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Speaker 4: Okay, appreciating the process, Okay, and I'll explain. So last
Speaker 4: night done, Louisville a dominant win ninety one to sixty
Speaker 4: six over n C State Chucky Hepburn played. You'd a
Speaker 4: never known he had any issue of the injury. That
Speaker 4: groin looks huh. I mean, even if I didn't know
Speaker 4: he was dealing with a groin issue that it led
Speaker 4: him to miss the second half of Boston College and
Speaker 4: of course the entire game against Miami, I feel like,
Speaker 4: and I'm probably wrong here, this is probably just you know,
Speaker 4: me imagining things, but I feel like I would have said, man,
Speaker 4: you know what, that guy's a really good player, and man,
Speaker 4: he's got a strong groin. Like the groin was not
Speaker 4: an issue at all. The groin was phenomenal. He was phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Louisville wins again ninety one to sixty six. So when
Speaker 4: I say appreciating the process, what I mean is this
Speaker 4: has been such a fun ride throughout and honestly, even
Speaker 4: whenever it didn't look like they were going to be
Speaker 4: a tournament team, I don't think we knew for sure,
Speaker 4: but I remember being in the minority at least as
Speaker 4: far as you know, people who interact with us on
Speaker 4: this show, and honestly, the toxic wasteland that is Twitter
Speaker 4: that even after they got bad news about Prior not
Speaker 4: coming back, Corn Johnson played two games and then they
Speaker 4: got blown out by Tennessee and then went to the Bahamas,
Speaker 4: played well, but then that's when you find out Prior's out.
Speaker 4: You lose big time to ole Miss Duke ends up
Speaker 4: beating you by double digits after you led for thirty
Speaker 4: minutes of the game. Really, those are the ones that
Speaker 4: stick with me more than anything as far as me
Speaker 4: feeling like I'm in the minority that I still think, Hey,
Speaker 4: they're losing, but they're losing to good teams and they're
Speaker 4: still shorthanded. The ceiling is probably not really high, but
Speaker 4: I still think this team is getting better. So like,
Speaker 4: even whenever it wasn't looking like they're a tournament team, right,
Speaker 4: I guess more than anything before January because that's when
Speaker 4: they went undefeated in the entire month, and really that
Speaker 4: shaped the entire season. So even before then it's been
Speaker 4: a fun ride. But once January hit, that was intoxicating,
Speaker 4: That was arousing, if I may, I mean that was
Speaker 4: that was not only Louisville winning at a high rate,
Speaker 4: and I don't really care who it was against, but
Speaker 4: they've got you know, they've got wins that I'm not
Speaker 4: going to call them signature wins, but wins that certainly
Speaker 4: have have helped the resume where they're in the top
Speaker 4: thirty and the net and the kid palm.
Speaker 5: So it was a wild ride. I don't know if
Speaker 5: I got ahead of myself.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I don't believe that me feeling too
Speaker 4: confident about Louisville will have anything to do with their
Speaker 4: performance and how they play. But I just remember thinking like, hey,
Speaker 4: they're getting kind of boring to talk about, but I'm
Speaker 4: loving it.
Speaker 5: I can do it every day.
Speaker 4: Man, this team has been fun to discuss because man,
Speaker 4: they're good and they're kicking everybody's ass. And then we
Speaker 4: had the Georgia Tech game was that was, you know,
Speaker 4: a setback. I still don't believe that they played like
Speaker 4: they were feeling themselves. I don't think they played like
Speaker 4: they were taking anybody lightly. I think they just kind
Speaker 4: of had not one of their better games, clearly. And
Speaker 4: then Georgia Tech played well, and then the next game
Speaker 4: out Boston College, Chucky gets hurt.
Speaker 5: I start to fear.
Speaker 4: And then last night, I'm sorry, and then Miami, he
Speaker 4: doesn't play and you were able to win, but just
Speaker 4: the fact that you were within I don't know, five
Speaker 4: to six, Miami was in five to six points within
Speaker 4: the game late. That just had me kind of worried
Speaker 4: to where I'm starting to kind of like panic and think, oh, oh,
Speaker 4: this is not ideal. We need to be at full
Speaker 4: strength at least, you know, Chucky and James Scott being
Speaker 4: able to play. And I never felt like they weren't
Speaker 4: going to make the tournament. But I'm sure it was
Speaker 4: probably annoying to many people, but I just kept thinking, man,
Speaker 4: they have not a lot to gain in a whole
Speaker 4: lot to lose with a potential loss, and I went
Speaker 4: like a week kind of worried about how things are
Speaker 4: going to finish up, not because I doubt the team,
Speaker 4: but just because you know without Chucky that that's not ideal.
Speaker 4: So when I say appreciating the process, I think we
Speaker 4: had a great month that really was intoxicating.
Speaker 5: I couldn't get enough of it.
Speaker 4: I feel like I was very much appreciating it because
Speaker 4: I know where Louisville basketball's been in recent years. But
Speaker 4: maybe the basketball gods were just wanting me to realize
Speaker 4: how special this is because they gave me a wi
Speaker 4: the basketball gods did of really thinking back on the
Speaker 4: season thus far and really having to just kind of
Speaker 4: And it wasn't like I didn't appreciate it, but man,
Speaker 4: I was just looking back at thinking, man, this is
Speaker 4: such a fun ride. This has been awesome. Imagine if
Speaker 4: like it's all over because Chuck he's hurt. So a
Speaker 4: week went by and I'm not necessarily in panic mode,
Speaker 4: but you guys, if you listen to the show, like
Speaker 4: I mean, I was worried, but not because I thought
Speaker 4: there was like something They weren't telling us that he
Speaker 4: was more so injured than we thought, but just to
Speaker 4: know that like an injury to him could kind of
Speaker 4: end this magical season that has been going on for
Speaker 4: the last few months, and again magical is probably a stretch,
Speaker 4: but like for us, given the circumstances, this has been awesome.
Speaker 4: So last night, you get Chucky healthy, Louisville comes out,
Speaker 4: They win ninety one to sixty six. Statistically, probably one
Speaker 4: of their best offensive games.
Speaker 5: In fact, it has to be.
Speaker 4: They shot sixty four percent from the field, fifty eight
Speaker 4: percent from the three point line. They were insanely balanced.
Speaker 4: I mean, are you kidding me? Twenty one apiece for
Speaker 4: Rain Smith and Terrence Edwards. Javon gives you seventeen Chucky
Speaker 4: with a with a with a light light work, fifteen
Speaker 4: six assists, three steals. I mean you throw in Trey
Speaker 4: Ora who had nine. I mean James Scott gave you,
Speaker 4: gave you six. I mean, just a really balanced, balanced
Speaker 4: game for Louisville. And I went right back last night
Speaker 4: to thinking, man, I don't want this to end.
Speaker 5: This is too much fun.
Speaker 4: Austin and I are texting each other how much we
Speaker 4: love this team, and it's just I feel like the
Speaker 4: basketball gods, the Georgia Tech loss, I just feel like
Speaker 4: it happened. But the week of Chucky getting hurt, him
Speaker 4: not playing the rest of the second half against Boston College,
Speaker 4: him missing the entire game against Miami. The Miami game
Speaker 4: ended up being a double digit win, but you know
Speaker 4: the fact that they were even close late and you
Speaker 4: didn't have Chucky or James Scott had me worried. So
Speaker 4: I went through a week of just being really stressed
Speaker 4: and worried about my team. And I feel like it
Speaker 4: was the basketball God's letting me know, Hey, we're just
Speaker 4: doing this to make sure that you fully appreciate what
Speaker 4: this is. And I know I do, and I'm sure
Speaker 4: a lot of you listening do, because ninety one to
Speaker 4: sixty six, I mean that's a beat down. And I
Speaker 4: mentioned just the stats from these just a really balanced night,
Speaker 4: which really that's what this team. That's what they've become,
Speaker 4: a really balanced team that on any given night, I mean,
Speaker 4: five different guys can lead you in scoring. I mean,
Speaker 4: Chucky can lead you in scoring. Nobody's going to be shocked.
Speaker 4: Ray Smith has led you in scoring in many games.
Speaker 4: And by the way, he's actually scoring a lot of
Speaker 4: points per game this year because he just in any
Speaker 4: moment can I mean I say any moment, It's pretty consistent.
Speaker 4: The guy has made a lot of threes twenty one
Speaker 4: last night, five of them from downtown Terrence Edwards. He'll
Speaker 4: have games where he doesn't shoot it efficiently, but even
Speaker 4: in those games, he still probably is getting close to
Speaker 4: double ditches. Then last night he's eight of twelve, four
Speaker 4: of four from three point range, didn't miss a three Javan.
Speaker 4: He's had a thirty plus point game seventeen last night, light.
Speaker 5: Work for him. And then even Trey.
Speaker 4: Ore has led this team in scoring in a game
Speaker 4: as well. So they really just got back to being
Speaker 4: the team that we watched for a good stretch of
Speaker 4: January that made us think to ourselves, this isn't a
Speaker 4: team that's just taking advantage of the ACC. They are
Speaker 4: doing that, by the way, but it's not just that
Speaker 4: they're not a bad team that's able to squeeze out
Speaker 4: victories against a pathetic conference that used to be elite.
Speaker 4: They're a good team that is beating down opponents. And yes,
Speaker 4: make your comments about how bad the ACC is, that's fine,
Speaker 4: and I'm not even gonna disagree with you, but there's
Speaker 4: certain teams that have a really gaudy record and they're
Speaker 4: not dominating certain teams. I mean, look, I can't lie
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 5: I wish I could.
Speaker 4: I wish I could find some numbers that I could
Speaker 4: manipulate spinning in a certain way to make the ACC
Speaker 4: look better than it is.
Speaker 5: But I can't do that. But I don't care to.
Speaker 5: I don't need to.
Speaker 4: I watch Louisville and this group with their I mean,
Speaker 4: with the core that they have, with everybody healthy, they
Speaker 4: could lose to anybody they don't play well. But if
Speaker 4: they play to their best ability and they shoot the
Speaker 4: ball even decent, I think they're gonna have a chance
Speaker 4: to win some games in the NAA Tournament. So again,
Speaker 4: I hate bringing this up because I know how it's
Speaker 4: gonna come across to certain people, but I can't control that.
Speaker 4: You take it however you want it, because this is impressive.
Speaker 4: But I feel like it's me walking into somebody making
Speaker 4: a joke about the ACC. It's me giving you the
Speaker 4: hypothetical gun to shoot off jokes about the ACC and
Speaker 4: actually belittle what Louisville is doing. But their margin of
Speaker 4: victory in ACC is sixteen and a half points. They're
Speaker 4: actually beating teams on the road by sixteen point eight
Speaker 4: points per game. It's third in the country behind Duke
Speaker 4: and Auburn. As far as when they go on the
Speaker 4: road roadkill, they beat you down in your house eleven
Speaker 4: double digit roads road winds, which by the way, is
Speaker 4: number one in the country.
Speaker 5: And also.
Speaker 4: It's the first time Louisville basketball's ever done that. And again,
Speaker 4: I know the ACC is not great. It's a legitimate
Speaker 4: storyline within college basketball, but I have no problem looking
Speaker 4: at these numbers and realizing there's some this means something.
Speaker 4: Doesn't mean louis is going to be a top three
Speaker 4: seed instead of a tournament, doesn't mean that they're destined
Speaker 4: to go to a final four. But if you watch
Speaker 4: this team play, and by the way, I've actually started
Speaker 4: to notice that those that want to take shots at
Speaker 4: the ACC, they still will and they'll you know, and
Speaker 4: they're not wrong. The league sucks, Let's just be real.
Speaker 4: It sucks. Wake Forest losing last night at home to
Speaker 4: Florida State another death blow to Accede that the ACC
Speaker 4: should get. So I can't really dispute that the ACC
Speaker 4: is what it is. But if you watch Louisville close
Speaker 4: enough and you understand their personnel and you know sort
Speaker 4: of you know how they play and how they're built,
Speaker 4: meaning the veterans, the grown men on this team that
Speaker 4: are that know who they are as players. They don't
Speaker 4: step outside their game. They're mature. I mean that stuff matters,
Speaker 4: you know. By the way, they've got talent as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, Chuckie Hepburn is one of the best point
Speaker 4: guards in the country regards wordless of what the Bob
Speaker 4: Coosey Award says. I mean James Scott dunking on everybody's head,
Speaker 4: shooting eighty something percent from the from the field, and
Speaker 4: then you look at Terrence Edwards, I mean mass James
Speaker 4: Scott by the way. Yeah, I mean, dude, that you
Speaker 4: could I hated it for him because everybody's really gassing
Speaker 4: it up, which it's all you can do, right, It's
Speaker 4: not his fault. I mean he's out there playing, but
Speaker 4: you can tell, couldn't you tell he's uncomfortable? Oh of
Speaker 4: course it looks uncomfortable. I mean he looks like he
Speaker 4: just wants to take it off and throw it. I
Speaker 4: have I'm of the belief that he was told that
Speaker 4: if he wanted to play he had to wear to
Speaker 4: wear it because he did not want to wear it.
Speaker 5: It was just a hanging off his face at times.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, apparently he can't communicate on the floor
Speaker 4: as well, so it's an issue. But like, this team
Speaker 4: is good, and I never felt like they weren't good.
Speaker 4: When they lost to Georgia Tech. I kind of felt
Speaker 4: like I was on an island by myself because I
Speaker 4: didn't I don't think the fans panicked and lost their mind.
Speaker 4: But it wasn't like, hey, we gotta get we got
Speaker 4: to get right. I don't think they even played that
Speaker 4: bad against Georgia TACK. They just didn't shoot it as
Speaker 4: well as they typically do. They missed some big free throws,
Speaker 4: they did not execute down the stretch. So again, that
Speaker 4: happens from time to time. That's basketball, that's sports. But
Speaker 4: they also went up against a team who shot the
Speaker 4: ball really well and made really tough shots, and sometimes
Speaker 4: you lose. So last night to me, as bad as
Speaker 4: NC State is, which by the way, they're bad, really bad.
Speaker 4: To me, that wasn't what last night was about. It
Speaker 4: was just we got to once again see this team
Speaker 4: whenever they've got it rolling, and I think the rest
Speaker 4: of the way you could slip up and lose, because
Speaker 4: you know what happens. The Georgia Tech reminder will be
Speaker 4: there but they have a seventy one percent chance of
Speaker 4: winning on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sorry, Sunday against Notre.
Speaker 2: Dame another odd Sunday night game.
Speaker 4: Very weird, But that is as far as just the
Speaker 4: ken Pom projections. That is their I guess most likely
Speaker 4: loss at seventy one percent. And I don't know how
Speaker 4: much this stuff actually means, And you know, therefore why
Speaker 4: do I mention it? But I'm just trying to put
Speaker 4: in perspective that last night, I mean, you could have
Speaker 4: beat NC State worse than you did. I mean, you
Speaker 4: won ninety one to sixty six. It could have been worse.
Speaker 4: They were making tough shots late just because they are
Speaker 4: a mess, and they were chucking it up from three NonStop.
Speaker 4: But Louisville right now, I mean, if they finished the
Speaker 4: season without another regular season loss, they will not have
Speaker 4: added any real signature win by any means. In fact,
Speaker 4: they're not even going to be adding I mean, I
Speaker 4: guess certain I maybe pay it'll be a quad two.
Speaker 4: But right now, seventy one percent is their percentage chance
Speaker 4: of winning against Notre Dame on Sunday. The rest of
Speaker 4: the way, eighty six percent chance against Florida State at
Speaker 4: home eighty two percent chance. At Virginia Tech, who is
Speaker 4: one of the worst teams in the league, Pittsburgh and home,
Speaker 4: they're falling off, but that still worries me because I
Speaker 4: know they have some talent, but still you know their
Speaker 4: top fifty and your percentage chance of winning at home
Speaker 4: there's seventy six percent.
Speaker 5: You play at home.
Speaker 4: By the way, you only have two more road games
Speaker 4: and then you're at home for Actually you have away
Speaker 4: at Notre Dame home Florida State at Virginia Tech next Tuesday,
Speaker 4: and then the rest of the way. You finish out
Speaker 4: with three straight home games pitt California, and Stanford. So
Speaker 4: these are all games that you would have a tough
Speaker 4: time losing, meaning you'd have to really come out and
Speaker 4: I think be a team that we don't recognize to
Speaker 4: lose at least some of these games. So if you
Speaker 4: finished the season eighteen and two in the ACC twenty
Speaker 4: five and six overall, and you win these games, maybe
Speaker 4: by a good margin, you're going to have a top
Speaker 4: twenty five ken Palm, You're going to have a top
Speaker 4: twenty five NET And that's not the end all be all,
Speaker 4: but that could make it to where you're looking at
Speaker 4: an eight type seed to maybe six or five, depending
Speaker 4: on what other teams do. So I don't want to
Speaker 4: make it sound like before last night I was worried
Speaker 4: this team was going to completely crumble. But I just again,
Speaker 4: I'm appreciating the process of what it's like to ride
Speaker 4: with a team throughout an entire season. And I'm sure
Speaker 4: if you're a Kentucky fan you've been there. I mean,
Speaker 4: you've been in the tournament every year for the last
Speaker 4: four years. Louisville, of course, you know, hasn't. So you know,
Speaker 4: you go through stretches where you're thinking, man, we were
Speaker 4: on top of the world, then we lost three or four.
Speaker 5: Louiva didn't do that.
Speaker 4: But I think just with the Chucky injury, the loss
Speaker 4: to Georgia Tech, the closest game against Miami, it just
Speaker 4: made me kind of think, hey man, this has been
Speaker 4: such a fun ride. I would hate for another injury
Speaker 4: to potentially really devastate this team. And last night, Chucky's
Speaker 4: growing looked as good as I mean, I'm not somebody
Speaker 4: that I mean, I'm not somebody that can evaluate groins
Speaker 4: as good as you know, maybe somebody who works in
Speaker 4: the medical field, but I don't feel like I'm out
Speaker 4: of line to say his groin was as good as
Speaker 4: anybody's growing Last night on the floor in Raleigh, I
Speaker 4: would say, we're some groin knowers.
Speaker 5: We know the groin. Huh.
Speaker 4: I mean, I look, I'm it goes better if you
Speaker 4: it makes me. It looks better if you say not me,
Speaker 4: because I you know, I know where, I know where
Speaker 4: I am as a growl nowhere. But me saying it's
Speaker 4: gonna be just sounded like I'm gassing myself up.
Speaker 5: So that's fine. Yeah, you know, I can get in.
Speaker 4: The lab and really evaluate a growing and its ability
Speaker 4: and whatnot. So again, big winners last night the cards,
Speaker 4: and again you could have beat them by fifty and
Speaker 4: it would have meant really nothing as far as like
Speaker 4: who you played. But work the system, beat down teams
Speaker 4: that know they stink bury them. And honestly, that's one
Speaker 4: complaint I would have is that at times they've been
Speaker 4: up big and then not won by as much as
Speaker 4: they should have. Right like the Virginia game at home,
Speaker 4: they won by fourteen. That's a fine win, but like
Speaker 4: they probably could have won by twenty five or twenty
Speaker 4: whatever it may be. And it wouldn't have made a
Speaker 4: difference as far as how we view this team. But again,
Speaker 4: when I say work the system, the worse you beat
Speaker 4: a team, the better it's going to impact you in
Speaker 4: the numbers. And the fact that you went on the
Speaker 4: road in one by twenty five last night, it jumped
Speaker 4: you up from twenty nine to now twenty five in
Speaker 4: the kin Pom.
Speaker 5: So you know, beating Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: By twenty, beating Florida State by twenty easier said than done.
Speaker 4: And it won't make me change sort of how good
Speaker 4: I think this team is. It'll really just be me
Speaker 4: looking at this group doing what I know they can
Speaker 4: do and really knowing what they should do. But it's
Speaker 4: going to bump them up in these numbers. And that's
Speaker 4: what you really have to because I think that's the
Speaker 4: best case scenario. If you end up just beating up
Speaker 4: on all these teams and you blow them out and
Speaker 4: you someho end up with like maybe a kin palm
Speaker 4: or a net that's in the top twenty. Who knows
Speaker 4: what that really means, because again you're beating up on
Speaker 4: bad teams. But hey, if it gives you a good seed,
Speaker 4: maybe a better seed than we ever thought, then I'll
Speaker 4: take it. I will absolutely take it all. Right, before
Speaker 4: we get to our first break, let me set the
Speaker 4: table for you, guys. We've got a lot to get
Speaker 4: into today, including a real issue. If you're somebody like
Speaker 4: myself who has YouTube TV, there is a paramount dispute
Speaker 4: between Paramount and YouTube TV. Paramount, of course, is over
Speaker 4: top of CBS, the Turner Networks, meaning March madness. If
Speaker 4: they don't get this thing fixed within the next month,
Speaker 4: and you rely on your YouTube TV subscription to watch
Speaker 4: channels that are gonna have instead of tournament games, you
Speaker 4: may need to find a different strategy. Also, I'm a
Speaker 4: little late to this, but Carl Ravitch a legendary and
Speaker 4: I mean and he's a phenomenal ESPN announcer does does
Speaker 4: a great job.
Speaker 5: He had the biggest, one of the biggest.
Speaker 4: Goofs you'll hear live on a broadcast a couple of
Speaker 4: nights ago. And as somebody who says a lot of
Speaker 4: dumb stuff at times, I mean, I've made a fool
Speaker 4: of myself many times on these airwaves in front of
Speaker 4: a microphone. So I try to not be as judgmental
Speaker 4: towards people who you know, may have a goof and
Speaker 4: say something that makes them sound really stupid. He did it,
Speaker 4: and I gave him the benefit of the doubt. But
Speaker 4: now he's doubling down as if like he was trying
Speaker 4: to make a joke. And I want you guys to
Speaker 4: hear it. And we got we gotta, we got to
Speaker 4: talk about it. Also, we now know which UFL players
Speaker 4: are going to be invited to the NFL Draft Combine.
Speaker 4: Got to be one of the bigger turnouts for Louisville
Speaker 4: at the Combine than than we've had in quite some time.
Speaker 4: And I call that the Bram effect. I'm being honest
Speaker 4: with you. And then who knows what else we'll get into.
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Speaker 4: All right, it is three point thirty here on a
Speaker 4: Thursday afternoon, February the thirteenth, meaning we're one day away
Speaker 4: from Valentine today. I stopped in uh To, just down
Speaker 4: the street here, the end of the at the end
Speaker 4: of the block. I got a Monster Energy drink at
Speaker 4: I always get it. Is it Walgreens or CVS. I
Speaker 4: don't know which one it is.
Speaker 2: The one that's right here, Yeah, next our work, that's CVS.
Speaker 4: Sounds right, yes, So I got my not a full
Speaker 4: blown Walgeren, I got myself a Monster Energy drink. And
Speaker 4: I was in there and man, a lot of fellas
Speaker 4: in the card aisle looking for Valentine's Day cards. Yeah,
Speaker 4: slim pickens, Sha, yep, slim pickens. I mean, I guess
Speaker 4: it's better to be there today than tomorrow, but not
Speaker 4: a whole lot of good cards to pick from. So
Speaker 4: you know, if you've waited this long, I think it's
Speaker 4: safe to say you actually have procrastinated. But hey, you
Speaker 4: still got some time because tomorrow those shelves will be
Speaker 4: even more empty when it comes to Valentine's Day cards.
Speaker 4: And I don't I don't want to act like I'm
Speaker 4: trying to tell anybody that if they if Valentine's Day's
Speaker 4: your favorite holiday, then you do you you have fun.
Speaker 4: I mean, if President's Day on Monday's your favorite holiday,
Speaker 4: live it up like I just I don't quite understand
Speaker 4: those who are, I guess in a situation somewhat similar
Speaker 4: to mine. I've been with my wife for a long
Speaker 4: long time. We've been married for coming up in May,
Speaker 4: it'll be fourteen years. We've been together for gosh, nineteen years.
Speaker 4: So every day is Valentine's Day. I hope she's listening.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. But if you so, like who is most
Speaker 4: excited about Valentine's Day annually, it's got to be women
Speaker 4: who get like pampered, right, who get like a really
Speaker 4: big gift. Yeah, and that's cool. I would probably be
Speaker 4: excited too if I was in your shoes in a
Speaker 4: different life. But I feel really really out of the loop.
Speaker 4: I guess in the minority because every restaurant chain or
Speaker 4: you know, upscale in town here in Kentuckyana area, they're
Speaker 4: going to be completely full tomorrow reservations that are like
Speaker 4: so clearly people do it big on Valentine's Day, So
Speaker 4: I guess the fact that we don't we're the ones
Speaker 4: that you know that are in the minority. But anyways,
Speaker 4: with the Valentine's Day theme, we're just a day away.
Speaker 4: I saw a list that was from Let's see It's
Speaker 4: either USA Today or from Talker that listed like terrible
Speaker 4: Valentine's Day dates for people and one it made me
Speaker 4: realize more so just how I guess rare my situation
Speaker 4: is to where I've been out of the game a
Speaker 4: long time. I've been with my wife since we were
Speaker 4: finishing high school, so you know, I've not gone on
Speaker 4: a date with any other person. In fact, could you
Speaker 4: even call it a date if I took somebody out
Speaker 4: when I was sixteen? I mean, I guess you could.
Speaker 4: You know, Like, I'm not even not even an adult
Speaker 4: at the time. When I told people I was going
Speaker 4: on a date, they probably just laughed and thought it
Speaker 4: was cute and didn't really think.
Speaker 5: It was a real date.
Speaker 4: So but the list of stories from folks out there
Speaker 4: that I guess have just had a much different life
Speaker 4: than me, to where they've dated different people, They've been
Speaker 4: casual with somebody and then said, hey, it's Valentine's Day,
Speaker 4: Let's go on a date and be Valentine's even if
Speaker 4: we're not like officials. So there was a long list
Speaker 4: of stories of horror stories about bad dates, and I
Speaker 4: don't I don't really have any. In fact, it made
Speaker 4: me remember the worst date I ever had, and it
Speaker 4: wasn't really like a nightmare experience. But this was whenever
Speaker 4: I was seventeen. It was actually probably a few months
Speaker 4: before my wife and I who of course we weren't married.
Speaker 4: Then we became an item. But I ended up taking
Speaker 4: a girl to dinner and she kind of like asked
Speaker 4: me out, if that makes sense. Like we were like
Speaker 4: I wasn't really pursuing her, and I guess she really
Speaker 4: wasn't pursuing me, but she was like, you know, we
Speaker 4: should go out to dinner instead of just you know,
Speaker 4: texting and hanging out at school. She was like, we
Speaker 4: should go to dinner, and I'm like, okay, cool. She
Speaker 4: was year younger than me. I had my license, she
Speaker 4: didn't yet. So I picked her up and it was
Speaker 4: when I picked her up on the way there that
Speaker 4: I realized, all right, she doesn't mean she's kind of
Speaker 4: she's kind of into this more than I was anticipating
Speaker 4: to where this is. This is a date to her,
Speaker 4: and you know, technically she asked me out and I said, yes.
Speaker 5: Well, at the time, I didn't have a job.
Speaker 4: I was sixteen. The only money I had was like
Speaker 4: money my parents gave me for gas or I would
Speaker 4: I would allowance. Now I didn't get allowance, but we
Speaker 4: we had to give my mom to Like I never
Speaker 4: needed money for anything because if I wasn't, like I mean,
Speaker 4: if as a teenager, for me, I was either needing
Speaker 4: money to really just to get gas and put fuel
Speaker 4: in my car, because if I didn't have you know,
Speaker 4: a few bucks here and there to go to McDonald's,
Speaker 4: like I would just go home and eat, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, Like I don't I think that that time,
Speaker 4: I didn't even have a wallet yet. I just had
Speaker 4: a license because other than that, I didn't I mean
Speaker 4: at that age in two thousand and five, two thousand
Speaker 4: and four, whatever it was, I mean, it was a
Speaker 4: different time. So I was on my way there and
Speaker 4: you know, I realized, okay's she's she's more so into
Speaker 4: this than I am. And I thought, Okay, that's kind
Speaker 4: of cool, Like she must be into me. And I
Speaker 4: didn't really have the ability to pick up on those
Speaker 4: vibes ahead of time, so we ended up getting to
Speaker 4: where we were going, a real romantic place. It's actually
Speaker 4: a place we talked about yesterday Hooters.
Speaker 5: Hooters used to do a like wings Wednesday thing. Do
Speaker 5: you remember that at all?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 4: They used to have like a I think it might've
Speaker 4: been like all you can eat wings, which certainly you
Speaker 4: couldn't do now because you know, wings.
Speaker 2: Some sort of wing special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm I think it was all you can
Speaker 4: eat wings, And it was a time where you would
Speaker 4: you would pay a certain amount and they keep bringing
Speaker 4: them to you and you could eat as much as
Speaker 4: you want, and if you ate a certain amount, like
Speaker 4: they put your picture on the wall.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 4: This was a different Hooters era than probably you were
Speaker 4: used to. This was Hooters before I was even old
Speaker 4: enough to like drink.
Speaker 2: Hooters was in their bag.
Speaker 4: Yeah they were, they were, you know, and it was
Speaker 4: a anytime you mix in like competition where men can
Speaker 4: be competitive, like they're like it works right, Like Hooters
Speaker 4: alone is a pretty appealing place for dudes, right well,
Speaker 4: if you throw in like where you can, you can
Speaker 4: you can really compete and you can really make a
Speaker 4: name for yourself by eating a one hundred chicken wings
Speaker 4: in one sitting. Probably not the look you think it is,
Speaker 4: but probably you know, as they say now, probably not
Speaker 4: the lets you think it is.
Speaker 2: But challenge accepted.
Speaker 4: But people would go do it. And uh it's also like,
Speaker 4: you know, have you ever wondered why you go to
Speaker 4: certain bars or restaurants, sports bars and you see that
Speaker 4: that uh that game that has the the boxing punching
Speaker 4: bag that falls down and you can hit it. Like
Speaker 4: I've never once participated in that, would never would never
Speaker 4: want to be because I don't think I would be
Speaker 4: very good at it. But you know why those are
Speaker 4: everywhere because dudes want to show off that they're strong,
Speaker 4: even if they may look like a complete toolbox. They
Speaker 4: don't care. If they can flex and look like a
Speaker 4: tough guy, they're going to do it. So those things
Speaker 4: are probably up everywhere because they probably make a lot
Speaker 4: of money. So anyways, Hooters was was doing that at
Speaker 4: the time, So I think she asked if if I
Speaker 4: wanted to go to dinner, and I recommended Hooters, and
Speaker 4: I guess she was just smitten to be going on
Speaker 4: a day with me.
Speaker 5: That she said, yes, of course, so we get there.
Speaker 4: I'm more so thinking it's like a social thing where
Speaker 4: it's like all of us, like all of my friends.
Speaker 4: And there was a big table of all my high
Speaker 4: school friends and a few women there. Women, a few girls.
Speaker 4: I guess they're, you know, talking like sixteen seventeen year
Speaker 4: old girls here. So I just assume we're gonna go
Speaker 4: sit with all them. And then she says, no, let's
Speaker 4: just get our table. So we ended up and I
Speaker 4: kind of looked at her like why would we do that?
Speaker 4: But then sure enough we ended up sitting down, got
Speaker 4: a table for ourselves, and I think I got water.
Speaker 4: I don't know what she got, and I ordered wings.
Speaker 4: She ordered wings, and I had I had a ten
Speaker 4: dollar bill. It's all I had, so like and that
Speaker 4: and by the way, back then you could get that
Speaker 4: you partended for ten dollars. I could, I could get water,
Speaker 4: and I could get whatever wings I got, and it
Speaker 4: would be under ten dollars to where I would leave
Speaker 4: like probably a twenty percent tip, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: things were a lot more. Things were a lot cheaper
Speaker 4: at that time, So it didn't hit me until we
Speaker 4: got a bill that they put it on one per
Speaker 4: her request.
Speaker 5: I did not have enough money to pay for both
Speaker 5: of us.
Speaker 4: All.
Speaker 5: I didn't have a debit card, I have a job.
Speaker 3: It was sixteen out of ten dollars bill.
Speaker 2: So what happened?
Speaker 4: She said, are you not paying for me? And I
Speaker 4: said I don't. I have ten dollars And she was like,
Speaker 4: but you're not paying for me? And I said, I
Speaker 4: don't have the money to pay for you. I didn't
Speaker 4: realize this was a date. And then that's where I
Speaker 4: made a mistake to her. I mean, I was just
Speaker 4: telling the truth and she didn't like that. Yeah, and she,
Speaker 4: you know, she got very very sour, oh, and asked
Speaker 4: like what and this is this is just me. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't really regret saying what I said because it
Speaker 4: was the truth. But I didn't have like the awareness
Speaker 4: at that time to know that what I was going
Speaker 4: to say would probably be I guess, rude to her
Speaker 4: and may may hurt her feelings. But when she says like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, she asked like, what are we going
Speaker 4: to do? And I said I don't know. I said,
Speaker 4: I know what I'm gonna do. I'm not sure what
Speaker 4: you're going to do it. And I think at that
Speaker 4: point she knew at that I think at that point
Speaker 4: it was quite clear to her that I was not
Speaker 4: viewing this as the same situation as she was. So
Speaker 4: I mean, I and again this makes me feel like
Speaker 4: an a hole now, but I mean I was young
Speaker 4: and you know, naive, and it.
Speaker 5: Really wasn't my problem. I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was never any indication that I was
Speaker 4: going to pay, I mean, pay for you for dinner
Speaker 4: when you asked me out. In fact, I should be
Speaker 4: the one with no money, you know, you should be
Speaker 4: the one paying for me. Yeah, well she asked, Yeah,
Speaker 4: she asked, so you know, and and she was, Here's
Speaker 4: what makes it weird, and I'm getting a little too
Speaker 4: personal here. She was, she was, She was a big hit,
Speaker 4: if you know what I mean. But she used to
Speaker 4: date one of my best friends. So to me, there
Speaker 4: was never going to be a scenario where I ever
Speaker 4: viewed it as anything other than friends. But clearly she was,
Speaker 4: you know, she had a different different either she had
Speaker 4: a different idea or she maybe wanted to make her
Speaker 4: ex my friend jealous. But they'd been separated for a while,
Speaker 4: where I don't think that was the case. So she
Speaker 4: ended up going to that table that I that that
Speaker 4: was there with a lot of our friends from school,
Speaker 4: some of my teammates from from from basketball, and they
Speaker 4: ended up having some extra money to where she could
Speaker 4: pay for it. And then I took her home and
Speaker 4: then I never talked to her again.
Speaker 2: Wow, she went on a date with you and the
Speaker 2: homies basically.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean she uh, but I guess it
Speaker 4: was probably I don't know. I think she felt like
Speaker 4: I should be embarrassed, but I wasn't. And yet I
Speaker 4: don't think she was. You know, it was just a
Speaker 4: stupid kids kind of thing. But again, here I am
Speaker 4: no joke. This was twenty one years ago. Here I
Speaker 4: am as you know, a little bit more mature, a
Speaker 4: little bit wiser.
Speaker 5: I didn't do.
Speaker 4: Anything wrong, right, Like, it stands in my mind as
Speaker 4: the worst date experience I've ever had, But like, I
Speaker 4: don't think any of it.
Speaker 2: Was my doing. That's that's pretty great.
Speaker 5: What's the worst that you've ever been on?
Speaker 2: It was definitely duran. I'd probably say about maybe ten
Speaker 2: years ago, probably like when I first moved here, and.
Speaker 4: Now before you dive in, is this is like when
Speaker 4: I ask you that question. Was there no hesitation, you
Speaker 4: know exactly where you're going with it?
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, just making.
Speaker 2: Sure so and this was obviously this was a tender girl,
Speaker 2: like one of those online any sect and you know,
Speaker 2: she's pretty attractive from what I can't remember. But we
Speaker 2: ended up going out or I ended up picking her up,
Speaker 2: and I I was just young, dumb and full of
Speaker 2: you know what. So like I was just I was
Speaker 2: sloking for yeah, young dumb and full of fun.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And you know I was only after one thing. I'm
Speaker 2: just trying to chase some tail at this age. So
Speaker 2: it was right when I moved here.
Speaker 5: God bless you, young man.
Speaker 2: And I pull up to her apartment and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: like which one is your your room? I'll come and
Speaker 2: pick you up or whatnot, and she's she calls me
Speaker 2: on the phone. She's like, well, why don't you guess?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, why don't I guess? There's like fifteen
Speaker 2: different Yes, I want to play this game. Here's what
Speaker 2: I do. I young, dumb and full of fun. I'm
Speaker 2: going around, I'm knock going like three different doors, embarrassing
Speaker 2: myself and that's not her. And then She's like, she
Speaker 2: calls me back, stuck her head out the door, and
Speaker 2: it's like right down, right down the hallway. She's like,
Speaker 2: it's me right here.
Speaker 5: So she thought that was funny.
Speaker 2: I guess so.
Speaker 5: And it's the stupidest thing never heard.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, I was stupid back, and I still
Speaker 2: am stupid. But I was one thing in mind. Dude, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll say that, and then I pick her up, and
Speaker 2: all she can get in my car. All she could
Speaker 2: do was complain about how hungry she is. As we're
Speaker 2: driving down. It was like Shelbyville Road. We're looking for
Speaker 2: somewhere in Saint Matthew's. I didn't have the exuberant tasting
Speaker 2: food that I do now, so I was only looking
Speaker 2: for like chain restaurants. There's like an outback steakhouse. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh dude, I was. I was suggesting, what about here?
Speaker 5: What about you?
Speaker 2: She was just no, no, no. And then meanwhile, after's
Speaker 2: every three things that I said, shutting everything down. I'm
Speaker 2: just really hungry. Can you pick something? I'm like, all right, cool,
Speaker 2: we're going to Texas Roadhouse. And so we get the
Speaker 2: Texas Roadhouse. I'll mean, Dan, she's going to talk down
Speaker 2: about roadhouse exactly. Once again, I should have known. I
Speaker 2: should have known, but I remember sitting there in this
Speaker 2: a lot of red flags from the jump. Here's the
Speaker 2: biggest red flag is when and this is when I
Speaker 2: should have left. But once again, she she's sitting there
Speaker 2: looking at her phone then looking at me, just like
Speaker 2: very slightly. I mean, you could see what I'm doing,
Speaker 2: but like she was looking at her phone, just kept
Speaker 2: looking at her phone, looking back up at me. I'm like,
Speaker 2: is everything okay? She said, are you sure that this
Speaker 2: is you? And pulls up my tender profile and show
Speaker 2: me like you look different. I'm like, oh no, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: And I was kind of so very offended, but you know,
Speaker 2: I'm a nice guy. I continued through the whole day
Speaker 2: like a champ, and then eventually it was just so awkward.
Speaker 2: I knew it wasn't going to be a thing, but
Speaker 2: I still thought. I bought this woman's food, I picked
Speaker 2: her up. I went through this game of whose house
Speaker 2: is it? Anyway? When I first went to go pick
Speaker 2: her up, so I get back to her car or
Speaker 2: we get back to her house, and she asked, well,
Speaker 2: do you want to come in? And like I just
Speaker 2: I just I just did my laundry. Do you want
Speaker 2: to come in and help me put sheets on my bed?
Speaker 2: So I'm like, all right, here we go. I get
Speaker 2: it there that that could be taking a lot of
Speaker 2: different ways. It was, well, it was taking the way
Speaker 2: of she really needed help putting the fitted sheets.
Speaker 5: It's a tough one man job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I don't blame her. So what I do?
Speaker 2: I go in there and I helped put sheets on
Speaker 2: her bed and then I leave.
Speaker 5: Was that was it awkward?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: And would she basically were you.
Speaker 5: On a hidden like TV show, like hitting camera TV show?
Speaker 5: Because this seems insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: Man, I'm so glad I'm out of the game.
Speaker 2: I remember, like I remember just kind of hinting and
Speaker 2: asking her. I'm like, so like, what do you want
Speaker 2: to do now? And she's like, I'm ready to go
Speaker 2: to bed if you want to leave, And I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm not here.
Speaker 4: Plus, it was and I do I know why I
Speaker 4: didn't take much time for you to remember which date
Speaker 4: you've had?
Speaker 5: That was the worst?
Speaker 2: I always bring that up, and that that was it
Speaker 2: was casty work.
Speaker 5: Let's call her on the show. See I want to
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Hey, you remember me.
Speaker 4: Both of us shared awful dates, and neither of us
Speaker 4: have any any reason for those dates being awful.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, I could probably find her on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know. I think I just remember her name.
Speaker 2: I think last time I looked her up was like
Speaker 2: four or five years ago, and she's extremely extremely Christian.
Speaker 4: Well, what I will say is that of all the
Speaker 4: red flags, and there were a lot of them throughout
Speaker 4: that entire evening that you just laid out for us,
Speaker 4: I should the guessing the door thing, I would have
Speaker 4: been like, oh right, like what I mean you were younger, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, it was a long time ago, but I
Speaker 4: would have been like.
Speaker 5: What are we thirteen? Like it are we ding? You
Speaker 5: want me to ding dong ditch in.
Speaker 4: Your apartment complex to have some fun? Like you know,
Speaker 4: why don't we just shot gun a beer or something
Speaker 4: to get the night going?
Speaker 5: What are we doing here?
Speaker 2: And there was no payoffs?
Speaker 4: So and at any point did you ask her to
Speaker 4: pick the restaurant? Because I see, I mean to me,
Speaker 4: that's odd, Like.
Speaker 2: No, not during like not during like the vetting process
Speaker 2: when I'm texting her, like you know what you want.
Speaker 4: To tell her you just picked someplace. I would have said,
Speaker 4: I'll go wherever you want.
Speaker 2: Sure, maybe I should have said that, but I was
Speaker 2: I was just throwing out, well, what about this place?
Speaker 2: What about this place? What about this? As we're driving
Speaker 2: down Shelbyville Road and everything that I see pop up?
Speaker 2: What about that? What about that? No? No, no, we
Speaker 2: get the Texas Roadhouse. What about that? And then we
Speaker 2: make a loop and go back down kind of towards
Speaker 2: her house and look at the restaurants again, and I'm
Speaker 2: just real hungry pick something. So what pops in my
Speaker 2: mind is Texas Roadhouse. We'd drive back up the Texas
Speaker 2: Roadhouse and it was the weirdest experience I've ever had
Speaker 2: on a date.
Speaker 4: Again, my date, I feel like, you know, I should
Speaker 4: have been a little bit more mindful that it's a
Speaker 4: thing to pay for your date. But again she asked me,
Speaker 4: and I'm poor at the time, you did nothing wrong
Speaker 4: the way you laid it out, I don't. I mean,
Speaker 4: she accused you of not being who you were, which
Speaker 4: clearly you were. She had you guessing that. I mean,
Speaker 4: this was I feel like she just messed with you,
Speaker 4: brought you in to put sheets on the bed, which
Speaker 4: could absolutely beat I mean, I don't care what her
Speaker 4: intentions were. If you ask somebody who you were on
Speaker 4: a first date with a blind date essentially where you're
Speaker 4: just meeting for the first.
Speaker 5: Time, and she thinks some of this catfish and she.
Speaker 4: Asks you to come in because she needs help with laundry,
Speaker 4: putting sheets on the bed. It's not an invitation to,
Speaker 4: you know, to knock boots, but I mean she quite
Speaker 4: literally just needed another human being to help her putts
Speaker 4: on the bed. Again, it's a tough job for one
Speaker 4: man or woman.
Speaker 2: Fitted sheets are pretty pretty bad to put on. But no,
Speaker 2: that was that was gross.
Speaker 4: I hope she has had nothing but bad dates ever since.
Speaker 4: She's the problem. Yeah, and she missed out. I mean,
Speaker 4: let's be real, it was so weird. If you're listening
Speaker 4: right now, young lady, he's he's spoken for.
Speaker 2: I think her name was Ali.
Speaker 5: She sounds like an Alley.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Ali, she's like a teacher. And now the
Speaker 2: last time I peeped on her thing was like years ago. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's like an extreme Christian now, I think, And yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that was pretty weird. But what what what
Speaker 2: tipped me off of everything was. What turned me off
Speaker 2: is when she when she accused me of the cat forting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2: That was pretty often.
Speaker 4: And now that I know you the way that I do,
Speaker 4: you are somebody that would just kind of go with
Speaker 4: the flow about certain things because that's just your energy.
Speaker 5: But a lot of people would have left. Yeah, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't have the stones to do that
Speaker 2: because I still thought there was pay off at the end.
Speaker 4: Because you're a well, even if there wasn't, you're still
Speaker 4: a kind person, like you're not going to blow up
Speaker 4: on somebody.
Speaker 2: Like that exactly.
Speaker 4: Again, I hope she has no Valentine tomorrow, and I
Speaker 4: hope she's miserable. That's what I hope wherever she is.
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Speaker 4: It's not even Valentine's stage just yet, but your boys
Speaker 4: already feeling loved. This is this is going to cause
Speaker 4: some issues in the home because you know, my son moves.
Speaker 5: He's four years old and he's he's the best.
Speaker 4: Well, he's at daycare and he he puts together today
Speaker 4: and tomorrow they're having some Valentine's Day festivities at daycare
Speaker 4: and he's getting to pick a Valentine and he picked me. Oh,
Speaker 4: and his mom's got to be heart broke. I mean,
Speaker 4: I look, I didn't I didn't tell him to do it.
Speaker 4: I mean, his mother's phenomenal. He couldn't have to reevaluate now.
Speaker 4: He couldn't have a better mother. But I mean, you
Speaker 4: know me and are just that just that tight?
Speaker 2: Did you get like a like a Marvel card or something,
Speaker 2: because that's what they used to do when I was
Speaker 2: in class, used to get like the uh, like all
Speaker 2: the kiddy like different cards to give out the people.
Speaker 2: Always chose like the wrestling ones to give out the people,
Speaker 2: but like there was always other like cartoon ones that
Speaker 2: had like silly little phrases on them with the little
Speaker 2: heart keep always had phrases.
Speaker 4: When I was little, and like I thought of like legitimately,
Speaker 4: like Moose doesn't know that, I mean maybe he in fact,
Speaker 4: I think he's probably been told that you know, it's
Speaker 4: not supposed to be your parents, especially your dad. Uh,
Speaker 4: he does, he doesn't care he had, He does not
Speaker 4: give a damn. He's gonna if he wants me to
Speaker 4: be as valentineers, then he's gonna that I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: as Valentine. But he's he's at the age and I
Speaker 4: think he's honestly a little bit.
Speaker 5: And again this is me talking about my child.
Speaker 4: But I feel like he's also kind of mature to
Speaker 4: where he's already like he's not like thinking it's funny
Speaker 4: and cutesy to have a little girlfriend. Like he's mad
Speaker 4: if somebody says like he likes a girl, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? Oh yeah, I feel like usually that's
Speaker 4: a little bit later than four years old. But there's
Speaker 4: a girl on his basketball team. Her name's Savannah, and
Speaker 4: she's she's she's our second landing scorer outside of Moose,
Speaker 4: and uh, she's adorable, she's she's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: She's a little older than him. And he tells me
Speaker 4: that he wants to pass it to Savannah. And he
Speaker 4: tells me that or he asked me, is Savannah going
Speaker 4: to beat the game? And like I can tell it's
Speaker 4: because he's crushing on her. But if I bring it up, right,
Speaker 4: he's like, no, I'm not shut up, a little embarrassed. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so yeah, but again it's it's you know, it's that's
Speaker 4: the sweet that's the sweetness of a of a young
Speaker 4: of a young young buck. But yeah, anyways, mom's not
Speaker 4: gonna be happy. And the reason I found out how
Speaker 4: I found out that he that I was that I
Speaker 4: was the Valentine for him is that at daycare, he's
Speaker 4: he's doing arts and crafts essentially, and on their app,
Speaker 4: there's an app I can check in to see like
Speaker 4: how his day's going.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: They post pictures, which I love. I could to see
Speaker 4: him with all his buddies at daycare and uh, it's
Speaker 4: just great. And he posted his picture that showed Dad's
Speaker 4: the Valentine. And I'm very very honored.
Speaker 2: Very game. Though, if you're going to crush on someone,
Speaker 2: just like give them the ball, yeah, drop drop the
Speaker 2: dime to them. Yeah, that's that's that's Risen right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, like if there's if there's one way
Speaker 4: he can express that he might be kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: crushing on a girl. If it's just him dropping dimes
Speaker 4: and putting her in a position to score to help
Speaker 4: the team win. I mean it's he can certainly do
Speaker 4: exactly that little pick and roll, exactly good stuff. She
Speaker 4: won't dribble, but man, she's actually pretty good shooters.
Speaker 2: She's up shooter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, exactly, all right, So real quick, we don't
Speaker 4: have much time left in the three o'clock hour. But
Speaker 4: there's many jobs that are already open in the ACC.
Speaker 4: I think some that will open. One that is open,
Speaker 4: but it's not right. So what are we doing with
Speaker 4: I mean, Laren and Age already left. Leonard Hamilton's still coaching,
Speaker 4: and by the way, they won last night at Wake Forest.
Speaker 4: But Leonard Hamilton's going to be out at the end
Speaker 4: of the year. And the latest report from Sports Illustrated
Speaker 4: is that Boston Celtic's assistant coach, Sam Cassell, former Florida
Speaker 4: State basketball player, is one of the candidates for this job.
Speaker 4: And when will people learn that that's not the route
Speaker 4: to go. I mean, Mike Woodson, Kenny Payne, Patrick Ewing,
Speaker 4: Juwan Howard. People forget Chris Mullen coached at Saint John's
Speaker 4: and was terrible, Like this is so in your face
Speaker 4: not the right way to go, with countless examples not
Speaker 4: of how it didn't work out, but how it completely
Speaker 4: became a train wreck. So maybe they do that, but
Speaker 4: I hope they don't. I want the ACC to hire
Speaker 4: really good coaches, and I do think the timing is
Speaker 4: not ideal as far as like big names. But earlier
Speaker 4: today I was in the waiting room at the doctor's office, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, good bill of health sounds like I'm.
Speaker 5: Gonna be here for a while.
Speaker 2: Good, let's go good bill of.
Speaker 4: Health for me today on my checkup. But I was
Speaker 4: just thinking, like if I was playing a d for
Speaker 4: the ACC, who I would go hire? And I'm gonna
Speaker 4: save this for tomorrow because I don't have it. I
Speaker 4: don't have it in front of me. But I feel like,
Speaker 4: as I was waiting impatiently to go to go back
Speaker 4: and be seen by the doc, like there are coaches
Speaker 4: that I think, given we are right now in college basketball,
Speaker 4: that have proven to be good at what they do,
Speaker 4: meaning they win as college basketball coaches. If they bring
Speaker 4: that same formula to better jobs in the ACC compared
Speaker 4: to where they are in whatever league, it could really
Speaker 4: work out. So you know, well, we'll see what they
Speaker 4: end up doing. But I am so fascinated by guys
Speaker 4: like Pope and Kelsey being able to one. I mean, look,
Speaker 4: I don't want to act like you can go get
Speaker 4: anybody and in the success level would be the same
Speaker 4: as these guys, because I don't believe that at all.
Speaker 5: But I think if you've got.
Speaker 4: A job with good resources and you care about winning
Speaker 4: in basketball to where you're gonna put a coach in
Speaker 4: a good position to be successful, you can go get
Speaker 4: a guy who is not a big name, maybe a
Speaker 4: guy that your fans had never heard of. But if
Speaker 4: they win and you and you know you interview them,
Speaker 4: you'vet the process like you could, you know, I think
Speaker 4: that's the way to go these days.
Speaker 3: They really do.
Speaker 4: All right, we got we got to run way late
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