Speaker 1: There's nit coffee.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started. It is hour number
Speaker 2: two here on a Tuesday, feels like a Monday, but
Speaker 2: that's what happens when you get a three day weekend.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you guys had a good holiday weekend, enjoyed yourself.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you also had time off work. I always just assume, well, hey,
Speaker 2: it's such a big holiday, everybody's off work, right, But
Speaker 2: that's not the case. There's a lot of places that
Speaker 2: are open in fact during the holidays, and then also
Speaker 2: there's certain jobs that you know they can never now
Speaker 2: be available. So if you weren't not able to enjoy
Speaker 2: some time off, hopefully you still were able to enjoy
Speaker 2: the holiday weekend. Certainly felt like we got the summer started.
Speaker 2: It wasn't quite as warm as I think we typically
Speaker 2: want when it comes to Memorial Day weekend, but I
Speaker 2: think the worry of some gloomy weather and maybe some
Speaker 2: chili tempts, I mean, I think that went away. We
Speaker 2: were able to on on Saturday, just a beautiful evening.
Speaker 2: We ended up going out. As I mentioned earlier, we
Speaker 2: went out to dinner for my dad's birthday and went out,
Speaker 2: uh and and hated hated the Big Four area over
Speaker 2: there in Jeffersonville. Just just a beautiful evening for that.
Speaker 2: We didn't realize the pizza shot down there Parlor, No,
Speaker 2: we ended up going to uh Harry's, but but yeah,
Speaker 2: parlor's great too. But we we forgot that they were
Speaker 2: doing the Abbey on It Abbey on the River. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right. We didn't realize that. We planned to meet
Speaker 2: him and Jeff Jeff for his birthday because he lives
Speaker 2: in southern Indiana and we know there's a lot of
Speaker 2: good restaurants and just a good, good atmosphere over there.
Speaker 2: So well we get down there and there's not a
Speaker 2: whole lot of parking. But luckily the way they do
Speaker 2: that festival, it's all kind of it's all secluded with it,
Speaker 2: like you know, it's not just a like you have
Speaker 2: to actually be able to get in, and tickets are
Speaker 2: pretty pretty expensive from an understand so it wasn't as
Speaker 2: it was the best both worlds to where there were
Speaker 2: a lot of people. Did you hear the music of
Speaker 2: a little bit, Yeah, so there's a lot of people
Speaker 2: kind of out and about, but they weren't you know,
Speaker 2: they were there more so for the festival, not just
Speaker 2: we didn't have to wait for dinner, for dinner or anything.
Speaker 2: So especially is it's it has to be. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't want to call it a hidden gym, like
Speaker 2: nobody knows about it, but it's you said it. It's
Speaker 2: an awesome area and I feel like everybody knows about it.
Speaker 2: And if it's the toll that is keeping you from
Speaker 2: driving across, like I'm telling you, it's worth it because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of great dining in downtown Louisville. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of great dining in downtown Louisville as well.
Speaker 2: But anytime we do end up in jeff for dinner,
Speaker 2: I mean when you get the beautiful view of Louisville
Speaker 2: on that side, and then also you get some really
Speaker 2: nice dining without as much I mean, let's just be real.
Speaker 2: Driving in that area to get a spot the park
Speaker 2: is not as difficult as finding a spot in downtown Louisville.
Speaker 2: And you can find parking in downtown Loivelle. We have
Speaker 2: plenty of parking available. It's just it's not it's not cheap.
Speaker 2: So anyways, we did that Saturday and then Sunday it
Speaker 2: was supposed to be, I think a little gloomy and chili,
Speaker 2: and it didn't get warm, and it didn't really we
Speaker 2: didn't have a whole lot of sunshine. But we ended
Speaker 2: up kind of spontaneously just deciding to go to the
Speaker 2: track for the day at Churchill Downs Nice and we
Speaker 2: got out right as soon as it ended up starting
Speaker 2: to rain. And then okay, and then yesterday, of course,
Speaker 2: for the holiday, had a little cookout at my mom
Speaker 2: and stepdad's house and we got beautiful weather. I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't it never got you know, super warm, but
Speaker 2: it was it was nice. So hopefully everybody had themselves
Speaker 2: a good Memorial Day weekend. All right, So are you
Speaker 2: you're an ear an iPhone guy? Of course if you
Speaker 2: done the new iOS eighteen point five update, if it's
Speaker 2: a one that just happened like two days ago, then yes, okay,
Speaker 2: me too. And I'm reading here that I always go
Speaker 2: with it. I never, oh, I've never even considered like,
Speaker 2: let me see what updates. I mean, right, I feel
Speaker 2: like it's gonna update eventually on its own anyways, So
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 3: Always think, if I update this, maybe this will be
Speaker 3: the update that makes everything run battery.
Speaker 2: So I'm quick down load. Well, and even if I
Speaker 2: was resistant to the iOS update, I now look, I'm
Speaker 2: team Apple. I can't imagine not having an iPhone, and
Speaker 2: I'm not knocking those who have an Android. I would
Speaker 2: imagine though, that it's more so just because it's what
Speaker 2: you're used to. And if you've had one for seven
Speaker 2: eight years and that's what you're used to, technically they
Speaker 2: can all still do the same thing. There's not much
Speaker 2: that you can do on your Android that I can
Speaker 2: do on my Apple Vice versa. But at one point
Speaker 2: there needs to be a compromise to where we can
Speaker 2: send videos to each other and then not look like
Speaker 2: you know, yeah exactly and the green dot thing like
Speaker 2: that's still a you know. So anyways, my point is,
Speaker 2: even if I was resistant to downloading the new iOS
Speaker 2: software from my iPhone, I would know that I need to,
Speaker 2: even if I don't want to, because it's going to
Speaker 2: drain my battery. Like I mean, it's a known thing
Speaker 2: that they, you know, if you don't update, they will,
Speaker 2: I guess, legally find a way to make your product
Speaker 2: not work as effectively to where then you're encouraged to
Speaker 2: then you're encouraged to update the actual software got to
Speaker 2: follow up the line. But then also you'll eventually have
Speaker 2: to upgrade the actual device because it'll just become so
Speaker 2: old and it won't again. Sometimes things just do get old,
Speaker 2: but there's no scenario why something would stop working effectively, right,
Speaker 2: like if it's all on it, Like you know, your
Speaker 2: phone going slow and acting funny is not because it's
Speaker 2: an old device. It's more often because and this is
Speaker 2: the way they get around it, is that if they
Speaker 2: want you to upgrade, they're basically saying, look, now we've
Speaker 2: now updated everything you're using on your phone. There's way
Speaker 2: more versions for it. So if you're on iOS fourteen
Speaker 2: instead of eighteen and a half and you're using Facebook
Speaker 2: and Instagram, just know that you need to be on
Speaker 2: the latest version of iOS eighteen point five to get
Speaker 2: the best experience with those types of apps. So they're
Speaker 2: just constantly going to have you update. And sometimes I
Speaker 2: notice the difference, sometimes I don't, But I haven't noticed
Speaker 2: a thing in the last forty hours and I'm constantly
Speaker 2: on my phone. Yeah, but this write up says that
Speaker 2: it's undoubtedly the biggest update to iOS yet. It's packed
Speaker 2: with Ai Magic Boy. So it says here that there's
Speaker 2: image Playground where you can create original images with image
Speaker 2: Playground on your iPhone. On there, right, I had that.
Speaker 2: I guess there, I guess there's new, there's new advancements
Speaker 2: to it.
Speaker 3: I usually don't play around with AI images all that
Speaker 3: much like I don't use AI to make like, hey,
Speaker 3: why don't you make a two guys eating I don't know,
Speaker 3: cheeseburgers or a slice of pizza, one saying this and
Speaker 3: one's making a boo hoo face or something.
Speaker 2: I never get amusement out of it. I and you
Speaker 2: use the word amusement because there are many who use
Speaker 2: it and it's a tool. There are tools, there are
Speaker 2: AI tools that make everyone's life easier as far as
Speaker 2: certain jobs they do. But I'm convinced a lot of
Speaker 2: people just are amused of what it is and how
Speaker 2: it works to where they just like you said, hey,
Speaker 2: why don't you draw me a picture of me, you know,
Speaker 2: running in the street with a cow chasing me? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean doing Jordan. Yeah, And you don't really have
Speaker 2: any benefit of having that, but you can do it
Speaker 2: now because that's just where technology is. And again, I
Speaker 2: think people are just amused by it. And I get it.
Speaker 2: It is. I think we've probably all at this point
Speaker 2: had maybe one encounter with AI rather done yeah, rather
Speaker 2: us doing it, or or somebody showing you how it's
Speaker 2: done to where it kind of stops you in your tracks,
Speaker 2: like damn, like that's how did that? How does it
Speaker 2: do that? I mean it is pretty cool. Yeah, apparently Siri.
Speaker 2: Siri still sucks. That's the latest. Uh, They're supposed to
Speaker 2: be a I integrated and they're still working on that.
Speaker 2: I never use uh Siri at all, Okay, she's just
Speaker 2: you know, like, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: Like us, you don't do like the hate call this
Speaker 3: never that's usually what I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and most people do. I don't, and it's it's
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but uh yeah, I I don't
Speaker 2: know why because it's not really put it this way.
Speaker 2: I would hate for my mother to hear the way
Speaker 2: I speak to Siri and the way I speak to Alexa.
Speaker 3: I hate their maps. I hate the way she gives directions.
Speaker 3: I do hate that.
Speaker 2: All Alexa's got to do is say something to me
Speaker 2: and I just look at her like you better you
Speaker 2: know who you're talking to, better know who the boss is.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. It's like a weird
Speaker 2: thing with me. But even when they work effectively, you know,
Speaker 2: you're not really talking to a human. Therefore you end
Speaker 2: up talking over each other and she doesn't know when
Speaker 2: she didn't hear you, right. I think that's what actually
Speaker 2: pisses me off so much. And it's just first world problems,
Speaker 2: I guess. But I mean, I tell you what, like hey,
Speaker 2: hey Alexa or hey Siri, do this, and then they
Speaker 2: just say they're doing something for me in a cheerful voice,
Speaker 2: pleasant voice, as if they're helping me and they're happy
Speaker 2: to do so, but they don't want to say but
Speaker 2: they don't know that they know it's not I would
Speaker 2: actually do I would be fine with one sec. But
Speaker 2: if I was like, hey, hey, Alexa, can you call
Speaker 2: Tiff on my phone? Yeah? Calling Tim, And then you
Speaker 2: know she doesn't know that she's got it wrong, and
Speaker 2: she's just and I want to be like, listen to
Speaker 2: hear you, stupid mother. Like so I just stopped using
Speaker 2: her because Alexa and Siri when they don't you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm shreking mumble at times, trust me, it happens.
Speaker 2: But when it's just quite literally basic things that you know,
Speaker 2: anybody can hear and you get it wrong and you're
Speaker 2: and then you're you know, you're already actively doing something wrong. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't really know how you would be able to
Speaker 2: have her know for sure, because sometimes she'll tell you
Speaker 2: they don't know what you said. And I can deal
Speaker 2: with that, But when I say something pretty clearly and
Speaker 2: you do the wrong thing and I got to put
Speaker 2: you in your place, I don't like. I don't like that.
Speaker 2: I don't like what Alexa and Siri bring out of me,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. Yeah. So again, it's useful for sure.
Speaker 2: In fact, a lot of people do it in public,
Speaker 2: which I think is kind of odd. But again, you know,
Speaker 2: there are some people who like have the eager To me,
Speaker 2: it usually ends up being people who are a little
Speaker 2: bit on the older side to where they're they're more
Speaker 2: they they didn't have as much access to really cool
Speaker 2: technology because it wasn't around to the level that it is.
Speaker 2: So therefore when they do get to utilize it and
Speaker 2: they really like it, it's almost like they're in your
Speaker 2: face with it, like, hey, uh hey Alexa, do there
Speaker 2: or hey Siri or what what is? What is? Uh?
Speaker 2: So I guess when people talk to their Android. Are
Speaker 2: they talking to Alexa as well? Because because it's Google, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's what gotcha whatever? Whatever. I don't know if because
Speaker 2: because somebody it has to be. It has to because
Speaker 2: I'm because people are like, how are you talking to it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: People are people are people are like, how are you
Speaker 2: talking to Alexa when you have uh, when you have
Speaker 2: an iPhone? And I'm thinking, what do you mean? Well,
Speaker 2: it's because we have those little echo speakers in our
Speaker 2: in our house. We ended up moving and getting we
Speaker 2: did we I think we might have I don't even
Speaker 2: know if we asked for one, but we ended like
Speaker 2: three different people got us one house. Yeah, and and
Speaker 2: I didn't really have any intention of setting it up,
Speaker 2: but we have them set up and multiple different spots
Speaker 2: in the house and it is super convenient. However, you
Speaker 2: end up where that speaker is so sensitive that if
Speaker 2: I tell it to play the baby Faces podcast on
Speaker 2: our heart radio in the kitchen, well now it's playing
Speaker 2: in the bathroom. Now it's playing in Moose's room too,
Speaker 2: So you know we're giving you multiple multiple streams at
Speaker 2: one time. So anyways, technology is great. I can't imagine
Speaker 2: life without it, and anytime I realize that I'm frustrated
Speaker 2: with it, I have to remind myself, well, the fact
Speaker 2: that you're even able to do what we can do
Speaker 2: on our devices and what I mean, it really is insane.
Speaker 2: You can pull a phone out of your pocket, and
Speaker 2: if you spend enough time learning, there's not much you
Speaker 2: can't do on your phone, and I mean, like anything
Speaker 2: as far as what you can do on a computer
Speaker 2: any other device. It's it's insane. So we probably shouldn't
Speaker 2: be as reliant on our on our phones as we are,
Speaker 2: but we are. And I can't imagine.
Speaker 3: Life around with all some of the new feet. One
Speaker 3: of the things that I don't like is when you're texting.
Speaker 3: Now you can do the or maybe it's been a thing,
Speaker 3: but maybe it's now more in your face where you can,
Speaker 3: like you can edit the certain type of text, like
Speaker 3: if I send you all something like oh, this is
Speaker 3: gonna be huge, and then you can make like the
Speaker 3: huge like jumble up like that, or like type write
Speaker 3: in or something silly like that. I feel like that
Speaker 3: always comes up and maybe I'm just clicking on it.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's my settings, but I've sent several, you know things,
Speaker 3: somebody where the very last word is instead of just
Speaker 3: like me fat fingering something that edits that last word
Speaker 3: to make it animate basically like a word animation.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's newish, right, and I think it has
Speaker 2: to be. I think it was like the last update
Speaker 2: before this, I'm now learning of things that like I didn't.
Speaker 2: For example, I had to get a part for my
Speaker 2: car the other day, and the best way for me
Speaker 2: to determine if it was in fact the actual correct
Speaker 2: part because I've got I've got a Volkswagen Atlas and
Speaker 2: there's like five different versions of them. Yeah, and visual
Speaker 2: you wouldn't really be able to tell for the most part,
Speaker 2: but for certain parts and whatnot. You know, there's a
Speaker 2: reason you got to know the exact model that you have,
Speaker 2: and like my title doesn't specify the model to the
Speaker 2: exact te. So what I did is I took a
Speaker 2: picture of my ven on my car, and I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to like write that down by looking
Speaker 2: at the picture. You can copy text on a picture.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I felt super stupid, not realizing that you've been able
Speaker 2: to do that, probably not for a long time, but
Speaker 2: you know how convenient that is. Yeah, because I take
Speaker 2: pictures of a lot. I take pictures of a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff, and screenshots of a lot of stuff just
Speaker 2: for frame of reference, for notes and stuff just to
Speaker 2: keep up with. And now I can just hold down
Speaker 2: the text that's in a screen shot or the text
Speaker 2: that's in a picture that I take. Like we just
Speaker 2: give you an example of how this. At one point
Speaker 2: we drove past something on a road trip and I
Speaker 2: ended up taking a picture of a billboard that mentioned
Speaker 2: like a restaurant or place we wanted to stop. It
Speaker 2: wouldn't be that big of a deal to just like
Speaker 2: look at your look at your phone and then go
Speaker 2: back and put in the number. But now I can
Speaker 2: literally just hold down where the phone number is for something,
Speaker 2: or what the exit number is, and it's it's just
Speaker 2: pasting that into your phone rather than instead of having
Speaker 2: to write it down and remember it. It's just it's
Speaker 2: super easy.
Speaker 3: So again, I always thought the coolest thing that they did,
Speaker 3: probably like a year or two ago, is now like
Speaker 3: when you you know, when you have to, like you
Speaker 3: put in a password to something and then it sends
Speaker 3: you like a text, and yeah, like the text it
Speaker 3: automatically has the code that it sent you pulled up
Speaker 3: and you just click on that. I think that's one
Speaker 3: of the most clutchest of.
Speaker 2: No yeah ever and these things that we didn't know
Speaker 2: to ask for because we didn't think about it. But man,
Speaker 2: that you know, it's awesome. So real quick, here's a
Speaker 2: rundown of what I guess are the features that are
Speaker 2: getting the most attention right now. Chat GPT integration. Not
Speaker 2: sure what that I mean Chat GPT is. I use
Speaker 2: the app there, I don't know what the integration is,
Speaker 2: but if it makes it more easy to use than hell, yeah,
Speaker 2: all so they've got let's see here, let's see addressing
Speaker 2: the use. Yeah, apparently there's something to where you can
Speaker 2: you now have a better ability to turn your like
Speaker 2: hotspot on which we use that a lot for our
Speaker 2: kids if we're in the car and they need Wi
Speaker 2: Fi to you know, distract themselves from being on a
Speaker 2: long road trip. It's pretty essential. So yeah, shout out
Speaker 2: to to Apple and thank you for your products that
Speaker 2: have made you know that have made my life givingly
Speaker 2: better someone Internet exactly all right, real quick before we
Speaker 2: get to our first break here in the four o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: I think I can say it now because we have
Speaker 2: triple checked. We are out early today. We thought we
Speaker 2: were out early last Thursday, ended up not being out early,
Speaker 2: but today we are. So we'll wrap up the show
Speaker 2: at about five thirty five and hand it off to
Speaker 2: the voice of the Louis of Bats, Nick Currn, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, shout out to the Bats. We actually
Speaker 2: went out to watch the game on Friday night. Yeah, Friday,
Speaker 2: I left here after the show and we went out,
Speaker 2: took the family, had a real good time and you know,
Speaker 2: had had some bruskies and let the kids play around
Speaker 2: and just enjoyed a beautiful evening at the bar. Some
Speaker 2: buddy Oh hell yeah, Buddy Bat was just just doing
Speaker 2: the damn thing. Nobody has got the juice quite like
Speaker 2: Buddy Bat. When the kids are on the playground and
Speaker 2: he walks by, you kidd me, I mean, might he's
Speaker 2: the coolest cat in town. He's not a cat, he's
Speaker 2: a bat, but you know he's the coolest bad in town.
Speaker 2: You're damn right. So yeah, shout out to the Louis
Speaker 2: of Bats. They're back in action this evening, and again
Speaker 2: we'll hand it off to Nick Curran, the Voice of
Speaker 2: the Bats. In about an hour fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 2: All right, so it looks like the vill the TBT
Speaker 2: squad has added a new player that I think fans
Speaker 2: will be excited about. We'll talk about that next and
Speaker 2: I'm trying to see if there's been any update from
Speaker 2: Otega Oa. Looks like he's gonna probably wait till tomorrow
Speaker 2: to announce it. I just cannot see a scenario where
Speaker 2: he decides to stay in the draft and knock come
Speaker 2: back to Kentucky. But I guess until he says it,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be Someoentucky fans a little worried that maybe
Speaker 2: he'll decide to move on. I just I can't see
Speaker 2: it happening to myself, but we shall see. Keep it
Speaker 2: lock right here, it's coffee in Company. Feel about Thorton's
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Speaker 2: I totally forgot that Halliburton's dad's gonna be back in
Speaker 2: the building tonight, which it shouldn't have any impact on
Speaker 2: the game, but you can easily. You should be actually
Speaker 2: up three to zero with a chance to end this
Speaker 2: tonight with the brooms out Halliburn's dad back, that New
Speaker 2: York native who is a firefighter but a big time
Speaker 2: Pacers fan. He got flown in. This is the game
Speaker 2: he's going to be at. So it would just be
Speaker 2: nice to be able to end it. And if they
Speaker 2: win it in in five or six, even seven, I'm
Speaker 2: still going to be happy. But I think it became
Speaker 2: maybe not insanely more difficult because you should still be
Speaker 2: able to get it done and win the series, but
Speaker 2: you were in control. It seemed as if the Knicks
Speaker 2: had pretty much mailed it in, and man, was that
Speaker 2: not the best. And there's a lot of examples, but
Speaker 2: that game was the example of you can never just
Speaker 2: assume a game's over. I mean that one was everyone
Speaker 2: was it was over, and then you know what, So
Speaker 2: it is Coffee and Company. We're feel about Thorton's here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. The vill the TVT squad
Speaker 2: there of course running it back this year, and here's
Speaker 2: to hope and they can have some success because it
Speaker 2: is fun for me to watch former Louisville players compete
Speaker 2: on the basketball court and on TV too, by the way,
Speaker 2: Like that's what I mean, it's you don't have to
Speaker 2: go you can watch it on FS one or Fox
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. And there's no better time than
Speaker 2: the summer whenever there's not as much going on as
Speaker 2: far as what we really care about. And by the way,
Speaker 2: you get to watch hoops, and we love hoops around here.
Speaker 2: So they have added Earl Clark to the squad E five,
Speaker 2: which I know that'll have a lot of fans happy,
Speaker 2: myself included. I don't know exactly where where Earl has
Speaker 2: played most recently, but he's clearly still playing at a
Speaker 2: high level. And I think it was last year he
Speaker 2: was supposed to join the team. I think there's been
Speaker 2: two years where Earl was supposed to be a part
Speaker 2: of it and ended up not being able to play
Speaker 2: because of contract. One I think was a team that
Speaker 2: he was playing for, might have still been Goys, It
Speaker 2: might have been in I feel like it might have
Speaker 2: been in China, maybe I'm wrong. And then another year
Speaker 2: I think he was set to play but decided to
Speaker 2: end up playing for the Big Three, which is Ice
Speaker 2: Cubes League. So yeah, Earl's gonna be with the with
Speaker 2: the squad this year, and and you know, I him
Speaker 2: alongside guys like Tres and I'm not sure if none
Speaker 2: who's coming back or not, but to me, that seems
Speaker 2: seems like a pretty good squad that they've that they've
Speaker 2: got right now. And I'm just try I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: spending on my wheels here. I'm trying to see where
Speaker 2: he played most recently. Looks like the last team that
Speaker 2: that he was on was, let's see, he was in Taiwan.
Speaker 2: That's where he played most recently. So there you go,
Speaker 2: all right, So the off season so far in college football,
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of different storylines, as there typically is,
Speaker 2: but the conference commissioners from the Big twelve acc SEC
Speaker 2: in Big Ten them not being on the same page,
Speaker 2: there being some contentiousness and some pushback on certain things.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that is news, but that shouldn't
Speaker 2: be surprising to anybody. I mean, I don't know why
Speaker 2: that would be considered something that, you know, people are
Speaker 2: shocked by because they don't work together. They're competitors. Their
Speaker 2: existence maybe not as human beings, but in their profession
Speaker 2: is to make sure that their conference is in the
Speaker 2: best position, and they shouldn't give a damn about what
Speaker 2: happens to any other conference. So I'm not even really
Speaker 2: being critical of anybody, even Sankee, who again is going
Speaker 2: to clearly try to run the sport and not just
Speaker 2: run his conference. That's I mean, he's not supposed to
Speaker 2: run the sport, but if he can use his power
Speaker 2: and leverage being the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, I mean,
Speaker 2: she'll be really fault him for doing that. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe you think he shouldn't try, but he probably
Speaker 2: knows that he's he's going to be able to to
Speaker 2: an extent. So Sankie is of course still pushing for
Speaker 2: the college Football playoff format that gives the SEC and
Speaker 2: Big Ten automatic bids to where there'd be four of
Speaker 2: each from the SEC in the Big Ten, which, again
Speaker 2: my whole argument is not about which league is better.
Speaker 2: My whole argument is not about none of my argument
Speaker 2: is about. In fact, it's not an argument. I just
Speaker 2: think it's insanely stupid to give any conference automatic spots
Speaker 2: before anybody's played a game. Whenever you can have conferences,
Speaker 2: you could have conferences to fall off a cliff and
Speaker 2: don't exist anymore, like the PAC twelve. You can have
Speaker 2: conferences that are supposed to be insanely loaded, and then
Speaker 2: you know they're not. And by the way, the SEC
Speaker 2: is the best exams sample of that lately. If the
Speaker 2: playoff went to I guess sixteen and instead of getting
Speaker 2: in twelve last year, I mean, let me look at
Speaker 2: the final college football playoff rankings and we'll let you
Speaker 2: hear some Sanki sound because he talked and again he's
Speaker 2: taken some jabs at the at the other conferences, and
Speaker 2: who should be surprised. He's the commissioner of the SEC
Speaker 2: their competitors. So last year, if there were automatic bids
Speaker 2: that went to four Big ten and four SEC, you
Speaker 2: would have had let's see Georgia, Texas, Tennessee. Those were
Speaker 2: the was it eight teams? It was eight or twelve
Speaker 2: last year? Why am I thinking? Why am I getting
Speaker 2: confused here? Let me see now I'm confusing myself because
Speaker 2: they haven't expanded it yet, but I know they're looking
Speaker 2: at expanding it. It was eight, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm an idiot, really really finishing strong here. In my
Speaker 2: last week on Sports Talk seven ninety there were let's
Speaker 2: see twelve, Yeah, there were twelve, So if there were
Speaker 2: if they put in sixteen, let's just say that the
Speaker 2: playoff last year was the way that the SEC and
Speaker 2: the Big Ten want, meaning four automatic bids for those members,
Speaker 2: and you've got four automatic for the Big Ten. And
Speaker 2: let's say we're going to sixteen and it's not twelve,
Speaker 2: because that's what they're pushing for, is to expand it
Speaker 2: to sixteen and then make it to where half the
Speaker 2: field is just automatically given to the Big Ten and
Speaker 2: the SEC. Again, they may have years where they're deserving
Speaker 2: of eleven of the sixteen, but they should earn that.
Speaker 2: They should go play and win games and be good
Speaker 2: enough to determine that, not just have it. Well, you
Speaker 2: know they're in the SEC. So it's not about like, well,
Speaker 2: we can't have too many SEC teams. I don't see
Speaker 2: a scenario where would ever work out this way, just
Speaker 2: because of how college football exists and only being twelve
Speaker 2: regular season games. But there may be a year where
Speaker 2: you got to put fifteen to the sixteen teams from
Speaker 2: the SEC in because they're just that good. I'm not
Speaker 2: against that would never happen. That's a stupid hypothetic hypothetical
Speaker 2: to throw at you. But what I'm saying is that
Speaker 2: this isn't about me claiming the SEC is not great.
Speaker 2: But if they're as great as they think they are
Speaker 2: and as great as I think they are, just go
Speaker 2: earn it. Like this is now getting into the conversation,
Speaker 2: is if there's teams last year that got left out
Speaker 2: that truly feel as if they belonged, and like that's
Speaker 2: just delusion and it's an arrogance that is just unheard of,
Speaker 2: just assuming that any other league, Well it is not
Speaker 2: the SEC. I mean, Alabama didn't get in, They got
Speaker 2: blown out by a bad Oklahoma team. They lost to
Speaker 2: Vandyvandy is still Vandy too, by the way. I know,
Speaker 2: they're not what they once were, but like Vandy, maybe
Speaker 2: that's the best example of the arrogance in the SEC,
Speaker 2: because it started to turn to where they wanted you
Speaker 2: to view Vandy as a quality loss. Bandy lost to
Speaker 2: a G five team earlier in the year, and they
Speaker 2: just mean again, Vandy having a pulse seems like an
Speaker 2: improvement because of just what their program has always been.
Speaker 2: Ole Miss nine and three didn't get in. Ole Miss
Speaker 2: got beat at home by the second to worst team,
Speaker 2: the fifteenth place team in a sixteen team league. Also
Speaker 2: lost to Florida, who you know, nobody's saying Florida is terrible,
Speaker 2: but that loss should be held against you. That's the
Speaker 2: example that I think might really make the most sense.
Speaker 2: Ole miss losing to Florida. They don't think that's well,
Speaker 2: it's flips Florida, it's the SEC. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: Really isn't much difference than Miami losing to Syracuse when
Speaker 2: they did seriously, Syracuse beating Miami kept Miami from the playoff.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear many people claiming, well, you know, Miami
Speaker 2: still went ten and two and their losses were to
Speaker 2: I don't eve remember who beat Miami last year in
Speaker 2: the ACC outside of Clemson. I really don't. But anyways,
Speaker 2: point and by the way, Miami killed Florida when they
Speaker 2: played him earlier this year in Gainesville in that season.
Speaker 2: But let me give you an example. The SEC delusion
Speaker 2: doesn't even wrap their mind around the argument that Alabama
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, oh missus loss to Florida is worse than
Speaker 2: Miami's lost to Syracuse. They just can't they can't process
Speaker 2: that upstairs. Right. Syracuse went nine to three and finished
Speaker 2: twenty first in these rankings. Florida wanted to fire their
Speaker 2: coach and they messed around and enough games to you know,
Speaker 2: not hate him as much. But because it's the SEC,
Speaker 2: they've got this delusion that's just insane to me. And
Speaker 2: again it's not about it being the best league. It's
Speaker 2: them thinking that it's not. It's a different planet compared
Speaker 2: to the other conferences, and it it This year, in fact,
Speaker 2: was the year where they didn't really have like they
Speaker 2: they didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt in this
Speaker 2: year because the SEC in the non conference portion wasn't
Speaker 2: that impressive. Doesn't mean it's it's a bad league by
Speaker 2: any means, But like you had a season where there
Speaker 2: was some proof that just because it's always been that way,
Speaker 2: meaning you've been the best league, doesn't mean that it's
Speaker 2: always going to play out that way every year. Like
Speaker 2: what what has happened in previous seasons should never matter
Speaker 2: at all. So if that's the and who would argue
Speaker 2: against that, who would argue against previous seasons, previous eras
Speaker 2: factoring in how we set up the field to compete
Speaker 2: for a national championship, that should it should never matter.
Speaker 2: But by granting automatic bids just for certain conference members,
Speaker 2: not based off of like an accomplishment before any game
Speaker 2: is played, it's fundamentally not competitive like that. It's a
Speaker 2: popularity contest at that point, it really is. And you
Speaker 2: may have the popularity contest play out to where the
Speaker 2: popular teams were the best teams. But sometimes it didn't
Speaker 2: happen that way, like Alabama. If they'd have snuck in
Speaker 2: and made it, we probably would have been surprised. But
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you'd say, well, you know,
Speaker 2: it's Bama. But Bama didn't have anything this year at
Speaker 2: all at all that made it appear as if they
Speaker 2: were worthy of being in the field this past year.
Speaker 2: Nick Saban wasn't the coach anymore. I know by the
Speaker 2: way they went to a bowl game with their quarterback too,
Speaker 2: Jaylen Milroe, and got housed by a bad Michigan team
Speaker 2: that got blown out by Indiana. I mean, and I
Speaker 2: don't bring up Indiana to act like they were a
Speaker 2: terrible Indiana team, but Indiana seemingly got no credit from
Speaker 2: the SEC because their conference schedule wasn't quite as tough.
Speaker 2: But anyways, if the playoff existed this past year the
Speaker 2: way they wanted to look in the future, meaning the
Speaker 2: SEC Hawks, you would have had Ole Miss and Alabama
Speaker 2: both get in, you would have had Let's see, what
Speaker 2: really throws me off is having to remind myself that
Speaker 2: Oregon is now in the Big Ten. That's just weird
Speaker 2: to me. But in the Big Ten you had Oregon,
Speaker 2: Penn State, Indiana, and I guess technically, I guess technically
Speaker 2: your the other Big Ten team outside of those three,
Speaker 2: who would it have been? I guess there was a
Speaker 2: pretty big job, wasn't there. Yeah, I mean, Michigan's usually good.
Speaker 2: They weren't, Washington fell off, USC was not good, Cla sucks.
Speaker 2: So yeah, outside of again, this this might be the
Speaker 2: best example unless I'm just blanking on something here looking out.
Speaker 2: So Penn's here, I'm sorry, I'm an idiot. Oregon, Penn State,
Speaker 2: Ohio State, and Indiana got in. But after that, like
Speaker 2: let's say, let's say, you know you, that's just your
Speaker 2: automatic spots. So I think in most years you'll get
Speaker 2: more than just four if those teams are good. But
Speaker 2: the fourth best team, I guess the fifth best team
Speaker 2: I should say in the Big Ten was Illinois. I mean, again,
Speaker 2: there's there's no argument to be made about which conference
Speaker 2: annually has the best teams as far as depth. Who
Speaker 2: has the most actual title contenders, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But it's the SEC But that really has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with how the tournament should be put together as
Speaker 2: far as how they determine who gets in. But Sankie's
Speaker 2: frustrated that he's being seen as the bad guy in
Speaker 2: college sports, which maybe that's fair, Maybe it's fair. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't really think he's in the wrong for fighting
Speaker 2: for his league, but we have such a warped perception
Speaker 2: of what this is because he doesn't like these individuals
Speaker 2: that are working together towards this. Their job is to
Speaker 2: not work together. That makes sense. Their job is to
Speaker 2: always do whatever they can for the betterment for the
Speaker 2: better of their league. And Sankee playing victim is a
Speaker 2: little weak just because you know, I mean, it just
Speaker 2: seems like you're being a little bit of a drama
Speaker 2: queen here. And the reason we don't hear as much
Speaker 2: about the Big Tens Commissioner Tony Petiti is because he
Speaker 2: doesn't He doesn't wake up every day wanting to be
Speaker 2: in front of the camera. And look, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with Sankie doing that. He's there's a reason a lot
Speaker 2: of people know who he is, even the casual college
Speaker 2: fans because he's a powerful guy in college sports. He
Speaker 2: takes advantage of opportunities that he can when he is
Speaker 2: on the Fine Bomb Network or whatever it may be,
Speaker 2: because you know, he's I mean, that's really that that's
Speaker 2: a position that you probably would want to take advantage of, knowing, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm the SEC commissioner. I can get on TV whenever
Speaker 2: I want, and you know, influence people by certain things.
Speaker 2: But I have no clue. I don't even hate to
Speaker 2: say this, but I don't. It's not like I'm following
Speaker 2: it to see if we get any big we get
Speaker 2: any big news in regards to like are they going
Speaker 2: to go? I don't even know what the deadline is.
Speaker 2: But Sankie's tone was was pretty he was he was
Speaker 2: upset and bothered by it. And I'm now doing and
Speaker 2: I'm now spinning my wheels not knowing, like is that
Speaker 2: because again I think if I heard it, and we'll
Speaker 2: let you guys hear a little bit of it on
Speaker 2: the other side, But I think if I heard it,
Speaker 2: I would be like, oh, come on, dude, get over yourself.
Speaker 2: But also, at the end of the day, it's like
Speaker 2: an agent, you're always going to try to find a
Speaker 2: better deal, a better situation for the client you represent,
Speaker 2: and if they've got the best deal in the world,
Speaker 2: your job is to see what you can do in
Speaker 2: some way to maybe get a better one, because that's
Speaker 2: literally your job. That's kind of what a commissioner is.
Speaker 2: So maybe he's just brilliant, but I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like him being a drama queen about it would be,
Speaker 2: you know, turn off to a lot of people. But
Speaker 2: we got a lot more to get to and not
Speaker 2: a whole lot of time left, so stick around right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: That's right, we were wrapping up the four o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: We'll have a shorter five o'clock hour than usual because
Speaker 2: the Louisville Bats are in action this evening pregame coverage
Speaker 2: going to start around five thirty. Will hand it off
Speaker 2: to the voice of the Bats, Nick Current, and we'll
Speaker 2: certainly take advantage of the time we do have left.
Speaker 2: And tonight we've got Game four of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 2: Big time Pacers fan here, so I'm hopeful they can
Speaker 2: win at home. And just at that point realize, with
Speaker 2: four games in, you just need one more of the
Speaker 2: three and you win if he gets tied up. Totally
Speaker 2: different scenario for obvious reasons. But one of the things
Speaker 2: that I've that I've really enjoyed watching this this Pacers
Speaker 2: team because you know, it's they haven't been this good
Speaker 2: in a while, and they've got a superstar and Tyrese Haliburton,
Speaker 2: and you know, he was voted as the most overrated
Speaker 2: player in the NBA by his peers, and they are
Speaker 2: entitled about opinion. But here he is in the Eastern
Speaker 2: Conference finals and throughout the postseason he has been insanely
Speaker 2: clutch in big time. So I'm sure his his his
Speaker 2: play has maybe had some of those guys, whether they
Speaker 2: would admit it or not, second guess if they really
Speaker 2: do believe that he's that overrated, because you know, the
Speaker 2: results speak for themselves. So there's a video that I
Speaker 2: saw last week. I think it might have been after
Speaker 2: Game one, and I mean it's now gone insane viral,
Speaker 2: and I feel like I was pretty early in seeing it.
Speaker 2: It's the it's the algorithm. Knowing that I'm that I'm
Speaker 2: a big Pacers fan, but there are some really talented
Speaker 2: people who utilize the Internet to make us laugh, and
Speaker 2: I would have never thought of this. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you could have done a better edit, but Austin,
Speaker 2: have you seen the video where somebody has Tyrese Haliburton
Speaker 2: highlights mixed with Steve Erkle highlights from Family Matters? Because
Speaker 2: it's so true and I think I wish I understood
Speaker 2: the full context, but I believe there was some kind
Speaker 2: of a Tyrese Haliburton reads mean texts or tweets or
Speaker 2: something like that from a while back. Because it's his
Speaker 2: voice reading I guess something, but you can't see him.
Speaker 2: The beginning of the video is just you know, a
Speaker 2: little like a little intro highlights of him, you know,
Speaker 2: being a star, and it in the the it has
Speaker 2: a voiceover that says, Tyrese Haliburton plays like Arkele in
Speaker 2: that episode of Family Matters when he went off. And
Speaker 2: then sure enough this episode, which I remember, I'm a
Speaker 2: huge fan. Family Matters is probably my favorite sitcom growing up.
Speaker 2: I loved it, and there's I remember the episode. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have remembered the plays and anything like that, but
Speaker 2: there's like six individual moves that Erkele does in this
Speaker 2: game for like you know, dramatic effect, Like how is
Speaker 2: this nerd out here taking them right to the rack?
Speaker 2: How's this nerd out here dropping nolak dimes always throwing
Speaker 2: it off the backboard to Eddie Winslow, Come on now?
Speaker 2: And there are plays within the many games that Tyrese
Speaker 2: Haliburton has played for the Pacers over the years where
Speaker 2: he's done something almost exactly like one of the Erkele highlights.
Speaker 2: And I want to give credit to who this is
Speaker 2: because it's a gift to be one that creative, to
Speaker 2: kind of know that he does actually play like Erkele,
Speaker 2: but then also to just have the editing ability to
Speaker 2: put this together. I mean, it's it's crazy and this
Speaker 2: this this the account is NBA edits Queen, and I
Speaker 2: follow her on TikTok and she's a gifted video editor.
Speaker 2: And this one, if you haven't seen it, I mean
Speaker 2: it's it's so accurate and it's just so put together
Speaker 2: to where you can, like if if nobody knew anything
Speaker 2: about Halliburton or family matters, but I showed you this
Speaker 2: video edit and told you this guy models his game
Speaker 2: after Steve Burkle. And he tries to be like him
Speaker 2: when he plays every night in the in the NBA.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, and then you watched this this you know,
Speaker 2: minute long, fifty second long video and you believe it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy. I mean, it's just so. I
Speaker 2: tweeted it the night it came out from NBA edits Queen,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna retweet it now if you guys want
Speaker 2: to check it out. If you haven't seen it, just
Speaker 2: at the card connect on Twitter X. That's that's where
Speaker 2: you'll find me. But I'm telling you it is. It's
Speaker 2: one of those moments. And I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 2: us have had those moments over the years where you're like, man,
Speaker 2: shout out to the Internet, Like the Internet has given
Speaker 2: me some good laughs over the years, and we probably
Speaker 2: wouldn't have these laughs if we didn't have the Internet.
Speaker 2: So I've been loving the zesty Carl Oh gosh, I
Speaker 2: mean when he want me, when he when he went
Speaker 2: off on us in in the fourth quarter of the
Speaker 2: other night. I mean, i mean, I'm sitting here thinking
Speaker 2: like people can make fun of him with his feminine
Speaker 2: voice and mannerisms, but man, he's tough. And then whenever
Speaker 2: the pardon My Take Twitter account just tweeted one of
Speaker 2: his many buckets that he had later and they said,
Speaker 2: watch out, Big Zesty's cooking. And I'm just like, it's like,
Speaker 2: like he's Big Zesty, right, Like that's that's that's too
Speaker 2: accurate to not work, and he's out. I'm worried about
Speaker 2: Big Zesty tonight because he's been a problem for us
Speaker 2: now again, he's so at times a liability defensively when
Speaker 2: the Pacers play with their you know, they play four out,
Speaker 2: sometimes they go five out. I mean they stretch the floor.
Speaker 2: You know, he's not as he's big, he's not as
Speaker 2: easy to move, but he also can just give you
Speaker 2: problems because you don't expect guys that big to be
Speaker 2: able to do the things he can do offensively. So
Speaker 2: it should be a good game tonight. We'll see, we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens. All right, let's take a break. We'll
Speaker 2: come back one long segment before we get out of
Speaker 2: here for the Bats game. So keep it locked right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety