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Speaker 2: All right, good afternoon, Welcome in to a Thursday edition
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Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety A cold Thursday. I'm pretty sure winter
Speaker 2: has arrived. I mean maybe we will get warmer weather
Speaker 2: at some point, like before Christmas, but we're a week
Speaker 2: away from Thanksgiving and it is it is cold as
Speaker 2: hell outside. I mean, like I knew it was cold,
Speaker 2: it was going to be colder. I mean I I
Speaker 2: was trying to to you know, each day I check
Speaker 2: the weather because I got to figure out, Okay, what
Speaker 2: am I going to put on my kids? Like can
Speaker 2: they go kind of light? Do we got to put
Speaker 2: a hoodie on sometimes, you know, because the moose wants
Speaker 2: to always wear shorts if you can. And this morning
Speaker 2: I saw that it was going to be, you know,
Speaker 2: in the fifties. In fact, Saturday is also going to
Speaker 2: be I think the high is like fifty two, which
Speaker 2: is going to be cold by the time that game
Speaker 2: kicks off and certainly when it ends. But anyways, I
Speaker 2: never check like wind chill or anything like that. I mean,
Speaker 2: I kind of like in the summer, I just look
Speaker 2: at the temperature. I don't really look at the heat index.
Speaker 2: But I was out and about running errands today and
Speaker 2: I thought to myself, Man, maybe I'm getting soft because
Speaker 2: it's it feels a lot colder than fifty degrees. Like
Speaker 2: this is crazy, Like I'm going to be in for
Speaker 2: a really really rough winter if I'm already this, you know,
Speaker 2: miserable with these conditions. And even I think I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was around. I think it was around
Speaker 2: like I don't know, eleven o'clock or something like that,
Speaker 2: and we had like legitimately, I don't know if it
Speaker 2: was snow. I don't know if it was sleet. It
Speaker 2: wasn't rain, it was something and it was melting as
Speaker 2: soon as it hit my windshield. But like it was
Speaker 2: coming down. In fact, now I see we've got a
Speaker 2: chance for some snow later this evening, right around the
Speaker 2: time the show ends. So anyways, I end up thinking like, man,
Speaker 2: this is this is this is awful, and then pull
Speaker 2: my phone out and see that, like the windshield today
Speaker 2: at times was like twenty one degree. So that's why
Speaker 2: it felt so bad out there. Are you a fan
Speaker 2: of the cold weather? Austin used to live in Arizona,
Speaker 2: so I would imagine you probably hate.
Speaker 4: The cold weather.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I would well, Ever, since moving here and
Speaker 5: finding out what like actual humidity is more or less
Speaker 5: sort of hated the summertime. I don't love it when
Speaker 5: it's freezing. This is I mean, I guess still freezing,
Speaker 5: but you know, like frigid ten I don't love that.
Speaker 4: But I'm fine with the cold.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want I want snow if I'm gonna if
Speaker 2: it's gonna be really cold outside, and we haven't, I
Speaker 2: feel like we've had pretty mild winters in the last
Speaker 2: couple of years as far as like actual snow we have.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's been at least one big storm
Speaker 2: that did kind of you know, put school out for
Speaker 2: a while in the last two summer and in the
Speaker 2: last two winters, I think we've had like one big,
Speaker 2: one big thing that that did feel like okay winters here.
Speaker 2: This is because, I mean, who doesn't like when we
Speaker 2: get a little snow right Like it's it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's gross when it melts and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: and you don't want anything to keep you from from
Speaker 2: going where you want to go and all that. But like,
Speaker 2: I like the thought of being snowed in, especially around
Speaker 2: Christmas time a little earlier than than than I would
Speaker 2: want it as far as where we are today, but.
Speaker 5: It captures the aura of the whole winter time that
Speaker 5: we're in right now.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so again cold today, but uh you know,
Speaker 2: you know how that changes here in the in the
Speaker 2: Derby City. I'm trying to find a way to shift
Speaker 2: some like encouragement for people to not be bothered by
Speaker 2: the cold weather arriving and maybe you know, keeping them
Speaker 2: from going to the game on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, even if thought the cold is going
Speaker 5: to do that, yeah, I mean, as other things probably
Speaker 5: keeping them from that.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of factors. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: this has turned into the kind of game where you
Speaker 2: really and look, you know, I don't want to get
Speaker 2: into the whole attendance conversation today, but I do hope
Speaker 2: that there's a good turnout on Saturday for obvious reasons. One,
Speaker 2: you always want that, but also it's senior Day, and
Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys who aren't dudes who came
Speaker 2: here for their six or seventh year. These are guys
Speaker 2: who played here for a long time and were part
Speaker 2: of both the end of the Saturnfield era and the
Speaker 2: Bram era, and it's their last chance playing in front
Speaker 2: of a home crowd here at Louisville. So for that
Speaker 2: reason specifically, I really hope that there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people out there. But when it comes to guessing the
Speaker 2: attendance and like what kind of and I don't mean number,
Speaker 2: because I would never be good at looking at a
Speaker 2: crowd in a football stadium more a basketball arena and
Speaker 2: just telling you the amount you know, roughly the amount
Speaker 2: of fans that are there.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Again, if you know the actual capacity and it's full
Speaker 2: or to it, then you could probably guess a little
Speaker 2: bit better. But anyways, games like Austin p Jacksonville State
Speaker 2: in football and in basketball teams like Morehead State and
Speaker 2: Bellerman Bellerman maybe not because they are kind of local,
Speaker 2: but like Winthrop tomorrow night here in the Young Center.
Speaker 2: Those are games where like I don't say it often
Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter, and i'd love to be wrong,
Speaker 2: but like I kind of know, or maybe I should say,
Speaker 2: I kind of expect to for it to be a
Speaker 2: pretty light crowd and even lighter like if the team's
Speaker 2: not good or they're really struggling. So yeah, and I
Speaker 2: don't say that it's criticism. I think anytime you talk
Speaker 2: about attendance or lack of people there, it's like you're
Speaker 2: insulting a fan base. And I get why people see
Speaker 2: it that way, but I never mean it like that,
Speaker 2: because I think games against teams that don't move the needle,
Speaker 2: that keep people from investing their hard earned money in
Speaker 2: giving up their valuable time when they could still watch
Speaker 2: it at home or maybe keep up with it doing
Speaker 2: something else. In fact, if you know, if they've got
Speaker 2: a life. And I don't say if you go to games,
Speaker 2: you don't have a life, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: So I get why people don't go to those kind
Speaker 2: of games, So it's not criticism, it's just reality. And
Speaker 2: if there ever ends up being big crowds for those
Speaker 2: kind of games, I'm happily wrong. And then there's the
Speaker 2: games that are on the complete other side, like when
Speaker 2: Louisville plays Tennessee and basketball in November. There's gonna be
Speaker 2: a good crowd there, especially with the momentum that Pat
Speaker 2: Kelcey entered the season with. As far as just morale.
Speaker 2: You know, when you play Miami in football like you
Speaker 2: did earlier this year, that game sold out, like Louisville does.
Speaker 2: Like I know, I have a pretty good feeling when
Speaker 2: it comes to the first types of games I mentioned,
Speaker 2: nobody teams not expected to be, you know, a great challenge.
Speaker 2: And then on the other side, it may be a
Speaker 2: big challenge. You may lose big, but you're playing somebody
Speaker 2: big and it matters. Therefore there'll be people there. Where
Speaker 2: I have no clue as far as what to expect
Speaker 2: when it comes to attendance is when it falls in
Speaker 2: the middle, And I kind of think that's where we
Speaker 2: are with this Pittsburgh game, because had you not lost
Speaker 2: to Stanford, I mean, I think you'd be in a
Speaker 2: better spot to get people to come to your game.
Speaker 2: If I'm being honest with you, I don't know. But again,
Speaker 2: even if you would have beat Stanford, I could still
Speaker 2: see the pit game, you know, Pitt not being a
Speaker 2: great team. There's really not a whole lot you're playing
Speaker 2: for at this point. The weather's not going to be great.
Speaker 2: I mean, I could see that being a game that
Speaker 2: would be you know, who knows no clue what to
Speaker 2: expect even if you did beat Stanford. But you didn't,
Speaker 2: and you put together what I believe is the most
Speaker 2: embarrassing loss we've probably ever seen from Louisville football as
Speaker 2: far as how it happened. So then you know, you
Speaker 2: consider that which does matter, and then the weather and
Speaker 2: the opponent, and they're just not really being a whole
Speaker 2: lot on the line here. I mean, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not telling you it's going to be terrible crowd, but
Speaker 2: I don't expect it to be a great crowd either
Speaker 2: it or probably somewhere in the middle. But I would
Speaker 2: hope that because it's senior Day, you do end up,
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully that can be the kicker for you
Speaker 2: if you are in fact on the edge and you
Speaker 2: don't know if you want to go or not. But
Speaker 2: I'll be there. I don't know if that's gonna make
Speaker 2: you want to be there, but I'll be there with
Speaker 2: with my with my wife and uh and my my son.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna think my nephew and my sister
Speaker 2: are gonna go too, so we're gonna go. So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a whole coffee shop. So you think that
Speaker 2: you think that incentivized people.
Speaker 5: To go, now, absolutely, I think I want to go
Speaker 5: even more now there we go.
Speaker 2: Like, well, if any anything to help, because I know
Speaker 2: people get really really upset if they see empty seats
Speaker 2: when they go to games. And again that's never I
Speaker 2: never say that to act like a tendants isn't important,
Speaker 2: but like it's really not a to me. I think
Speaker 2: it's a result of society and just people not doing
Speaker 2: things the way they used to. We evolve as human beings,
Speaker 2: that's more. It's more of that than it is any
Speaker 2: anybody's fault. Now, again, there's things you can do to
Speaker 2: help it, and that you know, be good. Obviously, you
Speaker 2: want to have success. That's that's the most important thing.
Speaker 2: If you have a good team, there's gonna be more
Speaker 2: people within your fan base that want to get out
Speaker 2: and see them. But also you can't schedule teams like
Speaker 2: Morehead State. And I mean again, I shouldn't say like
Speaker 2: you can't do it, No you can. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: like you can't. You can't have that on the schedule
Speaker 2: and think that that that alone is going to be
Speaker 2: enough for eighteen to nineteen thousand people to go closely
Speaker 2: fill up your basketball arena. It's just not the way
Speaker 2: it is. Again, it's nobody's fault. It's just again, things change.
Speaker 5: Now. We know Moose loves the games. How does how
Speaker 5: does Maya taking games? She a really big fan of it.
Speaker 5: She's not gone to a game this year. She has
Speaker 5: been to She's been to a Louisville basketball game, and
Speaker 5: she has also she's also been to I believe one
Speaker 5: of the spring games she went to, So you know,
Speaker 5: she she's probably like a lot of kids where you know,
Speaker 5: seeing everything is kind of cool and then you know
Speaker 5: within the within a few minutes and she's ready to go.
Speaker 5: So she doesn't get into the action or anything like that.
Speaker 5: And in fact, no, she went to Louisville live and
Speaker 5: she had a good time. But but you know that
Speaker 5: was like a big that was a big to do, right,
Speaker 5: like it wasn't a basketball game, it was really an
Speaker 5: event where they got the five, they got the pyro out,
Speaker 5: they've got you know, there's really a performance in a
Speaker 5: show that it is a basketball game. So there's a
Speaker 5: lot of lights going down and yeah, and that kind
Speaker 5: of got to her a little bit.
Speaker 2: But that, honestly, I think you see less of that
Speaker 2: at games than you do at an event like Louisville Live.
Speaker 2: So we just know that if it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: really really long day, meaning where we're just gonna be
Speaker 2: there for a long time. Which look, that's another part
Speaker 2: of the whole tendance conversation is if you go and
Speaker 2: you know, make it a thing like you're giving up
Speaker 2: like six hours roughly of your time, and that's not
Speaker 2: easy for a lot of people. So when it comes
Speaker 2: to that, we just, you know, we tell Maya we're
Speaker 2: going and she can go play with her gammy or
Speaker 2: she can go she can go with a friend or
Speaker 2: something like that. And she understands Now she's old enough
Speaker 2: to where she's like, yeah, I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: I'm being left out, but you know what, I don't
Speaker 2: want to go like survived, Yeah exactly exactly, So all right, Uh,
Speaker 2: let's uh, let's dive in. Shall We've got a lot
Speaker 2: we're gonna get into today. We're gonna be talking coming
Speaker 2: up here at four oh five with the one and
Speaker 2: only Ken Spencer from w h AS eleven. Looking forward
Speaker 2: to chatting with him. Also, we've got our first UH
Speaker 2: point spread in the Governor's Cup game. I guess welling
Speaker 2: F one. But it's been in and out as far
Speaker 2: as being available on different sports books, and the line
Speaker 2: has relatively stayed the same. Louisville is currently favored by
Speaker 2: two and a half in that game, in the Governor's
Speaker 2: Cup Game, So what I want to do? And again,
Speaker 2: I know you've got Pittsburgh coming up this weekend. Kentucky's
Speaker 2: going to be taken on Texas, but we're getting close enough,
Speaker 2: and in fact, because of the holidays, we don't even
Speaker 2: have that many show like it's not a normal week
Speaker 2: for us on the air. So I've got some updated thoughts,
Speaker 2: some belated thoughts if you will, on this matchup as
Speaker 2: of now, And again I think it's not too early
Speaker 2: to do it, given the fact that we know who
Speaker 2: both these teams are right now, and you know, whatever
Speaker 2: happens between Texas and Kentucky as well as Louisville and
Speaker 2: Pitt probably won't have any real impact on that Governor's
Speaker 2: Cup game unless you know, somebody gets hurt, which, of
Speaker 2: course you know could always happen, so we'll get into that. Also,
Speaker 2: college football playoff rankings. I'm kind of not like I'm
Speaker 2: not over it, but it went from like, man, this
Speaker 2: is really interesting to sit back and see like all
Speaker 2: of these different scenarios that could somewhat realistically play out
Speaker 2: that would really cause chaos, and now it's just like
Speaker 2: it's I feel like, you know, if you're somebody like
Speaker 2: myself who does enjoy that, it's just an echo chamber
Speaker 2: for us, because everybody else is in their own world
Speaker 2: just yapping and screaming about the Big ten in the SEC.
Speaker 2: How could you say that these teams in the Big
Speaker 2: ten are remotely good enough to be top six in
Speaker 2: the SEC and to be to be fair on the
Speaker 2: Big ten side, I'm not really hearing anybody saying that,
Speaker 2: Like they believe the Big ten is substantially better. They
Speaker 2: just want the games to matter, and that's and I
Speaker 2: do side with them on that. So we got a
Speaker 2: loaded show. We'll let you guys, be a part of
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Speaker 2: ninety so. One thing I wanted to uh to to
Speaker 2: start with here, and you know, I'm glad we're thirteen
Speaker 2: ish minutes in now because I don't want it to
Speaker 2: seem like, you know, this was so important that we
Speaker 2: needed to, you know, lead the show with it as
Speaker 2: some huge topic. But it is something that has been
Speaker 2: discussed in the last I don't know month or so,
Speaker 2: and that's Louisville football high school recruiting. And today Louisville
Speaker 2: lost another one of their commitments from the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five class. And you know, that's that's something, you know,
Speaker 2: that's something you never want to see, right, that's not
Speaker 2: you know, it's not good news, but that had, you know,
Speaker 2: that piece of news coming out today. And then also
Speaker 2: people realizing that Louisville is ranked dead last in the
Speaker 2: ACC in high school football recruiting for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: And you know Louisville losing the way they did against
Speaker 2: Stanford on Saturday, and even before that game, you already
Speaker 2: kind of felt was that this team had underwhelmed a
Speaker 2: little bit. Any goodwill that you got from the Clemson
Speaker 2: game kind of felt like it went away quickly because
Speaker 2: the Clemson game gave you the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're losing. We've got three losses, which I
Speaker 2: don't like. But man, they're the good teams. We're still
Speaker 2: really good. Look at us, we just went on the
Speaker 2: road to meet Clemson. Well, then when you lose to
Speaker 2: Stanford like that, it's kind of out the window. I mean,
Speaker 2: you still be Clemson, and that's great, but you're back
Speaker 2: to where the fans, I think, view this as a
Speaker 2: team that is just really frustrating to watch because they
Speaker 2: should be better, They should be able to be playing
Speaker 2: cleaner football this late in the year. So look, all
Speaker 2: of that is, you know, a bunch of not good stuff, right,
Speaker 2: But I happen to think that if Uliver would have
Speaker 2: went out there and won by six touchdowns against Stanford,
Speaker 2: which they easily could have, if they got their head
Speaker 2: out of their ass, to be honest with you, and
Speaker 2: you felt like, okay, wow, Like we may end up
Speaker 2: actually being a top fifteen team in the College Football
Speaker 2: Playoff when it's all said and done. As far as
Speaker 2: the rankings, like, I don't think anybody would be really
Speaker 2: paying attention to high school football recruiting or even giving
Speaker 2: much of a care about this kid decommittee, because you know,
Speaker 2: what happens on Saturdays really is going to dictate how
Speaker 2: fans are going to view certain things, if that makes sense,
Speaker 2: And clearly Saturday was embarrassing. So I feel like the
Speaker 2: noise in regards to the high school football recruiting for
Speaker 2: Jeff Brohm has been louder this week than ever, and
Speaker 2: obviously today getting that news, it's not great. So what
Speaker 2: I want to say is this being ranked dead last
Speaker 2: in the ACC in high school recruiting is like there's
Speaker 2: no way to say, oh, that's who cares. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a tough look, even though high school football recruiting
Speaker 2: clearly is not as important as it once was. Like
Speaker 2: you never want to be dead last, I mean in
Speaker 2: anything when it comes to me. So you know, that's
Speaker 2: not a good look. But depending upon how they put
Speaker 2: these rankings together, it may not be nearly as worrisome
Speaker 2: because a lot of times these rankings are based off
Speaker 2: of quantity more so than quality. And Louisville they don't
Speaker 2: even have that many kids committed now, which again isn't good,
Speaker 2: but like that may be that Like, if you've got
Speaker 2: a really small class but the average is like high
Speaker 2: three star, maybe some somehow low four star, you may
Speaker 2: be ranked substantially lower than a class that has a
Speaker 2: bunch of mid three stars that you know. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to tell you that doesn't matter, but like doesn't
Speaker 2: really tell the whole story. That's what I will say. Also,
Speaker 2: you have to look at who is decommitting. I mean
Speaker 2: today it's running back Jalen Brown, who I guess had
Speaker 2: try to see when he actually did commit because I
Speaker 2: feel like he'd been committed for a while. But he's
Speaker 2: a running back, and right now Louisville has two freshmen
Speaker 2: running back that you know, and obviously Isaac Brown's had
Speaker 2: a monster season, but Duke Watson's been pretty good too.
Speaker 2: I mean, he came in and played really well in
Speaker 2: Brown's absence at Stanford, and throughout the year he's been good.
Speaker 2: Like Louisville, you could make the case, and I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that like it'll be this way when it's all
Speaker 2: said and done, like when their careers end, but right now,
Speaker 2: because these guys are getting real reps as freshmen, you
Speaker 2: could argue that Louisville easily has the best freshman dual
Speaker 2: running back to some in Power for. I mean, Isaac
Speaker 2: Brown is the best freshman running back in the Power for.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's because of you know, he's
Speaker 2: one of few guys that are getting a run because
Speaker 2: it's rare this day and age to be relied on
Speaker 2: that much as a true freshman. But both these guys
Speaker 2: are So if you're Jay Brown and you're a three
Speaker 2: star running back, I mean, why would you come here?
Speaker 2: I mean again, we'd love to have you. I mean
Speaker 2: obviously Jeff Brom liked him enough you offered him a scholarship,
Speaker 2: But like makes total sense the kid would would would
Speaker 2: want to de commit because guys that are just a
Speaker 2: year ahead of him look as if they've got you know,
Speaker 2: they stick around at Louisville, that's going to be your
Speaker 2: backfield for for a long time. So again, that's not
Speaker 2: good that's not good news. But again, but that's that's
Speaker 2: that's expected. Like, I don't really know whose fault that is.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could save Jeff Brom having two freshmen
Speaker 2: running back that are here right now that are really good.
Speaker 2: That's the factor here. So's who you're mad at. Now
Speaker 2: we'll get into the weeds of it a little bit,
Speaker 2: I don't. I know that's not a great tease for
Speaker 2: the rest of the show, but I do want to
Speaker 2: take a look at the twenty four seven sports rankings
Speaker 2: for high school FRED like to kind of give you
Speaker 2: a better explanation as to why Louisville is dead last. Now, again,
Speaker 2: that's not where you want to be. You should be
Speaker 2: better than that. Even if you're taking you know, five, six, seven,
Speaker 2: I don't know however many commits. You shouldn't be dead last.
Speaker 2: So we can get into that. But Jeff Brom is
Speaker 2: going to always rely on the portal, and I feel
Speaker 2: like he has shown so far even with you know
Speaker 2: what happened Saturday. If you are an offensive player specifically,
Speaker 2: or I guess especially, I guess you can be defense too.
Speaker 2: But like, if you're an offensive guy and you're in
Speaker 2: the portal, you can look at guys who had one
Speaker 2: two years left that came to Louisville, and they would
Speaker 2: probably tell you that was a great decision because I
Speaker 2: really maximize what I could do in Jeff Brohm's offense,
Speaker 2: and I think Jeff just personally really does prefer it
Speaker 2: this way. All right, quick break, we'll come back on
Speaker 2: the other side. Keep this thing rolling along. Nick Coffee,
Speaker 2: Austin Montgomery, It's coffee and Company. I fell about Thorton's
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Speaker 2: apparently he is. He's believed to have like intentionally well,
Speaker 2: you know, it can happen with the type of show
Speaker 2: that Woodstock is, but whenever it became like a complete mess.
Speaker 2: The documentary that was on Netflix about Woodstock made it
Speaker 2: seem as if like he he kind of got off
Speaker 2: to the fact that he was going to be the
Speaker 2: one that you know, and again that's not a good thing,
Speaker 2: but it's rock and it.
Speaker 4: Started a riot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were just they were just here about a
Speaker 5: couple of years ago at Louder than Life, and I
Speaker 5: think that was fresh off of that, that Woodstock documentary,
Speaker 5: and I feel like everyone was just even more toned
Speaker 5: up just because they were expecting something like that. But
Speaker 5: they're just not the same band that they once were.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I personally thought that they sucked. Well. He he had
Speaker 4: like a you had like a white afro.
Speaker 5: Out there, and at one point he was like he
Speaker 5: was dissing the people like in the back and then
Speaker 5: you know they had the screens on the on the
Speaker 5: on the stage. Yeah, they turned the screens off so
Speaker 5: you couldn't see it, and there was.
Speaker 4: He was just making fun of people.
Speaker 5: If you don't have the time or the money and
Speaker 5: you're all the way back there, then that's your e
Speaker 5: F and luck or something like that.
Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there like, listen, guy, he was like
Speaker 2: going after the production people that were messing something up.
Speaker 4: I think I don't know, I don't I think he.
Speaker 5: I think he like strictly told them turn this ass off, okay,
Speaker 5: and and it was just like everyone with them, gotcha.
Speaker 2: And then he didn't want people following his show through
Speaker 2: the screen.
Speaker 4: Yes, gotcha dude.
Speaker 2: Again. That fits with like he seemed just like an
Speaker 2: a hole, you know what I mean, Like that's what it.
Speaker 2: That's what it seemed like.
Speaker 5: Just think of him, and I just think of the Undertaker,
Speaker 5: the American Badass coming out to that.
Speaker 2: Song and you forgot that was one of his theme songs.
Speaker 4: Oh you knew business was about to pick up when
Speaker 4: that limpbisker.
Speaker 2: That was a good Undertaker error too.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know he debuted that specific character at the
Speaker 5: Judgment day that was at Freedom Hall.
Speaker 2: So when that's why I remember it, Yeah, not because
Speaker 2: I was there, but like I've seen like that. That's
Speaker 2: a big moment in WWE events when he returned as
Speaker 2: kind of a different, a different version of the Taker
Speaker 2: and he was more of like a Harley Badass, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it came out chewing a dip.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you could see the Freedom Hall sign
Speaker 5: in the back as he's gonna go Oak Slam Stephanie mixed, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it is cool to see that whenever you'll, you know,
Speaker 2: on TikTok or Instagram. For me, I'll be scrolling through
Speaker 2: reels and TikTok videos and I guess it's just the
Speaker 2: algorithm's hit to where like I occasionally see a lot
Speaker 2: of old Attitude era WWE stuff, and there's certain moments
Speaker 2: that are that's one of them that are pretty big.
Speaker 2: They get shared a lot throughout that space of wrestling
Speaker 2: fans online, but two of them have that same it
Speaker 2: actually might actually be the same event, but you see
Speaker 2: Freedom Hall right there, and you know it's nostalgic, it
Speaker 2: really is.
Speaker 5: And with that moment apparently like there was some sort
Speaker 5: of production mess up to where people I mean, as
Speaker 5: they had the vignettes, you know, vignettes when they lead
Speaker 5: up to like this Superstars coming up, a lot of
Speaker 5: people were kind of putting two and two together that
Speaker 5: this was going to be the Undertaker or well, people
Speaker 5: heard the motorcycle going for about a couple of minutes,
Speaker 5: and the Undertaker like missed his cue by like a
Speaker 5: solid minute. So the finish of that match was completely
Speaker 5: hurried up and kind of actually people were actually pissed
Speaker 5: about it. But there were a lot of people that
Speaker 5: heard the motorcycle like minutes before like his vignette hit,
Speaker 5: and oh my god, someone's about to come to the ring,
Speaker 5: and people said that they heard it and he missed
Speaker 5: a que anyways.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 2: You would And for those who don't know, Austin is
Speaker 2: a big time wrestling guy, that's right. So are you
Speaker 2: somebody that was as big of a fan of Undertaker
Speaker 2: as like his when he to me, he's still believed
Speaker 2: to be like one of the best wrestlers ever, right
Speaker 2: of course, Now do you think that's justified? I wouldn't know,
Speaker 2: So I'm not asking, like you know that is that
Speaker 2: legit or is that not legit because.
Speaker 5: He's not on my Mount Rushmore, but he is. He's
Speaker 5: one of the top five legends.
Speaker 6: Ever.
Speaker 2: Is it Is it based off like longevity.
Speaker 4: Longevity and kind of character?
Speaker 2: Well, because again I think his character's cool, but like
Speaker 2: to me, it doesn't fit up there with the others
Speaker 2: that I that I that I believe and also think
Speaker 2: are up you know that that are that are put
Speaker 2: in that same tier that everybody in wrestling puts him.
Speaker 2: And again I'm not anti Taker. I think he's great,
Speaker 2: but I just never understood what make what got him
Speaker 2: to be as popular as like that top tier.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just it was longevity, It was a
Speaker 5: style that he that he worked, and it was also
Speaker 5: his loyalness to the business, at least lowness to WWEE
Speaker 5: because yeah, Netflix series, Oh yeah, he's he's huge, huge
Speaker 5: Vince McMahon guy, and he's just that. That was actually
Speaker 5: when he came out with that, He's actually been on
Speaker 5: record saying he was scared to come out rather than
Speaker 5: something than the dead Man. He didn't think that fans
Speaker 5: would buy it, just because last time he was seen
Speaker 5: on television was like a zombie character. So that was
Speaker 5: a huge leap forward for him to try that, and
Speaker 5: he's just kind of grown his character to make sense
Speaker 5: in almost every generation that he's been in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been huge. And my favorite thing ever on
Speaker 2: the Internet with the Undertaker is whenever he was doing
Speaker 2: cameos for people and this is one of them.
Speaker 6: I mean, you should give your mom a big hug
Speaker 6: and tell it's from the Undertaker.
Speaker 2: Like, that's the best clip I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 2: Imagine sending like that. I mean, first of all, getting
Speaker 2: the Undertaker Cami is in him and him in character.
Speaker 2: It's just funny to me. I mean not to insult him,
Speaker 2: but like, that's just funny. But you know, call your
Speaker 2: grim that that. I mean, this is it gets no
Speaker 2: better than this.
Speaker 6: You should give your mom a big hug and tail
Speaker 6: it's from the Undertaker.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I wonder what my mom would do when
Speaker 2: I gave her a hue, a.
Speaker 6: Big hug and tail it's from the Undertaker.
Speaker 4: Mom. That wasn't for me, that was from the Undertaker.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, all right, So let's go to the text line.
Speaker 2: Five OO two six five three zero seven ninety is
Speaker 2: the number. If you guys want to text in and
Speaker 2: this text says, Nick, don't you think that if you
Speaker 2: are known for just being reliant upon the portal, it'll
Speaker 2: make it harder for freshmen to commit to you. Yes,
Speaker 2: and just to reset for those that joined us a
Speaker 2: little bit late. The Louisville football recruiting rankings have been
Speaker 2: discussed and understandably, so I don't want to make it
Speaker 2: sound as if you know it shouldn't be discussed, but
Speaker 2: I just I think Louisville struggling this year at times,
Speaker 2: and especially coming off the most embarrassing loss I can
Speaker 2: think of in Louisville history, You're going to hear more
Speaker 2: noise in regards to like, hey, what the hell's going
Speaker 2: on with this class? They keep losing commitments and they're
Speaker 2: ranked dead last in the ACC. So to answer your question, yeah,
Speaker 2: it could potentially make it harder for you to be
Speaker 2: able to, I guess bring in a big class. But
Speaker 2: you know what, like if somebody's out there, if there's
Speaker 2: coaches out there that are telling recruits, hey, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: go to Louisville because Jeff brom he doesn't trust freshman. Freshman,
Speaker 2: he doesn't He's going to rely only on the portal.
Speaker 2: I mean I would I would hope that a coach
Speaker 2: would do that. So then when the recruit brings it
Speaker 2: up to Jeff Brom, he could point to Isaac Brown
Speaker 2: and Duke Watson. I mean those are guys that again,
Speaker 2: there's other running backs on this team that you know
Speaker 2: are veterans. Now, Maurice Turner getting hurt, I mean I
Speaker 2: hate that, and Brom probably would have given him the
Speaker 2: good run. He was going to be the starter. But
Speaker 2: at the same point in time, like, I think it's
Speaker 2: worked out well because you now you had to rely
Speaker 2: on the young guys, probably a little more than you
Speaker 2: maybe wanted. Although I always felt like Jeff Brom knew
Speaker 2: he had something really special with with Isaac Brown, and
Speaker 2: he was right. As far as Duke Watson, maybe he's
Speaker 2: benefited from Maurice Turner getting hurt, but either way, I mean,
Speaker 2: Donald Cheney's been he's been, you know, serviceable at times,
Speaker 2: but like that's a veteran who transferred from Miami, who
Speaker 2: was pretty productive in his career at Miami, and now
Speaker 2: he's taken a back seat to one freshman and arguably
Speaker 2: too when you consider what Duke Watson has shown as
Speaker 2: of late, so you know you're always going to have
Speaker 2: negative recruiting against you. And it's and I'm actually glad
Speaker 2: you brought that up because that is something I hadn't
Speaker 2: really thought about. That if you are a guy that
Speaker 2: really does rely on the portal and it's known, then
Speaker 2: if you're recruiting some high school kids, you know that
Speaker 2: can be weaponized against you by their programs. But if
Speaker 2: they're going to do that, they can't do it about
Speaker 2: Jeff Brom at least not this year because he's I mean,
Speaker 2: he's playing freshman if they're good enough to play, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's what he's going to sell these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we really we'd love to have you. In fact, you
Speaker 2: could mean you're always selling when it comes to recruiting, right,
Speaker 2: You could easily and say, oh, yeah, we are going
Speaker 2: to rely on the portal because you know, that's our style,
Speaker 2: that's how we want to do it. We've been successful,
Speaker 2: it works. But we also recruit a handful of high
Speaker 2: school players that we really think are good good enough
Speaker 2: to help us, So we're being selective and we want you.
Speaker 2: So maybe you could be that next freshman that plays
Speaker 2: alongside a team of mostly veterans and really makes a
Speaker 2: name for yourself. So again, you can always spin it
Speaker 2: a different way. So right now Louisville's class, they've got
Speaker 2: eleven commitments in the twenty twenty five class. This comes
Speaker 2: after they got a d commitment earlier today, which we
Speaker 2: discussed earlier in the show. A running back a freshman,
Speaker 2: an incoming freshman in twenty twenty five as a running back, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I would decommit too. In fact, I would
Speaker 2: question the kid if he didn't decommit because of both
Speaker 2: Isaac Brown and Duke Watson. Now the other de commits.
Speaker 2: You did lose one of your better defensive commitments. I
Speaker 2: think it was to Indiana. He actually visited. I think
Speaker 2: he visited, did he Yeah, I think when Louisville played
Speaker 2: Miami instead of visiting like most of the class did
Speaker 2: that day for the game, he ended up taking a
Speaker 2: visit to IU and then he flipped his commitment I
Speaker 2: believe about a week ago. So again, you know you're
Speaker 2: losing a kid to an in home state or an
Speaker 2: in home program that has a lot of momentum right now,
Speaker 2: and with in Kurt Signetti. So again I'm not telling
Speaker 2: you that like you shouldn't you know, this is a
Speaker 2: good thing, but you know, it happens, It really does.
Speaker 2: And one thing I wanted to bring up really quickly
Speaker 2: before we get to our next break, when it comes
Speaker 2: to Brahm's philosophy, Like, you know, I think he's going
Speaker 2: to try to utilize the portal like every other coach,
Speaker 2: But I also think he's gonna be on the top
Speaker 2: end as far as really you know, not worrying about
Speaker 2: numbers and just saying, hey, if I like what this
Speaker 2: kid can do, if I've seen him on tape, if
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with him, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: to go get him because he can make us better.
Speaker 2: Like I don't think he's going to so to say,
Speaker 2: all right, i'm gonna bring in this class of you know,
Speaker 2: a handful of players. How I mean, maybe you're gonna
Speaker 2: bring in twelve thirteen freshman which will be a really
Speaker 2: really small class. And by the way, right now they
Speaker 2: only have eleven and we're going to retain our roster,
Speaker 2: Like he's not going to just base it off of Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take twenty percent, this, thirty percent that, because
Speaker 2: you just never know, and in fact, I also think
Speaker 2: that he is probably you know, I'm sure there are
Speaker 2: guys that are going to transfer or have already transferred
Speaker 2: out that he didn't want to see leave, but he's
Speaker 2: probably not going to again. This is a lot of
Speaker 2: coaches say this. I think this is just just personality.
Speaker 2: He knows that there's really nothing that could be done
Speaker 2: about it. So if a kid decides he wants to leave,
Speaker 2: instead of I think sulking and like feeling like man,
Speaker 2: this is, you know, in complaining about where college sports
Speaker 2: are right now, like a lot of coaches are doing,
Speaker 2: He's just gonna go to the portal and go find
Speaker 2: somebody that maybe is even better than who he lost.
Speaker 2: So you know, you're gonna you're gonna have a little
Speaker 2: bit of everything. I would I would imagine just like
Speaker 2: most schools, you're gonna have some true You're gonna have
Speaker 2: players that you retained from your roster, and then you're
Speaker 2: gonna have guys that left because they hit the portal,
Speaker 2: or they graduated, or maybe they went to the NFL,
Speaker 2: and then you go fill those spots with guys from
Speaker 2: the portal, and it'll probably be a different number in
Speaker 2: each of those three categories. Every year, but I would
Speaker 2: always think that, just knowing what I know about Brom,
Speaker 2: I think he's probably gonna lean towards that bigger number
Speaker 2: being new transfers that came in. You know, he was
Speaker 2: during the Notre Dame game, I think it was. It
Speaker 2: was on Peacock and who's the former Austin Helman. Who's
Speaker 2: the former Cowboys coach that's now no longer a coach,
Speaker 2: he's a broadcaster. Oh, Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: Jason Garrett was doing color in that game, and he
Speaker 2: was talking about how Tyler Schuck had gotten off to
Speaker 2: such a good start, and you know, during a conversation
Speaker 2: with coach Browm this week, he really taught you know
Speaker 2: again he was mentioning the conversation he had with Brom
Speaker 2: about Chuck and how much he loves that, he's hungry,
Speaker 2: he's experienced, and there was something clearly like it wasn't
Speaker 2: like he was trying to break news, but it was
Speaker 2: just something he brought from the conversation, and he said
Speaker 2: that Brom told him he loves doing that and he
Speaker 2: will continue to do that. So I was kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, surprised more people didn't notice that was said,
Speaker 2: because you know that would lead you to think, Okay,
Speaker 2: well it's Pierce Clark's never gonna get to play here.
Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, I'm not sure if
Speaker 2: he is or not. But I think with Jeff, if
Speaker 2: he sees a quarterback that he knows, you know, can
Speaker 2: help and somebody that's experienced, somebody that he really thinks, okay,
Speaker 2: imagine what I could do with this guy's arm in
Speaker 2: our offense, he's gonna go get him. I don't. And
Speaker 2: he may have a guy coming back that you feel
Speaker 2: good about because he was you know, he's a returning starter,
Speaker 2: or maybe maybe because you know, maybe because you know
Speaker 2: he was the backup and showed showed some really good
Speaker 2: upside in a game where he played because the other
Speaker 2: guy was injured. I just think it's gonna be hard
Speaker 2: for Brom to not look at the portal every offseason
Speaker 2: and go get a quarterback if you can, regardless of
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Speaker 2: So I was just a little distracted as we came
Speaker 2: back from break there because I was thinking to myself, Okay,
Speaker 2: Hube Brown, who, by the way, for those who didn't
Speaker 2: hear the news, he will be retiring from broadcasting after
Speaker 2: this upcoming season. And I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't really listen or I'm sure I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're listening to the NBA, but I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people aren't watching it like they once were, which
Speaker 2: I don't even think it's worth making it a thing
Speaker 2: to discuss on the show. But for those who missed
Speaker 2: that news, NB, if you were sure, is down, and
Speaker 2: it really doesn't surprise me in any way but for
Speaker 2: those who did not know about Huey Brown, He's he's
Speaker 2: been a broadcaster here and there for a long long time.
Speaker 2: But I listened. I watch enough NBA to be able
Speaker 2: to listen to him, you know, here and there. It's
Speaker 2: not like I'm tuning in all the time. But like
Speaker 2: he always stands out as a really, really good analyst,
Speaker 2: and that doesn't happen that often. You could be really good,
Speaker 2: but for it just you know, and it's just my opinion.
Speaker 2: But I know, clearly I'm not the only one that
Speaker 2: has this opinion that he's damn good. But he's so
Speaker 2: he's this good and yet he's ninety one years old.
Speaker 2: I mean, think about that. It's one thing to be
Speaker 2: able to still do that. There are broadcasters in their
Speaker 2: seventies late sixties that, like, you hope that they get
Speaker 2: out soon because they've fallen off so much. This dude
Speaker 2: is in his bag still and he's ninety one years old.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's amazing. He's pretty beloved in the NBA,
Speaker 2: it seems, because there's a lot of people discussing. I'm
Speaker 2: just looking at some of the reaction here from the
Speaker 2: report that came out from YAH from ESPN that he's
Speaker 2: going to be out after this season and walk away.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I'm also just jealous, like and I'm
Speaker 2: not even talking about like from a broadcaster standpoint, but
Speaker 2: I would imagine Hughby Brown does this because he loves it.
Speaker 2: Doesn't need to do it, but he loves it. He's
Speaker 2: a basketball junkie, he was a coach, and now he's
Speaker 2: a broadcaster. That's like his extension of still you know,
Speaker 2: that's an extension to still be in the game of basketball.
Speaker 2: So whatever you do, imagine loving it right. And I'm
Speaker 2: very fortunate, and I mean this sincerely they'd be able
Speaker 2: to do something that I love. But I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't. You know, that's just life, So
Speaker 2: I realize how fortunate I am. So, but if you
Speaker 2: are somebody like myself, imagine being able and wanting to
Speaker 2: do it and still be really good at it until
Speaker 2: you're ninety one years old. Like big time jealous of
Speaker 2: Huby Brown. If we could all be that lucky and
Speaker 2: he was a I mean again, I remember him coaching
Speaker 2: when I was really young. I remember, and they may
Speaker 2: still do this, but I don't know if they did
Speaker 2: it towards the end of my days of being a
Speaker 2: big card collector. But I used to get packs of
Speaker 2: basketball cars words when I was a kid, and some
Speaker 2: of them would have coaches cards, and I would always
Speaker 2: be very underwhelmed, like why would I want to coach
Speaker 2: his card? And I remember Hube Brown, a young Hubie Brown,
Speaker 2: coaching the Atlanta Hawks on one of the cards that
Speaker 2: I had, and no offense to him, but I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure I gave it away to somebody who was collecting
Speaker 2: coaches cards, and I'm thinking, why would you want to
Speaker 2: do that? But he, you know, he's more so known
Speaker 2: as a broadcaster, but that's not necessarily just because he's
Speaker 2: you know, that's not because he's a guy that you know,
Speaker 2: was terrible at coaching. So he found his lane in broadcasting.
Speaker 2: I mean he by the way, he coached the Kentucky
Speaker 2: Colonels in the mid seventies around here, which they won
Speaker 2: the ABA Finals. That team did in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2: But he coached for the Atlanta Hawks, the New York Knicks,
Speaker 2: and then he came back after sixteen years and took
Speaker 2: the Memphis Grizzlies jobs. In Memphis Grizzlies job in two
Speaker 2: thousand and two. Yeah, So this is somebody that has
Speaker 2: an overall record in the NBA that is above five
Speaker 2: hundred and he did it many many years. But yet
Speaker 2: I still think he's more so known for broadcasting because
Speaker 2: he also did that a long time, but he's also
Speaker 2: really good at it. So shout out to ub Brown.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. He's one of those guys that,
Speaker 2: for some reason when people say hubi or they turned
Speaker 2: the h into a y u b Yeah.
Speaker 4: Ub I always said Hubi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, Like I never see Hubie and say ubi.
Speaker 2: But there's some people that like there's other words. It's
Speaker 2: like a New York thing. There's certain things Patino said
Speaker 2: where I would think, why are you emphasizing a why
Speaker 2: there instead of an eight? You know, just just sounded
Speaker 2: kind of odd. But anyways, shout out to Hube Brown.
Speaker 5: I think of the NBA Finals broadcast when I hear
Speaker 5: hub Brown. He's always been good at that.
Speaker 2: He's a legend, man, he really is. All right, coming
Speaker 2: up here at four or five, we're going to be
Speaker 2: chatting with the one and only Ken Spencer from w
Speaker 2: h AS eleven. Looking forward to doing that. We do
Speaker 2: that each and every week. So this is say this.
Speaker 2: This came in earlier on the show whenever I was
Speaker 2: talking about one of the first texts that came in
Speaker 2: today on the Ellen and Federal Credit Union text line
Speaker 2: is a question about selling tickets or giving away tickets,
Speaker 2: because we were discussing this being a game for me,
Speaker 2: and it's just my opinion. There are certain games where
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, there's not going to be many
Speaker 2: people there at all, and I understand why, and then
Speaker 2: tho's other games where I'm like, Okay, yeah, this will
Speaker 2: this will this will be a big turnout, maybe a sellout,
Speaker 2: like the Miami game in football. But then there's all
Speaker 2: kinds of games that are in the middle to where
Speaker 2: it really just depends upon little things like is it
Speaker 2: competing with the music festival? Is the weather good? Is
Speaker 2: the team? You know? Are they playing good despite maybe
Speaker 2: playing an opponent you're not worried about. I think that's
Speaker 2: where this pit game comes in. And I'm worried because
Speaker 2: the weather being cald, it being cold, what happened at
Speaker 2: Stanford last week, Like I worry that we probably will
Speaker 2: see a crowd to where those who get really bothered
Speaker 2: by attendants, they're going to be very bothered. But this
Speaker 2: text says, Nick, somebody created a post on a message
Speaker 2: board saying, you said on your show that you're not
Speaker 2: allowed to give away tickets. I listen every day and
Speaker 2: never heard that. Can you confirm so you might listen
Speaker 2: every day? And that's awesome and if so, I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: and it's nice to know that. I'm still occasionally, I guess,
Speaker 2: appearing on message boards. I mean usually they say really
Speaker 2: mean things about you know, radio people there, and I,
Speaker 2: you know, I had to stay away from them because
Speaker 2: I didn't, you know, I didn't. I can't can't have
Speaker 2: my ego getting too damaged. So if they're you know,
Speaker 2: they're still talking about me on there, I guess that's
Speaker 2: that's that's a good thing. But anyways, if you listen
Speaker 2: every day, great. I did slip it in, but I
Speaker 2: don't remember it being like a long form topic and
Speaker 2: I don't even remember how it came. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 2: was probably when we were talking attendance. And I'm always
Speaker 2: trying to, you know, bail out of the conversation whenever
Speaker 2: we talk attendants because I don't really think like I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think it. I mean, you both things can
Speaker 2: be true. Yes, you want your your games full every
Speaker 2: time you open your doors, but that's just not realistic.
Speaker 2: And whenever there are games where the crowd is very light. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's great, but I just don't. I
Speaker 2: don't see it as an issue as an issue that
Speaker 2: that means some one did something wrong. I just see
Speaker 2: it more so as like, yeah, I get it. It's
Speaker 2: it's you know, Popcorn State and it's a Tuesday at
Speaker 2: nine or something, or it's you know noon and it's
Speaker 2: one hundred degrees outside and you got Murray State in town.
Speaker 2: Like I just I get it. But yeah, I mentioned
Speaker 2: how I tried to give away tickets to Louisville games
Speaker 2: and Louisville events and I was told by Lirifield that
Speaker 2: I wasn't allowed to. So yeah, I mean it didn't
Speaker 2: come up on the show because I was raising Hell, oh,
Speaker 2: here's what it is. It was about. It was about
Speaker 2: prices of tickets, That's what it was. Because everybody was
Speaker 2: trying to get basketball tickets to the Tennessee game. But
Speaker 2: even the game like before that against Morehead State, in
Speaker 2: the game before that against Small uh yeah, Spalding, you know,
Speaker 2: like it was insanely expensive to just go get tickets
Speaker 2: on the Universe on the school website. So then I mentioned,
Speaker 2: you know, I've I've tried to give away tickets and
Speaker 2: they won't let me. So it wasn't you know, but
Speaker 2: I mean it to me. I think it's petty and
Speaker 2: I think it's silly, but it's the truth. I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not trust me. I'm not bringing it up on
Speaker 2: the show to get people like they should really give
Speaker 2: away tickets. I mean, I think they should, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's their choice. And again, Learfield pays a lot of
Speaker 2: money to UL to be able to say, hey, we
Speaker 2: own the rights to do that, and you got to
Speaker 2: go through us, so more power to them. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break again, two more hours left. We're going to
Speaker 2: get the four o'clock hours started with the one and
Speaker 2: only Ken Spencer, whas eleven and I hope you stick
Speaker 2: with us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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