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Speaker 4: as of right now at one two it is now
Speaker 4: three oh one on this clock right in front of me,
Speaker 4: three oh one pm. In downtown Louisville at four Street Live,
Speaker 4: it is snowing quite a bit, and I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's because of I mean, I really don't know.
Speaker 4: In fact, I'm looking here at the WLKY Live some
Speaker 4: of their live cameras they've got set up, and it's
Speaker 4: snowing hard everywhere right now. From what I can tell,
Speaker 4: he's in the you know, in the Louisville area. But
Speaker 4: I just drew. I was, I've been driving the last
Speaker 4: hour and a half. Austin, you can attest to this.
Speaker 4: I just walked in like ninety seconds ago, and uh yeah,
Speaker 4: and it and the roads seem to be in great shape.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're.
Speaker 4: Obviously wet, and uh it is snowing, but so far,
Speaker 4: I don't feel like this, Uh, this news storm has
Speaker 4: has done quite as much damage that we got from
Speaker 4: from earlier this week. So we'll see. I talked about
Speaker 4: this yesterday. I'm as soon as the show ends, I'm
Speaker 4: I'm hitting the road and I'm heading up north to
Speaker 4: go to the Pittsburgh game. Right, I'm gonna leave again
Speaker 4: as soon as the show ends, and then I'll stop
Speaker 4: in Columbus tonight and then we'll get up in the morning.
Speaker 4: And I feel like, you know, it was a good
Speaker 4: confidence boost for me to be out driving here in
Speaker 4: the last hours. So as it's been snowing and and
Speaker 4: the road seem to be okay. There's not many people
Speaker 4: out and that I guess is a It's a good thing,
Speaker 4: right that when there's not as many people out and
Speaker 4: about that that that leads you, I guess, to have
Speaker 4: better success at navigating the roadways and the highways in
Speaker 4: this weather. But I went from being really nervous about like,
Speaker 4: all right, should should I just like call it off?
Speaker 4: Should I try to? You know? Oh, but no, we're gonna,
Speaker 4: We're gonna, We're gonna. I mean that would have been
Speaker 4: a really weak move. And I feel like, although it
Speaker 4: would have had zero impact at all on like Louisville's chance,
Speaker 4: Louisvell's chances of winning tomorrow, you know, I still feel
Speaker 4: like I would have been a bad team player to
Speaker 4: just be like, oh, well, it's snowing outside, so I'm
Speaker 4: just not gonna go. Now we're going and I'm looking
Speaker 4: forward to In fact, yeah, have you seen the opening
Speaker 4: line for this one yet?
Speaker 2: Uh? No, I have not have checked the line.
Speaker 4: I just checked right about twenty thirty minutes ago. And
Speaker 4: I I think I put you on the spot three
Speaker 4: times this week, maybe four times. I've been doing decent,
Speaker 4: You've been doing really good. You've been you know, you
Speaker 4: might be sitting in the lines. You maybe an odds maker,
Speaker 4: and that's just not know it. But do you have
Speaker 4: any any any guesses.
Speaker 5: Last couple of ones, I've went a little bit low.
Speaker 5: I think that the metrics probably like Pittsburgh a little
Speaker 5: bit more. Let me Pittsburgh five and a half.
Speaker 4: Close, Pittsburgh minus four and a half. Oh, okay is
Speaker 4: what it opened up at it vanduels So oh that's
Speaker 4: not bad. Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 2: Louisville.
Speaker 4: Actually that that is probably what I didn't. I wasn't
Speaker 4: thinking a whole lot about what I would have guessed. However,
Speaker 4: I do keep up with the kin Palm pretty regularly,
Speaker 4: especially this time of year, and I subscribed to proud
Speaker 4: kin Palm customer. And by the way, Louisville has jumped
Speaker 4: up two spots in the last two days, so I
Speaker 4: only checked to see their movement whenever they they you know,
Speaker 4: finish a game. However, you gotta keep in mind whenever
Speaker 4: other other teams play and other results happen that could
Speaker 4: also impact them. And they've jumped from I think it
Speaker 4: was thirty nine yesterday to thirty seven now and uh,
Speaker 4: that's not you know, it's not braggadot, just with thirty
Speaker 4: seventh in the kin Pom. But again, the last few
Speaker 4: performances when they've clearly you know, played well and and
Speaker 4: one big in these games. It's it is. It has
Speaker 4: helped them more so than just the added win avoiding
Speaker 4: loss and the win lost column. But yeah, the projected
Speaker 4: score here and ken Palm is seventy seven to seventy
Speaker 4: two with a Pittsburgh win, So ken Palm says the
Speaker 4: Panthers may cover. But I hope that's wrong. I hope
Speaker 4: a Louisville wins outright. And I mean, look, I think
Speaker 4: that and I talked to a lot about this really
Speaker 4: throughout the week, especially yesterday, but we had a shorter
Speaker 4: show yesterday, so I'm not sure how many of you
Speaker 4: were able to be with us throughout.
Speaker 2: But I only got a couple of inches of show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, only a couple of inches of show, and it
Speaker 4: was we you know, we need more. I mean size matters,
Speaker 4: and a show that's only an hour and some change
Speaker 4: is just not enough. But when it comes to pitt there,
Speaker 4: I think this is easily the toughest game you have
Speaker 4: left on the schedule, considering that pitt is one of
Speaker 4: the best teams you'll play. In fact, I think pitt
Speaker 4: is the best team you're going to play the rest
Speaker 4: of the way. I don't really know who else would,
Speaker 4: because again, if you're somebody that believes in the ACC
Speaker 4: more so than I, Duke's really good. But you don't
Speaker 4: play them again, Carolina, eh, I mean, you don't play
Speaker 4: them again, and you already beat them. So Clemson, you
Speaker 4: don't play them again, you already beat them. When it
Speaker 4: comes to teams that are expected to be, you know,
Speaker 4: towards the top of the league at least as of
Speaker 4: right now, I mean Pits, pitt Is. The Pit's the
Speaker 4: only team I haven't mentioned yet that is in that tier.
Speaker 4: And you've got them tomorrow and then they come here
Speaker 4: to play before too long. It's actually actually no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: It's later in the year. So this is a big test,
Speaker 4: and I feel like, for better or worse, they're probably
Speaker 4: ritting more momentum and the energy is seemingly better. I
Speaker 4: mean not to say they've ever had bad energy. I mean,
Speaker 4: even throughout losses that aren't great, even throughout bad news
Speaker 4: like losing guys to injury for the season, they've still
Speaker 4: managed to kind of you know, not play victim, not
Speaker 4: feel sorry for themselves and tried to make the most
Speaker 4: of it. So they've always had good vibes. But man,
Speaker 4: the way they've played lately, I mean, they've kind of
Speaker 4: shown signs of a team that I didn't think they
Speaker 4: I mean, I had no clue they ever turned into.
Speaker 4: And when I say things like that, I want to
Speaker 4: instantly back it up and be like, I'm not. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying that they're elite. But I remember having to
Speaker 4: kind of defend myself on this show because I was
Speaker 4: the one saying that despite them losing by twenty plus
Speaker 4: to Ole Miss, despite leading Duke for thirty minutes and
Speaker 4: then getting beat by double digits and the Kentucky loss,
Speaker 4: that like, I was still able to see some value
Speaker 4: to where, hey, when we get to this point in
Speaker 4: the season, I think they're gonna be able to win
Speaker 4: more games because they're not going to play teams quite
Speaker 4: as good as they did in that stretch there from
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving on. And also they're going to get more comfortable,
Speaker 4: They're going to get better with this new version of
Speaker 4: themselves when they now know that they're not going to
Speaker 4: have prior or Johnson for the rest of the season.
Speaker 4: So I do think it's safe to say that right now,
Speaker 4: you know, from a fans standpoint, meaning from those just
Speaker 4: kind of following along, supporting this team and enjoying watching
Speaker 4: the ride. I think I'm more confident that confident in
Speaker 4: them right now than I've ever been. And that doesn't
Speaker 4: mean that they're going to be able to go and
Speaker 4: win tomorrow. And certainly I would imagine Pat Kelsey's not
Speaker 4: letting these guys feel as if there's been any real
Speaker 4: level of accomplishment. I think they've got good energy, but
Speaker 4: I'll also they I think these guys are mature enough
Speaker 4: to understand that you know, you can't you can't just
Speaker 4: get caught up in that. You got to keep bringing it.
Speaker 4: And there again, their biggest test tomorrow, or the biggest
Speaker 4: test the rest of the season, is tomorrow against Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: at Nude. It's gonna be on ESPN two, and I
Speaker 4: have no clue what to expect as far as the
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh crowd, but uh, I'll be there with with my
Speaker 4: with my dad and my son and my nephew, and
Speaker 4: we're we're looking.
Speaker 2: Forward to it.
Speaker 5: Usually this game I always remember, I know that we've
Speaker 5: been talking about it. With the Louisville Pittsburgh rivalry, it's
Speaker 5: been a little bit more important from a year's past,
Speaker 5: but like usually, like I I don't know if it's PTSD,
Speaker 5: but I always remember going to Pittsburgh. I've never went,
Speaker 5: but like Louisville going to Pittsburgh, and it's always been
Speaker 5: like a late night game.
Speaker 2: This is very rare. One o'clock. Yeah, it's noon, noon,
Speaker 2: noon game.
Speaker 5: And usually I just have I just have memories every
Speaker 5: time Louisville goes to Pittsburgh. It's always like a big,
Speaker 5: highly touted game. It's the zoo at night and you know,
Speaker 5: the the good old day.
Speaker 4: And there's been some During their DWN, we talked about
Speaker 4: their real down stretch of play and since since they
Speaker 4: hired Kevin Stallings, and then it turned to Caple We
Speaker 4: talked a lot about that yesterday. They just have kind
Speaker 4: of they've been so consistently bad or really bad for
Speaker 4: a long time until like the last couple of years
Speaker 4: that I kind of forgot. We went down memory lane
Speaker 4: yesterday because I'd forgot that pitt used to be like
Speaker 4: a real threat. They used to kind of be a
Speaker 4: thorn in your side. And I feel like in the
Speaker 4: big Ease days, they were one of those teams that
Speaker 4: Louisville certainly had their fair share wins over, but I
Speaker 4: just always felt like they gave us problems. And I
Speaker 4: feel like even since then, even when they aren't great,
Speaker 4: there were a couple of times where Louisville beat them badly,
Speaker 4: and I remember one of them was a Kevin Stallings game.
Speaker 4: In fact, Kevin Stallings, I think when Louisville played here
Speaker 4: was this. It's weird that I remember this, it's random,
Speaker 4: but when Kevin Stallings brought his team here during I
Speaker 4: guess the season of Damian Lee and and I think
Speaker 4: at that point they'd already called off the the Oh no,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry it was it was Tamian Lee. It was
Speaker 4: the David Paget year, I believe, and Louisville of course
Speaker 4: moved on from Atino. Up before the season started. It
Speaker 4: was a big, big talking point and fans were yelling
Speaker 4: at Kevin Stallings when he brought his team in, and
Speaker 4: Stallings was heard turning around and yelling at fans, remember
Speaker 4: that and saying something about at least he's not paying
Speaker 4: players or something like that. And he was asked about it,
Speaker 4: and I mean they got I mean they got killed
Speaker 4: in that game, and he was asked about it, and
Speaker 4: I think he kind of, like, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: I could be totally wrong here. I don't really I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't really ever remember a whole lot of really
Speaker 4: good Kevin Stalling's moments, like where he looked like, you know,
Speaker 4: a cool guy that it was. It was, you know,
Speaker 4: that was pretty sharp in front of the microphone. But
Speaker 4: I think he kind of was like, well, yeah, we
Speaker 4: didn't and and they he he had a very like
Speaker 4: direct and honest answer that like, well, okay, a least
Speaker 4: he's honest, least he's telling us that, like he said
Speaker 4: that because Louisville did did get involved at that point.
Speaker 4: You know, there were there was a whole lot that
Speaker 4: we did not know then at that time as far
Speaker 4: as that whole situation. But I remember that, and then
Speaker 4: the year before that, Rix last year coaching. I guess
Speaker 4: it was the Donovan's last season. They went to pitt
Speaker 4: when Stallings was there, it might have been his first year,
Speaker 4: and I think they were up fifty points in the
Speaker 4: second half. I'm not exaggerating. I know Tyler Sharp, former
Speaker 4: bullet Bullet County kid. He got in the game and
Speaker 4: made a couple of threes, and I just remember, you
Speaker 4: don't go on the road, and it stood out you
Speaker 4: don't go on the road in the ACC in that
Speaker 4: time and ever beat anybody like that like they were getting.
Speaker 4: I mean just I mean, I'm not kidding you. I
Speaker 4: would not be shocked if we went back, and maybe
Speaker 4: I can pull up the whole box score. I think
Speaker 4: louisll was up forty fifty points in the second half.
Speaker 4: And again, you don't see that kind of stuthing. You
Speaker 4: don't see that in college basketball really in any level.
Speaker 4: So anyways, Pitt, other than those two that I mentioned,
Speaker 4: the Kevin Stallings years, Jeff Caple, even when his teams
Speaker 4: weren't good, they would give us trouble. In fact, they
Speaker 4: beat Louisville a couple of times whenever. Yeah, it was
Speaker 4: it was Max's first year. That team with Christian Cunningham
Speaker 4: and Warwick kind of emerged as the guy, Dwayne Sutton,
Speaker 4: same thing. And then they brought basically that whole team
Speaker 4: back that following year without Kristen. But Pitt gave them,
Speaker 4: gave Mack his first bad loss. I mean, Pitt was
Speaker 4: an ACC team, it was at their place, but they
Speaker 4: were terrible. They had a bad record. So I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm expecting an environment that'll, you know, that'll remind me that, hey,
Speaker 4: this is a tough place to play, because so even
Speaker 4: when you do win, it's been a battle. And let's
Speaker 4: be real, you know, Pitt's a good team, Like I feel,
Speaker 4: I feel like I need to look around, like before
Speaker 4: I say it, like I don't want anybody to judge
Speaker 4: me because Pitt is again, they've been so bad for
Speaker 4: such a stretch here, and I know that the ACC stinks,
Speaker 4: But like I firmly believe that Pitt Will is a
Speaker 4: good team that could they could you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be shocked at all if they find a way to
Speaker 4: the Elite eight. Like I think they're that good. Now,
Speaker 4: with that said, they could also slip up and loose
Speaker 4: to anybody. So if Lowell does win, I'll I'll try
Speaker 4: my best balance it because what I think of Pitt
Speaker 4: may make it sound as if I'm acting like Louisville
Speaker 4: just went out and beat Auburn, and it won't be
Speaker 4: that at all. It's just that I feel like this
Speaker 4: is a really good test for this team at this
Speaker 4: time when they appear to be in really good form
Speaker 4: going up against the team that I believe is the
Speaker 4: best team left on their schedule and it's at their place.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited. I am pumped up all right. A
Speaker 4: lot of good college basketball games this weekend, including Kentucky
Speaker 4: taking on a Mississippi State team that is a really
Speaker 4: good team. And this to me, like this is a
Speaker 4: good test for Mark Pope's group when it comes to
Speaker 4: you're about all the things that have given you trouble
Speaker 4: this year, that have made you look really vulnerable at
Speaker 4: times or led to you actually losing games. That's what
Speaker 4: Mississippi State does. That's who they are. And they've got
Speaker 4: a really, really good guard that is one of the
Speaker 4: best players in the country, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: Josh Hubbard, So, Kentucky right now, kin Palm projection eighty
Speaker 4: four seventy eight, that's a loss for the Cats. Which
Speaker 4: that again, that's not a spread, that's the formula. So
Speaker 4: if the formula is there, I would have you seen
Speaker 4: the Kentucky spread yet, lust that I have not saw?
Speaker 2: No, tell me, don't tell me, kay, okay, never mind.
Speaker 4: Never mind, you've seen it. I was gonna say the
Speaker 4: six point difference in the kin Palm spread, I thought
Speaker 4: I thought it would be a little lower than that.
Speaker 4: I think that the those that set these lines would
Speaker 4: agree with me. So I'm going to guess that it's
Speaker 4: a little bit smaller than what the six point differential
Speaker 4: is in the kin Palm formula. And now I'm testing
Speaker 4: myself to see, yeah, I was right, it's now or
Speaker 4: maybe it's changed, but I'm looking at it in real
Speaker 4: time here, and these just came out not that long ago,
Speaker 4: so maybe there hasn't been any changes yet. But Kentucky
Speaker 4: is four and a half point dogs. So look, if
Speaker 4: you're a Kentucky fan, I think you kind of know
Speaker 4: what you're walking into. You know, your team, despite being
Speaker 4: really good as far as resume, and they've got some
Speaker 4: really good wins and they've shown they're capable of beating anybody.
Speaker 4: Despite all that, there are certain teams that play a
Speaker 4: certain style that can really make you vulnerable, and this
Speaker 4: team at their place, Mississippi State, is exactly that. So
Speaker 4: I would imagine some Kentucky fans are probably not necessarily
Speaker 4: like expecting. I mean, they're probably confident in their team
Speaker 4: that they can win, but like a loss would and
Speaker 4: shock them. But similar to what I just said about Louisville, again,
Speaker 4: for me, and I'm only speaking for myself, not the
Speaker 4: entire Louisville fan base, but a win here would really
Speaker 4: really tell me a lot, would would kind of would
Speaker 4: perk me up even more so about this group than
Speaker 4: I already have been in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: I think if you're Kentucky, if you can go win
Speaker 4: here in that environment, with the way they play, that
Speaker 4: would make you really feel as if, Okay, we are learning,
Speaker 4: we're getting better from these setbacks against these teams that
Speaker 4: we know they do some things that we aren't necessarily
Speaker 4: a good matchup for. But we're gonna we're gonna make adjustments.
Speaker 4: We're gonna, you know, we're gonna be a little more physical,
Speaker 4: a little more tough, that kind of stuff. So I
Speaker 4: wouldn't say that outsiders, meaning non Louisville fans or Kentucky,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that. They would say that. I wouldn't say,
Speaker 4: orright me back up, I wouldn't expect them to say that.
Speaker 4: These are like really huge tests that will tell you
Speaker 4: a lot for both teams, But I kind of think
Speaker 4: they are if you really consider it. So a big
Speaker 4: weekend of college basketball, no doubt, and of course we've
Speaker 4: got another college football playoff game tonight. After last night's
Speaker 4: win for Notre Dame. I've got some thoughts on that.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that. On the other side, also, I
Speaker 4: kind of feel like tonight all the energy is that
Speaker 4: Ohio State is just going to come in there and
Speaker 4: go to work and take care of this Texas team
Speaker 4: that's really fortunate to be there.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: They're very thankful that the refs decided not to not
Speaker 4: to call targeting when it was blatant targeting. So Ohio State,
Speaker 4: I feel like this is one of those postseason college
Speaker 4: football games that ninety nine percent of the people talking
Speaker 4: about what's going to happen or saying Ohio State's gonna win,
Speaker 4: which I agree with that. However, when that happens, usually
Speaker 4: you end up getting shocked. So I would imagine we'll
Speaker 4: get an entertaining game tonight. But there's also a chance
Speaker 4: that Ohio State went through what they went through and
Speaker 4: then kind of rounded into form after that. Because when
Speaker 4: you really consider they have more talent than than anybody left,
Speaker 4: I mean they do. I mean they've got a roster
Speaker 4: that is a high dollar and a lot of NFL players,
Speaker 4: and look, everybody left has good players as well. But
Speaker 4: I'm just I kind of feel like it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a really i'd be The one result I don't see
Speaker 4: is that Texas winning and you know, having some comfort.
Speaker 4: I think it's a close game that comes down to
Speaker 4: the wire and Ohio State wins, or it's a blowout,
Speaker 4: meaning I don't see like a you know, uh in
Speaker 4: between there right, like maybe and I guess a ten
Speaker 4: point loss would still be considered a loss where maybe
Speaker 4: you probably late didn't feel like you were you had
Speaker 4: a chance to win. But I think it's gonna be
Speaker 4: really ugly or it'll be really close in Ohio States
Speaker 4: just better. But either way, I'm gonna I'm gonna be well,
Speaker 4: I guess I won't. I lie. I'll be listening as
Speaker 4: I drive to Columbus tonight because uh, you know.
Speaker 2: That's you're gonna be in Buckeye Country.
Speaker 4: That's right. I never even thought about that. Holy crap time.
Speaker 4: I never even I'm such a dumb ass. I never
Speaker 4: even consider that I'm actually together. I never actually I
Speaker 4: never know. I never thought about the fact that I'm
Speaker 4: going to be stopping tonight in Columbus, Ohio when they
Speaker 4: potentially punched their ticket to go play for a national championship.
Speaker 2: Get pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: It could be, could be, could be fun, could be
Speaker 4: a mess.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess we h. I guess we shall see.
Speaker 2: It's not snowing up there.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I looked yesterday and they it didn't
Speaker 4: look as if, in fact, I feel like they were
Speaker 4: going to have not only not not the snow that
Speaker 4: we that we have had and I guess currently are
Speaker 4: having right now, but also it wasn't going to be
Speaker 4: quite as cold. It was gonna be cold. But you know,
Speaker 4: we're not getting a blow freezing till Sunday. I don't
Speaker 4: think so. And clearly that is that is much needed.
Speaker 4: Right some of the things we'll get into today, there
Speaker 4: are certain states that are that are putting out new
Speaker 4: NIL bills that I just I think you're gonna see
Speaker 4: a lot of copycats. I think you're going to see
Speaker 4: certain bills out there in certain states that that quite
Speaker 4: literally are are in place to help the programs that
Speaker 4: clearly are going to need to have a good NIL
Speaker 4: situation to be successful. And Colorado has one that I
Speaker 4: that I that I think will will be picked up
Speaker 4: by others just because again you want to win in
Speaker 4: college athletics, and now we know you've got to be
Speaker 4: able to pay players, and you know there's certain things
Speaker 4: that there's certain money that could be available that would
Speaker 4: put it this way. There's certain there's certain money coming
Speaker 4: from certain areas that that can now be available through
Speaker 4: these bills being passed that wouldn't be available currently as
Speaker 4: far as you know what you're allowed to do technically,
Speaker 4: and it's all live by the way where you're paying
Speaker 4: a guy to come and play for your team and
Speaker 4: he'll get more money if he's better, like we all
Speaker 4: know that, but they've got to they got to address
Speaker 4: it up as something different, I guess to you know,
Speaker 4: get by compliance. So we could take a look at that.
Speaker 4: Also a wild story coming out of college football where
Speaker 4: a top receiver from LSU apparently was involved in a
Speaker 4: car accident about a month ago and he's now wanted
Speaker 4: on charges of net legit homicide for fleeing a traffic stop.
Speaker 4: This is a guy who was expected to be drafted
Speaker 4: in April here, so not a good look for LSU
Speaker 4: all while their coach is probably really feeling foolish knowing
Speaker 4: that Notre Dame is now actually making some noise in
Speaker 4: college football post Brian Kelly, and I don't want to
Speaker 4: get my hopes up because I want another MVP for
Speaker 4: Lamar so bad. So we'll see. However, today's AP all
Speaker 4: pro voting that came out pretty good. Signed that despite
Speaker 4: all this talk about Josh Allen, those who actually have
Speaker 4: a vote, they're probably gonna have a tough time not
Speaker 4: voting for Lamar Jackson. And then, of course we've got
Speaker 4: NFL playoffs to get to, so we'll have some fun.
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Speaker 4: really okay, he was really big for a while. But
Speaker 4: I feel like it was just gosh, He's man, which
Speaker 4: is this song He's kind of forgettable? Because I really
Speaker 4: had to think about it while you were playing that
Speaker 4: I could I could envision this bronze man that looked
Speaker 4: like he was maybe made in a laboratory, and like
Speaker 4: he was, you know, he was a good looking dude
Speaker 4: and he was living Levina Loga, but I couldn't remember
Speaker 4: his name, like whatever happened to him, Like I'm sure
Speaker 4: he's like still relatively famous, and maybe he's maybe he's
Speaker 4: he to me, he could be like doing the Mario
Speaker 4: Lopez trend where he's just doing a talk show or something,
Speaker 4: you know, just because he's good to look at. But
Speaker 4: when he was big, he was big. And then I
Speaker 4: kind of feel like it, you know again, that song
Speaker 4: it literally just played out this way. But I was
Speaker 4: getting ready to say it's like that song came on
Speaker 4: and some I would know every word, but like it
Speaker 4: took me a while to remember who it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just I just always remember that song being
Speaker 5: on him I was once. I guess you can technically
Speaker 5: call it a nineties baby. The song was nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: nine and it stayed in the top five for like
Speaker 5: two years up until ninety nine and I think two
Speaker 5: thousand to two thousand and one. But man, that was
Speaker 5: almost like a song that you kind of like had
Speaker 5: to be there for so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're younger than I am, so I think we
Speaker 4: probably know that this song was never not on the
Speaker 4: radio seemingly for a while when we were kids. But
Speaker 4: for me, when I think of and It's It's coming Back,
Speaker 4: I love when you bring the nostalgia with some of
Speaker 4: these some of these artists and whatnot, because I hadn't
Speaker 4: thought of Ricky Martin in fifteen years at minimum, and
Speaker 4: now I'm thinking about that song being the first song
Speaker 4: that I remember being such a huge deal on TRL
Speaker 4: with Carson Dally Total Requests Live. I was eleven years old,
Speaker 4: and I remember like that was like I discovered TRL
Speaker 4: and started feeling like, you know, I wanted to watch
Speaker 4: that every day When that song was that it's was
Speaker 4: at its peak. So I don't I mean I.
Speaker 5: He was the guy's name from TRL, Carson Dale, Carson Dale,
Speaker 5: That's right, Yeah, he was right there times Square two
Speaker 5: and that was Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you made you made it on TRL. You were
Speaker 2: a big deal in the night.
Speaker 4: Oh I remember again, like when I first was old
Speaker 4: enough to like, I mean again, I consume music like
Speaker 4: everybody in my era did. I would listen to the
Speaker 4: radio or I would go buy a CD if I could,
Speaker 4: you know, somebody, if I had money and somebody would
Speaker 4: take me. And then not long after, I really started
Speaker 4: to like know who artists were and listen to what
Speaker 4: was considered I guess like pop culture music. I discovered
Speaker 4: Napster and listened to a lot of stuff that way.
Speaker 4: But when TR I remember, and this just sounds weird,
Speaker 4: because like kid Rock was real big on TRL, Limon
Speaker 4: Biscuit was real big on TL TRL, jay Z was,
Speaker 4: and yeah, Eminem exploded and became Eminem while TRL was
Speaker 4: such a huge deal, and I remember all that, but
Speaker 4: like now, like I just feel like those are different.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I feel like those aren't the same eras.
Speaker 4: And I feel like this day and age you wouldn't
Speaker 4: have such a I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, because
Speaker 4: you've got people like you know, Luke Comb's and Post
Speaker 4: Malone doing songs together to where like it's Beyonce's doing country,
Speaker 4: So it really is kind of genre lists now, at
Speaker 4: least they make it seem that they wanted to be
Speaker 4: that way. But I just I don't know, looking back
Speaker 4: thinking about kid Rock and Eminem, like you know, I'll
Speaker 4: know they have the Detroit connection but it just I
Speaker 4: don't know, it kind of feels like different eras. But
Speaker 4: yet that whole wave was whenever I was when I
Speaker 4: was all into it.
Speaker 2: The whole nineties was kind of lumped in. It seems like,
Speaker 2: or at least a late nineties.
Speaker 4: So like the boy bands in Britney Spears, like Insinc,
Speaker 4: Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and I'm sure I'm
Speaker 4: missing on some, but those were really those were the
Speaker 4: big ones, and the ninety degrees I think was kind
Speaker 4: of they were They were in their own tier because
Speaker 4: they weren't LFO, but they were bigger than them. But
Speaker 4: they also weren't the Backstreet Boys or in sync, right,
Speaker 4: so right, like that was kind of scene. I was
Speaker 4: just old enough to kind of like know that people
Speaker 4: thought they were lame, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 4: it wasn't cool anymore, although their music was great and
Speaker 4: it's timeless seemingly you put it on it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's remember, uh.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, but they weren't. I mean that that's in
Speaker 4: that era for sure. There was a there was a
Speaker 4: bunch of boy bands that had brief moments, maybe a
Speaker 4: one or two hit wonder, but the longevity of the
Speaker 4: Package Boys and then sync is is is unmatchable. But
Speaker 4: I remember, in fact, Eminem didn't he hav in a
Speaker 4: song like he made fun of like Christina, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: yeah exactly. So so I remember kind of like being
Speaker 4: really energized by the new, the new, and they I
Speaker 4: guess they were new, but also like I was discovering
Speaker 4: what it meant to be like an artist and be
Speaker 4: kind of against the man, you know, kind of be rebellious,
Speaker 4: if that makes sense. And clearly kid Rock was that,
Speaker 4: Brad Durrist was that, Eminem was definitely that, and I remember, uh,
Speaker 4: and this is gross to think about just because how
Speaker 4: young they were time, but like it was a conversation
Speaker 4: within like you know, my school going into like middle school,
Speaker 4: about how Britney Spears was was the more wholesome one,
Speaker 4: and Christina Aguilera was was a little too uh too raunchy,
Speaker 4: and I you know, I don't know, I mean, I
Speaker 4: just remember vividly, like parents who were protective of what
Speaker 4: their kids consumed when it comes to that kind of
Speaker 4: music stuff, they were more they were more okay with
Speaker 4: Britney Spears, but not as much Christina Aguilera, because what
Speaker 4: she you know, the genie was in the bottle and
Speaker 4: it maybe made people uncomfortable, although I remember, yeah, and
Speaker 4: she had like a I think that's the first time
Speaker 4: I saw a belly button chain, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Like I remember. Yeah, you know, as a
Speaker 4: young boy, you you know those things you pick up
Speaker 4: on that you never thought about before, that you never
Speaker 4: really realized, and then it stands out, you know, and
Speaker 4: you kind of remember it.
Speaker 5: Myself saw such a huge Britney Spears fan dude as
Speaker 5: a little kid, probably about five, six, seven years old,
Speaker 5: like that was my bay. And for the longest time
Speaker 5: I didn't like in Sync because I knew that Justin
Speaker 5: Timberlake was dating her and I'll be danned if you're
Speaker 5: gonna go out.
Speaker 2: With my woman.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I get it.
Speaker 5: Was was never really a big fan of them. I
Speaker 5: have posters I'm a kid, I'm a i'm a i'm
Speaker 5: a I'm a dude. I had posters of Britney Spears
Speaker 5: and something I'll I'll go ahead and admit just because
Speaker 5: it's gonna be fun for the show. I remember being
Speaker 5: in love with Britney Spears so much that I remember crying.
Speaker 2: Just too happy.
Speaker 4: Man, my man is opening it up today just to have.
Speaker 2: A Britney Spears, Barbie Doll.
Speaker 4: Bro, you're really opening up today. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: Barbie.
Speaker 4: You've been wanting, You've been wanting to share this, haven't you.
Speaker 2: For honestly, ever since I started playing with.
Speaker 4: Get It Off your Chest, Brother, Get It off your Chest.
Speaker 2: It's a fun little throwback.
Speaker 5: And for the longest time, I didn't know why a
Speaker 5: lot of kids made fun of me when I was
Speaker 5: when I would bring it to school, but like they didn't,
Speaker 5: they didn't, they didn't understand the vibe.
Speaker 4: They guess they couldn't.
Speaker 2: It was always the girls that was laughing at me.
Speaker 4: So Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson, that was
Speaker 4: like the I mean, you know, they were viewed. I
Speaker 4: mean every kid, every every boy my age growing up
Speaker 4: in middle school and like that was that was like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, that's that's as good as that's as
Speaker 4: good as it gets. However, I always in that era,
Speaker 4: she was nowhere near the star when it comes to
Speaker 4: hits or really even overall fame. But there was one
Speaker 4: that's kind of in that in that era that I
Speaker 4: was was very fond of Shakira. Oh yeah, google Shakira
Speaker 4: year two thousand and just look at the images and like,
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, she was beautiful and she still
Speaker 4: I'm sure. I'm sure she still live today. And it's
Speaker 4: crazy that she's almost fifty. That kind of you know,
Speaker 4: throws me off, But then again, I'm thirty seven.
Speaker 5: So remember the last time I saw of her, she
Speaker 5: was in a lot of legal trouble from uh I
Speaker 5: can't remember where her country what her like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're in country.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that as well.
Speaker 5: Taxes, and I think I think she was risking going
Speaker 5: to jail at some point, and I haven't heard much since.
Speaker 4: Do I need to go bail her out?
Speaker 2: You and me both brothers.
Speaker 4: I need to go. I need to go save her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well her hipstone lie, but I guess her bank
Speaker 5: account does.
Speaker 4: That was her big song, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to remember some of her nineties songs.
Speaker 5: But I remember when she like remade her when she
Speaker 5: came back out like the mid two thousands, it was
Speaker 5: hips Don't Lie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're right, she did have a very bad
Speaker 4: tax situation where she owed uh well million right, No, Well,
Speaker 4: there was like a there was thirty million dollars that
Speaker 4: I guess was over a long stretch of time hidden
Speaker 4: as far as taxes, and she was part of that
Speaker 4: in some way. So says here that as of November
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, which of course was over a year ago,
Speaker 4: she ended up settling the case. And as far as
Speaker 4: what she's hey, I'm looking here, I'm seeing discography. She's
Speaker 4: got a project in twenty twenty four that came out.
Speaker 4: Let's go out, shout out to Shakira. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 4: so this may not be worth worth much of anything,
Speaker 4: but it would be a real it'd be a real
Speaker 4: surprise if this wasn't like the sign of who's going
Speaker 4: to win the MVP. And again I don't want to
Speaker 4: You all can make of it what you will. I'm
Speaker 4: just trying not to get my hopes something myself, because
Speaker 4: if you have listened in recent weeks when we talk
Speaker 4: about the NFL MVP award, I think Lamars is deserving
Speaker 4: this year as he's ever been. I think he you know,
Speaker 4: he's continuing to not only maintain the high level of
Speaker 4: play that he had in his two MVP seasons. I
Speaker 4: think he's been he's he's been even better this year.
Speaker 4: He hasn't been He hasn't necessarily stood out as the
Speaker 4: guy that is single handedly the reason the Ravens are good,
Speaker 4: because he actually has some help now. Although I hate
Speaker 4: that Zay Flowers is out for the game against the Steelers.
Speaker 4: I don't like that, but they get pass Pittsburgh. He'll
Speaker 4: be back next week, it sounds like. But anyways, he's
Speaker 4: got Dereck Henry and he's got more weapons on offense,
Speaker 4: obviously a couple of different tight ends, and Bateman's had
Speaker 4: the breakout years we discussed. But one thing that we
Speaker 4: didn't talk about recently is that, like the defense for
Speaker 4: Baltimore is terrible. They used to be a real anchor.
Speaker 4: They used to be a real factor that made life
Speaker 4: easy for Lamar when he was just getting into the NFL.
Speaker 4: Now they're a liability. I mean, they've been better as
Speaker 4: of late, but like they if they crap the bed
Speaker 4: and the Ravens are bounced earlier than most expect, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't be shocked if it's because of the defense. But anyways,
Speaker 4: I just have expected that Lamar would not win this
Speaker 4: year because all the noise was about Josh Allen, and
Speaker 4: I think it's really hard when you end up setting
Speaker 4: the bar so high for yourself that you have to
Speaker 4: really not only be better, but be a lot better
Speaker 4: than what your bar was set at for to get
Speaker 4: the same level of shock value. Like, Wow, I thought
Speaker 4: this guy was already great, look at him now. So
Speaker 4: I just, I just it seemed as if all the
Speaker 4: energy and all the attention was on Josh Allen to
Speaker 4: where he was going to finally break through and win
Speaker 4: his first MVP, and he may. However, today here's what
Speaker 4: happened that makes it seem like it's more likely that
Speaker 4: it's going to be Lamar and not Josh Allen because
Speaker 4: the AP All Pro voting came in and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 4: was your AP All Pro First Team quarterback and he
Speaker 4: got thirty votes, Josh Allen got eighteen, and Joe Burrow
Speaker 4: got two, So that's not the MVP. However, the All
Speaker 4: Pro First Team QB has won every MVP since two
Speaker 4: thousand and seven, So a lot of these people who
Speaker 4: vote all AP All Pro also vote for the high
Speaker 4: for the MVP, I would assume, So not a surprise
Speaker 4: that you've already seen an adjustment here in the odds
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson shifted to shifted plus three hundred to minus
Speaker 4: two sixty today, whereas Josh Allen shiped did minus five
Speaker 4: hundred to plus two hundred.
Speaker 2: So it means a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so this may have been the ultimate
Speaker 4: like tell that despite all the talk about Josh Allen,
Speaker 4: who by the way, had a great season the Bills.
Speaker 4: I mean, I remember thinking to myself, Stefan Diggs leaving
Speaker 4: Buffalo may not end up being such a big deal,
Speaker 4: like he didn't have as much. I mean, clearly Diggs
Speaker 4: is a weapon and great player, but I think whenever
Speaker 4: Allen felt like he needed to really babysit his diva receiver,
Speaker 4: it probably wasn't beneficial to like the rest of the
Speaker 4: offense because yeah, they don't mean, although I think Coleman's
Speaker 4: gonna be really good for him, he's not digs just yet.
Speaker 4: But I think, you know, but Josh Allen lost a
Speaker 4: guy that is considered to be one of the better
Speaker 4: or at least was at one time considered to be
Speaker 4: one of the better receivers in the league, and their
Speaker 4: offense became more balanced. And you know, he's having a
Speaker 4: phenomenal year, and I think he is deserving of every
Speaker 4: bit of praise he's getting, I just don't think he's
Speaker 4: had a better season to where he would get the MVP,
Speaker 4: not over Lamar. And again, maybe I'm biased, but clearly
Speaker 4: doesn't look like I am, because I think what I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe this is just the way I view it as
Speaker 4: somebody who of course is you know, a Louisville fan
Speaker 4: and want nothing more than to see Lamar continue to
Speaker 4: have such a phenomenal career. But I think despite all
Speaker 4: the chatter about Josh Allen, I don't think anybody's doubting Alan,
Speaker 4: but they just once you get down to voting, you're realizing,
Speaker 4: how can I not give.
Speaker 1: It to this guy?
Speaker 4: How could I not give the MVP to Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 4: who quite literally has has once again had a season
Speaker 4: that you can you can throw it in the bag
Speaker 4: with the other seasons he's had where you look, you
Speaker 4: think to yourself, we'll never probably see anybody do this again.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's how good Lamar has been. So again
Speaker 4: here I am acting like he's already won it. But
Speaker 4: I went from thinking there was very little chance it
Speaker 4: happens to now it seems like he's, you know, he's
Speaker 4: now the favorite which again doesn't mean it's certainly going
Speaker 4: to happen, but certainly I would love to see him
Speaker 4: get his third v P. In fact, how many how
Speaker 4: many I wonder how many have three NFL MVPs. Like
Speaker 4: part of me says that there's more than I'm in
Speaker 4: than I'm is one NFL players with three MVPs. Here
Speaker 4: here's the list of guys. You've got a total of
Speaker 4: the record, by the way, is Peyton who has five,
Speaker 4: and Rogers has four, and then you have four others
Speaker 4: with three, Johnny Uanias, Jim Brown, Brett Farv and Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: Okay, so and Brady had more.
Speaker 4: I did too, Yeah, but Brady Brady. Look, Brady won
Speaker 4: Super Bowls in years where he was a fine quarterback,
Speaker 4: but nothing statistically, no moment was Look Brady, nobody can
Speaker 4: can argue that he's not elite and and maybe the
Speaker 4: goat considering the rings, and clearly he was able to
Speaker 4: show when he left he had a little more value
Speaker 4: there than old Belichick did. That played out poorly for Bill,
Speaker 4: but Brady. That's what made Brady very interesting to me
Speaker 4: because he would he would have games where they would
Speaker 4: win in the playoffs, and he would make the timely play,
Speaker 4: he would make the smart play, he would show poise,
Speaker 4: he would show you know he's been there before. But
Speaker 4: it wasn't like, man, how do you stop this guy?
Speaker 4: He's just insane? And I think that's why. And I
Speaker 4: also by the way I was looking at it, but
Speaker 4: I would if you'd have told me who has the
Speaker 4: most MVPs in the NFL history, Brady would have been
Speaker 4: one of my first guesses. And he has three, whereas
Speaker 4: clearly you know others have three, and Rogers even has
Speaker 4: more than Brady. But all those guys have what a
Speaker 4: super Bowl at least one?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: And Lamar, you know you don't want to be the guy.
Speaker 4: I mean again, you can't control it, like I don't
Speaker 4: want to act like Lamar never winning a super Bowl
Speaker 4: would make me feel like he's not as good as
Speaker 4: I believe he is. But we all know, regardless if
Speaker 4: you agree with it or not, you think it's silly,
Speaker 4: these guys are valued by that, especially when you've proven
Speaker 4: that you're good enough. Right, Lamar Jackson is a good
Speaker 4: enough quarterback to where he himself, with some help, should
Speaker 4: be able to win a super Bowl. Now, doesn't mean
Speaker 4: it's easy doesn't mean that it's gonna get it's gonna
Speaker 4: it's guaranteed to happen. But when you've when you've hit
Speaker 4: a level of all right, we know you have the ability,
Speaker 4: we know what you can do, we know how great
Speaker 4: you are. Can you can you lift up a team?
Speaker 4: Can you get can you get it done? Can you
Speaker 4: get the ultimate accomplishment? And there's clearly some guys that
Speaker 4: haven't been able to do that. And you know, Lamar,
Speaker 4: I'm biased, of course, but I feel like he's still
Speaker 4: so young and and and you know, he's got so
Speaker 4: much time. However, the window for Lamar, the window for
Speaker 4: any player, is not always the same window for your franchise.
Speaker 4: And I just think that this year, with them actually
Speaker 4: having a run game that is not just I mean
Speaker 4: Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson being the two headed monster
Speaker 4: on the ground is is a nice weapon to have.
Speaker 4: And again, he's got good I mean, this is his
Speaker 4: best team, and I really hope that they can pull
Speaker 4: through and get deep into the playoffs here because if not,
Speaker 4: it won't mean that he's not great. But the conversation
Speaker 4: about Lamar, everybody's already talked enough about it, everybody's on
Speaker 4: the same page.
Speaker 2: He's great, but.
Speaker 4: They're gonna get bored with that and continue to talk about, well,
Speaker 4: getting won a super Bowl. Yeah, and he can, but
Speaker 4: like getting it done and being able to is a
Speaker 4: different conversation.
Speaker 5: He's gonna have to lock intos is his inner Brady
Speaker 5: and just make the timely plays. Doesn't have to be spectacular.
Speaker 5: But it seems like in years past where Lamar has
Speaker 5: had a great season, it's like weird once you get
Speaker 5: to the play.
Speaker 2: Yes, no hardball calls like he's.
Speaker 4: He's just not as comfortable at times he seems and
Speaker 4: he'll still make plays, but no, you're right, like, and
Speaker 4: this is wishful thinking on my end, but I feel
Speaker 4: like this year Lamar has been playing with a different
Speaker 4: level of confidence and you know, I guess sure he
Speaker 4: seems more sure of himself than he's ever been and
Speaker 4: he's a little more to loose. So hopefully that transitions
Speaker 4: to the postseason, because you know that that's where you're
Speaker 4: really that's where you really are are evaluated long term.
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Speaker 4: So as we wrap up at the three o'clock hours,
Speaker 4: some football notes to get to here, and it's it's
Speaker 4: it's probably gonna always be pretty hectic when you get
Speaker 4: to the end of well really really December in January.
Speaker 4: I feel like we're going to be the chaos when
Speaker 4: it comes to the portal in football, and we've certainly
Speaker 4: had that around here, and I think for the most
Speaker 4: part we've discussed sort of big big I mean really
Speaker 4: the biggest editions, I guess, the biggest bright spots, if
Speaker 4: you will. I don't even know how to word it.
Speaker 4: But like the off season where you try to put together,
Speaker 4: you know, a team, it's much different now than it
Speaker 4: used to be because you used the portal and sometimes
Speaker 4: you're okay with guys leaving to transfer because it opens
Speaker 4: up spots, but you're still also going to you know,
Speaker 4: bring in some freshmen that you're really happy about and
Speaker 4: sometime your biggest wins are just keeping guys that you
Speaker 4: know could go elsewhere or go to the NFL. So
Speaker 4: I still feel like Louis's in a position this year
Speaker 4: where the best piece of news is getting back to
Speaker 4: the two freshman running backs who have confirmed that they're
Speaker 4: going to be here next year. That's obviously Duke Watson
Speaker 4: and Isaac Brown, and I think getting honestly, getting Colin
Speaker 4: Lacey come back is huge as well. So there have
Speaker 4: been some guys that have ended up hitting the portal
Speaker 4: that I was bummed to see. Some I understood totally,
Speaker 4: others out kind of you know, like for example, Taras
Speaker 4: Hicks Blue Hicks. He's transferring and he's going to go
Speaker 4: to Pitt and it sounds like he got paid pretty
Speaker 4: well to go to Pitt. He's a receiver that I
Speaker 4: think is really talented, but I get it from his perspective,
Speaker 4: he like Lacey coming back, absolutely had to change sort
Speaker 4: of how he viewed his role here at Louislle because
Speaker 4: he's the same. I mean, he's a very similar kind
Speaker 4: of guy, but probably not as dynamic. And even if
Speaker 4: they aren't that similar, Lacy back is going to take
Speaker 4: away opportunities for any receiver because he's gonna be on
Speaker 4: the field a lot, so he's gonna go to Pitt.
Speaker 4: Didn't like to see that, but I get it. And
Speaker 4: then Key One Brown, same thing. Key One Brown somebody
Speaker 4: who hit the portal, and I was since day one,
Speaker 4: since Jeff got here and and he brought I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure Brown was committed to him at Purdue and he
Speaker 4: flipped to Louisville from Atlanta. He clearly didn't have the
Speaker 4: season that Duke Watson and Isaac had, but I've always
Speaker 4: felt like Key One Brown was really good. And he
Speaker 4: hit the portal and I hated it, but I totally
Speaker 4: get it. If you're running back, I totally understand why
Speaker 4: you would want to leave. However, he hit the portal,
Speaker 4: he committed to Boise State and then has since decided
Speaker 4: to come back to Louisville. He's no longer committed. He's
Speaker 4: going to State at Louisville. So I mean, if he's
Speaker 4: your if he's your third string running back, I mean,
Speaker 4: don't I don't know how Louisville won't have the best
Speaker 4: running back room in college football next year, and it
Speaker 4: probably won't be labeled as that because Louisville's not in
Speaker 4: the SEC or the Big Ten, but I mean those
Speaker 4: two guys are special. Again. Isaac Brown one of the
Speaker 4: best running backs in the country this year, regardless of freshman, senior,
Speaker 4: red shirt, senior, whatever, and was a freshman All America.
Speaker 4: I mean he I mean, I don't need to tell
Speaker 4: you guys how good he was, how special he was.
Speaker 4: But Duke Watson also got enough carries to where he
Speaker 4: is included in this in this stat I don't know
Speaker 4: what the minimum amount of carries is, but you can't
Speaker 4: you can't be in the running for being the top
Speaker 4: rusher as far as yards per carry in college football
Speaker 4: unless you've had a good, healthy dose of carries. And
Speaker 4: clearly he got the ball a whole lot in the
Speaker 4: last I don't know, sixty five percent of the season.
Speaker 4: So you've got a freshman All American kind of guy,
Speaker 4: Freshman of the Year in the ACC and Isaac Brown
Speaker 4: and his backup, another true freshman, led the country and
Speaker 4: rushing yards per carries. So and Kewan Brown's behind him,
Speaker 4: who I think is really good. So I think Louisville,
Speaker 4: once again under Jeff Brahm, they've been able to kind
Speaker 4: of navigate. You never know, right, There's there's guys you're
Speaker 4: excited about as far as them committing from portal. There's
Speaker 4: guys that you lost that you don't feel really bad about,
Speaker 4: and you may learn next year that, hey man, we
Speaker 4: missed this guy and this guy we brought in wasn't
Speaker 4: as good as we expected. So you really never know.
Speaker 4: But at least on paper, I feel like once again,
Speaker 4: Louis was in a really good spot when it comes
Speaker 4: to uh, when it comes to the to the transfer
Speaker 4: portal and as I let's see here the and and
Speaker 4: this this has nothing to do with actual football itself,
Speaker 4: but when when I'm referencing sort of my my, my
Speaker 4: show preper believe it or not, Guys, I do prepare
Speaker 4: for this show. Uh, And this is there's no way
Speaker 4: to transition to this easy because this is very serious
Speaker 4: and sad. But Miller Moss apparently his his childhood home
Speaker 4: where he grew up has has been I mean it
Speaker 4: was lost in the fire and the fires going on
Speaker 4: in California, which of course is just a And I
Speaker 4: hate now where we are with social media specifically, I
Speaker 4: don't know what's real and what's not. Meaning I've seen
Speaker 4: videos that I could believe you if you told me
Speaker 4: that's really what's what's happening. But I could also believe
Speaker 4: you've told me that somebody did that with AI and
Speaker 4: it just looks that real. But Miller Moss just shared
Speaker 4: a video, or I guess he shared a he shared
Speaker 4: someone's tweet that showed the high school that he attended
Speaker 4: that of course is no more because it's it's been
Speaker 4: burned to the ground, and you know there are yeah,
Speaker 4: it says here there's This is from the Hollywood Reporter.
Speaker 4: It says there's life in the Palisades and it shows
Speaker 4: the footage of the aftermath of the wildfires at Polly
Speaker 4: High School, which is where he went, and there are
Speaker 4: people shooting basketball, and I guess it, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like, I'll send this to you, Austin.
Speaker 4: This looks like kind of a harmless video of somebody
Speaker 4: I guess near where the fires had the biggest, had
Speaker 4: the most damage, and it's showing two random strain two
Speaker 4: random people just shooting basketball on a hoop that has
Speaker 4: no backboard because of the fire, and they look like
Speaker 4: they're having fun. Like if I just saw the visual here,
Speaker 4: I would say like my instant thought would be, oh wow,
Speaker 4: despite the tragic and unbelievable situation, these people are finding
Speaker 4: a silver These people are finding ways to be positive.
Speaker 4: Like That's the way I would have viewed it. But
Speaker 4: Miller Moss shared it and said, this is not life,
Speaker 4: and this is not Pally High School. This is my
Speaker 4: family's home and those are utter strangers. These people are
Speaker 4: playing on the hoop I grew up with in front
Speaker 4: of what remains our home. This is a community trying
Speaker 4: to rebuild. This is the type of behavior that does
Speaker 4: the opposite. So again, he just tweeted this out with
Speaker 4: in the last twenty thirty minutes or so, So I'm again.
Speaker 4: I I initially saw the Hollywood Reporter report and clearly
Speaker 4: they're wrong. They're I mean, this is now a video
Speaker 4: that has gone insanely viral, and it's not what they
Speaker 4: claim it is. It's not a high school, it's Miller
Speaker 4: Moss's home where he I mean, that would that would
Speaker 4: I cannot imagine in any way how that would feel.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine, Like, I mean, you lose, if you lose,
Speaker 4: if everything that you know that that is yours, that
Speaker 4: that you know that you value or just where you
Speaker 4: grew up, Like if it's just gone out of nowhere
Speaker 4: because of something like this, I mean, it's like you
Speaker 4: lost a part to you, you lost a part of
Speaker 4: your family. I mean I would hope that if it
Speaker 4: was me, I would have the ability to kind of think, Okay,
Speaker 4: well those material things don't matter. I still have I
Speaker 4: loved ones, which I'm sure that's the way a lot
Speaker 4: of people are viewing it. But to see the visual
Speaker 4: of like where you grew up and now it's just
Speaker 4: completely gone because of the fires, and you've got people
Speaker 4: clearly looting and just kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: you didn't lose a person here, but when you if
Speaker 4: it was me and I was in Miller Moss's shoes,
Speaker 4: I would feel like a level of like being violated,
Speaker 4: like what do you all doing? Strangers that just came
Speaker 4: in here to see what the aftermath was and you're
Speaker 4: you know, almost it almost feels like a level of
Speaker 4: being violated in a way, which sure, I don't know
Speaker 4: if that makes sense, but that's that's what came to
Speaker 4: mind for me. So clearly a very sad, sad situation.
Speaker 4: And to hear that they believe that that that it
Speaker 4: was arsonists that did this. It's just I mean, it's awful,
Speaker 4: awful stuff. All right. We got two more hours and
Speaker 4: we'll try not to be awful until we get out
Speaker 4: of here at six o'clock. Then at six o'clock, we're
Speaker 4: going to be awful human beings at least, you know.
Speaker 4: I hope I'm not, but you know, you never know.
Speaker 2: Well, you know how Friday's wind up exactly.
Speaker 4: Fridays can get the best of you. And I'm ready
Speaker 4: for the weekend. Quick break two more hours left right
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