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Speaker 5: Every Friday, everybody welcome in coffee and company fuel about
Speaker 5: Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's us, meaning
Speaker 5: the name of the show and of course the station.
Speaker 5: My name is Nick Coffee. Nice to meet you, Happy
Speaker 5: to be here. Hopefully you know who I am. If not,
Speaker 5: I hope to make a very good impression over these
Speaker 5: next three hours. I know you know, the one and
Speaker 5: only Austin Montgomery.
Speaker 2: He's here.
Speaker 5: How's the Christmas? How's the Christmas spirit feeling? Give me
Speaker 5: a Are the vibes getting better as we get closer?
Speaker 2: I have a mouthful of Cheetos right now, but oh
Speaker 2: that's yeah, that's just tell you how the vibes are going.
Speaker 5: Actually, I was at targeto last for the show, to
Speaker 5: just shove Cheetos down your throat as we get the
Speaker 5: show started.
Speaker 2: But hey, oh yeah, that's three seconds to go until
Speaker 2: we open.
Speaker 5: You're just trying to beat the buzzer. It happens. It's
Speaker 5: quite a rush. It's a competition for you. In fact,
Speaker 5: I usually I don't throw to you fifteen seconds in,
Speaker 5: but outs, I mean the Cheetos.
Speaker 3: Is that mean?
Speaker 5: I think we eat a lot of junk food during
Speaker 5: the holidays, right, So I guess God sign for the
Speaker 5: Christmas vibes.
Speaker 2: Right and the and the I don't know if you've noticed.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've really been out, but the
Speaker 2: traffic is ramped up everywhere. Target is a mess. Walmart
Speaker 2: is a mess. I was out at a Tony and
Speaker 2: d White show earlier today at the Oxmoor Mall. Complete mess.
Speaker 2: But I love it. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: It's trashy, it's it's crowded, you're running into everybody.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: That's Christmas to me, baby.
Speaker 5: The full places like the mall, I mean, that gives
Speaker 5: me the vibe of Christmas.
Speaker 3: The full.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Walmart and Target and that whatnot? That just
Speaker 5: gives me anxiety and stress. But I've been I'm really
Speaker 5: looking forward like this. This is rare that it happens,
Speaker 5: but sometimes Austin, when the show starts, you know, this
Speaker 5: is my job, this is what I do for a living.
Speaker 5: It's something I take very serious and I'm very fortunate.
Speaker 5: But sometimes when the workship starts from three to six,
Speaker 5: it's actually time for me to kind of unwind and
Speaker 5: just you know, have some fun and relax. I mean again,
Speaker 5: we're gonna have some fun today and we are gonna
Speaker 5: be relaxed and smooth. But you know, I don't want
Speaker 5: to act like we're not ready and prepared to start
Speaker 5: a show.
Speaker 3: But I've been.
Speaker 5: I've been very busy today and it's not been as
Speaker 5: much running around, although I did had my normal morning
Speaker 5: taking the kids to daycare into school, and then I
Speaker 5: had to I had to go and get some stuff,
Speaker 5: but it was early, so it wasn't like I was
Speaker 5: running into it.
Speaker 2: No disrespect today at any stores when you're trying to
Speaker 2: return something.
Speaker 3: No disrespect.
Speaker 5: But I've been I've been basically working for my wife
Speaker 5: today and she took the day off work because we
Speaker 5: are hosting our Tonight's actually my first Christmas event, and Okay,
Speaker 5: so maybe it's because I set it up this way
Speaker 5: to where I'm like, man, man, I just hate how
Speaker 5: fast the holiday season's going. We got screwed this year
Speaker 5: with five fewer days to celebrate the Christmas season. But
Speaker 5: maybe because I've been kind of stressing about that, like
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like Christmas is tomorrow and it's not.
Speaker 5: We still got like five days and we have our
Speaker 5: first events and I we host my wife's side of
Speaker 5: the family for Christmas every year, and we love doing it.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a whole lot of fun. Uh and
Speaker 5: and I'm looking forward to having my in laws over.
Speaker 5: The halls will be here, the Logs, Dens and of
Speaker 5: course you know my family, and we'll have a great time.
Speaker 5: It's one of my favorite Christmas events that we do.
Speaker 2: But when we host Christmas with the coffees.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, there's we're the coffees we're hosting. But yes, sir,
Speaker 5: I guess you're right. Technically we're all family but different
Speaker 5: last names. So when they're coming here, they're they're they're
Speaker 5: heading to the coffees to celebrate Christmas, so it all
Speaker 5: it all checks out. But when you host, you know,
Speaker 5: you want to make sure that your home is is well,
Speaker 5: it is in good shape, it's clean.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: And and my wife, Uh, these are people that she's
Speaker 5: known her whole life. Like they've seen our home when
Speaker 5: it's not super clean. They've seen, you know, like if
Speaker 5: you're if you're worried about somebody seeing maybe your house
Speaker 5: not super clean, wouldn't you think that the least people
Speaker 5: you'd be worried about are those that you know, you've
Speaker 5: known your whole life. Yeah, that like you are probably
Speaker 5: not going to judge you. It's one thing if it's
Speaker 5: like a holiday party for friends and acquaintances or something
Speaker 5: like that. But you know, she's been running around getting
Speaker 5: the house in order. I've been done a whole lot
Speaker 5: of work, but I've just been kind of you know,
Speaker 5: like when she's in her mode to clean, and you know,
Speaker 5: and if you're and maybe you'll learn this, maybe you
Speaker 5: already learn maybe you've alreadylearned it because you know you
Speaker 5: are engaged, going to be married soon. Yes, it's right
Speaker 5: you and your significant other live together. But like I'll
Speaker 5: I'll straighten up and I'll I mean to me, it's cleaning, like.
Speaker 3: If I do the dishes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I full the laundry, if I you know,
Speaker 5: clean up the kids room, which is really a war zone.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's probably one of the worst rooms, right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5: And you know there's so many little parts to all
Speaker 5: their toys that's so hard to put away, Like you know,
Speaker 5: I'll do that every now and then, probably like once
Speaker 5: a week during the week to where she comes home
Speaker 5: and I'm in front of the microphone at five thirty
Speaker 5: and she's walking in the door and she just sees,
Speaker 5: oh wow, he straightened up, and she has I was
Speaker 5: a little sensitive to her not appreciating that, and she
Speaker 5: heard about it from me. So now you know, if
Speaker 5: I do get the house in order to where she
Speaker 5: walks in and you know, we're in good shape, she
Speaker 5: does thank me.
Speaker 3: And I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: But I don't clean like her, if that makes sense,
Speaker 5: Like she calls it straightening up. So today she's in
Speaker 5: her cleaning mode, meaning we're talking floors getting mop toilet's
Speaker 5: getting cleaned.
Speaker 2: The gloves on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's a it's a real
Speaker 5: it's a real serious thing that she does. And I've
Speaker 5: kind of just like known to stay out of her way.
Speaker 5: So I've been trying to stay out of her way
Speaker 5: today and I've done a pretty good job. But like
Speaker 5: you know, I also work from home every now and then,
Speaker 5: like I am today, and you know, I'm just I've
Speaker 5: I've I'm ready to just be in my dungeon down
Speaker 5: here and and and have some fun until six o'clock
Speaker 5: because you know, she's still running around. I mean, she's
Speaker 5: cooking for everybody, so very much looking forward to tonight.
Speaker 3: But the process that that that leads up to it.
Speaker 5: I mean it's not a whole lot of stress for me,
Speaker 5: but you know it's stress for my wife, and we
Speaker 5: share a life together.
Speaker 3: Therefore her stress is my stress.
Speaker 5: So you know, just trying to give you some advice
Speaker 5: or just say say those kind of things yes to
Speaker 5: your fiance, and I think you'll be in you'll be
Speaker 5: in good shape.
Speaker 2: Well, what's the main dishes tonight? Or is it just
Speaker 2: appetizers or is it going to be.
Speaker 3: Like uh, like I'm embarrassed not to know.
Speaker 2: I know we have you know, so you're gonna be surprised.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of sides as far as like
Speaker 3: what the main thing is.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't I'll probably be able to tell
Speaker 5: you here soon when I smell it.
Speaker 3: I wanted to say.
Speaker 5: Maybe ham or actually, okay, you know now actually maybe
Speaker 5: we're doing are we doing?
Speaker 3: Are we doing pasta? Maybe?
Speaker 5: No? Actually this is not bad. So my my brother
Speaker 5: in law, Nate, great guy, Love you Nate. He's he's
Speaker 5: a big outdoorsman and he's a he's a big hunter
Speaker 5: and he he oftentimes will provide you know, deer steaks
Speaker 5: or deer chili and it's delicious, so it may again
Speaker 5: this is this is where I'm at. I'm never asked
Speaker 5: to provide anything when it comes to food. Therefore, you know,
Speaker 5: I kind of just show up whether it's my home
Speaker 5: or somebody else's home, and when it's time to eat,
Speaker 5: I get in line and I eat.
Speaker 2: That's what I do.
Speaker 3: So but I'm looking forward to it, and it should
Speaker 3: should be a lot of.
Speaker 2: There be a charcooterie board.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I actually no, we'll probably just have like some dip.
Speaker 5: Like oh, wife loves the homemade case, so she has
Speaker 5: to make a big bowl of it.
Speaker 3: We'll all we'll all.
Speaker 5: Double dip and share jerrems because we're all family and
Speaker 5: you know, it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be.
Speaker 2: All cares exactly?
Speaker 3: Who cares? Now? Have you ever?
Speaker 5: I've never once even paid attention if someone was double dipping,
Speaker 5: have you no?
Speaker 2: Because I mean, I do it anyways, and I would
Speaker 2: hate for for someone to monitor the number of dips
Speaker 2: that I've done. So who am I to do it
Speaker 2: to someone else?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Same here?
Speaker 5: And I understand, like technically, if you take a bite
Speaker 5: off of something and then you put it into the dip,
Speaker 5: like you know, the sun Feld double dipper with George Castanz,
Speaker 5: and that's a real thing. Like the guy laid it
Speaker 5: out pretty clearly, like he didn't have to be as
Speaker 5: as hot about it as he was, but what he
Speaker 5: called George out for was a real thing, like it
Speaker 5: is sharing germs. But I've never thought about it, and
Speaker 5: I you know, I try not to do it. But
Speaker 5: I also know that there's never been someone that has really,
Speaker 5: you know, gotten sick and they tie it back to, oh,
Speaker 5: must have been double dipping. I mean, I guess it's possible,
Speaker 5: but you know, I'm not. I'm not that worried about it.
Speaker 2: When you're hosting people over anyways, I mean, are already
Speaker 2: kind of sharing the same uh, Chamber of Germs in
Speaker 2: the first place, so might as well just go all.
Speaker 3: In on it, exactly exactly now.
Speaker 5: Uh rarely do we start with with a a sports
Speaker 5: topic that is volleyball, but we have to.
Speaker 2: We have.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, last night, you know, I was out and
Speaker 5: about with the family. I wasn't there, but you know,
Speaker 5: it was one of those things when you're playing in
Speaker 5: a final four with a chance to go to a
Speaker 5: national championship really in any sport, and at U of L,
Speaker 5: I mean it is, it's a it's a big deal
Speaker 5: and you can just kind of feel like. We went
Speaker 5: to Chewi's for dinner and then we ended up going
Speaker 5: to put Shack because we had such a good experience
Speaker 5: in Nashville. I wanted to show my wife and you know,
Speaker 5: wanted to maybe make some contexts, maybe meet the market maybe, yeah,
Speaker 5: marketing folks out there, you know how that goes.
Speaker 2: Of course, yes, that put Shack here is so cool.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 5: So we were there and you know, I had the
Speaker 5: I had the game on initially on my phone at
Speaker 5: dinner and then we go to put Shack.
Speaker 3: That got on all got on all the TVs and
Speaker 3: you know, we're not a.
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess I shouldn't say this without knowing
Speaker 5: we're not like a volleyball city. I mean, actually we
Speaker 5: are as far as like hell we are, well, we
Speaker 5: produce a lot of players. But like I mean, this
Speaker 5: is this is where I gotta be careful and I
Speaker 5: got to be very you know, mindful of what I say,
Speaker 5: because when I tell you that, like volleyball is not
Speaker 5: a needle mover as far as college volleyball on a
Speaker 5: sports talk show, like people will take offense to that.
Speaker 3: It's just the truth.
Speaker 5: I don't mean any issue. I'm not disrespecting it.
Speaker 3: It's just the truth.
Speaker 5: So what I was going to say is that women's
Speaker 5: volleyball has become a big deal around here when it
Speaker 5: comes to UL because they're phenomenal. Danny Bus from Kelly
Speaker 5: has been great. I mean she's there now literally with one,
Speaker 5: you know, one win away. But for a while there
Speaker 5: women's basketball and baseball and they're not there right now,
Speaker 5: but there was a run where at any moment, if
Speaker 5: you actually break through and win the national championship, nobody's
Speaker 5: going to be surprised because you've been right there flirting
Speaker 5: with it for a while. Danny Bus from Kelly's been
Speaker 5: doing it for a while now and again she's one
Speaker 5: went away. So you know, when that kind of stuff happens,
Speaker 5: there's clearly a lot of interest and it's become a
Speaker 5: bigger deal in this market with with with folks who
Speaker 5: probably have no connection to volleyball. They didn't play growing up,
Speaker 5: they didn't have a a sister who played, but you know,
Speaker 5: they hear Louisville's good, they support Louisville, they turn it on,
Speaker 5: they go to a game, and they're like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 5: this is awesome.
Speaker 3: That's kind of me. So to see people who are probably.
Speaker 5: Louisville fans, but you know, maybe you know, probably not
Speaker 5: big volleyball fans. Maybe some of them are, but they
Speaker 5: just know Louisville's about to potentially break through and get
Speaker 5: to a national championship match. Last night, which is what
Speaker 5: they did. They knocked off Pittsburgh, which was phenomenal. And
Speaker 5: to see like that many people like celebrating it, knowing
Speaker 5: that the majority of them are probably not super locked
Speaker 5: in and watching every single match and can't probably name
Speaker 5: the roster like that's just it was a good feeling
Speaker 5: to be among Louisville fans and kind of know that,
Speaker 5: like they're all probably like me. And the reason I'm
Speaker 5: bringing up this way is one because it's awesome and
Speaker 5: what Denny buspom Kelly has done has been phenomenal. And
Speaker 5: I've said it many times when it comes to college volleyball,
Speaker 5: it is a great television product and it's growing. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't be shocked if it continues to grow at a
Speaker 5: rapid rate to where it ends up becoming outside of
Speaker 5: men's basketball, outside of foot college football, men's basketball, women's basketball.
Speaker 5: I think you could make the case that maybe women's
Speaker 5: volleyball becomes that fourth most watch sport among college athletics.
Speaker 5: Baseball gets there and it's actually pretty good when you
Speaker 5: get to the postseason, but other than that, it's just
Speaker 5: there's so many games.
Speaker 3: Some of them are during the day, Like.
Speaker 5: It's just not as the way the season sets up,
Speaker 5: it's not a big TV thing, and again until you
Speaker 5: get to the postseason. So one thing I've always struggled
Speaker 5: with that I kind of found my footing when it
Speaker 5: comes to how I want to lay it out there
Speaker 5: for you, because I don't watch Louisville volleyball a whole lot,
Speaker 5: but I do every now and then and I want
Speaker 5: them to win. I don't watch a whole lot of baseball,
Speaker 5: but when things are going well and you get closer
Speaker 5: to the postseason, I want to watch it, and I'm
Speaker 5: always wanting them to win. But you know, I'm not
Speaker 5: there in February when the season starts for baseball and
Speaker 5: it's twenty degrees outside, and again, I've only been to
Speaker 5: a couple of volleyball matches ever enjoyed it, But like
Speaker 5: I used to hesitate to even really want to go
Speaker 5: there and discuss it on the show because I was
Speaker 5: you know, I just didn't. I didn't want to hear
Speaker 5: the energy from those that are like, well, oh now
Speaker 5: you talk about it once, they're good?
Speaker 3: Where you know? Where were you? Oh now?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, now you just and it used to really
Speaker 5: irritate me to where I would just kind of avoid it.
Speaker 3: And I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I do understand why people have that mindset, But do
Speaker 5: you want it to grow or not? Meaning like, do
Speaker 5: you like, yeah, I get it, You probably think like, hey,
Speaker 5: why is it Nick or other sports talk shows in
Speaker 5: this market, why are they not talking more about this
Speaker 5: volleyball team?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: They're good?
Speaker 5: And I hear you but you know there's a reason
Speaker 5: for that, trust me, Like there's a reason and I
Speaker 5: don't even need to get into it, but like it's
Speaker 5: just not something that would be a you know, you
Speaker 5: can mention it here and there, but like we can't
Speaker 5: focus a ton of time on it. And we could,
Speaker 5: but like, I mean, that's not what my bosses would
Speaker 5: want me to talk about.
Speaker 3: That's just how it is.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: If we have a direct affiliation with you of L
Speaker 5: and they're a partner, totally different ballgame because at that
Speaker 5: point you work with your partners together.
Speaker 3: We're not that.
Speaker 5: So it used to really me like I would love
Speaker 5: to at least bring up that I watched and I
Speaker 5: enjoyed it, but I don't want to be bombarded by
Speaker 5: people who, you know, call me a poser.
Speaker 3: Oh you're not a real fan.
Speaker 5: You only you only talk about it or even acknowledge
Speaker 5: it when they're good and it's it's you know, I
Speaker 5: guess technically that is the case. It comes up more
Speaker 5: so whenever you're in this moment. But like, do you
Speaker 5: want it to grow or not? Because are you a
Speaker 5: gatekeeper to where like if people don't do it every
Speaker 5: day like you do, they can't support, Like I'm making
Speaker 5: sense here. It's almost lost in like people who love
Speaker 5: a band or an artist, but man, it really goes
Speaker 5: south for them when they get big and famous.
Speaker 2: Oh you mentioned a gatekeeping gatekeeping for volleyball. Volleyball is
Speaker 2: crazy because you just got to understand. As much as
Speaker 2: we'll love and support the Cards in this sort of market,
Speaker 2: it's always going to always fly under the radar no
Speaker 2: matter what. And and they're a really really good team, even.
Speaker 5: The support they're getting now, which is great, and it's
Speaker 5: going to be in the headlines, like obviously it's it's
Speaker 5: probably one of the most talked about things right now
Speaker 5: in local news, regardless of the platform television, radio, whatever,
Speaker 5: print web, because of course it's a big deal. So
Speaker 5: like this is just kind of how it works. But
Speaker 5: you know, it's a niche thing. And here's something that
Speaker 5: a lot of people I think don't want to hear.
Speaker 3: But it's just the truth.
Speaker 5: Like you of l like the deep dive stuff, that's
Speaker 5: a niche thing. Like there are people who listen to
Speaker 5: this show or shows like this that if I get
Speaker 5: into the weeds on recruiting and the portal and you know,
Speaker 5: just into the weeds like you know, hard hitting stuff,
Speaker 5: like there are a lot of people and there's nothing
Speaker 5: wrong with this, but like they check out, they tune
Speaker 5: out because they're just not really interested in that to
Speaker 5: that level. So like that's one of the things that
Speaker 5: I now have done this long enough to understand how
Speaker 5: that works. And I'm no longer, I guess sensitive to
Speaker 5: people who say that my show sucks because I didn't
Speaker 5: talk about the tennis team winning last night, and I'm
Speaker 5: supposed to be a Louisville guy. Like that's something that
Speaker 5: used to bother me. Now I'm pretty content. But you know,
Speaker 5: we're gonna talk about it today.
Speaker 3: We already have.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure much more how much more I'm gonna
Speaker 5: add to it, but we'll let you hear some sound
Speaker 5: from Danny Buspim Kelly, as well as Pat Kelsey, who,
Speaker 5: of course this morning at his press conference was really
Speaker 5: gassing up the volleyball squad and and and Danny.
Speaker 3: Which was obviously what you want you want to see.
Speaker 5: And it's just I guess this is me circling around
Speaker 5: to kind of land the plane here on this whole,
Speaker 5: this whole discussion, it's very much natural for people to
Speaker 5: not follow certain sports as much as others outside of
Speaker 5: maybe the high you know, the ones that you know
Speaker 5: that dominate viewership when it comes to college sports, men's
Speaker 5: football or football, I should say, and then men's basketball.
Speaker 5: But like, there's good vibes right now with Louisville Louisville fans,
Speaker 5: and it's because of this volleyball team. And I'm damned
Speaker 5: if I'm just going to ignore it because I was
Speaker 5: worried about people calling in or texting in or just
Speaker 5: being idiots on the internet saying, oh, this guy is
Speaker 5: a fraud. He didn't even know Louisville volleyball had a team. Well,
Speaker 5: I do, and and they've been in knowledge for sure.
Speaker 5: But like, I got a job to do, and and
Speaker 5: you know this is not your job. You don't have
Speaker 5: experience in this in this world. So you know, well, if.
Speaker 2: These guys want to take then how about this. Usually,
Speaker 2: Danny busmoon Ca, I mean usually we hold in high
Speaker 2: regards the the Louisville coaches are always in the two
Speaker 2: biggest of drawing sports here locally, which has always been
Speaker 2: regarded as football and basketball. So whoever is a football coach,
Speaker 2: whoever is a basketball coach, as will alternate as who's
Speaker 2: possibly the most important, you know, coach in U of
Speaker 2: L Sports right now. And then you have the second tier,
Speaker 2: which always falls in either like Dan McDonald or Jeff Waltz.
Speaker 2: And then now I think you have Danny Busman Kelly
Speaker 2: that jumped both of those people and maybe possibly talking
Speaker 2: about the most important figure in U of L Sports
Speaker 2: right now, maybe if it wasn't for the hire of
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey and Jeff Bram and I think that they're
Speaker 2: gonna alternate back and forth. But you have those two,
Speaker 2: and then you have her, who's obviously going to a
Speaker 2: national champion this is their second one, right didn't they
Speaker 2: go to national championship a couple of years ago?
Speaker 5: Ell short in the championship game? I believe it was
Speaker 5: to Texas, right yep. And here they are back again
Speaker 5: and again that's why I mentioned like she's been sort
Speaker 5: of in this range and they just got past the
Speaker 5: team that, like everybody said that, you know, nobody could
Speaker 5: be I mean here and this is where I just
Speaker 5: need to just just chill out. Maybe Papa Gummy. I
Speaker 5: don't know if I should do that before the show,
Speaker 5: But like when I said that, people have been saying
Speaker 5: that Pittsburgh is a team that nobody can be like,
Speaker 5: I'm not really sure if anybody has said that exactly. However,
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh had Louis's number all year. They were the number
Speaker 5: one team in the country the majority of the season.
Speaker 5: So like I'm overthinking, like, am I gonna sound like
Speaker 5: I'm a fraud? And don't you know, am I just
Speaker 5: making stuff up? Am I fake taking it? As they say?
Speaker 5: But clearly Pittsburgh really good and they showed that all
Speaker 5: year and even last night. I mean that was what
Speaker 5: may last night so awesome is that it just kind
Speaker 5: of looked like, man, the season's going to come to
Speaker 5: an end because this pit team, who you've already had
Speaker 5: some struggles with, they're just that good and there's not
Speaker 5: a whole lot you can do. And then man, the
Speaker 5: way they turned it on and that second said it
Speaker 5: was it was phenomenal. And you know, this Pittsburgh team,
Speaker 5: I don't know if they were like the odds on
Speaker 5: favorite to win it. But again, we're talking about the
Speaker 5: number one overall seed and Louisville got past them. Doesn't
Speaker 5: mean it's going to be super easy in the next game,
Speaker 5: of course, that will be the deciding you know, when
Speaker 5: you decide who's the national champion. But it's been awesome.
Speaker 5: And one thing I like about Danny buspom Kelly is that,
Speaker 5: you know, she's she's been able to do this without
Speaker 5: really being a showman show woman, if that makes sense.
Speaker 5: And there's a lot of people that like have like
Speaker 5: they have to do that, like they understand, like if
Speaker 5: I want to bring in those who don't typically follow
Speaker 5: and consume our product, which is our women, which is
Speaker 5: my my volleyball program, like I need to be doing
Speaker 5: Like there's a reason Dan Dan McDonald's phenomenal when it
Speaker 5: comes to that kind of stuff because he understands that, like,
Speaker 5: you know, the more I'm out in front showcasing what
Speaker 5: our program is, what I'm all about, I'm the face
Speaker 5: of the program, obviously that's gonna get people more interested.
Speaker 5: And Dan's done that for many, many, many years and
Speaker 5: it worked. The success helped obviously as to why people
Speaker 5: became a bigger, bigger fans and were more into it.
Speaker 5: But she's kind of you know, and she's done interviews
Speaker 5: and trust me, she's been she's been visible. I don't
Speaker 5: want to act like she's just but to me, she's
Speaker 5: I feel like if and I honestly this is gonna
Speaker 5: be this is gonna make me sound Austin like the
Speaker 5: ultimate Homer here, and you know, I guess I am
Speaker 5: in the eyes of some Simpson but no, uh, Cardboy,
Speaker 5: that's what you can Oh that's right. I read it
Speaker 5: twice like the show years ago, UK fan called me Cardboy,
Speaker 5: and then I just realized I should.
Speaker 2: Have just I missed a Carboy moniker because then.
Speaker 3: Other people used to say it.
Speaker 5: But Cardboy is about to come out and full force
Speaker 5: her because I actually feel like when it comes to
Speaker 5: these three coaches, and these three coaches have been here,
Speaker 5: not that long, not as long as others, but I
Speaker 5: think Pat Kelsey because this is what I was gonna
Speaker 5: say about Danny. I feel like what you see from
Speaker 5: her on the sideline, what you see from her in
Speaker 5: interviews after a game, what you see from her at
Speaker 5: press conferences is what you would see if you just
Speaker 5: ran into her and you didn't know who she was,
Speaker 5: if that makes sense, Like if you knew who she
Speaker 5: was and you were gassing her up, like oh, I'm
Speaker 5: such a fan, then you know she'd be not But
Speaker 5: I just think I think Pat Kelsey Jeff Brawm and
Speaker 5: Danny bust from Kelly kind of all share that same quality,
Speaker 5: because I think it's a quality that you're you're very
Speaker 5: much what you see is what you get. There's not
Speaker 5: a whole lot of like I'm gonna go to this
Speaker 5: press conference and try to really you know, send a message.
Speaker 5: I'm they're just gonna be honest and straightforward. So you know,
Speaker 5: she's she's she's amazing, and we're lucky to have her.
Speaker 5: And you know, hopefully she's here for a really, really
Speaker 5: long time, and I have no reason to think that
Speaker 5: she won't be. But obviously, for those who who follow
Speaker 5: volleyball a little closer than us, she does have a
Speaker 5: stipulation in their contract, which is that you know, she
Speaker 5: hasn't out to go to Nebraska if that job ever opens,
Speaker 5: because that's her alma mater. That's where I think she
Speaker 5: coached before as well. So I don't even know their situation,
Speaker 5: but hopefully they never make a coaching change. And and
Speaker 5: but you know what, maybe this is where again, man,
Speaker 5: the card boy levels are peaking right now. They're they're
Speaker 5: they're hitting there, they're elevating right now.
Speaker 2: Because I love to see it.
Speaker 5: Maybe if she keeps winning, and maybe if she wins
Speaker 5: a national championship here, soon it'll get to the point
Speaker 5: where she's Denny and she's like, yeah, I know UCLA
Speaker 5: is gonna call, but I'm good. I think I'm good.
Speaker 5: This is now home. I've built it up to where
Speaker 5: I can do anything I want here. We're winning titles.
Speaker 5: Appreciate the uh the call to come back home, but
Speaker 5: but I'm good. I got chills right now. Man, I'm
Speaker 5: cardboy out. Oh yeah, I'm ready to roll.
Speaker 2: But but if something happens and she leaves, we better
Speaker 2: not try to try to cover it too much because
Speaker 2: we don't care about volleyball, remember only when it matters
Speaker 2: to us.
Speaker 3: And I don't even plan to go there today.
Speaker 5: But I was thinking about it quite a bit because
Speaker 5: I just, you know, I shouldn't give a damn what
Speaker 5: any people think about me supporting UFL volleyball. But it
Speaker 5: used to be a real thorn in my side because
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, like, well, do you want it to grow
Speaker 5: or not? You complain all the time, and then when
Speaker 5: I can't win with people, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But you know I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't hear any of it last night when I
Speaker 5: was tweeting about it. And you know, I'm sure I
Speaker 5: may hear some from people, and that's okay. I'm content.
Speaker 5: I'm content with myself. All right, we got a roll,
Speaker 5: but don't go anywhere. We'll take a quick break, we'll
Speaker 5: come back. Keep this thing rolling along. It's Friday, we're
Speaker 5: feeling good. The vibes are very strong, and hopefully that
Speaker 5: stays the same way until we get out of here
Speaker 5: a little later on.
Speaker 3: So stick around.
Speaker 5: It's Coffee and Company Field about Thornton's right here on
Speaker 5: Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 5: LENFCU dot com. All right, so I mentioned my wife
Speaker 5: getting the house in order today because we're hosting a
Speaker 5: Christmas gathering tonight with her side of the family really
Speaker 5: looking forward to it. And I didn't expect this text
Speaker 5: to come in, but I like it just because I'm
Speaker 5: a little curious myself, and I did a little googling
Speaker 5: to kind of give you a better answer. But this
Speaker 5: text is nick, help me out here. You're a married
Speaker 5: man like myself. I referred to my wife as a
Speaker 5: trophy wife the other day and she hit me upside
Speaker 5: the head. Help me settle this. Is that an insult?
Speaker 5: Or is that a compliment? Well, I would have said
Speaker 5: before looking in, you know, looking up the actual dictionary
Speaker 5: of what a trophy wife is, I would have just
Speaker 5: and I was wrong, because I'll actually let me read
Speaker 5: it says a trophy wife is a wife who is
Speaker 5: seen as a status symbol for her husband, often in
Speaker 5: a derogatory way. I would have not known that it
Speaker 5: was derogatory. I thought it meant like she's great, she makes.
Speaker 3: You look good, she's a trophy.
Speaker 5: I guess it can mean like she's your possession, like
Speaker 5: you want her, and like you look at her more
Speaker 5: as an item than a human being. I don't know,
Speaker 5: so I will tell you this. I think me and
Speaker 5: you were probably on the same page there, because I
Speaker 5: would have thought it meant, if anything, a compliment and
Speaker 5: not like an insult. But why she took it that way,
Speaker 5: I'm not really sure. Like I don't know you obviously,
Speaker 5: but I would say that you know, without knowing you,
Speaker 5: that you probably meant it in an a good way, and
Speaker 5: clearly you did or you wouldn't have asked. So, I mean,
Speaker 5: I've never once thought about that being like an insult.
Speaker 5: I've never once referred to my wife as a trophy wife.
Speaker 5: Should I Should I do it later and like test
Speaker 5: it out and see if like she hits me or
Speaker 5: if she's like, oh, thank you, honey. I mean, when
Speaker 5: you hear somebody say that somebody's a trophy wife, I
Speaker 5: feel like it has always I mean, again, maybe I'm
Speaker 5: not the best person to ask, because you know I
Speaker 5: would have been wrong. It also says here that are
Speaker 5: multiple There are multiple matches for trophy wife, including a
Speaker 5: term for a wife who is the status symbol and
Speaker 5: a TV show and movie. I don't oh, I guess yeah.
Speaker 5: There's a movie called trophy Wife that came out in
Speaker 5: twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: So would I would do if I was you?
Speaker 5: Just tell her that, hey, and I'm sure you probably
Speaker 5: already have told her that you didn't mean it as
Speaker 5: an insult, and I guess she clearly wasn't happy with that,
Speaker 5: or maybe she's forgiven you. But either way, if it
Speaker 5: comes up again with you and your wife, just tell
Speaker 5: her that you meant it the same way that I
Speaker 5: would have meant it, and that Nick says that I
Speaker 5: should apologize and it won't be something I use anymore.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's probably probably your best bet right now.
Speaker 5: All right, Louisville Football has added a couple more in
Speaker 5: the transfer portal, and I wouldn't be shocked if there's
Speaker 5: more and more of those that get added in the
Speaker 5: coming days. And when I say it's been difficult to
Speaker 5: keep up with, I don't mean that like it's impossible.
Speaker 5: It's just like you know, this happened. Let's see, this
Speaker 5: was thirty minutes ago. Roughly that two more have come
Speaker 5: in as far as commitments, one of them actually as
Speaker 5: a Louisville native, and I'm hopefully gonna say his name correctly,
Speaker 5: Carter Guliam Gulami. I think it's Ghulami. I believe it's
Speaker 5: how you say that, But he's an offensive lineman. Was
Speaker 5: a freshman All American at Southeast Missouri State, started eleven
Speaker 5: games at left guard. They went to the FCS. I
Speaker 5: think they went to the FCS playoffs. Maybe I have
Speaker 5: that wrong, but he was named to the All FCS
Speaker 5: Football All American Team. So clearly a guy who out
Speaker 5: of Louisville played his played as high school ball at
Speaker 5: Saint X.
Speaker 3: Was a two time All State guy.
Speaker 5: Clearly didn't get recruited by the big programs, at least
Speaker 5: I wouldn't imagine because he ended up at Southeast Missouri State.
Speaker 3: It's a good example of the portal.
Speaker 5: This is a guy who probably didn't get the love
Speaker 5: he deserved on the recruiting trail, goes to Southeast Missouri State,
Speaker 5: plays really well, and now he's playing for his hometown team,
Speaker 5: the louis of Cardinals. So obviously Jeff Brom, I would imagine,
Speaker 5: has some connections and I'm sure he knows people that
Speaker 5: coached this young man for quite a while. So again
Speaker 5: I trust Jeff when it comes to these kind of things.
Speaker 5: And then another addition is a safety Rodney Johnson who
Speaker 5: is joining the program after playing for Where did he play?
Speaker 5: I know he played in the Swack as far as uh,
Speaker 5: you know that's the conference he played in, because you know,
Speaker 5: I can see that that's on his resume here that
Speaker 5: he was was he was in.
Speaker 3: The Swack title game.
Speaker 5: But yeah, he is a sick Let's see, he's a
Speaker 5: six six, two hundred pounds safety. Played in all twelve games.
Speaker 5: Uh and uh, you know gives you gives you some
Speaker 5: more added depth on the in the secondary. All right, Uh,
Speaker 5: Kentucky real quick, I'll mention them as well, because you know,
Speaker 5: I this is one of those uh this, this is
Speaker 5: one of those additions that you make that that does
Speaker 5: obviously gets you excited and you feel like it's a
Speaker 5: good get because you know you added somebody from a
Speaker 5: big time program. So Alabama receiver Kendrick Law committed to
Speaker 5: Kentucky earlier today. And what I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 5: he clearly if he ends up at Alabama playing receiver,
Speaker 5: then he's probably a pretty good player. He was in
Speaker 5: the twenty twenty two class and yes, a four star recruit.
Speaker 5: And what I'm trying to see is how many how
Speaker 5: much production he had Yeah, it looks like he played
Speaker 5: in thirty plus games over his three years there, thirty
Speaker 5: three receptions, three hundred and thirty four yards in one touchdown.
Speaker 5: So what you would hope for if you're Kentucky here
Speaker 5: is that this is a guy that is really good
Speaker 5: and can help you right away. He's just behind a
Speaker 5: lot of talented receivers at Alabama because you know, that's
Speaker 5: a program that for a while has pretty much gotten
Speaker 5: whoever they wanted, especially during the Nick Saban air. So
Speaker 5: Louisville earned firsthand guys who may have a tough time
Speaker 5: getting a ton of reps at Alabama, they fit in
Speaker 5: just nicely at programs like Louisville and probably Kentucky as well.
Speaker 5: Jacory Brooks was sensational this year, and a little different
Speaker 5: with Jacory. Jacorey was somebody that at one point was
Speaker 5: Alabama's top receiver and was really good catching touchdown passes
Speaker 5: from Bryce Young, really really successful at Alabama until he
Speaker 5: got hurt and then he fell behind. And it's just
Speaker 5: at Alabama. If you've got somebody that's able to step
Speaker 5: in because you're injured, the guy stepping in is probably
Speaker 5: really good because you know he's at Alabama, So with that,
Speaker 5: it's kind of hard to get back in them when
Speaker 5: you come off of injury. So Mark Stoops is certainly
Speaker 5: gonna have a lot. And I did make fun of
Speaker 5: them last time around when this came up because it
Speaker 5: was kind of hilarious to hear the way in which
Speaker 5: they were just trying. And I don't blame fans for
Speaker 5: trying to find the positive and trying to see the
Speaker 5: glass half full, because you don't want to be miserable.
Speaker 5: But to see somebody put it out there as a
Speaker 5: positive for Kentucky football that.
Speaker 3: All these really good players.
Speaker 5: Leaving that are gonna be wanted by other big time schools,
Speaker 5: like to spend that as a good thing because there's
Speaker 5: gonna be more nil money to use because they're leaving,
Speaker 5: Like that's that's rich. But it also is kind of true,
Speaker 5: meaning that like with Dion Walker, Dane Key, Barry and Brown,
Speaker 5: all those guys leaving, you know that money. And again
Speaker 5: maybe maybe the pool of money's not the same, because
Speaker 5: I could imagine the ponying up for Stoops is probably
Speaker 5: not going to be at the same level. I mean,
Speaker 5: he claimed it's it's better than it's ever been. I
Speaker 5: think he said that right before the Louisville Kentucky game.
Speaker 5: But I can also see in Il dropping because you know,
Speaker 5: you just went four and eight and you didn't. You know,
Speaker 5: he's not out there really trying to win the fan
Speaker 5: base back. I mean, he kind of like, hey, I
Speaker 5: know some of you don't want me here, but too bad,
Speaker 5: I'm not going anywhere Like that. That was not a
Speaker 5: positive message, I don't think. I mean, I'm sure he's
Speaker 5: frustrated that they're frustrated. But anyways, there's gonna be money available,
Speaker 5: and I'm sure some of that money was used to
Speaker 5: get Kendrick Law because this is a guy who you
Speaker 5: know when you hit the portal from Bama. Let me
Speaker 5: ask you this, Austin. Let me get your thoughts on this.
Speaker 5: Give me give me four to five schools that most
Speaker 5: coaches and I shouldn't say most, but like, if if
Speaker 5: a guy hits the portal from these four to five schools,
Speaker 5: there won't be as much attention on their production at
Speaker 5: that school because you're just gonna think, like, damn.
Speaker 3: If they played there, oh ye were recruited.
Speaker 5: We'll, you know, we'll we'll lightly look over the film,
Speaker 5: but we'll we'll we are willing to talk business and
Speaker 5: play a little ball here because if you if you
Speaker 5: were good enough to play there in a little bit,
Speaker 5: you're probably gonna play your Bama is certainly one of
Speaker 5: those programs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna think anybody, Yeah, I think any Most
Speaker 2: of them top heavy in the SEC, like Georgia, especially Florida.
Speaker 2: Florida just breeds athletes, maybe like Florida State. I don't
Speaker 2: know if i'd throw Clemson up there. I mean Clemson is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clemson.
Speaker 5: I feel like if you're leaving Clemson, you may have talent,
Speaker 5: but like you, you may also just not have been
Speaker 5: able to fit in with debos culture.
Speaker 2: Miami maybe, yeah, But I feel.
Speaker 5: Like Miami and Florida are two places that lately there
Speaker 5: are guys who have left there and been a lot
Speaker 5: better elsewhere, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like, but Bama and Georgia.
Speaker 4: And I would say Ohio State, but yes, Like those
Speaker 4: are schools that I've actually seen some dudes transfer out
Speaker 4: that you just assume they're gonna be really good because
Speaker 4: you know they played at this school.
Speaker 2: And USC too, probably.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. What you really don't know is.
Speaker 5: And there's only one way to find out, you got
Speaker 5: to take the can bring him in, and maybe it
Speaker 5: doesn't look like a big risk because you know you're
Speaker 5: bringing in somebody from Bama, Georgia, Ohio, State, Texas, whatever.
Speaker 5: But like, but to Corey Brooks, he was somebody that again,
Speaker 5: his case was different. He played and showed he could
Speaker 5: be good at Alabama. Therefore it was no surprise that
Speaker 5: everybody wanted him in the portal. And I'm really glad
Speaker 5: Jef Broum got him. Brock Vandergriff he never really got
Speaker 5: the chance to play at Georgia because there were really
Speaker 5: good quarterbacks in front of him. So your risk is, Okay,
Speaker 5: I believe he's really good. He just couldn't get on
Speaker 5: the field because you know he's at Georgia. But then
Speaker 5: you bring him in and you're like, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 5: sure he would have ever played at Georgia because he's
Speaker 5: not that good and he's now quit football.
Speaker 3: So there is a risk there.
Speaker 5: But look, programs that don't usually get the kind of
Speaker 5: players that these programs are loaded with, they're willing to
Speaker 5: take that risk, especially if it's not like if it's
Speaker 5: your quarterback, it's a way bigger risk. But if it's
Speaker 5: just one of many o linemen, one of many defensive linemen,
Speaker 5: in one.
Speaker 3: Of your receivers.
Speaker 5: You know you can take that risk and it not
Speaker 5: really work out, and then you know it's not, doesn't it.
Speaker 5: You know, the only way it could really be a burn,
Speaker 5: The only way it could really burn you, unless, of course,
Speaker 5: since your quarterback, because again, there's only one of those
Speaker 5: that should play. For the most part is if like
Speaker 5: you end up spending a ton of your Nile money
Speaker 5: and it you know, it's a disaster. Let me give
Speaker 5: you an example, Keyante Goodwin. I know Kentucky fans will
Speaker 5: remember that name. I know Louisville fans will remember that name,
Speaker 5: at least some of them. I don't know if Austin's familiar,
Speaker 5: but he's a young man who was a behemoth of
Speaker 5: a of a middle school guy. I mean, he was
Speaker 5: looked like a guy who could be playing college football
Speaker 5: on the line when he was in like seventh grade.
Speaker 5: But he really didn't have any I mean, he was
Speaker 5: just raw. And he ended up being an offensive lineman
Speaker 5: in high school, and he played at Holy Cross, he
Speaker 5: played at Ballard, he ended up finishing his career at Charlestown,
Speaker 5: high school. I think he also played it to sales,
Speaker 5: but he was a five star recruit. They ended up
Speaker 5: picking Kentucky over Texas A and M. And you know,
Speaker 5: anybody who talked about this young man would say, you know,
Speaker 5: he's got a ton of potential. But you know, months
Speaker 5: would pass and like they would still say potential, Like
Speaker 5: he was so raw, Like there was never like he
Speaker 5: played at Charlestown High School in southern Indiana and never
Speaker 5: really like dominated. But everybody in the country wanted him
Speaker 5: because he's a monster, and they just feel like, hey,
Speaker 5: he's got athleticism.
Speaker 3: And he's got size, if he's got a good.
Speaker 5: Head on his shoulder, we can coach him up and
Speaker 5: he could be elite, Like he could be special. So
Speaker 5: he goes to Kentucky, couldn't get on the field. Well,
Speaker 5: then he hits the portal and because of the building
Speaker 5: he had out of high school, because of the potential
Speaker 5: that's still there, Florida got involved and they threw an
Speaker 5: insane amount of money at him in the nil world,
Speaker 5: and he never played a snap for him left and
Speaker 5: is currently out of football, does not play anymore. That's
Speaker 5: a guy who you know, there was a lot of
Speaker 5: Nile money spent on him to go to Kentucky and
Speaker 5: to go to Florida, and he never played, Like I'm
Speaker 5: not sure he played a college snap to be honest
Speaker 5: with you. So if that wouldn't have that wouldn't have
Speaker 5: been seen as like a And again, those two programs,
Speaker 5: they never even knew what they were missing because they
Speaker 5: never they never never play him because he wouldn't God
Speaker 5: haveugh to get on the field. But where it could
Speaker 5: bite you is if you're a coach or an anile
Speaker 5: collective and you're sitting back like, man, we spent thirty
Speaker 5: five percent of our budget on one dude, So you know,
Speaker 5: it's a risk we're taking. I would say, and look
Speaker 5: at this kid at Alabama ends up not being that good,
Speaker 5: or this kid from Alabama ends up not being that
Speaker 5: good for stoops, I mean, that'll be a bummer for
Speaker 5: Kentucky fans. But it's still probably a risk we're taking
Speaker 5: because you know, if he's good enough to get on
Speaker 5: the field there, even a little bit, he's probably going
Speaker 5: to have to play for you. All right, quick break
Speaker 5: will come back on the other side. We've got our
Speaker 5: first college football playoff game tonight. It's going to be
Speaker 5: in the snow, the Hoosiers and the Irish.
Speaker 3: I'm getting.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm getting like it doesn't feel normal, but
Speaker 5: like I got some I got some energy flowing through me.
Speaker 5: I put on the candy stripe pants now because I'm
Speaker 5: all in on these Hoosiers.
Speaker 2: Oh. Dude was talking to a company man earlier, and
Speaker 2: he's ready.
Speaker 3: He got his chest out.
Speaker 2: He's a little nervous, he told me, but he's he's
Speaker 2: also ready.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm happy for him. I wish I was him
Speaker 5: right now. I know, man, it would be awesome, and
Speaker 5: I can't. I mean, John and I started working together
Speaker 5: not that long ago. I guess it's about two years ago.
Speaker 5: And like the thought of me knowing that I'm envious
Speaker 5: of an Indiana football fan for the college ball playoff,
Speaker 5: I would have never I would have thought you had
Speaker 5: some screws loose if you threw that scenario out here.
Speaker 5: But here we are, all right, don't go anywhere, keep
Speaker 5: it locked right here. It's Coffee and Company. Fee about
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Speaker 2: holeration in this dancery today.
Speaker 5: I remember when this song was real big and just
Speaker 5: listening to it and thinking, like, I'm not real familiar
Speaker 5: with your game, Mary J. Blige, but you sound like
Speaker 5: a badass chick.
Speaker 2: Try not to try not to move your body when
Speaker 2: that song comes off.
Speaker 3: Oh you can't. You just saw me. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 3: not do it.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, I mean.
Speaker 3: You can try.
Speaker 5: But good luck, I mean best of luck to you,
Speaker 5: because I know I can't control myself whenever I think,
Speaker 5: is that Timbaland on the on the beat?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Of course Timberland had a huge hand in everything
Speaker 2: in the early two thousand This was two thousands, right, like.
Speaker 5: Women right, oh yeah, he did a lot of reduction
Speaker 5: for like women's R and B or hip hop.
Speaker 2: And Kanye West. Very instrumental with Kanye West too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I miss old Kanye West. I miss like when
Speaker 5: Kanye West became a thing like that was like it
Speaker 5: was the first time I remember listening to rap and
Speaker 5: like thinking, Okay, this guy's an artist, meaning like he's
Speaker 5: not just you know, the first like rapper that I
Speaker 5: really actually the first rap song that I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 5: this sounds awesome, but I was, I mean, it was.
Speaker 5: It was coolio Gangsta's Paradise, Yes, and like it's still
Speaker 5: it's still a jam today, but like you know, I
Speaker 5: felt like that was just like, man, this just sounds awesome.
Speaker 5: But like Kanye West was teenage nick like, Okay, this
Speaker 5: guy is very creative and I think he's awesome, and
Speaker 5: then you know, he got kind of real weird and
Speaker 5: I don't, like, I don't even I don't even know
Speaker 5: him anymore.
Speaker 3: I say that like I've like a medic in a relationship, but.
Speaker 2: It's just, you know, not my Kanye.
Speaker 3: When I hear the old Kanye, like the Kanye that
Speaker 3: I was introduced.
Speaker 5: To, like for the Wire and even like Jesus Walks
Speaker 5: was like yeah, just the powerful stuff, and you know
Speaker 5: he kind of became a madman. And when I hear
Speaker 5: the old stuff, I do. I have two emotions and
Speaker 5: they balance out. One is sadness of like man, what happened?
Speaker 5: But also it's like, well we still have this and
Speaker 5: this is this is something I'll probably listen to forever.
Speaker 2: I just always thought that Kanye West was an absolute
Speaker 2: genius that the only problem is that he knew it.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, and you're right.
Speaker 5: Because he is somebody that has I think now he
Speaker 5: I mean again, I don't know how anybody would even
Speaker 5: try to guess what's going on upstairs with him in
Speaker 5: the last I don't know. It's been a while now, right,
Speaker 5: Like he's been kind of nuts for a long time.
Speaker 5: I mean it's not new.
Speaker 2: He ran for president a few years ago.
Speaker 3: He's he's just a nut. And I mean, I think
Speaker 3: and this is this is what happens with.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of very creative artists, whether it
Speaker 5: be true art or film music, like they just I
Speaker 5: don't know if they get it. They just overthink it
Speaker 5: to where they do like the most ridiculous thing ever
Speaker 5: and just try to be like they don't want to
Speaker 5: be predictable. Maybe like it's almost in maybe this is
Speaker 5: in the greatest comparison, but like what's considered like fashion? Now,
Speaker 5: Like would NBA players walk into arenas wearing knowing that
Speaker 5: they make millions upon millions of dollars and they look
Speaker 5: like they went to a good will or they stole
Speaker 5: clothes off of a homeless person, like yeah, and call
Speaker 5: that fashion? Like I know, I'm sounding like a boomer here,
Speaker 5: but like, what is it? Like? What that's not? That
Speaker 5: looks awful? I don't care what you paid for. I
Speaker 5: don't care what the designer is. You look like a clown.
Speaker 5: And like everybody's style is different. You know, I wear
Speaker 5: basketball jerseys. People think that makes me a clown. So
Speaker 5: to each their own. But like I think, to go
Speaker 5: back to Kanye, I think he just started like, let
Speaker 5: me be as bad, bleep crazy as I can be,
Speaker 5: and then I'll just tell people, no, you guys don't
Speaker 5: get it. You can't match my intellectual level.
Speaker 2: I fell into the trap.
Speaker 5: You know, you know who did that? You know who
Speaker 5: did that? And it backfired and it changed their entire career.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, Rodman Irving, Kyrie, Oh yes, yes, Kyrie.
Speaker 3: Irving did that.
Speaker 5: Kyrie Irving just wanted people to think that they just
Speaker 5: cannot and his was all fake.
Speaker 3: I don't think it. He was just a tryhard.
Speaker 5: Like I don't believe he actually ever really had any
Speaker 5: big brain, not to say he's not a smart human being. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Like I think he just it was all for show
Speaker 5: to him. He wanted he wanted his brand to be
Speaker 5: that you guys just can't like I'm such an elite
Speaker 5: celebrity athlete, and like I like it was all fake
Speaker 5: intellectual stuff that like he just wanted people to think
Speaker 5: that he was the smartest guy in the room and
Speaker 5: that we just couldn't relate when actually, like, no, you're
Speaker 5: an idiot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's like rebelling against like Nike now and
Speaker 2: he's wearing he's wearing like his own shoes. He's still
Speaker 2: wearing the Nike shoes but like crossing him out and
Speaker 2: putting other logos on them.
Speaker 3: So contractually obligated, man, yeah, you signed the.
Speaker 2: Contract, I stranglehold on you. And Kanye did the same thing.
Speaker 2: He let he said screw you to Nike and went
Speaker 2: and did Adidas. And I actually have a few pairs
Speaker 2: of his original Adidas or his original Yeezies. Those are
Speaker 2: Then he just went into the realm of just wearing
Speaker 2: like like people were wearing trash bags at fashion shows.
Speaker 2: And then he started doing the whole yeez this thing.
Speaker 2: And then remember he dipped into gospel and he was
Speaker 2: doing that and like it would that that's where he
Speaker 2: lost me. Yeah, political wise, I mean I don't care.
Speaker 2: That was always you know, it was always like a
Speaker 2: fun Kanye to follow because there's something new every day.
Speaker 2: It was different than the Kanye I grew up with
Speaker 2: because he used to rock the Jordan's. He used to
Speaker 2: rock like the nice jeans and remember the shutter shades
Speaker 2: that had like the lines through them and you're like,
Speaker 2: how the hell can you see out?
Speaker 5: I remember early early Kanye was like, maybe it's just
Speaker 5: because I've always loved this city, but I feel like
Speaker 5: a huge part of his.
Speaker 3: Brand with Chicago.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well, and I mean clearly that's still where
Speaker 5: he's from, and I know he's actually had some of
Speaker 5: his bigger shows ever there in the last you know,
Speaker 5: decade or so. But like it kind of just went
Speaker 5: to where he's just he's this lost artist and that's
Speaker 5: you know, I'm I'm out on.
Speaker 2: That the Kardashian effect. Man. Yep.
Speaker 5: I mean I guess, yeah, you could probably time it
Speaker 5: out to that they get it.
Speaker 2: Mean, well, the end of that is where it got
Speaker 2: really weird.
Speaker 3: When will men learn?
Speaker 5: In fact, I think there's probably many many men that
Speaker 5: understand what they're walking into, and because of other things,
Speaker 5: they just say, look, I'll I'm just a man, I'll
Speaker 5: live with it.
Speaker 2: Like that's remember Chris Freeze.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, that was like early Kardashian.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, that was that was her first marriage. And
Speaker 2: they met each other and like got married in like
Speaker 2: sixty days or something like that.
Speaker 5: And you know, you know, you're a girlfriend that lives
Speaker 5: with you, that you proposed to. And she said, yes,
Speaker 5: you only knew what like two weeks.
Speaker 2: Right about a wee? How about a week? Give me
Speaker 2: some grace and you knew, right, I just swiped right
Speaker 2: and I said, hey, want to get married.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I had no clue. There's bull game going
Speaker 3: on as we speak.
Speaker 5: We've got Jacksonville State in Ohio playing in fact, that
Speaker 5: just ended. Ohio be Jacksonville State thirty to twenty seven.
Speaker 5: So rich Rod's team, of course, he I doubt he coached.
Speaker 5: He's not West Virginia. But another game that just started
Speaker 5: too lane in Florida, as Florida is up three to nothing.
Speaker 5: And of course the games that really matter tonight Indiana
Speaker 5: plus six and a half. The line is dropping. I mean,
Speaker 5: I want to hammer it. And here's what I and
Speaker 5: we'll talk a little bit more. That scares me, Yeah,
Speaker 5: tend in that way. Yeah, And I'll save this for
Speaker 5: the next hour because I have a it's kind of
Speaker 5: along the same lines of what I talked about with
Speaker 5: Notre Dame just getting in the playoff, but.
Speaker 3: Notre Dame deserves to be a favorite.
Speaker 5: But this line initially and even I think kind of
Speaker 5: where it is right now, it's just an example that
Speaker 5: Notre Dame is getting. They still get a brand bump
Speaker 5: that I feel like, for decades now has been proven
Speaker 5: to not be worth near what a lot of people
Speaker 5: still value it as to where you're just going to
Speaker 5: assume Notre Dame is just I mean, Notre Dame is
Speaker 5: not an elite program. They're very successful, they have a
Speaker 5: phenomenal tradition, and when I see lead, I don't I
Speaker 5: mean results. You know, they're good, but like they could
Speaker 5: easily lose to Indiana, And I feel like this game
Speaker 5: is being treated as if like we're talking Van Dy Alabama.
Speaker 3: It's not that at all.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to come down to, especially if
Speaker 2: you're betting on it and if you're if you're an
Speaker 2: Indiana fan, do we really trust Riley Leonard in a
Speaker 2: big spot like this.
Speaker 3: I don't trust Marcus Freeman. Yeah, you know, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm with you.
Speaker 5: On Leonard for sure, and with Freeman, I think he's
Speaker 5: actually done a nice job this year.
Speaker 3: But you can't.
Speaker 5: I mean, everybody wants to talk about Indiana's schedule. I
Speaker 5: mean Notre Dame lost to NIU, and really any win
Speaker 5: that they got that you felt like had value, that
Speaker 5: value decreased in a major way once you got to
Speaker 5: the end of the season. So all right, we got
Speaker 5: to run two more hours left here, so stick around, keep.
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