Speaker 1: On Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: So I just got the the text message, the automated
Speaker 2: text message from Bullet County Public school System, and it
Speaker 2: looks like NTI is going to be in place for us,
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure. I know Jefferson County Public Schools
Speaker 2: is off tomorrow as well, and I think Hardin County
Speaker 2: also still has announced they're.
Speaker 3: Going to be off school. So look, there's there's What
Speaker 3: this comes down.
Speaker 2: To is this is roads in areas that there's just
Speaker 2: not like the weather was so severe and given the resources,
Speaker 2: I guess that like this this region has because we
Speaker 2: don't like this is in fact, I couldn't believe it,
Speaker 2: but you know, I'm gonna trust it that it's a
Speaker 2: real story and it's not fake news from one of
Speaker 2: our local news outlets. I don't remember which one it was,
Speaker 2: but that this was the most snow law of had
Speaker 2: in Like I mean, I saw like a crazy number
Speaker 2: like twenty years, Like is that that to me? That
Speaker 2: sounds not right? But I don't know either way. Buses
Speaker 2: have to go to all these streets that like are
Speaker 2: not on main roads, and there are so many like
Speaker 2: I think right now, like the big roads, main roads,
Speaker 2: even main roads for like little little community areas, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense, are fine.
Speaker 3: But neighborhood roads, side streets anything that is.
Speaker 2: And believe it or not, I would have never known
Speaker 2: this had it not been for whenever I was young,
Speaker 2: my mom and my stepdad when they got together.
Speaker 3: That's where they still live now.
Speaker 2: They live in a beautiful area with a ton of
Speaker 2: ton of property and a just a beautiful spot over
Speaker 2: off of Seatonville Road, and you know that area there,
Speaker 2: it's actually not far from where Denny Crumb had lived
Speaker 2: for a long time.
Speaker 3: So I didn't I never knew that rural areas existed.
Speaker 2: In Louisville and Jefferson County because as somebody who grew
Speaker 2: up in Bulla County, I just assumed that, you know,
Speaker 2: it was just big city, a bunch of city slickers
Speaker 2: with a bunch you know, they didn't have farms, they
Speaker 2: didn't have have you know, big fields and wide open areas.
Speaker 2: Because I was just a dumb kid, and I was
Speaker 2: already well aware of the stereotype about where I was from, meaning,
Speaker 2: you know, we're a bunch of hillbillies. And then I
Speaker 2: got older and I went to Fardell and realized that's
Speaker 2: worse than Bullet County. Shout out Farde. Though I love
Speaker 2: Faradoe people, but if you know, you know I live
Speaker 2: out there, Fardell's the best. But I'll never forget. Whenever
Speaker 2: I got old enough to like play sports and like
Speaker 2: meet people that went to school out there and play
Speaker 2: games out there, I remember thinking, like, wait a second,
Speaker 2: why do we get the rap for like being the
Speaker 2: ultimate you know, like hillbillies.
Speaker 3: Do we wear shoes to school whenever?
Speaker 2: Like they have a very you know, that's I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say it's rural all the way through kind of like
Speaker 2: where it is where I grew up, but it's certainly
Speaker 2: blue collar and it's you know, it's not that different
Speaker 2: than than certain areas of Bullet County where I grew up.
Speaker 4: It's just such right outside the city enough to be
Speaker 4: blue collar kind of you know, yes, right there in
Speaker 4: the outskirts and people, Well, let me ask you something
Speaker 4: because I know people from there, and and my my dad,
Speaker 4: who's also a loyal listener. Shout out Kirk for a listening.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of people out there, and I
Speaker 4: want to see it. This same thing for Bullet County.
Speaker 4: Like when they say, like they're from Kentucky, like they right,
Speaker 4: they don't say they're from Louisville. A lot of people
Speaker 4: in Faradelle they say they're they live in Fardelle, Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Is that the same thing with all County.
Speaker 3: Bullet County not as much? Like I think.
Speaker 2: That's a great question, man, because I I think people
Speaker 2: who live in Bullet County, if they're traveling and somebody
Speaker 2: asks them where they're from, they're gonna say Kentucky or
Speaker 2: they're gonna say Louisville.
Speaker 3: And I think it depends on where they are.
Speaker 2: If you're in the region, you'll probably say Louisville, if
Speaker 2: you're if you're in like Florida or New York, you'll
Speaker 2: probably just say Kentucky because they're not. There are many
Speaker 2: people like Louisville is a borderline top fifty city. Therefore,
Speaker 2: like if you're in certain areas, like they may have
Speaker 2: to think for a second where Louisville is, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like they probably know because the Derby
Speaker 2: and if you are somebody that keeps up with cities.
Speaker 3: Then you know you'll know Louisville. But you know, so
Speaker 3: I think it depends on where you are.
Speaker 2: But people from Faradale are really really proud to be
Speaker 2: from Fairdale, absolutely, so they may say that, I mean,
Speaker 2: people from Bullet County are pretty happy with where they're from.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. So what you
Speaker 2: did there is you just reminded me that like people
Speaker 2: from like that. That's one of the things that stands
Speaker 2: out about the South End that like, the South End
Speaker 2: is well aware of your stereotypes and they don't give
Speaker 2: a damn. They're proud to be from there, which I
Speaker 2: think is kind of awesome. And the late Billy Reid
Speaker 2: learned that the hard way. Billy passed away within the
Speaker 2: last couple of years, and he was, of course the
Speaker 2: legendary sports writer. But he the last story that he
Speaker 2: or the last I don't know if it was a story,
Speaker 2: if it was just a comment he made.
Speaker 3: I think it was a story that he had written.
Speaker 5: I think it was a column.
Speaker 2: It was a column he was writing for one of
Speaker 2: the local TV stations and he made a comment about
Speaker 2: I mean he was I remember at that time kind
Speaker 2: of gosh, this is this is so awful to say,
Speaker 2: But I'm just telling the truth. Here is I'm telling
Speaker 2: stories and kind of going back in time. I remember
Speaker 2: stopping in my tracks reading it, thinking like is this
Speaker 2: real one? Because like it was so obvious what was
Speaker 2: gonna come of it? And also like you just, I
Speaker 2: mean like it was it was. I wasn't even from there,
Speaker 2: and I was offended for those people, like I don't
Speaker 2: want to act like it was, you know, the crown
Speaker 2: of the century. And I think he honestly as much
Speaker 2: criticism as as he got, I think he also I
Speaker 2: think he also, you know, got a little bit of
Speaker 2: a pass because he was, I mean he was old.
Speaker 2: He was very old at the time that happened. Maybe
Speaker 2: some people just assumed he wasn't in his right mind.
Speaker 2: But I was cutting my grass at our at the
Speaker 2: house we used to live in, and I remember stopping
Speaker 2: to get a beer and I got my phone out
Speaker 2: and one of my buddies had texted me this and
Speaker 2: said it's this real. And I remember, like I crushed
Speaker 2: the whole beer. Not to brag, but you know, I
Speaker 2: was trying to say, like I was just kind of
Speaker 2: in disbelief. Before I started the mower and finished the yard,
Speaker 2: I was like, this is crazy, and I'm thinking, hum,
Speaker 2: will this be like something to bring up on the show.
Speaker 2: And by the time I finished the yard and got
Speaker 2: a shower and checked social media again, like it was.
Speaker 3: All anybody was talking about everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like people who don't even follow sports, didn't kN
Speaker 2: know Billy read was was like because because that's and
Speaker 2: again this this is a shout out to the South End.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of their their brand. Like wait a second,
Speaker 2: who said who said what.
Speaker 3: About about us out here? Like wait, who do I
Speaker 3: kind of call where? Yeah, folks, what you know, what
Speaker 3: time is it? South Side? We outside? Like that's what
Speaker 3: it turned into. And it was kind of a beautiful thing,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think people are are very proud to
Speaker 2: be from there, which is which is great.
Speaker 3: You know, you should be proud.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe if you I don't know, I was
Speaker 2: gonna say you should be proud no matter where you
Speaker 2: come from, and that's probably not true, but like you
Speaker 2: can't control it. If it's where you're from and it's
Speaker 2: where you reside, then you know you might as well
Speaker 2: embrace it the good the bad, even if it doesn't
Speaker 2: balance out. Maybe there's more bad than good. You know,
Speaker 2: I live I live a couple one hundred yards, well
Speaker 2: a couple hundred yards roughly, well, that's probably it's probably
Speaker 2: a little further than that I live. Not I live
Speaker 2: probably less than a half a mile, uh from where
Speaker 2: I grew up. That's where I live now. It's where
Speaker 2: my family, it's where I raised my family. It's my community.
Speaker 2: H My parents same thing. They both grew up very
Speaker 2: close to where I'm sitting right now. And you know,
Speaker 2: clearly if you know the area I'm talking about, we've
Speaker 2: been in the news for some not great stuff because
Speaker 2: you know, it happens. We're not perfect, but you know
Speaker 2: it's it's it's home to me. So I learned early on,
Speaker 2: especially with a with a public platform like i'm, you know.
Speaker 3: I need to embrace it. I mean, I'm gonna lift
Speaker 3: us up.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm if I'm helping the reputation
Speaker 2: that we have in the Northern Bullet County area, but
Speaker 2: you know I'm out here, I'm trying. So I you
Speaker 2: got me sidetracked here because you're the people from Fardell.
Speaker 2: They are happy and proud to be from there very much. So.
Speaker 2: The reason I brought up the school system thing is
Speaker 2: because in Bullet County, you know, there are so many
Speaker 2: areas that you know, the people who plow the roads
Speaker 2: that are in Jefferson County, it's not same people. There's
Speaker 2: not as many resources in smaller areas like even Old
Speaker 2: and Harden, and you know the counties that aren't you know,
Speaker 2: Jefferson County, and they don't have a little So there's
Speaker 2: so many If we would have had maybe I don't know,
Speaker 2: a few minutes or an hour above freezing, it might
Speaker 2: have given it might have you know, made a difference
Speaker 2: to where if they're out there, because what's happening now
Speaker 2: is they're plowing streets as best they can, but it's
Speaker 2: not it's so cold to where like nothing's melting organically.
Speaker 2: Therefore some of these roads they might get cleared for
Speaker 2: a few but then you know, gets even colder and
Speaker 2: people drive on it, which actually spreads more of whatever
Speaker 2: they're out there sloshing around in on their tires, and
Speaker 2: it just I think the reason you know that you're
Speaker 2: seeing schools closed, I mean, he JCPS announced yesterday they
Speaker 2: were gonna be off today and tomorrow, and I think
Speaker 2: it's because they realize without the temperature getting warmer, it's
Speaker 2: just gonna be tough to justify getting those buses out there.
Speaker 2: So again, I know, I'm sure there are plenty of
Speaker 2: people that listen that don't care, that that can't relate
Speaker 2: because you know, they don't have children. And that's fine.
Speaker 2: You're probably you know, you're not stressing at all about this.
Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about school closings and all that.
Speaker 2: But man, now that Bullet County has advised that they're
Speaker 2: gonna do NTI and they're asking parents don't have a
Speaker 2: chromebook to come and pick up their chromebook so their
Speaker 2: kids can go to school at home, because you know,
Speaker 2: they don't want to get them out on a bus.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: Angry parents are are are all over the Facebook comments
Speaker 2: here for for the school systems, And I know I
Speaker 2: just talked about it yesterday, and I need to just
Speaker 2: set my phone down because I get distracted, man, Like,
Speaker 2: h I get distracted because I just, you know.
Speaker 5: Angry about the school still being closed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the fact, like I'll just know, I'll just
Speaker 2: read for you the first comment I saw here. BCPs
Speaker 2: can just go ahead and count my kids absent the
Speaker 2: f I look like coming and picking up some chromebooks
Speaker 2: in this weather, you won't run buses, but you want
Speaker 2: me to come pick up equipment so your employees can
Speaker 2: do your job. Foh foh you know what that means,
Speaker 2: don't you?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, f out of here like that. That's a
Speaker 3: mom Like, ye, she's had it.
Speaker 2: And what's crazy is like the people you're mad at,
Speaker 2: like the like whoever you would come in contact with
Speaker 2: to say that, if you were actually gonna say it
Speaker 2: to somebody, rather than just bitching about it on Facebook,
Speaker 2: they would probably say, Okay, cool, don't care. It's like
Speaker 2: it's like the people who work you know, it's just
Speaker 2: a standard associate at humongous corporations like Walmart, Kohle's or
Speaker 2: Old Navy. I'm taking my business elsewhere. Is if that
Speaker 2: person's gonna lose sleep at.
Speaker 3: Night, Like.
Speaker 2: It's just it's you know, if you're a manager and
Speaker 2: I you know, and I guess you never really wanted
Speaker 2: to you know, you never really wanted to bubble up
Speaker 2: and get you in trouble.
Speaker 3: But this day and age, people don't care about those jobs.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's one of the issues is that like
Speaker 2: they have a tough time getting employees, and the employees.
Speaker 3: That do work.
Speaker 2: They're like they know each day they go in something
Speaker 2: might pop off and they just say, yeah, I'm out
Speaker 2: of here, like I don't need this. So, you know,
Speaker 2: if you want to not have your kids at school
Speaker 2: and have them take you know, an absence because you
Speaker 2: don't agree, then you have that choice. But there's also
Speaker 2: consequences to said choices, you know. And here's what's funny
Speaker 2: that people who say that probably won't do it anyway.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I uh, somebody brought this up
Speaker 2: to me yesterday because I and I know, I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I'm getting sidetracked here. I'll promise you we'll move on
Speaker 2: in just a second. But when I was discussing discussing
Speaker 2: this yesterday on the show, how I really just couldn't
Speaker 2: relate to people who the first thing that they want
Speaker 2: to do when they get upset about some decision when
Speaker 2: it comes to school being closed or not being closed,
Speaker 2: they just want to go to Facebook. And it's like
Speaker 2: it's like just throwing out the bat signal. All it
Speaker 2: takes is one angry parent and you got ten in
Speaker 2: the comments and it just turns into some huge thing,
Speaker 2: and it's it's kind of interesting to watch from from
Speaker 2: from Afar. But I was just talking about like how
Speaker 2: I couldn't I couldn't really you know, relate to it
Speaker 2: at all. And you know, somebody brought up an idea
Speaker 2: to me. One of my buddies text me, is like,
Speaker 2: what if certain kids at a certain age we did
Speaker 2: like a you know, it's a hypothetical situation, but there
Speaker 2: was some kind of like a TV skit like Jimmy
Speaker 2: Fallon to where Jimmy Fallon reads the awful things their
Speaker 2: parents post on Facebook about the school system, and I thought,
Speaker 2: like the age ra for that they would be good.
Speaker 2: It's probably like what I don't know, like seven eight,
Speaker 2: maybe I don't know, something like that. But also, like,
Speaker 2: to be honest, I would say the if the parents
Speaker 2: saying that on Facebook, they're probably saying it in front
Speaker 2: of their kid too, to be honest with you, like
Speaker 2: that's probably you know, one and the same. So anyways, yeah,
Speaker 2: the the the people out there that are shoveling driveways,
Speaker 2: plowing business parking lots. I'm fascinated by this because this
Speaker 2: has become a thing to where if it's something that
Speaker 2: you do, like you have the ability, maybe you've got
Speaker 2: a four wheeler. Maybe you've got you know, you've got
Speaker 2: a truck that that's got the you know you can
Speaker 2: put something on the front there and and and you
Speaker 2: know you have the ability to provide a service that
Speaker 2: is rarely needed, but man, it's really needed around here
Speaker 2: right now, more than it ever has been. Like you
Speaker 2: could probably make some real good money. I'm just curious,
Speaker 2: like what you charge. I've met my wife for lunch today,
Speaker 2: which is why my car is stuck in the driveway.
Speaker 2: But I'm I met my wife for lunch today and
Speaker 2: we went to Roosters and their parking lot is like
Speaker 2: completely cleared, like it's been completely completely removed of any snow,
Speaker 2: and there's just like little mounds in certain areas that
Speaker 2: aren't even taking up parking spots. So clearly they paid
Speaker 2: somebody to come and do that. And I'm just thinking, like, man,
Speaker 2: what do you think that cost? Like what do you
Speaker 2: think because right now there's not as many of those
Speaker 2: individuals or companies that can provide that service, then there
Speaker 2: is the people that need it and rely on it
Speaker 2: right now. So like you could probably start your price
Speaker 2: pretty high and there'll be enough people, given how many
Speaker 2: people need it to where there's enough that'll take you
Speaker 2: up on whatever you're charging, and you can you.
Speaker 3: Can make bank oh supply and demand, oh and and be.
Speaker 2: I mean again, like that's that's that's a big factor
Speaker 2: when it comes to how business is done in every
Speaker 2: you know, in every.
Speaker 3: Aspect of life.
Speaker 2: But I feel like the timing of this and because
Speaker 2: if you don't like again for me, like if I
Speaker 2: if I didn't have another vehicle and I didn't have
Speaker 2: an ability to work from home, like I would have
Speaker 2: to have somebody come and fix my driveway so I
Speaker 2: can get my car. Because the issue I have now
Speaker 2: for those who missed it, my in Austin, you've seen
Speaker 2: the picture. Now not good, right, I sent Austin the picture.
Speaker 2: It's not good.
Speaker 3: My car.
Speaker 2: My vehicle is completely sideways on my driveway on a
Speaker 2: big hill, so I can't go forward or backward.
Speaker 3: I'm literally just stuck wait to thow out.
Speaker 2: So and it won't we aren't getting warmer weather for
Speaker 2: like day, like it's gonna be a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So you know, like I luckily I probably can can
Speaker 2: make do with you know, my wife's vehicle. And again
Speaker 2: I'm fortunate I have the ability to work from home
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. But if I didn't, like
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, Like if the cheapest price to get
Speaker 2: it done was, like, you know, just my driveway a
Speaker 2: couple hundred bucks, I wouldn't want to pay it, but
Speaker 2: I'd have to because I can't do it and I need,
Speaker 2: you know, I gotta go to work. I gotta, I gotta,
Speaker 2: you know, I gotta gotta be.
Speaker 5: Grown up, got to put food on the table.
Speaker 3: Which luckily I still you know, can can be halfway
Speaker 3: grown up?
Speaker 5: Or take your wife out launch on a snow down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, it's all her fault, but you
Speaker 2: know it's it's it's a gift in a curse, right, Like,
Speaker 2: am I surprise my wife was itching to go on
Speaker 2: a date with me today for lunch. No, I mean,
Speaker 2: look at what she's got. She wants to come on,
Speaker 2: she wants to, you know, take full advantage of having
Speaker 2: a husband like me. You know, it's understandable, but that
Speaker 2: also left me, you know, in a spot where my
Speaker 2: vehicle's just sitting like I'm waiting to hear the doorbell
Speaker 2: ring and somebody like from the HIA say yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Can't park there, can't park there? Like yeah, I'm aware,
Speaker 3: which actually I guess I can't. I mean, I'm in
Speaker 3: my driveway.
Speaker 5: It's just you know, you could do whatever they hate
Speaker 5: you want.
Speaker 4: Someone let that BUCkies inflatable for Christmas up.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 5: The best you can do is leave your car stranded
Speaker 5: in your yard.
Speaker 3: If it's there, like long term, and which it won't be.
Speaker 2: But like if it was, I'm gonna get like a
Speaker 2: big banner and its basically turned it into a Thornton's
Speaker 2: billboard on my street. That'll work, all right. We'll talk
Speaker 2: some basketball coming up on the other side. Big game tonight.
Speaker 2: Louisville Clemson should be a good environment, good atmosphere, and
Speaker 2: it is a big opportunity for Louisville and not only
Speaker 2: keep the moment I'm going, but get a win that'll
Speaker 2: have some value on selection Sunday. So we'll take you
Speaker 2: up till six o'clock. Hang out with us right here
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Speaker 3: This is good stuff, man, this is really good stuff.
Speaker 5: The Sugarhill Gang.
Speaker 3: Baby, what like what.
Speaker 2: Year younger than me? We both were not on planet
Speaker 2: Earth whenever this this era was was in but when
Speaker 2: was it? Like is this seventies or early eighties?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean right at that line again, I go
Speaker 2: back to Uh, I described this once before, and I've
Speaker 2: already forgot the name for it. And there's a there's
Speaker 2: a real like you know, it's a thing or maybe
Speaker 2: you know, to make belief thing, but I believe because
Speaker 2: I've experienced it. That kind of music gives me nostalgia,
Speaker 2: but it's for something I never experienced, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Like I'm like, oh man, and wish I could go
Speaker 2: back to this time, you know, when you know my
Speaker 2: parents hadn't even met yet. It's just it's just wild
Speaker 2: how and I kind of love it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Nostalgia is a very it's a tricky drug because it's
Speaker 2: very satisfying in a weird way, but you also, you know,
Speaker 2: like it's sad too, And.
Speaker 4: You know when you hear people talk about especially like
Speaker 4: this era, like that's really all that there was to do.
Speaker 4: So that's how you vie. Back in the day, you
Speaker 4: just went to the record store and found out the
Speaker 4: newest record from somebody, and you just bought it and
Speaker 4: you went home and listened to that all night.
Speaker 2: If you think about like sort of how like I again,
Speaker 2: I'm sure everybody in their lifetime they went through the
Speaker 2: same thing where we have all the society, you have
Speaker 2: access to bigger and better technology, sell like all that stuff,
Speaker 2: but what really Like I blinked and I realized, nobody
Speaker 2: listens to CDs anymore, Like they don't even make it
Speaker 2: makes total when I heard that they taking CDs out
Speaker 2: of out of best Buy, Walmart, like they're not like
Speaker 2: they don't they don't manufacturer or produce them anymore, because
Speaker 2: that's not how ninety five percent of people consume music.
Speaker 2: When I heard that, I remember kind of thinking what
Speaker 2: and then I'm like, yeah, I guess that's right. I
Speaker 2: haven't used a CD in you know, many many years.
Speaker 2: Same thing with like DVD players. Like when I moved
Speaker 2: into my home in twenty and eleven, that's when my
Speaker 2: wife and I got married. I remember thinking, all right,
Speaker 2: like what all do I need as we move out
Speaker 2: of our apartment into our first home, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I gotta have a DVD player because I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: to red Box and get a DVD either watch something
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 5: Shocked that there's still red boxes around.
Speaker 2: I want a documentary done on it because I don't
Speaker 2: who's doing it. It's some underground crime. There's some kind
Speaker 2: of organized crime with Red Box. I'm telling you. It
Speaker 2: doesn't make any who is who is keeping them in business.
Speaker 5: And they have updated movies and everything.
Speaker 3: It's wild.
Speaker 2: And again, like I know, anytime I think about that,
Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, well, you know, keep in mind, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people that maybe don't have unlimited data,
Speaker 2: they don't have these streaming platforms because they're just struggling
Speaker 2: to make ins meet. So if they've got a TV
Speaker 2: that's got a DVD player and they got a buck
Speaker 2: on their card, they can go run a movie. Right,
Speaker 2: So I guess it's more than more than anything. It's
Speaker 2: just like I that I just that's so I wouldn't
Speaker 2: I would never need to do that. And I guess
Speaker 2: maybe because I'm fortunate, but like, I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like that that to me, that specific.
Speaker 3: Scenario sounds so ancient.
Speaker 2: Yet there's clearly people doing it, or they wouldn't exist, right,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be putting new movies out there.
Speaker 4: It has to last time I remember going to a
Speaker 4: Red Boxes I guess it is more recent about five
Speaker 4: years ago, with no six years, there's probably like twenty nineteen,
Speaker 4: maybe right before the pandemic, and I rented two movies.
Speaker 4: I rented the first Joker movie with Joking Phoenix and
Speaker 4: Uncut Gems the Degenerate Game movie with uh. I remember
Speaker 4: learn It and I remember what I remember waiting for
Speaker 4: that because while the movies weren't straight to U pop
Speaker 4: right after that.
Speaker 2: So I guess, yeah, so the first place, So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was and now post pandemic, I think movies that
Speaker 2: go to go to the theaters first, there's not a
Speaker 2: huge long wait for them to end up being available.
Speaker 3: But they're not available to rent.
Speaker 2: They're available on one of the streaming platforms you play,
Speaker 2: you pay for that's like you know they and look,
Speaker 2: some of these movies are produced out of the same
Speaker 2: studios that that that own these streaming platforms. So that's
Speaker 2: just kind of now the new way of it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you the scenario, but that's what
Speaker 2: it is, is that you wanted you didn't see it
Speaker 2: in theaters if you wanted to see it as soon
Speaker 2: as possible, and at that time, that was the quickest
Speaker 2: way to get it is a place that actually still
Speaker 2: rents DVDs and.
Speaker 4: Any That same box is still out there in front
Speaker 4: of my Kroger. There's a one right inside of Walgreens,
Speaker 4: right next to.
Speaker 2: My There's some of McDonald's as well, like there. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're everywhere. And yeah, if if there was a you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like in any moment, they could
Speaker 2: shut down and it wouldn't shock me. But you know,
Speaker 2: clearly there's still a thing as we speak, and I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have never guessed that, but you know, shout out
Speaker 2: to those that still rely on Red Box.
Speaker 4: It just reminds me of good times, you know what.
Speaker 4: I'm fine with them keeping in the store. So when
Speaker 4: I look over at all the expensive groceries that I'm
Speaker 4: buying and ridiculous amounts of stuff that I'm spending on,
Speaker 4: when I look over and I see that red Box
Speaker 4: with the like the little privacy flap right over it,
Speaker 4: that gives me like a sense of all right, we're
Speaker 4: still we're still a decent country.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: I mean, like snow days for me, I was happy
Speaker 2: that we didn't have to go to school, and I
Speaker 2: was just hoping that my mom would be willing to
Speaker 2: drive and take me to Blockbusters so I could get
Speaker 2: a couple of movies to watch, or I could get
Speaker 2: a game to play on my PlayStation.
Speaker 3: Like that's what snow days were to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if I could go back, like maybe all
Speaker 2: I mean like if you presented a scenario where I
Speaker 2: could go stay the night at my mom's house and
Speaker 2: she could drive me to Blockbuster and I could have
Speaker 2: a night like I would do it. It might be
Speaker 2: kind of weird, but like that's that's that's the shot
Speaker 2: of nostalgia that you might find me dead on the
Speaker 2: bathroom floor or overdosing on they got a little deep
Speaker 2: and dark there.
Speaker 4: I don't know where I've missed those Blockbuster days so bad.
Speaker 5: Just washing and just hanging out.
Speaker 4: Buster is ahead of you, and they still had like
Speaker 4: TV's on, so you could see like previews of stuff,
Speaker 4: the anticipation of coming around the corner and just praying
Speaker 4: that that video game hasn't been all rented out, or
Speaker 4: praying that that movie you want to watch hasn't been
Speaker 4: completely rented out, hoping that there is a box behind
Speaker 4: the original DVD boxes.
Speaker 5: That's how you knew that it.
Speaker 3: Was Oh yes, like you.
Speaker 2: I remember, like, oh my god, they're all gone. Wait
Speaker 2: a second, at the very end, is that one that's there? Oh, yes,
Speaker 2: good feeling.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. I uh.
Speaker 2: There's a really great documentary on Blockbuster. In fact, there's
Speaker 2: two of them. One of them is on specifically Blockbusters.
Speaker 2: And this is one of the things you've probably heard
Speaker 2: and maybe you know of it and you've you know,
Speaker 2: this is a factor. Maybe you just think it's something
Speaker 2: people make up because you're thinking there's no way that's true,
Speaker 2: but it is. Blockbuster was given the option to buy
Speaker 2: Netflix before it became what it is now, and I
Speaker 2: mean I've heard that long ago and they turned it down,
Speaker 2: and now like look, I mean look, look look at it.
Speaker 3: I mean, like it's crazy.
Speaker 2: So to know that they had, you know, somebody went
Speaker 2: out and realized, hey, grandpa, wake up, things are changing here.
Speaker 2: We've put together a way for you to kind of
Speaker 2: enter the new digital world and still be the leading
Speaker 2: provider and how people consume right movies. And they were like,
Speaker 2: now we're out, and Blockbuster died and Netflix just last
Speaker 2: night debuted Monday Night Raw. I mean, it's crazy. So
Speaker 2: that's a really good documentary. But it really is sad
Speaker 2: to see, like just the corporate greed.
Speaker 3: And then in the end they got.
Speaker 2: They they What they would do is they would show
Speaker 2: up in any small town, any town, I mean not
Speaker 2: even just small towns. But before there was a wal
Speaker 2: martin McDonald's of renting movies which Blockbuster became, you know,
Speaker 2: communities had like you know, Dixie Highway had probably four
Speaker 2: or five different video stores that kind of stuff, where
Speaker 2: like it was just a certain business people could open up.
Speaker 2: What they would do is, you know, they had corporate money,
Speaker 2: corporate backing. They weren't mom and pop. So they would
Speaker 2: come in and they they would tell you and they
Speaker 2: interviewed people who used to own these stores. These these
Speaker 2: not Blockbuster stores, but they would own their own video
Speaker 2: store like it was, you know, their business and their community,
Speaker 2: and Blockbuster would come in and offer to buy their business.
Speaker 2: And if they didn't say yes, they would let them
Speaker 2: know exactly what they're going to do. We're going to
Speaker 2: open up across the street or close by and you
Speaker 2: at maximum can get this many copies of the latest
Speaker 2: movie that's out that everybody wants, will get eighteen times that,
Speaker 2: and we will bury you because we will be will
Speaker 2: people come because they want to come see a movie
Speaker 2: that we have the corporate resources in backing to get
Speaker 2: as many copies as we can, whereas you you're going
Speaker 2: to be limited and you'll slowly die. And that's what
Speaker 2: a lot of them did. And it was I mean,
Speaker 2: it's corporate America, Like, it's not that uncommon. It's not
Speaker 2: I mean, happens every day, to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: But it was kind of sad to see. You know,
Speaker 2: there's there's stories of people who like they took over
Speaker 2: the business from their father and and they tried to compete,
Speaker 2: they got shut down and and you know they had
Speaker 2: you know, they had to start a new life, which
Speaker 2: again that's kind of sad, but there's also some enjoyment
Speaker 2: from them because they know that like Blockbuster, really you know,
Speaker 2: in the end they lost and got killed because not
Speaker 2: only did they end up going out of business, they
Speaker 2: had the knowing you had the lifeline and you were
Speaker 2: too arrogant to realize it is is kind of rich.
Speaker 2: But the other crazy the other documentary I watched is
Speaker 2: more of kind of like a hokey thing, but it's
Speaker 2: still interesting to me is that they followed the last
Speaker 2: two blockbusters that existed. There was one left in Alaska
Speaker 2: and that one closed and then the last one and
Speaker 2: I think it may still be there today.
Speaker 3: It is in rural Washington.
Speaker 2: I mean it might as well be like Canada, I think,
Speaker 2: or in that you know, uh, in that area up there.
Speaker 5: So and they still sell like or give away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they still operate.
Speaker 2: And that's that's the guy they interview, and he's a
Speaker 2: big part of it. He's he's kind of he's very
Speaker 2: much into like realizing, hey, we're the last one left
Speaker 2: and we could really profit from this because like people
Speaker 2: will travel to this because of like the nostalgia and
Speaker 2: just like it was something that people used to cherish
Speaker 2: and now it's dead and we're still alive. So like
Speaker 2: he embraced it, and uh, you know, they still did
Speaker 2: have the ability for you to rent movies and DVDs
Speaker 2: and kind of that kind of stuff. But you could
Speaker 2: also tell he was sad that it just became a
Speaker 2: gimmick thing to where like, yeah, they're now making money
Speaker 2: because they charge people to like be able to come in.
Speaker 2: Like you know what I'm saying, just give him money
Speaker 2: if I wanted to. Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna invest
Speaker 2: in a in a startup business here, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: rent movies like you wouldn't be able to, Like who's
Speaker 2: gonna provide you product straight from you know, theaters to
Speaker 2: where you can rent it out?
Speaker 3: Like right now, who's the competitor for red Box? Right?
Speaker 3: Like they've got like who who else is out.
Speaker 2: There like doing that? So if you don't have a
Speaker 2: streaming service, then I guess that's the only place. I
Speaker 2: guess that's what keeps them alive because there's really no
Speaker 2: competition for them, because there's clearly enough people that don't
Speaker 2: have the ability to to get a Netflix account or
Speaker 2: any or something like that to where they are still
Speaker 2: going and renting. And you know, even if you are
Speaker 2: getting a teeny tiny percentage of the population, that's still
Speaker 2: probably a lot of people given the grand scheme of
Speaker 2: you know, no matter what you're into, no matter what
Speaker 2: your interests are, no matter what your age is, no
Speaker 2: matter what your lifestyle is, there's probably a pretty good
Speaker 2: chance that you watch television and you want to watch movies,
Speaker 2: and if you don't have a streaming platform or a
Speaker 2: subscription to like, you know, Spectrum TV, then that's probably
Speaker 2: what you're going to do is renting DVDs and if anything,
Speaker 2: they're just the last one left and they're they're you know,
Speaker 2: they don't have any overhead, right, Like who's their employees.
Speaker 2: They're not working. It's not a store, it's not brick
Speaker 2: and mortar. So anyways, tonight Louisville and Clemson just double check.
Speaker 2: No update in the spread. Louisville is still favored in
Speaker 2: this one by three and a half, and I like it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that spread makes sense. I'm confident
Speaker 2: Louisville can win. I was gonna say I'm confident that
Speaker 2: they will win, but I always hate doing that out
Speaker 2: because like I'm worried about a jinx, but like I'm
Speaker 2: aware that they could lose.
Speaker 3: So I feel good about where Louisville is.
Speaker 2: I think the way they've played in the last couple
Speaker 2: of games, specifically, you can tell they're gaining a lot
Speaker 2: of confidence. And this like it's been about a been
Speaker 2: about a month since they've become this new team where
Speaker 2: there's no longer waiting to see when are we getting
Speaker 2: corn back. I guess they knew right away that they
Speaker 2: didn't have casein so you know, in a month's time,
Speaker 2: they've gotten more and more comfortable in this new version
Speaker 2: of themselves with a little bit of a shorter rotation.
Speaker 2: But now they've got I mean, I love that that
Speaker 2: Trey Ora is back now because he's proven that he's
Speaker 2: not somebody that you got to work back in.
Speaker 3: He's just out there, high energy, the motor never stops.
Speaker 2: He's going to be on the backboard, he's gonna defend,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be getting buckets.
Speaker 3: But it's right place, right time.
Speaker 2: You're not really doing a whole lot to get him
Speaker 2: high percentage shots he's gonna get. He's gonna basically eat
Speaker 2: what he kills, if you know what I mean. So
Speaker 2: that's a nice piece to add to where you're not
Speaker 2: worried about kind of throwing off any momentum or anything
Speaker 2: like that. And I'm glad they're trusting Big Frank with
Speaker 2: some minutes.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: He's not going to give you a whole lot of minutes.
Speaker 2: There maybe some games where he doesn't play, but I
Speaker 2: think he's He's shown Pat Kelsey and this staff that
Speaker 2: if you put him out there to just give you
Speaker 2: some size, some presence, if James Scott's in foul trouble
Speaker 2: or if he's just you know, become such a non
Speaker 2: factor offensively, maybe you just want to, you know, put
Speaker 2: a fresh body in there. Frank can give you a
Speaker 2: few minutes and you know, I feel like the stats
Speaker 2: won't show it, but I remember two games specifically.
Speaker 3: I guess it was Florida.
Speaker 2: State and then maybe might have been Eku or maybe
Speaker 2: he was I think it was. I think it was
Speaker 2: Florida State and Ekau, and clearly they nearly lost to Ekau,
Speaker 2: but like he got spot minutes, but in the very
Speaker 2: limited time he was out there, he got a block
Speaker 2: in each of those games to where it stood out
Speaker 2: to me, Hey, one, this guy's actually giving you something.
Speaker 2: And also you don't have a whole lot of rimp protection.
Speaker 2: I mean, Cason Pryor I think was your best shot
Speaker 2: blocker just because of his athleticism and his length. James
Speaker 2: Scott can rim protect a little bit, but not not really,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, that's not really where he's
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a guy that's above the rim on offense.
Speaker 2: He's right place, right time. But I wouldn't consider him
Speaker 2: some you know, big time rim protector. Actually, I think
Speaker 2: in all USTe Tray Oray could be that for you.
Speaker 3: So you know they're.
Speaker 2: Getting they they now are in rhythm as far as
Speaker 2: their identity, They're gonna still try to get into a
Speaker 2: style of play with pace that generates good three point
Speaker 2: shots in rhythm. They're gonna take as many good looks
Speaker 2: as they get, and sometimes, you know, what's a good
Speaker 2: look to them may not be a good look to you.
Speaker 2: That kind of stuff. When you have the green light
Speaker 2: and it's a priority from your coach, let's do let's
Speaker 2: let's generate whatever we need to in order to get
Speaker 2: good looks from three, it is gonna make you at
Speaker 2: times take a bad shot like That's one of the
Speaker 2: things Kelsey has to know that because I give these
Speaker 2: guys the green light because a big component of what
Speaker 2: we want to do and who we are is doing,
Speaker 2: you know, doing what weever we have to do to
Speaker 2: get decent looks from three. There's gonna be some times
Speaker 2: where they're just trigger happy. So you know, I think
Speaker 2: they've had games this year where they've taken mostly good
Speaker 2: shots and they just can't make them. They've had some
Speaker 2: games this year where they've taken you know, fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty or some threes, Like I get it. You have
Speaker 2: the green light and you had daylight, but man, you
Speaker 2: could have got a better look than that. So that's
Speaker 2: always gonna be part of who they are, and you
Speaker 2: know they know that. But they're so solid right now
Speaker 2: in other areas that like they can have. They're doing
Speaker 2: something I wasn't really sure of, and that is having
Speaker 2: nights with a three point shot is not as big
Speaker 2: of a factor. And yet they're playing well defensively, They're
Speaker 2: getting good looks in the half court that aren't three
Speaker 2: point shots, they're turning, They're creating turnovers and creating points
Speaker 2: from that. So you know, Clemson's gonna slow it down.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna want a ton of possessions in this game,
Speaker 2: which will be a challenge for Louisville. But you know,
Speaker 2: from what I've seen the last couple of weeks, I
Speaker 2: think I'm not alone as far as Louisville fans feeling
Speaker 2: confident in this matchup tonight. And of course there's real
Speaker 2: value here. All right, quick break, We'll come back on
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Speaker 2: Because this is brand new and we've never had the
Speaker 2: college Football Playoff in this format, twelve teams clearly expanded
Speaker 2: into the new year, Like it's new, so like I'm
Speaker 2: excited for it, but like it's not on my mind, like, wow,
Speaker 2: I can't wait until we get, you know, the second
Speaker 2: week into the NAA tournament, Like that's been around a
Speaker 2: long time. We know that once you get past the
Speaker 2: first and second round, you've got the Sweet sixteen and
Speaker 2: all that. But this is new, So like I keep
Speaker 2: randomly realizing, oh, yeah, we still have two more college
Speaker 2: football games before we announce or I guess we don't
Speaker 2: announce before they're the national champion.
Speaker 3: Is is decided.
Speaker 2: So I'm excited, but because it's new, like I I,
Speaker 2: you know, I keep forgetting about it, which I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's good or bad. Clearly they're gonna just
Speaker 2: find if I forget about it. But I'm excited. It's
Speaker 2: just I oftentimes have to remind myself that we still
Speaker 2: don't have a national champion just yet, and h I
Speaker 2: really don't have Do you have any rooting interest here
Speaker 2: in the in the in this playoff Austin, You've out,
Speaker 2: of course, Penn State, Notre Dame and Ohio State and Texas.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think those are the are those
Speaker 3: aren't the matchups?
Speaker 2: No, it's it's Ohio State and Texas and Penn State
Speaker 2: and Notre Dame play each other. And I gotta be
Speaker 2: honest with you, I don't have it. There's not one
Speaker 2: team I'm like, oh, man, I hope they win, and
Speaker 2: there's not a team where I'm like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope they lose.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, Texas becomes the team that I'm like,
Speaker 2: yeah now, because I don't want the SEC to win,
Speaker 2: but they're also in their first year in the SEC,
Speaker 2: and therefore, if they do win the national championship, that.
Speaker 3: Would, I guess be literally, it'd be a good lead
Speaker 3: look for the SEC.
Speaker 2: But like, how about some awareness that this actually might
Speaker 2: prove that the whole notion that like your league is
Speaker 2: so crazy tough when the team comes in in their
Speaker 2: first year and they're they're the best. So if I
Speaker 2: had to pick one team that I hope loses, I
Speaker 2: guess I would say Texas. But from then, like Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: part of me says I wouldn't mind if they won because, like,
Speaker 2: you know, we don't have to hear about the conference.
Speaker 3: Stuff if they do.
Speaker 2: And then the rest of the teams, of course, you've
Speaker 2: got big ten teams, Penn State and Ohio State, and
Speaker 2: I don't I don't think James Franklin and Penn State
Speaker 2: have a chance. And maybe I'm way off here, maybe
Speaker 2: they win the whole thing. They're but James Franklin and
Speaker 2: Penn State, like, even even if they were, you know,
Speaker 2: truly honest with themselves and and and really kind of
Speaker 2: looked at it fully objectively, they've benefited more than anybody
Speaker 2: in this current format with twelve teams. And I mean
Speaker 2: they had to play SMU at home, and a lot
Speaker 2: of people claim SMU was one of the worst teams
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Probably they probably were, to be honest
Speaker 2: with they probably were the worst team, and then they
Speaker 2: had to.
Speaker 3: Play Boise State, and Boise State, you know, good team.
Speaker 2: But like if that's the you know, so maybe they
Speaker 2: maybe I'm wrong and they are really good and they
Speaker 2: win the whole thing. But I also wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 2: if you know, if if you kind of you know,
Speaker 2: if you see them humbled against Notre Dame. If Notre
Speaker 2: Dame can do what they did to Georgia, I feel
Speaker 2: like they should be able to handle Penn State.
Speaker 3: But we shall see. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: Now I have no rooting interest with anybody. It's kind
Speaker 4: of weird now ever since now the whole the fun
Speaker 4: has gone out of it. I feel like because you
Speaker 4: had the twelve teams, you had the bye, you had
Speaker 4: the few odd teams in their boise state.
Speaker 3: Yea, the kaos is done now.
Speaker 5: Chaos is done.
Speaker 4: So now it's just like, of course it's gonna be
Speaker 4: Big ten or SEC now.
Speaker 2: And it kind of reminds me of like how boring
Speaker 2: the two and four team format was, because oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, like this is again. These are good teams
Speaker 2: and I hope they give us good games and the
Speaker 2: entertainment is there. I'm certainly gonna watch, and.
Speaker 3: Everybody else will too. It'll be a huge deal.
Speaker 2: But like I I'm completely neutral here really in just
Speaker 2: about every way it's mentioned. Texas is probably the team
Speaker 2: that if I had to eliminate a team, it would
Speaker 2: be them. But I you know, I'd be a liar
Speaker 2: if I said, like I'm anti Texas I never have
Speaker 2: cared one way or the other. For the most part,
Speaker 2: Ohio State. I'm intrigued with them because they have had
Speaker 2: such a weird few years here with Ryan Day winning
Speaker 2: a lot of football games, being clearly in the top
Speaker 2: tier of the sport, not top two or three, but
Speaker 2: like in the elite tier as far as wins, accomplishments talent.
Speaker 3: They've stayed there with Ryan Day.
Speaker 2: But they've just lost to Michigan, and that has become
Speaker 2: the most talked about thing within their programs seemingly in
Speaker 2: the last few years. Therefore, you know, you feel like
Speaker 2: they've taken some massive steps back when really they haven't.
Speaker 3: And their roster was so.
Speaker 2: Loaded this year with the portal, and you know it's
Speaker 2: Ohio State. They always have good players to where when
Speaker 2: they do turn it on and you know, beat the
Speaker 2: hell out of Oregon like they did, nobody's surprised because
Speaker 2: you know, it's Ohio State. So I kind of don't
Speaker 2: want them to win for two reasons. I don't want,
Speaker 2: you know, I just Ohio State's the fan base that
Speaker 2: I would kind of like to, you know, not hear from,
Speaker 2: like not that I'm around a bunch of Ohio State fans,
Speaker 2: but like you know, they're already cocky as it is
Speaker 2: for the most part. Therefore, like I would, I would
Speaker 2: kind of like not, I would like for them not
Speaker 2: to be the national champion this year, but also if
Speaker 2: they do, it'll it'll make Michigan and feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: they're about to be back in a may Like I'm not.
Speaker 2: I don't like either Michigan Ohio State if I'm being
Speaker 2: honest with you, like that's their their rivals. Do you
Speaker 2: have a preference, because I have, I don't like either
Speaker 2: of them, like I you know, clearly somebody's got to
Speaker 2: be on the better end of a rivalry there, But
Speaker 2: of those two, like I'm I'm out on both of them, Yeah, same, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just they don't you know, And it's not one
Speaker 2: of those things where like, well they're just so good
Speaker 2: I want like you know, I just I've never really,
Speaker 2: never really cared for either of those teams, but I
Speaker 2: would imagine that It's my guess is we'll have a
Speaker 2: national championship matchup that is Ohio State against Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: and I would, I mean, hoit of State I feel
Speaker 2: like has the best chances to win it, just because
Speaker 2: again they're playing really well right now, and it's never
Speaker 2: been a question about do they have the pieces, do
Speaker 2: they have the talent. I think we've known that they do,
Speaker 2: it's just they at times. I mean, I think the
Speaker 2: Michigan situation became such a talking point, not only because
Speaker 2: did Michigan start getting the best of the Michigan won
Speaker 2: a national championship, the Connor Stallion stuff, to where I
Speaker 2: think like even in games when they played like Nebraska
Speaker 2: and underwhelmed and could have lost, meaning Ohio State, that
Speaker 2: it's probably just because they know that no matter what
Speaker 2: we do, we just got to get all this stuff
Speaker 2: out of the way because we're gonna only be evaluated
Speaker 2: by what we do against Michigan and if we win
Speaker 2: the Big Ten. And you know, sure enough, they didn't
Speaker 2: beat Michigan, and they also had lost to to Oregon.
Speaker 2: So I kind of feel like that break that they
Speaker 2: had with no Big Ten championship game and the you know,
Speaker 2: the first game where they took on they hosted Tennessee
Speaker 2: and they beat the hell out of them, Like I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like they were in a good place
Speaker 2: to where the embarrassing loss for Michigan is still something
Speaker 2: that they'll probably get angry about thinking about regardless of
Speaker 2: what happens in the playoff, But like that getting that
Speaker 2: out of the way and dealing with that probably put
Speaker 2: them in a good spot here to where, like I'd
Speaker 2: be shocked if they're not the ones who end up
Speaker 2: claiming the national championship this year.
Speaker 3: AGA.
Speaker 2: I don't want them to win, But if I had to,
Speaker 2: if you know a gun to my head, who do
Speaker 2: I think will win this whole thing? I would say
Speaker 2: it's gonna be them. And then with Notre Dame, I've
Speaker 2: never again, never really a big believer because I saw
Speaker 2: how they looked against Louisville. But Georgia even without their
Speaker 2: starting quarterback Beck, and obviously Georgia just didn't Georgia was
Speaker 2: nowhere near as good as they should have been this year.
Speaker 2: That was pretty obvious that they were good and they're
Speaker 2: not going to lose any bums, but like, they're not
Speaker 2: anywhere close to the team they were for that two
Speaker 2: three year run where they were winning national championships. So
Speaker 2: I don't know what I would like, And I want
Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on this. Austin, what did that
Speaker 2: say more? Who did that say more? About Georgia or
Speaker 2: Notre Dame. For that game to play out the way
Speaker 2: it did, I think the bigger reaction was like, wow, Georgia,
Speaker 2: they got humbled.
Speaker 3: Bad look for the SEC.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if that's just because people wanting
Speaker 2: to point and laugh, or is it that like nobody
Speaker 2: just wants to acknowledge that Notre Dame might actually be
Speaker 2: really good because like Notre Dame just has their army
Speaker 2: of fans. They don't have a conference rooting for him, right,
Speaker 2: Like the SEC's got cheerleaders, that's Kentucky fans, you know,
Speaker 2: Mississippi State fans, South Carolina fans. Same thing in the
Speaker 2: Big Ten, you know, the bums in the Big Ten.
Speaker 2: Although I will say, can we agree the Big Ten
Speaker 2: doesn't horror out out for their entire conference? Like the
Speaker 2: SEC is right, not like you're right. I think you
Speaker 2: always want your league to do well, but like the SEC,
Speaker 2: like it's embarrassing. How like they're just to me, like
Speaker 2: they you should be proud to be in your league,
Speaker 2: but like there's a like if you have no real
Speaker 2: factor in why the league is viewed as the best league,
Speaker 2: Like I wouldn't be as as you know, chesty about it.
Speaker 4: If I'm being honest, I think maybe just because we're
Speaker 4: looking down at Notre Dame just because we saw him firsthand,
Speaker 4: and Louisville has just been dealing with Notre Dame over
Speaker 4: the last few years since being in the ACC or
Speaker 4: whatever Notre Dame wants to be in. And we also
Speaker 4: got a glimpse of their quarterback who was in the
Speaker 4: ACC long before he ever went to Notre Dame too,
Speaker 4: and it was kind of laughed at, you know, Ryl Lonard,
Speaker 4: you know, so like and but now he's just kind
Speaker 4: of doing his thing, He's making their plays and we
Speaker 4: just get mad at the prissiness that is Notre Dame,
Speaker 4: but also at the at the same time, something about Georgia.
Speaker 4: I mean, even though that they're out with Carson Beck
Speaker 4: like usually, especially that that well coached of a team
Speaker 4: is easy just to go ahead and plug and play
Speaker 4: another person, they were just off on everything last week
Speaker 4: and when that game happened, they were just off everywhere.
Speaker 4: And I think it is because Notre Dame kind of
Speaker 4: exposed that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think Notre Dame is in a really
Speaker 2: good spot because they're clearly like Notre Dame is always
Speaker 2: going to have talent, maybe not to the level of
Speaker 2: an Ohio State or even a Texas, but they're always
Speaker 2: going to have premier talent compared to the vast majority
Speaker 2: of college football. And they, I think are just they
Speaker 2: do what they do, and they do it pretty well.
Speaker 2: They've got a good enough defense on offense. They clearly
Speaker 2: have found something for Riley Leonard to just get comfortable with,
Speaker 2: right Like, they rely on him to make some plays
Speaker 2: with his arm, and he's capable of doing what they
Speaker 2: ask of him. And he's also a threat in any
Speaker 2: moment on the ground, and that's been a.
Speaker 3: Big factor for their success.
Speaker 2: So you know, I kind of feel like they're in
Speaker 2: a really good place right now to where if they're
Speaker 2: able to kind of stick with what they do, maybe
Speaker 2: they're the national champions. But again, I think it'll end
Speaker 2: up being Notre Dame in Ohio State, and I would
Speaker 2: imagine that would probably result in a pretty damn good
Speaker 2: football game, which at this point that's all I can
Speaker 2: ask for, given that I have clearly no real rooting interest.
Speaker 2: All Right, we got to run. We got one more hour, though,
Speaker 2: so stick around. We got to get to this break
Speaker 2: five o'clock hours on the way a couple hours until
Speaker 2: tip off Louisville and Clemson. We'll get into that matchup
Speaker 2: a little bit more. Also, some other big matchups in
Speaker 2: college basketball. Tonight Kentucky on the road at Georgia, their
Speaker 2: first road SEC game, So stick around five o'clock hours
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