Speaker 1: Think when we are getting off our show, idiot, the
Speaker 1: kids are playing or tail off.
Speaker 2: The coaches are screwing it up.
Speaker 3: Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, Goldplay Inn Murals.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 2: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Here's Nick Coffee?
Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started here one of our
Speaker 2: final shows of twenty twenty four. Coffee and Company. That's
Speaker 2: the name of the show. My name is Nick Coffee,
Speaker 2: and you guys are the company. I'm here along with
Speaker 2: the one and only Austin Montgomery as we take you
Speaker 2: up until six o'clock. Hopefully you had a good weekend.
Speaker 2: It is Monday, doesn't feel like a Monday. And I've
Speaker 2: said this many times over the years. I'm somebody that
Speaker 2: is very much in need of structure and consistency, and
Speaker 2: with the holiday schedule, and it's nice to have time off,
Speaker 2: especially during the holidays. And it's something you always know,
Speaker 2: is I mean, you're never surprised to wake up on Christmas. Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't have to go to work to do like
Speaker 2: you know, but with me doing has in the morning's
Speaker 2: filling in for Tony Cruz and then also doing this.
Speaker 2: It's just been, it's been. It's been wild, and I
Speaker 2: don't really know what day it is, but I mean
Speaker 2: I do it's Monday, but I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: it was because I know we've got New Year's Off
Speaker 2: coming up in a couple of days. It doesn't really
Speaker 2: feel like a Monday, which I guess is a good thing.
Speaker 2: But I'm running on fumes. Do you ever get so tired,
Speaker 2: Austin that you're like slap happy oh all the time?
Speaker 2: That's me and I'm not. I don't feel tired, but
Speaker 2: I have like this weird energy that's kind of I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like the vibes are pretty good right now
Speaker 2: to get this thing started. But I got up at
Speaker 2: four o'clock this morning to do the show on HAS
Speaker 2: and it's been great filling in and being able to
Speaker 2: be on the big stick as they call it. I mean, didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying this because I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel like we're all we're all company men here, we're
Speaker 2: all on the same fee, we're all we're all on
Speaker 2: the same team here at our heart. But you said
Speaker 2: the big leagues is what I got called up to
Speaker 2: and I guess it kind of feels like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a flagship, right.
Speaker 2: It's been it's been fun. Uh and it's been it's
Speaker 2: been a good experience just to kind of tryt something
Speaker 2: different and and it's different.
Speaker 4: You're familiar with the Big Stick.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's absolutely that's I think that's why they asked me.
Speaker 2: I think that's what led to them kind of being like, hey,
Speaker 2: big stick got an opening in the morning, hight as
Speaker 2: well go with the Big Stick guy. I think it's
Speaker 2: kind of how it all. And again, that's the kind
Speaker 2: of thing I couldn't say on the Big Stick, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: We can we can get coffee, we can get in the.
Speaker 2: Mud here, and it's it's probably not gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: raise a lot of red flags. I mean, maybe it does,
Speaker 2: and if so, then you know, I'll apologize.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at some of the other talent the
Speaker 1: w H A. S has and look what they get
Speaker 1: away with that. Have you heard the name Tony Vanetti? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the guyed White Wave.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say it might be the other one,
Speaker 2: but the guys are which by the way, Tony is
Speaker 2: totally because he is a very uh how do I
Speaker 2: describe it. I he's he's more polished on h as,
Speaker 2: he's more sophisticated. He's still then, but like it's a
Speaker 2: different version, it's and it's a good version. It's a
Speaker 2: great version. I don't know of a bad version of
Speaker 2: Venettie now. But with Dwight as his as his guy,
Speaker 2: their partners on the air, like Tony looks like the
Speaker 2: choir boy at times, yes, and Dwight can only be
Speaker 2: Dwight right, Like we don't want it, We don't make
Speaker 2: we don't want any adjustments. We don't want to make
Speaker 2: any changes. Dwight is perfectly Dwight is himself. We don't
Speaker 2: want to newter Dwight exactly, because then you don't then
Speaker 2: then what do you get? Right? Like Dwight is Dwight
Speaker 2: is is the best thing going around here.
Speaker 4: So you know, Tony Vnetti went to Trinity. I are
Speaker 4: you sure you heard that?
Speaker 2: Are you sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah? He's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I feel like if he went to Trinity, he would
Speaker 2: have talked about Trinity more. Yeah, I kind of I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like if he would have went there,
Speaker 2: then we would maybe know never I mean, I've never
Speaker 2: even I mean it just speaks to how he's become
Speaker 2: so humble in his uh in his I mean with
Speaker 2: all those state championships in football and there league. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like he's you'd think he'd bring it up. But again
Speaker 2: that's just the humble man that is, that is Tony Venetti.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But anyways, we're here until six clock. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: some fun and I am looking forward to it. I
Speaker 2: can tell you that a lot to get into. But
Speaker 2: I I've had a tough time. Have you ever had
Speaker 2: Do you have issues sleeping at all? Let's just have
Speaker 2: an open, an open therapy session here. Do you have
Speaker 2: trouble sleeping at night? It depends little myself.
Speaker 1: It depends sometimes if I if it depends on when
Speaker 1: I want to get to bed. And like I recently,
Speaker 1: actually before the holidays, I was going to bed at
Speaker 1: like two three o'clock.
Speaker 4: Not good, not healthy.
Speaker 1: But if I can get in bed at like eleven
Speaker 1: twelve at midnight, I'll be fine. But my ADHD, I
Speaker 1: guess that's what you want to call it. It, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It's like a fomo, a
Speaker 1: fear of missing out, like I have to be like
Speaker 1: the last one up in the world before I go
Speaker 1: to sleep, I got a scroll Twitter. I gotta scroll
Speaker 1: Instagram to make sure every stone is is covered, nothing's
Speaker 1: been changed.
Speaker 2: Like you're not gonna call it a day until you
Speaker 2: feel like, all right, I'm calling it until until I
Speaker 2: know you're gonna miss out.
Speaker 4: Nothing's gonna happen under my watch while I'm asleep.
Speaker 2: No, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 1: And then and that leads to me just kind of
Speaker 1: slogging into work the next day and kind of being
Speaker 1: like you just a little bit slap happy to start
Speaker 1: the day. And not that I love that, but there's
Speaker 1: something peaceful about staying up at night and kind of
Speaker 1: being the last one.
Speaker 4: To go to bed. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. I have for the first time
Speaker 2: since I used to work mornings on this station many
Speaker 2: I say many years ago, cause it's been roughly two
Speaker 2: years ago exactly. But so I've not been a I've
Speaker 2: not been in the mindset of like you need to
Speaker 2: go to bed because you have to wake up early,
Speaker 2: because I get up normally. Sometimes I get up really
Speaker 2: early and I'm just up. So I get up and
Speaker 2: I'm up like an hour and a half before my
Speaker 2: wife and kids get up. That's rare. But usually I
Speaker 2: can roll out of bed at like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: seven fifteen, seven thirty, and I'm not too tired. I
Speaker 2: got enough sleep, and I'm not in a hurry, like
Speaker 2: I can kind of just casually start today. So what
Speaker 2: I'm getting at is I've not been in the mindset
Speaker 2: in the evenings of you need to go ahead and
Speaker 2: you need to be mindful of when you go to
Speaker 2: bed because you have to get up early. I've not
Speaker 2: been in that cycle for a couple of years now, right,
Speaker 2: So I've not really been where I've got a like
Speaker 2: I got to get the kids to school on time
Speaker 2: and daycare on time, but I usually like that's such
Speaker 2: a late start, Like Mason has to be at daycare
Speaker 2: by nine thirty, We're good there. Maya has to be
Speaker 2: at school by nine. I'm good there. So like I'm
Speaker 2: just not it's not a point and by the way
Speaker 2: they wake up to where like if I was going
Speaker 2: to try to sleep and I wouldn't be able to.
Speaker 2: So I've not been in the mindset of needing to
Speaker 2: go to bed early enough because I need I need
Speaker 2: to be mindful of the amount of sleep that I get.
Speaker 2: But I've also never had to get up and be like,
Speaker 2: all right, let's get ready quickly and get out the
Speaker 2: door because we're going to start our day. Yeah, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I kind of missed that. To be
Speaker 2: honest with you, it's been kind of it's been kind
Speaker 2: of enjoyable the last few days, just because you know,
Speaker 2: it's when I get up whenever, like there's no alarm clock,
Speaker 2: I just know I'm going to wake up. I'm very
Speaker 2: fortunate to be able to do that. But also like
Speaker 2: it makes me just kind of feel like I'm lazy,
Speaker 2: although you know, I am doing the mister mom stuff
Speaker 2: getting the kids ready, and that's something I'll I'll always cherish.
Speaker 2: But since I've known, like, hey, you you've got a
Speaker 2: show that starts at five am, you need to be like,
Speaker 2: you need to go to bed. So then when I
Speaker 2: try to go to bed, what do I do think
Speaker 2: non stop fall asleep, fall asleep, fall asleep, And what
Speaker 2: does that do that makes me not fall asleep?
Speaker 1: If I fall asleep, now I'll get exactly exactly twenty
Speaker 1: seven minutes.
Speaker 2: That's been my mind for like the last the last
Speaker 2: few nights. I've done it. Yeah, And last night I
Speaker 2: just laid there and I fell asleep at like two fifteen,
Speaker 2: got up at four, and I wasn't that tired. But
Speaker 2: I think it's because I never really fell into like
Speaker 2: a deep sleep. So after the show this morning, I
Speaker 2: went home and I tried to like catch a quick nap,
Speaker 2: not a nap. Guy can't do it because I just can't.
Speaker 2: I can't relax enough to just kind of crash out.
Speaker 2: So I laid there, wasted an hour trying to fall asleep,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, look, if I fall asleep now, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be dragging. So I'm I'm when I say
Speaker 2: I'm rolling on fumes, I'm rolling on fumes. And that
Speaker 2: means that one that's probably going to be a little
Speaker 2: loopy today. I may get a little slap happy. I'm
Speaker 2: kind of already there, I feel like. But also when
Speaker 2: that crash shits, like, I don't know what to expect
Speaker 2: because you know it's coming.
Speaker 4: You bring a monster in today, I have one. There.
Speaker 2: You go and open that it helps here, but we
Speaker 2: shall see. Let me take a little drink here to
Speaker 2: get to get the juices flowing.
Speaker 1: Well, let me go ahead and ask you like Are
Speaker 1: the kids relatively good with waking up or do you
Speaker 1: have to go? Like REMI Maya Moose like, all right,
Speaker 1: I tried waking up three times already.
Speaker 4: Are they just are?
Speaker 1: Are they trained enough to kind of get ready and
Speaker 1: get out the door whenever they have to?
Speaker 2: So for the most part, it depends on where they're
Speaker 2: going that day. That's the first thing they ask me
Speaker 2: when they get up, and usually it's I mean, they've
Speaker 2: asked me that recently because they've been out of school
Speaker 2: and daycare was closed for a week for Moose. So
Speaker 2: we're lucky that Maya loves school to where she wakes
Speaker 2: up and I'm like, hey, you're gonna go see your
Speaker 2: friends and I mentioned some of their names, and she's excited.
Speaker 2: She's ready to go with Moos, it just depends on
Speaker 2: did he stay up late watching too much TV with dad?
Speaker 2: Because he'll once he's up, he's good, but like the
Speaker 2: getting him awake and out of bed, like he's already
Speaker 2: turned in at four years old as the guy who's
Speaker 2: like just gonna keep faking that he's sleeping. But here's
Speaker 2: an issue that maybe you could help me out with.
Speaker 2: And I'm not even kidding, So he is. He's really
Speaker 2: become in and I didn't really wasn't anything I did,
Speaker 2: but he's really into wrestling. Yes, he wants he wants
Speaker 2: to watch wrestling all the time on Peacock. Because we
Speaker 2: were on Peacock one time watching like a true crime thing,
Speaker 2: not me and him, but me and the wife, and
Speaker 2: he saw, like you know, I was scrolling through and
Speaker 2: I ended up on the WWE tab of course, like
Speaker 2: there's everything there, and he was like, man, like, can
Speaker 2: we watch that? Dad? Can we watch that? Dad? And
Speaker 2: I'm like why not? And then I'm realizing, wait a second,
Speaker 2: Like I could go pull up old Monday Night Raw
Speaker 2: from when I was a little kid, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: this could be really nostalgic. So sure enough, like we've
Speaker 2: we've at times just put it on and he always
Speaker 2: asked to watch it, and it's nostalgic for me. And
Speaker 2: it's wild to see what that era was, like the
Speaker 2: attitude era in professional wrestling, Like I feel like I
Speaker 2: got I feel like everybody feels like they're era of everything, Like, man,
Speaker 2: you know we had it better. We you know, we
Speaker 2: were the best. Oh yeah, and I think you know
Speaker 2: our era is the best. But I also feel like
Speaker 2: we were lucky because that was something you'll that'll never
Speaker 2: be recreated again. And I don't know how in such
Speaker 2: a PC culture, like it's such a you know, such
Speaker 2: a woke world we live in now, and I don't
Speaker 2: I'm not even really saying that, like, well, take it
Speaker 2: how you mean it, but like there's things that I
Speaker 2: really thought was enjoyable, that like that was funny, that
Speaker 2: like I knew kind of maybe I shouldn't be watching,
Speaker 2: but like it was awesome. And I don't mean just
Speaker 2: because you know, like women had nothing but like something
Speaker 2: very small covering their nipples on television, and you know,
Speaker 2: Jerry the King was horned up NonStop, and you know,
Speaker 2: the the the I mean just some of the things
Speaker 2: like that. I'm just thinking now whenever the Big Boss
Speaker 2: Man showed up at The Big Show's dad's funeral, hooked
Speaker 2: the chains up to the casket and drove a drove
Speaker 2: off with the with the Big Show's dad in the
Speaker 2: back of the end chasing after all, and as a kid,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like, you know, there's no doubt in my
Speaker 2: mind at that age, like that's real, Like damn, I
Speaker 2: don't know what they got me messed up if somebody
Speaker 2: does to my dad like I'm you know, and it
Speaker 2: was it was a fun ride, but we were lucky
Speaker 2: to be able to because there's no way they could
Speaker 2: ever pull that off in any way. And to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, the former leader of the WWE, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's now in some hot water for a variety of things,
Speaker 2: but it's really none of that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like they were able to get away with it. You
Speaker 2: can go pull the footage and see it. It's probably
Speaker 2: some of the things have been removed from the cloud
Speaker 2: that they're on on Peacock, but like we all know,
Speaker 2: it was there and they got away with it, and
Speaker 2: like nobody cares. Like to me, it's a sign of
Speaker 2: can we you know, I understand we need to be
Speaker 2: respectful and not go out of our way to insult
Speaker 2: people or be disrespectful or offend them, but like also
Speaker 2: like can we not take ourselves so serious? Like that
Speaker 2: to me speaks to that era. So the reason I'll
Speaker 2: bring all this up often is because when he watches it,
Speaker 2: he won't sleep, like like he'll you know, I'll be like,
Speaker 2: all right, one more match, one more match, and he
Speaker 2: doesn't really get into the promos. He just wants to
Speaker 2: watch him wrestle. Oh okay, old school, but like, you know,
Speaker 2: all right, one more match. It's eleven o'clock. He should
Speaker 2: have been a bed of two hours ago, but like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm kind of that dad, Like if he
Speaker 2: wants to stay up and stay with me, we kind
Speaker 2: of have our own time. But then I go put
Speaker 2: him in bed, and like he'll come two hours later, like,
Speaker 2: hey Dad, I can't sleep, And I'm like, you haven't
Speaker 2: been to sleep, but all he's like no, So like
Speaker 2: he watches wrestling and then he doesn't sleep. So I
Speaker 2: don't know, Like I don't know what if there's anything
Speaker 2: that they can be done about that, but he's he's
Speaker 2: certainly into it.
Speaker 1: I was kind of I was kind of the same
Speaker 1: way because that stuff was just fascinating, the draw of wrestling,
Speaker 1: Like everything's so colorful, Like the characters are just kind
Speaker 1: of like out of this world and you're just like
Speaker 1: drawn to him. Does does he have any favorites that
Speaker 1: he likes watching or does he have anybody that he
Speaker 1: that he that that like kind of sticks to him
Speaker 1: just yet or is he just like so he said
Speaker 1: he doesn't watch the promos.
Speaker 4: You sometimes that's the best part.
Speaker 2: You would be you would know this more than I would. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when Jeff Jarrett initially and maybe this was just a
Speaker 2: Jeff Jarrett thing throughout his time as a wrestler. I
Speaker 2: know he's been everywhere, but at one point in the
Speaker 2: WWF now the WWE, he had a guitar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 2: Moose thought that was cool as hell. So that's his
Speaker 2: guy business. Pat Paul plays guitar and he just cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: double j Jeff Jarrett. So he likes him, uh, and
Speaker 2: he's he's a bandwagon guy, like you know, he gets
Speaker 2: mad dad who we like whenever they start and I'm like, uh,
Speaker 2: we like this guy, and I try to guess who's
Speaker 2: gonna win because whenever we get to the end of
Speaker 2: the maschi and if they lose, he yells at me
Speaker 2: like why do we pick him?
Speaker 4: He seaks.
Speaker 2: He just he's he's only once the guys that are
Speaker 2: going over and that's what he's that's what he's all
Speaker 2: in on.
Speaker 4: So that's great.
Speaker 1: So I was just about to ask, like, when do
Speaker 1: you do the the cover of his eyes when you
Speaker 1: know something raunchy's coming up, like something with a diver.
Speaker 4: Do you just kind of like let him have it?
Speaker 2: No, So that now that you say that, I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like they have like the stuff that might
Speaker 2: have been like super riskue like super revealing for like women.
Speaker 2: I don't we we either we haven't got there yet
Speaker 2: or it wasn't as it might have happened like twice,
Speaker 2: but like it's what you remember when you're a kid,
Speaker 2: because you see Sable, you see Denbrah Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that was that was that was my era.
Speaker 2: So I haven't seen any of that in any of
Speaker 2: the ones we've watched, So maybe we just haven't hit
Speaker 2: it yet, or maybe they maybe they didn't include that,
Speaker 2: because like I've seen pictures of stuff that, like I
Speaker 2: know I watched on TV and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: like and well, never mind, we'll move on. This isn't
Speaker 2: has But I was about to go down a path
Speaker 2: that I probably shouldn't show.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Monday night, you're getting the wrestling fans
Speaker 1: True Wrestling, and the.
Speaker 2: Next Monday it'll be on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Right, It's it's the last time of them on actual
Speaker 1: cable television for a while because they're switching to Netflix
Speaker 1: and they've been rolling that whole promotion out like crazy,
Speaker 1: with like the whole Christmas game and everything like that.
Speaker 1: They're having the promos on Netflix whenever you log in,
Speaker 1: but try to get as much as wrestling content as
Speaker 1: you can because there's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: speculation that they're not going to transfer like the full
Speaker 1: library over and it's gonna be a little bit limited
Speaker 1: when it's on Netflix, So get as much as you can.
Speaker 2: So Peacock still owns like their contract's not running out
Speaker 2: because I don't have They just don't care anything live, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: They they usually do carry like like the pl e
Speaker 1: s what it's called the new pay per views, like okay,
Speaker 1: something on Saturday. Well, most of the pay per views
Speaker 1: now are on Saturday, and they're not called pay per
Speaker 1: views anymore because you're obviously not paying for them just
Speaker 1: to view it. So if you stream it then that's
Speaker 1: what's So as far as I know, everything switching over Netflix,
Speaker 1: and I know at the beginning of the year, that's
Speaker 1: when Peacock is losing the WWB library.
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know they were losing it. That makes
Speaker 2: that makes more sensus. The whole relationship with Netflix and honestly,
Speaker 2: I mean, I know there's so many people listening right
Speaker 2: now that don't watch or care about wrestling, and that's
Speaker 2: totally fine, but that was a humongous component for their
Speaker 2: subscription service. They're there incentive because they don't have a
Speaker 2: ton of local programming they do have or not local.
Speaker 2: They don't have a ton of original programming, and they
Speaker 2: they have some like they they end up is it
Speaker 2: NBC stuff that ends up there a lot, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: and some of it ends up on Hulu or whatever.
Speaker 2: But like, I kind of feel like Peacock's going to
Speaker 2: have to step their game up because I remember doing
Speaker 2: a deep dive on this just because I'm an nerd
Speaker 2: for it that that really like that that made Peacock
Speaker 2: a competitor with the others is because they had the
Speaker 2: ww library. It's viewed as a niche thing to a
Speaker 2: lot of people, and I guess technically it is, but
Speaker 2: the people who love it really love it, and that
Speaker 2: alone is why they were subscribing. And if you don't
Speaker 2: have that, I think you're probably gonna lose a lot
Speaker 2: of those people unless there's just like this segment of
Speaker 2: Peacock content that Peacock content sounds bad, doesn't it?
Speaker 4: Content on the Cocker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, you know, unless there's some original programming they
Speaker 2: have that's great that I just don't. I'm not aware,
Speaker 2: but I can't think of any original Peacock like series
Speaker 2: that I've watched that like was really good. Like I
Speaker 2: don't even know of any, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Technically, NBC since they had the only reason that I
Speaker 1: subscribed to Peacock was one it's generally more cheap than
Speaker 1: some of the other ones, Like it was four dollars
Speaker 1: when it started out. Now it's gone on to like
Speaker 1: six seven dollars, but it's strictly because of the ww
Speaker 1: network and to watch The Office. I'm a huge Office
Speaker 1: fan and I could watch that series like one hundred times,
Speaker 1: so I love being able to log and watch that.
Speaker 1: Once WWE leaves at it's going to be it's do
Speaker 1: I want to pay this much for The Office? And
Speaker 1: I probably still will because I love that show. But
Speaker 1: they have other stuff on there too, like King of
Speaker 1: Queen's other like other NBC content, But that's I think
Speaker 1: that was originally I'm pretty sure The Office first aired
Speaker 1: on NBC, and for the longest time, The Office was
Speaker 1: on Netflix and then a few years ago that's when
Speaker 1: it went to Peacock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there are some shows that end up on
Speaker 2: Netflix first that left there to go to Peacock and Hulu.
Speaker 2: That that really was a big was a big investment
Speaker 2: from those streaming services to try to get subscribers because
Speaker 2: they felt like that alone, those two shows specifically, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's more than those two. I know, like
Speaker 2: Parks and Rec's a big deal. I'm not sure where
Speaker 2: that's at now, but I know when Seinfeld and uh
Speaker 2: the office were moving around from where they were like that.
Speaker 2: Those are shows that even if you've seen every episode
Speaker 2: multiple times, people will I mean, I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like it's crazy to say, but maybe not. I think
Speaker 2: people will pay, specifically that monthly subscription to be able
Speaker 2: to watch any episode of those shows anytime they want,
Speaker 2: because they're arguably to the most popular shows of all time.
Speaker 2: So this show has been a very unusual start today.
Speaker 2: But again I told you, I'm a little loopy. I'm
Speaker 2: running on fumes. But we're gonna have some fun. There's
Speaker 2: certainly a lot to get into. We got to talk
Speaker 2: about Louisville's game against dKu, a win but man, they
Speaker 2: were fortunate in that game, and I've got some thoughts
Speaker 2: on it. I'm not gonna harp. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna act like, you know, we need to be super.
Speaker 2: That's just a reminder that this team, if they don't
Speaker 2: play well against good teams and if they really have
Speaker 2: stretches of bad play against maybe anybody, they're going to
Speaker 2: be vulnerable to a loss. Also, Louisville in action tomorrow
Speaker 2: in the Sun Bowl, which man, I'm excited to watch.
Speaker 2: I have no clue what to expect, which I think
Speaker 2: has kind of led to a lot of people kind
Speaker 2: of being like, yeah, we'll tune in, let's go go cards,
Speaker 2: but nobody has a clue what to really expect. Right
Speaker 2: In a way, I'm trying to convince myself that makes
Speaker 2: it fun. I don't know if I'm lying to myself
Speaker 2: or not, but either way, it's tomorrow two o'clock. And
Speaker 2: then another thing we got to get into is the
Speaker 2: story out of Florida State today. I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 2: the the nil situation. You know, I said it not
Speaker 2: that long ago. I think it might have been one
Speaker 2: of the last things that came up on this show
Speaker 2: last week. Before we got out of here for the weekend.
Speaker 2: There's really no story in college sports that pertains to
Speaker 2: the portal or nil that'll surprise you. And today we
Speaker 2: have another one that is you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: if anybody expected it, but if you think about it,
Speaker 2: it's not shocking. Florida State's got five former basketball players
Speaker 2: suing Leonard Hamilton for him promising them a bunch of
Speaker 2: money through NIL and maybe you get any of it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's been I mean again, like this is
Speaker 2: not sustainable, and that's the most obvious statement of all time.
Speaker 2: But what is the answer. What's the solution? And I
Speaker 2: don't know if anybody can provide one, And that's what's
Speaker 2: kind of scary, to be honest with you. So we
Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. Thanks for you know,
Speaker 2: letting me just, you know, wake up here. I was
Speaker 2: basically waking myself back up here as we get the
Speaker 2: things started. So stick around, don't go anywhere. It's coffee
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Speaker 2: Day, I was gonna say that the performance from Louisville
Speaker 2: on Saturday against e KU was the worst performance of
Speaker 2: the Pat Kelsey era. But I really don't know if
Speaker 2: that's accurate. You know, they won, and they've had some
Speaker 2: losses along the way, but all the losses were to
Speaker 2: good teams. But yet the good teams that beat you,
Speaker 2: some of them beat you really bad to where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you lost to a good team that's better than you,
Speaker 2: meaning you play them ten times, you're gonna lose more
Speaker 2: than you're gonna win, may lose them all. But to
Speaker 2: lose by the amount a loss to to Ole miss
Speaker 2: and Tennessee, you know, obviously that's you know, that's that's
Speaker 2: that's not a good look. But again, it's not a
Speaker 2: loss where it's like, how the hell did that happened?
Speaker 2: Had you not held on against KU, you know what
Speaker 2: that would have been, that would have been a how
Speaker 2: the hell did that happen? Loss? So I've not had
Speaker 2: a feeling like that in a long time, where I
Speaker 2: know that they were so fortunate to be able to win.
Speaker 2: And I don't feel like better about the team after
Speaker 2: that game, but I was just so relieved to know
Speaker 2: that they avoided a very embarrassing loss like that would have.
Speaker 2: And look, I know there's already people using the game
Speaker 2: as ash and I shouldn't even I shouldn't have prefaced
Speaker 2: it as if they're they're in the wrong, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: if you're somebody who's you know, just wanting to gain.
Speaker 2: By game kind of checked the pulse of the momentum
Speaker 2: that this team has as far as can they can
Speaker 2: they find a way to the tournament? Can they find
Speaker 2: a way to the bubble? That was not a good
Speaker 2: game against dKu, But it's also kind of a weird game.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna make any excuses. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to tell anybody that their concerns about Saturday are like wrong,
Speaker 2: But I just know that Louisville can't have many stretches
Speaker 2: of poor play against really anybody and expect to be
Speaker 2: able to win. And I think Eku. Maybe this is
Speaker 2: going to be me, you know, being a homer here
Speaker 2: and saying it, but like, I think Eku was as
Speaker 2: much of a factor in their ability to hang around
Speaker 2: and put themselves in a position to win. Like again,
Speaker 2: if ek you can do that to you, then yeah,
Speaker 2: that's concerning that. That's not good. However, like I'm not
Speaker 2: I knew going in that Louisville not I didn't think
Speaker 2: they would end up in the position they were in
Speaker 2: where they needed a last minute Noah waterman bucket. And
Speaker 2: by the way, like he'll still get made fun of
Speaker 2: by Louisville fans and he'll still be the guy that
Speaker 2: people just when people are frustrated, Like, here's what I
Speaker 2: think happened. I would never I'm gonna hold you to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would never, so me.
Speaker 2: So you're your back on, So you're on your you're
Speaker 2: you're pro Noah now knowing that, like he saved us
Speaker 2: from an embarrassing loss to where it would have been
Speaker 2: unbearable to hear from Kentucky fans forever about that.
Speaker 4: Now, I've always been okay, it's right, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: it's right.
Speaker 2: I gotten mixed up with somebody else.
Speaker 4: Yeah you're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. Yes, But with Noah,
Speaker 2: he like I don't think anybody truly has any I
Speaker 2: mean they they you can find the nastiest people on
Speaker 2: the Internet, and it doesn't take you very long and
Speaker 2: it's not very difficult to find them. Like people, they'll
Speaker 2: just say the meanest stuff. But I think deep down
Speaker 2: people realize, like, even though this team has had some
Speaker 2: beatdowns and they've at times not looked great, but like
Speaker 2: they're they're playing hard, they've got a good head about
Speaker 2: him despite how unlucky they've been with injuries, and even
Speaker 2: when they do have a dud game, they usually come
Speaker 2: ready to play the next time out, And I think
Speaker 2: people do appreciate that. But as Louisville fans, there's really
Speaker 2: no no scenario where we're are going to get used
Speaker 2: to losing to Kentucky and it feel like, well I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say used to it, we should be used to
Speaker 2: it now, but like it's never gonna feel good. It's
Speaker 2: never gonna be something you just kind of like are
Speaker 2: numb to. And then when you get beat down by teams,
Speaker 2: like there's still despite what happened the last few years,
Speaker 2: how bad it was, there is still like a level
Speaker 2: of like, we're Louisville and we need to at least
Speaker 2: be respectable. And when you get blown out, like fans
Speaker 2: kind of lose their mind a little bit, And I
Speaker 2: get it. That's what makes us crazy, that's what makes us,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, special. But my point is when you
Speaker 2: don't have it, when they don't really know who to
Speaker 2: direct it out, they're like, well, Pat Kelsey, man, I
Speaker 2: wish you would have won, But man, I kind of
Speaker 2: love that guy. And then most of the players on
Speaker 2: this team, I feel like people have a hard time
Speaker 2: like wanting to be like overly critical for or critical love.
Speaker 2: But the one guy that they have no problem throwing
Speaker 2: it all at is no Waterman. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's because of his I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's clearly had times where he's not played well,
Speaker 2: and he was brought here to do a variety of things.
Speaker 2: Most importantly they'll be a shooter, and at times he
Speaker 2: hasn't shot it well. But I know I'm not alone
Speaker 2: and realizing that fans are not everybody, But like, if
Speaker 2: you want to if you're a if you're seeing a
Speaker 2: fan being really angry and I guess critical and at
Speaker 2: times in a personal way about a player on this team,
Speaker 2: I bet nine out of ten times, maybe ten out
Speaker 2: of ten times, it's no waterman. And again I kind
Speaker 2: of get it just because you know, when he's out
Speaker 2: there firing it up NonStop, because that's kind of what
Speaker 2: he's supposed to do, and he can't make it like
Speaker 2: he's struggling, Like it's a tough look, like he's the
Speaker 2: guy people think get him the hell out of the game.
Speaker 2: But yet you know at times he plays well and
Speaker 2: he helps you. But he helped me like that that game.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying he's a different player now
Speaker 2: than he was before that game, but keep in mind
Speaker 2: he went and got a bucket that kept you from
Speaker 2: having that kind of loss, because like you may lose teams,
Speaker 2: you may lose to teams in the ACC this year
Speaker 2: that aren't good at all because the league's down, But
Speaker 2: that Akau loss would have been would have been something
Speaker 2: that got brought up like by everybody, like for a
Speaker 2: long time, and it would have been I mean, it
Speaker 2: would have been an excusable And with saying that, I
Speaker 2: guess you could say like their performance would be like
Speaker 2: if they can win that way and we can excuse it,
Speaker 2: then how could we say a loss would be inexcusable?
Speaker 2: I get it, but that's what makes sports crazy, That's
Speaker 2: what That's why winning and losing should have more value
Speaker 2: than it does in these metrics. Right, Louisville one against dKu,
Speaker 2: but they dropped ten spots in the net, nine spots
Speaker 2: in the kN palm, and I knew going in that
Speaker 2: was gonna happen. It was a metric loss, and that
Speaker 2: that that hurts. But you should still get way more
Speaker 2: value in just winning than you do. And you know,
Speaker 2: even though when it comes to like the resume, when
Speaker 2: it comes to like the vibes, Saturday was an l
Speaker 2: but let's not act like it wasn't a miraculous like ability.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a miraculous ability there to avoid what could
Speaker 2: have been. I mean, I don't think I'm out of
Speaker 2: line here. I feel like that, like deep down, that
Speaker 2: would have been one of the more embarrassing home losses
Speaker 2: for Louisville basketball. Like, let's let's just be real and
Speaker 2: call like it is. That would have been as bad
Speaker 2: as any loss Kenny Payne had. That was a real game.
Speaker 2: Kenny Payne really did himself no favors by losing to
Speaker 2: Leonora Ryan and Kentucky Wesleyan. But those games technically don't
Speaker 2: count their exhibitions he lost to. I mean last year
Speaker 2: was Chattanooga got Ham, Arkansas State, Gotham, and in the
Speaker 2: year before that they lost to Gosh. Now I gotta
Speaker 2: look it up and not I got to go relive
Speaker 2: this nightmare. So no, only and I'm not doing it
Speaker 2: to like pick on Kenny again because you know that
Speaker 2: wouldn't be fun. Oh, Bellerman. I actually happened to think
Speaker 2: Bellerman is the most embarrassing regular season loss this team's
Speaker 2: ever had, this program's ever had, just because of the
Speaker 2: scenario Bellerman, who was in D one at all, and
Speaker 2: you know, the thought of Bellerman ever beating Louisville in
Speaker 2: a real game just didn't seem realistic because for so
Speaker 2: long it wasn't possible because they weren't Division one. Well
Speaker 2: then they became Division one and then they came in
Speaker 2: and gotcha the Right State loss and app State loss
Speaker 2: those and to be honest with you, to Kenny's I
Speaker 2: guess defense if you will. They did play a really,
Speaker 2: really tough schedule in his first year, but he also
Speaker 2: lost his first three games to Bellarmin, Right State and
Speaker 2: app State. I happened to think that as far as
Speaker 2: just like perception, and look, Pat's done way more in
Speaker 2: this year than Kenny didn't too. So it's not like
Speaker 2: I'm saying that. I'm just what I'm trying to do,
Speaker 2: and I probably didn't go about it the right way.
Speaker 2: We should be thanking Noah Waterman for avoiding what would
Speaker 2: have been a disastrous thing for everybody involved. I have
Speaker 2: no doubt if they would have lost, they still would
Speaker 2: have come, like ready to play against North Carolina on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean they're going to win, but like I they
Speaker 2: could have lost that game. Put it this way, them
Speaker 2: being in a close game like that and still winning
Speaker 2: doesn't change the way I feel about Kelsey even if
Speaker 2: they would have lost, because I just, you know, I
Speaker 2: know the situation. Like everybody says its excuses, and you
Speaker 2: can view it that way if you want, but it's
Speaker 2: really an explanation like they they really like you know, people,
Speaker 2: people keep claiming, well, why are they so bad at home?
Speaker 2: Look who's beat them at home? Like context is is
Speaker 2: really not like something you got to go look for.
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty obvious. I know they got blown
Speaker 2: out by Tennessee at home, and they got blown out
Speaker 2: by Old Miss at home, but the home. Some teams
Speaker 2: that they've lost to are Tennessee, who's the number one
Speaker 2: team in the country, and to Ole Miss, who did
Speaker 2: take their second loss of the season. But still like
Speaker 2: that's a good team. And also, I don't think you'll
Speaker 2: see Louisville shoot as poorly as they did in that game.
Speaker 2: And I think coming off of that three game stretch
Speaker 2: in the Bahamas, you return and the day you play
Speaker 2: Ole Miss, you find out you've now lost Casein and
Speaker 2: Coraan Johnson for the entire year. You can say that
Speaker 2: they shouldn't no excuses, come ready to play fair enough,
Speaker 2: because I know that's what their coach says. But I'm
Speaker 2: also aware of like the human element in sports, it matters.
Speaker 2: So I think that they were like that was just
Speaker 2: a bad night for everybody involved. Nine o'clock tip on
Speaker 2: a Tuesday. I mean, it was dead and they couldn't
Speaker 2: make a freaking shot. I would be shocked. I would
Speaker 2: take action, not much, but I would bet that they
Speaker 2: won't have a shooting night as bad as that win
Speaker 2: against Ole Miss. So again, I'm not trying to shine
Speaker 2: it up like it wasn't a really bad loss, But
Speaker 2: my point is context, it's always important. So I don't
Speaker 2: think there's some terrible team at home. I think they
Speaker 2: have beaten I mean most of their wins have come
Speaker 2: at home, and the teams that beat them at home
Speaker 2: are good teams. One of them really really good. They
Speaker 2: played Duke at home and they lost, but you know what,
Speaker 2: they outplayed them for thirty minutes in that game. That
Speaker 2: doesn't mean they won. I'm not trying to convince you
Speaker 2: that it's a win rather than a loss. But like
Speaker 2: they could play Duke ten more times at home, you
Speaker 2: know what, They're probably gonna lose a lot more than
Speaker 2: they're gonna win because it's Duke, who, by the way,
Speaker 2: is the number two team in the kin pong. So
Speaker 2: like when people like again I I had a little
Speaker 2: bit of like self reflection, like whenever I would when
Speaker 2: I would just when I would acknowledge obvious things about
Speaker 2: the previous regime, and people would act like I'm manufacturing
Speaker 2: reasons to be negative, and I would lose my mind
Speaker 2: on this very radio show because I would think, to myself,
Speaker 2: are people out of their minds? There's nobody watching and
Speaker 2: realizing what's happening here, And maybe some people are saying
Speaker 2: that now about me with Kelsey. But if you are
Speaker 2: like again, we can disagree, but I want you to
Speaker 2: know you're wrong, because Pat Kelsey clearly is doing way
Speaker 2: more than I would have expected with what he has
Speaker 2: to work with. Like the injuries here are a real factor,
Speaker 2: and yet these guys still I'm ready to play, and
Speaker 2: even when fully healthy, this wasn't going to be a
Speaker 2: team that had like the talent to where they could
Speaker 2: play poorly and beat really good teams, because that's mean.
Speaker 2: It's a team with a bunch of guys who have
Speaker 2: played college basketball for a really long time, and it's
Speaker 2: because they you know, they they can now and they
Speaker 2: can make money. And I think most of these guys
Speaker 2: are appreciate him to be here. So the UTEP game
Speaker 2: that could have been a loss, and the e KU game,
Speaker 2: which I I mean, I know Pat probably wouldn't like
Speaker 2: hearing anybody say this, but I'll say it like that
Speaker 2: should have been a loss. You get credit for winning.
Speaker 2: It's not like you it's not. And I'm trying to
Speaker 2: be really careful how I worded, because again them being
Speaker 2: able to stay locked in and Noah having the you know,
Speaker 2: the confidence to to to take it to the rack
Speaker 2: and just try to get a bucket Like that's a
Speaker 2: that's a guy who just was trying to make a play,
Speaker 2: not overthinking it not. I mean it wasn't in any
Speaker 2: way like a beautiful play, but like it got it.
Speaker 2: You got it done and you needed it. So credit
Speaker 2: to him. But they know they're lucky to survive that uh,
Speaker 2: and they're able to I think hopefully learn learn through
Speaker 2: a win rather than would have been a devastating loss.
Speaker 2: So I think if you really look at it, and
Speaker 2: again I know it sounds like I'm making all these excuses,
Speaker 2: I look at it as more of an explanation. I'm
Speaker 2: not here to tell you that you're wrong, because because
Speaker 2: I don't think we're arguing here, I'm not telling you
Speaker 2: evolves great. But for those who claim, and that's what
Speaker 2: really irked me a little bit, is all the why
Speaker 2: are they so bad at home? That's my one issue
Speaker 2: with Pat Kelsey. He can't get these guys to play
Speaker 2: well at home. Well, again, they they won, and I
Speaker 2: know it wasn't against great teams, but like they beat
Speaker 2: the hell out of Bellerman, Winthrop and Moorehead stayed at
Speaker 2: home and they lost to Duke and all miss at home.
Speaker 2: I don't like that, but you know those are good teams.
Speaker 2: UTEP was a dud for sure, but it was in
Speaker 2: between Duke and Kentucky. Again, the human element is real, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can tell yourself, we got to treat this like
Speaker 2: it's Kentucky. But then you get out there and you
Speaker 2: know it's not. You're playing in front of a very
Speaker 2: light crowd on your home court, and you've got the
Speaker 2: rivalry game coming up on some you know, within a
Speaker 2: few days, Like it's you can tell yourself, Like it's
Speaker 2: like when football teams go out there against Popcorn State
Speaker 2: and the opener, Like they can tell themselves, let's go
Speaker 2: out here like we're about to go winn a conference championsh. No,
Speaker 2: you know you're about to go play a team that
Speaker 2: you can take off plays and probably still win by forty.
Speaker 2: So with EKU, I'm not going to say it's the
Speaker 2: same exact thing as you TEP because I want to
Speaker 2: give coach A. W. Hamlton a lot of credit. I
Speaker 2: love Coach Hamilton, always have love his story. Kid who
Speaker 2: grew up in Kentucky, played at Scott County High School
Speaker 2: and Georgetown had a hell of a career playing in
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen for Billy Hicks and went on to
Speaker 2: play Division one basketball. Started his career at Wake Forest,
Speaker 2: ended up at Marshall, got into coaching, was under coach
Speaker 2: Keats's wing at Hargrave Academy and really did well there
Speaker 2: and turned that into the EKU job, and they're lucky
Speaker 2: to have him. I think he would do really well
Speaker 2: at a program with better resources, in a program that
Speaker 2: wasn't so vulnerable to getting hit by the portal. They
Speaker 2: lost some of their best players that have gone on
Speaker 2: to be really good, and nobody like ever acknowledges they
Speaker 2: played at EKU. One of Bruce Pearl's better guards at
Speaker 2: Auburne a couple of years ago came from aw Hamilton.
Speaker 2: So I thought he did a great job at knowing that, Hey,
Speaker 2: we know they like to play fast, but that's what
Speaker 2: we do too. So in a weird way, they actually
Speaker 2: sped the game up at times where they were a
Speaker 2: little more comfortable than Louisville was, and they had some
Speaker 2: dudes out there that were just making really really tough
Speaker 2: shots that like, I don't know if you could have
Speaker 2: defended any better. Now. Sometimes that wasn't the case like
Speaker 2: the three late that James Scott kind of fell asleep
Speaker 2: on that wasn't well defended, but some of those shots
Speaker 2: were just really tough buckets, and Kelsey knew ahead of
Speaker 2: time they had some guys that could potentially, in a
Speaker 2: one on one situation, really exploit Louisville, because you know,
Speaker 2: Louisvill's got guys that let's just be real here, like
Speaker 2: there's no pros on this team, there's no there's no
Speaker 2: there's nobody with like a talent level when it comes
Speaker 2: to well, I'll say it's Chucky and I don't know
Speaker 2: if he got hit in the eye and he kind
Speaker 2: of never really recovered, but you know, Chucky's a really
Speaker 2: good defender. Chucky's a really good talent to where at
Speaker 2: times I kind of feel like he could do something
Speaker 2: to where you feel like, Okay, we've got something here.
Speaker 2: We need to rely on this a lot because even
Speaker 2: if it's good teams, you'll realize Chucky's a little different.
Speaker 2: But everybody else, I think you're getting about the most
Speaker 2: you can get out of them, and that's not ideal.
Speaker 2: That's probably something that has you worry for good reason
Speaker 2: that like maybe you don't become a tournament team. But
Speaker 2: I just can't. I can't manufacture anger when I don't
Speaker 2: feel like at times like they're struggling because they're poorly
Speaker 2: coached or they're not trying. This team just is who
Speaker 2: it is. And again, when it comes to athleticism talent,
Speaker 2: you know guys that in many situations, you know the
Speaker 2: opposing team is gonna kind of have to worry about,
Speaker 2: right because like that guy's pretty good. He's he's a
Speaker 2: like Korin Johnson and and Casein are those guys like
Speaker 2: Corn was the six Man of the Year in the
Speaker 2: PAC twelve four star recruit Like he's talented. He could
Speaker 2: have played for anybody. Maybe not been like a prominent guy,
Speaker 2: but he could play for anybody because he's talented, he's
Speaker 2: and he's he knows who he is as a player. Casein,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I've learned that they missed him
Speaker 2: a little more than I thought they would, just as
Speaker 2: far as his athleticism, his his his ability to kind
Speaker 2: of be above the rim more than some other guys.
Speaker 2: But he's also just a mismatch problem because he's six
Speaker 2: ' ten and can dribble like he's a true wing.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm not surprised and I'm not like
Speaker 2: annoyed by most of like the criticism from Saturday's game.
Speaker 2: I would just kind of, you know, I would tell
Speaker 2: fans this, feel how you feel. Don't don't feel like
Speaker 2: I'm trying to change your mind about anything, and be
Speaker 2: you like, don't you know that's how fan fans should
Speaker 2: always just be a fan whichever way they want to
Speaker 2: be and don't try to, you know, change their opinion
Speaker 2: based off of the majority or based off you know, anything.
Speaker 2: Just come to your own conclusion and ride with it.
Speaker 2: But I would just encourage you to just kind of
Speaker 2: keep in perspective when this team ends up having some
Speaker 2: shortfalls and maybe you look at Saturday as a shortfall
Speaker 2: because it was a near a loss in a game
Speaker 2: that you won, but yet it kind of killed you
Speaker 2: in the numbers. You know, they should have been better. Right,
Speaker 2: If you can play Duke way you did, you can
Speaker 2: outplay Kentucky, you can play Kentucky the way you did,
Speaker 2: like you shouldn't have been in that situation. But like
Speaker 2: there could be a few plays here and there to
Speaker 2: where like the game gets flipped because that's just that's
Speaker 2: just who they are. And they still play it like, man,
Speaker 2: this is probably not a good to get into it,
Speaker 2: but like I still believe, and I know people will
Speaker 2: throw stats at where these guys are now in my face,
Speaker 2: like you're way wrong. Last year's team had more legitimate
Speaker 2: athleticism and god given talent than this team, and this
Speaker 2: team's getting way more out of it. And I have
Speaker 2: a hard time being like disappointed when I see that
Speaker 2: every night, like they could get another big injury. God
Speaker 2: willing that hopefully didn't happen, but like they could. And
Speaker 2: I think they're still gonna come out here and not
Speaker 2: make excuses and play hard and just me myself not
Speaker 2: telling anybody how they should feel. I'm just being honest
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna continue to support this team. I'm not telling
Speaker 2: you they're great. I'm not telling you that you're you're
Speaker 2: crazy if you're being critical. I just I like watching
Speaker 2: them play because I think they play really hard. And
Speaker 2: Saturday was like a Saturday we know what it did, Austin.
Speaker 2: It let me know that I'm in love.
Speaker 6: With this team because me too, because I was so
Speaker 6: relieved that they avoided what would have been like I
Speaker 6: mean that kind of loss around here, Kenny Payne, Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 6: Rick Beatino, could have been John Wooden or Phil Jackson.
Speaker 2: That's one fan don't really forget about, right, Like Rick
Speaker 2: didn't have those losses, you know what I mean? Right,
Speaker 2: Dinny did, but he also had a couple of titles
Speaker 2: in his back pocket when he did, and then he
Speaker 2: won after that. So I'm happy they avoided it. But
Speaker 2: I get why people are a little, you know, concerned
Speaker 2: about what they saw. Quick break. We'll come back and
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Speaker 2: to repurpose some content just because of the schedules and
Speaker 2: because of the holidays. I mean, but the holidays, it
Speaker 2: makes sense because you know, we do get days off,
Speaker 2: but other times you've had to make some adjustments because
Speaker 2: of just my filling in for Tony Cruz on has
Speaker 2: and Austin really being thrown in and being a being
Speaker 2: a trooper and you know, being our full time producer,
Speaker 2: but also having another full time job where he he's
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's a guy, that's you know, he's
Speaker 2: got a what do they say, where's a lot of hats?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's funny.
Speaker 1: It's some people, especially when I introduced myself, they ask,
Speaker 1: so like, what do you like?
Speaker 4: What do you do at?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: What you do at iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well it's you should say how much time
Speaker 2: you got? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's I really don't have just one job.
Speaker 1: I guess what technically under like my W two thing
Speaker 1: it has me as a broadcast producer, doesn't have me
Speaker 1: under promotions or doesn't have me under office assistant.
Speaker 4: What I've had to play and which I don't mind.
Speaker 1: I love doing all this stuff, but like they should
Speaker 1: just create a role specifically for me and just call
Speaker 1: it the Austin role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the all like we need know, we need to
Speaker 2: we need to find a way to really make it
Speaker 2: sound like there's like it's the most and it is
Speaker 2: a special position because I don't know many that could
Speaker 2: pull off where you're pulling off with all these different
Speaker 2: things that you're doing. But you know those jobs that
Speaker 2: like they'd really doctor up the title of it to
Speaker 2: make it like I know a janitor who Bob, who
Speaker 2: tells people his job is he's a custodial engineer, Like
Speaker 2: come on, bro, Like you know, like hey, and I
Speaker 2: love people who do whatever job it is, regardless of
Speaker 2: what it pays, regardless of what society views it as,
Speaker 2: and if they're gonna be happy to do it and
Speaker 2: they're gonna give it, they're all I gotta I love that.
Speaker 2: I mean that like if you're and I've not seen
Speaker 2: it as much lately, but like even before, people who
Speaker 2: you know, worked retail and whatnot seem to just hate
Speaker 2: their lives in a major way. I mean, if I
Speaker 2: went to Taco Bell and there was somebody in the
Speaker 2: drive through that like, I felt like there was no
Speaker 2: better place for them to be working than Taco Bell
Speaker 2: because they're just out they're just like they are giving it.
Speaker 2: They're all they're courteous, they're polite or you know, jobs
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't think people are signing up to do,
Speaker 2: but you see people out there doing them and they
Speaker 2: love it and they're having a good time, they're taking
Speaker 2: it serious. I love that stuff, man, I think that's great.
Speaker 2: So I'm not trying to act like if you do
Speaker 2: have a job that maybe people don't view as a
Speaker 2: good job, maybe they look down on it. If you
Speaker 2: can doctor up your title, then do it, you know.
Speaker 2: But like also people who worked at Subway, they were
Speaker 2: sayingwich artists, that's right.
Speaker 1: I also love selfishly doing the adding whatever I can
Speaker 1: to my resume, just so you know that little signature
Speaker 1: that we have at like the end of our emails. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I love adding to that, and it makes
Speaker 1: me see when I email people, I'm not much more
Speaker 1: important when I say I'm an event specialist, a broadcast producer,
Speaker 1: podcast host, office assistant, a little bit of everything. I
Speaker 1: will say this, I sleep management because I gotta. I
Speaker 1: have to be the one that keeps tracked. Yeah, like yeah,
Speaker 1: all the vans, who do.
Speaker 2: I reach out to when I need a company vehicle?
Speaker 2: It's it's Austin feel like that's he's he's the he's uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the fleet supervisor or the you know some
Speaker 2: something like that. We can we can doctor it up.
Speaker 2: And it is important to be honest with you. What
Speaker 2: we've what's happened around here is we've had we've had
Speaker 2: some cuts, we've had some changes, some adjustments that have
Speaker 2: been made, and everybody's doing their best to try to,
Speaker 2: you know, get through and and and and you know
Speaker 2: adjust That's what that's what happens. That's that's there's a
Speaker 2: lot of career, there's a lot of jobs out there. Industries.
Speaker 2: I should say that they evolved like you got to
Speaker 2: you got to be able to make adjustments and adapt.
Speaker 2: And I think we're doing uh, we're doing the best
Speaker 2: that we can. But what's happened is that you know,
Speaker 2: there are people right now that I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 2: talking to one of them to you, like, if you
Speaker 2: weren't here to do it, we would be screwed. And
Speaker 2: I know I appreciate that, and I hope that our
Speaker 2: superiors do. I assume they do. But like, of course,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it doesn't go unnoticed with me
Speaker 2: because you know, Austin, he's always wanted to do this
Speaker 2: and it's been fun. But like he's he's also like
Speaker 2: he just absorbed this role when he was already doing
Speaker 2: another full time job within the company. So it's been
Speaker 2: weird the last couple of months, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that once we get into the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five year we have a little bit more. I mean,
Speaker 2: one thing I know it's going to be better is
Speaker 2: that are just we're not going to have these holiday breaks.
Speaker 2: And I don't know about you, but I'm not burning
Speaker 2: up a bunch of vacation in January and February, so
Speaker 2: like we'll be here and there may be some times
Speaker 2: where Austin's got to run early because of a because
Speaker 2: of a production that he's got a promotional event he's
Speaker 2: got to be at, or maybe he's got to go
Speaker 2: shake hands, kiss babies, be a man of the people.
Speaker 4: Yes that he is.
Speaker 2: But I think we'll have some things in place to
Speaker 2: where like that won't impact the show. And I mean,
Speaker 2: this is what I hate, like when that when you
Speaker 2: when you're pulled to do your other full time job
Speaker 2: that you had before the one. I can tell that
Speaker 2: at times you kind of feel bad for me, and
Speaker 2: I hate it because you shouldn't. It's not you at all.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, like it's in my career and
Speaker 2: I shouldn't even say career because like this really has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with the industry that we work in.
Speaker 2: But this is the first time in my in my
Speaker 2: life as like a you know, an employee at a
Speaker 2: company to where like everybody for the most part is
Speaker 2: doing everything they can to kind of ride out the
Speaker 2: end of this year as we kind of adjust to
Speaker 2: some changes that were made. And it's been it's been
Speaker 2: difficult at times. I mean I can tell you first
Speaker 2: ten I've been real frustrated at times, but I quickly
Speaker 2: realized there's nobody that I work with that had any
Speaker 2: role in this like, this is an ideal. Nobody wanted
Speaker 2: it to happen. It just was something that was out
Speaker 2: of our control, and we're trying our best to, you know,
Speaker 2: to get through. Or maybe I'm just talking crazy because
Speaker 2: I've been up since three fifty am and I'm running
Speaker 2: on fumes.
Speaker 1: I still have a lot of vacation left on the
Speaker 1: table from this year that I'm pretty sad I didn't use.
Speaker 2: Are you serious? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I had like sixty hours a sick time and a
Speaker 1: whole two weeks of.
Speaker 2: Doesn't really like you know, no, you're not sick, you don't.
Speaker 4: I mean what, I worked from home because I worked,
Speaker 4: I bet.
Speaker 2: But I bet like you probably have comp days. You
Speaker 2: probably have vacation that you didn't use.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, that's it's a lot, well a lot. This
Speaker 1: the first half year, I just worked from home. And
Speaker 1: usually when I don't want to go to work, that
Speaker 1: means I just want to be at home. But if
Speaker 1: I'm already at home anyways, there's no reason of using
Speaker 1: a vacation.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, and I'm with you, Yeah, I'm with you. Well, No,
Speaker 2: that sucks.
Speaker 4: I just wish we got paid out for it. That'd
Speaker 4: be pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that man, that went away a while back.
Speaker 4: Okay, so it was a thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was a thing in society. It was one
Speaker 2: just thing. Here's the thing everywhere. Yeah, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: that's gone everywhere now.
Speaker 4: I had it at UPS.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see that that kind of company. It
Speaker 2: would make sense because they got to it. They've got
Speaker 2: incentivized people a little bit differently just because of you know,
Speaker 2: what that job is, and they have the means to
Speaker 2: do so because you know, at UPS.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they got a union too.
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