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Uh. One of the conversations we
were having myself and the company man John

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Alden about tipping has led to probably
one of our more this week. It's

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easily probably the most other than whenever
we had a commitment from case in Pryor

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and didn't know it. This this, this particular conversation has led to a

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big amount of Texters who are reacting
to what we discussed, which was which

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is tipping, you know, gratuity. And it's not because I'm saying you

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shouldn't tip or if you don't tip
this, you're terrible it. But what

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I said after the fact, John
is kind of being confirmed with what we're

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seeing here on the text line,
because regardless of how you feel, I

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feel like a lot of people have
somewhat of a strong opinion about tipping right,

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like that it should be done.
It better not be any less than

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this percentage, and or you know, other people are like, you know,

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you get what you what, you
what you earn, right, if

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you're not pleasant and my meal's wrong
or whatever, then I'm tipping you at

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doll. Like everybody has their own
opinion on it, and it is you

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know, somebody reminded me this on
the text line that it's kind of a

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private thing. This is somebody who
I can't I'm not going to read the

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entire text because it's it's lengthy,
but I appreciate them sending it in because

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it's true, people sometimes hide what
they tip, like that's confirmation that it

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is something that is I don't know
if it's personal, but like strategically,

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I've seen people put the pen like
over the line where you've you've tipped what

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you've tipped, like if you're having
lunch with a few people and like you

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all have separate bills, like you
kind of want to keep it private,

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which I don't really know why people
do that, but I know that they

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do. So the reason it all
came up is because there are things that

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people are now I guess encouraged,
pressured, or maybe that's a stretch because

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just by handing you a receipt that
has an option for you to tip,

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when it's something you would have never
tipped before and you don't even know why

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you'd be tipping. I guess that's
not pressure. I just think it's to

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me, it's just weak for you
know, just to see if like somebody's

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gonna be a sucker and tip whenever
the person that's working there, like that

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job, that position, by all
accounts has never been like you are not

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expected to take home a lot of
money through like it's if you get tips.

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I guess it's good, but like
you're paid a certain rate, Like

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your job is not dependent upon being
tipped, where if you're serving at a

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restaurant, you're a bartender, that
kind of stuff. I mean, that's

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what the job is like. Totally
different situation. But I went to a

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restaurant last night with my stepdad,
my mom, and my two kids and

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of course my wife, and we
set you know, and I like this

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place. As far as the food, the service there has always been always

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been good. I mean it's not
I have good enough experiences there to where

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I go back every now and then. It's not like a place that we

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frequent. But I've had two issues
here. One we order chips and kso

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as an appetizer. And it's not
a Mexican restaurant or a text mechs place,

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but a lot of places that aren't
that will have chips and kso as

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an appetizer. It's very popular appetizer, regardless of what kind of restaurant you're

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you're at. And they gave us
the chips and k so and after we

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finished the chips or we were low
on chips, there was still plenty of

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k so left, probably about half
of it left. So you usually wouldn't

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even have to ask, right,
John, Like, it's just a given

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that they see that you're low.
That's part of the service. They'll come.

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So we asked for more chips,
not impatiently, but just you know,

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hey, you know you need anything, Yeah, sure, can we

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get some more chips? And they
let us know that, you like,

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actually they didn't let us know.
That's that's what made it a thing,

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is that we did not know and
they brought more chips and on the receipt,

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like, they charged us four dollars
extra because there were chips that were

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that we you know, were added
after you know that that you know,

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we To me, that's just insane
like that, I don't think I don't

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know of any other restaurant that does
that. And it just blew my mind

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that at the time, like they
didn't think that that was unusual. And

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you know, obviously we paid for
it, and I didn't take it out

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on the tip of the server because
it's not her decision. She wasn't the

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one that decided we're going to charge
eight each time we bring you a new

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basket of chips for this case so
that you ordered. But that is one

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thing I doesn't know, you know, again, the food's good enough,

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the service is good enough to where
I still go there. But like that

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is something I think I'll always remember
because I was just blown away. Well

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then last night we go to sit
down again. There's six of us,

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and you got to look at the
fine print because I would have never expected

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it. But because there were six
people, and keep in mind, two

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of the people are children, like
my son is three, my daughters eight,

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and they split a kid's meal.
But because they were technically six people

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sitting down, they automatically included gratuity
on the check. But they didn't tell

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you that you had to really look
for that on the bottom of the menu

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in like tiny, tiny text and
on the receipt and it's like abbreviated.

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It doesn't tell you that that's what
it is. It's just you know,

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one of the little one of the
charges that just adds up. And of

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course they still leave the option for
you to tip afterwards. And you know,

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I just think that that's I don't
know, like I keep telling you

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dirty, it's I keep saying,
it's like deceiving, And that may be

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a little bit of a stretch,
but that's what I believe that it is.

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And again we've had totally different Like, let me just give you two

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different responses we had during that and
this, Like, you know, everybody's

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got their own opinion, so I'm
not judging you, but these are two

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opposites here. One person says,
if it says it fine print or not,

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and you don't read it and don't
realize you've already tipped, the only

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idiot is you and that's your fault. Like, I guess that's that's that's

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fair, that's true. But here's
here's what the restaurant should do if they're

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going to give you a gratuity charge, eliminate the tip line. Yeah,

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don't give them that option, because
that's that's trying and take advantage of in

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somebody and somebody else said this isn't
the other actually let me so the other

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The other response was anything including in
teeny tiny fine print is deceiving and a

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scam and any business that does that
should be ashamed. I kind of agree

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with you, but it's just become
the norm, you know what I mean,

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Like, there's a reason it's I
mean, the fine print is because

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if you don't, you know,
that's how they can get you and that's

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not new. That's not new,
by the way, like maybe at restaurants

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and stuff. It is with this
situation with like the gratuity. But I

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mean, there's a reason that the
saying make sure you read the fine print

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has been around for a long long
time. But somebody writes it and says,

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Nick, I am a server,
and I'm glad you clarified that we

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have no we have no control over
what they decide to do if they're going

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to charge your gratuity because your party
is big or not. I always make

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sure I let every person who gets
a bill know if it's already on there,

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and more often than not, they
appreciate me letting them know and end

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up tipping me more than just the
added gratuity. I like that's a good

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story. I like that, right, because that's somebody who realizes, like,

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and here's the thing, if your
food's bad, if you're you know,

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if it's wrong, if I mean, I like, your server's there

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to take your order, put it
in, make sure that you know you're

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you're you're doing okay with drinks and
this and that, and ask how you're

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doing. But like, if the
food sucks, that has nothing to do

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with the person who is waiting on
you as a server, and I just

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think it's just human nature for people
to take that out on the one person

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that's there, so, you know, like it would take I think the

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server being just bad for somebody to
like I'm not gonna tip them really well,

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and I hate that. But like
for example, like if if you

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go somewhere and you just were underwhelmed
with the food, I think people are

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inclined to to let that play out
on the tip. Maybe they're not,

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but I think some will. And
that's just totally unfair to somebody that's your

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server, you know what I mean, Like they have nothing to do with

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that, like, and they're not
taste testing itfore they bring it out to

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you, right. And there's another
person that wrote in that said that they

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were a server and they want people
to be very like, do not be

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bad. You know, I don't
have the text in front of me.

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Again, we had a lot of
response from this kind of stuff, but

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essentially what they were saying is that
never be afraid to tell the server if

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your food is not what you needed
or wanted and not good enough, because

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they'll get it fixed. And again
like they'll I mean, I don't think

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this is what they were saying,
but I believe that if you are like,

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okay, whatever, I'm just underwhelmed, I'll never come here again.

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I don't like it. You may, you may without even really realizing it,

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take it out on how you tip, but like they can fix that

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for you. And if they do
that and they get it right and everything's

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you know, aokay, then like
they have a better chance to probably get

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like they can make your experience better. I think you've said this before,

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but you're the kind of person who
doesn't. You don't like to sneak up

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on your Food's absolutely not, yeah, and I don't. It's I don't

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know why I'm like that, honestly
because I should, because that would for

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me. I mean, it doesn't
happen often, but when it does,

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like it kind of I hate saying
it ruins it because it sounds very like

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pretentious. But like I'm gonna say
something. I want what I order and

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you should, you absolutely should.
I I just hate feeling as if people

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think I'm complaining and like I'm being
high maintenance. And whoever this person is

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the text that texted that in earlier, I'm not sure, ever, buddy

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in your industry views it and sees
it the same way that you do.

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But I appreciate you saying that because
that that makes me feel more, you

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know, because me telling them the
food is cold or wrong, Like,

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why in the world would they Why
in the world should I think that they're

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going to be offended by that they
didn't make it, you know what I

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mean, Like they didn't they because
you're probably worried that they're going to take

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it as, Oh, you're you're
mad at them, Yeah, but you're

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really mad at the way it was
prepared. And trust me, I've never

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once not done it because I fear
that somebody is gonna mess with me.

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Like I'm sure there are people that
have that fear, and I trust me,

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and I don't want to turn this
into a conversation where people start sharing

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stories about what they've heard that somebody
will do in the restaurant if you send

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the food back. But that doesn't
even cross my mind because I've always had

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the mindset, I don't want to
see you making my food, like I

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don't. I don't wan don't want
to know anything I don't want to see

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like That's why, honestly, for
me, like the kudobas and the subways.

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I don't want to see you making
my food. I don't even want

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to. I don't want to see
it in like the big tub of you

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know, beans that you put on
the burrito, like it's just I'm weird

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like that. I'd rather just you
know, have it prepared and then I

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eat it like I don't want to. I don't want to see it,

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but yeah, I mean it.
I think I'm gonna make I'm gonna I'm

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gonna take a stance today here John
at five twelve on May sixteenth, I'm

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now no longer going to be fearful
of letting the server know if my food

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is either wrong, not what I
ordered, or under you know, it's

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it's it's I needed to be remade
or something. It'll be a good experiment

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to see how they react, and
you know, the next time it happen,

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I'm taking a stand. I'm gonna
stand up for myself and you know,

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actually get what I ordered. Well, you mentioned the whole people being

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worried about what the cooks might do. I always think of the the Eminem

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song where he talks about people at
Burger Can spiting on your onion room.

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Isn't that gross? Yes, it's
gross, And I wish you wouldn't say

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that, because like I don't I
have always and I don't eat a lot

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of fast food. I have,
you know, fast food or were maybe

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not fast food, just at a
restaurant. I have always felt like I've

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done a good I don't want to
think about it. I don't want I

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mean, I don't know if it's
a phobia or what it is. But

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like when I see the cook or
something in the bathroom, like even if

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he's like washing his eg I just
that that just I don't know, it

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just completely sounds like a Howie Mandel
type of thing. Yeah, but I'm

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not like a germaphone. Yeah,
you know what I mean, not to

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that extreme, but it reminds me
of that. Yeah, just a weird

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thing that I can't really help or
explain. But it's it's it's it's one

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of the many countless things that makes
me a weird individual. So yeah,

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I could read the I mean,
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lot of people don't necessarily care about
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you know, I'd say it's pretty
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like, you know, I don't
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be servers. They make great money. If you want to get a great

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tip, then do you know,
do great? And then there's there's about

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the other fifty percent that's like I
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you to see them as like people
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something like that. To where oh
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thirty percent. If you can't afford
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need to be going out to eat
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if we don't tip them thirty percent, they're going to be sleeping in their

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car that night. That's not how
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leave the service industry because it would
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who go to college in the entry
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a degree would be a substantial pay
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time server at a restaurant. And
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star meals. I'm talking about just
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like you know, sports bars,
that kind of stuff. So like they

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do well for themselves. Maybe not
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are times where maybe hey, business
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the uh and by the way,
the one thing that you know and

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I love, I should have processed
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do when we get a lot of
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and paste it up on my document
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can. You know, it's hard, it's harder to filter through on the

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text line. But uh. The
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react to the whole conversation about tipping
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don't like there's like they should not
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when you do carry out at a
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same page with us when it comes
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that are like I prepared, Like
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joking or not, and maybe they're
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you know, somebody that is very
much uninformed about your business and in the

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industry you work in, in what
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you prepared it as if like you
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was you know, like to me, that's just wild that you would that

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you that you would you know,
be tipped for that. But again,

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what do I know? I never
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restaurants, businesses, places that you
know, you know, you never want

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to get in trouble and start talking
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a lot of dollars at iHeart,
but it's pretty obvious whenever they're just seeing

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if you'll do it, you know
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it if you'll be the sucker,
and sometimes just by the pressure of that,

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like you know, I've been the
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real quick, this is actually a
pretty easy transition because this is moving to

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a story about Pat Kelsey that also
pertains to a restaurant. So Pat Kelsey's

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birthday was yesterday and he turned forty
eight years old. Hopefully he had himself

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a really good birthday. He posted
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parents. I guess mom and dad
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little birthday dinner. And I would
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there once and I wouldn't have recognized
where they are. But a lot of

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people seemed to recognize right away where
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Porcini's, and I don't I'm sure
there's many that don't understand, like why

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that's interesting? Why that like what
do you like? So what Like that's

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a known restaurant here in Louisville,
an Italian restaurant. I'm sure John doesn't

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understand or know why like that would
be relevant. And maybe it's not,

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a lot of time has passed since
this happened, but poor Cenis. If

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you're a Louisville basketball fan, and
you are you know, probably I don't

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know, twenty five, twenty six
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When you think of poor Genis,
you either just know that it's a really

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nice Italian restaurant that has been around
for a while, that is, you

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know, popular because people like it, or you know that that's the restaurant

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that Rick Pittino was fornicating with Karen
cipheron and it became like a like it

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became like I mean that was I
mean, we don't need to completely go

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there. But like that's like,
when I think of Porcheni's, I'd be

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a liar if I told you.
That wasn't the first thing that came to

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mind for me, because you know
all the details, and man Patino,

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you know, he was under oath, so he had to give all the

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details. He had to be honest. He didn't want to commit perjury,

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and he told details that you know, to this day people still make fun

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of him about one of them being
you know, fifteen seconds and the leg

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and that kind of stuff. But
it was on the table or at at

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Porcini's, So like, I'm not
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Like that's just not something you typically
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a wild thing that happened many many
years ago. And the question I have

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that only he could answer, does
pat Kelsey know that? I kind of

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believe he does. But then again, like you know, maybe I'm just

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trying to overthink it and think that
he's trying to be kind of funny,

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because I don't know if it's just
it's just an of all the restaurants then

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nice restaurants in Louisville for the for
Louisville's new basketball coach to go to,

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who, by the way, is
on top of the world. He's absolutely

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crushing it in the transfer portal,
and there's momentum, there's excitement within Louisville

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basketball right now. The fans are
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that's that that'd be that to me, that'd be like the ultimate coincidence.

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I kind of love it. Right. He's all about the revival, right,

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so for those who don't weren't active
on social media, uh, you

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know, revive you know r E
V I all lowercase and then Ville all

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caps is like the hashtag slogan that
they're using, because that's just you know,

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what he decided to go with,
right. He did the the He

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still posts the the Apple Music link
to the Zach Bryan album revival any time,

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Like that's his signal that they get
out a recruit. So I don't

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know, I just put it this
way, I'd be shocked if Pat Kelcey

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like left there last night, posted
the picture got home, saw people kind

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of like referencing the irony here and
he had no clue. But again,

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maybe not right like that was a
long time ago, and there's been a

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few coaches here since Rick Pattino,
So I don't know. Only he could

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answer it, and he'll never be
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But I've been thinking about it today, not about Rick Patino and Karen Cipher

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on the table, but thinking about
does Pat Kelsey know like that, like

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a lot of people in Louisville know
of that restaurant for that. I don't

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think it's like a shot at Rick. I just, you know, part

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of me says, well, it
wouldn't. The payoff wouldn't be there.

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It's not that big of a it's
not gonna, you know, as we

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to talk to it's not gonna give
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it might make you chuckle and just
think like wow. So like the payoff

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makes me think it really is just
some kind of random coincidence. But then

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again, of all the restaurants in
Louisville especially, we have a lot of

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nice restaurants too, And clearly he's
the Louisville basketball coach, and he celebrated

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his birthday with his mom and his
dad. He can you know, there's

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a lot of nice restaurants to choose
from. But I don't know. I

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can't be the only one that thought
about that. What if he's trying to

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rewrite the story of poor Chenie and
they're you know, give it a new

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reason to think about it. But
here's the thing, like if it just

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became like, for example, this
is a true story, Chris Mack loves

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roosters. That wasn't just like a
rant. Like he loves roosters, and

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anytime he's in town and I ever
meet up with them, we meet it

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roosters. He loves roosters, and
he was often there. Louisville fans saw

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him there. They shifted his Coaches
show, the Basketball Coaches Show was not

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at Roosters before he was the coach, So you know, he loves that

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place. Let's say Porchenies is that
for Pat Kelsey. It's not as if

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like like the people who know are
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it's going to be such a wild
thing that how who would have ever thought

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the Hall of famer who won us
a title, the legendary coach, you

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know, had an unfortunate situation.
You know, obviously he made a mistake

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and it became very public because the
woman was extorting him, and all the

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details came out, and now a
lot of people when they hear about that

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restaurant, it maybe just for a
second or two, but that comes to

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mind that you know, Patino was, you know, getting it on on

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the table. Yeah, I mean, is that not the Is that not

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like the most you know, the
most radio professional. I mean he got

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he was having the sex on the
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I mean yeah. So you know, I think if he wanted to

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make like that his place, which
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I think there's gonna be both.
Both things are going to be there,

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right, like cause that's what it
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why what makes it a thing that
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Wow, of all the restaurants for
our new coach to really fall in

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love with, he picked the one
that everybody in the world learned that our

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coach had sex on the table at
said place. Like it's just you know,

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well, I'm gonna eject here from
the conversation because it's just getting weird.

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My mom's probably listening and she's thinking, oh, come on, Nick,

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you're talking about that on the radio
today. My mom doesn't sound like

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that. I'm just I'm just flaming
out right now because i feel uncomfortable saying

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the word fornicating on the radio.
But we'll take a break and reset on

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the other side. Stick with us
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Good stuff here, John, good
stuff. All right. So the latest

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on the Louisville basketball watch here is
that two scholarships are available. I think

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so. I mean, you mean
to see if I see if I can

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name name everybody again, let's do
it. Then I get it right.

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I feel like we just accept we
just decided. I got actually no fact

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checked me right, like I yes, I was looking at up and I'm

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not doing it to try to like, oh, you guys, I could

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name everybody off the top of my
head. I'm just it is a little

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tough to keep up with because it's
not normally yet. Thirteen new guys,

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and two of them are Red shirts. So we'll start with the the Charleston

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guys. You've got Rain Smith,
James Scott, and then Kobe Rodgers and

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then Terrence Edwards, Junior, Javon
Hadley, Ali Khalifa, Corn Johnson,

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Cater Trei Ora Chucky, Hepburn Cason
who committed earlier this week from South Florida,

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and then Ruth the freshman. So
that's eleven. So there's eleven.

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So they got two scholarships left.
So right now, either he's on the

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way here or he's here Noah Waterman. The BYU transfer is I mean,

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and that would be such a nice
pick up. That's a six to eleven

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guy, six' ten depending on
where you look, just gives you another

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guy that you can play at the
five. I think he's more of a

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stretch four. But you know,
I went and watched some highlights from BYU.

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You know he's he's a guy that
you know, shoots at thirty eight

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percent from three, average, ten
and five. Last year for BYU started

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every game in the Big you know, for a team that was you know,

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in the top tier of the or
the top you know, top five,

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I should say, in the Big
twelve. So clearly is a guy

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who can play. But he's not
known as like some big you know,

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interior presence because again he steps out, can shoot it. But he is

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a shot blocker. He's I mean, at times he's actually had some really

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impressive blocks at least from the highlights
that I saw, So that'd be a

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great pickup. And then if you
can get it, and then that last

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spot, I mean it could be
it could be Ugo, who apparently is

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down to Louisville, Carolina and Alabama, although you know, I don't I

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don't get the sense that Louisville is
prioritizing him just because you know, if

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you get Waterman, you know,
those are two guys that are six eleven

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and seven foot but totally different types
of players too, And that's that's really

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what the five has become. Man, you can either be a Hugo who's

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just a rim protector who stays around
the rim and doesn't have a whole lot

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of offensive involvement in what you do, or you can be a guy like

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Terman, who is you know,
nearly as tall but very skilled and you

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know probably isn't isn't the athlete with
the length, but you know, still

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has size. So if I had
to guess, I would say Waterman.

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And then after that they may wait
and see what happens with Elijah Crawford.

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So that's a name you may not
have heard before. He is a twenty

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twenty four class guy who was committed
to Stanford, got out of his letter

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of intent when they made a coaching
change, and he's top one hundred ish

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kind of guy, four star,
and he's now kind of starting his process

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over. And he did say that
since his release from his letter of intent,

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he's heard from Kansas, BYU,
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Again an ESPN four star. He's
going to visit BYU Monday and then

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he's going to take other visits to
So I actually think that would be the

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best option. I mean, I
wouldn't turn away Hugo if you could add

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him, just because he does give
you some rem protection that you know you

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probably won't get anywhere else. I
mean, he had the longest wing span

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at the end be a combine.
And you know, if there's one thing

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you feel like you know he would
give you that that you won't get elsewhere,

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00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:10.440
it's shot blocking. But you know, if you play him twenty five

407
00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.880
minutes a game and he blocks three
shots, that's impactful. But you know,

408
00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:17.119
he really doesn't do much of anything
else other than that. At least

409
00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:18.680
he has it yet throughout his career. So I think if you really look

410
00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:23.960
at the personnel right now, I
think a point guard would be would be

411
00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:27.720
I don't want to say it's a
major need, but I think Chuckie Hepburn

412
00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:30.640
is the guy who's going to be
your point guard, play maybe more minutes

413
00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:33.799
than anybody, and I think he's
going to be a really nice piece for

414
00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.839
them. However, you know,
you need somebody to give him a break

415
00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:38.880
every now and then, or maybe
he gets hurt or gets in foult trouble.

416
00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:42.440
And Corn Johnson from Washington can play
point, but I think he's more

417
00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:48.319
of an off I think he's a
guy that's better off the ball and can

418
00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.720
distribute, but I just think,
you know, he's probably more comfortable when

419
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.319
he's playing most of his minutes at
the two. At least that's what I've

420
00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:59.480
gathered. So that thirteen scholarship will
probably stay open for a little while.

421
00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:04.799
And and this kid, you know, he's a freshman to be so he's

422
00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:07.920
got some time here. If he
takes four visits, it could be a

423
00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:10.720
little while before he makes a decision, But that is an aime to keep

424
00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:14.799
in mind. Elijah Crawford a six
six two point guard who you know is

425
00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:18.640
not as highly ranked as Kahani Ruth's
but again maybe somebody that could could could

426
00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.519
give you some spot minutes in his
first year, and you know, maybe,

427
00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:25.519
And that's one thing that a lot
of people bring up like that,

428
00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:29.599
are that are negative about the portal
like that can't kind of want to act

429
00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:32.680
as if it's ruining everything, and
I, I, you know, it's

430
00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:36.079
changed things. I just choose to
embrace it. And as I said,

431
00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.319
yet I've said many times, but
it was a big time. It was

432
00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.440
a big talking point yesterday. If
Louisell didn't have the portal, of the

433
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.640
portal didn't exist, Louisville may still
have Kenny Payne. I mean, it's

434
00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:47.880
hard to imagine that. And I
think deep down they probably still would have

435
00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:49.440
fired him just because of how bad
he was. But the portal gives you

436
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:53.039
a chance to quickly change things.
But you also could lose players that you

437
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:56.200
wouldn't want to lose. And you
know that's I guess the downside. So

438
00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:00.559
when people say, oh, who
cares, he'll be in the portal next

439
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:03.039
year, Like with Kahani RUPs,
he's the eighth best player to ever commit

440
00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.759
to Louisville when it comes to like
recruiting rankings, which is crazy to say,

441
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.440
but he is so if he doesn't
get a ton of minutes this year,

442
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:15.559
because there's veterans, twenty two year
old guys that are playing the bulk

443
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.240
of the minutes at his position,
he might leave. Because that's that's the

444
00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:22.640
way things are now. And if
that happens, you know, it's unfortunate,

445
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:23.279
but that's just the way that it
is. So like when people are

446
00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:26.720
like, oh, who cares,
we'll probably leave next year, I want

447
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:29.440
to be like, why are you, you know, why are you so

448
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:30.519
negative? Why are you the way
you are? But like I can't really

449
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.960
respond with like any I mean,
like I get why you would look at

450
00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.799
it that way, but again,
like I choose to not worry about that,

451
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:44.599
and you know, until it happens, all right. Kentucky added another

452
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:47.839
player today in the portal, and
this one seems too I don't know,

453
00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.799
maybe I just haven't been plugged into
Big Blue Nation, but this seems to

454
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.799
be of all the commitments that they've
landed from the portal from Mark Pope,

455
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:59.000
this seems to be the one that
has gotten the least attention, maybe just

456
00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.160
because he's not you know, that
was picking from a lot of big name

457
00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:04.200
schools. At least I don't think
he was. But his name is Annsley

458
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:10.839
Almanor, who was transferring from Fairley
Dickinson. A six to seven forward average

459
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:14.480
sixteen points a game last year for
Fairley Dickinson and was a starter for the

460
00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:18.960
team that knocked off Perdue in that
big upset sixteen over the one in the

461
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.400
twenty twenty three tournament. So I
guess they probably. I wonder how many

462
00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:26.880
scholarships they have. I can't name
all their guys, and I wouldn't I

463
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.359
wouldn't even want to try. But
they've got to be getting closer to They

464
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:34.279
got to be getting closer to getting
to thirteen, right, They probably don't

465
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.599
have eleven. I'm gonna guess they
have nine or ten. Maybe we'll look

466
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.400
at it during the break or somebody
can help us out on the text line.

467
00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.759
All right, So yesterday I saw
this. This is the first thing

468
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:48.880
I saw when I put when I
popped open Twitter on my phone and I

469
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:55.119
was walking to the car here,
and it gave me instant excitement than instant

470
00:29:55.119 --> 00:30:02.920
fear. And that is that Happy
Gilmour Too, happening with Adam Sandler on

471
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:08.000
Netflix. I think Happy Gilmore might
in fact be my favorite movie of all

472
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:14.039
time. There's probably not a movie
I can quote word for word as good

473
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:15.839
as I can that one, and
I probably wouldn't be able to get you

474
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.640
know, I can't. I know
that I cannot quote the entire film word

475
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.799
for word, but like it's I
mean, I've watched that movie probably more

476
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:27.599
than I've watched anything. There were
three movies that just like if I was,

477
00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:32.200
you know, if I was laying
down in the basement as a kid,

478
00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.559
or I was you know, going
to bed, or I just you

479
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:40.160
know, was bored, I would
watch three three movies Dumb and Dumber,

480
00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:45.759
Happy Gilmore, Tommy Boy, like
those were that was. And occasionally I

481
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:49.200
would watch Teenwolf, but that was
only at my grandmother's house. So like

482
00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.319
if I was there, it was
no brain. I was gonna watch it

483
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.000
three times, but I didn't have
the VHS. So I love love Happy

484
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:02.279
Gilmore. It's perfect. It's a
perfect film for me. But I don't

485
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.519
the thought of you know, shoot
McGavin and Happy Gilmore running it back and

486
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.559
you know, like that would be
the nostalgia there. It would get me

487
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.240
all in my feels. But I
also can say, we don't need this.

488
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:19.799
Haby Gilmore, the original the og
can stand on its own, and

489
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:26.039
I can't think of any other movie
like Happy Gilmore that nobody would say it's

490
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.240
a masterpiece when it comes to just
film. But like, I feel like

491
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:36.079
that movie is really popular with dudes
like me, like the Boys, Right.

492
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:38.559
I have a good example, the
Coming to America sequel. I feel

493
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:42.720
like that controversial, but that you
mean just because they shouldn't have done it?

494
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:47.279
Yeah, yeah, but that movie
was that movie was mainstream, like

495
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:49.319
humongous, Haby Gilmore wasn't. I
mean, now, I mean I wouldn't.

496
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:52.920
I mean, it was popular for
Sandler, but like it catered to

497
00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:59.839
a specific like the bros. Coming
to America was like a huge nation why

498
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:01.519
hit you know? And it was
it was when I was a little bit

499
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:05.119
of kids. So but yeah,
I know, but that's a good example

500
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.359
as far as like we don't need
this, right, but like you're gonna

501
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:09.400
try to see if you can maybe
And a lot of people say that that

502
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:14.279
was good, but like again,
you're not going to do better when you

503
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:15.400
know you're not going to do better
than the first one? Why do it?

504
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.359
You know what I mean? And
I don't even know if you know

505
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:21.400
this, John, They made a
Dumb and Dumber sequel. I think I

506
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:22.559
knew that, but I've not seen
anything. And by the way they did

507
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:27.920
two they did. They did Dumb
and Dumber with I know, Bob Sagett

508
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:32.440
was in it, and it was
with two people that I guess were playing

509
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:38.640
like the younger version of of you
know, Harry and Lloyd, Jim Carrey

510
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:43.240
and Jeff Daniels. And that was
so stupid. It was kind of funny.

511
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:51.119
But then in two thousand and fourteen
they they I thought it was gosh,

512
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:54.480
I thought it was more recent than
that, but they made the second

513
00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:59.039
it's called Dumb and Dumber two.
But instead of you know, the number

514
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:01.720
two just had too to kind of
you know, play on the name dumb

515
00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:06.279
and Dumber. Yeah, and it
you know, it was directed by the

516
00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:08.680
same people, the Fairly Brothers.
It's you know, it's Jim Carrey and

517
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:15.359
Jeff Daniels, and it just felt
super forced and I felt uncomfortable. I

518
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:19.519
love that movie so much that I
can't sit here and say that like it's

519
00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.079
terrible, because it's kind of look, they're different movies, but they're the

520
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:27.200
same thing, right, So like
it just wasn't it just was unnecessary and

521
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:31.640
it didn't to me. It didn't
get enough national fan fair Like a lot

522
00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:37.000
of people probably forget that they made
it, which I kind of. I

523
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:38.559
mean, I hope it doesn't work
out this way with Happy Gilmour. But

524
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:43.880
like it's just like we don't need
it. You can love it and claim

525
00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:45.799
like I do, and I know
a lot of people probably don't. But

526
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.359
I love that movie, but like
it doesn't mean I need a different version

527
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.319
of it, you know, Like
I just I don't know. I'm worried.

528
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:54.599
But look, Saidler, I'll give
him this. He's not gonna half

529
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.599
asset like he's not. He's not
just doing this for money. He doesn't

530
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:00.839
need the money. I think he
knows that this is one of his more

531
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:05.039
Like again, I think if you're
somebody it's around my age, a little

532
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:08.800
older, a little younger like this
this movie, it was super powit.

533
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.079
I don't want to say it had
like a cult following, but maybe it

534
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.679
kind of did. But the characters
within this movie, I mean happy of

535
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.000
course, and then shoot h mcga. I mean, it's just it's it's

536
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:21.679
special to me and I don't want
them to screw it up. It actually

537
00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.679
started with the teas that was from
Shooter McGavin, who, of course you

538
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:30.960
know, his real name is not
Shooter McGavin, but that's what everybody knows

539
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:37.119
him as. But Christopher MacDonald is
his name, and he he stirred up

540
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.960
the rumors about a sequel. I
guess a couple of months ago. Whenever.

541
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:44.039
Yeah, here's the quote. I
said. I saw Sandler about two

542
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:46.679
weeks ago and he says to me, you're gonna love this. I said,

543
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:50.199
what he says, how about that? And he shows me his draft

544
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:53.800
of Happy Gilmore too. Maybe you
should, uh should cut that out because

545
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:55.719
I don't want to be a liar. I don't want to be a liar.

546
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:59.159
But he did show me that.
I thought, well, that would

547
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.599
be awesome, So so it's in
the works. This is a quote from

548
00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:06.639
like an interview he did that it'd
be better if I just had the audio,

549
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:07.679
but I don't. But essentially,
I guess he hinted at it and

550
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:09.639
then asked for them to remove it
because he didn't know for sure if it

551
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:13.360
was going to happen. But he
did run in to Adam Sandler and he

552
00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:15.599
showed him a script. So Sandler's
writing it like hits his thing, which

553
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:22.519
makes me feel better. But I
just I don't know, like I don't

554
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:28.400
want anything in this sequel to make
me feel differently about the original. I

555
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:31.159
mean, can you think of movies
that they made a sequel in, like

556
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:34.760
you know that that aren't like you
know the you know, the Marvel movies

557
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.519
that kind of stopped guns a great
example, one that was fantastic and universally

558
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:45.960
acclaimed. Yes, and I mean
that is that is the Maybe that's why

559
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:49.599
you know, there's more interest in
redoing movies because but that was such a

560
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.719
like there are people who watch did
you have you ever even seen the original?

561
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:53.920
No? Yeah, I mean have
you seen it now? Still?

562
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.400
No? Yeah? I mean it's
it's it's nice. So in a way,

563
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.000
like that's the that's not really a
sequel, is it. It's just

564
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.039
I was an answer, but I
haven't seen it to be able to tell

565
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:07.920
you. Yeah, it's just like
doing the same thing, you know,

566
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:12.320
so many years later for a brand
new like that movie came out in nineteen

567
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:16.960
eighty six. That movie is thirty
seven years old, like the original,

568
00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:21.800
so much older. Will this Happy
Gilmore Secretly Happy Gilmore came out I'm gonna

569
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.480
guess in like nineteen ninety four,
maybe a little bit later, about thirty

570
00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:29.360
years old. It came out in
ninety six. Yeah, so you know,

571
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:35.440
not as old, but still gonna
be an entirely different audience. And

572
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.320
here's the thing, like I'm gonna
watch it like there's no scenario where like

573
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.280
I'll be out not for me,
because you didn't do the White Man Can't

574
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:45.199
Jump remake. But that was a
little different. Yeah, well because it

575
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:47.079
wasn't. I mean, it was
a I mean it was a Hulu movie

576
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:51.679
with Jack Harlow. I mean like
it wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't

577
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:53.320
Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes. You
know what I'm saying, Like it was

578
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:55.559
a That's true, it was the
same. I get what you're saying.

579
00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:00.400
It's the dumb and dumber that like
nobody even remembers happened because it wasn't.

580
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:01.920
It wasn't Harry and Lloyd. It
was two different. It wasn't Jim Carrey

581
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:06.639
and Jiff Daniels. Like you knew
you were getting the you know, the

582
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.519
generic version like Happy Gilmore Too is
gonna be I mean, it's it's Saidler.

583
00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.639
So maybe a little nervous, but
you know, I can tell you

584
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:16.960
this. When it's done, I'm
gonna watch it because you know, I

585
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:21.559
can't not, and I hope that
it's great. All right, quick break,

586
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:22.480
we'll come back on the other side, wrap this thing up on Sports

587
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:28.079
Talk seven ninety. Thank you guys
for hanging out with us here on a

588
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:31.280
Thursday afternoon. We're out of time
now, but we'll be back tomorrow.

589
00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:36.239
I won't be here next week,
which, you know, I always get

590
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:39.960
that, like pre travel trip anxiety, you know, like something bad's gonna

591
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.960
happen while I'm away, Like you
know, John's gonna take over the show

592
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.840
and they're gonna kick me to the
curb. You know, hopefully that doesn't

593
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.800
happen, but you'll be in good
hands. I do know that, and

594
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.599
I feel like I'm timing I'm timing
this pretty well. I try. You

595
00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:58.559
never can control it, but I
always try to take my take my vacations

596
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:02.159
whenever I feel as if there's not
going to be some big story or event

597
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:06.280
that I want to cover or that
I would want to be, you know,

598
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:08.800
around for for years, I would
think, well, I'm not this

599
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.320
not an exaggeration. For years,
I would think, well, I'm going

600
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.239
on a trip, Surely that means
louisll is going to get their punishment from

601
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:17.000
the NAA. We're going to figure
out, you know, what the actual

602
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:23.000
punishment is and whatnot. So thankfully
you know that that that that's over now.

603
00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:29.920
So anyways, real quick, one
of the things that that I've yet

604
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:31.519
to bring up, and I don't
have any time left to get to it,

605
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:37.239
but it sounds like the NBA is
is going to be moving their TNT

606
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:42.559
coverage to NBC, which is scary
to think about. What that means is

607
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that there's going to be no more
inside the NBA. Right. The show

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that I think is you know,
legendary, and then I don't use that

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word to exaggerate, it's I mean, it's phenomenal. It's better than the

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NBA action itself, to be honest
with you, that's just my opinion.

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But Charles Barkley has an out in
his contract that if Turner does not have

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NBA A access, like they're not
doing NBA games, then he can walk

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and go elsewhere. But like that
show itself, as far as how it

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exists, I imagine that's gonna be. I mean, it's it's sad,

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and like I know, ESPN is
the monster, right and they you know,

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they own everything in sports, but
their NBA covered sucks. I mean,

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Doris Burk's a great analyst, but
like she's not I mean, she's

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not entertaining. She does something that
always bothers me. And I don't know

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why I care. It's just a
pet peeve. You don't need to call

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every player only by their first name. We're aware that you probably have talked

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to them and know them, but
like it's such a tryhard thing, Like

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you don't look like you're more connected
than you are because you only refer to

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these players by the first name And
then when they go to I mean they

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go to the halftime coverage instead of
you know, getting with T and T.

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We're getting Chuck and we're getting Ernie
and Kenny and those guys in Shack.

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You know, we get Michael Wilbond
and Stephen A. Smith and you

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know, Kendrick Perkins, and it's
just it's such a letdown from what you

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get on T and T. And
I don't know what NBC would do,

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but man, the NBA and T
and T. I feel like they've been

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in bed together my whole life.
So it sounds like that's actually happening.

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Bill Simmons has been kind of the
leader on reporting these things, and it

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sounds like Turner will not match what
NBC is offered. So sad stuff.

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All right, don't go, Actually, you can go wherever you want.

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We're out of here. We're back
at it tomorrow at three o'clock on Sports

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