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Speaker 2: at least for the last the last three days, we've
Speaker 2: kind of had an easy way to ease into the show.
Speaker 2: Yesterday we did start more so with like the NBA
Speaker 2: playoffs just being super competitive and awesome, But then we
Speaker 2: did in the first segment get to the I guess
Speaker 2: the rumor the report, and there are differences between rumor
Speaker 2: and report. But the Arkansas game, where Louisville their potential
Speaker 2: opponent in the first game of the in the acc
Speaker 2: SEC Challenge this year is Arkansas. But what I'm getting
Speaker 2: at is that here we go again, Pat Kelsey reminding
Speaker 2: us that, you know, he seems to get us, and
Speaker 2: I don't want to give him all the credit for this,
Speaker 2: although maybe he is deserving of all the credit. I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's a lot of people that are a part
Speaker 2: of this to an extent, Josh heard specifically, and others
Speaker 2: that you know are behind the scenes that we don't
Speaker 2: really see a lot, but I'm sure they have an impact.
Speaker 2: But the Louisville basketball schedule right now, in the non conference,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if you ask, you shall receive,
Speaker 2: Because I said here and there really all weak Like,
Speaker 2: hey man, I'm gonna really be paying attention. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be really really eager to see how the non conference
Speaker 2: schedule shapes up, because it's more important now than it's
Speaker 2: been before, because you can't just rely on a really
Speaker 2: tough conference schedule to play itself out to where you
Speaker 2: just you know, you got you know, you get the
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt because you're playing a great league.
Speaker 2: Well that's clearly not where Louisville and the ACC are
Speaker 2: right now, and we learn that the hard way on
Speaker 2: Selection Sunday a couple months ago. But now here we are.
Speaker 2: Each day that's passed, there's more, there's more development, and
Speaker 2: the non conference schedule gets me excited. And the reason
Speaker 2: I wanted to give Pat Kelsey credit is because I
Speaker 2: mean he has to know that, like he's really playing
Speaker 2: into the fans like he's I mean, maybe he just
Speaker 2: in his mind simply thought, you know, Memphis, Yeah, let's
Speaker 2: let's lock that up long term. Let's get a multi
Speaker 2: year I mean we're I mean that's it was like
Speaker 2: a six or seven year series they announced yesterday between
Speaker 2: Memphis and Louisville. I mean, Memphis is in like the
Speaker 2: biggest Marque opponent. But man, there's history their arrival and
Speaker 2: even in years when you know they're not good, even
Speaker 2: which could happen, it's not like we're playing teams you've
Speaker 2: never heard of and it's a rivalry like that'll like
Speaker 2: Memphis on the schedule in basketball is going to just
Speaker 2: generate interest that wouldn't be there even if there's a
Speaker 2: even if there's an opponent that's better, Like Memphis and
Speaker 2: Louisville are historically rivals. We all know that, and then
Speaker 2: we find out today that another rival that we haven't
Speaker 2: played in a long time is going to be on
Speaker 2: the schedule. So John Rosstein is the first that I
Speaker 2: saw report this, and then obviously Eric Crawford of WDRB,
Speaker 2: he as connected as anybody with U of L, and
Speaker 2: he put out a column over at WDRB kind of
Speaker 2: laying out this six year series. Yeah, so it was
Speaker 2: a six year series with Memphis that was announced yesterday,
Speaker 2: and then now Louisville is set to soon announce a
Speaker 2: two year series with Cincinnati. But they're going to be
Speaker 2: played in neutral site locations, which is not really what
Speaker 2: it is, like it's not really neutral site. It's playing
Speaker 2: in your city, but not where you currently play. So
Speaker 2: I guess it's the nostalgic part, like this is a
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati two year series where Louisville will play them
Speaker 2: in Freedom Hall if you haven't heard that, Yes, Louisville
Speaker 2: is expected to play Cincinnati in Freedom Hall, which that'll
Speaker 2: be in twenty sixteen. But this year, this upcoming season,
Speaker 2: Louisville and Cincinnati will play and it'll be in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: but it's going to be in the Heritage Bank Center
Speaker 2: in downtown Cincy. So I could be wrong, but I
Speaker 2: don't think that's where Cincinnati currently plays their home games.
Speaker 2: But either way, Louisville playing a game in Freedom Hall
Speaker 2: is wild, and I want to save that for later
Speaker 2: because I know there's some that have some strong thoughts
Speaker 2: about that. I'm a little surprised to see really anybody
Speaker 2: belly aching about that, because I mean, what's the harm here.
Speaker 2: All I've heard is that why would we do that?
Speaker 2: We already had the perfect send off for Freedom Hall,
Speaker 2: And you're right, but that was I mean, that was
Speaker 2: fifteen years ago. I think there'd be some nostalgia to
Speaker 2: have a game at Freedom Hall. And like if Louisville loses,
Speaker 2: which could happen, of course, it's not going to make
Speaker 2: me think, Okay, well, our Kyle Kurrich coming off the bench,
Speaker 2: unheard of walk on basically closing that place down by himself,
Speaker 2: Like that memory's not going to be changed for me,
Speaker 2: Like I'm not, like, you know, it'd be different if
Speaker 2: we did this three four years after that. We hadn't
Speaker 2: played in Freedom Hall in a long time. So Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 2: this is my thought driving in today because I'm excited, man,
Speaker 2: not only are we gonna you know, are we heading
Speaker 2: into a season where there's real expectations for Louisville basketball
Speaker 2: where just about everywhere you look, they're viewed as a
Speaker 2: preseason top ten caliber team, which who knows, maybe they
Speaker 2: don't get there because you never know, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: preseason expectations oftentimes are not met or maybe sometimes you
Speaker 2: exceed those expectations, which I think Louisville did this past year,
Speaker 2: so you you never know. But knowing that, like objectively,
Speaker 2: those that you know are in the college basketball world,
Speaker 2: they believe Louisville will be good. Like that's exciting. And
Speaker 2: now We've got some opponents on the schedule coming up
Speaker 2: that I'm excited to play. And I you know, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm giving a little too much credit to Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 2: but maybe it's him, Maybe it's multiple people, as I
Speaker 2: mentioned a moment ago, whoever's responsible for this? Like y'all
Speaker 2: are playing the hits, y'all are hitting us in the
Speaker 2: good fields because Indiana, Memphis since it Ady, Kentucky, like
Speaker 2: these are teams that not all are big rivals, but
Speaker 2: there's clearly some familiarity and like I bet there's people
Speaker 2: listening right now that would say, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: Indiana is not a huge rival because you know, they
Speaker 2: just aren't. But yet there's history, they're we're close, and
Speaker 2: in fact, you may they may be rivals in this aspect.
Speaker 2: They're both considered to be blue blue blood borderline type
Speaker 2: programs like we are at least in the fraternity with them,
Speaker 2: or were not in the top twelve all time, top
Speaker 2: eight whatever you however, you want to look at it,
Speaker 2: so you know, even if they're even if they weren't
Speaker 2: a state north of us, maybe they were, you know,
Speaker 2: on the other side of the country, there's still you know,
Speaker 2: you're playing a program that has somewhat of a similar
Speaker 2: resume that you have, and that's that's that's where you
Speaker 2: want to be. So part of it is to do
Speaker 2: with the ACC just being where it is, and you
Speaker 2: need to now go out and make sure in your
Speaker 2: non conference games you're not just doing nothing but scheduling
Speaker 2: cup cakes. Because you used to be able to do
Speaker 2: that and it would all play itself out. Well. Now
Speaker 2: clearly that's not the case. So the momentum and the
Speaker 2: positive vibes for Louisville basketball this offseason have been phenomenal.
Speaker 2: And again disclaimer, I know that none of this will
Speaker 2: really be remembered or even matter if this team doesn't
Speaker 2: actually put good results on the floor and when, and
Speaker 2: we know that they know that too, meaning Pat Kelsey
Speaker 2: and everybody involved. But it's just nice to have it
Speaker 2: again because again, like even last year, we were happy,
Speaker 2: we were very, very excited about Pat Kelcey with the
Speaker 2: roster he put together. He really made quite the impression
Speaker 2: when we first got to hear from him when he
Speaker 2: got introduced as the new head coach. But now he's
Speaker 2: got a season under his belt where he's shown proof
Speaker 2: of concept, he's shown that he's a good coach. Clearly,
Speaker 2: he has shown that he can really you know, connect
Speaker 2: to guys and have them playing hard to wear what
Speaker 2: you see on the floor, it seems as if those
Speaker 2: guys are a real reflection of him. And also I
Speaker 2: think right now as it stands, just kind of we've
Speaker 2: talked about this, you know, with the schedule and everything. Like,
Speaker 2: I think he also has shown an ability to understand
Speaker 2: like the history of the program and know that like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, he could be like, let's say there's three
Speaker 2: teams he could potentially play. Memphis, I can't even really
Speaker 2: think of it. Memphis is a rare program because they
Speaker 2: do have some history and they've been pretty good, but
Speaker 2: like they've just they've been. Memphis is the one program.
Speaker 2: I believe this by all. I think Memphis is the
Speaker 2: one program that there was so much of musical chairs
Speaker 2: going on, so much with realignment. Memphis is the one
Speaker 2: that just completely just got left behind, like they never
Speaker 2: moved anywhere, Like they never were attractive enough for any
Speaker 2: league to want them, which kind of sucks for them.
Speaker 2: So They're not a program that I can just spitball
Speaker 2: specific programs that I think are in that same tier.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I just maybe this is what
Speaker 2: I'm choosing to believe. But like I think he picks
Speaker 2: Memphis or you know, maybe even the Indiana series and
Speaker 2: maybe even the Cincinnati thing because he knows that like
Speaker 2: that would mean to us than maybe a similar opponent
Speaker 2: we don't that we don't have the history with. Now
Speaker 2: there's also the other aspect of this. He's from Cincinnati, right, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm sure he wants like, here's what's crazy. He hates
Speaker 2: Cincinnati more than any of us ever will, which I
Speaker 2: grew up, you know, watching Bob Huggins teams in Conference Usay,
Speaker 2: Kenyon Martin, Steve Logan. I remember those teams Damar Johnson
Speaker 2: like Cincinnati. They were bad dudes, And I remember there
Speaker 2: were some times where we weren't as good as them,
Speaker 2: but we beat them in a regular season game or whatnot,
Speaker 2: and I remember knowing it was a big deal because
Speaker 2: they were the cream of the crop at the time
Speaker 2: in Conference USSA. And I remember listening to Bob Huggins all.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot that can be said about Bob Huggins,
Speaker 2: but I remember as a kid listening to him just
Speaker 2: rave about Denny Crume about how great of a coach
Speaker 2: he was, and you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: It's Denny. He did credit to Denny, and I remember
Speaker 2: thinking like, well, yeah, that's our coach. So I'm just
Speaker 2: I don't know, just we came back alive. This past
Speaker 2: season was just winning and feeling good about things and
Speaker 2: being excited, guys playing hard, representing the program in the
Speaker 2: right way, and all that stuff sounds corny and I
Speaker 2: get it, but like it brought us back to life.
Speaker 2: And now the way this schedule's setting up, like it's
Speaker 2: taken me back in time. And again I don't know
Speaker 2: who specifically deserves all the credit for that, but it's
Speaker 2: certainly been It's been fun thus far. So right now
Speaker 2: again here are non conference opponents that I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: we know by the way, I guess technically the Cincinnati
Speaker 2: stuff isn't even official, but clearly I think it's in
Speaker 2: the works to be official, because I don't think it
Speaker 2: is put out there by Rosstein and of course Eric
Speaker 2: Crawford if it's not something that's really gonna happen. But
Speaker 2: right now Louisville has in the non conference schedule Kentucky, Indiana, Cincinnati, Tennessee, Memphis,
Speaker 2: and Calip Perry in Arkansas. If what Rick Bositch put
Speaker 2: out there ends up being true, which I could totally
Speaker 2: see that your acc SEC game is Arkansas and you
Speaker 2: travel down to Fayetteville. I mean that's that's six opponents
Speaker 2: to where one. For the most part, you should be
Speaker 2: able to get value if you beat them easier said
Speaker 2: than done as far as you know, knocking off all
Speaker 2: these teams. But there's a clear like there's an element
Speaker 2: to each of these games that makes it more than
Speaker 2: just any other opponent. And it also makes it more
Speaker 2: than just any opponent. That is, you know, in a
Speaker 2: Power five type situation, Kentucky's your biggest rival, and nobody
Speaker 2: deserves credit for that game being on the schedule. That's
Speaker 2: always going to be on the schedule. But the Indiana series,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm glad we're doing that. There's clearly some
Speaker 2: some history there. And again we're talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: basically one of your one of your brethren, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean Indiana and Louivell to me,
Speaker 2: are are technically in the same realm when it comes
Speaker 2: to just kind of not knowing exactly where. Like nobody
Speaker 2: would claim that those programs aren't up there as far
Speaker 2: as the most successful all time in college basketball, with
Speaker 2: the best history, all that kind of stuff, but really
Speaker 2: really where they end up it kind of depends on
Speaker 2: the eye of of the person putting that together. Because
Speaker 2: you could make a case for Louisville to be a
Speaker 2: top six or seven program if you wanted you could
Speaker 2: maybe claim that maybe they're more so close to top
Speaker 2: ten Indiana, same exact thing. Cincinnati clearly one of our rivals. Tennessee,
Speaker 2: I don't really know if there's any connection, but they're
Speaker 2: clearly a really good opponent to have on your schedule.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, maybe there are some Louisville fans
Speaker 2: in Knoxville, vice versa. And then Memphis clearly a arrival that,
Speaker 2: you know. I hope it gets back to being super competitive,
Speaker 2: even contentious. No, I don't mean like in a nasty way,
Speaker 2: but right having opponents that you know, when you beat him,
Speaker 2: it's not just like beating anybody else. That's what makes
Speaker 2: this stuff fun. And then with Cali Perry, the only
Speaker 2: connection is him, right, I mean he used to be
Speaker 2: I mean, we couldn't beat him much at all when
Speaker 2: he was here in Lexington, you know, in the rivalry
Speaker 2: when that's here, That's what I mean. But maybe we
Speaker 2: can get our maybe we can get you know, get
Speaker 2: a little bit of redemption if we can beat him
Speaker 2: at Arkansas. I would have much rather beat him when
Speaker 2: he was at Kentucky, but you know that didn't work out.
Speaker 2: So again, good stuff when it comes to U of
Speaker 2: L hoops and that hasn't me excited. And Austin, I
Speaker 2: look forward to you and I kind of like going
Speaker 2: through this together because I would be willing to bet that,
Speaker 2: like you don't have any memory of the Cincinnati or
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the Memphis Louisville rivalry, right, yeah, not too
Speaker 2: much now and the Cincinnati you you probably are just
Speaker 2: a little too young to remember the Conference USA Bob
Speaker 2: Huggins days right.
Speaker 4: Right right, maybe like the tail end of that, like
Speaker 4: in two thousand and five ish, yep, and then ever
Speaker 4: ever since then, they've just always kind of been a
Speaker 4: part of Lousville's big eiet schedule.
Speaker 2: Yep. And can I remember. And I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: a hot take real quick here that I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's really a hot take, but I've not heard
Speaker 2: anybody else say it. But I've always believed this Mick
Speaker 2: Cronin killed the Cincinnati Louisville rivalry, Oh did he? Because
Speaker 2: he was an assistant for Rick at Louisville and then
Speaker 2: he went to Murray State, had success, got the Cincinnati job,
Speaker 2: took over for Andy Kennedy, who got it when Bob
Speaker 2: Huggins was let go, and Andy Kennedy didn't have it
Speaker 2: very long, and actually I think would have been a
Speaker 2: better Andy Kennedy would had he never you know, gotten
Speaker 2: drunk and punched a cab driver literally what happened. I
Speaker 2: think he would have fit really well. And since he
Speaker 2: had done well there, he's a good coach in my opinion.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, Mick got the job and it was playful
Speaker 2: because he was he was Patino's little protege, right, we
Speaker 2: didn't really fear him, and then they sucked for a
Speaker 2: long time to where we didn't eat so like you know,
Speaker 2: it kind of faded away then and then once the
Speaker 2: Big East went, you know, once the Big East died,
Speaker 2: and then we were in the American at that time,
Speaker 2: Mick did have good teams. Mick's resume as a coach,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, is specifically built on him winning a
Speaker 2: bunch of games when the Big East dissolved and he
Speaker 2: started playing in the American Conference against Tulane East Carolina
Speaker 2: in those kind of teams. That's why I was so
Speaker 2: adamant about, like anybody claiming this dude is worthy of
Speaker 2: being our coach. Like now, and you know when he
Speaker 2: says what I got to worry about I got, I got,
Speaker 2: I got five hutter wounds. Remember when he said that.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, yeah, you got most of those at
Speaker 2: Murray State. And it's Cincinnati when the Big East died
Speaker 2: and you stuck, you hung out there for a long
Speaker 2: time and then you bailed before Cincinnati made the move
Speaker 2: to the Big twelve. So anyways, I look forward to
Speaker 2: you know, you'll, you'll, you'll be able. I think to
Speaker 2: uh to kind of feed off my energy because even
Speaker 2: though Memphis, you know what Cincinnati rivalry. I totally remember Memphis,
Speaker 2: I knew of it. I didn't experience it at it's
Speaker 2: at its peak. But we'll get through it together and
Speaker 2: it'll be.
Speaker 4: Fun, a fun like kind of re exercise of what
Speaker 4: we did a few months ago. Like a first first
Speaker 4: player that comes to mind when you hell yea Cincinnati
Speaker 4: like yours seems to be like the Kenya Martin.
Speaker 2: Mine is the mind Steve Logan, which is right before
Speaker 2: it came to Steve Logan. Okay, my mine's land Stevenson. Okay.
Speaker 2: That and that makes total sense, makes total sense. I
Speaker 2: mean that speaks to me. That's I mean, I now
Speaker 2: know your your age range, totally totally get it who's
Speaker 2: the first player that comes from anything of Memphis. Probably
Speaker 2: don't even even Louisville. Isn't even a Louisville connection, right, Uh?
Speaker 4: The who's now I know of this moment, the favor
Speaker 4: is it Darius Washington Junior, the guy that missed the
Speaker 4: free throat?
Speaker 2: That's right, yep? Him and Derrick Rose maybe yeah, No,
Speaker 2: that makes total sense because in those in those are
Speaker 2: Col days, which of course that's the and I don't
Speaker 2: damn right it was. I don't remember in this I
Speaker 2: think for those that are older than me, this will
Speaker 2: put it in perspective as fart as far as like mine,
Speaker 2: Like I grew up knowing Memphis was a rival. I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't experience the era that made them the real
Speaker 2: hated rival. However, my only knowledge, my only memory of
Speaker 2: watching Memphis play basketball in any way against Louisville was
Speaker 2: whenever col was there, and I knew he went there
Speaker 2: after he left U Mass and whatnot. But you know,
Speaker 2: that kind of puts my because again, as soon as
Speaker 2: you said Land Stephenson totally checks out, because that would
Speaker 2: have made sense as far as the age difference between
Speaker 2: between the two of us.
Speaker 4: So well, Memphis used to be Memphis State, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, that was Conference USA, correct, Yes, okay.
Speaker 2: And I so I never knew them as Memphis State.
Speaker 2: And for those who weren't with us in the five
Speaker 2: o'clock hour yesterday, I shared this story when this news
Speaker 2: broke I one of the first books that I read
Speaker 2: and that I like checked out at the library at
Speaker 2: school was a book about Pitty Hardaway. It was like
Speaker 2: his his his bio or something. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was his bio, but I think it was a
Speaker 2: book about Petty Hardaway that at times that it was
Speaker 2: kind of catered for children, because you know, he was
Speaker 2: really popular. He had a little penny, the little like
Speaker 2: action figure kind of thing. And I remember seeing in
Speaker 2: the book that he was from Memphis State, and I
Speaker 2: was like, well, I guess I can't like him anymore.
Speaker 2: And I still liked him, but you know, that's kind
Speaker 2: of what like, you know, that was the fuel for
Speaker 2: for me really that that was the moment where I realized, hey,
Speaker 2: despite not experiencing it when it was really at its
Speaker 2: at its peak, I still know that Memphis State's the rival.
Speaker 2: And if you call a Memphis State, they don't like it,
Speaker 2: So that's what we're gonna call it. Oh really, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: they hate that all. They hate the Memphis State part. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because like Memphis. I mean, like, first of all, Memphis
Speaker 2: is not a state. Right. Also, like they they ditched
Speaker 2: the state to become more of like a I guess,
Speaker 2: you know, feeling like they were officially you know, I
Speaker 2: don't really know if anything changed with the school, but
Speaker 2: they you know, over time they were like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: should just call ourselves Memphis not Memphis State. So gotcha. Anyways,
Speaker 2: frauds exactly. Some other things we're going to certainly get
Speaker 2: into today. The college football playoff changes that are certainly coming.
Speaker 2: It sounds like we now have a good idea of
Speaker 2: what they're going to do, and it is a lot
Speaker 2: of what we've talked about here and there in the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. And I mean I expected it,
Speaker 2: but I still just think it's crazy to give certain
Speaker 2: guaranteed spots to a conference when you when no games
Speaker 2: have been played. I mean, like there's no incentive for
Speaker 2: like to even like compete as as like you can
Speaker 2: now put your feet up a little bit if you're
Speaker 2: in the Big ten or the ACC or the SEC
Speaker 2: because you got four guaranteed spots no matter what to
Speaker 2: go along. Like as much as the SEC has been
Speaker 2: hammering that they belong, they belong, you know they deserve
Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt. Well, there's four for the
Speaker 2: Big ten, four for the SCC, two for the Big twelve,
Speaker 2: two for the ACC, I believe, one for the G
Speaker 2: five non like, one for Notre Dame, and then one
Speaker 2: for the G five folks, and then there'll be three
Speaker 2: at large. This is what it sounds like, and I'll
Speaker 2: pull it up later and make sure I've got that right.
Speaker 2: But like all the at largers are going to go
Speaker 2: to more Big ten and SEC teams. That's what it's
Speaker 2: gonna come down to. So I mean, again, I'm not
Speaker 2: in any way advocating that like those aren't the best
Speaker 2: two conferences, especially the SEC, but why they don't even
Speaker 2: need to actually have a good season to get in
Speaker 2: because their conference affiliation will make it to where they
Speaker 2: could be eight and four, And we know you can
Speaker 2: be eight and four, and it can be you can
Speaker 2: be you can have two teams that are eight and
Speaker 2: four and they can be on different worlds as far
Speaker 2: as like legitimately how good they are but you know
Speaker 2: which one's gonna get the benefit of the doubt. For example,
Speaker 2: last year South Carolina they had no loss to a
Speaker 2: bad team, They didn't beat anybody we're talking about. They
Speaker 2: would be in the playoff in the extended format, and
Speaker 2: there's no way that anybody could claim that they have
Speaker 2: a result that would that would that would validate their
Speaker 2: entry other than just well, you know they play in
Speaker 2: the SEC. Man, it's SEC. And again, I feel like
Speaker 2: anytime I say that, people are like, oh that I'm
Speaker 2: acting like the SEC is not great? But what if
Speaker 2: it's not? One day? Like what if what if it's not?
Speaker 2: Like if you're in the SEC, you can now like
Speaker 2: reduce nil, Like we don't actually need to be that
Speaker 2: good because we can be all right, and because of
Speaker 2: our conference, we're gonna get the playoff. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't think anybody would would do that because that's stupid,
Speaker 2: but like that's that's that's we're at least leaving the
Speaker 2: door open for that. And I don't know how anybody
Speaker 2: has not not like this is to me, why even
Speaker 2: play games if there's guaranteed spots per conference before any
Speaker 2: games or played, Like it's just it's a popularity contest,
Speaker 2: that's what it is.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: You gotta win when you get there. That's not based
Speaker 2: off popularity. But getting there is a hard thing to
Speaker 2: do for a lot of people, but not if you're
Speaker 2: in the SEC or the Big ten moving forward. If
Speaker 2: that's what ends up happening, which it sounds like it's
Speaker 2: going to be, I mean, it's just it's gross. Also,
Speaker 2: there's more Bill Belichick drama. Yeah, the Pablo Torre. I mean,
Speaker 2: I believe everything he said, by the way, but Carolina
Speaker 2: coming out having to kind of debunk it and say,
Speaker 2: you know, she's welcome. She's not an employee, but she's
Speaker 2: always welcome here. Jordan Hudson, Carolina's got to read the room.
Speaker 2: Even if that was even if they're just putting out
Speaker 2: a statement to correct the misinformation, you've lost the ability
Speaker 2: to have any control over the perception of the old
Speaker 2: geezer running your program with a woman young enough to
Speaker 2: be his granddaughter. Anybody that's like, oh, yeah, I saw
Speaker 2: Carolina's statement, nothing to see here, You're out of your mind.
Speaker 2: Belichick's family is now at least speaking up like some
Speaker 2: body helped this guy, and Carolina is like, oh, as
Speaker 2: you know, they're acting like, oh, what's the big deal?
Speaker 2: Totally you know, totally just different. Everybody it again, this
Speaker 2: is what I said, I think two weeks ago, and
Speaker 2: this became a developing, brewing situation. How are you gonna
Speaker 2: blame the media? You're Bill Belichick with enough Super Bowl
Speaker 2: rings to fit on more than you know one hand,
Speaker 2: and you're in your seventies dating a woman who's twenty four,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna play like, I don't know why
Speaker 2: people are making a big deal about it. It'd be
Speaker 2: one thing if it was known and she wasn't visible.
Speaker 2: She's in everything. She's injected herself into everything, Like Carolina
Speaker 2: looks like a bunch of clowns. And it's not because
Speaker 2: they have Belichick as the coach, but everything, Like, if
Speaker 2: you're gonna hire Belichick, would you hire him knowing that
Speaker 2: this was gonna be the way that things play out
Speaker 2: before he coaches a game? And I know that the
Speaker 2: Carolina's statement will put a lot of people at ease,
Speaker 2: like Okay, yeah, they're just they're they're you know, they're
Speaker 2: they're letting everybody know that it's not that big of
Speaker 2: a deal. Okay, I'm letting you know right now. If
Speaker 2: he's not, if he doesn't ever coach a game at Carolina,
Speaker 2: hand up, I'm not gonna be surprised. Yeah, I'll be
Speaker 2: shocked if he makes it through the whole season. I
Speaker 2: mean it again, imagine if they if they if they
Speaker 2: hit adversity, Oh, it'll be okay because our coaches. You know,
Speaker 2: he's hooking up with a girl that you know is
Speaker 2: basically our age, a student's age. Yeah, I mean, like,
Speaker 2: it's crazy. It's crazy. I mean the Belichick, Jordan Hudson, Carolina,
Speaker 2: the entire thing. It's still, as of now, something that
Speaker 2: I have to, for at least a millisecond, think like,
Speaker 2: wait a second, this is real, isn't it? Like I
Speaker 2: didn't dream this, because it's it's it's insane.
Speaker 4: It's amazing that she's almost like a household name in
Speaker 4: sports now for literally nothing other than sleeping with Bill
Speaker 4: Belichick yep, and controlling him like like the Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 4: Like she's she's she's the person behind the curtain.
Speaker 2: And she could lay low and be not anonymous, But
Speaker 2: she could lay low and be completely away from all
Speaker 2: this and still get everything that you would think that
Speaker 2: she wants. However, what she wants is this the attention,
Speaker 2: the notoriety, and even if she's in a bad light, like,
Speaker 2: she's gonna be remembered. I mean, like put this way
Speaker 2: until the day she's no longer with us. You google
Speaker 2: her name, especially with the unique spelling of Jordan, she's
Speaker 2: gonna be known as the young brod that you know
Speaker 2: snatched up the sea Nile. Bill Belichick, who you know
Speaker 2: has is funded again, I'm saying things that you're gonna
Speaker 2: think are just like hyperbole, like just throwing stone. No,
Speaker 2: who's now funding her mother's sex toy shop. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: she now has acquired millions upon millions of real estate
Speaker 2: in the Northeast. All happened. All that happening right around
Speaker 2: the time that they were you know, they became an item.
Speaker 2: And let me, let's be real, when it became public
Speaker 2: that they were dating. I wonder who you think wanted
Speaker 2: that out there. You think Bill was like call let's
Speaker 2: call a PR company. Let's make sure we get it
Speaker 2: out there that I'm with this young broad. No, like
Speaker 2: she wanted it out there because she is milking him
Speaker 2: for everything. Let's get CBS on the horn, like, honey,
Speaker 2: I mean, like I'm not sure Bill's even there, Like
Speaker 2: hard for me to think he's not, because you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know him. But in seventy three is not
Speaker 2: that old, Like it's not young, but like it's not.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you can be. You know, you
Speaker 2: can be in that age and have some issues with
Speaker 2: like you know, memory, and you know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to I mean, I'm not. I don't even want to
Speaker 2: use specific diagnosis that you can get it at that
Speaker 2: age or even younger, because I don't. That'd be reckless
Speaker 2: of me to do, because I have no reason to
Speaker 2: believe that he's not in his right mind. But all
Speaker 2: the actions make you think that, like what's this guy doing?
Speaker 2: Like what is he getting from this? I mean other
Speaker 2: than being embarrassed?
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is almost eighty, he's seventy eight years old,
Speaker 4: but he seems like he has more there a little bit,
Speaker 4: oh totally.
Speaker 2: And I'm not you know, I'm not here to just
Speaker 2: gas up Trump, but no, you're right, like absolutely, Like
Speaker 2: I mean, it's almost one of those things like a
Speaker 2: Belichick talked more, maybe we would realize, Okay, this guy
Speaker 2: needs help, right, but like he doesn't talk unless she's
Speaker 2: right next to him. And she made that clear on CBS,
Speaker 2: made it really clear. So all right, let's get to
Speaker 2: a break way too long here in the first segment,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. It happens sometimes. Stick with us. It's
Speaker 2: coffee and Company. We're fuel about Thornton's right here on
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Speaker 2: I know this time of year, it's tough to know
Speaker 2: exactly what we're gonna get from mother nature, but I
Speaker 2: feel I feel pretty pretty confident in saying there's nothing
Speaker 2: that's happened in the last couple days that would require
Speaker 2: anybody to turn the heat on in this studio, which
Speaker 2: runs hot anyways, because we have our own personal heater,
Speaker 2: all the equipment that is right in front of me,
Speaker 2: this humongous board with a bunch of lights and whatever else,
Speaker 2: and all these servers in here, and I'm thinking, man,
Speaker 2: it's it's not only like not cool, but like it's
Speaker 2: kind of hot. And then I go over to the
Speaker 2: door right before we get back from break, and the
Speaker 2: heat is on, and a lot of people blame well,
Speaker 2: you know, it's just Audo. It's just it's programmed. It's
Speaker 2: controlled elsewhere, but I'm having to keep the door open
Speaker 2: because I don't know why the heat was on, but
Speaker 2: it's it's hot in here. So there's people out near
Speaker 2: our kitchen area here. They may not even have signed
Speaker 2: up for the Coffee and Company experience today, but they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to get it like it or not, because
Speaker 2: you know, I gotta breathe. You were in here earlier, Austin.
Speaker 2: It's hot as hell, is it not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very unusually hot. And I know, I, like
Speaker 4: you said, I know, usually there's that factor. There's so
Speaker 4: many like different computers and modems in there. But I've
Speaker 4: never like it usually don't feel that till like it's
Speaker 4: hot in the summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well sometimes, I mean you mentioned unusual. It's unusual
Speaker 2: because somebody unusually decided to turn the heat on when
Speaker 2: it's you know, warm outside. But whenever I would come
Speaker 2: in in the summer, and you did a good job,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate you trying to help me, because like
Speaker 2: if you popped in here at one o'clock and you
Speaker 2: realized it was eighty five degrees, then I would know, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna not come into the show. Today or I'm gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, make sure somebody fixes that. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 2: but like anybody like that wouldn't because the heat's on.
Speaker 2: That's because somebody just didn't turn the air on. Well
Speaker 2: now we like you know, anyways, long story short, I
Speaker 2: I'm uncomfortable because I'm hot, and I can't I can't
Speaker 2: remove layers because you know that would be that'd be
Speaker 2: an HR violation. That's true. But you know what's here,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave this door open for the segment in
Speaker 2: hopes that now that I've got the air on that
Speaker 2: maybe we can cool off. But anyways, it's coffee and
Speaker 2: company here on Sports Talk seven ninety a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you hanging out with us as we get your
Speaker 2: step for the weekend, get your step from Mother's Day too,
Speaker 2: So hopefully you guys have some plans for for celebrating
Speaker 2: Mother's Day. Rather it be the moms out there or
Speaker 2: the fellas that want to have a special day for
Speaker 2: and you know, for a lot of folks, myself included,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's a big day because you know,
Speaker 2: I've got the mother of my children, who of course
Speaker 2: is my wife I've got my mother, I've got my
Speaker 2: mother in law, my stepmother, I've got my grandmother. So
Speaker 2: I mean, like even like my sister is not my mom,
Speaker 2: but like I always try to, you know, help she,
Speaker 2: you know, wish her a happy Mother's Day too, in
Speaker 2: whatever way I can. So shout out to all the moms.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you all have a great weekend and are appreciated.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phone lines. If I
Speaker 2: go to if I've seven one seventy nine hundred is
Speaker 2: the number if you want to jump in and give
Speaker 2: us a call. Let's go to Larry. Larry, how are
Speaker 2: we doing? Welcome to Sports Talk seventy ninety what's up?
Speaker 5: All doing fine? I just wanted to comment on your
Speaker 5: real discussion about Memphis versus Memphis State. Yeah, and it
Speaker 5: was it was Memphis State University up at nineteen ninety six. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm from I'm from West Tennessee and I grew up
Speaker 5: listened to the Memphis State Tigers on the radio. I
Speaker 5: grew up understanding their rivalry were Louisville and this type
Speaker 5: of thing. But I just thought you might find this
Speaker 5: it's funny. I'm a University of Tennessee, gret got seventy three,
Speaker 5: and our pet name for Memphis State or University of Memphis,
Speaker 5: which I wanting to call it is Tiger High School.
Speaker 2: Okay, is that just because like there you just see
Speaker 2: them as so, you know, junior varsity type of level
Speaker 2: compared to like the big leagues kind of thing. I
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, are they.
Speaker 2: Rivals because honestly, it makes sense that there's somewhat of
Speaker 2: a rivalry there. But like other than when they played.
Speaker 2: I remember when Bruce Pearl was at Tennessee and cow
Speaker 2: was still at Memphis. They played in the regular season
Speaker 2: and it was a big big deal because I think
Speaker 2: there were number one and number two. But outside of that,
Speaker 2: I don't really know of a lot of meetings between
Speaker 2: the two.
Speaker 5: Well as far as basketball, not really the football. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I pay more attention to the football. Sure,
Speaker 5: the basketball, but in football it is a fairly intense
Speaker 5: rivalry in football. We played them more often in football
Speaker 5: than do basketball. But even at that, we don't play
Speaker 5: them that often, but we have played them more often
Speaker 5: in football, and uh, there has been games where it
Speaker 5: has been some pretty bad blood to quin the two university.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I just wanted wanted to bring that up with you.
Speaker 5: I thought you might find it shitty about our pet.
Speaker 2: Name for him, so say it again, Tiger High School,
Speaker 2: Tiger High School. I'll keep that in the back pocket.
Speaker 2: But when we play them. Thank you, Larry. I appreciate
Speaker 2: the call, appreciate you listening. Yeah, you know, I was
Speaker 2: just thinking about how, you know, Memphis, of course is
Speaker 2: uh one of the biggest cities in which which I
Speaker 2: was going to say, it's the biggest city in Tennessee,
Speaker 2: but obviously Nashville, but like Nashville has exploded in the
Speaker 2: last really twenty twenty five years, I mean Nashville. I
Speaker 2: feel like maybe this is just me as a kid,
Speaker 2: not knowing anything, and just you know, assuming that Nashville
Speaker 2: and Louisville were relatively similar as far as markets and cities.
Speaker 2: I know that's not the case now, but I feel
Speaker 2: like it used to be. But I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's just how I remember it. But Memphis and Tennessee,
Speaker 2: if you think about it, you know, there's no Nashville
Speaker 2: you know, university, so there could have been some similarities
Speaker 2: between the Louisville Kentucky rivalry and the Memphis and Tennessee rivalry,
Speaker 2: but Tennessee historically has just been I mean, they're a football,
Speaker 2: you know, powerhouse historically, and I don't mean that they're,
Speaker 2: you know, the best of all time, but clearly they've
Speaker 2: had they've had phenomenal seasons, They've had a great I mean,
Speaker 2: they have great history, great tradition. They're not you know,
Speaker 2: they're not. I mean, they're they're on a different planet
Speaker 2: than than than than Memphis is in football and in basketball.
Speaker 2: I mean, Tennessee they've never i mean, they've never been
Speaker 2: to a Final Four, which they've got to be. And
Speaker 2: I know every year around March Madness, you see this
Speaker 2: list that gets that gets thrown out there about the
Speaker 2: most successful programs in college basketball that have never made
Speaker 2: a Final Four, and they're always usually toward the top,
Speaker 2: And I kind of feel like they've got to be
Speaker 2: at the top of that now. But then again, I'm
Speaker 2: basing that off of mostly the Rick Barnes era, because
Speaker 2: they had a good run there with Bruce Pearl. But
Speaker 2: prior to that, I don't really remember Tennessee basketball doing
Speaker 2: a whole lot. Like when I think of Tennessee basketball
Speaker 2: when I was young, I think of Alan Houston, and
Speaker 2: that just makes me sad because he should have been
Speaker 2: at Louisville. But obviously, you know, his dad got the
Speaker 2: job at Tennessee and makes total sense how that worked out.
Speaker 2: But maybe Louisville was able to. I mean again, sometimes
Speaker 2: things align and at the time you never know that
Speaker 2: that it's going to be something that is impactful to
Speaker 2: an extent that you have a rivalry that is you know,
Speaker 2: believe the way, Kentucky didn't want to play Louisville and
Speaker 2: then they had to play in the tournament and then
Speaker 2: the dream game, you know, and that of course was
Speaker 2: the dream game, and then they became you know, then
Speaker 2: they were on the schedule because obviously Kentucky, he has
Speaker 2: always viewed Louisville as the probably in a way that
Speaker 2: that Tennessee has viewed Memphis. But then you know, little brother,
Speaker 2: he hit the weight room and did some did some
Speaker 2: things and won national championships, and then that led to Kentucky,
Speaker 2: you know, meeting us in the tournament, and then of
Speaker 2: course from then on they've been a regular opponent and
Speaker 2: it's one of the best, if not in my opinion,
Speaker 2: it's the best rivalry in college basketball and then in football. Honestly,
Speaker 2: like they did always look at us as you know,
Speaker 2: beneath them in football. And they had a good reason too, obviously,
Speaker 2: because you know the when this series was played, you know,
Speaker 2: when they wore leather straps on their head. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: call those helmets, which, by the way, I do love
Speaker 2: when Kentucky fans bring up that as well, the all
Speaker 2: Tom history. Okay, yeah, let's let's let's let's not let's
Speaker 2: just completely ignore the like sixty year gap in society.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, they were so bad in football, meaning Kentucky
Speaker 2: that like Louisville could realistically get their shot at him
Speaker 2: and you know, clearly hold their own Louisville still despite
Speaker 2: losing what was five in orro h? Is that true?
Speaker 2: Amy saying that out loud Austin, We lose five in
Speaker 2: Erroe to Kentucky. Yes, so we lost. We didn't play
Speaker 2: them one year, but like we los, I mean we
Speaker 2: lost in eighteen nineteen, didn't play in twenty lost in
Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. Yes, we lost five
Speaker 2: in a row, and then we beat him this past year.
Speaker 2: Why am I spacing? Was that a COVID thing that
Speaker 2: we didn't. Yeah, yeah, they yeah, and well and not
Speaker 2: that it matters now, but they were fighting to not
Speaker 2: have the game played as well. They were in support
Speaker 2: of the conference not having any game other than SEC games,
Speaker 2: whereas South Carolina and one other school in the conference
Speaker 2: was fighting because they wanted to play their rival. South
Speaker 2: Carolina wanted to play Clemson. I believe Florida wanted to
Speaker 2: play Florida State and Kentucky, you know, they wanted to
Speaker 2: advocate let's just only play which again, like I don't
Speaker 2: think Kentucky was scared, but like I don't know why
Speaker 2: you wouldn't, you know, with that being really the one
Speaker 2: Like if Stoops didn't have the wins against louis he
Speaker 2: wouldn't be their coach right now, facts, right, facts. So yeah,
Speaker 2: So anyways, you know, it worked out well for Louisville
Speaker 2: because in basketball, we proved, like you know, not only
Speaker 2: do you are you know clearly historically you're you're above
Speaker 2: us with all the titles, but like you know, we
Speaker 2: got a championship under our belt. We're in the midst
Speaker 2: of being the team of the eighties, Like you're gonna
Speaker 2: meet us at one point, and then we did. We
Speaker 2: met him in the NAA tournament, and then from then
Speaker 2: on they had to play. And it's the legendary sound
Speaker 2: of Denny. What do he say, We said he wouldn't play, Well,
Speaker 2: that's typical, like Denny's line of like, yeah, it's typical
Speaker 2: jobey Hall didn't want to play him. And then again,
Speaker 2: you know they have ever since and it's been great.
Speaker 2: And then in football, I don't even really know how
Speaker 2: the game came about. Schnellen Murger I know was a
Speaker 2: big part of that because of his history with both
Speaker 2: sides of it. But like Memphis was unable to really
Speaker 2: have a rivalry with their state school and we were,
Speaker 2: and it was you know, and I'm glad we did
Speaker 2: because rivalries make sports great. But again basketball, we did
Speaker 2: enough to where like you can you can still live
Speaker 2: in your world that you're you're way above us. But
Speaker 2: you know, last I check, we want a title before
Speaker 2: you and we're going to see in the tournament, which
Speaker 2: we did, and then from then on, you know, clearly
Speaker 2: we know what's happened. And then in football, you know,
Speaker 2: certain things aligned where we had to start playing them.
Speaker 2: And then for you know, again in the modern era,
Speaker 2: Louisville lost five in a row and still has the
Speaker 2: edge in series, which I think is pretty telling. Our
Speaker 2: quick break will come back on the other side. Wrap
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Speaker 2: I know this is this has been the case at
Speaker 2: least two years ago. It was, and I would be
Speaker 2: shocked if it has changed since then. But the busiest
Speaker 2: day for restaurants, out of the three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five days that we have in a year, the toughest
Speaker 2: day to get a table, to get lunch, even dinner
Speaker 2: is this Sunday, which of course is Mother's Day. And
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody would expect Mother's Day to be
Speaker 2: like a light day for restaurants. But there's a lot
Speaker 2: of other holidays that you don't typically go to eat
Speaker 2: somewhere you like moms, you aren't going. Maybe you are.
Speaker 2: If so, then that's awesome, maybe that's what they love
Speaker 2: to do. But you know, you would think a lot
Speaker 2: of people would be like, hey, mom, you don't need
Speaker 2: a cook today for us to have a family, get together.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get together, and it's Mother's Day. It's for you,
Speaker 2: So let's let's either have somebody else cook or we
Speaker 2: go somewhere out to eat. But like I would have
Speaker 2: if you'd ask me what day in the year would
Speaker 2: would be the busiest day for restaurants, I mean, maybe
Speaker 2: I would have got there at some point, but I
Speaker 2: don't think I would have. But it makes total sense
Speaker 2: because like Father's Day, I mean, no one cares about
Speaker 2: us dads. Well I'm not a dad. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it's it's not as big of a day as Mother's Day, seemingly.
Speaker 2: And also, you know, I just think there's different ways
Speaker 2: to I mean, again, I hate to sound like all
Speaker 2: women do is cook, and I know itrobably sounds terrible
Speaker 2: just the way I put it out there a moment ago.
Speaker 2: But like I'm just saying, like a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of other holidays where you make sure you make
Speaker 2: it a point I need to go see family. I
Speaker 2: need to spend some time with family, because that's what
Speaker 2: you do for certain holidays, you know, like when I
Speaker 2: go to Thanksgiving with my family, if I go to Christmas, Easter,
Speaker 2: or whatever it may be, Like wherever I'm going either
Speaker 2: Mama or Grandma's cooking like that's cause that's just you
Speaker 2: know where That's not to say that's all they do,
Speaker 2: but you know, it's just been that way for a
Speaker 2: long time. And I'd rather eat their cooking than go
Speaker 2: out to eat. But you know, on Mother's Day, you
Speaker 2: don't want them doing anything that's considered work. You want
Speaker 2: to take care of them. So I bring all this
Speaker 2: up to say, expect some real, you know, delays in
Speaker 2: getting a table if you're trying to you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I would say expect a wait anywhere you go anywhere
Speaker 2: on Sunday outside of like maybe I mean maybe you
Speaker 2: take your mama to McDonald's or Taco Bell and sit
Speaker 2: down and eat. And that's you know, there's not there's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying, like, you know,
Speaker 2: I think it was the first, uh one of the
Speaker 2: first this you know, the COVID pandemic era is such
Speaker 2: a blur to where I feel like I was about
Speaker 2: to say that this was this is one of those
Speaker 2: things from COVID, but like, I don't think it is
Speaker 2: the case because at some point it might have been
Speaker 2: like the first time, like restaurants were hit really hard
Speaker 2: being fully open, so it might have been how long
Speaker 2: will we lock down? Like this is where I'm not
Speaker 2: even kidding, like it is. It is such a blur
Speaker 2: to me, that whole thing. So like in March of
Speaker 2: twenty twenties, when it all whenever, you know, everything was,
Speaker 2: you know what it was. Yeah, I think so by
Speaker 2: May of twenty twenty one, like restaurants were full go right,
Speaker 2: or maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: I think it was June of that next year where
Speaker 4: everything was fully blown and open without like.
Speaker 2: Cause do you remember that June may lead up to
Speaker 2: where like oh yeah, you were we kind of all,
Speaker 2: you know, in a way gotten back to what normal,
Speaker 2: but like we knew that that date coming up. You're
Speaker 2: right it was, it was. I think it might have
Speaker 2: been early June where it was like at this point
Speaker 2: like basically everything is what it was before this happened, right.
Speaker 4: Well, because places were like open, but they were closing
Speaker 4: at like seven o'clock and bars weren't open past like
Speaker 4: eleven and stuff like that. So everything got back to
Speaker 4: fully functioning that June. But I think it was probably man,
Speaker 4: it felt like over a year, but I think it
Speaker 4: was maybe later on that year, maybe like the start
Speaker 4: of January or February of No, it.
Speaker 2: Was around Thanksgiving, around things more or they shut us
Speaker 2: back down. There was a there. I remember, Oh, there
Speaker 2: was a surge. I was at the gym, and at
Speaker 2: the gym on TV. It was on I mean, it
Speaker 2: was a lot. I think it was Basher doing a
Speaker 2: press conference kind of announcing that they're going to have
Speaker 2: to go. It wasn't long, but they went back to
Speaker 2: like limiting the amount of people that could be in restaurants.
Speaker 2: And I think at that point, there's just the way
Speaker 2: I see at Austin. I think it felt like they
Speaker 2: were gonna even anything they tried to do more than
Speaker 2: that they weren't going to be successful because people weren't
Speaker 2: going to comply, and even like in any way it
Speaker 2: would have been like a full on like no, I
Speaker 2: mean I shouldn't say that because I don't know how
Speaker 2: anybody else would have acted, but it just you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't last long, but I remember that. I remember
Speaker 2: thinking we were on the clear, and then like you know,
Speaker 2: and then also at that point not to minimize anybody
Speaker 2: that did have a real tough time with the virus
Speaker 2: and what it caused lingering or maybe even you know,
Speaker 2: fatal or whatever. But like the vast majority of society
Speaker 2: had known or had it themselves and been fine and
Speaker 2: been like what are we doing? Like I think that
Speaker 2: was the mindset. Again, I can'd speak for anybody but myself,
Speaker 2: but I do remember that, and I swear I read
Speaker 2: something the other day that like made me really sad
Speaker 2: because I don't remember a lot of my So, my
Speaker 2: son is four, he'll be five in June. He's a
Speaker 2: COVID baby. My wife went through her a good chunk
Speaker 2: of her pregnancy with him during the pandemic. He was
Speaker 2: born on June first, and I was the only person
Speaker 2: allowed to be in the hospital babies and he was
Speaker 2: and he was. I mean there was also the night
Speaker 2: he was born, or I guess, yeah, the night because
Speaker 2: the day he was born that morning. Actually he took
Speaker 2: a while later in the day, but there was a
Speaker 2: lockdown on the city because of one of the Breonna
Speaker 2: Taylor protesting things led to officers shooting somebody who owned
Speaker 2: like a business in the West End, and that led
Speaker 2: to a lockdown, And I'm thinking, okay, whatever, you know whatever,
Speaker 2: like that just means like I can't go and be
Speaker 2: out and you know I can't be bar hopping or something. Well,
Speaker 2: I left the hospital like thinking, okay, well because of
Speaker 2: the restrictions, they only fed my wife. They had no
Speaker 2: there's no cafeteria. There's no food for me. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go like hit a gas station and get
Speaker 2: like some beef jerky or something. I left the hospital
Speaker 2: on Dutchman's Lane and realized, no, this is a true
Speaker 2: like McDonald's closed, gas stations, closed nothing. And here I
Speaker 2: am thinking, like what a story this would be. I
Speaker 2: get arrested the day my son's born because I violated
Speaker 2: the uh you know, the lockdown and in the curfew. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was a if it's what it was to where
Speaker 2: like I turned right back around and my wife, God
Speaker 2: bless her. She she saved me half of the turkey
Speaker 2: sandwich that the hospital provided her, so at least had
Speaker 2: something to eat. But it was weird. But but I
Speaker 2: always do you know, I just assumed, well, it's the
Speaker 2: second child, like because it wasn't your first. It just
Speaker 2: wasn't as much like you weren't as much in the moment.
Speaker 2: But then I read and like it's a real thing.
Speaker 2: COVID babies, babies born going through like their first two
Speaker 2: years of life, when when we were in that time,
Speaker 2: like they won't know any different because they don't remember it.
Speaker 2: But like as a parent, like it's not normal to
Speaker 2: have you know, like not normal to bring up I mean,
Speaker 2: hell of a it's not normal at all for I mean,
Speaker 2: think about the lead if he was born in June.
Speaker 2: So for the last four months roughly of her appointments,
Speaker 2: like only only I could go to the doctor, and
Speaker 2: then at a time I couldn't even go, she had
Speaker 2: to go by herself, right and then whenever I mean
Speaker 2: it was like it was like we got some waiver
Speaker 2: from like the president for me to be even able
Speaker 2: to be in the room when she had the baby,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't be nearer. Like it was it was
Speaker 2: a mess. But again, ask the COVID whole thing, the
Speaker 2: whole pandemic era is a blur, and I just assume
Speaker 2: and it is, but like, man, I don't I don't,
Speaker 2: like I don't remember my son being a baby, and
Speaker 2: that's probably mostly just me, but also the fact that
Speaker 2: like she tells me that all the time too. And
Speaker 2: then I read this article about like COVID baby start
Speaker 2: school next year, which is true, Mason starts starts kindergarten
Speaker 2: next year. It's insane and it's like, damn, well, now
Speaker 2: I know where time went. Like the first two years
Speaker 2: of his life was like a blur to me. So anyways,
Speaker 2: Mother's Day Sunday, and I don't know how we ended
Speaker 2: up on where we just were. But be prepared for
Speaker 2: a long wait. Even if you have reservations, like they're
Speaker 2: probably not gonna have it ready when you walk in
Speaker 2: because it's just gonna be tough. All right, two hours left,
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