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All right, let's uh, let's get back into the NBA draft stuff
here, because right now, you know, I don't think there's been there's
no debate as far as which school you know, in the I mean the
last twenty years has done the best in the draft as far as putting guys
in the league. And it's Kentucky. You know, I'm not doing this
to you know, bring up the fact that they had so many NBA players,
so much talent in one title, because you know a lot of times
people bring that up, especially those that are Louisville fans, and really it
just but it's it is still it's it's the point now where it's unavoidable to
see how many dudes they've had drafted and how many guys they have currently in
the NBA. Like I just mentioned all those players they're going to be playing
for their law Familia TBT team, and I mean those are guys that aren't
in the NBA that some of them had good NBA careers and some of them
didn't have good NBA careers, but they still got drafted in like the lottery
because you know, I mean Marcus Tigue first round pick, James Young lottery
pick. I mean they did. Cali Perry put so many dudes in the
league in the NBA, and they had so many All Stars in the NBA
All Star Game this past year. I mean they broke their own record,
meaning Kentucky had the record already as far as most guys in the in the
All Star Game from one school. They broke their own record by like three
players this past year. So you know, it's crazy to see, you
know, all of that talent that has come that came through there during Col's
run. And I'm sure Kentucky fans are still bitter about the not having as
much to show for it, but they still did have some good teams,
some good runs, and rarely were they ever bad, you know what I
mean. Like college basketball is weird to where it doesn't matter what you do
in the regular season if you don't cash in in the postseason. But it's
a much different world if you're just lousy all the time, right, Like
you know, from April to March, regardless of what had happened. I
feel like Kentucky fans during the Cal era always felt like they were top dog.
And part of it is because of his ego, his brand, and
it was a perfect fit. Cali Perry was the perfect coach for Kentucky when
he was hired, and he was the perfect coach until you know, that
relationship just became different. You know, he wasn't getting the same results and
he was becoming even more arrogant. And you know, we all know how
that ended. But I'm curious if you're a Kentucky fan when you hear this,
be honest with yourself. Don't think like, all the hell with this
guy. We don't need him. We've got Mark Pope now. Because I
know you feel that way, and I don't blame you, right, you
should be super excited about the new era that you have here, like like,
who knows how good it's going to be. But I think it's unnatural
for Kentucky fans who loved cal because he was their guy for however many years
he was there, thirteen fourteen years, something like that, It's unnatural to
just go from you know, being the guy, loving him and then like
all the hell with him? Because I think this is one of those things
where if I was a Kentucky fan, and you know, he was still
my coach, I would I would hear this, and and you know,
it makes me feel good about my program. I try not to think about
the fact that there's not a whole lot to show for, but just listen
to the facts that Caliperry is laying out on the Pat McAfee show about the
success he's had at getting guys to the NBA and getting them drafted. You've
hearn it. We have a seventy seventy percent of the players that we recruited
in the last fifteen years have been drafted DA seventy three percent of those seventy
percent, ty rees have gotten to second contracts. I believe we have thirty
percent of the max contracts. Are my guys. Our kids have ourn'ed over
five billion dollars without endorsements. And the other voice, by the way,
was Tyrese Haliburton, who was on with Pat McAfee today. That's the guy
who is laughing and saying damn, because I think they started that conversation with
Halliburton kind of ribbing cal for not recruiting him, which not many people did.
He end up at Iowa State. But I mean that is an insane
statistic. I mean, second contracts in the NBA, folks, that sets
you up for the rest of your life. It does. That's that's generational
wealth for you if you're smart, right, if you're out there spending you
know, an insane amount of money, like you can easily blow through your
money. Trust me, there's plenty of awful stories of guys that have done
that. But when you get a second NBA contract, it changes your life.
Now, getting drafted change your life, right, that'll put in a
lot of money. Like for example, like James Young. We just mentioned
him because he's on the Kentucky TBT team. He did not get a second
contract. He was actually I think you can make the case that he was
probably one of Cow's bigger busts as far as the NBA. It's a good
college player there at Kentucky for one year, was a killer, I mean,
made big shots. I mean it's kind of all over the place,
but a big guard at six six athletic could shoot the hell out of it.
But he never I mean he only played in the NBA for three years
after being drafted by the Celtics and never I mean, I think recently he
played looks like in Italy, so and look, I'm sure he's making good
money there too. But if James Young gets a second contract and instead of
playing for three years in the NBA, he played for seven, and let's
say that put him out of the league in you know, nineteen or eighteen
or something like that or twenty whatever it may be, that's that's a different
world of money, because your second contract is more money than your initial contract,
right, I mean, it's just and it's for a longer amount of
time, so it is. It's amazing. But I gotta say, as
much as I have fun every now and then, since Cal's been gone to
kind of like guess him up a little bit, you know what I mean?
Because Jerry made a good point. I think it was yesterday or the
day before when he called about Cali Perry in Arkansas. I'm gonna chill for
calipariy Arkansas when he plays Kentucky. Absolutely, But some people may not because
of the Kenny payin factor. I don't really care because Kenny doesn't matter.
But you know, I'm gonna go from winning Cali Parry to lose every game
for fourteen thirteen years, however long he was a Kentucky to where now I'm
gonna probably pull for him unless he's playing Louisville because it'll probably make Kentucky fans
mad if he's great, and I'm certainly gonna pull for him whenever he's playing
Kentucky. So, like I you know, that's just what rivals do,
right, It's petty. I'm not gonna lose sleep if Cal stinks at Arkansas,
but I will take a brief break and kind of, you know,
taking some jabs at Kentucky for going from having a larger than life guy who
can say things like he just said there that are factual and Mark Pope,
who may be great, but you know he's the exact opposite, and there
are benefits to that, because I'm sure you were tired of all the stuff
that comes with Cal. But like Mark Pope earlier this week, Cali Perry
just mentioned that his guys without endorsements in the NBA made over five billion dollars.
Mark Pope got off a plane earlier today when he rode coach facts like
that's just a different world, right, But can Cal really take credit for
that? He's going to most coaches will, but how many of those guys
made five How many of those five billion dollars that had been earned by those
players he's referencing, did he have anything to do with other than you know,
giving them I guess the platform because doing it like he did right out
of the gate with the likes of Wall Cousins. I mean, heck,
that wasn't it that Wall Cousins team that had five guys in the first round?
I think it was maybe maybe it was the twenty twelfth team. No,
it was Wall Cousins, bledsoe. The other one was, Oh,
Daniel Orton was like a yeah, Daniel Orton was one of the last picks.
And I can't think of who the other one was. But was that
Jeorts or that that was Josh Harrelson. He has Georts, Yeah, and
he played and he played. He was the next year. Now I got
to look it up because there's one guy that I'm missing. That was oh
Patrick Patterson who wasn't a col recruit, but he stuck around and played one
year for him. So anyways, when he did that, that that,
I mean, that's a big deal. Five guys in the NBA Draft first
round from the same team like that's unheard of, and he got a lot
of attention, like why this guy's building an NBA factory and it got and
in the next year it was Brandon Knight, and I felt like there was
one other very Night was I mean one of the top Yeah, Brandon Knight
was the eighth pick in the draft. And then I guess they didn't.
I guess they Yeah, I mean, I guess he was the only guy
that it got drafted from Kentucky that year. That can't be right. Harrelson
got drafted forty fifth overall, and I guess that was it. But if
you remember, there were guys that decided to come back and play for that
title team which featured Garius Miller. So Deron Lamb, Darius Miller and Terrence
Jones came back and that was a big deal. And then you added Michael
kid Gilchrist and Anthony Davis and you know that that was hegue that was a
great team. So the first three years, it just it became a thing
to where he had built Kentucky basketball not to be a great program because it
already was. And yes, let's be real, him selling Kentucky helped.
He couldn't do that at Memphis, he tried. He He's always recruited that
way. So Kentucky was a factor in that. But what I'm saying is
that if we're gonna give Cal credit for those guys, maybe you could say
player development a little bit, but I mean, they're there nine months guys.
I mean, that's I mean, and they're already Here's the thing,
they were gonna be drafts. Most of those guys were gonna be drafted regardless
of where they went. Now, there have been guys who didn't pick Kentucky
that ended up, you know, elsewhere and they ended up not going getting
getting drafted as high. So Kentucky gets the benefit of it out with their
players because of what Cal. You know, because what Cal here, I'm
giving him credit. But what I mean more, what I mean by credit,
more than anything, is the fact that you know, it was a
known thing. Cal Perry puts the dudes in the NBA, and that means
players coming out of high school feel like their best chance of getting drafted early
is to go to Kentucky. And clearly the NBA valued what you know.
I don't know if they valued his coaching specifically, but there was something going
on in Lexington. That led to all the guys coming out of high school
want to go play there in the NBA. You know, I believe they
would have taken them if they played for Kansas do instead of Kentucky, but
we'll never know. So I guess to really change the brand of Kentucky basketball
to be the NBA factory, not the program that wins a bunch of national
championships. That's that's that's what he did and that's why it kept rolling to
where no matter what guys were, it'd be hard to turn down Kentucky if
you want to go to the NBA, right, And a lot of people
didn't do it for a while, So I don't know. I just hearing
him say that. I guess if any coach had that fact about their players,
they would share it, and they would they would they would gloat.
But I mean, how much of it is him? And I guess you
could say about any player, right you just but it'd be different if Cali
Perry was putting these guys in the league and they were all three star players
that played three years and he really developed them into being great players. Like
for example, when you look at what's going on with the Knicks right now
where they just added another former Villainova player, not a single one of those
four of Nova guys that are now playing for the Knicks that have all become
good NBA players. One of them I think is a great NBA player in
Jalen Brunson Jay Wright. None of those guys were elite recruits. Jay Wright
developed those guys and they didn't play just one year. Jalen Brunson won two
national titles. He was a role player on the first title team that he
played for. So you know, I'm not surprised Cal's doing it. I'd
probably do the same thing about as him. But how much do you think
he really is responsible for it? I mean when he sells to families when
he's in the living room, that kind of money that has been generated by
players that played for him. What would he say if a parent said,
yeah, what do you have to do with that? Though, Like that's
NBA, Like the NBA's given him money. My kid's good enough, he'll
be drafted. Heck he probably he'd probably revoked the scholarship right there at the
scholarship offer. Or he'd probably be Cal and have a great response and tell
him to call one of his players, because that's another part of this man.
When these guys are in the NBA having success even though maybe they didn't
get developed. I mean, look, there are some dudes who were helped
back by Cal. Like Devin Booker should have started for Kentucky. I know
he had weaknesses as a freshman, but you can't sit here and tell me
that the Harrison Twins it made sense for those guys to get way more minutes
than Tyler Eulis and Devin Booker. I mean, Shake Gildes. Alexander he
didn't really become the guy for them until he had until they realized that he
You know that Quade Green was was not good enough like kwad A. Green
was the more hype recruit. He came in, played more minutes and was
the guy. And Shay Guilders Alexander was a lowly four star, which is
an unheard of thing for most Cal recruits, and sure enough he just got
snubbed for the NBA MVP Award. The one guy that I can think of
that is currently in the NBA that I will say, and I don't know
if it's Cal specifically, but like really developed to being a good college player
at the end, and now as an NBA player, and I don't know
how great he is. I'm gonna look up his numbers. Nick Richards couldn't
walk in chew gum at the same time. In his first two years at
Kentucky, I mean, he was bad, and then as a junior he
was really really good. Took a huge jump, like he developed it.
You know, the light turned on for him, as they say, And
I don't know which coach was responsible for that, but now you know he
played in the NBA. He's been in the NBA for the last few years.
He was a late second round pick. But this past season he averaged
nine and eight and he's not an elite player, but he's probably going to
get a second contract. And you know, he's somebody that got better.
But all these other dudes that have had elite success in the NBA, I'm
not saying Cal didn't help them along the way, but I kind of feel
like they'd probably still be in the NBA, maybe making the same money if
they never played for him. We'll never know, We'll never know. What
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commercials than when he's on the air. It's in art what he does with
commercials. I mean, how many people could say this because he said it?
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it exists, but the company doesn't exist anymore because they sold He was Mid
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says that at a commercial? Venetti? And it gets attention and he doubled
down. The story goes like this, he was some one of our former
sales executives was, I guess giving him a hard time about like why are
you why are you saying that like on the radio, like the people have
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a spot for the client, he mentioned that somebody called him out. He's
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your homes. Wake up man. And then he said something like who do
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like something you see in the old black and white movies or something. I
think the most recent time he came on the show with you, he was
talking about tweaking Heroin Addicts downtown. Probably probably he also would just I mean,
one of the things I struggle with with commercials is getting him at the
right time, because I hate whenever somebody in production, hopefully it's not you,
will speed you up or slow you down to hit the exact thirty seconds
for the commercial, because I think you should be able to be arrested for
that. Because you're making me sound like something I don't sound like misrepresentation.
But you heard it right, Oh yes, yeah, it's just it,
you know, or you can what I do now, if it's like that
close, I'll just add it like an extra little bit of like a lad
half a second here, half a second there, to kind of space it
out a little bit. Yeah, but I mean Venette he didn't need to
do that because he would have like his own ad libs in between, like
you know, Louis of Bats dollar dollar bears. That's right, dollar bears.
I mean he would just like, you know, just instead of give
a little extra two yeah. Yeah, it just you know, I need
I need a second here, two seconds here to make it stretch out to
be thirty seconds, So let me throw in that's right, or yeah,
just just little you know Venette saying so he should be an auctioneer. That
that's a little bit of a different. I mean, he's got the auctioneering
is is a is a talent man, I mean, Venette's got talent.
But I don't. I don't even know how some I don't know how somebody's
mind can keep up with their mouth when they're doing it. Have you ever
seen it live? Yes, it's it's very weird. So do you know
Kevin Harnett, the maniroologists here in town. Yeah, he's also an auctioneer.
Did not know that blew my mind. So I'm a part of an
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has been close to the organization for a long time and they do an auction
every year to help raise money. And uh, I saw Kevin. I've
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he's a big UFL fan and great guy. And I saw him there
and I, you know, just assumed he was there is like a celebrity.
I mean, he's freaking Kevin Harted. Let's be real here. Then
I realize he's not just m seeing it. He's the auctioneer. And I'm
just like jaw on the floor, like holy crap, Like, not only
did I not see it coming for my man, Kevin Harnet, but he
was really good at it. I got sick over here. It's I mean,
it's it's insane. Anyways, you're insane if you don't stick with us
for the next hour and a half, because we got a lot more coming.
In fact, something that you know, we always like to poke fun
at our rivals. Kentucky's the main rival. I didn't realize how bad of
a year Cincinnati had as an athletic department, And there's still a rival.
We don't play him anymore, but there's still Cincinnati, And the things I
share with you about how bad they sucked at every sport that mattered this past
year will blow your mind, or maybe it won't. All right, stick
around coffee and company. Feel about Thorton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety
So I may have to walk something back that I just said five minutes ago,
because and I want to thank Dennis who reminded me of this on the
text line, and how about Dennis. Look, Dennis is a guy who
used to we used to ask people if you text in, you know,
put a name next to it, because within the text line the Ellen and
Federal Credit Union text line five two six five three zero seven ninety. You
know, I just feel like instead of saying hey, text or let's you
know text line, I mean, sometimes we just make up names for people.
But either way, Dennis's name is still logged in from when he would
text the show forever and I haven't heard from this number is saved as Dennis
and it hasn't texted the show in like a year. And a half.
Maybe he just didn't Maybe he didn't like you, John, because I think
we've worked together about a year and a half and now probably didn't like Kenny.
Pain could have been could be, could be that, but he's he's
texting now, and uh, I kind of forgot about you, Dennis,
welcome back in. I don't know you at all, but you know he
used to text like every day. But anyways, Dennis mentioned that I've contradicted
myself, and he's right because I said whenever Cincinnati did what Cincinnati did and
took Scott Saderfield off our hands, I don't know if I could ever consider
them a rival. They are from a historical standpoint, but I don't.
I mean, I have nothing but but grace and and and uh, you
know, I'm thankful for them for doing that. But maybe, you know,
if we played them regularly again, which we probably won't, maybe that
rivalry of fuel would come back. But I really times still just kind of
find myself in disbelief when I consider what Cincinnati did, because I mean,
who would do that? And they did and I thank them in a major
way. But Cincinnati, they are coming off of a very very rough year.
Athletically in all sports when you consider, like, you know, collectively
looking at it. So do you follow the lear Field Cup at all?
I do not. Do you know what it is? I think it's kind
of stupid, but whatever, It's still something people throw out there every now
and then. But Field, the lear Field Cup gives you a look at
how all of the athletic programs within each within each sport. Let me get
the specifics of how they look at it, but the lear Field Director's Cup
basically gives you the top athletic departments from top to bottom, meaning it's not
just one school. But you're good in all sports, and clearly being really
good at certain sports, does you know does in fact you know it helps
you if you know what I mean? Like it, if you're really good
at football, that matters a little more than being really good at you know,
tennis or something like that. But Cincinnati was the only Power five school
to not be in the top one hundred, and they were two fifty nine.
So they're three hundred and fifty something Division one schools three hundred and sixty
something Division one schools. So Cincinnati, again, they're the only Power five
that did not finish in the top one hundred and they finished it two fifty
nine. That almost sounds unreal. So they actually they were the only Power
five school to miss the postseason in every major team sport baseball was the only
team on their campus to finish its inaugural Big twelve season with a winning record
and conference play. So you know, my response when seeing this earlier today
was yeah, checks out. Here's why that makes sense because that athletic department
is ran by a guy who paid Louisville three point five million dollars to take
Scott Sadderfield off their hands. I mean, maybe Sadfield does end up having
a better year this year than last year, but I wouldn't bank on it.
And I'm not piling on sad I mean, I guess I kind of
am, but you know what I mean, just state in facts, But
dude, what's his name is? Who's Bubba Cunningham? That's the athletic director
for Who is it for North Carolina? I knew there was a Bubba cutting
Dam that was an AD, but I think Cincinnati's AD is also a Cunningham
unless I'm making it up. And I need to John cunning and I need
to know this because again. I mean, I might drive to Cincinnati one
day and give that Manic a hug and a kiss, because without him,
we don't have Jeff Brom. And that's a world I don't want to be
in, John, You hear me, that's the world I don't want to
be in the world without Jeff Brom leading the Louisville football program sad yep.
And I've about had it. I've about had it with people that are doubting
my man, Jeff Brohm and showing concern. Look, I get it,
You're always going to be upset when a kid decommits. And there was another
d commit yesterday for Louisville and it's Lebron Hill is his name. He committed
like twenty three days ago to Louisville. He's a receiver from I believe the
Uh Yeah, he's from Indiana and he flipped his commitment from Louisville to Purdue.
He is a three star recruit and you know, his commitment to Louisville
didn't last long and now he's going to go play at Purdue unless he changes
his mind like he did at Louisville. With the Louisville commitment, I should
say so like losing commit sucks, there's no way around it. But I
can't get I can't give you a reaction that is not I mean again,
I'll give you my reaction to it. But I feel like I may be
a little bit in the minority. In fact, maybe I'm a lot in
the minority, because I can't act like this. This concerns me. I
just can't, because this doesn't make me feel like Jeff Bram is still not
going to be super successful at a place like Louisville because you know the class
right now, twenty twenty five. Let me let me, let me pull
up, let me pull up some numbers here. And I hate nerding out
on recruiting rankings and all that and football because I think it's always been a
rather boring topic for radio. And it doesn't even matter as much now considering
the fact that the portal is you know, is super important. But here
here are some facts right now with the recent decommitments for Louisville. They lost
the kid who flipped. In fact, by the way, I don't think
I've been on the air. I wasn't on the air when it happened.
I was, I was on my vacation But the kid who Jake Cook,
who decommitted from Louisville and was a big recruit and he got a bump in
rankings and then he got an offer from Ohio State. Well, now he's
going he's already flipped his commitment to Ohio State. And I'll say what I
said the day that happened. That sucks, bummer. You can be upset
about it, but just understand Louisville, along with just about every other school
in college football, if they go head to head with Ohio State for recruits,
they're going to lose a lot of those battles and they're going to win
very few of them. So a kid from that area grew up a fan
of Ohio State, commits to Louisville. Then he starts to blow up a
little bit as far as hype buzz star added to his ranking and all that
stuff. Then Ohio State gets involved, they offer him. He flips to
Ohio State. Who are you blaming for that? Who are you mad at
for that? That's inevitable, It just is. And what do you think
of, Well, Jeff's got to find a way to get the nil situation.
Okay, you know you think Ohio State doesn't have more money than you
have. L with anil they have more money than most. They just paid
twenty two million dollars for their team, Like no joke. I'm not even
talking about the number of like the amount of money they're going to pay like
everybody else whenever the schools have to start paying through nil and through I guess
their coaches, like collectively through nil and through the university paying coaches. That's
a twenty two million dollar team. So that's just gonna happen. Now,
this kid flipping to Purdue, I mean, maybe not a good look considering
he's flipping the place that Jeff was just at and isn't good and expected to
be the worst team in the Big Ten this year, But he also doesn't
have a whole lot of great offers. And I just again, I can't
fake it and act like this. This is a concern for me. But
are here are the facts of right now. With the two guys that de
committed, Louisville now ranks fiftieth in the country in average recruit ranking for this
twenty twenty five class. The other programs that you'll find in that area are
Northwestern Indiana, Arizona, pit Cal so that's not a good look. But
to act like these recent decommitments mean that Louisville's going to have a class.
What's happened? And I'm not acting like Louisville has arrived And we now are
these programs that get all of our great recruits late in the process. But
let's be real. Jeff just came off of ten win season and he has
momentum. And if they have a good year this year, I wouldn't be
shocked if in the fall there's some more momentum and they start adding four or
five guys that maybe they aren't in on right now, because you know,
they that they haven't added more buzz and hype to the program. You know,
we used to get recruits committed around this time and brag about right now,
top ten class, top ten class, and we would know that eventually
it's not going to be that because the other big dogs are going to start
adding who they want. Louisll's not one of those big dogs. It's going
to start picking up five star after five star. Once, you know,
things slow down a little bit, but the class is far from over.
And here's the most important factor that I haven't you mentioned yet these rankings don't
matter nearly as much as they used to because you don't have to. I
mean, you still need to. High school recruiting is always going to be
important. You're always going to need to develop young talent and hope to keep
them around now, but it's not it's not as big of a necessity because
you can go get developed players that have already played three to four years of
college football to join you, and Louisville has done that in the last two
seasons where they rank up there their top five in the last two years as
far as the most transfers added to their team. I don't know if Jeff
wants to stay in that area, but if he does and it works,
sign me up. I'm cool with it. Now. If he wants to
be balanced and have less transfers moving forward and maybe have a you know,
bigger recruiting class and developed, then you know, there's different ways to do
it. But here's the reality. You can have one devastatingly bad recruiting class
that you miss on guys it's small, and the guys you do get or
you know, kind of dominant, the roughs that you hope end up being
really good and that would be a really bad sign years ago. But now
you could do that and it may not matter at all, because if you
go out and you kill it in the portal that same year, it doesn't
matter. I mean, I'm not telling anybody we should be celebrating these losses,
meaning these guys that decommit and it's a bummer. You never want to
lose a player. But I can't give you fake energy as far as like
my level of concern. I'm just because I'm not be different if you didn't
have the portal, totally different. All right, let's see, let's let's
let's go ahead and get to our next break here. I was gonna try
to get to something else, but I'll try to do better here with my
clock management. We do need to talk about some of the some of the
storylines we have from the Olympics that are coming up here soon. And I
don't know what it is, but the Olympics used to be I feel like
a much bigger deal, like it would be all anybody would talk about whenever
they're approaching, and I just it didn't happen last time. It didn't even
happen. I feel like in twenty sixteen now, last time. They ended
up doing the twenty twenty Olympics in twenty twenty one, which just kind of
made it feel like a waste of time for some reason. So maybe that's
why there wasn't a whole lot of you know, buzz. But I feel
like it's kind of sneaking up on us here. But the Olympics, I've
learned there's been I guess this would be like the fourth Olympic Games that we've
had that have taken place since I've been working in radio in some former fashion.
And of the things you learn about the Olympic process, I mean,
the Olympic gives the Olympics give you, gives you good content outside of like
just the actual results in the metal count and all that kind of stuff.
All right, stick around right here at Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right,
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So I can't believe that there are many many countries that'll have their athletes representing
their country in the Olympic Games coming up here before too long, and they
won't have they won't have air conditioning. But the United States doesn't have to
worry about that. So they the United States, along with Germany, Australia,
Italy, Canada and Britain all have announced that they'd be supplying air conditioners
for their athletes, which, you know, I would assume that where they're
going to be hosting these Olympic athletes at the Olympics Village wherever that is,
that they would be equipped with with air conditioning. But it says here that
organizers in Paris announced plans for athletes rooms to be cool in the Olympic Village
through a system of cooling pipes beneath the floors. I mean, am I
the only one? Again? I'm somebody that really really appreciates air conditioning and
the thought of not having it gives me anxiety because I don't like being hot
and uncomfortable. But I mean, these are Olympic athletes that are representing their
country. It's the Olympic Games. I mean, am I crazy here?
John? Would you have expected them to not have ac No? Not at
all. There's been a lot of weird controversies with this this iteration of the
Olympics. Do you hear about the poop stuff? I was buried to mention
that we'll talk about that in the We'll talk about that in the five o'clock
hour, because that's that's some real weird stuff. But yeah, so it
looks yeah, it says. The Olympic organizers have touted plans to cool rooms
in the athletes Village, which will house more than fifteen thousand Olympians and sports
officials over the course of the games, using a system of cooling pipes underneath
the floor. Is The average high in Paris on August first over the years
has been seventy nine degrees, and the objective is that these pipes are to
keep the rooms between seventy three and seventy nine degrees. The rooms will also
be equipped with fans. I mean, I don't know, man, Like
seventy nine is not terrible, but it's pretty bad for yeah, I mean,
but it's not air conditioning, it's pipes. Yeah, So like what
do you what would you consider, like, all right, this sucks,
this is really hot. Anything more than seventy five. I'm with you,
and that's that's that. Maybe it might make me sound I don't know,
wimpy. I'm sure people that are older, that have been around are used
to hotter temperatures than that for their air conditioning. But I mean I keep
my house on seventy. Yeah, we do too, and I I,
you know, shout out to those that save a lot of money on air
conditioning on utilities because they can keep it a lot warmer. But when it's
that hot, I mean seventy, I mean we used to keep it at
times on sixty eight, you know, depending upon how hot it was,
But now we've kind of kept it as a cool seventy or seventy one with
fans on in the house. That usually does the trick. And I make
up for it in the winter, I keep the house on sixty five.
In the clubs. Oh dude, I same here, like the same here.
We're on the same page. I could have the heat at sixty and
just throw a bunch of blankets on and I'd be fine. But I know
my kids and my wife were free, so we don't do that. But
we had an airbnb when we stayed at Saint Charles, Missouri last week,
on the way to our trip, and this really irritated me. It was
a really cool airbnb. It was in an old brick building that didn't have
a whole lot of ventilation, and they locked, you know, the hosts
had a sign when you walk in next to the thermostat they locked it at
seventy four and didn't let you cool it off any lower. Like it was
locked. You couldn't go lower than that, and it was really hot in
there. But what really irritated me is when we got there, it was
on seventy eight because they hadn't had somebody renting it the day before, and
I'm thinking, how do you expect, like, you know, this won't
cool off until you know, late at night probably, And it says if
you leave it, you know, if you have it on seventy four,
you use all fans, you should be comfortable. Well, the biggest fan
in the in the place, which wasn't a big place, you know,
the main fan in the main area, if you have it on high,
it was moving around like it was about to fly off the off the ceiling
and you know, kill somebody, so we couldn't leave the fan on.
I just irritated me, But it was also one of those things where I'm
thinking to myself, it's just a me thing, like I'm and I've always
been fortunate to where I've had air conditioning, like in car in cars growing
up in my home to where when I'm in a when I'm in an indoorse
somewhere and it's seventy eight seventy nine degrees. I mean, I guess you
could say it's accurate that I'm soft and not tough, but also like that's
not normal for me. Therefore I'm uncomfortable. That might be a hot take.
Maybe it won't give it to me. I don't like airbnbs. That's
first ever stayed one, because I've not had an experience exactly with what you're
talking about. But it's just it's just kind of awkward. Oh hell yeah,
it's be in a hotel or an end if I'm going on vacations,
like somewhere where you know, you've got your own space. Dude, we
cannot be more on the same page. The idea of the airbnb's are cool,
but just being in that one, I felt like, all right,
I'm in a stranger's home. This is weird to me. That's just what
I felt like. I just don't get what I mean. I get it
like there's people who make money off of it, and that's a good thing
for those people, but I don't get why it's become so popular. Well,
because hotels are pretty plain, and I guess an airbnb you could be
like an you know, personal it's a residential type thing. And but I
like, you know, i'd always prefer a hotel over an airbnb, but
you know, and I would. I don't know why, but like if
I'm if I'm at an airbnb, I wouldn't do being on where I was.
It's like, I don't know something about a hotel. I feel a
little more safe because that's like everybody's there, we're all cute. Yeah,
we're all staying at a place because we're you know, not in our homes,
professional staying place. But you know, my wife found an airbeit it
was a cool spot where we were. It was convenient, But like even
laying on the couch that night, I'm just thinking, like, man,
I don't know, like hotels, you can say the same exact thing,
right like who knows bugs? Yeah, yeah, ive ever heard that experience.
Obviously, who knows who was there the night before and all that,
But I don't know, just really changing the sheets that got h I mean,
I had a weird thing like what have they got a camera in here?
And and I shouldn't think that I have no reason to think that they
would. But I just I'd never had that thought in a hotel, and
I guess the same thing could happen and I wouldn't know. But this is
a little bit more on the AC stuff. It says the according to the
International Energy Agency, fewer than one in ten households in Europe have air conditioning,
and the numbers in pairs are lower than that. We're just a bunch
of pain, Yeah, we're not. We're spoiled, says that the study.
The study said that that of the one point six billion AC units in
use across the globe in twenty sixteen, more than half were in China.
In the United States, the entire European Union had over had around one hundred
million, So five hundred and seventy million in China, three hundred and seventy
five million in the United States, and around one hundred million in the entire
European Union. So that's pretty telling as far as how different it is in
these different cultures. All right, let's talk about the Louisville Men's clinic.
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