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Speaker 2: It is Coffee and Company. That's us. We are fueled
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Speaker 2: hanging out with us. My name is Nick Coffee. I
Speaker 2: hope you knew that. If not, my ego is is
Speaker 2: damaged slightly.
Speaker 3: But you know.
Speaker 2: Now you know, and hopefully you remember a name I
Speaker 2: know you're very familiar with. Is the company man, mister
Speaker 2: John Alden, who's alongside as we take you up till
Speaker 2: six o'clock. And John, I'm feeling good today, brother, I
Speaker 2: bet you are.
Speaker 3: It was a good night last night for Louisville fans, it.
Speaker 2: Was, and we're certainly going to get into last night's
Speaker 2: performance from the Ville their best performance thus far, not
Speaker 2: even close, and it does give me some confidence moving
Speaker 2: forward and their ability to keep this run going. But
Speaker 2: now we have the matchup and it's it's I don't
Speaker 2: really know how to describe it. I mean, because it's
Speaker 2: I mean, the rivalry's on, and it's never really not on.
Speaker 2: But now we have a rivalry matchup that I feel
Speaker 2: like the layers to it make it to where fans
Speaker 2: can just have fun with it. Now we're going to
Speaker 2: be upset as Louisville fans if they come up short
Speaker 2: against Loaf Familia and Kentucky fans you know, they'll probably
Speaker 2: be bummed if they show up at Freedom Hall and
Speaker 2: they see Montrez Harrold Russ Smith and Peyton Siva send
Speaker 2: them packing. But because of what this is, it's almost
Speaker 2: as if like the type of misery that you would
Speaker 2: that you would go through in any other Louisville Kentucky
Speaker 2: basketball related matchup, Like it's just not gonna be that bad.
Speaker 2: Then again, maybe I'm wrong, right, like, expect the unexpected,
Speaker 2: the TBT that's David Paget's line, and he's doing a
Speaker 2: great job, by the way, on the on the call
Speaker 2: for Fox NFS one. But I'm thinking, if Louisville loss
Speaker 2: like whatever, you know, like it, I'll be bummed and
Speaker 2: I want him to win in a major way. Maybe
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have said whatever, but you know, these guys
Speaker 2: still came out and you know, made it to the
Speaker 2: Elite eight of this event in their second year, so
Speaker 2: they're you know, and I don't see any reason why
Speaker 2: they won't keep this thing going moving forward. But as
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, it'll be kind of something
Speaker 2: easy to just move on from. I could be wrong, right, Like,
Speaker 2: it could be something, you know, depending on how it
Speaker 2: all plays out. With the elam ending adding so much
Speaker 2: drama to the end of these games, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: it'll be one ten years from now, I'm thinking, Man,
Speaker 2: if they would have freaking won that game on Monday night,
Speaker 2: July twenty ninth at Freedom Hall, I mean, gosh, what
Speaker 2: could have been? Like, I don't we don't know, we
Speaker 2: don't know, but I feel like last night was ten
Speaker 2: years ago. And let me tell you why, John, I
Speaker 2: had a dream last night that I don't even really
Speaker 2: want to get into like what it was, because it's
Speaker 2: not interesting. It's not I mean, it's it's weird. Dreams
Speaker 2: are weird. They don't make any sense. You know. I've
Speaker 2: never really done a whole lot of researcher looking into,
Speaker 2: you know, the theory or the science behind why we
Speaker 2: dream what we dream. But it was a dream to
Speaker 2: where I feel like, you know, ten years went by.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had that to where you go to
Speaker 2: bed and you feel like you woke up and it
Speaker 2: was like, damn, where have I been for the last
Speaker 2: you know? Oh, yeah, wow, that's my wife. I'm married,
Speaker 2: I got two kids.
Speaker 3: I gotta get in a while. But I've had dream
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: They're wild, aren't aren't they.
Speaker 1: It's very trippy and it sometimes it takes a few
Speaker 1: moments to kind of get yourself back to reality when
Speaker 1: you come to from those dreams.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's exactly what happened to me today. It's
Speaker 2: like I was like I was, I woke up to
Speaker 2: restart a life that I'd abandoned forever and again, like
Speaker 2: if there was something weird or interesting or creepy about
Speaker 2: said dream, then you know I would share it with
Speaker 2: you because that could potentially. You know. Look, when it
Speaker 2: comes to to making interesting content, one of the things
Speaker 2: that has always really really played for me was self deprecation,
Speaker 2: making fun of myself. It usually works pretty well, but
Speaker 2: it was just I don't know, like, today's been a
Speaker 2: day to where I'm just feeling like, man, this I
Speaker 2: was away from this life for so long in said dream,
Speaker 2: and now I'm here, and man, this is great. It's great.
Speaker 2: It's also great that I've got roughly, you know, under
Speaker 2: six hours of radio time before I'm out of here
Speaker 2: for vacation. I'm really getting excited about that. This is
Speaker 2: the trip John, where the pre you know, the pre
Speaker 2: travel anxiety doesn't hit.
Speaker 1: And that's probably it makes sense because you've already been
Speaker 1: on a couple of trips this year. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: this is also your your annual.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Like this is one where there's not a whole
Speaker 2: lot of you know, uncertainty here, right. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess we could always be a victim of terrible days
Speaker 2: at an airport. I certainly hope that's not what happens
Speaker 2: with us, But there's always a chance when you fly.
Speaker 2: We know that, but you know, we know what we're
Speaker 2: gonna do. I've talked all summer about these trips I've
Speaker 2: been on where I'm like, you know what, man, it's
Speaker 2: been great just just going to these places I've never been.
Speaker 2: I'm made ever go back, but just exploring, just doing
Speaker 2: different things, seeing places I've never seen before. And now
Speaker 2: here I am like, oh, no, I know exactly what
Speaker 2: I'm doing. I know exactly, So I guess both can
Speaker 2: be great, right, Like, maybe mix it up. Have some
Speaker 2: trips to where you know you're seeing something for the
Speaker 2: first time, and then have a trip that you know
Speaker 2: is just your thing. And that's that's that's our annual
Speaker 2: vacation that we take to to destin with with the family,
Speaker 2: you know, the immediate family, the wife and the two
Speaker 2: little ones. So again, reminder, I won't be here next week,
Speaker 2: and yes, I'm going to miss out on I don't
Speaker 2: want to call it a once in a lifetime like,
Speaker 2: you know, man, this is one of the most highly
Speaker 2: anticipated things we could discuss in this sports radio platform
Speaker 2: here in Louisville. Former Cards and Cats playing you know,
Speaker 2: against each other at Freedom Hall. And if they keep
Speaker 2: moving on, you know, I guess a win for them
Speaker 2: Monday doesn't guarantee that they keep winning, but hey, it's
Speaker 2: another step towards potentially sharing a million dollars. Like it's
Speaker 2: cool as hell, but you know, it's not actually Louisville
Speaker 2: in Kentucky. It's it's former players, and it's a different
Speaker 2: event and we all know that. So I don't want
Speaker 2: to act as if like it's the best thing that's
Speaker 2: ever happened. But for late July early August, man, this
Speaker 2: is a gift as far as things we can get
Speaker 2: into and have fun with. And that's what this has been. Man.
Speaker 2: You know, I just watching these former players play, seeing
Speaker 2: how much they really are feeding off of the fans
Speaker 2: that are there. I mean, it's just been it's been awesome.
Speaker 2: And you know, the TBT has been around for a while,
Speaker 2: but it's grown, I feel, you know, substantially in the
Speaker 2: last probably just really since the pandemic. It seems as
Speaker 2: if you started to really see more and more attention
Speaker 2: around it. And the elam ending continues to be awesome.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I doubt we ever see any real change.
Speaker 2: Like I'm sure if you brought it to whoever the
Speaker 2: commissioner of the n S double A is now, who
Speaker 2: is that or the president of the n stable a
Speaker 2: Charlie something. It's got a really really it's like a
Speaker 2: movie character name. I think. Is it Charlie Baker? Did
Speaker 2: I just make that up? Or is that? Is that
Speaker 2: the nc Double A? Is that who took over from Mark?
Speaker 1: I'm not too sure, but I can't. I can't never
Speaker 1: not think of Mark Emmert when I think of the
Speaker 1: n C Double A.
Speaker 2: Boom. Charlie Baker is his name, and he's the new uh,
Speaker 2: He's the new president of the n C Double A,
Speaker 2: taking over for Mark Emmert. So you know, I doubt
Speaker 2: you know, he'll want to adopt the the elam ending
Speaker 2: for a variety of reasons, and I'm not advocating for it.
Speaker 2: And then of course the NBA they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Adam Silver would probably, you know, although he did let them.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's the one who decided to do it. But
Speaker 2: they did the elam ending in the NBA All Star
Speaker 2: Game a couple of years ago, a few years ago,
Speaker 2: whenever it was, And it did make it to where
Speaker 2: like that event towards the end, like for somebody to win,
Speaker 2: like if it was a close game, you're gonna see
Speaker 2: again the All Star Game sucks in the NBA because
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, these guys aren't really competing,
Speaker 2: they're just having fun. They do not care if they
Speaker 2: win or lose, and you know that'll that is the
Speaker 2: root of why the NBA All Star Game may eventually
Speaker 2: just not exist. And if it does, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: you won't miss it. But you know, like, even if
Speaker 2: they're just messing around, like, you still got to like
Speaker 2: you can't just ride out the clock, like you got
Speaker 2: to go make a shot, make a play, and if
Speaker 2: it's close, I think, you know, there's a chance that
Speaker 2: NBA players, who again I assume if they're in the NBA,
Speaker 2: they have a competitive nature about them to where, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, even though we're messing around, like I want
Speaker 2: to try to win this, you know, all we got
Speaker 2: to do is, you know, we're we're five points away
Speaker 2: from the elam ending ending target scorer and they're too,
Speaker 2: So let's just buckle down and get some stops and
Speaker 2: try to win this thing. So it'll never happen, at
Speaker 2: least I don't think it will, meaning where basketball just
Speaker 2: adopts this is the way games end. But I'm starting
Speaker 2: to feel like if it did, we wouldn't complain after
Speaker 2: the fact. Now I say that as somebody who's followed
Speaker 2: this event this year and not lost because of the
Speaker 2: elam ending. But again, like, could there be a scenario
Speaker 2: in the elam ending where you could claim that you
Speaker 2: were wronged like that in that formula that scenario stole
Speaker 2: a victory from you, because I don't think you can.
Speaker 1: I think there's a situation, and this is similar to
Speaker 1: regular basketball where if you foul somebody on the game
Speaker 1: winning shot and they win by free throws.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And obviously if it's a foul, it's a foul,
Speaker 1: But if it's a questionable call and that ends up
Speaker 1: being the decision, then that can be a little controversial.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but still like don't foul then you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like, and you're right, like you
Speaker 2: would go back and think, like, well, man, in the
Speaker 2: previous world that that you know, basketball has always been
Speaker 2: played for it from the beginning of time, meaning the
Speaker 2: beginning of the sport. Yeah, maybe it could have worked
Speaker 2: out different. But because you because you can't rely on
Speaker 2: time in any way, I think that makes it to where,
Speaker 2: regardless of the outcome, you might boohoo and say, well, Hey,
Speaker 2: if there was a running clock, like like we've always played,
Speaker 2: we might have been able to hold on and survive. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, you may be right, but go earn it,
Speaker 2: go win, you know, so because you have to actually
Speaker 2: go make plays. You can't just survive. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess technically you still use that, Hey, we survived, we
Speaker 2: were able to win like as you could be that
Speaker 2: you could be a team that had a you know,
Speaker 2: you could have had a fifteen point lead when the
Speaker 2: elam ending started. And then if you end up in
Speaker 2: a close game where you actually have to hit, you know,
Speaker 2: you hit, you hit a bucket to win it, to
Speaker 2: hit the target score, and you won the game by two,
Speaker 2: then I guess technically you did still kind of survive.
Speaker 2: But either way, you can't just hold out hope that
Speaker 2: you know, their run started a little too late. So
Speaker 2: again I'm getting ahead of myself, because again I don't
Speaker 2: think it'll ever happen. But the more games I watch
Speaker 2: that have the elam ending involved it from a competitive standpoint,
Speaker 2: it's awesome. From a fan standpoint, as far as consuming
Speaker 2: the product and wanting to be entertained by an exciting finish,
Speaker 2: it's great. Now again, you can have again Kentucky. To
Speaker 2: be honest with you, their team La familia, they've had gosh,
Speaker 2: they've had blowouts, so like their elam ending has not
Speaker 2: been like a oh, who's gonna who's gonna get to
Speaker 2: this score? Like you felt pretty comfortable if you're a
Speaker 2: Kentucky fan, that they were gonna get there long before
Speaker 2: anybody else had any chance to do it. So anyways,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm loving this.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I know these former players, you know a lot has
Speaker 2: happened in their life since they left. I hate acting
Speaker 2: like they're so old, but you know, Peyton Seva is
Speaker 2: a grown ass man, which older than a family. He's
Speaker 2: a co coach here. Now you know Peyton's a little
Speaker 2: bit younger than me, but you know he's on the
Speaker 2: older side. Although last night, looking at guys like Darius
Speaker 2: Washington and Paul Harris Junior, I mean like those guys
Speaker 2: make Peyton russ And and tres And and Chris Jones
Speaker 2: look young because those guys are not only older, they
Speaker 2: look a lot older. But you know there's no scenario
Speaker 2: in these because good what I'm getting at And I
Speaker 2: talked to one former player and I won't mention who
Speaker 2: it is because it may not be something he wanted
Speaker 2: to put out there, but they went through years of
Speaker 2: still trying to play professionally, trying to make a living,
Speaker 2: basically trying not to get a real job. And you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure if these guys walk away from basketball, they've
Speaker 2: got money to where they could be entrepreneurs like Russ,
Speaker 2: they can you know, get a job in a great
Speaker 2: industry and do well for themselves. Like these are very
Speaker 2: successful people. And you know, I have no doubt when
Speaker 2: they don't play ball for a living anymore, they'll find
Speaker 2: a great career and have a great life. But you
Speaker 2: don't want to do that until you have to, I
Speaker 2: would assume, right, you can still, you know. So you
Speaker 2: know these guys, one in particular told me that, you know,
Speaker 2: he really struggled knowing that even if he did get
Speaker 2: a you know, healthy six figures salary to go play
Speaker 2: for four months in Bulgaria, that's a good way to
Speaker 2: make I mean, that's that you know, keep in mind
Speaker 2: when you bring that money home and ain't tax my
Speaker 2: uncle Sam because you didn't make that money here in America.
Speaker 2: Like that, that's that's that's a great situation for somebody
Speaker 2: but you're never playing in front of people who really
Speaker 2: know who you are. You don't stick around like it's rare,
Speaker 2: like Peyton Siva had a rare situation in his pro
Speaker 2: career to where he played in I think it was Germany.
Speaker 2: I think he played three straight years for the same team.
Speaker 2: And he you know, Peyton's such a lovable guy and
Speaker 2: you know, just a good dude that easily fans will
Speaker 2: easily you know, attract to. So you know, he was
Speaker 2: kind of a fan favorite there. But you know, for
Speaker 2: some of these guys, man like, they'll play, they'll play
Speaker 2: in three countries in account year, you know, just just
Speaker 2: to still you know, just just to be able to
Speaker 2: make a living and you know, put away as much
Speaker 2: money as they can while they can still use their
Speaker 2: talent and ability to play basketball to make a living.
Speaker 2: But it's you know that your best days are behind you.
Speaker 2: That's essentially what was said to me by one of
Speaker 2: these guys participating and and I'm you know, I may
Speaker 2: ask him if I can share the story because it
Speaker 2: was really it was really interesting to hear that perspective,
Speaker 2: and it explains why this means so much. You know,
Speaker 2: you end your career at Louisville, where you're playing in
Speaker 2: front of twenty thousand plus every night, and you go
Speaker 2: to a restaurant in town, everybody knows who you are,
Speaker 2: whereas you know you could be making a great living
Speaker 2: and bounce around from country to country in a twelve
Speaker 2: month period. And yes, you're blessed to be able to
Speaker 2: make a living playing the game you love. It didn't
Speaker 2: really feel like work because it's all you've ever done.
Speaker 2: But you also know you'll never experience that love again
Speaker 2: from a fan base that cares so much. Well, now
Speaker 2: here they are and they're experiencing it again. It's not
Speaker 2: twenty thousand people there, but the energy and the you know,
Speaker 2: the love that the fan base has for former players
Speaker 2: like this gives them a chance not only to come
Speaker 2: back to town and you know, be around the program
Speaker 2: and get a sense for Wow, this place is awesome.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad I went to school here and played basketball. Man,
Speaker 2: what a what a what a pleasure it was to
Speaker 2: be around here. Well, now they're actually out there playing
Speaker 2: the game, and and and and and competing for a
Speaker 2: chance to not only put money in their pocket and
Speaker 2: share a million dollars collectively, but also you know, make
Speaker 2: these fans proud. So there's a level of of of
Speaker 2: corniness to this that I feel like I've tried to
Speaker 2: kind of dance around, because again, like this isn't like
Speaker 2: whatever happens in this event will not will not really
Speaker 2: matter for the program that is Louisville basketball. I mean,
Speaker 2: it'll be it'll be a good look, I suppose, but
Speaker 2: it you know, it's not going to have any impact
Speaker 2: on the future of the program because again, these are
Speaker 2: former players playing in an event that has really nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the university itself. But I can't lie
Speaker 2: and act like it didn't freaking awesome. And I think
Speaker 2: what's really made it hit me a little bit more
Speaker 2: in the fields, John is because my son Moose, he's
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's gonna be a Louisville Cardinal lunatic
Speaker 2: and I couldn't be more proud.
Speaker 1: And he's getting to really cut his chops with it.
Speaker 1: With the guys you grew up, not I grew up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guys you saw be successful at the highest level.
Speaker 2: You're gonna make me get emotional because you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: These are guys, most of them. And I don't say
Speaker 2: this to act like I'm special because I'm not. But
Speaker 2: I know a lot of these guys personally, just because
Speaker 2: at the time I really got into covering this team
Speaker 2: with decent access and of course, man, the interest level
Speaker 2: was insane because of the great run that Louisville basketball
Speaker 2: had from in that era. You know, basically, you know,
Speaker 2: I was around, and you know I was alive clearly,
Speaker 2: but I didn't have I mean I was I was
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one years old whenever, like that great run
Speaker 2: had with t Will and Earl Clark, you know, but
Speaker 2: those guys were my age, like I was just a
Speaker 2: college kid essentially. Well then you know, once I got
Speaker 2: into covering the team, that was right around twenty eleven
Speaker 2: and from twenty eleven to twenty sixteen seventeen. To be
Speaker 2: honest with you, really, the Batino era in that time
Speaker 2: was awesome, man, A lot of a lot of great times.
Speaker 2: So you're right, John, like these are not just like
Speaker 2: I'm not introducing him to Kahani Russ or you know,
Speaker 2: Rain Smith and I Will. You know, when I say introduced,
Speaker 2: I don't mean like I'm gonna, you know, show up
Speaker 2: at you know, the team dorm and introduce them. But
Speaker 2: like you know, when we watch, I'll tell him who
Speaker 2: it is and he'll get familiar. But he's he's getting
Speaker 2: familiar for the first time with the team. And it's
Speaker 2: guys that I can tell you everything about. It's guys
Speaker 2: that whenever the game ends, I can walk out there
Speaker 2: and say, hey, Peyton, you got to get a picture
Speaker 2: with with Moose. He's fired up Tres. You know, I
Speaker 2: don't even know how, but he's your biggest fan. Like
Speaker 2: those are things that like it makes it a little
Speaker 2: more special to me. And I don't nobody cares, you know,
Speaker 2: to make it all about me, because I don't know
Speaker 2: nobody cares. But I know a lot of people listening
Speaker 2: are either young enough to where you don't have kids yet,
Speaker 2: but you had those moments with your dad or mom
Speaker 2: or your you know, your your your uncle or your
Speaker 2: grandpa to where you you know, you became a passionate
Speaker 2: fan that invested emotion because of them, And or you
Speaker 2: could be someone like me who knows, hey, this is
Speaker 2: what I did. And now my kid, you know, he's
Speaker 2: he's grown, he's a grown man. But man, you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's part of his religion essentially too. So I'm
Speaker 2: kind of going through that, and honestly, I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: it any other way. I mean, I'm sure my son
Speaker 2: will will love the the current team and the form
Speaker 2: and the future teams and all that, and he'll be
Speaker 2: into it. But there is something about it. And I'm
Speaker 2: glad you said that, John, because I hadn't really considered
Speaker 2: as to why it's it's been such a thing for me.
Speaker 2: It's because, like you know, I saw these guys from
Speaker 2: start to finish in their career. I mean, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of guys you see on the floor at times
Speaker 2: that you were a part of a national championship team,
Speaker 2: and that's pretty special. So it's been awesome, it has,
Speaker 2: and uh, we'll see what happens on Monday night. I
Speaker 2: know it's gonna be Uh, it's gonna be packed nine
Speaker 2: o'clock tip and uh.
Speaker 1: I saw the tickets sold out initially in like four minutes, correct,
Speaker 1: and then they opened something I don't see.
Speaker 2: I don't know a whole lot about how that played
Speaker 2: out because because they weren't available, I guess that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that they were sold out. I think they just
Speaker 2: make a certain amount available based off demand. You have
Speaker 2: to keep in mind these events that take place elsewhere,
Speaker 2: Like I bet there may not have been a thousand
Speaker 2: people at the at the Pittsburgh Regional. Actually no, a
Speaker 2: guy from Louisville who played in the Pittsburgh Regional for
Speaker 2: a different team, and you know they lost in their
Speaker 2: first game. But you know, he he was telling me
Speaker 2: that he's played in this like three years now and
Speaker 2: each time it's never been in because Louisville didn't host
Speaker 2: until last year. But like, you usually don't get many
Speaker 2: people at all there, Like it's because again, if you're
Speaker 2: not in a there are alumni teams that go and
Speaker 2: play els. Like for example, Auburn's alumni team wore ready
Speaker 2: you know, they played in in Lexington. I mean, they're
Speaker 2: not going to bring a big crowd of Auburn fans
Speaker 2: to come, you know. So so you know, this is
Speaker 2: a true rare situation. And you know, I think even
Speaker 2: even the people who put this event on are probably
Speaker 2: learning about this as they go. Not not meaning event
Speaker 2: planning ticket sales, I mean like, oh, yeah, this kind
Speaker 2: of matchup, you better you better make every seat in
Speaker 2: that place available to purchase because it'll probably you know,
Speaker 2: it'll probably gets sold. But yeah, I think you can
Speaker 2: still get tickets if you know, if you want. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I uh, I love it. Man, it's been and it's
Speaker 2: like an unexpected nostalgic joy. I guess that's that's probably
Speaker 2: the best way to describe it. But that was just
Speaker 2: off the cuff there, because because of what this whole
Speaker 2: thing is. It's not like I'm thinking, oh, man, it's
Speaker 2: going to be such a special thing, like I'll tell
Speaker 2: my grandkids one day about watching what a form a
Speaker 2: group of former Louisville players did in their thirties. But
Speaker 2: once you experience it, man, it's just it's it's great.
Speaker 2: It really is. All right. I hope the rest of
Speaker 2: the show is great. We're gonna try to make it great.
Speaker 2: We're gonna give it our best. That's all we can do.
Speaker 2: That's all you can ask of us. Right, we have
Speaker 2: a guest potentially joining us. I've yet to hear back
Speaker 2: from our man, mister Brian Edwards, a Vegas insider. I
Speaker 2: want to chop it up with him, talk a little
Speaker 2: college football betting. Of course, that's what Brian's great at.
Speaker 2: But he's down there in Santa Rosa Beach. He may
Speaker 2: just be I don't know. He may have put his
Speaker 2: phone on silent and just he's sipping a margarita on
Speaker 2: the beach and just not you know, not wanting to
Speaker 2: come on the show. But he'll be either today or
Speaker 2: tomorrow when we have Brian on. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We'll see, right, we'll play it out, we'll let we'll
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Speaker 3: Sorry for the song, but.
Speaker 2: You know it's it's absolutely fitting given you know what
Speaker 2: we're talking about. So I think just because he's got
Speaker 2: so much energy on the court, and you know, he's
Speaker 2: an exciting player to watch. But like my son Moose,
Speaker 2: he loves he loves Tres, like, where's Tres? Where's Tres?
Speaker 2: You know, we did, he did. We didn't get to
Speaker 2: go last night because he had football practice, but when
Speaker 2: we were there, you know, he was you know, he
Speaker 2: was just wanted to know why Trez wasn't in the games,
Speaker 2: he get a dunk at that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 2: he's a huge fan. And then last night we were
Speaker 2: watching and Trez got actually he didn't get to watch
Speaker 2: it when it happened because he was still in practice,
Speaker 2: but the early play from Peyton where he somehow made
Speaker 2: a ridiculous pass that was just I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: that was like vintage Peyton Siva with the vision and
Speaker 2: the ability to hang in the air and find trees
Speaker 2: right there underneath the goal for the dunk. So I
Speaker 2: showed him the clip, the replay, the slow mo and
Speaker 2: the first thing Moose said was you think Trez will
Speaker 2: stay stay to night tonight? He asked if he could
Speaker 2: stay the night at our house, and I just thought
Speaker 2: that was really funny. So I ended up tweeting that
Speaker 2: out that my son just asked if my four year
Speaker 2: old son just asked if Trez can stay the night
Speaker 2: in our house tonight. And you know, I personal, I
Speaker 2: don't think it's I don't think it's crazy request. He's
Speaker 2: you know, he's in town. So this morning he asked again,
Speaker 2: like can he do it tonight? So a video I
Speaker 2: took a video of him before we went into daycare today.
Speaker 2: And he said, you know, Trez, you can.
Speaker 3: You can.
Speaker 2: Actually this is gonna sound terrible, but this is what
Speaker 2: it sounds.
Speaker 3: This This was the video.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just say at my ass dinner, he said, Tres,
Speaker 2: you can stay at my house tonight. So I posted
Speaker 2: that to Trees and said the invite still stands. And
Speaker 2: Moost wanted me to say, does he know we have
Speaker 2: fruit snacks?
Speaker 3: Which we do.
Speaker 2: That's a we keep a lot of fruit snacks in
Speaker 2: the house. And Trez responded about an hour ago on
Speaker 2: Twitter and said, I'm honestly honored a little man. So
Speaker 2: I don't think that means we're going to have the sleepover,
Speaker 2: but uh, you know, it is cool. Like, you know,
Speaker 2: I would have never imagined a scenario where my kid
Speaker 2: would even like know who Montress Harrell is, But because
Speaker 2: of this event, he's been able to watch him and
Speaker 2: it's been you know, him kind of really cutting his
Speaker 2: teeth as a fan, which is uh, which is really cool.
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Speaker 2: some football real quick here. I'm not gonna dress this
Speaker 2: up as if I've got some like inside scoop or
Speaker 2: some type of formulated take that I haven't shared with
Speaker 2: you before. But I talked to one of my buddies
Speaker 2: who who I met literally by going to these ACC
Speaker 2: media events. Rather it be the ACC kickoff or ACC
Speaker 2: Operation basketball, why can't they just call it media days?
Speaker 2: Like what are we doing? It's so corny. But one
Speaker 2: of my buddies who covers Wake Forest, of all places,
Speaker 2: actually from Kentucky, but he covers Wake Forest, he hit
Speaker 2: me up yesterday. He's like, hey, man, I talked to
Speaker 2: Jeff Brohm, did a little Q and A, and then
Speaker 2: I talked to like four other people who also had
Speaker 2: a you know, Q and A with Jeff rather it
Speaker 2: be on the hit their radio show or just you know,
Speaker 2: kind of a little video interview where he's sitting at
Speaker 2: a table answering questions from those that are covering the event,
Speaker 2: and he told me something that like, initially I thought, okay, like, well,
Speaker 2: thanks thanks for the update. Bro really appreciate you, you know,
Speaker 2: giving me some intel, because what he told me is literally,
Speaker 2: and I mean quite literally, what you hear every coach
Speaker 2: say at media day, no matter the conference, no matter
Speaker 2: the coach, really like my team. And he felt like
Speaker 2: he was giving me some kind of like dude, I
Speaker 2: talked to Jeff Brawman. I know a lot of other
Speaker 2: people did too. He really likes his team, and I'm like, man, like,
Speaker 2: thanks for you, you got anything else? Like I mean,
Speaker 2: I could every coach in the country is gonna say
Speaker 2: they like their team, even if they don't. They might
Speaker 2: hate their team. They might literally know they're about to
Speaker 2: get their ass fired this year because their team sucks,
Speaker 2: but they're gonna say we're looking forward to this season
Speaker 2: getting out there and playing hard, and you know, I
Speaker 2: like my team in some form or fashion. But where
Speaker 2: he did what he did share with me, and this
Speaker 2: is probably something that Jeff said in many of the
Speaker 2: interviews that he did. But Jeff Brown apparently feels really
Speaker 2: good about the interior on both sides that they have,
Speaker 2: They have depth, they have guys healthy, and that matters, right.
Speaker 2: Like offensive line, it's not really a big you know,
Speaker 2: it's a thankless position. Unfortunately, they're super important when it
Speaker 2: comes to football. But I feel like the offensive line
Speaker 2: kind of like a kicker or maybe even a punter,
Speaker 2: like they don't when they're if they're getting talked about
Speaker 2: a whole lot, it's not because they were phenomenal. It's
Speaker 2: because they they messed up, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: like because the quarterback got sacked or you know, a
Speaker 2: bunch of false starts. When it comes to the offensive line,
Speaker 2: like a kicker, you know, he might make ten in
Speaker 2: a row in multiple games from thirty yards and shorter.
Speaker 2: Second he misses one of those, people are gonna say
Speaker 2: he's a bumb he sucks. Like there are some positions
Speaker 2: within football that you know, you don't get a whole
Speaker 2: lot of love when you do your job really well,
Speaker 2: but you really get a lot of heat whenever things
Speaker 2: go wrong. So I think when it comes to the
Speaker 2: offensive line, they did lose some guys, but even the
Speaker 2: guys that they played last year like extensively that were
Speaker 2: you know, that were good, were hurt and played hurt.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, I go back to the
Speaker 2: Bobby Pittrino days and this is when this was you know,
Speaker 2: this was around the time you know that Brian played here,
Speaker 2: Brian brom that era, so you know Jeff was here
Speaker 2: too on the staff. You know because that team, man,
Speaker 2: they had so many NFL players on it, not just
Speaker 2: brom not just Brian's era, but like two thousand and four,
Speaker 2: when Brian was a freshman and la Forest was the quarterback,
Speaker 2: like that was a Conference USA team. You know how
Speaker 2: many NFL guys were on that team? A lot of them.
Speaker 2: And I remember, and this is a relatively obvious observation,
Speaker 2: but at the time, I was a lot younger. You know,
Speaker 2: I got two thousand and four, I was fifteen years old,
Speaker 2: fourteen years old or something like that. But you know,
Speaker 2: that was one of the best teams. In fact, I
Speaker 2: think you could make the case that from a talent perspective,
Speaker 2: that may be the best Louisville team ever. But anyways,
Speaker 2: Bobby made the point that if you've got everybody healthy
Speaker 2: and you know you're playing well, and you've got a
Speaker 2: good team like they had, you can go play against
Speaker 2: the elite of the elite and give yourself a chance
Speaker 2: to win. But where you really, really, I guess, have
Speaker 2: a wake up call as to where you are in
Speaker 2: the food chain of college football, is that they can
Speaker 2: go too deep and not miss much right, not drop off,
Speaker 2: even if they've got an all American player that did that.
Speaker 2: It's on the edge, and he goes down with an injury,
Speaker 2: they're gonna bring in somebody that may not be an
Speaker 2: All American player, but he's gonna be good enough to
Speaker 2: where you're gonna know he was a five star recruit.
Speaker 2: And that's why I went to that school. So Louisville,
Speaker 2: of course is a power for program, but you know,
Speaker 2: they don't recruit like the elite of the elite. And
Speaker 2: I'm not acting as if Louisvill's got five are sitting
Speaker 2: on the bench waiting to play. But with the portal,
Speaker 2: they they now feel like they can they can really
Speaker 2: roll in guys in the interior on both sides and
Speaker 2: not have a huge drop off. Right, They're not going
Speaker 2: to bring in somebody from the sideline to give to
Speaker 2: give Ashton Jalatti a break. That's going to give you
Speaker 2: Ashton Jalatti production because he's a first team All American preseason.
Speaker 2: So but you know that that actually is one of
Speaker 2: the little things that you know, I felt underwhelmed initially,
Speaker 2: but once he started kind of explaining to me what,
Speaker 2: you know what what what really stood out as far
Speaker 2: as why Jeff Brown feels good about his team. And
Speaker 2: one of the things he also said is that you know,
Speaker 2: brom had a quiet confidence about him, which I told him. Look, look,
Speaker 2: i mean, Jeff's pretty robotic at these things, right, He's
Speaker 2: going to give you legitimate answers where he's going to
Speaker 2: talk football and mention personnel. And it's not as if
Speaker 2: you mean Bobby's Bobby's the robot, So Jeff's not that.
Speaker 2: But I do get the sense that they really like
Speaker 2: their team. And I'll say this, they had they had
Speaker 2: some issues during the spring with guys that came in
Speaker 2: and and and were potentially going to be a huge
Speaker 2: cancer to the locker room. And a lot of those
Speaker 2: guys left, right, the guys who transferred in for money
Speaker 2: and then bailed. And I'm not just talking about Penny Boon.
Speaker 2: There were some other guys too. And I think you
Speaker 2: know Brohm, who, by the way, has absolutely managed the
Speaker 2: portal as good as anybody, right, like Louisville has not
Speaker 2: lost in his it's just two years, right, just to
Speaker 2: two off seasons, roughly, they've not lost anybody where you're like, man,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be We're gonna be doomed without this guy.
Speaker 2: And there have been some guys though that they've lost
Speaker 2: where you feel like, you know, I woulted that guy
Speaker 2: to stick around. We've seen him make plays, But then
Speaker 2: you go see them get somebody that you have to
Speaker 2: honestly look at the two and say, you know that
Speaker 2: they brought somebody in that's better. But I think there's
Speaker 2: a little bit of fire under Jeff as far as
Speaker 2: how that played out because some of the guys they lost,
Speaker 2: the kids, the kid from Tennessee, which I'm not even
Speaker 2: sure where he ended up. Did he go to Ole
Speaker 2: miss the Tyler's that Tyler Baron, It's not relevant, but
Speaker 2: you know, he was a guy that really did help
Speaker 2: Louisvill's trends for portal ranking. So did Penny Boon. And
Speaker 2: those guys were those guys were bad news. They were
Speaker 2: running around talking about how much money they were making
Speaker 2: to go there. They were lying about it, which all
Speaker 2: that's going to do is get everybody in the locker
Speaker 2: room worked up about hey, why are we you know,
Speaker 2: like you know, this guy's making this much money, like
Speaker 2: they were just here to get money and seemingly start
Speaker 2: trouble like that's what And I hope that wasn't the
Speaker 2: initial goal for them. But once they got here, that's
Speaker 2: what they did. And I think you know there was
Speaker 2: noise out there, Wow, another transfer portal de commits. And
Speaker 2: I don't mean like fans were saying that, but look,
Speaker 2: you guys, remember the noise that was out there during
Speaker 2: the off season when the portal was active and crazy.
Speaker 2: Louisville's checks must be bouncing. Hmm, what's going on with Louisville. Well,
Speaker 2: I got a little intel that that's something Bram was
Speaker 2: aware of, and you know he's motivated and eager to
Speaker 2: show people there's nothing wrong with what's going on at Louisville.
Speaker 2: I think they've got a good team this year. Again,
Speaker 2: they're still going to have a tougher schedule than last year.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to say that that means they're going
Speaker 2: to go ten and two once again. But to give
Speaker 2: you the to give you the old cliche that you
Speaker 2: hear from every single football coach, Jeff likes his team.
Speaker 2: So I can't wait. Man, football season will be here
Speaker 2: before you know it. It's gonna be great. I mean
Speaker 2: when I get back from vacation, I mean fall camp.
Speaker 2: That point, I'm assuming it's going to be close to
Speaker 2: underway if it's hadn't already still, I mean, actually it'll
Speaker 2: probably start here soon, it'll probably start. Why I'm on
Speaker 2: vacation now that I think about it, and that's not
Speaker 2: you know, there's not a whole lot to take from that.
Speaker 2: You hope that through throughout fall camp you get some
Speaker 2: notable updates here and there, but like nobody gets hurt,
Speaker 2: you know, you here and really they scrimmage I think
Speaker 2: once a week during fall camp, and to be a
Speaker 2: fly on the wall because they really, I mean, they
Speaker 2: try to replicate a real game as best they can.
Speaker 2: And that's where you know stuff to know anything when
Speaker 2: you're playing against yourself. But man, I'm ready for football
Speaker 2: season to start. All right, quick break, we'll come back
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Speaker 2: So been a while since we talked about AI, John,
Speaker 2: and I have I've learned a lot about AI, not
Speaker 2: like you know, on the back end, I really don't
Speaker 2: know how it works because it almost seems like a
Speaker 2: magic trick, to be honest with you, But I have
Speaker 2: found a lot of useful tools when it comes to
Speaker 2: AI that have blown my mind. So I used to
Speaker 2: be scared of AI, and we probably still should be,
Speaker 2: but I have at least benefited from like how easy
Speaker 2: things can can get done by utilizing an AI tool.
Speaker 2: And I bring this up because the New York Post
Speaker 2: just just posted a story that says open aists search
Speaker 2: GPT prototype as a direct challenge to the Google search engine.
Speaker 2: So Google is still the undefeated search engine, right like
Speaker 2: we talked about being still like the the default for
Speaker 2: like UHDG. Yeah. And by the way, Edge, I mean,
Speaker 2: I still can't believe John defended in an Explorer the
Speaker 2: other day, but Edge they bounced back with Edge. Like
Speaker 2: edges a good browser. I'm still I'm still team Chrome.
Speaker 2: But Edge is a really good browser and it can
Speaker 2: do a lot of things. In fact, there's some things
Speaker 2: Edge can do that Google Chrome can't. But Google, as
Speaker 2: far as search engine, I think it's been the default
Speaker 2: for a long time. And I don't feel like they've
Speaker 2: had a whole lot of real, you know, direct competitiveness,
Speaker 2: like you know, yeah was yeah, yeah, competitor. I don't
Speaker 2: know anybody who uses I mean, first Google put ask
Speaker 2: jeeves in a body bag, then they toe tagged Yahoo.
Speaker 2: I mean like they they killed all their competition. And
Speaker 2: now AI, I think is is I mean, from what
Speaker 2: I've seen already with AI that like I mean essentially
Speaker 2: the ask the chat GPT, I mean like that, I
Speaker 2: mean I use that and not Google a lot. Now
Speaker 2: Google will give you a bunch of articles to reference.
Speaker 2: It's a deep web search, which is super valuable. Like
Speaker 2: I still Google a lot of things, but when it
Speaker 2: comes down to like, you know, simple questions rather than
Speaker 2: an Internet search, I mean, chat GPT is really really valuable.
Speaker 2: And I mean there are things that you could put
Speaker 2: together that makes it look as if you like cause
Speaker 2: I think it's still relative. AI is still very new
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of people that know of it,
Speaker 2: but they don't utilize it. Therefore they don't really know that.
Speaker 2: Like somebody could give you something that looks as if
Speaker 2: they spent two weeks putting together a presentation like a
Speaker 2: proposal or something like that, and it took them five
Speaker 2: minutes by just using an AI tool. Like that's crazy,
Speaker 2: it's crazy. I mean I've now utilized AI tools as
Speaker 2: far as prepping for this show, and it's like made
Speaker 2: life insanely easier. So I benefit from it now to
Speaker 2: where I'm not necessarily scared. But when it comes down
Speaker 2: to like you know certain, and this is going to
Speaker 2: sound really like obnoxious or you know, self centered, like
Speaker 2: what we do, Like I don't want to say it's art,
Speaker 2: because it's not, but like it's you know, like who
Speaker 2: we are as people have a big, a big factor.
Speaker 2: Maybe not and I don't mean like from a moral standpoint,
Speaker 2: but like personality, you know, like we try to entertain
Speaker 2: and and really put our Like again, you know, many
Speaker 2: people out there have a platform now to talk sports
Speaker 2: and talk about anything and share an opinion. And that's
Speaker 2: great that everybody has the ability to do that. So
Speaker 2: it's even more important for you to put your own
Speaker 2: flavor on it, you to put your own stamp on it.
Speaker 2: That makes you different, and it's never been more important
Speaker 2: where you have to do that because it's so watered
Speaker 2: down now. So like, if there's ever a day where
Speaker 2: AI has its you know, we have sports radio or
Speaker 2: sports podcast, sports content whether it be audio or visual,
Speaker 2: and it's all AI based. Like I can't really see
Speaker 2: a world where that happened, but maybe I shouldn't underestimate it.
Speaker 1: That's that's when it becomes over reliance on AI. If
Speaker 1: it can help you do your daily tasks or with
Speaker 1: something like a project like you were mentioning, I think
Speaker 1: that's totally harmless. But whenever you eliminate the true human interaction, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's when it becomes a lot more dangerous.
Speaker 2: Well, and if somebody has and if somebody has a
Speaker 2: craft that you know like they it would suck. If
Speaker 2: you let me give you an example. I know a
Speaker 2: buddy of mine who he's always had like two different jobs.
Speaker 2: He's got his career and he's got his job that
Speaker 2: he wants to be his career, but he's never really
Speaker 2: been comfortable enough to where he could bail on his career.
Speaker 2: He is an audio engineer, he mixes music. He is
Speaker 2: somebody that will take a recording session from a music
Speaker 2: artist or a band, and he will make it sound
Speaker 2: ready for radio. He's really good at what he does.
Speaker 2: He went to school for it, and he you know,
Speaker 2: worked his ass off to be good enough to get
Speaker 2: work and be respected in that industry. There are now
Speaker 2: AI tools that can do that. And he's even told me,
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, man, my ear, I have an
Speaker 2: ear for this. It's what I do. It doesn't sound
Speaker 2: much different than some of the best engineers you'll ever find,
Speaker 2: and like that is potentially going to eliminate what he
Speaker 2: worked his life for, like and that's sad, but also
Speaker 2: it's business to where if they can get away without
Speaker 2: paying somebody a ton of money. Like again, there's levels
Speaker 2: to it to where like hey, I'm running your board
Speaker 2: in here, let me make sure your levels are up
Speaker 2: for your MIC's and the drums or this and that.
Speaker 2: It's like a I like, you know, maybe they get
Speaker 2: to the point where it can be that, but the
Speaker 2: human interaction thing is like I don't I just can't
Speaker 2: imagine there's a point where people get totally comfortable with that,
Speaker 2: like you're always going to I think what I would
Speaker 2: hope is that you still like those people can use
Speaker 2: AI tools to continue to maybe more efficiently do what
Speaker 2: they do, if that makes sense, Like the fact the
Speaker 2: thought of them not having those jobs is I guess
Speaker 2: it's a realistic thing. But like it's just like I
Speaker 2: hope it didn't come to that. Like let me give
Speaker 2: you an example, Siri, who you talk to on your
Speaker 2: phone Alexa on your devices, Like there's no like there's
Speaker 2: no connection there, Like you don't really Like I don't
Speaker 2: really trust Siri. I don't really trust Alexa, like because
Speaker 2: they you know, Like and by the way, like because
Speaker 2: I know they're not real humans, I speak to them
Speaker 2: in a way that I hope my mother never hears.
Speaker 2: Like if I gotta say if I gotta say it
Speaker 2: three times to Alexa, she's gonna she's gonna know what
Speaker 2: I think about her.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 1: And that's the other problem with this though, is that eventually,
Speaker 1: when they become self aware, that's when they turn on
Speaker 1: us because we abuse them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a movie about that.
Speaker 3: Is that's a terminator?
Speaker 2: Right? No? That? And uh, there's a Will Smith movie
Speaker 2: Is that I Robot? Maybe? Yeah, I if you saw
Speaker 2: that or not? But like that was that was the
Speaker 2: first and at that point where like when that movie
Speaker 2: came out, is that what it's called I Robot?
Speaker 3: I know he's in a movie called I Robot.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Either way, like at that point that movie came
Speaker 2: in in two thousand and four, that movie's twenty years old,
Speaker 2: there was no thought that that would ever be in
Speaker 2: any way realistic. But you know, here we are, like
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, I don't remember that
Speaker 2: movie in great detail, but like you know, if we
Speaker 2: start creating technology that you know, can do everything we
Speaker 2: can and there's no emotion involved, they can just be
Speaker 2: like maybe they just realize, hey, we're gonna take over
Speaker 2: civilization if it Yeah, I mean getting a little ahead
Speaker 2: of myself here, but I would challenge somebody this weekend
Speaker 2: or whenever. Maybe. Now, think it's something that you do
Speaker 2: throughout your day to day job, whether it be documentation, writing, creative,
Speaker 2: whatever it may be. I bet if you looked hard
Speaker 2: enough on the internet, you probably don't have to look
Speaker 2: that hard. Actually you'd find something that you could utilize
Speaker 2: that like would change everything about your workday. Now, they
Speaker 2: also have technology through AI where you can check in
Speaker 2: reference to see if something that is presented was created
Speaker 2: by AI, which you know you gotta be careful about that.
Speaker 2: But anyways, we got two more hours left, so stick
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