Speaker 1: I think in ninety three they played in late November.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that is rather obvious is
Speaker 1: that nobody likes this. Nobody would prefer this, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard from anybody who is thinking to themselves, well,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, I've been wanting them to move it to
Speaker 1: you know, November. I've been wanting to see Louisville and
Speaker 1: Kentucky play each other in basketball before they play in football.
Speaker 1: Like nobody's thinking that, which I bet there's at least
Speaker 1: some of you listening right now that didn't even quite
Speaker 1: put that together. Because that's that's what really makes it
Speaker 1: weird to me, is like, wait a second, what They're
Speaker 1: going to play each other in basketball weeks before they
Speaker 1: play each other in football? And yes, that's how this
Speaker 1: shapes up. So regardless of how weird and awkward it's
Speaker 1: gonna seem, and with the new world being here and
Speaker 1: not going anywhere anytime soon, I would say annually, there's
Speaker 1: going to be an adjustment period to kind of get
Speaker 1: to know your team because you know, you got a
Speaker 1: lot of moving pieces now. I don't think we're going
Speaker 1: to see anything close to what we saw last year
Speaker 1: for both Kentucky and Louisville with with you know, building
Speaker 1: an entirely new roster, because that that only happened due
Speaker 1: to the coaching change. And I think because of the
Speaker 1: specific situation in Louisville and Lexington, I mean even in
Speaker 1: I think coaching changes moving forward aren't going to result
Speaker 1: in every single player being gone. But Louisville, you know,
Speaker 1: got rid of an awful, deadly virus thankfully in the
Speaker 1: Kenny Payneaires, so you had to wipe that out completely.
Speaker 1: And then with Kentucky and Cal, it's just with the
Speaker 1: way he builds his roster. I mean, guys who come
Speaker 1: to play for John Caliperi probably aren't the same exact
Speaker 1: kind of guys that you know come to play for
Speaker 1: Mark Pope. And that's not a shot or an insult
Speaker 1: that either. It's just Cal's got his own way of
Speaker 1: building his team and always has, and Mark Pope does
Speaker 1: it differently. So I would say maybe this year will
Speaker 1: probably be like when you look at the returning players
Speaker 1: on both sides Louisville, I would say they would.
Speaker 2: Have been a team.
Speaker 1: And this is this is this is absolutely something I
Speaker 1: hadn't thought about until somebody reminded me on the text line.
Speaker 1: But Louisville would have been able to say that they
Speaker 1: have much more continuity returning from a year ago if
Speaker 1: they if they brought back James Scott because he played,
Speaker 1: started and was a big factor for your team, along
Speaker 1: with Javon Hadley, who is back. So without James Scott,
Speaker 1: the real returning players that have experienced that were a
Speaker 1: part of last year's success, it's mostly just Hadley and
Speaker 1: then can I Rus who did have you know, had
Speaker 1: his moments and I think he'll actually take a big
Speaker 1: step forward.
Speaker 2: I love can I.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just hard to say that he's somebody
Speaker 1: that you know, was a was one of the big,
Speaker 1: big important pieces to last year's team that we saw.
Speaker 1: And then Cason would have been, but you know, he
Speaker 1: got hurt. He played four games, four and a half
Speaker 1: games before he got hurt. So Louisville really only has
Speaker 1: two kind of one big pieces back that were highly
Speaker 1: impactful on the Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I guess it's.
Speaker 1: Probably just I mean, maybe you say the same thing,
Speaker 1: and I don't have Kentucky's roster in front of me,
Speaker 1: but like, oh, take Oway, I mean, they're not only
Speaker 1: getting you know, some guys back they're getting their best
Speaker 1: player back because he was that he's really good. But
Speaker 1: outside of Oway, the other guys back for Kentucky, I
Speaker 1: mean Colin Chandler. I mean he played, but I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, and he certainly came on late, but I
Speaker 1: don't I wouldn't say he was like a big piece
Speaker 1: to them being a three seed. Trent Noah, same thing,
Speaker 1: Brandan Garrison, same thing. So they actually have more pieces
Speaker 1: back from a year ago. But I you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's out of line to say that that
Speaker 1: there's really only one that is instrumental in their success
Speaker 1: from a year ago, and that's Oway. But just like
Speaker 1: I said about Cadi Rus, I think he's going to
Speaker 1: take a big step forward and I expect him to
Speaker 1: have a good year. I kind of feel the same
Speaker 1: way about Colin Chandler. I think he'll he'll be a
Speaker 1: good piece for Mark Pope this year. Trent Noah, not sure.
Speaker 1: Brand and Garrison. I didn't see much last year that
Speaker 1: would make you think that he's gonna be like a
Speaker 1: really good SEC caliber big. But obviously he's athletic, he's
Speaker 1: got size, you know, but he's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: ready to go because let's be honest, if I mean
Speaker 1: there's I mean Jaden Quainton's being able to play just
Speaker 1: seems really unlikely by November eleventh, certainly not at one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, given the fact that he tores ACL.
Speaker 2: In March or late February. I should say so.
Speaker 1: Again, for the most part, I would say the continuity
Speaker 1: from the previous season to the next, let's just say
Speaker 1: these two teams play each other every early November, I'd
Speaker 1: say it's I wouldn't be shocked if this is the
Speaker 1: kind of returning production in experience that you get just
Speaker 1: because again, players are gonna they're gonna up and leave
Speaker 1: just because they can. And by the way, I those
Speaker 1: who missed it earlier, James Scott did commit to ole
Speaker 1: Miss today. So if we get a return game against
Speaker 1: ole Miss and the sec ACC Challenge, which I'm not
Speaker 1: asking for that, but if we did, we would at
Speaker 1: that point end up going up against James. So again,
Speaker 1: it'll be an awkward lead up. It'll feel weird. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to burn a vacation day, burn some
Speaker 1: PTO hours because you just know you won't be productive
Speaker 1: at work day of game, or maybe you know you
Speaker 1: won't be productive day after, depending upon what happens. And
Speaker 1: one of the things I love about this rivalry is
Speaker 1: that in Louisville, and I always say this, in Louisville,
Speaker 1: it's just different. Like I'm sure there are Louisville fans
Speaker 1: that don't live in Louisville that are as into this
Speaker 1: rivalry as anybody. And I'm sure that there are Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans that don't live in Louisville that you know, have
Speaker 1: the hatred for Louisville as much as anybody. But you
Speaker 1: got to be here to really experience this thing at
Speaker 1: its most intense level because we all coexist together. There's
Speaker 1: so many of both. For a long time, I think
Speaker 1: Louisville fans would try to act as if there weren't
Speaker 1: as many Kentucky fans as there are. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that there's way more. I'm just saying, like, I know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Kentucky Blue in Louisville, and of
Speaker 1: course there's a ton of Louisville red. So that's why
Speaker 1: I just think to experience assist level to the rivalry,
Speaker 1: at the level that makes me feel very confident in
Speaker 1: saying it's the best rivalry in sports because you know,
Speaker 1: last I check, rivalries are about fans because players, coaches coming,
Speaker 1: they come and go. Like Louisville is where you really
Speaker 1: can feel that. But when it comes to like workplaces,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of big employers here in Louisville,
Speaker 1: very very thankful for that too, right, Like, I bet
Speaker 1: there's people listening right now that work it forward or
Speaker 1: know somebody who does, or maybe they used to work
Speaker 1: it forward. Ups My man Austin, he's a ups a love.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of you know, Humana, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of big employers or maybe even like smaller employers.
Speaker 1: But yet you know, if you got thirty people working
Speaker 1: in a factory together on an assembly line or in
Speaker 1: a shop, there's a good chance that you got a
Speaker 1: mixed bash Louisville and Kentucky fans. And day after work.
Speaker 2: Is either the day of your of your year.
Speaker 1: Or it's a day you might get come down with
Speaker 1: something and have to burn a sick day, right because
Speaker 1: you if you win, you want to be there to
Speaker 1: let your coworkers know that they got to take their
Speaker 1: medicine and you know you got to give them hell.
Speaker 1: That's what we do and if you lose, you you
Speaker 1: probably dread showing up to work that day to have
Speaker 1: to kind of face the music about your team losing.
Speaker 1: Now what I hope happens, And I can already tell
Speaker 1: that it is happening. Like Louisville fans for a while,
Speaker 1: like we were dead. And I don't just mean like
Speaker 1: the Kindy payneair, but like there are some fans that
Speaker 1: just understandably so I guess they had just gotten so
Speaker 1: used to losing to Kentucky it was hard to like, like,
Speaker 1: for about three years, you could take joy in Kentucky losing.
Speaker 1: You could rivalry and rib them about a lot of
Speaker 1: things like Saint Peter's and Oakland and you know whatever.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to like the I mean Louisville fans,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a whole lot of ammunition. Now that
Speaker 1: changed last year and it was a competitive game. And
Speaker 1: this year, I think Louisville fans will be super confident,
Speaker 1: and I mean they'll probably be favored.
Speaker 2: Right they're at home.
Speaker 1: It's that early. There won't be any real result that'll
Speaker 1: change how people like. There's not going to be anything
Speaker 1: before November eleventh that changes the way people view these
Speaker 1: two teams as far as what they expect them to do.
Speaker 1: So we're probably looking at a top maybe top ten matchup,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to say. Who knows if that any
Speaker 1: of that's true? Right, who knows if these either of
Speaker 1: these teams are going to be close to being that good.
Speaker 1: But the only scenario where this is not a really
Speaker 1: big matchup, and when it comes to, you know, a
Speaker 1: highly ranked team facing another highly ranked team, is if
Speaker 1: Otega Oways somehow decided to stay in the NBA Draft,
Speaker 1: which I don't anticipate that he does, but that would
Speaker 1: be the only thing. So yeah, it's it's awkward, it's weird.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people complaining, but I know that
Speaker 1: they could play this game anytime, anywhere, and I'll find
Speaker 1: a way to watch it. If I cald God willing,
Speaker 1: I'll find a way to watch it. Also, when it
Speaker 1: comes to basketball again, it's been a heavy basketball show
Speaker 1: today because we now know the ACC has decided to
Speaker 1: make it an adjustment to the league schedule eighteen games
Speaker 1: now instead of twenty. And I don't know the reasoning
Speaker 1: behind this move is far.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know why.
Speaker 1: They're reducing the conference schedule because they need more ACC
Speaker 1: teams in the tournament. In the best case scenario for
Speaker 1: that to happen would be letting these teams go schedule
Speaker 1: other opponents instead of two more ACC games. Because the
Speaker 1: league doesn't give you a whole lot of opportunity to
Speaker 1: boost your resume. That was on full display last this
Speaker 1: past season. But the reason to schedule it the way
Speaker 1: that they did, I don't know. So eighteen game schedule,
Speaker 1: you will play fourteen teams, one time you will play
Speaker 1: I think that's right, says here. The eighteen game schedule
Speaker 1: features team starting league play in late December and ending
Speaker 1: on the first Saturday of March. Each team will play
Speaker 1: one primary opponent both home and away, as well as
Speaker 1: one variable partner home and away. The varial partner will
Speaker 1: be determined each season. Teams will play one game home
Speaker 1: or away against fourteen of the remaining fifteen teams annually.
Speaker 1: So Louisville every year will play SMU twice, and then
Speaker 1: every year it'll be a different team that you get twice.
Speaker 1: And then there's Team zero, which again I can't can't
Speaker 1: quite understand why you would do that, But every year
Speaker 1: there'll be one team that you just don't play. Could
Speaker 1: it be like a scheduling thing with travel, Like maybe
Speaker 1: that's why I just there's just this seems stupid. It
Speaker 1: seems really really stupid. But that's what they decided to do.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a good move. And who Louisville
Speaker 1: ends up getting on the schedule no clue, but I
Speaker 1: hope it's a good team that gives you a chance
Speaker 1: to boost the resume somebody on the Textllent earlier asked
Speaker 1: about those November tournaments. Is Lovell gonna be in any
Speaker 1: of them, like the Battle for Atlantis last year?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't believe that their scheduled to participate in
Speaker 1: any of those games. So that gives Pat Kelsey a
Speaker 1: lot of room to work with. And look, you're still
Speaker 1: gonna see teams on the schedule, like like I bet
Speaker 1: Winthrop we play them every year because of the obvious
Speaker 1: connection that's where Pat got his start and his mentor
Speaker 1: the late Skip Prosser, his son is the coach at Winthrop,
Speaker 1: And I bet we play them every year and I will.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm fine with that because.
Speaker 1: They're actually usually pretty good for that level, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're going to play a team from the SoCon
Speaker 1: they're usually one that would be better, you know, than
Speaker 1: most in that league. But we're gonna learn about Pad
Speaker 1: a little bit here because I get the sense that
Speaker 1: he's willing to schedule big opponents because you know, he's
Speaker 1: never had when he was at Charleston, like they they
Speaker 1: rarely got to play in big games as far as
Speaker 1: you know, highly ranked opponents, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: And last year the schedule was loaded.
Speaker 1: But what I don't know is, you know, would would
Speaker 1: we have had that type of schedule if it was
Speaker 1: Pat making the decision. So a lot of those games
Speaker 1: you're already built into it. But it will say and
Speaker 1: I forgot about this, thank you for reminding me of
Speaker 1: this on the text line. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: have the date yet, but Louisville will play Indiana this
Speaker 1: year in basketball. So here's here's the non conference opponents
Speaker 1: that we know right now for Louisville, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana.
Speaker 1: You'll get another SEC team because of the ACC SEC challenge,
Speaker 1: and we'll see if Rick was full of crap or not. Right,
Speaker 1: Rick Ptino, he's the one who put it out there
Speaker 1: as if the two sides are working on a game,
Speaker 1: working on a deal to bring Louisville to the Garden
Speaker 1: to play Saint John's and then Rick will return with
Speaker 1: Saint John's the next year. But to my understanding, Rick
Speaker 1: was way ahead of himself and that's not final or
Speaker 1: even close to it. But hey, I'd be fine with it, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a gift to Rick, But why not that?
Speaker 1: And I say that knowing maybe we need it. Maybe
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a gift. Maybe we needed as much
Speaker 1: as he does. Maybe we need it more. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because if Saint John's good once again, that'll give you
Speaker 1: another chance to get to get a big time resume win.
Speaker 1: And you don't want to have the toughest schedule in
Speaker 1: the country in the non conference.
Speaker 2: You don't need that.
Speaker 1: But let's not forget about what conference play was like.
Speaker 1: It was easy to get intoxicated with the wins because man,
Speaker 1: we didn't win a lot. For you, We didn't win
Speaker 1: much at all for years, and then you messed around
Speaker 1: and won eighteen of your twenty conference games. So there
Speaker 1: was an element to it where it didn't matter who
Speaker 1: we were playing. We were just gassed up because we
Speaker 1: were winning and it didn't matter who. Like wins against
Speaker 1: teams that used to feel like nothing felt special because
Speaker 1: we were deprived for years of those kind of wins. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, last year you had a really good non
Speaker 1: conference schedule where you played Kentucky, Tennessee, Ole, Miss, Indiana, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: West Virginia. So that's six of your non conference games
Speaker 1: were against teams that, you know, some of them didn't
Speaker 1: end up being great, like Indiana, but I mean on paper,
Speaker 1: like clearly you were you met scheduled. Just those are
Speaker 1: big brands. So you know, if you get something like
Speaker 1: that again, I'd say that would be that, that would
Speaker 1: be fine something similar to that, but you got to
Speaker 1: win some of them, right, like Louisville's win against Indiana
Speaker 1: and they're win against West Virginia in the long run
Speaker 1: lost more lost value as the season went on. So
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to envision a scenario where you're not
Speaker 1: in the same situation you were in a year ago,
Speaker 1: but like it's really out of your control. I mean
Speaker 1: you can I mean the fact that you can go
Speaker 1: eighteen and two in your league, make it to your
Speaker 1: conference championship game and lose to a one seed and
Speaker 1: you get an eight that tell you what the committee
Speaker 1: thinks of the ACC. And I hope next year is
Speaker 1: a lot different, but like, will anybody be shocked if
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean, there were a handful of teams
Speaker 1: that I felt like were solid, but like they didn't
Speaker 1: do enough to get in. Like last year, I thought
Speaker 1: SMU in wake Forest and even Pitt at times like
Speaker 1: they should have been better. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: should have been great, but like, those are teams that
Speaker 1: if they take care of business, they don't schedule stupidly,
Speaker 1: they sneak in the tournament if they if they don't,
Speaker 1: you know, step on their own step over their own feet.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean that the ACC would be loaded,
Speaker 1: but man'd be It'd be a big difference in getting
Speaker 1: eight teams in the tournament than getting nine or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: then getting four because last year was Duke, Clemson, Louisville
Speaker 1: and Carolina who was in the play in but SMU,
Speaker 1: wake Forest, Pit, like, those are teams that probably should
Speaker 1: have done I mean they probably you know, there's teams
Speaker 1: on your schedule every year that like if you lose
Speaker 1: to them, you know, like that could potentially come back
Speaker 1: and bite you and a few of those teams had
Speaker 1: too many of those losses, Like Louisville had it once
Speaker 1: against uh was it?
Speaker 3: Who was it?
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech?
Speaker 1: But that was just one that was a one off, right,
Speaker 1: So you really only had like one bad loss. I
Speaker 1: keep saying eighteen and two?
Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Did they not go eighteen and two?
Speaker 2: Because now I'm second guessing. No, you're right.
Speaker 4: Our only two losses was Duke and.
Speaker 2: Boston College Georgia two. Yeah, Georgia Tech Tech.
Speaker 1: They got really close to slipping up in some of
Speaker 1: those games. And that's what I think. That's what made me,
Speaker 1: I guess, maybe feel that that's what had me second
Speaker 1: guessing myself.
Speaker 4: Was it Boston College it had Scott Steiner's kid, No,
Speaker 4: it's Virginia Tech who was bad? Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech was the game. And I'll just say it.
Speaker 1: We were lucky as hell to win that game, Like
Speaker 1: we kind of had no business winning it, but we
Speaker 1: got it done that and e ku, thank god for
Speaker 1: Noah Waterman. But then, yeah, there were also some close
Speaker 1: games against Yeah, it's sure, guy, everybody knows it. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just trying to look at other games
Speaker 1: that scared the hell out of me. That yeah, that
Speaker 1: they ended up they were closer against Miami than I
Speaker 1: think you would have expected.
Speaker 2: The Virginia Tech when THO was the one that really
Speaker 2: really stands out.
Speaker 1: And then they had a closer game at home against
Speaker 1: Florida State than I think we anticipated. And uh yeah
Speaker 1: so And also I guess here's another one. They barely
Speaker 1: got by Stanford in that first ACC tournament game too.
Speaker 1: And again I think this speaks to like this is
Speaker 1: just a reminder of what the ACC was, because had
Speaker 1: you lost to a team like a Virginia Tech, like
Speaker 1: a Stanford, like a Florida State or a Miami, which
Speaker 1: again you didn't, so credit to you for not doing that,
Speaker 1: but I think we just knew, man, that would cripple you.
Speaker 2: Like they gave you an eight seed the committee.
Speaker 1: If you would have lost to Stanford and you didn't
Speaker 1: have the chucky Hepburn buzzer beater, do you make the
Speaker 1: tournament like it sounds like huperbole. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be shock jock radio guy, but like that's a I mean,
Speaker 1: could you might have been in the play in game,
Speaker 1: which is would have been insane. It would have been wrong,
Speaker 1: but like, given what the committee did, I think that
Speaker 1: might be what they would have done. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to our first break here in the five o'clock hour,
Speaker 1: when I want to get to on the other side,
Speaker 1: we will talk a little Tyler Shuck because it sounds
Speaker 1: like despite a lot of New Orleans Saints fans being
Speaker 1: unhappy with the draft pick, I think they're kind of
Speaker 1: coming around to accepting that he's probably going to be
Speaker 1: the guy that maybe runs their team this season because
Speaker 1: of the Derek Carr injury. So we can get into
Speaker 1: that and some other stuff before we run out of time.
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Speaker 2: So we do have an update.
Speaker 1: From Matt Noorlander that I would be I'd be pleased
Speaker 1: with he is reporting that, Well, are you reporting something?
Speaker 1: If you share something you're hearing, I guess you're sharing.
Speaker 1: I guess it's considered.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's not a report, but I'll just read it directly.
Speaker 1: That way, we can't take my man out of context. Here,
Speaker 1: but Matt Orlanders said, quote, my expectation is Duke's second
Speaker 1: home and home in ACC play ACC play next season
Speaker 1: will be Louisville, And he said that he thinks to
Speaker 1: UNC and NC State will play twice next year, which
Speaker 1: makes total sense. So if that's the case, you know
Speaker 1: you're getting the best team probably in your league. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're not though, like maybe louis is the best team
Speaker 1: in the ACC, who knows. But I think if you've
Speaker 1: got if you're making this decision to adjust your scheduling
Speaker 1: format because you know you need more teams in and
Speaker 1: if you play twenty games against each other, it's not
Speaker 1: going to give you enough opportunities to get good enough
Speaker 1: wins to get in. Then I think it makes total
Speaker 1: sense to take the two teams that just played for
Speaker 1: the championship game and make sure they play each other
Speaker 1: once again the following season, because you know you would
Speaker 1: expect them to be able to maintain some of that momentum.
Speaker 1: So if you get do twice and then you consider
Speaker 1: the non conference opponents we know of right now, it's.
Speaker 2: A good start, all right.
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Speaker 1: So we talked a lot earlier about the comeback from
Speaker 1: the Pacers last night. Brutal for Donovan Mitchell and the Calves.
Speaker 1: But man, the Pacers have now this postseason and we're
Speaker 1: early in the second round. They've now played seven playoff
Speaker 1: games in the postseason right now, the Pacers have, and
Speaker 1: they've had two of those games be comebacks that you
Speaker 1: just simply never see. So again, teams that are trailing
Speaker 1: by at least seven points in the final minute of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of overtime, I'm sorry, in the final
Speaker 1: minute of the fourth quarter or overtime. Since nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: seven ninety eight, the record of teams in that situation
Speaker 1: three and one thousand.
Speaker 2: Six and forty.
Speaker 1: Well, two of those three wins have come in the
Speaker 1: last week by the same team, which is just crazy.
Speaker 1: And Austin said it during the break, He's right.
Speaker 2: As much as we have.
Speaker 1: Crapped on the NBA playoffs, and I still feel like
Speaker 1: we were justified in doing so, We've gotten some pretty
Speaker 1: pretty entertaining basketball thus far. I mean, you've had a
Speaker 1: few blowouts, right, like a couple teams or a couple
Speaker 1: games were fifty point losses. But we've also had four
Speaker 1: twenty come from behind victories, which again early second round
Speaker 1: is where we are right now, and having four of
Speaker 1: those in one postseason is already a record, So I
Speaker 1: will give the NBA some credit. I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: what has led to it, but the playoffs thus far
Speaker 1: have been more entertaining than I certainly anticipated. And another
Speaker 1: series that I expect to be pretty good is this
Speaker 1: series between Minnesota and Golden State, and Minnesota the top
Speaker 1: seed hosting.
Speaker 2: They got off to a rough start, letting one slip
Speaker 2: on their.
Speaker 1: Home floor, and they did it or the Warriors won
Speaker 1: without Steph Curry towards the end because of an injury.
Speaker 2: Now looked like it was gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: However, it's not as severe as it initially was expected
Speaker 1: to be. It's a Grade one hamstring strain, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss at least a week, it sounds like. But
Speaker 1: they still have some really good players. And this is
Speaker 1: if you're Golden State. You know, nobody's replacing Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: He's just that good and he's unique. But aren't you
Speaker 1: happy you went and got Jimmy Butler? I mean, you
Speaker 1: now have another big time shot maker, big time player.
Speaker 1: I mean I've never actually believed that Jimmy Butler was
Speaker 1: quite as good as maybe others have. But he's certainly
Speaker 1: a good player, and at times I think he's played
Speaker 1: his best basketball in you know, crunch time in postseason play.
Speaker 1: I mean, bubble was it bubbled Butler? Jimmy Butler in
Speaker 1: the bubble when Miami, oh yeah, made it all the
Speaker 1: way to the they make it the finals? They didn't
Speaker 1: They the Lakers. That's who the Lakers beat. So yeah, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler came up big for him last night.
Speaker 2: I like Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 4: A lot of people give him hell. I mean he
Speaker 4: is uh, I mean, his personality is kind of out there,
Speaker 4: but Duke and Ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I like Jimmy Butler too. Just to me,
Speaker 1: this may be a really bad, you know, comparison to make,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna do it anyway, because you know, why
Speaker 1: not the Miami stuff and whenever it wasn't working in
Speaker 1: Minnesota as well, the quick departure that he had, and
Speaker 1: like people forget he played for Philadelphia, Like that's a
Speaker 1: very easily easily forgettable sir almost did. Like he's he's
Speaker 1: got to be difficult to deal with, or he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be on so many different teams. And there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of Aaron Rodgers to him, I think, as far
Speaker 1: as just like he's gonna do things his way and
Speaker 1: that's just what it is. And you know, some teams
Speaker 1: just don't put up with that. Pat Riley didn't put
Speaker 1: up with it. And but in the end, Jimmy won, right,
Speaker 1: they traded him, and now he's on a contender and
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's he's potentially gonna be in you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he wins a title.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I've always loved the story of his last days in
Speaker 4: Minnesota where he like took the practice squad and was
Speaker 4: beating uh the starting teams in practice, and that was
Speaker 4: always pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He he really made a name for himself in Chicago
Speaker 1: playing alongside Derek Rose, and then of course he became
Speaker 1: the guy. And then he ends up in Minnesota because
Speaker 1: of Fibbs. And did he go from Minnesota to Philly?
Speaker 1: I think he did, yes, and then Philly to Miami, Miami,
Speaker 1: and then Miami to now Golden State. So he's a
Speaker 1: hell of a talent, no doubt. And again, if you're
Speaker 1: Golden State, you don't like losing Curry at all. But
Speaker 1: man Butler, whoever made that move and whoever initiated getting
Speaker 1: that done, I'm sure they feel pretty good about it
Speaker 1: at this point. All Right, something else I wanted to
Speaker 1: to talk about, not because I've got like any crazy
Speaker 1: story about it, but the real id situation in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot, so I didn't even realize one that
Speaker 1: I actually have a real idea because my wife, you know,
Speaker 1: she helps take care of me and make sure, like
Speaker 1: she just knows things I'm going to procrastinate about, so
Speaker 1: she makes sure, you know, it gets done to avoid
Speaker 1: you know, me showing up for a flight and not
Speaker 1: realizing I don't have the right idea to take off.
Speaker 1: But when I say I'm an idiot, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of layers to that. But the other reason is because
Speaker 1: like I don't even like, like, what is the why
Speaker 1: is it become such a disaster here in the state
Speaker 1: of Kentucky. The only thing I've heard is that it's
Speaker 1: impossible to get appointments, and you know, people can go
Speaker 1: and wait in line forever, and you know it just
Speaker 1: you know, they had an appointment that didn't but they
Speaker 1: never actually get to set appointment because the line's too long.
Speaker 1: There's just not enough resources to get you know, all
Speaker 1: this stuff done. But if you have a passport, you
Speaker 1: can still you can still fly, which a lot of
Speaker 1: people I assume have passports. But then again that's probably
Speaker 1: me just you know, living in my own bubble. I
Speaker 1: bet there's people listening right now that have never needed
Speaker 1: a passport because they've never left the country and they
Speaker 1: have no reason they don't.
Speaker 2: They don't want to.
Speaker 1: So the deadline was, I guess is today as far
Speaker 1: as what was needed to be done, And we've had
Speaker 1: years to get this, to get a real id which
Speaker 1: is why I assume they're like I argue with my wife.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's no way I have a real ID.
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten a new ID in a long time,
Speaker 1: and they've been talking about this new ID stuff here lately,
Speaker 1: and like I haven't. I just thought there's no scenario
Speaker 1: that the timing would have would have aligned to where
Speaker 1: I could have I could have gotten one, cause it's
Speaker 1: been so long since I got a new ID. But
Speaker 1: then I realized this has been like out there. You've
Speaker 1: known you need to get one at some point for
Speaker 1: a really really long time, and I guess a lot
Speaker 1: of people, you know, they procrastinated. But then it sounded
Speaker 1: like I was listening to HS earlier this week, and
Speaker 1: I guess they were hearing from folks from the airport
Speaker 1: that said, like, if you don't have one, like you'll
Speaker 1: be able to fly, but you then potential you might
Speaker 1: be able to fly, but you then run risk of
Speaker 1: having like an insanely long delay because they have to
Speaker 1: go through maybe different processes to identify who you are,
Speaker 1: Like I'm complete, I probably shouldn't. It's irresponsible for me
Speaker 1: on this platform to be yapping about things that I
Speaker 1: don't even know what I said is.
Speaker 2: True or not.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was it was you know, doomsday
Speaker 1: was today, because if you didn't have it, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't fly. And if you know you don't have one,
Speaker 1: good luck getting one because of how big of a
Speaker 1: disaster it's been for everybody else that's trying to get one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because basically, like even if you before all this,
Speaker 4: if you want to go, if you want to go,
Speaker 4: get on an airplane, and let's just say like you
Speaker 4: left your idea at home or something or didn't have
Speaker 4: a physical idea, you could still get on the plane,
Speaker 4: but they would you would have to go do like
Speaker 4: a background check and verification, an extension and I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: an extensive verification that you are like a citizen and
Speaker 4: all that, which might at that when people say if
Speaker 4: that's the case, and get there a little bit earlier,
Speaker 4: and it might, it sounds like it's the same thing here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it says here that if you you know
Speaker 1: what happens on May seventh, what if I don't have
Speaker 1: a real ID by then?
Speaker 2: This is from WDRB News.
Speaker 1: It says, if you don't have a real ID by
Speaker 1: the deadline and you're planning to board a domestic flight,
Speaker 1: you will need to bring your passport or another TSA
Speaker 1: approved form of identification, which I guess the accepted forms
Speaker 1: of identification you've got. I mean, I don't even this
Speaker 1: this list at at TSA dot gov. I mean, these
Speaker 1: are things I don't even like, a border crossing card,
Speaker 1: permanent residence card, like are those? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: have those? But maybe people do, so I guess there
Speaker 1: are some. There's some random identification forms that you may
Speaker 1: have that may get you through until you get your
Speaker 1: real ID. But I guess everybody's situation is different. But
Speaker 1: here's what TSA spokesperson has said. So this says otherwise,
Speaker 1: if you know, if you don't have one, you could
Speaker 1: face delays, additional screening, and the possibility of not being
Speaker 1: permitted into the security checkpoint. So that's from a TSA spokesperson.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't it just be yes or no, meaning if they
Speaker 1: if they knew that if you did not have a
Speaker 1: real ID or a passport or one of these other forms,
Speaker 1: if you simply could not get on a flight, they
Speaker 1: would say that, right. So therefore, I guess you you know,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get on you might not,
Speaker 1: which again is a disaster. Nobody's going to make plans
Speaker 1: to travel with the up in the air unpredictable. Let's
Speaker 1: see what the airport, Let's see what Let's see what
Speaker 1: I get today. I mean, it's our even before the
Speaker 1: take the real idea out of the equation, you really
Speaker 1: never know what you're going to get at an airport.
Speaker 1: Being in an airport is what i'm those helpless places
Speaker 1: you can be on Earth. You have no control and
Speaker 1: you just have to do whatever they say, and you
Speaker 1: know you don't like it tough. I'm fascinated by the
Speaker 1: human behavior at airports because I think it's been well documented.
Speaker 1: There are people who become versions of themselves that they
Speaker 1: didn't know existed because of the frustration at an airport
Speaker 1: hitting an all time high. Like I think some of
Speaker 1: the things you see on videos that surface of people
Speaker 1: losing their mind on a plane or at an airport,
Speaker 1: it may just be people getting hammered at the airport
Speaker 1: because sometimes you know, the airport beers do get the
Speaker 1: best of you, or the airport cocktails. I mean, the
Speaker 1: airport beer to me is always going to be number
Speaker 1: one elite. And then sometimes you have people that just
Speaker 1: might be kind of crazy, but there's enough of airport.
Speaker 1: There's enough airport shenanigans to take place across this country
Speaker 1: throughout the calendar year to where like at least some
Speaker 1: of it is just people hitting that point they didn't
Speaker 1: know was going to put them over the edge. I mean,
Speaker 1: like and they just get butt ass naked, not even
Speaker 1: not even kidding, Like you think I'm making that up. Now,
Speaker 1: that's not a that's not just a it's not an
Speaker 1: exaggeration type example. Like happened out that long ago some
Speaker 1: woman in the Dallas airport. I don't know her situation,
Speaker 1: but she was so upset and she really wanted people
Speaker 1: to know about it. And she knew that if she
Speaker 1: just got naked, that would get enough attention for her
Speaker 1: and that'll that'll be her proven her point. Probably was
Speaker 1: a mistake, probably didn't work out for in the long run,
Speaker 1: But like you know, I'm just thinking about how big
Speaker 1: of a pain in the ass the airport can be,
Speaker 1: regardless of you having every form of identification in the world.
Speaker 1: Now you throw this element in there, and like it
Speaker 1: could be it could be hell on Earth.
Speaker 4: It's a fun draft idea of worst least favorite airport shenanigans.
Speaker 2: Like there's a lot.
Speaker 1: That like like the steps in the process, yes, or
Speaker 1: give the bags checked.
Speaker 4: I mean when you're there, like the people that you
Speaker 4: you always see that one guy that's doing this and
Speaker 4: then you're like, I don't I can't stand that guy.
Speaker 1: What about Like I mean, a lot of people say,
Speaker 1: like the TSA security checkpoint that is a pain in
Speaker 1: the ass just because of the line and the process,
Speaker 1: But it actually all I mean, I actually think it
Speaker 1: moves pretty smoothly for the most part.
Speaker 2: I don't like the and usually.
Speaker 1: We don't have to do it, but if you check
Speaker 1: bags and whatnot, like you have to wait in the
Speaker 1: line at the airlines, and I've I mean i've oftentimes
Speaker 1: like I'm sure they do they I'm sure the attitude
Speaker 1: and the uh lack of friendliness for most of them
Speaker 1: is justified because they deal with a holes all day.
Speaker 1: But like, if I've not given you any indication, then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a jerk to you, like don't be
Speaker 1: passive aggressive and just like you know, like I got
Speaker 1: my phone out. I was taking a video of TIF
Speaker 1: holding Moose when we were leaving for a flight like
Speaker 1: two years ago. He was much smaller and some lady
Speaker 1: like at the checkout at the airline, like acted like
Speaker 1: she was gonna have to call the cops because I
Speaker 1: had I was videoing, and I'm like, I'm not videoing you.
Speaker 1: And even if I was, like even if I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do about it? Like I was,
Speaker 1: I was, I wouldn't even I wouldn't even any airport
Speaker 1: beers in yet. And she just like she just wanted,
Speaker 1: she wants, she wanted to create a confrontation, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you think I'm I probably talked to her in
Speaker 1: a way I don't usually talk to anybody, but I
Speaker 1: was like, you do you think I'm here to get
Speaker 1: my phone out and get a get a video clip
Speaker 1: of you. I don't know who you are, Like what
Speaker 1: do you like? We have protocols, sir, like for what
Speaker 1: like this happened a lot everybody. You got Papa Razzi
Speaker 1: coming up here to see you, lady. And then Tiff
Speaker 1: told me to calm down, and I did, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a time out and then take a Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll take a time out and then come back and
Speaker 1: say bye.
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Speaker 1: Day so with the change to the Louisville Kentucky basketball game,
Speaker 1: that means that week in early November is going to
Speaker 1: be a big one because you've got Louisville and Kentucky
Speaker 1: and basketball on that Tuesday, and then Louisville will play
Speaker 1: I believe, Clemson on uh yeah, they'll play Clemson on
Speaker 1: Friday at home. So in fact, really it sets up
Speaker 1: a six day window of hopefully good vibes. You'll play
Speaker 1: on November eighth at home against cal and then Tuesday
Speaker 1: UK and basketball, and then Friday night not Saturday, sorry,
Speaker 1: Friday night. I totally forgot that the Friday that the
Speaker 1: Clemson game is on a Friday. What do you think
Speaker 1: about that, Austin Friday Clemson football. I I actually think
Speaker 1: it gives him a better chance to win, because I
Speaker 1: think there's a there's a better chance of like Friday
Speaker 1: night big games like.
Speaker 2: Louisville football will have a very big crowd. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: they'll be hammered.
Speaker 4: And we've you said it, we've always we've always done
Speaker 4: well with Friday night games.
Speaker 1: And I love that we embrace it, right, Like, I
Speaker 1: get it. It's different, and I understand that. Like even
Speaker 1: though Saderfield you know with Saturdyfield, Like I get that
Speaker 1: he was just he felt it was weird to play
Speaker 1: on a on a Friday night, but he also should
Speaker 1: like read the room and understand that, like louisvill Foot,
Speaker 1: all the reason the job was what it was to
Speaker 1: that you wanted to come here is because they took
Speaker 1: advantage of big opportunities to play teams on weeknights and
Speaker 1: and really kind of build the brand. But right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jeb Brohm embraces it, and you know, I, uh, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big week man. And now I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: can can kN may and you know.
Speaker 2: Derby's wrapped up.
Speaker 1: This is the real slow time for me when it
Speaker 1: comes to, uh, when it comes to sports that I
Speaker 1: really care about, although as we mentioned, the NBA playoffs
Speaker 1: have been better than I anticipated. But yeah, once we
Speaker 1: get to uh, once we get to football season, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a an eight month roughly run
Speaker 1: of just you know, constantly having to follow UK or
Speaker 1: not having but enjoying football season, NFL and college basketball
Speaker 1: and you know Derby really so my uh, my, my
Speaker 1: year has always kind of just been based off sports stuff.
Speaker 1: So for me, like a New Year starts when football
Speaker 1: season starts, not January, and then you know, I've got
Speaker 1: the downtime like the off season is is now until
Speaker 1: you know, I guess late August. So all right, we're
Speaker 1: out of time, and you guys just know that if
Speaker 1: you missed anything on the show, you can always go
Speaker 1: back and check out the podcast. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Is it just me, Austron?
Speaker 2: Is the week going by fast?
Speaker 1: It is like tomorrow's Thursday, and I feel like Derby
Speaker 1: just happened. So we're rolling along here and we'll continue
Speaker 1: to do exactly that starting tomorrow at three o'clock, So
Speaker 1: make sure you join us again.
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