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Speaker 1: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
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Speaker 2: Nick Coffee.
Speaker 4: That's me the company man, mister John all On alongside today.
Speaker 4: I say today is if like it's a it's a
Speaker 4: rare thing. It's every day's Coffee and Company with myself,
Speaker 4: Nick Coffee and the company man.
Speaker 2: You know the drill.
Speaker 3: Can I say something I've always wondered, say whatever you want?
Speaker 3: I've always wondered why you say today, because I don't
Speaker 3: usually say that.
Speaker 2: I feel like you always.
Speaker 4: I say today for the show specifically, I don't know
Speaker 4: that I've ever once.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 4: That's why I got kind of caught in my tracks there,
Speaker 4: threw me off. I threw myself off because I don't
Speaker 4: feel like I usually mentioned that, like and today we
Speaker 4: have the company man, mister John Alden, because again it's
Speaker 4: it's not I mean, it's mostly every day he does
Speaker 4: get vacation, we do allow him to take time off.
Speaker 4: And you know, he should take time off whenever. It's whenever,
Speaker 4: you know, whenever he wants to. But yes, today, tomorrow,
Speaker 4: to my knowledge, the next day it'll be it'll be
Speaker 4: a foreseeable future, exactly exactly. So again we were at
Speaker 4: you for the next three hours, taking you up until
Speaker 4: six o'clock. It'll be a really busy show. Today we
Speaker 4: have a rare Wednesday edition of the show where we
Speaker 4: will have not one, not two, but three guests joining us,
Speaker 4: which that's not a bad thing. In fact, I'm excited
Speaker 4: to have all of these guests on the show, or
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have them on the show.
Speaker 2: That's kind of how it works.
Speaker 4: I have a say so when it comes to who
Speaker 4: is actually going to join us, and we'll lay out
Speaker 4: the entire show in just a moment. But now, once
Speaker 4: again throwing myself off to start the show, there are
Speaker 4: like national hosts don't get a say so in a guest.
Speaker 4: And I shouldn't say don't get to say so, because
Speaker 4: they probably do. But there are, maybe there were, maybe
Speaker 4: there isn't anymore, just because of the ever changing landscape
Speaker 4: here that is the radio platform, But there was, I
Speaker 4: mean in the national level, which again we're not that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'd like to think we reach people all
Speaker 4: across the globe, but you know, and and we do
Speaker 4: to an extent, but this is certainly not a nationally
Speaker 4: syndicated show. I mean, although it kind of is when
Speaker 4: it comes to streaming, because you know, you can listen anywhere.
Speaker 4: But what I'm getting at is I would not do
Speaker 4: well with the producer that like their boss, which of
Speaker 4: course is not me, they were in charge of like
Speaker 4: getting a guest and guesting up going heavy. And I
Speaker 4: know you've you've produced any shows over the years, including
Speaker 4: this one, have you been like in charge of getting
Speaker 4: guests before? For a host, I've been semi in charge.
Speaker 4: I had a big contact list of a former host
Speaker 4: that I used to work with in the mornings, and
Speaker 4: there were times if we were short on guests for
Speaker 4: a specific day, I may go down the list and
Speaker 4: reach out to a couple of people that may be
Speaker 4: interested in talking about what he was planning on talking
Speaker 4: about for that day. And that would be the extent
Speaker 4: of what I would do in regards to scheduling, see
Speaker 4: and that would you know that makes sense, And I
Speaker 4: know that if I ever asked you, In fact, you've
Speaker 4: gotten us a guest or two before. It's just I
Speaker 4: never really throw it throw it your way because I've
Speaker 4: I always feel as if you're gonna have a guest
Speaker 4: on just to fill time and just because you feel
Speaker 4: like it's what you're supposed to do. I mean, everybody's
Speaker 4: different as far as their preferences as a listener and
Speaker 4: their preferences as a host. But I'll put it this way.
Speaker 4: This is the nicest way to say it without sounding,
Speaker 4: you know, arrogant. I'm not good at having conversations on
Speaker 4: this platform with people that I genuinely don't have a
Speaker 4: lot of interest in what they're saying, if that makes sense. Now,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's just a conversation. They're a regular guests that
Speaker 4: join us that like, I feel like I'm just talking
Speaker 4: to my buddy, And you guys probably feel like when
Speaker 4: you listen to him every week, it's the same thing.
Speaker 4: Maybe not to the extent because you're not conversing with them,
Speaker 4: you're just listening, but like, you know what you're getting
Speaker 4: when we bring in Kendrick Haskins, Kent Spencer, Zach Barnett,
Speaker 4: doctor Benn's, doctor McElroy, so Alex Kupper, so you know,
Speaker 4: you you know, those are guests that are regulars for
Speaker 4: the most part. But if I just had John come
Speaker 4: in and say, here's who I've got today. We're gonna
Speaker 4: bring in you know, Joe something something and he's gonna
Speaker 4: tell us about the legal battle between a the ACC
Speaker 4: and Clemson in Florida State. He's a legal expert, and
Speaker 4: here's who he like. That might not even be a
Speaker 4: bad interview. I just don't know if I would be
Speaker 4: the best at that, and it wouldn't be fun to me.
Speaker 4: So you know, there's different ways to do it. But
Speaker 4: I know, you know, there are people who now host
Speaker 4: that I've networked with over the years, not in this
Speaker 4: market but elsewhere that before they got a chance to host,
Speaker 4: they worked as a producer for a long time and
Speaker 4: it was just clear, Hey, every day they need to
Speaker 4: bring five guests on a three hour show, and they've
Speaker 4: got to be the one reaching out, they've got to
Speaker 4: be the one coordinating it. And uh, you know everybody's different, right,
Speaker 4: everybody's different. I just you know, I I'm a control freak.
Speaker 4: That's honestly the best way to say it. I'm a
Speaker 4: control freak. So, like, what am I gonna do, John,
Speaker 4: if I ever get a different gig, if I ever
Speaker 4: move on and like I have, like I'm like part
Speaker 4: of a three man show where there's not really one host,
Speaker 4: it's just three.
Speaker 3: That maybe I could see that being a very big adjustment.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't. I mean, I think the
Speaker 3: biggest example of that too, is when you guested on
Speaker 3: Billy Rutledge's KSR pre show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just a couple of months and I turned it
Speaker 4: into my show. I mean, And it's not like, it's
Speaker 4: not intention, it's just literally I've I've never and it's
Speaker 4: not again, I am a control freak. But I can
Speaker 4: just tell you straight up, the reason that I have
Speaker 4: been on radio, for gosh, it's it's over ten years now.
Speaker 4: In some former fashion, I've been with iHeart coming up
Speaker 4: on nine years. But the majority, I mean, every time
Speaker 4: I've been on the Radio rather be here. In the
Speaker 4: three different slots that I've had or the other stations
Speaker 4: that I've worked for, it's been just because they can't
Speaker 4: just go out and hire somebody. They don't have the
Speaker 4: funds to do that, or they're not going to make
Speaker 4: that investment. So that's when it hit me when I
Speaker 4: got the job here and I made this sort of
Speaker 4: my you know, this my full time job. This is
Speaker 4: what I do, it's my livelihood. I left my other
Speaker 4: career that I that I had been in for you know,
Speaker 4: a little while there, I mean about ten years honestly,
Speaker 4: and I was so excited and just completely you know,
Speaker 4: in shock that I was going to be able to,
Speaker 4: you know, have this opportunity. It never really hit me
Speaker 4: until week of I'm like, oh yeah, I'm by myself.
Speaker 4: I got three hours I got to fill and you
Speaker 4: get you know, I can now do that and not
Speaker 4: a whole lot of trouble for me to fill the time.
Speaker 4: Hopefully each time I do that, it's somewhat entertaining for
Speaker 4: you guys listening. But anyways, we have three guests today
Speaker 4: and I'll tell you those guests are in just a moment,
Speaker 4: but I do want to start with this because I've
Speaker 4: got I've made an observation of the last few days,
Speaker 4: and it's it's anytime I'm on the road now, it's
Speaker 4: consuming me to look for these converted businesses. And what
Speaker 4: I'm getting at is we were leaving lunch on Sunday,
Speaker 4: my wife and I went and the kids. Of course,
Speaker 4: we went and watched some football on Sunday afternoon at
Speaker 4: a great establishment over in Middletown. And on our way out,
Speaker 4: right before we hit what is that? You can't think
Speaker 4: of what that road is?
Speaker 2: Is it Shelbyville Road? I think it's shelby Ville.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm not the most familiar with that area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And.
Speaker 4: I noticed there was what clearly used to be a bank,
Speaker 4: Like you can tell that that that that was a bank.
Speaker 4: And they've got, you know, the drive through and you
Speaker 4: know you can tell it's not a drive through for
Speaker 4: a pharmacy. It's not a drive through for a restaurant.
Speaker 4: It's a drive through it that you see at a bank.
Speaker 4: They're pretty, they're pretty, they stand out like it's pretty
Speaker 4: pretty clear when you see that's what it is. They've
Speaker 4: got those funnels. You know, they're not sending funnels to
Speaker 4: you when you go to the McDonald's drive through and
Speaker 4: now they sell mattresses, and you know, I'm sure it's
Speaker 4: a nice I mean it's it's in a good area,
Speaker 4: a lot of traffic, a lot of people. It's actually
Speaker 4: connected to a shopping center, and I'm sure it's spacious.
Speaker 4: But I just, you know, I'm thinking to myself, you're
Speaker 4: not fooling me. He used to be a bank. Now
Speaker 4: you think you can just sell me a matt No,
Speaker 4: this is fraud. I mean it's not really. And I'm
Speaker 4: just thinking, like, you know, why why not? Why not
Speaker 4: go get a different location, Like wouldn't you wouldn't you
Speaker 4: feel better off kind of being it. It's one thing
Speaker 4: like if I walk into John's home, I'm not gonna think, hmm,
Speaker 4: I wonder who used to live here. It's John's home.
Speaker 4: He's got you know, it's quite clear that it's his home.
Speaker 4: He's got pictures of his family hanging up, you know,
Speaker 4: probably wedding pictures on the wall, him and his lovely bride.
Speaker 4: He might even have a picture of me on the wall.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: If he did, I would be honored. If he wants one,
Speaker 4: I'll get him one. Just throwing that out there if
Speaker 4: you want, if you want, maybe a headshot me when
Speaker 4: you know, maybe in the living room.
Speaker 3: Maybe afiguring my home studio, save a spot, keep me,
Speaker 3: keep me in mind.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've got a no joke. I've got a
Speaker 4: picture of Tony Venetti hanging in my basement Benetti's Louisville.
Speaker 4: So I don't know why it did. It doesn't really
Speaker 4: bother me. But if it was me, I would want
Speaker 4: to be my own brand. And yeah, you can redo it,
Speaker 4: but you're not fooling anybody that used to be a bank.
Speaker 4: So like going back to the example, if I walk
Speaker 4: into John's house, he's got pictures of the previous owners.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe that's not the I mean it clearly,
Speaker 4: it's not a great comparison. But now when I'm driving
Speaker 4: around Louisville, which today and even Monday yesterday, not as much.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm doing a lot of driving, a lot
Speaker 4: of running errands, just you know, I'm moving and shaking,
Speaker 4: and I'm now looking like, hey, that's that's now a
Speaker 4: you know, pay advance loan play. But you're not fooling
Speaker 4: me that used to be a KFC. I can tell
Speaker 4: like you can paint it. You can make some adjustments.
Speaker 4: You can you know, clearly rebrand. But like there are
Speaker 4: certain businesses and really chain restaurants. Like I went into
Speaker 4: a deep dive on the internet earlier today. I was
Speaker 4: in the waiting room at the doctor and I just thought,
Speaker 4: you know what, like, I'm gonna look this up because
Speaker 4: now anywhere anytime I'm on Preston Highway, Shelbyville Road, outer loop,
Speaker 4: just making a place as I've been.
Speaker 2: Recently Bartstown Road.
Speaker 3: You mentioned KFC, Yeah, Barchtown or KFC that used to
Speaker 3: be or is now a home run Burger.
Speaker 4: Or yeah, Like there's like a national tax plague. We
Speaker 4: went to do our taxes last year and we actually
Speaker 4: walked in and walked right out pretty quickly. I'm quite
Speaker 4: sure that the lady that was there to prepare our
Speaker 4: taxes was on probably methinfeta me to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: But we walked in, walked out. But I walked in
Speaker 4: to get my taxes done. It's nice in there. It's
Speaker 4: set up with like, you know, different stations for the
Speaker 4: accountants to work with people to do their taxes. But
Speaker 4: I'm sitting here thinking, nope, no, I know I'm in
Speaker 4: a Long John silvers, like, you're not bowling me. I
Speaker 4: could still smell it, by the way, McDonald, Long John
Speaker 4: silver smells delicious. So I just if you were somebody
Speaker 4: that was going to start a business and you needed
Speaker 4: retail space, rather it be in a shopping center and
Speaker 4: you could hide those a little bit better. But the if,
Speaker 4: the if the shopping center was built and you know,
Speaker 4: the far right tenant has that big I mean, they
Speaker 4: clearly put the they clearly put the drive through in
Speaker 4: place for the bank specifically, and now the bank's not there.
Speaker 4: They're slinging mattresses out of it. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: you know, what are you gonna do with your drive through?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: And then when I went on my deep dive on
Speaker 4: the internet, I found a Reddit thread that really really
Speaker 4: fascinated me because there are a lot of national chain
Speaker 4: restaurants mostly, but there's also other places that like like,
Speaker 4: for example, if you go and look at any enterprise
Speaker 4: rental like car rental place that has been put up
Speaker 4: in like the last I don't know, five six years,
Speaker 4: they all look exactly the same. So just like the
Speaker 4: example I'm gonna use here for food back in the
Speaker 4: day when they would throw pizza huts up, when pizza
Speaker 4: huts became a big thing. They all looked the same.
Speaker 4: They all had that same roof on it, right, it
Speaker 4: was a hut. So I know, buddy, I don't know exactly.
Speaker 4: I'm not super well versed in his industry and what
Speaker 4: he does, but he is a project manager for a
Speaker 4: construction company that you know. They they got the bid
Speaker 4: to put in like all of the Drake Drake's restaurants,
Speaker 4: which by the way, they're popping up here in the
Speaker 4: area and they're expanding everywhere, I think, but they're all
Speaker 4: constructed and built to kind of be the same, even
Speaker 4: here at our Heart, Like we all don't have the
Speaker 4: same exact space. But every studio that you know that
Speaker 4: is relatively new, and I think we were one of
Speaker 4: the last to get in a new place, I believe,
Speaker 4: within the iHeart world. And if you walk into a
Speaker 4: lot of them again when you first walk in, I mean,
Speaker 4: they're not they're not all the same. It's different retail spots,
Speaker 4: I mean, but when you get into a studio, they
Speaker 4: all look the same, like all of them, they're all
Speaker 4: designed the same way.
Speaker 2: But the thread I found on Reddit.
Speaker 4: That was fascinating is all the things that pizza huts
Speaker 4: used to be that are now different businesses, and like,
Speaker 4: that's water interesting. That's one you can't hide because the hut,
Speaker 4: right the red roof. Yeah, I mean there's strip clubs
Speaker 4: in Illinois. You could tell he used to be a
Speaker 4: pizza hut. Maybe somebody who's like, hey, you know what
Speaker 4: if pizza hut's closing down, I guess I'll throw on
Speaker 4: a bikini and dance. I got to make a living,
Speaker 4: don't you know. It's the only it's a business near town.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: There's also like a law firm that used to be
Speaker 4: a pizza hut that looks official. But again, you're not
Speaker 4: fool with anybody. And I go and again this just
Speaker 4: speaks to my mind, probably not being you know, a
Speaker 4: high performance brain, but like I've just been when I'm
Speaker 4: driving now, that's all I'm looking for is different businesses
Speaker 4: to see if like I can tell, okay, I know
Speaker 4: what that used to be.
Speaker 3: I know what that used to be. I know there's
Speaker 3: a bar on Bardstown Road. I believe it's Bartstown Road.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's Baxter Avenue, but it's in that area that
Speaker 3: used to be a church. Oh yeah, a grail or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 4: No, no, you're talking about the old church that's now
Speaker 4: like a barbecue place.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that place is super cool looking. And I actually
Speaker 4: think that that's a little different because that's like where
Speaker 4: you're taking something that is a really cool old, you know,
Speaker 4: probably like historic thing and turning in into something cool.
Speaker 4: Like I've seen hotels kind of be converted for well,
Speaker 4: things that were old buildings that were converted into old
Speaker 4: you know, hotels. I think that looks kind of cool.
Speaker 4: I guess more than anything, I'm thinking of like retail places,
Speaker 4: national chains that you know, when they started popping up,
Speaker 4: when they hit their boom and business was going really
Speaker 4: really well, they just started popping up, and you could
Speaker 4: tell before you saw the sign just by looking at
Speaker 4: the you know, you coming around the corner. You can't
Speaker 4: see the sign yet, but you can see the shape
Speaker 4: of the building, the color, the size. You know, hey
Speaker 4: that's a Popeyes or something like that. So anyways, I
Speaker 4: if you can think of other retail maybe retail businesses,
Speaker 4: I think you guys know what I'm talking about. I'm
Speaker 4: not probably not describing it as far as just the terminology,
Speaker 4: but national chains that all look the same when you
Speaker 4: you know me, McDonald's an obvious one. They don't shut
Speaker 4: down very often, to be honest. Without down, a lot
Speaker 4: of them turn into dollar trees and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: That's a really good one because you know you can
Speaker 4: flip that into probably something different. But like let me
Speaker 4: give you, let me give you a good example of
Speaker 4: like where it all made sense. And I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: them a plug here even though they don't they don't
Speaker 4: pay us to mention them, but people see me there
Speaker 4: enough anyway. It's like a known it's it's known that
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of this place.
Speaker 2: Roosters.
Speaker 4: I believe there are three roosters in the Kentuckian area.
Speaker 4: I know of two for sure. I think there might
Speaker 4: be a third one in southern Indiana that all used
Speaker 4: to be Ryans like the Ryan's Buffet, which yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: I think it's like similar to what Golden Krowl is
Speaker 4: and that kind of stuff. And I'd never gone to
Speaker 4: them as Orion's, but once they became roosters, I mean,
Speaker 4: I go to the roosters on Preston pretty often, and
Speaker 4: I know that the one in Fern Creek there used
Speaker 4: to be a Ryan's as well. That makes sense, right,
Speaker 4: you took what was already a big you know. And
Speaker 4: by the way, I'm sure those were built the same.
Speaker 4: And who in the first conversion that took place with
Speaker 4: Roosters here in louisvill where they're like, hey, here we
Speaker 4: go this this space is available, this Ryan's is shutting down.
Speaker 4: We could probably put our restaurant. We can take over
Speaker 4: that space and thrive, And then they see another ryan
Speaker 4: struggling not far away.
Speaker 2: Hey, here we go.
Speaker 4: We're going to expand because we know the space they
Speaker 4: put that they have, We've already taken one. It was,
Speaker 4: you know, it wasn't that big of a conversion. It's
Speaker 4: really just a restaurant turning into a different restaurant. Although
Speaker 4: I think Ryan's was more like buffet style and that's
Speaker 4: obviously not what you.
Speaker 2: Get at Roosters.
Speaker 4: So anyways, that's where my brain has been today. But
Speaker 4: we do have a lot to get into and it's
Speaker 4: going to be a weird show for me because again
Speaker 4: I say that in the three o'clock hour, thinking hey,
Speaker 4: I got I got the next I got two and
Speaker 4: a half hours, two hours and forty five minutes now
Speaker 4: to to you know, try to squeeze it all in
Speaker 4: as best I can. But now with our guests today,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a little different. But I do want
Speaker 4: to let you know there is a really good update
Speaker 4: that I kind of feel like isn't getting a whole
Speaker 4: lot of attention, maybe because it's not interesting stuff. It's
Speaker 4: boring legal lawsuit stuff. But it does sound like there's
Speaker 4: there's a path for the AC to resolve the the
Speaker 4: you know, the issues that Florida State and Clemson have
Speaker 4: with their lawsuits. So really good ride up from ESPN's
Speaker 4: what's his name, total brain fart here because I've been
Speaker 4: thinking about what old pizza huts have become. He covers
Speaker 4: the ACC for ESPN. Specifically, he joins us on the show,
Speaker 4: not like frequently, but he's been on many times. You're
Speaker 4: not gonna know you're not an ACC guy. You don't
Speaker 4: even need any botty contact list.
Speaker 3: Maybe I could sit here and open up my little
Speaker 3: app and see if I can find his name and see.
Speaker 4: If it's not even important because he's not coming on today.
Speaker 2: David Hale is his name.
Speaker 4: I don't know why that's what I need medication that
Speaker 4: can help me just completely, because once I know, like
Speaker 4: I'm just having a brain fart, I can't move on
Speaker 4: from brain fart until I figure out what I completely
Speaker 4: forgot for no reason. And that goes back to what
Speaker 4: I've mentioned before. I'm I used to be really good
Speaker 4: at remembering everybody's name, always on the tip of the tongue.
Speaker 4: I could, I could meet you once in five years later,
Speaker 4: I might remember your first and last. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: an exaggeration, but like that's the way I feel like
Speaker 4: I used to be. Now I don't remember anybody's name.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 4: I can be talking to somebody and and like you
Speaker 4: put me on the spot, Hey what's their name? Like
Speaker 4: I might freeze up. It's it's not it's not good,
Speaker 4: not good at all. But anyways, I mean, if in
Speaker 4: fact what is being discussed works out, I think it's
Speaker 4: a win win for everybody involved, the ACC itself, keeping
Speaker 4: members that you know, it's nice to laugh at him
Speaker 4: when they struggle, thinking they're better than the league and
Speaker 4: they're not. But you need a you need Clemson in
Speaker 4: Florida state to remain in your league.
Speaker 2: You just do.
Speaker 4: So. I think if what's proposed works out. I think
Speaker 4: it's again, it's a win win for everybody. Also Dean Sanders,
Speaker 4: I mean, he won a game he was supposed to win,
Speaker 4: and is are you know, it's just I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't even want to say he's back to, like, you know,
Speaker 4: being arrogant, because he could have lost and still been arrogant.
Speaker 4: But like, I've never seen someone be so sensitive to
Speaker 4: criticism and just combative with media when really I can't
Speaker 4: think of an example of anybody really being over the
Speaker 4: top about Dion and even if they were. Dude, you're
Speaker 4: a head football coach at a major university and you
Speaker 4: haven't done anything good yet other than generate interest and
Speaker 4: viewership and make headlines. And I guess that's that's maybe
Speaker 4: that's maybe that's what he views success and that's why
Speaker 4: he's so pissed off that people criticize him because he
Speaker 4: doesn't understand, Yeah, your job's to win football games, man.
Speaker 4: Like so his latest claim as far as why Colorado
Speaker 4: players are getting criticized is just insane to me. But again,
Speaker 4: like I shouldn't be surprised with anything. Also, Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 4: he talked last night at an event at the Fraser
Speaker 4: Museum that was called Operation Revival. It was base their
Speaker 4: way of introducing coach Kelsey to the local community. He
Speaker 4: did a Q and A and there's some clips of
Speaker 4: that I want to share with you guys, including his
Speaker 4: comments on the rivalry, so we can certainly talk about that. Also,
Speaker 4: some big news in the NBA, and I know a
Speaker 4: lot of you don't give a damn about the NBA,
Speaker 4: and I get it. However, Woj retiring with a bunch
Speaker 4: of money left on his contract, a bunch of years
Speaker 4: left on his contract, actually is it's big news. I mean,
Speaker 4: when you think of people who break news in the
Speaker 4: world of sports, I mean I think it's there's two
Speaker 4: people that come to mind, at least for me, and
Speaker 4: I'd say for most people, and that's Adam Schefter and
Speaker 4: Adrian Wojnarowski. And Schefter is more known because he's I mean,
Speaker 4: it's the NFL. It's a way more exposed. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just a way bigger, way bigger sport and has
Speaker 4: way more interest. And obviously he's in he's in front
Speaker 4: of the camera on ESPN a lot more than woje
Speaker 4: ever was. But I think Woj was arguably the best
Speaker 4: I've ever seen as far as he was gonna get
Speaker 4: it first, he was gonna break the story right like
Speaker 4: a lot of times. And here's the thing, like people
Speaker 4: who are in that in that in that industry, like
Speaker 4: I know you were competitive among your peers about getting
Speaker 4: it first, But I can tell you this first hand.
Speaker 4: Nine out of ten people who just you know, are
Speaker 4: sports fans and will get the news when they get it,
Speaker 4: they don't care.
Speaker 2: Who had it first. They just don't.
Speaker 4: So like, I think there's a lot of times where
Speaker 4: Chefty gets credited and he's the one people get the
Speaker 4: news from because he's on freaking ESPN, And it might
Speaker 4: have been you know, Jay Glazer and his bald shiny
Speaker 4: head that had the scoop, or I don't know. Who's
Speaker 4: some other guys that break news in the NFL. I'm
Speaker 4: sure there's many of them, but I'm drawing a blank now.
Speaker 4: WOJS had some competition with his former protege Shams Cherania, who,
Speaker 4: by the way, is probably gonna be the one who
Speaker 4: replace him, I would assume at ESPN. But what Woa's
Speaker 4: doing is wild. He's leaving ESPN as their senior NBA
Speaker 4: insider to go be the general manager of the Saint
Speaker 4: Bonaventure men's basketball program, and I think you could you
Speaker 4: could probably guess how this happens. He's in alum he
Speaker 4: went to school there, so that's that's why he's been
Speaker 4: very connected to his alma mater for ever since he graduated.
Speaker 4: And now he's going to be the GM, which is
Speaker 4: essentially the role when you hear GM of programs now,
Speaker 4: whether it be college football, college basketball, or you know,
Speaker 4: college volleyball or whatever it is, they're in charge of
Speaker 4: nil like they're in charge of, you know, helping raise
Speaker 4: money and how the program can allocate that money to
Speaker 4: keep everybody happy, all that kind of stuff. So it
Speaker 4: is big news and I want to tip my cap
Speaker 4: to Woach, don't. I don't think there's been anybody better
Speaker 4: as far as just like, I mean, he was so
Speaker 4: dominant at having all the biggest breaking news in the
Speaker 4: NFL from the NBA, I.
Speaker 2: Should say that.
Speaker 4: You'd have other guys you know that are capital Jay's
Speaker 4: that would report something and you'd think, well, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I gotta wait for WOJ. I mean, yeah, you might
Speaker 4: have I mean, you know, Shams that's cute, but like,
Speaker 4: let's see what WOJ has to say here brother, Like,
Speaker 4: in fact, if WOJ didn't put it out, I don't
Speaker 4: know if you could even claim it's happening, Like I'm
Speaker 4: you know, that's just how dominant he's been and he's
Speaker 4: walking away.
Speaker 3: So wasn't he forced to stop tweeting out the NBA
Speaker 3: draft picks yep, a year or two ago.
Speaker 2: Yep. That's very weird that he even was able to
Speaker 2: do that. I'm glad you.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought that up, because that's something we
Speaker 4: can get into later when we revisit this this topic.
Speaker 4: The way in which he would describe instead of saying, hey,
Speaker 4: this team is taking this player with this pick, he
Speaker 4: would say the Boston Celtics are enamored with forward John
Speaker 4: Alden from Indiana at pick number five. He couldn't say
Speaker 4: they're picking him. He couldn't say they're drafting him. Like
Speaker 4: he kind of fought back to ESPN, like, you know,
Speaker 4: all right, I won't I won't say what they're doing,
Speaker 4: but I'll i'll say it in a different way. So anyways,
Speaker 4: hell of a run there for woe. And now he's
Speaker 4: getting in the nil space, which is kind of odd.
Speaker 4: But let's get to a quick break Alex Kupper gonna
Speaker 4: join us on the other side, help get a set
Speaker 4: for this matchup against Georgia Tech on Saturday, the Cards
Speaker 4: and the Yellow Jackets, and at five point thirty we're
Speaker 4: gonna get a look from behind enemy lines. Is Chad
Speaker 4: Bishop from the Atlanta Journal constitutional join us to give
Speaker 4: his perspective on this matchup, talk a little a little
Speaker 4: bit about Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: So stick with us. Coffee and Company.
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Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety. Don't forget coming up. In fact it
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Speaker 2: It sounded.
Speaker 4: It wasn't something I always really had any knowledge of.
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Speaker 4: a little more about this, this upcoming event that I
Speaker 4: know they are really excited about. All right, so we're
Speaker 4: efforting Alex Kupper. You can, you don't have to keep
Speaker 4: you can. I'm gonna I'll just text him John and
Speaker 4: tell him to call our number whenever he's when he's
Speaker 4: when he's available, which I'll just give him the regular
Speaker 4: number and see if that works out for him. Some
Speaker 4: times that happens. I did throw it at him about
Speaker 4: an hour ago as far as what time we were
Speaker 4: going to be having him on today. So and look,
Speaker 4: he's he's got more important stuff to do. He's you know,
Speaker 4: he's Alex Cupper. He's moving, he's shaking, he's hustling, he's
Speaker 4: he's he's a big deal in the corporate world, former
Speaker 4: offensive lineman in the NFL. Also, of course at Louisville.
Speaker 4: He's now you know, he's got he's got stuff going on.
Speaker 4: So for some reason we got to move him to
Speaker 4: you know, tomorrow or Friday week and we can.
Speaker 2: Certainly do that.
Speaker 4: But I am starting to get more and more excited
Speaker 4: about Saturday, and the closer we get, the closer, I guess,
Speaker 4: the more I'm just reminded that, hey, this is where
Speaker 4: we're going to learn about Louisville in some former fashion.
Speaker 4: And I guess this is just you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: call it nerves, because when you really don't have a
Speaker 4: clue what to expect at least you have nothing to
Speaker 4: base it like this almost feel I'll just say it's
Speaker 4: this almost feels like the opener for me, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you, because it kind of is. It was
Speaker 4: nice to see what we saw against Jacksonville State in Austin,
Speaker 4: p But really, you know that you do what you're
Speaker 4: supposed to do. And even if you again, if you
Speaker 4: look looked great in that game, or you looked awful
Speaker 4: in that game, well if you looked awful, that would
Speaker 4: be really concerning. But there are other teams out there.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, this is not a shot at Kentucky.
Speaker 4: It's it's just the most recent example I can use Georgia.
Speaker 4: You know, they they lost to a Kentucky team that
Speaker 4: who knows, maybe Kentucky ends up doing exactly what Auburn
Speaker 4: and Missouri did the last two years. Give Georgia a
Speaker 4: hell of a game and there in Georgia's first road
Speaker 4: game in the SEC and feel like, hey, we've got
Speaker 4: something special here, only to then not really do anything
Speaker 4: the rest of the way, finished with a losing record.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that's what happens with Kentucky, but you
Speaker 4: know LSU, you know they they struggle against Nickel State,
Speaker 4: and then they went in and beat South Carolina at
Speaker 4: South Carolina. Right after South Carolina just dominated Kentucky at Kentucky.
Speaker 4: And again that Kentucky team, you know you could, you could,
Speaker 4: you could make the claim, and it's not crazy that
Speaker 4: they were just as good as Georgia in that game.
Speaker 4: I mean, again, they didn't win, so therefore it's a loss,
Speaker 4: not a win. But like as I've said throughout the week,
Speaker 4: I understand why Kentucky fans are doing the moral victory thing.
Speaker 4: And I wonder if that'll ever like fade away. Like
Speaker 4: I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where
Speaker 4: because if you look good in a game, you know
Speaker 4: you weren't supposed to win, and you looked your best
Speaker 4: as far as you know, it was the best performance
Speaker 4: of the season. Like you guys know, I'll pile on
Speaker 4: Kentucky when when necessary, when it's you know, when it's
Speaker 4: when it's fair game. And look, I'm fine if people
Speaker 4: want to clown them for their coach being so conservative.
Speaker 2: He punted it away.
Speaker 4: Because Kentucky football has actually gotten a lot of national
Speaker 4: attention that they've never got before, not because they were
Speaker 4: in a close game, but because of the decision to punt.
Speaker 4: Like Chris mad Dog russo of I mean I know
Speaker 4: him from his legendary sports radio career. I mean he
Speaker 4: is quite literally. I know Benetti likes to take credit
Speaker 4: for it, but mad Dog literally helped invent the platform
Speaker 4: of sports radio. And he's now on First Take with
Speaker 4: Stephen A. Smith a few days a week, and he
Speaker 4: was ranting and raving about Kentucky not you know, they're
Speaker 4: in their decision to punt, so you know, you can
Speaker 4: look really good and know you weren't supposed to win
Speaker 4: and it'd still be a loss and feel good about
Speaker 4: your team. Like again, I would I if it was
Speaker 4: coming from a place of you know, being honest, I would,
Speaker 4: I would do it. But I just I know that
Speaker 4: if if I was in the same situation it was
Speaker 4: Louisville where they were coming off a really really bad
Speaker 4: loss in dominant fashion, you know that they were on
Speaker 4: the wrong side of and then they were right there
Speaker 4: and they played, you know, neck and neck with the
Speaker 4: best team in the country that right now, really, if
Speaker 4: you just go the back the last three four years,
Speaker 4: George is the best program in the country and they
Speaker 4: may win the national championship this year, and if they do,
Speaker 4: nobody's going to be surprised. However, you know you lost,
Speaker 4: still like I would feel good, Like I would, I'd
Speaker 4: be a liar to you if I said no, I'd
Speaker 4: be pissed and I'd and I'd hate my team.
Speaker 2: No, I mean you should.
Speaker 4: In fact, if it was me and I was a
Speaker 4: Kentucky fan, and let's just say the exact same scenario
Speaker 4: played out the way that it did, I would be
Speaker 4: more mad, even though it's been over a week removed,
Speaker 4: I'd be more mad about what happened agains South Carolina
Speaker 4: because what you did is you kind of told on
Speaker 4: yourself like there was you confirm there was zero excuse
Speaker 4: to have have gotten your teeth kicked.
Speaker 2: In like that.
Speaker 4: Now there's nothing you can do about it. It's in
Speaker 4: the past. But you know, anyways, all right, let's let's
Speaker 4: do this. Let's go to the text line five O
Speaker 4: two six five three zero seven nineties the number if
Speaker 4: you guys would like to text in. Got some good
Speaker 4: texts that have come in so far that that this
Speaker 4: is this is a really good question. To be honest
Speaker 4: with you, this is something that I've never I've never
Speaker 4: thought about, but I think it's it's a good question.
Speaker 4: It says Nick, I've got a hot take for you.
Speaker 4: I want to I've got a hot take I want
Speaker 4: to throw at you.
Speaker 2: We'll throw it at me.
Speaker 4: It says I'm a I'm a transplant here in Louisville
Speaker 4: and I work with Cards and Cat fans. Hearing from both,
Speaker 4: hearing them both absolutely hate the two basketball coaching hires
Speaker 4: adamantly and just days later love both guys, should be
Speaker 4: a reminder to both athletic departments that you should never
Speaker 4: listen to your fans. You can do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: They're still going to buy in and support.
Speaker 2: Do you agree.
Speaker 4: That's I mean again that we all know that's really
Speaker 4: what happened. I mean, both fan bases were not happy
Speaker 4: when they found out. Although it wasn't official yet, but
Speaker 4: it looked clear Pat Kelsey was going to be the
Speaker 4: Louisville head coach. Mark Pope was going to be the
Speaker 4: Kentucky head coach. I am am, you know, I try
Speaker 4: to I think this is an honest opinion that it's
Speaker 4: not coming from somebody that is, you know, being a
Speaker 4: homer towards U of L. I think Kentucky fans were
Speaker 4: more so losing their mind about Mark Pope being the
Speaker 4: coach than Louisville fans were about Pat Kelsey. But I
Speaker 4: can tell you hand up, I just never thought Louisville
Speaker 4: would be in a position where they would be making
Speaker 4: such an important hire and they would go with somebody
Speaker 4: that you know, was not a candidate anywhere else. And
Speaker 4: although good coach like it, just I liked Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 4: And again I don't need to defend myself now, but
Speaker 4: you can go back and look at the shows we
Speaker 4: did whenever we first started talking about candidates when the
Speaker 4: job actually did open up, and I knew that Pack
Speaker 4: was the first guy that Josh here to talk to.
Speaker 2: I like Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 4: I just never thought we'd get to that point where
Speaker 4: they'd be going and hiring a guy that wasn't from
Speaker 4: you know, a power for type program, Power five program.
Speaker 4: I should say so, I've always liked Kelsey. I just
Speaker 4: didn't think love we would go that route. And I
Speaker 4: think Kentucky fans it's really the same thing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: They just felt like they could get anybody they wanted,
Speaker 4: and then they didn't. They didn't get Scott Drew, they
Speaker 4: didn't get Dan Hurley and then it went to it
Speaker 4: went to Mark Pope. So you know, I to answer
Speaker 4: your question, do I agree?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I mean I think your observation as far as what
Speaker 4: fans did, is true.
Speaker 2: And maybe there is some some.
Speaker 4: Case study there that does tell athletic departments athletic directors
Speaker 4: to ride out the initial anger and emotion from fans
Speaker 4: because eventually they'll eventually they'll realize, Hey, what am I
Speaker 4: gonna do? Not be a fan anymore? Because that's what
Speaker 4: it comes down to. And I used to say that
Speaker 4: all the time about Kenny Payne when Kenny Payne was
Speaker 4: clearly not good enough to be our coach and I
Speaker 4: knew they were gonna hire somebody else. I had my preferences, right,
Speaker 4: Like I really really wanted them to go hire Jerome Tang.
Speaker 4: I wanted them to consider Eric Musselman, and they didn't
Speaker 4: do either of those things. But I would always say,
Speaker 4: no matter who it is, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2: Not be a fan?
Speaker 4: Like I didn't think Dusty may was worthy of it
Speaker 4: of the job. Maybe maybe him not being worthy of
Speaker 4: it is a little bit of a stretch, But like
Speaker 4: as far as my preference, I didn't think that would
Speaker 4: have been a good hire. I just didn't and I
Speaker 4: expressed that, but I always had to kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: include no matter what, I'm gonna support it. Who else
Speaker 4: was out Mick Cronin. I mean, that was something that
Speaker 4: gave me, you know, fear. I did not want Mick
Speaker 4: Cronan to be the Louisville coach because I just feel
Speaker 4: like that would have been like one He wouldn't do
Speaker 4: all the great things that Pack Kelsey's done up to
Speaker 4: this point to get us excited, because he's just an
Speaker 4: angry little man. And I can say that because he's
Speaker 4: smaller than me. But you know, like your point is correct.
Speaker 4: Louisville fans Kentucky fans both acted like the world was
Speaker 4: coming to an end when they found out who, in
Speaker 4: fact was going to be taking over their basketball programs.
Speaker 4: But I'll give both Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope credit.
Speaker 4: Even if they did not do really well in their
Speaker 4: press conferences, Kentucky fans and Louisville fans still would have
Speaker 4: found They would have dug deep and found hope and
Speaker 4: belief that this will work out and they will support
Speaker 4: it because that's what fans are going to do. But
Speaker 4: I also think both guys did a great job of
Speaker 4: really really knocking their press conferences out of the park.
Speaker 4: Now they don't win, none of that matters. But I
Speaker 4: think Kelsey and Pope both when because they knew. Like
Speaker 4: with Mark Pope, I think he really he really won
Speaker 4: over the fan base because he's one of them. Like
Speaker 4: he again, I we'll see what happens with Mark Pope.
Speaker 4: None of these guys had coached a game, by the way,
Speaker 4: But with Mark Pope, I mean, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: he's he could be there. Jeff Brown because he's somebody
Speaker 4: that like does get the job, like he understands, like
Speaker 4: he's one of you, just like Jeff Bram is with us.
Speaker 4: There's something that that Brom brings to the table at
Speaker 4: Louisville that Louisville could have the biggest budget in college
Speaker 4: football to hire a coach, but Jeff can give them something.
Speaker 4: None of those guys that would demand that high price
Speaker 4: tag would right, Like no money can give you what
Speaker 4: Brom gives you because he's one of us. He played here,
Speaker 4: he's from here. He could coach at six different schools
Speaker 4: in the next ten years. He will still love Louisville
Speaker 4: football because it's part.
Speaker 2: Of who he is.
Speaker 4: So with Mark Pope, same thing, Like, you know, even
Speaker 4: if it didn't work out, it'd be hard for him
Speaker 4: to ever like probably not love UK because that's where
Speaker 4: he played.
Speaker 2: He won a national championship there.
Speaker 4: So I do think where I disagree with with your
Speaker 4: comment here is that, like athletic director is, an athletic
Speaker 4: department should always be checking the pulse of their fans
Speaker 4: because their fans are their customers and they need them. Now,
Speaker 4: with that said, you know, when it comes to the
Speaker 4: die hard, passionate fans, you should never think you should
Speaker 4: never have the mindset all the hell with what we
Speaker 4: do or what happens, they're always going to be here,
Speaker 4: because that's just no way to go about it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like it's a weird thing to say.
Speaker 4: But with what Louisville, I'm just speaking for myself as
Speaker 4: a fan, with what Louisville basketball has kind of been
Speaker 4: through over the last you know, ten years here and there,
Speaker 4: could what could happen to where you're not gonna still
Speaker 4: be all in and you know, be a fan now
Speaker 4: being a fan, there's a lot of layers to that, right,
Speaker 4: Like Louisville could suck for twenty years and people ask
Speaker 4: me who's your team, I'm going to say louisll because
Speaker 4: that's always going to be the case. But like if
Speaker 4: Louisville sucked for twenty years, people aren't going to games,
Speaker 4: revenues down. Like we saw what happened with Kenny Payne,
Speaker 4: like everybody still identified it as a big louis A fan.
Speaker 4: We just knew we were going through, you know, a
Speaker 4: really really disastrous situation.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: Are you okay, John? Yeah, I'm okay.
Speaker 4: Why because I love you and I want you to
Speaker 4: know that, because I can tell that you know, you're
Speaker 4: not mad at anybody. But like it sucks whenever people
Speaker 4: don't people know show us on the show. Yeah, it happens,
Speaker 4: I mean it does. And I you know, I'm not
Speaker 4: having checked my phone. So maybe because I.
Speaker 3: Tend to think there was a miscommunication, of course probably, Yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, I mean I would.
Speaker 4: Here's my guess is that he, you know, living in
Speaker 4: his corporate world, he probably got caught up in something
Speaker 4: and just you know, is away from his cell. Yeah,
Speaker 4: or he saw three thirty and thought it meant five
Speaker 4: thirty because he's joined us at five thirty before, or
Speaker 4: four or five could be. I mean, you know, we'll
Speaker 4: make it work, and I don't. I don't want to
Speaker 4: make it out like John's about to go find Alex's
Speaker 4: cupper and wring his neck for non an, but like
Speaker 4: John cares about this show. Not maybe to the same
Speaker 4: level that I do, but like it's not far from it.
Speaker 4: And that is something that like they could have And
Speaker 4: this is a good example, good little, good little uh
Speaker 4: segue here they could have the money to pay John
Speaker 4: or to pay somebody six times what they pay John.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if they if they would have the
Speaker 4: same Giba damn about Coffee and Company. And that's something
Speaker 4: I appreciate. So when I asked if he's okay, I
Speaker 4: don't want to insinuate that he's but he's he's in
Speaker 4: there just you know, raging, but like, you know, it sucks,
Speaker 4: and I you know, it happens, but you know, we'll
Speaker 4: be okay, we'll be all right, we'll make it work.
Speaker 4: We adjust on the fly, and you know, we'll see
Speaker 4: what Cup. We'll see what Cup's excuses. And by the
Speaker 4: way he had he knows like when I figure out
Speaker 4: what his excuses, I'm gonna let the listeners know just
Speaker 4: because I feel like they're they're entitled to that. All right,
Speaker 4: quick break, we'll come back on the other side wrap
Speaker 4: at the three o'clock hour. A lot more to get into.
Speaker 4: We'll let you hear some more. PK had to say
Speaker 4: last night at they had event at the Fraser Museum
Speaker 4: and the mayor has proposed something that I think is
Speaker 4: a really like it's something that I read the headline
Speaker 4: and thought like, there's no way you'd be able to
Speaker 4: do that, but apparently you might be able to and
Speaker 4: I will be all in on it. And it's in
Speaker 4: regards to the street racing arrests that have gone on
Speaker 4: here in the last last few weeks.
Speaker 2: So stick with us. It's coffee company.
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Speaker 4: a half rushing yards and there's at least one interception
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Speaker 2: Let's go with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4: I think he's going to have fewer lower I should
Speaker 4: say then two hundred and fourteen and a half passing yards. Now,
Speaker 4: I'm going to go back to the other side, which
Speaker 4: is the Patriots. You know, I'm not super familiar with
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Speaker 4: seven and a half rushing yards for Stevenson. So now
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