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Speaker 2: I I got really really You ever get really.
Speaker 3: Really mad for like just a brief moment and then
Speaker 3: you realize, Okay, I was wrong.
Speaker 2: That happened to me so earlier. I actually it was yesterday.
Speaker 3: I brought in two different I brought in two Monster
Speaker 3: Energy drinks because I you know, can't stop drinking those things.
Speaker 2: And I'm not no, I mean, I'm actually I want
Speaker 2: to be as far as.
Speaker 3: Weight and uh no side effects, but like they can't
Speaker 3: be good for me, but I still drink them like crazy,
Speaker 3: and I love them.
Speaker 2: I'm addicted to them.
Speaker 3: And you can get you can get I don't know
Speaker 3: the exact price, but you can get three of them
Speaker 3: at at Thornton's and it's a discounted price. And that's
Speaker 3: not even something that's part of the refreshing rewards. But nonetheless,
Speaker 3: I brought in two of them yesterday drank when yesterday
Speaker 3: left one here, and then I went to the I
Speaker 3: went in, the fridge is pretty empty right now in
Speaker 3: our in our offices here. I don't know if they
Speaker 3: need to probably restock after the holidays or what it is,
Speaker 3: and I usually don't. The only reason I mentioned that
Speaker 3: it's pretty empty is that, like, I know where I
Speaker 3: put it, and it wasn't there, and I thought, man,
Speaker 3: somebody's gonna pay for this, And I don't mean what
Speaker 3: I paid for to get these at Thornton's. I mean, like,
Speaker 3: this is just unacceptable. And then I and then I
Speaker 3: realized somebody had put it in the drawer, which I
Speaker 3: think is kind of odd, like maybe somebody thought about
Speaker 3: taking it and then realized, Okay, probably shouldn't do that,
Speaker 3: so they just they put it because like I had
Speaker 3: to look for it and I didn't put it there.
Speaker 3: It wasn't taking up a lot of space because it's
Speaker 3: damn near empty. But I don't know why, but I
Speaker 3: feel like taking somebody's item from the fridge at your
Speaker 3: workplace is like the I don't want to overstay. I
Speaker 3: don't want to act like it's something people should be
Speaker 3: thrown in prison for, but maybe just jail, because it's
Speaker 3: it's one of those things like if you do it,
Speaker 3: you know you're a complete a hole. You know you
Speaker 3: are stealing from somebody. It is quite literally theft. Someone
Speaker 3: could call the cops on you if they wanted to,
Speaker 3: and it wouldn't be out of line in my opinion.
Speaker 3: And I know that's crazy, that sounds extreme, but like
Speaker 3: because like it happened to me at a job I
Speaker 3: had long ago, and I never really found out like
Speaker 3: who it was, but it still boils my blood to
Speaker 3: think about it because like I brought lunch, had it
Speaker 3: there when I showed up, put it in the fridge
Speaker 3: and then you know, didn't get thrown away. Somebody ate
Speaker 3: it and they knew it wasn't theirs, Like it's no mistake.
Speaker 3: But like I also worked at a at a at
Speaker 3: a my previous job before this was my you know,
Speaker 3: my full time gig when I worked for a software
Speaker 3: company very much like a cube life kind of place,
Speaker 3: meaning like.
Speaker 2: Everybody had cubicles like it was.
Speaker 3: It was a cool setting and you know they had
Speaker 3: a big kitchen and people brought their lunch all the time,
Speaker 3: and you know somebody would bring in like not a
Speaker 3: I mean would like they would go grocery shopping and
Speaker 3: leave you know, their whole groceries for their house in
Speaker 3: the fridge at work.
Speaker 2: But they would you know, they wouldn't.
Speaker 3: They would have Okay, I'm gonna put six little debies
Speaker 3: in here, I'm gonna you know, they stock they used
Speaker 3: the fridge base to where they could have lunch but
Speaker 3: also just kind of have snacks of their own, and
Speaker 3: they labeled it like it was a normal thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But and I'm sure if you have worked in a
Speaker 3: place where you have like a common area where people
Speaker 3: put their lunches and you just assume that nobody's gonna
Speaker 3: take your stuff, you probably have an experience. You probably
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about. But there was a guy
Speaker 3: that had worked with us that, you know, he would
Speaker 3: bring in like like he would bring in not like
Speaker 3: a twelve pack of cokes, like not like we have
Speaker 3: here where we literally just stock the fridge with soft
Speaker 3: drinks for people to have, but like he would bring
Speaker 3: in like I think it was like diet cherry PEPs see,
Speaker 3: a very random, not super popular, super common soda, but
Speaker 3: like everybody knew it was his. He would bring in
Speaker 3: like I don't know, six or seven of them a week,
Speaker 3: and sure enough, like half of them would be gone
Speaker 3: and he wasn't the one drinking them. And the place
Speaker 3: I worked had like twenty employees total, Like it was
Speaker 3: quite clear somebody was stealing and getting away with it,
Speaker 3: and finally we caught who it was. And it was
Speaker 3: like the least likely suspect. She was, you know, the
Speaker 3: sweetest lady who was in accounting, like, and she wasn't
Speaker 3: somebody that you feel like would would think that that's
Speaker 3: no big deal. But that's exactly the card she played,
Speaker 3: like once she got caught, Like it's one of those
Speaker 3: things where it's like I don't want to make a
Speaker 3: bigger deal out of this and act like I think
Speaker 3: that you just you know, stole a thousand dollars from me,
Speaker 3: But like it's the principle, it's the absolute principle knowing
Speaker 3: that you are taking something that you know somebody is
Speaker 3: they brought because they're gonna need it at work, they're
Speaker 3: gonna eat it or drink it. You know it's not yours.
Speaker 3: But like you can kind of get you can kind
Speaker 3: of get away with like, oh, what's the big deal?
Speaker 3: I didn't know whose it was I thought it was mine.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, are you mad about a two dollars sod
Speaker 3: to geez? Like you didn't play like the victim when
Speaker 3: when in reality you know you're an a hole and
Speaker 3: you're just trying to get away with it. I don't
Speaker 3: mean to get so worked up, but again, I thought
Speaker 3: somebody in this office took my energy drink, knowing that
Speaker 3: it wasn't theirs, and like I was gonna try to
Speaker 3: find out who it was. Luckily they just you know,
Speaker 3: somebody put it in a drawer and I found it there.
Speaker 4: What about what about like it did?
Speaker 5: It's all right cause I say this preemptively, I may
Speaker 5: have committed that crime earlier, and.
Speaker 3: You're telling me you just did what I about lost
Speaker 3: my mind about that didn't actually happen.
Speaker 4: Kind of kind of but you gritting my teeth over here?
Speaker 2: Well are you?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Well again with with.
Speaker 4: It was a go gurt. It was a go gret.
Speaker 4: I've seen that.
Speaker 5: That's four three weeks, and like you said, our fridge
Speaker 5: is kind of relatively empty right now. I don't know
Speaker 5: why we just kind of hired somebody to do that.
Speaker 5: But like when I go in there and I look
Speaker 5: for something, always just kind of eye things that are
Speaker 5: already in there. So I was looking for water. There's
Speaker 5: no waters in there. And every time I just go
Speaker 5: in there and I'm looking for something, I notice that
Speaker 5: it's not there. I pay attention to some other things
Speaker 5: that are in there. And you see the occasional lunch
Speaker 5: and I think some people do just forget and had
Speaker 5: the intentions of like wanting to eat something, then just
Speaker 5: completely forget about it. And it's at a little bit
Speaker 5: of a hungry boy and wanted something to snack one
Speaker 5: And I saw this little little Gogert sitting right there,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, this thing has been there for at
Speaker 5: least a few weeks. I feel like a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks is a good grace period. Now, if I just
Speaker 5: noticed something that is there, obviously someone just brought it in,
Speaker 5: I won't even think about touching it. But if it
Speaker 5: looks like something that probably should be thrown out, it
Speaker 5: might not have even I didn't even check the expiration dat.
Speaker 4: I don't even know.
Speaker 5: If gogt go goes expired all that much, especially Gogert's,
Speaker 5: But like I took it, I don't know bad about it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they expire or not, but overall,
Speaker 3: like you did take something knowing that it wasn't yours.
Speaker 3: But two things that I think are important to keep
Speaker 3: in mind. If it's been in there as long as
Speaker 3: you think you've seen it in there, then it's likely
Speaker 3: not gonna get It's not going to be like nobody's
Speaker 3: looking for it, like the person who brought it. And
Speaker 3: I hate to say this, but it might have been
Speaker 3: somebody who they let go. Like that's I mean true.
Speaker 3: I mean maybe some like they would have wanted me
Speaker 3: to take that in their honor. You decided to just
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 2: You were reminded.
Speaker 3: I mean again, I don't say I'm not even making
Speaker 3: a joke, like we we really did have you know
Speaker 3: a handful of people that were here regularly every day
Speaker 3: that now no longer work here, which is unfortunate, but
Speaker 3: maybe that's why it was there. But also you could
Speaker 3: in fact, like we're different here because we actually stock
Speaker 3: the kitchen with snacks and drinks from people to where
Speaker 3: even though I know you know that that was brought
Speaker 3: in by somebody, you could.
Speaker 2: Easily be like, oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I thought I thought our office uh office admin brought
Speaker 3: it in. I thought it was everybody, like, you know
Speaker 3: you'd be lying, but you also know that people could,
Speaker 3: like you know, they'd be hard for them to prove
Speaker 3: that you didn't know that it was yours. So I
Speaker 3: didn't even plan on knowing that you're you're one of
Speaker 3: these people that I think are are scum.
Speaker 2: Well I'm kidding. I don't think you're scum, but like
Speaker 2: that's brave of.
Speaker 3: It, Like brave of you to admit that you did
Speaker 3: it today whenever I'm sitting here acting like because again
Speaker 3: I tried.
Speaker 2: I tried to. It's my best. Yeah, I try.
Speaker 3: I tried as best as I could to lay it
Speaker 3: out as far as like it's just principle, like it's
Speaker 3: not like but I've seen people play the card of like,
Speaker 3: yeah I took it, what's the big deal? Are you
Speaker 3: that worried about us Snickers bar? Like no, but you
Speaker 3: know you took from me, and you're trying to like
Speaker 3: make you trying to play the victim like I'm the
Speaker 3: bad guy. When you took something, I don't care if
Speaker 3: it's worth a penny or if it's worth a five
Speaker 3: hundred bucks, Like you stole something that wasn't yours and
Speaker 3: it's one thing like this isn't even like a victimless crime.
Speaker 3: You potentially could have left somebody without a lunch, not
Speaker 3: you alst And I'm just saying like it's such a
Speaker 3: petty thing that that, Like, I'm sure there are people. Now,
Speaker 3: what's this guy getting so worked up about? Like it's
Speaker 3: not again, it's principal. Now, stealing a whole lunch is crazy? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's insane. That's like, don't be surprised if I
Speaker 3: do everything I can within my power to get you fired.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now marked at UPSA used to be the well, I mean,
Speaker 5: ups is much broader. There's thousands of people that work there.
Speaker 3: But I remember last time this came up. Don't they
Speaker 3: have some kind of policy for something like this that's
Speaker 3: really extreme?
Speaker 5: I'm I don't necessarily know. I was just always told like,
Speaker 5: if you want to bring lunch, like you can at
Speaker 5: your own risk. You can leave it in one of
Speaker 5: the main major wings at where the at like where
Speaker 5: the refrigerators are in like the breakroom, but it's probably
Speaker 5: best to just kind of carry it on yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, because you just know somebody would probably
Speaker 3: like a savage would it takes there's.
Speaker 5: So many people that work there, so there might and
Speaker 5: a lot of people don't have morals in there, fellow
Speaker 5: scum like me.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're scum, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I feel like when we talked about this last time,
Speaker 3: it's been some years that somebody said, like, you can
Speaker 3: get like written up if you do that, which I
Speaker 3: don't think is.
Speaker 4: You technically can.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's like reported and like everything's done, and I'm
Speaker 5: pretty sure they'll try to find out, but I don't
Speaker 5: know how deep they're they're going into going and looking
Speaker 5: at the cameras seeing who went in and because there's
Speaker 5: daytime and night time shift.
Speaker 3: And what's crazy is that like if enough people knew
Speaker 3: and like you just thought people would laugh at off
Speaker 3: and than they didn't, and then you were like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I took somebody's sandwich.
Speaker 2: What's the big deal.
Speaker 3: I didn't think it was or I thought it was mine,
Speaker 3: or I thought it had been there for a while,
Speaker 3: so I just took it, you know, Sorry, what's the
Speaker 3: big deal?
Speaker 2: Like then you.
Speaker 3: Probably would get written up and realize, Okay, I guess
Speaker 3: I can't steal because again, it's not about the value.
Speaker 3: It's not about you know, you harming someone. It's just like,
Speaker 3: put it this way, it says way more about you.
Speaker 3: If you literally take somebody's lunch knowing they brought it
Speaker 3: that day, then then then I'll and you may think
Speaker 3: of it as what's the big deal, but like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's actually not that big of a deal, I guess,
Speaker 3: but it does say a lot about you.
Speaker 2: So anyways, we'll move on, all right.
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Speaker 3: was given it some thought, and I haven't really given you.
Speaker 3: I haven't even gotten the answer that that that I
Speaker 3: want to give you just yet. But the text says, Nick,
Speaker 3: you mentioned the amount of players being seven, not as
Speaker 3: the biggest issue for Pat Kelse, but more so the
Speaker 3: seven guys he has to work with. If everybody's healthy
Speaker 3: and you could only play seven, who would you go with?
Speaker 3: I mean, there are some obvious or some obvious answers
Speaker 3: here when it comes to guys that like dead matter
Speaker 3: if there's seven, if there's five, these guys are playing chucky.
Speaker 3: Hepburn is the obvious one for me, and really I
Speaker 3: think he's kind of I think he's kind of on
Speaker 3: his own. And before I give you as I continue
Speaker 3: to scramble here and try to dance around it because
Speaker 3: I really don't know what the best answer is. I
Speaker 3: think the loss of Prior and Cooran Johnson for the
Speaker 3: whole season, Like, clearly that's a big deal. Everybody knows that.
Speaker 3: But I think where you where you struggle from, like
Speaker 3: where you're gonna miss, what you're gonna miss the most
Speaker 3: is not having a guy like Koran Johnson, meaning Koran Johnson.
Speaker 2: Was a guy that could create.
Speaker 3: He's a guy that could could shoot it to where
Speaker 3: if he makes four threes in a game, nobody's going
Speaker 3: to be shocked because he's a good shooter that can
Speaker 3: get hot. It's part of his his resume. He's a
Speaker 3: talented guy that played in the Pac twelve and was
Speaker 3: six Man of the Year, was a four star recruit.
Speaker 3: So it's not just that you don't really have a
Speaker 3: whole lot of flexibility as far as at the guard,
Speaker 3: but like he was somebody that, like you didn't have
Speaker 3: to as much worry about, like does it translate here,
Speaker 3: And he hadn't done a whole lot because I think
Speaker 3: at the time he got hurt, guys were still trying
Speaker 3: to find themselves and get comfortable out there as far
Speaker 3: as like how they're going to fit with each other,
Speaker 3: because you know, everybody here for the most part, I
Speaker 3: mean literally everybody here has never played together before. So
Speaker 3: Corain is kind of somebody that, like I think would
Speaker 3: be would be, would be in the mix as far
Speaker 3: as somebody that I would feel like, yeah, if I
Speaker 3: can only take seven, I would take him. And maybe
Speaker 3: it's the intrigue of the unknown, because you know, you
Speaker 3: can tell that they need another guard. They can you know,
Speaker 3: you can put Edwards at the one, and he's a
Speaker 3: good player, and he would be in the seven as
Speaker 3: well for me. But Edwards is somebody that, like it's
Speaker 3: not ideal for him or your team for him to
Speaker 3: be kind of running the show as the point guard.
Speaker 3: But right now that's the only real that you have.
Speaker 3: You could put Rain there and he wouldn't hurt you,
Speaker 3: but he's not as much of a of a of
Speaker 3: a weapon offensively other than you know, although he's a
Speaker 3: better offensive player than I think people. He clearly is
Speaker 3: known for jacking up threes and and he can he
Speaker 3: can get hot and change a game. But I think
Speaker 3: this year he is He's shown that he can at times,
Speaker 3: you know, pick a spot if it's not a three
Speaker 3: and get a and get a runner or you know,
Speaker 3: right place right Tom Bucket, get to the free throw
Speaker 3: on maybe. And he just has a good feel for
Speaker 3: the game, good spacing when he's on the floor.
Speaker 2: So here, here's what I'll do.
Speaker 3: I'll go Fable can only play seven, and everybody's healthy,
Speaker 3: it's Chucky, it's coryn. I would say, this isn't a
Speaker 3: starting line up, by the way, but Edwards Junior is
Speaker 3: going to be on there for sure case and Pryor
Speaker 3: is going to be on there for sure. And then
Speaker 3: from there, I think I would go think I would
Speaker 3: go Hadley just because you know another guy that can
Speaker 3: do a little bit of everything for you. So that's
Speaker 3: five and the other two. I may surprise you here
Speaker 3: because I would go I would go Ali Khalifa just
Speaker 3: because he gives you some physical presence that you just
Speaker 3: don't have at six.
Speaker 2: Eleven, two seventy five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he may not be like again, he's not
Speaker 3: like he's not a great athlete by any means, and
Speaker 3: he's certainly not fast, but his presence alone is just
Speaker 3: going to take up space.
Speaker 2: And you don't have any of that right now, like
Speaker 2: the guy.
Speaker 3: You know, even if everybody was healthy when like they
Speaker 3: were when the season started, you still wouldn't have a
Speaker 3: guy that just gives you that kind of presence in
Speaker 3: the post to where he can take you. And he's
Speaker 3: a good player. He's like, he's such a rare player
Speaker 3: because his two biggest weapons are his ability to knock
Speaker 3: down threes and he's a great passer. Yet he's six
Speaker 3: eleven two seventy five. Like it's just rare. But you know,
Speaker 3: he wouldn't be as effective for you as far as
Speaker 3: as you know, like, he's not somebody that's just gonna
Speaker 3: take up size in the paint and and you know,
Speaker 3: rim protect, he's not gonna score a ton in the
Speaker 3: in the low post or maybe even try to. But
Speaker 3: I just think there's a lot of value there and
Speaker 3: and maybe this is me just feeling, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: this is more of the intrigue of the unknown because
Speaker 3: we've never seen him play with Pat Kelsey's team, but
Speaker 3: I would I would go with him, So that gives
Speaker 3: me one more and it's down to do I take
Speaker 3: Trail Ray, who was pretty ineffective and not really an
Speaker 3: offensive weapon for you, but is a really good defender
Speaker 3: and a really good rebounder and a guy that can
Speaker 3: distribute as well. I kind of feel like I wouldn't
Speaker 3: go with him, and I'd probably roll with Man.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough. Do I go with.
Speaker 3: A guy who can change a game by knocking down threes?
Speaker 3: Rayn Smith and is not a liability on defense the
Speaker 3: way some people probably thought he would be, and you know,
Speaker 3: doesn't get in the way offensively, like if he's not
Speaker 3: making yeah, he's he's not a threat to where he's
Speaker 3: gonna go dunk on somebody.
Speaker 2: But I think him his experience has shown me that
Speaker 2: he knows.
Speaker 3: Like just being on the floor, is a guy that
Speaker 3: can shoot it that way, the opposing team is going
Speaker 3: to have to account for where you are, and he
Speaker 3: moves a lot to where he knows.
Speaker 2: That's like he's a very smart player.
Speaker 3: So I'm torn, do I go with the shooter or
Speaker 3: the talented young freshman who could come off the bench
Speaker 3: and give me eighteen minutes a game, fifteen minutes a game,
Speaker 3: something like that, and by the end of the year,
Speaker 3: like you realize, Okay, this guy's pretty special. So I think,
Speaker 3: I gosh, I think I would go with Rus just
Speaker 3: because I've already got three really good guards, so that
Speaker 3: would be my seven. I would go Chucky, Coryn Edwards,
Speaker 3: Prior Hadley Khalifa.
Speaker 2: And and.
Speaker 3: Now I'm going and use with the names you said
Speaker 3: Corn Yeah, yeah, Rus was the last one, so I
Speaker 3: would you know, the guys that are playing now, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't have No Waterman. I'm not as hard on him
Speaker 3: as other people, but I just, you know, if he's
Speaker 3: not making threes, I'm not really sure what he's doing.
Speaker 3: And there's other areas where he kind of hurts you.
Speaker 3: And then obviously I wouldn't take Rainsmith, which makes me sad,
Speaker 3: but if I can only pick seven, that's what i'd
Speaker 3: go with that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't pick James Scott because.
Speaker 3: You know, I just you know, it plays hard, but
Speaker 3: he's just not a threat offensively unless he's dunking the ball.
Speaker 3: And I think at times he can be You know,
Speaker 3: he plays hard, but I think he could be a
Speaker 3: liability for you defensively. All right, quick break will come
Speaker 3: back on the other side. Keep this thing rolling along,
Speaker 3: keep you updated as best we can on the transfer
Speaker 3: portal as it is once again very chaotic, but it's
Speaker 3: very important. This is gonna you know, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of guys you're here in this week and next week
Speaker 3: as far as visits and whatnot. These are guys you're
Speaker 3: gonna be watching play for your team hopefully next season.
Speaker 2: So again, it's tough to keep up with.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to make it entertaining on the
Speaker 3: radio by any means, but it is important, so we'll
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Speaker 3: We've got some more accolades coming in for some Louisville
Speaker 3: football players who had great seasons. And man, I really wish.
Speaker 3: I mean, we knew going in that we were gonna
Speaker 3: have Tyler Shuck for like, we didn't lose Tyler Shuck.
Speaker 3: We got him for one year, and it was because
Speaker 3: of the circumstance with the pandemic and his injuries to
Speaker 3: where he could play what a six or seventh season,
Speaker 3: so you know, to see how good he was as
Speaker 3: a bummer to know that we only had him one year.
Speaker 3: But like we kind of knew going in he wouldn't
Speaker 3: be somebody that we should expect to be around a
Speaker 3: long time. But he is up for Comeback Player of
Speaker 3: the Year, which I don't think I knew was an award,
Speaker 3: but certainly he would be either he would be fitting.
Speaker 3: I mean, given the fact that this guy has I mean,
Speaker 3: he really his entire his entire career, he was never
Speaker 3: able to stay healthy. In fact, I think what was
Speaker 3: the stat he only he only played. I think he
Speaker 3: might have only played in six games a maximum and
Speaker 3: every other season before he ended up getting to Louisville,
Speaker 3: So you know, I think he is. He's one of
Speaker 3: three finalists for the Comeback Player of the Year, along
Speaker 3: with a defensive back from Utah State and Rocket Sanders
Speaker 3: are running back from South Carolina, who of course had
Speaker 3: a really good year. So I'm trying to see where
Speaker 3: this is this part of like the College Football Award thing.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure it says here it is CSC Communications
Speaker 3: Comeback Player of the Year Award, but I'm not super
Speaker 3: familiar with the organization, but hey, if there's a comeback
Speaker 3: Player of the Year award, I think it makes total
Speaker 3: sense for him to be a finalist and hopefully he
Speaker 3: can win it. Also, Isaac Brown, we mentioned just sort
Speaker 3: of how we mentioned last week's.
Speaker 2: How he graded out. I mean, these are.
Speaker 3: Just you don't need these facts or stats to tell
Speaker 3: you how good these two freshmen were this year, Duke
Speaker 3: Watson and Isaac Brown. If you watched it then you know.
Speaker 3: But Isaac Brown was the acc Freshman of the Year
Speaker 3: and today he just made Pro Football Folks All Freshman Team.
Speaker 3: And as we discussed last week as far as how
Speaker 3: they great out players at Pro Football focused, he was
Speaker 3: the best freshman running back in the country and one
Speaker 3: of the best overall freshmen in the country regardless of position.
Speaker 3: So we saw Brown, and then Duke Watson came on
Speaker 3: late and became really effective, and he ended up getting
Speaker 3: enough carries to where he does actually qualify. He is
Speaker 3: included in the stats.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Sometimes when it comes to like you can't catch two
Speaker 3: passes for eighty yards a piece and have an eighty
Speaker 3: yard per catch average and you know, be their leading
Speaker 3: receiver in the country. When it comes to yards per catch,
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to have a certain number before
Speaker 3: you can you can fall in and I think he
Speaker 3: did barely make it, but either way, he made it,
Speaker 3: and he led the country in yards per carry Duke
Speaker 3: Watson with nine point four. I think it was so
Speaker 3: these guys are really special, and you know, I'm as
Speaker 3: excited as everybody in the portal. I'm not maybe following
Speaker 3: it as closely as others, but I really think at
Speaker 3: receiver and running back, you've got to be one a
Speaker 3: few schools you're gonna add receivers because you've lost some,
Speaker 3: and you know it's not like you're bringing back all Americans,
Speaker 3: although Colin Lacey could certainly be that. And I think
Speaker 3: Chris Bell really really stepped up and had a big
Speaker 3: year when it was needed. I think if Chris Bell
Speaker 3: doesn't kind of come on and make plays like he
Speaker 3: did this year and kind of show how he can
Speaker 3: be a guy to just go up and get it
Speaker 3: because he's a good athlete, good size, I think maybe
Speaker 3: Louisville would be a little bit more in heavy pursuit
Speaker 3: in the portal for big name receivers, and they may bee.
Speaker 3: I mean they're they're bringing in some guys they really like,
Speaker 3: but you know, these are guys that aren't necessarily probably
Speaker 3: going to be viewed as the best receivers in the portal.
Speaker 3: But it's nice that you've already got the quarterback position
Speaker 3: taken care of with Miller Moss. You got to keep
Speaker 3: these running backs here, and they're here now, and let's
Speaker 3: just keep it that way. I'm going to assume they're
Speaker 3: here until they're not. But I'm also willing to acknowledge,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned before, until they're actually out there playing,
Speaker 3: nothing is off the table. And that's not to say
Speaker 3: that they're looking to leave or they're hoping to get
Speaker 3: an offer, like, it's just they have the ability to
Speaker 3: and if they choose to, I mean, it would be
Speaker 3: a bummer and I'd be sad, But like, can we
Speaker 3: really consider Like I don't. There are still some exceptions,
Speaker 3: but I think we are. We're getting closer to where
Speaker 3: the vast majority of players than enter the portal. You
Speaker 3: either understand it because they didn't play a lot, or
Speaker 3: they're clearly better than where they're playing, or you just say, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, that's where we are. Like the days of
Speaker 3: wanting to be angry at somebody because somebody left, You're
Speaker 3: probably still gonna have fans that want to They're gonna
Speaker 3: be angry, so they're gonna place that blame somewhere. But
Speaker 3: sometimes guys just leave because they can, and there's really
Speaker 3: nobody's it's nobody's fault. You don't want to hear that
Speaker 3: because you want to be able to hold somebody accountable.
Speaker 3: But players have all the power now and I don't
Speaker 3: see that changing anytime soon.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here.
Speaker 3: This isn't something I planned on talking about today, but
Speaker 3: it has distracted me.
Speaker 2: This is wild.
Speaker 3: So this is from a Kentucky hoops ig Twitter account.
Speaker 3: Apparently somebody earlier this month. In fact, last week Lexington
Speaker 3: was arrested and their name is Mark Pope. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at the mugshot where and obviously it's not Mark Pope,
Speaker 3: the basketball coach. But I know a couple of people
Speaker 3: who work for news stations TV stations. One of them
Speaker 3: it used to be kind of part of their their
Speaker 3: job in the newsroom to where you just constantly monitor
Speaker 3: like arrest law like the arrest. It's not in by
Speaker 3: the way, it's not just what you can get Google
Speaker 3: like they have access at some of these places to
Speaker 3: kind of you know, probably don't I shouldn't say it's illegal,
Speaker 3: but like they have a better ability to in real
Speaker 3: time see who's getting booked into jail for a charge.
Speaker 3: And I bet there's somebody in Lexington that saw that
Speaker 3: name come across and they were like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna break this story. Let me give it to
Speaker 3: my my news director what happened? Because Mark Pope's not
Speaker 3: like a super rare name, but it's also like not
Speaker 3: super common to where if you saw somebody in Fayette
Speaker 3: County arrested named Mark Pope, you probably would think, well,
Speaker 3: there's no way because he seems like a choir boy.
Speaker 2: But then you'd also think, but man, could there be
Speaker 2: another Mark Pope and Lexington? And maybe there's ten of them,
Speaker 2: thirty of them. I don't know, but yeah, I just
Speaker 2: I'm just envisioning somebody thinking that they just found as
Speaker 2: they got they got the first DIBs on a story.
Speaker 2: But all it would prop two things.
Speaker 3: One, Mark Pope could probably murder a guy and they
Speaker 3: wouldn't arrest him in Lexington. Right now, you kidd me,
Speaker 3: look how great of a star he is? Off to
Speaker 3: it as their basketball coach. It's like that Cat Williams.
Speaker 2: Stand up murder murdered who. I've known him for a week.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't do that. Murdered murdered who the best?
Speaker 3: This guy for three months something like that, and I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna you haven't seen that.
Speaker 2: You're missing out.
Speaker 4: Was that great?
Speaker 2: Was that the Pimp Chronicles?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, murdered who? He came out to Rick Cross. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was a fantastic stand up. But also like if
Speaker 3: in fact, with social media being what it is and
Speaker 3: Lexington being such a kind of a small big town,
Speaker 3: if that makes sense, like Lexington's not a huge city,
Speaker 3: but it's you know, if Mark Pope was going to
Speaker 3: jail before he got there, it would be a news story.
Speaker 3: I feel like just because it would be something somebody.
Speaker 3: I mean, he also is seven foot tall almost therefore
Speaker 3: he would stand out.
Speaker 4: In fact, it looks like Lurch.
Speaker 2: It reminds me he actually they had a there was a.
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was it was Mark Pope. I was for some reason,
Speaker 3: I was thinking it might have been Stoops to No,
Speaker 3: it was Pope. His wife ran out of gas and
Speaker 3: he was bringing a gas can to her as she
Speaker 3: was abandoned in the street and and somebody took a
Speaker 3: picture or somebody saw it and put it out there,
Speaker 3: and he did confirm it a press conference, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was us. We my wife areen out of gas. Which,
Speaker 3: by the way, I mean I thought he was a
Speaker 3: good leader. Who throws their wife under the bus. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's not that's to me. I think that's I think
Speaker 3: that's pretty pretty weak of him to do. But I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to find something to make him not great,
Speaker 3: because he seems great. I mean, I want he's not perfect.
Speaker 3: He's gonna lose games. I don't think they're gonna win
Speaker 3: the national championship. But so far, so good for for
Speaker 3: Mark Pope. How long do you usually go before you
Speaker 3: fill up the gas? Do you let the light come on?
Speaker 5: Do you do you just ride it up until, like
Speaker 5: you know, all right, I gotta because that's me. I
Speaker 5: see that light come on and it doesn't mean anything
Speaker 5: to me. I know that it's still probably about another
Speaker 5: twenty miles left.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I have you ever ran out of gas?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: So I have, and that has led me to not
Speaker 3: be as dangerous, if you know what I'm saying. I've
Speaker 3: had times where I just kind of forget that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: my light was on and I've been driving around. Maybe
Speaker 3: I should stop, but I know the light on doesn't
Speaker 3: bother me. And I now have a car I didn't
Speaker 3: used to have a car that would give me as
Speaker 3: much of an accurate reading of like how many more
Speaker 3: miles do I have until I'm completely bone dry?
Speaker 2: So you know, the light doesn't scare me.
Speaker 3: But it comes on when I think there's like thirty
Speaker 3: five miles left and I've gotten it down to where
Speaker 3: it says like fifteen, and then at that point I'm
Speaker 3: looking to get gas somewhere, but like there's got to
Speaker 3: be a rush knowing that, like you can, like you
Speaker 3: won right, like you were able to risk it and
Speaker 3: you made it and the light didn't scare you.
Speaker 2: Like it's it's the little thing.
Speaker 3: It's the little victories in life that can really they
Speaker 3: can really make us feel good. So I would tell
Speaker 3: you that once you run out of gas, Austin, when
Speaker 3: that happens, you'll you'll never risk it, like, never do
Speaker 3: it again. Yeah, yeah, because it's a tear. I mean
Speaker 3: it's I mean mine was really embarrassing. I I mean,
Speaker 3: I think I've told the story before. But I was
Speaker 3: just going down a hill near where I live and like,
Speaker 3: my car just died. I'm like, what's what's going on?
Speaker 4: Like so it just stops.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I knew my light was on, but I
Speaker 3: I guess I under I had a different car at
Speaker 3: the time, and I underestimated like what, like how how
Speaker 3: long I had And I think what it came down
Speaker 3: to was the gas light went on the day before
Speaker 3: and I knew that, but I was thinking it went
Speaker 3: on like at the end of my day, when in fact,
Speaker 3: it actually came on at the beginning of my day.
Speaker 3: So that's just, you know, another example of me being
Speaker 3: a dumb ass. And you know, I had to I
Speaker 3: had to call my stepdad, who's a mechanic, and you know,
Speaker 3: I'm like, something's wrong in my car and he gets there,
Speaker 3: and you know, God love him, he didn't. He didn't
Speaker 3: have the heart to really make me. He probably did
Speaker 3: behind my back, but like we all, I knew jokes
Speaker 3: on me, like I'm I'm an idiot, Like he wasn't.
Speaker 2: He wasn't just roasting me.
Speaker 3: He was like, yeah, I think I think, buddy, what's
Speaker 3: the problem was you know any gas I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess that'll do it.
Speaker 5: They had to save a former iHeart employee that ran
Speaker 5: out of gas, and he's a very well known on
Speaker 5: air person because they were driving the iHeart vehicle back
Speaker 5: from Lexington and then they called me and said, did
Speaker 5: he not know?
Speaker 4: I guess not. I guess not.
Speaker 5: So he was all the way out of like Blanken
Speaker 5: Baker Road, like we're near the main event.
Speaker 2: Is yeah, where you're around a bunch of gas stations.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, and then like he's like, is there any
Speaker 5: gas in here? I'm like, I mean, I don't necessarily know.
Speaker 5: I just kind of thought that you would, you know,
Speaker 5: especially if you're coming, if you're making that trip from
Speaker 5: Louisville Lexington, that's got to be one of the first
Speaker 5: things that you look at.
Speaker 3: Wait a second, you're telling me he ran out of
Speaker 3: gas and acted like it was someone else's fault.
Speaker 4: Maybe.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you if you drive the vehicles here
Speaker 3: like somewhat regularly, or you just have driven vehicles before
Speaker 3: in your life, like you would want to look at
Speaker 3: the gas levels and you would also like be warned
Speaker 3: if it's low. Like to me, that's just like not
Speaker 3: acknowledging that Yeah, you made you made a very avoidable mistake.
Speaker 5: So I had to go fill up a fill up
Speaker 5: one of those little gallon buckets or the little red
Speaker 5: gas can.
Speaker 2: How long ago is this?
Speaker 4: It's probably over a year ago. Maybe last summer.
Speaker 2: Were we here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we were at this logo.
Speaker 2: I mean like there.
Speaker 3: I mean if you get it from here to that
Speaker 3: area and you run out of gas and you're like, wait,
Speaker 3: is their gas in here? Like you just didn't look
Speaker 3: and that's on you. Yeah, and you have a gas
Speaker 3: cart in the car to where you don't have to
Speaker 3: just you know. So now now that I strictly has
Speaker 3: a can in it, I love somebody calling you running.
Speaker 2: Out of gas Like it's like, what.
Speaker 5: Am I supposed to do? But I'm a I'm a
Speaker 5: good worker. I went and we went and went and
Speaker 5: say this here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're you're you're a company man, you're a team player,
Speaker 3: and you know it's so.
Speaker 4: Good about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, I feel like he owes me one.
Speaker 3: So just some news here that probably he doesn't necessarily
Speaker 3: matter to a lot of people, but uh, Kentucky, they're
Speaker 3: off this week and I was actually going to get
Speaker 3: to the schedule here in just a second. But Kentucky
Speaker 3: was off during the week this week, just like Louisville,
Speaker 3: and they're playing Saturday, just like Louisville. They're playing Ohio
Speaker 3: State in the Champion not the Champions Classic, but the
Speaker 3: CBS Sports Classic. And one of I assume this is
Speaker 3: one of Ohio State's better players, Michie Johnson, junior. He
Speaker 3: is going to be taking a leave of absence from
Speaker 3: their program. He's averaging none points a game, plays about
Speaker 3: twenty eight minutes a game. So he's the guy if
Speaker 3: you remember, actually started his career at Ohio State, transferred
Speaker 3: to South Carolina where he became a pretty good player.
Speaker 3: There was their best player average fourteen points and five
Speaker 3: boards last year, and then he transferred.
Speaker 2: Back to Ohio State as they hired head coach. Who
Speaker 2: is it? You can't think of the name that.
Speaker 3: I get the yeah, Deebler, I get, there's two Deeblers,
Speaker 3: but Jake Diebler is the first year head coach at
Speaker 3: Ohio State, so I don't know what the I don't
Speaker 3: know what the with the issue is with him. But
Speaker 3: Kentucky will be playing Ohio State and they will not
Speaker 3: have both Mietchie Johnson and probably not Aaron Bradshaw because
Speaker 3: he's been limited for for quite some time now. I
Speaker 3: think he had I mean, he had some issues off
Speaker 3: the court that kept him away from Ohio State's team,
Speaker 3: and then I think now he's either I mean, I
Speaker 3: know he's available, but I guess he hasn't played because
Speaker 3: of injuries or maybe they just realize he's not very good.
Speaker 3: I don't want to pile on, but anytime I think
Speaker 3: of DJ Wagner at Arkansas or Aaron Bradshaw at Ohio State,
Speaker 3: like what led to those two guys getting such an
Speaker 3: insane level of hype, Like I'm not saying that they're
Speaker 3: terrible players, although I'm not really sure what Bradshaw does well.
Speaker 3: Like he's big and long, but like I've never seen
Speaker 3: like any great footwork. He's not crazy athletic. I mean
Speaker 3: he's athletic enough, Like I just don't know. Usually, if
Speaker 3: there's a guy who you can tell is super raw,
Speaker 3: it may not have big numbers in college, but you
Speaker 3: can see, Okay, there's something there that the NBA really
Speaker 3: thinks they can work with and like they work on this,
Speaker 3: and that he's gonna have a weapon in the NBA
Speaker 3: that like gives him a ten twelve year career, shot blocking,
Speaker 3: rim protection, that kind of stuff, or you know, is
Speaker 3: he a pick and pop guy? Is he you know?
Speaker 3: Is he just a defensive specialist? Is he a good
Speaker 3: passer for a big that you can run things through?
Speaker 3: Like I don't know what tool Aaron Bradshaw has. And
Speaker 3: the same thing you could be said about d J Wagner,
Speaker 3: although I guess he's playing a little bit better at Arkansas.
Speaker 3: And DJ is a fine player, but he was talked
Speaker 3: about for like five years. Is like the next phenom
Speaker 3: in basketball, the number one player in his class, and
Speaker 3: to me, like his ceiling in college, DJ is probably
Speaker 3: like third team All SEC. And I'm not even trying
Speaker 3: to make a joke. This isn't like me being bitter
Speaker 3: because he went to UK because it actually worked out well.
Speaker 3: Like those two guys, like, imagine if they ended up
Speaker 3: at Louisville, we would have felt like we got some
Speaker 3: big win. Oh, Kitty Payton may still be the coach here,
Speaker 3: which is a scary nightmare that I don't even want
Speaker 3: to think about again.
Speaker 1: Ugh.
Speaker 3: But like those guys, like I just don't understand what
Speaker 3: led to them getting that because DJ again fine player,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't go above the him.
Speaker 2: He's not a good enough shooter. He's not a good
Speaker 2: enough point.
Speaker 3: Guard to where he can really like distribute and create
Speaker 3: for a lot of guys like I don't really know
Speaker 3: what his calling card is essentially, And it's just wild
Speaker 3: how we spent especially DJ, not as much Bradshaw, but
Speaker 3: we spent like two and a half years talking about
Speaker 3: this guy. Is he gonna play for cal and follow
Speaker 3: what his dad did, or is he gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: play for where his grandpa played, and who's gonna be
Speaker 3: the coach at that time? They better make DJ Wagner
Speaker 3: the number one priority. And it's just like, yikes, it
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Speaker 3: I mentioned, you know, Louisville not really needing to go
Speaker 3: out there and get maybe one of the best receivers
Speaker 3: in the portal, but they'll certainly try. I'm not calling
Speaker 3: BS on this because look, Louisville will take this kid,
Speaker 3: for sure. But one of the big receivers in the
Speaker 3: portal just so happens to be Miller Moss's teammate from USC,
Speaker 3: Zachariah branch And according to Pete NCOs Of On three,
Speaker 3: Louisville is along with Florida, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, and Oklahoma
Speaker 3: are early contenders along with Louisville too, of course, potentially
Speaker 3: land This guy who I mean five and seventy five
Speaker 3: pound electrifying playmaker, got a lot of speed, you know
Speaker 3: he was I mean yeah, he was as a true
Speaker 3: freshman in twenty twenty three, not this past year, but
Speaker 3: the year that, of course, you know, Louisville played USC.
Speaker 3: I mean he was first team All America as a specialist,
Speaker 3: I mean, really talented guy. That is you as you heard,
Speaker 3: as I just mentioned. The schools involved are Florida, Georgia, Miami, Michigan,
Speaker 3: and Oklahoma. So he's gonna be really really expensive and
Speaker 3: they can afford it, and he wants to come here.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 3: But I think people are just assuming he's gonna follow
Speaker 3: Miller Moss, and I think he'll probably go to the
Speaker 3: highest bidder, and if that's Louisville, hell yeah. If not,
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