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Speaker 3: I will remind you.
Speaker 2: Coming up this weekend, our friend's over at the Jefferson
Speaker 2: Animal Host they're going to have their pet blood Bank event,
Speaker 2: which it's pints for palls and people, that's the name
Speaker 2: of the event, and they are doing it to raise
Speaker 2: awareness and educate folks about how pets can donate blood.
Speaker 2: And they're also of course looking to get people to
Speaker 2: not only learn about it, but participate have their pets.
Speaker 2: See if they well, I guess you would have to
Speaker 2: see if your pet is a I don't think your
Speaker 2: pets are going to show up and knock on the
Speaker 2: door and say, hey, am.
Speaker 3: I do I qualify to be a pet blood donor?
Speaker 2: But if they did, that would be pretty cool, right
Speaker 2: either way, if your pet, your dog is fifty pounds
Speaker 2: or less or your cat is ten pounds or less,
Speaker 2: they could qualify. And if they qualify and they donate blood,
Speaker 2: what that can do is help it save up to
Speaker 2: four to six lives. So it's coming up this Saturday,
Speaker 2: ten am to two pm. Pints for pausing people, Jefferson
Speaker 2: Animal Hospital on outer Loop, Bring your pets, bring your family,
Speaker 2: and they'll have food, live demonstrations on the pet blood donations,
Speaker 2: just to give you a chance to see how it works.
Speaker 2: And great cause obviously and should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So again, you can visit Pet Blood Bank to get
Speaker 2: more info where you can go, or you can give
Speaker 2: them a call five ooh to nine hundred pets. All right,
Speaker 2: I got some good news, and I'm sure you know
Speaker 2: this is something you guys have really been losing sleep about.
Speaker 2: You've probably been stressing about it. You might want to
Speaker 2: sit down because this might bring you know, some very
Speaker 2: just uncontrollable emotion out of you. I say that all
Speaker 2: very sarcastically. I hope you guys can pick up on
Speaker 2: the sarcasm there. But I'd come to you today in
Speaker 2: my vehicle that I did not have for twenty seven days.
Speaker 2: So finally I got my car back and I missed it.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to have it back, But as we discussed
Speaker 2: earlier in the show, I still can't help but feel
Speaker 2: like a pit in my stomach about the whole situation.
Speaker 2: And when I think about it and I talk about
Speaker 2: it like it just it takes me to a place
Speaker 2: mentally I don't want to be at and I can't
Speaker 2: really control that. So I'm sure I'll get over it
Speaker 2: over time. But there have been some people that have
Speaker 2: sent in some, you know, some suggestions on how to,
Speaker 2: you know, get over it. Many have just told me, know,
Speaker 2: sack up, grow up, get over it. I mean, that
Speaker 2: may be the best advice I've gotten so far. Others
Speaker 2: have told me to talk to a therapist. Maybe that's it,
Speaker 2: And it's not really that. It's not that deep, it's
Speaker 2: not that serious. But I thought yesterday would be like
Speaker 2: the ultimate day where I realized because it was good
Speaker 2: for me to go to the store where this all happened,
Speaker 2: and I had to sign some documents, just I guess
Speaker 2: signing off that that you know, they me confirming via
Speaker 2: signature that they have in fact repaired any damage as
Speaker 2: they that they caused from what they did. And I
Speaker 2: could just tell that the manager, who you know, was
Speaker 2: the person who did it, like felt bad, like I
Speaker 2: could just I could feel it, and I feel sad
Speaker 2: for her because she didn't mean to do it, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure she's probably been in trouble and like felt
Speaker 2: I mean, I know she felt bad. But here I
Speaker 2: am after not having my car for like a month,
Speaker 2: and I'm the one feeling bad, Like what like that?
Speaker 2: It's just like it's it's it's got my mind and
Speaker 2: it's a pretzel as far as just how you know,
Speaker 2: But others have asked, like do I like if I
Speaker 2: thought about hiring an attorney to do what like they
Speaker 2: did fix it? I mean, if I went to Judge Judy,
Speaker 2: which would be awesome, and by the way, like I
Speaker 2: may actually for the first time have a chance to
Speaker 2: go to Judge Judy because I love Judge Judy. It's
Speaker 2: it's a weird and random thing like when I when
Speaker 2: when I put it this way, like I watch more
Speaker 2: Judge Judy than I'd be willing to admit to you guys.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's an unhealthy obsession where I just
Speaker 2: binge Judge Judy. If I got nothing going on, I'm
Speaker 2: going to fire up YouTube TV. I got them all DVRD,
Speaker 2: and I don't think it's as good. But now she's
Speaker 2: got her show Judy Justice on Amazon Prime and it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's where I get my fixed for
Speaker 2: Judge Judy. So but but if I did, like what
Speaker 2: would be my like, hey, you owe me for like
Speaker 2: I didn't, like, you know, I didn't lose out on work.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't have a vehicle. I was able to use
Speaker 2: a vehicle without paying anybody I borrowed. Remember I was
Speaker 2: blessed Nana for a little while there, and then I
Speaker 2: was able to use vehicles here at work. Think thanks
Speaker 2: to the company for you know, having vehicles that they
Speaker 2: let me use.
Speaker 3: And then I.
Speaker 2: Used a vehicle that the dealership who was fixing the
Speaker 2: car let me use that I didn't have to pay for.
Speaker 2: So like, I'm not really out any money I could
Speaker 2: have been, but like I would be lying if I
Speaker 2: said I missed out on this day of work in
Speaker 2: these wages. So like, all in all, it could have
Speaker 2: been worse for me. So maybe I just need to
Speaker 2: remind myself of that. But I've just never been in
Speaker 2: this position where I can claim that, like I was
Speaker 2: very much, you know, wrong by a company that did
Speaker 2: do their best. I think to mean they could have
Speaker 2: done a lot better, but like they did fix it
Speaker 2: just took a lot longer than expected and they never
Speaker 2: really like nobody from the higher ups really seemed to
Speaker 2: care that, like the whole thing happened. So I just
Speaker 2: need to move on from it, and I'll probably never
Speaker 2: talk about it again after today, but it is something
Speaker 2: that here and there still I get asked about, so
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked. And I'm not kidding when I
Speaker 2: go to the game, because there are people who probably
Speaker 2: listen to this show here and there throughout the day.
Speaker 2: Maybe they listened a couple times a week. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think if you're not listening every day for three
Speaker 2: full hours, you need to re evaluate your priorities. But
Speaker 2: you know that's up to you. I can't control that,
Speaker 2: but i'd be willing to bed whenever we go to
Speaker 2: the game on Saturday. We're gonna I'm going with the
Speaker 2: family again, my wife, and we're gonna take Moose. Like
Speaker 2: I bet somebody ask me about my car, because whenever
Speaker 2: I was you know, whenever I shared the story initially
Speaker 2: when it was just happening, I mean it was. I
Speaker 2: mean it's a story a lot of people probably didn't believe,
Speaker 2: but it was true for.
Speaker 4: What it's worth. And I don't say this just to
Speaker 4: toot your horn. I think you handle it about as
Speaker 4: well as you could have. And I'm not referring to
Speaker 4: like the on air stuff. I know for some reason
Speaker 4: you're not happy about the way you handled that, which
Speaker 4: I don't really have an opinion on it, but overall,
Speaker 4: I feel like I don't know if I would have
Speaker 4: handled it any better, is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I again, I just had fear that I
Speaker 2: was going to have to like go buy a new
Speaker 2: car and have to like pay an attorney to like
Speaker 2: help me try to fight with AutoZone. And when it
Speaker 2: comes to corporations that have the ability from a legal standpoint,
Speaker 2: like they got more resources than I do, right, Like
Speaker 2: they would just hope that I would eventually give up,
Speaker 2: and I didn't. You know, I probably would have fought
Speaker 2: until I couldn't anymore. But like, it just was I
Speaker 2: was kind of embarrassed about how I handled it when
Speaker 2: you and I would just talk about it, because you know,
Speaker 2: John can attest to this, like I would get going
Speaker 2: on and I would just lose my mind, which I think
Speaker 2: most I don't know, I tell myself and I try
Speaker 2: to convince myself that most people would, but you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It was a learning experience for me.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm kind of an adult. I'm thirty six now.
Speaker 2: I mean I kind of at times, you know, get
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is what I do for
Speaker 2: a living, so I get to, you know, live a
Speaker 2: life that at times I don't really feel like an adult.
Speaker 2: I mean I say that jokingly, like I am a
Speaker 2: grown up who has children and whatnot, and you know
Speaker 2: there's some sarcasm here when I'm saying it. But it
Speaker 2: was one of those things where I'm like, this could
Speaker 2: potentially turn into like a real life grown up problem
Speaker 2: that it's going to inconvenience me, and I don't want
Speaker 2: to deal with that. But you know, it is what
Speaker 2: it is. And again, I'm sure a lot of you
Speaker 2: right now are feeling much better about everything knowing that
Speaker 2: I got my car back. And again I'm being sarcastic,
Speaker 2: and I I'm not going to mention the name of
Speaker 2: that company ever again on this show.
Speaker 4: I wish they'd stop running ads on this show. And
Speaker 4: I don't think I know the I know, the brass
Speaker 4: at iHeart doesn't really you know, at least our brass.
Speaker 4: They don't necessarily decide how that works. But anytime I
Speaker 4: hear commercial from that company, I just almost like, really.
Speaker 2: Well, we had somebody calling, was it last week who
Speaker 2: was like, hey, I needed windshield wipers and there were
Speaker 2: there was a competing store across the street, and I
Speaker 2: decided to go there instead, and I'm like yeah, And
Speaker 2: then I'm like, well, you know, and I meant that,
Speaker 2: and thank you to those who have decided to, you know,
Speaker 2: support me, and by not giving them business, which doesn't
Speaker 2: really impact me by any means they're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2: I mean they could, like, they could have ruined my car,
Speaker 2: and you know, it could have been a lot worse
Speaker 2: for me, and they'd still would have been okay. Regardless
Speaker 2: of what I would have done, because I'm again it's
Speaker 2: it all comes back to feeling helpless about it and
Speaker 2: not really knowing like what what I can and do,
Speaker 2: you know, to get their attention, to make them make
Speaker 2: it right. So anyways, we'll move on, all right, don't
Speaker 2: forget coming up on Saturday. We've got you covered for
Speaker 2: game coverage, I mean, the game itself.
Speaker 3: We won't be here.
Speaker 2: I mean you can stay here if you'd like. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure what you'll hear, but I'll be watching Louisville
Speaker 2: and Miami. But before that, I'm going to have the
Speaker 2: pregame show, which is from eleven to noon, and it'll
Speaker 2: be it'll be myself and we'll get you set for
Speaker 2: kickoff the Louisville Football Pregame Show percent about Pellow Windows
Speaker 2: and Doors of Central Kentucky and Jefferson Animal Hospital. And
Speaker 2: then as soon as the game ends, we'll go live
Speaker 2: for the louisvill Football postgame Show presented by alex Arwhite
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Speaker 3: This week.
Speaker 2: Really, as of now we're in the five o'clock hour
Speaker 2: on a Wednesday. Not much has changed for me as
Speaker 2: far as like how I feel about the game, and
Speaker 2: not that that would have an impact on the game.
Speaker 2: But usually I go through a routine throughout the week
Speaker 2: when you play. When you play an opponent like Miami,
Speaker 2: meaning a team that you know, even if you play well,
Speaker 2: you lose because they're good. I just I'm I'm done
Speaker 2: trying to I guess convince myself that you know, this
Speaker 2: is the game where they clean it up. Doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that they won't. I hope they will, but I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like the last really, the last three weeks,
Speaker 2: the last three games, you have been opportunities for you
Speaker 2: to work towards cleaning things up, avoiding mistakes that seem
Speaker 2: pretty avoidable, and they haven't done it, you know, and
Speaker 2: that's just something that we have to acknowledge. Doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that they're terrible, doesn't mean that they are completely incapable
Speaker 2: of playing clean football and just looking the part. When
Speaker 2: I say looking the part, I don't even mean from
Speaker 2: a talent perspective. I just mean from like an organizational standpoint.
Speaker 2: I mean doesn't mean they can't. It's just at this
Speaker 2: point you are where you are. I mean, when they
Speaker 2: played Georgia Tech in a game that they won, and
Speaker 2: they made winning plays. I remember on the postgame show
Speaker 2: and that following Monday giving Georgia Tech a lot of
Speaker 2: credit and Brent Key a lot of credit for keeping
Speaker 2: you from playing clean football. And I still think that's true.
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech. They're they're a gritty team, Like I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be shocked if if they beat Notre Dame this weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, it's going to be a big
Speaker 2: crowd there in Atlanta for them, and you know, that's
Speaker 2: the kind of game. I could see Georgia Tech pulling
Speaker 2: off the upset because I don't really think Notre Dame's
Speaker 2: all that special. So I still think they're a gritty
Speaker 2: team that does a lot to make you have to
Speaker 2: beat them, But maybe not the way you want to write.
Speaker 2: I mean, they played Georgia within a score last year.
Speaker 2: He's knocked off a few ranked teams. But what I
Speaker 2: guess ignored was that, like maybe that's just Louisville, that
Speaker 2: they are a team that is going to make some
Speaker 2: mistakes and that is going to you know, commit some
Speaker 2: silly penalties and whatnot. And again they took advantage of
Speaker 2: mistakes that Georgia Tech made and that changed the game, right,
Speaker 2: You being able to get a quick score because Haines
Speaker 2: King didn't realize that, you know, I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: know what he realized. He made a really bone headed mistake,
Speaker 2: and you know, Louisville was able to convert that into
Speaker 2: a touchdown in the end zone. Same thing when you
Speaker 2: block the field goal and took it to the house.
Speaker 2: Like some would say that that's lucky. Clearly it's not
Speaker 2: a play you just bank on happening or I mean
Speaker 2: both those plays or plays you don't expect to happen.
Speaker 2: But you were there and you were able to really
Speaker 2: make an opponent pay for them not playing clean football.
Speaker 2: And again, I'm not trying to take that went away
Speaker 2: from him, but it was a bigger sign than I
Speaker 2: realized at the time, because then you go to South
Speaker 2: Bend and you make a lot of avoidable mistakes and
Speaker 2: just keep shooting yourself on the foot and we're sloppy
Speaker 2: and it cost you.
Speaker 3: SMU.
Speaker 2: I mean, I will give them a lot of credit.
Speaker 2: They were just a lot better than I anticipated, and
Speaker 2: they were a big factor and why they won that game.
Speaker 2: But Louisville also again continue to make, you know, silly mistakes,
Speaker 2: especially the lack of communication on defense and just not
Speaker 2: really knowing what I mean, just the game plan there
Speaker 2: was just bad. And you know, Jeff essentially said it
Speaker 2: after the game, and the Virginia game was a chance
Speaker 2: to go beat a team that you know you could
Speaker 2: probably still make similar mistakes and beat because you're better
Speaker 2: than them. And that's really what happened. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you believe that they turned the corner in a major
Speaker 2: way because they won, that's your opinion, I mean, don't.
Speaker 2: I didn't see it that way. Again, a win is
Speaker 2: always better than a loss. But I still think they
Speaker 2: were They looked like the same team they'd been in
Speaker 2: previous weeks. They just you know, played a team that
Speaker 2: wasn't quite as good. And maybe their defensive communication was
Speaker 2: better because Ron English moved from the booth to the
Speaker 2: sideline and all that, but let's be real, they still
Speaker 2: at times made crucial mistakes at the worst possible times.
Speaker 2: So doesn't mean they can't get it fixed. They just
Speaker 2: haven't yet, and I think six games in you just
Speaker 2: have to look in the mirror and acknowledge who you
Speaker 2: are as a team. So there's no better time to
Speaker 2: get it fixed than now, because a win here could
Speaker 2: could really, not only for the fans, not only for
Speaker 2: you know, the potential acc race, but I think for
Speaker 2: this group because they look, they know who, they know
Speaker 2: that they've come out and underwhelmed as far as just
Speaker 2: you know, mistakes that I I, you know, what do
Speaker 2: I know? I've never played football in my life, doesn't
Speaker 2: mean I don't you know, doesn't mean I don't know
Speaker 2: the game and whatnot. And I'm sure there's many including
Speaker 2: you listening, that know it better than me. But let's
Speaker 2: be real, some of these mistakes they make are just
Speaker 2: ones that you should easily be able to avoid. You
Speaker 2: don't even need to know football to know that, but
Speaker 2: you just got to clean You got to clean it up.
Speaker 2: And if they clean it up, I think they could
Speaker 2: get a real big boost because they would know, Hey,
Speaker 2: if we do in fact come ready to play, we're
Speaker 2: more disciplined, we don't hurt ourselves as much. We can
Speaker 2: go out and win every game left on the schedule.
Speaker 2: I'm not predicting that would happen, but like, if you
Speaker 2: can beat Miami at home, I think that means you
Speaker 2: can beat anybody left on your schedule. Now Clemson at
Speaker 2: their place, that's going to be a tall task because
Speaker 2: clemson't doesn't lose many games at home. Although I'm really
Speaker 2: curious to see what happens in this Virginia Clemson game.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be on at noon, just like Louisville and Miami,
Speaker 2: but Clemson twenty one point favorites. I guess that's not
Speaker 2: surprising considering that Clemson has been on a tear ever
Speaker 2: since they lost to Georgia. But I'm now to the
Speaker 2: point where I'm just anxious. I want to see what
Speaker 2: this Louisville team, what they do with how they look.
Speaker 2: The lines moved a little bit, though, I think it
Speaker 2: was three and a half, then four, and now we're
Speaker 2: sitting at Louisville plus five, so underdogs but not by
Speaker 2: a huge margin. But there has been a little bit
Speaker 2: of movement there, and that's that's really kind of what
Speaker 2: I expected there to be through throughout the week here.
Speaker 2: And it's really I think more so Miami than like
Speaker 2: Miami has clearly gotten more attention throughout this year than
Speaker 2: Louisville has for obvious reasons. They're undefeated, they look like
Speaker 2: the best team in the ACC right now, despite having
Speaker 2: some close calls here as of late. But I just
Speaker 2: you know, and again I guess I should. You know,
Speaker 2: if Louisville does end up winning, I won't care what
Speaker 2: the national reaction is. But my prediction would be that
Speaker 2: it'll be that the ACC doesn't really have a great team,
Speaker 2: because despite that being their first loss, they could have
Speaker 2: easily lost to Virginia Tech, who people don't think is
Speaker 2: any good. And cow was up, you know, twenty points
Speaker 2: nearly on him in the in the second half of
Speaker 2: that game, So just be prepared that that'll be the
Speaker 2: noise out there.
Speaker 3: But you know, I won't.
Speaker 2: I won't care, and I would assume most louis of
Speaker 2: fans won't care either, because, hey, you need this win
Speaker 2: to get you back to where you feel like this
Speaker 2: could still be somewhat of a special season. Now you
Speaker 2: don't have as much control over it as you once did,
Speaker 2: and that's what happens whenever you have one an early loss,
Speaker 2: like you do to SMU, but also when you have
Speaker 2: really high expectations. And I don't think those expectations were misguided.
Speaker 2: I don't think they were over the top. Now, again,
Speaker 2: as I've said before, and I probably should say it more,
Speaker 2: I'm never going to be somebody that says that if
Speaker 2: Louisville's not one of the twelve teams in the play
Speaker 2: and that means the season is a disappointment and it's
Speaker 2: a failure. And I got the since after they lost
Speaker 2: to SMU that there were people that thought that. And look,
Speaker 2: if you feel that way, feel however you want to feel.
Speaker 2: I just think that's a very I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 2: be pretty miserable because even though the playoff has expanded
Speaker 2: from four to twelve, it's clearly much more of a
Speaker 2: realistic thing. It's still gonna be really hard to do. Like,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be something that you can just say, yeah,
Speaker 2: we were all right this year, made the playoff and
Speaker 2: lost in the first game. No, I think you know,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some real stiff competition for those spots.
Speaker 2: And let's be honest, the league you're in is not
Speaker 2: one that's gonna be first or second in line? Do
Speaker 2: you get a second team in if you don't win
Speaker 2: your league?
Speaker 3: Real quick? Before we get to a break.
Speaker 2: The current the current numbers here, it looks like I
Speaker 2: guess it's some books. It's Louisville plus four and a half. Although,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned right now on DraftKings and FanDuel. It
Speaker 2: is at Louisville plus five. But right now, eighty one
Speaker 2: percent of the money that's coming I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: eighty one percent of the bets on the spread here
Speaker 2: is for Miami to cover. Eighty four percent of the
Speaker 2: money coming in on this spread is for Miami to cover.
Speaker 2: As far as money line, there's no numbers just yet,
Speaker 2: but the total is sixty one and a half and
Speaker 2: the majority it's like it's fifty to fifty, well, fifty
Speaker 2: one forty nine as far as the bets on the
Speaker 2: over and under, but the money, there's seventy one percent
Speaker 2: of the money coming in on the over underwager for
Speaker 2: this to be over sixty one and a half, which
Speaker 2: I would you know, I would say if if you
Speaker 2: end up in a game where it's looking as if
Speaker 2: you know in the third quarter that the the over
Speaker 2: is relatively safe, I would say, that's a good sign
Speaker 2: for Louisville. But we'll see, all right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 2: come back on the other side. We didn't talk about
Speaker 2: it yesterday, but there's an update to it, and that's
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones going on a Dallas radio show and really
Speaker 2: just making a complete he asked of himself, and we
Speaker 2: now have his excuse as to why he did what
Speaker 2: he did. And you know, billionaires rarely show much remorse,
Speaker 2: right because they they're not real relatable, they don't have
Speaker 2: a whole lot of awareness. And he's really showing that.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to that and a lot more in
Speaker 2: these last thirty five minutes or so.
Speaker 3: Keep it locked.
Speaker 2: It's Coffee and Company Field by Thornton's on Sports Talk
Speaker 2: seven ninety So. I've not watched a second of any
Speaker 2: NBA preseason and I probably won't, but obviously, no surprise,
Speaker 2: Bronnie James has been talked about quite a bit. I
Speaker 2: mean when I think of what I've seen as far
Speaker 2: as any coverage of NBA preseason, and I'm not looking
Speaker 2: for it, but obviously it's I mean, it's the NBA,
Speaker 2: Bronnie and his debut, playing alongside his dad, when history's
Speaker 2: going to be made, like it's it's happening.
Speaker 3: But man, I.
Speaker 2: Still kind of feel for the kid because he is
Speaker 2: to me technically still, I mean, he's an adult. Technically
Speaker 2: he's eighteen, but like you know, this.
Speaker 3: Kid had it's hard to say I feel sorry for.
Speaker 2: Him because again, think about his life right, Like he's
Speaker 2: he's even if he flames out in the NBA, which
Speaker 2: he probably will, like he's going to be set for life,
Speaker 2: and he is going to be taking somebody spot on
Speaker 2: the Lakers opening roster that is way more deserving than
Speaker 2: he is. So it's hard to say I feel sorry
Speaker 2: for him, but I don't really know how he Like
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, he's probably just as delusional
Speaker 2: as his dad. And because of his upbringing, despite being
Speaker 2: very privileged and having a great life, he did miss
Speaker 2: out on opportunities to have self awareness, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Like he's not a normal kid, normal person at all,
Speaker 2: and that's not really his fault. So that's I guess
Speaker 2: what I mean when I say I feel bad for him.
Speaker 2: And anytime I say I feel bad for him, I
Speaker 2: instantly think, like, man, that sounds awful, because like this
Speaker 2: guy's got everything. He's in the NBA playing for the
Speaker 2: Lakers because his dad, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: that's what it all comes down to. But here are
Speaker 2: his numbers in the preseason right now. He's played forty
Speaker 2: four minutes. He's scored four points, he has five turnovers,
Speaker 2: He's two of sixteen from the field, oh of seven
Speaker 2: from three. And I also try to put myself in
Speaker 2: Lebron's shoes because I would do anything for my kid
Speaker 2: and wouldn't care what anybody thinks. Now, I would try
Speaker 2: to I would try to tell myself that. I would
Speaker 2: also understand when you think you're helping your kid, you
Speaker 2: may not. You may be putting him in situations to
Speaker 2: be made fun of her whatever. But as a dad,
Speaker 2: you may not even have that awareness because you love
Speaker 2: your kid and you'll do anything for your kid.
Speaker 3: That's just life.
Speaker 2: But like Lebron, you know he tweeted this just a
Speaker 2: year ago. Man, Bronny definitely better than some of these
Speaker 2: cats I've been watching on League Pass today. Lightweight, hilarious
Speaker 2: and then a bunch of laughing emoji's, Like Lebron didn't
Speaker 2: have to tweet that. And if look, he didn't tweet
Speaker 2: it and the results were still what they are, people
Speaker 2: would still be clowning the whole situation because it just
Speaker 2: seems like a circus type thing. But like Lebron hadn't
Speaker 2: really helped him in that regard. And again I believe,
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I stand by what I said,
Speaker 2: but I also feel like when it's your kid, like
Speaker 2: you can get a little bit.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard to.
Speaker 2: Be object like. For example, we never really got into it.
Speaker 2: We don't need to. But there were three different parents
Speaker 2: on Twitter that were Louisville football parents and their kids
Speaker 2: are really good players, and they were really just you know,
Speaker 2: surprised and letting it be known how surprised and disappointed
Speaker 2: they were in the fan base for being so upset
Speaker 2: after the lost SMU. And it just reminded me, like,
Speaker 2: there can't be two more unrelatable components within college sports
Speaker 2: than fans online, especially those that are on there anonymously
Speaker 2: in this toxic world of Twitter. Those people and then
Speaker 2: parents of players who are going to take anything you
Speaker 2: say about their kids performance personally because it's hard not to. So,
Speaker 2: you know, if my son ever plays high level sports
Speaker 2: in any way to where you know there's there's a
Speaker 2: fan base that's active on a social media platform, like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna know that's the last place I need to be,
Speaker 2: you know. So, I mean, it's nobody's fault. It's just
Speaker 2: like it's it's like you did. Those those two sides
Speaker 2: just have to know we probably can respect each other,
Speaker 2: but just stay away, Like, cause I could tell you
Speaker 2: how much I love your kid and I'm glad he
Speaker 2: plays for u of L because he's great or place
Speaker 2: for Kentucky, whatever it may be. But yet if like
Speaker 2: we watched a game together, or we're tweeting throughout a
Speaker 2: game together, like you're gonna hate me because any little
Speaker 2: thing I say that has maybe nothing to do with
Speaker 2: your kid, you're gonna probably take personal because that's what
Speaker 2: a lot of parents do. So trying to give Lebron
Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt because it is his son,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, and he's he's if
Speaker 2: you're gonna leverage what you've what you've done, and what
Speaker 2: I mean when I say what he's done, I mean
Speaker 2: he's put together a career that is up there as
Speaker 2: good as anybody that's ever played the sport. I mean,
Speaker 2: I still would put Michael Jordan ahead of him. But like,
Speaker 2: even if you don't like Lebron, you can't deny his
Speaker 2: greatness and the fact that he's one of the most
Speaker 2: I mean, he's Lebron James. I mean, just he's Lebron.
Speaker 2: So if you are gonna leverage what you have built
Speaker 2: and established and you're gonna use that to help your child.
Speaker 2: I mean that in a way is understandable, but I
Speaker 2: think some of the lack of awareness from everybody involved
Speaker 2: has just been pretty pretty jarring, including Bronni himself, Like
Speaker 2: when he did the press conference after he got drafted
Speaker 2: and acted like he never even thought about playing with
Speaker 2: his dad. Like what, Like, I know you're young and naive,
Speaker 2: of course, and you don't have any awareness, but like,
Speaker 2: don't insult everybody's intelligence, even if they don't have much
Speaker 2: of it. They would know that, Like, that's just a lie.
Speaker 2: But you know who he learned from, a guy who
Speaker 2: talks in front of microphones and cameras, who's done a
Speaker 2: lot of the same stuff. So it's just how it is,
Speaker 2: all right. So Jerry Jones, he's crumbling. He is really
Speaker 2: having a hard time not making it clear to everybody
Speaker 2: that the Cowboy struggles with him being not only you know,
Speaker 2: the owner, but the GM and he's the one making
Speaker 2: all these decisions. And you know, there's always been criticism
Speaker 2: for the Cowboys, but it seems as if it's been
Speaker 2: a little louder this year than ever because they just
Speaker 2: paid Dack all that money and you know, it's not
Speaker 2: going well. Well, he does, I guess a radio hit
Speaker 2: one with a show that's on one oh five point
Speaker 2: three the fan in Dallas, And this was a story
Speaker 2: that was probably I mean it was yesterday's news, but
Speaker 2: we didn't get a chance to get to it with
Speaker 2: everything else going on. But he essentially threatened to have
Speaker 2: the hosts of this show fired because they were asking
Speaker 2: him questions and really, you know, doing I mean quite
Speaker 2: literally just doing their job. Have you heard this, John, I.
Speaker 3: Have not, Jared. I think the counter back when you said,
Speaker 3: where are you going to get the players? You can't
Speaker 3: get him this week is and your you're aware of
Speaker 3: all the off season topics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but what is your counter? What is your damn counter?
Speaker 5: My counter isn't want to know where you would go
Speaker 5: or go get it now. Don't tell me about should
Speaker 5: gotten a guy in the off season?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 5: This isn't a damn word argument just because I'm not
Speaker 5: arguing with you. I'm dealing with how we line up
Speaker 5: against San Francisco, not what I did wrong last week
Speaker 5: or last month, or two months ago or two years ago.
Speaker 5: If I really gave you guys a list of all
Speaker 5: the things I've done wrong over the last few years.
Speaker 5: You couldn't be on this program for the next five years.
Speaker 5: Steady and go over it. But every now and then
Speaker 5: you do some right things and at the end of
Speaker 5: the day you add it up and the rights give
Speaker 5: you a better spot than the wrong.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna try to find this at the spot here.
Speaker 2: This was the Lenkier clip where here we go. Let
Speaker 2: me see if I can find it right.
Speaker 5: Here and sitting here and to all the good at
Speaker 5: with the dishwater. You have got to be smoking something
Speaker 5: over there this morning. I'm not, and I really don't,
Speaker 5: and I don't even want our listeners to listen to
Speaker 5: me to talk about this is not your job. Your
Speaker 5: job is to let me go over all the reasons
Speaker 5: that I did something and I'm sorry that I did it.
Speaker 5: That's not your job.
Speaker 3: Well, my job is to ask one job.
Speaker 5: Or I'll get another. I'll get somebody else to ask
Speaker 5: these questions.
Speaker 3: Man, Jerry, We're just we're trying to figure out why
Speaker 3: the team out.
Speaker 5: I'm not kidding it. I'm not kidding it. You're not
Speaker 5: going to figure out it's what the team is doing
Speaker 5: right or wrong. If you are are any five or ten,
Speaker 5: like you, you need to come to this meeting I'm
Speaker 5: going to today. There are thirty two teams. Here are
Speaker 5: your geniuses.
Speaker 2: So this eighty seven year old man is basically saying,
Speaker 2: these guys it's not their job to ask these questions
Speaker 2: because they wouldn't know how to fix it themselves. The
Speaker 2: ultimate what do you know you've never been in the
Speaker 2: locker room kind of thing? Well, dude, the only reason
Speaker 2: you're in the locker room is or involved with this
Speaker 2: is because you own the team and you're rich. You
Speaker 2: didn't earn anything when it comes to being a GM.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of money and you bought a
Speaker 2: team and you like play an NFL GM and everybody
Speaker 2: knows that. And that again lack of awareness in a
Speaker 2: major way there for him. But I love this story
Speaker 2: and what it's turned into because there's so many people
Speaker 2: defending these radio hosts who that is probably difficult to
Speaker 2: do because here's what's scary. He could get those guys
Speaker 2: fired if he wanted. He's Jerry Jones. I don't know
Speaker 2: if their station has the rights to broadcast those games,
Speaker 2: but like you know, he could, and him just willingly
Speaker 2: saying that and making it clear, like I'll get I
Speaker 2: can get somebody else to be the person that's asking
Speaker 2: these questions. And I'm not kidding. I mean, that's just
Speaker 2: that's that's being a bully, that's abusing your power. And
Speaker 2: these guys stood up with them, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: everybody in the profession that is, you know, journalism, sports media, radio,
Speaker 2: even television all seemingly has the same reaction because I
Speaker 2: bet there's a lot of people that have in that
Speaker 2: industry that have dealt with something like that, not to
Speaker 2: the level of Jerry Jones on your own show saying
Speaker 2: basically without using you know, without saying it.
Speaker 3: Word for word, he's got the ability to have you fired.
Speaker 2: I mean, there used to be somebody that that had
Speaker 2: a lot of power around here in Louisville that would
Speaker 2: would let you know that pretty directly. Not on your show,
Speaker 2: but you know, behind the scenes. And it's a tough
Speaker 2: thing because it's your livelihood and you've got a family
Speaker 2: to take care of it, it's it's your career, and
Speaker 2: you could know you'd be doing you're doing your job,
Speaker 2: but there's people that you know, may take issue with
Speaker 2: what you say and what kind of questions you ask
Speaker 2: and what you and what direction you're going in. And
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody that's ever gotten super thin skinned
Speaker 2: and bothered by what a you know what a radio host,
Speaker 2: a blogger, a writer, a journalist, columnist TV. I don't
Speaker 2: know anybody body who's been from the inside, meaning a coach,
Speaker 2: a player, or a GM or an owner like Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2: You've never looked good doing that like coming after, because
Speaker 2: here's the thing. One, it's a tell that you are
Speaker 2: insecure and you're worried about the wrong things instead of
Speaker 2: getting things fixed, You're worried about what people are saying.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's the ultimate sign that you're unraveling and
Speaker 2: you may not actually be fit to be doing the
Speaker 2: job you're doing. But you know, it goes back to
Speaker 2: any time there's struggles going on within a program and
Speaker 2: you hear rather be a coach making a snide comment,
Speaker 2: or even an athletic director or even players. I think
Speaker 2: when they start talking about fan negativity when things are bad,
Speaker 2: you're cooked.
Speaker 3: You're cooked.
Speaker 2: You're instead of addressing what you got to do to
Speaker 2: get better and just realizing it's part of it. And
Speaker 2: there's expectations out there, which is probably why you want
Speaker 2: to do either coach or play at where you are,
Speaker 2: Like you're thinking that fan being disappointed with bad results
Speaker 2: is a factor in why you're unsuccessful.
Speaker 3: Like it's it's never a good look.
Speaker 2: And for Jerry Jones, you know it's not a I
Speaker 2: mean again, talk about unrelatable. This guy's a billionaire and
Speaker 2: literally bought an NFL team and his playing NFL GM
Speaker 2: and has for a long time. But here's what his
Speaker 2: response was. This was, Uh, this was from let's see here,
Speaker 2: Let's see if I can find the Uh yeah, he's
Speaker 2: he demands that threatening to fire?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, this is this is what it says.
Speaker 2: It says Jerry Jones defends threatening to fire radio hosts
Speaker 2: by claiming they aren't real fans or football people, so
Speaker 2: they can't question him. That again, I haven't that that's
Speaker 2: exactly what I I mean, without even knowing, that's exactly
Speaker 2: what he said to defend himself. It confirms everything I
Speaker 2: just laid out. He's a you're not a football person either.
Speaker 2: You just bought a team, dude, Like, what's your I mean?
Speaker 2: Like I think he did play football. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: he knows nothing about football, but like nobody would hire
Speaker 2: you to be a GM. You hired yourself is the
Speaker 2: GM because you own the team and you have an
Speaker 2: unlimited amount of money. Now again, you can't use that
Speaker 2: unlimited amount of money. There's a salary cab. But like
Speaker 2: he's in the belief that he's he's an accomplished and
Speaker 2: established GM when it's really not that way at all,
Speaker 2: and nobody sees it that way. And then goes back
Speaker 2: to like fans, those guys they may be Cowboys fans.
Speaker 2: Maybe they really are, but and I don't know their situation,
Speaker 2: But like that, that's another thing that if you have
Speaker 2: a platform, whether it be to write, to speak, podcast, radio, TV, whatever,
Speaker 2: I mean, there are people that think if you're not
Speaker 2: shaking the pom poms leading the pep rally, you're not
Speaker 2: a real fan.
Speaker 3: And that's that's I think that is kind of faded.
Speaker 2: A little bit, just because I think people have collectively
Speaker 2: realized that you can be a fan and yet be
Speaker 2: honest with other fans and honest with yourself. It's one
Speaker 2: thing to be nasty and just be you know, the worst.
Speaker 2: But like he used to trigger me so much when
Speaker 2: people would call in and and ask why I'm talking
Speaker 2: about Louisville basketball. What do you think we're gonna do
Speaker 2: around here? It's Louisvil basketball. You think you think you know,
Speaker 2: I'm going on of my way to bring up that
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball was terrible under kiddie paying, Like it's it's
Speaker 2: it's part of the job. It's what I have to do. Well,
Speaker 2: what's that helping? It's not my job to help at all, Like,
Speaker 2: that's not what this is. That's not what I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to do. So again, it's looked bad for Jerry Jones here,
Speaker 2: but he's been criticized for, you know, a long time
Speaker 2: for making poor decisions as a GM and owner, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he won't change. But it was nice to
Speaker 2: see a lot of people defending those two hosts, who,
Speaker 2: you know, they probably got tougher skin than I do.
Speaker 2: They're probably a little more you know, secure about their
Speaker 2: situation because they're hosting. I mean, they're they're they're they're
Speaker 2: successful in.
Speaker 3: What they do.
Speaker 2: But they also know, hey, yeah, if he really wanted to,
Speaker 2: he could, he could.
Speaker 3: He's Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2: He could make some calls and we could lose our job,
Speaker 2: and they could blame it on anything else. But we
Speaker 2: would know that it's because we pissed off Jerry Jones.
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Speaker 2: seven ninety. Got some college football tonight, a Wednesday, decent slate.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe I'm just saying that because there's a
Speaker 2: little bit of local flavor, Western Kentucky taking on sam
Speaker 2: Houston State. I'm not just you know, I do pull
Speaker 2: for WKU, not like a big fan or anything. But
Speaker 2: if I if I'm asked, hey, would you want them
Speaker 2: to win or lose? I would say win. But I
Speaker 2: do like them at plus one and a half, I
Speaker 2: know Sam Houston is a good team despite being relatively
Speaker 2: new to the FBS. But I think I may put
Speaker 2: a little something, a little small play here on the
Speaker 2: tops plus one and a half. Also FIU and UTEP
Speaker 2: that's a Conference USA matchup. No thoughts at all on that,
Speaker 2: but that in fact I think both teams think didn't
Speaker 2: didn't Indian open up against.
Speaker 3: FIU, he did beat them by thirty billion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll get more into some of the other
Speaker 2: games that we've got, not only Saturday, but there's a
Speaker 2: decent amount of games on Thursday.
Speaker 3: And Friday too, So looking forward to that also.
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