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Speaker 2: Right, let's get it start at the five o'clock hour
Speaker 2: here on a Wednesday afternoon or is it evening? It
Speaker 2: looks like evening. I know it's dark outside when I
Speaker 2: leave here now, which is it? Took a little took
Speaker 2: a little while to get used to that. On Monday,
Speaker 2: I left early so it wasn't dark yet. And then
Speaker 2: when I walked out yesterday, I was like, Okay, wow,
Speaker 2: is it ten o'clock at night? But no, that's just
Speaker 2: that's what happens, you know, when you get to this
Speaker 2: time of the year. And I know a lot of
Speaker 2: people hate it. I don't mind it really at all,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, but I do understand, Hey,
Speaker 2: there's certain certain times of the year. There's really just
Speaker 2: certain things that can impact somebody's right. Seasonal depression is
Speaker 2: a real thing. I don't know if it actually goes
Speaker 2: as far as and I'm sure it does with some
Speaker 2: but like, depression is a word, and depressed is used lightly,
Speaker 2: sometimes even in like a joking way, when it probably
Speaker 2: really shouldn't be. But anyways, it's five o'clock on a
Speaker 2: I mean, can I still say afternoon? I guess I can.
Speaker 3: It's time of year, I mean you can, but I
Speaker 3: think this time of year it would be acceptable to
Speaker 3: say it's it's the evening, like you mentioned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like like right now it's not dark, but it
Speaker 2: will be and probably you know, it's kind of getting
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Speaker 2: by the.
Speaker 3: Time we get to what is it, December twenty first,
Speaker 3: is the shortest day of the year. It will be
Speaker 3: dark by like four thirty five o'clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I don't know. I feel like if it's
Speaker 2: dark outside and you say afternoon, like that's just wrong.
Speaker 2: But the time itself to say evening, it seems too early.
Speaker 2: And anytime I get myself twisted up here wondering what
Speaker 2: would make the most sense, it's actually a reminder that
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Speaker 2: spent much time at all talking about the election results,
Speaker 2: just because you know, that's not really what this is.
Speaker 2: But I'll share with you guys what I shared at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the show. I was well aware that
Speaker 2: I had no clue, I mean, I had no clue,
Speaker 2: no feel for how it was going to play out,
Speaker 2: and I knew that regardless of what happens, I can't
Speaker 2: control it. So I was more so following along more
Speaker 2: than I ever have under any other presidential election, just
Speaker 2: because I was interested. It was fascinating for me to
Speaker 2: just sit back and observe those that were very very
Speaker 2: strong on one side or the other, and each side
Speaker 2: I feel like had a lot of confidence, and clearly
Speaker 2: one was very much correct and the other was very
Speaker 2: much wrong. And to kind of see it play out
Speaker 2: late in the evening and following along on social media,
Speaker 2: I was going back and forth between both Fox and
Speaker 2: CNN just to kind of I to me, it was entertaining,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. I mean, it's an important thing,
Speaker 2: right who the president is, but I was just it
Speaker 2: was a fascinating thing for me to see that going
Speaker 2: into it. And this is probably a small percentage of
Speaker 2: you know, the amount of people who actually voted, but
Speaker 2: those that are that are really loud about their beliefs
Speaker 2: and opinions, those that you know, kind of make it
Speaker 2: their whole personality at times, regardless if it was on
Speaker 2: one side or the other. Those were the people that
Speaker 2: I felt like were very confident. They didn't think there
Speaker 2: was a scenario that their side wouldn't win. And again,
Speaker 2: obviously they were wrong. If you were somebody that thought
Speaker 2: it would be Kamala Harris and I've heard a lot
Speaker 2: of different reactions today that I feel like really kind
Speaker 2: of hit home as to why it happened, and it's
Speaker 2: probably because we need the reminder that those that are
Speaker 2: the loudest, those that are using any platform, they can Facebook, Twitter,
Speaker 2: whatever they matter. Right, that's a person, that's somebody who
Speaker 2: can vote. But it's just one person. Now again, there's
Speaker 2: way more than just one. But I'm saying the vast
Speaker 2: majority is not vocal. You don't know in any given moment,
Speaker 2: like you can't check the pulse of the United States
Speaker 2: of America and get a good feel on which way
Speaker 2: it truly is going to play out. And I think
Speaker 2: the quiet folks, that those who aren't real you know, opinionated,
Speaker 2: or at least you don't hear. I mean, their vote
Speaker 2: showed sort of where they stand. And I was really
Speaker 2: surprised to see that the whole campaign from the Democratic side,
Speaker 2: at least from what I can could gather. I shouldn't
Speaker 2: say the whole campaign, but a real big emphasis. And
Speaker 2: I can't even say they're wrong for doing it, but
Speaker 2: I think there should have been a little more substance
Speaker 2: to their plan and all that kind of stuff. And
Speaker 2: how look, Americans aren't happy with where the country is.
Speaker 2: And when you're asked, would you do anything differently? And
Speaker 2: you say not at all, and then you don't have
Speaker 2: any real you can't really give a pitch as to
Speaker 2: how things are going to get better. Like that puts
Speaker 2: it in the hands of people who are voting based
Speaker 2: off of how they are. Like people care about themselves,
Speaker 2: not because they're selfish, but because they're looking out for
Speaker 2: their own livelihood. They want to they want to vote
Speaker 2: somebody in who is going to be best for them.
Speaker 2: You know, that's what it's about for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: But I think the biggest I guess sales pitch from
Speaker 2: the left side of this was, well, how could you
Speaker 2: vote for this guy? He's a real ahole. Look at him,
Speaker 2: I mean, listen to him, and you know, Trump is
Speaker 2: clearly a guy who's not nearly as presidential as anybody
Speaker 2: else that's been in the position. And he would even
Speaker 2: tell you that that's not an insult, he's just he's
Speaker 2: different than most of the people who've been in that position.
Speaker 2: But you know, that wasn't going to be enough for
Speaker 2: people to say, Okay, all right, oh this guy's terrible. Okay,
Speaker 2: Like you can't feel like here's what I'm sure some
Speaker 2: people have issued with, but it's just the reality a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't care about his morals because they
Speaker 2: know they're not perfect either, right. They know that there's
Speaker 2: probably others that have not had things play out the
Speaker 2: way that Trump has, and I'm sure there are people
Speaker 2: that have have had nowhere near the baggage that he's
Speaker 2: had over the years. But my point is, like, I
Speaker 2: think what they weaponized against Trump, which is a real
Speaker 2: issue that clearly a lot of people had a problem with,
Speaker 2: and maybe that's why they'd never vote for him, right,
Speaker 2: But also others aren't as caught up in that. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're caught up in the economy and how their life
Speaker 2: can be potentially better off because this person that's leading
Speaker 2: the country is going to do things that impacts them positively.
Speaker 2: So I I'm sure there are people that are really
Speaker 2: happy today taking victory lapse. Trust me, I know there's
Speaker 2: many people doing that. I'm sure there are some that
Speaker 2: are stunned and still can't believe it and don't want
Speaker 2: to accept it. But it's over. And who am I
Speaker 2: to give anybody any advice on how to deal with
Speaker 2: the results of an election, because I'm not qualified or
Speaker 2: fit to do it. But this is just general advice
Speaker 2: that I've been given that I was given long long
Speaker 2: ago that I still to this day try to or
Speaker 2: I need to remind myself of And sometimes it's easier
Speaker 2: said than done. But if you have no control over it,
Speaker 2: why let it consume any of your energy, any of
Speaker 2: your time. Like if you have no control again, sometimes
Speaker 2: it's not easy to just you know, accept it and
Speaker 2: move on. But like, the better ability you have to
Speaker 2: do that, the better your life will be as far
Speaker 2: as happiness, I think, because you won't spend a bunch
Speaker 2: of time wasted just you know, stressing out and worrying
Speaker 2: about things that you cannot get like that there's no
Speaker 2: possibility you can control it. Again, that's easier said than
Speaker 2: done with certain things. But like as much as we
Speaker 2: know that the presidential election is a big deal and
Speaker 2: who is the president is important, this point, it is
Speaker 2: what it is like, you can't change it.
Speaker 3: So you know what's great now about this time of year, Nick,
Speaker 3: Now that we've fully moved on, or at least we
Speaker 3: have to this point from the election. Whether you like
Speaker 3: it what happened or not, it's basketball season and people
Speaker 3: around here Louisville and Kentucky can get fully engrossed in that,
Speaker 3: and if you're upset about the election, don't even worry
Speaker 3: about it anymore. It's basketball season.
Speaker 2: Well said. And it's not just an obvious distraction because
Speaker 2: we love hoops around here, but it's a new era
Speaker 2: for both sides. Yea, and that adds even more excitement,
Speaker 2: I think so, well said John. All Right, let's get
Speaker 2: to the college football playoff rankings. We discussed this earlier
Speaker 2: in the show, and also we had a good chat
Speaker 2: with Zach Barnetta FootballScoop dot Com, and I didn't have
Speaker 2: any real big complaint with the way like the top
Speaker 2: twelve was put together. I think there's one team that
Speaker 2: I think has the biggest gripe, and that's BYU. But
Speaker 2: also they're in a position to where, you know, just
Speaker 2: like Indiana, they keep winning, they're in total control, right
Speaker 2: they haven't. They haven't slipped up yet. I think the
Speaker 2: one team that I don't quite think that they belong
Speaker 2: where they belong, Penn State is probably tied with I
Speaker 2: don't know BYU. I'm saying not BYU, but Boise Is
Speaker 2: Boise I feel like is getting a and I will
Speaker 2: say this will I will stand corrected. I mentioned that
Speaker 2: the best thing on the resume for Boise is their
Speaker 2: loss to Oregon, which I still think is true because yes,
Speaker 2: they beat Washington State, who's ranked twenty first. But I
Speaker 2: feel like if their best win was Washington State and
Speaker 2: their loss wasn't to Oregon it was to Penn State,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be sitting at number twelve. Like they're getting
Speaker 2: a benefit from the only loss they have being against
Speaker 2: a team that the committee says is the best team
Speaker 2: in the country. So there were some other teams that
Speaker 2: I didn't understand the ranking because it just but but
Speaker 2: they're teams that are outside like the top fifteen to
Speaker 2: where it really doesn't matter. Like I'm happy they're there
Speaker 2: because it makes Louisill look good, But there's really no
Speaker 2: justification for Clemson being ranked at all. Clemson's played two
Speaker 2: teams that are like not I mean, two teams that
Speaker 2: have a pulse essentially, and they've lost to both of
Speaker 2: them and it really wasn't close. The other wins they
Speaker 2: have are against teams that, you know, I don't think
Speaker 2: anybody's impressed with. I think their best win is Virginia,
Speaker 2: which again I think that says a lot Missouri. I
Speaker 2: mean again, they're twenty four, so I can't say that
Speaker 2: it's like something we got to be worried about, but
Speaker 2: Missouri getting there is because they're in the SEC. I
Speaker 2: mean it has to be right, Like Missouri is a
Speaker 2: two loss team in the SEC, and I feel like
Speaker 2: whoever's on the committee would be in fear for being
Speaker 2: arrested after they left their meeting because they didn't rank
Speaker 2: a two loss SEC team in the top twenty five.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the only reason Missouri against power four schools.
Speaker 2: They got a six point win over Boston College, who
Speaker 2: stinks they needed OT to beat Vanderbilt, who's not ranked?
Speaker 2: Are they ranked at Wait a second, that I missed that.
Speaker 2: Who'd you say? Bandy's not ranked right now? Vandi's not ranked.
Speaker 2: They shouldn't be, but I was just making sure I didn't.
Speaker 2: I was just looking at the graphic of the of
Speaker 2: the top twenty five and I thought I saw their logo.
Speaker 2: So again, they have a six point went over Boston College,
Speaker 2: they beat Vandy and OT. They lost by thirty one
Speaker 2: points to A and M, and they needed a comeback
Speaker 2: to beat a bad Auburn team who just won their
Speaker 2: first SEC game A couple of weeks ago and they
Speaker 2: got shut out, lost thirty four to nothing to Alabama.
Speaker 2: You could make a case Missouri doesn't belong in the
Speaker 2: top fifty, let alone the top twenty four. Like again,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter because it's twenty four, not fourteen or
Speaker 2: you know higher, but that you can't make any sense
Speaker 2: of that at all. I mean, it's one thing to say, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: like Louisville on Like, Louisville has three losses, good teams,
Speaker 2: which is why Actually, let me back at it. If
Speaker 2: Louisville wasn't competitive and only lost each of those three
Speaker 2: games to Notre Dame, SMU and Miami by one score,
Speaker 2: they're not in the They're not they're not even considered.
Speaker 2: But you know, the resume if you really look at it, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's three losses, but their quality loss is not only
Speaker 2: because of who they were against, but how you played.
Speaker 2: You're gonna give Missouri credit for losing by thirty plus
Speaker 2: points to A and M and Alabama, Like makes no
Speaker 2: sense at all. Another thing that stood out to me
Speaker 2: is Boise. You know again, I think they're getting love
Speaker 2: from the from from and a reason I'm bringing up
Speaker 2: bois again, it's because it's actually like there's there was
Speaker 2: some people claiming that Boise should be getting, you know,
Speaker 2: more love than they are. I saw some people saying
Speaker 2: that I'm getting a Notre Dame. Well, this is I'm
Speaker 2: taking I'm re routing here to get back to Notre
Speaker 2: Dame because Notre Dame is an interesting team at number
Speaker 2: ten because they have a glaringly bad loss. In fact,
Speaker 2: couldn't you the case that there's nobody in the top
Speaker 2: twenty five that has a loss as bad as Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine there would be, because I
Speaker 2: don't even know of any. Like again, there's some teams
Speaker 2: with losses that are like head scratchers, like Bama losing
Speaker 2: to Vandy is still a head scratcher. But Notre Dame
Speaker 2: has the worst loss. But you know what else they have.
Speaker 2: They have two wins against ranked teams. In fact, let's
Speaker 2: see do they have because they beat Louisville, who's twenty second.
Speaker 2: They beat A and M who's number fourteen. So like,
Speaker 2: if you're like, that's what it was Boise was. I
Speaker 2: saw somebody making the case that Boise should be ahead
Speaker 2: of Notre Dame because the loss was better, which is
Speaker 2: true Notre Dame's one losses to Northern Illinois Boise's one
Speaker 2: losses to number one Oregan, So then you just have
Speaker 2: to decide, Okay, quality of loss credit to Boise. But
Speaker 2: Boise's best win is Washington State, whereas Notre Dame has
Speaker 2: two wins better than that. So that really is just
Speaker 2: that's honestly a reminder that when it comes to the like,
Speaker 2: there's no scenario they do this where everybody says, Okay,
Speaker 2: they got each each, they got all twenty five spots, right,
Speaker 2: That's just not possible. So as much as I give
Speaker 2: them crap and I think they deserve it for some
Speaker 2: of the things that they some of some of the
Speaker 2: decisions they make, I mean, they're not going to be perfect.
Speaker 2: A SIMU is also a team that I feel like
Speaker 2: you could you could argue that they deserve to be
Speaker 2: higher than they are. I mean, they're sitting right outside,
Speaker 2: which you know, of of the top twelve, they're at thirteen.
Speaker 2: Their one loss came against a BYU team who nobody's beat,
Speaker 2: and they lost to them in a very close game.
Speaker 2: And they have wins against pet who they killed, who's
Speaker 2: ranked eighteenth. They beat Louisville at Louisville, and I feel like,
Speaker 2: do they have They haven't played Clemon, they don't play Clemson.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I learned last night. I guess more than anything,
Speaker 2: I was reminded that I really am in Like I think,
Speaker 2: like the weekly check ins at the end of the
Speaker 2: day don't matter because it's all going to play itself out.
Speaker 2: You're going to get the final rankings when it actually matters.
Speaker 2: But I actually enjoy the weekly updates and the resume
Speaker 2: comparisons that go on. It reminds me a lot of
Speaker 2: bracketology in college basketball. So on the Louisville side, they
Speaker 2: came in at number twenty two, again, the only three
Speaker 2: loss team in the top twenty five. And I mentioned
Speaker 2: this throughout the show. I'll mentioned it once more for
Speaker 2: those just now joining us in the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: Louisville had three losses, way earlier than anybody would have expected.
Speaker 2: Some didn't expect them to have three losses all year,
Speaker 2: but now we know, Hey, those were losses that you
Speaker 2: still hate, but it's to good teams and you were
Speaker 2: competitive and you're getting you've been given credit for that.
Speaker 2: So the win against Boston College I think sparked this
Speaker 2: team to go to Clemson beat them for the first
Speaker 2: time ever. And now if they went out, easier said
Speaker 2: than done. But if they went out and we now
Speaker 2: know they can, like it's not I mean, in fact,
Speaker 2: every game the rest of the way, you should say
Speaker 2: the expectation is to win. You go at Stanford, who's
Speaker 2: not good. You play pitt at home, and then you
Speaker 2: play Kentucky, who, Yeah, they've got a great streak going
Speaker 2: against you, but they're terrible right now. Not saying they're
Speaker 2: going to go undefeated the rest of the way, but
Speaker 2: they certainly should at least that's how I feel right now.
Speaker 2: So if you end up winning out, you're nine and three,
Speaker 2: and that would mean that you're staying in the top
Speaker 2: twenty five rankings of the playoff, the top twenty five
Speaker 2: of the playoff rankings all year. So you win a
Speaker 2: bowl game, you get to ten and three to finish
Speaker 2: the year, you will be you'll have back to back
Speaker 2: double digit win seasons for the second time in program history,
Speaker 2: and you will be able to say that every time
Speaker 2: there's been an active college football Playoff rankings out there,
Speaker 2: you've been ranked under bram Like that would be you'd
Speaker 2: be able to say two years in, man, this thing's
Speaker 2: going really well. You've got momentum, and that's where you
Speaker 2: that's what you want, right, So it really it's you know,
Speaker 2: if they crap the bed when they come off the
Speaker 2: bio week, that'll be a real punch to the gut.
Speaker 2: But there's frustrating seeing them lose out on those big
Speaker 2: opportunities earlier this year. But all along, I think what
Speaker 2: made it so frustrating is actually felt like they were
Speaker 2: good and that, you know, despite the losses. You got
Speaker 2: to look in the mirror. You lost the game, but
Speaker 2: like I still felt like they should you know, they
Speaker 2: should be a lot better. And now they're playing better,
Speaker 2: and hey, it's better to I think it's much better
Speaker 2: to finish strong than the other way around. We learned
Speaker 2: that the opposite way last year, right, I mean, great
Speaker 2: start and then really a terrible finish if you think
Speaker 2: about it. All right, quick break, we'll come back on
Speaker 2: the other side. Keep this thing rolling along. We'll talk
Speaker 2: some Louis of basketball on the other side. Because if
Speaker 2: you were not with us in the four o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: I may have put my foot in my mouth, but
Speaker 2: I don't care. If it's being honest with you, I
Speaker 2: think a louisvill beats Tennessee because if you just look
Speaker 2: at each team from a personnel standpoint, I mean, I
Speaker 2: know they're ranked number twelve in the country, but it's
Speaker 2: because of previous seasons and Rick Barnes. Louisville I think
Speaker 2: has a better roster, and I think objectively, if you
Speaker 2: really considered it, I think a lot of people would agree.
Speaker 2: I quick break, don't go anywhere, keep it locked right
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Speaker 2: Company rolling along here on a Well. It was gloomy
Speaker 2: outside earlier, maybe dark outside now it's five thirty. But man,
Speaker 2: it's been weird how the last few days it's looked
Speaker 2: like fall, but it's it's actually been hot.
Speaker 3: Like I think this is one of the warmest early Novembers.
Speaker 2: We've ever had. Yeah, I think we'll. I think we're
Speaker 2: supposed to get some cooler temperatures in the coming days,
Speaker 2: and you know, I just honestly, I just want some
Speaker 2: consistency because I committed to pants. All Right, you got
Speaker 2: cold enough at one point I committed to pants, put
Speaker 2: the shorts up. And now I'm wearing pants and on
Speaker 2: certain days I'm thinking, you know what, I should have
Speaker 2: put shorts on. It's warm outside.
Speaker 3: I mean I thought you took the pants off during
Speaker 3: the Clemson game.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, yeah, I don't wear I don't wear anything
Speaker 2: during games, nothing at all, And I don't. And you
Speaker 2: know there's reason I don't turn the webcam on during
Speaker 2: the postgame show either. I don't want sense. I don't
Speaker 2: want to traumatize you, but I do, yeah, butt naked,
Speaker 2: especially after a win like Clemson. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: it is the sex dungeon down there, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: So people don't assume I have a real sex done,
Speaker 2: which if I did, I wouldn't tell you anyway. But
Speaker 2: I was putting up panels on the wall in my
Speaker 2: home studio in the basement, and it was like I
Speaker 2: ended up painting them and they look a lot better now.
Speaker 2: But it's like a wet black like just a bunch
Speaker 2: of tiles on the wall, and it was dark, there
Speaker 2: was no light, and I popped on the webcam one
Speaker 2: time and John was like, it looks like a sex dungeon.
Speaker 2: And that's what we've always referred to it as. So
Speaker 2: just so you know though, because I'm sure you're curious. No,
Speaker 2: no sex goes on down there's strictly business when it
Speaker 2: comes to the studios with pleasure, exactly, exactly, all right.
Speaker 2: So I've been monitoring my phone here just to see
Speaker 2: if I get a and it's not like I'm expecting
Speaker 2: a call or I'm going to be distracted, but I
Speaker 2: guess I am kind of distracted. So I'm sure I've
Speaker 2: talked about it once before on the show, but if
Speaker 2: you follow me on social media, you've probably seen it
Speaker 2: once or twice. My daughter has a baby doll that
Speaker 2: is the most realistic doll I've ever seen in my life,
Speaker 2: more realistic than any Mann Cain I've ever seen, more
Speaker 2: realistic than like a wax figure. I mean, it's insane
Speaker 2: how this looks like. I mean, you've got to touch
Speaker 2: it to feel like you know for sure it's not real,
Speaker 2: Like that's how real it looks. And it's been kind
Speaker 2: of funny at times because you know, like we leave
Speaker 2: it on the beach when we go out in the water,
Speaker 2: and it's just a baby that looks real to people
Speaker 2: laying face down in the sand, and you know, every
Speaker 2: now and then we got to run up and tell people, hey, like,
Speaker 2: it's not real, it's fake. I'll be carrying it in
Speaker 2: because she left it in the car and she's inside
Speaker 2: and she wants it, and I'll go out and get it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not real, so I'm not really thinking,
Speaker 2: but I'll just pick it up and hold it by
Speaker 2: its head, and people from afar like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: what's this guy lunatic doing with a baby, And then
Speaker 2: you know, I show him like I can't tell you
Speaker 2: it like clockwork. If I have this thing in a
Speaker 2: stroller because I'm helping my daughter with it or I'm
Speaker 2: holding it, or she's holding it, people will stare because
Speaker 2: again she's I mean, she's especially needs child who doesn't
Speaker 2: have a whole lot of I mean, she doesn't hold
Speaker 2: a lot of infants like her dolls. So people, you know,
Speaker 2: probably think it's real and they look, oh god, this girl,
Speaker 2: this little girl's about to drop this baby. So it's
Speaker 2: not annoying, but it's kind of lost. It's it's kind
Speaker 2: of lost. Its h you know, I'm now no longer surprised.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's funny when people are shocked. But
Speaker 2: we may have something that you know, I'll just tell
Speaker 2: you what's happened. And so my daughter left it over
Speaker 2: the weekend at a family member's house. She went up
Speaker 2: to see her her step grandparents, and she left it there. Well,
Speaker 2: she hasn't even noticed that she doesn't have it yet,
Speaker 2: which is good for us.
Speaker 1: But my.
Speaker 2: Wife's I guess my in laws step in laws. They're
Speaker 2: supposed to bring it and drop it off at my
Speaker 2: wife's work while she's working, so we have it and
Speaker 2: they said they dropped it off, but it wasn't there,
Speaker 2: so we're worried that her grandpa put it in the
Speaker 2: wrong car. And imagine getting in your vehicle and seeing
Speaker 2: a baby that you don't mean it first glanced. Your
Speaker 2: gonna think it's real that somebody leave their baby in
Speaker 2: my car. It's not making any sound. It may be
Speaker 2: face down because you know it's a doll. But like,
Speaker 2: we don't know where he might have left it. And
Speaker 2: it's probably been figured out since then. But right before
Speaker 2: the show today, I was talking to my wife and
Speaker 2: she was explaining that it was dropped off, but she
Speaker 2: can't she can't find it. And I'm sitting here thinking like, oh,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be somebody that works with you that's gonna
Speaker 2: walk out to their car and they're gonna call nine
Speaker 2: on one. They're going to lose their mind. And they
Speaker 2: may not if they may be so scared they they
Speaker 2: don't get close enough or touch it to see if
Speaker 2: it's real. But it sounds like the crisis is. But
Speaker 2: imagine that, Like you can't make that up. Like imagine
Speaker 2: going out to your car and just same routine, unlocking it,
Speaker 2: getting in and then looking to the right in the
Speaker 2: driver or in the passenger side seat, or looking behind
Speaker 2: you and realizing, oh my god, there's a baby and
Speaker 2: it's scared the crap out of you. I'd say most
Speaker 2: wouldn't realize it's not real, and then they would wonder
Speaker 2: who's playing a joke? I mean, why is a baby doll,
Speaker 2: you know, in the back of my car. But it
Speaker 2: sounds like they got it figure it out. But I
Speaker 2: was worried that, like my wife was gonna up hitting
Speaker 2: me up later this afternoon, like, hey, none one one
Speaker 2: came to work, real big crisis. It was all over
Speaker 2: the doll. But like somebody said this to me, and
Speaker 2: it's always stuck with me because I think they're right.
Speaker 2: And I thought today was gonna be the day that
Speaker 2: thing is so real and she takes it everywhere she goes.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be some level of like incident to where
Speaker 2: people take action before realizing it's not real, and like
Speaker 2: like if we leave it in the car, which sometimes
Speaker 2: we do, right, somebody's gonna break our window thinking that
Speaker 2: there's a real like baby left in a vehicle, which
Speaker 2: is obviously a big no nose. So anyways, and for
Speaker 2: those wondering where she got it, because we've had people
Speaker 2: ask it's just an Amazon purchase. It wasn't that expensive.
Speaker 2: And I've seen, you know, I have a she's an
Speaker 2: eight year old, so she's had many dolls over the years.
Speaker 2: This one it's not special in regards to like price,
Speaker 2: but it looks so real compared to any other doll
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. It's it's amazing. And I've got pictures
Speaker 2: of it on my Twitter, on Facebook and whatnot. And
Speaker 2: if you're if you don't believe me that it looks
Speaker 2: that real and you think I'm I'm I'm be an extra,
Speaker 2: go to my social media pages and you'll find it
Speaker 2: and you'll, I think you'd agree that it is creepy.
Speaker 2: How real it looks all right. So earlier within the show,
Speaker 2: I was talking about Louisville's big game, of course, coming
Speaker 2: up on Saturday against Tennessee wide out noon, hoping to
Speaker 2: see a big crowd there. I think the lower Bowl
Speaker 2: is going to be full, and I think the upper
Speaker 2: level will have people there, but you know, probably not full.
Speaker 2: But here's the reality. We all want big turnouts, big crowds,
Speaker 2: but in order for Louisville to have a really good
Speaker 2: atmosphere to where you truly feel like you've got a
Speaker 2: rocking environment, where home court advantage is real, is real, valuable,
Speaker 2: I think all you really need is the Lower Bowl
Speaker 2: to be full and be into the game. And if
Speaker 2: this team plays the way they play they played up
Speaker 2: to this point, you're not gonna win every game you play.
Speaker 2: But that's a style and an effort level that fans
Speaker 2: will be on their seats for and they'll be loud
Speaker 2: like those that are there, they're going to be rowdy
Speaker 2: rooting this team on. And again, if you've got the
Speaker 2: lower Bowl full, that's really all you need for atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Now again, you want the upper level to have a
Speaker 2: lot of seats filled, and I just it's tough to
Speaker 2: know if that's gonna happen this year, and if it
Speaker 2: was gonna happen, I would say would probably before a
Speaker 2: game like this one, given the fact that it's against
Speaker 2: the number twelve team in the country. But I'm excited
Speaker 2: for Saturday. But my excitement is now not just because
Speaker 2: of the opportunity, because of the you know, the big
Speaker 2: game that you have welcoming in a top fifteen team
Speaker 2: in Pat Kelcey's second career game as your coach. I'm
Speaker 2: now confident also because I think loisvel is better and
Speaker 2: like this may be the first time that I learned
Speaker 2: the hard way that I need to be a little
Speaker 2: bit more measured in my expectations and belief right. Like,
Speaker 2: I'm all in on Pat Kelsey and this team. Not
Speaker 2: to say that I think they're going to go, you know,
Speaker 2: to the Final four or anything like that, but how
Speaker 2: can you not be impressed with what you've seen so far.
Speaker 2: So until I did a little bit of a deep
Speaker 2: dive into Tennessee and their personnel, I mean, I was
Speaker 2: expecting Little to compete all along, and I knew that
Speaker 2: they could win, but I was probably in the mindset of, like, hey,
Speaker 2: they'll probably lose a close game here because Tennessee's really good.
Speaker 2: But if they look good, then you'll feel, you know,
Speaker 2: you'll feel encouraged the rest of the way because man,
Speaker 2: they played a really good team that close, and hey,
Speaker 2: maybe if they make some more free throws or this
Speaker 2: goes that way vice versa, then maybe you win. Like
Speaker 2: that's kind of where I was until I looked at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: And maybe I'm wrong. It's tough to know how good
Speaker 2: anybody truly is right now, but Tennessee, I think they're
Speaker 2: the best example of a team right now that is
Speaker 2: ranked where they are all based off of what they
Speaker 2: did a year ago. I mean, like nearly all of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, Rick Barnes has proven to be a really
Speaker 2: good coach. I think he will be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: Last year they made an Elite eight, but that took
Speaker 2: Dalton Connect, a guy who probably wins National Player of
Speaker 2: the Year every other year unless Zachi ed came back
Speaker 2: to school. So you know, maybe I'm wrong and they're
Speaker 2: a really good team. But let me just give you
Speaker 2: a little bit about their personnel here. I mean, they're
Speaker 2: bringing back Zachai Ziggler, who is probably their best player
Speaker 2: and look, somebody called me out on it earlier. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're right, Like, maybe I didn't give him enough credit
Speaker 2: when I was mentioning that he's, you know, just some
Speaker 2: average player. He's been a good player for Tennessee, an
Speaker 2: impactful guy that his stat line, his points, I should say,
Speaker 2: really doesn't speak to his true value out there. He's
Speaker 2: a really good defensive player. He averaged about seven assists
Speaker 2: a game last year, and he's back and he's good.
Speaker 2: But I think you could say the same thing about
Speaker 2: Chucky Hepburn. Chuckie Hepburn. He doesn't have to score a
Speaker 2: lot to have an impact in the game. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying which one's better than the other because it's
Speaker 2: tough to say. And I would imagine that a lot
Speaker 2: of people probably would say that Ziggler's better, like I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked. But that's just one guy. I mean,
Speaker 2: outside of Ziggler, you know, there are other guards. They've
Speaker 2: got Jordan Gainey, who transferred in from I think Charlotte
Speaker 2: was a fine player there but didn't really do a
Speaker 2: whole lot after that. They've got another guy who averaged
Speaker 2: four points a game last year. That's returned, So they
Speaker 2: did hit the portal and they got a couple of
Speaker 2: good players. And one of the names I didn't mention
Speaker 2: is because he's not in the box score or he's
Speaker 2: not played for him, and he was somebody that I
Speaker 2: guess was expected to have a pretty big jump. So
Speaker 2: again I'm gonna lay out why I think Tennessee could
Speaker 2: eventually be pretty mid this year. And it wouldn't shock
Speaker 2: me one if zigglers their best player, I'd say that
Speaker 2: there's going to be a pretty big fall from being
Speaker 2: an Elite eight team with Dalton connect and then you know,
Speaker 2: Ziggler being your best guy, you may not even be
Speaker 2: a tournament team. And that doesn't speak to him. It's
Speaker 2: just that you know he's not that good of a player,
Speaker 2: just like if you put Chucky Hepburn on certain teams,
Speaker 2: he might be impactful, but are they going to be good?
Speaker 2: Who knows. So the two transfers they brought, and one
Speaker 2: is Chas Lanier who transferred from North Florida who plays
Speaker 2: in the lowest one of the lowest leagues in Division one,
Speaker 2: and he was good last year, but he played three
Speaker 2: years at North Florida prior and never have more than
Speaker 2: four points a game. He had a breakthrough year last year,
Speaker 2: and maybe he got a lot better and was a
Speaker 2: late bloomer. But you know, maybe he's a guy that is,
Speaker 2: you know, solid at best at a place like Tennessee
Speaker 2: in the SEC. You know, I know his numbers are
Speaker 2: better than I guess you could say Koran Johnson, but
Speaker 2: Corran Johnson came off the bench for a PAC twelve team,
Speaker 2: Like I think, you know, most people, if you're taking
Speaker 2: one of those two guys, would probably take Koran. But
Speaker 2: if not him, then maybe they would take Arrence Edwards,
Speaker 2: who again was Sun Belt Player of the Year. Chas
Speaker 2: Laneyard again good player, but like Louisville's collection of good
Speaker 2: players at the in the back court, especially like I
Speaker 2: would I think that the Edges to Louisville, not not
Speaker 2: not Tennessee. And they brought in a big who transferred
Speaker 2: in from I think it's from Charlotte, Yeah, Millichick, and
Speaker 2: he was a fine player there, had a bunch of
Speaker 2: double doubles averaged about twelve and eight. And even if
Speaker 2: he's the same guy as he was at show Carlotte,
Speaker 2: like I don't know, if like that, this is a
Speaker 2: team that might end up being a top twenty five
Speaker 2: team when it's all said and done. But I think
Speaker 2: having them at number twelve is strictly because you're just
Speaker 2: slotting them similar to where they were a year ago.
Speaker 2: And you do respect Rick Barnes, which I totally understand.
Speaker 2: He's a good coach, But I think Louisville, when you
Speaker 2: look at their you know, I don't think anybody's got
Speaker 2: an All American caliber player on the team. I don't
Speaker 2: think anybody's got a surefire NBA guy on their team.
Speaker 2: So with that said, I think Louisll's got a better
Speaker 2: collection of players, and I would take them. Like I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's some of this that's coming from me being
Speaker 2: a LOUISLL fan. I'm trying my best to be objective,
Speaker 2: but I feel like you could break down the rosters
Speaker 2: objectively or get people who are truly objective, and you could.
Speaker 2: I don't think it would really be much of a conversation.
Speaker 2: I think you'd say, yeah, take Louisvill's team over theirs. Now,
Speaker 2: they do have one guy who I didn't mention earlier
Speaker 2: because again, he didn't play in their last two exit
Speaker 2: and he played briefly, and he could play like five
Speaker 2: minutes against India and then he ended up he ended
Speaker 2: up not playing in their game against Gardner Web the
Speaker 2: other night. He transferred from Hofstra trying to trying to
Speaker 2: figure out his name. And it may not be important
Speaker 2: because it sounds like he's not playing. He's dealing with
Speaker 2: some kind of a personal issue. And Rick Barnes said
Speaker 2: yesterday that it's his time, meaning like he'll be back
Speaker 2: when he's ready to be back. So again, like, I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe this guy is ready to be back on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and man Louisville learns who he is really quickly, Like
Speaker 2: maybe that happens. I don't know, none of us really
Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen, but like that's not something that's
Speaker 2: gonna scare me to where I feel like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: well Louisville, you know they play competitively and they keep
Speaker 2: it close. That'll still be a positive, like and I
Speaker 2: guess it probably still can be. But I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: be honest with you. That's what I'm supposed to do, right,
Speaker 2: that's the job. Tell you what I think, share opinions.
Speaker 2: It's a talk show. I'm not worried about Tennessee. They
Speaker 2: could beat Louisville. But like, I don't look at them
Speaker 2: and think, man, it's gonna be really, really difficult. And
Speaker 2: I could be totally wrong. I just happened to you know,
Speaker 2: you know, I just don't. I don't see how you
Speaker 2: could make the case that they're the twelfth best team
Speaker 2: in the country. And again, here's what nobody says out loud.
Speaker 2: It's impossible to know how good any team is in
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Speaker 2: text came in earlier and it's it's it's a good question.
Speaker 2: I think it's I mean, we'll see, But the question
Speaker 2: is Nick, when you say Rick Barnes is the type
Speaker 2: of coach who also has proven to be really good
Speaker 2: at dictating pace, that could be an issue for Louisvilleyeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, if Louisville is not able to utilize
Speaker 2: their strengths, which is, you know, spreading it out a
Speaker 2: lot of possessions throughout an entire game and getting good
Speaker 2: rhythmic three point shots from a team you know from
Speaker 2: you know, the majority of the guys that are going
Speaker 2: to play, they have the green light. So if you know,
Speaker 2: maybe that I mean, I think you're you're onto something
Speaker 2: as far as that being a real critical part of
Speaker 2: the game that whoever can can get it played more
Speaker 2: so at their pace would have the best likelihood of winning.
Speaker 2: And that's true. But I still think that just from
Speaker 2: I mean, even if the game wasn't played at you know,
Speaker 2: a track meet pace with a ton of possessions and
Speaker 2: a ton of good threes from Louisville, which is what
Speaker 2: they want, I still think they have the personnel to
Speaker 2: where they can win. But clearly they're going to be
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Speaker 2: any college hoops, right, No.
Speaker 3: And kind of you're smart. I'm not to the thing
Speaker 3: I did with college truble. I mean, I'm not making
Speaker 3: picks this time and not betting them. That was a
Speaker 3: mistake for the early early game.
Speaker 2: You're just looking at the You're looking at the board realizing, yeah,
Speaker 2: nobody has so much.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you can kind of bet maybe on
Speaker 3: the really heavy favorites that are maybe projected to win
Speaker 3: the national championship.
Speaker 2: That type of stuff.
Speaker 3: But it's just so hard to predict what's going to
Speaker 3: happen in so many of these games where you have, like,
Speaker 3: for example, Indiana's a twenty six and a half point
Speaker 3: favorite against siu E tonight. Will they cover? Maybe they should,
Speaker 3: but will they Who knows.
Speaker 2: I'll probably end up doing something. But like I'm looking
Speaker 2: here and I'm saying, Arkansas they get the Caliperry Era
Speaker 2: started tonight and they're fourteen and a half point favorites
Speaker 2: over Lipscomb. I'm thinking, well, surely they're gonna cover that.
Speaker 2: They're way better in Lipscomb's Lipscomb. But you know, it
Speaker 2: could be a backdoor cover because I know Arkansas has
Speaker 2: had some guys that are dealing with some injury. Same
Speaker 2: thing with with Lehigh. They are playing Georgetown, who's been
Speaker 2: terrible for a while, but maybe it cool he really
Speaker 2: breaks through in his second season. You know what I
Speaker 2: have learned to not do as much is I think
Speaker 2: because I know, hey, this team's pretty good, Like I'm
Speaker 2: familiar with them, that like they're gonna cover a big
Speaker 2: number when you know more often than not that hasn't
Speaker 2: worked out for me. And it's too early to really
Speaker 2: know who the teams are that you know have value
Speaker 2: that maybe the books don't realize. So I'm sure I'll
Speaker 2: get into something tonight even if I don't, you know,
Speaker 2: win money, I'm gonna bet on college basketball and consume
Speaker 2: it because college hoops season's here, and I love it
Speaker 2: so much. And I love all of you for sticking
Speaker 2: with us hanging out today, and I hope you come
Speaker 2: back tomorrow so we can do it again right here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety