WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:06.879 It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:09.839 Sports Talk seven ninety. Holy crap, I. 3 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:11.480 Don't know who the hell we think when we. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.160 Are get off our show, idiot. 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.079 The kids are crying or trail off crying. 6 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.000 The countries are screwing it up. Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, 7 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:20.719 gold Play Inner Murals. 8 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.839 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 9 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:25.519 Who's the kid here? 10 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:28.359 Who's the kid here? Are you kidding me? 11 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:29.320 Now? 12 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:34.320 Here's Nick Coffee? 13 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:39.520 All right, let's get it started here on another beautiful afternoon, 14 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.880 a Thursday edition of Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's 15 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.880 right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks for joining us. 16 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.280 Wherever you are, however you're listening, whatever time of the 17 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.600 day it is. I mean it's three give me three 18 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.759 two one. It's now three oh one where I'm at. 19 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:59.520 But you may be listening to this on podcast. You 20 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.200 maybe listen to it, you know, a week from now. 21 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.079 So again, wherever you are, whatever time of the day 22 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:06.560 it is, whatever year it is. 23 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.079 Thank you, We appreciate you. 24 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:10.560 My name is Nick Coffee, Austin Montgomery, the travel chief 25 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.359 alongside today we're gonna take you up till six o'clock 26 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:14.760 and you could take us with you wherever you go. 27 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.000 Listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Also listen live at 28 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:24.599 seven ninety Louisville dot com. Obviously Thursdays are are thirsty 29 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:27.079 thursdays for me. I mean, this weather be a bad 30 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:28.359 day to be a cold beer. I tell you that 31 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:30.519 right now. Might as well say your prayer, say your 32 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:34.120 goodbyes to everybody you love, because it's beer drinking weather 33 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.079 out there, really has been the last couple of days. 34 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:38.120 It was gloomy earlier, and I think it was. I 35 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.719 think that's what it's supposed to be. But in downtown Louisville, 36 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:42.439 as I speak right now again, it could change, and 37 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.280 it may have already changed since I walked in about 38 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:48.840 twenty minutes ago. But it is nice, nice outside. So 39 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.519 this is your Friday right for the show, Austin, You're 40 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:52.120 out tomorrow? 41 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:54.640 Yes, yes, yes, sure I am. 42 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.359 Let me ask you. Are you being taken away from me? 43 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:58.040 Or are you off? 44 00:01:58.159 --> 00:01:58.319 Yeah? 45 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:00.959 No, I'm being taken away. Okay, I'm going to uh 46 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.400 so a Tony D. White happy hour, but just no Tony. 47 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:05.760 Tony and DW. 48 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:11.240 White happy hour where there's no live broadcast. Yes, oh man, 49 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.639 I mean things could get crazy. Yeah, I mean, but. 50 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:21.439 Dare I ask what you're needed for there? Dare I? 51 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:22.240 Dare I ask? 52 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.800 And I don't mean, I mean any situation where you're 53 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.680 a part of it, that situation becomes better. So like 54 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:30.960 I know that that that goes without saying, but I'm 55 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.319 just asking, like that's what you get taken away from 56 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:39.159 just because you know, I mean, I'm putting. 57 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:39.560 M in a bad spot. 58 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.919 It's not his call, No, it's trust me. 59 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:46.599 Look, look, I put you in a bad spot. I 60 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:47.000 didn't mean. 61 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:48.879 I didn't mean to put it out there like that. No, 62 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:53.199 we had a we actually have a getting some help. Actually, 63 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.960 I'm finally they hired a a part timer to come 64 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.319 help out. Yes, round of look at a scale, Yeah, 65 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.360 shout outs to the team. So as we grow basically 66 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:05.680 like a shadowing thing and we're just kind of treating 67 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.800 it as like okay, like a like an actual remote type. 68 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:10.039 Of well that actually makes a lot of sense then, 69 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:12.680 because you're going to basically be showing somebody the ropes 70 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.000 of how it's done. And they've got big shoes to fill, 71 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:16.479 but they'll they'll try their best at. 72 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:17.159 Least I hope so. 73 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.560 But like, here's here's something that I just thought of that. 74 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.000 I mean, it doesn't really take a lot to like 75 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:29.400 think of this, But how about like realizing and utilizing 76 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.520 I should say that, you know, Dwight is having a 77 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:35.039 meet and greet. Don't know the timing of it, but 78 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.120 it's not a lot broadcast. It's just to hang out. 79 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.159 Why not bring coffee and company there and have a 80 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:42.199 big pow wow with you know. 81 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:43.840 To where it's actually a great idea? 82 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:44.680 Yeah, I mean I don't. 83 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.199 I don't have many of them, but sometimes they just 84 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.240 appear in my brain to be Do you think there's 85 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.520 people who know this show is here? 86 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:55.919 Oh surely, I hope. 87 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.599 So surely what can we do to tell them, like, hey, 88 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.159 we're here, we we'd like to have fun. 89 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.080 Too, And they. 90 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:05.599 Just take you away from me as if like I 91 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:07.319 don't want to go have fun. And I know there's 92 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.360 a lot that goes into it as far as the 93 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.280 client selling and all that, but I mean I'm just 94 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.840 an added bonus. I mean, you already you've got Dwight, 95 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.319 that's all you need, and then you throw me in there. 96 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:20.519 I'm just a complimentary peace you know. 97 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:24.199 Rick at that point, possibly, are you kidding me? Let's 98 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:24.879 make that happen. 99 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.199 I will, you know, out of my control, that's for sure. 100 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.319 But we'll miss you tomorrow. You'll be having fun, yeah, 101 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.120 and I'll be you know, I'll be here a good time. 102 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:34.519 And next Friday I'm out too. 103 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:36.279 The sisters graduating high school. 104 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:37.680 Oh, shout out to the sisters. 105 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:39.800 Shout out Emily, Emily, shout out Emily. 106 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:40.800 You have a sister, Emily? 107 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:41.319 Yes? 108 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.920 Did you know that I have a sister Emily? Well, 109 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:45.560 now that I think of it, yes, yeah, we both 110 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:46.319 have Emily's sister. 111 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.079 Yes, look at that. 112 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.439 So so graduating high school that has got to be 113 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.680 this is this is, I guess more so. I could 114 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:59.800 be wrong, but I think tomorrow was supposed to be 115 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.279 the last day of school in Bullet County. But obviously 116 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:04.120 they had a lot of snow days that kind of stuff, 117 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.319 so I think they're they're extended out a little bit. 118 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:10.759 But graduation season is upon us. And did you, like, 119 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:13.519 was graduation like a big deal when? 120 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:13.800 Not? 121 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.319 Not to you individually, I just mean, like, you know, 122 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.319 we had we had graduation parties after we graduated high school, 123 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:20.120 like my friends did. 124 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.800 But like after Like when I graduated, I. 125 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:25.879 Mean I wore like what I would wear to school 126 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:28.839 on the day of like a basketball game, like a 127 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.079 khakis and a shirt and tie kind of thing. But like, 128 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:37.199 I feel like graduation each year has become a bigger 129 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:41.120 celebration for folks, which I think is justified. 130 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:44.879 They're going in like arenas now or like like freedom Hall. 131 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:46.839 Mine was just done on the football field. 132 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.480 Well see that, Like I would prefer it that way. 133 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:50.720 Oh yeah, that was a great time. 134 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:53.519 So I believe my class, Yeah, because I graduated high 135 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:56.920 school class of two thousand and six at North Bullet 136 00:05:56.959 --> 00:06:00.279 High School, and we graduated in our we graduate waiting 137 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.279 in our gym and walked across the stage, and that's 138 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.319 just all that that they That's the way it had 139 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:07.959 always been to my knowledge, ever since the school opened 140 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:10.079 many many years ago, when my parents started going there. 141 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.079 And then the next year my wife, she's a graduate 142 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:17.600 of two thousand and seven class, and they had their graduation. 143 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:21.160 I believe it broad been arena, so they you know, 144 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:23.319 clearly you need more space that kind of stuff. But 145 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.240 I kind of, you know, if given the choice, maybe 146 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:28.079 this is just me thinking about the way it was 147 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.680 done back in my day, but like I would rather 148 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.879 graduate at my high school and not at you know. 149 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.839 I mean again, maybe there's a cool element to you know, 150 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.279 walking across the stage. But when I went to her graduation, 151 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:43.480 I mean, there were a lot of people there, but 152 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.720 like nowhere, I mean, it was really I can't say 153 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.839 it was an empty arena because it wasn't empty, but 154 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:51.079 you know what I mean, Like it would if there 155 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:53.319 was an event there that took place in the area 156 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.000 where in fact the students are seated and they've got 157 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.160 this little stage set up in front with the podium, 158 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.279 I mean, it would be viewed as like a any 159 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:01.120 turnout for that. 160 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.920 So I don't know, I feel like a. 161 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:05.439 Graduation was a big for me. 162 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:07.959 It's got to be a cost, right, Like if. 163 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.759 You're using the fairgrounds of facilities to have a graduation, 164 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:11.879 like you got to pay them, and I feel like 165 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:13.079 you should just do it at your school. But I 166 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.920 guess maybe they can't accommodate given the fact that you 167 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:18.160 know a lot of people show up to graduation. They 168 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:21.000 didn't did did did you have any family members bring 169 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.800 out like the airhorn or yell when you graduated when 170 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:24.079 you walk? 171 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.560 They totally yelled. I had uh that few people that 172 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:29.639 that flew in from out of town. My grandma, my 173 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.519 grandpa came in from out of town. So yeah, they 174 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.160 did the uh. They did the yell and also hit 175 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.800 I had. I felt like I had to do something funny, 176 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.319 silly on storage, so I did the I hit the Bernie. 177 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:42.680 Dance did you hit the Bernie? 178 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.000 I hit the Bernie. We can hit Bernie on stage? 179 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:46.879 Nice hit the Bernie like that. 180 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.600 I have no I have no memorable like moment within 181 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.800 my graduation other than just you know the fact that 182 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:54.839 I that I graduated. 183 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.319 I was always like the goofy kid. I always liked 184 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.360 to be like the class clown. So I knew I 185 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.519 had to to go out doing something silly. 186 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:02.839 Aren't they powerless? 187 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:02.959 Though? 188 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:06.639 When they tell you, like, please hold your applause until 189 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:10.839 after everyone, please do not sneak in you know an 190 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:12.439 air is that what it's called an airhorn? 191 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:12.680 Like? 192 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.480 Yeah, but like what you like? 193 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.560 What are what are you gonna do if somebody does 194 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:23.279 in fact defy you and start screaming and hollering And 195 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:27.319 trust me, I graduated school in Bullet County, so there 196 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.639 were a lot of cow bells being wrong a lot 197 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:33.240 of a lot of rooms, a lot of redneck energy, 198 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.039 a lot of hillbilly energy, uh you know, here and 199 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.600 there throughout the entire the entire thing. Not to say that, 200 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:42.399 like you know, that was everyone who graduated, and not 201 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.399 to say that there's anything wrong with that if you 202 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:47.919 do identify as a redneck or hillbilly, but uh yeah, 203 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.279 I mean I just remember going to my sister's graduation, 204 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.600 she graduated the year prior, and I remember thinking like yeah, 205 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.559 as a sixteen year old. Then at that time, I'm like, yeah, 206 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:58.840 you think these people are gonna listen to you, Principal 207 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.559 or counselor whoever it is like saying, could you please, 208 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:03.759 we do ask that you hold all of your reaction 209 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.000 and applause until we do a final send off for 210 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.120 the class of you know. And I guess the reason 211 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.480 they would do that is because if people get to 212 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.200 carry it on a little bit, you know, really, I 213 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.120 wouldn't say for a long amount of time, but they 214 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:18.519 go pretty quick like you're you're announcing Austin Montgomery and 215 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:20.360 then we're going to Nick Coffee, and there's not a 216 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.440 whole lot of time in between to where you could 217 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:25.759 get to hooton and holler and could really interrupt the 218 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.600 the you know, the the people be able to hear 219 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.679 the next name that's up on the list. So I 220 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.039 guess there's a reason for it. But I mean, let 221 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:34.919 let I mean it's. 222 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:36.759 A big deal. I mean graduate high school. Yeah, yeah, 223 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.519 it's a big deal and and you know, a huge 224 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:40.080 day for me. 225 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:47.440 I don't think I had the maturity and life experience, certainly, 226 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.639 I didn't have that at the time to realize, like 227 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.840 how proud my parents probably were not that, like, you know, 228 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:55.399 that was the that's the end goal. He got out 229 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.440 of high school. Now God bless him. Let's send him 230 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.279 on his way, and he's responsible for himself. But you like, 231 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.879 thinking about my my kids or really you know, my 232 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.039 nephews when they graduate, like that'll be a big day. 233 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.039 So let people get rowdy if they want. 234 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:10.679 You know what I'm saying exactly, dude. 235 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:14.200 I hated hated school, just like every like I wanted 236 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:15.360 to be completely done with it. 237 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:19.440 I had no desire to go to college immediately. 238 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.120 I was just ready to be done, waking up early 239 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.000 and just going your free spirit. 240 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.080 Absolutely, you wanted to do your own thing. You wanted 241 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.559 to fly I want the Japs got to let you fly. 242 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:30.960 I went the JCTC when I got here, and then 243 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:34.039 like it really had no business doing downtown or southwest 244 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:38.279 downtown and parking under parking right next to that taco 245 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:41.000 bell under the interstate was pretty sketchy. I've seen, oh, 246 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.000 I know exactly where you're talking about, seeing people freak 247 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:46.480 out and pass out on salts over there in the morning. 248 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.159 It was a lot of saults on salts. Yes, yes, yes, 249 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.759 So it was probably not the best decision. UPS was 250 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:56.759 paying for it, so I'm like, might as well just 251 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.120 give it a shot. But I really had no clue 252 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:00.960 what I wanted to do. And then at one point 253 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.679 they told me like I had to pay one hundred 254 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.799 dollars for like a homework password or something like that. 255 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.600 And then as part of this art class I went 256 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:12.879 to after a couple of semesters said I had to 257 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.039 go to a different museum and take a picture of 258 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.960 a painting and like write an essay of it every month. 259 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.240 And I'm like, you know what, I'm just really only 260 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.600 here to tell chicks that I'm going to college. Yeah, 261 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.480 at least you're honest with yourself, you know. And I'm 262 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:27.799 like this probably is the best for. 263 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:29.720 Me, and I'll tell you what the And I know 264 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.679 I've talked about this before, but in two thousand, really 265 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:35.759 just my high school years. So I got into high 266 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.279 school around two, I guess two thousand and two thousand 267 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.720 and three, four, five, six, Yeah, those were the years 268 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.159 I was in high school. And maybe it's just the 269 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:45.559 way I remember it, but I kind of don't think 270 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.080 it is. I think it's there's clearly been a big shift, 271 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.840 and it's it's and it's for good. But whenever, And 272 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:52.759 I'm sure it was different for you because quite literally 273 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:54.559 where you went to school in Arizona, it's the other 274 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.600 side of the country. I'm sure cultural, it's just a 275 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:01.039 different world. But you're and you're also so significantly younger 276 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.799 than me, especially you know, well as we get older, 277 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.639 it won't seem that way. But like when I graduate 278 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:08.759 high school in two thousand and six, held were you, uh? 279 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:12.159 I think I was just maybe turning like fifteen, No, 280 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.799 I in sixth grade. I was enter in sixth grade. 281 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.120 I'm about to be thirty two years old. 282 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.039 Yeah, so I'm about to be thirty seven. 283 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.519 So you were you were probably going to the sixth 284 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:25.000 or seventh grade when I graduated. 285 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:26.360 So you know, when you. 286 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.759 Think about that era of your life, like that is 287 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:30.679 a big difference. Right when you were that age and 288 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.720 I was seventeen eighteen, visually it would have looked like 289 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:35.759 you were a young child and I was, you know, 290 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.840 I guess team about to be, you know, legally an adult. 291 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:41.440 So anyways, when I was in school, it wasn't ever 292 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.320 like we weren't tortured by it, but there was just 293 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:48.840 this this energy constant throughout that if you did not 294 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.960 have a full plan to go to college, then like 295 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:55.519 life was gonna like you're you were like not to 296 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:57.840 say they would claim that you're a loser, but like 297 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:00.000 it was just in your brain that the only way 298 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:02.960 and the only scenario you could have any success in 299 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.759 life is if in fact you go to college, and 300 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.080 if not, it's going to be really tough for you. 301 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.399 And you know, I believe that a lot of people did, 302 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.000 and uh, you know, there's nothing wrong with encouraging folks 303 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.639 to to to seek higher education and and and you know, 304 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.039 I think a lot of times when it comes to college, 305 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:25.000 especially now that I'm older, college the experience is huge, 306 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.759 but not necessarily all because of what you learn as 307 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:31.120 far as the textbooks and the classes, it's just life experience, 308 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:32.840 and you know, there's a lot that comes with it. 309 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:36.519 So now it doesn't it doesn't appear at all to 310 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:38.279 be that way. Like obviously they're going to encourage and 311 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:40.960 help kids get to a college they want to go 312 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:42.960 to that makes the most sense for them. But like 313 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.120 now there are kids who have really good grades that 314 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:47.600 have made you know, have said for And the reason 315 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:48.799 I say this because I have a lot of friends 316 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.440 that still work in education, and some of them started 317 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:53.440 being teachers and they're still doing that, and then a 318 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.759 lot of them have have moved to the administration side 319 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:57.919 of things. I mean, I have a close friend of 320 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.440 mine who's a principal, and my one of my closest 321 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:04.720 friends is the athletic director. And I've had other friends 322 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.799 that were in the education and then understandably so they 323 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.399 decided to do something different, which I get it. Teachers 324 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.039 are not taking care of the way they should be 325 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:15.360 and it's a thankless job. And I'm worried that in 326 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:17.919 ten years, like it's gonna be really really hard to 327 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:19.639 find teachers, to be honest with you, But anyway, is 328 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:21.840 what I'm getting at is nowadays, there are kids who 329 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.799 have really good grades that would be fully able to 330 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:26.759 go to college and probably do well, but they don't 331 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:27.200 want to do that. 332 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:28.399 They want to get into a trade. 333 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.159 They want to you know, take a you know, take 334 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.919 an entry Yeah, take an entry level job. And probably 335 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.600 a bigger factor than I even think about until right now. 336 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.600 Is it just popped up in my brain. They probably 337 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.240 even at that age. No, I don't want to go 338 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.279 and do an insane amount of debt just to go 339 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.559 to school not knowing what I want to do, you 340 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:52.759 know what I mean. So I'm glad that that's the 341 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:57.720 case now because you know, I know many of friends peers, 342 00:14:58.200 --> 00:14:59.720 mostly people that are a little bit younger than me, 343 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.240 that they didn't go to college right out of high school. 344 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.919 They got into a trade as like an apprentice, and 345 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.679 you know, they're doing really well for themselves. They actually 346 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:11.000 do end up getting schooling through their union and all that. 347 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.080 And I'm just, I mean it just I was never 348 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.480 a good student at all ever, and it was in 349 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:21.399 school in any way as far as like there's one 350 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.159 I was. I was decent when it comes to like 351 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:30.080 English and and writing and things like that, and I 352 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:32.440 was actually kind of decent in like art, which you know, 353 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.159 that wasn't ever something I knew was I thought was 354 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:36.399 going to be exact same, but like that was sort 355 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:41.120 of something that didn't didn't really become really overwhelmingly difficult. 356 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.440 But a lot of things when it comes to school, 357 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.600 like I was very insecure and overwhelming because school was 358 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:48.279 not easy to me really in any way, and it 359 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.120 was a lot it was to a lot of my friends. 360 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.440 So you know, I just remember always thinking, like, you know, 361 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:53.759 you got to go to college. You gotta go to college, 362 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.720 gotta go to college. And I mean I always felt 363 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.600 less than because like I knew that if I did 364 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:02.120 go to college, it's gonna be a lot harder for 365 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.559 me than it was most and you know it was 366 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.000 at times, But I don't know, I'm happy that now 367 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.200 we look, you can graduate high school and then in 368 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:13.200 five years already have your you know, you've already kind 369 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.480 of maybe broken into whatever career you're going to get into. 370 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.120 And the just used to be this this stigma that 371 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.799 if you weren't pursuing college right after high school, well your. 372 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:22.360 Life is doomed. 373 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.600 And that's clearly not the case, and really it never was, 374 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.279 but now, I mean, look the people out out that 375 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.399 are out there right now. I'm sure their degree has 376 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:33.639 helped them in certain ways. Like both my wife and 377 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.960 my sister, they both they both graduated, but don't use 378 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.279 their degree for any for what they do, and they're 379 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:42.279 very successful in what they do and have great careers. 380 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:44.240 And I don't think they would maybe have the position 381 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:46.240 they have if they didn't obtain a degree. But it 382 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.320 wasn't like they went to school to learn how to 383 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.000 do what they're doing now, So there's value in it. 384 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:55.519 I mean, I give anybody credit who graduated. 385 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:56.120 With a four year degree. I did not. 386 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.759 And even if you don't use it at all, even 387 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.360 if you did it just to say that you did 388 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.480 it and you wanted to challenge yourself, good for you, 389 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.480 because you know, I know that would be really hard 390 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:09.720 for me and it was. So Again, the reason I'm 391 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:12.200 bringing this up is because you mentioned your sister graduate 392 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.319 in high school, and it kind of just used to 393 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.039 be well, okay, you know, that's the bare minimum, but no, 394 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:18.559 like it should be something that is celebrated and it's 395 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.640 really a big step in your life because when you 396 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:23.279 are no longer in high school, in the public school system, 397 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:25.559 Catholic school system, private school system, whatever it may be. 398 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:27.519 I mean, like you're out there. You may still live 399 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.039 with mom, you may still have you know, them paying 400 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:33.240 for certain stuff. But like clock's ticking on that, did 401 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:33.480