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Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety. Before we dive back in here
Speaker 2: and you know, discuss a lot from the weekend. I'll
Speaker 2: reset my thoughts on what happened on Saturday and rep
Speaker 2: arena and also share for those of you that didn't
Speaker 2: hear it in the three o'clock hours, sort of how
Speaker 2: I ended up experiencing this game and I don't like
Speaker 2: the result.
Speaker 3: But the way.
Speaker 2: I'll explain, I was gonna try to give you a
Speaker 2: quick rundown is where I was headed.
Speaker 3: But you'll just have to wait for it.
Speaker 2: And it's not like some crazy, wild story that you
Speaker 2: got I won't believe, but just give me a moment
Speaker 2: and I'll explain. But there's something that that that has
Speaker 2: been happening with me lately that I I don't like.
Speaker 2: I'm not big on conspiracies. I certainly believe in a
Speaker 2: higher power, but I'm not somebody out there looking for
Speaker 2: things to be like a sign for me in regards
Speaker 2: to like my life, if that makes sense, right, Like,
Speaker 2: I just that's not That's not how I'm wired. But
Speaker 2: in the last two weeks I find myself randomly looking
Speaker 2: at my phone just because you know, I'm picking it
Speaker 2: up off my lap when I'm on the recliner, or
Speaker 2: maybe I'm picking it up off my desk in the morning.
Speaker 2: And there are certain times that you see that you
Speaker 2: know might catch your eye, like if you pick up
Speaker 2: your phone or just look at the clock and you
Speaker 2: see that it's three twenty seven, Like, you know, that's
Speaker 2: pretty random. If you know you see the time is
Speaker 2: four twenty, you know, you might go back to your
Speaker 2: inner teenager and think that that's funny, or you know,
Speaker 2: maybe like light a blunt. I don't know, but nine
Speaker 2: to one one is the time nine to eleven I have,
Speaker 2: I swear to you. In the last two weeks, it
Speaker 2: at least and there's really aren't that many times within
Speaker 2: a two week period where it can be either nine
Speaker 2: to eleven AM or nine to eleven PM. At least
Speaker 2: eight times I have just randomly looked at my phone
Speaker 2: and that was the time, and it's.
Speaker 3: Starting to freak me out. Oh you know what, like
Speaker 3: it it makes sense.
Speaker 2: I don't really, I'm not somebody that's like worried and
Speaker 2: like thinking I need to go, like you know, pray
Speaker 2: or something or.
Speaker 3: Look outside your window. Yeah, but like that of.
Speaker 2: All times to consistently just you know, end up looking
Speaker 2: to see what time it is for it to be
Speaker 2: nine to one one in both the morning and in
Speaker 2: the evening. It's actually happened more in the mornings than
Speaker 2: the evening. But like I'm choosing to believe it's completely
Speaker 2: random and it's just a weird thing. Sure, but like
Speaker 2: if others are more so into believing of signs and
Speaker 2: and whatnot, like that's kind of trippy, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nine eleven is kind of scary. Well not even if,
Speaker 4: of course you think about the significance.
Speaker 2: So when people hear nine to eleven now they think
Speaker 2: of September eleven.
Speaker 4: Yes, but I mean just the emergency aspect of nine
Speaker 4: to eleven can kind of freak you out and shivers
Speaker 4: up your spine, especially if you just happen to look
Speaker 4: up and see that I'm I'm probably I think everyone
Speaker 4: also does this or everyone has a sim I always
Speaker 4: look up when it's always for whatever reason, my random
Speaker 4: number is eleven eleven. I don't know if that just
Speaker 4: happens to be like a thing. It seems a good
Speaker 4: luck I've always heard that, but it seems like everyone
Speaker 4: that I told everyone has said, well everyone everyone sees that,
Speaker 4: and everyone just always says it's a coincidence. But sometimes
Speaker 4: I don't believe in coincidences. Yeah, and I love a
Speaker 4: good conspiracy to your point, as far as what well
Speaker 4: I guess to other people's.
Speaker 2: Point, like you do remember times because of like that,
Speaker 2: Like if you see eleven eleven or four forty four,
Speaker 2: you know, like you're gonna remember that more than you
Speaker 2: remember numbers that don't match up like that. And maybe
Speaker 2: nine eleven PM or nine eleven AM is one that
Speaker 2: just stands out to me. And that's why I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 2: wait a second, that's weird. But still I don't I'm
Speaker 2: sure it's a little bit of both, but like the
Speaker 2: chances of that happening is really rare for me. But again,
Speaker 2: maybe I don't even remember how many times I reference
Speaker 2: throughout the day my phone to see you know what
Speaker 2: timon is but you're right, nine to eleven.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Before that happened, of course, one of the biggest tragedies
Speaker 2: that happened in the history. You'd say nine to eleven,
Speaker 2: and people would think of the time, like, are you
Speaker 2: know it's nine eleven now? Just hearing nine to eleven,
Speaker 2: you know, people could be referring to it being the
Speaker 2: time of the day, nine to eleven PM or nine
Speaker 2: eleven AM. But I guarantee the first thing that comes
Speaker 2: to your mind is the World Trade Center. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's just kind of how we are, unfortunately programmed now.
Speaker 2: But anyways, if you like, if you are some kind
Speaker 2: of a I was gonna say a witch doctor, but
Speaker 2: maybe you don't have Maybe maybe that's an insult.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what that is.
Speaker 2: But like there's somebody that's, you know, into those kind
Speaker 2: of things, and you've heard of like what this could mean.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I would believe you, but I would
Speaker 2: love to I would love to hear, like what kind
Speaker 2: of conspiracies, what kind of beliefs people have about those
Speaker 2: things not being coincidence and being a sign of what
Speaker 2: I don't know?
Speaker 3: All right, excuse me now, I'm.
Speaker 2: Getting about to here I am talking about it, putting
Speaker 2: out there on the air, I'm about about to choke
Speaker 2: and die. Maybe that was the sign, is that once
Speaker 2: I put it out there that I'm getting spooked by
Speaker 2: the time being nine to eleven pm RA and I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna croak.
Speaker 3: But the illuminati heard you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't have you know, I'm into
Speaker 2: conspiracy theories just enough to where I can find some
Speaker 2: entertainment and interest out of it. Sure, but I never
Speaker 2: go full on, like full conspiracy, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: yesterday it was great to see Will Levis go full
Speaker 2: Will Levis, which gives me a nice transition take a
Speaker 2: shot at a former Kentucky quarterback, of course, and kind
Speaker 2: of tell you my weekend.
Speaker 3: So it was last Thursday.
Speaker 2: We were on the air and I got a text
Speaker 2: message and I kind of just like in my tracks,
Speaker 2: completely couldn't speak. I was totally caught off guard. And
Speaker 2: if I would have looked at it during the break,
Speaker 2: I would have been much more. You know, I would
Speaker 2: have still been like, oh wow, I forgot about that
Speaker 2: or didn't realize that. But you know, it wasn't it
Speaker 2: wasn't important enough. And we did have people asking him
Speaker 2: text and like, what was that about? Like, you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully everything's okay, And I tried to emphasize that it's
Speaker 2: nothing like that. But I'd made plans long ago, like
Speaker 2: probably in like July to go to the Bengals Titans
Speaker 2: game in Nashville because my close cousin who used to
Speaker 2: used to live with me when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: and he's an architect now he lives in Fable, Arkansas.
Speaker 2: We're still really close, but we rarely see each other
Speaker 2: because he lives so far away. But he's a big
Speaker 2: time Bingals fan and he was going to be bringing
Speaker 2: the family to Nashville for the game. It was like, hey,
Speaker 2: do you you and Moose want to come? And I
Speaker 2: was like, absolutely, they'd be great. And I didn't, you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't think about what day it was. I didn't
Speaker 2: think about you know, I didn't think about it impacting
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball, and it really didn't. But I got down
Speaker 2: there Saturday. So long story short, whenever I saw the
Speaker 2: text message, I was reminded, Okay, that is this weekend.
Speaker 3: How am I going to make that work?
Speaker 2: And then I realized, first of all, regardless of game,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go spend time with family, especially since he
Speaker 2: offered to you know, bring me to the game, get tickets,
Speaker 2: and put me and Moose up in a really sweet hotel.
Speaker 2: Like it was awesome. It was a great experience and
Speaker 2: I loved it. But leading up to the trip, I'm thinking, Man,
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna get down there before the game starts,
Speaker 2: and like I I'm gonna be uneasy because like, I can't,
Speaker 2: I can't watch that while I you know, I need
Speaker 2: to be locked away family. Yeah, so family in public.
Speaker 2: But then I just realized, you know what, like I
Speaker 2: don't really think they're gonna win, but I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna be competitive. Maybe I can like passively watch the.
Speaker 3: Game and be pleasantly surprised if something happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I did that early on, because you know,
Speaker 2: they kept fighting the whole game. There were a few
Speaker 2: opportunities where it felt like Kentucky was about to blow
Speaker 2: it open, and they really never did. Louisville made big
Speaker 2: shots to kind of keep this thing close, even towards
Speaker 2: the very end. So you know, they still lost and
Speaker 2: that sucks, but you know, that was that was nice
Speaker 2: to see. But what I kept realizing is that, like
Speaker 2: we were out waiting for our table at this really
Speaker 2: awesome you know sports We have one here in LOUISLL.
Speaker 2: It's called puts Shack, but they have only downtown Nashville,
Speaker 2: and it's it's not the ideal like space just because
Speaker 2: of where it is, but it's also super cool because
Speaker 2: of the location. So we were there hanging out. They've
Speaker 2: got a bunch of TVs and whatnot. Which, by the way,
Speaker 2: we need to take this show to Putchhack. We need
Speaker 2: to make some calls off that happened because that place
Speaker 2: was awesome. But we're there and it's on, but nobody
Speaker 2: there cared and that was good, Like I wasn't. It
Speaker 2: wasn't as if there was a groan or a cheer
Speaker 2: that gave me any indication of what was going to happen,
Speaker 2: so like I could kind of block it out. And
Speaker 2: somebody asked this on the text line earlier, why didn't
Speaker 2: you just go in avoiding it at all costs, And
Speaker 2: you could have like waited till you were settled in
Speaker 2: and watched it, and I just one, I think it
Speaker 2: would be really unlikely for me to be able to
Speaker 2: get any to not get any updates, and I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have the patience to to like I would have to know.
Speaker 2: So what ended up happening is I'm watching it. Then
Speaker 2: I realized, you can't watch this casually, like if Loive
Speaker 2: was getting blown out, like I could have been whatever,
Speaker 2: but like they would, they would keep it closed.
Speaker 3: All right, here we go, they're on a run.
Speaker 2: They cut it to five, they cut it to four,
Speaker 2: to where like I realized, all right, I need to
Speaker 2: like either make a decision. Am I going to continue
Speaker 2: to watch this intently or am I going to kind
Speaker 2: of like phase out? And I ended up kind of
Speaker 2: phasing away from it, just because you know, I felt
Speaker 2: like that was that was best for everybody involved. I
Speaker 2: did go back and watch it. In fact, I've watched
Speaker 2: the game about two times now. Watched it one. I
Speaker 2: watched it yes last night and really just you know,
Speaker 2: got to see everything from start to finish, got to
Speaker 2: hear the broadcast. And then today I watched some of
Speaker 2: the condensed version of it and just to get a
Speaker 2: better feel for you know, to express my thoughts on it.
Speaker 2: But you know, it was an ideal but I kind
Speaker 2: of enjoyed being away from people who didn't I was
Speaker 2: away from people who care about it, and you know,
Speaker 2: I probably won't be in that situation again because I
Speaker 2: just think, more often than not, I'm going to think
Speaker 2: to myself, yeah, I need to make sure because a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't make plans during you know, for
Speaker 2: that game. And maybe you got caught up in the
Speaker 2: same situation. Also, you made a trip this weekend. Maybe
Speaker 2: at the time, you're thinking, well, there's no way that
Speaker 2: Louisville Kentucky would play each other on December fourteenth, because
Speaker 2: it's really early, very usually it's in between Christmas and
Speaker 2: New Year's and it just hasn't been as much lately.
Speaker 2: So you know, I had a really weird experience to
Speaker 2: where like I didn't want to I mean, I hadn't
Speaker 2: watch I did not tweet over the weekend, and when
Speaker 2: it was very it felt great to not do that,
Speaker 2: by the way, and kind of be you know, a
Speaker 2: little bit distant from that world of Twitter. But I
Speaker 2: didn't want to put anything out there because I knew,
Speaker 2: like I didn't have full context anything because I was
Speaker 2: kind of watching, you know, when it was live. I
Speaker 2: wasn't watching live like everybody else was. But the moment
Speaker 2: where I just realized, all right, I'm no longer going
Speaker 2: to even kind of check in other than just kind
Speaker 2: of looking at my phone to see the score. Was
Speaker 2: whenever there was that dust up on the sideline with
Speaker 2: Bret Smith and by the Louisville bench, and that just
Speaker 2: kind of let me know that, like, regardless of who
Speaker 2: was in the right or wrong there in the moment,
Speaker 2: I probably would have, you know, probably would have been,
Speaker 2: you know, wanting to drive to Lexington and give those
Speaker 2: guys a talking to and tell them to quit playing dirty,
Speaker 2: which I'm not saying they are dirty, but like in
Speaker 2: the mom like, and that's why whenever they whenever they
Speaker 2: came back after reviewing that and just said nothing. They
Speaker 2: were not gonna call anything excessive, and they did give
Speaker 2: Louisville a gift of a foul call, which maybe that
Speaker 2: was why the booze. But like, nobody, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, deserved it in that specific instance. Nobody deserved
Speaker 2: any added foul or any technical nobody like it could
Speaker 2: not have been handled better by the coaches and even
Speaker 2: the players, like they got it got a little heated there,
Speaker 2: but like I think cooler heads prevailed, and that's just
Speaker 2: the kind of stuff you're going to get in a rivalry,
Speaker 2: but yet the booze that came out of Rapperina when
Speaker 2: they said they weren't calling like a technical on Louisville,
Speaker 2: like you'd have thought those guys got away with murder,
Speaker 2: Like that's just how we're just different in the rivalry.
Speaker 2: And I kind of felt like I was on another
Speaker 2: planet knowing that like something I am so obsessed over,
Speaker 2: more so than I should be, Like I so much
Speaker 2: like I I shouldn't be the way I am about Louisville,
Speaker 2: Kentucky when it comes to the rivalry. But in a way,
Speaker 2: you know, as I've discussed many times, it kind of
Speaker 2: makes it, you know, it's kind of makes it awesome
Speaker 2: in a way. The highs are awesome and the lows
Speaker 2: are really low, which makes again the highs feel even
Speaker 2: better when you do get to experience and experience it.
Speaker 2: But just to know that, like this was such an
Speaker 2: out of body experience almost for me to be in
Speaker 2: another city that nobody cares about the game. It's on
Speaker 2: one of the thirty TVs here. It just kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, felt like I was doing something I shouldn't
Speaker 2: be doing. But it felt good because I was able
Speaker 2: to avoid like all the anxiety, and in the end
Speaker 2: the result itself was kind of what I thought would happen.
Speaker 2: Didn't like it, But then I watched it back and
Speaker 2: I feel again like I'm I'm I'm back in the
Speaker 2: same place as I was post Duke, which is, Hey,
Speaker 2: I know they lost, and nobody's telling you to be happy.
Speaker 2: Nobody's telling you that they know for sure this team's
Speaker 2: gonna end up being really good. Nobody's telling you that
Speaker 2: like this is now the new norm we celebrate because
Speaker 2: we're not doing that, but like we can be upset.
Speaker 3: Like the best way I've been.
Speaker 2: Able to describe it from my end is that the
Speaker 2: injuries that Louisvill's dealt with, the limited roster like that has,
Speaker 2: and really the tough schedule like that, that that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean Pat Kelsey's going to be really good here. That
Speaker 2: doesn't really mean anything as far as like proof one
Speaker 2: way or the other. But you'd be a fool not
Speaker 2: to consider that in the equation here meaning the teams
Speaker 2: they played being as good as they are and knowing
Speaker 2: Louisville is not only limited as far as how many
Speaker 2: players they have. They're playing a rotation of seven guys
Speaker 2: that would only be the seven man rotation that Pat
Speaker 2: would play if he was in the situation that he's
Speaker 2: in like this one. So not telling you up your
Speaker 2: anger is misguided or that your frustration is invalid, because
Speaker 2: like I get it, it's still always, I think, going
Speaker 2: to be a negative feeling when you as a Louisville
Speaker 2: basketball fan who's always going to have high expectations for
Speaker 2: the program and know what can be done at a
Speaker 2: place like this. Like, I don't know if that feeling's
Speaker 2: ever going to go away, And I want to be clear,
Speaker 2: I hadn't gone away from me, but I can't take
Speaker 2: the emotion that I get from the losses, and you know,
Speaker 2: even those when they're really bad, like it sucks to
Speaker 2: see them get blown out in home by you know,
Speaker 2: and look when they lost the Tennessee at home that way,
Speaker 2: they were healthy, they had everybody who they thought they
Speaker 2: were going to have, and that was bad. Maybe chalk
Speaker 2: that up as the number one team in the country
Speaker 2: and maybe chalk it up as Okay, you really got
Speaker 2: to figure out what you need to do when teams
Speaker 2: can come in and challenge you like that. But you know,
Speaker 2: the other losses to Duke and to Ole miss and
Speaker 2: you know Kentucky will throw them in there now of course,
Speaker 2: Like I still have the same, like you know, sadness,
Speaker 2: I guess, and just disappointment. But I can't take that
Speaker 2: energy and shift it towards a coach or any player
Speaker 2: as far as like, man, these guys are letting me down,
Speaker 2: this should be better. They're like what you hear from
Speaker 2: a really upset fan is that's just inexcusable. That's unacceptable.
Speaker 2: This can't be done. Like those are things you say
Speaker 2: after you lose to Stanford and football this year, right,
Speaker 2: Like that's just inexcusable. I don't think like the way
Speaker 2: things have played out for Louisville right now as far
Speaker 2: as results, Like I can't I'd be lying to myself
Speaker 2: if I said, this is all Pat Kelsey's fault, this
Speaker 2: is all Noah Waterman's fault. I just, you know, I
Speaker 2: just I get why people may feel that way, but
Speaker 2: like that's just not reality. And I think people do
Speaker 2: that because of the emotion that they have towards it,
Speaker 2: which I have it as well, But I'm just you know,
Speaker 2: I guess maybe from my own sanity, I'm just choosing
Speaker 2: to think, like, hey, I really like Pat Kelsey. I
Speaker 2: think he's a really good coach. I think he's kind
Speaker 2: of doing the best with what he can. Doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that when he does have a better situation, better circumstance,
Speaker 2: that the results are going to be great. That's something
Speaker 2: we'll only find out down the road. But like I'm
Speaker 2: in a weird place, man, I'm encouraged by this group
Speaker 2: from a personnel standpoint. I think they play their ass off,
Speaker 2: They play hard, they weren't they weren't afraid of the
Speaker 2: moment in the rivalry game. But you know they're still losing,
Speaker 2: and that's not fun.
Speaker 4: I'm actually shocked with your experience down in Nashville that
Speaker 4: even if you're at Putshak and obviously fans do a
Speaker 4: good job of coordinating when that game is and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, but I'm actually shocked you didn't run into
Speaker 4: a UK fan that happened to be at Putscheck, because
Speaker 4: they're everywhere as much as we kind of hate the
Speaker 4: Anoxious initially, so.
Speaker 2: You could go to you could go to Mars or
Speaker 2: Pluto and you'll still see you on there.
Speaker 3: Whenever they find life on Mars, there's going to be
Speaker 3: a UK for you.
Speaker 2: I'm convinced, and look, I would I would be you
Speaker 2: know if I saw a UK fan and you know
Speaker 2: he was celebrating and throwing L's down, not even know
Speaker 2: when there was a louisvill fan present, like I.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't get it. Like that's how this works.
Speaker 2: So all right, quick break, We'll come back on the
Speaker 2: other side and I'll finally get to what Austin has
Speaker 2: done to really remind me of my younger self. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about that next right here on Sports Talk seven.
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Speaker 3: So anyways, it worked out.
Speaker 2: It worked out really well for me as far as
Speaker 2: my trip to Nashville this weekend, because Nashville is is
Speaker 2: awesome and every time I go, which isn't that often,
Speaker 2: but in a couple of years, that place can look
Speaker 2: unrecognizable as far as just the explosion that they've had
Speaker 2: as far as growth. And it was nice to, you know,
Speaker 2: have the loss to your rival and be able to
Speaker 2: eat saily distract yourself in Music City. We had a
Speaker 2: good time. I was able to cheer for the Bengals
Speaker 2: because you know, I kind of like them.
Speaker 3: I'm not a fan.
Speaker 2: I feel like a poser when I say that, because
Speaker 2: you know, they have had some good moments in recent years.
Speaker 2: But like I didn't ride with them when they were,
Speaker 2: you know, very easy to make fun of them. They
Speaker 2: made fun of themselves. So the Titans our arrival of
Speaker 2: the Colts, and any you know, any enemy of my
Speaker 2: arrival at least for a day as a friend of mine.
Speaker 3: So I was.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you went to see the Titans
Speaker 2: and the Vikings play, right, yes, last month? Was it
Speaker 2: a Vikings invasion like it was a Hooda invasion.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Viking.
Speaker 4: I know Vikings fans travel very very well, and there
Speaker 4: was there was a lot of times where when we
Speaker 4: were walking up and then we just heard the roar
Speaker 4: of the crowd. Actually when we were leaving, the game
Speaker 4: was already kind of out of hand, but I was
Speaker 4: with the Titans fan shout out to Marcus if you're listening,
Speaker 4: And we were leaving, just trying to beat traffic, and
Speaker 4: we just heard a huge roar and he's like, I
Speaker 4: don't even know if that's for us or if that's
Speaker 4: for the Vikings. And it turned out to be a
Speaker 4: Vikings interception. So but it that that whole community. I
Speaker 4: sort of feel bad for him because I mean, they
Speaker 4: lost everything. They got rid of Mike Vrabel, Derek Henry.
Speaker 4: They're still Dereck Henry jerseys everywhere, and I know that
Speaker 4: that's left a lot of people just feeling because it
Speaker 4: felt like a big part of that franchise in that
Speaker 4: community and now they just sort of seem like impurgatory
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt, I think. I mean, I haven't gone
Speaker 2: to a lot of NFL games. I've been to a handful,
Speaker 2: and you know, their atmosphere yesterday it was just kind
Speaker 2: of lifeless as far as like the energy from the fans,
Speaker 2: And I get it because they're I mean, it's probably
Speaker 2: pretty demoralizing for them to be the way they are
Speaker 2: this year with no Vrabel, Henry's killing it in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: They could have kept him but didn't even really try.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they could have kept him. And Will Levis
Speaker 2: was a guy that they they took a risk on
Speaker 2: and it's not working. He got benched, and I think, uh,
Speaker 2: I mean not the pile on the guy, but I
Speaker 2: mean he went full Levice like two different instances, did
Speaker 2: he do the exact thing you couldn't do in that moment,
Speaker 2: and you know, they ended up going with Rudolph and
Speaker 2: neither of those guys are the future for the Titans,
Speaker 2: and if they are, it's probably not a good thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they were the fans themselves, and again it's
Speaker 2: late in the year. I get that they probably just
Speaker 2: are you know, know, they know that they're not any
Speaker 2: good and it was a gloomy day. But the majority
Speaker 2: of the fans there I felt like were Bengals fans.
Speaker 2: It's probably a little bit of a stretch, but it
Speaker 2: was close to it. And man, you know, it was
Speaker 2: kind of flat. But I will say this the NFL.
Speaker 2: I don't know how college can do it, but the
Speaker 2: NFL atmosphere experience here, I.
Speaker 3: Am telling you that.
Speaker 2: You know, like the crowd for the home team just
Speaker 2: wasn't great, But it's because they didn't really have a
Speaker 2: whole lot of cheer about. I mean, Burrow gifted them
Speaker 2: a few turnovers and they still probably should have lost
Speaker 2: that thing worse than they did. But like when you
Speaker 2: go to an NFL game, it's so much different as
Speaker 2: far as atmosphere, Like you feel like you're at something big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no matter who's playing, and in college.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you could ever recreate it like that,
Speaker 2: but I think the NFL, you know, there's games where
Speaker 2: they have low attendance and all that dependent upon the
Speaker 2: team and that kind of stuff in the situation. But
Speaker 2: NFL tickets are more expensive than obviously you know, college
Speaker 2: tickets in certain areas. But I get why people are
Speaker 2: more willing to pay for that because it feels like
Speaker 2: you're truly getting like an entertain I don't know, there's
Speaker 2: a lot more entertainment as far as in between timeouts.
Speaker 2: I mean, Titans have like a concert at halftime, which
Speaker 2: is pretty cool with names that you've heard of because
Speaker 2: you know it's in Nashville. The food options, there's just
Speaker 2: so much more. And I'm not knocking anybody at the
Speaker 2: local at U of L or UK, but I was
Speaker 2: there yesterday as someone who doesn't really care about either team,
Speaker 2: and honestly, thankfully I didn't have to buy a ticket.
Speaker 2: My cousin had tickets and invited me and Moose and
Speaker 2: we had a good time. But like, I can see
Speaker 2: people being more willing to pay and know that, like,
Speaker 2: yet I can justify this expense because it's not just
Speaker 2: that I'm going to go watch an NFL game in
Speaker 2: my team, but like, you get the feeling of being
Speaker 2: at a bigger at a big time event, and there's
Speaker 2: a show, Like there's an entertainment element. And I don't
Speaker 2: mean like what they do at halftime or what they
Speaker 2: do during TV timeouts, but just every time I go
Speaker 2: to an NFL game, it reminds me that like pro
Speaker 2: sports has that. And maybe it's not anybody doing need
Speaker 2: being wrong. At the college level, it's just, man, it's different,
Speaker 2: and I think when you play, and also, you got
Speaker 2: to keep in mind at the pro level, even if
Speaker 2: you're playing a bum team, you're still playing an NFL
Speaker 2: team that's going to at any moment be able to
Speaker 2: play well and take advantage of you and beat you
Speaker 2: if you don't play well in college, like when you're
Speaker 2: scheduling Popcorn State on a November night at nine pm,
Speaker 2: and people like that's an easy thing to be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of out on that one. But you know,
Speaker 2: if it's a pro event, and again, if the NFL,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not asking the college world to compete with
Speaker 2: the NFL, because nobody competes with the NFL at any level.
Speaker 3: Of any metric.
Speaker 2: But I just think, like when it comes to the
Speaker 2: conversation about why people don't attend certain games like they
Speaker 2: used to, and there's just not the incentive of being
Speaker 2: there like there once was, I mean I kind of
Speaker 2: get it. You know, maybe they can, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: they've tried. Look their studies. There's people who that's their industry, right,
Speaker 2: it's what could we do to enhance the atmosphere, to
Speaker 2: make it to where we're not just attracting diehard fans
Speaker 2: who want to be at every one of their team's games.
Speaker 2: We're attracting fans that care enough about the sport and
Speaker 2: maybe the team, but they also know there's gonna be
Speaker 2: stuff for their kids to do. There's gonna be Liken,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a night out, it's gonna be an event,
Speaker 2: and there's no perfect way to do it.
Speaker 3: And again, I think you.
Speaker 2: Can try whatever you want when it comes to games,
Speaker 2: even on a Saturday at noon against nobody when it's
Speaker 2: one hundred degrees outside. In football, despite you only having
Speaker 2: like sometimes six five, maybe seven depending on the year,
Speaker 2: home games, like it's easy for people to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm out.
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I enjoyed myself yesterday, but it was nice
Speaker 2: kind of being away from you know, if you know,
Speaker 2: I'll never know going in what.
Speaker 3: The results gonna be.
Speaker 2: But louisvill did lose the game, and it was kind
Speaker 2: of nice to be distracted by a little road trip
Speaker 2: to kind of you know, before I had to come
Speaker 2: back today and take take my.
Speaker 3: Medicine right, go through go through therapy.
Speaker 2: And I had to tell Austin on Saturday, I'm not
Speaker 2: watching live because he was. He wasn't texting me like
Speaker 2: play by play updates, but like he and I text
Speaker 2: pretty regularly, and the first text, like again, I want
Speaker 2: people to understand, like when I like, when I share
Speaker 2: the exchange that we had, I'm not I'm not knocking
Speaker 2: the guy because a lot of you look the heat
Speaker 2: I'm getting on the text line, and I'm getting, you know,
Speaker 2: some people that agree and understand, but the heat, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I know that like many people feel the way Austin does,
Speaker 2: and I don't necessarily like disagree.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm just.
Speaker 2: Choosing to like bounce, you know, I'm choosing to like
Speaker 2: deal with it differently. Yeah, because Austin is turned into
Speaker 2: what I used to be and it was somebody who
Speaker 2: it wasn't just about being pessimistic.
Speaker 3: It wasn't just about.
Speaker 2: Like worrying or you know, expecting the absolute worst and
Speaker 2: then hoping for the best if like your team plays well,
Speaker 2: but like the end. So I'll just tell you the
Speaker 2: first two things he sent me on Saturday. One was,
Speaker 2: don't have a good feeling about the game today. I
Speaker 2: think we're gonna get blown out, which, hey, that's just
Speaker 2: your honest opinion, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you kind of just wake up with the stomach feeling.
Speaker 2: And then when the game's going on, he texted me,
Speaker 2: and that's when I had to say not watching a
Speaker 2: live He texted me and said.
Speaker 3: Really just hate it that it played out this way.
Speaker 3: This year just kind of sucks something along those lines.
Speaker 2: And that made me think, without knowing the score, that
Speaker 2: Louisville was down seventy five points and they were actually competitive,
Speaker 2: and you know, so I was the same way, and
Speaker 2: I like, I became like, you are much more likely
Speaker 2: to fire to put something into the earth, rather it
Speaker 2: be you're gonna speak it out loud in front of
Speaker 2: other fans. You're gonna text another fane, You're gonna tweet
Speaker 2: something I'd say like ninety eight percent of the time,
Speaker 2: if something gets you to react in one way or
Speaker 2: the other, it's gonna be joking on your own team,
Speaker 2: making fun of your own squad, kind of questioning, like
Speaker 2: you know how you know, making fun of your own team,
Speaker 2: and like just you know, it's just being defeated in
Speaker 2: a way, and that doesn't mean you don't care. It
Speaker 2: actually is coming from a place where you care a
Speaker 2: whole lot.
Speaker 3: But like I.
Speaker 2: Became the guy that like nobody wanted to talk Louisville with,
Speaker 2: and it's because like, no matter what, it was just
Speaker 2: gonna be like, yeah, but you know, I just hate
Speaker 2: this team. And I'm not saying he said he hated
Speaker 2: this team, but like you say things that certainly make
Speaker 2: it seem that way. I was the same guy, and
Speaker 2: it's just energy that is is different. So I'm not
Speaker 2: I just I only wanted to bring this up because
Speaker 2: I us like I used to be the exact same
Speaker 2: way and now I'm maybe I'm just, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm so defeated as a Louisville basketball fan over the
Speaker 2: years to where I'm just like this is what keeps
Speaker 2: me from crying myself to sleep.
Speaker 3: Every night.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm exaggerating, but like there couldn't have been
Speaker 2: somebody I wanted to hear less from as far as
Speaker 2: those that not you specifically, but just like you know,
Speaker 2: like I get it. But let me ask you this,
Speaker 2: what was the expected response when you say that to me?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Were you expecting me? Because again I don't think you
Speaker 2: were expecting or really wanting anything. But like what am
Speaker 2: I to say to that? Either like oh, yeah, we
Speaker 2: freaking suck. I wish they just canceled the season, or Hey, no, Austin,
Speaker 2: you're wrong, We're gonna go play hard today. Like were
Speaker 2: you wanting maybe like somebody to kind of make you
Speaker 2: feel better?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Because when I do that, I feel like I'm at
Speaker 4: a low point, right, So I need to I need
Speaker 4: to text somebody that's a level headed because I'm definitely not.
Speaker 4: I need to text in somebody that knows, as the
Speaker 4: kids say, they know a little ball, right, and someone
Speaker 4: to just sort of like kind of bring me down.
Speaker 4: And I am known to pollute the pollute the air
Speaker 4: with just bad thoughts and bad vibes, but there's a
Speaker 4: lot of times I just wake up and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 4: just for some reason not feeling it today, but I was.
Speaker 3: I was crying out for help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look I thought about, like, you know, dancing
Speaker 2: with you a little bit early in the day as
Speaker 2: far as like, hey man, I don't know, I could
Speaker 2: see him getting hot and if they do, maybe Kentucky's.
Speaker 3: Vulnerable in order to feel out vibes too.
Speaker 2: But I just knew that, like, if I did respond
Speaker 2: with that one, you might clearly like just say no,
Speaker 2: you're wrong, they suck. I mean, you wouldn't have said that,
Speaker 2: but like you, I don't think. I don't think I
Speaker 2: could have convinced you to change your mind. And I
Speaker 2: feel like if they would have gotten blown out, then, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, if it's just it's a roller coaster
Speaker 2: we go through mentally as fans of teams, because if
Speaker 2: you do find yourself like, well, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: really cause here's what I had to deal with.
Speaker 3: This is where I was kind of I guess, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know growing up.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, if I'm so negative and like expecting
Speaker 2: us to get blown out because I think we stink
Speaker 2: and we got lousy players and hope these guys have
Speaker 2: a plan for a career. After basketball, why do we
Speaker 2: hire this mid major guy from from Charles, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: if that's my energy going in and I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that was Austin, I'm just I'm just I'm amping it up.
Speaker 2: And by the way, he's certainly not alone. In fact,
Speaker 2: I think we've got people who call this show regularly
Speaker 2: that are kind of in.
Speaker 3: The same boat.
Speaker 2: But my point is like, if that's where I'm at
Speaker 2: the day before, the day of, and when it tips off,
Speaker 2: and then at the end of the game, that's what
Speaker 2: ends up happening. You don't have to be happy about it,
Speaker 2: But where where's your outrage coming from?
Speaker 3: That's what you expected, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 3: when I I'm not gonna say who it is.
Speaker 2: I would love to be able to one day and
Speaker 2: it's not some super secret. It's just probably not something
Speaker 2: that they would want me to talk about. But if
Speaker 2: I ever get the green light, I will. I have
Speaker 2: been accused of being like the negative.
Speaker 3: Oh this guy, he hates it, he's the he's the worst.
Speaker 2: Well, you try having to talk about Louisville basketball, because
Speaker 2: we're always going to talk louis basketball every day, probably
Speaker 2: to some extent on this show because that's what we do.
Speaker 2: Like you try to talk for three hours every day
Speaker 2: and be a positive voice about Louis basketball under the
Speaker 2: previous leadership, like.
Speaker 3: It's not possible. And you know.
Speaker 2: I would also lose a ton of credibility if I
Speaker 2: tried to do that. So you know I was always
Speaker 2: accused of being negative. I went on the defensive and
Speaker 2: somebody you know that I do respect that, you know,
Speaker 2: within U of l Like, I don't think it's what
Speaker 2: you say that people like totally disagree with. I think
Speaker 2: it's how you say it, and I think it's consistency.
Speaker 2: And this is where I kind of the light bulb
Speaker 2: went off for me, And this is where I wanted
Speaker 2: to position it to you. And again, I'm not asking
Speaker 2: you to do anything but you, my man, I love
Speaker 2: you the way you are. You can even amp it
Speaker 2: up more so and it's not gonna change thathing between
Speaker 2: you and I. But the light bulb went off from
Speaker 2: me when they said, you're way more often if you're
Speaker 2: gonna if you're gonna tweet something, if you're gonna say something,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna speak something to people, you're way more
Speaker 2: if it's something good, you don't really have the care
Speaker 2: or energy to even acknowledge it. But if it's bad,
Speaker 2: you can't wait to put it out there. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: because I feel like, if you're gonna when's the last
Speaker 2: time or ever that you've texted me when things were
Speaker 2: rolling with U of L in a football game or
Speaker 2: basketball game, you.
Speaker 3: Probably never have a great question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like you know that that gave me I
Speaker 2: guess some some you know, internal peace as far as
Speaker 2: you know, just you keeping things in in you know,
Speaker 2: keeping things in perspective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look sometimes you gotta keep me in check too.
Speaker 2: But well but again, I don't want you act like
Speaker 2: you didn't. I don't want you think.
Speaker 4: You oh no, no no no, like I said I was,
Speaker 4: I just more or less kind of want some banter
Speaker 4: back and forth. I had, I had all I was
Speaker 4: doing some couple's painting, had a little shard and a
Speaker 4: in me. You know, I was, I was ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you love you of L. I know
Speaker 3: you're passionate about it. Sure, and.
Speaker 2: Where I felt like, okay, you know you're right because
Speaker 2: I can't complain that that like I am unfairly painted
Speaker 2: as this big negative fan who is toxic and it's
Speaker 2: just nothing but negative negative. I can't complain that that's
Speaker 2: how I'm perceived when I'm not consistent, when more often
Speaker 2: than not, like if I am fiery and I want
Speaker 2: to get something out, rather it be a big opinion
Speaker 2: on the show or a tweet, like, it's likely going
Speaker 2: to probably be something that is concerning. I've never felt
Speaker 2: as if anybody needs my thoughts to, you know, then
Speaker 2: decide if they're happy too. And I know that's not reality.
Speaker 2: Nobody would, nobody needs me to feel any certain way.
Speaker 2: But it's also my doing. If if I'm putting energy
Speaker 2: out there and it's way more so whenever there's bad
Speaker 2: stuff and not as much at all when there's good stuff,
Speaker 2: it's my fault that people view me that way. They
Speaker 2: don't know me in turn what I'm saying, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's kind of where I found some some you know,
Speaker 2: I found some balance.
Speaker 4: Also being a Louisville fan that hasn't lived here their
Speaker 4: whole life, just really all over the last ten years,
Speaker 4: especially when I was living in Arizona, and Louisville is
Speaker 4: really rolling in all sports. You know, you're the Cardinal
Speaker 4: twenty thirteen, and then we had Teddy Bridgewater and everything
Speaker 4: was rolling with with basketball.
Speaker 3: It was rolling.
Speaker 4: My whole family is all Kentucky fans, so it's hard
Speaker 4: to and I lived in such a secluded area. I
Speaker 4: really didn't have anybody to kind of talk with.
Speaker 3: I mean, I did not know a lot of your
Speaker 3: family was Kentucky. It's it's all Kentucky fan.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 3: That actually makes way more sense now because you're probably.
Speaker 4: The only only U of L fan. Shout out to him,
Speaker 4: shut out Kirk, shout out Kirk.
Speaker 2: That makes a little more sense because what's probably happening
Speaker 2: is that you are here, I am playing therapist here.
Speaker 2: You are going ahead and getting it out of the
Speaker 2: way from what you think you would hear from your
Speaker 2: from your Kentucky family, right like, and that that makes
Speaker 2: it make more sense.
Speaker 4: But I had to watch that. But you know, I'm
Speaker 4: not that, yeah, exactly. So someone that's like sort of
Speaker 4: bounces other opinion. So we sometimes share the same opinions.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I think you.
Speaker 2: And I have a lot of similar And this is
Speaker 2: where I gotta, I gotta, I gotta stop biting at
Speaker 2: you because I think we have a lot of the
Speaker 2: same opinions and you're entitled to whatever you think, and
Speaker 2: that would never I would never want to work with
Speaker 2: somebody who feels like they got to have an opinion
Speaker 2: that kind of aligns with mine. I mean, if if so,
Speaker 2: then great, but like they wouldn't. That wouldn't be real.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't be fun, that wouldn't be this. But I think,
Speaker 2: more than anything, like I don't want people to, you know,
Speaker 2: as they say, I don't want you to make the
Speaker 2: same mistakes I did to where like you know, there's
Speaker 2: a reason they think it not because they're out to
Speaker 2: get here because they're misguided, it's because you know, you
Speaker 2: need a little bit of balance and consistency and like,
Speaker 2: and I'm not saying you did this, but like I
Speaker 2: know you would probably find humor in this in the moment,
Speaker 2: like when Noah Waterman misses a bunch of threes and
Speaker 2: misses a layup or does something that pisses you off,
Speaker 2: like people tweeting out the linked in Jersey as if
Speaker 2: like that's where he should shift his focus. Like that's
Speaker 2: just something you can't control, Like having the urge to
Speaker 2: want to either laugh at when I'm there yourself, but
Speaker 2: like who's.
Speaker 3: Benefited from that? Nobody? Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't make
Speaker 3: you feel better either. Actually, yeah, So I mean I'm
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm interrogating you, and I mean it
Speaker 3: to be that way at all. Like what I'm wrestling,
Speaker 3: they call a cheap pop.
Speaker 4: If I could just get like one or two retweets
Speaker 4: from it, I'll just feel like, oh right, that was
Speaker 4: a Golden tweeked.
Speaker 3: It's a good point. That's a good point. The cheap
Speaker 3: pops work, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's probably five or six different instances in
Speaker 2: my you know, however many years I've been online that
Speaker 2: you know, led to steps and growing the following of
Speaker 2: you know, roughly thirty thousand on Twitter. I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: roughly because it's like twenty eight so it's not thirty,
Speaker 2: but you know, like twenty eight point six.
Speaker 4: By the way, and in Side Street I had to
Speaker 4: watch when I first moved here. It was when I
Speaker 4: was praying that we would run it back that twenty
Speaker 4: thirteen fifteen team. I ended up agreeing to watch that
Speaker 4: Sweet sixteen game over at my family's house. I was
Speaker 4: the only U of L fan there. Everybody else kids, adults,
Speaker 4: everyone else's Kentucky.
Speaker 3: So now it makes sense you've been traumatized. Absolutely. I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't watch this game with Kentucky fans. There's things
Speaker 2: never there's a lot of things I would would rather
Speaker 2: do than that, and I wouldn't speak of what those
Speaker 2: things are. Never aget that's hell on earth. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: did it once, and I'm with you. I said the
Speaker 2: same thing never again. All right, quick break. We'll come
Speaker 2: back on the other side when it comes to like
Speaker 2: specific things, when it you know, basketball wise, I'll kind
Speaker 2: of share with you what I what I am choosing
Speaker 2: to view as growth throughout this stretch where they're losing
Speaker 2: a lot more than they're winning. But I still think
Speaker 2: that there's there's this there's there's hope I have at
Speaker 2: least that this team could find their way to the tournament.
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Speaker 2: All right, very little time left here before we wrap
Speaker 2: it up, and there's a lot that I want that
Speaker 2: I've got still left that I haven't got a chance
Speaker 2: to get to.
Speaker 3: But that's okay.
Speaker 2: Usually Monday's kind of kind of turned into that, but
Speaker 2: really quickly, just for those that didn't catch the show
Speaker 2: until later on the five o'clock hour. You know what
Speaker 2: has me encourage is not just like, hey, we didn't
Speaker 2: get killed by Kentucky. It's what I'm seeing with what
Speaker 2: they're doing, and it's really not any big change. There's
Speaker 2: more sets, of course, and there's not I think is
Speaker 2: I didn't think there was as much of an emphasis
Speaker 2: like I thought they were just out there balling and
Speaker 2: that sounds so simple and you know, stupid, And I'll
Speaker 2: explain with the little time that I have, Like it
Speaker 2: didn't feel like against Kentucky there was just such a
Speaker 2: rush and an emphasis to make sure you fire up
Speaker 2: the first like do whatever you can until you get
Speaker 2: a decent look from three, and then fire it up
Speaker 2: because you got to make threes to beat good teams.
Speaker 3: That's still going to be the case, but I feel
Speaker 3: like they weren't just so visibly desperate to hit threes.
Speaker 2: They were still taking a lot, and they still shot
Speaker 2: it at a pretty good rate, you know, which which
Speaker 2: is what you want. But like these guys, the more
Speaker 2: you play as this team, the seven man team that
Speaker 2: has very little flexibility as far as what they can do,
Speaker 2: the more you do it doesn't mean you're gonna be
Speaker 2: great at it, but you're gonna get more comfortable. Like
Speaker 2: Ucky clearly, I mean, he needs to be that aggressive
Speaker 2: every single game. And I know if he was that
Speaker 2: aggressive every game, he's probably not going to give you
Speaker 2: twenty six every night. But he should take eighteen shots
Speaker 2: a game, I mean, nine of eighteen overall, four of
Speaker 2: eleven from three's. That's a good night from Chucky that
Speaker 2: I don't think it's not reasonable to expect that every night,
Speaker 2: but he could do close to it. Same thing with Really,
Speaker 2: I mean, even though he's coming off the bench, Terrence
Speaker 2: ewarts to getting more comfortable out they're putting him in
Speaker 2: some P and R action at the top of the
Speaker 2: key and he's getting you know, he's finding his spots,
Speaker 2: kind of knowing what he needs to do in order
Speaker 2: to get what he's comfortable doing as far as step
Speaker 2: back threes and just getting some space and finding ways
Speaker 2: to get to the rim. I mean, I still think
Speaker 2: the ceiling is not super high, and they could slip
Speaker 2: up and have You know, two guys have an off
Speaker 2: night and it could bury them to where they may
Speaker 2: not beat anybody we're talking about, but when they can,
Speaker 2: you know, continue to play the way they did against Kentucky,
Speaker 2: that style, with that confidence, you know, those are performances.
Speaker 2: I think there's something there to where you could still
Speaker 2: find yourself in the tournament.
Speaker 3: But you know, we'll see home. The time will tell.
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow right here on Sports Talk seven
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