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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 nit coffee. All right, let's get it started.

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The five o'clock hour here on a
winter that's Thursday, isn't it?

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Is it Thursday? I'm not kidding
you haven't given much thought about what day

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it is, but in my mind, I've just been I guess on Wednesday

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mode. But it's Thursday, which
is good. We're closer to Friday,

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and we're closer to the to the
TBT, which is just two days away.

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All right, so I'm good.
I don't know what happened in that

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last segment, but it was just
it was just odd. I tried.

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I was in the middle of saying
something and then words stopped coming out of

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my mouth and I couldn't breathe for
a second, and then I was just

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spazing. So I think I'm good. I don't know what happened, but

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we're good to go. And thank
you for those who seemed really concerned on

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the text line and my phone.
I mean, I don't I don't think

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it sounded like I was having some
kind of medical episode, but I couldn't

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speak, which isn't that like a
son of a stroke. I don't think

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I had a stroke, but I
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it could be a panic attack that
was, you know, unprovoked, and

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I mean, I don't know.
I did some push ups during that break

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because I'm trying to do a certain
amount of push ups every day. So

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occasionally we go to break and I'll
knock out fifteen push ups just to you

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know, there's a certain number I
try to get in each day. And

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I did it a lot closer to
the back end of the break, so

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like, I stood up quickly,
got a little lightheaded, and I don't

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know, like that seems like a
reasonable explanation, especially if you're not doing

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that all the time. I don't
know if you are, but I mean

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I am, but that was just
I was weird. But hey, I'm

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good, you know, and we're
ready to finish strong here in the five

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o'clock hour, all right. So
back to what we were discussing about the

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TBT as far as how they decide
how they go about seating it, so

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they factor in just your personnel,
your team, but also I think they

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factor in what you've done in previous
tvt So Louisville did not get the one

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seed in their in their pod because
that went to a team that, honestly

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I'd never heard of them. Actually, I mean it's Team Diesel and that's

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because Shaquill O'Neil is there is their
booster, like their their sponsor. I

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think it's just Shack himself, Like
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team, if you go to their
their page on the TVT website, it'll

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show you their sponsor and it just
has Shacks logo, which of course is

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you know, pretty a pretty known
logo. So for Louisville it's you know,

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they've got Planet Fitness and I'm not
sure who the Kentucky or Liwill or

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Indiana sponsor is, but either way, uh, I just thought, well,

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hey, Shack's got a team,
so they gave him the one seed

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and and there is you know,
there are some guys on this team that

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I recognized for for you guys,
remember John Jenkins, who played at Vanderbilt

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for a while, was a first
round draft pick, a really good shooter.

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Believe it or not. Vanda used
to be kind of good in basketball

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whenever whenever Kevin Stallings was there,
and he played most recently for the G

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League ignite John Jenkins did, but
prior to that he played a bunch of

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years in the NBA. But I
think the reason they got the number one

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seed is because Shack absorbed a team
that had already been in this event for

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many years. It's led by a
guy named Kyle Hines, who was a

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six to eight big played at UNCG. He's been out of in fact,

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it looks like he's actually coaching this
year and not playing because he's getting a

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little bit older. But he's been
in this thing forever. I think he

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might have been in the first ever
one, and he's They're usually really good.

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I don't remember what their team was
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they got the one seed based off
the fact that they've they've had a team

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in this for a while. They
just now have a different name, and

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for you know, for the most
part, they've been pretty good. So

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Shaquille O'Neil's son is playing in this. Sharif O'Neil, who if you remember,

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played at LSU and u c LA, didn't do a whole lot,

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and I think he also most recently
played in in the G League. One

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thing I did not realize until I
just just clicked on this team's web this

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team's page at TBT. There's a
team called Sideline Cancer and they are I

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believe, the three seed, and
they happen to have a pretty I mean

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again, there's guys that I've heard
of just because I you know, I

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follow professional basketball other than the NBA
a little bit more than the average person.

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And there's some of these guys that
just remember from college. But everybody

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listening is going to know this name, Jack Golkie, really Jack Gold Sideline.

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Jack Golkie has agreed he was a
late addition to Sideline Cancer. So

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is Maurice Creek on that team.
By the way, he's a former Indiana

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guy who's always played on Sideline No, and he's not on this team,

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and they do rotate a lot.
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Remy Abel played on. Louisville native
played at Eastern High School, played both

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at IU and at Xavier, and
he actually played on the team a few

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years ago that I think made it
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I think they came up short.
They might have won it, but either

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way, that team that the team
called sideline cancer. They've been around since

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day one, but I think they
oftentimes have you know, sometimes completely new

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rosters. But there's a couple of
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They're grown men now, but I
remember when they played high school basketball here

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in the area. But these two
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good pros. And I'd be willing
to bet that they're two of the better

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players to come out of Louisville that
a lot of people just aren't familiar with

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because they didn't play at the local
schools and they didn't play like high level

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D one. But there's a guy
named Chris Coffee, no relation, but

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he does spell his name the way
that I do, and he played at

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Georgetown College. He's one of the
best athletic bigs to come out of Louisville

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in a long long time, and
he's a high level pro. He played

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in Greece last year. He was
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Player of the Year at Georgetown College. He was somewhat known when he played

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here in high school. I think
he might have played at Seneca. But

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you know, Late Bloomer, a
guy who really became a great player during

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his time at Georgetown College, and
know he's gonna be somebody that I feel

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like will make plays and people will
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Well, he's from Louisville and he's
really good. I mean, he's one

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of those guys that if louis would
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because he's still young and again he's
six' eight, can jump out of

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the gym great length, and he'll
be a problem. The other Louisville native,

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Devon Cooper, who played at George
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maybe after starting his career at Morehead, but he played most recently in Denmark.

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Six or four guard played at Wagner
High School. I believe was a

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really good player. So you know, if you're a GM and you don't

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attach yourself to a specific school,
it would be fun to kind of got

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because I would be willing to bet
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maybe there are maybe there's a connection
to this team that I don't know

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about. But it wouldn't shock me
if it's like, Hey, here are

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two dudes who I know live in
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and put them up in a hotel. And I know they're really good and

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they can help us. So yeah, I get I nerd out on a

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lot of this stuff. But I'm
sure you know, do you only care

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about the Louisville component. But some
other former college players, Alonso Verge,

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they could say, you say that
he played at Nebraska, he's a point

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guard, he's he's gonna be playing
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have here? Uh? And again
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who's who else is in is in
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there's the four seed is run DFW. I would imagine that's got to be

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some kind of a connection to h
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But yeah, it doesn't look like
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It doesn't look like they have a
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as far as guys that play.
Actually, this guy's an announcer now,

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King McClure. He is a ESPN
college basketball analyst. Uh, and he's

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playing for this team. I guess
he's from the Dallas area. Yeah,

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I mean, and I don't want
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have anybody we recognize. Trust me, that does not mean that they can't

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beat you. Because there are plenty
of teams that have made deep runs in

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this event that even a even like
a diehard college basketball fan would have very

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little familiarity with with you know,
who's on their team. And I think

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a lot of people saw the team
that has the five seed team for Deet

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as like some affiliation to Jimmer for
det. No. I don't think there's

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any affiliation to Jimmer for Deet there. I could be wrong, but the

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GM is TJ. Furdett, and
I don't even think he spells his last

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name the same way that Jimmerferreett does. When you see an event like this

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and you know that Jimmer Fordett,
you know, has played in this before,

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and you know that he's not in
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lot it's and it's a pretty unique
last name, I'd say, but it's

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not. There's no affiliation to Jimmer
from what I can tell. But this

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team has a bunch of former pros. Trevor Booker played at Clemson a while

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ago. He spent some time in
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Also, this is a name if
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guy was a problem. Darius Johnson
Odam DJO played played quite a while in

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the league, played at Marquette and
College of course, and played for the

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Lakers, and he was a good
player. Uh. And then David Sloan,

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a Louisville native. Another Louislle native
here he's He played at Kansas State

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and ETCU before going pro. He
played most recently, I believe in Mexico.

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So yeah, look, I if
you just enjoy watching basketball at a

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high level, competitive like this event
is for you, I know there's most

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folks out there that really aren't going
to get into a game unless they have

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an interest in it. Rather it
be either a fan or they hate the

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team, or maybe they made a
bet. But you know, I know

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I'm not alone as somebody who just
enjoys watching high level basketball, and you're

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gonna get it in this event.
Former Indiana Hoosiers on this team as well.

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Team for that Jeremy Hollowell. He
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After a year or two, he
transferred to Georgia State. So yeah,

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I uh, this bellerin team really
quickly here. I don't think we've

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talked much about their their personnel,
but I'm sure there's many guys on this

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roster that you familiar with, her
you've heard of, because again, Bellerman's

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been pretty damn good for quite some
time under Scotty Davenport, and a lot

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of these guys had a big factor
in that. Let's see here, Alex

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Cook, I didn't realize he was
playing. I he was a late addition

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to the roster. He played at
Bellarman not that long ago. But Braydon

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Hobbs, New Albany native, was
one of Scotty's best players ever and he's

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still playing at a high level overseas
in Germany. You also have Antonio Ballard,

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who is not from Bellarman but played
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Miami of Ohio. Had a great
career. Dylan Penn a really really good

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guard for Scotty. I believe that
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but could not go to the NCAA
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he ended up transferring after that year
and went to believe George where did he

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go? Robert Morris maybe, but
he was a really good player for him

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and then Jeremy Kendall. This makes
me feel old because well maybe it makes

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him. Maybe it should make him
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he's a little bit old. He
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But he went to Jeff High School, has a really cool story, was

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not recruited much by anybody at Jeff
and ended up going to JUCO somewhere,

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and I think coach Davenport remembered him
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him and knew he had some potential
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And when Jeremy got there, he
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real I think he played two maybe
three years there for Scotty, but he's

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been playing pro for over a decade
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somebody that I remember whenever they would
have those open gems where Louisville and Bellerman

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would play each other and in summer
pickup games, I would always hear that

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like he would he would hold his
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like Peyton, Steven Russ Smiths.
So I'm not sure how much he's

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got left in the tank, but
he's still been playing professionally, and uh,

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he was a hell of a player, all right. So I kind

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of feel like we just picked up
the segment from that. You know,

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I seemingly blocked out in but I
guess now is the time where I will

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get you guys caught up if you
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busy show so far today, continuing
to discuss what's happening the SEC media days.

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We did talk to David Hale,
who covers the SACC. I'm in

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SEC, but we talked to David
Hale of ESPN, who covers the ACC,

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and I thought it was a really
good conversation. So if you are

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interested in the realignment stuff, I
thought he provided a fresh perspective on that,

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you know, the fact that right
now the SEC is not looking to

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expand because they don't need to.
They just added two schools and those schools

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haven't played a game yet. And
I really thought he was brutally honest,

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and it is kind of a punch
to the gut if you're somebody just hoping

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that down the line everybody makes up
in the ACC. Is great, but

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I kind of put him on the
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can see that years down the line, everybody's getting along and the future looks

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good and you're not making as much
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but you feel as if there's some
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you know, I think he's you
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guess on the outside looking in,
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But like, I just don't see
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everybody's just content because quite I mean, it's clear you've got some schools like

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Florida State and Clemson that feel if
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in this league and they need to
be compensated for that, and because they

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agreed to it many years ago,
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get out. You've got those in
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you know, not to the level
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could be some schools in denial and
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to what's going on because they don't
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them if, in fact, the
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there being two huge super leagues,
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the SEC or the Big Ten,
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think that middle ground is where Louisville
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they have more value than the majority
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if viewership matters. I mean,
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think it might have been last year
whenever Florid Yeah, Florida State was.

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Florida State was presenting their case as
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anybody else, and they put up
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like over the last i don't know, six seven years, and Louisville came

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in as one of the you know, as one of the most watched teams

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in the league. Which I mean, I don't want to act like that's

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the only thing that matters, but
viewership certainly matters. That speaks to are

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you a brand name to where people
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play regardless, if you know.
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a little bit I should say,
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Lamar's been gone for going on what
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twenty seventeen was his last year.
This will be seven years, yes,

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didn't reference any of the time that
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I think there's clearly an expectation for
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but he can hide behind the lawsuit. Hey, we're letting our legal

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team handle that. I mean,
and given what we've heard from Jim Phillips

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since he took the job, I
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nothing if you expect that he's going
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type of you know, information that
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the league, because I think you
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I mean, he's going to be
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a lot of canned answers. They
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the ongoing legal battle. And that
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I mean, some of these things
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with billible hours are going to be
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right, real quick. This is
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I'm glad at least some coaches are
putting a number out there. But Ross

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Dellinger did a write up on the
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the schools to have to pay because, as we've discussed, it hasn't been

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made final just yet, but it's
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And that is where the schools are
going to be because of this settlement,

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the NAA House Bill settlement. You're
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hook for paying student athletes. So
this is from Yahoo sports dot com.

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Again in the write up is from
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expect to continue to utilize their booster
led nil collective as a sweetener, one

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coach said for their players. There's
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roster will new football roster limit will
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a figure that will permit schools to
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than the current maximum of eighty five. Let's see here, let's go up

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to yes. So this says all
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while the catchphrase is it's also on
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it says, it just means more. That was how he started this thing.

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It says. While the catchphrase is
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base and in the impending era of
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fitting significance. It means more money, a lot more so. The estimates

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for many of these head coaches,
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to spend as much as one quarter
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on their football players, or about
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Napier says, this, do the
math. We're talking twenty million. In

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most athletic departments. Football is seventy
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That's twelve and a half to fifteen
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Brian Kelly, he says, I'd
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when it comes to can every school
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with everybody in the SEC can,
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if you're allowed to give twenty two
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because that's the cap that is believed
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in the House bill settlement the cap
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have to pay him if you don't
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that. But again, if you
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be successful in college sports, you're
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don't, it's it's going to impact
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here's what's crazy. There will be
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that work, but it nothing changes, you know what I mean. Like,

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let's say, let's say Mississippi State
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year because everybody else is, well, now that's an added expense that wasn't

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there ever, Right, there was
never any bill to pay for the school

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in regards to paying players, Well
now there is. So I just think

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when it comes down to presidents and
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When there's now a twenty two million
dollar annual bill to pay the players and

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yet you still remain middle of the
pack at best, does it make you

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reevaluate how much you care about sports? So it makes sense, John,

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like you're having to pay for it
now. Like again, clearly you got

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to fund your athletic department from top
to bottom. That's been that way forever.

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These coaches make a lot of money. They've already been spending money.

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But when they spend all this money
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million a year, you gotta wonder
if some schools say, look, no,

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look we could pay twenty two million, or we could pay ten million,

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we're gonna still be the same school, so we're not gonna pay that.

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Like, there's so many layers to
what this could turn into. Yeah,

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it's an added investment. And I
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especially the ones outside of the SEC, are going to do when it

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comes to this, but it'll be
interesting to see which ones do and if

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they benefit from it and the ones
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I think like it's one thing if
you are gonna like for like the nil

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component. There still hasn't been many
examples of those who were able to take

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their program to a new level because
it was legal to pay players and they

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didn't have the tradition, they didn't
have, you know, they didn't have

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any you know, any background in
being super successful. But man, they

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got money and now they can use
it and they're gonna be great. I

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mean A and M has paid more
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and nil and they they've been terrible, I mean comparatively speaking in regards to

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like, you know, what they're
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Miami basketball is the loan example of
like a big move that happened only because

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they had a rich guy that paid
for it. And that was when they

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went out and added nor Chattolemere.
And who's the guard who by the Vigel

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Pack? Is he still at Miami? I think he might have graduated anyways,

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Like those were two guys that would
have not been there, but you

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had the money to go buy them
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that year and you made a final
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like, it's really been the rich
getting richer, right that the status quo

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has kind of you know, it's
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of of all sports. I feel
like, but maybe you know this this

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topic. I just feel as if
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where hey, we're going to break
through here and it'll all be worth it.

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But I just think when you see
that amount of money you're having to

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pay now that you didn't used to
have to pay, and you know that

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it really isn't it's just because of
it's because the game has changed, not

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because you're not going to make that
investment because you feel as if down the

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line and it'll pay off and you'll
be super successful making the college football playoff

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annually. You're now making this investment
and it's really not even an investment.

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It's just what you have to do, you know what I mean. Like

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now, it's basically just part of
the game, and everybody's gonna do it

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for the most part. But I'm
curious, in five six years down the

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line from this, what like if
universities just reevaluate, like, hey,

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we're not going to lie to ourselves
and say that, hey, if we

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pay twenty two million like George's paying
in Alabama's paying, we're eventually going to

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be as good as them. No, you're not. And we're talking about

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a lot of money here too,
Like it's be different if it was a

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small amount. It's not. All
right, don't go anywhere speaking of money.

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I did not know this. It's
a lot of things I don't know.

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At times. I really exposed myself
as a dumbass. I didn't realize

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that each country pays a certain amount
for those who win a gold medal representing

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their country. It's a good breakdown
from Yahoo Sports as far as which countries

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pay the most for a gold medal. So we'll get to that in a

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lot more. Keep the party going
along. I'm trying not to have a

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stroke again. That was kind of
weird, but hey, if I do,

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at least it'll be a memorable moment
in my radio career, right,

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Like, maybe it'll bring more attention
to the show. Anything to get ahead,

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right. I know I mentioned it
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but we haven't spent much time actually
talking about it, and we don't need

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to, just because I don't think
it would be beneficial for the show in

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any way. But ESPN is giving
us their list of the top one hundred

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athletes in the twenty first century,
and I think earlier in the week they

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gave us seventy six through one hundred, and they're going to probably weekly unveil

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twenty five at a time. And
all I've heard is people talking about how

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terrible it is. But I feel
like ESPN probably knew that and that's okay

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because it's got everybody talking about it
and everybody's sharing it. They've got their

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own opinions, so there's really no
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the greatest athletes from different sports,
like, I just don't know how you

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can really Again, it's all a
matter of opinion, but like I when

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I see guys and girls of that
match for that who played different sports,

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it's just hard for me to think, Okay, well he's greater than this

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athlete who you know, it's just
different. But hey, everybody's got a

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strong opinion on it, and that's
got people sharing that link, and I'm

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sure that's good for ESPN. But
some athletes have taken issue with where they

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are on it because they did get
featured. Maybe they thought they were going

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to be higher. But one person
I did not expect to see complaining about

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it and it going viral is Rick
Flair, legendary professional wrestler who you know,

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what's crazy is maybe I'm just falling
for it, but like Rick Flair,

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like, there won't be any professional
wrestlers on this list, and it's

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not to say that they don't have
athletic ability, but like what they're doing

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is not a sport. I mean, again, it takes athleticism and it

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takes a lot of talent, but
you know, it's not a competitive thing.

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It's it's it's written. So maybe
I'm just falling into, you know,

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thinking that maybe maybe Rick Flair is
joking. But again, the thirty

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for thirty on Rick Flair was so
well done, because most thirty fifth thirties

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are so great. But Rick Flair
really is the guy who became the character

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that wrestling that he wasn't wrestling in
real life, and he no longer knew

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how to balance the two, and
he just became in real life the guy

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that he was, you know,
scripted to be in professional wrestling. And

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he's clearly really talented, or he
wouldn't have the run that he had.

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And you know, he he could
go wrestle right now at what eighty years

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old or something, and he'd probably
still be a big event. But he

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said, how in the hell on
God's Green Earth is Rick Flair not considered

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to be one of the top nunded
athletes in the world. I should actually

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be in the top ten. Sixteen
world titles, actually twenty two twelve hundred

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hour matches. I guess he means
hours of matches, fifteen years without a

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day off, a cultural icon,
and a worldwide sensation. He said,

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good lord, good lord, so
many people have lost sight of what greatness

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truly is. I never pulled out
with a calf muscle strain. Oh how

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the times have changed. What a
bunch of be I get Tom Brady and

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all that, but come on,
let's get serious. And what's crazy is

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that? Like I think some people
who don't know wrestling or at all or

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anything about Rick Flair would just assume
that's a guy making a joke. But

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I think he's being serious. And
it reminds me of whenever LeVar Ball was

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in the news a lot more than
he is now. Right, whenever he

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was just saying nonsensical things and yelling
at stephen A. Smith and yelling at

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Colin cow hurt and just doing LaVar
Ball things, the clown antics that got

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him a lot of attention. Rick
Flair, you know, stepped in and

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was like, I would I'd like
to see him talk to me like that,

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Like and he's I think, maybe
I'm just falling for the bit,

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But like, I think he's being
serious, and I think that's really funny.

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So if you haven't seen the Rick
Flair thirty for thirty, it came

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out a few years ago. It
was really well done and it's kind of

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sad to see like that that played
out that way for him, because you

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know, he had a family and
kids and you know, a different life,

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and then he became a wrestler and
then it just consumed him. And

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to this day he now lives as
if that other life never really happened.

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Shout out Ric Flair. All right, it's coffee and company. We are

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feeled by Thornton's here on Sports Talks
of a ninety appreciate you guys hanging out

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with us. And the Olympics is
coming up, and you know, I

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won't lie to myself order you and
said that I'm going to really get into

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the Olympics, because you know,
I've said that the last two or three

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times you've had the Olympics and it's
just never really, it doesn't it doesn't

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do much for me. However,
Uh, this is something I found to

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be interesting, and that is the
amount of money that each country pays their

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athletes who win a gold medal.
And again, this will be one of

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the many dumb things I mean,
I've already said plenty of dumb things today,

419
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maybe that you know, just add
this one of the list. I

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suppose. But I was not aware
that the United States paid money to athletes

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who win a gold medal. I
didn't know that, So I mean,

422
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I'm glad they do. I mean, because these people sacrifice a lot,

423
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but they you know, they don't
make as much money as other countries as

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far as who gets a gold medal, and they also, you know,

425
00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.880
I'm sure they don't really get out
what they put in, but hey,

426
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I would imagine that they just love
having the chance to represent their country.

427
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And there are people like, for
example, like these guys that are playing

428
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for Team USA. I mean,
they don't they don't need the money,

429
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right Like they are in the NBA
making a lot of money, so they're

430
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not doing it for the money.
I think that's pretty clear. But there

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are some that really sacrifice everything to
train and get ready for something that takes

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place every four years, and they
will get it. They'll get money if

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they win gold, and they'll get
money when it comes to like you know,

434
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sponsorships that kind of stuff. But
I'm sure, i mean, like

435
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you know, without those huge endorsement
deals because you've you know, become a

436
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worldwide star because of your successful running
the Olympics, like you're probably barely making

437
00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:47.920
ends meet, and you know to
do that because you want to represent your

438
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country. That's that's pretty awesome.
So the let's say a team USA athletes

439
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get I'll start at the top here, those who represent Malaysia, Morocco or

440
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Serbia and when an individual gold at
the Paris Games will get over two hundred

441
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thousand dollars from their country's government or
national Olympic committee. So this was a

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survey that they did. They reached
out to I believe every country and got

443
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back information from all but let me
see. It did mention how many,

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Yeah, there was. I'm not
sure which countries didn't respond with information,

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but I would assume if they didn't
respond it maybe because they're not paying much

446
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of anything. But the top earner
is going to be somebody from Serbia who

447
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will make two hundred and fourteen thousand
dollars. Two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars,

448
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which is a lot of money.
I don't know if that's a lot

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of money in Serbia, but it's
a lot of money to me. Malaysia

450
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pays just under that at two hundred
and twelve thousand dollars, Morocco is two

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hundred thousand dollars, Italy pays one
hundred and ninety three thousand dollars, Lithuania

452
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a hundred and eighty thousand dollars,
Hungary play pays one hundred and fifty five

453
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thousand, Ukraine one hundred and twenty
five thousand, Kosovo pays a hundred and

454
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.240
seven thousand, Spain pays one hundred
and one thousand, and then Grease pays

455
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ninety six thousand dollars. For those
who win a gold medal, if you're

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in, if you're an athlete from
the United States, you get quite a

457
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:17.359
bit less. So it says they
their payouts offer through what the United States

458
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Olympic and they call it Operation Gold, and it's thirty seven thousand, five

459
00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.960
hundred dollars for every gold medal at
the Paris Games, twenty two thousand,

460
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.920
five hundred for each silver medal,
and fifteen thousand for every bronze. So

461
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.720
you will get compensated if you bring
home a medal and you're representing the United

462
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States, which you know, I
kind of liked it. The Olympics clearly

463
00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:41.599
didn't have enough appeal for me to
be like a diehard fan. I don't

464
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.680
watch a lot of it, but
I did like it a little bit.

465
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It was more appealing to me even
though I didn't watch it thinking that a

466
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lot of these people didn't make any
money, which not that I want people

467
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to be broke, but you know, I always just assumed that in some

468
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of these athletes that there's not a
professional league you can be a millionaire in,

469
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like the NBA or something like that, that if you're out there playing

470
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I don't know, what are the
obscure sports that a lot of people don't

471
00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:04.119
even know anything about. That you're
just doing it because you love it and

472
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:07.440
you want to win, win the
goal for your country. I mean,

473
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I think even if they weren't paying, people would still probably want to do

474
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it, at least I would hope. But I had no clue that country

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is paid for people to win gold
medals. I mean, it does incentivize

476
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:18.759
people to do it, right,
I mean, you got to train,

477
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.920
you probably got to quit your job, you got to take time off,

478
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:23.440
like it's it's not something you can
just go do as a hobby when you

479
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.519
get off work. If you really
want to win and you want to represent

480
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:29.559
your country and you want them to
be successful, it's going to consume like

481
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:33.759
every bit of you Did you know
the athletes were paid on I didn't,

482
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And I was sitting there thinking like, why is the US paid less than

483
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some of these other countries And my
logical reasoning, and this may be completely

484
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wrong. Do you think it's because
the countries that pay more they have less

485
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.119
athletes who are likely to win that
goal? Oh yeah, okay. And

486
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I also would say that it's probably
a bigger like it's a bigger deal for

487
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.400
them to have somebody, Yeah,
and they want to you know. And

488
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:03.559
in some of these countries that have
no probably had great success in the Olympics

489
00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:04.799
overall, probably have a lot of
money, you know what I mean,

490
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:08.079
like not you know, some countries
probably don't, but some do to where

491
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:11.279
they're like, hey, we could
we really want to make it to where

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00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:15.039
we have the best that are able
to even like you know, we're gonna

493
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.359
incentivize you to Hey, if you
were gonna maybe not do it this time

494
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.119
around, because you know, you
didn't want to take a bunch of time

495
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.200
away from your family and your other
career whatever that may be. You know,

496
00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:26.200
if you if you really put your
put the work in and you go

497
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:29.079
bring home a medal, we're gonna
pay you. Yeah. The all time

498
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:34.160
Olympic medal count here, let's see, uh in the Summer Olympics. Let's

499
00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:40.160
see they're doing this is alphabetical.
Here we go. So when it comes

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00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.279
to all time gold medal that's not
the way to break it down. Now,

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00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:48.359
I'm curious that that this this thread
that I'm looking at here from from

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let's see from here we go.
Yeah, so the United States is in

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the lead with the I mean humongous
lead when it comes to the all time

504
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:06.039
gold medals, and behind them is
Russia. I don't know if i'm these

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00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:07.960
numbers. I mean, I'm not
surprised that we've dominated, but did we

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00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:13.559
dominate this much? So it says
all time, the all time Olympic medal

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00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:19.559
count here, you've got in the
Summer Olympic Games for just gold medal specifically,

508
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.119
the United States is in the lead. And that doesn't surprise me at

509
00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.119
all. I knew that, but
I didn't know there was such a big

510
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:29.480
gap. But one thousand and sixty
one and then in second place is Soviet

511
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and Russia, which is three hundred
and ninety five, so there's a big

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00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:37.119
gap there, and behind that is
Great Britain and in China, France,

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00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.799
Italy, Germany. So yeah,
if you look at those that pay the

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00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:47.160
most money, like Serbia, see
where they end up here. So Serbia

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00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:52.839
they let's see, I gotta scroll
pretty far, so they must not be

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00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.319
they must not be too successful.
Yeah, So Serbia has only ever had

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six gold medals, so that makes
sense as to why they would really want

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00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:06.000
to pay for somebody to get it
before extra Yeah, yeah, they because

519
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.680
they And this is broken down through
Wikipedia, which you know, is a

520
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:12.680
good resourceful tool on the Internet.
But regardless of what people say. But

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00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.319
I think I'm in a way,
I don't know if I'm filtering it correctly.

522
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:20.680
But how about you want to see
the the Winter Olympic golden medal count.

523
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.519
I bet you got Russia near the
top. Maybe Canada, I'm sure,

524
00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:28.799
Norway Okay, that makes sense too, And then the United States is

525
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:32.160
make sure I'm looking in the right
column here, Yeah, the United States

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00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:37.359
is at number two, and then
you have after that Germany, Russia,

527
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:45.200
Canada, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland. So is Norway one of those countries

528
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:51.039
where it's like eternally winter. I
don't know, that's a good question,

529
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.119
because it's kind of surprising that they
are the number one. The US is

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00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:59.559
that much more dominant for the summer
Olympics and Norway was nowhere to be found

531
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:01.799
for for the summerland. Yeah,
Norway is known for its cold, wintery

532
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:07.039
weather, especially in the northern area
of the country. Oh yeah, it's

533
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.960
also Vikings. It says the climate
varies by region, with coastal areas having

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00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:15.039
milder, wetter winters, while inland
areas are colder and snowier in cities.

535
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:21.719
In the bigger cities, winter temperatures
can drop to negative four fairly often.

536
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:23.480
So yeah, they don't have a
whole lot going on in the winter other

537
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:27.360
than just being snowed in and cold. So they trained for the Winter Olympics

538
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.960
and they've been pretty good at It
says that winter activities in Norway snowmobiling,

539
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:37.800
ice cave tours, Arctic Arctic wildlife
viewing, snowmobile camping trips, winter sports

540
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:42.079
and ski touring, snow sculptings.
So yeah, that's just a part of

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00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:44.840
the regardless if you like snow or
not. Snow is very much a part

542
00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:47.119
of Norway, and you're and the
culture there, so you can't really escape

543
00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:50.360
it if you live there. I
feel like every activity you're going to do

544
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:53.280
is something based around cold stuff,
and I actually kind of, you know,

545
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:55.880
I think that would be awesome for
like a few days. Like I

546
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.880
don't know, if I want to
live there, that would be that'd be

547
00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:00.440
pretty brutal. All right, quick
break, We'll come back on the other

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00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:06.199
side and wrap up the wrap up
the show. A Thursday edition of Coffee

549
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:10.360
and Company right here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Not something I expected to

550
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:15.960
see in the news today, but
we've got a trademark lawsuit going on between

551
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:21.880
two NFL quarterbacks, one from many
years ago, one currently still playing at

552
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:27.239
a high level. Lamar Jackson has
blocked Troy Aikman's attempt to register a trademark

553
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:31.559
for eight eight not the number,
but just spelled out. This thread is

554
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:37.719
from Josh Gerbin, who's a trademark
attorney. He says the Jackson's legal team

555
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:45.000
recently filed a notice of opposition against
Aikman's eight trademark, claiming that see he

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00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:50.159
Lamar Jackson believes that he will be
damaged by the registration of the mark eight

557
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and says that he opposes it.
Jackson has filed multiple trademarks for the number

558
00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:00.000
eight as it relates to clothing and
athletic bags, giving him superior rights in

559
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:06.199
the mark. If registered, Aikman's
eight trademark will cause consumer confusion with Jackson

560
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.599
Jackson's eight trademark. So one is
eight, the number one is E I

561
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:15.079
G H T. So as far
as what happens next, Gerbin says that

562
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:19.159
it's highly unusual for two famous quarterbacks
who both wore the same number to end

563
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.280
up in a trademark battle. But
the Jackson's credit, he was filing trademarks

564
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:27.719
long before Akman. This is a
good example of what I'm reading again from

565
00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:30.360
Gerbon And says this is a good
example of why it's critical for athletes to

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00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:35.320
file trademark applications as soon as possible. Filing early will ensure that athletes that

567
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:39.159
the athlete has a priority date,
which gives them leverage in any negotiations such

568
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:43.320
as this. The likely outcome is
that Jackson and Akman will find a way

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00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:46.159
to co exist in the marketplace.
But in the meantime, you know he's

570
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:50.480
going to keep an eye on it, he says, I mean, I

571
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.480
don't know if I buy that,
Jackson will be damaged, but then again,

572
00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:58.199
it will call it could cause confusion. I mean, what is Aikman.

573
00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:00.599
No offense to Aikman. I think
Aikman's great, legendary quarterback and a

574
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:05.320
hell of a broadcaster, But what
is he trademarking right now? Like Lamar

575
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:09.000
Jackson's just coming off his second MVP
trophy, Like you can understand why he's

576
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:13.800
going to try to trademark stuff make
the most money he can when he's in

577
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.360
the peak of his career. What's
Aikman doing. I mean, I'm clearly

578
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:21.199
biased here. I hope Lamar wins
and has success, but yeah, not

579
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:27.239
something that that you typically see is
quarterbacks, you know, legally fighting each

580
00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:31.159
other over over a trademark. What
it cost to get a trademark. You

581
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.760
think I would know that, but
I don't because I'm sure there are plenty

582
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.000
of people who trademark something. And
man, I'm glad I did that.

583
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:42.199
I turned it into you know,
a million dollars or something like that,

584
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.000
but I'm sure there's a lot of
trademarks that are really just for safety.

585
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.039
In the end, it probably didn't
make you any money, but you did

586
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:52.239
it really just to be safe.
But I wonder what all Lamar has trademarked,

587
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:54.840
because I remember right after Heck it
might have been while he's still at

588
00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:59.960
Louisville he started to trademark some things. And you know, in this situation,

589
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:05.800
he getting it getting ahead early.
It it worked out, they should

590
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:09.119
have like some kind of a contest, right like a see who can see

591
00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:13.920
who can you know battle it out? Yeah? I mean Akman's old,

592
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:15.679
Like, yeah, he's not gonna
race Lamar Jackson, that's for sure,

593
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.199
but you know, something to where
they could like competitively, you know,

594
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.599
do something to see who. Uh. And really it wouldn't be about who

595
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:23.880
gets to use it. It would
be more so like does Akman get to

596
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:28.840
use it? So all right,
Uh, that'll do it for us,

597
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:31.239
John, you got to be planning
tonight. No, I'm looking forward to

598
00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:35.199
it not being super hot outside like
it has the past few days. Yeah.

599
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:37.840
I don't want to make you jealous, but I'm heading to a flag

600
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:43.039
football practice tonight for four and five
year olds. So coach them up.

601
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.559
I know you're not coaching, but
they need extra coaches and they've they've they've

602
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:49.960
let everybody know. And my wife
looks at me like, I'm like,

603
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:52.480
I don't know, man, I
would want you to. Oh, she

604
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:53.800
would love me to. I just
you know, first of all, I

605
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.199
can't be there. They start practice
at six o'clock every day, so I'm

606
00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:00.480
already like I can't do it.
But yeah, maybe maybe they need,

607
00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:02.719
you know, the team. Give
me a headset, give me a visor

608
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:06.159
and a headset and we don't have
to turn it on. Just let me

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wear that on the sideline and that'll
that'll, that'll make it worth it for

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me. All Right, everybody have
a good night. We're back at it

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tomorrow and I hope you guys will
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