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Speaker 2: and Company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: That's us. My name is Nick Coffee. The company man
Speaker 2: John Alden alongside today. As I mentioned, we're getting another
Speaker 2: week started. And what a weekend it was. My weekend
Speaker 2: was not super eventful. I mean I was busy mostly
Speaker 2: doing families stuff and that was great. But how about
Speaker 2: the weather. I'm not sure we've had a weekend in
Speaker 2: August that was as pleasant as what we got on Friday,
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: It's not terrible. I mean it's like eighty one. For
Speaker 2: some reason, it does feel warmer than it did the
Speaker 2: last few days, but it's still nice. Comparatively speaking, I
Speaker 2: feel like August is the worst month of the summer.
Speaker 2: By the time you get to August, I feel like,
Speaker 2: and I could just be making this up that the
Speaker 2: humidity is as bad as it as it is at
Speaker 2: any point throughout the year. Summer is kind of over.
Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of kids are back in school,
Speaker 2: so the summer vibes just aren't what they are whenever
Speaker 2: you're out. You know, I've been a long time since
Speaker 2: I've been able to relate to that, right, I haven't
Speaker 2: had summer break in, you know, nearly twenty years. But
Speaker 2: August is usually I feel like, just miserable. But with humidity,
Speaker 2: we're getting closer to football season. You start to see
Speaker 2: the Halloween stuff up in stores, and you won fall
Speaker 2: I do. I'm sure everybody is different as far as
Speaker 2: what they prefer, but man, August usually is brutal. But man, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 2: Sunday was It was amazing, absolutely amazing outside. Not sure
Speaker 2: what it looks like the rest of the week, but yeah,
Speaker 2: that was awesome. Speaking of awesome, hopefully we have an
Speaker 2: awesome show today. I mean, we're gonna try that's what
Speaker 2: we try to do every day, and I like to
Speaker 2: think that we do, in fact, have an awesome show
Speaker 2: every single day. But you know what, that may not
Speaker 2: be true. There may be days where maybe it's not awesome.
Speaker 2: But today we're gonna do what we always do and
Speaker 2: at least attempt to make it awesome. We got a
Speaker 2: couple of guests go and join us. In fact, we
Speaker 2: have a guest joining us a little earlier than usual.
Speaker 2: We don't usually do three o'clock guests. I like to,
Speaker 2: you know, ease in the first hour, kind of set
Speaker 2: the table. But we are going to bring in mister
Speaker 2: Kendrick Haskins from Wave three, get his thoughts on a
Speaker 2: variety of things. Kendrick, I hope will be a regular
Speaker 2: for us. I haven't given him his contract offer just yet.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if we have enough, you know, enough
Speaker 2: on our end to make it worth his while. But
Speaker 2: you know, he's been giving us his time anytime we ask,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna hope that continues to be the arrangement
Speaker 2: that he that he's willing to honor. And then we'll
Speaker 2: talk some Louisville football coming up in the five o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: around five point thirty we'll talk to Alex Cupper, former
Speaker 2: Louisville cardinal. He our He doesn't know it yet. I
Speaker 2: doubt it's on his resume. It should be, should be
Speaker 2: on his business card. He is our official Louisville football correspondent,
Speaker 2: a guy who can give us some perspective. You know that,
Speaker 2: you know, you know that that I can't give you
Speaker 2: that a lot of people listening probably can't give because
Speaker 2: Cup was a part of it, right, he was a
Speaker 2: guy who played here four years, had a hell of
Speaker 2: a career, and uh was a part of that Sugar
Speaker 2: Bowl team and obviously still close to the program. Looking
Speaker 2: forward to getting his thoughts because you know, I I
Speaker 2: don't know if I feel like Louisville is being slept on, overlooked, disrespected.
Speaker 2: You know, there's all kinds of different ways to look
Speaker 2: at it, because I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: It's not genuine, right. I tried a couple weeks ago
Speaker 2: when the coaches poll came out to determine it's Louisville
Speaker 2: being disrespected, and I was having a manufacture some hate
Speaker 2: that really wasn't there, because it's not crazy to leave
Speaker 2: them outside the top twenty five and for what it's
Speaker 2: worth They were just outside of the top twenty five
Speaker 2: in the coaches poll, and then today the Ape pole
Speaker 2: came out and they are at number twenty six. If
Speaker 2: you're you know, if you look at those that receive
Speaker 2: votes and try to rank from there, they are the
Speaker 2: first team left out of the top twenty five, which is, honestly,
Speaker 2: it's probably fair, right, I think they could be better
Speaker 2: than that. I think they got a chance to be
Speaker 2: pretty good. But uh, you know, I can't really get
Speaker 2: a feel, like if you were trying to describe the
Speaker 2: way that the objective folks who cover college football, a
Speaker 2: consensus among those people how they're looking at Louisville, I
Speaker 2: don't think anybody's going to say anything strong one way
Speaker 2: or the other. Like you might find somebody that's willing
Speaker 2: to claim they're a dark horse to maybe win the
Speaker 2: ACC But can you be called a dark horse if
Speaker 2: you were in the championship game a year ago? And
Speaker 2: when I think about that, that's where I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: well they are kind of being disrespected, right or I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean it feels forced when I say that.
Speaker 2: But again, they played in the championship game a year
Speaker 2: ago and I'm well aware that the schedule benefited them
Speaker 2: in conference play, right, Like they did not have to
Speaker 2: play Florida State or Clemson in the regular season, who
Speaker 2: were the two best teams in the league, even though Clemson,
Speaker 2: of course, you know, took at a little bit of
Speaker 2: a step back, but teams that were pretty good last
Speaker 2: year that are ranked ahead of them, they beat them
Speaker 2: last year Miami and NC State by the way, both
Speaker 2: those games they won on the road. So you know,
Speaker 2: like I kind of feel like they should be getting
Speaker 2: getting a little bit more love, but it's not to
Speaker 2: the point where I can where I can say they're
Speaker 2: being like disrespected. I just feel like that's a little
Speaker 2: bit of a little bit of a force. So we'll
Speaker 2: talk to some football coming up a little bit later
Speaker 2: on with Cup, but we'll get to it before we
Speaker 2: bring him in at five thirty. Because Jeff brom talked
Speaker 2: after the first fall camp scrimmage on Saturday, and it
Speaker 2: was a really good nine to ten minute Q and
Speaker 2: A with coach Brohm, and it reminded me that we're
Speaker 2: kind of learning a little bit about Jeff Brahm right
Speaker 2: now because this is the first time we're seeing him
Speaker 2: in this position. Right, he's entering not his first season, right,
Speaker 2: not the honeymoon. He did pretty damn good in year one,
Speaker 2: which obviously that confirmed what fans I think had in
Speaker 2: mind when Jeff was hired. Okay, we're going to be
Speaker 2: better than we were with that other guy. And also
Speaker 2: we can embrace expectations. He's going to be into that,
Speaker 2: meaning he is not someone that's going to be at
Speaker 2: any point telling folks to kind of kind of calm
Speaker 2: down if you're expecting to win and have a special season,
Speaker 2: because he's not wired like that. He's a competitor again,
Speaker 2: unlike the other guy we had around here before him.
Speaker 2: But I felt like what we heard from Jeff, I
Speaker 2: feel like he's pretty I mean, what you see is
Speaker 2: what you get. I don't think there's a whole lot
Speaker 2: of press conference strategy on his end to send a
Speaker 2: message to the media or to fans or to his players.
Speaker 2: Like I think Jeff's a pretty direct guy. What you
Speaker 2: see is which you get. So that has me not
Speaker 2: worried because he challenged his guys. I believe in his
Speaker 2: Q and A after his scrimmage on Saturday, and it
Speaker 2: may not have been strategic where he was like here
Speaker 2: we go. I didn't see enough today, So I'm really
Speaker 2: once I get in front of these cameras, once I
Speaker 2: get in front of these microphones, I'm gonna really let
Speaker 2: these guys know that I'm not pleased and I want
Speaker 2: to see more. He didn't say that. He really never
Speaker 2: said he wasn't pleased, but he did emphasize he needs
Speaker 2: more playmakers to emerge. So I'm used to hearing coaches
Speaker 2: say that, and I'm like, well, you know what, he's
Speaker 2: probably loving what he's seeing, but he's just trying to
Speaker 2: keep these guys continuously working hard. Right, Don't get comfortable
Speaker 2: you balled out today, But I'm gonna make it clear
Speaker 2: when I talked to the media that I wasn't really
Speaker 2: happy with what I saw, and I want you guys
Speaker 2: to know you got to do better. Like I don't
Speaker 2: know Jeff personally on that level to know if like
Speaker 2: that's I mean again, I think from what I do
Speaker 2: know about him, which you sees what you get, like,
Speaker 2: I don't really think he's into that kind of thing
Speaker 2: where he's gonna go out of his way to try
Speaker 2: to fire guys up with a press conference quote, So
Speaker 2: it probably was legitimate, meaning that he was, in fact,
Speaker 2: a little bit underwhelmed. I don't want to put words
Speaker 2: in his mouth. We'll let you guys hear it for yourself,
Speaker 2: but he did sort of indicate that he was hoping
Speaker 2: that in this type of setting, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: they have, like I don't know, four of these scrimmages
Speaker 2: that are like real games. I mean, they treat them
Speaker 2: like real games. They bring in refs, and I mean
Speaker 2: they it's live action. You know, there's I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's some some things they do differently than a
Speaker 2: real game to prevent injury and whatnot, especially to your quarterback.
Speaker 2: But I mean when they have these these weekend scrimmages,
Speaker 2: that's that's a chance for the coaches to kind of see, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're not playing a real game, but this is as
Speaker 2: close as it gets with the lights on. Let's see
Speaker 2: who performs. Let's see who really you know, can can
Speaker 2: can show in a real game situation, at least as
Speaker 2: close as you can get to it. Let's see if
Speaker 2: what we're seeing practice translates and these guys really have
Speaker 2: gotten better, or maybe there's somebody that you're not seeing
Speaker 2: enough out of him practice. You kind of feel like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I expected this guy to really emerge.
Speaker 2: He hasn't done it yet. Well maybe when you get
Speaker 2: to these type of scrimmages that's when it happens, right,
Speaker 2: So I think he is being genuine and it doesn't
Speaker 2: have me worried, but you know, it is just it
Speaker 2: reminded me that last year, man, it was it was
Speaker 2: the honeymoon, right. I think fans were so damn excited
Speaker 2: that Jeff Bram was here and he was our coach
Speaker 2: that you just knew you were going to be better
Speaker 2: than what we were with Sadderfield, right probably, and you
Speaker 2: knew the schedules set up really nicely. So that's why
Speaker 2: for me it was such a fun ride that even
Speaker 2: though Louisville legitimately put themselves in a phenomenal situation after
Speaker 2: knocking off Notre Dame, moving to five and zero on
Speaker 2: the season, I still wasn't thinking, oh, man, they might
Speaker 2: sneak in the playoff, can they win the ACC? I
Speaker 2: felt like I should have been doing that, but I wasn't,
Speaker 2: mostly just because it was a fun ride that I
Speaker 2: was enjoying. I was living in the moment. Jeff Bram's
Speaker 2: here and he's off to a great start. We talked
Speaker 2: about it all summer. Man, if they take care of business,
Speaker 2: they could ho notre name. That could be a big
Speaker 2: time matchup. Maybe they get game Day, maybe that's Jeff's
Speaker 2: first big time win. And sure enough it all played out.
Speaker 2: It was like a dream. So you know, this year,
Speaker 2: we're just kind of you know, I'm viewing it a
Speaker 2: little bit differently, right. That's why when I see, like
Speaker 2: last year, when Louisville was picked to finish what seventh
Speaker 2: or eight in the preseason poll, I felt like that
Speaker 2: was off and they could certainly be better than that.
Speaker 2: But you never know, right, it's a new season. It's
Speaker 2: almost to give you the old cliche. It felt like
Speaker 2: house money. So now there's expectations, like it or not.
Speaker 2: You win ten games in year one and you put
Speaker 2: together the roster that you've put together. I think fans
Speaker 2: are not expecting necessarily ten wins or it's a failed season,
Speaker 2: because I think that'd be foolish. But hearing him, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of calling out guys or maybe not calling them out,
Speaker 2: just being blatantly honest, like, hey, I need more guys
Speaker 2: to emerge. I didn't see enough I wanted to see more.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe that's just the honest truth. So we
Speaker 2: talks some louisvill football today. On the Kentucky side, Marks
Speaker 2: did finally discuss a ten win season that was vacated
Speaker 2: that happened a couple of weeks ago. It sounds like
Speaker 2: he was pretty hush hush about it because his bosses
Speaker 2: told him to. I did not realize it until we
Speaker 2: had a we had Kent uh, yeah, Ken Spencer on
Speaker 2: last week who Who? Because I was out of I
Speaker 2: was on vacation the week that that news broke. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize that that came out like after Kentucky's media day,
Speaker 2: like the meaning the day of like everybody showed up,
Speaker 2: cameras are there, every you know, every honk in Lexington's
Speaker 2: there to just stroke on Mark stoops and talk about
Speaker 2: how great he is and just smile at him while
Speaker 2: they ask him questions. And then you know, those guys
Speaker 2: leave and and then then the news comes out. It
Speaker 2: just felt, you know, I'm not gonna put words in
Speaker 2: anybody else's mouth that that that that you know, we're there,
Speaker 2: but Kent. You can go back and listen to the podcast.
Speaker 2: I think he kind of he kind of insinuated that
Speaker 2: it was kind of like, you know, just off to
Speaker 2: to know that that big news is coming. Have everybody there.
Speaker 2: There's your chance to talk about it and then and
Speaker 2: then announce it and then have it come out. But
Speaker 2: I don't think Stoops said anything wrong in addressing it today.
Speaker 2: Uh And what I what I what I can't seem
Speaker 2: to figure out is with with Mark Stoops, I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like anytime that there are really realistic expectations
Speaker 2: for Kentucky football. And when I see realistic expectations, I
Speaker 2: mean just you know, continue to be not at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the league, right, certainly go to a bowl game,
Speaker 2: you know, beat the teams you're supposed to beat, maybe
Speaker 2: steal one you're not supposed to win, right, like put yourself.
Speaker 2: I mean again, like realistic expectations. I think for Kentucky
Speaker 2: every year should be about seven and five, maybe eight
Speaker 2: and four. But you know, but I say that knowing
Speaker 2: they've had ten win seasons. So Anyways, what I can't
Speaker 2: figure out is to Kentucky, does Kentucky football prefer to
Speaker 2: be like slept On because they're not getting a whole
Speaker 2: lot of love. I mean, they get votes in the
Speaker 2: preseason Coaches Poll an eight P poll, and honestly, I
Speaker 2: think that's just because of the respect that Mark Stoops
Speaker 2: has has generated over time. I don't think anybody thinks
Speaker 2: they're going to be great, but you know what, we
Speaker 2: got some other let's let's let's you know, let's give
Speaker 2: them a vote. That kind of stuff, because if you
Speaker 2: go back and look Kentucky's best seasons, I feel like
Speaker 2: have been whenever there weren't big time expectations, and when
Speaker 2: there are, I guess higher expectations than what you've typically
Speaker 2: seen throughout the history of Kentucky football. And you hear
Speaker 2: their coaches out there talking about being disrespected, the big dog.
Speaker 2: Vince Merrill's barking about, you know, all the haters and
Speaker 2: you know, doing big dog stuff whatever that is, Like
Speaker 2: that's usually whenever they fall flat, Like when Will Levis
Speaker 2: came back to school and they lost to Vandy at home, right,
Speaker 2: they thought Will Levis was a Heisman contender. You know,
Speaker 2: they had their first big opportunity to get a big win,
Speaker 2: couldn't do it against Ole Miss. So I actually think
Speaker 2: we all want to hear our teams talked about in
Speaker 2: July and August is a team to look out for.
Speaker 2: Don't sleep on them, don't sleep bog Jeff Braum and
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops. These guys, man, they got you know, like you.
Speaker 2: You want to hear that, right because he gets you excited.
Speaker 2: But I think both programs have historically been better when
Speaker 2: they can play us against the world kind of thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm not even I'm not even claiming that either
Speaker 2: side can do that right now, but I think both
Speaker 2: fan bases again, look at these rankings and they see
Speaker 2: Iowa at twenty five. We're better than Iowa. I will
Speaker 2: say this, there is one team I continue to see
Speaker 2: ranked in the top twenty five and its pissing me off.
Speaker 2: N C State. I have respect for Dave Doran. They
Speaker 2: finished the season strong, but like they brought in that
Speaker 2: quarterback from Coastal Carolina, and everybody thinks Dave Doran's about
Speaker 2: the you know, about to shock the world and put
Speaker 2: them in the playoff. Come on, get out of here.
Speaker 2: Jeff Brom over Dave Dorian all day. Louisville's roster right now,
Speaker 2: over NCY State's roster all day. But apparently the voters
Speaker 2: don't see it that way. Anyways. We want to be
Speaker 2: loved on and tabbed as a team to look out for,
Speaker 2: but I actually think not only have we always been
Speaker 2: better when it's the other way around, it's actually more
Speaker 2: fun when you can sneak up and shock some people
Speaker 2: and make a statement. All right, So again we're loaded today.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you guys stick with us. We'll do some Olympic recap.
Speaker 2: I don't have a lot to share because I didn't
Speaker 2: watch a whole lot of the Olympics, but I will
Speaker 2: tell you this. I watched the gold medal game on
Speaker 2: Saturday along with you know, a bunch of other people
Speaker 2: across the planet, and that was so awesome to see
Speaker 2: because it kind of feel like what Steph Curry did
Speaker 2: watching him just really do what Steph Curry does, right,
Speaker 2: make shots that nobody else should ever even think about taking.
Speaker 2: He takes bad shots, and you have to and you know,
Speaker 2: you give it a second. If you if you've watched
Speaker 2: Steph over the years, you can think back and say
Speaker 2: to yourself, you know what, that's probably the best play
Speaker 2: they could have. They could have ran like, that's that's
Speaker 2: actually a good strategic move there, knowing that if anybody
Speaker 2: else took that shot, they might have been kicked off
Speaker 2: the team, but that's what Steph Curry does. He makes
Speaker 2: insane shots. He's a heck of a player. And Steph's
Speaker 2: legacy has been talked about quite a bit. But I
Speaker 2: feel like him winning the title post KD and him
Speaker 2: having that moment in the Olympics where it was him.
Speaker 2: He played so well in those last two as they
Speaker 2: don't win it without him. I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: anybody that's out there, And I guess I've been a
Speaker 2: Steph hater before I should. I mean, I don't hate
Speaker 2: the guy. I don't think he's a I don't think
Speaker 2: he's a hard guy to like. To me, he's kind
Speaker 2: of like Patrick Mahomes in a way. He's kind of
Speaker 2: been the face of his league, has had a lot
Speaker 2: of success, seems like a good enough dude, not really
Speaker 2: any controversy surrounding him. I mean, even with Mahomes, he's
Speaker 2: had controversial people around him and he stayed super clean.
Speaker 2: His brother's a clown. His wife seems like the worst.
Speaker 2: With Steph. You know, his wife she kind of sucks too.
Speaker 2: I mean she she seems very unlikable, and she certainly
Speaker 2: was during the Golden State Cleveland rivalry. But like Steph,
Speaker 2: seems like an awesome dude, and he's worked his ass off.
Speaker 2: He's not somebody you look at from a physical standpoint
Speaker 2: and say, well, I mean we can work our we
Speaker 2: can work our ass off in the gym twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven. This guy's just he's been given, you know,
Speaker 2: God given talent and size and athleticism we'll never get
Speaker 2: which clearly he has good jeans. His dad was a
Speaker 2: great NBA player too, But like Steph isn't physically imposing.
Speaker 2: I mean, if I hadn't seen it with my own
Speaker 2: two eyes, I wouldn't believe he could dunk just watching
Speaker 2: him play. He can't dunk, by the way, But I
Speaker 2: thought it was awesome to see, And like, I need
Speaker 2: an Olympics moment, because when I think back on like
Speaker 2: Olympics over the years, I've just I couldn't think of
Speaker 2: one specific time where I was watching the Olympics and
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, hell yeah, I feel so proud to
Speaker 2: be an American. I mean I always feel proud to
Speaker 2: be an American every day, but like when it comes
Speaker 2: to Olympics, I just have never had a moment. And
Speaker 2: because they had that close call last week against against
Speaker 2: Serbia where they were down eighteen points I think it was,
Speaker 2: and then they were in a close game where they
Speaker 2: needed Steph to do Steph things. It gave me my
Speaker 2: first Olympic moment to where I feel like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I remember, I'll remember where I was when I watched that.
Speaker 2: So that was really cool to see. And again, I
Speaker 2: feel like anybody that acts as if Steph Curry is
Speaker 2: not legitimately in the conversation as far as one of
Speaker 2: the best players ever, you're wrong. I'm not saying he's
Speaker 2: the best. Clearly he's not the most talented. Others have
Speaker 2: accomplished more. I mean, I still think you put Jordan,
Speaker 2: you put Lebron, and you know, there's others that clearly
Speaker 2: belong in that conversation, in that elite tier, and there's
Speaker 2: gonna be hesitancy to put Steph in there. I was
Speaker 2: someone that for the longest time would hesitate. I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: come on, no, But how can you not look at
Speaker 2: his accomplishments. How can you not say that Steph Curry's
Speaker 2: in that elite tier is one of the best players
Speaker 2: of all time.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 2: He's special.
Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: We'd like to make it fun and interactive here on
Speaker 2: the show, and we are going to be joined, as
Speaker 2: I mentioned, coming up here, uh in about ten minutes
Speaker 2: or so by the one of the only, mister Kendrick
Speaker 2: Haskins of Way three. I'm curious to get his thoughts
Speaker 2: on a variety of things. But before we do that,
Speaker 2: I will say this I had for those of you
Speaker 2: that care, and it's probably not many of you. I
Speaker 2: feel like this past weekend was my first time really
Speaker 2: tested as a sports parent, as like as a as
Speaker 2: a you know, a sports dad. Not to say that
Speaker 2: moms can't be, you know, just as passionate into it.
Speaker 2: In fact most of them are. But my son had
Speaker 2: his first flag football game on Saturday afternoon and big
Speaker 2: victory for the Overdell Chiefs. I mean, just to complete
Speaker 2: I mean, those poor kids, the Brooks Saints man, they
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll play again, I mean it
Speaker 2: was it was bad. It was a beat down you hate.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it was nice to see the
Speaker 2: domination on the overdel In fact, it was a clean
Speaker 2: sweep for the organization flag little Bullets. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they call it like a team B team whatever
Speaker 2: that you know, every team within the organization of the
Speaker 2: Overdell Chiefs got the dub at the brook Saints Expense
Speaker 2: on Saturday in Shepperdsville, Kentucky. I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 2: you heard about it. I'm sure god just as much
Speaker 2: coverage as the Olympic Action did. But before I ever
Speaker 2: knew that a woman would let me give her children,
Speaker 2: I knew I would potentially have some trouble as a
Speaker 2: sports dad because I'm a super competitive person. It's like
Speaker 2: a I think at times it's helped me in life,
Speaker 2: but at times it's also been it's been an issue
Speaker 2: for me. I mean I've not like, you know, it's
Speaker 2: like I've lost my mind, but like I'm all in
Speaker 2: with something or I'm not into it at all. So
Speaker 2: like I always worried, like if my son played and
Speaker 2: he did it just to have fun, he did it
Speaker 2: just to hang out with his friends, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with that. That's awesome, But like I'm gonna be in
Speaker 2: that weird spot like why aren't you working harder? Why
Speaker 2: are you smiling? You just missed six straight shots, like
Speaker 2: I gotta get you know, And honestly, some of the
Speaker 2: best advice I got about that has been true to
Speaker 2: this point, and it was from the one and the
Speaker 2: only Tony Venette who provides better wisdom when it comes
Speaker 2: to parenting than John Anthony Venetti. I mean, he's a
Speaker 2: great father himself, and I say that sincerely. He's got
Speaker 2: a lot to be proud of with his kids, and
Speaker 2: he's given me a lot of great advice over the years.
Speaker 2: But he always said, look at you, don't even think
Speaker 2: about it, and he's right. Until Saturday he didn't start.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he didn't start. Had him on defense, you know,
Speaker 2: and then you know, I realized, well, it's not really
Speaker 2: about starting and not starting. They have two balanced units
Speaker 2: that they put together, and you you play defense for
Speaker 2: a quarter, then you play offense like it's you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't as if he got benched. It wasn't as
Speaker 2: if they've got a depth chart. We've got four year
Speaker 2: old kids running I mean, he just turned four two
Speaker 2: months ago. I mean, he's he's I mean he and
Speaker 2: he's having fun. But I'm thinking, why wasn't he in
Speaker 2: the game? Game started? Why is he not out there?
Speaker 2: What's going on here? And then you know at halftime,
Speaker 2: the kids are getting water. A lot of parents are
Speaker 2: just trying to keep their kids into it, like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, let's you know, just like just your kids
Speaker 2: finishing the game. Being into it at this age is
Speaker 2: actually a win for everybody. A lot of them, you know,
Speaker 2: want to eat grass and roll around like it there.
Speaker 2: They're young kids. So you know, he ended up getting
Speaker 2: They gave him the handoff to try to convert on
Speaker 2: a two point conversion, and he was looking over at
Speaker 2: us because he knew he was about to get the ball,
Speaker 2: so he ran and dropped the handoff wasn't clean, And
Speaker 2: I'm feeling like, oh my gosh, well there go ahead.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get him into something else. Maybe maybe, maybe
Speaker 2: maybe he'll join the debate team. Hey maybe maybe we'll
Speaker 2: maybe he could start a podcast and he'll he didn't
Speaker 2: need to play sports and just talk about it. Like
Speaker 2: I'm kind of I think I'm gonna be a madman,
Speaker 2: which is awful. Like what I just described and told
Speaker 2: everybody makes me sound like a real scumback. But you know,
Speaker 2: once they started winning, he was jumping up and down,
Speaker 2: cheering on his teammates who were scoring touchdowns. He was
Speaker 2: having fun. And then I thought to myself, what is
Speaker 2: wrong with you talking about myself, not my son, which
Speaker 2: it would have been badly. What are you cheering for?
Speaker 2: You didn't score touchdown. You go to bed. When we
Speaker 2: get home, You're gonna work hard. Like those thoughts have
Speaker 2: never entered my mind and they never will. I am
Speaker 2: being tongue in cheek here to an extent, but for
Speaker 2: some reason, it was just different. Like my daughter, she
Speaker 2: special needs, and she's played, she's had gymnastics, she's she's uh,
Speaker 2: she's been in the Miracle League, which is baseball, and
Speaker 2: it's been a lot of fun. And Mason, my son,
Speaker 2: he's played t ball for two years now. But that's like,
Speaker 2: first of all, baseball is just different. I mean, and
Speaker 2: they don't even they don't even track outs. Every kid
Speaker 2: gets to bat one time during the during you know,
Speaker 2: one time or two times during the lineup or whatever.
Speaker 2: But like football man, they got they got cool ash jerseys,
Speaker 2: They you know, they got a PA system. I mean,
Speaker 2: we got a packed crowd, we got prime time. We
Speaker 2: played at seven thirty on Saturday night, John, that's prime
Speaker 2: time under the lights, four year old game bags. Yeah there,
Speaker 2: So it was. It was a lot of fun. But uh,
Speaker 2: I felt I felt like the biggest scumback since Saturday,
Speaker 2: just for like thirty seconds of the entire game, me
Speaker 2: having thoughts of like, well, I know what we're doing.
Speaker 2: We get home, he's not He's not going to bed
Speaker 2: until he successfully takes the hand off without dropping the
Speaker 2: ball for three hundred times. Like I again, it's just
Speaker 2: like these little like spasms or something because I'm not
Speaker 2: going to be that guy. But like it was just
Speaker 2: it was a first time experience for me, and you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully I can just can I can contain myself, all right.
Speaker 2: Kendrick Haskins is going to join us, coming up on
Speaker 2: the other side from way three sports stick around, don't
Speaker 2: go anywhere, keep it locked, keep it where you got it,
Speaker 2: hang tight, anything else? Any others I mentioned? I think
Speaker 2: I hit them all right here on Sports Talk seven
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Speaker 2: And we now bring in a special guest. He's mister
Speaker 2: Kendrick Haskins from Wave three Sports. Kendrick, how we doing, brother?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Just turn a year older yesterday, so
Speaker 3: it's been a good weekend.
Speaker 2: Shout out to you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: You know you're you're You're not that old, right, Like
Speaker 2: I don't want to guess your age because I feel
Speaker 2: like you're kind of close to my age, but I
Speaker 2: could be way off. How old are you, Kendrick?
Speaker 3: I'm forty nine, Okay.
Speaker 2: I would have guessed closer to like forty four, forty five.
Speaker 2: But so you hey, you're you're looking looking good man? Man?
Speaker 2: Are you Are you at all thinking about like it's
Speaker 2: fifty something that's like worrying you at all? Some people
Speaker 2: get kind of weird about that, Like when I when
Speaker 2: I get to forty, I'll probably be like, oh, like
Speaker 2: it's all downhill from.
Speaker 1: Here a little bit.
Speaker 3: But also at the same time, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: it and I'm hoping to have some kind of celebration.
Speaker 3: Oh hell yeah, but it's it's it's kind of a hooray.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I was like, damn, I'm
Speaker 3: getting old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's why you gotta throw like you gotta
Speaker 2: have like the biggest fiftieth celebration, making it, make it
Speaker 2: a year long, just so you don't think about the
Speaker 2: bad side of it. You're like, well, hey, this is
Speaker 2: what it's been building for, because there can't be many
Speaker 2: better birthday. I mean again, it's you're on the older
Speaker 2: side rather than you know, when you turn twenty or thirty.
Speaker 2: But I mean fifty, that's a milestone, man, it is
Speaker 2: a milestone.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm already getting out of the extra doctor's
Speaker 3: appointments that you not have to make when I was younger.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm already fifty without Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, just keep living like you're you know, you're still
Speaker 2: young in your prime and you won't even think about
Speaker 2: age because I'm gonna tell myself to do that as
Speaker 2: I get older as well. But I know you're a
Speaker 2: big hoopead like myself. What I want to get your
Speaker 2: thoughts on Steph Curry because I think Steph Curry's legacy
Speaker 2: was already great before the Olympics and even before he
Speaker 2: got that that ring post KD. But I feel like
Speaker 2: the ring that he got a couple of years ago
Speaker 2: with the Warriors, and I don't know, maybe they get
Speaker 2: another one, but it kind of seems as if that
Speaker 2: dynasty is is on. It's on. I think their best
Speaker 2: basketball was in the past, more so in the rather
Speaker 2: than the future. But him being really the guy, I mean,
Speaker 2: they don't they don't get past Serbia without him doing
Speaker 2: Steph Curry things, and of course he was sensational making
Speaker 2: shots on Saturday that really nobody else should be even
Speaker 2: should even think about taking. Do you look at him
Speaker 2: any differently now in these last few years compared to whatever,
Speaker 2: he kind of emerged as one of the faces of
Speaker 2: the league. Because I'll admit it, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I was ever a Steph hater, but I just had
Speaker 2: a hard time thinking he was one of the best
Speaker 2: players of all time. And now I'm not saying he's
Speaker 2: the best, but look at his career, look at his accomplishments.
Speaker 2: I think it's hard for anybody to dispute that he's
Speaker 2: up there. He's in that conversation, there's a there's an
Speaker 2: elite tier at the top, and I think he belongs
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, it's hard because of his size
Speaker 3: and if Steph's not as little as people make him
Speaker 3: think of make him out to be stuff, it's still
Speaker 3: like six or four, it's not. He's not tiny and
Speaker 3: so but I think his size and like people, I
Speaker 3: think people hold his defense against him because he is
Speaker 3: he does tend to get targeted on defense. But outside
Speaker 3: of that, I mean there and for a long time now,
Speaker 3: there's no more fun player to watch when he's on
Speaker 3: fire and Steph Curry, he's.
Speaker 1: Changed the game like that.
Speaker 3: He's changed the game. Some may even say for the worse,
Speaker 3: but he's definitely changed the game. And there's never gonna
Speaker 3: be another one like him. There's gonna be others that
Speaker 3: come along that probably can shoot close to that. But
Speaker 3: what we're seeing, we've never seen anything like this. So
Speaker 3: now as the older he gets, and it's the crazy thing,
Speaker 3: it feels like he's still getting better, but the older
Speaker 3: guests now is more of an appreciation to how great
Speaker 3: he is. Before it was just watching how good can
Speaker 3: this guy be? And seeing him win championships was exciting.
Speaker 3: But now when you know the Warriors run is pretty
Speaker 3: much over most likely unless they make some miraculous trade.
Speaker 3: But right now, it's more of an appreciation to his greatness.
Speaker 2: You said it. I think his stature has always been
Speaker 2: something that keeps people who people who love him and
Speaker 2: think he is great, they just hesitate to put him
Speaker 2: in that elite tier because he's someone that when you
Speaker 2: look at him, you could go you could go to
Speaker 2: the YMCA downtown, just a few blocks away from where
Speaker 2: we are right now, and you wouldn't see somebody that
Speaker 2: can play like him, But you see somebody with that
Speaker 2: same type of stature. You know, he's not, as you said,
Speaker 2: he's not tiny, but he's not physically imposing. You know,
Speaker 2: he's got he doesn't have muscles popping out of everywhere.
Speaker 2: He's tall enough to make plays. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that's always been something that's worked against him.
Speaker 2: But you know, results are results, and I can't think
Speaker 2: of anybody that has that has been able to really
Speaker 2: consistently take shots that I'm not kidding you, ninety nine
Speaker 2: point nine percent of the basketball population at the professional
Speaker 2: level should never consider taking these shots. Where now, when
Speaker 2: he does it, you think, well, even if he misses it. Well,
Speaker 2: that's a good look because those are shots he typically makes.
Speaker 3: And I think part of the difference between a Steph
Speaker 3: and a Lebron and a Kobe and MJ is you
Speaker 3: can look at Steph while it's not true, you can
Speaker 3: convince yourself that that's obtainable because.
Speaker 1: He's not true those guys.
Speaker 3: He's not a freak of nature like Lebron is. You know,
Speaker 3: he's not this killer like Kobe and Mike were, even
Speaker 3: though he is. But you know what I mean, sure,
Speaker 3: he's not that athletic guy that's gonna go and dump
Speaker 3: over a bunch of people. So a guy coming up
Speaker 3: who maybe be about six foot sixty one sixty two
Speaker 3: looks a step as like that's obtainable. I can learn
Speaker 3: to shoot like that now most people can't. But you
Speaker 3: can't convince yourself that you can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think what you said earlier is I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not really his fault, but I do think because
Speaker 2: he just he became I mean, especially for young kids,
Speaker 2: when he became one of the stars of the league,
Speaker 2: one of the faces of the league. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was not again, he's just different, right. Usually it's guys
Speaker 2: that are jumping over people and Duncan on him. This
Speaker 2: is a guy who is doing things that you feel
Speaker 2: like again, it's more, it's more attainable, and that's led
Speaker 2: to a lot of kids just wanted to fire up
Speaker 2: Steph Curry type shots. Went again. There needs to be
Speaker 2: like there needs to be in every gym in America
Speaker 2: where young kids play and they develop and work on
Speaker 2: their game. Just a reminder on the wall. You're not
Speaker 2: gonna be Steph Curry, So let's let's work on some
Speaker 2: other things as well.
Speaker 3: Right. I remember when I was a kid, I was
Speaker 3: young enough that are old enough where Doctor Jay was
Speaker 3: at the end of his career, Michael Jordan was coming along,
Speaker 3: and Magic was coming along, and like I literally had
Speaker 3: a junior coach that said, nobody on the team could
Speaker 3: wear number six, number twenty three, number thirty two, or
Speaker 3: number thirty three for Bird.
Speaker 2: So that's a good that's a good coach.
Speaker 1: Bird.
Speaker 2: Bird's one of those guys. To man, I didn't get
Speaker 2: a chance to see Bird in his prime. Obviously, I
Speaker 2: was very familiar with him as a young kid. Knew
Speaker 2: he was great. But he is someone who when Larry
Speaker 2: Bird's highlight mixes appear on my feed or somebody sends
Speaker 2: me one. I see him on one of the social
Speaker 2: media platforms. I can never skip through it. Because a
Speaker 2: guy who looks like he, you know, just got off
Speaker 2: a barstool, polished, you know, three draft beers. He's out
Speaker 2: there just throwing passes that are as good as anybody's.
Speaker 2: I mean, he doesn't make sense how good.
Speaker 3: Larry Bird was right, and he's another one that you
Speaker 3: can look at and be like, that's obtainable because he
Speaker 3: wasn't thought of as athletic. You know, Bird was more athletics.
Speaker 3: Credit for him, surely a clip of dunkin two handed
Speaker 3: and so he was more athletic he get credit for.
Speaker 3: But you get you look at him. He's not overwhelming
Speaker 3: you with athleticism. He's not this big, strong guy. He
Speaker 3: looks like an average guy. Even gooes taller than people have,
Speaker 3: but he just looks like an average guy.
Speaker 2: Have you heard the Nolan Richardson Hall of speech that
Speaker 2: he when Nolan's being inducted and he talks about Bird.
Speaker 2: I've got to send it to if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: But he's he's driving across the country, Nolan Richardson is
Speaker 2: and he's listening to a game on the radio where
Speaker 2: Indiana State is playing. I think it might be UTEP
Speaker 2: or something, and there was some kind of rivalry component.
Speaker 2: And he's listening to Indiana States guy named Bird, Bird Bird,
Speaker 2: another bucket by Bird, and he doesn't know who he is,
Speaker 2: and he's like, man, he's happy because apparently UTEP was
Speaker 2: a rival or something. And he sees the next day
Speaker 2: and he sees it in the paper and he couldn't
Speaker 2: believe that Larry Bird was a white guy. I'll sell
Speaker 2: you the clip because he shared that story while he
Speaker 2: was being inducted in the Hall of Fame, which I
Speaker 2: thought it was really funny. And I'm sure there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people growing up that like would see Larry
Speaker 2: Bird and be like, oh, that came from Indiana State,
Speaker 2: Like before he started really showing what he could do
Speaker 2: against magic. I bet there are so many players across
Speaker 2: the world that were like this guy, come on, I
Speaker 2: could take care of you. Yeah, there was no internet, exactly.
Speaker 3: High school gavern on ESPN back then. A lot of
Speaker 3: these guys had no idea who each other was, so
Speaker 3: they saw each other on the floor. So yeah, they
Speaker 3: probably was a lot of surprise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, different different world back then, no doubt. But Kendrick
Speaker 2: Haskins is our guest joining us here on Sports Talk
Speaker 2: seven ninety so. I talked about this a little bit earlier.
Speaker 2: I think both. I think it's normal for every fan
Speaker 2: in college football to want to hear their team talked
Speaker 2: about in a positive way when you get to July
Speaker 2: and August, right, you want to be tabbed as a
Speaker 2: team to to look out for that's on the radar
Speaker 2: to potentially really surprise some people and break through, which
Speaker 2: is you know, I think it's normal. However, I actually
Speaker 2: think both teams around here have had their best success historically,
Speaker 2: not only with the current coaches. With Jeff's a little different,
Speaker 2: it's just the second year, but I think historically both
Speaker 2: of these programs in this state have actually been better
Speaker 2: off when they can surprise people and there's not a
Speaker 2: whole lot of love out there, and they can even
Speaker 2: if it's not real, they can manufacture the disrespect card.
Speaker 2: You've covered these programs for quite some time. I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like we want the preseason love, but it
Speaker 2: usually doesn't end up working out that well.
Speaker 3: I mean, go back to Patrino when Lamar was here,
Speaker 3: when the year when Lamar won the Heights and Lamar
Speaker 3: kind of came out of nowhere until that Florida State
Speaker 3: game and U of L wasn't getting much pub until
Speaker 3: that Florida perfect for him, right, And then the next
Speaker 3: year when the expectations came, even though Lamar's numbers were
Speaker 3: I think with Lamar's numbers, men actually have been better
Speaker 3: than last year, but the team did not perform like
Speaker 3: they should.
Speaker 2: He was a marked man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a marked man. They still got they
Speaker 3: got plenty of wins, but like you see, they the
Speaker 3: way they lost in their bowl game and then it
Speaker 3: was Lamar running around and really nobody else really doing anything.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, when they expected expectations came, it kind
Speaker 3: of faltered a little bit. Kentucky, I think really truly,
Speaker 3: I think the expectations for Kentucky are so low, have
Speaker 3: historically little yeah, and and like this year, I think
Speaker 3: it's more about their schedule, yeah, than their rosters.
Speaker 2: Well. I do just feel like in I feel like
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, Will Levis came back after a
Speaker 2: really good debut season, and I feel like that was
Speaker 2: the first year because they were coming off a ten
Speaker 2: win season that was the first year that I can
Speaker 2: think of in my lifetime as as somebody who's been
Speaker 2: around both programs to where there were legitimate expectations within
Speaker 2: Kentucky football. I'm a little bit younger to remember when
Speaker 2: Tim Couch was there, but they brought back Levis and
Speaker 2: they were supposed to be pretty damn good. They went
Speaker 2: three and five in the SEC, lost at home to Vandy.
Speaker 2: You know, didn't end up beating Louisville because that's what
Speaker 2: stoops just does. But yeah, I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: there's examples that it so for fans out there. I
Speaker 2: guess what I'm getting at is when you if you
Speaker 2: feel like, hey, you know what, you know, they're not
Speaker 2: showing us enough respect, like that that actually some that
Speaker 2: that actually is a part of our identity around here.
Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, And I do kind of feel
Speaker 3: like if a little Wether won just one of those
Speaker 3: three games at the end of the season last year,
Speaker 3: they probably would have at least cracked the top twenty five.
Speaker 3: I agree, being held over their heads going into the
Speaker 3: season with a three game losing streak. So I think
Speaker 3: that's that with them and with Kentech, I think it's
Speaker 3: more so of their skin, and then of course replacing
Speaker 3: a running back, a dynamic running back and a pretty
Speaker 3: decent quarterback if there's so many question marks with the playmakers.
Speaker 3: But when you got a guy like Barry and Brown,
Speaker 3: you're in the game offensively for the most part, just
Speaker 3: about it because he can bust a big, big play
Speaker 3: on return or just a short little dig route taking sixty.
Speaker 2: So those two guys, Brown and Key were pretty underwhelming
Speaker 2: last year based just off of expectations because they look
Speaker 2: so promising as freshmen, but they're so talented, Like, nobody
Speaker 2: will be surprised if those guys have huge years with
Speaker 2: their new quarterback, because you know, I'm not saying it
Speaker 2: was all Leary's fault last year, but but I mean,
Speaker 2: those are two guys. They could have three or four
Speaker 2: consecutive games where they're dropping everything thrown to them. But
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be surprised if they have games where they,
Speaker 2: you know, look like some of the best receivers in
Speaker 2: the country, because they've shown that too at times.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean they showed up in the solvagase.
Speaker 2: Why are you trying to make me crowded?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 3: That was that thing?
Speaker 1: Couldn't that rivalry the last few years.
Speaker 2: Like man, last year, last year was the one year
Speaker 2: where you're like, you know, you just can't lose him
Speaker 2: this year because they don't even like their team, they
Speaker 2: don't like their coach. He told them to pony up
Speaker 2: and pay more money. You got ten wins under your
Speaker 2: belt already. And then you know, we all know what
Speaker 2: that wasn't That wasn't a fun post game show for me, Kendrick,
Speaker 2: I can imagine. All right, so real quicker, We'll let
Speaker 2: you go. I know high school football is getting set
Speaker 2: to start here in the area. Obviously, you guys do
Speaker 2: great coverage over at Wave three each and every year
Speaker 2: for that I assuming that we're going to continue to see,
Speaker 2: you know, the big dogs stay the big dogs. There's
Speaker 2: always there's some historical programs around here that always seem
Speaker 2: to win a lot of games. But have you have
Speaker 2: you heard is there an emerging program here in the
Speaker 2: area that you feel like is coming off of a
Speaker 2: couple of successful seasons. I know Atherton has really changed
Speaker 2: a lot about their program in recent years. I like
Speaker 2: pulling for schools that you know, have built to where
Speaker 2: maybe they can compete with some of these big dogs
Speaker 2: have a bunch of state championships already in the trophy
Speaker 2: case after to.
Speaker 3: His fun as their coach is fun coach Anthony bro
Speaker 3: He's so funny. He's a short little guy, but he's
Speaker 3: full of energy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's putting kids and he's putting guys in
Speaker 2: college now too. I see these guys are getting offers, and.
Speaker 3: He loves being there, and it's legit. He loves being
Speaker 3: at Afters and I think he loves the fact that
Speaker 3: he's got he's got a program that basically he's in
Speaker 3: control of him. He's totally building and he loves it there.
Speaker 3: And so he's doing a great job there. Ballad has
Speaker 3: a new coach. It's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 3: what they can do because they've gotten so close to
Speaker 3: a state championship game back to back years. Still, it'll
Speaker 3: be exciting to see what they do. But of course,
Speaker 3: Trinity's bringing their quarterback back who actually saw him at practice.
Speaker 2: Is a kid that's going to be a sophomore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's grown a little bit. He still needs
Speaker 3: to grow a little bit more to be a D
Speaker 3: one prospect, I think, but he has grown a little bit.
Speaker 3: And that kid is he's like a cyboard. His expression
Speaker 3: never changes and he.
Speaker 2: Just goes out there and just makes place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just makes play. When they lost. They had
Speaker 3: a loss to Frederick Douglas early in the season last
Speaker 3: year when he was just kind of coming online. But
Speaker 3: once he settled in and he was out there just
Speaker 3: carving teams up. He's exciting to watch.
Speaker 2: Well, Kendrick, we appreciate the time as always. We'll do
Speaker 2: it again soon and I want you to make sure
Speaker 2: you enjoy your last year in your forties.
Speaker 1: Okay, brother, thanks man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Take care. That's Ketchrick Caskins Wave three Sports always appreciate
Speaker 2: his time. Good stuff as always. All right, let's uh,
Speaker 2: let's take a quick time. I will come back, wrap
Speaker 2: up at three o'clock hour and keep the party rolling along.
Speaker 2: It's coffee and company. Filbout Thornton's right here on Sports
Speaker 2: Talk seven ninety. I haven't mentioned it yet, so might
Speaker 2: as well mention it now. I will not be here tomorrow,
Speaker 2: so your quarterback for Tuesday afternoon will be the one
Speaker 2: and the only mister John Alten who he's got some
Speaker 2: I mean, he knows what he's doing. He's professional here,
Speaker 2: you know. I like the idea of being able to
Speaker 2: be away in the show being I mean, in fact,
Speaker 2: I prefer that way every time. But you know, the
Speaker 2: brass here at I heart, they've they've got more experience
Speaker 2: than me, and they know they know what's best for
Speaker 2: this show more so than myself. So they've yet to
Speaker 2: to give it, uh to give John the opportunity to
Speaker 2: do it that often. But tomorrow he'll be with you
Speaker 2: running the show. We'll probably replace some stuff that will
Speaker 2: get you more and more excited as we get closer
Speaker 2: and closer to uh to football season. Yes, I will
Speaker 2: not be here tomorrow, but I'll be back Wednesday. So
Speaker 2: just a one day break gotta do, gotta get some
Speaker 2: gotta get some medical stuff I gotta I gotta take
Speaker 2: care of. But you know, just a one day absence,
Speaker 2: not one of my uh not one of my week
Speaker 2: long vacations that I I gotta be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I feel like I had more of those than ever.
Speaker 2: Like I was thinking about it the other day, I
Speaker 2: feel like they were very close to each other. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and probably a little more so than more so than
Speaker 2: than I probably should do it. But then again, like
Speaker 2: I like knowing that we're going into and tomorrow is
Speaker 2: like a medical day, so it's not like I'm taking
Speaker 2: a vacation day. But I like knowing that we get
Speaker 2: to August and I you know, I've used all my
Speaker 2: vacation because one time I literally didn't use like six
Speaker 2: seven days and I just you know, I didn't get
Speaker 2: paid for it. I just it was my fault for
Speaker 2: not taking it whenever, you know, I should have. So
Speaker 2: the trip that when the trip that I didn't realize
Speaker 2: was happening that kept me out for three days. The
Speaker 2: trip to Missouri, Arkansas with family, that's the one that
Speaker 2: kind of was in between a week in uh in
Speaker 2: whatever beach we went.
Speaker 3: To what was it?
Speaker 2: Was it Dustin? No, we just went to Destin. The
Speaker 2: other one was clear Water, Yeah, clear Water that area.
Speaker 2: We went to Clearwater that area for a week, and
Speaker 2: then I had three days off for the trip for
Speaker 2: the with the family, and then of course deston a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, so they were pretty close together.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I had a good summer and
Speaker 2: that's why I'm ready for someone to be over so
Speaker 2: we can get to some football. But that'll be here
Speaker 2: before we know. We'll talk some more football. Coming up
Speaker 2: here on the other side, we still got two more
Speaker 2: hours left, so make sure you guys stick around. You know,
Speaker 2: we'll have some fun and uh, you know, you never
Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen.