Speaker 1: You say, but really how you say it is a
Speaker 1: huge factor in broadcasting. I think everybody knows that. But
Speaker 1: because my voice is not well, I need I need
Speaker 1: to maintain as best I can because we still got
Speaker 1: two hours to go and a lot to get into.
Speaker 1: So it is Coffee and Company. We are feel about
Speaker 1: the Ortons, And if you want to keep this great
Speaker 1: experience going, you can listen live on the iHeart Radio.
Speaker 1: I've also listened live at seven ninety Louisville dot Com.
Speaker 1: The other voice that is in great shape that you
Speaker 1: hear every day, but you may hear it a little
Speaker 1: more than you usually do is Austin Montgomery. That's me
Speaker 1: because you know, we've we've really recovered since that first
Speaker 1: segment where I just completely like I blew out a
Speaker 1: tire or something. I mean, I just couldn't. I was
Speaker 1: I was given a take, I was laying it out,
Speaker 1: I was setting it up like I wanted to, and
Speaker 1: then the voice was just gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you hit a pothole. We had to get the
Speaker 2: jack out and unscrew the lug. No, that's right, let's
Speaker 2: put the doughnut back on. But hey, listen, I'm ready
Speaker 2: to go at any time today. I got the jump on.
Speaker 2: I got to jump in with the boys Tony and
Speaker 2: Dwight earlier, Oh hell ya in their station. Got to
Speaker 2: talk to them for about five minutes, And that always
Speaker 2: gives me a fun boost of confidence.
Speaker 3: I love that show and those two you talk about.
Speaker 1: Like those two sons of guns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you could say that.
Speaker 2: It's just the way that they're so free flowing on
Speaker 2: that show is just ridiculous. I feel like they're like
Speaker 2: like that their whole aspect of like their everyday lives,
Speaker 2: and it's just funny to watch those two work together
Speaker 2: because they just bounce off each other so well.
Speaker 1: Funny Tony not as much Tony, just because I've known
Speaker 1: Tony longer than I'm known Dwight, and I've I've worked
Speaker 1: with Tony for a long time. We've done a lot
Speaker 1: of radio together. Dwight not as much. But obviously I
Speaker 1: go on with them every now and then. And when
Speaker 1: Dwight made the move to not, you know, not just
Speaker 1: be both sales and on air now he's just on air,
Speaker 1: that's when I, you know, I was around him a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But I have people that have asked
Speaker 1: me this about both these guys. But more so Dwight
Speaker 1: in recent years, which is is that guy the same
Speaker 1: on And I'm like, oh, absolutely, every like I think
Speaker 1: Dwight is the same guy on social media, on the radio,
Speaker 1: off the radio, at you know, the local bear knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's he's authentic and he's consistent.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's he's he's a good vibe, he's a
Speaker 3: he's a hoot.
Speaker 1: That's he's the definition of it. I think, be honest
Speaker 1: with you and uh love those guys, and I mean,
Speaker 1: look at you. You've got you've got those you were
Speaker 1: on with those guys this morning and now you're now
Speaker 1: you're on at the top it off with aren't we
Speaker 1: living the dream? We're living the dream? Good stuff? All right?
Speaker 1: So last night I was talking about Kansas getting blown
Speaker 1: out last night, and what I wanted to do is
Speaker 1: go back and look at the programs this year in
Speaker 1: college basketball. But heading into the season, we're believed to
Speaker 1: have done better than everybody else when it comes to
Speaker 1: the transfer portal, and Kansas is certainly one of them. Kansas,
Speaker 1: I think deservedly so, was viewed as the number one
Speaker 1: team in the country, but just about everybody because not
Speaker 1: only what they brought back, but what they brought in
Speaker 1: via the portal. I mean, if you go and there's different,
Speaker 1: there's different I guess outlets that have their rankings as
Speaker 1: far as which classes they think are the best and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and there's different ways to do it, you know. To me,
Speaker 1: I think it's the one I wish we would have
Speaker 1: instead of recruiting rank and we'll never do this. But
Speaker 1: to me, just as a college basketball fan myself, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody's different, I wish there was more of
Speaker 1: a all right, here's the best off season you know,
Speaker 1: off season roster management rankings. That doesn't roll off the
Speaker 1: tongue by any means, but just how did you do
Speaker 1: as far as keeping guys that everybody knows you wanted
Speaker 1: to keep, and guys you brought in that were freshmen
Speaker 1: that could help you, and then of course guys in
Speaker 1: the portal. I don't think it's that difficult to look
Speaker 1: at those three components and put together a top twenty
Speaker 1: five in the off season. That doesn't necessarily mean you're
Speaker 1: saying these are the top twenty five teams in the country.
Speaker 1: It's just that these are the teams that you know,
Speaker 1: really did a great job of navigating this new world
Speaker 1: of Okay, we got to keep the guys who want
Speaker 1: to keep. We want to make sure we still bring
Speaker 1: in some young talent from the freshman class. But also
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys in the portal, and we
Speaker 1: got the good ones. So anyways, the transfer portal rankings
Speaker 1: from twenty four to seven sports. Here are the top five.
Speaker 1: In fact, i'll give you let me see here, I'll
Speaker 1: give you the and wow, I don't remember Louisville being
Speaker 1: as far down the list as they were. They're at
Speaker 1: twenty seven, and I remember there being a few different
Speaker 1: ways you could look at Louisville's class, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: Chucky wasn't the best guard on Wisconsin therefore to have
Speaker 1: expected him, well, I think he was, but he didn't
Speaker 1: have the best stats, and he wasn't necessarily I mean,
Speaker 1: Chuck's one of the best players in the country right now,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have the best numbers of the two
Speaker 1: guards that transferred ot to of Wisconsin, him and aj Stores.
Speaker 1: Which anyways, we'll get back to Louisville in a second,
Speaker 1: but I'll just give you the top five here. Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas,
Speaker 1: Saint John's in Kentucky, rounding out the top ten West
Speaker 1: Virginia number six, Alabama number seven, Washington number eight, UCLA
Speaker 1: number nine, in Michigan number ten. So this is not
Speaker 1: going to be a way. Arkansas was the number one
Speaker 1: class and they're clearly underachieving because they're barely on the bubble.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, you could say that, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say, Well, these coaches have the best classes
Speaker 1: and their teams aren't living up to it, so they
Speaker 1: must think. But I'm just bringing it up as a
Speaker 1: reminder that make getting the talent is important and that's
Speaker 1: not easy to do either because it's competitive, right. You've
Speaker 1: got to be able to pay these guys what others
Speaker 1: are going to be able to pay them, and you
Speaker 1: got to be able to sell them on the role
Speaker 1: that they can play within your system. And look, guys
Speaker 1: in the portal, they got it made. It's a quick,
Speaker 1: fast moving thing. But once they've proven that they're good
Speaker 1: college players, they're they're gonna I mean, there are certain
Speaker 1: guys out there that I don't want to say they
Speaker 1: can pick wherever they want to go, but I would
Speaker 1: imagine the top twenty players overall in the portal every year.
Speaker 1: For the most part, can probably pick wherever they want
Speaker 1: to go. Now, where they want to go may not
Speaker 1: be the school that will will be willing to pay
Speaker 1: them a huge amount of money. And that's going to
Speaker 1: matter because again, some of these guys that are sticking
Speaker 1: around in college, it's because of money only, right, That's
Speaker 1: the reason they're still in college is because they know
Speaker 1: they could still make more money playing maybe two more
Speaker 1: years of college hoops then they'll ever make playing professionally.
Speaker 1: Just because they're not NBA guys, they're more so gonna
Speaker 1: be and there's some wrong playing overseas, but you're not
Speaker 1: gonna make the money. Some of these guys are gonna make.
Speaker 1: Like for example, Great Osibor, he ended up at Washington
Speaker 1: followed his coach Danny Sprinkle. Again, if your name is
Speaker 1: Danny Sprinkle, you're either going to do one of two things.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be a coach, You're gonna be a mail stripper.
Speaker 1: There's no way around it. Danny Sprinkle's a male stripper name.
Speaker 1: He's lucky he's a really good coach because well, he's
Speaker 1: not doing great this year, but did great at Utah State.
Speaker 1: I can't mention Danny Sprinkle on a talk show and
Speaker 1: not immediately think that guy's in the wrong business. I mean,
Speaker 1: Danny Sprinkle, he's either a mattress actor, or he's or
Speaker 1: he's a stripper or I guess coaching, which we know
Speaker 1: exactly what Danny Sprinkle is going to be doing if
Speaker 1: coaching doesn't work out. But anyways, you think great Ousinber
Speaker 1: wanted to go to Washington, maybe, but clearly the money.
Speaker 1: And I'm look, I'm not saying he would have picked
Speaker 1: Louisville by any means. Louisville clearly was a school that
Speaker 1: recruited him. But these guys, they may know I could
Speaker 1: go to Duke Kansas, Kentucky. But if there's a school
Speaker 1: willing to triple what these other schools are going to
Speaker 1: pay because they don't need me as much, then they're
Speaker 1: going to probably pick the school where they can make
Speaker 1: life changing money. So I really want to emphasize that
Speaker 1: with the portal, you don't I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: how a coach would know until they get into the
Speaker 1: season if the pieces they brought in are gonna work
Speaker 1: well together, not only when it comes to just basketball,
Speaker 1: but as individuals like that matters. That's one thing that
Speaker 1: has really stood out about the coaches that were hired
Speaker 1: at Louisville and Kentucky, Like Pat, you can tell there
Speaker 1: is absolutely a big time culture within the program. And
Speaker 1: you know, it sounds corny to some, but it's evident,
Speaker 1: and I know I'm loving it. I can't get enough
Speaker 1: of it. But again, I'm I'm I'm a fan. I'm
Speaker 1: different than just the average you know, person watching this
Speaker 1: team on television every every so often. But like to
Speaker 1: hear that they threw like a surprise baby sh shower
Speaker 1: diaper shower for Terrence Edwards who had a son, Like
Speaker 1: that's not surprising at all, because these guys seem like,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're family and that's what you want, and
Speaker 1: that's that's not that uncommon. But I want you to
Speaker 1: consider how difficult Maybe maybe difficult the wrong way to
Speaker 1: describe it, because when I say it would be difficult
Speaker 1: to expect all these guys to get along like this
Speaker 1: and really become a family so quickly, it makes it
Speaker 1: sound like it's difficult because they have egos and that
Speaker 1: they're that you know that they're not easy to get
Speaker 1: along with them, They're not down to earth, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that at all. They all seem like good
Speaker 1: human beings. I don't know them on a personal level,
Speaker 1: but like you would think, and by the way, we
Speaker 1: we wouldn't think this because we know this is all
Speaker 1: brand new. We know that we didn't even know who
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys were a year ago, and
Speaker 1: now they're helping us. Heal right, the revival is going
Speaker 1: on as we speak, and it's been awesome to see.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna remember this team, I think for
Speaker 1: a really long time. I mean that, regardless of what
Speaker 1: happens the rest of the way, I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: remember these guys for a very long time. And if
Speaker 1: you are just now joining us, I'm not about to cry.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds like it it's my voice. It
Speaker 1: is just not it's not.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe maybe it's a little bit of both, but.
Speaker 3: I think your voice has actually been getting better in
Speaker 3: this in this hour.
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, I'm been chugging some water, so it's right,
Speaker 1: And yes, work worked well. So anyways, if you just
Speaker 1: randomly without any information about Louisville basketball, Let's say you
Speaker 1: moved here from Germany and you love college hoops and
Speaker 1: Louisll's a team you've really enjoyed watching, but you didn't
Speaker 1: know the history, meaning like how it all came. You
Speaker 1: didn't maybe you didn't know the background. You didn't know
Speaker 1: that Pat Kelsey's in his first year. You didn't know
Speaker 1: that this is a brand new team, and you're just
Speaker 1: watching them play and you're seeing how well they play together,
Speaker 1: You're seeing how selfless they are. You would never guess
Speaker 1: that it's all brand new. So I just think seeing
Speaker 1: Kelsey's ability to do that early on, it makes me
Speaker 1: feel as if once again Louisvill's found themselves a coach
Speaker 1: that I think really has some components to his style
Speaker 1: and really his character and his personality, his brand, if
Speaker 1: you will, that are going to be really important in
Speaker 1: this new world, because that's what everybody's saying about Kansas.
Speaker 1: They put together, I mean, they brought back Dwan Harris
Speaker 1: and Hunter Dickinson, and then in the portal they added
Speaker 1: guys like Rylan Griffin from Alabama, Shaquille Moore from Mississippi State,
Speaker 1: Zeke Mayo who was a big time transfer from I
Speaker 1: think it was South Dakota State, and then also aj
Speaker 1: Store was their big addition. He was Wisconsin's leading scorer
Speaker 1: last year. He was Chucky Hepburns backcourt made at Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and he's the guy everybody wanted. He was a guy
Speaker 1: that in fact was rated as one of the number
Speaker 1: one play Yeah, he was the number four overall player
Speaker 1: in the portal. He doesn't start for them, and he
Speaker 1: barely plays. In fact, he was in the game last
Speaker 1: night with the walk Ons whenever they were down you know, forty,
Speaker 1: not exaggerating, they were down forty. They lost ninety one
Speaker 1: to fifty seven last night. And AJ Stoer this year,
Speaker 1: he's averaging six points per game and playing sixteen minutes
Speaker 1: per game as the number four player in the portal.
Speaker 1: And you know what, he's probably not dealing with that
Speaker 1: very well because he was a made man at Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Dude averaged I mean, I think he was one of
Speaker 1: the leading scorers in the Big Ten last year. So
Speaker 1: like not to say he's a bad guy. And this
Speaker 1: isn't like a hey, we knew what we were doing.
Speaker 1: We took Chucky hepburn and they took AJ Store and
Speaker 1: it worked out for us. Clearly that is what happened,
Speaker 1: did work out better for Louisville. But I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I just think the ability to know if a guy
Speaker 1: would be able to deal with taking a lighter role
Speaker 1: here and there, or just flat out being humbled and realizing, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could start at Wisconsin and score eighteen a game,
Speaker 1: which he did last year, but at Kansas, I can't
Speaker 1: really do that, and you know, how you handle that
Speaker 1: is important to the team. So I'm sure they've got
Speaker 1: guys that transferred in that aren't having the kind of
Speaker 1: year that they wanted. And you got guys that have
Speaker 1: been there a little while now that probably are thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: this is my team. You came in, you got to
Speaker 1: adjust to me, and it's just a mess. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bill self all but essentially confirmed last night that these
Speaker 1: guys don't like each other. And I just think be
Speaker 1: able to to be being able to know if your
Speaker 1: guys are going to be able to gel is almost impossible.
Speaker 1: But being able to lead and run your program and
Speaker 1: have them buy in because they believe in you and
Speaker 1: because they're buying into what you're doing like that. That's
Speaker 1: easier said than done. But I think that's where Pat
Speaker 1: Kelsey can really really excel. Among many other reasons why
Speaker 1: I think he can be a great coach here long term.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Mark Pope. I mean Mark Pope not
Speaker 1: only I think went out and found guys that fit
Speaker 1: what he wants to do as a coach as far
Speaker 1: as his style of play, and he went out and
Speaker 1: got some pretty good players too. But I think you
Speaker 1: can see these guys are I mean, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: a pretty close team, right. You got Jackson Robinson and
Speaker 1: Lamon Butler hurt, but they're they're the biggest cheerleaders for
Speaker 1: their teammates when they're not playing, and that that that's
Speaker 1: one of those things where I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: I'm giving guys credit for like what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: but man, it's not happening everywhere. Right. That's always the
Speaker 1: kicker when you find yourself giving some you find yourself
Speaker 1: praise someone for doing something that really they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be something you get extra praise for. But
Speaker 1: it happens because you realize it's not as it's not
Speaker 1: as it's not happening in a lot of places. I
Speaker 1: mean sports, there's a lot of ego involved there. That's
Speaker 1: just that's the human element of sports. So Arkansas, I
Speaker 1: think Cal honestly is not built for the portal. I
Speaker 1: think his best teams are going to be teams that
Speaker 1: are led by a star freshman, and you've got to
Speaker 1: have really, really good ones in order to be you know,
Speaker 1: like cal can succeed with a star studded freshman class
Speaker 1: that's as good as advertised and a guy like the
Speaker 1: Arrow that sticks around for a while like that, that's
Speaker 1: where cal Can really shine. But with guys playing as
Speaker 1: long as they do now, you're gonna have it much
Speaker 1: tougher time being elite if the if the core to
Speaker 1: your team is elite freshman, it's just I mean, look
Speaker 1: at Ruggers Indiana. Mike Woodson built a phenomenal team. He
Speaker 1: can't he can't make it all work together. He's not relatable.
Speaker 1: He I mean, I think these guys respect him, but
Speaker 1: like they're not buying in. Look at Indiana, They're one
Speaker 1: of the most disappointing teams in college basketball. We talked
Speaker 1: about Kansas Rick Patino. He's doing a phenomenal job, which
Speaker 1: again is I think speaks to why Rick is the
Speaker 1: best college basketball coach of all time because he's won
Speaker 1: in every way and now he's doing it in a
Speaker 1: New World, and he's succeeding. I mean Louisville, Kentucky, Saint John's.
Speaker 1: I'd even throw West Virginia in there. They struggled because
Speaker 1: they're best player. The coach's son, Devrees. He got hurt
Speaker 1: and hasn't played much at all this year. But they're
Speaker 1: doing better this year than I think most expected, and
Speaker 1: they had a good portal class. And again I think
Speaker 1: it's because, by the way, Debree has a similar background
Speaker 1: to Pat Kelsey, a mid major guy, younger, relatable, not
Speaker 1: super young, but relatable, and you know, his ego didn't
Speaker 1: get him the job at West Virginia, so he knows like, look,
Speaker 1: I got to figure out how to make this work
Speaker 1: if it leads to me having to be more of,
Speaker 1: you know, a relatable coach than a drill sergeant, and
Speaker 1: that's what I'll do. You got to be able to adapt.
Speaker 1: And I think coaches that if not, they are still
Speaker 1: hungry that have yet to reach like a final four
Speaker 1: or a deep tournament run, they're more humble and more
Speaker 1: willing to adapt because again they still want to make
Speaker 1: it and they know if they're going to do it
Speaker 1: in this new world, you've got to be able to adapt.
Speaker 1: You got to be able to mix it up. All right,
Speaker 1: quick break, We'll come back on the other side. Keep
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Speaker 1: That's right, it's coffee and company fueled about what is this?
Speaker 1: Took a little break there during the commercial break, you know,
Speaker 1: from speaking, and then we come back and now the
Speaker 1: voice is sounding different now than it has at any point.
Speaker 3: You had a squeaky toy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I'm going through puberty or something. I remember
Speaker 1: those days me too, many many many many years ago.
Speaker 3: That wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, I was thinking about that the
Speaker 1: other day, only because you know, my son's getting older
Speaker 1: and he's got a long way to go. He's four.
Speaker 1: But I don't remember, really I remember, and I don't want.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going like in a bad place here,
Speaker 1: because it's part of life and we're not going to
Speaker 1: be too you know, graphic or detailed about it. But
Speaker 1: I remember one of the few things that really is
Speaker 1: a sign of that happening as a young boy. One
Speaker 1: of those things happened when I was at a basketball
Speaker 1: camp and it was really rough. Oh but I don't
Speaker 1: remember what age, Like I could have been eight, I
Speaker 1: could have been twelve. I really don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you later, all right, we'll talk about it later,
Speaker 1: all right, because there may be there may be younger
Speaker 1: kids listening now, and I don't want to scare them, sure,
Speaker 1: you know, but it's going to happen. And you know,
Speaker 1: And by the way, I also learned just with growing
Speaker 1: up and being a kid, Like everybody's different too, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like it happens for some kids
Speaker 1: at a certain age, and it'll be a year or
Speaker 1: two earlier, a year or two later for others. You really,
Speaker 1: you really never know. But puberty happened for me long ago.
Speaker 1: It's just my voice is is not great. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm just believing in the uh, the
Speaker 1: confidence that you gave me. But I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think I need to keep drinking water. I was
Speaker 1: I was just doing the lozenge, But I think the
Speaker 1: lozenge mixed with the water is good for us as
Speaker 1: far as keeping this thing at least able to perform.
Speaker 3: This boy, Water cures like ninety percent of anything.
Speaker 1: And that's that's so true. And I don't know and
Speaker 1: I know that, but yet, my dumb ass. Oftentimes, if
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling great, if I'm feeling a little tired,
Speaker 1: feeling a little weak, it's likely because I'm dehydrated, and
Speaker 1: I just don't and just you chucks in. Actually, chugging
Speaker 1: water won't give you the instant, like the instant you know,
Speaker 1: feeling of no longer being dehydrated. It'll in fact, it
Speaker 1: doesn't work against you, but it you know, you pee
Speaker 1: it out pretty quick and it doesn't actually speed. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, gradually drinking a couple of bottles of water
Speaker 1: over time instead of just I mean chugging them is
Speaker 1: I mean, you can do that too if you want.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anytime I'm not feeling great and I'm feeling
Speaker 1: like something and I'm tired, like my skin is blotchy,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, you know what, you're probably just dehydrated.
Speaker 1: To get some water. Man, mix a water in, bro.
Speaker 2: That's always what my dad would say if there was
Speaker 2: some sort of ailment that I was going through, Like
Speaker 2: you said, dry skin head hurts, my stomach hurts. My
Speaker 2: dad would always say, do you drink any water?
Speaker 1: Eh? Yeah, Look Dad's no, man, Dad's no.
Speaker 2: My armpits are a little bit more smellier than usual.
Speaker 2: How much water have you drinking?
Speaker 1: Look the old, look the older, the ogs. They know
Speaker 1: hydration is key in a lot of aspects of life.
Speaker 1: So like you can never you can never remind yourself
Speaker 1: of that too much. All right, So yesterday we did
Speaker 1: talk about this breaking news during the show, and it
Speaker 1: kind of instantly scared me because I have a close
Speaker 1: friend who really isn't Most of his entire adult life,
Speaker 1: he's worked for Young here in Louisville, and I saw
Speaker 1: that they're moving their corporate headquarters away from Louisville, and
Speaker 1: I was hopeful that wouldn't impact him, And it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's not going to impact him. But man, I
Speaker 1: got to be honest with you as somebody who loves Louisville,
Speaker 1: and I want Louisville to thrive. And I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: not maybe this way as much as I think it is.
Speaker 1: But what I was getting ready to say is that
Speaker 1: I think anybody who has like this impression of Louisville
Speaker 1: and they don't think positively of it, but they've never
Speaker 1: experienced it. I think when they come here, they really
Speaker 1: like it and they think it's great. And I know
Speaker 1: there are many people that have had that experience, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some that maybe didn't love it. They
Speaker 1: came here and you know, they didn't like it. But
Speaker 1: that's a them problem. Because Louisville's great, and you know,
Speaker 1: we got our issues like everybody else. But to know
Speaker 1: that that we've now lost so many corporations in Louisville,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of sad. You know, I won't I
Speaker 1: won't pretend to know who to blame, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to act like this is one person's
Speaker 1: fault or you know, one or one specific thing has
Speaker 1: led to a lot of these corporations leaving, because I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'd be a fool to act like I
Speaker 1: have any information. But young brands leaving while you know,
Speaker 1: Brown Foreman laid off a bunch of people, Papa John's
Speaker 1: left for Atlanta a few years ago. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just that's a sad thing. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: we're doomed as a city, but there's no way to
Speaker 1: spend this as a positive. And you're seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of political leaders in Louisville and in this state that
Speaker 1: have that have really expressed how disappointed they are to
Speaker 1: see that decision coming from from Young. And really, again,
Speaker 1: just because I'm a Louisville fanatic meaning U of L
Speaker 1: I'm probably not the only one that's thought of it
Speaker 1: this way. But it's a bigger issue for the city
Speaker 1: than it is anything else as far as like jobs,
Speaker 1: but like to know that both corporations that put their
Speaker 1: their brand their logo on your football stadium and your
Speaker 1: basketball arena have have left town. That's just kind of
Speaker 1: a bummer like that. Like again, the bigger issue is
Speaker 1: the amount of jobs that that have potentially been lost
Speaker 1: here with the Young decision. And I know there's many
Speaker 1: jobs that that that if you didn't move to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: then you didn't keep your job, or maybe they got
Speaker 1: rid of your job because they had the ability to
Speaker 1: give it to somebody in Atlanta when Papa John's left. So, uh,
Speaker 1: just just a real bummer. And again, uh for for
Speaker 1: my buddy, who I means one of my best friends
Speaker 1: in the world, He's he's the best man in my
Speaker 1: wedding I was. I mean, I saw that news when
Speaker 1: we came back from break yesterday about Young, and I
Speaker 1: just gotta I got a pit in my stomach thinking, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I would I would hate that. And again, I hate
Speaker 1: it for everybody else that potentially is losing their job,
Speaker 1: because that's a that's a scary thing. Man, that's your livelihood.
Speaker 1: You got to take care of your family. And I've
Speaker 1: been very fortunate in my life to not go through that.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure, in fact, I know I will at
Speaker 1: some point and it'll be scary, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: just part of life. But that doesn't mean it's not
Speaker 1: going to be a scary situation for people whenever, whenever
Speaker 1: they go through that. But it sounds like when it
Speaker 1: comes to the UH, the decision to to to make
Speaker 1: this change and put I guess they're a headquarters moving
Speaker 1: it from Louisville to to Plano, Texas. I guess it's
Speaker 1: it's because they have that's where that's already where Pizza
Speaker 1: Hut is, I guess. And it sounds like collaboration and
Speaker 1: culture was the real emphasis when they alerted everybody at
Speaker 1: Young that they were they were making this decision, a
Speaker 1: lot of the leaders of the company young. I guess
Speaker 1: I already lived kind of in that area near Dallas.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I just a just a sad thing for Louisville,
Speaker 1: I mean louis And And you know, I'm getting a
Speaker 1: little side tracked here, and I'm trying to I'm trying
Speaker 1: to keep this thing on the rails as best I can.
Speaker 1: But Louisville is a place that if you think about it,
Speaker 1: I mean, I live in the Louisville area, Like I
Speaker 1: to me, I live in Louisville. If anybody asked me
Speaker 1: where I live, I live in Louisville, but technically my
Speaker 1: address is Shepherdsville, although I don't live in Shepherdsville. I
Speaker 1: live probably a mile and a half from the bullet
Speaker 1: Jefferson County line, but my address is Shepherdsville. But I've
Speaker 1: grew up in Louisville, like Louisville's my home. But there's
Speaker 1: so many people that live so much further away from
Speaker 1: like Louisville than I do, meaning not just downtown, but
Speaker 1: the east end, I mean Riverport. Like there's so many Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's so many jobs in the Louisville and the Louisville
Speaker 1: metro area that people that aren't just from here work there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like there's people who come
Speaker 1: from as far south. I mean, I know people who
Speaker 1: had a buddy whose dad worked at Toyota whenever whenever
Speaker 1: we were kids, and he would he would travel to Georgetown,
Speaker 1: Kentucky every day for work because he had a great
Speaker 1: it was a good gig and it was a better
Speaker 1: gig than he could probably get anywhere anywhere else. So,
Speaker 1: you know, Louisville having employment opportunities and and and you know,
Speaker 1: losing losing two big brands that really were I felt
Speaker 1: like they I mean, Young is a staple in Louisville.
Speaker 1: I mean that that you see their logo as soon
Speaker 1: as you cross into Louisville from from from the bridge,
Speaker 1: and I mean it's KFC for Crying out Loud and
Speaker 1: and Papa John's I mean it wasn't as much of
Speaker 1: a visible thing, but people just knew. In fact, most
Speaker 1: people probably knew Papa John was a Louisville guy. And
Speaker 1: like the branding for that is, I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: like Papa John being like the mascot for his own
Speaker 1: pizza company whenever he was involved and him you know
Speaker 1: that place of course exploding in popularity, then putting their
Speaker 1: name on the stadium, Louisville football having a great run
Speaker 1: during that exact time like that was that was huge
Speaker 1: for Papa John's, like they benefited from that. Now their
Speaker 1: situation is a little bit different, but still, I mean,
Speaker 1: to lose those two big brands and not have them
Speaker 1: employ many people here and it is just sad And
Speaker 1: I don't know what the fix is. I don't really
Speaker 1: know who to blame, but it it is really a bummer.
Speaker 1: And for those asking when the naming rights for the
Speaker 1: arena are up, I have no clue. I've never even
Speaker 1: heard anybody talk about like I've always for some reason,
Speaker 1: again it's just me not paying attention to it and
Speaker 1: not ever thinking about it. I've never even thought about
Speaker 1: Louisville needing a new sponsor for their Just because their
Speaker 1: headquarters are in Atlanta now doesn't mean that I'm sorry
Speaker 1: in Texas now doesn't mean that they would no longer
Speaker 1: want to continue to have because look, there's value, I
Speaker 1: mean they say the I mean the Young Center is
Speaker 1: is an is a known thing, and to be honest,
Speaker 1: it worked out better I think for for the Yum Center,
Speaker 1: that the name Yum is really what is what people use.
Speaker 3: I've heard other people.
Speaker 1: I've heard it referenced from time to time as like
Speaker 1: the bucket, but that never stuck and I never really
Speaker 1: liked that anyway. Do people call it the Yum or
Speaker 1: just Yum Center.
Speaker 3: I've heard people call it.
Speaker 1: The because I think we I know a lot of
Speaker 1: Louivillians that call it the Yum the Yum Center, but
Speaker 1: on the broadcast and I feel like even the PA
Speaker 1: announcer just says Yum Center or KFC YOUM Center. Yes,
Speaker 1: we got to throw the Yum out there. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Yum Yum.
Speaker 2: I've always just like it better as the YOUM Center
Speaker 2: rather than just putting the KFC before it.
Speaker 3: But I understand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I thought was, I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: get god by it, but I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people did, and I understand why. I think it was
Speaker 1: the Yahoo, the Yahoo story, the Yahoo business story about
Speaker 1: this big decision to move out of Kentucky. As far
Speaker 1: as all these corporate jobs. I think people legitimately thought
Speaker 1: that KFC was changing their name because the headline from
Speaker 1: Yahoo Financi or Yahoo business said something along the lines
Speaker 1: of the you know the K they're taking the K away,
Speaker 1: which was really them saying that they're not going to
Speaker 1: be in Kentucky. Right, But I do think some people
Speaker 1: thought that that meant they're not going to be called
Speaker 1: KFC anymore, which that's clearly not the case.
Speaker 2: In what a wild world we have KFC leaving Kentucky.
Speaker 2: We have planes falling out of.
Speaker 3: The sky, pets, heads are falling, all heads are.
Speaker 2: Falling off, or voice are radio people are just like
Speaker 2: either halfway dead and losing their voice. Tony Venetti had
Speaker 2: like a heart attack two months ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, I I'm when I found
Speaker 1: out like sort of how severe his health situation was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it scared me. I was happy to know
Speaker 1: that he's okay. And I remember and I you know,
Speaker 1: it's one of the one of the many things that
Speaker 1: I'll that'll come to mind for me when I reflect
Speaker 1: on my my friendship with the one and only John
Speaker 1: Anthony Venetti. Yeah, TV, but I but I but I said,
Speaker 1: how can you have a near death experience, have to
Speaker 1: have emergency surgery to save your life and not tell
Speaker 1: anybody who does that? Oh? I know Tony Vannetti, Like
Speaker 1: that's him, you know what I mean, Like he's he's
Speaker 1: a different he's a different breed. But anyways, well, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll get this thing back on track real quick. We
Speaker 1: got to get to a break in a moment. But
Speaker 1: we'll fill the rest of this segment with a food
Speaker 1: conversation because we talked a lot about fast food yesterday,
Speaker 1: as far as just you know how expensive it is.
Speaker 1: We really started talking about drinks, like certain fast food
Speaker 1: places for some reason, they have certain soft drinks that
Speaker 1: are just better than others. As far as hey, I
Speaker 1: can go to Burger King and get a coke, but
Speaker 1: I know if I get a coke at McDonald's it's
Speaker 1: going to be much better. KFC.
Speaker 2: When's the last time you had KFC? I think after
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby this year.
Speaker 1: Fitting I've said it for years, so therefore, if I
Speaker 1: was going to make a change, I would have already
Speaker 1: done it. But it is the fast food place that
Speaker 1: I never eat, but anytime I do, it is absolutely delicious.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I mean the original recipe, I mean the
Speaker 1: herbs and spices, nothing beats. I mean, the original KFC
Speaker 1: chicken is so good.
Speaker 3: Mashed potatoes and gravy like it's.
Speaker 1: Never even And again, I don't eat fast food that
Speaker 1: much anyway, although they did have McDonald's that they felt
Speaker 1: like a real fat ass. Oh yes, I'll put I
Speaker 1: put away a double quarter pounder. Son, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I had a little bit of a
Speaker 1: little bit of a loss of of not taste, but
Speaker 1: just you know, with the with the cough and whatnot.
Speaker 1: It's just I've been dealing with it. But today, after
Speaker 1: I got finished with some errands this morning, I started to,
Speaker 1: you know, I just got hungry, like I haven't eaten
Speaker 1: in a long time.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I demolished a double quarter pound or had that McDonald's
Speaker 1: coke as well, But I never think of KFC. But
Speaker 1: like it's so good. Like I'm gonna tell my wife
Speaker 1: because we don't. We try not, we trust me. We're
Speaker 1: not like help nuts. If we're gonna go eat, we're
Speaker 1: gonna sit down somewhere and whatnot. We're not gonna eat
Speaker 1: fast food. And I'm not anti fast food. It's just
Speaker 1: I don't need it a whole lot. But man, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell her next time we do, in fact, you know,
Speaker 1: need to get fast food. For convenience, for time, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be. I want to go. I want to
Speaker 1: I want to go see the kernel. I want to go.
Speaker 1: I want to go. Get a bucket from the kernel,
Speaker 1: get some of the some of that original recipe. Just
Speaker 1: a bucket of chicken.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I put it away extra crispy too.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I had some buddies who worked at KFC and
Speaker 1: we were in high school. It was their first job.
Speaker 1: And man, they would hook it up and I mean
Speaker 1: I would connect. Oh it was we had the plug,
Speaker 1: my man, we had it rolling. And there was one manager.
Speaker 1: There were two different managers, and there was one that
Speaker 1: knew and was kind of cool with it. But we
Speaker 1: also we'd pulled to the drive through and if there
Speaker 1: was the manager that you know, wasn't about giving out
Speaker 1: any any any hookups. We just we just drove off right.
Speaker 1: Oh wrong restaurants. Sorry, we thought this was we thought
Speaker 1: this was popops. Yeah. Oh way, and Indy's really good too.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And now that I say it, and I think me
Speaker 2: and the fiance we got a late night craving for
Speaker 2: some indies, but it was closed. I want us to
Speaker 2: close like a half an hour earlier than what it
Speaker 2: said on its website, So we just guess who was
Speaker 2: open the Colonel.
Speaker 3: We slid on over.
Speaker 2: To KFC and we got that he's always there for
Speaker 2: you and well and they also they also used to
Speaker 2: have some good staples, remember, like the Zingers, like the raps,
Speaker 2: and then like the chicken little sandwiches, like I think
Speaker 2: they bring those back kind of annually, semi annually. Not
Speaker 2: not too bad, but there's like, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but you're right, it's it's just not a place that
Speaker 2: you normally look out for.
Speaker 1: So do you get it?
Speaker 3: Its clutch?
Speaker 1: So do you remember and you probably don't, But this
Speaker 1: became a thing on the show when I was on
Speaker 1: in middays just because it was you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of those random, kind of funny things that just kind
Speaker 1: of becomes part of the conversation on a talk show.
Speaker 1: Is that there were people doing everything they could to
Speaker 1: try to keep KFC from getting rid of the potato wedges,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if you knew they did that
Speaker 1: they got rid of the potato wedges, and you kind
Speaker 1: of know that, and you know, it's I think it's
Speaker 1: always been a staple of KFC. I've never been a
Speaker 1: big potato wedge guy anyway. But the people who I mean,
Speaker 1: they fought like hell to keep them from taking away
Speaker 1: the potato wedges.
Speaker 3: So they don't have the potato wedges anymore, at least
Speaker 3: they didn't for a while.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at I'm looking at the menu now
Speaker 1: and I don't see them. I see when I see
Speaker 1: the sides, I don't see wedges. But they replaced the
Speaker 1: wedges with fries. And I'll tell you this, their fries
Speaker 1: are really good too. Okay, dip dip those fries and
Speaker 1: a little bit of mashed potatoes and gravy. Ye little
Speaker 1: biscuit in there too. How about that mac and cheese? Ah?
Speaker 1: Man that. So we've just given KFC all the love
Speaker 1: while they took all the jobs away from Louisville.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give us a hat.
Speaker 1: Damn they got us, didn't they. We started talking about
Speaker 1: being sad that they are, the young is getting rid
Speaker 1: of these Louisville jobs, and here we are giving them
Speaker 1: free advertising.
Speaker 3: It's right.
Speaker 1: Don't go to KFC. Actually you can if you want,
Speaker 1: because it's delicious, but we got to get you a break.
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, keep it locked right here. On Sports Talk, seven.
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Speaker 1: Nine day, I kind of feel like Kentucky tonight against Vandy.
Speaker 1: It's I wouldn't say it's like a trap game. And
Speaker 1: I still feel as if a loss here doesn't really
Speaker 1: change a lot for them. I mean, you don't want
Speaker 1: to find out the hard way and you know, lose
Speaker 1: a game like this and see what it does for
Speaker 1: you as far as the net and the kN palm
Speaker 1: and then I guess you know the bracketology updates. But
Speaker 1: they have such good wins when it comes to value
Speaker 1: that I mean, they could lose here and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure it would do a whole lot to damage their resume.
Speaker 1: Now again, it would probably impact seeding, and that certainly matters,
Speaker 1: but they are just in a unusual spot to where
Speaker 1: they do have, you know, more losses than they probably
Speaker 1: should have. And I don't mean they have more losses
Speaker 1: like than you know, they're clearly a team that has
Speaker 1: flaws like anybody else, and they can be beat. But
Speaker 1: when you look at all the good teams that they've
Speaker 1: been able to come to beat this year, to then
Speaker 1: see losses to teams that you kind of feel like
Speaker 1: you know they're better than it's kind of a head scratcher,
Speaker 1: But then again, they've had injuries and that's a factor.
Speaker 1: But they've also picked up some of their best wins
Speaker 1: while playing without some really good players that were injured,
Speaker 1: so it's not like they're real difficult to figure out.
Speaker 1: I think honestly, you should never just expect them to
Speaker 1: really loose to anybody, regardless of the matchup, regardless of
Speaker 1: their injury situation. But you also know that on any
Speaker 1: given night, if a team is able to slow it
Speaker 1: down a little bit, be really physical, that can make
Speaker 1: them vulnerable. And certainly when you don't have Jackson Robinson
Speaker 1: and Lamont Butler, you're just clearly more vulnerable to lose
Speaker 1: to teams, regardless if you're at home or on the road,
Speaker 1: because you know those are really good players. So they're
Speaker 1: favored by five and a half tonight, which part of
Speaker 1: me says, Kentucky at home at rop like that they'll
Speaker 1: win by fifteen. But then again, you know, you just
Speaker 1: really don't know what to expect without having two really
Speaker 1: important pieces. Vandy did beat them at home, but Bandy's
Speaker 1: been a much different team when they've been at home
Speaker 1: than they are on the road. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: they've won a road game in the SEC. Play Vandy
Speaker 1: right now, Yeah, they have not. They've only the only
Speaker 1: win they have away from home in the SEC is
Speaker 1: their first SEC game they played on January fourth, when
Speaker 1: they beat LSU, who is quite literally one of the
Speaker 1: worst teams in the conference outside of I mean, the
Speaker 1: bottom three in the SEC. Unfortunately, Oklahoma's now there just
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Speaker 1: Louisville of course lost to. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: one's going to end up being a quad one but
Speaker 1: quad one loss, I should say, But yeah, Lshue, South Carolina,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Georgia I think are clearly the bottom of
Speaker 1: the SEC, and so expecting Vandy shorthanded or not to
Speaker 1: be Kentucky and RUP is a stretch. But anyways, we'll
Speaker 1: talk a little more about that matchup as we get
Speaker 1: into the five o'clock hour. Some other college basketball stuff
Speaker 1: I want to get to because Mick Cronan, I mean,
Speaker 1: when I tell you what he said last night, one
Speaker 1: of the many things he said last night after their loss,
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Speaker 1: college basketball coach that you can see or actually you
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