Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentuckyana, Happy Monday to you.
Speaker 2: It is Kentuckyana's Morning.
Speaker 1: News with coffee and Company here on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas hopefully you had yourself's a good weekend. We
Speaker 1: talked at a little bit about the TVT during Scott's
Speaker 1: for sportscast this morning, and I love everything that comes
Speaker 1: with the event just because of the nostalgia and it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of awkward in a good way and awkward again,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it's the right word to use,
Speaker 1: but they're just things that you never imagine you would
Speaker 1: experience that end up being really cool, but you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just I don't know. Maybe when I
Speaker 1: say awkward, I guess more so I mean like it's
Speaker 1: awkward to know that this feels so cool when really
Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal, I would say
Speaker 1: to most people. But if you're just a die hard fan,
Speaker 1: which I feel like this event really is for diehard fans.
Speaker 1: When you got thousand that'll show up to watch former
Speaker 1: players that are not playing professional basketball anymore, that haven't
Speaker 1: played for Louisville in a long time. Some of these
Speaker 1: guys are playing pro but we would support former players
Speaker 1: at places like Louisville, Kentucky and even Indiana more than most,
Speaker 1: because again, we are college basketball crazy. But I mean,
Speaker 1: just let me just give you a scenario that played out.
Speaker 1: This really did play out on Saturday, And I just
Speaker 1: can't imagine someone telling me that these things would ever
Speaker 1: transpire many years ago and me having any clue how
Speaker 1: we got there. So I'm at Freedom Hall listening to
Speaker 1: fans playfully heckle coach Luke Hancock because he won't put
Speaker 1: Peyton Siva in the game. All while this is happening,
Speaker 1: Russ Smith hits a three, Montrez Harrold catches an alley
Speaker 1: oop dunk, and then you have Earl Clark and Quince
Speaker 1: Leznski on the bench having a casual chat. I mean
Speaker 1: it's again, you wouldn't be able to dream up scenarios
Speaker 1: where these things would happen, but the TBT gives you that,
Speaker 1: and and I eat it up.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I think they've got to revisit sort of the roster
Speaker 1: just because and I think I might've been I might
Speaker 1: have hinded to this when we talked about it not
Speaker 1: that long ago. Scott, is that some of these guys
Speaker 1: are on the older side. That sounds crazy to us
Speaker 1: because it seems like they just played here yesterday. But
Speaker 1: you know, you've got a team I think you'll see
Speaker 1: this year. I'm not sure the favorite is going to
Speaker 1: be moving forward, but I would say that there'll be
Speaker 1: a team this year that wins this thing. And I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked if their average age range as far
Speaker 1: as guys who play a lot of minutes, is much
Speaker 1: more closer to twenty five twenty six than mid thirties
Speaker 1: or early thirties like the.
Speaker 2: Vills roster was. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was reading some of the social media chatter following
Speaker 3: the game in the Louisville game, and a lot of
Speaker 3: folks were saying the same thing you did. They said,
Speaker 3: this team's a little bit old, Maybe go for a
Speaker 3: younger roster next time, And the age kind of showed through.
Speaker 3: Even Peyton Steven talked a little bit about that and.
Speaker 1: Didn't play second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And I knew he did want to.
Speaker 1: I knew he was sort of gonna be out there
Speaker 1: if needed. And h Russ came off the bench and
Speaker 1: play lightly compared to what we've ever seen Russ Smith
Speaker 1: have as far as the role, so they did rely
Speaker 1: on some youth with Jay scrubb Uh. They also really
Speaker 1: in the second half yesterday it just came down to
Speaker 1: who could get some stops defensively. Now, Mantres Harold continues
Speaker 1: to show that he's a guy that if needed, the
Speaker 1: NBA could give him a call and he'd probably still
Speaker 1: be able to go there and be just fine. And
Speaker 1: certainly I don't know how Montrez can't can't just have it,
Speaker 1: I mean to me, when healthy, he has proven he's
Speaker 1: more than capable of being in the NBA. But he
Speaker 1: had an injury to set him back, but he went
Speaker 1: and dominated in Australia, is doing well in the Big Three,
Speaker 1: and he was a monster yes yesterday and on Saturday
Speaker 1: for Louisville. So yeah, yeah, I think which you probably saw,
Speaker 1: I would agree with for the most part, they've got
Speaker 1: to find a way to get a little bit younger. Well,
Speaker 1: really hurt him. Race Balding would have helped, but he
Speaker 1: got to he had a back injury in their first
Speaker 1: practice and and wasn't able to go. But Mantres Harold,
Speaker 1: this is one of the one of the other mini
Speaker 1: components Scott that I think just makes this event so
Speaker 1: special to where we would eat it up and love
Speaker 1: it more than anybody is. Because we can tell that
Speaker 1: these guys, now that they're older, they they really just
Speaker 1: have with life experience and maturity, they have a better
Speaker 1: they have a better way of appreciating what you get
Speaker 1: at a place like this where we are. You know,
Speaker 1: we're diehard crazy fans. I mean, I'm sure when you're
Speaker 1: playing in the NBA, you know you realize those are
Speaker 1: the bright lights, that's the biggest stage. But nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: love Tres quite like Louisville loves Tres And he not
Speaker 1: only does he know that, but he can feel it
Speaker 1: when he comes here. So yesterday he ends up getting
Speaker 1: up getting a flight to Detroit because he had to
Speaker 1: play in the Big Three. Well, then on his own dime,
Speaker 1: he got a private jet, hired somebody to take him
Speaker 1: back to Louisville, and then use a rental car from
Speaker 1: the airport to get back to Freedom Hall. So he
Speaker 1: played two games in two cities yesterday, and he did
Speaker 1: it on his own dime. Right, these guys are clearly
Speaker 1: playing to to share two million dollars if they can
Speaker 1: win it. But I think that just speaks to him
Speaker 1: playing and you can tell one watching him out there.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he's just somebody when it comes
Speaker 1: to just his nature and how fiery he is man.
Speaker 1: He feeds off of a crowd that is in tents
Speaker 1: and certainly Louisville fans were getting hyped for him on
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday. They they just got too big of
Speaker 1: a hole yesterday and it was a little it was
Speaker 1: just too late. I mean, they had a great comeback.
Speaker 1: I think they went like a twenty to three run
Speaker 1: maybe yep. But when you're down twenty five and that team, man,
Speaker 1: they were they played really well. They had some young guys,
Speaker 1: guys that were really killing and in college not that
Speaker 1: long ago. That helped them. And at one point I
Speaker 1: think they'd made about six or seven threes in a row.
Speaker 1: And again, it's just kind of hard to come back.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that it ended with them being competitive towards
Speaker 1: the end because it, I mean.
Speaker 2: I was starting to think that they lose by forties. God,
Speaker 2: it was best, you.
Speaker 3: Know, to your point though, it was exciting for the community,
Speaker 3: and that's the problem when you set the bar so
Speaker 3: high out of the gate, which is what Louisville did
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 2: There's no room to I mean, there's a room to grow,
Speaker 2: but there really wasn't a lot of room to grow.
Speaker 3: So I think when if you folks tuned in in
Speaker 3: the middle of that game, maybe towards the half, they
Speaker 3: were kind of shocked to see the score. And then
Speaker 3: if you watched it, but then, like you mentioned, Louisville
Speaker 3: crawled back into it. I said, they get some youth.
Speaker 3: They still have a lot of success here. We of course,
Speaker 3: have a lot familiar assembly ball the whole area. In fact,
Speaker 3: a couple of Bellaman one former Bellaman night was in
Speaker 3: play yesterday as well. We'll talk about that too as
Speaker 3: well throughout the morning.
Speaker 1: I love watching former I love watching this event and
Speaker 1: randomly seeing guys I forgot about just because I'm a
Speaker 1: nerd for college basketball.
Speaker 3: The one guy you probably forgot about was in action
Speaker 3: last night.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to hearing about it.
Speaker 1: All right, stuff, good stuff, All right, let's get another
Speaker 1: check of traffic and weather. Also, we've got Rory and
Speaker 1: Al NBC News set to join us, who give us
Speaker 1: the latest on the CEO who got caught with somebody
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have been smooching with on the big screen
Speaker 1: at the Coldplay concert. Only the biggest story seemingly in
Speaker 1: the world right now, it's about forty six. Here a
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Speaker 1: whas Coffee and Company and were now bringing Rory and
Speaker 1: aale of them INBC News.
Speaker 2: Rory, the internet did what the internet does.
Speaker 1: They quickly were able to determine who it was who
Speaker 1: looked very awkward and uncomfortable. And really, these two individuals
Speaker 1: told on themselves as far as doing something they knew
Speaker 1: that they were not supposed to be doing that they
Speaker 1: didn't want people to see. But Andy Byron has resigned
Speaker 1: as the CEO of Astronomer, the company, of course, that
Speaker 1: he led before all this happened. What can you tell
Speaker 1: us as far as the impact that this viral story,
Speaker 1: super viral story has caused to those involved, including the company?
Speaker 2: All right, hey, do you have a favorite meme yet? Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, I saw what the Savannah the Savannah Bananas did.
Speaker 1: That was the best video I've seen from it. But
Speaker 1: the memes they're all great.
Speaker 2: They are, I mean, it's unlievable.
Speaker 4: I have a personal affection for the Fozzy Bear and
Speaker 4: Miss Piggy yes, well that was good. I don't know,
Speaker 4: I thought that was clever. Yeah, the obviously political ones,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it is just fascinating how this is NonStop,
Speaker 4: and just how it has proliferated so much across the internet.
Speaker 2: Social media is just full of this stuff.
Speaker 4: And again, as you mentioned Savannah Bananas and even Major
Speaker 4: League Baseball teams trying to ounce on this moment. I
Speaker 4: think it's just a summer distraction, right. Oh, it's a story.
Speaker 4: It's an awkward story that a lot of us can
Speaker 4: relate to. That's easy to relate to. Just and the
Speaker 4: whole idea of a couple allegedly having an affair and
Speaker 4: being essentially caught on the kiss cam at the Coldplay
Speaker 4: show outside Boston is all rather remarkable.
Speaker 2: But you know, it does raise a lot of that.
Speaker 4: And then of course for it to involve the CEO
Speaker 4: and the head of HR like HR, which puts out
Speaker 4: all these memos using all that language that they use
Speaker 4: to dissuade.
Speaker 2: You can't make this kind. I mean, in fact, you
Speaker 2: would think it.
Speaker 1: You think it was made up because to see that
Speaker 1: her position was one of human resources and then for
Speaker 1: her to be the one, I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 1: I guess everything involved here is how that's why this
Speaker 1: thing went viral like it did. It's got all the elements.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then what she's like, chief people officer, not
Speaker 2: even HR.
Speaker 1: She's right, connecting with employees of all levels.
Speaker 2: Rory. She certainly showed up. She certainly did.
Speaker 4: I mean they are essentially a case study that HR
Speaker 4: and what you're not supposed to be doing. And then
Speaker 4: also what about everyone else who was in the box
Speaker 4: with them? Right, Apparently they all knew that this affair
Speaker 4: was going on, Like that's something else that is you know, wait,
Speaker 4: so we're all good with letting the spouses of these
Speaker 4: two people sort of stay in the dark. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a it just it could not be a better
Speaker 4: summer time distraction. I guess now that Love Island is
Speaker 4: over here, we got this instead.
Speaker 2: Good stuff.
Speaker 1: Rian HILLVBC News is our guest joining us here our
Speaker 1: news ready right forty whas so the release of grand
Speaker 1: jury files associated with the Jeffrey Epstein case, That, of course,
Speaker 1: is what a lot of people have been asking, they've
Speaker 1: been begging for some transparency in regards to this entire situation,
Speaker 1: and of course a lot of folks think thinks there's
Speaker 1: a cover up a conspiracy here. What do we know
Speaker 1: as far as just heading in the direction of where
Speaker 1: Americans feel as if there's the wanted transparency that they seek.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, President Trump asked the Justice Department to
Speaker 4: take action to unseal the grand jury testimony. That may
Speaker 4: not satisfy a lot of people, because that's not everything.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a big part of it.
Speaker 4: You know, this may be just limited in scope, and
Speaker 4: a lot of people may say, oh, you know, it's
Speaker 4: another nothing burger, right, And so we'll see if the
Speaker 4: court agrees to release some of this data, of course,
Speaker 4: redacting the names of the underage victims and things like that.
Speaker 4: But it's I don't think this controversy is certainly going away.
Speaker 4: And you know, this weekend marked six months of the
Speaker 4: Trump two point zero administration. He's been trying to change
Speaker 4: the focus on everything from you know, getting coke made
Speaker 4: with cane sugar to kicking making Rosy o'donnelld not a
Speaker 4: citizen anymore.
Speaker 2: I forgot the one.
Speaker 4: That get oh, renaming the rents and or bringing back
Speaker 4: the name of the Washington of the Command is switching
Speaker 4: the name of the commanders and the Cleveland Indians, So
Speaker 4: anything to change the topic so far from this administration.
Speaker 1: Well, I think, you know, maybe there is some thought
Speaker 1: that eventually, if you just you know, let it die down,
Speaker 1: there won't be as much noise. But I think this,
Speaker 1: I think what they're probably going to release is going
Speaker 1: to end up being underwhelming to a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and it's just going to keep this thing going.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, they're all in the same vein, right,
Speaker 4: the cold Play story in this one. They're cheap, sexy whatever,
Speaker 4: And you know, easy to understand because if we were
Speaker 4: to sit back and talk about healthcare reimbursements and how
Speaker 4: Medicaid cuts are going to impact rural hospitals, everyone knows
Speaker 4: the eyes glaze over and you get you know, gen
Speaker 4: z stare. But whereas you're talking about sex cases. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're going to pay attention.
Speaker 1: Rory, you are the best. Thank you as always for
Speaker 1: your time. Enjoyed the rest of you day. We'll talk soon,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Rory and aal NBC News. Let's get
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