Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: when we.
Speaker 3: Are get off our show. Idiot.
Speaker 2: The kids are playing or tail off. Countries are screwing
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 1: Gold play inner Murals, Brother goal play Inner Murals.
Speaker 4: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's nick coffee?
Speaker 4: All right, let's get it started, ladies and gentlemen. This
Speaker 4: is the second consecutive day that I've started the show
Speaker 4: really hearing what I sound like for the first time.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't usually out my day have headphones
Speaker 4: in listening to myself talk. But the voice is getting better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you sound a lot better.
Speaker 4: I feel a lot better.
Speaker 2: You look a lot better.
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate that much, which is like an impossible feat. Anyways,
Speaker 4: I mean, it just continued to continue to amaze you,
Speaker 4: don't You.
Speaker 2: Got the flannel on the flannel flight colored?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Really went a hoodie? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really warm? Oh it's nice, kind of kind of roomy too,
Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, it's maybe I got some room in
Speaker 4: here for you, big guy.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, making.
Speaker 5: A double xcel what it was always it like eighteen
Speaker 5: degrees outside.
Speaker 4: It's very cold, but the sun is shining and okay,
Speaker 4: cularly definitely has an impact on sort of what the
Speaker 4: weather can do for you when it comes to morale.
Speaker 2: Did it snow again last night?
Speaker 4: A little bit? It was, God, it wasn't nearly as
Speaker 4: much as I think they were expecting from a couple
Speaker 4: of days ago, but a little bit of a dusting
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, it's freezing outside and another NTI
Speaker 4: day for my kids. And I think JCPS, though, did
Speaker 4: decide to be tough guys and go to school.
Speaker 2: Let me do that.
Speaker 4: And I don't say that to mock them, because you know.
Speaker 2: They grew up.
Speaker 4: If you can go to school, you should, And even
Speaker 4: if there is and that's one of those things that
Speaker 4: I always remind myself when I look outside of my
Speaker 4: window at my streets or I'm on the road near
Speaker 4: my neighborhood. Not everybody's the same. So when they make
Speaker 4: those decisions, you know, you got to keep in mind
Speaker 4: there's a lot more that goes into it than just
Speaker 4: where you live, especially in JCPS. That's the biggest school
Speaker 4: district in the state, probably the region, to be honest
Speaker 4: with you, I mean, I would imagine there are bigger
Speaker 4: school districts in parts of Tennessee and Indiana, but maybe
Speaker 4: I'm wrong. But anyways, it's still cold outside, but the
Speaker 4: sun is out and that that's an enhancement to the
Speaker 4: vibes and we're gonna have some fun today. I do
Speaker 4: have the throat laws and gen so if you hear
Speaker 4: me sounding a little bit different, it's because I'm trying
Speaker 4: to not make the same mistake as yesterday. I came
Speaker 4: in a little bit too hot. When I've got the
Speaker 4: this whatever it is that I have, it's no longer
Speaker 4: really sign a see now, it's just it's not even
Speaker 4: my throat hurts at all. It's just my voice is
Speaker 4: kind of just not at hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Sounds like you're getting over at that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So yesterday I thought as the show went on,
Speaker 4: it got better, and then the last thirty minutes or so,
Speaker 4: the tank was on e And then I got home
Speaker 4: and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 4: go today because I couldn't speak, and I started feeling
Speaker 4: even worse but sure enough, got some got some liquids,
Speaker 4: got some rest. I went to better earlier than I
Speaker 4: ever do, and I woke up this morning feeling better.
Speaker 4: The only thing that really is still an issue is
Speaker 4: that I just don't necessarily sound the same. But we'll
Speaker 4: rally today. It's Austin's Friday, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4: I'm not here tomorrow, man, I forgot about that. I'm
Speaker 4: here to remind you to make sure we appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Finished the week strong with you, and I'll be here
Speaker 4: tomorrow to get your step for the weekend, but also
Speaker 4: be at the flea market. That's right. You ever go
Speaker 4: to the flea market when it's not work?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, but sometimes when I'm there, I'm like, you
Speaker 5: know what, I could probably see myself finding myself here,
Speaker 5: but I just never never really would have.
Speaker 4: I've kind of got a kind of got an odd
Speaker 4: interest in flea market kind of stuff. I don't buy anything,
Speaker 4: like I've gone to the flea market every now and then.
Speaker 4: As a kid, I would go and I remember there
Speaker 4: was little setups that had like basketball cards. I thought
Speaker 4: that was cool as hell. But I'm not real big
Speaker 4: on like I mean, I can't think of many things
Speaker 4: that I've purchased from a flea market. But if I
Speaker 4: have time to kill, like I've got an appointment or
Speaker 4: a meeting or something, you know, where I like to
Speaker 4: kill some time peddler's mall oh.
Speaker 2: Dude, have you ever been to a peddlar?
Speaker 4: I don't buy anything.
Speaker 2: I just walk around. Occasionally.
Speaker 4: Occasionally I'll see some like vintage like U of L
Speaker 4: T shirts and hoodies and stuff, and they're cool, but
Speaker 4: one they're used, and of course I'll wash it before
Speaker 4: I ever wear it. But because those are kind of
Speaker 4: like hard to find now, they're expensive, like you'll pay
Speaker 4: fifty bucks for a decent sweatshirts, and yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I do. I don't pay for that because that's just
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 2: Just walk in and say.
Speaker 4: I wish it worked that way, but it doesn't. But
Speaker 4: flea markets are you there all day?
Speaker 2: I'm only there from three three to five?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I'm sure you're gonna be working hard, but
Speaker 4: I would be to be there. I'm gonna challenge you, okay,
Speaker 4: to buy something.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: I bought some honey last year from a place, okay
Speaker 5: out in Bardstown I thought was like a honey bourbon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, it was. It was pretty good.
Speaker 5: They also have last couple of times i've been there
Speaker 5: the last couple of years, they have like a stand
Speaker 5: that has like the uh, the football and other cards
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, athletic cards, and they also have
Speaker 5: a stand for like a wrestling action figures. I've been
Speaker 5: starting to collect those in my elder year.
Speaker 4: When I think of flea market, that's the kind of
Speaker 4: stuff I think, Yes.
Speaker 5: An old kid, there's a stand. There's someone that every there,
Speaker 5: every year that sells old Kentucky Derby shirts.
Speaker 2: And I don't even think that they're authentic.
Speaker 5: It's like the ones that Kroger would roll out probably
Speaker 5: like two months before the Derby that they never like
Speaker 5: sold all of them. So these guys bought them in
Speaker 5: bulk and decided to sell them next year.
Speaker 2: Man, So you'll see that there.
Speaker 4: You just you just gave me a dose of nostalgia,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure they still do. But I just don't
Speaker 4: go that much anymore. But when I was a kid, nobody,
Speaker 4: no store, no local place. I feel like did Derby
Speaker 4: quite like Kroger. Kroger always had the glasses they had,
Speaker 4: like you know, they're a set up within the store.
Speaker 4: They'll have flags and yeah, good stuff, all that kind
Speaker 4: of fun stuff. So yeah, so Monday when you when
Speaker 4: we return, I'm gonna need you to tell me what
Speaker 4: you bought. Okay, Okay, I guess try to find something random,
Speaker 4: something cool.
Speaker 2: He'll be uh random and cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, Like there's really nothing you could take from a
Speaker 4: flea market that I could sit here and say, wow,
Speaker 4: I'm surprised that that was there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah, other than some like honey, and I might find
Speaker 5: like the local farmer that sells like beef jerky guarantee
Speaker 5: you there's good beef jerky definitely, So would that qualify
Speaker 5: under Okay, okay, so we'll do that.
Speaker 4: Then why is beef jerkey so expensive? I feel like
Speaker 4: if I, if I was to ever, you know, start
Speaker 4: a starting to start a hustle, I would figure out
Speaker 4: how to produce high quality beef jerky that tastes good.
Speaker 4: But you know, I would make it half of what
Speaker 4: everybody else charges, which would still be expensive because I
Speaker 4: don't understand why beef jerky costs. Would it cost? Now,
Speaker 4: if there was a way to do that, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of smarter people out there than me. Then I'm
Speaker 4: sure they would have been able to tap into the
Speaker 4: market and make big money. But that's the one thing
Speaker 4: that I just don't know. I mean, before the recent rise,
Speaker 4: and really it's not recent. It's been a couple of
Speaker 4: years that we've had things just skyrocketing. As far as
Speaker 4: the price, beef jerkey has been consistently expensive.
Speaker 2: For always has been for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, since the beginning of time, it seems so.
Speaker 5: Anyways, I will say, my other beef with my other
Speaker 5: beef with the jerky is do you notice that every
Speaker 5: beef jerky always comes with like that small little like
Speaker 5: the salt package, right or something like that, and they
Speaker 5: always make it the size of the beef jerky in there,
Speaker 5: so you always have to like fumble around and when
Speaker 5: you're like picking some out, Okay, accidentally I picked that
Speaker 5: salt packet out, it tells you absolutely do not eat
Speaker 5: or consume.
Speaker 2: Why is that in there?
Speaker 5: I'm sure that there's some sort of scientific reasoning for it,
Speaker 5: but I don't I don't get it.
Speaker 4: I don't get it either, And maybe if we just
Speaker 4: read what it says, then maybe it would tell us
Speaker 4: I've never paid attention. I just realized, Oh I don't
Speaker 4: want to eat that. I'm gonna throw it away, says,
Speaker 4: you don't eat You go in there and get a little,
Speaker 4: a little small grab yeah from when you're at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 4: from the beef jerkey bag. You get one one piece
Speaker 4: that's bigger than two that are kind of on the
Speaker 4: smaller side. And then you have that white thing that
Speaker 4: is a little packet that I don't know. In fact,
Speaker 4: it looks exactly like this throat lozenge packet. It's the
Speaker 4: exact same size. So anyways, Austin, he's only with us
Speaker 4: until six o'clock and then he's out of here till Monday.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna make make the most of it. For sure.
Speaker 4: It is coffee and company, and we are fueled by
Speaker 4: Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you guys
Speaker 4: hanging out with us. And I need to just get
Speaker 4: something out of the way. I believe that regardless of
Speaker 4: what people put out there, as far as they're you know,
Speaker 4: being honest with not only themselves but with other people.
Speaker 4: I think every human being on the planet has had,
Speaker 4: or maybe currently has a level of jealousy about something,
Speaker 4: and I think being jealous Isn't it one of the
Speaker 4: worst looks you can have. I mean, it's it's such
Speaker 4: a common thing. I embrace it though it's a human
Speaker 4: it's a natural human emotion. I think it makes I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's healthy, but like, I don't
Speaker 4: care what kind of person you are, I'm sure you
Speaker 4: have had legitimate jealousy in your life over very big
Speaker 4: you know, things that are a big deal. I don't know,
Speaker 4: like like your ex wife or something you're jealous of
Speaker 4: the guy that's now in her life, or maybe somebody
Speaker 4: at work that got a promotion, or maybe somebody on
Speaker 4: your high school basketball team that got more playing time
Speaker 4: than you. I mean, jealousy is a it's you know,
Speaker 4: how you deal with it, how you handle it, what
Speaker 4: you let it do to you, that's totally different. But
Speaker 4: then there's some people that you know would be insecure
Speaker 4: enough to attack like they've never been jealous. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know how anybody could look at themselves in
Speaker 4: the mirror claim that, because I just don't think it's possible.
Speaker 4: But obviously some are more open about it than others.
Speaker 4: And I don't think I'm like on the super jealous side,
Speaker 4: But I'm willing to acknowledge and put it out there
Speaker 4: and be open and real about it when I have
Speaker 4: legitimate jealousy. And I last night as I was feeling ill,
Speaker 4: consuming as much college basketball as I could, because we
Speaker 4: did end up finishing land Man right after dinner, but
Speaker 4: finishing phenomenal, phenomenal, I mean, one of the best shows
Speaker 4: I've watched in a long long time. Let's go, and
Speaker 4: it's set up perfectly for them to of course, you know,
Speaker 4: give us that second season.
Speaker 5: See, I'd love to talk about it, but John, you
Speaker 5: don't want to spoil something, so we'll talk about it
Speaker 5: off air.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we'll set up a time probably, I don't know,
Speaker 4: because I'm a little late to the party. A lot
Speaker 4: of people have already fished it. When did it actually
Speaker 4: finish season one?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 5: I think a few weeks ago maybe, or is it
Speaker 5: longer than that January? I think okay, because it started
Speaker 5: like right at Christmas, I think.
Speaker 4: And if you're watching now, like you have the ability
Speaker 4: to finish it right, So maybe we'll wait till next
Speaker 4: week to kind of do a little segment on it,
Speaker 4: because I think it's phenomenal television I'm not sure when
Speaker 4: he's in his bag. As they say, Billy Bob Thornton
Speaker 4: is as good as it gets. Yeah, I mean, he's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: I'd never been a huge fan of him personally, probably
Speaker 4: because you were jealous that he was with Angelina Joe Lee.
Speaker 4: You remember that she was at her hottest.
Speaker 5: What's the movie that he's with Halle Berry's at Monster? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 5: I was at Billy Bob.
Speaker 4: He's one of those guys that I never thought he
Speaker 4: wasn't phenomenal as an actor, but I never had any
Speaker 4: There wasn't ever any movie or show that I was like, Man,
Speaker 4: I love that. And and he did a show on
Speaker 4: Amazon called Goliath that I really really liked. Have you
Speaker 4: seen that? You need to watch it. It's really good
Speaker 4: three seasons, three seasons. First two seasons are really good.
Speaker 4: Third not as good. But anyways, Bad Sand is what
Speaker 4: I thought of, and that he's good in that, but
Speaker 4: like that's it's it's it's kind of a you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's a stupid comedy movie. It's funny, but like
Speaker 4: you know, it doesn't really show how good he is been. Anyways,
Speaker 4: we finished Landman last night, so I started going back
Speaker 4: and forth to some really good college basketball games. Kentucky
Speaker 4: ended up running away from Bandy, which was really what
Speaker 4: a lot of people probably expected. But then you have
Speaker 4: a great finish between Auburn and Arkansas. I mean that
Speaker 4: atmosphere there at Auburn, Cali Perry his team. I don't
Speaker 4: think they belong in the tournament. I don't think they're
Speaker 4: gonna make it, but Cal still has the factor of
Speaker 4: when he's in town, he's still a larger than life
Speaker 4: kind of presence in college basketball, and even if the
Speaker 4: stinks this year and next year, he's still going to
Speaker 4: be somebody that you know, he's a fixture within the
Speaker 4: sport because he's been He's been at it for a
Speaker 4: long time, and more often than not, he's had really
Speaker 4: really good teams like the whole Super Bowl kind of
Speaker 4: comment that he clearly you know that he runs with.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's true, and part of it is because
Speaker 4: he did coach at Kentucky, but also he was a
Speaker 4: factor to that as well. And I know recent you know,
Speaker 4: this year, there was clearly a big storyline within the
Speaker 4: entire sport of college basketball that Cal's and now at
Speaker 4: Arkansas in the same league as Kentucky and he's gonna
Speaker 4: go there and play, but like, let's be real, Kentucky,
Speaker 4: that was their toughest ticket to get in how many years,
Speaker 4: and cal came in with what one win an SEC
Speaker 4: play because he's that kind of guy. So they ended
Speaker 4: up falling short, but it was a great game. You see, Missouri.
Speaker 4: Just take it to Alabama and Dennis Gates by the way,
Speaker 4: they would n eighteen in league play last year in
Speaker 4: the SEC, and this year they are. I mean, they've
Speaker 4: got a chance. They finished strong, they could end up
Speaker 4: being like third or fourth in the SEC. So he's
Speaker 4: done a hell of a job. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: put it out there to see what the SEC has
Speaker 4: become in basketball in the last few years, and really
Speaker 4: considering where it was roughly a decade ago, not even
Speaker 4: I mean maybe not even that far back. I'm jealous.
Speaker 4: And the ACC being such a dog crap conference. That's
Speaker 4: also a factor in the jealousy because playing in a
Speaker 4: good basketball league makes it a lot of fun to
Speaker 4: where you can get lost in conference play and it's
Speaker 4: a roller coaster because you can get you can have
Speaker 4: an emotional week where you get two big wins. They
Speaker 4: really change how you're viewing your team on Selection Sunday, right,
Speaker 4: because there's wins there that can really change your situation.
Speaker 4: And then you have losses and they're never fun. You
Speaker 4: start to doubt your team a little bit, but you
Speaker 4: know what, it's losses in a really good league, so
Speaker 4: it doesn't really hurt you that much. I mean, I
Speaker 4: remember Rick Patino lost three straight games in the Big
Speaker 4: East in twenty thirteen before winning a national championship. Sure do,
Speaker 4: I mean Georgetown, Syracuse was it Nova too? I mean,
Speaker 4: those were the three and those were all quality teams
Speaker 4: that were probably top five seeds in the NAA Tournament
Speaker 4: that year. So you quick forget about that when you
Speaker 4: roll through whatever it was, four or five wins in
Speaker 4: a row after that. So, like, I'm jealous that that's
Speaker 4: now what the SEC is in basketball, and the ACC
Speaker 4: used to be that.
Speaker 2: And the Big East too. The Big East prepared you
Speaker 2: for March ball. Basketball absolutely played night in and night out,
Speaker 2: and the.
Speaker 4: ACC I mean, honestly, the Big East when it died,
Speaker 4: as far as you know what it once was, Bill,
Speaker 4: I don't think we'll ever see a league like that.
Speaker 4: I know everybody right now is claiming that the SEC
Speaker 4: is the best league of all time. And I can't
Speaker 4: say that right now as far as what's happening as
Speaker 4: we speak. That that's a crazy thing to say. But
Speaker 4: anybody who knows college basketball even a little bit, and
Speaker 4: a lot of people around here do you know a
Speaker 4: lot of people who talk about college basketball nationally rather
Speaker 4: be on ESPN, Fox, whatever, Like I don't I don't
Speaker 4: know why they with a straight face say this is
Speaker 4: the best season a conference has ever had, Like that's
Speaker 4: not a crazy thing to say as of now, meaning
Speaker 4: you know, like as of today, but we doesn't everybody
Speaker 4: remember how it works in college basketball. It's all about
Speaker 4: what you do in March. So like, if they get
Speaker 4: to the final four and there's not an SEC team there,
Speaker 4: nobody's gonna claim it was the best league ever. And
Speaker 4: that's kind of silly, right because it doesn't mean these
Speaker 4: teams weren't good. But that's just that's just how college
Speaker 4: basketball is. That's how it is. So it's always been,
Speaker 4: So I don't see the SEC slowing down at all.
Speaker 4: You know, Bruce Pearl, he could go to Indiana. Indiana
Speaker 4: could pay him what Auburn could pay him, But like,
Speaker 4: why would he the only the you know, the only,
Speaker 4: the only reason anybody in the SEC in basketball would
Speaker 4: leave their current job, meaning a good job and even
Speaker 4: jobs that you don't really consider great because of tradition.
Speaker 4: If you're in the SEC, they got a lot of
Speaker 4: money and it's a great league right now, and I
Speaker 4: don't see that changing. But like ten years ago, saying
Speaker 4: that the Auburn coach in basketball wouldn't leave Auburn to
Speaker 4: go to Indiana sounds insane. But things have changed and
Speaker 4: this is more about the SEC than it is Indiana.
Speaker 4: I'm just but Auburn always going to be a football school.
Speaker 4: Bruce Pearl will always be second in line as far
Speaker 4: as importance to Auburn because they're football school. It does
Speaker 4: help him that they suck in football now and he's
Speaker 4: doing great in basketball. But all it would take is
Speaker 4: like one Auburn football season where they're like ten and two,
Speaker 4: and he would clearly distance he would be. It'd still
Speaker 4: be a fan favorite, and they'd still support basketball. But
Speaker 4: football is just different. So, like you're we're now at
Speaker 4: a point where I'm looking at Virginia, a school that
Speaker 4: I don't know, Virginia and Syracuse. I mean wouldn't you
Speaker 4: say Austin that Virginia and Syracuse are good basketball jobs.
Speaker 4: I mean I think they are. I think they're really
Speaker 4: good job. I mean Syracuse is a little bit different
Speaker 4: because there their tradition is really just one guy, Jim Beheim.
Speaker 4: Virginia always been a solid program, and then Tony Bennett
Speaker 4: won AM a national championship, and Virginia clearly has resources
Speaker 4: to where if you can coach, you can win at
Speaker 4: a high level there. But if you are, you know,
Speaker 4: an up and coming coach, and you let's say you're
Speaker 4: Ben McCollum, who is a legend at the D two level,
Speaker 4: gets to Drake and in his first year at Drake,
Speaker 4: he's crushing it, and you start getting some phone calls
Speaker 4: from other jobs, like if you get the LSU job,
Speaker 4: because it's it's probably gonna open up if they fire
Speaker 4: Mat McMahon. I mean, an LSU, by the way, is
Speaker 4: a really good basketball job. So maybe that's not a
Speaker 4: good example. But let's say South Carolina, maybe they open
Speaker 4: up their job. I doubt they do, but if they
Speaker 4: did after two years, three years, whatever it is, imagine
Speaker 4: somebody turning down Virginia or Syracuse to go to South
Speaker 4: Caroline at a coach basketball. I mean, I'm giving you
Speaker 4: hypotheticals that may never we never, we may never get
Speaker 4: to a point where you're seeing a coach decide between
Speaker 4: those two schools. But I just cannot believe what the
Speaker 4: SEC is turned into in basketball. And if they end
Speaker 4: up flaming out in the tournament and they don't make
Speaker 4: a deep run and they don't have let's say they
Speaker 4: have no final for representation and one Elite eight team,
Speaker 4: I'll certainly say, well they were you know, they flamed out.
Speaker 4: We shouldn't be calling this the best league in the country,
Speaker 4: or the best league ever, or maybe the best league
Speaker 4: in the country. Let's say the Big Ten, the Big
Speaker 4: twelve have way more in the Lead eight than the SEC.
Speaker 4: I mean, clearly that's where you really prove what you
Speaker 4: are and what you can do. But it's still I mean,
Speaker 4: I'd be a delusional fool to sit here and say
Speaker 4: that that means that the SEC is a trash league
Speaker 4: in basketball, because it's not. And I don't see it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't see it slowing down. And I
Speaker 4: have a legitimate jealousy of the ride that it is
Speaker 4: to be an SEC basketball program right now, because you know,
Speaker 4: night and night out, you're in big games with a
Speaker 4: lot on the line, because if you win many, they
Speaker 4: could substantially change your seating because you just beat a
Speaker 4: top ten team on the road. So I think the
Speaker 4: ACC is gonna get better, I really do, but I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's gonna catch up with the SEC.
Speaker 4: And if it does, you know, people right now are
Speaker 4: probably thinking.
Speaker 3: You're an idiot.
Speaker 4: Don't you know about Duke in North Carolina? Yeah, but
Speaker 4: like that's old news man, Like Duke's still great and
Speaker 4: they're gonna be loaded with talent. But that's one team.
Speaker 4: It's one team, all right, quick break, We'll come back
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Speaker 4: I feel like I'm taking the bait whenever I engage
Speaker 4: with people who try to act like the ACC basketball
Speaker 4: fall off is like greatly exaggerated or or fake news.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not at all. And using NC State's
Speaker 4: Final four run last year does not help your case
Speaker 4: and That's why I feel like I'm taking the bait,
Speaker 4: like they're setting me up to just, you know, argue
Speaker 4: over something that they don't even believe. So if you
Speaker 4: missed the beginning of the show, I'm jealous of the
Speaker 4: SEC's basketball rise, and I just I miss being a
Speaker 4: part of a conference that you know, had regular opportunities
Speaker 4: to get wins that really sort of impact how you
Speaker 4: feel about selection Sunday and we're just not there. But
Speaker 4: I said I would do this. Maybe i'll do it
Speaker 4: tomorrow since Austin won't be here, I'll make it a
Speaker 4: bigger part of the show being the ad for the
Speaker 4: current schools that are gonna hire coaches because the job's open,
Speaker 4: or jobs that aren't open yet but should be open,
Speaker 4: like for example, we know Virginia, Miami and Florida State
Speaker 4: are going to be looking for a new coach. I
Speaker 4: think Virginia Tech and Syracuse should be looking for a
Speaker 4: new coach. Not really sure if they will, but they should.
Speaker 4: And n C State maybe in worse shape than anybody
Speaker 4: in the ACC right now, I mean they're they're bad.
Speaker 4: Among probably four teams that I would say are the
Speaker 4: bottom of the of the of the league. Miami, Boston College,
Speaker 4: n C State is Yeah, there's everybody in the league
Speaker 4: other than three teams has at least five conference wins.
Speaker 4: N C State, Boston College, and Miami each have three,
Speaker 4: so they're tied for last place. And NC State's a
Speaker 4: mess and they really shouldn't think they're the one team
Speaker 4: out of those three that really has no business being
Speaker 4: as bad as they are. And Keats probably would have
Speaker 4: been fired mid season had he not gone to a
Speaker 4: Final four last year and that of course, you know,
Speaker 4: extended his contract all that kind of stuff, and I
Speaker 4: would I wouldn't be shocked if Keats is remembered as
Speaker 4: a guy when it comes to contracts, meaning you can't
Speaker 4: you know, you don't want to get Keats. I hate
Speaker 4: saying that because I like Kevin Keats. I think he's
Speaker 4: I think he's I think he's a better coach than
Speaker 4: what we're seeing right now. But it's just it's completely
Speaker 4: fallen apart. I mean, the Carolina who's having an awful
Speaker 4: season for their standard and really what the expectation was
Speaker 4: for them. I mean, they were just they could have
Speaker 4: named the score last night. Which are we getting trolled
Speaker 4: here when people continue to share North Carolina's resume. Are
Speaker 4: they trolling us? Meaning? Are they are they? Are they
Speaker 4: really acting as if Carolina should be considered for a
Speaker 4: spot in the tournament. I mean, there's sixteen and eleven overall,
Speaker 4: one in ten in quad one games, and they have
Speaker 4: a Quad three loss. I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 4: it's even Last night they won by a lot, but
Speaker 4: they also, you know, a team that's even worse than them.
Speaker 4: I mean, they won last night ninety seven to seventy three.
Speaker 4: It actually could have it was worse at times, so
Speaker 4: I guess since the state did make it not quite
Speaker 4: as ugly as it could have been. But I mean, Carolina,
Speaker 4: the fact that they're even being talked about as a
Speaker 4: bubble team is just sad. But maybe that just speaks
Speaker 4: to I guess you know where the bubble is, all right,
Speaker 4: it's coffee and Company. We are filled bout Thornton's here
Speaker 4: on Sports Talk seven ninety made a mistake there during
Speaker 4: the break not to go get a bottle of water.
Speaker 4: I'll do that next time because I felt great today
Speaker 4: and I still feel good now. But you know I
Speaker 4: don't I've already talked in the last thirty minutes more
Speaker 4: than I have all day and get.
Speaker 5: Those waters a little bit more time to chill. Last
Speaker 5: time I got one was like an hour ago and
Speaker 5: someone had just put a bunch in and there was
Speaker 5: still kind of kind of warm.
Speaker 4: See, I can do. I can do room temperatures. When
Speaker 4: can do that, I wouldn't say rude, like I can
Speaker 4: do if it's not it doesn't have to be like
Speaker 4: ice cold. Put it that way, because at that point
Speaker 4: I can. I can eliminate a lot of water. If
Speaker 4: it's the colder it is, the harder it is for
Speaker 4: me to just you know, chuck it and it hurts
Speaker 4: my teeth. It's yeah, it's a little more. It's a
Speaker 4: little more satisfying. Whenever it's really really cold but slightly
Speaker 4: above room temperature, that's I wouldn't say that's perfect, but
Speaker 4: I can. I can handle it. All Right, we're getting
Speaker 4: pranked on the show and I it's not. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'll just I'll just tell you guys what's happening. Austin
Speaker 4: would probably be a He'll have to kind of run
Speaker 4: with it once I set it up as far as
Speaker 4: what's going on. But we have somebody that is getting
Speaker 4: reaching out to car dealerships across the city and inquiring
Speaker 4: about a car. They want to purchase a vehicle. And
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people listening understand that if
Speaker 4: you are somebody that sells cars for a living, you know,
Speaker 4: that's how you make your money. So if you know
Speaker 4: you've got somebody interested, you're going to pursue it like crazy.
Speaker 4: And like every day for the last two weeks almost yeah,
Speaker 4: we've had people calling into a hotline and Austin will
Speaker 4: answer it and they're looking for me, or maybe they're
Speaker 4: looking for some like you know, prank name, and they're
Speaker 4: they don't know they're calling a radio show. They think
Speaker 4: they're calling somebody who's interested in buying a vehicle. And
Speaker 4: I can't tell if this is like if they wanted
Speaker 4: it to get brought up on the air, then I
Speaker 4: guess they won. But I can't tell if this is
Speaker 4: clever and kind of funny or like really lame. Like
Speaker 4: for us, it's nothing, but I think for you to
Speaker 4: do that to car dealerships and mislead people who you
Speaker 4: know a sale is really how they make a living
Speaker 4: and provide for their family, Like it kind of makes
Speaker 4: you an a hole, to be honest with you, But
Speaker 4: I mean it's like every day now, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's at least been going on for like the
Speaker 5: last three weeks.
Speaker 4: I would say, maybe what do they get out of this?
Speaker 2: Three or four.
Speaker 5: Times a week, I'm answering the phone call and it's
Speaker 5: from a Chevy dealership, a Nissan, or today was alexis
Speaker 5: just looking for and they've been asking for you. And
Speaker 5: I know you had your car troubles Act during the summer, so.
Speaker 4: Initially you thought I was like looking for a vehicle,
Speaker 4: You're in the market. But why would I give them
Speaker 4: the number to call the show?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I've always given you the benefit.
Speaker 2: I just may have thought, do.
Speaker 3: They add on?
Speaker 4: Sometimes they ask for me by name, sometimes they don't.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, it's about ninety percent of the time it
Speaker 5: was it's been you. Yesterday was Jerry Eves and today
Speaker 5: was asking for uh for not me, but asking for
Speaker 5: the tribal chief. Now people are listening know that I'm
Speaker 5: a big wrestling fan, and that's the moniker that Roman
Speaker 5: Reigns goes by.
Speaker 2: He's the tribal chief.
Speaker 4: Is he like one of your favorite wrestlers or something?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, he's he's He's my top he's probably probably.
Speaker 4: So today's today's call makes it seem as if like
Speaker 4: it's somebody that knows you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's now rounding out to where I think this
Speaker 5: is someone someone's got a leg up because they called
Speaker 5: asking for a t I know at is. My middle
Speaker 5: name is Tyler, by the way, so maybe they could
Speaker 5: just be saying that, but they they said it was,
Speaker 5: you know, because you're talking and the queue was kind
Speaker 5: of muffly. So I just heard I'm looking for the
Speaker 5: tribal chief and I'm like, tribal chief or you talk
Speaker 5: about you're talking about wrestling. She said, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: I'm talking about someone said to or we just got
Speaker 5: an inquiry or a lead in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're going online and saying call this number. These
Speaker 4: person wants to buy his call, call this number three
Speaker 4: and youth okay, So yeah, they're setting it because and
Speaker 4: you believe these are really people calling from dealerships. It's
Speaker 4: not us getting prank called.
Speaker 5: Yes, no, they sound like they're could because they sound
Speaker 5: just as confused when I say that this is a
Speaker 5: radio show and they're like huh, And this lady was
Speaker 5: pretty confused.
Speaker 4: But has any of them been angry?
Speaker 5: No, no, this this one was a little uh uh befuddled.
Speaker 5: I guess I would be too, because she said, I
Speaker 5: don't know why they just didn't give like a full
Speaker 5: first and last name.
Speaker 2: They gave a nickname.
Speaker 4: See that makes me sad, because I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 4: it's your job. You got to follow up in any lead.
Speaker 4: You get to make sure you don't miss out on
Speaker 4: a potential sale. And I'm sure you you're monitored by
Speaker 4: your your superiors to do that as far as you
Speaker 4: know your job. But I mean, what a waste of
Speaker 4: time and like calling a number cold call to ask
Speaker 4: for the tribal chief and then you find out it's
Speaker 4: a radio show and there's no tribal chief and you
Speaker 4: got god like, that's sad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's the only time I've ever been called
Speaker 5: tribal chief, So I'll let that one slide.
Speaker 2: But other than that, it's I.
Speaker 5: I got a good kick out of it because I
Speaker 5: laughed with her and she kind of laughed backed, and
Speaker 5: she said, yeah, it sounds like someone's definitely pulling your leg.
Speaker 4: Well again, what did they get out of this? A
Speaker 4: good laugh? It's a mean, I don't know, it's it's
Speaker 4: it's not cruel, it's not you know, it's it's certainly childish.
Speaker 2: It's a waste of time for like the dealership people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like if I and I would be terrible at
Speaker 4: selling cars. But if I was in the position of
Speaker 4: making the phone call and then learning that it was
Speaker 4: all a rib maybe if I'd been doing it a
Speaker 4: long time and I realize that that's a pretty common thing,
Speaker 4: maybe not for a radio show, but for somebody to
Speaker 4: you know, set somebody up to get called. I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe it's just another day at the office, because it
Speaker 4: happens a lot. But also like, I mean, you're wasting
Speaker 4: my time. And again I just whoever's doing it, I
Speaker 4: have a hard time thinking that they're not aware of
Speaker 4: how like, you know, I mean, I've never been in
Speaker 4: a position to where I have to sell something in
Speaker 4: order for me to like make a living. Thankfully, I've
Speaker 4: never had to do that. And when I say thankfully,
Speaker 4: I mean because I would be terrible at it. But
Speaker 4: like maybe sometimes they are descriptive about hey, call after
Speaker 4: three it's this guy named Nick Coffee or it's me
Speaker 4: and probably saying that they're me and I'm really interested
Speaker 4: in this nineteen or this two thousand and seven used
Speaker 4: BMW or Chevy Chevy Silverado. Like you may for a
Speaker 4: while think all right, well I got three hours until three.
Speaker 4: But man, this seems promising. I look this guy up,
Speaker 4: and you know, maybe he will buy the car for
Speaker 4: me and I can feed my family. Like like it's
Speaker 4: it's it's really childish and and I mean it's it's stupid.
Speaker 4: But I still think, look, people do. That's really the
Speaker 4: theme of this show, right, childish and stupid. So maybe
Speaker 4: maybe they just they're just trying to fit in, yeah,
Speaker 4: and be one of us, but also like you're you're
Speaker 4: looping in somebody that it's not nice in any way
Speaker 4: to mislead them and waste their time, especially when it's
Speaker 4: something that that they are. That's that's what they do,
Speaker 4: that's how they If they're not selling cars, they're not
Speaker 4: making money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just I'm I'm trying to see what the real
Speaker 4: end goal is for the people who are setting us
Speaker 4: up for this, Like what do they get out of it?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Well, hopefully I get a new car and not have
Speaker 5: to pay a lot. That would be pretty cool, you
Speaker 5: know what, mister tribal chief we bothered you too much. Here,
Speaker 5: your your Lexus is ready for you. Just come sign
Speaker 5: the papers Lexus.
Speaker 4: Those are beautiful vehicles.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Also just had a text here a kind of going
Speaker 5: back to our last segment, a chef out the Cameron.
Speaker 5: He said his his dad makes beef jerky and the
Speaker 5: little packets, the aforementioned packets we are talking about there.
Speaker 5: It provides oxygen and helps keep the the jerky fresh.
Speaker 5: I know that there's reason then it's important. Yes, it
Speaker 5: makes sense to leave it taking it. The size of
Speaker 5: the jerky, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean it is. As far as the visual, you
Speaker 4: clearly know it's not jerky. As far as when you're
Speaker 4: in the bag, you really don't know for sure until
Speaker 4: you till you pull out whatever whatever you're getting at
Speaker 4: the bottom of it.
Speaker 5: And I'm a car driver anyway, so I'm a left
Speaker 5: hand on the steering wheel, right hand on that McDonald's
Speaker 5: Big Mac. And if it's on that uh, if if
Speaker 5: I'm eating jerky, I'm looking towards road. It's just going
Speaker 5: all in my mouth. It's hand to mouth sometimes that
Speaker 5: could be. You can't do that with it.
Speaker 4: I can't eat and drive.
Speaker 2: It's a it's it's a talent.
Speaker 4: I mean I have eaten it even whenever I'm driving
Speaker 4: or I'm riding with somebody on a road trip and
Speaker 4: they're driving and and we stop and get food. I
Speaker 4: just it's it's never comfortable and I just feel gross
Speaker 4: eating in a car for some reason. And it's a
Speaker 4: me thing because look, a lot of people eat in
Speaker 4: the car. It's how they eat lunch every day.
Speaker 2: My best meals have come in the car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what it is. I just I'm
Speaker 4: not big on eating in the car. But real quick,
Speaker 4: before we get to our next break from this whole
Speaker 4: prank that somebody's trying to pull to get people at
Speaker 4: car dealerships to call into the show thinking we want
Speaker 4: to buy a car, it reminded me of something I
Speaker 4: did and I don't think this. Well, I guess maybe
Speaker 4: this is me doing the same thing. So maybe this
Speaker 4: is where I now realized that what I did many
Speaker 4: many years ago to my brother in law was really
Speaker 4: childish and I wasted people's time too. So maybe what
Speaker 4: they just call this is karma, and I'm now realizing
Speaker 4: that again I did the same thing.
Speaker 2: So maybe they're just the phallic images on cars no.
Speaker 4: So this was probably I don't know, I think it
Speaker 4: was when me and my wife were engaged. We weren't
Speaker 4: married yet, so this was many years ago. We were
Speaker 4: getting ready to buy a house, so we were at
Speaker 4: Hobby Lobby and uh, getting just getting We furnished a
Speaker 4: one better apartment and we moved to a home. We
Speaker 4: needed more stuff, so we were at Hobby Lobby getting
Speaker 4: stuff and they had a sheet at the at the
Speaker 4: register that you could sign up for like their basket
Speaker 4: weaving class, and I put my brother in law's name
Speaker 4: and number and said he was interested in and coming
Speaker 4: in and being a part of the basket weaving class
Speaker 4: or like the arts and crafts class something like that.
Speaker 4: And sure enough, like they they they didn't take no
Speaker 4: for an answer for a while. I'm pretty sure he
Speaker 4: got called like three straight weeks like are you sure
Speaker 4: you're not interested because your name's here, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: they did it as a joke. Well what's the joke
Speaker 4: we have We have a class tonight. You should come
Speaker 4: on out. And you know, that is a really silly
Speaker 4: it's a really silly, stupid thing, but you know the
Speaker 4: classes he did not. In fact, man, I'm just this.
Speaker 4: This is one of those things that reminds me how
Speaker 4: long I've been doing this whenever, And I'm glad somebody
Speaker 4: in the text line just sent this in because I
Speaker 4: totally forgot about this. There was you remember, whenever you
Speaker 4: would go to the bars and somebody would get like
Speaker 4: a VIP to where like, hey, you can you can
Speaker 4: avoid cover if you say you're on my list, and
Speaker 4: then like sometimes miss those days.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4: That I know what you're talking I'm not sure they
Speaker 4: still do that or not.
Speaker 2: I never I'd never been.
Speaker 4: Fortunate, but like we had people who who had friends
Speaker 4: that worked at Tango, which is where we sit right now,
Speaker 4: or even sports and social that if they had a
Speaker 4: VIP and you said you were on their list, and
Speaker 4: you were on the list, then you could avoid cover.
Speaker 4: And I think sometimes you would get like a couple
Speaker 4: of drink tickets. Maybe I don't remember specifically what the
Speaker 4: real incentive was, but we were poor in twenty one
Speaker 4: twenty two to where if we just avoided cover, we
Speaker 4: felt like we won for the night. So they did that.
Speaker 4: I guess at PTS, the the Gentleman's Club here downtown,
Speaker 4: which I believe it's still open.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's down there. I did a door to ash
Speaker 2: for there a few weeks again.
Speaker 4: And somebody kept putting us on the list for free
Speaker 4: cover at PTS on the text line so we would
Speaker 4: get it. So the text line would get an automated
Speaker 4: text from like pt saying Hey, you know, it's something
Speaker 4: they send to everybody who I guess had signed up
Speaker 4: and got some kind of like you know, basically just
Speaker 4: a reminder, Hey, we want you to come and spend
Speaker 4: money to night, so we're gonna let you in for free.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But it was just an automated text that would come
Speaker 4: in like every Friday on the text line, Hey, you're
Speaker 4: signed up, you can bring you and ten guests to
Speaker 4: come in free.
Speaker 2: And I had sports and social does and.
Speaker 4: I would talk about it on the show, and sure enough,
Speaker 4: the GM at the time of PTS listened to the
Speaker 4: show and he reached out and we were working on
Speaker 4: doing some type of promotion where you know, all I
Speaker 4: know is that it was one of the first times
Speaker 4: from just talking about something on the show. This was
Speaker 4: early early Nick Coffee. iHeart media days. We're talking twenty sixteen,
Speaker 4: when I was in Middays probably within the first four
Speaker 4: months of being on the job when all this happened,
Speaker 4: and I'm thinking, here we go, like this could be
Speaker 4: a good endorsement deal. We've got clients that want to
Speaker 4: be a part of it. And then I realized, like
Speaker 4: that kind of client needs to go up the ladder
Speaker 4: or the poll. No pun intended to like for somebody
Speaker 4: to give it the green light. If that's something that
Speaker 4: we need, we can do. And the person at the
Speaker 4: time who was in charge of that decision for programming,
Speaker 4: it's the it's the it's it's the guy before Gus
Speaker 4: and the guy before Josh, so as long before you
Speaker 4: were around. In fact, this guy may have left not
Speaker 4: long after he hired me, but he said, no, we
Speaker 4: will not be promoting any any adult entertainment establishments on
Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety You. Honestly, I think at the
Speaker 4: time we were still Cards Radio. We had the partnership
Speaker 4: with you of Elda where we probably they probably didn't,
Speaker 4: you know, and then timing probably wasn't great to, you know,
Speaker 4: start a campaign with a strip joint whenever. Right at
Speaker 4: the time, we were covering the Katina pal scandal, so
Speaker 4: I get it they shut us down, but uh. You know,
Speaker 4: just radio can give you fun stories like that. All right,
Speaker 4: let's get to a break. We'll come back on the
Speaker 4: other side. Keep this thing rolling along. Coffee and Company,
Speaker 4: Nick Coffee, Austin Montgomery taking you up till six o'clock
Speaker 4: right here on Sports Talks ninety.
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Speaker 4: Thornton's Nick Coffee. The tribal chief alongside, does that right?
Speaker 4: Got I say it right? Yes, of course you did,
Speaker 4: just making sure you put the ones up when you
Speaker 4: do it too. So is that what Roman reigns does.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's his. It's not a signal.
Speaker 4: He's not the trivel chief anymore you are, Nope. So
Speaker 4: just he needs to be made aware of that. I'll
Speaker 4: let y'all let you tell him.
Speaker 5: I need the Ulufala. That's the flower of the city.
Speaker 5: The where it's it's called the ulafala, Okay, it's It
Speaker 5: signifies a real tribal chief, the real head of the table,
Speaker 5: the real uh uh orator of a tribe, if you.
Speaker 2: May it's got like, we'll take your word for it.
Speaker 4: Brother.
Speaker 2: So what they tell me in wwe at least to
Speaker 2: be real.
Speaker 4: One thing I wanted to mention before we get to
Speaker 4: the top of the hour here, uh. Mayor Greenberg announced
Speaker 4: earlier today the developmental agreement, a development agreement, I should say,
Speaker 4: for the Louis of Gardens. The Louis of Gardens is
Speaker 4: actually just like a block over from where we are,
Speaker 4: and it's been a dump for a long time. I
Speaker 4: know Will Clark when he was with us here at
Speaker 4: eight forty BHAs maybe a couple of years ago, he
Speaker 4: did a story on sort of what that space is now,
Speaker 4: how it's I mean, it's it's a dump. It's falling apart.
Speaker 4: It was used for like storage for city property. I
Speaker 4: guess for a while. I don't know what it is
Speaker 4: as we speak, but they're going to allocate ten million
Speaker 4: dollars of General Assembly funding towards the project, which it's
Speaker 4: gonna be a Louis of Gardens sound Stages, which is
Speaker 4: going to create new jobs as they repurposed this vacant building.
Speaker 4: But I mean, there's so much history in the Louis
Speaker 4: of Gardens and this this is going to give downtown,
Speaker 4: I think, a really really good, you know, good sized
Speaker 4: venue that we just don't have. I mean, obviously you can.
Speaker 4: You can. You can go to just down the block
Speaker 4: here at the Palace in Mercury Ballroom, and I've been
Speaker 4: to some really good shows at Mercury, but that's not
Speaker 4: you know, that's like you can't have like sporting events there.
Speaker 4: I mean the gardens. I mean, maybe they won't renovate
Speaker 4: it to where it could be used for like wrestling
Speaker 4: events or basketball. I mean, I played my last high
Speaker 4: school basketball game was in the Louisville Gardens in the
Speaker 4: sixth Region tournament. And I believe that could be wrong,
Speaker 4: but I believe that was the last year that they
Speaker 4: used the gardens for the six and seven three tournaments.
Speaker 4: I could be wrong. Maybe they did it a year later.
Speaker 4: Maybe they did the l I t a year later too,
Speaker 4: But that year the lt was at the gardens and
Speaker 4: the regional tournaments were at the gardens, and it was
Speaker 4: perfect for that, right, Like if you put it at
Speaker 4: Bellerman or Valley where they have it now, that's fine,
Speaker 4: but like the gardens gives you that intimate I mean,
Speaker 4: it's in arena, or at least you know it was.
Speaker 4: I mean I remember coming out of the locker room
Speaker 4: feeling like I wasn't in some public school system locker room.
Speaker 4: I was in a locker room where like, you know,
Speaker 4: the talent is the performers, the entertainers. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: where the Kentucky Colonel played back in the day. So
Speaker 4: there's been a lot of talk about this for quite
Speaker 4: some time, but it sounds like there's real movement here
Speaker 4: to get this historic venue back in shape. And you know,
Speaker 4: I'm somebody that is in the age range to where
Speaker 4: like if it is a thriving spot where you can
Speaker 4: go see a concert or maybe go see I mean,
Speaker 4: let me give you an example, Austin, you're a wrestling guy, right,
Speaker 4: that's your lane. If if if Impact wrestling or maybe
Speaker 4: even a w came to Louisville and they went to
Speaker 4: the gardens, that would be a big deal, you know,
Speaker 4: because there's been historic wrestling that's taken place.
Speaker 2: There Tuesday Night in the garden.
Speaker 4: I remember learning at a young age that they're, oh,
Speaker 4: you're telling me there's actually wrestling that goes on on
Speaker 4: days when it's not on TV, like Monday night raw
Speaker 4: or SmackDown. You know, they're on the road every day
Speaker 4: of the year, at least they were back then. And
Speaker 4: I remember it wasn't on television, but somebody got video
Speaker 4: of Stone Cold coming out of the gardens and chugging
Speaker 4: beers and he's think he might have stunt the undertaker,
Speaker 4: which I don't remember if that was who it was,
Speaker 4: but like it was a big deal. And you know,
Speaker 4: I've always said that there's as far as like the
Speaker 4: venue size for certain events, it's so crucial because the
Speaker 4: Yump Center is just too big for certain things that
Speaker 4: would get a draw that could be a great atmosphere
Speaker 4: and experience, but in a twenty two thousand seed arena,
Speaker 4: like you need to fill it or come close to
Speaker 4: filling it, or maybe get fifteen plus for it to
Speaker 4: even look like it was a decent showing. And that
Speaker 4: just like the size of a venue can have so
Speaker 4: much of an impact on the atmosphere for everybody involved,
Speaker 4: from the performers, from the fans that are there. And
Speaker 4: I just think the best decent sized venue we have
Speaker 4: for concerts sports is broad Been Arena at the Fairgrounds.
Speaker 4: But like doing anything at the Fairgrounds is a pain
Speaker 4: in the ass so like we had a dam. I mean,
Speaker 4: it would be so good for downtown to have that
Speaker 4: space renovated where you can have different types of concerts there.
Speaker 4: And I just think it's really cool to see that
Speaker 4: they're actually going. You know, been a rough week for
Speaker 4: us to find out that the Young Brands is leaving
Speaker 4: Louisville for the most part corporate jobs and all that.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's not great, but that is some
Speaker 4: good news for downtown that they are moving forward. It's
Speaker 4: going to be a seventy million dollar multipurpose sound stage development,
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of things that you can do there.
Speaker 4: I mean, looking I'm reading here from the press release
Speaker 4: at louisvilleky dot gov. This is a quote from Mary Greenberg.
Speaker 4: As Louisville's burgeoning film industry continues to grow to the
Speaker 4: louisvill Gardens sound stages will be the perfect venue for
Speaker 4: production companies looking for a new, world class space to
Speaker 4: make film, TV shows, commercials, and more. This project creates jobs,
Speaker 4: repurposes historic vacant building, and adds to the great momentum
Speaker 4: we're experiencing right in downtown levels. So maybe it's more
Speaker 4: so for that kind of stuff than it is about concerts.
Speaker 4: But again that you could still they could do a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff there. I mean, yeah, there are venues
Speaker 4: that really you would like in that space. Meaning I
Speaker 4: don't mean like that actual space specifically, I mean more
Speaker 4: in that I guess what I meant to say is
Speaker 4: in that industry, like if you have a venue where
Speaker 4: people could host events, like there's a wide range of
Speaker 4: different types of events that you could actually use your
Speaker 4: space for. And that's how you that's how you make money.
Speaker 4: That's how it becomes a big, a big venue. I
Speaker 4: mean I've gone to certain places in different cities where
Speaker 4: one time I went it was for a it was
Speaker 4: for a basketball event. The next time I went it
Speaker 4: was for you know, an intimate concert, that kind of stuff.
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