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Speaker 1: here's Nick coffee.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get the five o'clock hours started here
Speaker 2: on a Monday afternoon coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. As you could expect if
Speaker 2: you are just now joining us, a lot of reacting
Speaker 2: to what happened this weekend for Louisville, A real punch
Speaker 2: to the gut. For Kentucky, probably as good as they
Speaker 2: felt about well, probably as good as they have felt
Speaker 2: following a win in a long long time. I mean,
Speaker 2: they could still have a special season, but obviously you
Speaker 2: know that win put them at three and two. A
Speaker 2: lot of winnable games left for him, no doubt. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I haven't really spent a whole lot of time trying
Speaker 2: to check the pulse of that fan base to see
Speaker 2: how they're reacting, because you know, you're more inclined to
Speaker 2: want to hear them when they're crying and they give
Speaker 2: us their tears. That's kind of how the rivalry works, right,
Speaker 2: Like I know how I know that there were many
Speaker 2: people listening to the postgame shows we would do during
Speaker 2: the Kinney Payne era that were not Louisville fans, but
Speaker 2: just wanted to kind of sit and enjoy the misery
Speaker 2: that we were going through, because again, that's how the
Speaker 2: rivalry works. So a lot of reaction. Haven't really talked
Speaker 2: a whole lot about anything else. We do have a
Speaker 2: couple of Monday night football games tonight, which I didn't
Speaker 2: realize they were giving us double Monday night football and
Speaker 2: back to back weeks. I like it. I don't know
Speaker 2: how many more they're going to do, but you know,
Speaker 2: I wish they would do it every week. I would
Speaker 2: imagine that the NFL would be doing that if they
Speaker 2: felt it was beneficial for them. But yeah, a couple
Speaker 2: of Monday night games. I want to get to a
Speaker 2: little bit later on because when it comes to underdog fantasy,
Speaker 2: that's where I'm having success. It's not anything else. It's
Speaker 2: not betting. I'm not having any success when it comes
Speaker 2: to that. But uh yeah, five two, five, nine hundred
Speaker 2: is the number. If you guys want to jump in
Speaker 2: and join us on the phone lines. We do have
Speaker 2: lines open now if you want to give us a
Speaker 2: call react to whatever I mean. I would imagine most
Speaker 2: of the people that would call in would want to
Speaker 2: react to what happened in South Bend. I think those
Speaker 2: that called the postgame show, which we had full calls
Speaker 2: throughout the entirety of the show, as you could expect
Speaker 2: that usually is the case any game, but especially after
Speaker 2: a loss. It was the first time we all collectively,
Speaker 2: I think, realized that we lost a big game that
Speaker 2: we could have won, some may say should have won.
Speaker 2: And yet a big factor in that was the coach.
Speaker 2: Meaning while we did not to say that, like Jeff specifically,
Speaker 2: but you know, to come out and play so sloppy,
Speaker 2: to make so many mistakes, to have three turnovers that really,
Speaker 2: you know, were easily avoidable, like that's just not something
Speaker 2: we've done before as a fan base. And again not
Speaker 2: to act like last year when Louisville lost games or
Speaker 2: even when they won games, that there wasn't criticism for
Speaker 2: Jeff Bram and his staff. I mean, I think fans
Speaker 2: have been critical when necessary. I don't think anybody's been
Speaker 2: over the top. Maybe some have, but like I think
Speaker 2: we have kind of removed ourselves from the toxicity that
Speaker 2: we were going through with the end of Bobby, with
Speaker 2: sadderfield to wear, we can be critical, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean we want a new coach, doesn't mean we think
Speaker 2: our guy's not any good. But you know, Jeff did
Speaker 2: not have a good day. That's a nice way of
Speaker 2: saying he had a bad day. Some might say he
Speaker 2: had a really bad day, because it just was unusual
Speaker 2: for us to be in that position. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was the first time I can think of that we
Speaker 2: were feeling really really kind of underwhelmed and disappointed. And
Speaker 2: yet a big factor in that was that the coaching staff.
Speaker 2: Now it's not to say players don't take some responsibility.
Speaker 2: They always do, but it's the coach's job to get
Speaker 2: him ready. And I went back and forth with somebody
Speaker 2: on Twitter on Saturday because you know, I don't think
Speaker 2: what I said was out of a line. I don't
Speaker 2: think it was you know, controversial. I don't even think
Speaker 2: it was a hot take. I just said, you know,
Speaker 2: one thing I expected was for Louisville to come out
Speaker 2: sharp and ready to play. It's been the exact opposite.
Speaker 2: And you know, I guess it's semantics when it comes
Speaker 2: to like being ready to play. But whenever you have
Speaker 2: as many mistakes as they had in the first quest,
Speaker 2: I mean, to me, that says you're not ready to play.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would say you could watch Louisville in
Speaker 2: the first quarter and all the mistakes they made that
Speaker 2: really Notre Dame had no impact, and I think most
Speaker 2: people watching would say, yeah, looks like they didn't come
Speaker 2: ready to play. But for some reason, someone took issue
Speaker 2: with that. So you know, there's nothing you can do
Speaker 2: about it now, and it doesn't make me feel any
Speaker 2: better in the moment. Certainly didn't make me feel any
Speaker 2: better on Saturday. But I'm not looking at this Louisville
Speaker 2: team from a personnel standpoint or from a coaching standpoint
Speaker 2: feeling like, Okay, I'm worried we don't have the pieces
Speaker 2: or the ability to win a bunch of games this
Speaker 2: year and maybe find ourselves in Charlotte for the ACC
Speaker 2: Championship game. Again, I don't know they're going to do that,
Speaker 2: but like, it'd be worse if we were sitting here thinking, like, damn,
Speaker 2: we went up to South Bend and they rolled us.
Speaker 2: They were better in every way, and that isn't at
Speaker 2: all what we're saying, and that would be worst case scenario.
Speaker 2: But it's still to me. It's just I've said it
Speaker 2: since the postgame show started on Saturday. I've said it
Speaker 2: a few times today, why not say it once more.
Speaker 2: I cannot think of a game that has given me
Speaker 2: the same feeling that this one gave me. Because you know,
Speaker 2: you were better than Notre Dame. I feel like you lost,
Speaker 2: and it's all that really matters when it comes to
Speaker 2: like how we were evaluated as college football programs. You
Speaker 2: play twelve games in the regular season. You got to
Speaker 2: win as many as possible. You win a lot, you
Speaker 2: can do special things. You don't win much. That's not good.
Speaker 2: So it would be worse if Louisville, you know, went
Speaker 2: up there and got humbled. But that didn't What happened.
Speaker 2: Louisville had one hundred and fifteen more total yards, way
Speaker 2: more passing yards, over one hundred more passing yards, had
Speaker 2: more rushing yards, had nineteen first downs to their eleven
Speaker 2: first downs. I mean, it's one of those games where
Speaker 2: you look at the box score and you think, Okay,
Speaker 2: looking at these stats, how'd you lose? Well, it's because
Speaker 2: of your your mistakes, and it's not just the turnovers, right,
Speaker 2: because they capitalized on all three of your turnovers. They
Speaker 2: had seventeen points off of your mistakes. The Corey ja
Speaker 2: Corey Brooks bobbled and passed that they got the interception
Speaker 2: for they scored off that, the fumble from Jack from
Speaker 2: not Jack Lumber from Tyler Shuck flashbacks. Yeah, they scored
Speaker 2: off that. You know, we gave him a touchdown with
Speaker 2: the snap over the punter's head. So like that's how
Speaker 2: you lose games with the stat line like that, those
Speaker 2: critical mistakes that cost you. But it wasn't just that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, not getting any points at the
Speaker 2: end of the half, the decisions made when going forward
Speaker 2: on fourth down, not calling a time out at the
Speaker 2: end of the first half just to kind of get
Speaker 2: your composure together. That was a head scratcher to me.
Speaker 2: You know, having a delay of game in that moment
Speaker 2: at the very end is just maddening. So overall it's
Speaker 2: a tough pill to swallow, knowing that literally you take
Speaker 2: away one of those mistakes, you have one of those
Speaker 2: calls go your way, the insanely stupid double pass interference
Speaker 2: which nobody's ever seen before. If that doesn't if that
Speaker 2: doesn't happen and they just call the right play, which
Speaker 2: is you know, pass interference on the defense, or they
Speaker 2: spot the ball correctly on one of those instances where
Speaker 2: we thought we got a bad spot. Like one of
Speaker 2: those things goes your way, you still potentially win. So again,
Speaker 2: it doesn't make me feel like this team is in trouble.
Speaker 2: But to know that, like one little mistake or one
Speaker 2: big mistake that you could have avoided, if that doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: you might leave with leave South Bend with a win,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of value there. So to have
Speaker 2: that missed opportunity because of sloppy play, poor decisions, it's
Speaker 2: just it sucks. But again, it could be worse. We
Speaker 2: could be coming off of a loss where you went
Speaker 2: up there and you got beat up, you got humbled,
Speaker 2: and you realize we're not any good And I don't
Speaker 2: look being good and being bad is defined by what
Speaker 2: winning and losing. And you lost, so we got to
Speaker 2: take the l But I don't think many are questioning
Speaker 2: if this team has the pieces. I mean, ja, Corey
Speaker 2: Brooks is really good. Tyler Schuck. Stats don't even show
Speaker 2: how good of a day he had. Colin Lacy probably
Speaker 2: made the best catch I've seen a Louisville player make
Speaker 2: in years in his first game as a louis of
Speaker 2: a cardinal. We got to work on getting better pass protection,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. But other than that, from a personnel standpoint,
Speaker 2: I still feel pretty good about where we are. We're
Speaker 2: gonna get Quincy Riley back at some point, maybe it's
Speaker 2: this week. I don't know. So it still sucks, but again,
Speaker 2: it could be worse. All right, let's go to the
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Speaker 2: give us a call. Let's go to Cody. Cody, you're
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety what uth Man?
Speaker 3: Hey, Nick, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: It's been a while since I call it in brother, Yes,
Speaker 3: sir man, Nick, I'm not trying to be biased by
Speaker 3: any means, because I try to watch the games and
Speaker 3: not have that mindset. Obviously, every game they play I
Speaker 3: think they can win. And Nick, like, am I crazy
Speaker 3: for thinking that if they play this game ten times,
Speaker 3: Louisville wins the game seven maybe eight times?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Am I crazy to think that?
Speaker 2: There was just so many I don't think you're crazy, Cody,
Speaker 2: because you know, I mean, it's it's when we Because
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it with you. I think they might
Speaker 2: win more than seven times. And it's not because I'm
Speaker 2: saying that Louisville's great. I don't think Notre Dame's very good.
Speaker 2: But and again, if you beat him that many times,
Speaker 2: it would there would be value that that is not there,
Speaker 2: because you know, if you want to beat if you're
Speaker 2: gonna beat Notre Dame, you'd rather beat them when they're
Speaker 2: really good. But like, that's another part of it that
Speaker 2: makes it frustrating for me, is that I don't think
Speaker 2: Notre Dame's special in any way.
Speaker 3: Oh, Nick, I completely agree, man, And I got I
Speaker 3: got a short ramble here for a second, then I'm
Speaker 3: going to hang up and listen. But I mean, the
Speaker 3: game started off so well with getting that Fumbo recovery
Speaker 3: and then scoring, and Riley Leonard for the whole season
Speaker 3: had one touchdown pass and we leave that guy wide
Speaker 3: open and give him a free one and then he
Speaker 3: has another one. But I mean, like you said, Nick,
Speaker 3: I don't think Notre Dame is good at all. I
Speaker 3: don't think Riley Leonard is good at all. But I mean,
Speaker 3: if there's anything a moral victory and a loss, the
Speaker 3: way they fought back, I mean when once they got
Speaker 3: down in the years past, they just laid down and
Speaker 3: move on to the next week. But I mean, honestly,
Speaker 3: I think they can run the table. I know Clifson
Speaker 3: and Clifton in Miami are obviously going to be tough
Speaker 3: with cam Ward and then at Kentucky at the end
Speaker 3: of the season. Please God just let us finally beat them.
Speaker 3: And last thing, Nick, I'm gonna hang up and listen.
Speaker 3: If I've missed it already, forgiven me. I've been picking
Speaker 3: up the kids from school and listening in periodically and stuff.
Speaker 3: But what's the update on the blessed name of car.
Speaker 3: I need to know how Nick feels about auto zone today.
Speaker 3: That's been my biggest concern in all weekend. I've been
Speaker 3: worried sick about your car.
Speaker 1: Nick.
Speaker 3: Please buddy you and love to go.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Cody. I appreciate it. Yeah, I'll get to
Speaker 2: the to the car situation. That'll be the last thing
Speaker 2: I respond to here from your call. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean Notre Dame like it'd be in our best interest
Speaker 2: if they continue to win, and they're only lost this
Speaker 2: year is against Northern Illinois. I just don't think that's
Speaker 2: going to be the case, although they don't have that
Speaker 2: tough of a schedule this year. That's why there was
Speaker 2: so much emphasis from Notre Dame in this louisvill game
Speaker 2: is because they knew going in, hey, we have a
Speaker 2: chance here to get a win that has real value,
Speaker 2: which it does. I mean, that's a weird situation to
Speaker 2: be in Madgen telling somebody that twenty five years ago,
Speaker 2: but louisvilleootball would be looked at as a big opportunity
Speaker 2: for Notre Dame. But that's the way it played out.
Speaker 2: They have little learned prayers, so any game to them
Speaker 2: is big with their lost in Northern Illinois already there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like I just can you throw that, throw
Speaker 2: that in the mix, add it to the list or whatever,
Speaker 2: you know. As far as things that make it a
Speaker 2: tough pill to swallow, losing to Notre Dame at their
Speaker 2: place by a touchdown is in most instances, never something
Speaker 2: you can really feel like, yeah, oh that sucked. But
Speaker 2: that's the way I feel. All that sucked because of
Speaker 2: they weren't even that good and that you know. So
Speaker 2: as far as Riley Leonard look, Louisville's mistakes made it
Speaker 2: to where he didn't have you know, he didn't have
Speaker 2: to go very far to score some of those touchdowns,
Speaker 2: and you know, he played better. And I'll give credit
Speaker 2: where it's due. I think early on they were making
Speaker 2: it easy on him. I mean, he looked great in
Speaker 2: that first quarter, in first half, really, and yet he
Speaker 2: hadn't looked like that all year. Well, ron English made
Speaker 2: some adjustments and the louisvill defense was much better in
Speaker 2: the second half, held him scoreless in the third, and
Speaker 2: then in the fourth quarter. You know they didn't they
Speaker 2: didn't score until that interception that Louisville threw. So you know,
Speaker 2: damn Notre Dame game. As far as running the table,
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm not going anywhere close to that
Speaker 2: just yet. Now, do they have the opportunity, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: like beating any team left on the schedule wouldn't be
Speaker 2: looked at as some crazy thing when it comes down
Speaker 2: to it. Because Miami's right now ranked is the best
Speaker 2: team on your schedule. You got to go to Clemson.
Speaker 2: They're playing really good football right now. You know you
Speaker 2: will play Kentucky at their place, and you know, right
Speaker 2: now they're looking really good. I mean that Kentucky can
Speaker 2: beat Ole Miss at their place. I mean, clearly they
Speaker 2: can beat Louisville at home. I don't even want to
Speaker 2: go there with that game just yet. I'm not ready
Speaker 2: to do it. I can't, I can't. But this SMU
Speaker 2: game has kind of surprisingly turned into like a really
Speaker 2: big spot for Louisville, because a win here is really
Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do. I mean, you opened up
Speaker 2: I think last week midweek you opened up as eleven
Speaker 2: point favorites in this game. Now that you've lost, although
Speaker 2: you lost as dogs and they beat the snot out
Speaker 2: of Florida State, which I guess really isn't saying much
Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things, but they're loss that
Speaker 2: SMU had against BYU earlier this year is now looking
Speaker 2: like a real quality loss. B why used playing damn
Speaker 2: good football and they nearly lost to Nevada SIMU did,
Speaker 2: But since then they've made a quarterback change and they're
Speaker 2: playing good football right now. They're you know, right now
Speaker 2: lois is favored by TOUCHDWN. I'm kind of surprised by that.
Speaker 2: But when I say it's a big spot, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you really can prove something to yourself and
Speaker 2: to you know, fans. I'm sure they don't really talk
Speaker 2: about that when it comes to game prep or whatnot.
Speaker 2: But you've now played two real teams and you've not
Speaker 2: been You've not been clean in either of them. You've
Speaker 2: been sloppy for different reasons. A lot of penalties against
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech. And clearly you weren't a sloppy against Gegea
Speaker 2: Tech as you were against Notre Dame, but you didn't
Speaker 2: play clean football, and some of that I think is
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech's doing. But again, the penalties, the disorganization, just
Speaker 2: just just not a great overall performance. But you were
Speaker 2: able to make plays when when it mattered, and you
Speaker 2: did to Georgia Tech what Notre Dame did to you
Speaker 2: the next week, which is take advantage of mistakes they
Speaker 2: were made. So I'm not saying George Tich wasn't a
Speaker 2: good game, but like there were some avoidable mistakes made,
Speaker 2: some sloppiness that should be cleaned up. And then Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: We don't need to dive back into all the things
Speaker 2: that happened that could have been avoided that you would
Speaker 2: have expect to see a team do in that moment,
Speaker 2: especially one that usually under coach Jeff Brohm comes ready
Speaker 2: to play in those games. So against SMU, if you
Speaker 2: come out and let's say you win, but it's close
Speaker 2: and you feel like you really shot yourself in the
Speaker 2: foot in a critical moment here and maybe later in
Speaker 2: the game again, if you win, that's really all that like,
Speaker 2: that's that's how you're viewed, how that's how you evaluated
Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things. But if you're sloppy again,
Speaker 2: even in a win, here's what we have to say
Speaker 2: as a vent as of Saturday. That would be your
Speaker 2: identity as a team. Yeah, yeah, it's fixable. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: clearly things you don't have to go practice at. It's
Speaker 2: just you know, tightening up. And you know there's a
Speaker 2: lot of teams that you know, say that early on, Well,
Speaker 2: if we can just stop having penalties, if we can
Speaker 2: just you know, hold on to the ball, we can
Speaker 2: just you know, not hurt ourselves, we'll be all right.
Speaker 2: Well then, sure enough, you realize six weeks ago by
Speaker 2: and you're still saying that, you know what that means,
Speaker 2: that's who you are. Fixable, sure, but you're not fixing it.
Speaker 2: That's your identity. And I'm not saying that's where Louisville
Speaker 2: is right now, but I think it would be really
Speaker 2: really telling if they come out and just play a
Speaker 2: clean game of football where you're not worried about them
Speaker 2: making mistakes that really are just on them. I mean
Speaker 2: quite literally. The amount of things that went wrong for
Speaker 2: Louisville that they just did it themselves Saturday, that Notre
Speaker 2: Dame had no impact on is unbelievable. All right, So AutoZone,
Speaker 2: I mean, I gave an update on Friday, and there
Speaker 2: really hasn't been one that's changed since then. So you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hopefully hear from them in the next couple
Speaker 2: of days. Not AutoZone, because I've not heard from them ever.
Speaker 2: I've literally had to be the one calling them every
Speaker 2: single time I have had any communication with them, and
Speaker 2: it's usually multiple attempts before I get somebody to answer me.
Speaker 2: But my car will essentially be away from me, broken
Speaker 2: for two weeks because AutoZone tried to connect my battery
Speaker 2: incorrectly for three straight hours and zap the main fuse
Speaker 2: whatever the hell that is, zapped the alternator, which needs
Speaker 2: to be replaced, and because it's Volkswagen, they had to
Speaker 2: order it and it wasn't just readily available at the dealership,
Speaker 2: so you know, hopefully they give me a call later
Speaker 2: this week and then AutoZone shows up and pays what
Speaker 2: the damage is and then I go get my car.
Speaker 2: Like that's that's what I hope to happen. But nothing
Speaker 2: would shock me at this point. So we shall see.
Speaker 2: And here's what I don't get, Austin. You know you've
Speaker 2: worked in customer service before, I believe. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 2: asking for anybody to kiss my ass. I'm not asking
Speaker 2: for I'm really there's the thing. I don't really know
Speaker 2: what I'm asking for, but like no acknowledgment for taking
Speaker 2: my money, me giving you business, and you breaking my car,
Speaker 2: leaving me without a vehicle for two weeks and just
Speaker 2: expecting me to not continue to call you and ask
Speaker 2: like what's going to be done? Like that? That that
Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, you wouldn't you need some some Jeff Brown accountability?
Speaker 2: Well and you would think that with with like they
Speaker 2: don't work on cars at AutoZone right now, and now
Speaker 2: I know why because they tried to work on mine
Speaker 2: and they broke it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you got to think the guy that's putting
Speaker 4: in that battery is just probably some high school graduate.
Speaker 2: Or oh no, it was the manager who was a
Speaker 2: woman and her assistant manager who was a dude. And
Speaker 2: when I went back in the next day to like say,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, you got the battery thing worked out,
Speaker 2: but my car's broken essentially and it can't I can't
Speaker 2: drive it whenever I had to explain that to a
Speaker 2: different associate that was not there the night before, Like
Speaker 2: they're embarrassed obviously, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean you don't. You don't have to be car experts
Speaker 4: to work there, but you have to. You have to
Speaker 4: at least know a little bit something what you're doing.
Speaker 4: If you're sitting there zapping a battery and trying to
Speaker 4: get it for start and it's backwards for three hours,
Speaker 4: there has to be some accountability at least from that manager.
Speaker 4: And at least I hope that they're not getting pissed off,
Speaker 4: like out, why is this guy.
Speaker 2: Can And to be fair, they haven't done that, But
Speaker 2: that's not like I'm not going to praise them, like, well,
Speaker 2: at least they haven't been a holes because I've been upset.
Speaker 2: You know, at least again they're paying for the repair,
Speaker 2: which that's good, but I almost feel like I don't
Speaker 2: know it's gonna curse, and I shouldn't, well duh should Like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to give them credit for like I'm
Speaker 2: still there. They still have a lot of making up
Speaker 2: to do, other than just paying for the damage they did,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, because I've been inconvenienced in a way
Speaker 2: that like is quite literally their fault. And I've been
Speaker 2: people have been making fun of me online every now
Speaker 2: and then, like on Twitter, even some people on the
Speaker 2: text line. And it's fine, like it's whatever. But the
Speaker 2: reason that I didn't change the battery myself is because
Speaker 2: I didn't have any tools on me to Like, I
Speaker 2: can't do much with a car. I mean, I can
Speaker 2: change a battery, but I understand you have to have
Speaker 2: certain tools to be able to disconnect a battery. And
Speaker 2: I also know the vehicle that I drive, a Volkswagen,
Speaker 2: is a pain in the ass. You have one as well,
Speaker 2: so like you get it. So that's why when I
Speaker 2: went and got the battery, I left my car running
Speaker 2: and I went inside and I put the battery on
Speaker 2: the counter, and I said, if I purchased this, would
Speaker 2: you guys be able to do the swap here? And
Speaker 2: they looked up the vehicle that I had checked it
Speaker 2: and said, yeah, So that's why I let them do it.
Speaker 2: If they would have said no, I would have kept
Speaker 2: the car running. I would have gone home and replaced
Speaker 2: the battery then. I mean, that's that's what I would
Speaker 2: have done. I was trying to get to my son's
Speaker 2: football practice, and I feel like the last thing I
Speaker 2: wanted to do was get to his football practice park
Speaker 2: out there, like in the field where they practice, and
Speaker 2: then not be able to start my car because the
Speaker 2: battery is dead, need to get a jump. So, like,
Speaker 2: you know, I would never claim to be somebody that
Speaker 2: is super knowledgeable when it comes to vehicles. I don't
Speaker 2: know much of anything, but I can replace a battery.
Speaker 2: And the reason I chose not to do it then
Speaker 2: is because again I didn't. You know, they are fully
Speaker 2: responsible for claiming they could do it and then and
Speaker 2: then not being able to and it. And you know,
Speaker 2: I hate even saying to their credit because I feel
Speaker 2: like it's not something they deserve credit for. It's just
Speaker 2: what you should do, but like they are paying for it,
Speaker 2: and they now know that like by doing that was
Speaker 2: that was on them. So we'll see, there's your update, Cody.
Speaker 2: It's probably not an entertaining one, but that's where we are.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, We'll come back on the other side.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I talk to anybody, you know, regularly
Speaker 2: via phone that has Verizon, so I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know of anybody personally that's been impacted. But I'm curious
Speaker 2: if this outage is like as widespread as national as
Speaker 2: like some people are indicating, or if it's just people
Speaker 2: without service that are, you know, going on Wi Fi
Speaker 2: to complain about it on Facebook. Do you have Verizon?
Speaker 2: I have an AT and T.
Speaker 5: No, I'm a I'm a T mobile guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Verizon. I mean there's still like a big
Speaker 2: player in the service game, right.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well they had their towers out there a
Speaker 4: louted in life, the actual Verizon towers.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I feel like I used to hear like
Speaker 2: I feel like it used to be one of the
Speaker 2: other if somebody had if you were going to talk
Speaker 2: to somebody and ask them what their service provider was.
Speaker 2: It was a good chance it was going to be
Speaker 2: one of those two and then maybe occasionally a T Mobile.
Speaker 2: But I feel like I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 2: I haven't heard anybody talk about Verizon in a long time.
Speaker 2: Sprints no more, right, they don't exist. Yeah, are part
Speaker 2: of T Mobile, Like they're like merged with T Mobile. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you end up without service at all, that make
Speaker 2: that mean that'll be I mean, I remember when it
Speaker 2: happened to AT and T last year or something, but
Speaker 2: it was it was for a good chunk of a day.
Speaker 2: Anybody that had AT and T like nothing worked, Like
Speaker 2: you could get on Wi Fi, but you couldn't use
Speaker 2: your phone if you did not have Wi Fi.
Speaker 5: I remember that it was.
Speaker 2: It was kind of awesome in a way because I
Speaker 2: was out without Wi Fi. Right if I'm driving, I
Speaker 2: don't went Wi Fi, And it was a little scary.
Speaker 2: But it also it kind of felt like I was
Speaker 2: a bad ass because you know what, like nobody can no,
Speaker 2: but he can reach me right now even if they
Speaker 2: wanted to, like they could not that people want to
Speaker 2: reach me, but you know, but it's also kind of scary,
Speaker 2: and it's a reminder that we yes, we were probably
Speaker 2: on our phones way too much. I know I am
Speaker 2: one of those people that probably needs to reduce screen
Speaker 2: time in a major way. But also, you know, they
Speaker 2: are pretty damn convenient. We can do just about anything
Speaker 2: with our phones, and whenever that's just taken away, it's
Speaker 2: it's a pretty helpless feeling. I would imagine.
Speaker 4: There's something good about it, just because, like you said,
Speaker 4: you know that no one can reach you, no one
Speaker 4: can bother you, not anyone's You just kind of know
Speaker 4: you're free. I sometimes do that when I head to
Speaker 4: the casino. I'll just leave the phone in the car.
Speaker 4: No no one can can can call, no one can text.
Speaker 4: At least it's out of my sight, out of my mind.
Speaker 4: But even in like an outage like that, there's something
Speaker 4: good where like I don't have to worry about this
Speaker 4: because I know that there's nothing I can do. So
Speaker 4: you're kind of free, You're not you're unbothered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think whenever I've had that, like we've my
Speaker 2: wife and I a couple of years ago, actually has
Speaker 2: been longer than that. We went to Fort Lauderdale for
Speaker 2: just us two to go just us two on a trip,
Speaker 2: and I remember I'd left my phone in the room,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, Okay, well, I'm gonna have to go
Speaker 2: back at some point. But then I was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, No, like, let's just have a day. And
Speaker 2: I don't really know how long we were gone. I
Speaker 2: feel like we were going a good chunk of the
Speaker 2: day just out doing tourist stuff and hanging out in
Speaker 2: bars and having having a day. And I felt like
Speaker 2: I felt withdraws early on, like what am I gonna
Speaker 2: do it on my phone or on my phone? But
Speaker 2: then once, once, once you hit the moment of like
Speaker 2: just accepting it, it's kind of an awesome feeling to
Speaker 2: be disconnected. I imagine when you get to the casino
Speaker 2: and the phones in the car, you know, and you're
Speaker 2: walking around, you're probably feeling, man, I just want to
Speaker 2: get my phone out. It's it's habit, right, And then
Speaker 2: you realize, nope, I don't have it. And then once
Speaker 2: you've once you've kind of removed yourself from those withdraws,
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of awesome, but in the end, it's
Speaker 2: also kind of set because it's a reminder of how
Speaker 2: dependent we are. On those things that you know are useful, right,
Speaker 2: and you can do a lot with them.
Speaker 4: But you know, I'm sure the casino likes it too,
Speaker 4: because I can't see what time it is there.
Speaker 2: There's no way that we as a society have not
Speaker 2: really taken steps back when it comes to communicating with people,
Speaker 2: because now you really don't have to communicate with anybody
Speaker 2: face to face in most instances, you know what I mean. Like, heck,
Speaker 2: even even phone calls. Like kids don't talk on the
Speaker 2: phone anymore, do they.
Speaker 4: I don't think so kids faced with the corded phones,
Speaker 4: and I think you only call someone nowadays that there's
Speaker 4: actually an emergency.
Speaker 5: I don't like being called unless it's.
Speaker 2: All I don't either, And I've kind of become that guy,
Speaker 2: like I shouldn't say this because it's my it's my family.
Speaker 2: It's one thing. But like if I get a phone
Speaker 2: call from somebody who I know, this could have easily
Speaker 2: been a text.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: I'm not rude. I'm just kind of like, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I kind of resent them now. That's awful,
Speaker 2: because again it's just you know, that's a terrible thing
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 4: But I'm just being honest, I'm right there with you now.
Speaker 4: I know, I know you're a little bit older than me,
Speaker 4: but you're not old. So, like, were you around with
Speaker 4: like pagers? What was like the pager era? Like cause,
Speaker 4: I mean, it seems like it seems like the first
Speaker 4: thing to send text messages, But I didn't know that
Speaker 4: you can like type on a pager, hey how are
Speaker 4: you or something like that, like can you page back?
Speaker 5: Can you text back? What were pagers?
Speaker 2: I never had a pager, and I could be wrong,
Speaker 2: but like pagers, pagers were kind of useless for someone
Speaker 2: like a teenager, Like pagers were really for work. Like again,
Speaker 2: this is before we had any ability to connect to
Speaker 2: communicate with each other like we do now, to where
Speaker 2: your way of telling somebody, hey, find a payphone, find
Speaker 2: a landline, give me a call was a pager. Now,
Speaker 2: so I didn't really know a whole lot about pagers,
Speaker 2: And I think it wasn't as if everybody had to
Speaker 2: have one. It was really like, it wasn't that cool
Speaker 2: of a device to where oh I got to get
Speaker 2: one of those. It was like, yeah, you'll get one
Speaker 2: if you need one, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 2: and everybody says this about their generation, So I'll say
Speaker 2: it about mine. I grew up with the best of
Speaker 2: both worlds. When I was really really young. You know,
Speaker 2: we had Nintendo, but we didn't have the Internet. We
Speaker 2: didn't have you know, technical tech, you know, from a
Speaker 2: technological standpoint, like it was you know, VHS, and we
Speaker 2: didn't have If you wanted to go watch a new
Speaker 2: movie or something, you had to wait for it to
Speaker 2: come on TV, or you had to like have your
Speaker 2: mom take you to video of Alder Blockbusters. So we
Speaker 2: did a lot of the playing outside, right, We were outside,
Speaker 2: you know, having fun going, you know, I mean I
Speaker 2: would leave my house, I don't know, in a summer
Speaker 2: day in between you know, maybe fourth fifth grade, fifth
Speaker 2: sixth grade, Like I would just leave and I would
Speaker 2: hit up four or five of my friends that live
Speaker 2: near me, and we would just be gone all day
Speaker 2: doing what kids do, just playing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And now maybe that still happens, but I got that,
Speaker 2: and then you know, technology took a big step forward.
Speaker 2: So like the Internet became a thing when I was
Speaker 2: a young kid. Cell phones, you know, when you got
Speaker 2: like the Nokia brick phone that had snake on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Those became a thing like when I was in probably
Speaker 2: sixth seventh grade, so a lot of kids didn't have them.
Speaker 2: I mean I was and I got my first cell
Speaker 2: phone when I was I think a sophomore. And it
Speaker 2: was around that time that like it wasn't school. It
Speaker 2: wasn't that uncommon for somebody that age to have a phone.
Speaker 2: They weren't smartphones or anything like that, but like we
Speaker 2: could communicate that way. But texting really wasn't much of
Speaker 2: a thing. Yeah, so you still had to talk on
Speaker 2: the phone. So you know, I really did enjoy the
Speaker 2: AOL Instant Messenger days because we had that. That's how
Speaker 2: a lot of us communicated. We weren't in school because
Speaker 2: we didn't have cell phones, right, we could just talk
Speaker 2: on AIM. And you know, that's how in fact, my
Speaker 2: wife that I'm with now, I mean we've been married
Speaker 2: for a long time, for thirteen years, we've been together
Speaker 2: for you know, roughly twenty years. But like the first
Speaker 2: shot I took, if you will, Austin was talking to
Speaker 2: her on AOL instead messenger, you know. You know, so
Speaker 2: we did have some we had some tech, you know,
Speaker 2: some technology we could use to our advantage and nowadays though,
Speaker 2: like I mean, it's just texting, it's snapchat, it's all
Speaker 2: that stuff. So I say this all the time, like,
Speaker 2: no joke the older generation, And I always say this
Speaker 2: to Tony and Dwight because they're the older generation, not
Speaker 2: to say that they're elderly, but like, clearly they grew
Speaker 2: up in a different time. They were going to bars
Speaker 2: trying to meet women, like a lot of dudes. Do
Speaker 2: you know when they were doing it at their young age,
Speaker 2: it was a different world than when people like my
Speaker 2: age were doing it at that time, but that era,
Speaker 2: they got laid a lot more. Yeah, I meant, no,
Speaker 2: I know, like there's studies that show that, like, you know,
Speaker 2: meeting women and hooking up with them happening at a
Speaker 2: lot higher rate. Back then, when you actually had to
Speaker 2: communicate directly, you had to walk up to a woman
Speaker 2: at a bar and start a conversation. You couldn't get
Speaker 2: her her snap you couldn't get her insta. You had
Speaker 2: to like actually, you know, get out and you know,
Speaker 2: have some bravery about it, and it worked. Now we've
Speaker 2: got all these tools from a technological standpoint, there's apps
Speaker 2: you can be into some random really obscure, kinky thing.
Speaker 2: They probably got a website specifically for it where you
Speaker 2: can meet other people that are into this, where they're
Speaker 2: into the same thing. So like, despite all of the
Speaker 2: resources currently that can be utilized by the younger generation,
Speaker 2: it's not happening as much. And I think one that's surprising,
Speaker 2: but also it makes me want to tip the cap
Speaker 2: to the ogs from that other era that like they
Speaker 2: had to get it out the mud, as they say,
Speaker 2: and they did it and they actually made it work,
Speaker 2: so you know, yeah, I mean this all started with
Speaker 2: us talking about like cell phone service. But cell phones
Speaker 2: have changed our lives, undoubtedly for the good because of
Speaker 2: the convenience that we have. But sometimes when I say that,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm telling the truth or not,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Because like we did live
Speaker 2: as a society with you know, out any we have problems,
Speaker 2: but like now, if we didn't have cell phones to communicate,
Speaker 2: I feel like it would be it would be something
Speaker 2: that would be the biggest issue on the planet. And
Speaker 2: it would be because we now are accustomed to it,
Speaker 2: and if you just don't have it like changes everything.
Speaker 2: It's a new world. But let's remember that for many, many,
Speaker 2: you know generations as a society, we didn't have them
Speaker 2: in life was good, you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just I don't know.
Speaker 4: And now you have the cell phones that literally are
Speaker 4: their own like hot spots and blutes and services and heck,
Speaker 4: even back in minday, I feel like I had like
Speaker 4: some of the best of both worlds because I had
Speaker 4: I had the payphone or the pays you go phones
Speaker 4: where you had to like, yeah, precate on it, like
Speaker 4: and that was my allowance. If I was good that week,
Speaker 4: I got twenty five minutes on it. And sometimes what
Speaker 4: if you're a part of the plan, you got like
Speaker 4: free weekend texts and stuff like that, and like it
Speaker 4: ran off a data well I couldn't imagine. Now you
Speaker 4: don't even use data when you use the Wi Fi,
Speaker 4: so that would have been a way. It's just crazy
Speaker 4: how how those things have changed.
Speaker 2: And every every plan I feel like, is unlimited data.
Speaker 2: Now every plan is like if you if you're still
Speaker 2: like tracking your data, I feel like you've got a
Speaker 2: really old plan. I could be wrong, yeah, but I
Speaker 2: think even if you are somebody that's on like a
Speaker 2: is boost mobile, like pay as.
Speaker 5: You go, Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's like, but.
Speaker 2: There's there's there's carriers out there that aren't technically like a, hey,
Speaker 2: you got to go buy a phone from this place
Speaker 2: and use it that way. But like you know, there's
Speaker 2: there's actually a variety of different providers out there that
Speaker 2: that do rival the big ones like Verizon and AT
Speaker 2: and T. But I think people just stick with what
Speaker 2: they're used to and cricket cricket still yeah, cricket. So
Speaker 2: you know, like I think even those which again you know,
Speaker 2: they're smaller compared to the other big brands, the ones
Speaker 2: I just mentioned, but yet I still feel like the
Speaker 2: majority of their plans that you get are going to
Speaker 2: be free or not free, but unlimited data if you
Speaker 2: get a certain package.
Speaker 4: So I even remember when, like, like you said, Sprint
Speaker 4: was a thing. One of their coolest things when they
Speaker 4: first came out was like the like the walkie talkie feature.
Speaker 4: If you had like a Sprint phone, you can like
Speaker 4: walk e to another person, which was I always saw
Speaker 4: that really cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And then there was an wasn't there a phone called
Speaker 2: like a not a talkbacker, no, a sidekick?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember the side the one phone I
Speaker 4: never had that, and the Raiser I thought were the
Speaker 4: coolest freaking things growing up, and.
Speaker 2: On the side got on the Sidekick was cool in theory,
Speaker 2: although it wouldn't it wouldn't be convenient the way we
Speaker 2: use today's phones. But the Razor was so overrated. I
Speaker 2: mean it was. It was sleek looking, but like it,
Speaker 2: I mean cool looking it was. It was essentially as
Speaker 2: useful as the Nokia brick. It just you could you
Speaker 2: could flip it.
Speaker 4: I think those two were like the original ones that
Speaker 4: you can a get Internet on and like actually watch
Speaker 4: like because that's when like YouTube came out and you
Speaker 4: could probably go in there and like watch a YouTube video.
Speaker 4: Because I remember all my friends that had a Razor
Speaker 4: was able to watch videos on it, and I was
Speaker 4: just send a silly little meme stuff on YouTube, so.
Speaker 5: Pull this up on your phone.
Speaker 4: And I thought that was like the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 2: So whenever I was I guess like nineteen, that was
Speaker 2: when I had my first smartphone, a phone that could
Speaker 2: connect to the Internet, and it was a Samsung Blackjack,
Speaker 2: and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
Speaker 2: And now I'm looking at it and it looks like
Speaker 2: something from the eighteen hundreds, just visually, and I got
Speaker 2: an iPhone as my next phone, and that's what I've had.
Speaker 2: That's what I've had ever since.
Speaker 4: I would to be mad at uh, because when smartphones
Speaker 4: first came out, when it was just like the screen
Speaker 4: some of them had that kind of got the idea
Speaker 4: from the Sidekick where you could flip it up and
Speaker 4: it still had the keyboard. I would to be mad
Speaker 4: at having a phone like that. Oh yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: mind using that, but I think it's cool to have
Speaker 4: the front screen and then you could just flip it
Speaker 4: open and then natch your keyboard.
Speaker 2: And actual keyboard physically where like you know, you got
Speaker 2: to like each it's not digital, meaning like you actually
Speaker 2: have to push the button on your phone. That's what
Speaker 2: the Blackjack was, and I got used to that. I
Speaker 2: thought when I got an iPhone, I would never get
Speaker 2: used to typing something and not feeling that I've punched
Speaker 2: down a button. And yeah, sure enough, you know, I got.
Speaker 1: Used to it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to our last break. We'll go
Speaker 2: back on the other side. Finished strong good text that
Speaker 2: comes in here that I knew was coming. That's not
Speaker 2: really a good text. I mean it's I mean, it's fine,
Speaker 2: but like I knew it was coming, somebody asking what
Speaker 2: I think the spread would be? A flew Ofville Kentucky
Speaker 2: play today, which I'm not going there. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: sure you could probably look, and there may be an
Speaker 2: early one right now, but I want to see Louisville
Speaker 2: play better and cleaner football than they've done the last
Speaker 2: two weeks before I start thinking about that game, especially no,
Speaker 2: when Kentucky just beat Ole Miss at Old Miss. All right,
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Speaker 2: Man, it would have been so nice to be carrying
Speaker 2: some momentum into this week. It's a big week. You've
Speaker 2: got Louisville live on Friday night, and then then you
Speaker 2: got a nooner against SMU, which I don't nobody likes
Speaker 2: noon games. But if you already had a Notre Dame
Speaker 2: victory and you had a chance to beat a team
Speaker 2: that right now, I mean, I don't know where they
Speaker 2: are as far as receiving votes if they're even receiving any,
Speaker 2: and I'm not here to say that I think SMU
Speaker 2: is like a world beater, but there's more value there
Speaker 2: in a win than I would have thought after watching
Speaker 2: them in their opener against Nevada, a game they should
Speaker 2: have lost. But since then they've made a quarterback change
Speaker 2: and they're playing good football. They're lost to BYU. At
Speaker 2: the time, especially seeing you know, BYU at that point
Speaker 2: not getting a lot of love, it looked as if
Speaker 2: maybe this SMU team was frauds overrated. And they've only
Speaker 2: lost one game at this point, and that's to BYU,
Speaker 2: who's been killing it. They beat TCU by you know,
Speaker 2: twenty four points, and then demolished Florida State, which you
Speaker 2: really can't make up how bad things have gone for
Speaker 2: Florida State this season considering the circumstances, and nobody feels
Speaker 2: sorry for him, including me. But like, the two teams
Speaker 2: that beat you in the SEC in the ACC to
Speaker 2: start the year are two teams that, like, are the
Speaker 2: best examples you can use or that you tried to
Speaker 2: use when you wanted everybody to realize that everybody in
Speaker 2: the league is beneath you. You should be let out
Speaker 2: because we're all peasants and you are just, you know,
Speaker 2: superior when it comes to brand and just success. And
Speaker 2: those two teams beat you, Boston College and Georgia Tech,
Speaker 2: and then a team that you were opposed to joining
Speaker 2: the league. And when these additions were made, that really
Speaker 2: sped up the process for Florida State to you know,
Speaker 2: go the legal route to try to get the hell
Speaker 2: out of the ACC by any means. And then that
Speaker 2: team they killed you, I mean forty two to sixteen,
Speaker 2: and it could have been worse. So you love to
Speaker 2: see it, you really do. All right, We're out of time,
Speaker 2: I believe, so thank you all for joining us. Mondays
Speaker 2: go by way too quick, and we'll be back at
Speaker 2: it tomorrow, and hopefully at that point, you know, it's
Speaker 2: still gonna suck, like this will leave a bad taste
Speaker 2: in my mouth for a while as far as just
Speaker 2: everything that every factor from the South Bend trip, But
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully by tomorrow it won't be as evident
Speaker 2: that I'm still annoyed, but I know I'm not alone.
Speaker 2: All right, have a good night, everybody, talk to you
Speaker 2: tomorrow right here on Sports Talk seven ninety King us yes,