Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety Holy crap, I don't know who
Speaker 1: the hell we think we are. Get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 2: The kids are crying or trail off.
Speaker 1: The countries are screwing it up. Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother,
Speaker 1: Goldplay Inner Murals.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Now? Here's Nick coffee?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm really glad. I looked at the microphone
Speaker 2: levels here before I turned this microphone on and began
Speaker 2: to yap like I'm doing right now, because it was
Speaker 2: it was at max volume. And you know what that
Speaker 2: told me. That told me that one somebody was in
Speaker 2: here liking the microphone really really loud. And it tells
Speaker 2: me that Shannon the dude is back because he's got
Speaker 2: to be officially deaf with every like. Not only does
Speaker 2: he need his levels up as high as it goes,
Speaker 2: he needs to hear in the headphones as loud as
Speaker 2: it goes. There's also speakers in here for you know,
Speaker 2: playing sound when we're not on the air. When you
Speaker 2: don't need your headphones. He needs that as loud as
Speaker 2: it goes. So he's a max volume kind of guy.
Speaker 2: And you know, last week being back from vacation, so
Speaker 2: you know, technically two weeks not in the same studio
Speaker 2: with the one and only Shannon the dude.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I remember to take a look at the levels,
Speaker 2: because if I would have just got I about have
Speaker 2: got the show started without adjustments here, I might never
Speaker 2: hear anything again.
Speaker 4: I would be deaf, I believe. But sounds good for
Speaker 4: him on his end when you hear him. But I
Speaker 4: guess he probably knows how to control himself at those
Speaker 4: high of octave.
Speaker 2: My man's been doing this a long time. Of course,
Speaker 2: he knows the sweet spot. He's a very tall guy.
Speaker 4: Maybe it takes a lot to get it, take his
Speaker 4: body to register what he's hearing, so it needs to
Speaker 4: be extra loud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's I mean again, he's He's done a
Speaker 2: lot of things in his career. He's very six. Shannon's
Speaker 2: a very and I say this with all of and
Speaker 2: I mean it because Shannon's a great guy. Happy to
Speaker 2: call him a friend. He's a very interesting guy. Like
Speaker 2: there's a lot like he's one of those. And this
Speaker 2: there might be some slight exaggeration here, but if you
Speaker 2: know Shannon a little bit, or even if you listen
Speaker 2: to him on the air with KSR on his rock show,
Speaker 2: whatever it may be, Shannon's got an element to him
Speaker 2: where there's really not much that you could say about
Speaker 2: him that would surprise you. Now, if you found out
Speaker 2: he was a serial killer. I don't mean that, but
Speaker 2: like something he'd be interested in, something he did, something
Speaker 2: he likes, like he's always got you on your toes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's just say this for the figure that he
Speaker 4: is and for everybody knowing who he is.
Speaker 2: If you think you know Shannon the dude and you
Speaker 2: really you really don't. Yeah, and that's that's what that's
Speaker 2: what you know.
Speaker 3: Plays it plays cards close to the vest sot.
Speaker 2: Folks can't get enough of him because as soon as
Speaker 2: you think you you know, you've gotten to know him
Speaker 2: pretty well and nothing's going to surprise you, then you
Speaker 2: find out you know, you know, he can he's a
Speaker 2: pianist or something like. I don't know if he is,
Speaker 2: but if aget, if I heard that, I wouldn't totally
Speaker 2: be zig. And now he's just been given three minutes
Speaker 2: of this show as we get it started, so we
Speaker 2: don't say we never did something for you.
Speaker 3: Shittd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on every platform we have here at iHeart,
Speaker 2: I believe in some aspects. And now you just got
Speaker 2: the first three minutes and twenty seconds of coffee and company.
Speaker 2: So you're welcome and welcome back from your spring break vacation.
Speaker 2: For me, this is week two getting started, of course,
Speaker 2: back from vacation. And man, I don't need a vacation.
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm ready to go. But the weekend went
Speaker 2: by so fast. I was busy doing a lot of stuff,
Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff, a lot of family stuff.
Speaker 2: And we had perfect weather. And I realized that the
Speaker 2: cancelation of thunder of a Louisville had nothing to do
Speaker 2: with what was going to be happening as far as
Speaker 2: rain and flooding while the event is supposed to go on.
Speaker 2: But man, could we have had a better weekend if,
Speaker 2: in fact we didn't get hit with an unbelievable amount
Speaker 2: of rain a week prior. How perfect was did this weekend?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: It was great. Baseball was going on. It was a
Speaker 4: great time to get outside and walk. I hear like
Speaker 4: yesterday was the perfect day to go to like Low's
Speaker 4: home depot, get all your mult get all your gardening stuff,
Speaker 4: Cuz go ahead and get ahead, start on it because
Speaker 4: everything's you're starting to see weeds at your house. Do
Speaker 4: you get a lot of weeds or you like mostly
Speaker 4: grass over over the state.
Speaker 2: My wife is real big on making sure there's no
Speaker 2: weeds in the flower bed. And we get our we
Speaker 2: get our lawn treated, and you know we treated, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, not just like we don't just have somebody
Speaker 2: that that comes and cuts it, but like you know, they.
Speaker 3: Like feeds it and nourish it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we got a real healthy lawn. And
Speaker 2: usually it's usually something that one would brag about. But
Speaker 2: and I've talked about this before. I I don't have
Speaker 2: anything to do with my lawn looking great. We got
Speaker 2: a guy and he's great. Uh he's he's a very
Speaker 2: successful ashiness man, has his own company. He's done real
Speaker 2: well from stuff. I've known him almost my whole life.
Speaker 2: His mother was my kindergarten teacher, so right now, he's
Speaker 2: he's he's.
Speaker 3: Great at what he does.
Speaker 2: We appreciate him and and it's a great investment that
Speaker 2: we make to to have a great lawn, and I
Speaker 2: love it. But I realized once it was clear to
Speaker 2: everybody on my street that that beautiful lawn may be
Speaker 2: one of the best lawns you're going to see on
Speaker 2: my street. They know that I don't have anything to
Speaker 2: do with it. I'm just paying a guy. Like they
Speaker 2: don't really have any respect for you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like I've told the story before. I was walking to
Speaker 2: the end of our court cul de sac, whatever you
Speaker 2: want to call it, and one of the guys was
Speaker 2: outside and he knew we were coming from from our
Speaker 2: home and I was out with the kids, and he
Speaker 2: was like, man, I gotta ask.
Speaker 3: You, what are you.
Speaker 2: Putting on that? And I'm like, no clue what he
Speaker 2: was talking about. He's talking about the lawn, and I
Speaker 2: you know, I looked at him shrug like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Man, we pay a guy. He does a
Speaker 2: great job. I can give you his business card. But
Speaker 2: like there was the body language and just you know,
Speaker 2: I communicate with a lot of people. I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm pretty good, not not better than than you know,
Speaker 2: maybe the average. But you can always tell when you
Speaker 2: when you're talking to somebody, at least to an extent,
Speaker 2: like where their energy is right. I feel like this
Speaker 2: guy was about to really compliment me and pick my
Speaker 2: brain on how great my lawn looked. And as soon
Speaker 2: as he realized I'm just paying a guy or a
Speaker 2: company to do it, I mean, it was like a
Speaker 2: deflation and of like, yeah, the hell with you, man,
Speaker 2: I got no worry.
Speaker 3: Man wanted to talk some grass.
Speaker 2: Not only do I no longer like have anything that
Speaker 2: I want to hear from you because you're not responsible
Speaker 2: for that beautiful, luscious law you have, but I've also
Speaker 2: lost respect because a man is supposed to be cutting
Speaker 2: his own lawn, which we've had that conversation before. I'm insecure.
Speaker 2: I I don't cut my grass, but I do feel
Speaker 2: like and I'm not out here ever. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know if there's ever any instance you could say
Speaker 2: that I'm someone that is always trying to really express
Speaker 2: masculinity and I'm just, you know, the manliest of men.
Speaker 2: I'm not at all. But it's the one thing that
Speaker 2: I don't do that I kind of feel like makes
Speaker 2: me less of a man, is that I don't I
Speaker 2: don't take care of my own lawn, but my wife,
Speaker 2: she and I both know that it's it's a it's
Speaker 2: a good I mean, it's it's worth the cost because
Speaker 2: we have a great lawn. And if I was to
Speaker 2: go back and do it and put a lot more,
Speaker 2: you know, put time into it and try, I could
Speaker 2: try for years, I would never have the ability to
Speaker 2: make her lawn look as good as it does right now. Okay,
Speaker 2: it'd be it'd be a decision to make if, in fact,
Speaker 2: like I felt as if my wife was, you know,
Speaker 2: thinking as if she's no longer with a man who
Speaker 2: can't even take care of his own lunch. She knew
Speaker 2: what she married, right, She didn't trust me. There was
Speaker 2: no scenario where when she decided, yeah, I think I'll
Speaker 2: give this guy a chance.
Speaker 3: Those sorry bread's. But she knows that there's no.
Speaker 2: Scenario where she was I guess, you know, realizing that
Speaker 2: she was actually gonna, you know, spend a life with me.
Speaker 2: It wasn't because she's got herself this burly man who's
Speaker 2: just doing the manliest things out there. Although I do
Speaker 2: remind her once every now and again that I can
Speaker 2: I can replace a tire, I can put a flat,
Speaker 2: you know, I can. I can put the doughnut tire
Speaker 2: on for it. I can replace ours and I haven't
Speaker 2: done it in a long time, but I have changed
Speaker 2: my own oil before. That's it's that manly. I feel
Speaker 2: like it's manly.
Speaker 4: Of course, change my al is not something I'm gonna do,
Speaker 4: but it's really not tough to do.
Speaker 3: Honestly.
Speaker 2: You just kind of have to have all the stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really not that difficult. But it's a dirty job.
Speaker 2: And you know it's it's it's it's something you probably
Speaker 2: no matter if you know how to do, even if
Speaker 2: there is a cost of difference clearly to go get the
Speaker 2: stuff you need or to have somebody do it because
Speaker 2: of the world that it is. Again, not like you're
Speaker 2: out here doing something that nobody can do, but like
Speaker 2: if you could avoid doing that, you would, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's something that would be fun.
Speaker 4: But uh, conversely, I always have always, I have always
Speaker 4: loved the activity of actively mowing a grass, mowing a lawn.
Speaker 3: Now, all this stuff that comes with you say you
Speaker 3: miss it.
Speaker 2: I kind of missed the therapy of just being out
Speaker 2: by myself, listening to music or podcast podcast or something,
Speaker 2: and just like you know, there aren't many things that
Speaker 2: I do on a daily basis at this point in
Speaker 2: my life that I'm alone with my thoughts. Like and
Speaker 2: it's a good thing, you know what I mean, But like,
Speaker 2: if you're just out there, I mean, you're not talking anybody,
Speaker 2: you're cutting the grass. You know, you're just you're you're
Speaker 2: alone with your thoughts. But I you know, I used
Speaker 2: to I guess in a way it kind of felt therapeutic.
Speaker 3: And yeah, strangely therapy.
Speaker 2: But now, like you know, if if my wife was
Speaker 2: like she would tell me, all right, if you really
Speaker 2: want to go out there and you know, have your
Speaker 2: own therapy session and try to you know, recover from
Speaker 2: the insecurity issues you have about cutting the lawn, we'll
Speaker 2: get you one that's like Moos's right, doesn't actually cut
Speaker 2: the lawn. You just push it around out there and
Speaker 2: pretend that you're cutting the lawn, because she'll be damned
Speaker 2: if she's gonna let me butcher what has been you know,
Speaker 2: has for the most part, we've had a mean again,
Speaker 2: it feels weird like bragging on it. I'm proud of it,
Speaker 2: but like I have nothing to do with it. I
Speaker 2: just pay somebody to do it and they do a
Speaker 2: great job.
Speaker 3: So currently I have. I have a backyard, but it's
Speaker 3: absolutely destroyed. We have a dog.
Speaker 2: Is it destroyed because of the dog, because of the
Speaker 2: flooding both?
Speaker 4: You know, it's destroyed solely from the dog also us
Speaker 4: as being a terrible dog. There's holes doug back there.
Speaker 4: There's our hot tub. Is I feel like it's falling apart.
Speaker 4: There's a cover that goes on the hot tub. The
Speaker 4: dog jumps up on that all the time. She rips
Speaker 4: that stuff. There's about three or four different hoses out
Speaker 4: there just laying in my backyard that are chewed up,
Speaker 4: and I've had to get them from my dad each time,
Speaker 4: and I have yet to tell him that the latest
Speaker 4: one also had gotten chewed up. So I'm ready for
Speaker 4: that conversation. And there's we tried to We tried to
Speaker 4: feed grass, bermuda grass into it last summer. Didn't necessarily
Speaker 4: work just because the back is so spotty, and then
Speaker 4: it just turned out being weeds everywhere.
Speaker 2: So you put a lot of effort and resources into
Speaker 2: the backyard. Try it's still a mess, right.
Speaker 4: It's terrible. So like now I have to go out
Speaker 4: there with the weed eater. I can't even do like
Speaker 4: a And eventually we had Maultch just thrown down over it.
Speaker 2: It would stress me I just to look at it,
Speaker 2: because you'd feel like, man, this is like, what are
Speaker 2: we gonna do here? Well, it was easy when it
Speaker 2: was nothing. But how have you never let me be
Speaker 2: an ear for you to talk through this? Because I
Speaker 2: can tell it's called it in I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: it's what us men do. So two things in this
Speaker 2: ten and a half minutes we've had probably not accomplished
Speaker 2: much of anything yet to start the show. But that's okay,
Speaker 2: we're easing into it. It's a Monday one. I think
Speaker 2: the Bullet County and me is rubbing off on you
Speaker 2: because it didn't sneak past me when you said all change.
Speaker 2: You said, oh, I know you group a lot in Arizona.
Speaker 2: They said definitely. But like I think that Bullet County
Speaker 2: twang that I every now and then can't can't resist.
Speaker 2: I think it rubbed off on you, but it made
Speaker 2: me happy that you said, oh awesome. Also, I think
Speaker 2: it's kind of like, I'm I'm like, how about have
Speaker 2: we gotten so close over the years. I mean, we're
Speaker 2: basically in a marriage together on this show? Sure, And
Speaker 2: you never told me you had a hot tub, Like
Speaker 2: you're holding out on me, Like how do you?
Speaker 4: I mean, like I feel like I don't even know you.
Speaker 4: We got the hot tubs started a little late this year.
Speaker 3: I got a hot tub.
Speaker 2: You know about it, Austin.
Speaker 4: I guess you're right. Well we're gonna have it. We're
Speaker 4: going to try to put the pool back up. The
Speaker 4: last couple of years we've had like a little wayfair
Speaker 4: pool out there with all like the pipes and drapes
Speaker 4: that you have to put the little thing into the
Speaker 4: socket and pop it.
Speaker 3: That had actually gotten torn up last year, not.
Speaker 4: By the dog, No, I was I was weed eating
Speaker 4: around it and the blade actually cut the liner.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that'll do it. Nothing.
Speaker 4: Some some gorilla tape couldn't fix. So that actually held it.
Speaker 4: But now it's just like there's just so much stuff
Speaker 4: back there.
Speaker 3: There's rocks.
Speaker 4: There was some sort of landscaping last year where my
Speaker 4: wonderful fiance was like lining up stones and had her
Speaker 4: own flower bed. Once again, the dog takes those stones.
Speaker 4: They're all over the place. There's mulch all over the place.
Speaker 4: It's uneven surfaces, there's there's there's holes, there's chewed up dogs.
Speaker 4: You know what's wild is that I'm starting to get
Speaker 4: stressed thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean pressure.
Speaker 2: I don't want to uh, I don't want to get
Speaker 2: your hopes up for anything. But these are the kind
Speaker 2: of conversations that happened to where there's a listener that
Speaker 2: you know, may actually be in the business of repairing
Speaker 2: all these things that you're having an issue with, to
Speaker 2: where you could then come on the airwaves and talk
Speaker 2: about how great of a job and how the backyard
Speaker 2: is is in good shape, and how about that hot
Speaker 2: tub looking sexy or you can you know, I mean
Speaker 2: like if I had a hot tub, it might become
Speaker 2: a whole personality, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like the hot tub. The hot tub looks like a mess.
Speaker 4: Nick when I get home, I'm gonnahow, I'm gonna show
Speaker 4: you it's it's the siding panel is come off, and
Speaker 4: so the.
Speaker 2: Hot tub is being held back by the backyard very much.
Speaker 3: And especially like you like the chill.
Speaker 4: I get jealous listening to Wight every morning. Yeah, guy
Speaker 4: goes out into his hot tub every single day.
Speaker 2: He way he has ever been in his hot tub?
Speaker 2: Not fully nude, No.
Speaker 4: Way, I would be surprised if he's ever worn any
Speaker 4: sort of underwhelm.
Speaker 2: Will be honest, if he's ever been if he's ever
Speaker 2: won anything in his hot tub. I would be surprised
Speaker 2: and disappointed.
Speaker 4: Actually, if I ever went over to his house and
Speaker 4: he came out and closed, I would say, dude, come on,
Speaker 4: if you.
Speaker 3: Know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: If you show up to Dwight Whitton's house and the
Speaker 2: expectation is it's going to be a hot tub party
Speaker 2: and you show up naked and he gets surprised, he
Speaker 2: can't blame anybody but himself exactly. He set the tone,
Speaker 2: we know, like he has to just expect everybody to
Speaker 2: show up nude.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't think that I would want it.
Speaker 2: Maybe invite Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: We'll get invited to that. We'll see what a Dwight
Speaker 4: Witten hot tub party is like. But at the moral
Speaker 4: of the moral of the story, at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, it's easy to just ah, I'll look past
Speaker 4: that in a few months when it's all snowy out
Speaker 4: there here. I'm thinking the snow for a whole month
Speaker 4: is just going to wash all that stuff away.
Speaker 3: One day I'll magically come out and it's clean. No
Speaker 3: it's not. It's just even muddier, nastier. Now it's hotter.
Speaker 4: And then the inevitability of hey, Austin, you need to
Speaker 4: get out here and do this before it's too late
Speaker 4: is starting to creep in. And this is where I
Speaker 4: start to push things off, push things off, and what
Speaker 4: causes will settle me in a.
Speaker 2: Wedding you're planning. I mean like that that that usually
Speaker 2: true too would take priority.
Speaker 3: House dad doesn't take a back seat.
Speaker 2: Let's let's move on, because now I'm getting stressed out
Speaker 2: for all these like things we got to worry about.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's just that's just about escape. That's just
Speaker 3: a backyard. All right.
Speaker 2: Well again I'm telling you, I guess for the first
Speaker 2: time this is Coffee and Company, and we are fueled
Speaker 2: by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate your
Speaker 2: hanging out with us, Nick Coffee, Austin Montgomery, the travel
Speaker 2: chief alongside taking you up till six o'clock, a lot
Speaker 2: to react to you from the weekend, which usually when
Speaker 2: I say that in mid April, it's a it's a
Speaker 2: complete lie because you know, usually there's really not a
Speaker 2: ton going on from the weekend for me that I'm
Speaker 2: like eager. You know, we can always make it work.
Speaker 2: But I'm not somebody who gives a flying rats behind
Speaker 2: about baseball. We all know that. And as I discussed
Speaker 2: last week, especially on Friday, I'm just not a golf guy.
Speaker 2: But I will I'll tell you I watched yesterday's final
Speaker 2: day of the Masters, and I won't lie and act
Speaker 2: like it was awesome. I'm all in on golf, but
Speaker 2: it was some I'm usually, especially this day and age
Speaker 2: as I get older, I don't. I don't succumb to
Speaker 2: the pressure of like missing out or the fear of
Speaker 2: missing out on stuff as much as I used to.
Speaker 2: Meaning if I know that everybody is watching something and
Speaker 2: it's all anybody, and I shouldn'tay everybody, but like anybody
Speaker 2: that I like my peers, my friends, people who you
Speaker 2: know are interested in the same things like I am.
Speaker 3: Sports.
Speaker 2: When when the Masters is it full of is all
Speaker 2: anybody's talking about. I'm usually at a point where, okay,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not gonna lie to myself. I
Speaker 2: know that I don't care. I'm not gonna watch, so
Speaker 2: I'll go do something else like it doesn't make me
Speaker 2: feel like, Okay, I don't really care about it. I
Speaker 2: don't know anything about it, but man, I gotta watch
Speaker 2: because everybody else is doing it.
Speaker 3: I did watch yesterday, but it wasn't because of that.
Speaker 2: It was because it kind of just played out to
Speaker 2: where you know, and I'll explain on the other side,
Speaker 2: because it was it was entertaining. I don't I go
Speaker 2: I want lie and act like yesterday was the day
Speaker 2: for me where it hooked me and I'm now going
Speaker 2: to start keeping.
Speaker 3: Up with golf.
Speaker 2: But like everything, as far as how it played out
Speaker 2: with Rory McElroy, I mean, that was entertaining. I think
Speaker 2: you can not know anything about golf just like me
Speaker 2: and be able to kind of see what was happening
Speaker 2: as that thing was finishing up and it was high
Speaker 2: level entertainment. I still will stand by, you know, and
Speaker 2: I'm an outsider. So I'm not making request that golf
Speaker 2: as a sport or the Masters as a tournament an
Speaker 2: event changes anything, because they don't need me. They're doing
Speaker 2: just fine without me. But what I kind of thought was,
Speaker 2: and it's more than anything, it's probably just because this
Speaker 2: is kind of new to me. I've never really been
Speaker 2: into golf before, and I guess I still technically am not,
Speaker 2: but like it's not a super inviting thing. Like it's
Speaker 2: way more dramatic than.
Speaker 3: It needs to be. It takes it the.
Speaker 2: Masters, you would know better than me, Austin the Masters,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a different level of like all right,
Speaker 2: we get it. Like, you know, it's not that serious, right,
Speaker 2: Like golf is a gentleman's game. There are you know,
Speaker 2: there's etiquette that kind of stuff, and that matters, and
Speaker 2: the people who really love golf that's something that means
Speaker 2: a lot to them, So I get that. But like
Speaker 2: there's certain aspects of the Masters that's like all right,
Speaker 2: come on, guys, like you know, I understand, like this
Speaker 2: is the way it's always been, and you really want
Speaker 2: to overdo it with like elegance and class and grace,
Speaker 2: but like, you know, it just you know, it seemed
Speaker 2: a little much, but in the end a very entertaining
Speaker 2: and exciting finish. So we can we can talk about that,
Speaker 2: believe it or not. I will tell you I've got
Speaker 2: some thoughts to share, which hard for me to really
Speaker 2: sell that as a sell. Yeah, hard for me to
Speaker 2: sell that Whenever I've been telling you guys, I don't
Speaker 2: know anything about it, and we checked to see if
Speaker 2: pigs are flying. I mean it's it's uh, it was something,
Speaker 2: it really was. So there's that. Also, we were getting
Speaker 2: closer and closer to I think nobody being able to
Speaker 2: at any point tell you that, and maybe we're already there.
Speaker 2: But the Nico situation at Tennessee, and I say Nico
Speaker 2: because I don't really know how to say his last
Speaker 2: name without butchering a lama lavela. Does that sound right?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: So I did a quick reference before the show started
Speaker 2: today because I'm going to try to figure out if
Speaker 2: I would be able to say it, Like the one
Speaker 2: that everybody talked about as just impossible to say was
Speaker 2: tua tua tug of aaloa. But I feel like that
Speaker 2: actually is not that difficult.
Speaker 3: No, it's not.
Speaker 2: I mean even whenever it was nude, everybody like, I
Speaker 2: don't think it was that difficult to figure out how
Speaker 2: to say it. But when it comes to this, So
Speaker 2: this is Molly Quorum, who I believe is on she
Speaker 2: she's ESPN's she's basically one of I don't know what
Speaker 2: do you call her.
Speaker 3: She's like she's like the mediator.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, that's that's probably the best way to describe it.
Speaker 2: But she's on first take, and even she sounded unconfident
Speaker 2: in how she said it, But I'm going to assume
Speaker 2: that she is correct and how you say it. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: I got another story for his controversial one here. Tennessee
Speaker 2: has moved on from starting quarterback Nicolava.
Speaker 4: He was, Uh, maybe I think I like that, or
Speaker 4: are we mistaking the first L for an I I
Speaker 4: don't know because of.
Speaker 2: It, but I'm telling you, when it comes to when
Speaker 2: it comes to names like this or just ones that
Speaker 2: aren't super common that you don't hear a whole lot,
Speaker 2: I feel more confident in if people are saying it
Speaker 2: correctly or incorrectly, by their confidence right to be honest
Speaker 2: with you. She didn't sound that confident, did she. I
Speaker 2: mean she's to be honest, she never does. Yes, fair enough,
Speaker 2: But anyways, my point is, I mean, this guy held
Speaker 2: out for more money, didn't show up anymore to his
Speaker 2: spring practice and team meetings whatever it was this past week,
Speaker 2: and then got they cut ties from him like we
Speaker 2: have had. I mean, again, I'm sure it's happened elsewhere,
Speaker 2: but maybe not to this level as far as the
Speaker 2: Tennessee starting quarterback, but he didn't get money that he
Speaker 2: and his family, slash camp.
Speaker 3: Or whatever felt like he was worth.
Speaker 2: So the school had to move on from him because
Speaker 2: at that point it turns into where even if he
Speaker 2: does come back, and let's say they did give him
Speaker 2: whatever money he wanted, there's no way to know. We'll
Speaker 2: never know, but that can't be good for your locker room.
Speaker 2: And that kind of stuff matters more than anything. That
Speaker 2: is one of the that is one of the factors
Speaker 2: in this new world that probably, I mean, it's known
Speaker 2: by average fans, but it just probably I don't think
Speaker 2: it comes to mind as much as far as how
Speaker 2: value how important.
Speaker 3: It actually is.
Speaker 2: Is that knowing that everybody in your locker rooms not
Speaker 2: making the same amount of money, and everybody's gonna probably
Speaker 2: know that, and you've just got to do whatever you
Speaker 2: can to sell culture, to sell the buy into where
Speaker 2: that doesn't that doesn't linger in somebody's mind and they
Speaker 2: become resentful, and then you've got a locker room that's
Speaker 2: just really not on the same page. So if you've
Speaker 2: got guys that you know are talented and you feel like, hey,
Speaker 2: since we're paying players. Now, I guess this guy's money
Speaker 2: is worth it because he's talented. But if he's bringing
Speaker 2: all that and it's going to create turmoil within your
Speaker 2: locker room, I mean you've got to cut ties. You've
Speaker 2: got four players that are super talented, and you paid
Speaker 2: a bunch of money to make it happen. But yet
Speaker 2: maybe the way they carry themselves, or maybe you know,
Speaker 2: maybe there's other others in your locker room them that
Speaker 2: are more jealous than anybody else, and they start to
Speaker 2: really you know, that starts to become infectious to where
Speaker 2: the rest of the locker room is kind of you know,
Speaker 2: not ganging up on the guys who are getting all
Speaker 2: the money, but you know feel in a certain way
Speaker 2: because they realized that, you know, they're making a fraction
Speaker 2: of what these guys are making. I mean that's we've
Speaker 2: already been there as far as everybody making a big
Speaker 2: different amount of money. And I always say this when
Speaker 2: it comes to I mean being an adult, which these
Speaker 2: college athletes believe it or not their adults, but like you,
Speaker 2: like not everybody's gonna make the same money the rest
Speaker 2: of life. Like you get what you were worth, what
Speaker 2: somebody's willing to pay you, and that's just how it is.
Speaker 2: So there's some life lessons along the way here as
Speaker 2: far as just understanding that you're gonna probably have a
Speaker 2: job when you don't play football or basketball, whatever it is,
Speaker 2: and you know, you're gonna know that somebody may be
Speaker 2: in an apartment, it's not putting in the hours you are,
Speaker 2: that's not working as hard as you, that's not dependent
Speaker 2: upon quite like you are, and they may make thirty
Speaker 2: forty percent more than you, and that's gonna burn your ass, right,
Speaker 2: it's gonna make you mad, it's gonna make you resent things,
Speaker 2: and I mean.
Speaker 3: Welcome to life.
Speaker 2: I mean, I bet there are people listening right now
Speaker 2: that have encountered somebody today at their job that they
Speaker 2: feel a certain way about because they just know that
Speaker 2: that person doesn't do as much as they do. They're
Speaker 2: they're not as you know, they're not needed quite as
Speaker 2: much as you, and they make more money than you.
Speaker 2: That not to say everybody listening is in that position,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure there are plenty, because again, that's that's
Speaker 2: the real world. But anyways, the Tennessee story is wild. Also,
Speaker 2: Kentucky picked up another commitment, but it wasn't from the portal.
Speaker 2: It's a guy from across the pond, which I've got,
Speaker 2: I've got not I think I've said this before, but
Speaker 2: in this new world where you randomly end up adding
Speaker 2: guys from the portal that you've never heard of, or
Speaker 2: now maybe guys from across the pond, like all of
Speaker 2: this should just be we should have a level of
Speaker 2: like reflection. I know, we get insane back and forth
Speaker 2: with this rivalry about louisvill basketball Kentucky basketball, because that's
Speaker 2: just I mean, it's it's a it's a big deal
Speaker 2: around here, and there's never gonna be a scenario where
Speaker 2: we're not spending the off season months go back and
Speaker 2: forth about which team is going to be better that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, And that's just the way it works
Speaker 2: within a rivalry. But I do wish if we just,
Speaker 2: you know, for a brief second, took a step back
Speaker 2: and reflected. A lot of us are yelling about players
Speaker 2: being better than the other guys player the other team's players,
Speaker 2: when when you and again, that's what you do.
Speaker 3: It's a rivalry.
Speaker 2: It's petty, it's childish, but like, can we just realize
Speaker 2: that the majority maybe not the majority, but a lot
Speaker 2: of the players that are going to be new to
Speaker 2: Kentucky and new to Louisville this year that aren't you know,
Speaker 2: big highly touted incoming freshmen. We'd never heard of them
Speaker 2: until they either committed to said school or they appeared
Speaker 2: on the radar. And yet you know, we think we
Speaker 2: know everything about how good they're going to be, this
Speaker 2: and that, And I just wish, I really wish we
Speaker 2: lived in a world where we could just be real
Speaker 2: with ourselves and everybody else and claim, like, I'm really
Speaker 2: excited about this guy, but I've never heard of him
Speaker 2: until you know, he was either committed to Louisville, Kentucky
Speaker 2: or was a to Like we all know that's the truth.
Speaker 2: Let's just live in reality. So again, we're loaded today.
Speaker 2: In fact, there's a lot of other things we're going
Speaker 2: to get into, but for the sake of time, I'm
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Speaker 2: All right, so real quick. I know, you know how
Speaker 2: the final rankings, the AP poll, on the Coaches poll
Speaker 2: in college basketball, how it finished up is. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not something I usually remember in previous years going
Speaker 2: back and making sure I see how these things finished up.
Speaker 2: But I do think from perspective of where Louisville was
Speaker 2: a year ago today and where they are now, I
Speaker 2: mean year one, I mean, it would be blasphemy, I
Speaker 2: think to say that Pat Kelsey's not ahead of schedule
Speaker 2: and looks as if you know he's gonna get me already.
Speaker 2: Did he already got this team without a tournament run?
Speaker 2: You know you really Usually it's something like that that
Speaker 2: you would equate to to say, Wow, what a special season.
Speaker 2: But what I hoped all along ended up happening for
Speaker 2: me as a fan. And I'm only speaking for myself
Speaker 2: because maybe there's some that disagree. Louisville losing in the
Speaker 2: first round the tournament and being I think, you know,
Speaker 2: hilariously incorrectly seated as an eight. It sucks, But there
Speaker 2: was so much good and joy that came with year
Speaker 2: one of Pat Kelcey, and I am so confident and
Speaker 2: excited about the future here with Pat Kelcey that I
Speaker 2: don't need a postseason run for me to look back
Speaker 2: at year one here and say that it was great.
Speaker 3: So for what it's worth, Louisville finished.
Speaker 2: At number twenty one in both of the Coaches Poll
Speaker 2: and AP Poll, and I just feel like, again another
Speaker 2: thing to throw out there, if you'd just said that
Speaker 2: after one year Louisville will be a ranked team in
Speaker 2: both polls. I mean, I know we oftentimes say rankings
Speaker 2: don't really matter, and I'm not going to contradict myself
Speaker 2: and say that they don't, but it is.
Speaker 3: It gives you a level of you know how your person.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to perception of Pat Kelsey and
Speaker 2: what he's been able to do, I mean the future.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people confident that this is going
Speaker 2: to be a season next year that is much better
Speaker 2: than the one you just had, because everywhere you look,
Speaker 2: Louisville's view to be a pre season top five to
Speaker 2: top ten, some people have him in the top three.
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Speaker 2: All right. So I'm not going to talk a whole
Speaker 2: lot of golf and Master's action from the weekend because
Speaker 2: I'm not even really sure if I'd be capable of
Speaker 2: doing that, but because I don't really ever watch golf.
Speaker 2: But yesterday here's how it played out for me. We
Speaker 2: had our first of what will be a few different
Speaker 2: Easter celebrations. We were with my wife's family at her
Speaker 2: grand mother's house, and as you could expect, you know,
Speaker 2: as folks are eating a nice Easter lunch and getting
Speaker 2: ready to hide the Easter eggs for the kids to
Speaker 2: go find, the TV just stayed on the Masters and
Speaker 2: I wasn't, you know, watching that closely.
Speaker 3: But as we were getting to.
Speaker 2: You know, the final the you know, rounding out the
Speaker 2: final day of the event, was quite clear what was
Speaker 2: going on right, Rory McIlroy. He was in control, looks
Speaker 2: as if it was his to lose, and then of
Speaker 2: course he would have a goof And there was so
Speaker 2: much an dissipation to see if in fact he was
Speaker 2: going to be able to hold on and you know,
Speaker 2: have a lot of bad holes that looked as if
Speaker 2: you know that's going to likely cost him, is he
Speaker 2: really going to do it?
Speaker 3: Not like this, Rory.
Speaker 2: I mean, those are the kind of things a lot
Speaker 2: of people were saying, and that was enough for me
Speaker 2: to at least be intrigued, right, like if it would
Speaker 2: Because the people who love golf, or even if you
Speaker 2: just you know, maybe you don't love it, but you
Speaker 2: enjoy it and you find it entertaining to watch those folks,
Speaker 2: they probably don't necessarily need any crazy scenario like yesterday
Speaker 2: with extra rounds and whatnot, because they're gonna watch regardless.
Speaker 2: For me, you know, it doesn't do much for me,
Speaker 2: But yesterday, the way it all played out, I was
Speaker 2: interested enough because I wanted to see, Okay, is this
Speaker 2: guy gonna be able to hold on and get it
Speaker 2: done or will it be And again, this is where
Speaker 2: I really am, just being out there and being vulnerable
Speaker 2: to be made fun of about this. But you can
Speaker 2: make fun of if you want. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: being honest. I don't know much about golf, but like,
Speaker 2: would that have been an old time collapse had he
Speaker 2: not won? Had to okay because for me, I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: of course, look at the reaction and man, like, how
Speaker 2: does he go from having you know, what was it
Speaker 2: the I mean he had a four stroke lead with
Speaker 2: eight holes to play, and I mean he had himself
Speaker 2: in the water a.
Speaker 4: Couple of times, right, yeah, and he was playing safe
Speaker 4: for the most part too. Once he had that lead
Speaker 4: on and Deshambo started completely falling apart than Justin Rose
Speaker 4: treats back up the leader from Thursday and Friday, and
Speaker 4: then Rory had that amazing Saturday and then it started
Speaker 4: to haunt him again in that back nine. Actually, you
Speaker 4: can't say back nine when you're talking about the Masters.
Speaker 4: It's the second.
Speaker 2: Nine, now, I know. I wouldn't have known that.
Speaker 4: Apparently back nine it sounds too much like backside, and
Speaker 4: the Masters has a bunch of weird rules, you know,
Speaker 4: the whole patrons fans thing. You're not allowed to say that.
Speaker 4: You can't you can't say rough. It's got to be
Speaker 4: called second time.
Speaker 2: They've got some specific rules that yes, have just always
Speaker 2: been rules.
Speaker 3: Yes, it would have been.
Speaker 4: It would have been an absolute meltdown because that probably,
Speaker 4: I think this may it may have probably been Rory's
Speaker 4: last shot at the Masters, unless you were to do
Speaker 4: it again next year.
Speaker 3: But it's super hard to creep up.
Speaker 4: And stay in the lead, and especially over there at Augusta,
Speaker 4: it's a really tough course. And just I mean, how
Speaker 4: many times have you ever I know you said you're
Speaker 4: not like a real golf fan, but it's always kind
Speaker 4: of been on and it's on your Twitter, and you
Speaker 4: kind of like you are. You always kind of know
Speaker 4: who wins because you'll see the memes. But over the years,
Speaker 4: like how many times do you ever see like a
Speaker 4: ran dumb person winning the Masters and it's someone that
Speaker 4: you don't know?
Speaker 3: It's almost all the time.
Speaker 4: So this could have been Rory's last shot, and it
Speaker 4: was almost an epic collapse.
Speaker 2: This was the second time that I've ever actually I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say go out of my way, but like it
Speaker 2: wasn't just I was relying on what people were telling
Speaker 2: me would happen by following Twitter or you know, the
Speaker 2: or Sports Center that night, Like I made sure to
Speaker 2: find a remote and put it on because I wanted
Speaker 2: to see it. That was yesterday. And then the other
Speaker 2: one was when Tiger did it twenty nineteen. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that was eighteen, and that was so Again,
Speaker 2: as someone who's so not just don't know a whole
Speaker 2: lot about golf, I've not been exposed to it a
Speaker 2: whole lot. It's just not something I know a lot about.
Speaker 2: And if I really wanted to know more about it,
Speaker 2: I could easily learn, but I just, you know, it's
Speaker 2: never really hooked me. But whenever Tiger had it rolling
Speaker 2: and it looked as if this was about to happen,
Speaker 2: it was still something at that time that people thought
Speaker 2: would never happen again because of everything that had transpired
Speaker 2: with him. So that that's what hooked me. And he's
Speaker 2: a larger than life. I mean, he's one of the
Speaker 2: most highly publicized known athletes of my lifetime. I would
Speaker 2: say Hi and Michael Jordan are probably the two that
Speaker 2: as far as just fame and when they had the
Speaker 2: buzz they had, I mean, there's just really nothing that
Speaker 2: would compare to them in their own sports. So that
Speaker 2: got me and then yesterday again, I think I think
Speaker 2: once I could see this is something that interested me.
Speaker 2: And I know it's gonna sound like people like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why golf's great, you dumb ass, Why are you like,
Speaker 2: why are you talking about it like it's something nobody's
Speaker 2: ever watched before? So again, trust me, I'm aware that
Speaker 2: this is probably something that has always been really uh,
Speaker 2: something that hooks you in as a golf fan.
Speaker 3: But to see how.
Speaker 2: Visibly Rory mackleroy was melting right and to know like
Speaker 2: all the pressure like that interested me enough. And I
Speaker 2: won't say like I was rooting for him to choke
Speaker 2: it away, but you know the fact that he kept
Speaker 2: being in position to put it away and then he
Speaker 2: couldn't do it like that that added a level of
Speaker 2: interest to see, Okay, is he gonna keep choking it
Speaker 2: away when he's got the thing, when he's got the
Speaker 2: opportunity to kind of put this thing away? So you know,
Speaker 2: it's again I don't know this, but it seems like
Speaker 2: he's a pretty likable guy within his sports or no,
Speaker 2: like I think so, I think he's very well like
Speaker 2: I felt like people, I felt like people were really
Speaker 2: genuinely happy for me. But then again, there's also a
Speaker 2: part of me just thinking okay, because this is such
Speaker 2: a sophisticated event. That is the masters that like, no
Speaker 2: matter who wins, they'll find a way to be classy
Speaker 2: and happy for them.
Speaker 3: Like are their villains in golf?
Speaker 2: I think there are, but maybe not, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh they live guys or Shooter McGavin out there, bryceon Deshambeau,
Speaker 2: bryceon De'shambeau.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would, I would. I wouldn't say, like maybe
Speaker 4: to your general people, because he's he's golf with Trump
Speaker 4: and he's shown his support for that kind and he
Speaker 4: also does like the live golf too, and people look
Speaker 4: at those golfers and Phil Mickelson still does that and
Speaker 4: they look at those golfers like Phil, Yeah, yeah, how
Speaker 4: I mean he's been been a while since you know,
Speaker 4: it has been, but yeah, those guys took the Saudy
Speaker 4: Arabia money. They don't they don't look at them like
Speaker 4: traditional lists.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I I know that there are people
Speaker 2: listening that really love golfer. Maybe they don't. They just
Speaker 2: keep up with it and like these two dumb asses,
Speaker 2: which by the way, you you know, way more about it.
Speaker 3: Than I do wonder how it sounds the average list.
Speaker 2: Yes, but they're like these guys have a sports show,
Speaker 2: Get these clowns out of here, which I get it.
Speaker 2: I promise you we're gonna not make fools. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna make a full of myself. It's a huge Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's talk about it, and I am, you know, not
Speaker 2: to make it all about me, because again, golf spawned
Speaker 2: without me. I can never watch golf again, never talk
Speaker 2: about it again, and golf it's just gonna be fine.
Speaker 3: But it was after last week kind.
Speaker 2: Of mentioning, you know what, golf is the one sport
Speaker 2: that I clearly should know more about. I could easily have,
Speaker 2: you know, done some homework and it wouldn't have taken
Speaker 2: a whole lot of effort to you know, be a
Speaker 2: little bit more informed on the sport of golf. I've
Speaker 2: just never really done it. But yesterday was like many many,
Speaker 2: many other years of the Masters, where it's it's impossible
Speaker 2: to not know that it's going on. It's also impossible
Speaker 2: to not know who's like playing well because it's all
Speaker 2: anybody's talking about.
Speaker 3: And in previous years, I don't.
Speaker 2: Really I don't really succumb to the the to the fomo,
Speaker 2: the fear of missing out like I'm fine, not you know,
Speaker 2: like instead of keeping up with the masters, all go
Speaker 2: outside and you know, throw football with my son and
Speaker 2: really not care who wins and I'll find out later
Speaker 2: and it's whatever. But because of, you know, the way
Speaker 2: it was playing out, I did have interest enough to
Speaker 2: where I wanted to make sure I got to see
Speaker 2: how it ended. And I felt like, you know, it
Speaker 2: was entertaining. I thought Mike Rosenberg, who writes for Sports Illustrated,
Speaker 2: he had a great column on it, which again I
Speaker 2: felt like I was growing as not a golf fan,
Speaker 2: but you know, just learning about golf because I could
Speaker 2: I read it in its entirety, and you know, there's
Speaker 2: some terminology, there's just some stuff about golf that I
Speaker 2: don't know a lot about. But I was able to
Speaker 2: keep up with it, and I thought it was really
Speaker 2: well dumb. And I'm gonna read for you a little
Speaker 2: excerpt here because I think, really this really it kind
Speaker 2: of puts in perspective just how wild that finished was.
Speaker 2: And wild it's probably not even the right way to
Speaker 2: describe it. And I'm sure the golf purists wouldn't like
Speaker 2: me saying, man, that was wild, but it was. You know,
Speaker 2: the beauty of Rory's win is probably the best way
Speaker 2: to describe it. That's how Mike Rosenberg talks about it.
Speaker 2: But it says whether you think golf is the greatest
Speaker 2: game in the world or the most ridiculous, the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five Masters is your best argument. Maclroy made four
Speaker 2: double double bogies this week and still won. He built
Speaker 2: a four stroke lead with eight holes to play. From there,
Speaker 2: he nearly found water on number eleven, hit an unthinkably
Speaker 2: atrocious wedge into the water. On thirteen, hit an outrageous
Speaker 2: draw into the fifteenth green to give himself an eagle chance,
Speaker 2: missed putts of eleven, eight, six and nine feet, hit
Speaker 2: an iron from one hundred and ninety seven yards to
Speaker 2: kick in range on seventeen, missed a five foot par
Speaker 2: putt to win, and finally he gave himself a four
Speaker 2: foot bird he putt to beat Justin Rose in a playoff.
Speaker 2: Mceilroy sank it. The line between art and obscenity has
Speaker 2: never been thinner. I just thought that was that made
Speaker 2: me realize, Okay, the way the whole thing played out
Speaker 2: for Rory. That was the kicker that got me, someone
Speaker 2: who has never really been interested or really cared to
Speaker 2: want to see what happens. You know, so I won't
Speaker 2: fake it and act like I'm in. I'm all in
Speaker 2: on golf because I probably won't watch golf for a
Speaker 2: long time. Well, you said, but I did yesterday and
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Well you said, you and your buddies on Friday, guys
Speaker 4: have the group chat going and there's a lot of
Speaker 4: Masters talk. Was there any more contribution for what you
Speaker 4: were talking about author yesterday?
Speaker 2: No, but the day that I did, you know, that's
Speaker 2: I'm glad you remember that because last week I was just,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm in a group chat with my closest friends,
Speaker 2: guys I've known for no joke, thirty years, and it's
Speaker 2: really our fantasy football chat, but it's we're active in
Speaker 2: their daily just she had the boys and you know,
Speaker 2: they're they're going back and forth about what's going on.
Speaker 2: This was day one of the Masters, and I just
Speaker 2: I ended up writing in and saying hell of a
Speaker 2: start for the Masters guys, and two of them like
Speaker 2: did the light you know, they did the laugh thing,
Speaker 2: like where they you know, you can react to a
Speaker 2: certain message without responding to it. And then somebody asked
Speaker 2: if someone had stolen my phone, which that's that's that's
Speaker 2: the appropriate response, I think, because nobody, nobody would understand
Speaker 2: why I was even talking about golf. But again, golf
Speaker 2: is clearly very popular. It's doing fine without me. The
Speaker 2: last thing I ever want to make it out to
Speaker 2: be is that like golf's the issue and I'm and
Speaker 2: I'm somebody telling you that the sport sucks. No, everybody
Speaker 2: has their own things that they are interested in, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are and I don't know, maybe I'm
Speaker 2: wrong here, but I would imagine there's a lot of
Speaker 2: folks listening that there's something similar for them like golf
Speaker 2: is to me, meaning that you know, you're in the minority,
Speaker 2: and that a lot of people that you consider peers
Speaker 2: and friends that have a similar lifestyle to you, that
Speaker 2: are similar to you in age, interest that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: to where you just for some reason have never really
Speaker 2: been able to get into it. That's what's golf.
Speaker 3: Golf has always been for me.
Speaker 2: So to be able to watch the Masters, especially the
Speaker 2: last day, and you know, I enjoyed it, I was
Speaker 2: able to keep what was going on. It was entertaining.
Speaker 2: So I'm happy, all right, quick Break will come back,
Speaker 2: keep this name rolling along. A couple of Louisville players
Speaker 2: post Spring have hit the transfer portal for football. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's alarming. In fact, this is just the
Speaker 2: new norm.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Guys will leave and it'll just be because they can,
Speaker 2: and you know you got to move on without him.
Speaker 2: But I do think there's one area where I hope
Speaker 2: that this staff, Jeff Bram and his crew are keeping
Speaker 2: an eye on what's available in the portal, because I
Speaker 2: do think there's one position to me that just seems
Speaker 2: a little bit more thin and unproven than I would
Speaker 2: expect for a Jeff Brohm offense. So we'll get to
Speaker 2: that in a lot more stick around. It's Coffee and
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Speaker 2: o'clock here on a Monday afternoon, A beautiful, warm Monday,
Speaker 2: I say beautiful. I think we were actually supposed to
Speaker 2: maybe get some brief rain. But all in all, the
Speaker 2: last few days have been phenomenal around here, and we
Speaker 2: only have a few minutes left here in the three
Speaker 2: o'clock hours, so don't forget. We've got a lot more
Speaker 2: to get into, including where I hope Louisville is. When
Speaker 2: I say Louisville, I mean Jeff Brom and his staff.
Speaker 2: I think they've got one, maybe two positions that I'm
Speaker 2: sure they're going to be looking out to see who
Speaker 2: enters the transfer portal post spring to try to go
Speaker 2: fill some scholarships and you know, get this roster in
Speaker 2: as best shape as possible before you get to kicking
Speaker 2: off the season. Not to say that they've got real
Speaker 2: big issues, but obviously if you're not evaluating the portal
Speaker 2: post spring and seeing what's available and of course relating
Speaker 2: that to your specific needs within your roster, then you
Speaker 2: know you're not doing your job. That's the way this
Speaker 2: is now, So we can get into that. Also, I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the Savannah Bananas because I think
Speaker 2: right their buzz continues to grow in a major way,
Speaker 2: and I think there's something that a lot of people,
Speaker 2: including fans, those that work in sports at all levels,
Speaker 2: could learn from this. Story in this organization that I
Speaker 2: just I don't know if many people are noticing that.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to that, and who knows what else
Speaker 2: we'll get into. We'll also talk a little bit more
Speaker 2: about basketball as you're getting closer to seeing these rosters
Speaker 2: finalize for both Louisville and Kentucky. And I really think
Speaker 2: when it comes to this Louisville roster, I mean, case
Speaker 2: In Pryor wouldn't be shocked if we get something this week.
Speaker 2: It sounds as if there's everybody still under the impression
Speaker 2: that he intends to come back. But obviously he'll probably
Speaker 2: wait to announce that until he's one thousand percent sure
Speaker 2: that's what he's going to do, and I guess he's
Speaker 2: just not there yet. So again, we got a lot
Speaker 2: to get to before we wrap it up here at
Speaker 2: six o'clock. But I do want to give a big
Speaker 2: congratulations to a colleague friend of mine who I still
Speaker 2: at times can't believe I get to call him a
Speaker 2: colleague and a friend, and that's mister Tony Cruz, who
Speaker 2: announced his retirement this past Friday on news Radio eight
Speaker 2: forty WHS coming up at the end of May, mister
Speaker 2: Cruz will hang it up and live his life of
Speaker 2: not getting up at three o'clock every morning and hosting
Speaker 2: news radio eight forty WHS. You know, Tony's one of
Speaker 2: those guys that, you know, when I think of radio
Speaker 2: in Louisville, I mean, I was going to say in
Speaker 2: this market, which I guess is the right way to
Speaker 2: talk about it now. But you know, when I was
Speaker 2: a radio listener, only even when I was like a kid,
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't know what. I would never say market, right,
Speaker 2: I would just say, Hey, that's a guy that I know.
Speaker 2: I hear on the radio, and he talks about my team,
Speaker 2: the Cards. So Tony has had a phenomenal career. I
Speaker 2: don't need to tell anybody that. I'm sure you're well aware.
Speaker 2: And before he did a twenty year run hosting news
Speaker 2: radio eight forty whs's show, he was one of the
Speaker 2: hosts of sports Talk on eight forty WAHS. I say
Speaker 2: one of the hosts, not because it was a two
Speaker 2: to three man show, but because that is a legendary
Speaker 2: show here that no longer exists. But there's only three
Speaker 2: that have ever done it, and they were all phenomenal,
Speaker 2: and in my opinion, you know, all legendary when it
Speaker 2: comes to just this market, when it comes to sports talk,
Speaker 2: not necessarily just sports talk radio, but sports talk within
Speaker 2: the radio format started many many years ago with obviously
Speaker 2: Van Vantz, who I mean, he's a legend. We all
Speaker 2: know that. But Tony Cruz took over for Van Vantz
Speaker 2: hosting sports talk, did it for a long time, had
Speaker 2: a lot of success, and then he made the move
Speaker 2: to mornings on HS and at that time Locklan McClain
Speaker 2: he took over, and he also had a great run
Speaker 2: on sports Talk on eight forty whas. So you know,
Speaker 2: Tony's one of those guys that other than Paul Rodgers,
Speaker 2: he's the first person I remember talking about Louisville basketball
Speaker 2: on the radio, Like I didn't know it was the thing.
Speaker 3: I just thought radio was for music.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I hear, oh wait, they're talking
Speaker 2: about something that I'm obsessed with as a young kid.
Speaker 2: And you know, sure enough, I didn't listen all the
Speaker 2: time because I didn't you know, I didn't have a
Speaker 2: radio in my room, and I only listened whenever was
Speaker 2: in the car with my dad or my mom and
Speaker 2: they were listening to it. But the first stories I
Speaker 2: remember being talked about like that I knew of about
Speaker 2: Louisville Athletics and just you know, as a kid, my
Speaker 2: cards were from Tony Cruz and when I was on
Speaker 2: in the mornings from I guess it was about twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, Tony and I were
Speaker 2: across the hall from each other. Right he was on HS.
Speaker 2: I was on seven ninety in our old building. We
Speaker 2: literally were directly across the hall from each other. And
Speaker 2: sometimes it would feel as if I did a show
Speaker 2: with no commercial breaks, because Tony would hop over into
Speaker 2: my studio. He has longer breaks because they have news
Speaker 2: and weather and whatnot, but we would talk sports, so
Speaker 2: it's like we I never got a break, and he
Speaker 2: would share stories about the of you know, the things
Speaker 2: that took place that he got to cover during his
Speaker 2: time on Sports Talk on HAS and it made me
Speaker 2: so much more knowledgeable about this market and about sports
Speaker 2: and the big stories, the big events, how they were covered,
Speaker 2: and it's He's provided a level of information and knowledge
Speaker 2: of things that I would never know if it wasn't
Speaker 2: for him specifically. I mean, he's a guy that there
Speaker 2: weren't a whole lot of platforms to go get information
Speaker 2: or even talk about things going on. That was back
Speaker 2: when radio really didn't have the competition it has now
Speaker 2: with the Internet. Some of the bigger stories that have
Speaker 2: ever happened around here, like Patino coming back here to Kentucky,
Speaker 2: but coaching at Louisville. You know, Tony was on the
Speaker 2: airwaves when that went on and taking reaction from people,
Speaker 2: and you know, I just I mean, I could sit
Speaker 2: and listen to him talk about that stuff all day
Speaker 2: because it's something I'm obsessed with. But but again, it was
Speaker 2: before I was you know, I mean, I remember some
Speaker 2: of these things happening, but I didn't remember listening to
Speaker 2: it on the radio because again I was a little kid.
Speaker 2: So he was a great resource for me. He's been
Speaker 2: a great friend, and he's had a legendary career. When
Speaker 2: you talk about radio in Louisville forever till the end
Speaker 2: of time, I don't know how his name is not
Speaker 2: going to come up. And as much as he is,
Speaker 2: you know, a pro when it comes to this industry
Speaker 2: and broadcasting, he's he's so he is so much at
Speaker 2: his I'm not trying to get worked up here because
Speaker 2: you know, we like to have fun. But hearing Tony
Speaker 2: talk about his faith, talking about his family and his children,
Speaker 2: his wonderful wife Penny. I mean, those are things that
Speaker 2: you know, you don't necessarily. I'm sure he's referenced them
Speaker 2: on his show before during his many years in broadcasting,
Speaker 2: but to have to hear him, you know, just have
Speaker 2: conversations with him as a friend, as a colleague, and
Speaker 2: get perspective from him on that aspect of life. It's
Speaker 2: been so valuable to me as a father and a
Speaker 2: husband myself. So you know, I know they tell you, you know,
Speaker 2: you be careful if you meet, you know, people you
Speaker 2: look up to or people that you idolize, And I
Speaker 2: don't know if I ever idolized Tony Cruz in that way,
Speaker 2: just because you know, by the time I really wanted
Speaker 2: to get into this, he'd already moved on from sports.
Speaker 2: But I am so happy to know him because I
Speaker 2: know a lot more than just you know him as
Speaker 2: a broadcaster, and he's he's been good to me, and
Speaker 2: I hope he has a lot of fun and hope
Speaker 2: he sleeps in a lot on his retirement, because my man,
Speaker 2: that's an early wake up call. For twenty straight years,
Speaker 2: three o'clock in the morning. Yikes, But again, congrats to
Speaker 2: mister Kruz and looking forward to the last however many
Speaker 2: weeks we have left with you, including your final derby,
Speaker 2: which will be a lot of fun. But it'll be
Speaker 2: here before you know it too. All right, quick break,
Speaker 2: we've got two more hours left right here, keep it
Speaker 2: locked on Sports Talk seven ninety