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Speaker 2: It looks like we've got some serious thunderstorms coming our
Speaker 2: way later this evening, which is always a frightening thing,
Speaker 2: certainly a little bit more sins it. It's a little
Speaker 2: more sensitivity to it given what's happened here in the
Speaker 2: state in the last four or five days. Friday night
Speaker 2: obviously probably a date that people will remember for a
Speaker 2: long time for tragic reasons, as nineteen people in Kentucky
Speaker 2: have died due to the tornado that hit that area
Speaker 2: in southeastern Kentucky. But one thing that I don't want
Speaker 2: to bring this up to like make fun of it
Speaker 2: or make a joke out of it, because I'm not
Speaker 2: doing that. But I am sort of indisible leave how
Speaker 2: something like this could happen Saint Louis. They had that
Speaker 2: area that I mean, Missouri is always, I feel like
Speaker 2: an area of the country that just seems to get
Speaker 2: hit really really bad with with tornadoes. But they didn't
Speaker 2: have sirens that went off on Friday. And I mean,
Speaker 2: this almost seems like something that you like, you can't
Speaker 2: you can't make it up, like, how does this happen?
Speaker 2: But the Saint Louis mayor has said that the tornado
Speaker 2: sirens didn't activate because of a protocol confusion. So many
Speaker 2: residents of Saint Louis were not warned of the tornado
Speaker 2: that hit the city because sirens didn't go off. I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't be I mean I can't be the only
Speaker 2: one that does, in fact take the sirens quite literally, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't. Man, when you think of this
Speaker 2: day and age, as far as how you really get
Speaker 2: your confirmation that you need to take cover. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of ways to do it right. Again, we talked
Speaker 2: about it earlier. The radio, Like you've got the radio
Speaker 2: emergency service system that that that plays, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: for those who missed it earlier, we talked about it.
Speaker 2: That's not if you've got severe weather tonight in the
Speaker 2: area in Kentuckyana and you rely on the radio to
Speaker 2: tell you it won't happen because they're doing some emergency
Speaker 2: maintenance or I guess some I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: emergency maintenance. I'll read directly what it is, just so
Speaker 2: I don't get it wrong. But they're doing says dude,
Speaker 2: it's a mandatory upgrade of weather systems. Due to that,
Speaker 2: the weather radio for the Louisville area will be offline
Speaker 2: into Wednesday, So just keep that in mind tonight. But anyways,
Speaker 2: there's a lot you've got your phone, Like my phone,
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I ever programmed anything or
Speaker 2: set it up on my own, but my phone will
Speaker 2: go off if if there is something severe near where
Speaker 2: I'm at, like, and I think it's only the warning,
Speaker 2: not a watch, which of course the warning is more severe.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I mean, if you hear the sirens in
Speaker 2: your area, your neighborhood where you are, I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel like that is that is that would to me.
Speaker 2: It's up there as far as one of the scariest
Speaker 2: things in regards to the realization that, Okay, this is dangerous,
Speaker 2: I need to take cover, I need to be safe.
Speaker 2: So for Saint Louis to not have those work, and
Speaker 2: it's just because of like a human error, like that's insane.
Speaker 2: So the mayor has said that the sirens weren't activated
Speaker 2: before a deadly tornado that happened Friday because of quote
Speaker 2: human failure, which imagine being that human. I mean, so
Speaker 2: their mayor has only been in office. It looks like
Speaker 2: a couple of months. Yeah, But Mayor Caro Spencer said
Speaker 2: a button to sound the sirens was not pushed after
Speaker 2: the tornado warning was issued, but added that there wasn't
Speaker 2: a single person at faults since emergency protocols weren't exceptionally
Speaker 2: clear about roles or responsibilities. Five people were killed in
Speaker 2: the tornado and over thirty were injured. She's in her
Speaker 2: second month in office, as I mentioned, and she has
Speaker 2: had she's activating the sirens will now She says that
Speaker 2: activating the sirens will now solely be it will now
Speaker 2: be the sole responsibility of the fire department going forward.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I don't want to be overly critical,
Speaker 2: because again I don't there's clearly no intent for somebody
Speaker 2: to just, you know, not have the sirens working to
Speaker 2: notify people that they may need to take cover and
Speaker 2: prepare because their lives are in danger. But just think
Speaker 2: about that, Like, there was confusion as far as whose
Speaker 2: responsibility it was, so it just didn't get done, and
Speaker 2: who knows, We'll never know if those sirens would have
Speaker 2: kept people alive. But man, if I was somebody that
Speaker 2: was on the the if I was somebody within the
Speaker 2: confusion of not knowing if it was my responsibility or not,
Speaker 2: I would that would eat me alive. I mean that
Speaker 2: would be devastating. I mean, doesn't that sound like something
Speaker 2: in a movie that somebody internally nobody knew whose responsibility
Speaker 2: it actually was to hit the sirens? Like that's that's all, so.
Speaker 3: Just all like standing around like it do I hit it? Well,
Speaker 3: it's one I'm confused, guys, thank.
Speaker 2: You, thank you, because I'm I'm kind of the belief
Speaker 2: like this can't I mean, again, it's real, it's not
Speaker 2: a fake story, but I'm just like, I'm just like,
Speaker 2: how do you like? First of all, to know that
Speaker 2: it's a button kind of surprises me. But then again,
Speaker 2: I guess what else would it be? But nobody knew
Speaker 2: if it was I guess a certain department's responsibility or
Speaker 2: if it was the fire department's responsibility. And now the
Speaker 2: mayor of Saint Louis is claiming that it's now moving forward,
Speaker 2: going to be the sole responsibility of the fire department.
Speaker 2: That's just that's just that's just not everybody being on
Speaker 2: the same page, And I mean, will never know, and
Speaker 2: it would be foolish to say for sure that lives
Speaker 2: would have been saved had the sirens been activated and worked.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you never know. You don't know.
Speaker 3: But here's how you fix it. You host one huge
Speaker 3: job fare guys. Can you press this button if you
Speaker 3: look up and you see a cyclone?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll do that. Yeah, that, and you really emphasize
Speaker 2: how important it is, because clear I think anybody would
Speaker 2: know that that's an important thing to make sure that
Speaker 2: the sirens work. And I don't Again, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: of how many rely on that, And I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would say most people this day and age, with
Speaker 2: technology being what it is, with the cell phones that
Speaker 2: we have really being able to do as much as
Speaker 2: you can do on them, I don't think people are
Speaker 2: just waiting around ear to the ground or the sirens
Speaker 2: going off, then I know something is bad. But the sirens,
Speaker 2: to me, I believe it would be like a it's
Speaker 2: part of the whole thing, right, like my phone's going off.
Speaker 2: They've cut into programming on the news stations, the radio is,
Speaker 2: they've got the they've basically got their warnings going off.
Speaker 2: And then if I hear the sirens outside near my home,
Speaker 2: that to me is the full on like Okay, this
Speaker 2: is really dangerous. I need to take cover and I
Speaker 2: need to, you know, say some prayers. So everybody's situation
Speaker 2: is probably different, But I mean, and I've heard I've
Speaker 2: heard people complain about the sirens going off and they
Speaker 2: felt like it wasn't justified. I've also heard people say,
Speaker 2: why why didn't the sirens go off? And we didn't
Speaker 2: know it was going to be this bad. So clearly
Speaker 2: there's there's still a level of I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: want to say clearly they're still important. I was gonna
Speaker 2: say there's there's a level of it that's important, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure every way, like it's like these things are
Speaker 2: in place for a reason. So that's I didn't plan
Speaker 2: on that coming up on the show today, but I
Speaker 2: read it during the break and I'm like this, this
Speaker 2: almost doesn't seem real, but it is real. But at
Speaker 2: least now we know in Saint Louis, they know who's
Speaker 2: responsible for making sure those those sirens do in fact
Speaker 2: go off. All right, it's Coffee and Company. We are
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Speaker 2: Appreciate you hanging out with us here on a Tuesday afternoon,
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Speaker 2: it's starting to hit me that I'm going to lose
Speaker 2: you as my afternoon sports guy, big Louisville fan. Before you,
Speaker 2: before you run off and leave us, who would you
Speaker 2: say are the five best Louisville basketball and football players
Speaker 2: in your lifetime? All right? I don't have that list
Speaker 2: on me right now, and I've never thought about putting
Speaker 2: it together, but I'm I'm eager to give it some
Speaker 2: thought because if you think about it, if you talk
Speaker 2: about my lifetime, there's some in my lifetime that I
Speaker 2: don't remember because I was too young. Like I didn't
Speaker 2: watch him play, So if I did it, I would
Speaker 2: give you not just my lifetime, but like players I
Speaker 2: remember watching. Like let me give you an example. I
Speaker 2: could be wrong here, but there are some people that
Speaker 2: claim Clifford Rosier when he was at his best at Louisville,
Speaker 2: and I guess that one season where he was the
Speaker 2: first team All American that he was like that good,
Speaker 2: that special, But I wouldn't be able to tell you
Speaker 2: because I don't remember him, Like I was too young.
Speaker 2: That was right before I was old enough. And on football,
Speaker 2: I feel like I could do that. But Austin, don't
Speaker 2: you feel like with football like it's more about positions,
Speaker 2: Like when you think of like best player of all
Speaker 2: time in football for a program or for a franchise,
Speaker 2: I mean can be like if you're the you know,
Speaker 2: a guy who's the best defensive player of all time
Speaker 2: might be just as impactful as the guy who's the
Speaker 2: best offensive player of all time. So I don't, I don't,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I could give you. I feel
Speaker 2: like if I did that, I would be leaving off
Speaker 2: certain players that that because the football is just harder
Speaker 2: to do. I mean, although in the NFL there's more
Speaker 2: people on the fields were in the NFL, the MVP
Speaker 2: award is always going to go to a quarterback, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can be phenomenal as a receiver, phenomenal
Speaker 2: as a running back. I mean, this day and age
Speaker 2: on offense, you're you're gonna need to be a quarterback
Speaker 2: to win the NFL m VP. So quarterbacks, like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I'll give it some thought. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if I'm gonna do it today, but you've given me
Speaker 2: a nice challenge as a sleep on it. Yeah, give
Speaker 2: me a nice challenge here, And it's not really a challenge.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's it's my thoughts mout. But but
Speaker 2: a top five for both sports. Basketball I could do
Speaker 2: pretty easy. I think football would be tougher, but I'll
Speaker 2: give it a shot. That's a that's a good recommendation
Speaker 2: as we count down our days here because after next Friday,
Speaker 2: it'll be It'll be it from here. It'll be it
Speaker 2: for me here on seven ninety. So if you haven't
Speaker 2: heard the news, starting on June second, I'll be making
Speaker 2: the move to news radio eight forty WHA has taken
Speaker 2: over for Tony Cruz as the host of Kentucky and
Speaker 2: as morning news. I've talked about it probably more than
Speaker 2: you want to hear since Friday. But I also know
Speaker 2: that some people just they catch this show in doses
Speaker 2: here and there and want to make sure I do
Speaker 2: as best as I can to make sure everybody is
Speaker 2: aware because I don't people forget about I mean, I
Speaker 2: think I just you know, fell off a cliff. I'm
Speaker 2: not leaving. I'm just you know, moving to moving down
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Speaker 2: up your radio dial, right, if you just go from
Speaker 2: seven nine zero to eight four zero, then you'll find me.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk a little more about this coming
Speaker 2: up on the other side, But I also want to
Speaker 2: share some news that I think is big for college sports.
Speaker 2: If you have not seen this, this is I believe
Speaker 2: a substantial piece of news when it comes to the
Speaker 2: future of college athletics. Ross Ellinger of Yahoo Sports reported
Speaker 2: it last night that the power conferences, the ACC, the SEC,
Speaker 2: the Big Ten, and the Big twelve were working together
Speaker 2: to put together basically a contract for all programs all
Speaker 2: universities within those conferences to agree to follow specific guidelines.
Speaker 2: And with this agreement, they are all going to sign
Speaker 2: off that they're going to follow these rules and not
Speaker 2: try to get out of following said rules by hiring
Speaker 2: a lawyer and taking it to court. Because I think
Speaker 2: what everybody's realized is that because of how long the
Speaker 2: NCAA waited, and they didn't even really wait to do anything.
Speaker 2: They didn't do anything. It just finally bit them in
Speaker 2: the ass. That's what happened. I mean, quite literally, they
Speaker 2: wanted to give us the archaic amateurism model from you
Speaker 2: know that's from hundreds of years ago, seemingly, I mean
Speaker 2: it's not an exaggeration. It probably does go back one
Speaker 2: hundred years or so, and they just never wanted to
Speaker 2: make any kind of adjustments as society evolves and people
Speaker 2: can start to see that you know what this is,
Speaker 2: this is becase coming more and more of a I
Speaker 2: lucrative business. Right, college athletics. The NCAA tournament is a
Speaker 2: billion dollar product. And yeah, these players get free room
Speaker 2: and board, they get a free education, and that's certainly valuable.
Speaker 2: But the optics of the NCUBLA bringing in a billion
Speaker 2: dollars and yet no revenue from that being shared with
Speaker 2: those who actually are performing, right, that are the product, right,
Speaker 2: the tournament they're playing, they're the athletes. So because it
Speaker 2: just they waited and waited and waited and waited. Finally,
Speaker 2: finally there was somebody that got the courts involved and
Speaker 2: told the NCAA, yeah, what you've been doing is illegal.
Speaker 2: That's why there's a billion dollar settlement that's going to happen,
Speaker 2: and moving forward, you're going to be required to share
Speaker 2: your revenue with student athletes. So that's been in the works.
Speaker 2: But as they try to finalize this whole thing for seemingly,
Speaker 2: you know, roughly a year now, feel like they keep
Speaker 2: hitting roadblocks. And it's because by technicality, there's certain things
Speaker 2: that through the court system, they're telling the NCUBA, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can do that. So they're trying, I do think
Speaker 2: right now they realize, we got to clean this thing up.
Speaker 2: We've got to figure out how we can have some regulation,
Speaker 2: how we can have it not be such a free
Speaker 2: for all and you know it be the wild wild West,
Speaker 2: as people say. But they're kind of helpless in what
Speaker 2: they can do because again, the way they've existed since
Speaker 2: the beginning of time is not practical this day and age,
Speaker 2: and it's really not legal when it comes to certain
Speaker 2: things that they try to ask of you. So these
Speaker 2: schools now realize that that it's going to be an endless,
Speaker 2: endless battle as far as the court's getting involved and
Speaker 2: telling the NCUBLEA they can't have this as a rule.
Speaker 2: So these schools are working together to say, look, we
Speaker 2: all agree, we're going to abide by these rules, and
Speaker 2: if you don't, you can get kicked out of your conference.
Speaker 2: You can have you know, you can basically just not
Speaker 2: exist to us anymore as far as your athletics department.
Speaker 2: So this is huge. And to hear of this last night,
Speaker 2: I mean, it was still a big piece of news.
Speaker 2: But then today it's now been confirmed that Charlie Baker,
Speaker 2: the president of the NCUBA, who took over from Mark Emert,
Speaker 2: he has confirmed that the nc DOUBLEA is going to
Speaker 2: seed enforcement of amateurism and the Power Conferences are going
Speaker 2: to take over. And again just saying that out loud,
Speaker 2: it's it's crazy, and it was Front Office Sports that
Speaker 2: broke the news. But yes, the Power Conferences collectively and
Speaker 2: not the nc DOUBLEA, will be in charge of enforcing
Speaker 2: rules that are going to be created by this house.
Speaker 2: First in Cuba settlement over athlete compensation. So this, I
Speaker 2: think will be a good thing. It won't be back
Speaker 2: to the way it used to be, and I actually
Speaker 2: think that's okay. I don't want to go back to
Speaker 2: the way it used to be as far as I
Speaker 2: mean players getting paid doesn't impact me at all. I'm
Speaker 2: not bothered by them getting paid. In fact, good for them.
Speaker 2: But really, more than anything, the portal has made to me,
Speaker 2: college sports so much more interesting because you have free agency,
Speaker 2: you do and sometimes a free agency transaction can be
Speaker 2: a net negative for your program, right if you' lose
Speaker 2: a guy you didn't want to lose. But then also
Speaker 2: you can actually go and take advantage of it and
Speaker 2: go build a team from scratch like Pat Kelse did
Speaker 2: in his first season and brought us back to life
Speaker 2: really out of nowhere in no time. In the previous
Speaker 2: world that would have taken many, many, many years. So
Speaker 2: this is good news, all right, quick break will come back.
Speaker 2: Keep this thing rolling along. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: guys have seen the story about the food delivery driver.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was doing Uber East Door
Speaker 2: Dash or whatever it was, but he ended up on
Speaker 2: the tarmac in his vehicle at the O'Hare airport in Chicago.
Speaker 2: And I can't tell if this guy is just like
Speaker 2: an absolute, you know, idiot not realizing what he was doing,
Speaker 2: or if he's maybe the best guy ever at realizing
Speaker 2: I've got a McDonald's value meal, I've got a chicken
Speaker 2: sandwich from Chick fil A, And I'm gonna make sure
Speaker 2: even if they're walking, even if they're bored in the plane,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get it to them, because that's my job,
Speaker 2: that's my duty, the service I provide as a newber
Speaker 2: each driver. Also, he may have, you know, really, he
Speaker 2: may have had the folks at O'Hare realize they don't
Speaker 2: have security tien up the way they need to. But
Speaker 2: we'll get to that in a lot more. Keep it
Speaker 2: locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: That's right, it's coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. So this, this story is
Speaker 2: it fascinates me because I have a lot of questions,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if we'll ever get answers to
Speaker 2: all these questions. But a door dash food delivery driver
Speaker 2: somehow yesterday got dasher got yeah, he got lost and
Speaker 2: ended up on the Chicago O'Hare International Airport tarmac. The
Speaker 2: driver was somehow able to make it through the secured
Speaker 2: areas and even crossed over the runways. And I think
Speaker 2: if you see some car out there, and by the way,
Speaker 2: he's driving what appears to be like a Geo Metro,
Speaker 2: Like it wasn't some I mean, I guess you can
Speaker 2: drive anything and deliver food, but I mean it, nobody
Speaker 2: would have Nobody would assume that the person that got
Speaker 2: their vehicle out under the runway would be lost trying
Speaker 2: to deliver food, right.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's how did they even let that
Speaker 3: person in like that?
Speaker 2: Nobody knows what the show id or you just can't
Speaker 2: pull up on an airport like nobody knows it is. Uh,
Speaker 2: it is wild. This is a report from the CBS
Speaker 2: affiliate I believe it is in Chicago.
Speaker 1: It responded to a car driving I don't o' hair
Speaker 1: tarmac over the weekend. Imagine this.
Speaker 2: CPD now says the vehicle belonged to a very.
Speaker 1: Confused food delivery driver who accidentally entered an area posted
Speaker 1: his off limits to non airport personnel.
Speaker 3: Where was he trying to get?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I.
Speaker 3: Wanted to know.
Speaker 2: So the driver was not sighted.
Speaker 3: The incident happened on Saturday, and my god, how do
Speaker 3: you turn around right once you're in? You're in?
Speaker 2: If I first of all again, I don't know how
Speaker 2: you end up delivering food and end up there like
Speaker 2: it does. None of that makes any any sense at all.
Speaker 2: Uh And and he's probably lucky he didn't get charged
Speaker 2: or side it. But then again, somebody probably got in
Speaker 2: trouble who was supposed to Like want I mean a
Speaker 2: vehicle ending up out there, I'm not even sure how
Speaker 2: that would be possible. Yeah, that's especially at an airport
Speaker 2: like O'Hare in Chicago, one of the biggest cities in
Speaker 2: the world. It's wild. But I also want to know
Speaker 2: what food he was delivering, And I want to know
Speaker 2: who ordered it and how it ended up out there,
Speaker 2: because if it was me, I'd have fun with that. Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: my guy, uh he I told him I was at
Speaker 2: the airport. Mean, you can't deliver food to the airport, Like,
Speaker 2: I have so many questions. That's so odd.
Speaker 3: I don't know how how it just turned you straight
Speaker 3: into the uh into the tar the tarmac of all places.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, and you would know pretty I think you
Speaker 2: know pretty early before you get out to the runway
Speaker 2: that you're in an area that you that you shouldn't be.
Speaker 2: And then again, as the as the news anchor there
Speaker 2: said like how do you how do you turn around?
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's something you don't You don't often see.
Speaker 2: And I would imagine before hearing from this driver because
Speaker 2: the video, which again you can't see, this is an
Speaker 2: audio medium, but there are countless airport police vehicles surrounding
Speaker 2: his little beat up car. And when he says, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a food delivery driver and I got lost,
Speaker 2: I feel like nobody would believe him. You would think, Okay, yeah, sure, buddy,
Speaker 2: you're trying to this is a terrorist attack or something
Speaker 2: like it. Just none of it makes any kind of sense.
Speaker 2: But I do have to ask you. Are you someone
Speaker 2: that often uses the door dash Uber eats? I mean,
Speaker 2: how many different is there? Postmates still a thing. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of different ways you can get food delivery.
Speaker 3: I'm a door dash I'm a door dash kind of guy.
Speaker 3: If anything, I don't use it all that much because honestly,
Speaker 3: I just raither go myself and get it because I'm cheap.
Speaker 3: I don't have to pay six more dollars.
Speaker 2: I've never used it, and I don't say that to
Speaker 2: like brag. It's just I have never It's one of
Speaker 2: those things that I think when folks want to get food,
Speaker 2: meaning they want to eat out, I think in their
Speaker 2: mind it might now just go to Okay, what am
Speaker 2: I going to? Door dash? What am I gonna uber eats?
Speaker 2: And it's just never become a thing to where I think, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm hungry, not gonna cook, Let me get out my phone.
Speaker 2: I just think if I'm gonna eat somewhere, if I
Speaker 2: want to eat food that's not in my house, I'll
Speaker 2: go get it or I'll go sit down and eat.
Speaker 2: But I think maybe the reason because I'm not against it,
Speaker 2: it's just two things. I would I just assume that
Speaker 2: the food is going to lose twenty five percent or
Speaker 2: more of its quality if it's been prepared and then
Speaker 2: in a car and delivered to me. It's not coming
Speaker 2: from the back of the kitchen out to the drive
Speaker 2: through or to my table. Right. I also, when you
Speaker 2: over eats or door dash, are you getting fast food,
Speaker 2: fast casual? Are you doing dining restaurants? Is there a
Speaker 2: type of resins just something like wingstop or like like
Speaker 2: McDonald's taco bell, Like would you do that?
Speaker 3: I mean no, because I live right next to a
Speaker 3: talk about Okay, I love Panda Express.
Speaker 2: I've Panda Express before, gotcha. So when we eat out,
Speaker 2: we and I trust me, I'm not against fast food.
Speaker 2: Fast food is delicious and I'm you know, I don't
Speaker 2: eat it a ton, but you know, I'm not against it,
Speaker 2: and I know shame folks who do eat it because
Speaker 2: it's delicious and those who like, you know, I get
Speaker 2: why people look down at fast food as far as
Speaker 2: the health benefits. But like, let's be real, these restaurants
Speaker 2: wouldn't be billion dollar businesses if they weren't doing something
Speaker 2: pretty good, right. They're making good food that's convenient, and yeah,
Speaker 2: all we've talked about here lately is how much the
Speaker 2: prices have gone up, but you know what, people are
Speaker 2: still eating. People are making it work because they love
Speaker 2: fast food that much. It's probably something we shouldn't do
Speaker 2: as a society. When it comes to other countries other
Speaker 2: cultures making fun of us, one of the things they
Speaker 2: bring up is that we're fat, and they're probably right.
Speaker 2: They also unfortunately make fun of us for school shootings,
Speaker 2: which is terrible, but you know, it is a thing. Yes,
Speaker 2: So anyways, when it comes to like if we're gonna
Speaker 2: have if we're not going to eat at home if
Speaker 2: the wife's not going to cook, which I love when
Speaker 2: she cooks. She's a great cook. And I don't say
Speaker 2: that just to say that she's a really good cook.
Speaker 2: But when we're gonna not eat food that she prepares
Speaker 2: at home, we're probably gonna go to like an Elma
Speaker 2: pol or a Roosters or a Texas roadhouse, one of
Speaker 2: those kinds of places, and for what you pay for
Speaker 2: I just think I'm not going to pay that price
Speaker 2: for that food and then add on a delivery fee,
Speaker 2: knowing that it won't be as good as if I
Speaker 2: just went there and sat down an ate, because you know,
Speaker 2: because of the time. But clearly it's a booming people
Speaker 2: do it all the time. But Nattie said the other
Speaker 2: day I was listening listen to him. I think it
Speaker 2: was last week. I don't know if he was an
Speaker 2: empty nester for the week. I think maybe his wife,
Speaker 2: his wife and daughter were gone, And he said he
Speaker 2: did it every day for a week.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, how, yeah, I've actually been the dasher before,
Speaker 3: I've signed up for those services where you're actually the
Speaker 3: person driving around and getting food.
Speaker 2: Is that that's a pretty good hustle? Right, it's not bad.
Speaker 3: I actually kind of like it because you really don't
Speaker 3: have like you don't have a boss. You know, you
Speaker 3: can just pop in like a podcast, just kind of
Speaker 3: drive around, but you kind of deal with all the
Speaker 3: stuff that basically people are paying to not do, like
Speaker 3: sitting and waiting in line because I mean the service
Speaker 3: that the service industry is still suffering, and just terms
Speaker 3: of waiting forever for food, them not having enough heads
Speaker 3: back there in order to prepare the food, Like I
Speaker 3: would get like a dash and then it would maybe
Speaker 3: take me about ten or fifteen minutes to get there,
Speaker 3: and thinking all right, the food should be ready, and
Speaker 3: I've sat there another twenty minutes waiting for the food.
Speaker 3: So you start to deal with traffic and all that,
Speaker 3: and I guess that's the I guess that's the stuff
Speaker 3: you're kind of paying a little extra for when you're
Speaker 3: the person paying for the door dash so you don't
Speaker 3: have to go through all that yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I've heard stories, at least I've I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know, I bet there's probably like really good days
Speaker 2: of doing it where you're like, man, this is totally
Speaker 2: worth it because I'm making some extra money and it
Speaker 2: hasn't been it hasn't been such a you know, it's
Speaker 2: been pretty it's been worth my while as a side hustle.
Speaker 2: It's not too bad. But also like I'm sure there's
Speaker 2: days where you're like, man, I dealt with either an
Speaker 2: employee at a restaurant that I really had a tough
Speaker 2: time not losing it on, or I dealt with a
Speaker 2: customer who was a terrible tipper, or you know, like
Speaker 2: that you have no control over that. That that that's
Speaker 2: what would be. I think the downfall for me is
Speaker 2: you never you never know what you're gonna get as
Speaker 2: far as the customer or I mean, I've I've been
Speaker 2: in restaurants where I've seen an employee and a dasher
Speaker 2: screaming at each other. Oh yeah, over some There's been
Speaker 2: two instances. One was a lot worse than the other,
Speaker 2: but clearly the like it's.
Speaker 3: Not my food, I don't care that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I think they if they if they're hover
Speaker 2: if they're hovering around, I mean, now they have I
Speaker 2: think some places have designated spots where you come and
Speaker 2: pick up for that, which carry which makes sense, right,
Speaker 2: Like you're not necessarily just getting in line with everybody else,
Speaker 2: like they have a designated spot for their dashers, which
Speaker 2: I think that makes sense. But uh yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 2: I'll do it at some point. But I got I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like, given my you know, my my,
Speaker 2: I feel like it's probably a rarity for someone like
Speaker 2: me who does eat out. It'd be different if you
Speaker 2: never eat out. We eat out more than we should.
Speaker 2: But it's just never been ever in my mind, like, hey,
Speaker 2: I need to eat, let me let me pop open,
Speaker 2: Like is it an app? I guess I found Like
Speaker 2: I thought, I'm such a dinosaur dude. Well I wouldn't
Speaker 2: even know how to do it.
Speaker 3: Well at the crux of it, Nicholas, if that is
Speaker 3: your real name with the ch me here they want
Speaker 3: you to Nico, that's that's the name. I forgot it
Speaker 3: if they they really want you to pay for the
Speaker 3: like the door Dash subscription, because that then takes away
Speaker 3: offer that make delivery fee, and then it takes like
Speaker 3: if sometimes if you order like over twenty dollars worth
Speaker 3: of food, your delivery is free and then you get
Speaker 3: the delivery like because there will be sometimes where actually
Speaker 3: the door Dashes pay for it. Because even when you
Speaker 3: go on to log one to be a dasher, to
Speaker 3: ask if you want to make hourly or if you
Speaker 3: just want to make what door dash pays you or
Speaker 3: just working off of tips, either what DoorDash pays you,
Speaker 3: or just go workoff tips. But you know, and you
Speaker 3: could probably sign up. If it's your first time, they
Speaker 3: probably might give you like your first thirty days of
Speaker 3: like door dash plus or something like that, to where
Speaker 3: you link it up to there and you can be
Speaker 3: able to basically order from your couch the same prices
Speaker 3: that you would if you were standing right there in
Speaker 3: line for something. And then once that runs out, that's
Speaker 3: when all the fees come up. But they want you
Speaker 3: to keep upgrading that subscription.
Speaker 2: They want to get your They want to have your
Speaker 2: money regardless if you order door dash once a month
Speaker 2: or five times exactly. Yeah, I wonder if you have
Speaker 2: any guess as to which which restaurant gets the most
Speaker 2: door dash orders.
Speaker 3: Oh, it has to be like McDonald's.
Speaker 2: It has to be those two. I just I just
Speaker 2: did a quick little search here. Let's see what it
Speaker 2: tells us.
Speaker 3: Talk about by my house is horrible DoorDash services. I
Speaker 3: always hated driving there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the according to door Dash the three most
Speaker 2: popular chain restaurants, and I guess it's because these restaurants
Speaker 2: also do it well, meaning they they found on the
Speaker 2: system that works to where they people realize, if I'm
Speaker 2: going to do a door dash, it's worth it to
Speaker 2: do it at this restaurant, maybe more so than another
Speaker 2: McDonald's Chick fil a in Chipotle, Oh okay, yeah, that
Speaker 2: makes sense. Never had Chipotle, Uh, never had Chipotle, never
Speaker 2: had I'm just about I'm exposing myself as just somebody
Speaker 2: that's just not I'm not I'm not up. I'm not
Speaker 2: up with the times, I guess.
Speaker 3: I mean, Chipotle is all right, but I'm kind of
Speaker 3: I'm worn out. I'm worn out on the burrito places
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Other than Salcertas. We love sal oh, I.
Speaker 3: Do love Sorcertas, Yes, But I think that next one
Speaker 3: in Bulla County they did it's right, yes' They just
Speaker 3: opened it like a couple a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Ye, Shepherdsville. So yeah, they for them. They Yeah, shout
Speaker 2: out to Pam at Salceritas. Their food is obviously delicious,
Speaker 2: but they have I don't know what it is about
Speaker 2: their chips. Their chips are set them apart their chips.
Speaker 2: I mean, their chips are different and better than any restaurant.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean just the competition like Chipotle mos
Speaker 2: and whatnot. I'm talking like any restaurant that serves chips
Speaker 2: and queso sALS of that kind of stuff. Like the sauceritas.
Speaker 2: Chips are just different. They're they're thin. They're crispy though,
Speaker 2: and there's the saw. It's so good. They're salivating. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're they're they're thin and they and you get it's
Speaker 2: like you get you get what you need from the chip,
Speaker 2: the crunch, the salt, but you get so much more
Speaker 2: of the salsa and the cheese because the chip's not
Speaker 2: too much, right, It's it's the perfect balance.
Speaker 3: Just when I thought I was out, Nick, you pulled
Speaker 3: me right back in.
Speaker 2: Now you know what you get for dinner? Right, that's
Speaker 2: it's it's up there, good stuff. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to a break. We'll come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: With the NBA Draft combine concluding last week, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of guys who are making it official that they
Speaker 2: are in fact going to come back to college. Many
Speaker 2: of these players already know where they're going to school.
Speaker 2: Because they didn't hit the portal in time. But there
Speaker 2: are some that are picking schools, like Boogie Flann will
Speaker 2: tell you where he decided to commit earlier today, big
Speaker 2: news for one program, it's already done pretty well lately.
Speaker 2: And then also r J Luise, it sounds like he's
Speaker 2: going to come back to college and I have no
Speaker 2: clue what schools are in on him, which it almost
Speaker 2: kind of feels like he was dead set on going
Speaker 2: pro and then got humbled at the combine. And he
Speaker 2: was an All American last year. So somebody's gonna get
Speaker 2: a good one. We'll get to that in a lot more.
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Speaker 2: So, Boogie Flann last year as a freshman at Arkansas
Speaker 2: was was Arkansas's best player. It was at a time
Speaker 2: when they were not having success and it didn't look
Speaker 2: as if they were going to be able to make
Speaker 2: the tournament. They ended up barely getting in and then
Speaker 2: made it all the way to the sweet sixteen with
Speaker 2: upsets over Kansas as well as Saint John's. So he
Speaker 2: was not a part of their big run, but he did,
Speaker 2: I think, come back and play in the tournament in
Speaker 2: their final couple games. But nonetheless, he at the portal,
Speaker 2: went through the draft process and decided to not go
Speaker 2: back to Arkansas but to go elsewhere, and he is
Speaker 2: committed to Florida. So this Florida team that's fresh off
Speaker 2: a national championship, they're now getting Boogie Flann, one of
Speaker 2: the best guards probably in the country at least certainly
Speaker 2: in the conversation. And now if they can get Alex
Speaker 2: Condon back, I mean, that would probably solidify them as
Speaker 2: a top probably a top five team next year. So
Speaker 2: Todd Golden clearly has a bright future there at at Florida,
Speaker 2: And I don't know if they're going to be able
Speaker 2: to be in the conversation to maybe run it back.
Speaker 2: But that Florida team last year, part of me says
Speaker 2: a lot of what they were they were able to
Speaker 2: do was was was, you know, a collective effort, because
Speaker 2: they were they were pretty deep, pretty balanced, and he's
Speaker 2: a really good coach. But I don't know. I think
Speaker 2: the guard who transferred from who was a star there
Speaker 2: for two years, I can't think of his name because
Speaker 2: again I'm terrible with with with names. But he played
Speaker 2: at Iona for I think Patino one year that ended
Speaker 2: up and he's one of the best players in the
Speaker 2: country last year, and his name will come to me
Speaker 2: in just a moment, is it will something? Here we
Speaker 2: go Clayton Walter Clayton Junior. So I don't know. Again,
Speaker 2: they may be able to put together another really good
Speaker 2: team have a really good run. But I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like at times last year he was just he
Speaker 2: was just that good. But Florida gets Boogie Flann and
Speaker 2: then r J Luis, who was a star for Rick
Speaker 2: Patino at at Saint John's and he started his career
Speaker 2: at UMass ended up transferring to play for Rick at
Speaker 2: Saint John's and he had a breakthrough season in a
Speaker 2: big way. And now it sounds like he's gonna pull
Speaker 2: out of the draft and where he ends up, I
Speaker 2: mean no clue. Sounds like at the combine he he
Speaker 2: was smaller than advertised, had some turnover problems, and it's
Speaker 2: going to go back to school and whoever gets him
Speaker 2: is getting a really good player. But it's almost as
Speaker 2: if he didn't have really any I mean, clearly his
Speaker 2: backup plan was to come back to college. He'd entered
Speaker 2: the portal and left that opportunity open for him. But
Speaker 2: I've not heard much of anything as far as what
Speaker 2: schools will be involved. But again, we're talking about a
Speaker 2: guy who was an All American last year that's now
Speaker 2: on the board and available, so we shall see, all right,
Speaker 2: So let's see here the latest mock draft here, and
Speaker 2: this is from Let's see this one's from Yahoo Sports.
Speaker 2: This is Kevin O'Connor, who covers the NBA. He has,
Speaker 2: as you could expect, Cooper Flag going number one, Dylan
Speaker 2: Harper number two, Ace Bailey number three, which real quick,
Speaker 2: I'll move on from this because I don't it's not
Speaker 2: worth spending a ton of time on. But anytime I
Speaker 2: see mock drafts and I see Rutgers with two guys
Speaker 2: that are believed to be certainly top five picks, both
Speaker 2: maybe picks two and three right after Cooper Flag, like,
Speaker 2: how demoralizing would it be if you're Rutgers and like
Speaker 2: you did have a year where there was a tension
Speaker 2: surrounding you, these two freshman phenoms alone were the reason
Speaker 2: that you were, in fact in the preseason top twenty five.
Speaker 2: I think they were like right at twenty five, but
Speaker 2: you weren't good, didn't make the tournament, didn't really sniff
Speaker 2: the tournament. These guys were there for a year, They're
Speaker 2: still gonna go top two, top three in the draft,
Speaker 2: maybe certainly top five, and you have like nothing to
Speaker 2: show for it. That that that would suck. But that's
Speaker 2: what I used to tell myself. Remember, Austin, we were
Speaker 2: so desperate for some five star, one and done players.
Speaker 2: Kentucky was getting them NonStop, and we wanted them. I
Speaker 2: remember we wanted them so bad, and I would you know,
Speaker 2: I was, I was. I was with all the other
Speaker 2: fans thinking like, why can't we get one of those guys? Man,
Speaker 2: that'd be nice. I was one of those fans too.
Speaker 2: And not to say that we were wrong, because I think,
Speaker 2: get there's no harm, there's no there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 2: getting them. But if they're there for a year and
Speaker 2: they still go lottery and you didn't have a good
Speaker 2: season with them, like quite literally, what do you have
Speaker 2: to show for I think in the end, I would
Speaker 2: feel underwhelmed if we didn't have a good season and
Speaker 2: it was like it was because you know, you just
Speaker 2: didn't have good enough players or you didn't have a
Speaker 2: good enough coach. Whatever it may be, that's still that's
Speaker 2: still a situation that sucks. But at least you can
Speaker 2: understand it, Like it makes sense if you have guys
Speaker 2: that used you for a year as just a place
Speaker 2: to hang out and in your team. Yeah, and your
Speaker 2: team stunk and then they move on like it really
Speaker 2: there's no bit. I mean, I guess the benefit would
Speaker 2: be you have a better chance of getting other guys
Speaker 2: who can see that your program can be a pit
Speaker 2: stop before they get to the NBA. And that's why,
Speaker 2: to be honest with the CALLI Perry, he did a lot.
Speaker 2: This is gonna sound like I'm contradicting myself, but they
Speaker 2: rarely were bad, you know what I mean, Like they
Speaker 2: usually were built off of mostly freshmen, and then there
Speaker 2: were some good complimentary pieces. There was the rare guy
Speaker 2: that came back for a sophomore junior season. It ended
Speaker 2: up being pretty good for them, but there were also
Speaker 2: Like Texas always comes to mind for me because I
Speaker 2: know Rick Barnes did it and Shaka Smart did it
Speaker 2: when they were at Texas. Texas had a bunch of
Speaker 2: top twenty lottery picks, even over a stretch of time
Speaker 2: and their teams were never good, and I just remember
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, you know what, like if louisvill would
Speaker 2: have gotten that guy, I think I'd be pissed. As
Speaker 2: far as how it has, how it worked out, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like, you know, again, there's no
Speaker 2: net negative. It does keep you in mind on draft night,
Speaker 2: but because we care so much about our programs succeeding
Speaker 2: more than we care about draft picks, it would be
Speaker 2: a reminder, Yeah, you had NBA talent and you didn't
Speaker 2: get a lot out of it. And I truly believe
Speaker 2: that that over time did run. It did run. It
Speaker 2: became stale with Kentucky fans because I think they want
Speaker 2: to support their guys in the NBA, and early on
Speaker 2: they were getting NBA players every year, reloading and having
Speaker 2: good seasons, final fours, one national championship. But then whenever
Speaker 2: you were getting Rob Dilling and Reed Shepard both in
Speaker 2: the top five, and you lose to Oakland in the
Speaker 2: first round of the tournament, Like at that point, it
Speaker 2: becomes a big embarrassment. Right at that point, it becomes
Speaker 2: all right, now we're just really propping ourselves up to
Speaker 2: be made fun of and that's why Cal, you know,
Speaker 2: he'll still do it. Although he will come to an end.
Speaker 2: He will, he will not his storak of having a
Speaker 2: first round draft pick is going to come to an
Speaker 2: end this year just because there's nobody on There's nobody
Speaker 2: from Arkansas that is even sniff in the first round.
Speaker 2: It looks like according to this most reason mock draft.
Speaker 2: I guess that can change. But nonetheless, Cal right towards
Speaker 2: the right after the Oakland loss. I mean, I feel
Speaker 2: like the embarrassment was at the top for him in
Speaker 2: Kentucky because you do it once. It's you know, to
Speaker 2: have all those NBA players and not win a title
Speaker 2: is bad enough, but you can just you know, you
Speaker 2: can say things that just make it easier for you
Speaker 2: to deal with, like, well, what do you know the
Speaker 2: ns double A tournament's random when really it is, but
Speaker 2: the championship's not. Championship's always won by a really good team.
Speaker 2: Final fours can be random anyways. Having one title to
Speaker 2: show for all those NBA players was starting to become
Speaker 2: like a noticeable thing nationally, like damn, why can't how
Speaker 2: do they not have more success? And then they started
Speaker 2: to kind of tail off a little bit, but to then,
Speaker 2: you know, lose to Oakland and Saint Peter's in a
Speaker 2: three year window. To end your season in the first
Speaker 2: round of the tournament at that point by bringing up
Speaker 2: all the guys you put in the league is really
Speaker 2: a self own for Caliperry, right, How you got all
Speaker 2: these dudes and you don't win? Now, he did this year,
Speaker 2: do what he's done sometimes previously a Kentucky where he
Speaker 2: didn't have a regular season that was that great. It
Speaker 2: looked as if they were in trouble and he found
Speaker 2: a way to make it work in the tournament. Like
Speaker 2: that Kentucky team that went to the championship game and
Speaker 2: lost to Yukon in twenty fourteen that had Julius Randall
Speaker 2: the twins. They beat Louisville in the sweet sixteen. That
Speaker 2: team barely got in the tournament. I think they made
Speaker 2: the championship game. Is like an eight seed. They had
Speaker 2: another year I believe it was in what was it?
Speaker 2: There was another year I feel like where they were great,
Speaker 2: but man, they got they got hot and made a
Speaker 2: deep run to where you didn't remember their their struggles
Speaker 2: quite as much. So Anyways, let's get to a quick break.
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