Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and Company. Fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety Holy crap, I don't know who
Speaker 1: the hell we think when we.
Speaker 2: Are get off our show, idiots, the kids are crying
Speaker 2: or turn them off.
Speaker 1: Their countries are screwing it up. Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother,
Speaker 1: gold Play Inner Murals. They're supposed to be mature adults,
Speaker 1: but they're really not. Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick coffee?
Speaker 4: You guys have heard me mention it throughout the week
Speaker 4: that I just it didn't really feel like the season
Speaker 4: had started for Louisville. And I stand by that because today, really,
Speaker 4: this week overall has felt real. No offense to Austin
Speaker 4: p and who else did they play Jacksonville State? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean no offense to those guys, But I mean
Speaker 4: this is this is real, and I feel like there
Speaker 4: are stages to game week. Whenever you have a game
Speaker 4: that is important, I mean every game is important. You
Speaker 4: only play twelve, you got to win as many as possible,
Speaker 4: and if Louisville is the team that we hope they are,
Speaker 4: then this is certainly a game you should win. So
Speaker 4: I say all that to say, like this is this
Speaker 4: feels real? You know, Monday it was like, Okay, here
Speaker 4: we go, We're now here game week, is here your
Speaker 4: first actual test. And then Tuesday I started feeling pretty confident, like, man,
Speaker 4: I can't wait. Maybe Louisville wins by seventeen and makes
Speaker 4: a statement something like that which could happen. I'm not
Speaker 4: backing away from that. But then yesterday and Wednesday, I
Speaker 4: suppose it was more of like, Okay, maybe this Georgia
Speaker 4: Tech team, like should not be double digit dogs here,
Speaker 4: maybe we should be a little more worried. I mean,
Speaker 4: they got a lot of guys on their team that
Speaker 4: I think could play for not any school in the country.
Speaker 4: I mean, they could probably play for just about any
Speaker 4: school in the country. I don't know how, you know,
Speaker 4: if they'd be elite. But they got some dudes, man,
Speaker 4: some guys who produced big numbers last year in the
Speaker 4: ACC and they're off to a good start this year.
Speaker 4: And then yesterday really turned into like, Okay, this brin
Speaker 4: Key guy's pretty impressive. He not only is off to
Speaker 4: a really good start at Georgia Tech, but he seems
Speaker 4: to thrive in these moments in these situations, I should
Speaker 4: say where his team. It's not David verus Goliath, but
Speaker 4: I would be highly, highly shocked if Brent Key and
Speaker 4: his team weren't surprised to see that they were double
Speaker 4: digit dogs here. And he again is really good at
Speaker 4: taking those situations and getting his guys ready to play.
Speaker 4: And I still feel the same way about Brent Key
Speaker 4: today as I did yesterday in the day before, but
Speaker 4: like today's day where I'm like, let's just get this
Speaker 4: thing going, let's get it started, let's play some football.
Speaker 4: And we are now, you know, roughly twenty four hours
Speaker 4: away from getting this thing started, and I'm excited. Let's
Speaker 4: get the show started. Though, shall we get his coffee
Speaker 4: in company? And we are feel about Thornton's here on
Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you guys hanging out with us.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're getting your weekend started, Maybe you're on your
Speaker 4: way suburban and beyond. Maybe you're I don't know, you
Speaker 4: could be doing anything, but if you're listening, that means
Speaker 4: you're with us. Therefore you are part of the show.
Speaker 4: You are coffee in company. The man with the plan
Speaker 4: is the company man himself, mister John Alden. He's alongside
Speaker 4: and I would hope that you know who I am.
Speaker 4: My name is Nick Coffee. I said that as if
Speaker 4: like it meant something. I'm not sure if it does,
Speaker 4: but maybe one day it will. Are you fired up
Speaker 4: on a Friday?
Speaker 2: John?
Speaker 4: I am fired up.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to watch some more college football this weekend
Speaker 3: as always, and the.
Speaker 4: Vibes are good on a Friday, per usual. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: it's never good when we're not in studio together. I
Speaker 4: mean I shouldn't say the show's not good because we
Speaker 4: make we make it work. I'm just saying, like we
Speaker 4: both know, I think everybody would agree, and we probably
Speaker 4: shouldn't talk about it as much as I do. But
Speaker 4: it's not ideal when we're not together. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: not like we're a married couple and we miss each other.
Speaker 4: Like you know, it's not that don't get weird, guys,
Speaker 4: but you know, the show just flows better when we're
Speaker 4: both in the iHeart headquarters. But today, I I probably
Speaker 4: could have made it in, but I would not have
Speaker 4: been able. I wouldn't have been comfortable, and you know,
Speaker 4: comfort is key when it comes to what we do here. John,
Speaker 4: it is so I just decided to not rush and
Speaker 4: be stressed and just you know, do the show from
Speaker 4: home today. We've got the good equipment. We're sounding good, right, John,
Speaker 4: we're sounding in crisp. Oh, you sound amazing. I'm hoping,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm hoping I'm able to keep up because you
Speaker 4: sound phenomenal today. You look good too on this webcam.
Speaker 4: By the way, you're looking pretty good too, And I
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 3: Not that we need to point out what each other
Speaker 3: is wearing, but I really love the Catalina Wine mixer
Speaker 3: shirt you got going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta I got a shirt on today that
Speaker 4: I you know, I don't wear it often. In fact,
Speaker 4: it's relatively new. I've worried a couple of times. But
Speaker 4: it's a picture of of Dale and what's the what's
Speaker 4: Brennan Dale? Yeah, Brennan and Dale. It's a picture of
Speaker 4: Brennan and Dale. And uh, it's a Prestige Worldwide is
Speaker 4: the brand. I mean, it's not really a brand, but
Speaker 4: it says Prestige, Prestige Worldwide Presents. It's got a picture
Speaker 4: of these guys and it says the Catalina Wine. So
Speaker 4: that's kind of I didn't even plan it, but I'm
Speaker 4: going for that vibe today. Catalina wine mixer is the vibe,
Speaker 4: which you all know. That's a great vibe. So we're
Speaker 4: feeling good here on a Friday. We are gonna have
Speaker 4: a couple of guess join us today. Alex Cupper. We'll
Speaker 4: see if he shows up today. He will, I mean
Speaker 4: I'm hopefully he will. I mean I did double check,
Speaker 4: a triple check today to make sure he was good
Speaker 4: to go. And it's not because you know, he's dissing
Speaker 4: us and just says he's too good for us, but
Speaker 4: you know he's busy. He's busy, guys. I want to
Speaker 4: make sure if I tell them, because I let the
Speaker 4: folks down. I mean technically he did, but I tell
Speaker 4: them Alex Cupper's coming on the show, and then Alex
Speaker 4: Cupper doesn't come on the show. That's not ideal for us, guys.
Speaker 4: I feel responsible, Yeah, exactly. So again it's really his fault,
Speaker 4: but he did have a legitimate reason for not being
Speaker 4: able to make it. And we're gonna have him on
Speaker 4: today at three thirty to talk some football. I like
Speaker 4: picking his brain, not only on football itself, but he
Speaker 4: can give us perspective that I know I don't have.
Speaker 4: I didn't play for Louisville. You know, I didn't play
Speaker 4: in the NFL. Might surprise you guys, but believe it
Speaker 4: or not, check my resume that's not on there. Did
Speaker 4: you play never?
Speaker 3: That's the funny that you mentioned that. It's really the
Speaker 3: only of like the four or three or four major
Speaker 3: sports that we have in the United States. Football is
Speaker 3: the one that I did not play as a kid.
Speaker 4: Same here now. I tried baseball, didn't didn't do well
Speaker 4: at that, gave up on that pretty early. Then I
Speaker 4: got to basketball, and just my even still to this
Speaker 4: day thirty plus years later, my personality has not changed
Speaker 4: when it comes to like I'm I'm gonna get locked
Speaker 4: down on something. I have an addicted personality, and once
Speaker 4: I realized, hey, I really like basketball, and I think
Speaker 4: I might be able to play this game a lot
Speaker 4: better than any other sport. I never picked up another ball,
Speaker 4: never picked up another a club, a racket, a bat.
Speaker 4: What are the other things you would you would use
Speaker 4: in sports? I mean, I think I think stick, maybe, yeah,
Speaker 4: hockey stick, although I did I did, and we had
Speaker 4: an unfinished side of our basement. As a kid, I
Speaker 4: used to blade down there acting as if I was
Speaker 4: a member of the of the Mighty Ducks, head coach
Speaker 4: by Gordon Gordon Bombay. So hockey might have been my
Speaker 4: second sport, but basketball was it for me. So Cup
Speaker 4: can provide a football perspective that most can't. So we'll
Speaker 4: talk to him coming up here at three thirty and
Speaker 4: I don't know the exact time, but doctor Eric McElroy
Speaker 4: also going to join us at some point today. Looking
Speaker 4: forward to catching up with him as we get you
Speaker 4: set for the weekend, like we do every single Friday,
Speaker 4: it's a football Friday. We've got some good college football tonight.
Speaker 4: Did you see the Slate tonight? John You Kidney?
Speaker 3: Bad line by Nebraska and Illinois, two unbeatens and the
Speaker 3: big Men.
Speaker 4: That should be a really good game. And I've yet
Speaker 4: to really decide what I want to do when it
Speaker 4: comes to a wagering standpoint, but you know I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get it. And I do well on Fridays. Not to
Speaker 4: say that I'm great, and you know I might have
Speaker 4: just jinxed myself, but I do much better on Fridays
Speaker 4: than I do any other day when it comes to
Speaker 4: college football, and it's because I'm able to more so
Speaker 4: focus on, you know, just a couple of games and
Speaker 4: not look at the whole board and just kind of
Speaker 4: you know, guess. I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: we're all guessing. But Illinois Nebraska, that should be a
Speaker 4: good one. And I think tonight QS may win by
Speaker 4: eighty that's a stretch. But they do, like QUS does,
Speaker 4: big games on Friday nights. In fact, I remember they
Speaker 4: pulled off two big upsets I think in the ACC
Speaker 4: since Louis's been in the league on a Friday night.
Speaker 4: One of them was when they knocked off Clemson only
Speaker 4: lost they had until they went to the playoff that year.
Speaker 4: That was Kelly Bryant's year, I believe at Clemson. So
Speaker 4: you know, Q, they've got some momentum. They got a
Speaker 4: new head coach, and I can tell you by being there.
Speaker 4: I was there on a Friday night. In fact, it's
Speaker 4: probably coming up on a Friday night, you know. I
Speaker 4: guess it were a little late. It was week two
Speaker 4: for Louisville, so a little bit over eight years ago.
Speaker 4: I was there on a Friday night at the Carrier Dome,
Speaker 4: hot as hell. I mean, John, you talk about swamp
Speaker 4: ass brother inside the carrier dome. Yeah, and that was
Speaker 4: the running joke, the Carrier dome. You know a company
Speaker 4: that supplied they supply air conditioning. They did not have
Speaker 4: AC in the carrier dome.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's a problem. Yeah. And you never get hot weather,
Speaker 4: humid weather really in upstate New York that late in
Speaker 4: the year, even in September, and it was hot, it
Speaker 4: was sweaty. I just remember, it's a visual I don't
Speaker 4: really want to want to, you know, think about often,
Speaker 4: but now I'm here, so I'll share it with you guys.
Speaker 4: There's a guy who covered Q's. I don't know if
Speaker 4: he was a beat writer or a radio guy or whatever,
Speaker 4: but a heavy set man and Syracuse their meal for
Speaker 4: the press room. Their meal not there like you know,
Speaker 4: not a side. Their meal was macaroni and cheese with fries.
Speaker 4: And the mac and cheese was good, but like I've
Speaker 4: never been anywhere, it was the main course. And there
Speaker 4: was a guy that was eating his mac and cheese
Speaker 4: in the press box and I saw his sweat drip
Speaker 4: in his mac and cheese and he didn't know it,
Speaker 4: and then he still ate it as real gross. Again.
Speaker 4: You remember stuff like that, do you not? You remember
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So you know q S that night
Speaker 4: when Lamar did Lamar things. Let's be real, Lamar didn't
Speaker 4: give that team those fans anything to cheer about. But
Speaker 4: you know, before the game got away from Q's, the
Speaker 4: place was like seventy to sixty percent empty. It's a
Speaker 4: humongous stadium that's for basketball, but it's like out in there.
Speaker 4: So they've got some momentum and they're in Louisville situation.
Speaker 4: They played two games and then a bye week, just
Speaker 4: like Louisville did. So Huston's minus eight and a half,
Speaker 4: Nebraska's minus seven and a half. You know, I never
Speaker 4: like doing this, but man, aren't you feeling like like
Speaker 4: like the dogs are getting put to sleep tonight? No
Speaker 4: pun intended. That's a terrible thing to say, but you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, like the underdogs are going down tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I think Illinois's top twenty five ranking is obviously
Speaker 3: based on the fact that they beat Kansas at home
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. And I don't know how
Speaker 3: good Kansas actually is. Yeah, I mean, also don't really
Speaker 3: know how good Nebraska is. They're getting the love because
Speaker 3: they curb stumped Colorado.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. That's true, but it's at Nebraska and
Speaker 4: four hundred sellout in a row. They're celebrating. We could
Speaker 4: make fun in Nebraska because they currently, for those who
Speaker 4: don't know this, Nebraska has the longest active drought of
Speaker 4: making a bowl game or being bowl eligible. And that's
Speaker 4: crazy if you really consider the fact that they there's
Speaker 4: no there's no power for power five program that has
Speaker 4: gone as many years without going to a bowl game
Speaker 4: as Nebraska, and yet they've sold out. You say, forty
Speaker 4: five consecutive times four hundred oh four? Oh my god,
Speaker 4: it's a lot, Yeah, four hundred. How did I go
Speaker 4: from forty five to four hundred?
Speaker 3: Oh I don't know if it's four hundred consecutive, but
Speaker 3: this is their four hundreds.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, got got either way? Do you have a
Speaker 4: very long street? If it was thirty, it'd be impressive consecutively. So, like,
Speaker 4: I know, the running joke is that there's nothing else
Speaker 4: to do in Nebraska, but like that is a they've
Speaker 4: been They've been ass for a while now, and I
Speaker 4: don't mean the good ass. They've been bad, a bad
Speaker 4: football team. In these miserable Nebraska Cornhusker fans still show
Speaker 4: up and spend an entire day watching their misery. But
Speaker 4: I think this year, I don't know why I used
Speaker 4: to Matt Ruhle has gone from a guy that I
Speaker 4: used to mock, like, Hey, this guy he was decent
Speaker 4: at Temple, he had one year at Baylor, and then
Speaker 4: he goes to the NFL, wasn't good there, and everybody
Speaker 4: acted like he could come back and pick his job,
Speaker 4: And I'm like, what resume are you looking at? I
Speaker 4: never said the guy is terrible, but I just never
Speaker 4: understood how he had proven anything to where he could
Speaker 4: come back to college and take any job. And to
Speaker 4: be fair, Nebraska is a really good job. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's what it was in the nineties,
Speaker 4: but it's a really good job. But listening to him,
Speaker 4: he's done a really good job of marketing and branding
Speaker 4: the program with him being the leader. And we've talked
Speaker 4: about it. I believe John when you hear his his
Speaker 4: his locker room speeches and really just his press conferences,
Speaker 4: Like I could get behind that guy, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: he's you know, very cinematic. I know he's bad. Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I think that actually is a really I hadn't thought
Speaker 4: of it that way, but I think that's the best
Speaker 4: way to describe it. Could be, could be some of
Speaker 4: it a little fake, could be some of it to work,
Speaker 4: but it works. He's he's so good. This might be
Speaker 4: a weird pull.
Speaker 3: But he also gives off Kevin James vibes whenever he
Speaker 3: goes to sideline reporter interviews and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I could see that that's a good observation. So we
Speaker 4: got some college football tonight and of course the loaded
Speaker 4: day tomorrow with Louisville having their first test an NFL
Speaker 4: Sunday that I think has some better matchups than most
Speaker 4: people realize. I got to be honest, I think with
Speaker 4: it when it comes to the Baltimore Ravens, they got
Speaker 4: to beat the Cowboys or it starts to become a
Speaker 4: really dangerous situation where maybe they be maybe they end
Speaker 4: up being the wildcard team in the playoff, which again,
Speaker 4: you make the playoff, you make the playoffs. But like
Speaker 4: they've been in positions where they should have won both
Speaker 4: games and have not, and with their division and the
Speaker 4: way the playoffs stuff work, I mean, like you can't
Speaker 4: keep doing that. And the Cowboys are coming off with
Speaker 4: terrible loss so again we're loaded today and I hope
Speaker 4: you guys will stick with us, take us with you
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Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety. So I'm going to get into
Speaker 4: something that happened to me in the last twenty four
Speaker 4: hours that I'll I'll just dive right in. And at
Speaker 4: times I've shared some experiences, some stories of my life
Speaker 4: where I feel like I'm living a Seinfeld episode. This
Speaker 4: isn't that, this isn't really like a good story. It's
Speaker 4: really not that entertaining or fascinating. It's just probably a
Speaker 4: surprise as far as the overall situation. And I want
Speaker 4: you to know ahead of time, I'm not doing this
Speaker 4: for sympathy or for pity, but I do think it's
Speaker 4: worth sharing. And I have an itch to talk about
Speaker 4: what's happened to me in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: And I'm not going to mention the business, but if
Speaker 4: you go to my Twitter, you'll see it and I
Speaker 4: might be able to do it here on the radio.
Speaker 4: But I gotta be safe, John, I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 4: they've advertised before. I don't know they are currently. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well you know, so I'm not going to mention who
Speaker 4: they are on these platforms, but on my social media
Speaker 4: you'll see who it is. But yesterday, when I got
Speaker 4: in the vehicle, my twenty nineteen Volkswagen Antlyts to leave
Speaker 4: Iheart's Studios at four Street, a light came on that
Speaker 4: gave me a warning that my battery needs service soon.
Speaker 4: Service battery, you know, as soon as possible. So I thought, okay,
Speaker 4: I probably need a new battery. Well, then I stopped
Speaker 4: to get gas at a Thorton's and then I started
Speaker 4: the car again and it gave me the same morning.
Speaker 4: And then as soon as I took off, it told
Speaker 4: me service battery soon, and then it said you can
Speaker 4: still drive. It was like the next level of the
Speaker 4: same message. So my worry was that if I I
Speaker 4: went to my son's football game or football practice, I
Speaker 4: would park the car and not it wouldn't start again.
Speaker 4: I'd have to get a jump and I didn't want
Speaker 4: to do that. So I thought, look, one of the
Speaker 4: simplest things you could probably do. I can't help but
Speaker 4: laugh saying that. Now, one of the simplest things that
Speaker 4: you might think would be to just have somebody at
Speaker 4: AutoZone replace your battery. So I went to the AutoZone
Speaker 4: that is near my home, and I walked in, and
Speaker 4: I know, Volkswagens are different. They're not easy to work
Speaker 4: on compared to the American made muscle that we have here.
Speaker 4: But you know, I love my car, So I go in.
Speaker 4: I use their that I said the company named, didn't
Speaker 4: I sorry either way. Either way, I don't care. I
Speaker 4: don't care because I'm not going to say anything that's
Speaker 4: not true. It's all true. I slipped up pretty early,
Speaker 4: didn't I. And I told John ahead of time. But
Speaker 4: I tell you keep a finger on the dumb button
Speaker 4: because I might. And it's not like I'm going to
Speaker 4: be like animated for entertainment value. Like it's just it's
Speaker 4: a crazy situation that's happened, and I'll get right to it.
Speaker 4: So yesterday when I got there, I pulled up the website.
Speaker 4: I put in my ven number on their on their website,
Speaker 4: which made me, I should say, it got me the
Speaker 4: exact model of my car. Like there's a lot of
Speaker 4: different versions of the Atlas, the four wheel drive, the turbo,
Speaker 4: the whatever. So I put my VEN number in to
Speaker 4: make sure that the battery I picked up was in
Speaker 4: fact a battery that is compatible and good for my car.
Speaker 4: But I know that replacing the battery on my vehicle
Speaker 4: is a little different. So what did I do? I
Speaker 4: walked to the register. Battery was heavy, but you know
Speaker 4: I've been in the gym, set it up on the
Speaker 4: counter and I asked the manager. I said, ma'am, I'm
Speaker 4: going to get this battery, but would you be able
Speaker 4: to tell me if you guys can can replace it
Speaker 4: for me. I don't have the tools to do it,
Speaker 4: and I think I could probably get out of here,
Speaker 4: but I just didn't know if you guys would be
Speaker 4: able to And she said, okay, well, what kind of
Speaker 4: vehicle isn't And I told her she said yeah, she
Speaker 4: did give me the heads up there may be a
Speaker 4: situation where electronically, like your presets in your radio may
Speaker 4: not save or something with the battery being disconnected. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: it's no biggie, I'm not worried about that. But she said, yeah,
Speaker 4: we cane to replace. So she wheels the battery out
Speaker 4: there on the cart. It's about seven o'clock. I pop
Speaker 4: the hood. She's the manager of the store, and she
Speaker 4: disconnects my battery, the effective one, because you get a
Speaker 4: little bit of a discount when you when you replace
Speaker 4: the battery, like you swap it out, so like the
Speaker 4: battery went from a certain price to being like, I
Speaker 4: don't know, eight percent less because they kept my battery.
Speaker 4: So she takes my battery off, the old one and
Speaker 4: puts the new one on. And as soon as she
Speaker 4: starts to reconnect the battery, my alarm system starts going
Speaker 4: off like somebody stealing the vehicle, and you know, it's loud.
Speaker 4: It's a surprise. She seems kind of stunned. She doesn't
Speaker 4: know why. I don't know why. I don't work it.
Speaker 4: I don't work there. I don't know anything about cars,
Speaker 4: although I've learned a lot in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: In fact, I've had to educate some people about some
Speaker 4: stuff in the last twenty four hours when it comes
Speaker 4: to voltzwagons. But nonetheless, it doesn't work like it's going off,
Speaker 4: and so she says, well, let me go inside do
Speaker 4: some research and see what I can figure out. I'm
Speaker 4: like okay, if that's fine, and I'm thinking I might
Speaker 4: be there maybe ten more minutes. So what she has
Speaker 4: determined what I looked up as well. And by the way,
Speaker 4: Chad GPT is amazing. I literally asked, hey, what do
Speaker 4: you do when you are replacing a battery on a
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen Volkswagen Atlas and the alarm system goes off?
Speaker 4: And they literally said, if that's happening, here's what's going on.
Speaker 4: It's a theft prevention system within your vehicle, and it
Speaker 4: thinks your vehicle's being being stolen. So here's some things
Speaker 4: you can do. There's and this may sound crazy, but
Speaker 4: think about like having a video and game controller as
Speaker 4: a care where you can put in like a cheat code.
Speaker 4: The manual tells you this as well. You put the
Speaker 4: key in the in the door and you like unlock unlocked,
Speaker 4: unlock unlocked three times and it'll turn it off. Well,
Speaker 4: that didn't work. So the next option, which this makes
Speaker 4: total sense and it's an inconvenience but whatever, No, like,
Speaker 4: it's not a big deal. You disconnect the battery for
Speaker 4: twenty minutes at minimum, and your your car will have
Speaker 4: no juice at all to where he won't even know
Speaker 4: to enable that security systems. That makes sense, John, Yes,
Speaker 4: Like you won't even have any life in your car
Speaker 4: for it to be alerting people. That is just completely stolen. Yes,
Speaker 4: so we tried. That didn't work. So I'm there from
Speaker 4: seven o'clock till ten o'clock. She can't figure it out.
Speaker 4: Her assistant manager, he can't figure it out. You know,
Speaker 4: they don't give me any option as far as like, hey,
Speaker 4: here's what it could be, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Let me call this guy and you could lie to me.
Speaker 4: Tell me, oh, okay, I think I know a store
Speaker 4: that's had this happen. Let me make a call. Nothing
Speaker 4: just looking as if like well, I mean like they're
Speaker 4: like they're they're waiting to see if I'm going to
Speaker 4: be like, oh okay, well I guess this car's done
Speaker 4: had a nice life. I'll see you later. I'll walk home.
Speaker 4: It's like that's what they thought I was gonna do.
Speaker 4: And I'm not, like, I'm not confrontational in any way.
Speaker 4: That's just not my personality. But you know, finally I
Speaker 4: had to call my wife at ten o'clock and I said, Hey,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to come and get me, my car
Speaker 4: will not I can't get home. So you know, She's like,
Speaker 4: are you seriously I'm like, yeah, they've not given me
Speaker 4: any you know, any any option other than like that.
Speaker 4: They just don't know what to do, and I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna stay here any longer. So she gets the kids up,
Speaker 4: gets him in the car, and at this time I'm
Speaker 4: telling them like, hey, I'm gonna leave it here, but
Speaker 4: please don't tow it. And also when I come back tomorrow,
Speaker 4: I would like to know what we're gonna do other
Speaker 4: than just us standing here. And I didn't say it
Speaker 4: in those words, but like, can we get some course
Speaker 4: of action here? She's like, well, we may be able
Speaker 4: to call a mechanic and I'm like, fer Auto's one.
Speaker 4: She said, no, he works for another place. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: we like is that? I mean, like that doesn't I
Speaker 4: mean do we know for sure? Like she's like, I'll
Speaker 4: call him tomorrow, and I'm just sitting here, like what
Speaker 4: do I do? Like I feel like I'm gonna come
Speaker 4: back the next day and I'm gonna be in the
Speaker 4: same situation. So I start getting everything valuable out of
Speaker 4: my vehicle, even things that aren't valuable. But things that
Speaker 4: like I like, because I can't lock it. John, the
Speaker 4: car won't lick. There's no power, yeah, so I can
Speaker 4: only lock manually. The driver's side door or the other
Speaker 4: doors I can't lock. So I'm getting everything out my
Speaker 4: kid's car seats, I mean, like my daughter's baby doll,
Speaker 4: and I'm loading up. At all I can get is
Speaker 4: my wife's coming to get me. And as I get
Speaker 4: out of the vehicle to come around, I hear the
Speaker 4: assistant manager the guy. He says, well, I guess it's
Speaker 4: worth a try. I don't know what she said at
Speaker 4: that time, so they give it a shot. I walk
Speaker 4: near the vehicle and she puts the battery back in,
Speaker 4: and anytime she would touch anything on the battery, the
Speaker 4: alarm system would go off. And they thought it was
Speaker 4: because the theft prevention thing. It wasn't wasn't that at all.
Speaker 4: So once she connects it, nobody says anything. I'm not
Speaker 4: under the hood, so I can't see, but she looks
Speaker 4: at him as she's got it connected and gives him
Speaker 4: a wide eye, which I guess was the sign that like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, they'll alarmed and go off. So then
Speaker 4: he hops in the car puts the key, the ignition,
Speaker 4: turns it on and it started. It started, and the
Speaker 4: radio stations were on eight forty whs, which is where
Speaker 4: it was on when I got there, listening to you
Speaker 4: and Terry. So I'm happy and I just say, you
Speaker 4: know what happened, and she says, you don't want to
Speaker 4: hear this, but we had the battery on backwards. And
Speaker 4: I'm in disbelief, but also just relieved and want to
Speaker 4: get the hell out of there. And then she started
Speaker 4: to give me some kind of an excuse of like, well,
Speaker 4: here's why I didn't know, So I didn't you know,
Speaker 4: I kind of you know. I don't think I was rude.
Speaker 4: I would have been entitled if I was going to
Speaker 4: be rude. But I just say, give me a second.
Speaker 4: So I called my wife, like, hey, have you left?
Speaker 4: And she says, I just got the kids in the car.
Speaker 4: We're gonna pull all the garage. I said, you don't
Speaker 4: have to. It started. She's like what how, And I'm like,
Speaker 4: you're not gonna believe it. I'll tell you when I
Speaker 4: get home. So then I get back to my car
Speaker 4: and start putting all the stuff back in it, thinking
Speaker 4: everything's okay, and that just sucked, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: chalk it up as a Thursday night lost. Well, then
Speaker 4: they've rolled their car back into the door, into the
Speaker 4: into the building. Lights are off, stre's closed now. So
Speaker 4: once I get everything back in my car, car seats
Speaker 4: aren't easy to get back in, so, like, you know,
Speaker 4: it took me some time to do that. I get in,
Speaker 4: start the car, it starts. I got no power steering.
Speaker 4: Every volkswaggon error message that exists starts popping up all
Speaker 4: in front of the screen. There there's no there's no life,
Speaker 4: no electricity coming to the heat and air system that's
Speaker 4: in front, like no lights at all, can't turn it on. Nothing.
Speaker 4: The radio works fine though, No, and again it's right
Speaker 4: back on has like nothing ever happened. So I go
Speaker 4: back to the to the door and like look in
Speaker 4: and you know, they're I don't think they're gone, but
Speaker 4: like they're not. They're not. They're in the back. I
Speaker 4: suppose lights are off, doors locked, and I just want
Speaker 4: to get home. So I drove home with no power steering. Luckily,
Speaker 4: I can actually get to my home through like three
Speaker 4: different neighborhoods without getting on a main interstate, without going
Speaker 4: more than twenty five miles an hour. That was luck,
Speaker 4: and I'm lucky. I also didn't get I didn't get
Speaker 4: in front of a cop because they'd have pulled me
Speaker 4: over for looking like I'm driving like I've had eighteen beers,
Speaker 4: cause I'm you know, imagine, I mean just I'm going
Speaker 4: wide as hell. I got a hit a I hit
Speaker 4: one turn in a neighborhood I was going through. I
Speaker 4: had to back up to turn in because I couldn't.
Speaker 4: I couldn't. I wasn't strong enough to to to, you know,
Speaker 4: turn I need to go back to the Little Men's
Speaker 4: clinic because the tea was low. Couldn't couldn't hook the
Speaker 4: wheel strong enough. So I get home and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm thinking I'm gonna go back up there and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell them tomorrow morning. So, because I can't
Speaker 4: drive my car in the morning, my wife has to
Speaker 4: go and work a little bit later, I get the
Speaker 4: kids up, I take them to school in daycare in
Speaker 4: her vehicle. I come back home, leave the vehicle to her,
Speaker 4: and then I go back into AutoZone and the manager
Speaker 4: she wasn't there yet. She was actually off today. The
Speaker 4: guy who helped me was working with somebody else. When
Speaker 4: I walked in, three other associates were there. They didn't
Speaker 4: know about last night, they weren't there. They said can
Speaker 4: you help me? And I said or They asked if
Speaker 4: they could help me, and I said maybe, but long story,
Speaker 4: I'm going to talk to this gentleman. He said, well, hey,
Speaker 4: what can I help you with? Then I said, you're
Speaker 4: not gonna believe this, but here's what happened. And I
Speaker 4: mean the two people that worked there that I told
Speaker 4: the story too, they were in disbelief. Couldn't I mean know,
Speaker 4: they honestly probably thought I was lying. And to be fair,
Speaker 4: like you know, they they they had like this is
Speaker 4: so embarrassing on behalf of this company that no, but
Speaker 4: there's nothing they can say, like I don't think that
Speaker 4: they're like acting like they did anything wrong. But what
Speaker 4: could you say? You had? You know you had. I
Speaker 4: came there, gave you business, bought a new battery, you
Speaker 4: didn't offer me a refund, and now my car doesn't work.
Speaker 4: And once they connect something to it, they tell me, well,
Speaker 4: it's the computer module system. We don't and and if
Speaker 4: I don't keep pushing the issue, they just I think
Speaker 4: assume I'm gonna be like, well, okay, rip to my
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen atlas, have a nice day. Everybody like that's
Speaker 4: I think that's what they were hoping I would do,
Speaker 4: and I wasn't. So finally the other people that worked
Speaker 4: there that were not worth me the night before, I
Speaker 4: just said, can somebody tell me what we need? What
Speaker 4: we're gonna do here? Like, can somebody tell me? Like
Speaker 4: how we you know, I know you guys can't fix it,
Speaker 4: but what are we gonna do to get it fixed?
Speaker 4: And finally I called the district manager. He wasn't nice.
Speaker 4: He was I think to be hon I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: him a bit of doubt. I think he was stunned
Speaker 4: and disbelief at the incompetence of the people he employs
Speaker 4: that he just wanted to get off the phone me
Speaker 4: to call them. So they're towing my vehicle to a
Speaker 4: Volkswagen dealership to get serviced at their cost. And I
Speaker 4: do love how they were like wanting me to appreciate
Speaker 4: that what I'm still I mean, like what so they
Speaker 4: are going to tow it there and figure out what's wrong?
Speaker 4: But I call the Volkswagen dealership. They told me We've
Speaker 4: not talked to anybody in AutoZone. We don't know of
Speaker 4: this arrangement could be in place, but we don't know yet.
Speaker 4: And then I described to them what happened, and they said, yeah,
Speaker 4: it sounds like they did some real damage to the
Speaker 4: electrical system of your vehicle. It's not just like a fuse.
Speaker 4: And I said, uh, oh, you know, you know. So
Speaker 4: then I get on the phone with corporate at AutoZone,
Speaker 4: like everybody's in disbelief that I talked to in the
Speaker 4: higher ups that they don't really tell me anything. So
Speaker 4: I've got no vehicle of my own. Thankfully, my wife's grandmother, Nana,
Speaker 4: she loaned me her car for the weekend. And I've
Speaker 4: got a big old sticker on the back that says
Speaker 4: Blessed Nana. So technically I'm over right, like I'm up
Speaker 4: on this situation. No Volkswagen may be dead, missed my
Speaker 4: son's football practice, wasted six hours at this business, and
Speaker 4: got no help from them other than they're gonna send
Speaker 4: a tow truck to take my vehicle away. But I
Speaker 4: get to be blessed Nana this weekend. I'm trying to
Speaker 4: find the positives here, John, that is the silver lining,
Speaker 4: if there is one, I'm trying to find it. Man.
Speaker 4: So that's that's been my day. And there's some more
Speaker 4: layers to this that you guys won't believe. We'll get
Speaker 4: to it later. We got to take a break. We'll
Speaker 4: talk to Alex Cup from the other side. It's coffee
Speaker 4: and Company. We are fuel about Thornton's right here on
Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right, it's coffee and Company
Speaker 4: fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate
Speaker 4: you hanging out with us here on a Friday. Hopefully
Speaker 4: we can help you get you set for the help
Speaker 4: get you set for the weekend. If your weekend hasn't
Speaker 4: started already. If you went to Bourbon and Beyond last
Speaker 4: night and you went to work today, shout out to you.
Speaker 4: I would assume that you know, you would plan a
Speaker 4: vacation day, a day off some pto. Because it looked
Speaker 4: like everybody that was there had had had a good
Speaker 4: time last night in a late and well probably not
Speaker 4: a late late night, but for someone old like myself,
Speaker 4: it would have been a late night all right. Joining
Speaker 4: us now here on Sports Talk seven ninety to talk
Speaker 4: some Louisville football as a former Louisville cardinal himself, mister
Speaker 4: Alex cupper Cup, how we feeling.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, it's a beautiful day here, Nick, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna miss these these hot days. So if anybody
Speaker 2: complains about the heat the next couple of days here,
Speaker 2: in a quick, quick bit, it'll be we'll be we'll
Speaker 2: be clamoring for it. So take it all in at
Speaker 2: Bourn Beyond or the game tomorrow wherever you might be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it'll be getting dark soon at like six o'clock,
Speaker 4: which is I know makes makes a lot of people sad.
Speaker 4: But Louisville coming off of bye week, can you in
Speaker 4: your time as a as a college player, can you
Speaker 4: think of any player? And maybe it's maybe I'm totally
Speaker 4: off here. I didn't play college football like you did.
Speaker 4: No way players other than like guys who want to
Speaker 4: get healthy because of an injury. No way players like
Speaker 4: bye weeks?
Speaker 2: Right, Uh, No, especially not this early where you're you're
Speaker 2: you should still be fresh. The perception is that you're
Speaker 2: fresh to the coaching staff. So it's it is, yeah,
Speaker 2: continuation of camp in some sorts when it comes to
Speaker 2: putting in work and showing up and at least, you know,
Speaker 2: three days last week. I'm sure they they got after
Speaker 2: it pretty hard. So it's uh, yeah, it is not
Speaker 2: enjoy It just depends on the week. But later on
Speaker 2: in the year definitely a little more favorable when it
Speaker 2: comes to taking it easy and getting rested up. But
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully they got sharpened up essentially and they're
Speaker 2: ready to rock and roll in conference play.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't ask you to break down the Georgia Tech
Speaker 4: depth chart or anything like that, but you know, what
Speaker 4: do they do for you when it comes to the
Speaker 4: eye test. Let's say cups out there. You know, he
Speaker 4: sees this Georgia Tech team get off the bus and
Speaker 4: he's he's on the opposing side. I mean you you're
Speaker 4: a little too skinny now to play offensive line.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I means yeah. I was gonna say it's a
Speaker 4: good compliment. Yeah. I don't know how you guys do it,
Speaker 4: but you guys are built, you know, to to you know,
Speaker 4: push people around and be very large and then you
Speaker 4: know you and would you guys, you know, you get
Speaker 4: real thin. Uh when whenever you call it a crew,
Speaker 4: which is again that's a good thing. That's what you want.
Speaker 4: But if you see Georgia Tech and you know what
Speaker 4: they've done last year under brick Key. In this first year, uh,
Speaker 4: they're winn against Florida State. Doesn't look as impressive now,
Speaker 4: but still I think they got some dudes. Man, I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna act like we're about to go up
Speaker 4: against like a team that has a ton of NFL
Speaker 4: draft picks, but I feel like from a personnel standpoint,
Speaker 4: they've they've got some pieces to where I think they're
Speaker 4: a team that really if they if they play well,
Speaker 4: not to say they could beat anybody, but like I'm
Speaker 4: long story short, man, I'm surprised louiell is a double
Speaker 4: digit favorite here.
Speaker 2: No, I'm with you one hundred percent. They're the books
Speaker 2: and and those odds makers do see something in this
Speaker 2: Louisville team, which is it's good. We hope that something
Speaker 2: comes to fruition, you know, every single Saturday, starting with tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But when you look at Georgia Tech, you know, they
Speaker 2: always they seem to put you in bad spots offensively
Speaker 2: when when they're on offense, they got they just put
Speaker 2: you in a predicament where you've got a linebacker covering
Speaker 2: talented running back, how the backfield or they just get
Speaker 2: good favorable matchups is what? You know what really watching
Speaker 2: that Florida State came to kick off the year, but
Speaker 2: then checking some highlights and it's like, man, there's there
Speaker 2: always seems to be space created in that offense. And
Speaker 2: you know when push comes to shove and you need
Speaker 2: a first down, the quarterback King can't get it for you.
Speaker 2: So he's got he's got good mobility. So that always
Speaker 2: always puts a challenge on you. So they need to
Speaker 2: you know, defensively, I think you you'd obviously want to
Speaker 2: challenge his first and second read get him thinking, uh
Speaker 2: thinking a little bit too much thinking run first, so
Speaker 2: that when you do have those guys spying on you, you
Speaker 2: can hem them in and you can't get them, can't
Speaker 2: get them out in space, have you? I If King
Speaker 2: Hank holds onto the ball and we're not able to
Speaker 2: apply pressure and you know he's able to see down
Speaker 2: the field, it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough
Speaker 2: one and we're we're not gonna be able to get
Speaker 2: off the field on third down. So those are you know,
Speaker 2: from a matchup standpoint, I think I think offensively, if
Speaker 2: we just execute like we have been, you know, put
Speaker 2: those running backs, get those running backs downhill, offensive line,
Speaker 2: established a line of scrimmage, and Shuck just managed the
Speaker 2: game and make make the throws he needs to make,
Speaker 2: should be fine. So yeah, I mean, really, it's it's
Speaker 2: gonna be hard to tell. There's not there isn't there
Speaker 2: isn't a ton of book of tape on Louisville.
Speaker 4: But yeah, this was the first test.
Speaker 2: Yeah, adds makers seem very confident in us, which is nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm encouraged by what they think. I just
Speaker 4: you know, I'm well aware of that, and I think again,
Speaker 4: I've really tried to reiterate this throughout the week. I
Speaker 4: think Louisville fans are justified and looking at their team
Speaker 4: in the top twenty and feeling like, yeah, that checks out.
Speaker 4: We're coming off of a special season. We got a
Speaker 4: damn good coach, we got some really good pieces. But again,
Speaker 4: this is where you really kind of get a chance
Speaker 4: to see where you stack up in a big win.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't guarantee great success to the rest of the way,
Speaker 4: but clearly Georgia Tech much better than the opponents that
Speaker 4: you played up to this point. And you know, I
Speaker 4: don't want to say these guys are super similar, but
Speaker 4: I think Coach Key and Brahm, you know, they seem
Speaker 4: to both be really genuine, Like what you see is
Speaker 4: what you get. I would imagine those are two coaches
Speaker 4: that when they're away from the camera and away from
Speaker 4: you know, the public, they're probably pretty similar more so
Speaker 4: to them to you know, to who they are when
Speaker 4: they are in front of a camera. So I guess
Speaker 4: my question here is players they can sense how genuine
Speaker 4: a coach is, right like the the BS detector. I
Speaker 4: feel like, you know, everybody's different as far as the
Speaker 4: ability to determine that, but Brick Key's got to got
Speaker 4: a way about him to where he can get his guys,
Speaker 4: maybe not having the mindset of it's us against the world,
Speaker 4: but it's almost honestly like the coach you played for,
Speaker 4: Coach Strong. He really had you guys locked in and
Speaker 4: ready to play, especially when there was any scenario where
Speaker 4: you were being doubted and maybe people thought that you
Speaker 4: weren't as good as others are saying what would you Again,
Speaker 4: everybody's different, but what do you think stands out about
Speaker 4: coaches that is it. Is it genuiness to where players
Speaker 4: you know that they know the coaches being straightforward because
Speaker 4: I don't know, I A is A is a player
Speaker 4: and didn't play football, but like I would want to
Speaker 4: play for a guy who I think has sort of
Speaker 4: the same demeanor as coach Brom and coach Key.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, you definitely want to player, you know, a
Speaker 2: coach that has your back the first foremost. I would
Speaker 2: say he pulled one hundred, you know, one hundred college
Speaker 2: football players. Having having your back is number one of
Speaker 2: the utmost importance, So that that's a big piece. I
Speaker 2: would say consistency is another one, and that that that
Speaker 2: there's some genuine nature to that as well. So if
Speaker 2: you if you have somebody show up a certain way
Speaker 2: one week and then you know, it completely flips and
Speaker 2: they're they're more you know, they're more hesitant and they're
Speaker 2: more uh closed off, and then I was open. And
Speaker 2: that's that's when you get into situations where it's hard
Speaker 2: to trust and build that trust player coach relationships. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I know both both of them, Coach Brom obviously and
Speaker 2: coach Key down there seemed to have bought have a
Speaker 2: bought in locker room, which that I mean, that's that
Speaker 2: is job number one. You can't win any games if
Speaker 2: your locker room's not behind you. You need you need
Speaker 2: the horses to believe in you and really want to
Speaker 2: really want to do everything they can to execute and
Speaker 2: and and put put the best product out there on
Speaker 2: Saturday to win games.
Speaker 4: Former Louisville offensive lineman Alex Cuppers are guests joining us
Speaker 4: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I feel like it's
Speaker 4: a humongous fraternity, meaning offensive linemen like you guys are
Speaker 4: not all the same your individuals, you have your own
Speaker 4: personalities and whatnot. But like there's a brand about being
Speaker 4: an old lineman that you know, I feel like is
Speaker 4: rather consistent. If you did not know anything about Brent
Speaker 4: Key as a player, like you would know he's an
Speaker 4: offensive lineman, right like he to me, he gives off
Speaker 4: that vibe like he's one of the boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean definitely the way nothing against the
Speaker 2: way he dresses, but just seeing seeing them playing.
Speaker 4: Action and yeah, not a not well dressed nah.
Speaker 2: Well, just like you know, comfort built. You know, he's
Speaker 2: built for comfort. You could tell dress is for comfort.
Speaker 2: He's not here trying to win, you know, the the
Speaker 2: Polo Surprise Award.
Speaker 4: Well look, hey, hey, since we're talking about a cup, like,
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't remember what your fashion. I feel like,
Speaker 4: you know, when you guys are in the trenches every
Speaker 4: day getting no credit for doing a lot of the
Speaker 4: most of the important work for the offense. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: weren't thinking about what you look like. You weren't thinking
Speaker 4: about style. Now that you have retired from the game,
Speaker 4: you slim down. Now, now you got you know, now
Speaker 4: your dapper, you got some style. So like maybe he
Speaker 4: maybe he just hasn't entered that part of his life
Speaker 4: yet because he's still he's still in football.
Speaker 2: It's true, This is true. Now, I mean I think
Speaker 2: he definitely puts off, you know, just kind of kind
Speaker 2: of there's there's more things. There's things more important than
Speaker 2: the way I look and the way you know, my my,
Speaker 2: what I put off Like the team's he can tell
Speaker 2: he's a team guy. He's not. He's not trying to
Speaker 2: stand out and and be voisterous and be the center
Speaker 2: of attention kind of thing. Which is that's that's those
Speaker 2: are all carbon copy, uh samples of offensive linements.
Speaker 4: So so let me ask you this. You know that
Speaker 4: coach Brom already has in his mind what he's going
Speaker 4: to do the first few series here. Uh, given what
Speaker 4: you've seen in the first couple of games, what would
Speaker 4: be your guests as far as something he may try
Speaker 4: to get started with, because you know he's gonna want
Speaker 4: to put something on, put me putting the putting some
Speaker 4: points on the board pretty quickly here in what should
Speaker 4: be a really good environment with Louisville at home in
Speaker 4: front of their fans. What would you just guess would
Speaker 4: be something we might see early on here to get
Speaker 4: this thing started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean everybody wants and you you can expect
Speaker 2: that there would be some shot shot play called so
Speaker 2: uh you know big play action, have have a receiver
Speaker 2: running down the middle of the field.
Speaker 4: Or yeah, just tell you Cory Books to go make
Speaker 4: a play, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so now go get him just like straight
Speaker 2: throw throw a go ball. But something that has a
Speaker 2: little uh, has a little built in action where you're
Speaker 2: trying to get the defense to bite on it. That
Speaker 2: and that and a lot of just establishing run run
Speaker 2: game is his big You know, you can just look
Speaker 2: back and and wanting to make sure that you have
Speaker 2: that pop and you build that trust from the first
Speaker 2: series that the offensive line is going to be able
Speaker 2: to move people. You know, there might be some reps
Speaker 2: where they get an edge on the end that you
Speaker 2: only gain a yard or or it's no gain. But
Speaker 2: if you if you see them firing off and you
Speaker 2: know that they have they have the physicality built with
Speaker 2: them that day, it just gives you confidence in the
Speaker 2: rest of the play sheets. So you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of shifts and motions trying to get edges, trying to
Speaker 2: get to the edge some things I would see. Uh,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I think more than anything, And you see
Speaker 2: any pundon or you talk to anybody around town that's
Speaker 2: been the first two games, it just feels like a
Speaker 2: lot of the play sheet has been been under wraps
Speaker 2: just because it's been needed. Yeah, so it's now it's time.
Speaker 2: Now it's time to watch the offense evolve and hopefully
Speaker 2: see see Tyler shuck uh, you know, really progress and
Speaker 2: really really see his game step up to the next
Speaker 2: level and making making Sick and Darry reads and making
Speaker 2: making really big town throws.
Speaker 4: I know, if they like that scoreboard up, which certainly
Speaker 4: they're capable of doing, I know that's going to make
Speaker 4: the fans really really happy. A couple more questions for you, Cup,
Speaker 4: just to go back to your playing days. I think
Speaker 4: we're going to have a really good atmosphere at Cardinal Stadium.
Speaker 4: I know there's the music festivals going on and there's
Speaker 4: a lot of events, but I still think you're going
Speaker 4: to see a good crowd because of the momentum that's
Speaker 4: within the program and it should be a beautiful day
Speaker 4: for some football. But when you were a player, is
Speaker 4: there a home game that stands out to you as
Speaker 4: far as thinking, Okay, we've had some really good atmospheres
Speaker 4: here with Cardination, but this one is this this one
Speaker 4: was more special than the others.
Speaker 2: I think. I mean, if I had to nailed down
Speaker 2: on one that anything senior year was going to stand out,
Speaker 2: that Cincinnati Keg and Nails game in twenty twelve was
Speaker 2: definitely a big one where hell, yeah, you know, great game,
Speaker 2: the all whites and the all whites, you got it,
Speaker 2: you got it. But yeah, you could just feel the
Speaker 2: elect tricity, you know, a game like this mid afternoon.
Speaker 2: I look back on you and see my senior year
Speaker 2: and that was just because it was you know, that
Speaker 2: was a good quality opponent on your schedule, that you
Speaker 2: had shiven into your house, that you could feel that
Speaker 2: the crowd was going to be locked in and engaged
Speaker 2: as soon as you walked out that tunnel. I would
Speaker 2: expect something similar to that. I don't. I don't think
Speaker 2: we're going to be sleeping tomorrow. I think we're we're
Speaker 2: itching person football, some competitive football. So yeah, to three
Speaker 2: point thirty tomorrow when we tee it up, I can
Speaker 2: I can already feel a little bit of the electricity.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, good stuff. The vibes are good. Cup. I
Speaker 4: appreciate you making time for us. Enjoy your weekend, enjoy
Speaker 4: the game, and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 2: Brother, all right, Nick, you too.
Speaker 4: All right, that's Alex Cupper, former little of the CARDINALLL
Speaker 4: Always appreciate his time and his insight. Again, he can
Speaker 4: speak to things that you know, I'd have no clue about,
Speaker 4: like you know, playing in the NFL and you know,
Speaker 4: leading Louis to a Sugar Bowl and yes, he was
Speaker 4: a leader for that team, who was a captain and
Speaker 4: you know the old line and those guys don't get
Speaker 4: the credit when somebody breaks free for an eighty yard
Speaker 4: run or or the quarterback got perfect protection to make
Speaker 4: a play. You know, they only get called out when
Speaker 4: a sack happens, and I hate that for those guys.
Speaker 4: They're very selfless. All right, quick break, We'll come back
Speaker 4: on the other side. Wrapped up for three o'clock hour
Speaker 4: on Coffee and Company. Bilbout Thornton's on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 4: ninety I'm gonna I'm gonna take a guess. Here is
Speaker 4: this Charles Wesley Godwin. It is not oh Man again,
Speaker 4: but go ahead, I was gonna say. At least, I mean,
Speaker 4: at least I didn't just act like, oh yeah, this
Speaker 4: is my God like you know, That's why I'm gonna now,
Speaker 4: even like yesterday, I knew that was staying. But I'm
Speaker 4: in my head so much about not knowing thinking I
Speaker 4: know what the company man is bringing us back to
Speaker 4: and not knowing. So uh, you know, I was wrong again,
Speaker 4: But at least that time I didn't say it with confidence.
Speaker 4: This this time.
Speaker 3: I picked the band squarely or mainly. Don't even know
Speaker 3: what the hell I just said squarely. I picked this
Speaker 3: band curely, I know, but it didn't make sense with
Speaker 3: what I was about ready to say. But I picked
Speaker 3: them purely based on their name Mountain Grass Unit. How
Speaker 3: do you knock like a band called Mountain Grass Unit.
Speaker 4: Are you familiar with him at all?
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I just I'm not either. Yeah, no, but but but
Speaker 4: the reason I asked if you were familiar with him
Speaker 4: is because I actually feel like, despite you know, not
Speaker 4: knowing anything about him, like I could that sounded. You know.
Speaker 4: It's not like I heard the whole album or anything,
Speaker 4: but like, that's a good. That's a good I could
Speaker 4: see that being a band that would get the interest
Speaker 4: from those that book the acts that come to Bourbon
Speaker 4: and Beyond, which we'll get to this later. We'll talk
Speaker 4: a little Bourbon and Beyond here on the show.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And we don't have a lot of time left really
Speaker 4: at all in the hour because my clock management's bad.
Speaker 4: My story about my situation yesterday with my car battery,
Speaker 4: you know. And what's crazy is we'll die back into
Speaker 4: that because I there's a lot of that that I
Speaker 4: didn't even include that will really make it seem as if,
Speaker 4: like you, I mean, honestly, you won't believe it, Like
Speaker 4: people will think, oh no, he's adding next, he's being extra,
Speaker 4: He's adding stuff for the sake of content and I'm not,
Speaker 4: I promise you. Uh it's been. It's been. I mean,
Speaker 4: you guys know I'm a blessed nana and it's not
Speaker 4: you know, I don't even feel worthy of being a
Speaker 4: blessed nana, but I have to be a blessed nanna.
Speaker 4: This beeginnding because AutoZone took my car, tried to change
Speaker 4: the battery and now it doesn't work anyways. Let me
Speaker 4: get to the important stuff, and that's the Jefferson Animal Hospital.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you guys once again about their big
Speaker 4: event that's coming up next month. It's Pints for paws
Speaker 4: and people at the Jefferson Animal Hospital. The American Red
Speaker 4: Cross will also be involved. You can bring your pet.
Speaker 4: It's a family friendly event and it's a one of
Speaker 4: a cond type of event where you can learn all
Speaker 4: about how your pets can become blood donors. And that
Speaker 4: may not even be something you knew was possible, but
Speaker 4: I'm telling you that it is possible. So you can
Speaker 4: also give blood yourself to the American Red Cross while
Speaker 4: your pets, dogs and cats can sign up to become
Speaker 4: blood donors themselves. Each pet donation can save up to
Speaker 4: four to six lives. You can also enjoy. They're gonna
Speaker 4: have food there, live demonstrations on how the whole process works.
Speaker 4: So again, it's Saturday, October nineteenth, ten am to two
Speaker 4: pm at Jefferson Animal Hospital and Regional Emergency Center on
Speaker 4: outer Loop there just in South Louisville. You can get
Speaker 4: more info at pet Bloodbank dot com at and you
Speaker 4: can give them a call at five h two nine
Speaker 4: hundred pets they are. If you're not familiar with Jefferson
Speaker 4: in the hospital, with your social media, they're on social
Speaker 4: media at Jefferson Vetts, So check that out. We gotta run.
Speaker 4: We got two more hours to go. We're gonna have
Speaker 4: some fun. It's a Friday. We're feeling good. And again
Speaker 4: I'm a blessed Nana.