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Speaker 4: We've got him back in the saddle with us today,
Speaker 4: the travel chief Austin Montgomery alongside. He was five oh
Speaker 4: tuesdaying yesterday. And that's right, I'll ask you. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's tough to know, because I doubt you were out there,
Speaker 4: you know, just auditing the facility to.
Speaker 2: See who all was there that was local.
Speaker 4: But I do think that just judging on I guess
Speaker 4: mostly Facebook, maybe Instagram. I feel like the people like
Speaker 4: that I'm friends with or maybe not that I'm like
Speaker 4: actually friends with, but you know internet friends with.
Speaker 2: There was a mass.
Speaker 4: Flood of everybody posting yesterday as if like the locals
Speaker 4: kind of have embraced all right, yes this is our day.
Speaker 2: It did it feel like it?
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how you'd be able to tell, but yes,
Speaker 4: it certainly seemed like it. From all the folks that
Speaker 4: I know that they're going to go out to the
Speaker 4: track for a day that's not Oaks and not Derby.
Speaker 2: They made five oh Tuesday the local day. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5: And there I think there was maybe even a school
Speaker 5: out there, because I know that they have like buses
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, but saw a bunch of kids
Speaker 5: and a couple adults getting off a bus and they
Speaker 5: were all dressed nice. And I'm pretty sure like local
Speaker 5: school were there or any sort of like youth organization
Speaker 5: of some sort. But yeah, I think I saw the
Speaker 5: same thing too with a lot of people that follow
Speaker 5: on social media.
Speaker 2: That was the day that they were out.
Speaker 5: I think lowellvillions have embraced the five oh Tuesday now
Speaker 5: because remember it used to be well from what I understand,
Speaker 5: it used to be the Oaks and then that got
Speaker 5: kind of overtaken. Then it went to Derby, and then
Speaker 5: that got overtaken, and.
Speaker 2: Then they just said the hell with Wednesday, We're gonna
Speaker 2: make it Tuesdays. Just completely said Wednesday.
Speaker 4: So I think when I started going to Oaks. I've
Speaker 4: been to Oaks probably every year for the last I
Speaker 4: don't know, seventeen eighteen years. I mean, I could have
Speaker 4: missed one, but I feel like I feel like I
Speaker 4: would remember that yees, so I would go just as
Speaker 4: you know, just go to have fun. And then we've
Speaker 4: done the show there sometimes and then I've also taken
Speaker 4: the day off to go out.
Speaker 2: And just enjoy it.
Speaker 4: So we do Oaks, and I feel like for since
Speaker 4: since I've been doing it, you know, roughly the last
Speaker 4: fifteen plus years, for the most part, I feel like
Speaker 4: it is it's it's Derby Eve, right like it Clearly
Speaker 4: it's called Oaks Day because of the Kentucky Oaks Race,
Speaker 4: but it does kind of feel like, you know, sort
Speaker 4: of a matinee because it is not a whole lot
Speaker 4: different than what you see on Derby if of course,
Speaker 4: you know, it's nice outside, and you know, I just
Speaker 4: think we've had terrible luck with Oaks, So sometimes it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, I can't really tell if it seems as
Speaker 4: if it's people from all over the world or not.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it continued to grow as a day that
Speaker 4: clearly was not Derby. Didn't have the same energy, didn't
Speaker 4: have the same feel right, but it you know, it
Speaker 4: doesn't feel like it, you know. So I'm glad that
Speaker 4: we have a day here for locals and it's Bibo Tuesday,
Speaker 4: and I'm glad you were able to get out there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: have a good time, looking like a million bucks in
Speaker 4: the nice suit. I know you and City were out
Speaker 4: there just you know, having a.
Speaker 2: Ball in Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a good time. And what's cool is
Speaker 5: I guess they're probably a little bit more I hope
Speaker 5: I don't get anybody in trouble for this, but like
Speaker 5: they're more leaning on like where you can like walk
Speaker 5: around anywhere. If you got like a ticket, you can
Speaker 5: just kind of go post up because not like everyone there.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they.
Speaker 5: Sell tickets to any of the pre ones like five
Speaker 5: oh Tuesday Wednesday or Thirby on the brand news stands
Speaker 5: that they just built. But like there wasn't any people
Speaker 5: over there. It felt like there was a lot of people.
Speaker 5: Well when you looked up into the stands, I don't know,
Speaker 5: it wasn't and and you heard it, but it didn't
Speaker 5: feel crowded like you know, obviously a derby was. But
Speaker 5: they just kind of let you walk around like wherever,
Speaker 5: as long as you're not going up to like the
Speaker 5: millionaire's row or like the suite. If you're just kind
Speaker 5: of in the grand stand area, you can get on
Speaker 5: down to like where the rails are and see like
Speaker 5: the training horses walk by. That's what we ended up doing,
Speaker 5: and just getting a closer look at the at the horses.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Well good I uh, I'm glad you had a good time.
Speaker 4: Glad you want some money on the on some races.
Speaker 2: Good buck good Day went up fifty bucks yesterday.
Speaker 4: So we've got we've got race six at Churchill coming
Speaker 4: up here in fifteen minutes to post. And I'm tp yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm going to uh, I'm gonna pick a. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: pick one, okay, and you you know, you can do
Speaker 4: the same if you'd like, and we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 4: how this thing plays out. I haven't uh, I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm looking at this for the first time right now,
Speaker 4: So I'll get the table set and get us you know,
Speaker 4: up and running here, and then we'll dive back and
Speaker 4: listen to this race before we take our first break.
Speaker 4: That should time out pretty uh, pretty perfectly, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you. So yeah, look the weather. We need
Speaker 4: to get to the weather really quickly though, because I today,
Speaker 4: like right now as we walk in in downtown Louisville,
Speaker 4: it's beautiful outside. Yesterday it looked throughout the evening for sure,
Speaker 4: maybe even late afternoon, like it was about to get nasty,
Speaker 4: like it was about to go down, and I don't
Speaker 4: think it ever really did. So what I worry about
Speaker 4: is that we've, like the weather that was supposed to
Speaker 4: be really bad for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, some you know Friday.
Speaker 4: Actually it wasn't even supposed to be bad Friday until now.
Speaker 4: So it's like it's delayed. The rain that was supposed
Speaker 4: to be here has decided to drag its feet. And
Speaker 4: what looked as if, Okay, we're gonna have a wet week,
Speaker 4: but man, when we get to third or when we
Speaker 4: get to Friday and Saturday, we should be in the clear,
Speaker 4: and it doesn't look like that as much right now.
Speaker 4: But again, they were wrong pretty often, and this is
Speaker 4: one of those things where I hope that they're I
Speaker 4: hope that they're wrong, because you know, you want good
Speaker 4: weather as we get closer to Two Oaks and to Derby.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yes, yesterday it didn't show much of anything
Speaker 4: in the forecast as far as being rainy and wet.
Speaker 4: On Friday or Saturday, it didn't look great, cloudy. And
Speaker 4: now we've got a few showers. It looks like for
Speaker 4: Friday and Saturday, couple of showers. So again, we'll see,
Speaker 4: we'll see how it plays out. But look, it's one
Speaker 4: of those things you can't control. We're just we're at
Speaker 4: the mercy of what other whatever Mother Nature decides to do.
Speaker 4: And you know, she's not been kind to us as
Speaker 4: of late. When it comes to the brutal winter. We
Speaker 4: had all the rain, I mean, tornadoes, we had the
Speaker 4: wildest winter in a long long time, coldest I feel like,
Speaker 4: and then again flooding tornadoes.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're due. You owe us one, mother Nature.
Speaker 5: You would think that, but you would also think, like
Speaker 5: the what the year that we've had in weather, There's
Speaker 5: no way we make it out of Derby nice.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean like we should all like just consider
Speaker 4: it as a blessing if we do, in fact end
Speaker 4: up making it through the weekend where it ends up
Speaker 4: not you know, not being nasty. But again, we'll see
Speaker 4: how it plays out, all right. So there's a lot
Speaker 4: I want to get into over these next few hours.
Speaker 4: We'll kind of keep the Derby week theme going. I
Speaker 4: do want to take a look at the celebrity packed
Speaker 4: lineup that's been revealed for the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Derby
Speaker 4: Eve Gala.
Speaker 2: The big there's a lot of big parties.
Speaker 4: I feel like every year there's a new one that's
Speaker 4: kind of you know, the place to be that has
Speaker 4: some celebrities. But the Barnstable Party has been going on
Speaker 4: for a long long time. And I think a trend
Speaker 4: that I was suspecting is now confirmed, and that is
Speaker 4: that there's a few people that, like, I'm not really
Speaker 4: sure if I would classify them as you know, like
Speaker 4: big celebrities, at least not now, but they get the
Speaker 4: invite like many many years ago, and they just keep
Speaker 4: coming back. Like there's some names on here that you're
Speaker 4: gonna be familiar with, and there's some names on here
Speaker 4: that you'll probably say I've heard that name. Why do
Speaker 4: I know that name? Oh yeah, he was like a
Speaker 4: he was the you know, he had a he had
Speaker 4: a prominent role in a nineties comedy and then you know,
Speaker 4: never was heard from again. But he came to the
Speaker 4: Derby in nineteen ninety seven and he you know, maybe
Speaker 4: there's maybe that's the thing, like if you get invited
Speaker 4: as a celebrity, you know, to attend and really just
Speaker 4: add some some some flavor to the to the to
Speaker 4: the guest list, like maybe it's just a given that
Speaker 4: you like, you know, when you accept it, it's going
Speaker 4: to be a never ending thing.
Speaker 2: Like you know, Travis Tritt, my guy is.
Speaker 4: You know, he's never missed Derby and he's never missed
Speaker 4: this party, So shout out to him. Have you seen
Speaker 4: the list yet? I don't want you to look at
Speaker 4: it if you haven't, because I want to.
Speaker 2: I want to. I want to know I haven't, Okay, because.
Speaker 5: I could already probably tell you three or four people
Speaker 5: that I know are going to be there. Then tell
Speaker 5: me Joey Fatone, Uh, he's always been there. Let me
Speaker 5: see if he's on the list. Did he make the cut? Yeah,
Speaker 5: Joey Fatone's there and he's you know, he's in sync. Like,
Speaker 5: let's be real, but he's the perfect example of what
Speaker 5: I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yes, like he's not like there's a lot of people
Speaker 2: visually like that.
Speaker 4: He could walk into their their box at the track
Speaker 4: and they might kind of know that guy. But right,
Speaker 4: is that the guy from Backstreet Boys? Maybe it was
Speaker 4: maybe it was LFO, Like you know, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, like, it's look, there's nothing wrong with holding
Speaker 4: on to it as long as you can. And look,
Speaker 4: if you've got the invite that means you can come,
Speaker 4: you can show up.
Speaker 2: That must be nice.
Speaker 4: You're right about Joey Fatone. I'm scanning the list here
Speaker 4: because there is one that. Again I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: pick on anybody, because some of these people aren't necessarily
Speaker 4: celebrities globally, but they were like briefly here locally and
Speaker 4: they've just really kind of hung onto that. But uh,
Speaker 4: boys to men, are they on here because they've been
Speaker 4: coming for they've been coming.
Speaker 2: Back to this thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're here there there could be once again so
Speaker 4: for men now anyways, well we'll get back into that
Speaker 4: uh a little bit later on.
Speaker 2: But again, so what's his name?
Speaker 5: I actually we ran into him a couple of years
Speaker 5: ago at the barn Stable Brown Party. I was stout
Speaker 5: there as just it's around, like big part haven't been
Speaker 5: but like there's a right car and people go up
Speaker 5: and just stand at the right corse chef fan. So
Speaker 5: I've been up there and I interacted with Anna Nicole
Speaker 5: Smith's husband.
Speaker 2: What's his name, Larry.
Speaker 5: Oh Birkhead Burkhead, Yes, yes, Larry Burkhead, And I thought
Speaker 5: that was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's he's He is someone that I don't know now,
Speaker 4: like if his name came up in conversation to people
Speaker 4: not from here, if they would make the connection. But
Speaker 4: you know, I think anybody who's from here that is
Speaker 4: relatively close to our age or older, they know that
Speaker 4: he was the one Mary Tanna Nicole Smith, and obviously
Speaker 4: that was at a time when she was, you know,
Speaker 4: very much in the public eye. So we'll take a
Speaker 4: look at the list a little bit later on. As
Speaker 4: I mentioned, we're going to try to keep this Derby
Speaker 4: Derby Week theme kind of going on. I mean, this
Speaker 4: is one of those things where when you have an
Speaker 4: event like this going on in your in your city.
Speaker 4: You can feel the energy, you can feel the buzz.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't call it a distraction, but like
Speaker 4: it's it's just what we do around here. So you know,
Speaker 4: we're not going to break down every race and really
Speaker 4: get into, you know, the the weeds of things when
Speaker 4: it comes to horse racing, because one, I just would
Speaker 4: be capable of doing that, and I also don't think
Speaker 4: that would be great radio. But it'd be foolish to
Speaker 4: just not you know, carry carry carry the vibe that
Speaker 4: is Derby season around here. So that was a really
Speaker 4: long winded, poor attempt for me to tell you that
Speaker 4: I got a lot of stuff I want to get
Speaker 4: into today. But I know that if I, if I
Speaker 4: set it up now and really really you know, make it,
Speaker 4: make it a point to tell you that this is
Speaker 4: why you should stick around, because we're going to do
Speaker 4: this or that, Like you would think, like, man, this
Speaker 4: guy really sucks at his job.
Speaker 2: That's what he wants to talk about.
Speaker 4: He's a sports radio host and he's got three hours
Speaker 4: and he wants to talk about this. Well, yes I do,
Speaker 4: because I like to mix it up. So one day
Speaker 4: I won't have that that crutch. I won't have that
Speaker 4: that I guess insecurity because I like to have fun.
Speaker 2: We like to mix it up.
Speaker 4: I think if you come back to this place each
Speaker 4: and every day, it means you you know, you like
Speaker 4: it to an extent, or maybe you hateless and whatever
Speaker 4: it is, you keep coming back, and that's all we want.
Speaker 4: But you know, to set it up, like, hey, here
Speaker 4: we go, you don't want to miss this. We've got
Speaker 4: you know, we'll talk about you know, we'll draft fast
Speaker 4: food items like we did last week. You know, it's fun,
Speaker 4: it's good stuff. So how about this just stick around.
Speaker 4: You never know what we're going to get into, but
Speaker 4: I can guarantee you we're going to try to have
Speaker 4: some fun and if not, you know, come back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We'll try it again.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's I mean, there's only one way to
Speaker 4: you know, to make it happen, and that's to keep
Speaker 4: trying until it happens. All right. If you guys want
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Speaker 4: of the show as well a little bit later on.
Speaker 4: But the Bill Belichick stuff, I mean, we talked about
Speaker 4: it yesterday, and it's been a story that I think
Speaker 4: has had new layers to it every day since that
Speaker 4: CBS Sunday Morning interview was released where.
Speaker 2: He looked like a hostage.
Speaker 4: He had his girlfriend off to the side, and you know,
Speaker 4: without even really saying anything, you could tell she's she
Speaker 4: seems to be running things, or at least, you know,
Speaker 4: making it appear that she's running things. And I mean,
Speaker 4: you've got Charles Barkley, who was just on the dam
Speaker 4: Pat earlier today saying that he considers Belichick a friend,
Speaker 4: he's worried about him, like genuinely like that. That to
Speaker 4: me is I mean, I know Chuck can say whatever,
Speaker 4: and you know, it's just Chuck being Chuck. He's one
Speaker 4: of the bigger personalities in all of sports. But I
Speaker 4: don't think he'd say that if he didn't mean it.
Speaker 4: So the latest is that she was apparently the reason
Speaker 4: that they were gonna do hard knocks on UNC Football
Speaker 4: with Belichick, and then they decided not to. It sounds
Speaker 4: like it came down to her not wanting to do it,
Speaker 4: unless they really profiled and featured her and I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean this screams that this is a young, attractive
Speaker 4: woman that is taking advantage of an old man. I
Speaker 4: mean that's what this is senor abuse. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: like it's you know, Belichick, I think he's of the
Speaker 4: belief that this type of a story and you know,
Speaker 4: his his his image now is that, Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 4: the you know, he's the pretty lifeless football coach that
Speaker 4: doesn't have a big boom personality, but you know, he
Speaker 4: ain't dead yet so much so that he's got this young,
Speaker 4: hot snack that says, you know, his girlfriend. Like I
Speaker 4: think he's trying to appeal to Like, I think it's
Speaker 4: a desperation thing for Belichick that he wants to appeal
Speaker 4: to the younger crowd better than he would if he
Speaker 4: had the same image that he did when he coached
Speaker 4: the Patriots. And I guess she's she's the piece that
Speaker 4: can you know, help him do that. But Carolina has
Speaker 4: to regret this at this point because Belichick NFL super
Speaker 4: bowls out the rear end like he's super successful, he's
Speaker 4: a legend. But timing is everything in life, and I
Speaker 4: think timing of Belichick coaching college now is the worst
Speaker 4: timing possible. And I just think if you're going to
Speaker 4: go get an NFL coach that has a bunch of
Speaker 4: you know, Super Bowl rings, that has always had success
Speaker 4: by really being feared, right, he's a dictator that that's
Speaker 4: really how he seems to operate. That's not really the
Speaker 4: way to do it in college anymore. And oh, by
Speaker 4: the way, now, the biggest story other than you know,
Speaker 4: Belichick being in college at Carolina is that he's got
Speaker 4: a twenty four year old girlfriend who won't get out
Speaker 4: of the way and they've had to release a statement.
Speaker 4: Carolina has the school, which we can get into that later.
Speaker 4: Because anybody claiming that this is ridiculous, they're making this
Speaker 4: bigger than it is. It's being stretched. It's fabricated, fake news.
Speaker 4: I mean, like what, let's let's let's just for a
Speaker 4: moment hit pause and realize we are here operating in
Speaker 4: the real world and we do have a level of
Speaker 4: perception and you know, self awareness. What did you think
Speaker 4: this story would be, right? What did you think was
Speaker 4: going to be the reaction from a seventy three year
Speaker 4: old man dating a twenty four year old woman, like
Speaker 4: and it being Bill Belichick like it's just you still
Speaker 4: can't make you can't make it up, so we can
Speaker 4: get into that. Also, uh, there are a lot of
Speaker 4: players still in the portal, and I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's just because the portal's closed. And the coverage of
Speaker 4: recruitment when it comes to transfers is you know, it's
Speaker 4: not at all the same as when you were back
Speaker 4: in the day only tracking high school kids because it's
Speaker 4: a fast moving thing and it really comes down to
Speaker 4: opportunity meaning playing time and money. So Louisville still has
Speaker 4: scholarships to give. And again I think we got the
Speaker 4: indication yesterday with Pat Kelsey out there on the backside.
Speaker 4: We had some sound for yesterday of him talking about
Speaker 4: just the whole experience and also just you know, having
Speaker 4: a horse named after him. But Jody Dimmling had a
Speaker 4: ride up over at Cardinal Authority that had some quotes
Speaker 4: from Pat in regards to James Scott that certainly made
Speaker 4: it sound as if James.
Speaker 2: Scott is not that that's over, like it's it's done.
Speaker 4: But as expected, he also just talked about how much
Speaker 4: he loves that kid, will always love him, will always
Speaker 4: be there for him, like, I just that's the the
Speaker 4: James Scott thing. I know I said this a lot
Speaker 4: last week when that news broke, but he to me,
Speaker 4: I feel like it is going to be a name
Speaker 4: that that that pops up when I ask myself, or
Speaker 4: maybe I start to think to think to myself, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, you got to know that players can leave,
Speaker 4: but this guy will never leave, no way, because you know,
Speaker 4: why would he? Well that's James Scott. I mean I
Speaker 4: guess you could say, well, he wants more playing time
Speaker 4: and you're bringing in a new big you got two
Speaker 4: coming off injury. Maybe the money's not there. So like
Speaker 4: maybe maybe I don't know James Scott the way I
Speaker 4: thought I did, and trust me, I don't know him
Speaker 4: on a personal level. But I just I assume that
Speaker 4: because of how close he and Pat Kelsey are that
Speaker 4: it just wouldn't be something he would ever consider playing
Speaker 4: for somebody else. And you know I was wrong, But again,
Speaker 4: Louisville's got some some some scholarships.
Speaker 2: And I would imagine they got some inn aile money.
Speaker 4: I mean, James Scott, maybe it was money that that
Speaker 4: was a factor in him deciding to go elsewhere to
Speaker 4: get more. But whatever he was making, it's now on
Speaker 4: the table, so you know, we'll see. I'm a little surprised,
Speaker 4: and maybe there's some out there and I just haven't
Speaker 4: been able to, you know, get wind of it, or
Speaker 4: maybe I'm not following the right people. But I'm eager
Speaker 4: to see this roster finalized. And I really think if
Speaker 4: Scott would have stuck around, there's a scenario that maybe
Speaker 4: the roster kind of would have been finalized. And you know,
Speaker 4: other than maybe some real late editions, maybe some guys
Speaker 4: from overseas or something like that. So again we'll get
Speaker 4: into that. Also, NBA playoffs, I mean again, the NBA
Speaker 4: product I don't think is great. But I will say
Speaker 4: in the first round, you've had some real bad blowouts,
Speaker 4: but you've actually had some pretty competitive games and some
Speaker 4: pretty competitive series, and hey, that's a step in the
Speaker 4: right direction. And what do we know about life? I
Speaker 4: was gonna say basketball, but it's life.
Speaker 2: Drama.
Speaker 4: Drama sells, and last night there was some drama as
Speaker 4: the Pacers into the Bucks season.
Speaker 2: And how about how about your Pacers, buddy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I gets your hype, yes, and no,
Speaker 4: I mean yes, I was happy that they won. I
Speaker 4: mean I was, and I think they've got a good team.
Speaker 4: I just don't think they're going to be in position
Speaker 4: to get past Boston. And I'm not sure really anybody is,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you. And of course Cleveland, like
Speaker 4: Cleveland's the team that really is breaking through this year
Speaker 4: to where you know, the ceiling for my Pacers is
Speaker 4: just not that high.
Speaker 2: That's what gets me.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think it'll always be that way,
Speaker 4: whereas Cleveland has has a higher ceiling right now. And
Speaker 4: obviously Boston's the reigning champ. So I just I want
Speaker 4: to talk about Jannis and and and halla Burton. Yeah,
Speaker 4: not just because of the situation with Jannis and Halliburton's dad,
Speaker 4: but I really think both of those guys probably you know,
Speaker 4: after the fact, handled it as good as you possibly could.
Speaker 4: And I know it may sound like, well, you're just
Speaker 4: saying that because of you know, you're a Pacers fan,
Speaker 4: and Halliburton's the franchise player, and I am a Pacers fan.
Speaker 4: He is the you know, he is the franchise player.
Speaker 4: But also, like I'll admit it, I don't find him
Speaker 4: very likable. I think he's good. I don't believe that
Speaker 4: he's the most overrated player, like NBA players voted him.
Speaker 4: But I uh, you know, I kind of think he's
Speaker 4: a little cringe at times, and I hate that. But
Speaker 4: he's a good player, and I think last night it
Speaker 4: was a really bad look from his dad, and I
Speaker 4: don't think he could have handled it any better by
Speaker 4: addressing it and saying that he doesn't think that his
Speaker 4: dad was in the right. He apologizes to Jannis, and
Speaker 4: I was just worried that he was going to come
Speaker 4: out and be really like, you know, I mean, you
Speaker 4: never know how somebody's going to react when their dad
Speaker 4: gets in a situation like that, right, Like, I mean,
Speaker 4: even if your dad is in the wrong completely it's
Speaker 4: family man like, you may not you may not even
Speaker 4: have the wherewithal to understand that in the moment because
Speaker 4: it's dad. And if somebody's going chest to chest with him,
Speaker 4: you know you're gonna you're gonna take his side. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't think they went chest to chest. I mean,
Speaker 4: mister Halliburton is very lucky that Yannis is a nice
Speaker 4: human being, because I think a lot of people would
Speaker 4: have killed him. I mean, I say that, you know,
Speaker 4: there's an exaggeration, but I mean, most people I think
Speaker 4: would not have had the restraint that that Yanni's did
Speaker 4: and what he said afterwards, Like I heard all about it,
Speaker 4: and then I finally listened to it once. I you know,
Speaker 4: I was seeing everybody react to it, and then I listened.
Speaker 2: To it in.
Speaker 4: The whole clip essentially of him discussing the situation and
Speaker 4: after the game and we're not gonna play the entire thing,
Speaker 4: But I mean, I don't think Giannis could have could
Speaker 4: have handled it any better. And I thought, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is gonna be you know, he's gonna be super
Speaker 4: you know, he's gonna be really likable, and everybody's gonna,
Speaker 4: you know, eat it up. But I'll probably be like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: that's fake. But no, like I think Giannis is pretty
Speaker 4: genuine and in a weird way, that looked like it
Speaker 4: was about to be really bad, and it certainly wasn't
Speaker 4: a good moment for the Pacers or really Yannis, I suppose,
Speaker 4: but I kind of feel like the way both addressed
Speaker 4: it after the fact, it made it to where this
Speaker 4: will be, this will be forgotten, I think, and you
Speaker 4: know that's the way it should be. All Right, that
Speaker 4: race already took off. I didn't see who won. I
Speaker 4: can't get into my account. I got to figure out
Speaker 4: how to get logged in here because I and yeah,
Speaker 4: I didn't even pick a winner, so you know, and
Speaker 4: I'm glad I didn't, because you know, had I had
Speaker 4: I won, but not bet. You know, technically I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have won, and then I would have been
Speaker 4: and I'd have been pissed. So anyways, let's take a
Speaker 4: first break. We'll come back. Keep this thing rolling along.
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Speaker 4: is not something I intended to talk about today, but
Speaker 4: I've got a theory here. So it's not unheard of
Speaker 4: for a college basketball player who maybe doesn't necessarily translate
Speaker 4: well to the pro game at any level make the
Speaker 4: move to football because you know, they've got the build,
Speaker 4: maybe the athleticism. I mean, I still believe to this
Speaker 4: day Shane Behannon could have been a phenomenal tight end.
Speaker 4: And it's not just because you know, he's he's got
Speaker 4: the size for it, but a good athlete better than
Speaker 4: you know, most people probably realized, like there's certain guys
Speaker 4: that are that undersized four that can end up finding
Speaker 4: a way to the NFL if, of course you know
Speaker 4: they can adjust, meaning are they are they willing to
Speaker 4: you know, get beat up and play much more physical
Speaker 4: sports than basketball? Do they have you know, the instincts?
Speaker 4: Like I would imagine a lot of the guys that
Speaker 4: have been able to play both and be successful to
Speaker 4: an extent at both have probably always played both, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like it's not just well, hey,
Speaker 4: you know he's never picked up a football, but hey,
Speaker 4: he's got the athleticism and the size. So let's see
Speaker 4: what happens here. Like mo Ali Cox, he is he
Speaker 4: still with Yeah? Is he still with my Colts?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I don't think so, I mean, not necessarily sure. So
Speaker 4: he comes to me and he's one of many. I mean, hell,
Speaker 4: Antonio Gates did not play college football. He only played
Speaker 4: college basketball, and he was one of the best tight
Speaker 4: ends of my lifetime. So Mohali Cox played at BCU
Speaker 4: and then ended up joining the Colts roster. And he
Speaker 4: is still with him, by the way, and he's been
Speaker 4: you know, he's been he's been good. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: not like a all Pro kind of guy, but you know,
Speaker 4: he started thirteen games last year and you know he's
Speaker 4: had fifteen touchdowns in his six seven years with the team, So,
Speaker 4: you know, not a star by any means, but I
Speaker 4: mean it's safe to say he was able to, you know,
Speaker 4: adjust well. So you know, there are different examples, but
Speaker 4: the latest is a guy that a lot of people
Speaker 4: around here, if you're a louisvill fan you're probably familiar
Speaker 4: with to an extent. That's Ian Scheiflin. Is that name
Speaker 4: ring a bell for you? That's the Clemson kid, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Javon Hadley's son. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were in attendance to see Javon put up
Speaker 4: a light thirty two on him and just give him.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe that easy day.
Speaker 4: Maybe Javon is the one who like really had to
Speaker 4: just break it to him. Dude, you're you know you're
Speaker 4: gonna go pro in something other than basketball.
Speaker 2: It's ain't for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, Ian Scheiflin has apparently decided he is going to
Speaker 4: play football for Clemson. And the reason I'll bring this
Speaker 4: up is because it's not a crazy theory to throw
Speaker 4: out there. At least I don't think it is that
Speaker 4: he might really be interested. He might really think that
Speaker 4: he has a future in pro football more so than basketball.
Speaker 4: Because again, he's a six 't eight listed at six
Speaker 4: eighty ain't six eight, And you know he's he's he's
Speaker 4: got good hands, that's something he definitely has. And he's
Speaker 4: a guy that's effective and good at basketball. And I
Speaker 4: don't know why, Like, I don't know what it is
Speaker 4: that he's bringing to the game that gives him the
Speaker 4: ability to consistently come out and give you double doubles.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just got he played, he's got that
Speaker 2: plumber's body.
Speaker 4: But the theory that I mentioned is that this could
Speaker 4: also just be a way of him bypassing having to
Speaker 4: get a real job and making a bunch of money
Speaker 4: through nil. Like, I don't know what the going rate
Speaker 4: would be for a guy that you know you're not
Speaker 4: bidding on, right, Like, he can't go to Devil Sweeney
Speaker 4: and say, look, you got to cut the nil checker.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna transfer and play tight end elsewhere. I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe he could do that, but I just there there
Speaker 4: is clearly a real, real reason and an incentive I
Speaker 4: should say for for guys to stick around. Guys and girls,
Speaker 4: by the way, both to stick around in college as
Speaker 4: long as they can. And you know the reason is money.
Speaker 4: Dollar signs so well, last time. We'll see him on
Speaker 4: the field next year if he actually does it and
Speaker 4: makes the team, if he knows what's best for him,
Speaker 4: he won't. Yeah, they come to Louisville, so he probably
Speaker 4: won't make the trip because they'll be scared of his dad.
Speaker 2: He doesn't want to see John Age with that belt
Speaker 2: ass again like he got last time he came to Louisville.
Speaker 2: The Young Center flashbacks.
Speaker 5: The last time I heard about the shiffling kid, I
Speaker 5: thought he entered the transfer port.
Speaker 4: He was one of those guys that and I would
Speaker 4: give this guy credit. He he I think he had
Speaker 4: the awareness more so than others, or maybe the others
Speaker 4: didn't they just don't care. But he knew the look
Speaker 4: of entering the portal with clearly no eligibility left right,
Speaker 4: and he was one of many that did it, like
Speaker 4: on the same day, just in case maybe the some
Speaker 4: scenario that the NCAA can no longer like, you know,
Speaker 4: can no longer enforce their eligibility.
Speaker 2: You know rule.
Speaker 4: But he did come out and say I'm doing it
Speaker 4: at a and he put out like a statement I
Speaker 4: think through his agent that said, you know, he was
Speaker 4: advised to do this by his agent, and he's aware
Speaker 4: that there's a very small chance that it would ever happen,
Speaker 4: and that he does have plans for himself after basketball,
Speaker 4: I guess after Clemson basketball. But those plans apparently were
Speaker 4: Clemson football. So I just thought that was interesting, all right.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if this punishment was because of
Speaker 4: the reaction or something they were just always going to do,
Speaker 4: because I don't think it's fair to say this punishment
Speaker 4: came late and the punishment I'm talking about is the
Speaker 4: NFL has stepped in and fined both the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 4: and d C Jeff Olbrick due to I'm sorry they Yeah,
Speaker 4: the NFL has fined the Falcons two hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: thousand dollars and Jeff Olbrick, the defensive coordinator whose son
Speaker 4: got access to shad Or Sanders' number, he has been
Speaker 4: fined one hundred thousand dollars, so three hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: thousand dollars in total damages here because of this prank
Speaker 4: that really isn't a prank. It's just a cruel, stupid
Speaker 4: thing to do that embarrassed your family. I mean, like
Speaker 4: it just I'm not to the age where I'm, you know,
Speaker 4: looking down on young kids who make dumb decisions, because
Speaker 4: you know, I'm not that old. I'm not some old,
Speaker 4: you know, crotchety get off my lawn guy, But like
Speaker 4: what a dumb ass like that. The more time that passes,
Speaker 4: the more like that was. Just like even if you
Speaker 4: thought it might be kind of funny to share the
Speaker 4: number with somebody, and you know, and actually steal the number,
Speaker 4: I suppose from your dad's iPad to go through with
Speaker 4: what went What they went through is just I mean,
Speaker 4: like it's beyond stupid to where at any point, if
Speaker 4: you use your brain, if you have one, you would
Speaker 4: realize this is a really bad idea. The scenario where
Speaker 4: this ends up being like a net positive for me,
Speaker 4: no no chance of that happening. And sure enough, now
Speaker 4: this young man, I mean, I would imagine that from
Speaker 4: now until a long long time, when people google his name,
Speaker 4: they'll they'll know that he's the guy who stole his
Speaker 4: dad's iPad, got shit or Sanders number and called him
Speaker 4: on draft night to mess with him and you know,
Speaker 4: brought a lot of embarrassment and shame to his father,
Speaker 4: his family, the Atlanta Falcons, and really himself. And then
Speaker 4: he used an AI generator to to to to write
Speaker 4: up an apology. So again, do you think Austin, this
Speaker 4: was something that they always planned to do as soon
Speaker 4: as they realized that the Falcons were falling on it
Speaker 4: and letting everybody know, hey, hand up our DC's dumbass
Speaker 4: son is the one who had this whole thing happened?
Speaker 4: Or do you think that because I think the last
Speaker 4: couple of days, a lot of the reaction has been
Speaker 4: like the NFL can't just sit back and not do anything.
Speaker 2: And I kind of agree, like this is that's what
Speaker 2: I thought, that you have a you have a you
Speaker 2: have you have.
Speaker 4: A standard dub hold when you you know, work in
Speaker 4: the National Football League and when you have access to
Speaker 4: information like you know, phone numbers for everybody who's going
Speaker 4: to be getting a call to be notified that they're drafted,
Speaker 4: like you can't be see, you know, and I don't
Speaker 4: even know how is part of the story that I
Speaker 4: don't believe is that he just so happened to like
Speaker 4: walk by his dad's iPad when he was on it
Speaker 4: and then he saw it, and you know, that just
Speaker 4: doesn't add up, like I.
Speaker 5: Just happened to walk by my dad's Playboy magazine.
Speaker 4: I think I think that there is a good scenario
Speaker 4: that they, like this was a plan, like, hey, I
Speaker 4: can probably get his number because you know, my dad
Speaker 4: has access to it, and we're gonna get not just
Speaker 4: everybody's number, we're gonna get should Or Sanders number because
Speaker 4: he's the most talked about guy in the draft. And
Speaker 4: as much as I don't like shoud Or Sanders and
Speaker 4: hope that he was in some way humbled, although I
Speaker 4: don't find that possible. I hope he was humbled with
Speaker 4: the whole experience. But that's just I mean, that's beyond
Speaker 4: mean cruel, Like that's just a really really like I
Speaker 4: wouldn't want that to happen to somebody that, like i'd despise.
Speaker 4: I mean maybe in the situation I would, but it's just,
Speaker 4: you know, like that, just for some reason, that hits
Speaker 4: me as a cruel thing to do more so than
Speaker 4: it probably should.
Speaker 2: And I don't I don't really know why.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's because I realize how bad I don't like
Speaker 4: shit or Sanders, and I sometimes think, you know what, Nick,
Speaker 4: You're weird.
Speaker 2: Why do you care?
Speaker 4: This is a twenty one year old college kid that
Speaker 4: you know, I can't stand it to dislike, I can't
Speaker 4: stand but can't stand anything about him. To be honest
Speaker 4: with you, but again, that is a that's a hefty fine.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure you're making good money as an
Speaker 4: NFL defensive coordinator, but a hundred grands a hundred grand,
Speaker 4: I mean, that's six figures that you know, you it's
Speaker 4: an unexpected six figure expense. And I know his son
Speaker 4: is a twenty one year old man, not a kid.
Speaker 4: But man, if I was Jeff Ulbrick the DC, I'd
Speaker 4: be taking it out of his ass. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 4: do love how many people have led to this being
Speaker 4: like an interesting scenario that you often you know that
Speaker 4: you don't often see a guy who's still young but
Speaker 4: an adult did something you know, reprehensive.
Speaker 2: Like does dad whoop his ass?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Like if.
Speaker 4: He's fourteen fifteen, you know, we don't condone and nobody
Speaker 4: should ever like abuse their kids. But like, I know,
Speaker 4: I got a spank in a time or two when
Speaker 4: I was young, and I had a comfortable fear of
Speaker 4: my parents, my you know, my you know when it
Speaker 4: comes to family.
Speaker 2: Parents, grandparents and so uncles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I had a comfortable fear that I
Speaker 4: need to treat them with respect and not do something
Speaker 4: that was going to get myself in trouble because you know,
Speaker 4: discipline does in fact work. So yeah, I think the
Speaker 4: NFL kind of because they probably don't have it in
Speaker 4: their playbook, right, like, hey, if this happens where a
Speaker 4: random kid who happens to be the DC son of
Speaker 4: an NFL team, like they don't have it. This isn't
Speaker 4: like a standard protocol.
Speaker 2: It's not of men.
Speaker 4: It's unprecedented exactly. So the decision to do this I
Speaker 4: think makes sense. And you know, I think if you're
Speaker 4: an NFL staffer in any way and you've got access
Speaker 4: to information that you know is really really really private, confidential, whatever,
Speaker 4: you know, you need to make sure you'd be mindful
Speaker 4: of that and don't just leave it out where anybody
Speaker 4: could grab it, even a bit's your home. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think this was a little bit of a reach,
Speaker 4: but there was a there was an article I read
Speaker 4: earlier that, like, again, I wanted to I wanted to
Speaker 4: get to I wanted to go from start to finish
Speaker 4: with this article, feeling as if this was an overreaction
Speaker 4: and a you know, a hot take kind of thing,
Speaker 4: but I don't think it was. And that was that
Speaker 4: the NFL needs to to understand that, like people can,
Speaker 4: people are really good at hacking your stuff. So like,
Speaker 4: imagine like people realizing there's vulnerability here with iPads and
Speaker 4: I wouldn't know how to do it or even know
Speaker 4: how anybody would learn how to be able to get
Speaker 4: access to somebody's iPad. You know that's not right in
Speaker 4: front of them, but imagine getting access to like plays,
Speaker 4: the play sheet, the design, yeah, I mean the game plan,
Speaker 4: and I don't it wouldn't turn into something that where
Speaker 4: oh the other team here.
Speaker 2: Now that it's in a Wakey League situation where Bobby.
Speaker 4: Ptrino left behind a playbook, where wake Forest then realized, hey,
Speaker 4: how do they know everything we're gonna do? And then
Speaker 4: wake played victim when they didn't actually bring it up
Speaker 4: until they got their ass kicked after the fact, and
Speaker 4: they did the same thing. Now the real issue was
Speaker 4: Donnie Galloway was getting place from a former radio guy
Speaker 4: for Wake that just wanted to sabotage Dave Clawson. But
Speaker 4: that's the most left out part of the story that
Speaker 4: I think matters in a big way. But it's Bobby
Speaker 4: Withtrino and Louisville and it just that's all people care about.
Speaker 4: Can you believe Bobby's out here being a scumbag again?
Speaker 4: But again, and think about this, if you, if you,
Speaker 4: if you were a wake Forest, you realized this is
Speaker 4: there's something going on here. We gotta we got we
Speaker 4: got a leak, we got it, we got a spy
Speaker 4: because we found Louisville's play you know, play game plan
Speaker 4: or whatever, playbook whatever, and we know that they are
Speaker 4: aware of what we plan on doing to start the game.
Speaker 4: How would they know that, Well, they kept it, didn't
Speaker 4: say a word until they left town with an ass
Speaker 4: woman and then brought it up and it became a
Speaker 4: big deal. And again they had Louisville's playbook because Louisville
Speaker 4: left it behind, and they uncovered that Louisville knew things
Speaker 4: they shouldn't know. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: there's a reason why when Louisvill's started the game against
Speaker 4: wake Forest that year, who wasn't very good. It was
Speaker 4: Lamar's last year, I believe, and I mean that was
Speaker 4: a really awkward, just kind of you know, a rock
Speaker 4: fight where nothing was working.
Speaker 2: It's because wake knew exactly what Lola was going to do.
Speaker 4: But anyways, if in fact somebody got access to that information,
Speaker 4: they wouldn't be out there trying to sell it to
Speaker 4: another NFL team to get an advantage, or sell it
Speaker 4: to another program in college to get an advantage. They'd
Speaker 4: use it to clean out the sports books. They would
Speaker 4: use that to have some kind of an advantage when
Speaker 4: it comes to sports wagering. And it's one of those
Speaker 4: things that does you know it is far fetched, but
Speaker 4: I think this story that took place, you know, with
Speaker 4: the DC son of the Falcons pulling this whole stunt,
Speaker 4: it should just be a reminder that, like, if you
Speaker 4: weren't being really careful about information that you have access
Speaker 4: to that you know that's digital, you should be really
Speaker 4: really careful. Do you have a passcode on your phone, Austin,
Speaker 4: you're an iPhone guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm chilling on a smash Okay, no, I.
Speaker 4: Smashed that smash Burger Son, I do, but I just
Speaker 4: default go off the face scan Yeah, same here. I mean,
Speaker 4: but but I do have a pass Dude. I went years,
Speaker 4: like I'm relatively new to to you know, shutting the
Speaker 4: gate on my phone, if you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Like if I lost my phone for the vast majority
Speaker 4: of the time that I've had an iPhone, I mean
Speaker 4: I would I would probably, I mean, you would have
Speaker 4: everything like you wouldn't you know, you wouldn't even be
Speaker 4: prompted to put in a code wow or the face scan.
Speaker 4: And I don't really know why I did that, because yeah,
Speaker 4: that's kind of questionable. I mean I don't I just
Speaker 4: you know, to me, I I never actually set it up,
Speaker 4: and I'd never had the issue where my phone was
Speaker 4: stolen or lost or anything like that. But at one
Speaker 4: point it didn't lock quick enough, and like I was
Speaker 4: calling people from my pocket all the time because it
Speaker 4: was just you know, the thing was just live.
Speaker 2: I was, I was, you know, I was exposed at
Speaker 2: all times.
Speaker 4: Maybe just just out there, yeah, just out there, you know,
Speaker 4: just any movement I might, you know, I might you know,
Speaker 4: call nine one one or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'd absolutely accidentally hit record while you're oh,
Speaker 2: absolutely detective. You know, you move over to let a
Speaker 2: fart out.
Speaker 4: Next thing, you know, you hit that microphone button and
Speaker 4: a text message you're talking reckless about somebody and it
Speaker 4: and it fires off in a text message.
Speaker 2: I mean, it can happen. It's not the craziest thing
Speaker 2: made up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I uh, I now am glad that I
Speaker 4: have a pass code and do the face recognition. But
Speaker 4: I'm telling you when I am prompted to put in
Speaker 4: the passcode that it's super easy to put in. But
Speaker 4: it's because like the lighting or maybe a bad angle,
Speaker 4: too many bad attempts to where it didn't get my
Speaker 4: face and glasses, and then I have to put in
Speaker 4: the code. I'm like so inconvenienced, so like I think
Speaker 4: if I didn't have the face recognition which works so quick,
Speaker 4: I probably would still be out here just living reckless,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Just like, Hey, I got
Speaker 4: this iPhone. It's live at all times. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: You just gave living on the edge. You just gave
Speaker 4: me a fantastic idea. Well, I also want to touch
Speaker 4: up on the living on the edge because for the
Speaker 4: longest time you also had a You also went bear
Speaker 4: back with your phone too, right, Oh yeah, no glove baby,
Speaker 4: my goodness, I'm on that ream just raw a dog
Speaker 4: and I'm right now.
Speaker 2: Are you respect? Does it feel dangerous? No, because I
Speaker 2: mean it feels scary.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put it out in
Speaker 5: the universe. But I hardly ever drop my phone anyways.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I just some my old cut.
Speaker 5: I meant to get a new case, but it was
Speaker 5: clear and it was starting to like yellow. I've had
Speaker 5: it for a few years, but I just these phones
Speaker 5: nowadays are so sleek and so nice looking. I don't
Speaker 5: like it cover covering it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, though I feel like what's when I don't have
Speaker 4: a case on my phone. What really is noticeable right
Speaker 4: away is that one. It's a little lighter, but it
Speaker 4: slides on everything because of the surface, like the texture
Speaker 4: of it, and I feel like I could just drop
Speaker 4: it much more easily when I don't have like that
Speaker 4: rubbery Yeah, you know the rubber right, no glove, no
Speaker 4: love baby, I mean that's you know.
Speaker 5: So you did give me a fantastic idea, and you
Speaker 5: could please shoot it down if you want to. Maybe
Speaker 5: we could talk about it more off air. But fantastic
Speaker 5: idea for a draft this week. Silly life inconveniences that
Speaker 5: you hate three rounds silly like I don't like an
Speaker 5: example you just said, red lights or something like that
Speaker 5: that you just can't stay.
Speaker 4: That's all I think about, little things that should not
Speaker 4: bother me the way that they do what they drive
Speaker 4: me crazy. Yes, absolutely make me want to actually run
Speaker 4: for some type of political position to where I could
Speaker 4: make a change.
Speaker 2: Right Like, let me give you an example.
Speaker 4: Lights in downtown Louisville, really downtown any city should not
Speaker 4: be set up to accommodate the streets. Is if we
Speaker 4: have way more people walking than we do driving right off,
Speaker 4: A good one, all right? Uh this race is going
Speaker 4: to finish when we're at break. So it's race seven
Speaker 4: at Churchill. We've got I'm gonna give you the names
Speaker 4: if you haven't.
Speaker 2: Pulled it up yet.
Speaker 4: Likely perspective, Yeah, I'm looking at it. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 4: you take it. You take a look here. I uh,
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna go with uh man, I uh,
Speaker 4: let me see where I'm looking at here on TVG.
Speaker 4: It doesn't give me the full info that I usually
Speaker 4: reference to make a pick, but that probably doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: I could just flip a coin, and you know, I
Speaker 4: don't know how you do that when there's this many races,
Speaker 4: but are this many horses, But I'll go with uh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna roll with Let's see, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 4: new Rome, New Rome, New Rome. Who is in the
Speaker 4: in the in the five spot?
Speaker 2: What do you like? Not a bad? I think.
Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna have to go with a favorite here,
Speaker 5: the classic Q five to two.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you got four, I got five.
Speaker 4: This thing will take off in three minutes and when
Speaker 4: we get back, it'll be over and we'll see if
Speaker 4: either of us had any luck.
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Speaker 4: Austin Montgomery, who is rolling over his momentum from yesterday
Speaker 4: at Babo Tuesday because he just got the the winner.
Speaker 4: And you know you've you've already helped me when it
Speaker 4: comes to something I needed to be reminded of.
Speaker 2: Oka.
Speaker 4: I don't like betting favorites, but that usually is there's
Speaker 4: a rask. There's a reason their favorites these races. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, like I like to, you know, put a
Speaker 4: little something down where there's gonna be some juice there
Speaker 4: because the horse doesn't expected to win. But like sometimes
Speaker 4: you have to do that if you like, do you
Speaker 4: what do you want to do? You know, take a
Speaker 4: bigger risk or actually you know win right, And you know,
Speaker 4: I believe in momentum. Therefore, even if you are picking
Speaker 4: favorites and you know you're not gonna get a ton
Speaker 4: of credit at times if you pick the favorite, because
Speaker 4: the horse that won, you know, was supposed to do that,
Speaker 4: but hey, it can, it can develop some momentum and
Speaker 4: you certainly have that right now. And I got to
Speaker 4: get started at some point. We've got race number eight
Speaker 4: that'll take off in twenty three minutes, and I'll uh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be doing some hard hitting research. And I
Speaker 4: hope you guys believe me when I said that, because
Speaker 4: if so, then I'm a good live That's what the
Speaker 4: show is about. Hitting horse research. Yeah, hard hitting brad Dog,
Speaker 4: And we've been talking about a lot of you know, uh,
Speaker 4: I love the I love and also sometimes worry that
Speaker 4: if somebody was to just catch us at a certain
Speaker 4: moment and they didn't quite they didn't quite grasp the
Speaker 4: context of conversation. You know, they might think we were
Speaker 4: the most perverted, uh, you know, unprofessional people out there,
Speaker 4: which we may be, but you know, we may be that,
Speaker 4: but we try to sometimes, you know, disguise it. That's
Speaker 4: that's just what we what we try to do.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: What I've tried to do on like these races in
Speaker 5: yesterday where I won some money too, is because I
Speaker 5: think like the first four or five races was nothing
Speaker 5: but favorites, and like, okay, this is kind of how
Speaker 5: it goes.
Speaker 2: It's nice day, fast fast track, you like that. Oh yeah, And.
Speaker 5: Just knowing that that favorite, especially if it's overwhelming, just
Speaker 5: go ahead and pick him to win, and then just
Speaker 5: exact it and just like, guess, well, who's the next
Speaker 5: best horse here that you think is going to come
Speaker 5: in second? I get you a little bit more juice
Speaker 5: than your five to two favorite that's going to pay
Speaker 5: out like four or five dollars.
Speaker 4: Sure, if you are somebody that is like me that
Speaker 4: really only bets on like the Derby or around Derby time,
Speaker 4: I easily just forget that. When the favorites don't win
Speaker 4: in the Derby, it's usually just because that race is different.
Speaker 4: It's so much longer than the majority of the races
Speaker 4: that you see. Therefore, favorites are usually a pretty safe pick.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe you don't want to do it, but
Speaker 4: like and sometimes there's not an overwhelming favor but there's
Speaker 4: a crop of favorites that clearly are believed to be
Speaker 4: in a much better class than the rest of the horses.
Speaker 4: So we'll see what happens, but I'm hopeful I can
Speaker 4: get some kind of a win before we wrap up
Speaker 4: the show case. Yeah, we get three more races, I believe,
Speaker 4: before they'll call it a day out there at a
Speaker 4: Churchill down.
Speaker 2: Keep you tabbed, Yeah, we'll keep you updated, all right.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna gohead and take a break just because
Speaker 4: I want to make sure to keep this thing on
Speaker 4: schedule as best we can. We'll get back into the
Speaker 4: Belichick thing, which is just, I mean, beyond bizarre, so
Speaker 4: much so that, like Charles Barkley, I don't think he
Speaker 4: said it to be funny. He was on Damn Patrick
Speaker 4: earlier today and claimed that he's going to reach out
Speaker 4: to Belichick because he's legitimately worried for him, which I
Speaker 4: think that makes sense. Also, will take a look at
Speaker 4: this year's Brown Barnstable Brown Derby GALLA invite list. That's
Speaker 4: a lot of words, but you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 4: right the celebrities that are coming into town for the
Speaker 4: biggest party that we have here at the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 4: So a lot more to come, two more hours to go,
Speaker 4: so stick with us right here on Sports Talk seven
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