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Speaker 2: me tomorrow on the postgame show. So you'll be in
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Speaker 2: us tomorrow is a game for Louisville that I I've
Speaker 2: My confidence is clearly based off the fact that Louisville
Speaker 2: has looked good since the second half of Boston College.
Speaker 2: They carried that momentum over to Clemson and and really
Speaker 2: won that game looking like a team that we really
Speaker 2: hadn't seen all year. And what I mean by that
Speaker 2: is Louisville on defense, they were just different. I mean,
Speaker 2: I've asked a few guests that have joined us on
Speaker 2: the show since that game. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 2: actually I think I asked before the Clemson game because
Speaker 2: the defense was great against Boston College. And yes, Boston
Speaker 2: College isn't a great team anyway. They've since made a
Speaker 2: change of quarterback, but if you've watched consistently, the defense
Speaker 2: was just different. They were bouncing around and clearly looked
Speaker 2: like they had an identity. There wasn't as much confusion,
Speaker 2: and they were getting stops getting off the field. And
Speaker 2: you know, they weren't perfect against Clemson, But I don't
Speaker 2: know what changed, and I wish I did because it
Speaker 2: would be nice to discuss and pay attention to it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if it was less substitutions,
Speaker 2: if they truly did, they simplified it to the point
Speaker 2: where I just wouldn't have the football brain to see it.
Speaker 2: But whatever it is, I'm hoping and expecting them to
Speaker 2: carry that over once again into this matchup against Stanford.
Speaker 2: But you know, Louisville got the breakthrough when their top
Speaker 2: twenty team right now in the College FOOTA playoffs, and
Speaker 2: they're playing the worst team that they've played since their
Speaker 2: opener against Austin. P Like, there's no way to know
Speaker 2: that for sure. But you know Stanford right now, I
Speaker 2: mean they're let's see here, let me pull up the
Speaker 2: numbers again, just get them correct. I know I've mentioned
Speaker 2: this at the beginning of the show. They right now
Speaker 2: are They've allowed twenty three passing touchdowns, which is more
Speaker 2: than anybody in the ACC. They've thrown thirteen interceptions collectively
Speaker 2: because they've played a lot of quarterbacks, and they only
Speaker 2: have twelve touchdowns on the year. They rank next to
Speaker 2: last in the ACC in total offense and total defense.
Speaker 2: So you know, they stink, which is why Louis's favored
Speaker 2: about twenty points. So them being them is a factor
Speaker 2: in the confidence that I have as well. So you know,
Speaker 2: they need a game like this, you you know, I
Speaker 2: you know, clearly there's not been as much anticipation for
Speaker 2: this one as you know, the Clemson game or the
Speaker 2: other big games Louisvell's played in this year. But this schedule,
Speaker 2: you know, people knock on Louisville schedule all the time,
Speaker 2: and I get it. I mean, in fact, it's not
Speaker 2: just Louisville, it's now it's turned into with the comp
Speaker 2: with the college football playoff rankings. I mean, you only
Speaker 2: play twelve regular season games, right, there's a ton of
Speaker 2: teams that have very similar records over the exact same records.
Speaker 2: So what do you do. You try to determine who's
Speaker 2: better based off of strength the schedule. And there's some
Speaker 2: numbers that that you can put out there that are
Speaker 2: relying on these different formulas out there. The College Football
Speaker 2: Power Index, you know, the Sagarin ratings are still out there,
Speaker 2: Like there's different ways. You know, the sp plus from ESPN,
Speaker 2: which is pretty popular, so you know it's something you
Speaker 2: can reference, but like it really doesn't tell I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not proof, right, So I understand at times why
Speaker 2: Louisville has had their schedule questioned, but not this year
Speaker 2: like last year. Let's be real, the ACC probably without
Speaker 2: realizing it, gave Louisville a gift. Now, they didn't play
Speaker 2: teams that were you know, too inten at the end
Speaker 2: of the year, but they also didn't play the better
Speaker 2: teams in the AC and they lost to one of
Speaker 2: the worst teams in the ACC in Pittsburgh a year ago.
Speaker 2: So like, I'm not going to act like Louisville's schedule
Speaker 2: is picked apart all the time and it's just completely egregious.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get it. Anybody in the ACC who
Speaker 2: does well is going to have people saying, well, you
Speaker 2: play in the ACC and like it or not. I
Speaker 2: get why they say it because the SEC is historically
Speaker 2: a better league, so it's the Big ten. But I
Speaker 2: just wish that the committee would tell us that the
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt is given based off of historically
Speaker 2: what a conference has done. I mean that because you know,
Speaker 2: there's no other way to justify it other than just knowing,
Speaker 2: you know, basing it off like brand. But if you
Speaker 2: look at strength of schedule, this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Louisville right now has played a schedule that currently ranks
Speaker 2: fifteenth in the country. So it's not that they've played
Speaker 2: week in and week out Miami and Notre Dame, but
Speaker 2: they have played I mean, the only three losses are
Speaker 2: the teams that right now are in the top fifteen,
Speaker 2: and they did beat a team and Clemson that regardless
Speaker 2: if you believe in them or not, you know, there's
Speaker 2: still there's still a team that you know is ranked
Speaker 2: in the top twenty, right behind Louisville, and who knows,
Speaker 2: they might end up winning the ACC this year. So
Speaker 2: you know, I don't like playing nobody's late at the
Speaker 2: end of the season, but this nobody is a nobody
Speaker 2: because they're just really down and you know, they're in
Speaker 2: your league, which still feels weird being Stanford. So when
Speaker 2: you've played, you know, with three games left, you've played
Speaker 2: a schedule that it's the fifteenth toughest schedule in the
Speaker 2: country according to this metric, you know, it's nice to
Speaker 2: know that, hey, you should be able to not only
Speaker 2: take care of business, but you might blow them out.
Speaker 2: And you know, Jacksonville State right now, Again, I'm not
Speaker 2: acting like Jacksonville State's good and I'm not saying Louisville
Speaker 2: should get more credit for beating rich Rod in Jacksonville State.
Speaker 2: I don't know where that voice came from, but anyways,
Speaker 2: that wasn't my point. But this is the worst team
Speaker 2: that Louisvill's played, meaning Stanford, since they played Austin p
Speaker 2: Because I think Jacksonville State. If they played head to head,
Speaker 2: who knows what would happen. But it's hard for me
Speaker 2: to look at what Stanford's done and look at what
Speaker 2: you Baxonville State's doing and not think that maybe Stanford
Speaker 2: is worse. I mean, Jacksonville State six and three, they
Speaker 2: have lost to Louisville. They have a double overtime loss
Speaker 2: to Eastern Michigan. I mean, actually, wow, I didn't realize this.
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State started oh and three, hasn't lost since. And yes,
Speaker 2: some of their wins are against team they're playing in
Speaker 2: the you know, whatever conference it is they play, and
Speaker 2: I don't even know what it is. So this isn't
Speaker 2: me saying that they're good. I'm just I'm just stating that,
Speaker 2: like Louisville, for the most part, in the last you know,
Speaker 2: month and a half, they've played teams that are, you know,
Speaker 2: not juggernauts. Again, not everybody's Miami, not everybody's Notre Dame
Speaker 2: or SMU or even Clemson. But you know, Virginia is
Speaker 2: not a terrible team. And these numbers, again, like what
Speaker 2: it tells you is that when you do play a
Speaker 2: team that you know you're supposed to beat and you
Speaker 2: know that you are better than and you did win
Speaker 2: again like Georgia Tech Boston College and and by the way,
Speaker 2: they're winn against gege Tech looks better, not because Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech's the team to beat Miami. So you know, when
Speaker 2: you beat Georgia tach, you beat Boston College in Virginia.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not acting like Louisville deserves credit. In fact,
Speaker 2: they probably should have played better against Boston College and
Speaker 2: not been down twenty one nothing. They probably should have
Speaker 2: beat Virginia more than they did. But you're not also
Speaker 2: playing a team that's looking at, you know, a two
Speaker 2: and ten, three and nine type season, And that's why
Speaker 2: the numbers probably surprise people. You know, I guarantee you
Speaker 2: there's some sec honks out there, probably Kentucky fans, that
Speaker 2: when I tell you that Kentucky's played a top or
Speaker 2: Louisvill's played a top fifteen schedule, you would say, there's
Speaker 2: no way that's true. You're making it up. I've refuse
Speaker 2: to believe it. Well, again, there's no way to prove
Speaker 2: how tough anybody's schedule is. There's no factual way to
Speaker 2: determine whose schedule is the strongest and whose schedule is
Speaker 2: the weakest. Some of it is all based off of
Speaker 2: just opinion or these formulas. And you know, I know
Speaker 2: that that's the kind of thing that if a Kentucky
Speaker 2: and an SEC fan here, they would just say, oh no,
Speaker 2: there's no I mean, look, they're in the ACC. There's
Speaker 2: no way Trinity High School's played a tougher schedule, like
Speaker 2: I'm sure people are saying that as we speak. So
Speaker 2: the remaining strength to schedule for Louisville is sixty three.
Speaker 2: So again, you're you've been battle tested enough. You should
Speaker 2: take care of business. You should absolutely be able to
Speaker 2: win out. And if you do that and then you
Speaker 2: can find a way to win a bowl game whatever
Speaker 2: that looks like, you get ten wins. And I'm nowhere
Speaker 2: near being at a point where I would ever look
Speaker 2: at a ten wins season and not say Louisville football
Speaker 2: had a good year, maybe a great year. To be
Speaker 2: honest with you, it'll feel a little weird knowing that, like, man,
Speaker 2: we probably could have done a little bit better than
Speaker 2: we did. But still like they go ten to three,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be complaining. They're looking at these strength
Speaker 2: of schedule numbers or something to remind you of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: You know, they've really I mean they've they've had a
Speaker 2: rough year. Right They played Murray State tomorrow and then
Speaker 2: they've got Texas at their place, and then they they
Speaker 2: host Louisville to wrap up the season in the Governor's
Speaker 2: Cup Game. So Kentucky strength to schedule as we speak,
Speaker 2: meaning you know, nine to ten games, however many they played,
Speaker 2: they are seventh. They played the seventh toughest schedule in
Speaker 2: the country. And that probably doesn't surprise a lot of
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans. And I said it before the season started.
Speaker 2: They could be a really good team in maybe finish
Speaker 2: in five. But they just literally play one of the
Speaker 2: toughest schedules in the country, which is true and it's
Speaker 2: still true today. However, there's teams that are clearly better
Speaker 2: than we anticipated before the season started. But like they
Speaker 2: took a step up this year and got better, Kentucky
Speaker 2: this year took a giant step back, like South Carolina
Speaker 2: blew them off the field in Lexington. Vandy, I know,
Speaker 2: Vandy's the story of like you know the sit and
Speaker 2: your Daddy's Vandy. True, Well, Vandy's not great, like Vandy's
Speaker 2: getting the benefit, which is a wild thing to say. Here,
Speaker 2: They're getting the benefit from always sucking out loud Vandy
Speaker 2: having an impulse is like, Dan, you better watch out
Speaker 2: in a Vandy team now, I mean, and like that's
Speaker 2: not really, like it's not really it is. They're winn
Speaker 2: against Alabama is insane still, I think one of the
Speaker 2: craziest things I've ever seen in college football in my lifetime.
Speaker 2: Not an exaggeration, even if Van d ends up struggling
Speaker 2: the rest of the way, Like, that's just insane that
Speaker 2: that happened. But like Vandy lost to Georgia State, right,
Speaker 2: Vandy lost to a Missouri team that Vandy's their best,
Speaker 2: Vandy's one game of a five hundred, so you know,
Speaker 2: losing to Vandy, losing to South Carolina, losing to Florida
Speaker 2: when they're way down and thinking that their coach is
Speaker 2: gonna get canned. At least at the time that game
Speaker 2: took place, Auburn didn't have a win. Like Auburn's a
Speaker 2: big brand, but Auburn sucks Hugh Freezes out after next year,
Speaker 2: no doubt. So like Kentucky, they could have had a
Speaker 2: good team and the record wouldn't have necessarily indicated how
Speaker 2: good they could have been, because man, that's a murderer's
Speaker 2: road type of schedule.
Speaker 1: And the real.
Speaker 2: Reminder of that is this. They're now sitting at one
Speaker 2: and six in the sec is it four? They've got
Speaker 2: Huler wins, They've got Ole miss South Carolina and two bums,
Speaker 2: so they got four wins right now, so they could
Speaker 2: go to a bowl. But they need to beat Texas
Speaker 2: and beat Louisville. So my point is this, they've already
Speaker 2: crapped the bed to where there's no scenario that they
Speaker 2: I mean, I shouldn't say no scenario. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess crazy things have happened, but right now they are
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. They have three wins, they're three and six.
Speaker 2: They'll get their fourth win when they play Murray tomorrow,
Speaker 2: so they'll have they'll have the chance to go to
Speaker 2: a bowl. But like you know, beating Texas is at
Speaker 2: Texas just seems pretty unbelievable. But then again, Texas hasn't
Speaker 2: beaten anybody, so I don't know. But my point is this,
Speaker 2: if they would have taken advantage of Vandy, even though
Speaker 2: Vandy's better, you should still beat them at your place,
Speaker 2: Florida stinks. You're up ten to nothing against Auburn lost
Speaker 2: twenty four to ten Tennessee Beach. You about ten in
Speaker 2: a game that really probably was closer than than you know,
Speaker 2: anybody expected. But my point is this the strength of
Speaker 2: schedule currently, and they don't factor in Murray Murray's and
Speaker 2: Murray's an FCS team. So again, the remaining strength of
Speaker 2: schedule rankings right now Kentucky started, or at least as
Speaker 2: of now. Let me let me, let me, let me
Speaker 2: pull up these numbers just to make sure I'm not
Speaker 2: incorrect here. So currently Kentucky's played the seventh toughest schedule
Speaker 2: as of now, their remaining string the schedule, it's only
Speaker 2: factoring in two teams because again Murray doesn't count. So
Speaker 2: you know who it's factoring in, Texas and Louisville. Do
Speaker 2: you know where Kentucky's remaining strength of schedule ranks number one?
Speaker 2: You know what that's you know, So if you want
Speaker 2: to brag on your tough schedule, you know what you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to do. Acknowledge that Louisville makes your schedule tougher.
Speaker 2: Now doesn't mean Louisville's better than some of the teams
Speaker 2: that you beat that you lost to because she hadn't
Speaker 2: beat anybody. But that mean Loisll's better than you know,
Speaker 2: any of these teams that beat you, because you just
Speaker 2: will never know. I mean, I think Louisville would beat Florida.
Speaker 2: I think they beat Auburn, but I don't know. I
Speaker 2: can't tell you that would happen for certain, and maybe
Speaker 2: they would lose. That we'll never know. But like when
Speaker 2: you're trying to justify how bad your season was and
Speaker 2: you're going to try to maybe use the strength of
Speaker 2: schedule argument, you're gonna have to acknowledge that your rival
Speaker 2: was a part of that. Now again, what it does,
Speaker 2: It gives you a chance to beat them or to
Speaker 2: to you know, to to you know, like if Louisville
Speaker 2: wins the next these next two games, there's this scenario
Speaker 2: they probably calimb up to I don't know, maybe seventeen
Speaker 2: or sixteen by the time we get to the end
Speaker 2: of the year when that game's played, And if Kentucky
Speaker 2: limps in there with no hope of a Bowl game
Speaker 2: four and I guess at that point they'd be what
Speaker 2: four and seven, and then they somehow beat Louisville. That
Speaker 2: would probably be one of the more satisfying wins for
Speaker 2: Kentucky ever. And I'll bring all this up to say, gross,
Speaker 2: never underestimate. I don't think it's gonna happen. I really don't.
Speaker 2: But again, I've been wrong many times about this game.
Speaker 2: But let me just say this before we get to break.
Speaker 2: Never underestimate how much Kentucky loves beating Louisville and it's
Speaker 2: really made them view Mark Stoops probably a little better
Speaker 2: than he actually is. He's done really well in this match,
Speaker 2: in this series, in the last you know, however, many years,
Speaker 2: so one or two things is gonna happen. He's gonna
Speaker 2: lose to Louisville and they're gonna officially say, look, I
Speaker 2: know you said you're not retiring, but please leave because
Speaker 2: that's gonna hit him hard. They know they stink, but
Speaker 2: if they lose to Louisville for the first time in
Speaker 2: a long time, they're gonna lose their mind. Now, if
Speaker 2: they beat Louisville at a boy, Stoops bringing on back
Speaker 2: for another year, big fella, we'll get a bunch of
Speaker 2: guys in the portal like they're like, again, I'm not
Speaker 2: I mean, I am making fun of them, but like
Speaker 2: they could never ever indicate that they don't value the
Speaker 2: rivalry in what it does for them win or lose,
Speaker 2: and we both do. But they've clearly been able to
Speaker 2: kind of, I think, view themselves differently as a football
Speaker 2: program because they've dominated Louisville, and I hope that ends
Speaker 2: this year. Quick break, we'll come back on the other side.
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Speaker 2: imagine there are many of you listening right now that
Speaker 2: have pets. Maybe it's a dog, maybe it's a cat,
Speaker 2: maybe it's I don't know. You could have a snake,
Speaker 2: you could have a bird. I mean, there are a
Speaker 2: lot of different pets you can have, but I'd say
Speaker 2: most of you, if you have a pet, it's probably
Speaker 2: a dog or a cat. But whatever it is, just
Speaker 2: know that they are not going to, you know, communicate
Speaker 2: with you the same way that humans do because you know,
Speaker 2: they can't speak. Now, maybe they speak different language and
Speaker 2: you know, I mean literally like their love language, or
Speaker 2: maybe you know, I'm not a big pet guy, meaning
Speaker 2: I've just never had the connection to one like a
Speaker 2: lot of people have. But I understand that they're part
Speaker 2: of your family. But like even even the two dogs
Speaker 2: that have been in my life for a long time,
Speaker 2: over my whole life, like they didn't have to say
Speaker 2: things at times, you could tell all right, somethings bother
Speaker 2: them this and that. So my point is they may
Speaker 2: not know to tell you, or they may not even
Speaker 2: know themselves that they could have something going on when
Speaker 2: it comes to their health. So I get it, Like
Speaker 2: for me, out of sight, out of mind, you know,
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Speaker 2: you won't be worried about, Man, could I have prevented this?
Speaker 2: Could I have could I have you know, could I
Speaker 2: have been a little proactive to just make sure that
Speaker 2: my dog, my cat, or whatever is is is healthy.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to really support our partners, right
Speaker 2: shaming them in case their pet dies. They could have
Speaker 2: done something. I mean, well, that's sonding. I don't I
Speaker 2: didn't mean to. I didn't mean to it. I didn't
Speaker 2: mean to present it that way, but it just kind
Speaker 2: of happens.
Speaker 3: Well, I said that, I was about to ask, and well,
Speaker 3: before you said that you were a you never really
Speaker 3: had pets growing up. I was gonna ask, like, have
Speaker 3: you ever had like not just like a dog or
Speaker 3: a cat, have you ever had like an odd like
Speaker 3: pet before? You know, whether it be like a snake,
Speaker 3: a fish, No, nothing like that.
Speaker 2: I'm boring when it comes to pets. I so whenever
Speaker 2: we were we were young, really young, like the family
Speaker 2: the family pet. When I was a really little kid,
Speaker 2: and I mean like barely being able to remember, I'm
Speaker 2: talking like four or five year old, we had a
Speaker 2: cat and uh it it ended up. I don't know,
Speaker 2: this is sad. I don't really remember, like what I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't really remember if it ran away or not.
Speaker 2: I'm sure if my sister my mother's listening, they may
Speaker 2: like one remind me and then say, how could you
Speaker 2: never remember? It was a tragic situation in our life,
Speaker 2: but you know it was a long time ago. Uh.
Speaker 2: But as far as a dog, like I've had two
Speaker 2: dogs now that I feel like, are you know my
Speaker 2: my pets along with my wife, but I inherited them essentially, well,
Speaker 2: one of them she bought and brought home and it's
Speaker 2: just been around and he's pretty good. Yeah, But we
Speaker 2: had a dog when I was a kid that you know,
Speaker 2: he was fine, but like I just didn't you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't have the we were good because he didn't
Speaker 2: mess with me. I didn't mess with him, right, Like
Speaker 2: if he needed to go out, I'd let him go pee.
Speaker 2: If he needed to eat, I'd feed him. But like
Speaker 2: he didn't, he didn't you know, relationship. Yeah, I never
Speaker 2: made the sentimental connection that a lot of people make
Speaker 2: it to be honest with you in all seriousness, like
Speaker 2: I'm I'm missing out, Like I'm that's a special part
Speaker 2: in a a lot of people's lives, meaning the the
Speaker 2: love they have for their pet. And when I and
Speaker 2: this is one thing I will defend people like myself
Speaker 2: who haven't had that connection just because you you haven't
Speaker 2: had that you know, relationship to where you look at
Speaker 2: your pet it's like your brother or your sister or
Speaker 2: as your son or daughter. And I don't mean to
Speaker 2: get weird, but I know people do that. Like doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that I don't like pets. I just I don't.
Speaker 2: I can't necessarily relate because I've never like, I like,
Speaker 2: i'd like I like pets, I like. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not anti like. It's one thing to be like, you know,
Speaker 2: anti by the way, who the world would be anti pet?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Who would be anti animal like that? That would be
Speaker 2: a cold heart a bit, And I'm not and I'm
Speaker 2: not that. It's just I, you know, I can't really
Speaker 2: I can't match the level of love you have for
Speaker 2: your pet because I just have never experienced it just yet.
Speaker 2: So but you know, when my when my wife then
Speaker 2: girlfriend and I became you know, an idem many many
Speaker 2: years ago. Mercedes shut out of Mercedes. Mercedes has a
Speaker 2: birthday tomorrow. Yeah, she's uh early birthday. She's she's she's
Speaker 2: the best in the world. But and for those who
Speaker 2: don't get the reference, that's a great poll by you.
Speaker 2: By the way, Venetti got hammered. Jokenetti. Vannetti got hammered
Speaker 2: at a at a bats game a few years back. And uh,
Speaker 2: he'd met my wife many times, and uh, he was
Speaker 2: pretty sauce and he he looked at her and like
Speaker 2: I wanted to say something that didn't and she was like,
Speaker 2: you know, remember my name, do you? And he said
Speaker 2: Mercedes and then she just became Mercedes to to Venetti
Speaker 2: and all my iHeart people that were there. So but yeah,
Speaker 2: she she had a she had a dog that she
Speaker 2: got when she was young, like as a gift, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like it was a big deal
Speaker 2: to her. It became a big part of her world.
Speaker 2: And he you know, I didn't know it at the time.
Speaker 2: We never even had a conversation because I feel like
Speaker 2: if we'd had a conversation, I would have like fought it.
Speaker 2: But now what I know, I'm glad I didn't fought
Speaker 2: it because she would have picked that dog over me.
Speaker 2: We moved in together in an apartment and like he
Speaker 2: couldn't come to the apartment because we weren't allowed to
Speaker 2: have pets. So I just assumed, like, well, that's it,
Speaker 2: I guess now I know that, you know, he's just
Speaker 2: going to stay with her dad. And then we bought
Speaker 2: our first house and like I think he moved in
Speaker 2: before me, the dog, so you know, he just became
Speaker 2: part of our family. And I had a little resistance
Speaker 2: as far as you know, because he wasn't a great dog.
Speaker 2: I mean, and she would even acknowledge that, Like he
Speaker 2: just loved to go play in traffic, he loved to
Speaker 2: eat they like eat you know, people's shoes, and he
Speaker 2: was super protective of her to where if we had
Speaker 2: people over and they got near her, he would lose
Speaker 2: his mind. Like he was kind of a lunatic until
Speaker 2: he he got a little bit calm towards the end
Speaker 2: of his life and he had passed away, but he lived,
Speaker 2: he lived for I mean, again me speaking, this is
Speaker 2: me making it quite obvious that I don't really know
Speaker 2: a whole lot about like I don't have a lot
Speaker 2: of experience as a pet owner. But for how old
Speaker 2: he was, I mean, I want to say he was
Speaker 2: like sixteen years old, which is pretty old for the
Speaker 2: type of dog that he was.
Speaker 3: Yes, so you know they age in seven years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he was he was great but where he
Speaker 2: where it really turned the corner for me to where
Speaker 2: like he became somebody that I had no choice but to,
Speaker 2: you know, except as one of my own is my wife,
Speaker 2: who again I think she loved the dog more than
Speaker 2: she loved me. She she was well aware that, like
Speaker 2: with the way he was, that when we have our daughter,
Speaker 2: who's now eight years old, that like my wife's going
Speaker 2: to be giving her a lot of attention. I mean,
Speaker 2: she's gonna I mean it's gonna be her new world.
Speaker 2: She's gonna be nursing and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: and like he's a lunatic about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So she was well aware that, like there's a good
Speaker 2: chance that whenever we bring the baby home and we
Speaker 2: start our life as parents, that he's going to be
Speaker 2: in full time outside dog or we're gonna have to
Speaker 2: you know, get you know, give him to somebody within
Speaker 2: the family that would want and we're going to get
Speaker 2: rid of him. But you know that was probably gonna
Speaker 2: have to happen. I didn't even need to say it.
Speaker 2: She knew well whenever Maya was born, after family came
Speaker 2: in to see her, I mean, this makes sense, but
Speaker 2: I'd never thought of it or heard of it, but
Speaker 2: the blanket that she was born in, or that she
Speaker 2: was wrapped up in initially as soon as she, you know,
Speaker 2: entered earth. Tiffany's mom, she took the blanket home and
Speaker 2: put it in the cage where Hunter was the dog.
Speaker 2: And apparently if you do that, that scent they're just
Speaker 2: supposed to know that, like that's the scent of the
Speaker 2: baby as well as you know, your mom meaning my wife.
Speaker 2: And we came home with the baby, and he was excited,
Speaker 2: but not in a way of like threatened by the baby,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And then the next two days,
Speaker 2: and you'll know this when you have kids, at one
Speaker 2: point the next two days, you got everybody coming to
Speaker 2: see the baby, right, everybody's coming over. And he went
Speaker 2: from being like that towards anybody that got near my
Speaker 2: wife to where anybody that held the baby, he was
Speaker 2: coming after him, like he became the protector. It was
Speaker 2: one of them. I mean not to get corny here,
Speaker 2: but it was one of the most beautiful things I've
Speaker 2: ever seen. And you know, at that point, how am
Speaker 2: I not going to say, Ah, it's my god, he's
Speaker 2: my dog, you know, not you know that's my dog
Speaker 2: literally and figually.
Speaker 3: You know, dogs are awesome, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I got another wild story about animals that
Speaker 2: that I you know, now it's not as surprising, but
Speaker 2: at the time I remember thinking like, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: This is the smartest cat in the world. Our cat,
Speaker 2: his name was might have been Tyson. This was a
Speaker 2: different cat than our first cat. And I think we
Speaker 2: moved well, said good timing there, right, So we moved
Speaker 2: out of the house I grew up in. And it's
Speaker 2: a long, a long story, and I don't want to
Speaker 2: get into it. It would make me look as if I
Speaker 2: grew up in a situation that you might see on
Speaker 2: Jerry Spring or something. But the house I grew up
Speaker 2: in ended up being a house I later lived in,
Speaker 2: and we moved out of whenever I graduated high school.
Speaker 2: But there was a time in between where we moved
Speaker 2: out and moved probably about two miles away, and it
Speaker 2: was across like a major like busy road like. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like we moved two miles away like in some
Speaker 2: farmland or something. So we rented out the original house
Speaker 2: that we lived in while we moved to the new house.
Speaker 2: So we lost our cat like we thought he ran away,
Speaker 2: like what are you gonna do? Weeks go by, you know,
Speaker 2: we just assumed like, man, hope he's okay, but like
Speaker 2: he didn't like where we moved and he's gone. So
Speaker 2: the people who were renting the house that they finally
Speaker 2: called my I think it was my mother and said,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, there's this cat that won't leave, like
Speaker 2: should we feed it? Like did you have did you
Speaker 2: all deal with this? And I'm pretty sure there was
Speaker 2: no light bulb that went off, like it's tyson. I
Speaker 2: think my mom just assumed like no, we didn't, you know,
Speaker 2: like I don't. I wouldn't feed it because then it
Speaker 2: won't leave. And then she was like, well it's a
Speaker 2: sweet cat, and the lady who was renting the house
Speaker 2: started describing it. That cat made its way all the
Speaker 2: way back to where we lived, and he crossed interstate
Speaker 2: like he I mean, like you know it was We
Speaker 2: thought there's no way we show up, and sure enough
Speaker 2: it was him, and we brought him back home like
Speaker 2: he made his way all the way back there, not
Speaker 2: knowing how to get there, Like think about that, like
Speaker 2: maybe that's not again when I say when I when
Speaker 2: I'm surprised by certain things when it comes to pets.
Speaker 2: I'm sure those that are much have much more experience
Speaker 2: with pets, Like realize, all right, calm down, coffee. It's
Speaker 2: not that big of a surprise. But like as a kid,
Speaker 2: I thought, we got the we get the biggest, most
Speaker 2: badass cat in the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Cats. Cats live by their own rules. They don't
Speaker 3: let's your rules. They're just very low maintenance. I've always
Speaker 3: liked cats, have been around them. We have two of
Speaker 3: them that they're they're the girlfriends. Actually we had one
Speaker 3: and then or after one passed away about about this
Speaker 3: time a year ago. Uh, Sidney was very very devastated
Speaker 3: with that. That's one that she kind of grew up with.
Speaker 3: And then we went and got a dog kind of
Speaker 3: as you know, just kind of get your mind off
Speaker 3: of things. And she was never really a dog person anyways,
Speaker 3: but she's you know, we've obviously fed the cat's name.
Speaker 3: The cat's name was Sage, and then once Sage passed
Speaker 3: away related about three months and then we live right
Speaker 3: next to a feeder supply, and then she went there
Speaker 3: to go and that's why I'm never letting her go
Speaker 3: to the feeder supply ever again alone. She went there
Speaker 3: to go get dog food and came back and said,
Speaker 3: I adopted a cat.
Speaker 2: I bet that happens a lot man.
Speaker 3: Yes, and her name. Her name is Maxine. She's a sweetheart.
Speaker 2: A cat name Maxine or a dog cat.
Speaker 3: A dog's name is Nira, and she's a lunatic, but
Speaker 3: she's still good.
Speaker 2: The reason I asked about that is because I don't
Speaker 2: know why. You know, the bar for me, as far
Speaker 2: as humor is pretty low and pretty childish. Cats with
Speaker 2: human names always hits with me like that place, well,
Speaker 2: not as much, I think, not as much as dogs
Speaker 2: really like For some reason, a cat with a human name, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know why. Just to me, it's funnier. Like
Speaker 2: I had a had a buddy I used to work
Speaker 2: with Daniel many years ago before this was my my
Speaker 2: my gig. He had a cat named Walter, and I
Speaker 2: thought that was so bad as this before Walter white
Speaker 2: became the first thing you think of when you think
Speaker 2: of Walter. But like I just thought, like, you know
Speaker 2: a cat named Walter? That that works, man, that's great
Speaker 2: cat name. Yeah, So shot.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Walter, my buddy, shout out the Cody
Speaker 3: if he's listening right now. But he's got a dog
Speaker 3: and his name is Gavin, and I think that's a
Speaker 3: great dog name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not bad. Like we should actually just like
Speaker 2: no more spikes, no more buddies, no more uh spot
Speaker 2: or something. Let's I mean, let's you know, if you,
Speaker 2: if you, people are gonna claim that these are like
Speaker 2: your real children. And I don't mean to mock people
Speaker 2: to do that, but like they're you know, there are
Speaker 2: some people who literally will argue with you that it's
Speaker 2: the same thing. And I'm not having that conversation because
Speaker 2: clearly it's not. But like, I get how much you
Speaker 2: love your pet, but let's just give him real human names, right,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, what about Like what if you come to
Speaker 2: my house and I got a new dog and he's
Speaker 2: jumping on you case he's excited. I'm like, Dennis, calm down, bro,
Speaker 2: Like let my man settle in, Like yeah, that's Troy.
Speaker 2: I think that would be funny. All right, real quick,
Speaker 2: we got to get to a break in a moment.
Speaker 2: But I do want to let you guys hear the
Speaker 2: sound I referenced earlier. So Mike Tyson, Jake, Paul Tonight,
Speaker 2: and I want to believe that this is totally real,
Speaker 2: and maybe I will once it starts. But this clip
Speaker 2: of Mike Tyson responding to something that Jake Paul said,
Speaker 2: I think the sound will will do enough. But I
Speaker 2: think if you actually see the visual with the sound, like,
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like Mike Tyson might end his
Speaker 2: life tonight. Now, I would say that the chances of
Speaker 2: that happening one. I mean, I'm being sarcastic, but a
Speaker 2: lot of people think of it's ugly that it's going
Speaker 2: to be the other way around, because Mike Tyson's sixty
Speaker 2: years old. But pull that up if.
Speaker 3: You can't, Austin, this is I got you ready for scary? Yeah,
Speaker 3: here we go. I mean that's the difference.
Speaker 2: I believed him too, right, Like, yeah, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: if you didn't know anything about who that was, and
Speaker 2: you want you didn't, you didn't. You know, if you
Speaker 2: just heard only the Tyson end of it, and you
Speaker 2: thought you were watching a crime documentary about a mass murderer,
Speaker 2: you'd believe it. Ye did, And I don't mean, you know,
Speaker 2: even with even without the appearance, because Mike Tyson clearly
Speaker 2: looks like a bad dude, he's a bad dude's a
Speaker 2: scary man. But like that was somebody talking about being
Speaker 2: a natural born killer. They weren't. They weren't into the bit.
Speaker 2: They weren't, you know, trying to get over with the crowd.
Speaker 2: Like that's just that's just I think his mindset. So
Speaker 2: I'm getting excited. Should be uh, should be good stuff.
Speaker 3: Fight night is here.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, what a weekend we got? Said no, we
Speaker 2: got a great night of both. You know, we got
Speaker 2: a great boxing match, which I hope is great, and
Speaker 2: then of course college football, college basketball. We've got a
Speaker 2: loaded day of both tomorrow as well. Austin's hosting the
Speaker 2: postgame show. Hell yeah, we're rolling here, so we'll get
Speaker 2: out of here for quick break. We'll come back, wrap
Speaker 2: this up and get out here for the weekend. Keep
Speaker 2: it locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: We were wrapping it up here on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out with us, Nick Coffee, Austin Montgomery,
Speaker 2: as we get you out of here for the weekend.
Speaker 2: But this is a really good write up here that
Speaker 2: I'm going to reference where I read it from, because
Speaker 2: you know, I want to give credit, but I know
Speaker 2: just mentioning this outlet is going to make people think
Speaker 2: you're a nasty lib coffee. But otkick dot com it's
Speaker 2: not a Clay Travis thing. It's actually Bobby bou Rak,
Speaker 2: who's not far from Clay Travis. But he did write
Speaker 2: an article at OutKick that I thought was very interesting
Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with politics. But how the WWE,
Speaker 2: How wrestling does on Netflix when they move their weekly
Speaker 2: television show that has watched more than just about anything
Speaker 2: on a weekly basis, When that happens, there's going to
Speaker 2: be a case study to see if that's where everything shifts.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I think in all seriousness, Netflix, if
Speaker 2: they wanted to, could challenge ESPN. Sure if they wanted to.
Speaker 2: Now do they want to? I'm not sure what's really
Speaker 2: gonna be crazy for. And the reason I'm talking about
Speaker 2: this is because Tonight's Jake Paul Mike Tyson fights on
Speaker 2: Netflix and it's clearly gonna be watched by millions of people,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a live event, which is a
Speaker 2: rare thing for Netflix. But Disney, if Disney wants to
Speaker 2: disassociate itself from ESPN, which they should do for the
Speaker 2: sake of ESPN is what I hope happens. But that'll
Speaker 2: be where it really comes. And that's when you really
Speaker 2: get a chance to see because a lot of Disney,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, a lot of ESPN's programming decisions and just
Speaker 2: their tone and it, let's be real, we all mean,
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not gonna say. You all know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about when I say the way ESPN clearly
Speaker 2: just is very consistent with with with everything as far
Speaker 2: as which I'm not even gonna say side or because
Speaker 2: you know, but you know what I mean. I'll leave
Speaker 2: it at that. If somebody else obtains them and they
Speaker 2: have complete freedom, I think it'd be great for that company,
Speaker 2: meaning ESPN. But like somebody's gonna have to buy them
Speaker 2: because Disney. Disney's why they are the way they are,
Speaker 2: and anybody who works there would tell you that. But anyways,
Speaker 2: tonight on Netflix, if it's a big hit, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is good. They're gonna try to do more of
Speaker 2: this if they can. And you know, I actually think
Speaker 2: there's people who would actually prefer Okay, like I'm finding,
Speaker 2: you know, Network Plus SEC Network plus, ACC Network plus
Speaker 2: Peacock or ESPN Plus or the streaming Like when you
Speaker 2: have your obscure games that are on these random networks
Speaker 2: that you never go looking for, I guarantee you people
Speaker 2: would be more willing and more more. They'd be more
Speaker 2: able and accepting to finding it on Netflix, because Netflix
Speaker 2: at twenty twenty four it's not where you go to
Speaker 2: for live sports because it never has been. But you
Speaker 2: probably have the ability in the instincts to know exactly
Speaker 2: how to find that more so than you do poping
Speaker 2: open the ESPN Plus app and then signing in with
Speaker 2: your TV provider every five seconds. Seemingly like Disney doesn't
Speaker 2: care enough about sports to make ESPN what it should be.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I believe. So and in a weird
Speaker 2: way like tonight, I think if it goes well and
Speaker 2: Netflix feels like, yeah, this is working, they may try
Speaker 2: to get in the game, and that would be a
Speaker 2: bad thing for for ESPN, unless, of course Disney wanted to.
Speaker 2: I mean, heck, maybe Netflix buys ESPN from Disney. I mean,
Speaker 2: the big brain's working up here. I'm just throwing stuff
Speaker 2: out there, but that wouldn't be the craziest thing right.
Speaker 3: Well, Netflix, ESPN just just getting devoured now.
Speaker 2: Netflix like just you know, like just take them down.
Speaker 3: I can't wait for wrestling to be in the Netflix.
Speaker 2: And I know Disney's you know, clearly a very popular
Speaker 2: thing and the kids love it and all that. I'm
Speaker 2: like anti Disney, but Disney didn't. I mean, Disney buying
Speaker 2: ESPN and having complete control over a lot of things
Speaker 2: didn't go well for ESPN in my opinion. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's people who have come and went at ESPN
Speaker 2: that probably weren't able to really be who they wanted
Speaker 2: to be on the air. Not because there's some raging lunatic,
Speaker 2: but like you know, you just have to not say
Speaker 2: stuff about things that, like, you know, people with a
Speaker 2: brain are willing to acknowledge. All Right, we're out of time. Everybody,
Speaker 2: have themselves a good week, and again I'm out tomorrow
Speaker 2: for the postgame show. But Austin's got you, so you'll
Speaker 2: be in good hands. Hang out with us. I believe whenever,
Speaker 2: whenever we get back here on the air, at least
Speaker 2: I do on Monday, we'll be talking about a big
Speaker 2: time win for the Cards. So have a good week
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