Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started, our number two here
Speaker 2: on a Friday afternoon, getting you set for the weekend,
Speaker 2: A big weekend. It'll be, no doubt, but no Louisville
Speaker 2: hoops this weekend. We've talked about that. That's my one
Speaker 2: complaint when it comes right now to Louisville basketball, is
Speaker 2: that just I haven't I'm not going to be able
Speaker 2: to watch him play for an entire week, which may
Speaker 2: be good for him, although I know Pat Kelsey, if
Speaker 2: he could choose, he would probably not want his He
Speaker 2: would probably not want to take the week off because
Speaker 2: they've just been riding some real momentum. But they'll be
Speaker 2: back in action on Tuesday against wake Forest. I want
Speaker 2: to reset a conversation later today about wake Forest, just
Speaker 2: because the more I looked at it and the more
Speaker 2: I kind of realized their situation with Steve Forbes when
Speaker 2: it comes to, you know, him being the guy vocal
Speaker 2: about the accshoes. He's a big factor in their issues.
Speaker 2: But we'll get to that later. However, Miyakawa, who is
Speaker 2: a college basketball statistician, a guy like Ken Palm and
Speaker 2: Bart Torvik, those guys who kind of have they're just
Speaker 2: they crunch numbers for college hoops, and someone like myself,
Speaker 2: who's a big college basketball nerd, I nerd.
Speaker 3: Out for these numbers.
Speaker 2: But he sent this to me in a DM earlier,
Speaker 2: stating that Lowell is the most improved team in the
Speaker 2: country of the last thirty days. The Cards have had
Speaker 2: to overcome more injuries than any team in the country
Speaker 2: this year, and says they could easily have called it
Speaker 2: quits months ago. Instead they're surgeing. So yeah, they're rate
Speaker 2: offensive rate, defensive rate per the Evan Maya numbers here.
Speaker 2: I mean, they've gone up substantially. And look, that's not
Speaker 2: to say that they're great and they can't be beat.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I don't want to I never want
Speaker 2: to focus on it or emphasize it. But I'm aware
Speaker 2: that they're benefiting from playing in a league that is
Speaker 2: not what it used to be. But I happen to
Speaker 2: think that even if they weren't playing in the ACC,
Speaker 2: they'd still look like a team that belongs in the
Speaker 2: conversation to certainly be you know, in the tournament and
Speaker 2: maybe even better than just a tournament team. We'll never know,
Speaker 2: and maybe we find out the hard way that this
Speaker 2: was all a product of the ACC being what it is.
Speaker 2: But even if that's the case, I'll just tell you
Speaker 2: how I feel.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 2: It's been enjoyable to see and I happen to believe
Speaker 2: that they are actually getting better to where they could,
Speaker 2: you know, be a team that would be a tough
Speaker 2: out for a team in the NAA tournament. All right, again,
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Speaker 3: Let's bring him in.
Speaker 2: He's the one and only mister Kent Spencer from w
Speaker 2: h AS eleven. How are we doing, Kent man?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great, buddy, and you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great.
Speaker 2: And before we get into hoops, let's talk some NFL
Speaker 2: playoffs with the four teams left, these two matchups, I'm
Speaker 2: certainly excited to see both games.
Speaker 3: Who do you if we could? You know?
Speaker 2: Maybe I know you're not a fan of either of
Speaker 2: these of any of these teams necessarily, lets I don't
Speaker 2: believe you are. What matchup do you want to see?
Speaker 4: In?
Speaker 2: What matchup do you think we will in fact see
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: So I starting with.
Speaker 4: The NFC, I mean to be honest with you, like,
Speaker 4: I don't I.
Speaker 6: Only have I think a dog in one fight, and
Speaker 6: it ain't even much.
Speaker 4: Of a dog.
Speaker 5: So in the NFC, I could care less.
Speaker 6: But I actually think the Commanders are going to go
Speaker 6: to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 5: I think they're super dangerous.
Speaker 6: And Jayden Daniels is like, he's that dude, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, you could just kind of tell, you know,
Speaker 6: certain guys are what they are, Like he's he's him
Speaker 6: as a rookie, you could tell he's going to be
Speaker 6: one of those kind of guys.
Speaker 3: Did you see this coming at all? I didn't, And
Speaker 3: what do I know?
Speaker 2: Clearly, but I thought he I thought he screamed bust
Speaker 2: and clearly, look, I look very foolish in thinking that.
Speaker 6: Coming into the league.
Speaker 5: I didn't see it coming at all.
Speaker 6: And then I got the you know, I saw it
Speaker 6: firsthand when he played the Bengals early, pretty early in
Speaker 6: the season, and I feel like, I don't know if
Speaker 6: he had an incomplete pass in that game, like he
Speaker 6: was that good, and I was like, oh, this kid's
Speaker 6: the truth, and you can see like he can he
Speaker 6: can read, he can do things. He puts defenses in
Speaker 6: all kinds of minds. You know, he can get out
Speaker 6: of trouble the way that he does. And then he's
Speaker 6: gonna he's got a great arm, super accurate. Like I
Speaker 6: was like, oh, he's really really good. And then he
Speaker 6: just kind of took off and he kept and he
Speaker 6: kept taking off from there.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think in the NFC, I think.
Speaker 6: They're gonna they're gonna beat the Eagles because I think
Speaker 6: Jalen Hurts is pretty hurt banged up himself, and so
Speaker 6: that's gonna be that's gonna be awful difficult. It's gonna,
Speaker 6: you know, allow that the defense to be able to
Speaker 6: kind of tee off on Philadelphia, I think.
Speaker 4: And then uh, in.
Speaker 6: The AFC, I will be rooting for the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 6: to go to the super Bowl. So and and I
Speaker 6: think they got an excellent chance if if you think,
Speaker 6: the game will be called the same for Josh Allen
Speaker 6: as it will be for Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to that matchup specifically, I mean,
Speaker 2: the Bills have been great all year, but Bills have
Speaker 2: actually been great for years now. I mean, they've been
Speaker 2: kind of building for this moment. I think at least
Speaker 2: twice there were years where he kind of felt like
Speaker 2: it would be their year and it never actually happened. Well,
Speaker 2: here they are with a chance to make it happen
Speaker 2: and knock off the Chiefs. I just feel like, if
Speaker 2: you and I know the Chiefs still have a great record,
Speaker 2: so if they weren't the team that we've known they've
Speaker 2: been for a long time, we would be talking about
Speaker 2: them differently. But I just think right now Buffalo is
Speaker 2: a better team, and I think they're playing better right now.
Speaker 2: But it's still just so hard to envision the Chiefs
Speaker 2: not doing what they do here, winning in the postseason
Speaker 2: at home, especially in these moments. This is where their
Speaker 2: legendary quarterback really makes an imprint and shows he's a
Speaker 2: god that we're gonna remember for a really long time.
Speaker 2: When you've watched Kansas City this year, again, the results
Speaker 2: are still the same as far as the win lost column,
Speaker 2: But I just I have not felt like they were
Speaker 2: the same group.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, I don't think that they are. I
Speaker 6: don't think the totality of their team is as good
Speaker 6: as that they've been in years past. I think there
Speaker 6: are much more gettable I think this year. But they
Speaker 6: still have Patrick Mahomes and they still have Travis Kelcey,
Speaker 6: they still have weapons, they still have Andy Reid call
Speaker 6: him plays uh and Arrowhead is an extremely tough place
Speaker 6: to play, and so you know, it's it's kind of like,
Speaker 6: oh what what Rick Flair used to say, to be
Speaker 6: the man, you gotta beat the man.
Speaker 3: That's true, and it all comes down still holds up today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, can you can you.
Speaker 5: Take him down?
Speaker 6: And so it's it's always easier said than done. I
Speaker 6: think Buffalo is a better overall team, but guess what
Speaker 6: can you be better on that day?
Speaker 5: That's that's the question.
Speaker 2: I think Josh Allen and the Bills this year are
Speaker 2: an example that you can have a piece to your team.
Speaker 2: And I want to I don't want to act like
Speaker 2: this guy was some big cancer of the locker room.
Speaker 2: But there was some concern when losing their star receiver
Speaker 2: to to Houston Diggs that the things they traded him
Speaker 2: so they didn't really lose them they got rid of him,
Speaker 2: that it would be an issue and Josh Allen wouldn't
Speaker 2: have any weapons. I feel like he's he's not worried
Speaker 2: as much about having to find a guy who he
Speaker 2: knows will make a clip that'll go viral in the
Speaker 2: locker room if he doesn't get certain touches. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't think he's got, you know, this poor cast
Speaker 2: of characters to work with, like some people make it out.
Speaker 2: To me, I think he's got some pretty good guys
Speaker 2: to work with. But you know, they got better without Digs,
Speaker 2: And you got to wonder, like receivers, well this would
Speaker 2: be and he Digs was spawn in Houston this year.
Speaker 3: He's a good player. He got hurt late in the year.
Speaker 2: But that's one of the things about Buffalo that finds
Speaker 2: me kind of rooting for him, is that they actually
Speaker 2: seem to be a better team without somebody that might
Speaker 2: cause some distractions. I know it sounds like I'm making
Speaker 2: some kind of big character bashing of Digs, but you
Speaker 2: know that was a big talking point Buffalo. Man, they
Speaker 2: really missed their window. Now they're losing their top receiver.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen's been good, but they can't break through. And
Speaker 2: I feel like this year, right now, in the moment,
Speaker 2: there there is dangers that they've ever been.
Speaker 6: Well, it may go to a little bit about just
Speaker 6: how good Josh Allen has been right like, and it
Speaker 6: also says something about the culture that they've been able
Speaker 6: to build up there with the Bills, because you don't
Speaker 6: lose a player like and still win as many games
Speaker 6: if you don't have a dude behind center and you
Speaker 6: don't have an amazing culture. Yep, because outside of Josh Allen,
Speaker 6: you know, James James Cook is an I's back. But
Speaker 6: there's you know, it's not like they're They've got a
Speaker 6: plethora of weapons of great, weapons of high.
Speaker 5: Notoriety, guys that he can choose from, you.
Speaker 6: Know what I mean, Like he's he just kind of
Speaker 6: spreads it around and does his thing and it takes
Speaker 6: off and runs when he needs to and they and
Speaker 6: they end up just scored a lot of points.
Speaker 4: And so I think that they.
Speaker 6: Are they're like the prototypical true culture type team of
Speaker 6: you know, like they this is the system that they're
Speaker 6: going to play. You know, that guy behind center is
Speaker 6: really really really good and we're just gonna make plays
Speaker 6: around him with some dudes you've ever heard of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the winning culture thing is is I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody would tell you that that's not relevant.
Speaker 2: It's it certainly matters. But I think with these four
Speaker 2: teams that are left, another team you could mention where
Speaker 2: culture has has has benefited them. Sakwan Barkley, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't want to. I feel I feel like it'd
Speaker 2: be foolish to say that the Eagles deserve a lot
Speaker 2: of credit for, you know, for what he's doing, because
Speaker 2: clearly he's he's been amazing this year, but he was
Speaker 2: in a culture, he was in a franchise that the
Speaker 2: culture wasn't a winning one at all, and he was good,
Speaker 2: got hurt, But like, I don't think anybody expected him
Speaker 2: to at any point have the season he's having this year,
Speaker 2: rather it be Philadelphia or elsewhere. But he entered a
Speaker 2: winning culture and it's working out in a major way.
Speaker 2: This is certainly not newsworthy. It's more of a local connection.
Speaker 2: But former Louisville lineman who had a really rough stretch
Speaker 2: with the Jets after being a top twenty pick. I
Speaker 2: can't think of his name, who's now with the Eagles
Speaker 2: starting yeah, Becton.
Speaker 3: I mean, he it.
Speaker 2: Sounds as if he's had one of the bigger bounce
Speaker 2: back years of all the old linemen in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's more so because he grew up and
Speaker 2: worked hard. But I think winning culture can can really
Speaker 2: do a lot for guys, And you know, it gets
Speaker 2: talked about, but I feel like there's some examples at
Speaker 2: times that that aren't It doesn't necessarily get mentioned as
Speaker 2: much for being a factor.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, in the case of Berkley, I would
Speaker 6: almost say it's more of an indictment on the Giants
Speaker 6: front office. True is that you had that dude for
Speaker 6: this long and he was he was always like you
Speaker 6: knew he was a great player, but man like.
Speaker 3: You didn't wait with him and you let him go.
Speaker 6: It was it was it was criminal what you surrounded
Speaker 6: him with. Yep, and so or or tried to build
Speaker 6: around him like it was criminal what they did to
Speaker 6: that guy. And then all of a sudden he ends
Speaker 6: up in a place like Philadelphia and he has just
Speaker 6: absolutely taken off and had one of the best seasons
Speaker 6: we've ever seen from a running back.
Speaker 5: And and oh, by the way, didn't.
Speaker 4: He run for two hundred last week in the playoffs?
Speaker 3: And he's been classy about it.
Speaker 2: Right, A lot of guys, understandingly so would have taken
Speaker 2: some shots would have had some emotion about it. He's
Speaker 2: been as mature and professional as as you could be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, one hundred percent like and that's and
Speaker 6: I actually think I said this last week, but I
Speaker 6: said to somebody, I said, you know, I'm super happy
Speaker 6: with that guy because he's actually like, we're actually seeing
Speaker 6: what the kind of talent he really has, and you know,
Speaker 6: and and and this is like that year and.
Speaker 5: He seems like he's a good dude. Yep.
Speaker 4: So it's cool to see something like that happen and flourish.
Speaker 2: I feel like in the NFL, just because it's such
Speaker 2: a I mean, it dominates headlines. I mean, the NFL
Speaker 2: is king in America when it comes to sports for
Speaker 2: for obvious reasons.
Speaker 3: I feel like you can you can.
Speaker 2: Tell which guys sort of command a level of respect
Speaker 2: from their peers and their teammates. And you know, even
Speaker 2: if maybe they don't necessarily it always at all times
Speaker 2: seem like maybe the most you know, have the most charisma,
Speaker 2: but you could tell that there's there's real joy around
Speaker 2: the people are happy for Sequon Barkley, and I feel
Speaker 2: like that speaks to his character and how he carries himself.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's corny, but as I get older, those
Speaker 2: are things I kind of found myself paying attention to
Speaker 2: more and what it comes down to. And I know
Speaker 2: you get this as a dad yourself. That's a guy
Speaker 2: that I I want my son to be a fan of,
Speaker 2: Like that's the guy who does things the right way.
Speaker 6: I'm getting old on you, kid, No, no, no, absolutely, Hey,
Speaker 6: welcome to the club bub. And you know with with Barkley,
Speaker 6: you know like if it hurts, it really is banged up,
Speaker 6: we're gonna we're gonna have to see if if he
Speaker 6: can carry that team to the super Bowl.
Speaker 5: And do it one more week.
Speaker 6: And you know what, I'm all in because they've got
Speaker 6: a great offensive line.
Speaker 5: Let's let's see what they drow up.
Speaker 2: It may not be what the NFL wants as far
Speaker 2: as viewership or interest, but I feel like it doesn't
Speaker 2: really for me. I think people are going to watch
Speaker 2: regardless because it's the NFL. But man, I would love
Speaker 2: to see a matchup between the Commanders and the Bills here.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure, and clearly for good reason, the favorites
Speaker 2: or the other teams in those matchups. Before we get
Speaker 2: to a little of basketball, they don't have a game
Speaker 2: this weekend, but I do want to. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: them coming up in just a minute. But with Kentucky,
Speaker 2: they've got a game against Bandy tomorrow and obviously nobody
Speaker 2: in the SEC seems to be bad. In fact, if
Speaker 2: Andy's one of the worst teams in that league, I
Speaker 2: think that says a lot about that league because the
Speaker 2: SEC is in a position now in basketball that I
Speaker 2: really never thought it would be. I think you could
Speaker 2: make the claim, and I know in basketball it really
Speaker 2: comes down to what you do in the tournament. That's
Speaker 2: where the real value comes in and that'll never change.
Speaker 2: That's just what makes college basketball unique. But as of now,
Speaker 2: I think, what but the SEC is in basketball, it's
Speaker 2: as impressive as anything I've seen the SEC doing football.
Speaker 2: And that's not a shot at the SEC and football,
Speaker 2: because they've been great, But I mean the SEC right now,
Speaker 2: they are quite literally the best conference in the country
Speaker 2: and it's not even close. And Vandy's a game that
Speaker 2: you should win. If you're Kentucky, you expect to win
Speaker 2: because I think you know you're a better team. But
Speaker 2: I think what's been a real I guess not much
Speaker 2: of a storyline. But when you're Kentucky, or you're in Alabama,
Speaker 2: or you're you're a Tennessee or I mean all the
Speaker 2: great teams they have in the league, and you play
Speaker 2: somebody that is in that lower tier, I think those
Speaker 2: become the more valuable games because if you slip up there,
Speaker 2: it makes it even more important for you to not
Speaker 2: have maybe the expected losses when you go on the
Speaker 2: road to Tuscaloosa or Lexington or Knoxville. I mean, I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like, in a weird way, this is
Speaker 2: a huge game, but again, I guess every game in
Speaker 2: the SEC is. Kentucky is obviously off to a great
Speaker 2: start this season. They did come up short against Alabama,
Speaker 2: first time somebody beat them where it felt like both
Speaker 2: teams played great and Alabama just outlasted them. What do
Speaker 2: you think about this matchup here with Vandy? And you know,
Speaker 2: I think Kentucky they could be one of those teams
Speaker 2: that maybe has more losses than we're used to seeing
Speaker 2: for a team that's on that one, two or three
Speaker 2: seed line. Maybe not one, but I still think the
Speaker 2: resume is going to be really strong.
Speaker 6: Well, and and let me let me just say this
Speaker 6: right like it's A. It's a it's such an important
Speaker 6: game because you lose to Alabama last week at homes,
Speaker 6: you're at Vanderbilt this weekend, and then Tuesday night you're
Speaker 6: at Tennessee.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty that's a pretty rough three game stretch.
Speaker 6: And by the way, they they haven't had a what
Speaker 6: what anybody would think is an easy night so far
Speaker 6: in SEC plays.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure they will.
Speaker 5: That's why, Yeah, you're right, that's why I bring that up.
Speaker 6: And you know, this Vanderbilt team that Kentucky gets, you know,
Speaker 6: you talk about the importance of it.
Speaker 4: You know, they just beat Tennessee last weekend, So this, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, this Vanderbilt team is good and they're dangerous.
Speaker 6: And you mentioned, you know how good the SEC team
Speaker 6: SEC is so for this season, you know, I think
Speaker 6: a huge indicator of all that was.
Speaker 5: How they did in the non conference portion of their.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they earned doubt when they beat up on each other.
Speaker 6: They they because because right now, you know, they're beating
Speaker 6: up on each other, but in the non conference, like
Speaker 6: the SEC, like they they're, their win loss record against
Speaker 6: everybody else was really really good and so like they
Speaker 6: they they proved it in the non conference. Now they're
Speaker 6: beating it now, beating themselves up, and then you're right,
Speaker 6: we'll we'll see how how they perform and how you know,
Speaker 6: deep teams go in the n C DOUAA tournament. But no,
Speaker 6: I think the conference is fantastic. I think it's I mean,
Speaker 6: we're talking the Big Twelve A couple years ago. I
Speaker 6: thought was was was really really good, and then you
Speaker 6: know this, this almost feels you know, maybe not because
Speaker 6: of the transfer portal and guys being older. It doesn't
Speaker 6: really feel like you have a bunch of the marquee
Speaker 6: names that you that you once did, but it feels
Speaker 6: like a nineties kind of ACC type type conference right now.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think what's different about this SEC run
Speaker 2: compared to the Big Twelve a couple of different times,
Speaker 2: was that the non conference, as you mentioned, they went
Speaker 2: out and played. I mean they scheduled everybody, seemingly scheduled
Speaker 2: as tough as you could against other teams in Power
Speaker 2: Power five leagues, Big East, Big twelve, ACC, Big Ten,
Speaker 2: and I mean their record, I don't have it in
Speaker 2: front of me, but I know it was very, very successful.
Speaker 2: And you've got teams that are in the bottom three
Speaker 2: or four in the SCC that went out and beat
Speaker 2: some of the better teams you have in the other conferences.
Speaker 2: So it really is something that I never expected to see.
Speaker 2: And I mean, even if they don't end up making
Speaker 2: all making deep runs in the tournament, it won't make
Speaker 2: it won't make me think that they still weren't really
Speaker 2: good teams. And you know, I think you could see
Speaker 2: maybe not as many teams in the in the tournament
Speaker 2: as you've ever seen from a conference, although that wouldn't
Speaker 2: shock me. But man, when it comes down to teams
Speaker 2: with like maybe five hundred records still getting really good seeds,
Speaker 2: I think because of what they did in the non conference,
Speaker 2: it it would make, It would make total sense. It
Speaker 2: sounds like Mark Pope this week really once to emphasize
Speaker 2: this guys getting back, getting to the foul on and
Speaker 2: not being in a deficit when it comes to free
Speaker 2: throws compared to their opponents. I think this Kentucky team, again,
Speaker 2: they're kind of boring to talk about because I know
Speaker 2: they could lose to some of these good teams they play,
Speaker 2: but they could also come out and beat anybody and
Speaker 2: it really wouldn't shock me. They're pretty balanced they've had
Speaker 2: different guys kind of step up and take over. What
Speaker 2: do you think as of now, as of late January,
Speaker 2: for this team to maybe find themselves in a final four,
Speaker 2: of course, easier said than done. What would you say
Speaker 2: would be the biggest emphasis for this group to improve on.
Speaker 6: It's for them like for the rest of the way, honestly,
Speaker 6: like it's all defense, you know, it's and more importantly
Speaker 6: than getting to the line, it's keeping teams off the line. Yeah,
Speaker 6: And that's what they've done. They've they've fouled a lot,
Speaker 6: They've put teams on the line.
Speaker 5: I think I looked it up yesterday.
Speaker 6: Their opponents just an sec play now, their opponents are
Speaker 6: have shot thirty seven more foul shots than they have.
Speaker 6: And it's not like they're they're shooting a small amount.
Speaker 6: They're just putting teams to the line a bunch. I
Speaker 6: think Alabama went to the line thirty some odd times
Speaker 6: last week. That's a lot of that's a lot of
Speaker 6: foul shots, a lot of yeah, and that and that
Speaker 6: and that is what allows you know, teams to be
Speaker 6: able to hang around with them at times is to
Speaker 6: do that. And so and I still think.
Speaker 4: They've got a little ways on their on their.
Speaker 6: Pick and roll defense that they got to work on.
Speaker 6: But they've gotten tougher. You know, they they're usually pretty
Speaker 6: good when they when they're team rebounding on the on
Speaker 6: the defensive end, but you know, they've got to be
Speaker 6: probably more dedicated to that. But I think for them
Speaker 6: like that next level, it's all you know, suing things
Speaker 6: up on the defensive end of the floor.
Speaker 2: Now with Louisville, I mean, I find them also here lately.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say boring to talk about. It's it's a
Speaker 2: good story and it's starting to become a bigger story
Speaker 2: within college basketball. But I feel like I've been doing
Speaker 2: reruns on this show for a few weeks now because
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been saying the same thing. Man, I
Speaker 2: just love watching this team play. I don't know what
Speaker 2: they're seialing is, but it seems to be a little
Speaker 2: higher each and every week. What what about this group
Speaker 2: in January as they put together this this winning streak
Speaker 2: it's now up to nine. Is there one specific thing
Speaker 2: that you've that you've seen more than once that you're
Speaker 2: you think back and say, Wow, I never thought we'd
Speaker 2: see that. I thought maybe they could finish strong and
Speaker 2: maybe win some games, maybe make the tournament. But what
Speaker 2: is I guess surprise you the most about this group
Speaker 2: when it comes to this run that they're on right now.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't even know if it surprises me,
Speaker 6: but it was just something like it's something that they
Speaker 6: have to have and they can never lose it. They
Speaker 6: have an unbelievable like grit to them and competitive spirit
Speaker 6: like they don't they're not giving up anything easy, Like
Speaker 6: whatever you get.
Speaker 4: You've got to earn.
Speaker 6: And they and they're attacking you on the offensive end,
Speaker 6: you know, I'll be it in most nights, in most
Speaker 6: positions they're undersized.
Speaker 4: But you can't tell because they're absolutely teams.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so like the fact that they've really kind
Speaker 6: of developed that and that's almost you know.
Speaker 5: I almost feel like it's kind of their their calling card.
Speaker 4: Nick As.
Speaker 6: Look, yeah, oh yeah, whatever you're gonna get, it's not
Speaker 6: it's not gonna come easy. And if you can do
Speaker 6: that on a night to night basis, then you give
Speaker 6: yourself a chance every time you put your put your
Speaker 6: shoes on to hit the court.
Speaker 2: And that's what has me from a fans perspective, I'm
Speaker 2: just enjoying the ride. It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Love this group, love watching them play. But what has me,
Speaker 2: I guess, unable to kind of just fully embrace, Hey,
Speaker 2: whatever happens, whatever, this is a great first year. It's
Speaker 2: been a fun ride. I think the future is bright,
Speaker 2: like all, that's true, But I think what's made them,
Speaker 2: you know, look the way they have and have this
Speaker 2: success is something that one is pretty easy to control.
Speaker 2: You may have an off night, but I mean it's
Speaker 2: not something that's really dependent upon luck. And they've done
Speaker 2: it so consistently as of late that and they seem
Speaker 2: more sure of themselves every night they hit the Florida
Speaker 2: where you know they they're gonna play better teams if
Speaker 2: they if they make a in the tournament, because the
Speaker 2: a CEC is what it is. But yeah, they I
Speaker 2: think what you said is spot on.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly they've got some good balance. You've got
Speaker 2: a guy like Chucky Hepburn that that can go out
Speaker 2: and get sixteen assists on a night, and rain Smith
Speaker 2: ten threes probably won't happen again for him because it
Speaker 2: never happened other than one other time at Louisville before
Speaker 2: he did it the other night, but you know, he
Speaker 2: can get hot. So they've got good players. But it's
Speaker 2: a collection of good pieces and they just bring it
Speaker 2: every night. And there's a there's a level of desperation.
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like the right word to use, but it's
Speaker 2: the one that came to mind. But they do play.
Speaker 2: They come ready to play, and you know, even whenever
Speaker 2: they have stretches of struggles or you know, I mean
Speaker 2: they needed they needed a I mean, they needed a
Speaker 2: late I think the team we saw nearly lose dKu
Speaker 2: is a little different now, just because I think they've
Speaker 2: made a lot of improvement since then. They clearly are
Speaker 2: a lot more sure of themselves. But yeah, they just
Speaker 2: they've been really really fun to watch. And I guess
Speaker 2: last question about Louisville hoops is how much do you feel?
Speaker 2: I mean, because I wish I could, I wish I
Speaker 2: could take a different approach.
Speaker 3: But I think the AEC is really bad.
Speaker 2: Man Like I don't want to say that, and I
Speaker 2: certainly am not discrediting Louisville, but I think the ACC
Speaker 2: League and hoops is is insanely bad and you know,
Speaker 2: nothing you can do about it. You got to play
Speaker 2: who you got to play. But I'm just curious from
Speaker 2: your perspective. I'm an rejective perspective. You know, how how
Speaker 2: far is this league fallen?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: I mean look it stakes right, yeah, no, it's terrible.
Speaker 6: And and with all due respect, I mean I mean honestly,
Speaker 6: like there's there's talk and I don't know how.
Speaker 5: How valid it is.
Speaker 6: They're like North Carolina maybe in the in the market
Speaker 6: for a basketball coach next year, right, yeah, Like, I
Speaker 6: mean it's not it's not crazy to see if they
Speaker 6: if they if they continue down there the dive and
Speaker 6: and so many people, you know, kind of projected North
Speaker 6: Carolina to be, you know, in that in that top
Speaker 6: four echelon in the conference. You know, look, North Carolina State,
Speaker 6: they make an unbelievable run last year to the final four.
Speaker 5: That kind of like helps validate the league a little bit.
Speaker 6: Look, let's be honest, Like there was talk that Kevin
Speaker 6: Keats was gonna get.
Speaker 2: Fired, he would have he nearly lost to Louisville in
Speaker 2: the a SEC Tournament.
Speaker 6: Right, Like, I mean, there's so much so that was
Speaker 6: just like, look that was they did great, they got hot,
Speaker 6: but that's a fluky.
Speaker 5: They were a bad team.
Speaker 2: Lest Oh, absolutely, you know what I mean, Like, so
Speaker 2: let's let's do the outlier is that run quite literally?
Speaker 6: But so the ACC is really really bad. But if
Speaker 6: but honestly, like if you're a Louisville fan who cares.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, I care because I
Speaker 2: want it to be good. But as far as enjoying Louisville, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not impacted me.
Speaker 5: Like in the in the.
Speaker 6: Last couple of years, it was so bad for Louisville,
Speaker 6: like this is this is Honestly, it's great that the
Speaker 6: ACC stakes.
Speaker 5: This year because then you get to win a bunch
Speaker 5: of games.
Speaker 3: Yep, you've been able to benefit from it.
Speaker 6: Not that Louisville wouldn't have won a bunch of games
Speaker 6: if it was a better conference. But you know, you
Speaker 6: get what I'm saying right Like you're you're in a
Speaker 6: nine game winning streak right now, and everybody is on
Speaker 6: cloud nine.
Speaker 4: They're just enjoying the ride every minute.
Speaker 6: Now the conference does at some point it's got to
Speaker 6: get it's got to get better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can't just.
Speaker 6: Be like Duke and then everybody else. That's just not
Speaker 6: going to be sustainable. And that Pat Kelsey continues on
Speaker 6: the trajectory that he is with with Louisville basketball. It
Speaker 6: may be Duke and then Louisville and then everybody else,
Speaker 6: but like, come on, you can't have that.
Speaker 5: It's got to be better than that.
Speaker 2: What keeps me positive about the future is just knowing
Speaker 2: that these are institutions that they need their basketball programs
Speaker 2: to be good. And it just was a weird timing
Speaker 2: where there were a handful of gigs that are good
Speaker 2: jobs that ended up really not having a full search
Speaker 2: and just kind of went to the next man up
Speaker 2: or the next connection. And louis is one of those
Speaker 2: programs that did that, and they they've made a different
Speaker 2: decision since then, and it's clearly working out. And I
Speaker 2: think you may see that with Carolina. The hire of
Speaker 2: Virginia I think will be huge. Miami is a program
Speaker 2: that can certainly succeed in basketball. I don't know how
Speaker 2: long Leonard Hamilton's going to be around, but that's a
Speaker 2: program that can win and Notre Dame. You know, I
Speaker 2: still think that's a program that you could have, you
Speaker 2: could see having success. Syracuse another example where they handed
Speaker 2: it off to Behaim and and you know, the guy
Speaker 2: that was next up for him has not done well.
Speaker 2: But you know you're seeing it. I mean, if you'd
Speaker 2: have told me ten years ago, and I know you were,
Speaker 2: you were, you were covering college hoops just like you
Speaker 2: are now ten years ago. Imagine telling someone that we'd
Speaker 2: be here in twenty twenty five, Kent in the SEC
Speaker 2: would be what it is in basketball, and the ACC
Speaker 2: would be what it is.
Speaker 3: It'd be nobody would believe you.
Speaker 5: I to called you a liar.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's crazy, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 6: No, but but here here we are in the year
Speaker 6: of our Lord, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: And this is and this is the case.
Speaker 6: But yeah, but like you know, you name all those
Speaker 6: and Louisvill'.
Speaker 5: Was gonna host Wake Force coming up on Tuesday night.
Speaker 6: Like so many of these schools, they have the bones
Speaker 6: to be really, really good. You just have to have
Speaker 6: the right people in place, yep, and to be able
Speaker 6: to honestly to handle, you know, the changing.
Speaker 4: Landscape of college athletics.
Speaker 5: Some of them haven't handled it great.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 2: They've got some built in things within these programs to
Speaker 2: where you need to get a good coach, of course,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't have to be somebody that it's you know,
Speaker 2: the biggest name that's going to command the biggest salary.
Speaker 2: If it's a guy you know, I don't know how
Speaker 2: many Pat Kelsey's that are out there, but a guy
Speaker 2: that will really utilize what's there and understand, Hey, if
Speaker 2: I can win here or there that's a lower level,
Speaker 2: then man, there's no reason why I can't win at
Speaker 2: some of these places.
Speaker 3: But can't.
Speaker 2: You always have been gracious with your time. Really appreciate it,
Speaker 2: enjoy the conversation, have a great weekend, and we will
Speaker 2: talk soon.
Speaker 4: My friend, absolutely, thanks brother, take care.
Speaker 2: Ken Spencer, whas eleven, always appreciate his time. A good
Speaker 2: convo and one that usually lasts a little longer than
Speaker 2: it should, but that's okay.
Speaker 3: We sacrifice.
Speaker 2: We we make some extra time because that's how much
Speaker 2: I enjoy talking sports with Ken Spencer.
Speaker 3: So let's get to a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back a couple of segments here in the
Speaker 2: four o'clock, but we're taking you up till six, so
Speaker 2: hang out. We'll get your set for the weekend right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. So we have some
Speaker 2: early lines for tomorrow here at DraftKings. I've seen if
Speaker 2: we had any and he spreads on the big games tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and I guess we do for at least one of them.
Speaker 2: Tennessee Auburn a huge game tomorrow night in the SEC,
Speaker 2: and currently Auburn minus six and a half, which totally
Speaker 2: understand the line. Think it's a perfect line, meaning I
Speaker 2: probably shouldn't shouldn't touch it. Tennessee bounce back big with
Speaker 2: their win against They lost of Andy of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Who Kentucky plays tomorrow, But Tennessee bounce back with a
Speaker 2: really impressive performance against Tennessee State.
Speaker 3: Is it Chas Lanier? That is his name, that's his name.
Speaker 2: That's their sharpshooter who transferred in from I believe Florida,
Speaker 2: North Florida. Maybe, but he'd hit a little bit of
Speaker 2: a of a shooting slump and he got hot in
Speaker 2: a major way. Think he made four threes in the
Speaker 2: first half against Mississippi State. So I kind of like
Speaker 2: Tennessee plus six and a half there. But obviously Auburn,
Speaker 2: even without their star player, has been really impressive. So
Speaker 2: other games that have some lines. Kansas minus went against
Speaker 2: Houston tomorrow, another good game, and then rutgersy Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Don't know how good of a game, that is, But
Speaker 2: Michigan State been hot as can be there minus five
Speaker 2: and a half at Rutgers. But as I look here
Speaker 2: at tonight's games and just seeing kind of what's available,
Speaker 2: shout out to the Big Ten for deciding to Maybe
Speaker 2: they didn't decide, maybe it was their TV network, Fox
Speaker 2: who made this requirement when it comes to their games,
Speaker 2: But they have a lot of good Friday night college
Speaker 2: basketball games and that's a good real estate to get into.
Speaker 3: I think now. I know Friday nights are.
Speaker 2: Not usually big nights and sports, they certainly can be
Speaker 2: dependent upon, you know, like this year, I know there
Speaker 2: were some games in the College Football Playoff that we
Speaker 2: ru on Friday nights and those are clearly appointment watching
Speaker 2: if you love college football. And there's so many college
Speaker 2: basketball games usually going on at the same time that
Speaker 2: you know, you really just prioritize either who you like
Speaker 2: and who you want to watch, or who you bet
Speaker 2: on that kind of stuff. But college basketball could do
Speaker 2: better when it comes to growing interest outside of the
Speaker 2: areas where there's always going to be interest. It'll never
Speaker 2: compete with college football when it comes to viewership and popularity.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think spreading out games could could
Speaker 2: benefit Like same thing goes in college football. Like for example,
Speaker 2: I've always said that for Louisville and Kentucky, there's never
Speaker 2: a scenario where they're going to get their rivalry game on. Well,
Speaker 2: it's never going to be viewed as a rivalry compared
Speaker 2: to the big college football rivalries. So therefore playing it
Speaker 2: on the same day that everybody else has the rivalry game,
Speaker 2: it's never made a lot of sense. I think the
Speaker 2: two or three years that had happened where they played
Speaker 2: their game on the Sunday of the holiday weekend, right
Speaker 2: before the NFL Sunday started, that it never you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like everybody's watching because they're just dying to
Speaker 2: see who wins the Governor's Cup, But it just seemed like, hey,
Speaker 2: that's an area where you could least stand out a
Speaker 2: little bit. And I just always prefer when the game
Speaker 2: was was.
Speaker 3: Was the first game of the season.
Speaker 2: But I have learned that when it comes to these
Speaker 2: kind of things, the TV networks, they're the ones who
Speaker 2: pay a lot of the dollars to have the rights
Speaker 2: to broadcast these games, and that's the biggest check that
Speaker 2: these schools get every year, the grant of rights share
Speaker 2: that you get from being a member of the SEC,
Speaker 2: the Big Ten, and whatever conference you're in. So if
Speaker 2: they say you're playing on this night then or that day,
Speaker 2: then that's when you're playing, all right.
Speaker 3: It's coffee and company.
Speaker 2: Philbou Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety So Notre
Speaker 2: Dame earlier this week lost in the National championship game
Speaker 2: to Ohio State, and Marcus Freeman clearly looks like he's
Speaker 2: got things headed in the right direction. And I saw
Speaker 2: something during the break on FootballScoop dot com. Actually it
Speaker 2: was from our guy, mister Zach Barnett, who is our
Speaker 2: college football insider who joins us to talk college football
Speaker 2: throughout the year he works for FootballScoop dot com. He
Speaker 2: made a good point. And so, Shane Gillis is a
Speaker 2: big comedian, really popular. I imagine there's not many of
Speaker 2: you listening that don't know who I'm talking about when
Speaker 2: I say Shane Gillis. I was late to the party
Speaker 2: on him, and I'm certainly not the president of his
Speaker 2: fan club. I know there's others that really like him,
Speaker 2: more into him than I am, but I now get
Speaker 2: like I think he's hilarious as well, and I think
Speaker 2: he's really funny, but it's a different it's a different
Speaker 2: it's a different type of comedy. I guess, like to me,
Speaker 2: he's he's just a different kind of funny, but he's
Speaker 2: still really funny and I like him, and he's a
Speaker 2: big noted am fan. So he revealed and I guess
Speaker 2: a podcast of his or a podcast that he was
Speaker 2: a guest on, that at the game on Monday, he
Speaker 2: got a chance to talk to the team beforehand. I
Speaker 2: guess he talked to them Monday morning, the day of
Speaker 2: their National championship game. And he reveals that he talked
Speaker 2: to them, but he also said kind of right after
Speaker 2: saying that, And I'll read the quote here. It says, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll read directly from Awful Announcing dot com and says
Speaker 2: the comedy star made the revelation during the latest episode
Speaker 2: of Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, which featured comedian Drewski, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, I think is maybe the funniest man
Speaker 2: on the planet. But Gillis described the experience as awesome,
Speaker 2: while admitting he wasn't sure he was supposed to be
Speaker 2: sharing that he had spoken to the team the morning
Speaker 2: of the game. Quote, he was asked if he gave
Speaker 2: them a pep talk, he said, I did. I met
Speaker 2: with the boys in the morning, gave them a little chat.
Speaker 2: It was incredible. I think I'm not supposed to talk
Speaker 2: about it, but no, that was awesome. I got to
Speaker 2: meet Marcus Freeman before the game. And then of course
Speaker 2: he just went on to talk about how much it
Speaker 2: meant to him. And it's led to people wondering why
Speaker 2: would he not be allowed to talk about it, like
Speaker 2: what would be the issue? And Zach Barnett's comment was,
Speaker 2: let's see. He says, well, here it is.
Speaker 3: Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? I
Speaker 3: just saw it? Uh No, I can't find it.
Speaker 2: But he was basically asking why do college football programs
Speaker 2: feel the need to hide something like that, Like what
Speaker 2: are they worried about? Yeah, he says, why are Coller's
Speaker 2: football programs incapable of embracing celebrity support while keeping a
Speaker 2: safe distance and from their perspective, like if you're Notre
Speaker 2: Dame and you're wanting to keep it quiet, I would
Speaker 2: imagine it's because you just are trying to have void
Speaker 2: avoidable things, meaning what's the benefit of people who know
Speaker 2: Shane Gillis is a super Notre Dame fan talking to
Speaker 2: the team like other than saying, oh, that's cool, I
Speaker 2: like Shane Gillis, like you, what do you stand to
Speaker 2: benefit from that being public? Not much of anything? If
Speaker 2: if anything not you know, maybe just like a oh
Speaker 2: it's cool they let him do that. What do you
Speaker 2: stand to lose? And I don't think this would have happened,
Speaker 2: but I'm just trying to put myself in their shoes.
Speaker 2: They're worried, and it makes sense, like if I was
Speaker 2: in the position of like PR media relations, that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff, you don't want anybody weaponizing it against you
Speaker 2: that your team might have lost because a jokester comedian
Speaker 2: talked to them today of the game, and it was
Speaker 2: like a thing where hey, we're going to have this
Speaker 2: guy talk to you. Like I think in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: we're to a point where I don't think the mindset
Speaker 2: would be, oh, that's why they lost. They weren't because
Speaker 2: they let a they let a comedian come in and
Speaker 2: motivate them. They were out there giggling on the field
Speaker 2: because Shane Gillis is just so funny. I mean, that
Speaker 2: sounds ridiculous. I hope you can understand sarcasm, but like
Speaker 2: if enough people run with that, maybe it would be
Speaker 2: a believable thing that that's why they lost, so that
Speaker 2: that would be my explanation. But I mean exports is
Speaker 2: entertainment and being able to do what I do and
Speaker 2: this being sort of you know how I you know,
Speaker 2: this is my job and it's it's a dream, but
Speaker 2: it's also made me understand that element of entertainment to
Speaker 2: where there's quite literally.
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it means so much to us because like
Speaker 2: our weekends are ruined if our team loses, and and
Speaker 2: we all know how it works, right, if you're a
Speaker 2: diehard fan and you've made that emotional investment as a fan,
Speaker 2: there's a there's there's some roller coaster rides that come
Speaker 2: with it, right, the good and the bad, But it's
Speaker 2: all because it entertains us. It's an escape from our lives.
Speaker 2: So I just wish there was more more in Brak.
Speaker 2: More there was more programs that we're willing to embrace
Speaker 2: that in sports because at the end of day, it's
Speaker 2: all entertainment. So anyways, Shane Gillis talked to the Notre
Speaker 2: Dame team and now it's become a story, which I
Speaker 2: feel like, I think Shang Gillis could have said it,
Speaker 2: but I think in the moment he was so happy
Speaker 2: to share it because he's a diehard fan, but then
Speaker 2: he realized he might not supposed to be sharing it,
Speaker 2: so then he put it out there, like I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm supposed to say this, but that's actually
Speaker 2: what made it a story more so than than it
Speaker 2: ever would have been that he was not supposed to
Speaker 2: talk about it. And I don't think he did anything
Speaker 2: intentional to bring attention to it, but I'm glad he
Speaker 2: did because it should be an eye opener, like we
Speaker 2: don't need to, Like, there was no scenario that a
Speaker 2: three to four minute conversation whatever it was, would have
Speaker 2: had an impact on the way the team played that night,
Speaker 2: and if so, that wouldn't be Shang Gillis's fault, that'd
Speaker 2: be their fault. All right, quick break, We'll come back
Speaker 2: for a quick segment to wrap up the four o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: and then we've got another hour to go. Taken you
Speaker 2: up till six o'clock, getting your step for the weekend
Speaker 2: right here. Coffee and Company Fiel about Thorton's on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven. We were wrapping up the four o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: getting set for the weekend. Not a lot of time
Speaker 2: left here before we have to take another quick break. Apologies,
Speaker 2: we always go a little along with Kin Spencer. But
Speaker 2: it's worth it. It's worth it, at least I believe
Speaker 2: it is. I know it is, actually, but it's never
Speaker 2: ideal to have, you know, really quick segments to end
Speaker 2: an hour. But you know, if anything, we're consistent, right
Speaker 2: or I'm consistent. I say we because I guess I'm
Speaker 2: trying to deflect some of the blame. But it's all
Speaker 2: my fault. But I think, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 2: my wife would mind me sharing. This could be my
Speaker 2: famous last words. But again, consistency. I make fun of
Speaker 2: myself a lot on this show, and self deprecation has
Speaker 2: seemed to work for me. But a real parenting fail
Speaker 2: on our end, I mean more so hers if I'm
Speaker 2: being honest. But you know we are one right. Today
Speaker 2: we sent our daughter, well, I took our daughter to
Speaker 2: school in her pajamas because we thought it was pajama day.
Speaker 2: I just found out Monday's pajama day. So my kids
Speaker 2: showed up in pajamas with nobody else in her class
Speaker 2: wearing pajamas, and luckily she won't care, and she won't
Speaker 2: notice that she's the only one wearing pajamas, and she'll
Speaker 2: be having fun. She loves school, and that's great. But
Speaker 2: you know, just you know, avoidable, it's an avoidable slip up.
Speaker 2: But you know, it happens from time to time. In fact,
Speaker 2: I have a really sad it's not real sad. It's
Speaker 2: actually it's funny. But if you think back at the time,
Speaker 2: I guess it would be sad. But my brother in
Speaker 2: law he shares this story from time to time, and
Speaker 2: it's probably a story that comes up whenever, whenever, you know,
Speaker 2: he's asked about like being embarrassed. And this was when
Speaker 2: he was I think in either late elementary school maybe
Speaker 2: early middle school.
Speaker 3: He got dropped off. This is pre cell.
Speaker 2: Phone right, Like when we were growing up, there weren't
Speaker 2: I mean, cell phones weren't a thing for really any
Speaker 2: anybody that you know wasn't an adult business professional when
Speaker 2: I was a kid. But by the time I got
Speaker 2: to like high school, like my junior year, I guess
Speaker 2: that's whenever cell formes became much more common, and in fact, like,
Speaker 2: it wasn't that crazy for somebody that wasn't an adult
Speaker 2: to have one. I think I had my first cell
Speaker 2: phone whenever I was sixteen, but they were still relatively
Speaker 2: new at that time. But you know, go back five
Speaker 2: six years before that, they were really rare. So he
Speaker 2: got dropped off at a friend's house for a Halloween party,
Speaker 2: dressed up for Halloween, and it was the week before
Speaker 2: and he was the only one there and he got
Speaker 2: dropped off and his dad left, so he just knocking
Speaker 2: on the door and he's dressed up as I don't
Speaker 2: know what, but I'm sure it was, you know not.
Speaker 2: He was probably a pretty obvious costume. And the young
Speaker 2: lady who was having the party the next week was
Speaker 2: not there. It was just her mom, and here he
Speaker 2: is at the front door, dressed up. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what it was. And she had to say, you know,
Speaker 2: who are you? What are you doing here? I'm here
Speaker 2: for the party, and she's like, well, that's next week.
Speaker 2: So he had to then borrow their phone and call
Speaker 2: his dad to come back and get him. And always
Speaker 2: think like, man, that would be tough tough to take,
Speaker 2: but yeah, communication's key, and I don't know where we
Speaker 2: got mixed up, But here I am walking my daughter
Speaker 2: into school today like they can not. I guess maybe
Speaker 2: it's more so on me. Not really, I wouldn't done
Speaker 2: anything about it at the time, but I didn't even
Speaker 2: realize as I'm taking her in school and her pajamas
Speaker 2: that you know, nobody else was wearing pajamas. They're dressed
Speaker 2: as most kids would typically dress for school. So if anything,
Speaker 2: my daughter benefited, she she got to wake up and
Speaker 2: not have to change clothes to consecutive school days because
Speaker 2: certainly on Monday she's going to participate in pajama Day
Speaker 2: when it actually is pajama day. I don't think we
Speaker 2: get pajama day around here. Although we work in radio,
Speaker 2: they're lucky we wear clothes. I guess you know we don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the one this is the one
Speaker 2: job where it comes to like what we do. It'd
Speaker 2: be really hard for them to tell me that what
Speaker 2: I wear matters now meetings being professional.
Speaker 3: That's that's one thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't come in here where and you
Speaker 2: know something crazy, But there's no scenario you could try
Speaker 2: to tell me that what I'm wearing while I'm working
Speaker 2: is really important. I mean it can't be right. Got
Speaker 2: a face for radio and a style for radio two.
Speaker 2: All right, five o'clock hours, next, one more hour to go.
Speaker 2: We'll finish strong. Get chatter for the weekend. It's coffee
Speaker 2: and company. Filbeth Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety