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Speaker 2: I don't think it's a stretch to say that for
Speaker 2: it being in, you know, early February, that today is
Speaker 2: a nice day outside.
Speaker 3: The sun is shining.
Speaker 2: It is chilly, but I think the sun has made
Speaker 2: it one look nice outside and not feel as cold.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna have some some nasty winter weather, it
Speaker 2: sounds like starting tomorrow. I'm looking here at WLKY, our
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Speaker 3: Sorry, love you WKY, but.
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Speaker 3: Come on, guys.
Speaker 2: So anyways, Mam Melosovich says that much of the w
Speaker 2: lk Y region could get between two and five inches
Speaker 2: of snow whenever it's all said and done, I guess
Speaker 2: it's expected to start tomorrow or yeah, tomorrow at some point.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm looking here.
Speaker 4: Is that when it's soft or hard?
Speaker 3: That's a good question, that's a great question.
Speaker 2: Could be a little bit of both, Yeah, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, But my judging, it says here that
Speaker 2: lighter amounts are expected to the north, especially in the
Speaker 2: northern tier of southern Indiana, and there'll be a sharp
Speaker 2: gradient of rain and snow whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 2: So Bargetown, Elizabethtown sounds like those are areas that could
Speaker 2: get more than others. But I'm looking at the map
Speaker 2: here that just shows the different counties here in both
Speaker 2: Kentucky Louisville area and southern Indiana, and it looks like
Speaker 2: Bullet count which is where I live. I live in
Speaker 2: the northern part of Bullet County. But looks like we
Speaker 2: could get we could get hit pretty hard here. So
Speaker 2: I'm trying to see when it's supposed to start. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so tomorrow morning around six am is when it'll be
Speaker 2: I guess getting going, So stay safe. I think we
Speaker 2: had enough snow at the beginning of this year in
Speaker 2: January to wherever we didn't get anymore and the warm
Speaker 2: weather arrived, I'd be happy with it, but you know,
Speaker 2: it looks like we still have I mean that what
Speaker 2: was that that naked mole rat thing, the beaver.
Speaker 3: What is his name? Something Patonic?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the Posatani?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, maybe the road It was right, that's right,
Speaker 2: because he did say we were going to get more winters.
Speaker 4: So we shall see shadow.
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Speaker 2: and welcome in Edwin. Edwin, you're on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 2: to ninety. What's happening, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5: I'm calling from Erie, Pennsylvania. Long time alois for him.
Speaker 5: I got to kick out of a fellow. I don't
Speaker 5: know what station I would listening to. The other day.
Speaker 5: The other day during the Miami game, a guy called
Speaker 5: in after a game and said that he was pacing
Speaker 5: in the kitchen floor, but he loved it. He loved
Speaker 5: the team. I said, that is exactly like if I
Speaker 5: had called in. I have such a love affair with
Speaker 5: Louisville basketball, and I'm seventy four years old. I go
Speaker 5: back to Van Vance and Jack Seller and doing the
Speaker 5: games on you ches, and this is a great job.
Speaker 5: We got really nice coach and knows what he's doing.
Speaker 3: They're fun to watch too, aren't they.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, sir ball Hawking. I love the game where
Speaker 5: you're not going to shoot the ball. Well, every day,
Speaker 5: everybody I ever played at any kind of love that
Speaker 5: is any good. Amazed at the athletes on the floor.
Speaker 5: This is beautiful basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ed, when I tell you beautiful, I tell you what.
Speaker 2: The the run for this team in January where they
Speaker 2: started to start. They started to reel off win after win.
Speaker 2: There were some games where shots weren't falling. They had
Speaker 2: some bad nights at the free throw line, but man,
Speaker 2: they played so hard and they were able to make
Speaker 2: up for that and overcome it, and I think that's
Speaker 2: a big sign that they're a well coached team and
Speaker 2: they buy in and they execute what he wants to do.
Speaker 2: So Yeah, in a weird way, this whole season is
Speaker 2: just unusual because one we were kind of lifeless for
Speaker 2: a couple of years, and now we've got a team
Speaker 2: that looks like they're going to be in the tournament,
Speaker 2: and we know that at any moment they could have
Speaker 2: another guy get injured and maybe they'll they'll be more
Speaker 2: vulnerable for a loss. But man, like the ride, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: I'm exactly the same way with you.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2: You say you're in Erie, Pennsylvania. Are you familiar with Edinburgh, Pennsylvania?
Speaker 5: Oh? Very much so? About weapons? Let me from university?
Speaker 2: What if I told you that my mother's entire family's
Speaker 2: side is all from Edinburgh, PA. What a small world?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Give me your last name, my puppee, Madame mild Gillespie.
Speaker 5: Unless you heard the name, Yeah, yeah, I don't know them.
Speaker 5: It's a nice community, beautiful community.
Speaker 3: Yep, small world.
Speaker 5: And all these Pennsylvania State schools they you know, they
Speaker 5: they're struggling now with people entering the school, but they're
Speaker 5: all well kept up in good schools. You know, Edinburgh
Speaker 5: State degree is a Pennsylvania conference degree. It's well well
Speaker 5: worth it, well Edwin.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call. Good to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Stay safe up there in Erie, Pennsylvania. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if there's going to be any time this year
Speaker 2: where we're not watching these games with a heart rate
Speaker 2: that's elevated and where we're pacing, because that's just kind
Speaker 2: of kind of what it is, and in a way
Speaker 2: it makes me feel alive again after being lifeless for years. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean there's different levels to it, right. The last
Speaker 2: two years were really bad, but then there was kind
Speaker 2: of that slow decline at the end of Mac and
Speaker 2: then you know, before that, I mean before Mac, it
Speaker 2: was you know, it was headed in the right, I
Speaker 2: mean even but yeah, let me make sure I've got
Speaker 2: my years right. So before mac mack was hired in
Speaker 2: what twenty seventeen eighteen, I think it was or twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen nineteen, you know, before that, you had the DP
Speaker 2: year and that team was was you know, was fine,
Speaker 2: but they missed the tournament and we knew that he
Speaker 2: probably wasn't going to be the coacher for longer than
Speaker 2: a year, So it was kind of a kind of
Speaker 2: just a year in waiting really to find out who's
Speaker 2: going to be leading the program, who's going to be
Speaker 2: taken over for Rick Matino. And then prior to that,
Speaker 2: you know, Rick Rick had the fifteen team. That was
Speaker 2: the last team that made to the second weekend in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. They kept themselves, that helped themselves out of
Speaker 2: the tournament. Seventeen they had a really good year but
Speaker 2: fell short in the second round as a two seed
Speaker 2: when they get upset by Michigan, and you know, from
Speaker 2: then on, it's just kind of been nothing that we
Speaker 2: would have ever wanted. Now again, it's easy to forget,
Speaker 2: and you know, I'm sure it's not something that comes
Speaker 2: to mind for fans very often, but that twenty twenty team,
Speaker 2: they were good. They just couldn't play in the tournament
Speaker 2: because of, you know, a global pandemic.
Speaker 3: So it does kind of.
Speaker 2: Feel like, man, we're due, Louisville basketball fans are more
Speaker 2: than due to be excited about a team and have
Speaker 2: a fun ride like we're having right now.
Speaker 3: But man, these injuries just keep getting in the way, and.
Speaker 2: You were able to deal with it so impressively, really starting,
Speaker 2: you know, in January when they went undefeated for the
Speaker 2: entire month. You were dealing with it so well that
Speaker 2: I forgot that they're playing without two guys they were
Speaker 2: supposed to be a big part of what they do,
Speaker 2: in case in Pryor and Korn Johnson, and then the
Speaker 2: Chucky thing, and again it's probably I mean, I would
Speaker 2: imagine it's nothing severe, but I just want to know that.
Speaker 2: And I don't say that complaining as if I'm entitled
Speaker 2: to We're owde information. It's just because of how big
Speaker 2: of a piece he is. It just not know for
Speaker 2: sure when he's going to be back, and when he
Speaker 2: does come back, how effective he's going to be. It's
Speaker 2: just it's one of those things that worrying about It
Speaker 2: is not going to do anything. We'll find out when
Speaker 2: we find out, but because of the importance of him,
Speaker 2: it's kind of hard not to worry, especially whenever I
Speaker 2: just I've had such a fun ride with this team
Speaker 2: and I don't want it to end. And look, even
Speaker 2: if CHUCKI can't go for a couple of games, maybe
Speaker 2: they keep winning. They should be able to because again,
Speaker 2: they're playing some teams the rest of the way that
Speaker 2: you know, to say that they're not good would be
Speaker 2: a compliment to them considering how bad they are. So
Speaker 2: the next opponent coming up here on is it Wednesday?
Speaker 4: We see here?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: They will play at seven o'clock on ESPN two at
Speaker 2: NC State and New NC State was the next opponent.
Speaker 2: I didn't remember if it was home or away, but
Speaker 2: they are nine and fourteen, two and ten in a
Speaker 2: league that we have to acknowledge is not good. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure Kevin Keats has NC State fans wondering if
Speaker 2: the final or last year was worth it because it
Speaker 2: was a fun ride. I'm sure it was a very
Speaker 2: memorable experience. It was certainly a fluke, but you didn't
Speaker 2: even have like a fun season to go with it, right,
Speaker 2: like you just had as an NC State fan, like
Speaker 2: three weeks four three weeks really of what the hell happened?
Speaker 2: Are we really doing this? Are we making a run here?
Speaker 2: We made the tournament because we won the ACC with
Speaker 2: five wins in five days, and then we messed around
Speaker 2: and made it all the way to the final four.
Speaker 2: Like that, They unexpected joy that came with that had
Speaker 2: to be as good as anything you've ever experienced as
Speaker 2: a fan, but it was brief, and now it's led
Speaker 2: to you having your coach locked up.
Speaker 3: Long term, and that wild run is the outlier.
Speaker 2: I love coach Keats, but he has not been very
Speaker 2: good at NC State, especially for a program that actually
Speaker 2: does have a lot of history. But now they're like
Speaker 2: they're stuck with him unless they want to buy him out.
Speaker 2: He got a new contract because of that Final four.
Speaker 2: And this North Carolina State team has now lost let's
Speaker 2: see one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Speaker 2: They've lost eight in a row, so they're not good.
Speaker 2: And that's another one of those games that I mean
Speaker 2: you could lose, because you could lose to anybody. I mean,
Speaker 2: anybody could lose anybody. I suppose Louisville certainly could lose
Speaker 2: to anybody if they don't play well and if they
Speaker 2: somehow don't have Chucky. But that's the kind of loss
Speaker 2: that would really be a significant stain on your resume
Speaker 2: that you just can't have. So we'll see what happens,
Speaker 2: all right, So Kentucky, they bounced back against South Carolina
Speaker 2: and good timing for both teams. I talked about this
Speaker 2: quite a bit over the week or last week, towards
Speaker 2: the end of the week, that you had the worst
Speaker 2: two teams in the SEC in the ACC coming to
Speaker 2: play both Louisville and Kentucky, and the timing couldn't have
Speaker 2: been better for Louisville more so than we even realized,
Speaker 2: because they didn't get Chucky and then they lost James Scott.
Speaker 2: And I mean, this is probably an exaggeration, but I
Speaker 2: mean it, so I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 3: I feel it.
Speaker 2: There were times where I thought Miami was worse than
Speaker 2: Kenny Payne coach team as far as just like they
Speaker 2: were out there playing pick up.
Speaker 3: They didn't care.
Speaker 2: And look, that's not ideal for your league, but man,
Speaker 2: you'll take advantage of it if you're Louisville, considering the
Speaker 2: fact that you were already shorthanded and you're still able
Speaker 2: to win by double digits. With Kentucky, they lost four
Speaker 2: out of five. There's not many nights in the SEC
Speaker 2: where you feel like you know you can get a gimme,
Speaker 2: and I guess South Carolina really is as close to
Speaker 2: a gimme as you're gonna get in the league because
Speaker 2: they're they've not won a game, and they still haven't
Speaker 2: because Kentucky took care of business on Saturday. They won
Speaker 2: that one eighty to fifty seven, a real blowout, and
Speaker 2: they got Lamont Butler back.
Speaker 3: And I didn't I totally missed it.
Speaker 2: I was listening to some listening to some pregame coverage
Speaker 2: that morning, and I heard him talking about Jackson Robinson's wrist.
Speaker 2: He did play, but he's dealing with an injury to
Speaker 2: his shooting rist. I don't know, I don't. I mean,
Speaker 2: I didn't know that occurred. Was that in a game?
Speaker 2: Was that something that they found out right before the game,
Speaker 2: because I mean that's a huge deal. I mean, you
Speaker 2: already had Lamont Butler, who you didn't know at that
Speaker 2: time when he was going to come back. Thankfully, he
Speaker 2: did come back for Kentucky, which at least says he's
Speaker 2: you know, he's even if he's not at full strength,
Speaker 2: that he can play like that's that's a sign that
Speaker 2: you know he's not gonna be out for the year.
Speaker 2: So you have that with Butler, Crease is probably not
Speaker 2: coming back at all, and then Jackson Robinson, your best
Speaker 2: scorer really and really your best player, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you. He's got a risk injury and was a
Speaker 2: game time decision. He was able to play. So Kentucky's
Speaker 2: dealing with some injuries too, And I'm sure they were
Speaker 2: aware that Tommy worked out in their favor because they
Speaker 2: played a winless SEC team that really is the only
Speaker 2: bad team in that league. And I feel like it's
Speaker 2: okay to say that they're not just bad for an
Speaker 2: SEC team, like they're actually really bad, because I mean
Speaker 2: they're sitting there ten and thirteen overall, and I know
Speaker 2: they're in a good league, but I mean they haven't
Speaker 2: I mean, they haven't beaten really anybody yet this year.
Speaker 2: So now Kentucky turns to Tennessee, a team that is
Speaker 2: still up to mean, Tennessee got off to such a
Speaker 2: great start in the regular season, I mean what they
Speaker 2: win fifteen of their first sixteen games. I mean, they
Speaker 2: were really really good in the non conference. Then they
Speaker 2: slipped up to Florida, and then they messed around and
Speaker 2: lost three out of four. Well, now they have wins
Speaker 2: since since losing three out of four to Vandy, Auburn,
Speaker 2: and Kentucky, they've now beat Florida, who's still a top
Speaker 2: five team. They beat Missouri, they beat Oklahoma, and they've
Speaker 2: been able to Honestly, the fact that they're still top
Speaker 2: five in the net and in the kin Palm is
Speaker 2: kind of crazy because they've lost.
Speaker 3: It looks like.
Speaker 2: In the last not only not only do they lose
Speaker 2: three of four there before that they'd lost.
Speaker 3: I guess see, they were.
Speaker 4: Four and.
Speaker 2: Four and five in a stretch there, I think, or no,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, because they only have four losses on the year.
Speaker 3: Anyways, they were able to lose all four of.
Speaker 2: Their games within a three week period, and yet they
Speaker 2: still are super super highly ranked in every metric, and
Speaker 2: it's just because of how good they were in the
Speaker 2: non conference, and you know, the numbers love them.
Speaker 3: So they're going to be looking for revenge.
Speaker 2: But they got to come do it at Rapperena because
Speaker 2: Kentucky was able to take that one from them in
Speaker 2: Knoxville on January twenty eighth. So Kentucky is in a
Speaker 2: much different situation than Louisville for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2: But what I mean is the opportunities, right, Louisville has
Speaker 2: very little, very little to gain the rest of the
Speaker 2: way with their schedule and they have everything to lose.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I mean, again, you can't
Speaker 2: do anything about it, but that's just the way it is. Kentucky,
Speaker 2: they have really I mean, you don't want to keep
Speaker 2: losing because you know, you don't want to be stacking
Speaker 2: up losses. But currently Kentucky sixteen and seven, they're still
Speaker 2: looking like a good seed for seed. And they lose
Speaker 2: to Tennessee tomorrow again, nobody's going to be celebrating. It's
Speaker 2: not ideal, but it doesn't hurt you at all because
Speaker 2: you already have them beat at their place, which is
Speaker 2: a more valuable win than you beating them tomorrow home.
Speaker 2: Now again, it's still a good win, and who knows,
Speaker 2: they probably will win, right they're going to be at
Speaker 2: home at rup, but they could lose to really just
Speaker 2: about anybody left on their schedule outside of one team,
Speaker 2: maybe two teams yet, and there's two teams left on
Speaker 2: their schedule that they could lose to, and it probably
Speaker 2: wouldn't have any impact on their seed line. Vandy at
Speaker 2: home is when you don't want to slip up because
Speaker 2: that could hurt you in the metrics a little bit.
Speaker 2: Still not a terrible loss. But and then outside of that,
Speaker 2: when they play LSU at home, who's eighty first, and
Speaker 2: the Ken Palm, I mean, the other losses. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that they could lost to all the good teams
Speaker 2: left on their schedule and still get a great seed.
Speaker 2: But the floor for Kentucky, given the wins they already
Speaker 2: have and how many great teams they play the rest
Speaker 2: of the way, I just don't think the floor's that low.
Speaker 2: And yet if you mess around and win some of
Speaker 2: these games against the likes of you know, Auburn, Alabama
Speaker 2: and Tennessee, I mean, those are those.
Speaker 3: Those are three top five, top.
Speaker 2: Six opportunities for you, and that could absolutely boost your
Speaker 2: resume even further than it already is with I mean
Speaker 2: we as it stands, they're probably a four seed at
Speaker 2: worst right now. So I'm envious of Kentucky for that
Speaker 2: reason alone, that they have little room for I mean,
Speaker 2: there's really no, not many chances for them to have
Speaker 2: losses that would really hurt them in a major way,
Speaker 2: and yet they got so many opportunities to get wins
Speaker 2: that could bump them up a seed line or two.
Speaker 2: It's the exact opposite situation for Louisville, no doubt. All right,
Speaker 2: how about Edwin? I love when people call who are
Speaker 2: Louisville fans that are from or that are in different
Speaker 2: parts of the country. In fact, since we talked about
Speaker 2: it a couple weeks ago, I found myself really looking
Speaker 2: at it more than I ever have, and that is
Speaker 2: just seeing where people are downloading the podcast from, just
Speaker 2: because you know, it's interesting to me and what it
Speaker 2: makes me feel good. Maybe it's self serving right to
Speaker 2: see that we've got feel heart yeah, that we've got
Speaker 2: people you know, listening in this state or that state,
Speaker 2: and you know, just you know, it's it's nice to
Speaker 2: know your audience. I suppose, so, Edwin, thank you for
Speaker 2: calling in and appreciate you. All right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 2: come back on the other side talk a little more
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. As Jalen hurts, I don't know what else
Speaker 2: he can he can do for the doubters. And I
Speaker 2: don't think he's got you know, a ton of people
Speaker 2: out there claiming that he's terrible. But when you look
Speaker 2: at what he's done in his career in the NFL
Speaker 2: thus far at a young age, I mean he has
Speaker 2: the exact same playoff wins the has. I mean, really,
Speaker 2: he's been to as many Super Bowls, he's won as
Speaker 2: many Super Bowls, and he has won as many playoff
Speaker 2: games in his first four years as a starter that
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes did in his first four years as starter.
Speaker 2: And that's something that sounds crazy when you say it
Speaker 2: out loud, But that's why I feel like this guy
Speaker 2: probably deserves more respect than people realize. But also, we
Speaker 2: got to talk commercials to halftime show, all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: Day good stuff.
Speaker 2: It actually kind of makes me sad because this was
Speaker 2: this was a different Kanye than current Kanye, which is
Speaker 2: a real mess. Yeah, the last twenty four hours, as
Speaker 2: far as what's in the news about Kanye West, is
Speaker 2: not not good.
Speaker 3: Stud him a day he certainly has.
Speaker 2: All Right, It's coffee and Company as we react to
Speaker 2: the weekend, a day after the Super Bowl, and the
Speaker 2: result overall, very very satisfying last night for me. And
Speaker 2: again it sounds bad because like it's mean, but I
Speaker 2: also found myself feeling very satisfied seeing Taylor Swift get booed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just it's it's bad energy to be putting
Speaker 2: out there by myself, but I can't control it. It's
Speaker 2: just I guess I'm I'm a natural born hater when
Speaker 2: it comes to the Chiefs and Taylor Swift did everything
Speaker 2: and Travis Kelce to me, he I could take the
Speaker 2: lazy path and say, well, he's just he's such a
Speaker 2: d bag that you know, that's why I don't like him.
Speaker 2: He is a d bag. Like I don't really have
Speaker 2: any mean to me. He's just he's really good and
Speaker 2: he's kind of a knucklehead, but like, I don't think
Speaker 2: he's a terrible guy.
Speaker 3: And he is at times, you know.
Speaker 2: A little arrogant, but he's also one of the best
Speaker 2: tight ends that's ever played. So he was sad last night,
Speaker 2: and again I took satisfaction in his tears. He was
Speaker 2: I think the most emotional after the game, and it
Speaker 2: maybe because that he could have potentially played his last
Speaker 2: game with the Chiefs. That sounds crazy, because again, how
Speaker 2: do you let that guy get away? But as the
Speaker 2: Chiefs prepared to rebound from this loss, they've got an
Speaker 2: expensive decision to make when it comes to Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 2: because he's got a nineteen point eight million dollars salary
Speaker 2: cap hit next season and the Chiefs could save seventeen
Speaker 2: million if they decided to cut him and move on.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I don't have any inside info,
Speaker 2: of course, but that would be to me a really
Speaker 2: foolish decision. But look, money matters, right if it's a
Speaker 2: financial thing that you just can't justify and you want to,
Speaker 2: you know, you want to use your money elsewhere and
Speaker 2: kind of go in a different direction, Like you could
Speaker 2: be successful without him, sure, but he's also, again, the
Speaker 2: best that you're going to get at that position. He's
Speaker 2: a real weapon. And giving a guy like that up
Speaker 2: and letting him walk and not paying I just think
Speaker 2: that seems unlikely. How old is he because he's older
Speaker 2: than I realize.
Speaker 4: He's probably he's got to be like thirty thirty one
Speaker 4: or eight.
Speaker 3: See he's he's thirty five, thirty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So.
Speaker 3: I thought he was.
Speaker 2: Around Mahome's age because I just think of him in
Speaker 2: the NFL, and you know, I think of those two
Speaker 2: together because they clearly have been a great duo. But
Speaker 2: he he was in college for five years because he
Speaker 2: did a red shirt year, he was not a big
Speaker 2: name in the draft until like towards the very end.
Speaker 2: So you know, in his first it was his first
Speaker 2: few years in the NFL. Yeah, I mean he was
Speaker 2: he red shirted his freshmans. I mean, he's a year older,
Speaker 2: year younger than me, which again he's not to me.
Speaker 2: Showed signs that he's getting old and he can't play anymore.
Speaker 2: But quite literally, if you're thirty five years old in
Speaker 2: the NFL, you are old. I mean there's really no
Speaker 2: way around it.
Speaker 4: Aging tight end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he redshirted his first year in college in
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, and then he played and didn't
Speaker 2: do much of anything as a sophomore, and then as
Speaker 2: a junior he was suspended the entire season, and then
Speaker 2: he played as a junior and senior or his last
Speaker 2: two years were in twenty eleven in twenty twelve, and
Speaker 2: he was productive. And look, you can see why he
Speaker 2: ended up getting a lot of hype leading in the
Speaker 2: draft because he's a talented, talented guy and he's he's
Speaker 2: a legend now. But like he didn't get started really
Speaker 2: having success in the NFL until he was a little
Speaker 2: bit older in life, I mean, not ancient.
Speaker 3: But that's why I bet I would.
Speaker 2: There's no way to know this, but I would not
Speaker 2: be shocked, Austin if a lot of people thought he
Speaker 2: was the exact same age that you thought he was,
Speaker 2: because that's how it kind of times out right, Like
Speaker 2: he was in college for five years and never really
Speaker 2: made an impact to where you remember him from college
Speaker 2: where mahomes. He didn't even stay in college the full time,
Speaker 2: and even though Texas Tech wasn't great, you knew who he.
Speaker 6: Was, right, Yeah, that's how old Taylor Swift is two
Speaker 6: thirty five. Yeah, it's a little did not know. I
Speaker 6: still think that these people around my age, just because
Speaker 6: I mean it's I mean, I I obviously listened to
Speaker 6: her like back in high school, but I felt like
Speaker 6: I grew up with these She became like she was five.
Speaker 4: Years older than I.
Speaker 3: So she is she thirty five?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: What year was she born in?
Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty nine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, eighty nine, So she's a year older than me,
Speaker 2: or sorry, year younger than me. And you know, it
Speaker 2: kind of checks out because I remember right around the
Speaker 2: time she became like a celebrity, was the country version
Speaker 2: of her and that was that was in two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven when she was she was eighteen.
Speaker 4: So was the tailor that I liked? Was her come she's.
Speaker 2: Been a superstar since the age of eighteen, and here
Speaker 2: we are, you know how many years later, I mean
Speaker 2: nearly twenty years later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so.
Speaker 2: You know, she's she's somebody that that I kind of
Speaker 2: maybe maybe she wasn't as big. I'm trying to think
Speaker 2: of like her career, you know, roller coaster, because to
Speaker 2: say that she's been the same level of like fame
Speaker 2: now as she was back then, not at all? Right, Like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: she she wasn't even really like an a lister in country,
Speaker 2: and then she kind of got kicked out of country.
Speaker 5: Did she?
Speaker 6: And then well her there's so many different I feel
Speaker 6: like chapters you can call them eras in the in
Speaker 6: the Taylor Swift version, but everything seemed to have changed.
Speaker 6: Remember where our guy Kanye West came in and kind
Speaker 6: of like berated her on stage. Was that at the
Speaker 6: Grammy I think it was the Grammy Grammys. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: he did the uh he just kind of interrupted her,
Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean that was that just felt like
Speaker 6: maybe like the first real part and that's when she
Speaker 6: really kind of started switching, because that's when she like
Speaker 6: wrote Love Story and Sparksfly.
Speaker 3: Do you remember one time she had tear drops on
Speaker 3: her guitar?
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh boy, yes, And I think I think, if anything,
Speaker 6: that's what kind of really started her off. And then
Speaker 6: you have Love Story and that's what started her off
Speaker 6: in the country lore. But she just straight up went
Speaker 6: the pop act in like the nineteen eighty nine then
Speaker 6: with the reputation and everything after. That was how she
Speaker 6: bursted onto the pop scene. So when I think of
Speaker 6: her early early early fame in country, I just think
Speaker 6: of her as kind of like a teeny bopper country yes,
Speaker 6: and you know, she was fine whatever, Like I didn't
Speaker 6: have a strong opinion about her at all. But then
Speaker 6: when she released I think it was was was it
Speaker 6: nineteen eighty No, I think it might have been read
Speaker 6: that was her first was that country or no?
Speaker 4: Red is that moral thing? So either either this is
Speaker 4: where I don't either.
Speaker 2: Red or nineteen eighty nine that was That was when
Speaker 2: she one of those two albums was when she kind
Speaker 2: of shifted to doing like the pop stuff.
Speaker 3: I remember the nineteen eighty nine and I remember thinking.
Speaker 2: Okay, like you know, like she's she's talented, she's an artist,
Speaker 2: she's creative enough to where she can do this and
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like a stretch or reach away from
Speaker 2: her her country background. And then really in the last
Speaker 2: five years or so is when it just became like
Speaker 2: a level of where I mean, when I think of
Speaker 2: musical artists within my adult life that have had just
Speaker 2: a level of fame and following, I mean, she's got
Speaker 2: to be number one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again I'm not don't.
Speaker 6: Listen, well, you know a little bit more than me here,
Speaker 6: because you're right, it was about the nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty nine came out.
Speaker 6: A couple of years after Red and according to Wikipedia,
Speaker 6: and we all know that they're right.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course it wouldn't be on the internet.
Speaker 6: It wasn't true, right, And they're still begging you for
Speaker 6: money every time you log into Wikipedia, which I don't get.
Speaker 6: But title after Swist's birth year as a symbolic rebirth.
Speaker 6: It was the album that recalibrated her artistic identity from
Speaker 6: country music to pop.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Because my nineteen eighty nine album.
Speaker 2: My wife had it on her She bought the album
Speaker 2: on iTunes. This is before the streaming stuff was what
Speaker 2: it is now. And I remember we went to we
Speaker 2: went to Mexico for a trip, and you couldn't really
Speaker 2: stream music then like you can now, and we didn't
Speaker 2: have any service, so we had to just rely on
Speaker 2: the Wi Fi that wasn't great. So we would listen
Speaker 2: to the albums that we had downloaded on our phones,
Speaker 2: right like everyone downloaded. We couldn't play it because we
Speaker 2: didn't have connectivity to really to go get anything else.
Speaker 2: So she downloaded the album and we listened to it
Speaker 2: a lot, not by my request, but I ended up thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: like this isn't bad. She's actually pretty talented, and I
Speaker 2: still don't find myself seeking her music out by any means.
Speaker 2: But I just felt really bad because she got booed
Speaker 2: last night and seemed visibly stunned, almost as if she'd
Speaker 2: never been booed before. And I felt such great joy
Speaker 2: to see that, And that's such a mean thing, that's
Speaker 2: such a I don't feel sorry for her by any means,
Speaker 2: because you know, she's doing great in life, and I
Speaker 2: don't think she needs anybody to feel sorry for her.
Speaker 2: But I don't know whenever I realized that I enjoyed
Speaker 2: seeing her get booed. There was a moment of self reflection,
Speaker 2: like what is wrong with you? And again it's not
Speaker 2: like I'm saying we should be sympathetic and we should
Speaker 2: all have been giving her a round of applause because
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 6: Rejoicing in the ultimate hate that is Taylor Swift being
Speaker 6: shown at the super Bowl exactly, which that's what Once again,
Speaker 6: that's pretty cool. But I also just go back because
Speaker 6: I was at the super Bowl party. At our super
Speaker 6: Bowl party, we went over a few friend's house last night,
Speaker 6: and that was that was one of the big talks
Speaker 6: is have they even shown Taylor yet? And it wasn't
Speaker 6: un till like I want to say, like late in
Speaker 6: the first quarter, maybe even second, that they've shown her.
Speaker 6: And I had actually thought that she was going to
Speaker 6: make an appearance with Kendrick on the halftime show because
Speaker 6: they did sing a song together.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, she's been bad Blood together.
Speaker 2: She's made it clear she's not I mean, they don't
Speaker 2: pay you to perform at the halftime show.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 2: And and she's I mean, as they say she's standing
Speaker 2: on business.
Speaker 4: Yeah she doesn't, she doesn't.
Speaker 2: She doesn't perform for free for anything, because she can
Speaker 2: on a moment's notice schedule a full arena stadium tour
Speaker 2: and it would sell out in seconds.
Speaker 3: Like that's just how how popular she is.
Speaker 2: So before I get into some of my takeaways with
Speaker 2: the commercials, did you have any real big takeaways, like
Speaker 2: ones that you thought were good, bad, or maybe overall
Speaker 2: just feeling like it was a good or bad year
Speaker 2: for for the advertisements that, of course, you know, reach
Speaker 2: more people than any any any other way of avingizing.
Speaker 6: The Super Bowl commercials just haven't been the same to
Speaker 6: me in like ten fifteen years maybe, And it's just you.
Speaker 6: That's something that you used to watch and everybody used
Speaker 6: to gather around for.
Speaker 4: I did like the one.
Speaker 6: I don't know exactly what company it was, well was
Speaker 6: early on and they were showing like the slots and
Speaker 6: it was like, I thought that that one's really really
Speaker 6: well done.
Speaker 3: Yep, the Sloughs one is.
Speaker 2: From what I can tell, it's getting as much praise
Speaker 2: as any good and it is a is it is?
Speaker 3: Let me see? Is it was it a beer commercial?
Speaker 4: I have no clue.
Speaker 3: I can't tell.
Speaker 4: I just remember going, oh, that's pretty fun. I had
Speaker 4: the slow speech chase.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't track it down here because yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: cores light. Yeah, it's cores light. Oh okay, yeah that
Speaker 2: was on them. That one was so that one was
Speaker 2: good to where like it's funny enough, it's I don't
Speaker 2: know what you said A moment ago, I kind of went,
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this last night because you said
Speaker 2: you feel like they've kind of not been the same
Speaker 2: for a while, and I agree. But what I don't
Speaker 2: know is what when I used to in this time
Speaker 2: where I felt like the commercials were consistently better from
Speaker 2: top to bottom, what was it that made me think
Speaker 2: they were better than what I'm seeing now. Because it's
Speaker 2: a good point because what I'm seeing now is where
Speaker 2: I can see a commercial and I'm not. I don't
Speaker 2: have any real genuine like emotion, whether it be funny
Speaker 2: or it's cringe or it's sad. But I'm just like
Speaker 2: if I say, yeah, that was a good commercial, I'm
Speaker 2: now more so, I guess looking at it from like
Speaker 2: an advertising perspective, like did you mark because it used
Speaker 2: to really irritate me before I understood why Depending on
Speaker 2: what you do like you can have a commercial that
Speaker 2: doesn't actually say what you do as clear as you
Speaker 2: might expect, but yet it's really just you're trying to
Speaker 2: get the brand out there more than anything.
Speaker 6: Right, Like last year, like TIMU have like a bunch
Speaker 6: of Super Bowl commercial exploded last year they went all out,
Speaker 6: Like this one didn't bring me to laughter, but it
Speaker 6: was clever enough to where I'm like, Okay.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's creative, that's that's funny. And that was
Speaker 2: the Mountain Dew where they had Seal as a seal.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 6: I didn't watch the whole thing of that. I just
Speaker 6: saw the memes online. I didn't know if that was
Speaker 6: a commercial.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, so Seal as a seal to promote a
Speaker 2: mountain dew tropic lime, and like, that's a guy willing
Speaker 2: to lean into it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: His name is seal As, an artist, and they had
Speaker 2: him as a seal, and you know, I thought that
Speaker 2: was pretty clever.
Speaker 3: Guess I'm im.
Speaker 5: On the bit.
Speaker 4: I think I'm in stay. I see, yeah, my fast.
Speaker 5: A lot of shame, a blast of tropical.
Speaker 2: Life looking so that, I mean, that's a guy willing
Speaker 2: to lean into it. Some would say an artist like
Speaker 2: Seal may not be willing to, you know, be portrayed
Speaker 2: as a Seal and recreate one of his masterful songs
Speaker 2: about Mountain Dew, but hey, you know they cut the
Speaker 2: check and you know he got paid big money.
Speaker 3: For that, so you know, no judgment for me at all.
Speaker 2: There were some others that that like, for example, the
Speaker 2: Tom Brady uh Dura cell commercial. I don't think that
Speaker 2: was like hilarious, but like, you know, it's clever enough
Speaker 2: where Brady's batteries run out and they got to go
Speaker 2: put new Dura cell batteries in while he's broadcasting, Yeah,
Speaker 2: us or.
Speaker 4: Whatever, that's right.
Speaker 2: And then this is like bud Light using both Shane
Speaker 2: Gillis and post Malone. I mean, I think they're trying
Speaker 2: to really salvage the whole Dylan mulvaney thing, if you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like nobody's on top more seemingly
Speaker 2: than Shane Gillis as far as just hilarious and everybody
Speaker 2: seems to love him. And uh, they're not doing anything
Speaker 2: with post Malone, yeah, and they're not doing anything to
Speaker 2: like apologize for what happened with that, But clearly they
Speaker 2: need to focus all their marketing efforts into just something
Speaker 2: fresh that just is a distraction from what that whole
Speaker 2: thing became. And there's no doubt like people could have
Speaker 2: their strong opinions about what that whole thing was, and
Speaker 2: that's fine, everybody's inside of their opinion.
Speaker 3: But numbers are numbers.
Speaker 2: They clearly they clearly made a big mistake from a
Speaker 2: business standpoint by doing that whole thing, and you know,
Speaker 2: looks like they're they're on track to kind of get
Speaker 2: back to to, you know, being being in better shape.
Speaker 6: I'm shocked at the first commercial if I remember right,
Speaker 6: Like it feels like it's always a beer commercial, but
Speaker 6: this one was a continuation of the Dunkin Donuts that
Speaker 6: they started last year and it was Ben Affleck. I
Speaker 6: can't remember the other actor that he was, but it
Speaker 6: was Dunkin Donuts and usually that's that spots reserved for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Duncan Donuts last was it last year?
Speaker 4: Whenever?
Speaker 2: It was Brady and Matt Damon and the Duncan Donuts
Speaker 2: and I mean Jack Harlowe I think was even in
Speaker 2: it was randomly, Yeah, they had a bunch of celebrities
Speaker 2: in there, and.
Speaker 6: That's what it seems like, that's where the shock value
Speaker 6: is on all these commercials anymore, is how many stars
Speaker 6: you could put it in, which I completely understand what
Speaker 6: like how you say you look at it from an
Speaker 6: advertising standpoint, get the big stars in there, and like
Speaker 6: they'll question what the hell is this, but then they're
Speaker 6: going to go look at your product anyways.
Speaker 2: And and one thing that really, you know to your
Speaker 2: point about this putting as many stars as you can,
Speaker 2: putting as many people who are on like who really
Speaker 2: at that time have a lot of momentum as far
Speaker 2: as fame and really a following online. I know that
Speaker 2: that they put people in these commercials that I should
Speaker 2: know who they are. But I feel like I'm out
Speaker 2: of touch with what's big and what's not in pop
Speaker 2: culture because I'll see somebody who everybody else like at
Speaker 2: a party that like, oh wow, that's that's such and
Speaker 2: such from that show, and I'm like, you have no
Speaker 2: clue who that is. Like I was late to Drewskie,
Speaker 2: like drewski being in commercials. I get it now because
Speaker 2: like he's this hilarious internet comedian who's who's got a
Speaker 2: huge following and he's funny. But the first few times
Speaker 2: I saw him mainstream I'm like, Okay, clearly everybody gets
Speaker 2: who this guy is, and it's funny that he's just here,
Speaker 2: but I don't know who he is. One really powerful
Speaker 2: one that I thought, I mean, I don't want to
Speaker 2: get too deep, but this one was one of my favorites,
Speaker 2: and it really you know, as a family, as a
Speaker 2: family man myself, it hit pretty deep. This was a
Speaker 2: commercial for rocket dot com that they showed really it
Speaker 2: was a very beautiful, I guess, pro life type of thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, instead of well, I'll stop giving commentary on
Speaker 2: said commercial and just kind of share with you what
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 3: But it's a.
Speaker 2: Bunch of service folks, service members getting married and having
Speaker 2: kids and growing their family, and it's really just showing
Speaker 2: the American dream of getting older having success. And I
Speaker 2: would say, if you're in the service, you're a successful,
Speaker 2: upstanding citizen, and when you grow your family, I can
Speaker 2: attest it's some beautiful things. So like that just kind
Speaker 2: of hit me in the fields a little bit, and
Speaker 2: I just I don't know, in recent years, I don't
Speaker 2: feel like we've seen as much marketing or really we
Speaker 2: haven't seen as much at this level. Right the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: it just seems as if we were going in the
Speaker 2: direction of like acting as if a very very very
Speaker 2: very small minority was actually who we all were. Which again,
Speaker 2: I'm getting sideways here and I want to go down
Speaker 2: a path that I may regret.
Speaker 3: But anyways, we'll just move on. We need to get
Speaker 3: a break anyway.
Speaker 2: But there's some other commercions I want to get to
Speaker 2: before we run out of time, because we'll probably never
Speaker 2: talk about superboll commercials again until next year, and there
Speaker 2: were a few others that I want to talk about,
Speaker 2: So quick break, we'll come back on the other side
Speaker 2: and wrap up the four o'clock hour. Still a lot
Speaker 2: more to get into, taking you up till six o'clock
Speaker 2: right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: So Jerry Palm at CBS Sports looks as if he
Speaker 2: is the most recent to update of bracketology, least that
Speaker 2: I've seen. He updated his at noon today and currently
Speaker 2: you've got Louisville. According to Palm, he has Louisville as
Speaker 2: a seven seed and also Clemson is a seven seed.
Speaker 2: I thought they may bump up a little bit higher
Speaker 2: than seven because they beat Duke. But then again, they
Speaker 2: also have a loss to Georgia Tech. And to be fair,
Speaker 2: their loss to Georgia Tech is worse than Louisville's because
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech be them at their place where Louisville beat
Speaker 2: or Louisville lost.
Speaker 3: To them in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: So Kentucky currently sitting as a five seed according to
Speaker 2: Jerry Palm, which kind of surprises me. But you know
Speaker 2: the teams ahead of them, I can see why they
Speaker 2: are a spot above them on the seed line. I mean,
Speaker 2: you look at the four seeds that are out there
Speaker 2: right now, and Memphis being ahead of Kentucky's kind of
Speaker 2: a head scratcher to me because I just know that
Speaker 2: their league is not what Kentucky's is and they don't
Speaker 2: have as many good wins. But anyhow, Memphis is a
Speaker 2: four seed, Michigan is a four seed, and actually the
Speaker 2: more I look at it, the more I think Kentucky
Speaker 2: may be deserving of a four instead of some of
Speaker 2: these teams that are on the four line. But Saint
Speaker 2: John's and Ole miss are both at fours, and I
Speaker 2: have no issue with that. Saint John's is off to
Speaker 2: a great start, Platino picked up that win against Yukon
Speaker 2: on Friday night, and Ole Miss, of course, just beat
Speaker 2: the breaks off Kentucky and they're having a really good season.
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to the ACC again, Louisville seven
Speaker 2: Clemson seven, Duke is still sitting as a one despite
Speaker 2: their loss and the bubble teams for the ACC, I mean, SMU,
Speaker 2: I mean they're sitting in the first four out. In fact,
Speaker 2: three of the four teams in the first four out,
Speaker 2: according to Jerry Palmer all in the ACC. Carolina is
Speaker 2: at forty six in the net. And Carolina did beat
Speaker 2: was a Pittsburgh to put themselves at least by I mean,
Speaker 2: they did get another win, but Carolina's now gotta go
Speaker 2: play at Clemson tonight, and I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: a loss for Carolina there. I mean, it wouldn't be
Speaker 2: a terrible loss, but you would go to fourteen and eleven,
Speaker 2: and like, I just don't know how. I mean, Look,
Speaker 2: you gotta know, everybody's resume has got to be compared.
Speaker 2: The amount of losses doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna be
Speaker 2: in a much tougher spot than somebody that has three
Speaker 2: or four less losses than you, because again, your resume
Speaker 2: is about who you've played, who you beat, who you
Speaker 2: lost to, It's not just your record overall. But man,
Speaker 2: I just can't quite understand how Carolina and even be
Speaker 2: considered for the tournament at fourteen and ten and no
Speaker 2: real good win to speak of and a couple of
Speaker 2: losses that you know are bad. Like that makes me
Speaker 2: kind of retract what I said earlier about Louisville. I
Speaker 2: feel like if they were to lose to one of
Speaker 2: these bad teams in the ACC that they would be
Speaker 2: out of a tournament. And maybe that, I mean that
Speaker 2: is an exaggeration in a stretch, because going from seven
Speaker 2: to being not in the field is crazy. But again,
Speaker 2: they're rare. They don't have any good wins. Their best
Speaker 2: win is against Clemson. They have one loss that's bad.
Speaker 2: The others are quality losses, if you if you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So if Carolina could be fourteen and
Speaker 2: ten and probably fourteen and eleven after tonight and still
Speaker 2: be considered a bubble team, then maybe Louisville is in
Speaker 2: a better shape than I realized. Maybe they can afford
Speaker 2: to lose one of these games. But you certainly don't
Speaker 2: want to do that, but SMU they played tomorrow night
Speaker 2: against Yeah, Pitt and SMU play tomorrow and I just
Speaker 2: kind of feel like whoever comes out on the winning end.
Speaker 3: Of that will keep Hope alive to be a tournament team,
Speaker 3: and whoever loses may be on the outside looking in.
Speaker 3: But it's wild.
Speaker 2: There could be a scenario where if the bubble bounce
Speaker 2: is the right way for the ACC, they may get
Speaker 2: six teams in. If the bubble bounce is the wrong way,
Speaker 2: they could get three, maybe two, depending upon you know,
Speaker 2: how certain teams finish.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, let me back up.
Speaker 2: Wake Forest is also currently in the field as well
Speaker 2: as a ten seat, so they're I think as a ten,
Speaker 2: you're a bubble team, but you know, you don't have
Speaker 2: a whole lot.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're in, but you don't want to. You've
Speaker 3: got very little room for error.
Speaker 2: I would say, all right, tonight's action in college basketballs
Speaker 2: are real. I mean, it sucks. I'm just thinking of
Speaker 2: a different way to say that, but it just sucks
Speaker 2: because you know, lack of a better term. Yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 2: North Carolina Clemson is actually gonna be a good game
Speaker 2: for the ACC. And Clemson's got some momentum after their
Speaker 2: big win, and they're at home once again taking on
Speaker 2: Carolina who needs the win, so that'll be worth watching.
Speaker 2: And then the other big Monday game tonight is Houston
Speaker 2: and Texas. You know, I'm sorry it is Houston and Baylor.
Speaker 2: So that should be a decent games favored by nine
Speaker 2: and a half at home. And then I feel like
Speaker 2: there used to be other decent games on Mondays. Now
Speaker 2: it's just turned into where Monday. You got the two
Speaker 2: big Monday games, and then everywhere else it's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just teams you'd probably never heard of and certainly
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to watch play. But we do have some
Speaker 2: lines for tomorrow's game already. Kentucky. They are one point
Speaker 2: underdogs to Tennessee, which kind of surprises me the rough,
Speaker 2: but then again, we're talking about a Tennessee team who
Speaker 2: is a top five team, and I would imagine it's
Speaker 2: been a real rarity for them to be underdogs to anybody.
Speaker 2: But Kentucky did beat them when they were shorthanded at Tennessee,
Speaker 2: so certainly a game that Tennessee could lose again. But
Speaker 2: I'd be highly shocked if we see Tennessee take thirty
Speaker 2: three pointers something like that. That's what they did close
Speaker 2: to it when they lost to Kentucky a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 3: And that's really I.
Speaker 2: Mean, that's Mark Pope getting Rick Barnes's team to kind
Speaker 2: of play into his style, his hand, and it didn't
Speaker 2: work out for Tennessee. All right, quick break, we got
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