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Speaker 1: Get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 2: The kids are playing to trail off. The countries are.
Speaker 3: Screwing it up.
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Speaker 4: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's nick coffee?
Speaker 4: Every now and then, I will uh, I'll come back
Speaker 4: from a weekend, even if it's a long weekend, which
Speaker 4: it was for me, but not for good reason. But anyways,
Speaker 4: I don't know why every now and then, and I can't.
Speaker 4: There's nothing consistent as far as what makes it seem
Speaker 4: this way. But today's one of those days where I
Speaker 4: feel like I have it been here and been on
Speaker 4: the air in like months. I don't know it fits
Speaker 4: because of the weather or what it is, but it
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Speaker 4: Montgomery alongside today. Hopefully everybody had a good President's Day.
Speaker 4: We were supposed to be here and on the air,
Speaker 4: but it worked out where you may have just thought, hey,
Speaker 4: they must get President's Day off, which we did take
Speaker 4: the day off, but it wasn't wasn't planned because I
Speaker 4: was sick yesterday and I think I'm well, I know,
Speaker 4: I know, so I was going to say, I think,
Speaker 4: but I know that I am not the strongest when
Speaker 4: it comes to dealing with any kind of sickness. I
Speaker 4: don't get sick very often. You know, I'm relatively healthy.
Speaker 4: But I think because I rarely get sick, when I
Speaker 4: do start to feel like, okays off a little bit here,
Speaker 4: I probably turn into I don't know what do they
Speaker 4: call it, a hypochondriac. Is that's somebody that thinks they
Speaker 4: have everything.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and you're dying basically. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And by the way, my wife, I hope she's listening.
Speaker 4: I wish you'd have been a little bit more supportive yesterday.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was, I was sick. She was off
Speaker 4: because of the holiday, I had to call in and
Speaker 4: head to the doctor because you know, I just's I
Speaker 4: knew I needed to get something taken care of. And
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe I need to use the platform
Speaker 4: here to raise awareness that that the man flew is
Speaker 4: real and what women should be a little more supportive
Speaker 4: of their husbands when they're when they're not feeling well,
Speaker 4: because you know, I'm I mean, I was just laid
Speaker 4: up feeling like death yesterday, and I mean she was
Speaker 4: there but didn't make me any soup, didn't, you know,
Speaker 4: just I mean honestly didn't even like runs to the
Speaker 4: store rest. She was doing her cleaning mode and she's
Speaker 4: making all kinds of noise, and I'm like, can you
Speaker 4: not tell that I'm dying over here about.
Speaker 2: A little bit of courtesy?
Speaker 5: Did you get asked to clean too while you were sick?
Speaker 4: Or did she the curtis No, but she did the
Speaker 4: real uh passive aggressive cleaning, like wanting wanting me to
Speaker 4: make sure she wanted to make sure that I was
Speaker 4: aware that she was cleaning pots are yeah, exactly, just
Speaker 4: to get it, just to make you know. So that
Speaker 4: way I got to get up and try to help out,
Speaker 4: which I did, but yeah, she made.
Speaker 5: It all that extra some puffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was it was, it was rough,
Speaker 4: and I thought I might have the flu. Thought maybe
Speaker 4: I don't know, is it apparently Dwight and Tony had pneumonia,
Speaker 4: somethinking maybe I got something from them something bad last week.
Speaker 4: And everybody that I know that has been sick, that
Speaker 4: has had to like miswork or whatever it may be,
Speaker 4: they've they act as if it's been the worst sickness
Speaker 4: they've had in a long time. So I wish I
Speaker 4: could tell you that that that that I was down
Speaker 4: that bad. But I think I'm just really weak because
Speaker 4: I ended up getting looked at and it's just a
Speaker 4: sinus infection, which you know is the thing good. It's nothing,
Speaker 4: it's nothing crazy sure yesterday. I mean rarely do I
Speaker 4: ever feel like, all right, I got to make the call,
Speaker 4: like I don't think I'm gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: One, I couldn't stop cough, and that's clearly an issue
Speaker 4: whenever you have.
Speaker 2: A talk show, of course it is. You don't want
Speaker 2: to be coughing up along.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't one of those like where I just
Speaker 4: had like a really bad throat.
Speaker 2: I just out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: I would just start I would have like a coughing spell,
Speaker 4: and that's gotten better. My voice, I don't think is
Speaker 4: one hundred percent, but I'm not coughing nearly as much
Speaker 4: as I was yesterday. I've been taking some meds, popping.
Speaker 4: I'll be profing like crazy. So we're good, ready to
Speaker 4: ready to rock and roll.
Speaker 6: Having a good case of fomo, because I feel like
Speaker 6: everybody in this office has been sick except me. Now,
Speaker 6: you mentioned something last week. I sounded like that. I
Speaker 6: may have had like a little bit of scratchiness. I
Speaker 6: think of anything. That's probably been the worst of it now,
Speaker 6: probably about a month ago, after Christmas or around the holidays.
Speaker 6: I really did get my ass kicked with that. So
Speaker 6: maybe I caught it early before everyone else, and that's
Speaker 6: the cool thing to do nowadays. But I'm so glad
Speaker 6: I've avoided it and I've been here every day, but
Speaker 6: it seems like there's been a mixture of everyone in
Speaker 6: this office that has gotten that.
Speaker 4: Do you think I'm a jerk for coming to work
Speaker 4: knowing that I'm sick. No, No, I step right into
Speaker 4: your office. I am your germ bubble. So I'm gonna
Speaker 4: take this, this super spread, this shock, this pop filter
Speaker 4: thing that's on this microphone, I'm gonna take it with
Speaker 4: me when I leave.
Speaker 5: Today.
Speaker 4: We actually have a few extra ones in here, so
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna put a different one on and I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna this will be the Nick Sick pop filter,
Speaker 4: because honestly, rarely do people ever use this microphone or
Speaker 4: this studio that I that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2: Now, that's true, it's not mine.
Speaker 4: So, but usually how I know if somebody uses it,
Speaker 4: as if I come back in here when I log
Speaker 4: in to do the show, if nobody, if it still
Speaker 4: shows that I was the last person logged in, that
Speaker 4: that means nobody's used it. And typically it's there's not
Speaker 4: many people that come in here. So but the reason
Speaker 4: I am that I'm here instead of doing the show
Speaker 4: from home is because I no longer had the option
Speaker 4: to do the show from home because snow that, of course,
Speaker 4: has has been coming down for the last couple of days.
Speaker 5: It has.
Speaker 4: It has led to my kid's daycare deciding to close.
Speaker 4: And look, I know I've talked about this before and
Speaker 4: I'm sure none of you care. And that's usually something
Speaker 4: I shouldn't want to tell I shouldn't bring up things
Speaker 4: that I know my audience doesn't care about, because you
Speaker 4: know that's not.
Speaker 2: Really how this works.
Speaker 4: But also, I got a platform, I got to use it,
Speaker 4: and it's gonna make me feel better for just like
Speaker 4: a milliseconds. So give me just a minute here and
Speaker 4: I'll lay out sort of what what I don't understand.
Speaker 4: And I've done this before, and I guess it's just
Speaker 4: an insecurity with me that I just need somebody to reassure.
Speaker 2: Me that that I'm not in the wrong here and.
Speaker 4: That that I have, I guess, the right to be
Speaker 4: as outraged as I am. And this has been a
Speaker 4: thing for years now. So if you're like a loyal
Speaker 4: listener and you remember this show, when we have whether
Speaker 4: that impacts you know, your commute, whether it be schools
Speaker 4: out that kind of stuff. Like I've talked about this
Speaker 4: many times over the years, but when my son goes
Speaker 4: to daycare and it snows, his daycare really like they
Speaker 4: close early, as if they're a school that has to
Speaker 4: get like that, they that has to get buses, you know,
Speaker 4: out in the treacherous weather to get.
Speaker 2: Kids home safe.
Speaker 4: And I've I mean So the reason I couldn't do
Speaker 4: the show from home is because my wife had to
Speaker 4: leave work early so she could go and and and
Speaker 4: get Moose from daycare because they're closing early because it
Speaker 4: was snowing.
Speaker 2: By the way, there's no issue with any roads at all,
Speaker 2: none at all.
Speaker 4: Not a I mean I there's no I didn't see
Speaker 4: any any road and I'm talking I drove here from
Speaker 4: from where I live in Bullet County. There's nowhere that
Speaker 4: looked as if the roads were even remotely an issue
Speaker 4: at all. But when they get a chance to, when
Speaker 4: they get a chance to not work and close early,
Speaker 4: they're going to do it.
Speaker 2: And it just does.
Speaker 4: It's never made any sense because again, daycare becomes more
Speaker 4: of like we need your services that we pay for
Speaker 4: more whenever you know, this kind of stuff's going on,
Speaker 4: and I just there can't. I mean, is anybody ever
Speaker 4: had their kid in a daycare that follows like closures
Speaker 4: like schools do? I mean, I've never understood that, because again,
Speaker 4: the reason schools are closing because of snow or you know,
Speaker 4: weather or whatever it may be, it is because they
Speaker 4: have buses, and those buses take kids to school, and
Speaker 4: it's dangerous thing. But parents don't get to not work
Speaker 4: whenever there's snow on the ground. I mean, some people
Speaker 4: do have the ability to work from home. And if
Speaker 4: you have like enough PTO built up and you're somebody
Speaker 4: that's scared to drive in the snow, or you're bad
Speaker 4: at it, whatever may be like, but it's not really
Speaker 4: just the thing that, Okay, looks like we got a
Speaker 4: little bit of snow on the ground. So everybody's off
Speaker 4: work today, so whenever you your kids don't have school
Speaker 4: and then they need to go to daycare or I mean,
Speaker 4: I've never been able to understand it. So today my wife,
Speaker 4: she she went and got Moose and came home, and obviously,
Speaker 4: you know, he's he's a little one, and I think
Speaker 4: it would be it would have been fine, but I
Speaker 4: don't want him yelling and hollering while I'm on the air.
Speaker 4: And she's not. You know, she's not a broadcaster. She
Speaker 4: works a different in a different field. So therefore, you know,
Speaker 4: she can probably deal with him and work more so
Speaker 4: than I could if I'm you know, hosting a radio show.
Speaker 4: So that's why I came in today. I was going
Speaker 4: to be at home, and I just have never I've
Speaker 4: never understood. And here's what's crazy is that, Like when
Speaker 4: they know snow, like you'll I drop Moose off at
Speaker 4: nine fifteen this morning at daycare, they sent a thing
Speaker 4: at ten forty five saying because it's snowing, they're closing
Speaker 4: at noon.
Speaker 2: Every kid has to be picked up.
Speaker 5: Like it's insane.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's insanity and it's been that way
Speaker 4: for years, and why you drop them off at that? Yeah,
Speaker 4: like and again what is you well? And we don't,
Speaker 4: we don't mess with it, like, we don't ever like
Speaker 4: push back because he likes sit there, He's.
Speaker 2: Gone there for a long time.
Speaker 4: He'll actually no longer be a daycare kid by the
Speaker 4: time we get to like, which is crazy.
Speaker 5: To say, boys, he's growing up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's not fun. But I'm very much looking
Speaker 4: forward to not having to deal with this kind of
Speaker 4: stuff again, just like now. And we're fortunate that we
Speaker 4: do have some flexibility with like our schedules and what
Speaker 4: we do.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people don't.
Speaker 4: I mean they just like you tell somebody, hey, your
Speaker 4: kid's got to be picked up at noon on no notice,
Speaker 4: Like you're probably gonna be able to figure it out
Speaker 4: some way, but I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 6: Not, Yeah, I mean for the reason that they think
Speaker 6: that they're closing down for like and they want you
Speaker 6: to come pick it back up during the whole or
Speaker 6: pick a chop back up in this weather, Like that's
Speaker 6: the reason that they're closing down, Like why didn't you
Speaker 6: like let us know this before we drop them off,
Speaker 6: So now you had to go through the trouble of
Speaker 6: going out into what they probably presume is dangerous or
Speaker 6: they don't want people on the road. That's a reason
Speaker 6: that they're shutting down anyways.
Speaker 4: Right exactly, So they don't care about us having to
Speaker 4: scramble in the snow. But you know, I this has
Speaker 4: been a thing for many years, and there's new there's
Speaker 4: a new management that kind of runs it, but it's
Speaker 4: still owned by the same people. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: they just at some point adopted like we're going to
Speaker 4: do what the school system does. And then they started
Speaker 4: to like not even do that, and they just decide randomly, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's cold outside, see you next week, like so whenever
Speaker 4: it became a thing, like people are just used to
Speaker 4: it now that go there. But initially there was some
Speaker 4: pushback and we would have like a forum, you know,
Speaker 4: on this app where you can like get updates on
Speaker 4: the daycare. And people would say, okay, well, like just
Speaker 4: because why are you why are you closing because it's snowing?
Speaker 4: Like what we we want to get our employees home
Speaker 4: safe because we care about their safety, which is such
Speaker 4: a crutch. How are you gonna you know that that's
Speaker 4: just a it's a it's an automatic thing you can
Speaker 4: go to to make it seem as if you're just
Speaker 4: worried about people being safe, rather than it be that
Speaker 4: you're actually, you know, I don't know, maybe not wanting
Speaker 4: to work a full day, but yet take our money,
Speaker 4: like we we don't get any credits for them, Take
Speaker 4: having our kids for an hour or two hours whenever
Speaker 4: it's supposed to be closer to I don't know, six
Speaker 4: seven hours, maybe eight.
Speaker 2: So you know, the.
Speaker 4: Pushback was, well, we just we worry about our staff.
Speaker 4: We want to make sure they can get home safe
Speaker 4: so the roads don't get bad. I'm thinking, well, do
Speaker 4: you realize that, like nobody else does that, Like that's
Speaker 4: not just that's not a thing, and it's such a
Speaker 4: you know, every every company's different, right, the type of
Speaker 4: job it is type of industry they could be more flexible.
Speaker 4: There's certain jobs to where like there's never any downtime,
Speaker 4: right like you work like that. There's assembly lines that
Speaker 4: you know have people work working them throughout the entire day.
Speaker 4: Twenty four seven, three sixty five.
Speaker 6: Oh, when I worked at UPS, when it snowed, that
Speaker 6: was the day that they needed you in the most.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, So you know, it's I know that nobody
Speaker 4: cares about this, but I I didn't plan on doing
Speaker 4: the show here today. I didn't plan on leaving the house.
Speaker 4: And it's not like you know, the end of the world.
Speaker 4: I got to get in the car and drive here.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's better for my mental health to leave
Speaker 4: the house because if I I do just sit around,
Speaker 4: I just.
Speaker 2: It's it's sad.
Speaker 4: But I also walked in here hoping like certain people
Speaker 4: didn't see me because they're going to think, oh, you're sick,
Speaker 4: you shouldn't be here, because like Vinattie told me that
Speaker 4: he was going to blame me, and I don't know
Speaker 4: if he did it on the air, but whenever him
Speaker 4: and Dwight get really sick, that they were going to
Speaker 4: put all the blame on me because I'm the only
Speaker 4: one that has kids, and I happened to be in
Speaker 4: the has studio for a few days the week before
Speaker 4: they got sick because I was filling in for Tony Cruz.
Speaker 6: So vallid blame, but I listened. I don't think that
Speaker 6: they mentioned it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So anyways, I just I've never ever been able
Speaker 4: to hear from anybody body who has had a daycare
Speaker 4: that's similar to where if it's if it's rain and
Speaker 4: hard or if it's maybe gonna snow, they're just deciding
Speaker 4: to not be open, and it's like, well, then, like what,
Speaker 4: I just I'm the rationale behind following what a school
Speaker 4: system does makes no sense considering that if if schools
Speaker 4: didn't have buses and it was just a requirement that
Speaker 4: you bring your kid every day, would we even have
Speaker 4: the same level of like being on alert about a
Speaker 4: snow day. No, It's like they don't quite grasp that
Speaker 4: they're not a school. Yes, they have they take care
Speaker 4: of kids, and there is an educational component to what
Speaker 4: they do to where they teach our kids.
Speaker 2: Which is great.
Speaker 4: But the reason that there are school closures is because
Speaker 4: of buses. That's that's that's why that is why.
Speaker 6: Now when you came in to day, did you kind
Speaker 6: of like sneak in back here, like not want to
Speaker 6: be seen, or was there like a whole greeting part
Speaker 6: because there's a ton of people here, We got.
Speaker 5: People in the ceilings, people put.
Speaker 4: Today, thinking like, all right, because of the weather, it'll
Speaker 4: probably be easy for me to just kind of sneak in.
Speaker 4: I pull in the garage and everybody's here, I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh man, I'm gonna look like a big jerk. And look,
Speaker 4: I could have I could have called and said, well, hey,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do
Speaker 4: the show from home, because if I do, you know,
Speaker 4: my four year old son might maybe running around raising
Speaker 4: hell because you know, it's just what a four year
Speaker 4: old does sometimes. Then I would look like the bad guy,
Speaker 4: like not wanting to work when it's clearly not that. So,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm sure other people have had much bigger
Speaker 4: problems than I have. It's just I've it's one thing
Speaker 4: that I just I want to just have like an
Speaker 4: intervention with my kid's daycare and be like, do you
Speaker 4: understand that you're not that's not the same thing here,
Speaker 4: Like we need you to be like, for example, my daughter,
Speaker 4: you know, she didn't have in school today because she
Speaker 4: because of the flooding and whatnots they're on NTI like
Speaker 4: that alone throws us for a little bit of a wrench.
Speaker 4: And then whenever you've got daycare now just deciding yeah,
Speaker 4: we're closing at noon because it was snowing. This Like
Speaker 4: if they're sitting at their house right now, the people
Speaker 4: who decided, yeah, we're gonna call it a day and
Speaker 4: go home, like do they like, what do you do
Speaker 4: you think you made the right decision to be saved?
Speaker 2: You just wanted to take a half a day.
Speaker 4: I mean, like the roads were never bad and they're
Speaker 4: not bad now now maybe they get bad.
Speaker 5: Later we'll see, but it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and by the way, are we I mean the flooding,
Speaker 4: which we'll get into some of that a little bit
Speaker 4: later on. Because I mean, I think I think we
Speaker 4: can say that at least in my lifetime this I'll
Speaker 4: be thirty seven. This summer, I think that the early
Speaker 4: month and a half or so two months I should say,
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty five weather it sucked. I mean we've
Speaker 4: had a lot of winter weather more so than we
Speaker 4: typically get. It stayed really cold for a long time
Speaker 4: to where that winter mess just lingered and wouldn't melt.
Speaker 4: And then of course the rain. I mean, they knew
Speaker 4: we were gonna be getting a lot of rain, and
Speaker 4: we did. I feel very blessed that my basement didn't flood,
Speaker 4: But I mean it's the kind of rain that you know,
Speaker 4: you don't see very often around here.
Speaker 2: And then again, I'm not I'm not gonna make.
Speaker 4: It about the meteorologists today, but I do feel like
Speaker 4: the snow that we woke up to on Sunday morning,
Speaker 4: that was.
Speaker 2: Who was talking about that?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: No, maybe maybe the attention was so much on the
Speaker 4: rain and how scary and severe that it was, which
Speaker 4: of course would be understandable, But I don't know if
Speaker 4: any I mean I was watching the weather more than
Speaker 4: ever because I wanted to see just how bad the
Speaker 4: flooding was going to be and which areas we need.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was we were.
Speaker 4: I was probably watching it more than I typically do,
Speaker 4: and I didn't remember seeing anything about any snow coming
Speaker 4: on Sunday morning. Now, No, I knew we were going
Speaker 4: to get it this week, and it sounds like we
Speaker 4: already I mean we already got some of it earlier today.
Speaker 4: It was snowing this morning, and then on my way
Speaker 4: in wasn't snowing. I guess maybe this evening it's supposed to.
Speaker 2: So stay safe. You know, I cannot I can't remember
Speaker 2: a two month.
Speaker 4: Roughly stretch where we've had this kind of weather that's impacted.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've got I feel like we live in Buffalo,
Speaker 5: New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've got. We've got.
Speaker 4: The death count is up to fourteen after the floods,
Speaker 4: which is just I mean that's awful.
Speaker 2: And I mean I.
Speaker 4: Clearly there's still a lot of water, and if it
Speaker 4: gets so cold and everything freezes, that can't be good
Speaker 4: for anything.
Speaker 2: So stay safe.
Speaker 4: We've I mean, I'm somebody who's oftentimes said I enjoy
Speaker 4: winter weather, and I think compared to most i'd still
Speaker 4: say that I do. But man, I'm ready for it
Speaker 4: to go away. I'm ready for some warm weather and
Speaker 4: you know, more rain. And let's just I mean, it's
Speaker 4: it's been. It's been brutal, brutal. But yeah, it looks
Speaker 4: like that as far as snow totals, I mean, again,
Speaker 4: I don't think they were expecting us to get what
Speaker 4: we got on Sunday mornings, so they could always be wrong.
Speaker 5: We know that.
Speaker 2: But it sounds like this.
Speaker 4: Afternoon cloudy and cold, but the high's rolling going to
Speaker 4: be in the mid twenties. And I guess when it
Speaker 4: comes to the accumulating snowfall, I guess tonight early into
Speaker 4: tomorrow morning is when it's going to be the heaviest.
Speaker 4: And that likely means that we probably won't have school
Speaker 4: tomorrow for the kids around here, and everybody s just
Speaker 4: be prepared for that, because yeah, I mean, if they're
Speaker 4: if what they're I guess expecting is exactly what happens.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're looking at really anywhere between three to
Speaker 4: six inches for the for the region, and that's, uh,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: About you guys, that's a lot.
Speaker 5: To me, that's a lot.
Speaker 4: Three to six inches, that's a lot. It's generous, it's
Speaker 4: exactly all right. Let's let's take a time out. I'll
Speaker 4: stop bitching about my my personal life, which I know
Speaker 4: none of you guys care about. But uh, we got
Speaker 4: a lot to get to when it comes to, uh
Speaker 4: to Louisville basketball, because uh, what a game on Sunday night,
Speaker 4: Another road victory, just beating up teams at their place,
Speaker 4: And I'm not bored with it by any means, but
Speaker 4: I do think that the ceiling for this team as
Speaker 4: far as seeding, that's that's where my interest is, because
Speaker 4: I really don't know what it is, and I think
Speaker 4: it's gonna come down to will the Committee factor in
Speaker 4: Louisville beating up on these teams more so than others? Right,
Speaker 4: They're not just you know, getting by on the road.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're playing teams that are allows you this year,
Speaker 4: but they're beating the hell out of them, and I
Speaker 4: just I think how much value the Committee will have
Speaker 4: in that.
Speaker 2: It's just it's anybody's guess.
Speaker 4: Kentucky loses another game, this time at Texas, certainly not
Speaker 4: a terrible loss, but life without Laman Butler and Jackson
Speaker 4: Robinson if that's sort of you know what they're going
Speaker 4: to be the rest of the way. They've already proven
Speaker 4: they can still beat some good teams when they're shorthanded,
Speaker 4: but their ceiling is not nearly as high. If if
Speaker 4: the team you saw on Saturday night like this is
Speaker 4: who they are, and that it's gotta worry some Kentucky
Speaker 4: fans for sure, So.
Speaker 2: All right, stick with us. We got we got you
Speaker 2: till six o'clock.
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Speaker 4: it's it's you know, I did I did well. I
Speaker 4: don't know if I gave you guys a warning or not,
Speaker 4: but I did discuss me, you know, dealing with some
Speaker 4: uh some. I feel like it's an exaggeration to call
Speaker 4: it an illness. It's a sinus infection kind of thing.
Speaker 4: And I'll be okay. But yeah, so if I sound weird,
Speaker 4: that's that's why this person says Nick may Well, and well, actually,
Speaker 4: before I get to this text somebody said they used
Speaker 4: to own a daycare and they've never heard of any
Speaker 4: daycare following UH closures like schools do. But this person
Speaker 4: texted in and mentioned that a lot of businesses, maybe
Speaker 4: like the daycare, assume that anybody can just work from
Speaker 4: home this day and age, and they take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's what's happening here.
Speaker 4: I just think these people are just looking for a
Speaker 4: reason to close down early and have a half day.
Speaker 4: And what childcare such if you if you know your
Speaker 4: kid is in a daycare that you they enjoy like,
Speaker 4: it's beneficial to them, they like it, they have friends,
Speaker 4: it's within your price range. I mean, that's a very
Speaker 4: important thing to have. And if it's good, you don't
Speaker 4: want to, you don't want to, you don't wanna, you know,
Speaker 4: mess it up. So I don't think, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't want I want to say that they take advantage
Speaker 4: of that. But like I'll, I'll live with this. I
Speaker 4: just needed to complain, and you know, it made me
Speaker 4: feel a little bit better. So hopefully you guys, you know,
Speaker 4: didn't didn't mind that too much. But when it comes
Speaker 4: to the whole working from home thing, you know, I
Speaker 4: I've never everybody's different. And there were people who were
Speaker 4: working from home.
Speaker 2: Because that was their job.
Speaker 4: Like they were, they had a work from home job,
Speaker 4: a remote job before the pandemic even happened. But clearly
Speaker 4: it became a much bigger thing once we sort of
Speaker 4: had to figure out a way to work from home
Speaker 4: because of what was going on. But I personally, just
Speaker 4: me as an individual, I hate it. I'm not as
Speaker 4: productive as I need to be when I'm at home.
Speaker 4: I don't like not being around human beings. It's just
Speaker 4: bad from my psyche. But again, everybody's different. But I
Speaker 4: just it's hard for me to believe because there's some
Speaker 4: stuff that's that. You know, I'm sure there are studies
Speaker 4: out there, and I'm sure there's people listening right now
Speaker 4: that will tell you no, you're actually people are way
Speaker 4: more productive. Everything's just better, trust me, and you can
Speaker 4: throw whatever you want at I mean, I just don't
Speaker 4: know about I'm gonna believe that. I just I don't
Speaker 4: think that it's as healthy of an environment as far
Speaker 4: as a company. If like you never see anybody at all,
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, I mean, what do I know?
Speaker 4: I work in radio I just talk about sports and nonsense.
Speaker 4: So who am I to say what is good and
Speaker 4: what's not. But I just feel like the work from
Speaker 4: home thing. I keep thinking eventually it's just gonna fade.
Speaker 4: But I'm you know, maybe I'm maybe I'm way off here.
Speaker 4: But there are certain companies that over time, in the
Speaker 4: last few years, have just made it to where now
Speaker 4: we don't that's not what we're doing anymore. You need
Speaker 4: to be here every day. There's no reason for you
Speaker 4: not to be. You weren't hired to be a remote employee.
Speaker 4: We just had to do it for a while and
Speaker 4: then we tried it out in I guess a hybrid
Speaker 4: kind of situation. But now here we are many years
Speaker 4: removed from the pandemic, and we're back to where we
Speaker 4: were when you were hired. Here you need to be
Speaker 4: at work, and that's led to a lot of people
Speaker 4: looking for different jobs. And if you can go find
Speaker 4: a different job, and it's the balance you want as
Speaker 4: far as not having to leave your house as much,
Speaker 4: and it's the same type of gig you make the
Speaker 4: same money, then you know.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 4: But there are there are many, I think companies out
Speaker 4: there that thought that that would be the way to go.
Speaker 4: They'd save money not having as much you know, office space,
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. And I think over time they've
Speaker 4: just realized it's it's not maybe been as productive and
Speaker 4: as efficient if you know, everybody's everybody's working remotely. In fact,
Speaker 4: this this thread went went went viral on x slash Twitter,
Speaker 4: and there's some people claiming that it's that it's not real.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's real or not, but it's
Speaker 4: just an interesting thing to think about because I don't
Speaker 4: know anybody body personally, like a friend or a colleague
Speaker 4: or anybody like that, that did this.
Speaker 2: But this would be kind of a nightmare.
Speaker 4: So this says that a friend somebody who shared a
Speaker 4: story about a friend, and again it could be made up.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: But even if this story is made up, I bet
Speaker 4: there's people out there that have maybe been in this
Speaker 4: position or know somebody that's been in a similar position.
Speaker 4: That somebody worked for a company that recently mandated or
Speaker 4: return to the office, but a lot of the employees
Speaker 4: had relocated to different places during remote work. Some made
Speaker 4: big life changes, new homes, new schools for their kids,
Speaker 4: only to be told they had to move back. Then
Speaker 4: shortly after relocating back, many were laid off. I don't again,
Speaker 4: I don't know anybody that's had that specific thing play out,
Speaker 4: But I mean, we had people here Austin. I don't
Speaker 4: remember who it was specifically, and honestly don't remember if
Speaker 4: they still work here.
Speaker 5: But once we once we shut.
Speaker 4: Down for COVID, and then we were phasing out of
Speaker 4: our old building into the new one. And clearly there's
Speaker 4: not near as much space here as there was at
Speaker 4: the old the old iHeart headquarters here in Louisville. But
Speaker 4: we had somebody that moved to Vegas and they were
Speaker 4: still doing the same job. They just didn't, you know.
Speaker 4: And I guess it really depends on what you do.
Speaker 4: But I'm telling you, if if I had, I would
Speaker 4: just feel like I'm not even if I was doing
Speaker 4: just as much work, if I was getting good, you know,
Speaker 4: good reviews quarterly from my boss, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: If I lived six states away and I just worked remotely,
Speaker 4: I would just feel like I'm a part time or
Speaker 4: I would feel like I'm not doing my part. And
Speaker 4: I again, I'm the one clearly in the minority here
Speaker 4: because I would say there's plenty of people right now
Speaker 4: that they've worked remote for a while now, maybe they've
Speaker 4: done it long before, Maybe they did it long before
Speaker 4: we had the pandemic. But I know for me, I'm
Speaker 4: not not as productive whenever I'm working remotely. Real quick,
Speaker 4: we'll move on and talk about some other nonsense, and
Speaker 4: of course COEP back to the sports, because that's what
Speaker 4: we do, we talk sports.
Speaker 5: This is this is a.
Speaker 4: Sad story that that I just saw. Yeah, it looks
Speaker 4: like this broke right before the show started. KFC's corporate
Speaker 4: offices here in Louisville it's leaving, so apparently one hundred,
Speaker 4: one hundred jobs could be could be impacted as they're
Speaker 4: they're they're relocating the young brands. It says here that yeah,
Speaker 4: they're going to remove the KFC US corporate offices are
Speaker 4: moving from Louisville to Plano, Texas, which which is where
Speaker 4: the Pizza Hut headquarters is. So yeah, it says in all,
Speaker 4: the company's latest move will affect one hundred corporate roles
Speaker 4: in ninety remote positions.
Speaker 2: That's that's not good. That's that's that's not good.
Speaker 5: Taken their eleven herbs and spices somewhere else.
Speaker 4: I know a couple of friends who work for corporate
Speaker 4: at at young and uh, I hope that their their
Speaker 4: job is not impacted.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that was.
Speaker 6: Over there off Bishop Lane, right back where kind of
Speaker 6: where we used to work.
Speaker 5: Is that correct?
Speaker 4: I'm not sure beyond their headquarters, Okay, I know they
Speaker 4: one point had headquch. They at one point had some
Speaker 4: offices in Comers Crossing, which is over there near Preston Highway.
Speaker 5: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: Where their actual headquarters are are now because look a
Speaker 4: lot of these places that I mean, even if you
Speaker 4: didn't end up putting you know, eighty percent of your
Speaker 4: staff in remote positions where they work from home. A
Speaker 4: lot of people have moved and just downsize to have
Speaker 4: they don't need the same office space they needed twenty
Speaker 4: years ago. So I know they've moved a couple of times.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's that. News just came in right before
Speaker 4: three o'clock. The KFC corporate offices here in Louisville will
Speaker 4: be no more as they're moving to Plano, Texas.
Speaker 2: So scary stuff, all right, So just some quick thoughts.
Speaker 4: On Louisville Notre Dame Sunday night. I mean, another beat
Speaker 4: down on the road. You now have twenty wins, and we're,
Speaker 4: you know, we're we're still what five games left in
Speaker 4: the regular season. So to be at twenty wins already
Speaker 4: and be in the position that Louisville is in back
Speaker 4: in the top twenty five, clearly still looking like a
Speaker 4: safe team in the tournament.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's awesome.
Speaker 4: I've enjoyed this season so much, but I will say
Speaker 4: I'm not really sure what different angles we can talk
Speaker 4: about this team. I mean, I'm loving it, and i
Speaker 4: know a lot of people are as well, but I've
Speaker 4: been very repetitive when it comes to just this team
Speaker 4: in this season, because I mean, it's been consistent, right,
Speaker 4: they've really since they I don't know when it was
Speaker 4: that they kind of started to get a little more
Speaker 4: comfortable in this new version of themselves. It's not new anymore,
Speaker 4: but really once they started, I mean, I think each
Speaker 4: game once they got back from the Bahamas and they
Speaker 4: knew they weren't getting Casing back, they knew Kor and
Speaker 4: wasn't going to.
Speaker 3: Play at all.
Speaker 4: Slowly but surely, while playing a really tough stretch of
Speaker 4: your schedule at that time, they were starting to get
Speaker 4: more and more comfortable in this new version of themselves
Speaker 4: where they had to make some adjustments. Obviously, guys were
Speaker 4: going to play a different role moving forward after those
Speaker 4: injuries because they were going to be relied upon you
Speaker 4: even more. I think, you know, specifically Jevon Hadley, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's somebody that really had to, I guess, find himself
Speaker 4: and and he has found a role that I think
Speaker 4: is as vital as any on this team. I wouldn't
Speaker 4: say he's the most important guy on this team, but
Speaker 4: then again, everybody's really important. I still think Chucky's the
Speaker 4: difference maker for you because defensively, he can just really
Speaker 4: I mean, he gets it started as far as just
Speaker 4: making life hell for the opposing team when he's just
Speaker 4: being a pest, and then that makes it to where,
Speaker 4: you know, by the time the other guys are are,
Speaker 4: you know, in a one on one situation, defensively, you know,
Speaker 4: Chucky sets the tone. I mean, he's he's a guy
Speaker 4: that you know, leads the acc and assists and in steals.
Speaker 4: That alone says it. So Chucky's really important, but so
Speaker 4: is Javon. And I think he's you know, I don't know,
Speaker 4: if you see Javon Hadley in this role, being this
Speaker 4: to being this important of a piece if Casen doesn't
Speaker 4: get hurt. Same thing with Terrence Edwards, you know, like
Speaker 4: he was always playing a lot of minutes. But I
Speaker 4: kind of feel like Terrence Edwards and even Chucky a
Speaker 4: little bit early on, you know, they they were they
Speaker 4: were just they were all split minutes, right you were.
Speaker 4: I mean that's one of the things that we talked
Speaker 4: about when it comes to this roster before the season started,
Speaker 4: before any injuries, is that, man, you got a lot
Speaker 4: of depth you can play. You know, you could basically
Speaker 4: play two different lineups and who knows which one's going
Speaker 4: to be better. Maybe one night this lineup's better, maybe
Speaker 4: different night, it's the other way around. But Terrence Edwards just,
Speaker 4: I mean, he was going to be playing a ton
Speaker 4: of minutes because of the injuries, and he found his
Speaker 4: comfort zone, right, He's he's going to be aggressive throughout.
Speaker 4: I'll have some nights where shots are falling, I'll have
Speaker 4: some nights where they're not. But if he stays aggressive,
Speaker 4: I mean that usually ends up working out well for everybody.
Speaker 4: So whenever it was, I don't know, I can't I
Speaker 4: can't pinpoint when when exactly it was that I felt like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this team actually might be pretty good, maybe they can
Speaker 4: make the tournament. Because it's not like we took full
Speaker 4: we took phone calls for three straight hours whenever Louisvill
Speaker 4: would lose to some of these teams like miss and Duke.
Speaker 4: But I remember kind of feeling like I was in
Speaker 4: the minority because I still felt like, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 4: these losses aren't ideal, and yeah, they're piling up. You
Speaker 4: don't want to have this many losses as you're really
Speaker 4: getting into conference play. But you know, here we are,
Speaker 4: and Louisville's lost what two games since December fourteenth? In fact,
Speaker 4: they've lost one game since they lost to Kentucky on
Speaker 4: the fourteenth of December. They only lost one game since then.
Speaker 4: So and look, I know that the schedule is, it
Speaker 4: is what it is. The ACCS is not having a
Speaker 4: good year by any means.
Speaker 2: But I think really.
Speaker 4: Virginia on the Carolina was at that time, Carolina didn't
Speaker 4: know they were going to be as bad as there, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, somehow Carolina is still believed to be
Speaker 4: on the bubble, which I think is crazy. But Carolina Virginia,
Speaker 4: Clemson in Pittsburgh. Those were the four games where I
Speaker 4: felt like, Okay, they're not just you know, winning. I
Speaker 4: mean they won all of those games by double digits,
Speaker 4: and then one by four at pitt and then after
Speaker 4: that they blew out Syracuse did the same thing against
Speaker 4: Virginia SMU. You remember what we looked at the SMU
Speaker 4: game as, uh oh, this SMU team, they're kind of pesky.
Speaker 4: They're looking like a tournament team. And you go down
Speaker 4: there and you beat the hell out of them, ninety
Speaker 4: eight to seventy three. Chucky and Rain broke records, Wake Forest,
Speaker 4: they come to town at that time, have the same
Speaker 4: record as you, have a better win than you do,
Speaker 4: and you know, you just didn't know, Okay, is this
Speaker 4: is going to be the night that maybe this team
Speaker 4: kind of comes back down to earth a little bit.
Speaker 5: And they won.
Speaker 4: That game about double digits. So I mean, this team,
Speaker 4: I love it. It's been a fun ride so far
Speaker 4: and I don't want it to ever end, but it's
Speaker 4: it's getting pretty hard to you know, it's not hard
Speaker 4: to do, it's just I don't want to be so repetitive.
Speaker 4: But that's that's kind of where we are. I mean
Speaker 4: they've for the most part since the beginning of December,
Speaker 4: the results have really been the same. More often than not,
Speaker 4: they're winning and they're blowing teams out. Now, unfortunately, there's
Speaker 4: not a whole lot of value with a lot of
Speaker 4: these wins in the ACC, but there's nothing you.
Speaker 2: Can do about that.
Speaker 4: If I have one complaint, it's that we have another
Speaker 4: week off technically six days, but still they're back in
Speaker 4: action on Saturday, hosting Florida State, another game that they
Speaker 4: should be big favorites. Ken Palm Projects. They win that
Speaker 4: one about thirteen, wouldn't be shocked if they win it
Speaker 4: by much more than that. So really, you can never
Speaker 4: take anybody lightly. We saw what happened against George the
Speaker 4: Tech where they just you know, wasn't their night and
Speaker 4: it was George Tech's night. So they've shown and they've
Speaker 4: proven throughout that they'll there. I mean again, it'd be
Speaker 4: different if the George Tech loss was because Louisill came
Speaker 4: out feeling too good about themselves. They just they it
Speaker 4: wasn't their night and George Tech played really well, and
Speaker 4: it happens. But I think this team is proven that
Speaker 4: they're not going to show up in any of these
Speaker 4: five games remaining feeling as if they don't need to
Speaker 4: come out and play really hard. I mean, they've done
Speaker 4: that really consistently for the last two months. So looking
Speaker 4: at the rest of the rest of the season, I
Speaker 4: mean a twenty five and six record is not only realistic,
Speaker 4: I'd say it's slightly I mean, they will play Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: at home, and I've always believed this Pittsburgh team should
Speaker 4: be better than they are, but they're not right. I
Speaker 4: mean they've Pittsburgh has I mean since the beginning of January.
Speaker 4: I mean Pittsburgh has let's see, they're three and eight
Speaker 4: since January seventh. I mean they're terrible. They're really bad.
Speaker 4: So even though I think their talent is better than
Speaker 4: it seems with their record, I mean, I'd be shocked
Speaker 4: if Louisville somehow wasn't able to win that game. So
Speaker 4: the question I have, and again we'll never know until
Speaker 4: we get to selection Sunday, what does Louisville at twenty
Speaker 4: five and six look like to the selection committee? Because
Speaker 4: that really is a pretty gaudy record, and you would
Speaker 4: be able to say that you got to the end
Speaker 4: of the year without really any bad losses. The Bors' loss,
Speaker 4: of course is to Georgia Tech. But that's not as
Speaker 4: bad of a loss as you think. I'm not an
Speaker 4: anyway saying it's a good loss. It certainly doesn't look
Speaker 4: the same as losing to Kentucky at rup, losing to
Speaker 4: Duke at home, losing to Ole Miss on a neutral court,
Speaker 4: Tennessee at home. Like those wins are even even in
Speaker 4: the ones that were blowouts. I mean, those are teams
Speaker 4: that everybody knows is good. George Tech's not. But still
Speaker 4: like they're they're borderline top one hundred. It's not like
Speaker 4: you're losing to It's not like a quad four loss
Speaker 4: or Quad three loss. So I think what it's going
Speaker 4: to come down to is how much does the committee
Speaker 4: actually value the eye test? Right, Like, Louisville's not just
Speaker 4: winning in a down acc they're killing teams. But that's
Speaker 4: just like you know, that's there's not anything within a
Speaker 4: team sheet or a metric that's gonna, you know, to
Speaker 4: tell us if the Committee's going to factor that in
Speaker 4: or not. Also, we know that the net isn't the
Speaker 4: end all be all right, it's just one of the
Speaker 4: metrics they use and it's valuable, but again it's not.
Speaker 4: It doesn't you know, they don't just seed the tournament
Speaker 4: based off of where you are specifically in the net.
Speaker 4: But if you're somebody that wants to see Louisville, you know,
Speaker 4: higher than a seven or a six even, you're gonna
Speaker 4: hope that they do really value the net because that's
Speaker 4: one of the things that looks good about Lowell's resume
Speaker 4: right now. So I assume they're going to keep taking
Speaker 4: care of business, beating these teams that they're a lot
Speaker 4: better than, and I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that.
Speaker 4: All right, some other things we'll get into throughout the
Speaker 4: afternoon before we get out of here at six o'clock.
Speaker 4: The NCAA is apparently working with their TV partners to
Speaker 4: expand the tournament. We'll tell you how many teams they
Speaker 4: are looking at putting in. I look, I'm still gonna
Speaker 4: love the tournament, but I can tell you I don't
Speaker 4: think it needs to be expanded. In fact, I don't
Speaker 4: think it needs to be. I mean, I'd be fine
Speaker 4: if they got rid of like the play in games.
Speaker 4: I think those are kind of silly. Also, Netflix, apparently
Speaker 4: they want to get in the game when it comes
Speaker 4: to NFL Sundays, they are looking into potentially having Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean that that would be I mean, it wouldn't
Speaker 4: be bad news for people who already are there when
Speaker 4: it comes to streaming and having Netflix and whatnot. But
Speaker 4: Netflix didn't have the logan Paul. Is it Logan Paul
Speaker 4: or Drake Paul. The thought was yeah, Jake Paul and
Speaker 4: Mike Tyson. And then they did and they did two
Speaker 4: NFL games on Christmas Day on Netflix. Like they weren't
Speaker 4: just doing that for fun. They're continuing to see sort
Speaker 4: of if they're able to compete with the others that
Speaker 4: are out here carrying live NFL games every Sunday. And
Speaker 4: I mean, I would say from the coverage and just
Speaker 4: how well everything went on that Christmas Day of those
Speaker 4: NFL games, I mean I think, I mean when I
Speaker 4: whenever that ended, I remember thinking to myself, Netflix should
Speaker 4: just buy ESPN from Disney. That's not as easy of
Speaker 4: a transaction just say hey when we pick up the
Speaker 4: phone to make an offer. But like, I think Netflix
Speaker 4: would would thrive with with with having that having having
Speaker 4: I mean, Netflix is already the monster when it comes
Speaker 4: to streaming, right I mean, clearly it has a lot
Speaker 4: more competition now than it's ever had with Amazon Prime,
Speaker 4: Paramount plus Hulu. Like there's all kinds of streaming platforms
Speaker 4: out there, but Netflix is still the top dog. And
Speaker 4: there's like two or three things they're apparently looking at
Speaker 4: kind of dipping their toe in, And if they do,
Speaker 4: I mean, they'll probably own that category if they want to.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they'll own the NFL, but I
Speaker 4: feel like they could if they wanted. Also, Jeff Brom
Speaker 4: talked a little earlier today as they're getting set for springball.
Speaker 4: Miller Mass set his first Louisville press conference, and there
Speaker 4: was one thing that really stood out to me that
Speaker 4: I wanted to share with you guys coming up a
Speaker 4: little bit later on. So again, stick with us. We'll
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Speaker 5: So this Tex says Nick.
Speaker 4: Do you think Louisville blowing out these teams is by
Speaker 4: design from Pat Kelsey to make sure you don't fall
Speaker 4: in the net of the kin palm, or just because
Speaker 4: Louisville is that much better than these teams. I would
Speaker 4: say a little bit of both. I don't get the
Speaker 4: sense that I don't get the sense that they're out there,
Speaker 4: you know, calling timeouts to say we got to win
Speaker 4: by thirty and right now the lead is at twenty six,
Speaker 4: so let's make sure we finished strong. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: this day and age, you need to know that the schedule,
Speaker 4: you know, the margin does matter. And it's not just
Speaker 4: the teams out there. In fact, let me give you
Speaker 4: two examples, and Louisville, I guess could have prevented this.
Speaker 4: But when Louisville played Indiana and beat them by what
Speaker 4: seemed to be a billion and I'll always remember this
Speaker 4: because this is just how Indiana is this year, which
Speaker 4: I got. I guess technically they can, I mean not
Speaker 4: when I see Lenardi's updated bracketology, he has Indiana in
Speaker 4: the next four out, in Carolina in the first four out,
Speaker 4: which I just think is crazy.
Speaker 5: But anyways, Indiana.
Speaker 4: When Louisville played, the final score was let's see, let's
Speaker 4: see here, Louisville won eighty nine to sixty one, and
Speaker 4: that again, that's a beatdown. Indiana in the last like
Speaker 4: ninety seconds used a thirteen to two run or something
Speaker 4: to get it that close. And they were out there
Speaker 4: with starters in because they were aware that, you know,
Speaker 4: getting beat by forty and getting beat by thirty and
Speaker 4: or twenty five, there's gonna be a difference as far
Speaker 4: as how bad this hurts us in the metrics.
Speaker 2: Same thing with wake Forest. Wake Forest was getting killed.
Speaker 4: Louisville only won seventy two to fifty nine, still a
Speaker 4: double digit victory, but that game towards the end, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe you can say Louisville let off the gas, or
Speaker 4: maybe it's just that, hey, despite this game being over
Speaker 4: before halftime, we got to make sure we don't end
Speaker 4: up getting beat as bad as as it looked like
Speaker 4: it was going to be, because we're already going to
Speaker 4: take a hit when it comes to the metrics. But
Speaker 4: anything you can do to not make it as bad,
Speaker 4: you're gonna try to do so I would I would
Speaker 4: lean more so it being about Louisville just really being
Speaker 4: that that much better. And look, there's really not a
Speaker 4: lineup Pat Kelsey can put in. That's that that's you know,
Speaker 4: that's the human victory cigars right like he could. He
Speaker 4: does put the walk Ons in at some point, right
Speaker 4: like you've seen I mean Antonelli. I mean he gets
Speaker 4: in every now and then towards the end of the games,
Speaker 4: but that's usually when it's like the very very end.
Speaker 2: So it's probably a little bit of both as far as.
Speaker 4: Being strategic and making sure, hey, let's not and and
Speaker 4: if not, they need to be mindful of it. And
Speaker 4: by the way, I should do a better job at
Speaker 4: clarifying when I talk about the metrics, the Ken palm,
Speaker 4: the net, all that kind of stuff, because I don't
Speaker 4: think that that's the way that it should be, but
Speaker 4: it's been that way for years now that you need
Speaker 4: to make adjustments as far as how you schedule and
Speaker 4: really how you finish games. Like I think it's stupid
Speaker 4: that Louisville has to beat some of these teams by
Speaker 4: twenty or twenty five if they want to actually jump
Speaker 4: up potentially one or more spots in the net, Like,
Speaker 4: that's stupid. The formula is flawed, but it is what
Speaker 4: it is, and it's been that way for many years.
Speaker 4: That if you now are coaching a college basketball program
Speaker 4: and you're not mindful of this when you schedule, you're
Speaker 4: not mindful of this whenever you finish a game, like
Speaker 4: it's on you. It's just not doing your job. So again,
Speaker 4: the one that always stands out, it's Wake Forest. Louisville
Speaker 4: beat Wake Forest by double digits and fell, and that's
Speaker 4: because Wake Forest is just stupid as far as how
Speaker 4: they scheduled, and I mean they put themselves in that position.
Speaker 4: I watched Wake Forest. I don't know if they end
Speaker 4: up winning that game or not. I don't remember how
Speaker 4: it finished, but I still watch them play. I think
Speaker 4: they're good. I think they have a good team, but
Speaker 4: right now they're the last team in according to Leonard,
Speaker 4: and I think that's their fault. Again, I guess technically
Speaker 4: you could claim it's also the fault of like the
Speaker 4: formula itself the net because it shouldn't be the way
Speaker 4: that it is. But Wake Forest when they put their
Speaker 4: schedule together, they knew that playing four to five teams
Speaker 4: that are in the three hundreds was only going to
Speaker 4: hurt you unless you win those games by like fifty
Speaker 4: points each game, which is just not realistic. So by
Speaker 4: the way, wake Forest they did hold on and beat
Speaker 4: SMU at SMU, which was a big win for him.
Speaker 4: So maybe that's why they're now looking like a team
Speaker 4: that might actually be able to sneak in. But again,
Speaker 4: to answer your question, I would say it's a little
Speaker 4: bit of both. I think Louisville, I mean, they've got
Speaker 4: it's not like they can put in, you know, a
Speaker 4: couple of freshmen that never get to play but have
Speaker 4: a lot of talent. I mean, the only freshman on
Speaker 4: the team is Kenai Russ, who is a really talented player.
Speaker 2: The guys who play.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's your team, right, I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 4: there are teams all across the country that if certain
Speaker 4: guys get in, I mean you know that it means like,
Speaker 4: for example, let me give you an example with Kentucky.
Speaker 4: And I'm only using them because they're another local team
Speaker 4: that I'm sure a lot of people listening have some
Speaker 4: familiarity with, Like Kentucky right now, And maybe they're not
Speaker 4: a team to use as a good example because of
Speaker 4: the because of the situation with their recent injuries, But
Speaker 4: when they had everybody healthy, guys like Travis Perry, Trent Noah,
Speaker 4: and even Colin Chandler, those were guys that like they
Speaker 4: were if you have everybody healthy and it's a really
Speaker 4: close game throughout against a good team, there's a good
Speaker 4: chance those guys are going to play very little or
Speaker 4: maybe not even at all. Well, now, Travis Perry's got
Speaker 4: a start, so I mean, but Colin Chandler is probably
Speaker 4: the example to use for Kentucky because like, that's somebody
Speaker 4: that that you know, maybe eventually is going to be
Speaker 4: really good for him, but like right now, he's just
Speaker 4: not in the rotation.
Speaker 3: Louisville.
Speaker 2: Louisville's roster is the rotation.
Speaker 4: I mean, Big Frank, He'll get minutes every now and then,
Speaker 4: and I love I mean, I think he's actually low
Speaker 4: key a great example of why this team is thriving
Speaker 4: and playing well because the that dude's role is not
Speaker 4: something that many guys would really be out there looking for.
Speaker 4: Meaning he's not getting a ton of minutes. He's there
Speaker 4: just kind of to give give some guys a break
Speaker 4: every now and then, not you know, not not hurt
Speaker 4: You give us two minutes, three minutes and stretches and
Speaker 4: don't hurt us, right like, don't get scored on, get
Speaker 4: a rebound if you know you're near the rim, dunke it,
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. But he thrives in doing exactly that,
Speaker 4: and he takes pride in doing exactly that. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, right now, I mean, Noah Waterman, he's getting
Speaker 4: minutes and they're trying to get him back to you
Speaker 4: know where he mean, but he's in a rough stretch
Speaker 4: for him. But yeah, I mean, I'm just looking at
Speaker 4: the roster. Everybody that's healthy, they're playing a lot of minutes.
Speaker 4: You bring Treyri off the bench obviously, but he you know,
Speaker 4: but he's not somebody. I mean, he's somebody that since
Speaker 4: being healthy, he's playing more than twenty minutes a game
Speaker 4: for the most part.
Speaker 2: And you've got Kennai.
Speaker 4: But other than that, I mean, when it comes to
Speaker 4: Casein Korn, I mean even Big Frank, there were times
Speaker 4: even when Louisville. In fact, I'm not even sure if
Speaker 4: he played the other night against Notre Dame. Maybe he
Speaker 4: did and I just don't really remember it. Yeah, he
Speaker 4: didn't get he had and he has not played in
Speaker 4: the last two games. So I would say that's why
Speaker 4: Louisville is able to I mean, I just think that
Speaker 4: they're They're going to play forty minutes with roughly the
Speaker 4: same seven eight man rotation, and they're just honestly a
Speaker 4: lot better than some of these teams. Like I think
Speaker 4: Louisville has a starting five that we don't probably have
Speaker 4: the best in the ACC at any position, maybe maybe
Speaker 4: other than point guard, because I think Chucky's that good.
Speaker 2: But obviously there's some other really good I mean, let's be.
Speaker 4: Real, there's some other really good guards in this league
Speaker 4: as well, even on the teams that aren't great. But
Speaker 4: the five, the starting five essentially, I mean, it really
Speaker 4: works well. And I know, look, both both things can
Speaker 4: be true. I think, I mean, Louisville, I think they
Speaker 4: are easily be in my opinion, I think they're the
Speaker 4: second best team in this league.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm you know, biased when I say that, So
Speaker 4: either way, maybe it's one. Maybe it's Clemson and Louisville
Speaker 4: tied for being the second best team behind Duke so
Speaker 4: and I think all three of those teams are pretty good.
Speaker 2: In fact, Duke's really good.
Speaker 4: Clemson and Louisville I think wouldn't be a shocker if
Speaker 4: both of them men up in the sweet sixteen. So
Speaker 4: you know that's what I think of him. I'm also
Speaker 4: willing to acknowledge that everybody outside of that not very good,
Speaker 4: if we're being honest. All right, two more hours left.
Speaker 4: I need to give my voice in order. It's fading me,
Speaker 4: but it's okay. We'll finish strong. Two hours left right
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