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Speaker 2: A big discussion we've had throughout the show so far
Speaker 2: today is one of the I was gonna say, I
Speaker 2: was actually thinking about it, really spinning my wheels on it,
Speaker 2: not really sure how to like, you don't know what
Speaker 2: you could be missing without Ali Khalifa because he's never
Speaker 2: played for Louisville, but him being ineligible and now Louisville
Speaker 2: needing an appeal to be successful for him to be
Speaker 2: able to play this year is it's a pretty it's
Speaker 2: a pretty scary situation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Again, hard to know for sure what you're missing when
Speaker 2: you didn't get to see him play. Same thing was
Speaker 2: said about Corn Johnson, right like, he played in what
Speaker 2: two games? But clearly you know you lose out on
Speaker 2: having depth and there's a lot to like about Ali
Speaker 2: Khalifa as far as what you believe he can do,
Speaker 2: and there's really no way to know until he actually
Speaker 2: gets out there. And now we don't know if that's
Speaker 2: going to happen. But he found out I guess within
Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours that the appeal. I guess
Speaker 2: the waiver that he put in requesting an extension on
Speaker 2: his five year clock was denied. And I didn't, you know,
Speaker 2: I asked if there was any I did to speak
Speaker 2: to somebody with UVEL earlier to day, just to try
Speaker 2: to get some clarification. And you know, when they deny
Speaker 2: your waiver, it doesn't sound like there's any real big explanation,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean it, It just was denied. And
Speaker 2: he has red shirted twice in his career. Once was
Speaker 2: an injury red shirt, which was this past season, and
Speaker 2: then also his first year when he arrived at college
Speaker 2: at Charlotte, he.
Speaker 3: Did not play.
Speaker 2: It was a red shirt, but it was not medical.
Speaker 2: As to what it was, I don't know. But he's
Speaker 2: only played in three years of college. He's only played
Speaker 2: three years of college basketball. And he's not someone that is,
Speaker 2: you know, looking for a sixth or seventh year. He's
Speaker 2: looking to play a fourth year of college sports, which
Speaker 2: is what it's always supposed to have been, and there
Speaker 2: are many guys playing fifth, sixth year and some of
Speaker 2: the reasoning behind their waivers. I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: I'm glad that it worked out because it's benefited Louisville
Speaker 2: with guys like Cason Pryor and Javon Hadley with the
Speaker 2: JUCO thing, but like that's not I mean, I get
Speaker 2: why the why the courts decided that the NCAA didn't
Speaker 2: have the ability to tell somebody that because they played
Speaker 2: junior college that they now get a fresh four year start.
Speaker 3: So again I get it.
Speaker 2: However, I mean, if that's the case, you could go
Speaker 2: play nai for four years and then enter college at
Speaker 2: twenty two and then play And again, I'm not advocating
Speaker 2: that all this should be allowed, but there's been a
Speaker 2: lot of fighting with the NCUBA with these waivers and
Speaker 2: hiring lawyers taking it to court. The nc DOUBLEA lose
Speaker 2: as often, and we haven't got there yet with Khalifa,
Speaker 2: but they're appealing it and he has a lawyer, and.
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't the nc DOUBLEA and we didn't know
Speaker 2: of the history they have with just being insanely unpredictable, inconsistent,
Speaker 2: just deciding, hey, we're doing this because and that's the
Speaker 2: way it is. We don't have a reason. Just deal
Speaker 2: with it. I mean, there's been years of that to
Speaker 2: where like that's what I'm worried about. What gives me
Speaker 2: some hope is that you just hope that they'll do
Speaker 2: the right thing, and you'll hope that somebody within the
Speaker 2: NCAA will review his appeal and realize, of all the
Speaker 2: players that are trying to stick around in college as
Speaker 2: long as they can, this is the last guy we
Speaker 2: should make an example of and say no, you're done.
Speaker 2: I mean, he got surgery last year, couldn't play, and
Speaker 2: then he played two years at Charlotte, one year at BYU,
Speaker 2: so he played his first year, and then he didn't
Speaker 2: play this past year in a five year window. So
Speaker 2: this rule has been around a long time. If you'd
Speaker 2: have told me this morning that that year five year clock,
Speaker 2: meaning you get four years, I'm sorry, you get five
Speaker 2: years to play four If you'd have told me this
Speaker 2: morning randomly that that no longer existed, I totally believe you,
Speaker 2: because not because I remember any story of it, not
Speaker 2: being a thing, but like, think about how many guys
Speaker 2: you watch and girls for that matter, in college that
Speaker 2: you know have played a long time, longer than four,
Speaker 2: Like they played five seasons. And to me, that's like
Speaker 2: the old that's the ultimate. Two things that really just
Speaker 2: seem like I can't believe they denied it, Like they
Speaker 2: couldn't have even looked at a situation because of these
Speaker 2: two things. Specifically, one, he's not fighting to play a
Speaker 2: fifth year. He's just fighting to play a fourth year,
Speaker 2: like you're all like most guys often do. There are
Speaker 2: guys in their sixth year that have played that are
Speaker 2: still eligible to play, Like, make it make sense now.
Speaker 2: The other one, the other thing, that's just an obvious
Speaker 2: and I mean a real obvious I guess, just something
Speaker 2: they didn't they didn't look at. But like it makes
Speaker 2: no sense that the year that he did not play
Speaker 2: and he red shirted in two thousand and twenty and
Speaker 2: twenty one, the year where we tried to have sports
Speaker 2: with very few fans, there constant testing, a lot of
Speaker 2: games not taking place because of COVID restrictions and whatnot.
Speaker 2: That year didn't count for anybody.
Speaker 3: That played. Ali Khalifa didn't play and it counts for him.
Speaker 3: Makes no sense.
Speaker 2: It's a free year. He was in school but did
Speaker 2: not play, and that's being used against him in his
Speaker 2: five year clock. Makes zero sense. So like, looking at
Speaker 2: those two things, the fact that he's only played three years,
Speaker 2: he's not trying to get a sixty year of on
Speaker 2: court action, and the fact that one of the years
Speaker 2: that you're claiming is the clock for him didn't count
Speaker 2: for anybody. By all accounts, that was not No one
Speaker 2: used any eligibility at all that year, So how could
Speaker 2: he be out of time? It just makes it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: So again, the more I yell about it, the more
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking somebody will have some common sense and
Speaker 2: look at this situation and say, yeah, appeal.
Speaker 3: Granted, he can easily play. This is from.
Speaker 2: One of the field of sixty eight writers covering college basketball.
Speaker 2: He shared Louisville's statement and said this quote, what are
Speaker 2: we doing here? The five year clock shouldn't include the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty twenty one season since it didn't count anyways,
Speaker 2: that's crazy. If Khalifa doesn't get his appeal accepted, he
Speaker 2: deserves better than this, Like no one could claim the
Speaker 2: NCAA is doing the right thing here, no one and
Speaker 2: if you are, you're just a hater and you're just
Speaker 2: probably trolling. And that's fine, I get it, that happens.
Speaker 2: But the constant stories every day in the news cycle
Speaker 2: of guys being twenty seven on their sixth year, somehow
Speaker 2: still obtaining eligibility and yet he can't play.
Speaker 3: It's nonsense.
Speaker 2: Now, the statement says this University of loubwmen's basketball student.
Speaker 3: Athlete Ali Khalifa. Ali Khalifa's request.
Speaker 2: For an extension of his five year clock that would
Speaker 2: allow him to utilize his fourth and final season of
Speaker 2: eligibility was denied by the nc DOUBLEA. The University of
Speaker 2: Louisville is appealing that decision and believes that Ali has
Speaker 2: a strong case that warrants an additional year. After earning
Speaker 2: his bachelor's degree, Ali continues to work towards a master's
Speaker 2: degree at the university while preparing for the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five twenty six season. The more I think about it,
Speaker 2: the more upset I get. And it's just so stupid.
Speaker 2: It's just so so stupid. All right again, it is
Speaker 2: coffee and Company, and we are fueled by Thornton's. As
Speaker 2: you likely know as a member of the Refresher Awards program,
Speaker 2: you're going to save money every time.
Speaker 3: You get gas.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure there are others that offer some type
Speaker 2: of savings. When I say others, I just assume you know,
Speaker 2: there's others out there trying to compete with Thornton's. Good luck,
Speaker 2: though it'd be tough to do. I'm not possible in
Speaker 2: my opinion. But are they giving you twenty five cents
Speaker 2: off once per week? Probably not, So take advantage. Also,
Speaker 2: take advantage of all the delicious food items. They've got
Speaker 2: cheese sticks now, and I don't mean actually, let me
Speaker 2: ask you this, Austin. You're a fellow foodie. When I
Speaker 2: say cheese stick, what are you thinking of?
Speaker 3: Like, describe it like a like a mozzarella cheese stick.
Speaker 2: So mozzarella stick and a cheese stick I think are different. Okay,
Speaker 2: because the cheese stick is like, you know, I guess
Speaker 2: more so cheese bread. But the way that it's sliced,
Speaker 2: it's it's, you know, like it's like a stick.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Because they don't have me they don't have monzarella sticks
Speaker 2: to my knowledge. But they've got like cheese bread that
Speaker 2: is cut into like little thin sticks that you dip
Speaker 2: in mozzarella sauce. Right, Okay, so they don't just have pizza.
Speaker 2: They've got that now too. I mean I think they're
Speaker 2: I think they're called cheese sticks. But I know when
Speaker 2: I say cheese stick, everybody was gonna think what Austin thoughts.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to trying to clarify. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: went there for breakfast yesterday. I mean I'm there every day,
Speaker 2: so it's it's home. I mean, you probably went with
Speaker 2: what I go with, and that's the sausage, egg and
Speaker 2: cheese croissant.
Speaker 3: With the bacon egg ands. Okay, you can't go wrong there.
Speaker 2: But have you seen how they have Like now, I
Speaker 2: get it, they've had donuts there forever, but the ba
Speaker 2: the BAKERI is now back open and they're preparing the
Speaker 2: fresh donuts, and man, it is a sight to behold
Speaker 2: when they put that, Like it's just a beautiful thing
Speaker 2: to look at. When they put an entire tray within
Speaker 2: like the in the whatever you call it, like the
Speaker 2: door you open up and they're all glazed perfectly, just
Speaker 2: sitting there in nice, beautiful rows and it just looks delicious.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously.
Speaker 4: There's somebody dedicated back. Oh yeah, like that's their job.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: It's not the it's not the cashier running back and
Speaker 4: forth and get caught up. Someone is dedicated to bringing
Speaker 4: you that warm, glazy doughnut experience.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: They're they're there to provide fresh, quality food. And I
Speaker 2: will say the industry as a whole has has certainly
Speaker 2: changed over the years, but I always give a lot
Speaker 2: of credit to Thornton's for changing that stigma. Because ten
Speaker 2: years ago you brought up eating food made prepared at
Speaker 2: a gas station. I'm not talking about snacks or anything.
Speaker 2: I'm talking like food that is made and prepared at
Speaker 2: a gas station slash convenience store. People would think like, oh,
Speaker 2: I can't do that. I may have to, you know,
Speaker 2: be close to a bathroom after I eat something like that.
Speaker 2: That's not the case anymore. And I'm you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know where credit totally belongs, but I'm giving it
Speaker 2: all to Thorntons because you know, that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Do, all right.
Speaker 2: So let's see, we kind of need to get to
Speaker 2: a break just to keep this thing on track. But
Speaker 2: I do think real quick, there's one more thing that
Speaker 2: I that I can get too quickly here before we
Speaker 2: take a time out. So this is just something you
Speaker 2: don't often probably think about, but it is crazy. So
Speaker 2: there's a new updated chart with SEC football programs. The
Speaker 2: most severance that they that was paid in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: meaning the amount of money being I mean to me,
Speaker 2: that's that's the amount of money being paid out to
Speaker 2: coaches who you know, got buyouts that are no longer
Speaker 2: still coaching there. And I mean I remember this. I
Speaker 2: just haven't thought about it in a while. But when
Speaker 2: A and M fired Jimbo Fisher, like his buyout was insane,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 2: So the chart, again it's a visual you'd have to actually,
Speaker 2: you know, be looking at it. And this is this
Speaker 2: is still an audio medium. But they paid over twenty
Speaker 2: five million dollars in twenty twenty four in severn spending.
Speaker 2: So in fact, twenty seven million, twenty seven point five
Speaker 2: million is what they paid out for football staffers, mostly
Speaker 2: Jimbo to not coach because they had their contracts bought out.
Speaker 2: In second place, is Auburn at ten point eight, So
Speaker 2: I mean, is there any doubt that when it comes
Speaker 2: down to who has to when who when you really
Speaker 2: got to dig deep and you gotta go to the
Speaker 2: war chest, round up whoever is affiliated a fan that's
Speaker 2: got deep pockets. I feel like A and M has
Speaker 2: proven throughout various instances in recent years that they got
Speaker 2: the bag, and it's a bigger bag than anybody else.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even think there's many programs that
Speaker 2: could even do that, like they simply like, for example,
Speaker 2: and this isn't a knock on Kentucky. I'm just using
Speaker 2: this as an example, like Mark Pope, Mark Mark Stoops,
Speaker 2: I mean, and Cal for that matter, Like the biggest
Speaker 2: thing about those two guys, Like it wouldn't shock you
Speaker 2: if at the end of that year when Kentucky lost
Speaker 2: to Saint not Saint Peter's but Oakland, Like it wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been a surprise if you found out that Mitch
Speaker 2: Barnhart wanted to fire cow right, because that's like a
Speaker 2: really unacceptable loss, and you had two of them in
Speaker 2: three years, and clearly things had just gotten stale. But
Speaker 2: the only reason it never was going to be a
Speaker 2: real possibility, and everybody knew it was because of the money,
Speaker 2: but his buyout wasn't what Jimbo Fishers was. And I
Speaker 2: don't even know what Mark stoops Is buyout is. And
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that Barnhart would ever want to fire him,
Speaker 2: but like if he did, I think what would keep
Speaker 2: him from doing it after last year when they were
Speaker 2: four and eight probably would have been the money. So
Speaker 2: I uh, you know, Louisville, for the most part, I
Speaker 2: feel like has done well with nil and both basketball
Speaker 2: and football. Like, let's be real, we're not the richest,
Speaker 2: but in this new world, and we're relatively new into
Speaker 2: this new world. On the UFL side, there haven't been many,
Speaker 2: if any, big stories of like, well, we're at a
Speaker 2: disadvantage because we don't have the money that this program has.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's been guys that win elsewhere because we
Speaker 2: didn't have the money and we would or we wouldn't
Speaker 2: match it because we know our budget. So I'm not
Speaker 2: acting like it's never happened. But you know, for the
Speaker 2: most part, so far, we've been able to kind of
Speaker 2: manage and navigate in this new world as best as
Speaker 2: we can. And it's not been a real issue as
Speaker 2: far as feeling like, yeah, we don't have the pockets
Speaker 2: that others have.
Speaker 3: But clearly there are some programs out there.
Speaker 2: That have billionaire donors and you know alum that will
Speaker 2: we'll pay whatever, because they seemingly have endless amounts of money,
Speaker 2: and man, they love their college program and they'll do
Speaker 2: anything to help it succeed. And I would love to
Speaker 2: know the breakdown of who all like, how that all like,
Speaker 2: who decided to put up what to get rid of?
Speaker 3: Jimbo Fisher.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll keep it rolling along here
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Speaker 2: We got about thirty minutes left here on a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3: Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 2: I was going to tell you a beautiful Thursday, which
Speaker 2: it was when I walked in, but I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's.
Speaker 3: Still the case. I always.
Speaker 2: Always lose track oft time and realize that, you know,
Speaker 2: temperature around here can change pretty quickly. I hope it
Speaker 2: doesn't rain, though, because I know there's a lot of
Speaker 2: folks that are probably going to be heading out to
Speaker 2: Churchill Downs for the night racing. I've got my wife
Speaker 2: has some family in town from California. I know they're
Speaker 2: going to be heading out there. So hopefully the weather
Speaker 2: with the weather does does cooperate. Is there There's not
Speaker 2: like any big concert going on in town? Is the
Speaker 2: or do you know Austin Not that I know of
Speaker 2: right now, No, because it seems like there's there's the
Speaker 2: I know hotels in downtown. I only know this because
Speaker 2: I went through and booked our our hotel for Saturday.
Speaker 2: My wife and I are having our little staycation anniversary
Speaker 2: night with on Saturday.
Speaker 3: And when I went into and.
Speaker 2: I usually would never go to a hotel to book
Speaker 2: a reservation, but we had a gift card to one
Speaker 2: of them, and I didn't know how to use it online.
Speaker 2: So they'd mentioned, you know, basically that Saturday worked out
Speaker 2: well because it would be a lot cheaper than what
Speaker 2: it is the rest of the week because every hotel
Speaker 2: is booked up, and I'm thinking for what, like what's
Speaker 2: what's what would be? I didn't know of any like
Speaker 2: big event going on, so I know Kevin Hart was
Speaker 2: supposed to be coming to town.
Speaker 3: Did you see that guy postponed? I got postponed? Do
Speaker 3: we know why?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty rare, is it not to have
Speaker 2: a I mean I kind of feel like that. You
Speaker 2: don't often see those events get postponed without I mean
Speaker 2: unless something something happened as far as like an illness
Speaker 2: or whatever it may be. And maybe that's so, And
Speaker 2: that's what I was gonna That's kind of what I
Speaker 2: was going to mention, is that, like usually if that happens,
Speaker 2: I would say that it could be because they're gonna
Speaker 2: need a little bit more time. Yeah, Like I'm looking
Speaker 2: right here. I just put in Kevin Hart postponed Louisville
Speaker 2: and says here that his performance at the Palace, originally
Speaker 2: scheduled for May seventeenth, has been pushed back to September
Speaker 2: twenty seventh. Also, there was one in Grand Rapids that
Speaker 2: has been has been canceled within the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if he's having a tough time,
Speaker 2: you know, selling tickets, but I would and saw him.
Speaker 2: I've only been to one stand up show in like
Speaker 2: an arena. Honestly, I've been in the improv a few
Speaker 2: times and really liked it. When the improv used to
Speaker 2: do you ever go to the improv at four Street?
Speaker 2: Did you know that it was here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they used.
Speaker 2: To get some pretty decent, pretty decent names, and then
Speaker 2: I would always end up we would go. We went
Speaker 2: and saw Ralphie May. We went and saw.
Speaker 3: This guy who he wasn't like a big name, but
Speaker 3: he was.
Speaker 2: He was known enough, and he actually ended up kind
Speaker 2: of kind of getting canceled because he got caught lying about.
Speaker 3: Being in the in the.
Speaker 2: Trade center on nine to eleven, which you know, it's
Speaker 2: a pretty big deal to lie about that. But anyways,
Speaker 2: when I went and saw both of those acts, I
Speaker 2: don't remember who they are, so I guess technically I didn't.
Speaker 3: They didn't leave that much of an impression.
Speaker 2: But like the people who would who would be there
Speaker 2: was always like a local opener, like somebody that like
Speaker 2: works for the improv that is a stand up comedian clearly,
Speaker 2: like that's their craft and they're pretty good at what
Speaker 2: they do, but you know, they haven't had like a
Speaker 2: big break yet. And then there would be another comedian
Speaker 2: that's kind of a part of I guess maybe the tour,
Speaker 2: but is not the headliner, and they were, you know,
Speaker 2: I think twice. I remember finding those to be more
Speaker 2: funny than even the main performers, which those you know, Ralphie.
Speaker 3: May was great.
Speaker 2: And the other guy who I've already forgot his name,
Speaker 2: he was he was, He was great.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been to a stand up show?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've only I've only been to a few, and
Speaker 4: they were out at the laugh Factory out in La.
Speaker 3: Big time big. I mean, I was it. I guess
Speaker 3: it was pretty cool that. I think. The main guy
Speaker 3: there was Chris Delia. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he got canceled right but then nice kind
Speaker 2: of like back maybe I don't know, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was right after he got like that's his
Speaker 4: stick now as he talks about like the process of
Speaker 4: getting canceled. Maybe it was only a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: but I saw him now, I'm lying. Also went to
Speaker 4: one in New York too, but it wasn't any big
Speaker 4: like as like a hole in the wall comedy club
Speaker 4: all because I can't remember who the big name that
Speaker 4: we were going to go see. But it was right
Speaker 4: after COVID and it was in New York. You had
Speaker 4: to have you had to be two weeks past your
Speaker 4: past vaccination. So like, and I had lied to my
Speaker 4: now fiance, told her I was vexed completely when we
Speaker 4: started dating, and I absolutely was not. So I knew
Speaker 4: about like a week before that trip, like I should
Speaker 4: at least probably go get like, you know, a shot
Speaker 4: or something like two weeks, and so I did. It
Speaker 4: was actually later it was my second shot because I know,
Speaker 4: this is the last question that you asked when I'm
Speaker 4: chasing a rabbit. Had I had actually gotten half vaxed
Speaker 4: during that summer because that was the first time I
Speaker 4: actually got COVID And literally right after that is like
Speaker 4: that's when I actually got COVID. So I didn't come
Speaker 4: back because they told me, once you get it, you
Speaker 4: didn't need another one.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I got it at Kroger.
Speaker 4: But about a week before we went, I decided, let
Speaker 4: me just go ahead and get full vaxed because we're
Speaker 4: going to New York. And when we showed up to
Speaker 4: New York, they were checking vax cards and they said, no,
Speaker 4: this is you haven't been fully vaxed for two weeks
Speaker 4: yet you're two days off from being fully vaxed for
Speaker 4: two weeks, so they turned us around at the club
Speaker 4: that would fight.
Speaker 3: We got into that that would be brutal. It was.
Speaker 3: It was pretty bad.
Speaker 4: We almost we almost became not a thing that what
Speaker 4: year was this twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two is
Speaker 4: twenty twenty like March of twenty twenty two as our.
Speaker 3: First I guess, I guess, believe it or not.
Speaker 2: There were some areas that were like a lot stricter
Speaker 2: about it than we were.
Speaker 3: Right, New York was pretty bad about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when it comes to, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: stand up comedy, I enjoy it, but like I don't
Speaker 2: really seek it out, but I what I now find
Speaker 2: to be by the way, I think I've never seen
Speaker 2: him live. I'm not sure if I ever will, but
Speaker 2: I I nobody would say this guy is not popular
Speaker 2: and that he's not like successful. So it's not like
Speaker 2: I don't want to try to make it out like
Speaker 2: I'm building him up as some unknown guy. But like,
Speaker 2: I think Mike Epps is the funniest comedian of my lifetime.
Speaker 3: Mikes.
Speaker 2: I think Mike Epps is absolutely hilarious, and he had
Speaker 2: and he's kind of had the same style throughout his existence,
Speaker 2: at least that I've known. And he's still funny, like
Speaker 2: he's you know, he's he's great. But now I find
Speaker 2: myself really amused by things that aren't like, you know,
Speaker 2: laugh out loud funny because you never thought of it,
Speaker 2: but like things that are funny because you realize, Okay,
Speaker 2: I can relate to this.
Speaker 3: I didn't know anybody else could.
Speaker 2: And there's this guy I'm trying to I'm digging on
Speaker 2: my phone to try to find this guy's name because
Speaker 2: he's he's getting some momentum, but he's not necessarily like
Speaker 2: I bet you wouldn't know his name, okay if I
Speaker 2: can find it, And I bet if I showed you
Speaker 2: a picture of him, he probably you probably wouldn't recognize him.
Speaker 2: But he you know, this was a bit he did
Speaker 2: that I'm embarrassed to say. But like my era, for reasons,
Speaker 2: I don't know, like this is a this is spot on.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we did this when we were young.
Speaker 2: It was really stupid, but I've forgotten all about this
Speaker 2: weird thing that you know, teenagers around my age did
Speaker 2: when we were young, and you know, it was really
Speaker 2: really stupid and bad. But he told a story about it,
Speaker 2: and I know there's so many that can relate and
Speaker 2: you may not want to acknowledge it, but this is
Speaker 2: this is this is him from a stand up show
Speaker 2: he did at I think the improv in New York
Speaker 2: not that long ago.
Speaker 5: I do think that nineties kids came up with the
Speaker 5: wildest game ever. I remember it well. It was like
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety nine. I was in the fifth or sixth grade,
Speaker 5: sitting there talking to a girl I had a crush on,
Speaker 5: Seanna Taylor.
Speaker 3: I had a four wheeler because I knew didn't move
Speaker 3: things along.
Speaker 5: And about that time my best friend came up and
Speaker 5: just yanked my pants to the grandma.
Speaker 3: Y'all, remember this. This game was lawless. It didn't make
Speaker 3: any sense.
Speaker 5: A bunch of middle schoolers going around and just yanking
Speaker 5: each other's pants stand and it went on.
Speaker 3: It was a little curiosity in there.
Speaker 5: I think in hindsight some of us said hate to
Speaker 5: admit that it didn't make any sense. You'd just be hanging.
Speaker 3: Out with your buddy and he'd be like, let's take
Speaker 3: a look at that. You know, isn't that wild? And
Speaker 3: they tried to like deflect it.
Speaker 5: You know, I can remember well you'd be standing there,
Speaker 5: they'd pull your pants down and go you're gay and
Speaker 5: take off.
Speaker 3: You're like, how am I gay?
Speaker 1: You just pulled my pants?
Speaker 3: No, that's not that happened so fast. You know, I
Speaker 3: hadn't thought of that in forever.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure there's many. I'm sure that many are thinking,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about? That wasn't a thing. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you. It was a thing.
Speaker 3: For a brief time. People would. But you have you
Speaker 3: ever heard it? Like you yeah, like just.
Speaker 2: Get pants and like now, I mean and I'm not
Speaker 2: even saying this would be the wrong thing.
Speaker 3: You get arrested for that, like absolutely, but.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, we had one of my one of
Speaker 2: my close friends, his name is Patrick. He was like
Speaker 2: he would sneak up and get you at like the
Speaker 2: worst possible time, and he, you know, depending on what
Speaker 2: you were wearing, it was everything, like you know, if
Speaker 2: you were you were sweatpants to school or you wearing
Speaker 2: basketball shorts.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean one of my close friends, we're
Speaker 2: all friends, and you know, just just to get a laugh.
Speaker 2: I mean he was talking to three different girls in
Speaker 2: the hallway in between in between one of the one
Speaker 2: of the classes and you know, uh, he just walked
Speaker 2: up and yanked him all the way down, and I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean just completely exposed, and like everybody got a
Speaker 2: laugh out of it. And now that I'm much older,
Speaker 2: I'm like, why were we so stupid?
Speaker 3: That was insane?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I'm sure that's not a thing now,
Speaker 2: and again it shouldn't be. And I'm not joking like
Speaker 2: you do that now, Like you know, there's probably legitimate
Speaker 2: consequences and nobody would be like, oh, it's kids being kids,
Speaker 2: Like no, that's traumatizing and it's you know, got to
Speaker 2: be in some way legal. But he had another bit
Speaker 2: that was just kind of you know this, I can't
Speaker 2: even claim that this was laugh out loud funny, but
Speaker 2: like I'd never thought of it, and it's really true.
Speaker 2: He was discussing how kids these days will never know
Speaker 2: the fear and you may not even know this either,
Speaker 2: but you'll never know the fear when you would call
Speaker 2: a girl from school that you were interested in, or
Speaker 2: maybe she was your girlfriend in sixth or seventh grade
Speaker 2: and you had to call the house phone and you
Speaker 2: knew the dad was going to answer, oh yeah, and
Speaker 2: there would be that fear you'd get that lump in
Speaker 2: your throat, like what if he says no, you know?
Speaker 2: And and the way you know again, the way he
Speaker 2: laid it out was like a scenario that I can't
Speaker 2: claim happened to me. But like I know, at least
Speaker 2: some of the girls I called in middle school, like
Speaker 2: their dad would would know how nervous I was and
Speaker 2: have fun with it, right, Like, but he was talking
Speaker 2: about how, uh, yeah, she's here, I'm going to help
Speaker 2: you with something. It's like, yeah, I wanted to I
Speaker 2: wanted to ask her about our geometry, uh class, seems
Speaker 2: she can help mem geometry, and and and again this
Speaker 2: is the stand up, the bit he said, well, turns out, buddy,
Speaker 2: I'm great at geometry.
Speaker 3: What do you want to what do you? What do you?
Speaker 3: What do you? What do you need?
Speaker 2: I can help you out? But like you know, like playfully,
Speaker 2: dad's having fun with a young kid who knows that
Speaker 2: like he's calling a girl. You know, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: nerve wracking to talk to the mom or the dad.
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember when we were like fifth or
Speaker 2: sixth grade. You know this time there were no cell phones,
Speaker 2: at least not for kids, and you know we'd call
Speaker 2: the house, and like if if the parents, if the
Speaker 2: parents answer, we just hang up.
Speaker 3: Very scared to death to today this is such and
Speaker 3: such home.
Speaker 2: So yeah, anyways that the older I get, the more
Speaker 2: I find I find humor in things that are really
Speaker 2: not you know, just downright comedic brilliance. But just like
Speaker 2: I guess in a way, a lot of it is
Speaker 2: like there's things that I can't relate to, but I
Speaker 2: can still find the humor and find it hilarious when
Speaker 2: it comes to certain things. And I also think there's
Speaker 2: a there's a part there's an element of stand up
Speaker 2: comedy that like there's self deprecation with different cultures and
Speaker 2: different you know, different races to where like you know,
Speaker 2: just almost like we don't take ourselves too serious. And
Speaker 2: there's certain comedians obviously that that have you know, have
Speaker 2: been held accountable for maybe crossing the line. And for
Speaker 2: a while the line was like adjusted to where you
Speaker 2: couldn't even try to be funny without offending someone, which
Speaker 2: I do feel like that's kind of gone away, but
Speaker 2: like you know, Kat Williams and all of them have
Speaker 2: done it to an extent. But like Cat Williams, one
Speaker 2: of one of his one of his stand ups that
Speaker 2: really I think kind of elevated him to being a
Speaker 2: bigger name in the in the mid to late two
Speaker 2: thousands where he's talking about you know, all different cultures
Speaker 2: and whatnot, and and and finding a way to like
Speaker 2: playfully you know, like even if it's even if it's
Speaker 2: a joke at the expense of maybe your culture or whatnot,
Speaker 2: like you still have to laugh because you know there's
Speaker 2: an other there's elements of it that's true. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I h I think Kat Williams is the correct I
Speaker 2: never I never seek it out, but the more I
Speaker 2: think about it, and as we're talking about it, like
Speaker 2: I you know, who didn't like to laugh, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? And oftentimes it meand be hard to
Speaker 2: go to really any stand up that you know, you're
Speaker 2: paying a ticket. You're paying for a ticket to go
Speaker 2: see somebody in like an actual venue like a theater
Speaker 2: or whatnot, like the Palace, which is where Kevin Harbor
Speaker 2: was supposed to be, like you're gonna get you know,
Speaker 2: may not be worth the price of admission because those
Speaker 2: tickets are really expensive. In fact, we were looking at
Speaker 2: going into seeing Kevin Hart at the Palace, but we
Speaker 2: decided not to because I mean, tickets were just crazy,
Speaker 2: and I guess that's just what it is for a
Speaker 2: stand up show. But you know, laughing is healthy. It's
Speaker 2: got to be laughed to, not cry.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: That's all right, all right, quick break, We'll come back
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Speaker 2: So I mentioned this earlier that the ACC currently has
Speaker 2: no plans to add a ninth League game. That is
Speaker 2: according to Brett McMurphy. And I can't really say that
Speaker 2: that's that's a that's an issue, but I do think if.
Speaker 3: You see that every other like if the SEC goes.
Speaker 2: To nine, I would I would hope that the ACC
Speaker 2: would have some level of maybe I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's an acquirement or how you would even be able
Speaker 2: to do that but there should be something similar to
Speaker 2: what happened with basketball where they eliminated two conference games
Speaker 2: from the schedule. And it's not because you know, they
Speaker 2: they don't mean they're doing it because they realize they
Speaker 2: need more teams to do stuff out side the conference
Speaker 2: to improve your resume for a selection Sunday because twenty
Speaker 2: league games, you know, in the last few years, more
Speaker 2: often than not, your league games are not giving you
Speaker 2: any opportunity to win games that will boost your resume
Speaker 2: just because of where where the league is. So I
Speaker 2: would say, you know, if you're the Big twelve, there
Speaker 2: should be some kind of a partnership to where I
Speaker 2: don't know how you would do it, because obviously there's
Speaker 2: not as many teams in the Big twelve as there
Speaker 2: is the ACC. But also they already are playing that
Speaker 2: I didn't realize the Big Twelve went to nine. So
Speaker 2: the Big Ten and the Big twelve are at nine,
Speaker 2: and the ACC is not going to nine, and the
Speaker 2: SEC it's it seems like they're they're getting closer to
Speaker 2: going to nine games. So those those conferences wouldn't would
Speaker 2: not probably be looking to do any kind of a
Speaker 2: partnership because they're going to you know, maybe maybe just maybe,
Speaker 2: I mean, in fact, the ACC, maybe they'd go to
Speaker 2: nine and you know, I guess we never mind, they're
Speaker 2: not going on. But like, I just feel like there
Speaker 2: should be some kind of a requirement for you to
Speaker 2: go out of conference and play somebody worth of damn.
Speaker 2: That way, if there is doubt from the committee that
Speaker 2: your impressive league record in the ACC isn't worthy, then
Speaker 2: they can point to a non conference opportunity and that
Speaker 2: can you know, that can help give you the benefit
Speaker 2: of the doubt that you didn't just beat up on
Speaker 2: a bad league, you beat up in a bad league,
Speaker 2: but also have you know, a non conference win that
Speaker 2: has at least a.
Speaker 3: Little bit of value.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna look at the so Louisville every
Speaker 2: year plays an SEC team because of the Kentucky rivalry,
Speaker 2: and I feel like more often than not, there are
Speaker 2: other teams that like, for example, let's just go to
Speaker 2: like NC State, They've got they've got every year on
Speaker 2: their schedule because their rival is in conference. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they play Notre Dame and then Notre Dame
Speaker 2: game is always a boost for your for your strength
Speaker 2: to schedule. But not everybody gets Notre Dame every year.
Speaker 2: So outside of the ACC, teams in Notre Dame, NC
Speaker 2: State's playing East Carolina Campbell, and.
Speaker 3: I don't know who else.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh yeah, they're doing that weird thing where
Speaker 2: I think n C State in maybe Wake are playing
Speaker 2: each other like they even when the league doesn't schedule
Speaker 2: them against each other, they still play and it doesn't
Speaker 2: count towards conference. It's really stupid. But yeah, I can't
Speaker 2: say that going to nine games would help the ACC.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, if you continue to schedule the
Speaker 2: way that you do when you play nine league games,
Speaker 2: even if the ACC's down, beating a Boston College or
Speaker 2: a Syracuse or somebody like that, or a Wake Forest,
Speaker 2: it'd probably give you more more value than beating Elon
Speaker 2: or East Carolina or Kinnesas State, but probably not enough
Speaker 2: to where the committee would be like, Okay, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a real resume win for them.
Speaker 3: All Right, we're out of time, we're out of here.
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