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Speaker 3: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
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Speaker 3: So during the during the break there, I uh, I
Speaker 3: popped open to uh, to Facebook. And of course I
Speaker 3: don't know why I ever do that. Facebook's a useful
Speaker 3: tool when it comes to, you know, keeping up with friends, family,
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. But you know a lot of
Speaker 3: times on Facebook, you just you know, it's really just
Speaker 3: turned into nothing but like ads. And I don't know
Speaker 3: how DU like this, but I now see when I
Speaker 3: scrolled through Facebook Austin a bunch of groups that I'm
Speaker 3: not a part of. Oh yeah, they like that that.
Speaker 3: I guess the algorithm thinks that I would like to
Speaker 3: join in. And and like you, I don't know why there,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Facebook's the one place that I feel
Speaker 3: like the algorithm doesn't quite get me as good as
Speaker 3: you know, the others, especially Instagram and TikTok. But I
Speaker 3: was a little distracted because it's just something that I
Speaker 3: can't quite process that this still happens. But apparently at
Speaker 3: a middle school here in Louisville. And I don't want
Speaker 3: to put anybody you know, uh, nothing's happening. And I'm
Speaker 3: not even gonna say name of the midd school because
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't want anybody freaking out. But
Speaker 3: somebody posted a video a picture that said, hey, what's
Speaker 3: going on at this school? There's a bunch of cars
Speaker 3: outside or a bunch of police cars outside school. And
Speaker 3: within you know, seconds, they wrote back and said or
Speaker 3: minutes they wrote back and said they're leaving.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Looks like everything's okay. But somebody, I guess the comments
Speaker 3: were spent. And again this is all speculation, but this
Speaker 3: has happened. In fact, it happened a few weeks ago,
Speaker 3: maybe a month ago or so. And I believe more
Speaker 3: high school where like a student did the whole fake
Speaker 3: like you know, prank call. I guess that somebody was
Speaker 3: shooting up the school, and I don't think there can
Speaker 3: be many punishments that are too strong when it comes
Speaker 3: to making an example of somebody who does that to
Speaker 3: think that that's funny, because with how often that happens
Speaker 3: in society in America, to do that as like a gag,
Speaker 3: you deserve to be punished substantially. And it really isn't
Speaker 3: just about I mean, I think making an example needs
Speaker 3: to happen to where people realize, yeah, if we're gonna
Speaker 3: get our jokes off, let's not do that. I mean
Speaker 3: it's a no brainer, but I mean take away just
Speaker 3: the example, but like that should be considered like a
Speaker 3: crazy level offense to where even though nobody was actually
Speaker 3: physically hurt, you know. I mean, it's like somebody who
Speaker 3: goes into rob a bank that doesn't have a gun,
Speaker 3: but they have put somebody in fear of their life
Speaker 3: telling them they have a gun. That's why those people
Speaker 3: get charged even though they didn't have a weapon. And clearly,
Speaker 3: you know you can't rob a bank. You're gonna clearly
Speaker 3: get in trouble for that. But when you even if
Speaker 3: you don't have a weapon, but you you, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get too you know, sidetracked, We keep talking
Speaker 3: about this, but nonetheless like that, I just I don't
Speaker 3: know even if you are a teenager, let alone an adult,
Speaker 3: and you are, I mean, you're able to understand that
Speaker 3: what you like, if there becomes an alert that there
Speaker 3: is an active shooter at a school where someone's children
Speaker 3: go like you are a grade a piece of trash,
Speaker 3: And again, I don't think there's many punishments that that
Speaker 3: that could be too severe for you. But again it's
Speaker 3: it sounds like everything's okay. And if that ends up
Speaker 3: being true and somebody did put in a prank call,
Speaker 3: I hope they get caught, and I hope they get
Speaker 3: punished in a major way, because I mean there's I mean,
Speaker 3: that's happened. What they call it, like there's something where
Speaker 3: there's like a documentary I watched where it wasn't necessar
Speaker 3: nearly like that there was like an active Anyways, we'll
Speaker 3: move on because I could, I could talk about it
Speaker 3: for a long time, and I know nobody tunes into
Speaker 3: this show to hear that kind of stuff. What is
Speaker 3: it called?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: Help me out here, Austin on the spot. You don't
Speaker 3: even know what I'm talking about. Help me find this word,
Speaker 3: because it was you get caught because people are like
Speaker 3: addicted to it, like they can't help themselves. They'll have
Speaker 3: their location and call in like a bomb threat somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna have to do it. Now, what do
Speaker 3: What is it referred to to when someone fake calls
Speaker 3: a bomb threat? Because I bet false flag swatting that's
Speaker 3: what it is. Area, I was gonna say squatting, but
Speaker 3: it's swatting. Swatting is a fake bomb threat, and look,
Speaker 3: bomb thread is just as scary, right, But like.
Speaker 4: When you know, I'm glad you found that because I heard, Yes,
Speaker 4: I remember, that's what people call it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so swatting, I mean it is, it is, it
Speaker 3: is clearly and it's it's because sometimes use the swat team.
Speaker 3: I guess it says here that you know, making a
Speaker 3: fake bomp betters often times referred to as swatting. This
Speaker 3: term describes making malicious hoax calls to emergency service, falsely
Speaker 3: reporting a serious crown like a bomb threat, hostage situation,
Speaker 3: or murder. The goal is to trigger and over the
Speaker 3: top police response, potentially including a swat team. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean people who do that really suck at life,
Speaker 3: and you know, are awful but I don't know it
Speaker 3: just guess just because I have a child in school
Speaker 3: and I know what that would be as far as
Speaker 3: fear that something like that's going on, because talk about
Speaker 3: a helpless feeling. You're at work and there's you know,
Speaker 3: and this is where it really is. Just I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't even know the word to use. It's beyond sad,
Speaker 3: it's beyond awful. It's just I mean, it leaves you
Speaker 3: speechless to know that when you hear of a school
Speaker 3: getting shot up, it's not a surprise anymore. And that's horrific,
Speaker 3: Like that is that is terrifying. But that's quite literally
Speaker 3: where we are. And I don't have the perfect fix
Speaker 3: to it. I'm just you know, I'm just speaking on
Speaker 3: it as somebody who realizes, like that's where we are
Speaker 3: in America. Whenever we get you know, whenever you stereotype
Speaker 3: or mahen you make fun of other countries for things,
Speaker 3: and you know, you play the hits as they say,
Speaker 3: right like just what's an easy what are we an
Speaker 3: easy target for? And this is awful that anybody would
Speaker 3: do it. But like I'm not surprised that like in
Speaker 3: other countries they make fun of us for school shootings
Speaker 3: because they can't quite comprehend how that happens, but it does. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and also being really fat. We're really fat too. So anyway,
Speaker 3: sorry to be so serious here as we get the
Speaker 3: four o'clock hour rolling, But I just I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: sitting here thinking, like, man, I want I'm gonna I'll
Speaker 3: help them find this person whatever I can do to
Speaker 3: hold somebody accountable for being a real piece of trash.
Speaker 3: And I'm saying those words because you know there's words
Speaker 3: I want to use that I can't say, or you
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Speaker 3: the NFL Draft earlier, still a lot of love out
Speaker 3: there for Tyler Shuck, and that has led me to
Speaker 3: just being so anxious to see what happens on Thursday night,
Speaker 3: because I mean, I feel like all this love is
Speaker 3: mostly genuine. It doesn't mean he's certain to be taken
Speaker 3: really early, but you know, I think given the noise
Speaker 3: about Shuck for the last I don't know, six weeks
Speaker 3: or so, I feel like anything happening can't be considered
Speaker 3: like a big shock. And I mean that, you know,
Speaker 3: in like a pot like if he goes in the
Speaker 3: top fifteen and he's the third quarterback taken, and there's
Speaker 3: just a team out there that says, look, we know
Speaker 3: we don't need a quarterback right now, but man, we
Speaker 3: love this guy, and we know assume we're going to
Speaker 3: need a quarterback maybe in a year or two. We're
Speaker 3: not going to let this guy slip past us. Like
Speaker 3: that's that's something I think that is potentially realistic to happen.
Speaker 3: So good stuff. We'll get back into the draft later.
Speaker 3: In fact, we got all week to talk NFL Draft,
Speaker 3: and we will certainly do that, but some acquisitions made,
Speaker 3: if you will. I don't think they've ever been referred
Speaker 3: to as that in the college level, but that's what
Speaker 3: it is, right like the transfer portal has given you
Speaker 3: free agency and you go sign players and buy them
Speaker 3: just like you know you do in the NBA in
Speaker 3: the NFL. And we'll start with Louisville football because they
Speaker 3: landed a commitment over the weekend from Dacari Collins, who
Speaker 3: has a lot of experience in the ACC with a
Speaker 3: couple of different schools. So he started his career at
Speaker 3: Clemson and ended up at n c State. Last year
Speaker 3: he had fifty five catches, seven hundred and fifty five
Speaker 3: yards four touchdowns. In fact, I'm sorry that was his
Speaker 3: numbers total, not just last year. So he was at
Speaker 3: Clemson a year, then n c State, and you know,
Speaker 3: now he's coming to Louisville. Clearly, Louisville needs some talent receiver,
Speaker 3: and I don't mean to say that they're there, but
Speaker 3: I just think they need they needed one more weapon,
Speaker 3: and hopefully this is that guy. I still think we're
Speaker 3: getting the biggest I mean again, it's hard to say
Speaker 3: that this was the biggest get for Louisville, but kind
Speaker 3: of was Colin Lacey coming back was huge and you
Speaker 3: had to rerecruit him. You had because and by the way,
Speaker 3: I understood every bit of emotion that came with everybody's
Speaker 3: reaction to him deciding to opt out during the season,
Speaker 3: and I you know, I get it, especially if you're
Speaker 3: like Jeff brom like, you know, what are we supposed
Speaker 3: to do now? But if you had the chance to
Speaker 3: take advantage of a situation that is best for you
Speaker 3: and your career in your life, a lot of us
Speaker 3: would do it. And that's what Colin did. He decided
Speaker 3: to go ahead and sit, get healthy fully and utilize
Speaker 3: a chance to play college football for another season and
Speaker 3: of course make a lot of money. And he chose
Speaker 3: to do that at Louisville. So re recruiting and getting
Speaker 3: a guy that you know was going to have a
Speaker 3: lot of other options that that was a good win.
Speaker 3: So he's going to be your your your top playmaker
Speaker 3: on offense at receiver, I believe. And then Chris Bell,
Speaker 3: I mean last year, you know, at times you could
Speaker 3: see some immaturity from him, a guy kind of still
Speaker 3: when I say immaturity, I just mean, you know, letting
Speaker 3: his emotions get the best of him and making some
Speaker 3: boneut head it plays. But he's got a lot of
Speaker 3: talent and he finished strong. I think he had a
Speaker 3: breakthrough a year, and I expect him to have a
Speaker 3: good season this upcoming year. So you know, there's other
Speaker 3: guys that you know, you feel pretty good about, but
Speaker 3: this is a talented kid here, Collins, who's from Atlanta.
Speaker 3: And I mean, yeah, let's see trying to see how
Speaker 3: many touchdowns I feel like. I feel like what I
Speaker 3: read over the weekend included more touchdowns than what I'm
Speaker 3: seeing here. But you know, he's played again at both
Speaker 3: Florida State, or not Florida State, but Clemson and at
Speaker 3: NC State. And I guess most of the right up
Speaker 3: here that I'm referencing, as far as like the accolades
Speaker 3: it is, it is from when he was in high school.
Speaker 3: But you know, I feel like if Jeff Brown thinks
Speaker 3: this guy is good enough, that's good enough for me.
Speaker 3: And I mean, I think we've seen that Jeff brom
Speaker 3: is able to take guys that maybe wouldn't be stellar
Speaker 3: in other offenses and he can make them not only
Speaker 3: productive and valuable pieces, but you know, make them look
Speaker 3: good enough to where they can go and have an
Speaker 3: NFL career. I mean, I don't know if the guy's
Speaker 3: still with the Bengals, but the what's the guy's name
Speaker 3: is his white guy named Charlie who transferred from transferred
Speaker 3: from Iowa after not really being a big factor in
Speaker 3: the Iowa offense, and then at Jeff with Jeff Brom
Speaker 3: at Perdue, he was phenomenal and was like an All
Speaker 3: American Charlie Jones that's his name, and I think he was.
Speaker 3: He ended up going to the fourth round of the
Speaker 3: draft by the by the Bengals, and lest I checked,
Speaker 3: he's still there. So I've only referenced him just as
Speaker 3: he's somebody who at I mean while at Iowa, I
Speaker 3: mean he didn't do much and he hit the portal
Speaker 3: because he probably wanted more opportunity, and sure enough he
Speaker 3: he had a breakout year at Purdue and now he's
Speaker 3: still playing in the NFL. So if you are somebody
Speaker 3: that has yet to really break through, but you believe
Speaker 3: in your talent, your ability, you're just looking for an
Speaker 3: offense that you could really shine in. I mean that
Speaker 3: Jeff Brom is that guy. So a good pick up
Speaker 3: But the reason I wanted to bring this up and
Speaker 3: talk about a little bit more than just you know,
Speaker 3: sharing the information that you probably already knew that they
Speaker 3: added this young man is the reporting that times when
Speaker 3: it comes to the portal. And I don't know why
Speaker 3: I've become a little sensitive this. Maybe it's just because
Speaker 3: you know, I'm a sensitive fan like a lot of people. Right,
Speaker 3: but when this news broke, this was let's see when
Speaker 3: was this. This news came down on Saturday afternoon, and
Speaker 3: for some reason, I can't seem to find the original.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, So Brad Crawford, who covers I guess, you know,
Speaker 3: college football and recruiting for twenty four seven sports in
Speaker 3: NBC Sports. I mean, I'm sure I seemed a little
Speaker 3: triggered here with my response to him, but it just,
Speaker 3: you know, became annoying to me. When announcing that Dacaari
Speaker 3: Collins had committed Louisville. Here is how he worded it.
Speaker 3: Louisville is spending money in the spring cycle, just got
Speaker 3: a commitment from NC state wide receiver toe Dacaarie Collins.
Speaker 3: So that's not an insult, that's not I mean, that's
Speaker 3: just sharing news. But I've seen it enough to get
Speaker 3: the sense that when Louisville does land certain places, nobody
Speaker 3: can just acknowledge that, you know, they'd want to play
Speaker 3: for Louisville had to be had to be a big
Speaker 3: spend because you know he's going to Louisville, and you
Speaker 3: know that that makes sense with certain situations, but not
Speaker 3: this one, because again, I don't even know what this
Speaker 3: young man cost, but I would imagine the fact that
Speaker 3: you know he was available and he's not like, I mean,
Speaker 3: I hope this guy's great. Maybe he ends up being
Speaker 3: an All American, who knows. But it's not as if
Speaker 3: like Louisvill would had to pay an insane amount to
Speaker 3: get this guy. I mean, he clearly had some other options,
Speaker 3: especially those that really know they need a receiver post
Speaker 3: spring because of a guy hitting the portal or whatever.
Speaker 3: But I mean, last I checked, you know money's going
Speaker 3: to be a factor. But players, I mean, I feel
Speaker 3: like you should know this as somebody who covers college football.
Speaker 3: Offensive players would want to play for Jeff brom Who
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know why you mean to me,
Speaker 3: that's a no brainer. So the constant insinuation it's not
Speaker 3: just Louisville but like elsewhere, when you see certain guys
Speaker 3: make a decision, well, I mean it's got to be money,
Speaker 3: and sometimes that's true. But when are we going to
Speaker 3: get to a point to where we just realize that's
Speaker 3: now a big factor if you want to get players.
Speaker 3: We're still we still have some fans out there, and
Speaker 3: I guess those that cover the sport college football in
Speaker 3: college basketball that they just use that as the crutch.
Speaker 3: Well I mean, yeah, just big spend. I mean that's why.
Speaker 3: I mean, we just want to justify spending. And you
Speaker 3: you all had to spend that amount of money because
Speaker 3: you could only get him if you spend a lot
Speaker 3: of money on him. We wouldn't you know, Like the
Speaker 3: portal in a way can become the ultimate excuse for
Speaker 3: anything for coaches, right like, well, hey, you know we
Speaker 3: need money because you know, you want you want to win,
Speaker 3: and we got to get money. I mean, we were
Speaker 3: trying out here, but you guys got to donate more
Speaker 3: money to the collective because we you know, we need
Speaker 3: money to get players. It's like if if you stink,
Speaker 3: you can just blame it on that. So same thing
Speaker 3: with like fans, right, well, you know we wanted him
Speaker 3: but not for that price. It's not your money, but
Speaker 3: he care you wanted him. And sometimes you really will
Speaker 3: get to a point where you'll say, Okay, we were
Speaker 3: in on you for one hundred and fifty thousand, but
Speaker 3: not two hundred and fifty thousand, So best of luck.
Speaker 3: And that's just how this works now, Like there's I
Speaker 3: do think eventually we'll get to a point where there's
Speaker 3: so many players that hit the portal annually that it'll
Speaker 3: become more of a rarity to see people lose their
Speaker 3: mind about not getting a certain guy in the portal,
Speaker 3: because if you give it a little bit of time,
Speaker 3: you know, like a day or two, another player will
Speaker 3: probably hit the portal and you can go after him.
Speaker 3: So you know, money's always going to be a factor.
Speaker 3: But I just don't I don't know. I'm a little
Speaker 3: sensitive to well, the only reason and that's not what
Speaker 3: this guy said, but there's been enough implying of that
Speaker 3: that's just been irritating to me that you know, because
Speaker 3: let's be honest, this is a good situation to be in.
Speaker 3: I mean, wouldn't you agree. Also when it comes to
Speaker 3: the coverage of nil both Louisville basketball and football, if
Speaker 3: there's any coverage of their nil resources. It's been good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: people talk about that they have money. There was that
Speaker 3: nonsense last year about Penny boone checks not clearing, which
Speaker 3: you all remember that had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 3: I wanted more money, and quite literally, he wasn't deserving
Speaker 3: of it, because you know what ended up playing out
Speaker 3: was exactly what Jeff prom realized. I got two true
Speaker 3: freshmen that are way better than you. I don't need
Speaker 3: to give you any more money. You're already here. He
Speaker 3: decided to take his ball and go home and couldn't
Speaker 3: find a home and was the third best running back
Speaker 3: at Central Florida year ago. So, like, you know, life
Speaker 3: comes at your face. That's the only thing I can
Speaker 3: think of as far as where there was any noise
Speaker 3: out there about Louisville in IL basketball or football, and
Speaker 3: it wasn't positive. For the most part, has been positive,
Speaker 3: and that's what you want. But the insinuation that like, well,
Speaker 3: that's the only reason that that you know, I don't
Speaker 3: know why that triggers me a little bit. But day
Speaker 3: basketball coach not even using that IL last year, Oh god, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that's talk about malpractice, you know, And I
Speaker 3: know they're not. I mean, they aren't going to do it,
Speaker 3: and they shouldn't. But when I heard that, he left
Speaker 3: a lot of money just available and not you like
Speaker 3: Kenny Payne used private funding from like his you know,
Speaker 3: his his his networking in his basket all people, yeah,
Speaker 3: to give him money about players. He didn't use the
Speaker 3: FAVO two circle like I'm sure they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3: And again, putting this out there makes it sound like
Speaker 3: I'm saying they should. But is it crazy to think
Speaker 3: that that could be used against him? Like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: like we're not like your your buyout is not going
Speaker 3: to be paid in full because you didn't actually you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: we can't. We can't necessarily, you know, hold you accountable
Speaker 3: for winning and losing. Because that's crazy that that's the case,
Speaker 3: that you can be terrible at your job and yet
Speaker 3: that's not cause to fire you. Crazy that that's how
Speaker 3: coaching contracts have always worked out. But anyways, not using
Speaker 3: resources we give you to try to do your job, like,
Speaker 3: that's a little bit of a different situation. Again, I
Speaker 3: don't think you'll ever see any school fight that. But
Speaker 3: if Louva fought it, I know they'd have a lot
Speaker 3: of support from the fans, that's for sure. All Right,
Speaker 3: quick break, we'll come back on the other side, kind
Speaker 3: of continue the conversation because it sounds like Kentucky's last
Speaker 3: piece as their roster is reportedly set for year two
Speaker 3: with Mark Pope. Apparently it was a big spend and
Speaker 3: we'll see if it's worth it. I mean, none of
Speaker 3: us know. But when it comes to guys that you
Speaker 3: won't spend a lot of money on meeting Kentucky, I
Speaker 3: was kind of questioning, well, why wouldn't. You're Kentucky, you
Speaker 3: have the money. But this guy that they added, good player,
Speaker 3: for sure, but I'm not sure this would be the
Speaker 3: one that I would have spent a ton of money on.
Speaker 3: But hey, it's not my money. I'd stick with us
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Speaker 3: All right, so this was reported by Matt Norlander of
Speaker 3: CBS Sports. He put this out earlier today and it
Speaker 3: says that barring any portal defections, Kentucky has ended its
Speaker 3: pursuits of all other portal targets. So they got a
Speaker 3: commitment today from Florida. Yes, Florida's national championship six man
Speaker 3: Denzel A. Bearding, he decided to commit to Kentucky. And
Speaker 3: you know this means not I'm just giving you my
Speaker 3: just being honest with you. I'm sure anything I say
Speaker 3: about Kentucky is going to be viewed by some as
Speaker 3: me being like, you know, a backhanded compliment or some
Speaker 3: kind of a slight And it's really not that at all.
Speaker 3: But when I think of Florida, I didn't know who
Speaker 3: this guy was. Now I see his picture, I recognize him.
Speaker 3: But you know, he's somebody that was a role player.
Speaker 3: You know, he was a guy who came off the
Speaker 3: bench and again he had a really important role. He
Speaker 3: helped win a national championship. But you know he also
Speaker 3: averaged seven points a game and shot at thirty five
Speaker 3: percent from three. And you know he finally was going
Speaker 3: to be in line to be the guy at Florida.
Speaker 3: Maybe not their their main guy, meaning like the guy
Speaker 3: they run everything through. But he's been a reserve, averaging
Speaker 3: three minutes a game two years ago as a freshman.
Speaker 3: Last year as a sophomore, averaged nine minutes a game,
Speaker 3: and then nineteen minutes a game. So he's been taking
Speaker 3: steps and it was going to be his time, but
Speaker 3: he hit the portal because he got word that he
Speaker 3: could get a big payday, and that payday came from Kentucky.
Speaker 3: So again I don't want to s even if I
Speaker 3: was really heavy handed, like, man, I don't know what
Speaker 3: Kentucky fans are smoking because they think this roster is
Speaker 3: so impressive and everybody scared. Nah, Like even if I
Speaker 3: thought that, which I kind of do, I would be
Speaker 3: willing to tell you none of us know. We have
Speaker 3: no clue how portal guys are gonna work out. There's
Speaker 3: so many examples of guys that you would have never
Speaker 3: been excited about that changed everything for a team. And
Speaker 3: there's guys that you thought were gonna be, you know,
Speaker 3: a big deal in there underwhelming You just don't know.
Speaker 3: And again there's countless examples on both sides of that.
Speaker 3: But I mean Jeff Goodman, who again say what you
Speaker 3: want about him, he is somebody that absolutely, I mean
Speaker 3: absolutely would know more than anybody that this is just
Speaker 3: this was this was simply a money thing. And look
Speaker 3: that's where we are now. This is from Rob douster
Speaker 3: Field of sixty eight Denzel a beerdein and am I
Speaker 3: saying that? Right? Aberdeen? Yeah, I'm sorry. Denzel Aberdeen is
Speaker 3: a Florida native that won a title playing a role
Speaker 3: for the Gators, was slated to step into a starting
Speaker 3: darring role, and opted to transfer in a conference to
Speaker 3: a team where he'll likely be playing a role behind
Speaker 3: Jalen Lowe, otega Oway and Jasper Johnson. So what could
Speaker 3: lead to that money? And if that's what he wants
Speaker 3: to do, he has every right to do it. And honestly,
Speaker 3: maybe Kentucky ended up benefiting from this because he's gonna
Speaker 3: take that secondary role, it seems, and those are guys
Speaker 3: that are hard to get because again, who wants that, Well,
Speaker 3: somebody will want it if it's if it's that big
Speaker 3: of a payday, right, I'll be a role guy again.
Speaker 3: Pay me this much money? Sure, I thought I wanted
Speaker 3: to start. I was pretty content being a backup last year,
Speaker 3: and now I'm gonna make a lot more money. Why not?
Speaker 3: So maybe, in a way like that's impressive for Kentucky
Speaker 3: to know that their guards are pretty much said with
Speaker 3: Oway back, because here's the thing it is with O
Speaker 3: take Oway in the end of take Away, I don't
Speaker 3: know what I said. That's so weird. He's clearly in
Speaker 3: the NBA draft right now, but doesn't seem like he's
Speaker 3: going to stay there and he'll come back. So when
Speaker 3: you're in limbo like that, you're not really in limbo.
Speaker 3: Like for Kentucky to go out there and get another
Speaker 3: big guard, it probably would be pretty tough to do
Speaker 3: because you know, any really big guard that's available that
Speaker 3: everybody would want would look at Otaga away and realize, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm really good. I know that I can compete with anybody.
Speaker 3: But this guy, if he was in the portal, he
Speaker 3: would probably be ranked right next to me, or maybe
Speaker 3: even ahead of me, because he's that good of a player.
Speaker 3: So now that their roster is essentially set, I just
Speaker 3: I don't know. I I can't really tell if I
Speaker 3: think that on paper that they're going to be close
Speaker 3: to as good as they were last year. Now, again,
Speaker 3: they didn't have a team fully healthy towards the end
Speaker 3: of the season, and we all know that, and that
Speaker 3: of course is a factor. But you know, like who
Speaker 3: on their team, right, I mean o Take always going
Speaker 3: to be their best player and getting him back again,
Speaker 3: that's weird. We don't really know how to celebrate that
Speaker 3: fully yet, because you know, we want to think about
Speaker 3: the portal and all the new pieces, the new weapons
Speaker 3: that you got to get better. But as much as
Speaker 3: we like the new shiny pieces that you know are
Speaker 3: exciting because you watched them play elsewhere or maybe you
Speaker 3: just looked at their gaudy stats at their previous school,
Speaker 3: it's not as exciting and it's not as you know new.
Speaker 3: But just look at this way. If a player was
Speaker 3: to hit the portal on your team, and you know
Speaker 3: they'd be ranked really highly, and those guys don't decide
Speaker 3: to leave and they decide to come back, that's still
Speaker 3: a really big win. Kind of feels weird because you
Speaker 3: already have the guy, but still, you know it's it's
Speaker 3: a huge addition. So they're not as they don't need
Speaker 3: to go out there. Because I've said this all year.
Speaker 3: There was so much talk about Lamont Butler and about
Speaker 3: Jackson Robinson, who were good players. Clearly that helped Kentucky,
Speaker 3: but even if they stayed healthy, I think their best player,
Speaker 3: their best guard, was O take Away, like there's to me,
Speaker 3: there's just no way around that. So you know, getting
Speaker 3: him back is huge for them. And Jalen Lo's a
Speaker 3: really good piece, good talent, although not a shooter, and
Speaker 3: that just seems to be a weird fit. But he's
Speaker 3: talented and Pope is a good enough coach to he'll
Speaker 3: probably figure out to a way to make it work.
Speaker 3: But they took Low who was really really you know,
Speaker 3: good player but not efficient, but he also played on
Speaker 3: a really bad team. That's a factor. And they also
Speaker 3: have Mo Diabatee, the big for Alabama, who's a good,
Speaker 3: good piece, but like he's leaving Bama because he couldn't
Speaker 3: play a lot of minutes there, Like that's that's why
Speaker 3: he's leaving Bama. He was never going to be the
Speaker 3: guy there. Well, if he can't be the guy at Bama,
Speaker 3: but he can be the guy for you, is that
Speaker 3: a great thing? You know, Jaden Quainton's still living off
Speaker 3: of the five star billing he got coming out of
Speaker 3: high school. Maybe he ends up really turning into an
Speaker 3: effective and consistent player in college, or maybe he's another
Speaker 3: eight and seven guy and just goes pro next year.
Speaker 3: Because you know, he's still going to be able to
Speaker 3: live off that potential. You know, Brandon Garrison, big athlete,
Speaker 3: I mean he didn't even play for them at times
Speaker 3: this year because he was so far behind, and he
Speaker 3: just the so far behind guys like Andrew Carr and
Speaker 3: who's the other big guy, Mary Williams. Is that his
Speaker 3: name something? Yes? Yes, So you know they've got good,
Speaker 3: talented pieces and maybe Pope is just making a real
Speaker 3: obvious shift here to where at Byu, I did it
Speaker 3: and it worked for the most part. Last year at
Speaker 3: Kentucky we did it, and you know, it kind of worked.
Speaker 3: But I realized I need more athleticism and not as
Speaker 3: much shooting, because that could be the case here. That
Speaker 3: could be the cell, because guys who you've always felt
Speaker 3: like are really good fits for what Mark Pope wants
Speaker 3: to do offensively, Specifically, we're talking about shooters and big
Speaker 3: men that are versatile, that can also shoot a little
Speaker 3: bit but pass None of these guys are that that
Speaker 3: they've picked up. I don't know much about the Jelivick
Speaker 3: that came in from the Croatia, so I mean, maybe
Speaker 3: he's that guy. I don't know of about him. I've
Speaker 3: never heard of him til comitted, So I maybe this
Speaker 3: team's elite. When it's all said and done. None of
Speaker 3: us know if you've got super strong opinions about this
Speaker 3: team being mid or this team being great, none of
Speaker 3: us know. But I just, you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: tell myself, well, maybe it's just because I haven't watched
Speaker 3: these guys enough, but like, I mean, I know who
Speaker 3: Jalen Lowe is. I know who Modiabatte is. I know
Speaker 3: Jaden Quayton says, I know Brandon Garris says, I know
Speaker 3: who Denzel Aberdeen is. And I just don't feel like
Speaker 3: if that's like you're starting five, I don't know how
Speaker 3: good that team is. You know, A taga Oway is
Speaker 3: the main guy, and by the way, I should have
Speaker 3: mentioned him, he'll certainly start. But Jasper Johnson really good freshman,
Speaker 3: but how much do you really get out of freshman anymore?
Speaker 3: As far as right away, Colin Chandler, maybe he makes
Speaker 3: a big jump after two years off of basketball where
Speaker 3: he was kind of shaking off the rust last year.
Speaker 3: Cam Williams used the shoot her from Tulane Malacamorino four
Speaker 3: star big man, But you know, how much is he
Speaker 3: going to be able to really play right away? So again,
Speaker 3: I'm not setting this whole thing up to.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 3: Know act like anybody thinking this Kentucky team is great
Speaker 3: is just lying to themselves. But when I see the
Speaker 3: report from Norlander that they're set and I look at
Speaker 3: all their pieces, I just, you know, I don't I
Speaker 3: don't really know if they're even close to as good
Speaker 3: as they were last year. Like is is diabate? I mean,
Speaker 3: is he gonna be a better piece for you than
Speaker 3: a Jackson Robinson at wing? Maybe? I don't know, we'll
Speaker 3: find out. The one thing that wou that would worry
Speaker 3: me is that your bigs last year were really skilled
Speaker 3: that could pass it a lot. I mean, you know
Speaker 3: that that was a matchup problem for a lot of teams.
Speaker 3: Mary Williams was a really tough matchup because when he's
Speaker 3: just a physical monster, he's skilled around the rim, and
Speaker 3: he's a really good passer. I mean, Brandon Garrison and
Speaker 3: Jaden Quainton's don't do any of those things. They're just big,
Speaker 3: physical athletes, which again there's value there. It's just not
Speaker 3: something I've ever watched Mark Pope teams really you know, utilized.
Speaker 3: But again maybe it's that he learned. Okay, this year
Speaker 3: in the SEC especially, we were skilled, but we did
Speaker 3: not have the athletes. I need the athletes. Maybe that
Speaker 3: was the emphasis with this roster, and if that's the case,
Speaker 3: certainly they made a big update when it comes to
Speaker 3: athleticism with guys like low Aberdeen, the Abata quaintance. For sure,
Speaker 3: Garrison is already a really good athlete. Away is a
Speaker 3: good enough athlete.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: That could be it.
Speaker 3: But also with respect to Mark Pope, I actually I
Speaker 3: like that he's one of those coaches that is going
Speaker 3: to I mean, I don't see him being somebody that
Speaker 3: would really adjust who he is as a coach because
Speaker 3: he believes in his style, his system, and he's a
Speaker 3: very very smart guy. He's very analytical, and I know
Speaker 3: sometimes you know people say, oh, it's just nerds, I
Speaker 3: mean analytics. Man. Some like them and value them, use
Speaker 3: them more than others. But if you don't, if you
Speaker 3: ignore them and just lack like they don't exist and
Speaker 3: they don't matter, you're gonna get You're gonna get lapped
Speaker 3: in this in this industry of basketball, because there's a
Speaker 3: reason that that analytics are relied on as much as
Speaker 3: they are. All right, quick break, we'll come back on
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Speaker 3: Last night was the annual Super Bowl of Professional wrestling.
Speaker 3: In fact, this weekend was with WrestleMania taking place in
Speaker 3: Las Vegas. And I think I've watched WrestleMania one time
Speaker 3: when I was in like middle school. One of my
Speaker 3: buddies got it on pay per view and we went
Speaker 3: and watched it. So even when I was even when
Speaker 3: I was a kid and I was really into wrestling,
Speaker 3: I was fortunate to be into it. I feel like
Speaker 3: at the best time that was the Attitude era, Sure,
Speaker 3: but it still wasn't. I mean we didn't. I oftentimes
Speaker 3: didn't get to watch the pay per views, which you know,
Speaker 3: kind of made it seem more like it. When I
Speaker 3: did get to watch him, I felt like, really specially
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Yeah, Austin is a wrestling
Speaker 3: fan but also somebody who covers the industry. He's got
Speaker 3: a podcast called the Babyfaces Podcast. It's an iHeartRadio podcast
Speaker 3: covering again professional wrestling. So I wanted to get your thought,
Speaker 3: because WrestleMania is the event that wrestling has the regardless
Speaker 3: if you're into it, you like it, you don't like it,
Speaker 3: you don't want to see anything about it. It's hard
Speaker 3: to miss because it's that. It's again, it's the super
Speaker 3: Bowl of that, of that a sport industry, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it. So to me, here's here's what
Speaker 3: I've gathered as far as just the noise I've been
Speaker 3: hearing about. Okay, that's what happened that night one. Eh,
Speaker 3: but the main event was great. Yep. Night two was good,
Speaker 3: but the main event sucked. Yes, how you nailed it? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: you nailed it. I had to make it sound so simple,
Speaker 3: but you know that. That's what I've gathered is that
Speaker 3: they really loved the uh, the the ending on Saturday,
Speaker 3: but Sunday apparently something at the end was just it
Speaker 3: just seemed like a real head scratch as to why
Speaker 3: would the WWE do this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it went off. It went over like what they
Speaker 4: say a fart in church would, just because it was
Speaker 4: I mean, you had this culmination of John Cena finally
Speaker 4: becoming a bad guy.
Speaker 3: All of his career, he's been the white Meat, baby Face,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: The the Make a Wish kids and everything like that.
Speaker 4: But the whole story centered around this is because well
Speaker 4: The Rock is kind of back too, because he's fully
Speaker 4: port he's fully portrayed the villain role of being the
Speaker 4: final Boss. He's a he's on the board member of
Speaker 4: t KO that owns WWE. So the thing is is
Speaker 4: the story started with John Cena selling his soul to
Speaker 4: the devil, to the final boss that is the Rock,
Speaker 4: because it's his last go around, this is his last
Speaker 4: WrestleMania and going up against the guy who he has
Speaker 4: very parallel careers careers with, Cody Rhodes, also a super
Speaker 4: over Babyface, super white Meat, You're you're good guy, someone
Speaker 4: that John Cena has been his whole you know, career,
Speaker 4: but he turned on him a few months ago and
Speaker 4: he joined the Alliance of the Rock. And I guess
Speaker 4: Travis Scott. I guess somehow Travis Scott is all a
Speaker 4: part of that.
Speaker 3: So that's what I don't again, like you don't need
Speaker 3: to explain the whole thing. And I'd be a liar
Speaker 3: if I said I'm truly interested, But like, what about
Speaker 3: Travis not not just not with what you're saying, but like, no, no,
Speaker 3: I get it. What makes Travis Scott like? Why him?
Speaker 4: There's no like story like lore to it, just more
Speaker 4: or less like WWE is gone. You know they're on
Speaker 4: Netflix now that like the I guess that's this is
Speaker 4: their chance at the main crossover. A peer's appeal is
Speaker 4: with Travis Scott because he is popular and pop culture is.
Speaker 3: Still But they don't need that, do they? Does wrestling
Speaker 3: need to not to to maybe potentially? And again what
Speaker 3: do I know? But it seems like your opinion and
Speaker 3: all those that really do value and appreciate the WWE
Speaker 3: and they're great storytelling and content that they they let
Speaker 3: that take a hit in order to potentially reach some
Speaker 3: people that might not have been interested unless Travis Scott
Speaker 3: was involved. Is that right? Yes, they don't need that,
Speaker 3: They're gonna they would have had a better show and
Speaker 3: just as much viewership. Agree, Yeah, I just is this
Speaker 3: a triple H kind of thing where maybe he's going
Speaker 3: to be more influenced by that kind of stuff more
Speaker 3: than his father.
Speaker 4: In law with it, it's the new ownership just because
Speaker 4: they got taken over by TKO groups and endeavor that's
Speaker 4: owning so.
Speaker 3: That's what people mean when they talk about like the UFC,
Speaker 3: people who own it kind of like take shots at
Speaker 3: the like they don't you know, like they.
Speaker 4: Yes, so they're and and wrestling and especially WrestleMania has
Speaker 4: always been built off the the crossover appeal of mainstream artists.
Speaker 3: Of course it's been a lopper back in the day
Speaker 3: Muhammad employee they had. That makes the Treviscott thing make
Speaker 3: more sense.
Speaker 4: Actually, yes, but like usually you would in that situation,
Speaker 4: you would like to see them be a bad guy
Speaker 4: in the world that is wrestling, Like, what's your story?
Speaker 3: Why did you align with this person?
Speaker 4: Because that's what it's all about at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, is storylines and getting you invested and suspending
Speaker 4: the disbelief that, oh my god, these guys really aren't fighting.
Speaker 4: It's finding the heat in the rivalry, finding like what
Speaker 4: these guys are fighting for, what these guys are aligned for.
Speaker 4: And it was it's been really weird with you know,
Speaker 4: with the whole John Cena thing. It ended very badly
Speaker 4: with some very bad acting and it just just kind
Speaker 4: of fell flat. Everybody was kind of like expecting the
Speaker 4: Rock to show up because that was a main set
Speaker 4: point and John Cena turning heel in the first place,
Speaker 4: but I don't know. And then the night one, the
Speaker 4: triple threat match was amazing with my guy Roman Reigns,
Speaker 4: Seth Rollins and See Them Punk. It was great and
Speaker 4: there was a fun angle that ended that because Paul Haman,
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're a Paul Hamon guy, but
Speaker 4: he turned on Roman Reigns.
Speaker 3: He's been aligned with him.
Speaker 4: The last five years and he he turned on to
Speaker 4: go with the Seth Rollins. But even then that was
Speaker 4: the main event that had no title implications. It was
Speaker 4: just more of they were going off the three stars
Speaker 4: as some of their three biggest stars, Roman Range, Seth
Speaker 4: Rollins and See Him Punk, but there was no title implications.
Speaker 4: The work rate was good and the story that was
Speaker 4: being told, but usually, you know, you like to end
Speaker 4: both nights on you know, titles, so there was really
Speaker 4: no stipulation whatsoever. I don't know, it just it just
Speaker 4: fell kind of flat. The lackluster builds this year's mane
Speaker 4: I was just spoiled from the last two because there
Speaker 4: was really good storytelling going into both of them. In Yeah,
Speaker 4: last year would have been hard to top with all
Speaker 4: the run ins and everything. And I know this is
Speaker 4: me extremely geeking out, so I appreciate you listening, but
Speaker 4: it was just it was it just it just fell flat.
Speaker 4: But for all it's worth, Vegas looked fun. I know,
Speaker 4: the promotion there was. I heard on the radio show
Speaker 4: Activations Everywhere WWE. As soon as you landed in Vegas,
Speaker 4: it was WWE everywhere. And they also do like that's
Speaker 4: where all the indie promotions going on.
Speaker 3: A lot of there's like there's I mean, it becomes
Speaker 3: not just the big event, but the entire city seems
Speaker 3: to become nothing but WWE and wrestling whenever they whatever
Speaker 3: city hosts WrestleMania, that's just what the event is. So
Speaker 3: you said something a moment ago that did that that
Speaker 3: that stood out to me. How do you enjoy or
Speaker 3: how would you watch wrestling if it's not all about
Speaker 3: the story and the creative, Like can you get into
Speaker 3: wrestling if it's just watching? I mean again like not
Speaker 3: to act as if it's not an impressive thing to
Speaker 3: be able to do, to sell and to work a match,
Speaker 3: but like from an entertainment standpoint, I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: really know how anybody would. It's got to be the stories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean wrestling is I love it to death,
Speaker 4: but wrestling. Wrestling is kind of silly, you know, it's
Speaker 4: based off of carne nature.
Speaker 3: Well that's like the indies. Like I don't understand like
Speaker 3: the indies, Like the people who love the indies are
Speaker 3: just like you know, they just love wrestling exactly because
Speaker 3: there's no it's a one off show. There's no like storyline,
Speaker 3: right yeah, and you can see, you know, you can
Speaker 3: have a you can you can do something within a
Speaker 3: night to like build up a main event early on
Speaker 3: on your card and whatnot. And that's really how that works.
Speaker 3: There's really no other way to do it. But like
Speaker 3: I don't know anybody would ever get into wrestling if
Speaker 3: it wasn't because of like the stories and the characters
Speaker 3: that are created. Yes, and that's a WWE does so
Speaker 3: great with.
Speaker 4: And you can well actually recently before Peacock because now
Speaker 4: you have to add tears to the Peacock to where well,
Speaker 4: they usually had the pre match promos that gets you
Speaker 4: hype for the match it's.
Speaker 3: About to come on. Usually they do a good job
Speaker 3: of catching you up.
Speaker 4: For the casual viewers that haven't watched, you could sit
Speaker 4: down and watch wrestling, and they do the video packages
Speaker 4: they do backstage. They do a good job of letting
Speaker 4: you know, okay, what's going on right now. But now
Speaker 4: with the Peacock, which we just found out last night,
Speaker 4: me and I got Billy, we're texting about it.
Speaker 3: It's just adds now.
Speaker 4: So you unless you have Peacock's subscription, when that break.
Speaker 4: Whenever they goes all right, here's our next match, does
Speaker 4: the pre match promo for it? They don't show you
Speaker 4: that pre match promo. They get you hyped for it
Speaker 4: unless you're a premium subscriber. If you're not, then you
Speaker 4: get all their ads like the TurboTax and all their
Speaker 4: other what And you've noticed that the ring, I don't
Speaker 4: know if you've seen it, it's full of advertisement now
Speaker 4: it looks like a boxing ring.
Speaker 3: Well so like anything in society these days, that's entertainment
Speaker 3: if you like. There's so much people can easily like.
Speaker 3: You don't have people as long as you're used to,
Speaker 3: as far as for them to see if they're interested
Speaker 3: to consume your content or not. And what I mean
Speaker 3: by that is, if you're not doing the best you
Speaker 3: can to let people know who are just joining the content,
Speaker 3: the programming, know what's going on. They may it may
Speaker 3: not even be something that in mind they're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: the hell with this, I'm out, but they will absolutely
Speaker 3: just tune out and move on to something else that'll
Speaker 3: get their attention. So I agree, even if it's the
Speaker 3: best thing going, if you're not in some way letting
Speaker 3: new viewers you know, kind of know what's going on
Speaker 3: without starting all over from the beginning, right, you're just
Speaker 3: not gonna have And that's what you always have to do.
Speaker 3: Like that, Like there's certain sports and certain again, all
Speaker 3: this is entertainment sports everything. I mean, that's why wrestling
Speaker 3: is kind of it's clearly it's different than the NFL
Speaker 3: and the NBA because it's choreographed and whatnot. But it's entertainment.
Speaker 3: So therefore, you know, no matter if you're really playing
Speaker 3: you know, basketball, which you know you're competing and nobody
Speaker 3: knows who's gonna win at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you're competing with it, with it, with the entertainment world. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and man, at any moment now with these devices in
Speaker 3: our hands, their cell phones, like if you're not if
Speaker 3: you're not picking up on it early, you'll do something else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I like you, you're all in love with
Speaker 4: the characters. You fall in love with what angles that
Speaker 4: they're doing, and that's what gets you invest. For me,
Speaker 4: the matches have never meant anything, even when I love
Speaker 4: Stone Cold and the Rock back then, Like there may
Speaker 4: be like a twenty thirty minute match just to bell
Speaker 4: to bell action, but I was more interested and let
Speaker 4: me see my favorite superstar come out, hit the hit,
Speaker 4: the hit the cameras well. The mic work is what
Speaker 4: I love to do, the mic work, and let me
Speaker 4: see how the match finishes. Let me see you guys
Speaker 4: hit your stuff on one another, and then let me
Speaker 4: see what the story is coming out of this match.
Speaker 4: I can care for less for the twenty thirty minutes
Speaker 4: of wrestling in between.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't remember a whole lot of specific things
Speaker 3: that took place in matches when I watched when I
Speaker 3: was a kid during the Attitude era, but man I
Speaker 3: remember and remember the moment, I remember everything that came
Speaker 3: with it. Yeah, and it was it was a fun,
Speaker 3: fun fun.
Speaker 4: See stone Cold was on one last night he crashed
Speaker 4: his ATV. Did he like miss the Egg?
Speaker 3: Like I saw somebody statement saying that like the delay
Speaker 3: for him getting out there. Was he missed he was
Speaker 3: he missed the ramp, Yeah, completely, he would have expected
Speaker 3: Stone Cold to do. But you know, maybe again it
Speaker 3: was the Steve Wiser So.
Speaker 4: Then crashed into the barricade and knocked a lady down,
Speaker 4: and I'm pretty sure she's probably gonna get ringside seats
Speaker 4: and free merch for a long time.
Speaker 3: I mean, the amount of people that were there that
Speaker 3: are like legends. I mean, again, it's WrestleManias. If you're
Speaker 3: gonna bring them all out, that's you do it. But
Speaker 3: I mean talk about the longevity of guys like Sena
Speaker 3: in the Rock, you know, to still be able to
Speaker 3: and of course Stone Cold. I mean it's that was
Speaker 3: a hell of an era, still be relevant. People know
Speaker 3: who they are, no doubt are we got another hour
Speaker 3: left stick with us. I was wrong. I thought, you
Speaker 3: know what the portal, Yeah, you were going to hit
Speaker 3: the portal. You already done, You would have already done it. No,
Speaker 3: as we speak, there's been a few additions to the
Speaker 3: portal that I think are worth mentioning that have happened,
Speaker 3: you know, just in the last couple of hours. So
Speaker 3: we'll get to that. And many had much more right
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