Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: I'm kind of slap happy today. I mean, I feel
Speaker 2: like the energy the Shenanigans has been has been a
Speaker 2: little bit due to just despite us working like it
Speaker 2: kind of feels like a snow day, like we don't
Speaker 2: have to be on our best behavior. We don't have to.
Speaker 2: I mean, I probably shouldn't say that, you know, because
Speaker 2: I'm sure my bosses expect me to take every day
Speaker 2: with the same level of work ethic and all that.
Speaker 2: But Austin and I were giggling like school children during
Speaker 2: the break because Chuck McDowell, that's a guy you hear
Speaker 2: a lot. Yeah, because he's very much into marketing and
Speaker 2: advertise his business, and uh, we appreciate that, right because
Speaker 2: that's something we rely on. And he's been a I mean,
Speaker 2: you hear him a lot. And if you don't know
Speaker 2: who I'm talking about, and you're just thinking, like, who
Speaker 2: the hell is Chuck McDowell, it's the guy that you
Speaker 2: occasionally hear that wants you to know how badly he
Speaker 2: hates time shares. Yeah, but what do you think he
Speaker 2: hates more time shares or attorneys. That's I mean, I
Speaker 2: think time shares has been his nemesis forever. And then
Speaker 2: now he's like, well, wait a second, these people think
Speaker 2: I'm an attorney. The hell with that. I don't want
Speaker 2: to smell like an attorney. I don't want to look
Speaker 2: like an attorney. So I mean he's out on attorneys.
Speaker 2: I mean he's not one, by the way, just get
Speaker 2: it correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also made a great point, like a guy who can
Speaker 2: have that kind of you know, disdain for things and
Speaker 2: clearly let and make it be known like it. Put
Speaker 2: it this way. If he's loyal to me and we're
Speaker 2: boys and I dislike condos, you know what, he's gonna
Speaker 2: take down the condo industr. Oh yeah, because that's your
Speaker 2: guy foxhol right.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: I If if I even have a shred of doubt
Speaker 5: about ever wanting known a time share, or if my
Speaker 5: fiance thinks about bringing one up, I'm gonna say no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: no not. That's not what my guy Chuck McDowell says.
Speaker 2: You need a guy that's loyal.
Speaker 5: He's gonna set her straight, set anybody straight. Because I
Speaker 5: mean the guy he sounds like he hates doing it
Speaker 5: with how much that he hates everything that's involved in it,
Speaker 5: but he wants to protect the regular man, your everyday guy.
Speaker 2: The attorney thing is somewhere. It's it's clearly the newer
Speaker 2: side of his of his marketing, because for a while
Speaker 2: it was that very very unique voice that does stand
Speaker 2: out and you just know that, like he's angry about
Speaker 2: time shares and he wants to help you if you're
Speaker 2: in a time share and don't listen to people in
Speaker 2: the time share like it was all anti tom share.
Speaker 2: And then I guess somebody probably wait a second, are
Speaker 2: you an attorney? And then he was like, oh, now
Speaker 2: I got to mix it up because I gotta let
Speaker 2: him know I'm anti time share. But I'll be damned
Speaker 2: if they're gonna think all these years I've been an attorney.
Speaker 3: So yeah.
Speaker 5: So even even if you hate time shares and you
Speaker 5: want to get out of him and you want to
Speaker 5: call Chuck, you might think to yourself, well, is this
Speaker 5: guy gonna screw me over because he's an attorney And Nope,
Speaker 5: don't even think.
Speaker 3: Don't even go down that road.
Speaker 2: Don't insult him like that. He'd never be doesn't even
Speaker 2: want to smell him, doesn't even want him in the
Speaker 2: same zip code as he's in, So shut up to
Speaker 2: to Chuck McDowell here on a on a snowy Monday after.
Speaker 3: That sounds like he has a mustache.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, clearly he's got like a he's got like
Speaker 2: a food man shoe.
Speaker 5: I think, Oh yeah, that doesn't shock me. A mustache
Speaker 5: and a cowboy hat is exactly I don't.
Speaker 2: I want I want to don't don't, don't look him up.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna look him up.
Speaker 4: You look him up.
Speaker 2: I want the vision that I have in my head
Speaker 2: of Chuck McDowell, Anti Tom Share Hell with attorneys. I
Speaker 2: want the visual in my brain to to just always
Speaker 2: be what I assume he looks like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine a meeting with him.
Speaker 5: Is just like he he like Doug Demonome of the
Speaker 5: Fairly Odd Parents. I don't know if you know who
Speaker 5: that is. He's just like the owner of the Dimmesdale Demonome.
Speaker 5: And he has a huge hat. I'm just gonna imagine
Speaker 5: he has the stash fou Man chew and he's gonna
Speaker 5: talk to you over a glass of scotch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's just he's just observing anybody talking and timeshare.
Speaker 2: If here, if he hears, when he's gonna go over
Speaker 2: there and he's going to deal with it, because that's.
Speaker 3: That's his ears raised like a German shepherd.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. It's a really weird thing to be that
Speaker 2: hard up about. But clearly he had a bad experience
Speaker 2: with the time share and he's been able to create
Speaker 2: an entire new world for himself with a great career
Speaker 2: where he body bags timeshare companies.
Speaker 3: Good for him. You found something's passionate about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that's the American dream right there.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So this weather today and yesterday has been I think,
Speaker 2: really exactly what they were warning us about. And as
Speaker 2: much as I and I like to acknowledge the oftentimes
Speaker 2: they're wrong as far as what they predict will happen.
Speaker 2: And sometimes they're just way off. Sometimes the snow is
Speaker 2: not as much as they thought it would be. They
Speaker 2: they two overestimating the the you know, the amount that
Speaker 2: they're going to get by inch or two, maybe more
Speaker 2: than that story of my life, right, But when it
Speaker 2: comes down to it, this time they got it right.
Speaker 2: They were spot on not only with the amount of snow,
Speaker 2: but like when it would happen. I woke up on
Speaker 2: Sunday morning about eight thirty ish, and sure enough, there
Speaker 2: was already a nice little layer of snow out there,
Speaker 2: and it kept going and didn't stop until last night.
Speaker 2: And last night it turned to kind of freezing rain,
Speaker 2: and we got some good snow out here where I'm at.
Speaker 2: This morning, it snowed pretty consistently for you know, a
Speaker 2: few hours, maybe even a little bit longer, but for
Speaker 2: about an hour and some change, it was snowing really
Speaker 2: really hard, probably harder than it was at any point
Speaker 2: yesterday from what I could tell. So we got a
Speaker 2: lot of snow, and that's led to a lot of
Speaker 2: school closings, a lot of businesses closed, and roads aren't great.
Speaker 2: So I think, you know, I'm not gonna actually shouldn't
Speaker 2: say anything. I was gonna say. I feel like the
Speaker 2: Interstates are probably not terrible, but I could be totally wrong,
Speaker 2: because there's the thing. All it takes is you know,
Speaker 2: them getting out there plowing the main roads with the
Speaker 2: Interstates and just you know, mixing it up. But it
Speaker 2: quickly will freeze and that's when it gets really dangerous,
Speaker 2: and that's the spot we're in now, I mean you can,
Speaker 2: I think you can. You can treat this, you know,
Speaker 2: pretty effectively for the resources we have in a place
Speaker 2: like Louisville that does get enough snow to where they've
Speaker 2: got they've got what they need to go out there
Speaker 2: and salt the roads and get the trucks out and
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. But when it's this much
Speaker 2: tono mixed in with the ice and the freezing rain,
Speaker 2: and then it's gonna be as cold as it's going
Speaker 2: to be, like, it makes sense as to why school
Speaker 2: is canceled tomorrow, and I believe even on Wednesday for JCPS.
Speaker 2: Don't quote me on that because I don't have kids
Speaker 2: in the JCPS, but yeah, I know that schools being
Speaker 2: closed tomorrow and even Wednesday wouldn't necessarily be considered a
Speaker 2: big shock here. But I'm reading from WLKY there are
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten snowplow routes throughout the day in
Speaker 2: about twenty seven hundred miles of roads here in Louisville.
Speaker 2: And this is from Mayor Craig Greenberg. He had his
Speaker 2: press conference earlier today and says it takes about six
Speaker 2: hours to treat roads in Jefferson County and it takes
Speaker 2: twelve hours to plow the roads, so not every road
Speaker 2: obviously is going to be getting touched. They don't have
Speaker 2: the ability to do that. That would be a little much
Speaker 2: to assume they could cover every road that is in
Speaker 2: the state of the City of Louisville and Jefferson County.
Speaker 2: But you know, if they're out there pretty consistently, I'd say, well,
Speaker 2: we'll be in better shape tomorrow than we were today.
Speaker 2: But when you think about kids at the bus stop
Speaker 2: and some roads that aren't going to get treated that
Speaker 2: those buses have to go down, it makes sense to
Speaker 2: go ahead and call off school. And I know that,
Speaker 2: I know that there are oftentimes angry parents that hate
Speaker 2: when their kids are out of school because it inconveniences them.
Speaker 2: And look, I get it, I don't you know. I
Speaker 2: never understood what anybody gets out of going to Facebook
Speaker 2: and just you know, letting the like if you get
Speaker 2: frustrated with your kids having a snow day because you
Speaker 2: don't think it was necessary, you feel like the roads
Speaker 2: are fine and your kids could have taken the bus.
Speaker 2: I get it, Like I could understand how you're thinking.
Speaker 2: Come on, like, now I got to go pay out
Speaker 2: of pocket for a day at childcare, and now I
Speaker 2: got to take a PTO day at work because I
Speaker 2: gotta stay on and watch my kid. You tell me
Speaker 2: he's got to do school from home. I can't do
Speaker 2: that with my job. So, like, I get all the frustration,
Speaker 2: but I've just never understood why it feels better to
Speaker 2: go either post about it on Facebook or go to
Speaker 2: the comments sections for JCPS. Oh yeah, I shouldn't laugh.
Speaker 2: But like at times, even whenever like I know that
Speaker 2: like they're coming, like they have reason to be like upset,
Speaker 2: I still find entertainment in the comments, Like whenever they
Speaker 2: couldn't get kids to school in JCPS and it was
Speaker 2: a national story because of how big of a disaster
Speaker 2: the new bus schedule routes system was. I mean I
Speaker 2: still couldn't stop reading some of the comments. I mean
Speaker 2: I shouldn't do that, because you know, these are people
Speaker 2: that like are justifiably upset and concerned, and their criticism
Speaker 2: is warranted. But man, I just you know, I've never
Speaker 2: had the instincts to be like, all right, that's it.
Speaker 2: I've had it. Open up the Facebook app, I got,
Speaker 2: I got something to say. But I do feel like
Speaker 2: the older here's what I think it is, Austin, because
Speaker 2: would you agree that it's not all the older generation.
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of like people just posted
Speaker 2: like I know, I'm not the only one that's in
Speaker 2: the mid thirties or younger that sees an elder of mine,
Speaker 2: an aunt, a grandparent, a parent, or just you know
Speaker 2: somebody you know that is in that age range. And
Speaker 2: you see a poster or a comment and you think, man,
Speaker 2: not sure why they put that on Facebook? Yeah whatever,
Speaker 2: like the whole family, Yeah, okay, thank you. So I
Speaker 2: don't want to act like I know I miss it,
Speaker 2: like I'm picking on them, but you know, I uh,
Speaker 2: I know I'm not alone as far as seeing that,
Speaker 2: so you know, and.
Speaker 5: They don't like being alone too. That's why they posted
Speaker 5: so they could get the four other likes so they
Speaker 5: can have an agreement.
Speaker 2: But as we discussed earlier, kind of like me, I
Speaker 2: missed the thrill of waking up knowing its borderline right,
Speaker 2: Like it would be great to know, hey, we got
Speaker 2: two days off for snow because it's that bad. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's great, you'll take it. But the thrill of waking
Speaker 2: up knowing it was going to be questionable knowing. And
Speaker 2: I was a little bit different because in Jefferson County
Speaker 2: there were a lot of days we got off in
Speaker 2: Bullet County, but they didn't. So I knew we had
Speaker 2: a very small we didn't have the same resources. We
Speaker 2: had a much a much different you know threshold as
Speaker 2: far as what would it would it would take to
Speaker 2: get us out of school? And uh, sure enough, we
Speaker 2: got out of school a lot. And I remember waking up,
Speaker 2: running to the TV and waiting.
Speaker 3: For tune into meteorologist John Belski.
Speaker 2: Well, wasn't even that like it to mean, if if
Speaker 2: if I saw that, it would be great, but like
Speaker 2: they could be into a commercial, they'd still keep that
Speaker 2: bottom ticker. And I just know that once they got
Speaker 2: to like Anderson County and Breckenridge County, uh you know,
Speaker 2: in that area, Bullet was going to come up sooner
Speaker 2: or later. And I knew that if they got to
Speaker 2: Carroll County and we didn't get called off, then I
Speaker 2: had to go to school. And I was a very
Speaker 2: very sad kid. So anyways, I back to the generation
Speaker 2: thing like now people will kids today will never experience that.
Speaker 2: And earlier somebody was kind of making fun of me
Speaker 2: for how excited it got me, and I get it,
Speaker 2: but hey, whenever I was younger, that's the way that
Speaker 2: was the quickest way for us to find out, really
Speaker 2: the only way for us to find out if we
Speaker 2: had school or not. So kind of like the older
Speaker 2: generation when they go and complain on Facebook about every
Speaker 2: little thing and they feel like any thought that comes
Speaker 2: in their mind needs to be a status. You got
Speaker 2: to keep in mind these people, they went a long
Speaker 2: time without having any platform on a social media from
Speaker 2: a social media standpoint to share anything, right, Like they
Speaker 2: were too old for MySpace. They they got on Facebook
Speaker 2: once it no longer was a thing that you could
Speaker 2: only have access to unless you were a college student
Speaker 2: with a dot edu email address. So like it's kind
Speaker 2: of you know, instead of you know, getting enjoyment and
Speaker 2: kind of like wondering, why are they so crazy on Facebook?
Speaker 2: Like that's just that's they just broke the ice and
Speaker 2: this is just this is how they use the platform.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody's different, different generations, different eras, that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. But anyways, when it comes to parents that
Speaker 2: you know, really question the decision about should we or
Speaker 2: should we not have school? Why do you cancel school.
Speaker 2: Now I got to take a day off work that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. This was the kind of snowstorm where
Speaker 2: that didn't matter, right, Like you knew, Yeah, it makes
Speaker 2: total sense for them to not send the kids to
Speaker 2: school whenever they're closing down interstates for stretch of time.
Speaker 2: So at least this time around, you had a little
Speaker 2: bit more of a heads up to prepare for whatever
Speaker 2: you needed to do with your kids who didn't go
Speaker 2: to school or I mean, heck, daycare. My son goes
Speaker 2: to daycare. He will start kindergarten next year, but he
Speaker 2: didn't have daycare yesterday. I just got a notification that
Speaker 2: they sent some kind of a message on the app.
Speaker 2: I would imagine they're probably not going to have daycare
Speaker 2: tomorrow either because of how bad the roads are. So again,
Speaker 2: I know some people hate this kind of stuff because
Speaker 2: it incondences them, and I totally get it, but I'm
Speaker 2: still kind of a little kid at heart when it
Speaker 2: comes to snow impacting us. Yes, I still have a
Speaker 2: job to do. I'm doing it as we speak, and
Speaker 2: you know, my life didn't get better from this, but
Speaker 2: like last night, we're all kind of snowed in a
Speaker 2: little bit watching watching TV with the family and just
Speaker 2: looking out the window. And I enjoy this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I wish it would have come during Christmas time. I
Speaker 2: think that would have been better. But hey, this is
Speaker 2: easily the best, or I guess maybe you could say
Speaker 2: the worst. This is the most snow that we've had
Speaker 2: in quite some time. And you know, I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2: But again I understand. I'm sure there's some people that
Speaker 2: hate it and they can't wait for it to be over,
Speaker 2: and you know, everybody's different. All right, before we dive
Speaker 2: back in and start talking about this Louisville basketball team
Speaker 2: and certainly get into the NFL playoff matchups, there's five
Speaker 2: openings currently in the NFL as of five point fifteen
Speaker 2: here on Black Monday. Also, I think with Kentucky's win
Speaker 2: against Florida, if the Ohio State loss was one that
Speaker 2: you thought maybe knocked him down a peg, I think
Speaker 2: their win against the Gators is probably a reminder that
Speaker 2: Mark Pope's got him a team that can probably beat anybody.
Speaker 2: And and and you know, i'magine Kentucky fans are pretty
Speaker 2: happy about that in year one of the Pope era.
Speaker 2: But let's go to the phone line five X two
Speaker 2: five seven one seventy nine hundred is the number if
Speaker 2: you want to jump in and give us a call.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Brad. Brad, you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: How are you, hey, Nick?
Speaker 4: I hope you should hear me. I'm outside, I'm actually
Speaker 4: sitting in my hot looking at this SnO and yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie a few bears too. But but
Speaker 4: I tell you what, you know, talking about the snow
Speaker 4: days there with your family and all. Uh, we played
Speaker 4: some games last night. My two sons got you know,
Speaker 4: gotten to a heat of battle of pictionary. But but
Speaker 4: I just wanted to I just wanted to say I
Speaker 4: got three boys on my own. And I saw that
Speaker 4: video of Moose scoring his first bucket. Yeah that was all.
Speaker 4: It really brought a tear to my eye. I got
Speaker 4: three boys, Like I said, I got seventeen, soon to
Speaker 4: be sixteen here by next week, and then a ten
Speaker 4: year old. But just one father to another. Embrace it,
Speaker 4: just just embrace it. Don't get too shook up. You know,
Speaker 4: sometimes things may not go the best for Moose, but
Speaker 4: hopefully Old p K keeps an eye on Moose. Took
Speaker 4: me a future Cardinalefully.
Speaker 2: That would be that would be great. And Brad, I
Speaker 2: appreciate the call man. Always good to hear from.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you listening, enjoy those beers in the hot tub.
Speaker 2: No place better to be right now than in a
Speaker 2: hot tub, listening to coffee and company, throwing back some
Speaker 2: pilsners as you know, it's freezing outside. I'm very jealous
Speaker 2: of people who have hot tubs. My stepfather and my
Speaker 2: mother they mind they have one, and they were in
Speaker 2: last night and it looked like a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Brad mentioned my son Moose. He had his
Speaker 2: first ever basketball game on Saturday in the It's the
Speaker 2: four and five year Old League and I think it's
Speaker 2: Fern Creek Optimist and you know, it's four and five
Speaker 2: year old basketball. But I do love I was and
Speaker 2: I really was worried about him playing basketball at this age.
Speaker 2: You know, the only sport I played was basketball, and
Speaker 2: it was a big, big part of my life. And
Speaker 2: obviously I've I've often thought about if Mason wants to
Speaker 2: play basketball, and if he enjoys it, and if he's
Speaker 2: good at it, like how special it would be. You know,
Speaker 2: if he doesn't, then you know, I'll still love him,
Speaker 2: but you know, obviously be great for him to play basketball,
Speaker 2: and it could be a lot of fun. And he's
Speaker 2: played baseball before t ball, I should say he played
Speaker 2: flag football, and it was great to see him out
Speaker 2: there with basketball. I just didn't really know what to expect,
Speaker 2: and I didn't want to, you know, I didn't want
Speaker 2: to be the guy that was too much on him
Speaker 2: at an early age, because I you know, I love
Speaker 2: basketball and I played. I'm not somebody that's gonna try
Speaker 2: to give him all. It's not really killing me to
Speaker 2: not be out there coaching him in football and baseball,
Speaker 2: but in basketball, he's gonna be hard for me not
Speaker 2: to be involved. But I tried to just kind of
Speaker 2: you know, he's four. I don't want to be too
Speaker 2: hard on him. I don't want to be too into
Speaker 2: it to where it feels like work, Like I want
Speaker 2: him to have fun. And a lot of the basketball
Speaker 2: leagues that I've seen at that age, I didn't want
Speaker 2: him to play because it's not basketball and it's unorganized,
Speaker 2: and he would realize this is not fun, this is
Speaker 2: just a big joke, Like I want to go home,
Speaker 2: like this isn't cool. So I didn't want his first
Speaker 2: impression to be that. So with this league, I love it.
Speaker 2: They lower the they have these things that hang from
Speaker 2: the ten foot rim and it's just another goal that's lower.
Speaker 2: They play with a smaller basketball, and they have these
Speaker 2: mats on the court that every player on defense has
Speaker 2: to stand on. That way, you can kind of learn
Speaker 2: how to dribble. You can still get to a path.
Speaker 2: It's not a complete free for all where everybody's falling.
Speaker 2: I mean kids are still falling over and at times
Speaker 2: it does look like a free for all, but you're
Speaker 2: required to stay in your spot on defense. And kids
Speaker 2: can still pass the ball. They can really really get
Speaker 2: the basics of just passing it. You know a lot
Speaker 2: of kids don't dribble without walking or double dribbling. Although
Speaker 2: you know, that was what my dad had to remind
Speaker 2: me of on Saturday. And by the way, my dad
Speaker 2: is his head coach and I'm the assistant. So the
Speaker 2: video that Brad was talking about, Moose got his first
Speaker 2: bucket and I didn't teach him to run down court
Speaker 2: like he was Steph Curry and bounce around with some
Speaker 2: swagger to his step and the first person to give
Speaker 2: him a high five after he made it was my
Speaker 2: dad who's coaching him, and it was just a really
Speaker 2: cool moment. And you know, corny for sure, I'm sure
Speaker 2: to some, but like I've been, I've been holding it
Speaker 2: in since since that happened. Like that was an emotional
Speaker 2: moment for me. It was really really cool. And I
Speaker 2: don't know what the future holds for him in sports
Speaker 2: at all, but that was just really really cool. So
Speaker 2: but with the league, again, I think it's it's it's
Speaker 2: really it's it's the best way to do it for
Speaker 2: kids that are that young. Even if there are some
Speaker 2: that are going to be a little bit more advanced
Speaker 2: than others or some that are going to be a
Speaker 2: little bit more behind than others, this is still the
Speaker 2: right way to do it to where they can grasp
Speaker 2: really what it is, what what they're doing out there.
Speaker 2: They're they're they're you know, they pass it, you know,
Speaker 2: they this side is offense, the other side's defense. Like
Speaker 2: and it sounds so silly to say it that way,
Speaker 2: but again we're talking about four and five year old kids,
Speaker 2: so very very young.
Speaker 3: But you know, thing we.
Speaker 2: Did the majority of the time was to just try
Speaker 2: to tell them, hey, get back on defense, or hey,
Speaker 2: give this give this person a turn, make sure you
Speaker 2: dribble it, because that's the one thing that a lot
Speaker 2: of these kids aren't doing, is they just they're like
Speaker 2: running backs out there after a rebound going the other
Speaker 2: way and filling it up in the air. And you know,
Speaker 2: Moose would dribble each time he got the ball and
Speaker 2: just dribble down and get a bucket like he had.
Speaker 2: He had over twenty points in his first game, which yeah,
Speaker 2: was that guy keeping score. But he played well and
Speaker 2: it was a lot of fun. But I was getting
Speaker 2: on him like, hey, why do you keep picking up
Speaker 2: dribble like because he would dribble, but pick it up
Speaker 2: and then you know, kind of take off again, Like
Speaker 2: he wasn't going coast to coast with the rock in
Speaker 2: his hand the whole time. But as I was getting
Speaker 2: on him, my dad was like, well, you realize he's
Speaker 2: the only kid that every time he's touched it has
Speaker 2: at least tried to dribble. And I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 2: you're right. Like that was that moment where dad, my
Speaker 2: dad had to tell me, all right, you know, let's
Speaker 2: not get crazy. I know you want you want him
Speaker 2: to be the best player he can be, but he's
Speaker 2: doing pretty good and he's pretty much, you know, holding
Speaker 2: his own out there. So it was it was really cool.
Speaker 4: I I.
Speaker 2: One thing that like I never you know, thought about
Speaker 2: when I got into radio at all, was like talking
Speaker 2: about this kind of stuff. And I know some people
Speaker 2: listening right now are like, please, I wish you would
Speaker 2: do less of this because I don't care about your
Speaker 2: family or your kid. I want you to feed me
Speaker 2: sports content and for sports information about James Scott. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Like I know what's bro I'm gonna do with the
Speaker 2: old line and the portal. Like I know there are
Speaker 2: people that are kind of in that in that world,
Speaker 2: and that's fine. We appreciate you however you're listening, however
Speaker 2: you listen. But like I've done this long enough to
Speaker 2: where people don't know me personally, but like they kind
Speaker 2: of feel like they know they know me a little
Speaker 2: bit because they listen. And I've been doing this for
Speaker 2: almost nine years now, and it's relatable to people. I
Speaker 2: have a family now, I didn't when I started. Now
Speaker 2: I got two kids, one daughter that's specially needs child.
Speaker 2: So I talked often about sort of our experience and
Speaker 2: our life with her, and you know, I'm a family man,
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Speaker 2: So we mentioned the free tickets that Rick Kieber Planet Fitness,
Speaker 2: the CEO of Glow Brands, and one of those brands is,
Speaker 2: in fact, Planet Fitness. I think Rickyber's somebody I don't
Speaker 2: have to introduce to anymore. But regardless, he was giving
Speaker 2: away a bunch of free tickets and maybe he still is.
Speaker 2: But there are five hundred tickets that were up for grabs.
Speaker 2: For tomorrow's Louisville and Clemson game, and obviously giving free
Speaker 2: tickets out could get people that maybe you are on
Speaker 2: the fence about going due to the weather. Maybe if
Speaker 2: they've got free tickets, then they'll say, okay, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: Because you want a good crowd for every game obviously,
Speaker 2: but tomorrow there's a big game where you got a
Speaker 2: chance to get a win against one of the better
Speaker 2: teams in the ACC and and continue to to really
Speaker 2: play well. I mean, they this team, I don't anytime
Speaker 2: I act like, you know, anytime I put it out
Speaker 2: there as if like I think they're really good and
Speaker 2: they're only getting better. And man, I think right now
Speaker 2: they play this way and they start making more three
Speaker 2: point shots and they get a little better at the line. Man,
Speaker 2: maybe these team's actually not just good enough to make
Speaker 2: the tournament. Maybe they're really good. Like I kind of
Speaker 2: pump the brakes before I get there, But I don't
Speaker 2: really know if I should be doing that. You know,
Speaker 2: Louisville's beatable. Trust me EKU showed us that, UTEV showed
Speaker 2: us that. But I mean, they're playing really really good
Speaker 2: basketball right now, and I think they're getting more and
Speaker 2: more confident with you know, their identity. And what I
Speaker 2: mean by that is when they lost guys to injury,
Speaker 2: it really changed the rec of me. But but it
Speaker 2: changed the outlook. It's certainly lowered the ceiling for this
Speaker 2: team without Prior and without Corn Johnson. But over time,
Speaker 2: these guys, you know, this is who you are. You
Speaker 2: found you got, you got clarification, right, you got you
Speaker 2: got to figure out if you're getting any of these
Speaker 2: guys back, and you found out you're not getting either
Speaker 2: of them, and you had to kind of regroup. And
Speaker 2: I think, slowly but surely, this this team has put
Speaker 2: themselves in a spot to where you know, they could
Speaker 2: still play poorly and lose to anybody, but you know
Speaker 2: they're out there undersized when it comes to most of
Speaker 2: their opponents, and they're just crushing the backboard, just out
Speaker 2: working their opponents, the first one on the floor for
Speaker 2: a loose ball. I mean, they're Their attention to detail defensively,
Speaker 2: I think has made it in the last two games
Speaker 2: to where they can have a really off night from
Speaker 2: three and free throw line. Against Carolina and against Virginia.
Speaker 2: You didn't have a terrible percentage, You didn't even really
Speaker 2: get to get that many looks because of the way
Speaker 2: they play. But yet you know, you still you only
Speaker 2: make seven threes, you still win by twenty points on
Speaker 2: the road. So again, team's playing really well right now,
Speaker 2: and a win against Clemson, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: would give you the best win of those three, if,
Speaker 2: of course you get it, because Clemson right now is
Speaker 2: in a better spot than Carolina and certainly Virginia who's
Speaker 2: having a down year. So tomorrow is a big game,
Speaker 2: no doubt. But somebody on the text line, in fact,
Speaker 2: two people have now mentioned this, and maybe this is
Speaker 2: something that's on one of the message boards, maybe this
Speaker 2: is something on the Trilli Donovan discord. I really don't know,
Speaker 2: haven't heard a thing, but it wouldn't shock me. But
Speaker 2: a couple of people people have mentioned that there could
Speaker 2: be another commitment type of thing tomorrow for Louisville. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to get another five star
Speaker 2: point guard to commit to you like Michael Brown did,
Speaker 2: but here'd be my guess. And again this is just
Speaker 2: a guess. This is not anything I'm here, and this
Speaker 2: is just the guess. I would imagine that if there
Speaker 2: is some kind of like announcements some kind of like
Speaker 2: a commitment. It could be one of the guys that's
Speaker 2: hurt saying he's coming back to Louisville next year. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, maybe it's way too early to do that,
Speaker 2: but I do know that there's one guy in particular
Speaker 2: that is not playing because of injury that they they're
Speaker 2: trying to get him to come back to college for
Speaker 2: another year and of course come back and play Louisville.
Speaker 2: That's that's the case in prior. So I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's going to happen, but from what I've gathered
Speaker 2: that that, well, I don't know. I'm gonna put my
Speaker 2: foot in my mouth, not because like I'm gonna spill
Speaker 2: the beans on something I'm supposed to be quiet about. No,
Speaker 2: I don't have a clue what's going to happen or
Speaker 2: if that would happen. But I know that that is
Speaker 2: something that they're trying to do, which is convinced him
Speaker 2: to stay and work out whatever arrangement needs to be
Speaker 2: work out to make that happen. And if they've already
Speaker 2: made it happen, then maybe they make that kind of announcement,
Speaker 2: because you know that that would be pretty special. But
Speaker 2: even if there is no kind of a commitment thing
Speaker 2: or whatnot, tomorrow, it's still be a huge game for
Speaker 2: this Louisville team against a Clemson group that you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know Clemson is the team. I don't really
Speaker 2: know how good they are, right They beat Kentucky, which
Speaker 2: of course was an impressive win for them, no doubt,
Speaker 2: and they are fresh off of an Elite eight, But like,
Speaker 2: I don't I've watched them play and I know they're
Speaker 2: you know, they're good enough to beat Louisville because I
Speaker 2: think Fluyboll didn't play well. Anybody is, but they've got
Speaker 2: a pretty weird resume. They only have one win that
Speaker 2: I think you can claim is like a good win,
Speaker 2: and it's a really good win. That's Kentucky. Their other
Speaker 2: wins are against teams that you know they're kind of
Speaker 2: supposed to be and they do have a loss to
Speaker 2: Boise State that hasn't aged that well. They also lost
Speaker 2: to Memphis, who is having a pretty good year, but
Speaker 2: that was in overtime, and then they lost to South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Like that's what it is. The Boise State lost in
Speaker 2: them losing to South Carolina. When South Carolina you know,
Speaker 2: despite the SEC being completely loaded, South Carolina is one
Speaker 2: of the worst teams in that league and just lost
Speaker 2: about thirty five to Mississippi State, so you know they're
Speaker 2: they're good for the ACC. They concert beat Louisville, they
Speaker 2: look like they should make the tournament, but like they're not.
Speaker 2: I mean, Louisville could easily go in and beat them,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't be shocked at all if they played
Speaker 2: the way they've been playing lately. But currently the kin
Speaker 2: Pom projected score is a seventy three to seventy one
Speaker 2: victory for Louisville. So if you remember, there was a
Speaker 2: two point expected win for Louisville against Virginia and they
Speaker 2: won that game by a total of twenty points. So
Speaker 2: kin Pom's been wrong about Louisville these last couple of
Speaker 2: games because the Carolina game is also supposed to be
Speaker 2: a slight loss and they won that one BYuT thirteen.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to see if we've got a spread
Speaker 2: for tomorrow. Typically we do by this time. Let's see,
Speaker 2: I'm scrolling through here and seeing all the games this evening,
Speaker 2: but for tomorrow, yeah, Louisville is favored any guesses you've
Speaker 2: probably already seen it, Austin, No.
Speaker 3: I haven't. I guess you said the Louisville.
Speaker 2: Is favored, yep against Clemson.
Speaker 5: I'm going to say three three and a half, not
Speaker 5: bad exactly forgetting that Entucky.
Speaker 2: Kentucky is at Georgia and they are favored by three
Speaker 2: and a half as well, So I'm not surprised again Louisville.
Speaker 2: Louisville's louis puts pretty goo basketball as of late, and
Speaker 2: I think the the odds, the odds makers are are
Speaker 2: are able to see that. And if you can, I think, right,
Speaker 2: who knows, I mean, maybe maybe comes in here and
Speaker 2: takes care of business and it's a bad day for
Speaker 2: the Louisville I don't know. And that's been one of
Speaker 2: the things that's kind of exciting to me is I
Speaker 2: really don't really I'm knowing, not knowing really what to
Speaker 2: expect in some of these games. It has made it
Speaker 2: more fun, I guess the lead up and you know,
Speaker 2: whenever you no longer have any it would be nice
Speaker 2: to have that feeling we used to have where you
Speaker 2: just expected to beat ninety seven percent of your schedule
Speaker 2: because you're who you are, You know you'll lose to
Speaker 2: certain teams. You know, you'll lose to a couple of
Speaker 2: teams that you should have won, but they're also pretty good,
Speaker 2: not as good as you, but they got you. That's
Speaker 2: the nice place to be in. But we haven't been
Speaker 2: there in a long time. So I'm actually finding some
Speaker 2: excitement knowing, like, hey, we may be in for a
Speaker 2: nail bider, right, Like I'm not happy that they nearly
Speaker 2: lost to EKU and UTEP, but you know what they
Speaker 2: did and they won. So just kind of knowing that
Speaker 2: the room for air not very big and there's not
Speaker 2: much of it, it kind of gives me an added
Speaker 2: layer of like excitement. Now, if we end up kind
Speaker 2: of having nail biers against bad teams, you know, consistently
Speaker 2: moving forward, then that's a different conversation. But also, to
Speaker 2: be fair, that's not that uncommon overall, and it's certainly
Speaker 2: not that uncommon in the New world here with Portland
Speaker 2: the n I L.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about small part sometimes?
Speaker 5: How do you feel about the coaching matchup in this one,
Speaker 5: Pat Kelsey against Brad Brown? How are you are you
Speaker 5: a big big are you a big Brad Brown?
Speaker 3: L guy?
Speaker 2: So I'll tell you a story about mister Brad brown
Speaker 2: Well because he's been at Clean Now for for a
Speaker 2: long time. And to me, he's got a very plain brand, right,
Speaker 2: like he's not too I mean he to me, he
Speaker 2: looks like the small town insurance guy that like Scott
Speaker 2: billboards up when you enter city limits you call him.
Speaker 2: He's you know, that's what he That's kind of the
Speaker 2: vibe he gives me. Kind of a family man, you know,
Speaker 2: he took over his dad's business selling insurance for farm bureau.
Speaker 2: Like that's that's the brand of Brad brown Well. And
Speaker 2: I've never had much thought of him, and I've actually
Speaker 2: never thought he was that good of a coach. But
Speaker 2: Chris Mack, who I was close with, still talk to
Speaker 2: him occasionally. But you know, I got to know that
Speaker 2: Chris Mack and Brad burun Well were good buddies. And
Speaker 2: I remember thinking, like that doesn't seem like somebody that
Speaker 2: I would ever think Chris would like or like, you know,
Speaker 2: be buddies with. Just didn't get the same vibe from
Speaker 2: from the two. And to be honest with you, Mac,
Speaker 2: didn't you know, he's not going out of his way
Speaker 2: to like make friends. I mean, that was one of
Speaker 2: the things that, Yeah, one of those things that stood
Speaker 2: out to me about Mac during his time here is that,
Speaker 2: you know when he and I guess this can be
Speaker 2: said about a lot of coaches, maybe not just him,
Speaker 2: but he didn't have a rolodex of like, if a
Speaker 2: job's open, he's got thirty dudes. He used to work
Speaker 2: with that like he knows and that like he you know,
Speaker 2: when he didn't have replacements that were good enough for
Speaker 2: Dino and Luke, it went south, right, it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: So it's one of the reasons why things didn't work
Speaker 2: out that you know, that whole scenario. So when I
Speaker 2: heard that he really liked Brad bunnwell, and I was
Speaker 2: kind of surprised by it, and he was like, no,
Speaker 2: he's a great guy, like and he and he can coach.
Speaker 2: He trusts me, he can coach. He's got great you know,
Speaker 2: half court sets, this and that. So after hearing that one,
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, the guy must not be terrible, because
Speaker 2: you know, Mack likes him. He must not be a nerd.
Speaker 2: And then I remember watching and since then he's been
Speaker 2: pretty good. Like he said, his best year is at
Speaker 2: Clemson in the last few years. He also did lose
Speaker 2: to Kenny Payne though a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: that's where i'd look for him. But like, I actually
Speaker 2: think he is a pretty solid coach, so I respect
Speaker 2: him more than I did years ago. I think taking
Speaker 2: Clemson to the to an Elite eight is absolutely something
Speaker 2: worth a ton of praise. Even though it took a
Speaker 2: long time for him to finally break through this year.
Speaker 2: You know, if they make the tournament, I still think
Speaker 2: that shows that he's actually, you know, he's kind of
Speaker 2: found his rhythm there to where they're better than they've
Speaker 2: ever been in his time. Now, I said before the
Speaker 2: year started, I think they're going to fall off and
Speaker 2: not make the tournament, and maybe that ends up happening.
Speaker 2: So I actually think you're gonna have it a you know,
Speaker 2: not to say that we got to be worried about
Speaker 2: John Wooden over there on the sidelines tomorrow, but I
Speaker 2: actually think he's a pretty good coach to where he
Speaker 2: will understand what Louisville wants to do and he'll have
Speaker 2: a plan to kind of take that away. They'll pick
Speaker 2: their spots when they want to run, and Louisville will
Speaker 2: once again have to play a team that is more
Speaker 2: wanting to slow things down. I mean, let's be real,
Speaker 2: Kentucky played Clemson and lost, and yes that game was
Speaker 2: a Clemson but the Clemson game plan for Kentucky, and
Speaker 2: trust me, I know this is going to make some
Speaker 2: ears perk up for Kentucky fans. I'm not doing this.
Speaker 2: Kentucky's clearly a better team than Louisll this year. But
Speaker 2: when it comes to what you try to probably take
Speaker 2: away from your opponent every night, right, it's what they
Speaker 2: want to do. Hm Clempson is going to do the
Speaker 2: same thing they did to Louisville that they did to Kentucky,
Speaker 2: just understanding, Hey, they want to play fast, We're going
Speaker 2: to make them beat us possession for possession, grind it
Speaker 2: out in the half court, get fiscal with them. And
Speaker 2: I think Louisville has really gotten better in that area.
Speaker 2: In slower games. They clearly want to run, they want
Speaker 2: to get out in transition, they want to get rhythm
Speaker 2: threes when you got a four man that can take
Speaker 2: it from the break and hit rain Smith in the
Speaker 2: corner like they want to do that. But Clemson, I
Speaker 2: believe will We'll do a good job of slowing it down.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, Virginia did that too. Louisville
Speaker 2: just beat him at their game. Louisville was able to
Speaker 2: in the half court get it done, and they were
Speaker 2: able to kind of find some opportunities here and there
Speaker 2: to get the game sped up a little bit. So
Speaker 2: I think you'll see a similar I don't want to
Speaker 2: call Clemson Virginia, but they're gonna try to slow it down,
Speaker 2: and I think louisll has slowly but surely gotten better
Speaker 2: in those kind of games. Now, you know, doing it
Speaker 2: against doing it against Tennessee and Old Miss is a
Speaker 2: little bit different than doing it against Clemson because I
Speaker 2: don't think Clemson's to that caliber. But I think what
Speaker 2: makes this matchup intriguing and exciting for me is because
Speaker 2: I do think we will see a good This will
Speaker 2: be a good opportunity to see if Louisville really has
Speaker 2: Even though Clemson is not Tennessee or Ole Miss. This
Speaker 2: is a good chance to see if this team has
Speaker 2: gotten better against teams that want to do that to you,
Speaker 2: and if they can do it effectively against Kentucky and
Speaker 2: beat them. Certainly Louisville has to take them serious, even
Speaker 2: though this one is a home game. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: think we'll see. You know, I'd be shocked if it's
Speaker 2: a blowout one way or the other. But I think
Speaker 2: kN Palm here in the spread are pretty close to
Speaker 2: where this thing will end, either in Louisville's favor or
Speaker 2: in Clemson's favor. So when it comes to the let's
Speaker 2: see here, Clemson offensively, they are thirty seventh in the
Speaker 2: Ken Palm nationally. When it comes to offensive efficiency, they
Speaker 2: are thirty third in defense. So they're pretty sound in
Speaker 2: both spots. But what I'm trying to find here, and
Speaker 2: I'm nerding out in a major way on some basketball
Speaker 2: analytics that I'm sure a lot of people don't really
Speaker 2: care about. But what I'm trying to figure out is
Speaker 2: how fast do they play? Like how you know when
Speaker 2: it comes to possessions? Yeah, let's see. Well, now I
Speaker 2: can't seem to find it on the team page here,
Speaker 2: And again it's not it's just it's one of those
Speaker 2: things that for me, I know none of you really
Speaker 2: probably care, but like now I went looking for it,
Speaker 2: I can't find it, and I'm sure it's right in
Speaker 2: front of my face, and I just you know am struggling.
Speaker 2: Let's see here. Yeah, so average here we go average
Speaker 2: possession length. So they Louison on defense, their average defensive
Speaker 2: possession as far as time is nineteen point three seconds.
Speaker 2: So on defense they have effectively slowed teams down. If
Speaker 2: you're if you're using twenty seconds on average of the
Speaker 2: shot clock, that may sound quick, but I'm telling you
Speaker 2: it's a lot longer than you think when it comes
Speaker 2: to to possession. That's what I told her too. She
Speaker 2: thinks twenty seconds is quick. I'm like, honey, no, you
Speaker 2: got to understand I was on a shot clock here
Speaker 2: trying to beat the buzzer thirl. I mean, do you
Speaker 2: realize we're in battle here? Anyways, they play they play slow,
Speaker 2: they want to play slow, whereas Louisville they want to
Speaker 2: play fast. And I think early early on. One of
Speaker 2: the things that I mentioned when it comes to you know,
Speaker 2: something that I was just eager to see Pat Kelsey
Speaker 2: kind of work through as he goes from the level
Speaker 2: of Winthrop and Charleston to Louisville, is that, yes, when
Speaker 2: you get out there, you're going to have teams that
Speaker 2: are able to take you like that are able to
Speaker 2: dictate pace to where you can't run like you want
Speaker 2: to run, and you got to be able to do
Speaker 2: some things in the half court. And again, they probably
Speaker 2: still would have a tough time doing that against Tennessee,
Speaker 2: Old Miss Kentucky Duke, those kind of teams, but they've
Speaker 2: clearly gotten better at it when it comes to figuring
Speaker 2: out what works for them. They've got a formula where
Speaker 2: they've got some different guys that I mean, they're getting
Speaker 2: good balance scoring right now, and they'll certainly need it
Speaker 2: tomorrow against this Clemson team. All Right, we got to
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Speaker 2: Dy final segment here on a on a snow day.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a snowday for a lot of people,
Speaker 2: So I feel like it's it's accurate to say that.
Speaker 2: I know we're here, we're working, so we weren't closed.
Speaker 2: But man, today was one of those days where I
Speaker 2: felt I felt bad. Not only did I just have
Speaker 2: my well, never mind, I was gonna say something, and
Speaker 2: I don't have enough time to give contact. But if
Speaker 2: you've got you back and listen to what I did
Speaker 2: to Austin during one of the commercial breaks earlier, I
Speaker 2: already feel bad for that, but also like I didn't
Speaker 2: have to leave, yeah the butt stuff. I didn't have
Speaker 2: to leave the house and you had to you know,
Speaker 2: make the trip then get out there and the and
Speaker 2: so here I am saying I'm working, but all I
Speaker 2: did was come to my basement and turn on some equipment.
Speaker 2: So uh, I kind of you know, for for people
Speaker 2: who you know did have to get out and actually
Speaker 2: go to work, like Austin and others that you know,
Speaker 2: their their job, doesn't care if we got a foot
Speaker 2: of snow. They got to be there.
Speaker 3: They're important.
Speaker 2: What they do is is very important to wear. There's
Speaker 2: just different different stands, you know, different exceptions when it
Speaker 2: comes to like what who you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: people just can't work from home also, so you know
Speaker 2: it it still feels like a snow day, and it's
Speaker 2: the first time we've had a winter storm around here
Speaker 2: where I feel like more often than you know, collectively speaking,
Speaker 2: the majority of us have maybe not been like at
Speaker 2: a disadvantage from this, but like you, you kind of
Speaker 2: feel like, yeah, I'm gonna stay in because the roads
Speaker 2: aren't good. I can't even get to where I'm going
Speaker 2: to go. It's freezing cold outside. I mean, even if
Speaker 2: you like, I think we played in the snow yesterday
Speaker 2: for a while. Kids loved it. It was freezing outside,
Speaker 2: but it was fun.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: They they were probably really cold, but they're just have
Speaker 2: you know, that's the most know that they've probably ever
Speaker 2: seen in their life. I know it is for my son.
Speaker 2: I imagine it's probably the most to know my daughter
Speaker 2: has seen as well. So they weren't as they were
Speaker 2: distracted by awsome. It wasn't not feeling how cold it
Speaker 2: actually was out there. But once we got done with that,
Speaker 2: I've been inside, snuggled up and just kind of, you know, chilling,
Speaker 2: kind of staying cozy because I think that's what you
Speaker 2: do on a snow day.
Speaker 3: And so throw them back outside too till the end
Speaker 3: of the show too.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, because we had to do the show
Speaker 2: and they you know, the kids obviously are great. I
Speaker 2: love them, love being a dad, well stir crazy awesome.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm not the only parent that thinks, Okay,
Speaker 2: how long are we going to be stuck inside with
Speaker 2: our kids?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: How long do I have to keep them before I
Speaker 2: can give them back to daycare? School for like a
Speaker 2: break for my mental state? Like, I know I'm not
Speaker 2: alone here I say. I feel bad as I say it,
Speaker 2: but I know there's many of you listening that totally
Speaker 2: get what I'm saying. So what I did. I just
Speaker 2: I threw them outside of the snow. Hopefully they're doing
Speaker 2: okay out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah they should be.
Speaker 2: Look, I had work to do.
Speaker 3: I had work to do. What do you guys do?
Speaker 3: They should be fine? They have an imagination?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no daycare, no school.
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll be fine.
Speaker 5: And that's why parents, I think, get mad now just
Speaker 5: because you always hear the well I used to trudge
Speaker 5: through seven feet of snow to get to school in
Speaker 5: my day. They didn't cancel school because of this. I
Speaker 5: think those those are more outright that. Yeah, we're annoyed
Speaker 5: by the kids being here. What are the schools still
Speaker 5: being shut down for? Get them off our hands?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say this. Maybe this is me kind
Speaker 2: of turning into the younger version of what will eventually
Speaker 2: be the boomer because I I know that there's an
Speaker 2: exaggeration about the walking up hill ten miles both ways,
Speaker 2: no matter what was going on, mother nature herself, she
Speaker 2: showed up. And you know, like they clearly exaggerate, but
Speaker 2: I think it's also true, like there was a different
Speaker 2: level of like what's going to get you out of
Speaker 2: worker school back then because it happens now. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I remember acknowledging this one time and then realizing, Okay,
Speaker 2: I need to shut up because I'm now if I
Speaker 2: keep running with that, I'm going to be the guy
Speaker 2: that I used to be kind of critical of. So
Speaker 2: this is kind of like an apology to the boomers
Speaker 2: that would talk about their day whenever things were different,
Speaker 2: because you know, I'm like, well, okay, why do you care?
Speaker 2: Like why does it bother you? Because there is one
Speaker 2: thing that I don't understand because my comments about let
Speaker 2: me get what I'm getting to and then I'll revert
Speaker 2: back here because I know that there was never a
Speaker 2: day where I didn't have to go to school or
Speaker 2: people didn't have to go to work because it was
Speaker 2: cold outside because it was windy, And now it's kind
Speaker 2: of a thing, and you know what I don't know
Speaker 2: why I care doesn't impact me if they now feel like, hey,
Speaker 2: technology is advanced enough and this can keep people safe
Speaker 2: from freezing to death of the bus stop or blowing
Speaker 2: away at the bus stop, Like, hey, who cares? Because
Speaker 2: I remember thinking like, wait a second, they're out of
Speaker 2: school for wind. Wait a second, they're out of school
Speaker 2: because it's cold. And that never was a thing when
Speaker 2: I was younger, but things were different. Now we have
Speaker 2: the ability to where if the conditions are that bad,
Speaker 2: they can do school from home. And I know everybody
Speaker 2: hates it. So it's one thing for everybody to, you know,
Speaker 2: to be bothered by it because they've got kids or
Speaker 2: it inconveniences them. And anytime you give the kids a
Speaker 2: day off with a day or two notice because of weather,
Speaker 2: they don't have the ability to get a sitter. They
Speaker 2: got to pay out a pocket for it. Maybe they've
Speaker 2: got to take their PTO or their vacation days because
Speaker 2: that's what they have to do for work. So like
Speaker 2: those people, I get the frustration because I do see
Speaker 2: how it can impact you. It's impacted me at times.
Speaker 2: But what I don't understand, and I've never understood this
Speaker 2: those who are angry so much so that they just
Speaker 2: want to yap about it on Facebook and somebody's comments
Speaker 2: or something. There are people that do not have children
Speaker 2: in the school system, They don't have relatives that are teachers,
Speaker 2: they have no involvement with the public school system in
Speaker 2: any way does not impact them at all, and they're
Speaker 2: upset when kids get out of school for a little
Speaker 2: bit of snuff. Like That's what I'm fascinated about, things
Speaker 2: I can't relate to. That's the one that has always
Speaker 2: stood out to me. You know, I'm not gonna name
Speaker 2: any names, but like Austin, I'm sure you've seen people
Speaker 2: like that that just are all the time upset. You
Speaker 2: kid me, they let these soft kids out of school
Speaker 2: this generation?
Speaker 3: Why are there?
Speaker 2: Why is there no school today? This is just a
Speaker 2: dusting like what I can't quite grasp that I'll never understand.
Speaker 2: But I have this endless, you know, fascination with it
Speaker 2: to where I want to understand why do you care
Speaker 2: if it doesn't relate to you at all, Like if
Speaker 2: you didn't turn on the news or pop open social media,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't even know that the kids are in school
Speaker 2: or out of school. But when you do see that.
Speaker 2: It's clearly becoming something that is mentioned quite a bit
Speaker 2: in the news, because you know, that's what local news
Speaker 2: stations do in their market. They let people know when
Speaker 2: the school system that is there is not going to
Speaker 2: have school, and it just burns up people who it
Speaker 2: doesn't factor in at all. Like I've never understood that
Speaker 2: either is it maybe is it thirty year old jealousy
Speaker 2: that forty year old jealousy probably because they had to
Speaker 2: go to school. That Yeah, Like that's the only thing
Speaker 2: I could think of that would make that make any sense,
Speaker 2: because again, if it doesn't relate to you, like, I
Speaker 2: don't know why you would care at all. Like in fact,
Speaker 2: I remember before I had kids noticing that and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is when I was on in the mornings. Oh,
Speaker 2: I love this. When there's no school, there's much less
Speaker 2: traffic out there's there's no buses, like you know, I
Speaker 2: looked at it as a convenient thing, and yet it
Speaker 2: just would burn people up. I never and still to
Speaker 2: this day, do not do not understand.
Speaker 5: When I was still living at home and my brother
Speaker 5: and sister are a little bit younger than me, so
Speaker 5: when I still love that's different and then I'd be like, really,
Speaker 5: do they have to stay home day?
Speaker 2: Oh that's different. That's on your home field. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: in your turf. Yeah, that's your turf. And now they're
Speaker 2: pik they're robbing, they're robbing vacation days. And yet you
Speaker 2: had to you had to go to school in those
Speaker 2: days and you had to.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think when it's that directly, especially at your siblings,
Speaker 2: like that's different because they're probably in your face about it.
Speaker 3: Ha ha.
Speaker 2: You got to go to work. Now that you're an adult,
Speaker 2: you got to go to school, You got to go
Speaker 2: to class. But no, we we we get a snow day.
Speaker 2: No I would I would be bothered by that as well.
Speaker 2: But I'm looking here, and I'm sure nobody's listening to
Speaker 2: the show to hear which schools are canceled. But j
Speaker 2: CPS is in fact closed both tomorrow and Wednesday. A
Speaker 2: bullet closed tomorrow, looks like Spencer is closed tomorrow. Hardin
Speaker 2: County schools they are close tomorrow. And I think I
Speaker 2: haven't looked at the Southern Indiana stuff here. I'm just
Speaker 2: scrollling through this long list. But looking how long the
Speaker 2: list is, I would say just about everybody is in fact,
Speaker 2: out of school tomorrow, so enjoy it. Another snow day,
Speaker 2: and we'll be back at it tomorrow for a game
Speaker 2: day edition. Big game against Clemson. We'll talk a lot
Speaker 2: about that tomorrow. Have some fun, be safe, everybody, stay warm,
Speaker 2: have a good night.