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Speaker 2: up till six o'clock, and I hope that you guys
Speaker 2: stick around. One of the reasons I'm fired up today
Speaker 2: has to be because it's the first day of the
Speaker 2: Kentucky State Fair. I have no plans to go to
Speaker 2: the today. I mean, I'm gonna be there probably at
Speaker 2: least a couple times before it ends. But man, there's
Speaker 2: just I can never put into words why I love
Speaker 2: the fair as much as I do. You know, I could,
Speaker 2: I could, I could off the cuff here, give you
Speaker 2: some bullet points that make the fair a fun thing
Speaker 2: for me to be a part of and go to.
Speaker 2: But it wouldn't make the fair look good. If that
Speaker 2: makes sense? Am I making sense? John?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I think I know what you're referring to, people
Speaker 2: watching the characters you see. I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 2: again I said this the other day. We were talking
Speaker 2: about how our concert lineup at the Kentucky State Fair
Speaker 2: compares to other states. Was it Iowa that had a
Speaker 2: badass lineuph Yeah? Yeah, that was wild games. Yeah. So
Speaker 2: you know I could go and not go to any concert,
Speaker 2: not you know, not stopping partake in any of the events. No,
Speaker 2: not riding rides, not eating the elephant ear or the
Speaker 2: burger with donut as a bun. It just walk around
Speaker 2: And I could do it every day and still say
Speaker 2: it was a great experience because it's the most it's
Speaker 2: the most beautiful place for people watching. So the fairs here,
Speaker 2: I'm fired up and again John you've only been in
Speaker 2: the fair what a couple of times?
Speaker 3: Maybe, yeah, and most of those times were.
Speaker 2: For concerts, so that kind of didn't count, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you.
Speaker 4: So there was one time I went with my wife
Speaker 4: just to walk around for We were there for maybe
Speaker 4: an hour, hour and a half and we didn't really
Speaker 4: get into a bunch of different things, but we tried
Speaker 4: some food, and you know, it was a good time.
Speaker 2: So you know, you're somebody who hasn't experienced it a
Speaker 2: whole lot, very little, And here I am telling you
Speaker 2: how great it is. And I want to be able
Speaker 2: to be like, hey, John, let me tell you this
Speaker 2: is what makes it great, this is why you should go.
Speaker 2: But I can't do that and it has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with you. But I feel like, you know, for me
Speaker 2: to really dress it up, like this is why I
Speaker 2: love it, this is why it's great. I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people would say, how does that make it great?
Speaker 4: I do feel like a lot of people who love
Speaker 4: going to the fair, And maybe you're not one of
Speaker 4: these people. It's because they grew up going as a
Speaker 4: kid and not just as part of their family tradition
Speaker 4: is going back each and every year.
Speaker 2: I can't use that as an excuse. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: my parents ever took me to the fair, okay, now
Speaker 2: that I think about it, I mean, I think my
Speaker 2: first experience at the fair was what I was like
Speaker 2: a teenager whenever we went and got dropped off, which
Speaker 2: my god, I would never do that now if I
Speaker 2: was a parent of a teenager, but different times back
Speaker 2: in the day, and it was just like it was
Speaker 2: almost at that point, I didn't really know what it was.
Speaker 2: I just felt like I was at an extension of
Speaker 2: Kentucky Kingdom. That's what I felt like, you know, because
Speaker 2: I didn't go into the West Wing and see like
Speaker 2: all the boosts and all that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 2: I am an absolute nerd for the State Fair. So
Speaker 2: I won't be there every day, certainly not going to
Speaker 2: go to day on the first day. But I feel
Speaker 2: like the vibes for me are just going to be
Speaker 2: enhanced in these next ten days because it's fair season, folks.
Speaker 2: And also that means we're closer to football, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: It does, so that's exciting. Or speaking of exciting, I'm
Speaker 2: going to share something with you guys really quickly here
Speaker 2: because I feel like what I'm about to share is
Speaker 2: something most people would not be excited about. They would
Speaker 2: look at it as an inconvenience. They would look at
Speaker 2: it is all crap, just my luck. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: it as a duty as a citizen of Bullet County.
Speaker 2: I've been served to do jury duty. I've been asked
Speaker 2: to do jury.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm not being asked. I'm being summons job.
Speaker 3: That's how it works.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been? I mean, sure you haven't, right, You're.
Speaker 4: So, I haven't unless I just missed that opportunity to
Speaker 4: the mail. But I'm pretty sure youre getting some big
Speaker 4: trouble if you missed jury.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh. I mean I have a duty to my
Speaker 2: community and to my to my you know, my country.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't act like I'm serving the country,
Speaker 2: but you know, hey, jurors are important. That's how we
Speaker 2: decide who's good, who's bad, right, who's guilty, who's innocent.
Speaker 2: So it says, dear perspective, juror, you have been selected
Speaker 2: to serve as a juror in the Bullet County courts.
Speaker 2: You are summoned to a peer the following place, date,
Speaker 2: and time. Failure to appear may result in a finer
Speaker 2: jail time. They probably said, they probably send this to everybody,
Speaker 2: but they added that in there for me because they
Speaker 2: know how much I'm scared of going to jail. They
Speaker 2: know I'm going to be there even if you believe
Speaker 2: you are disqualifed from serving, so I can't say serving
Speaker 2: I'm serving. Are asking to be excused from jury service,
Speaker 2: or are asking that your service be postponed. You must complete, sign,
Speaker 2: and return the enclosed jury qualification form within five days
Speaker 2: after receiving this summons. Keep this page and bring it
Speaker 2: with you when you report for jury. So it's Wednesday,
Speaker 2: September twenty fifth at nine am. Like I'm gonna go,
Speaker 2: but like what do I do about the show? Like
Speaker 2: how does jury duty work? Am I expected to be
Speaker 2: there for a couple hours? Could I be there for
Speaker 2: a couple of days? Like I don't know what very
Speaker 2: well could be anywhere in that range. Yeah, but like
Speaker 2: if it's if it's for multiple days, like I'm curious.
Speaker 4: Do Like, I mean, you should ask our buddy in
Speaker 4: he had jury duty. I don't know if it was
Speaker 4: last year, but since we've moved into this building, he's
Speaker 4: had to be off for jury duty at least once.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, so my schedule is obviously different than most
Speaker 2: because I mean, believe it or not, I do work
Speaker 2: more than three hours a day. But like I could
Speaker 2: do jury duty at nine am and still do the show.
Speaker 2: But like, should I go ahead and let the brass
Speaker 2: here know that I've been served to be a good
Speaker 2: citizen of my community and they're gonna have to have arrangements?
Speaker 2: Like I don't know how that works because I would
Speaker 2: like to do both, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: Like if it were me, I'd probably just say, hey,
Speaker 4: I've got jury duty. Don't know, you know kind of
Speaker 4: the time constraints, but you know it may interfere what.
Speaker 2: Kind of case you think I'm gonna get? We're talking like,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of hard, hard crime in
Speaker 2: Bullet County, guys.
Speaker 4: I mean, it could be that dude that you saw
Speaker 4: a while back who was who was fixing not fixing,
Speaker 4: but he had the lawnmowers in his trunk that were
Speaker 4: kind of falling out.
Speaker 3: Maybe they finally called him or something.
Speaker 2: What did he do? He just's he's carrying six lawnmowers
Speaker 2: in the trunk of a Ford escort. Is that a crime, John,
Speaker 2: So you know, I we'll see, but you know, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to jail guys, So I'm going to report
Speaker 2: for Jerry. Like, do I have to send this in?
Speaker 4: Here's one thing, it's very archaic, the way that they
Speaker 4: let you know that you have jury duty, the fact
Speaker 4: that you get a piece of mail that you have
Speaker 4: to sign and send back. It seemed like you should
Speaker 4: be able to use the QR code or something on
Speaker 4: the form that they give you and do it online
Speaker 4: and just be done with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I guess there's a website here that they have
Speaker 2: mentioned that I can learn a little more about it.
Speaker 2: But it says report of the day at the time
Speaker 2: instructed above. This is the only notice you will receive.
Speaker 2: Failure to comply with this summons is punishable as contempt
Speaker 2: of court Krs twenty nine a one point fifty. Imagine
Speaker 2: me getting thrown in the slammer. What are you in for?
Speaker 2: I didn't show up to jerry duty and I can
Speaker 2: spare a lot of people off, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4: I'm very bad about checking my mail. I'd do it
Speaker 4: maybe once a week and sometimes not even that often.
Speaker 4: So if I ever got a jury duty letter, there's
Speaker 4: a decent chance I wouldn't see it.
Speaker 2: That's not good.
Speaker 3: I know, that's what I'm saying. Maybe I need to
Speaker 3: change my way.
Speaker 2: Since jury service begans on the date shown in this summons,
Speaker 2: jury service may be served on consecutive days or over
Speaker 2: a period of several months has determined by the Chief
Speaker 2: Circuit Judge or designee, and can last up to thirty
Speaker 2: court days. If selected to serve on a trial, plan
Speaker 2: to spend a full day in court for the length
Speaker 2: of the trial. Dress jurors are and are officers of
Speaker 2: the court. You're that I'm an officer of the court, John, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: as much as judges and other court personnel. You're expecting
Speaker 2: to dress accordingly while performing this serious duty. Look, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna wear a suit. I bought a suit for a
Speaker 2: wedding I was in last year. I'm gonna wear it.
Speaker 3: What do I show up?
Speaker 2: We're in a suit. They're gonna they're gonna think, are
Speaker 2: you Are you a criminal defense attorney? No, I'm here
Speaker 2: to do my duty as a bullet counting native to
Speaker 2: serve on the jury for you know, a nineteen year
Speaker 2: old kid that got caught shoplift in candy.
Speaker 4: If it was a serious enough case, you would have
Speaker 4: to potentially like be away from your family and be
Speaker 4: in like a hotel for a specific amount of time,
Speaker 4: so you don't have to so you don't reveal any
Speaker 4: information to the public.
Speaker 3: I doubt you're gonna be on a case like that.
Speaker 2: John, don't doubt me.
Speaker 3: But that's an extreme.
Speaker 2: I am going to be I'm going to be an
Speaker 2: upstanding jury juror, and I'm going to make sure that
Speaker 2: you know I'm gonna be the alpha with the other
Speaker 2: jurors too.
Speaker 3: By the way, they're gonna be the one that reads
Speaker 3: the verdict.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh dude, that'd be so bad ass. That'd be
Speaker 2: so bad ass to read the verdict in a case.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 2: Look, a lot of would you say, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are I got jury duty?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Not me. I'm I'm a proud member of the Bullet
Speaker 2: County community, born and raised. And if I'm called to serve,
Speaker 2: which I have been called, I've been summoned, I'm going
Speaker 2: to show up eager and ready to represent.
Speaker 3: But what happens.
Speaker 4: So that's that's the same weekend leading up to the
Speaker 4: Notre Dame game on the Road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just saw that Notre Dame sold out
Speaker 2: that game, okay the way, so look, hey, my duty
Speaker 2: comes first. But then again, like you know, I think
Speaker 2: Shan did Shannon get out of it? Recently? Shannon was
Speaker 2: talking about Jerry duty at one point on KSR, and
Speaker 2: I feel like he either was away because he did
Speaker 2: it or he found a way to get out of it.
Speaker 2: And I could be wrong here, not that I'm trying to,
Speaker 2: but I do feel like if you really ever want it,
Speaker 2: if you didn't want to do it, you could get
Speaker 2: out of it, right, Like, maybe I'm wrong. Like I
Speaker 2: feel like there are people who I know that don't
Speaker 2: legitimately have a good excuse. They just you know, they
Speaker 2: mentioned something and they they're not needed. I guess I'll
Speaker 2: find out. So like again I'm asking John, like he's
Speaker 2: gone through this ten twenty times. I guess I'm really
Speaker 2: asking those of you that have been through this process
Speaker 2: before when it comes to like do I need to
Speaker 2: send anything or do I just show up like I've
Speaker 2: been summoned so I've got this, So I show up?
Speaker 2: Do I need to? Like, you know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to get I don't want to get a warn out
Speaker 2: for me for KARS one. But yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: They'll be right outside the studio. Yeah, on September twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: If you're not there, I didn't know you got paid.
Speaker 2: You'll receive, as set by state law, twelve dollars and
Speaker 2: fifty cents for each day of jury service. I mean
Speaker 2: that's that's a raise. I mean, come on, it says
Speaker 2: here the law says an employer shall not to private
Speaker 2: employee of employment threaten or course and employee regarding jury service.
Speaker 2: So you hear that, iHeart. Don't you try to bully
Speaker 2: me out of my duty to the fine folks of
Speaker 2: Bullet County.
Speaker 3: Like that.
Speaker 2: It's my document they gave me. The last time I
Speaker 2: got some serious document in the mail from you know,
Speaker 2: you know, from the government, was when I got the
Speaker 2: Code Enforcement called on me. You know that story.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I still get pissed about that thinking about it.
Speaker 2: But you know what, I handled it professionally like a
Speaker 2: mature adult, which has led me to you know, probably
Speaker 2: the way I dealt with that with their coat, with
Speaker 2: the the Code Enforcement sending me a violation for having
Speaker 2: a flat tire on a vehicle, in my driveway for
Speaker 2: less than forty eight hours. They probably you know, respected
Speaker 2: how I handled it and put me up the ladder
Speaker 2: board or the leaderboard there to be a prospective juror
Speaker 2: because they trust that I'm going to make the right
Speaker 2: decision when it comes to, you know, jury duty. And honestly,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about it on the show to put it
Speaker 2: out there in the world that way. As we get closer,
Speaker 2: maybe somebody reminds me if I forget, because I would
Speaker 2: be that guy they just like, oh crap, I got
Speaker 2: to go to Jerry duty. But anyways, most people probably
Speaker 2: would be dreading that. For me, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 2: Something else I'm excited about. And I've known about this
Speaker 2: for a few days, but I didn't want to talk
Speaker 2: about it because I didn't want to, you know, put
Speaker 2: it out there and then like it not happened. And
Speaker 2: I guess that could still happen. But we're a week away,
Speaker 2: and the communication back and forth leads me to believe that,
Speaker 2: you know, it's on. I'm gonna be throwing out the
Speaker 2: first pitch at the Louisville Bats game next Thursday. John, Oh,
Speaker 2: really yeah, And uh, I'm excited. I'm nervous. I feel
Speaker 2: like I won't do terrible, but then again, like you
Speaker 2: stand to benefit from the experience more if you, in
Speaker 2: fact do put out there maybe the worst pitch anybody's
Speaker 2: ever seen.
Speaker 3: Right, you'll definitely get more attention.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm not going to do that to the bats.
Speaker 2: You know, they're one me to put it right across
Speaker 2: the plate forms they get set for a big game
Speaker 2: next week on Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, that is, so you know,
Speaker 2: maybe I might be working i'd be working on the
Speaker 2: arm in the next week or so to make sure,
Speaker 2: you know, I can, I can get it there.
Speaker 4: You should walk out with a bush light in your hand. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to chug after that.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that if they've got an official beer
Speaker 2: that they're partnered with, you know, that probably wouldn't be
Speaker 2: you know, I'm probably gonna wear a Batch jersey and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna you know, have to tell the crowd many times, hey,
Speaker 2: let's calm it down. I know you're fired up to
Speaker 2: be here, sold out crowd for me to throw out
Speaker 2: the first pitch, but let's let's like, you know, let's
Speaker 2: get this done and let these guys get on the field,
Speaker 2: and and and get it, get a win. But I am.
Speaker 2: I am very nervous because I you know, if I
Speaker 2: if I worried about how I looked doing it, you know,
Speaker 2: worried about like you know, getting that getting that knee
Speaker 2: up and winding up like you know, looking as much
Speaker 2: like a natural although I'm not as possible. I feel
Speaker 2: like that would make make it to where I would
Speaker 2: probably not get close to the plate and it would
Speaker 2: be really embarrassing. But if I just you know, make
Speaker 2: sure I got enough strength behind it and it's you know,
Speaker 2: within not the strike zone, but you know, to where
Speaker 2: the guy who's catching doesn't have to you know, run
Speaker 2: for it, then I feel like I'll be okay. But
Speaker 2: it is an honor, so I appreciate the bats including me,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, maybe they'll back out because they
Speaker 2: realize that, you know, I'm not worthy of said honor
Speaker 2: to throw out the first pitch. But hey, yuh, until
Speaker 2: they tell me y'ar out, I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna be working on my arm, making
Speaker 2: sure i'm ready to you know, to perform. So there
Speaker 2: you go. When's the last time you threw baseball?
Speaker 3: It's a really good question because I do not know
Speaker 3: the answer, like that.
Speaker 2: I've thrown an underhand to my four year old son
Speaker 2: when we're practicing outside, but like actually throw. I mean again,
Speaker 2: I've never I mean I never played baseball growing up.
Speaker 2: In fact, all of my close friends played baseball all
Speaker 2: throughout their life. I only played one sport that was basketball.
Speaker 2: So like, I've been around baseball, but I remember being
Speaker 2: super insecure in pe class in high school because I
Speaker 2: never even like I didn't even some people play a
Speaker 2: lot of sports, but they only play. When I say
Speaker 2: play as a kid, I mean like you'll go play
Speaker 2: in the neighborhood, you'll go play with friends, but when
Speaker 2: it comes to like a sports, you're pursuing to like
Speaker 2: try out for your team in school and make it
Speaker 2: like people like for me, that was basketball. But I
Speaker 2: had a lot of friends who I would play basketball,
Speaker 2: but they didn't play for the school, but they just
Speaker 2: played when we played like pick up and whatnot. I
Speaker 2: never picked up any bat. I didn't. I didn't. I
Speaker 2: didn't do anything athletically other than basketball from the time
Speaker 2: I was like five years old and at the time
Speaker 2: you know, until you know till ever, like I never
Speaker 2: played any other sport. So you know, whenever I trust me,
Speaker 2: I don't say this to brag because it's not really
Speaker 2: worth bragging. But like, and when I was in high school,
Speaker 2: by the time I got to be a senior, you know,
Speaker 2: I was, I had some accolades to where you know,
Speaker 2: I was, you know, I was that people knew I
Speaker 2: played basketball, and you know, I was probably overrated substantially,
Speaker 2: But I guess that just led certain people to think
Speaker 2: that I would be athletic in others sports. But when
Speaker 2: we got to PE three, that's like you know, junior
Speaker 2: senior year PE, where it's really just like a waste
Speaker 2: of a class. I mean it, you know, you do
Speaker 2: like baseball, flag football, archery, golf, like it's actually kind
Speaker 2: of fun. But I was the worst in my class
Speaker 2: in PE at every sport other than basketball. Like when
Speaker 2: I would like, like when I would like play flag
Speaker 2: football and I would throw the football, people would be like,
Speaker 2: what was that? Have you ever thrown a football? And
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, I don't really think I have,
Speaker 2: not in like a real way. And you know, I
Speaker 2: mean I struck out in will football and PE as
Speaker 2: a as a high school junior. Like you know that's
Speaker 2: a tough look to take. Oh hell yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: core memory, you know, cause I'm super competitive. But it
Speaker 2: was only in one sport. It's the only you know,
Speaker 2: in my addictive personality, it consumed everything of me to
Speaker 2: where I didn't have any interest, didn't care, didn't participate
Speaker 2: in any other sport. And you know, oh dude, I
Speaker 2: remember running around playing soccer like you know, no joke,
Speaker 2: just like instincts like I just picked the ball up
Speaker 2: one time. I mean, just like I have no natural
Speaker 2: instincts when it comes to sports at all now, but
Speaker 2: like when I did as a kid, it was just basketball.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I'll try not to embarrass myself too much.
Speaker 2: But I have had people telling me, you actually stand
Speaker 2: to make the most of this experience if you go
Speaker 2: out there and you are awful at throwing the first pitch.
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna make it about me. It's about
Speaker 2: the Louisville Bats and the great organization that they have there.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Greg Galliet, who has consistently made the
Speaker 2: Bats the premiere franchise in tripa A Baseball with all
Speaker 2: their great promotions that they do. You know, So again,
Speaker 2: looking forward to that and if you want to come
Speaker 2: heckle me.
Speaker 3: Have at it.
Speaker 2: That could actually make it a lot of fun. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have the camera roll, and that's really what it is.
Speaker 2: It's a social media appearance thing with the Bats to
Speaker 2: where I'm there, I'm probably gonna embarrass myself and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna share it with everybody to laugh at me. So
Speaker 2: assume that's why the Bats are interested here.
Speaker 3: Card boy becomes bat boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like what if I did, like put it over
Speaker 2: the plate and it was like impressive, not happening. Don't
Speaker 2: think it will. Don't think there's a scenario that it does.
Speaker 2: But like if it did, like maybe maybe that turns
Speaker 2: into like the career change from.
Speaker 4: You think instincts kind of just kick in and you
Speaker 4: just do one of those like Kulk type of I
Speaker 4: don't even want to call them growls or whatever.
Speaker 2: You just kind of get excited that you threw a
Speaker 2: good pack, like if I'm bringing the gas. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: in the pitcher or the catcher, I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 2: even know the positions. Again to give you my knowledge
Speaker 2: of baseball, you know, And I mean this was more
Speaker 2: just me flustered because I was, you know, I knew
Speaker 2: I was not equipped to be a umpire for the
Speaker 2: Chris Mack softball game where the basketball team played softball,
Speaker 2: But I was an umpire and instead of calling it
Speaker 2: second base, I called it second plate. So that you know,
Speaker 2: that tells you where I am as far as as
Speaker 2: far as baseball. But like, imagine the catcher like rip it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll maybe I'll give them a fifty or something
Speaker 2: and half him once. If he catches it, take the
Speaker 2: glove off, and like act as if your arm is
Speaker 2: your hand is hurting because I've brought the heat. Like
Speaker 2: that would be fun. He probably wouldn't want to do that.
Speaker 2: But anyways, all right, we got a lot to get
Speaker 2: into today. I'm anxious to talk a little more about
Speaker 2: the expectations for Louisville football in this season specifically, and
Speaker 2: what I mean by that is we've exhausted all different
Speaker 2: you know, discussions you can have as far as this scenario,
Speaker 2: that scenario, toughest stretch of the schedule. You know, what
Speaker 2: would be considered staying, you know, maintaining what bronded in
Speaker 2: year one, what would be viewed as a step back,
Speaker 2: will be viewed as a step forward. But you know,
Speaker 2: expectations really are are forgotten about once the season starts
Speaker 2: and you kind of get a sense for really where
Speaker 2: you are. But I think the portal has made it
Speaker 2: to where fans, myself included, are a little more hesitant
Speaker 2: to really throw out legit legitimate expectations, the legitimate bar
Speaker 2: to meet because we all know when you have a
Speaker 2: new team and little don't have a brander team, they've
Speaker 2: got a lot back that I'm excited about. But when
Speaker 2: you have like so many new players that you're going
Speaker 2: to be depending upon in a major way that are transfers,
Speaker 2: like you just never know. I mean, the reality is
Speaker 2: you never know how good any team's going to be.
Speaker 2: Could that could have been said before the portal existed, right,
Speaker 2: Like teams are expected to be good they're terrible. Teams
Speaker 2: are expected to be terrible they're good, Like you just
Speaker 2: never know. That's not something that happens that often, but
Speaker 2: occasionally you can be way wrong about a team. But now, like,
Speaker 2: I think it's just gonna be like the off season narrative,
Speaker 2: the off season rankings and the preseason chatter and all that,
Speaker 2: like it'll still always be there, but I think people
Speaker 2: are gonna put much less into it because we're all
Speaker 2: gonna realize with free agency, you just you have to
Speaker 2: wait and see are guys going to be able to
Speaker 2: do what they were brought in to do? Are they
Speaker 2: going to be able to get acclimated to a higher
Speaker 2: level if they're transferring from FCS or G five. And
Speaker 2: I think from now until the end of time, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have examples of of everything that doesn't give you
Speaker 2: a real feel for what you know. Like, for example,
Speaker 2: there'll be guys this year that you didn't expect to
Speaker 2: be a big, a big addition for a school because
Speaker 2: they came from a G five and their numbers weren't
Speaker 2: that impressive, but man, they're flourishing in this new role
Speaker 2: with this program. You'll have guys that you felt like,
Speaker 2: oh wow, this dude, he's gonna be special. Like who's
Speaker 2: the kid at Oklahoma that transferred to UH to Oregon
Speaker 2: who had played at Central Florida initially Dylan Gabriel. Gabriel, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, he was good everywhere, He's been good everywhere
Speaker 2: he's been. Maybe he goes to Oregon and he stinks.
Speaker 2: You know, you just never know. I'm not saying he will,
Speaker 2: but I'm just using him as an example. So with
Speaker 2: all that said, I feel like, you know, people want
Speaker 2: to hate, they better get nine and three or it's
Speaker 2: a failure or they if they if you know, and
Speaker 2: I get why people do that. I'm not telling you
Speaker 2: not to do that, but I just think there's more
Speaker 2: and more awareness from fans as far as like you
Speaker 2: just never know. Also, we got a real acc basketball
Speaker 2: off season ranking to reference from the Athletic much different
Speaker 2: than John Rothstein's. So stick with us. We're loaded the
Speaker 2: rest of the way again. Kit Spencer from WHAS eleven
Speaker 2: is going to join us at four h five. Right here,
Speaker 2: it's Coffee and Company Field. Beth Thornton's on Sports Talk
Speaker 2: seven ninety. Are we Notre Dame Super Bowl? I mean
Speaker 2: Notre Dame just announced that they've sold out the September
Speaker 2: twenty eighth game against Louisville, encouraging everybody to wear green.
Speaker 2: Louisville fans invaded, and I mean absolutely invaded South Bend.
Speaker 2: And I won't claim like it was something they've never
Speaker 2: never seen before, because I'm sure when they have the
Speaker 2: chance to host a big opponent, and I'm not seeing
Speaker 2: Louisville some huge opponent for them, but they did sell
Speaker 2: it out, and I don't even know. I'm not even
Speaker 2: sure how often that happens this far ahead, but that
Speaker 2: was something I'll always remember, is seeing how many Louisville
Speaker 2: fans in twenty fourteen made the trip to South Bend
Speaker 2: for that game, which of course was a big win
Speaker 2: at that time. Reggie Bonifin, as you're starting quarterback. And
Speaker 2: since then Louisville has I guess gone one in one
Speaker 2: since since then. They played them in two thousand and
Speaker 2: it was Satterfield's first year. They were competitive, I guess no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Now they're two and two all time. They
Speaker 2: played them in fourteen and and one lost two games.
Speaker 2: One in eighteen was sadfields first year. I think it was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I lost that one. Played him in twenty twenty in
Speaker 2: the COVID year, which was a weird twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: I should say, excuse me, or no, it was twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: wasn't It was that that long ago when we played
Speaker 2: football with like no fans. There was that four years ago. Yeah, gosh,
Speaker 2: that's crazy to me, but yeah, nobody, I mean fans.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess maybe some fans could go but
Speaker 2: if you remember, there was like nobody there because they
Speaker 2: didn't allow full capacity, so that game Louisville was competitive.
Speaker 2: It was a bad year for Louisville overall, and expectations
Speaker 2: were high and they ended up competing but fell short.
Speaker 2: And then of course last year a big win for him.
Speaker 2: So that'll mean that'll be your first chance to I think,
Speaker 2: really see where you are on thede Notre Dame. As
Speaker 2: of now, Notre Dame is a top ten team preseason,
Speaker 2: so I guess depending on what they do against A
Speaker 2: and M and their opener that But I mean, what
Speaker 2: is Notre Dame rank? Now? Let me pull it up here,
Speaker 2: because they are in the top ten I believe, unless
Speaker 2: I've made that up, but yeah, here we go. The
Speaker 2: Notre Dame is number seven in the country right now,
Speaker 2: which I gotta be honest, I don't know I believe that,
Speaker 2: but either way, that's where they are. So they could
Speaker 2: lose to A and M, which I don't think they will,
Speaker 2: and they'll still be ranked right like they're not gonna
Speaker 2: I mean they clearly if they lose to A and M,
Speaker 2: they won't be top ten. And if they end up
Speaker 2: in their fors like For example, here's something that you
Speaker 2: know is unavoidable, but you know you can't control it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's you know, I'm not angry about it,
Speaker 2: but it's just the reality of the situation. If A
Speaker 2: and M was to beat Notre Dame and then Notre
Speaker 2: Dame beats Northern Illinois, Perdue, Miami of Ohio, and they're
Speaker 2: still ranked after that, because right their loss was at
Speaker 2: Kyle Field and College Station, A and M somehow is
Speaker 2: a top twenty team. They probably, you know, if they
Speaker 2: lost a close game at A and M, and they
Speaker 2: beat Northern Illinois and beat Perdue and beat Miami of Ohio,
Speaker 2: which they're going to, they're probably looking at, I don't know,
Speaker 2: being ranked seventeenth or something. That's just a guess. Wouldn't
Speaker 2: you say that'd be somewhat reasonable, John.
Speaker 4: Somewhere between that and maybe at the highest like thirteen,
Speaker 4: depends on how the rest of the field shakes up.
Speaker 2: So then if they lose to Louisville and their losses
Speaker 2: are Louisville at A and M, whereas Northern Illinois, Perdue
Speaker 2: and Miami are their wins, no one is going to
Speaker 2: give Louisville any credit for beating them. They're going to
Speaker 2: start talking about how their head coach is in over
Speaker 2: his head and this is this is the because I've
Speaker 2: said that when Notre Dame has come up all off season,
Speaker 2: not that we've spent a lot of time talking about them.
Speaker 2: This is a huge year for their head coach. Why
Speaker 2: can I think of his name, Marcus free Yes, Marcus Freeman.
Speaker 2: It's a huge year for him because he's not been terrible,
Speaker 2: but he hasn't really had a great moment or a
Speaker 2: great season yet. Now this is year three, right, so
Speaker 2: therefore or it's relatively early, but I think year three
Speaker 2: because Notre Dame doesn't accept mediocrity, and mediocrity for Notre
Speaker 2: Dame is quite honestly, exactly what he has done recently.
Speaker 2: People could say what they want about Brian Kelly. He
Speaker 2: was good at Notre Dame. He was really good there,
Speaker 2: and they got their ass kicked in the playoff when
Speaker 2: they made it. They got their ass kicked in the
Speaker 2: National Championship game when they made it. But that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean they didn't deserve to be there. That means they
Speaker 2: lost to a team that, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: if you go and look at the teams that beat
Speaker 2: them in the postseason, there were usually teams that we
Speaker 2: knew were flat out better than them. So I'm a
Speaker 2: little worried about that, But again, you can't control it.
Speaker 2: Like I talked about it last year, not to say
Speaker 2: that I can predict the future, but let's be honest.
Speaker 2: We looked at Louisville schedule a year ago and we
Speaker 2: could see just be prepared. Louisville's going to be winning games,
Speaker 2: and we thought they'd be blowing some teams out. They
Speaker 2: didn't do that right because some of the games, like
Speaker 2: even Georgia Tech, although they blew them out in the
Speaker 2: second half, that game was a little close for comfort.
Speaker 2: They were down at halftime and they still ended up
Speaker 2: winning and they didn't have to sweat it out at
Speaker 2: the end. But you know, that was a game you
Speaker 2: probably thought you'd have no trouble with and you were
Speaker 2: in trouble for you know, a stretch of that game. Indiana.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody knew at the time Indiana was
Speaker 2: going to be a three win team, but Indiana was
Speaker 2: at four wins. I'm sorry those three was it three?
Speaker 2: So Indiana, you know that was a close game. I
Speaker 2: mean that's a game, to be honest with you, you could
Speaker 2: have easily lost. I mean, Indiana wasn't good, and yet
Speaker 2: they came out at halftime, did they do an onside
Speaker 2: kick to start to have and that switched, That flipped
Speaker 2: the momentum in a major way. And really it was
Speaker 2: the defense making plays. You know, got a big stop.
Speaker 2: I believe in the that the goal line, and that
Speaker 2: led to you know, Louisville being able to hold on
Speaker 2: and get the win. So sure enough, they ended up
Speaker 2: starting the season five. And oh and whenever there's talk
Speaker 2: about Louisville, you know, before that Notre Dame game, I
Speaker 2: kept telling everybody, look, they're gonna be five, and oh
Speaker 2: they might be ranked around that time, which they were.
Speaker 2: I think they just snuck in the rankings when that happened,
Speaker 2: and everybody's going to be claiming, oh, wow, their schedule stinks.
Speaker 2: They haven't played anybody. I mean, I think I even
Speaker 2: I mean, and again, it ended up playing out where
Speaker 2: you're only lost before you got to Kentucky was Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: which is easy to think about, but I remember looking
Speaker 2: at the schedule last year and just knowing what we
Speaker 2: were in for. Meaning let's say you get to the
Speaker 2: Kentucky game and you are ten to one, but your
Speaker 2: only loss is to Notre Dame, who ended up being
Speaker 2: the only ranked team you played. Everybody's going to crap
Speaker 2: on your schedule. What we didn't know is that Duke
Speaker 2: would be ranked when you beat him twenty three to nothing,
Speaker 2: and in the end, NC State ended up being a
Speaker 2: good team. That win had more value at the end
Speaker 2: of the year than you would have expected. Miami not
Speaker 2: really sure what was where they were at that time,
Speaker 2: but you know you've been to Miami and you won,
Speaker 2: So just be prepared. Louisville fans, I know a lot
Speaker 2: of us are sensitive to those that you know play
Speaker 2: the whole Hey, you know, and that's really not just Louisville.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's a common thing everywhere in college football.
Speaker 2: When you want to discredit a team who's winning a lot,
Speaker 2: you find their schedule and pick apart teams they've beat.
Speaker 2: Is if that means well, even though they've won nine
Speaker 2: of ten games, they can't be good. Look who they've played, like.
Speaker 2: That's just part of it. But I'm telling you, if LIU,
Speaker 2: and that's why I want Notre Dame to win. I
Speaker 2: want notred to be undefeated and maybe a top five
Speaker 2: team when you go to South Bend on September twenty eighth,
Speaker 2: which is possible. I mean, they're gonna be favored over
Speaker 2: Texas A and M. Right, is there an early line
Speaker 2: on that game? I need to look because I'm not
Speaker 2: a believer in A and M at all this year,
Speaker 2: and I'm not really a believer in Notre Dame as
Speaker 2: far as you know, being a team that could contend
Speaker 2: for a national championship. But in fact, that'll be a
Speaker 2: good game just because it's the first game for Elko
Speaker 2: and with Freeman, it's a big opportunity for him to
Speaker 2: get a top twenty five road win against an SEC
Speaker 2: team in an atmosphere that is believed to be one
Speaker 2: of the best in the country.
Speaker 3: Early line is minus two Texas A and M.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm taking Notre Dame, although I probably shouldn't
Speaker 2: because I don't trust I don't trust Freeman. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's handsome as hell, he seems like a really good dude,
Speaker 2: looks like he could still play right now. But like,
Speaker 2: I don't know why they gave him that job. To
Speaker 2: be honest with you, like Notre Dame. I mean they could.
Speaker 2: I mean, in fact, I do remember at the time
Speaker 2: that job opened up, I really thought that Notre Dame
Speaker 2: would call Jeff Brown, and I remember thinking, like, that's
Speaker 2: an old brainer. They should pick up the phone and
Speaker 2: call him and he would go there. And like I
Speaker 2: remember thinking, well, if he's at Notre Dame, he didn't
Speaker 2: leave a Notre Dame for Louisville. Luckily they didn't want him.
Speaker 2: And now Marcus Freeman is oh to one about to
Speaker 2: be er to two against Jeff Brohm this season.
Speaker 3: Do you hear?
Speaker 2: I said that with some confidence, had some fire, So
Speaker 2: I was. I saw the tweet from the Notre Dame
Speaker 2: football account about Notre Dame, and it reminded me. I
Speaker 2: knew there was something very memorable from the vibe check
Speaker 2: at the Notre Dame game. So I went to my
Speaker 2: media library here and I found this interview that like,
Speaker 2: I hope somebody can help me link up with these
Speaker 2: two young men in South Bend, these Notre Dame fans
Speaker 2: that came to Louisville, who, I gotta be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I trolled them as good as I've ever trolled anybody.
Speaker 2: Here's the clube did you ever meet Manti tales girlfriend?
Speaker 2: Did not?
Speaker 1: Did not. She's not a thing.
Speaker 2: She's a dude. Remember, are you serious, sir? Your way
Speaker 2: the documentary? You're telling me the Manta Tao's girlfriend is
Speaker 2: not real.
Speaker 3: She is not real.
Speaker 2: It's like the cats in the school. Excuse me, like
Speaker 2: like like the like how people dress up as cats
Speaker 2: in school?
Speaker 3: Like they're fake?
Speaker 2: Who dresses up as cats in school? Everyone? Not me? Weird?
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but like the old you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: But you are real. Fanta Tat's girlfriend is not real.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 3: She was fake.
Speaker 2: There's no way you're telling he's strolling us.
Speaker 3: We are not trolling. So what happened?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: He said he had a girlfriend. He didn't.
Speaker 2: It was like, who hasn't done that? Right? Exactly? Come
Speaker 2: this way, they're gone when you get hit by a car.
Speaker 2: But you guys know in school, you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got a girlfriend. She goes to different school. That's
Speaker 2: kind of the Manta Tato thing. Yeah yeah yeah, so
Speaker 2: like he was Mantaitao was like just wanted people to
Speaker 2: think he had a girl, but he did. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel bad now.
Speaker 4: There's part of me that thinks at least one of
Speaker 4: them wiknew that you were trolling.
Speaker 2: No, they're so young though you didn't see the visual.
Speaker 2: If you see the visual, I think you would, you would,
Speaker 2: you would, you would probably think I'm a Jersey.
Speaker 3: Think they're younger than me.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I would bet they're like twenty one or
Speaker 2: something like that. That'd be my guess. But uh yeah,
Speaker 2: that that's an old timer for me, just because, like,
Speaker 2: if you again the visual, will I think confirm that
Speaker 2: these kids had no clue that like I was, I was,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to make a joke. They thought I thought,
Speaker 2: man Tatio's a good friend was real. But then again,
Speaker 2: with them being as young as they are, let's say
Speaker 2: they were twenty one last year. That happened when they
Speaker 2: were nine. That was so like the may Titao fake
Speaker 2: girlfriend thing. It is still, in my opinion, one of
Speaker 2: the most unbelievable things that's ever happened in sports. And
Speaker 2: I mean that that's not hyperbole. Like the entire country
Speaker 2: is mourning the death of somebody that doesn't exist because
Speaker 2: they think that she's the girlfriend of the guy who
Speaker 2: is the face of college football at the time. And
Speaker 2: all it took was a little bit of internet slothing
Speaker 2: to figure out that it's not real. And that was
Speaker 2: that's what really stood out of the documentary. But the
Speaker 2: documentary from Netflix last year about or maybe it was
Speaker 2: two years ago, about this this entire scandal. Whenever it
Speaker 2: was like whenever they released it, there were a lot
Speaker 2: of people again like young, like do you remember that
Speaker 2: at all? Like you you're twenty.
Speaker 3: I was six middle school.
Speaker 4: I remember that being like a joke that we would
Speaker 4: mention in in class and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't know any of the details.
Speaker 2: It became a national story. But I feel like if
Speaker 2: you'd asked me last year when that happened, I just said,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Six seven years ago, I don't think
Speaker 2: I would have remembered that Mantaiteo had not played college
Speaker 2: football since two thousand and eleven. Like it's a long
Speaker 2: time ago. So anyways, notre name games sold out. So
Speaker 2: if you got tickets as a Louisville fan, show up,
Speaker 2: show out, I'm sure you can get them on the
Speaker 2: secondary market if you want to.
Speaker 3: Make the trip.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll keep it rolling along here,
Speaker 2: don't forget. Coming up at four oh five, we will
Speaker 2: talk with Ken Spencer from WHAS eleven some bad news
Speaker 2: for the Kentucky football program as far as injuries. It
Speaker 2: doesn't sound like it's too serious, but they're running back
Speaker 2: they brought in to kind of be you know, the
Speaker 2: guy take Ray Davis's role. Sounds like he's gonna be
Speaker 2: out a few weeks to start the season. So we're
Speaker 2: not hearing a whole lot about the players that have
Speaker 2: transferred in from Kentucky or to Kentucky into Louisville in
Speaker 2: fall camp. And I think some people are starting to worry, like, way,
Speaker 2: why I'm not hearing more about Tyler Shuck And I
Speaker 2: just think again, to go back to what I talked
Speaker 2: about earlier, I think we all just know, hey, what
Speaker 2: to wait and see, like you just never know? All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, It's coffee and company. Feel about Thort's right
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. You guys have heard
Speaker 2: me talk about it, you know, pretty pretty consistently. As
Speaker 2: far as Pat Kelsey since getting the job at Louisville,
Speaker 2: I mean, he hadn't coached your game yet. He can't
Speaker 2: give us results for us to you know, truly assess,
Speaker 2: because you know the season hasn't started and to be
Speaker 2: honest with you. I mean, you know, results are really
Speaker 2: the only thing that matters in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 2: but there's other things that well, I need to find
Speaker 2: a better way to package that up as a statement
Speaker 2: because ultimately results matter more than anything and they're the
Speaker 2: ultimate factor in your sustainability as a coach. But other
Speaker 2: things do matter too, and I think we learned that
Speaker 2: as a fan base during the last couple of errors,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. So until Pat Kelsey can
Speaker 2: give us, you know, a couple of years to really
Speaker 2: get a feel for how well he's going to do here.
Speaker 2: He's done everything right right that he can do as
Speaker 2: far as energizing the fan base, getting fans not only excited,
Speaker 2: but getting them to open up their wallets and donate
Speaker 2: to the faboh two circle. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: local business leaders that have had a chance to chat
Speaker 2: with Pat Kelsey and they feel great about him. You know,
Speaker 2: he put together a great roster, by the way, which
Speaker 2: you know, that's why fans are excited right out of
Speaker 2: the gate for year one. So today he's doing something
Speaker 2: else that I just think is another reminded that this
Speaker 2: guy gets it right. We'll see if he can win enough,
Speaker 2: because that's something only time will tell. But him showing up,
Speaker 2: I don't know if today's moving day or not at
Speaker 2: u of L. If it was, it wouldn't shock me
Speaker 2: because you know it's August fifteenth. But he's on campus
Speaker 2: interacting with students that are there. He's sharing social media
Speaker 2: videos with them, I mean, or making social media videos
Speaker 2: with him, and like that's just again, like he understands
Speaker 2: engaging your students is only going to help you. He
Speaker 2: did that in a major way at Charleston and at Winthrop,
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure really any coach has. I mean again,
Speaker 2: I'm getting little ahead of myself here, but just the
Speaker 2: video that I'm showing here, I'll let you guys here,
Speaker 2: this is Pat Kelsey interacting with one of the with
Speaker 2: a handful of students that are over there on campus
Speaker 2: at u of L today.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know this is coach Kelsey.
Speaker 2: This is not my phone.
Speaker 1: Who's going?
Speaker 2: Is this Chuck's phone?
Speaker 5: Chuck?
Speaker 1: Who's my guy here?
Speaker 5: Will? Will?
Speaker 1: Who's my guy here? Who's my guy here?
Speaker 5: All right, we're gonna move in.
Speaker 2: And they stopped me on social media.
Speaker 5: I saw a thing months ago where after my press
Speaker 5: conference on their fraternity to put a.
Speaker 1: Big sign up.
Speaker 2: Its at God's house, if you know, you know, if
Speaker 2: you know, you know, right.
Speaker 5: So, so he asked me to say something, and I'm
Speaker 5: gonna say it anyway.
Speaker 3: Hold On, don't tell me.
Speaker 2: Hey rush five tall.
Speaker 5: Rushy Tall, whatever that means. These are my guys. They
Speaker 5: said they're gonna come to games. They said they're gonna
Speaker 5: tell other students about it. Uh rush by Tall, Hey,
Speaker 5: the revival.
Speaker 3: It's real.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to present this as like the
Speaker 2: coolest thing that's ever happened, because it's not. But it's
Speaker 2: not something I've seen from any of the other coaches.
Speaker 2: I know Chris Mack was a round students here and there,
Speaker 2: but you know, he just didn't have the personality that is,
Speaker 2: you know, he's a little bit of a what do
Speaker 2: you call it, an introvert like and that like that's
Speaker 2: not what Pat Kelsey as. It doesn't see, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: introvert myself, Like, I'm not super outgoing socially. And when
Speaker 2: you're the head coach at U of L in basketball,
Speaker 2: like you don't either have to be like a larger
Speaker 2: than live star in that in that world like Rick
Speaker 2: Matino and Diddy Crumb or you've got to be somebody
Speaker 2: that really understands your job. Your duty as a head
Speaker 2: coach is to not just coach and win games. You
Speaker 2: gotta be in the community. You got to get people excited. Now,
Speaker 2: if you win at a really high level, that makes
Speaker 2: sto where you don't have to do a lot of
Speaker 2: that stuff because it's it's not as needed. However, look
Speaker 2: at what Pat Kelsey inherited, meaning a program that's coming
Speaker 2: off of three disastrous seasons and not many wins. I
Speaker 2: think the fan base was lifeless before he arrives, so
Speaker 2: continuing to do these kind of things. Again, I don't
Speaker 2: want to overstress it as if it means he's gonna
Speaker 2: be the best coach ever here. But he gets it,
Speaker 2: and that is a huge part of it. Up until
Speaker 2: you know, you get a chance to really show what
Speaker 2: you're gonna do as far as wins and losses, and
Speaker 2: even you know, first couple of weeks. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: we're gonna overanalyze everything. That's what we do. It's while
Speaker 2: we're such a crazy college basketball fan base. But I
Speaker 2: don't know, I just i'd love to know, and maybe
Speaker 2: I'll find out over time as I get to know
Speaker 2: some people a little bit closer that are attached, like
Speaker 2: I would love to know just for my curiosity. Didn't matter,
Speaker 2: Like if somebody's urging him to do this and they're
Speaker 2: letting him know how important this kind of stuff is.
Speaker 2: Given the timing and circumstance, that wouldn't change it. He's
Speaker 2: still doing it and it helps and it matters. But
Speaker 2: like there's a part of me that thinks he's not
Speaker 2: being told he just this is kind of who he is,
Speaker 2: which again, outside of winning and losing, because that's what
Speaker 2: matters the most. Like, we need somebody like this, somebody
Speaker 2: that you know is going to not only promote the
Speaker 2: brand in a major way, but also make it quite
Speaker 2: clear that they appreciate the fact that they are the
Speaker 2: guy that is rep that is you know, that has
Speaker 2: that logo on their polo, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So good stuff there, All right, we got two more
Speaker 2: hours left. We're gonna talk with the one and the
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Speaker 2: at about four oh five and we'll keep the party
Speaker 2: rolling along till six o'clock. It's coffee and company. Feel
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