
all right, eleven o'clock free lunch here at the UH at the Fireplace in
Middletown. Molten, It's always good to talk to you, bro, Thank
you very much, Gosha Man. All right again, a huge event tomorrow
from eleven am to four pm. It's the one year birthday of the Fireplace
in Middletown. All right, so uh the big news today. O.
J. Simpson passed away yesterday. The last time I saw him, he
looked healthy and was putting videos out last football season, doing point spreads here's
why I like so and so to win and the odada, and he looked
fine. You he was always in a golf cart somewhere. Did he have
a podcast? I'm sure I think he did. He probably who doesn't The
list of people that don't have a podcast, And what is a podcast?
It's a radio show with less revenue. It's very cutting Edge his podcast,
Very Cutting Edge, all right, so so OJ Simpson. And of course
the school board cutting busting. That is a huge story because it affects fifteen
thousand families or students at least, and I don't know how many families because
they have multiple kids. And you were talking about you know, we're talking
about safety and all of that, but how parents and kids have changed at
some points that I've got a story time to retire horror stories from teachers.
Oh, trying to deal with today's kids. Oh dude, they have no
and they will tell you at the highest levels of JCPS the kids have changed.
So all of us sitting here wondering what's going on. What's going on
is parents are a no show and kids suck and there's no accountability. There's
no accountability. Little jerk faces. And I'm not talking about all of them,
but they're all you need is one or two and then the whole classrooms
disrupted. In the class is awful. To a couple of dozen gang bangers
can ruin a city if you'll if you don't get them off the streets.
A couple of dozen problem kids, yes, can ruin a lot of classroom
experiences for a lot of people, well, how many times did you go
to uh you know, you knew you really like school, but fourth period
there's this girl that's insane and she's always disrupting the class and your stomach starts
to hurt because she's loud and you're just but she probably has some awesome eventually
later in life. Because you know you said the best stop is attached to
the stop it crazos uh so of your saying you want to avoid going to
that class, and it makes school miserable. So then what happens Then the
numbers start to go down on I mean, the truancy goes up because I'm
not going to school today, and the teachers have to spend their time disciplining
or trying to at the expense of other kids learning it. Don't blow it.
You has blown things that are fortiate. No, I have many school
teachers that are friends that are like in some of the schools they teach it
and they're like, it does It's not a day goes by that I don't
put somebody's not putting their hand on me, right and I'm sorry. Back
in the day, you're expelled you touch a teacher who wants that job,
you're expelled. Who wants that job? So you can't touch a referee,
but you can touch a teacher. And Mark Pope, of course, hired
at UK for the head basketball coach. I think that is to the dismay
and disappointment of some of the UK fans that were like, oh, Louisville
got Kelsey, wats what our power does? Haha? You tried, you
tried the biggest names. They all said no, yes, do in some
part because of you, the fans and the expectations of the job. So
all the names that were left weren't that sexy. No. Now, I
will say this though, but eventually, you know, CALIFERI had to start
somewhere. Rick started somewhere, Mark Pope's. But here's the thing. Starting
somewhere you do. You should have to be able to check every box.
Gus, you probably have an opinion on this because you've been doing that.
You're close to all the athletic departments and all that. Uh. You used
to have to be the killer recruiter. Oh, who's he ever a recruited?
Oh he's a killer recruiter. Does that even come into play anymore?
I mean I don't think it well. I don't think that the NBA was
mentioned earlier. It's can you get them the NBA. I don't think that
matters, because now you can come to stay in school for what seems like
there was a guy got nine a ninth year. Nine years in college.
You can make a million dollars sticking around in college. There's no guarantee you're
gonna go to the NBA. Why wouldn't I just stick around as far as
I could in college? You know? So it's kind of changed in that
that's what she boy did. He said, Okay, one more year.
Huntley Hatfield, the guy that started last year at the five, he's asking
for a million dollars? Are you crazy? I saw a million and a
half. A coach got a call from a they didn't say who it was,
and they're currently on team. They wanted a million and a half to
come to the team. Recruits are asking for five thousand dollars just to come
to campus. Now, Oh boy, I not take a lot of visits.
A lot of colleges were paying me five grand not to come to campus.
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