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Speaker 5: We've got the one and only Austin Montgomery alongside the
Speaker 5: Tribal Chief, who's fresh off of his appearance last night
Speaker 5: at Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 2: We were in there.
Speaker 5: Rather than asking about the overall show itself, tell me
Speaker 5: about the Sweet the Sweet Life.
Speaker 2: How was that it was? It was? It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: We we uh uh the sweets.
Speaker 4: I think it's I forget what it's called it's named
Speaker 4: after some bourbon but it was really nice as decked
Speaker 4: out in all cards. The seats were nice. They were cushioned. Uh,
Speaker 4: they had like sort of like a backrest and everything.
Speaker 4: It was pretty awesome. Had some free uh, had some
Speaker 4: free glides.
Speaker 5: You got more room, you got more I mean it's
Speaker 5: you're more comfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So you know, you asked me this yesterday and I
Speaker 5: had a quick answer. But I never really thought about,
Speaker 5: like I wouldn't even know what to expect if I
Speaker 5: ever attended any event in any arena. That was a
Speaker 5: sweet I've been very fortunate to be able to get
Speaker 5: press credentials, you know, to get into games and stuff
Speaker 5: throughout my career, which is always great. They take good
Speaker 5: care of us and whatnot for the most part. But uh,
Speaker 5: you know, a suite, I mean that's where you got
Speaker 5: to go. I'm just imagining more room yep, more comfort,
Speaker 5: of course, and then like you don't have to go
Speaker 5: to the concession stand right right now.
Speaker 4: They were they the the cores and michelobe lights were
Speaker 4: mikeelob ultras. I'm sorry, we're flowing. And some chicken tenders
Speaker 4: up there, some uh, some sliders, some chips and cases,
Speaker 4: and it's all in the suite for you. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: was already in the suite.
Speaker 6: What about restrooms? Does that work?
Speaker 4: You walk you as soon as you walk out of
Speaker 4: your personal suite, it's like it's out there kind of
Speaker 4: in the hallway. It's it seemed like it took forever
Speaker 4: to get to though, because I mean, it's up there.
Speaker 4: You got to go to like a certain floor. There's
Speaker 4: like the usher on the elevate or on the escalator.
Speaker 4: So that's that's pretty cool. It was, like I said,
Speaker 4: it was all decked out and card stuff, So that
Speaker 4: was that was pretty neat to see. And of course
Speaker 4: it was like dark when you walk in, I guess
Speaker 4: because they don't know, but most of the show was dark.
Speaker 4: All the light is basically like on the ring.
Speaker 6: So I watched last night.
Speaker 5: I pulled it up on Netflix for the first time
Speaker 5: ever watching Raw on Netflix, and I watched a little
Speaker 5: bit of it. My son, who, of course we've talked about,
Speaker 5: he's really into wrestling right now. He doesn't like when
Speaker 5: they talk. He wants them to wrestle. But the guy
Speaker 5: who clearly seemed to be the most popular person in
Speaker 5: attendance last night.
Speaker 2: Uso Juso.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he didn't actually wrestle. He was he
Speaker 5: was doing you know, the talking and the promo stuff
Speaker 5: and whatnot. But it was energetic and he was moving
Speaker 5: his hands and yeah, exactly, whatever that is, that's what
Speaker 5: he was doing, and it got the crowd going. But yeah,
Speaker 5: we watched, and I wasn't really I guess honestly, I
Speaker 5: just I'm thinking of what Monday Night Raw looked like
Speaker 5: on television, you know, twenty years ago, which clearly it's
Speaker 5: come a long way. But I felt like the entire
Speaker 5: setup was I mean, it was really nice. It looked
Speaker 5: cool as hell. Again, the product value that you're getting
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five for a company like Netflix that
Speaker 5: invested an insane amount of money to be able to
Speaker 5: exclusively air this television show, you're going to get the
Speaker 5: best of the best. It just was a little different.
Speaker 5: And what you just said was the first thing I
Speaker 5: noticed is that very much intimate lighting, dark kind of theater, like,
Speaker 5: I mean, it didn't I could tell it was the
Speaker 5: young sinner. And when the crowd would get really loud,
Speaker 5: like obviously you knew they were in a really really
Speaker 5: really big area, but at times I couldn't, Like, if
Speaker 5: you wouldn't have told me, If I knew nothing and
Speaker 5: I just turned it on, I wouldn't. You could have
Speaker 5: told me they were in a theater somewhere, and I
Speaker 5: believe you, I wouldn't have known that it was an arena.
Speaker 5: But you know, they do the pan shots to the
Speaker 5: crowd and clearly you can tell it's it's an arena
Speaker 5: full of thousands of people that were there ready for.
Speaker 4: The Actually they were hot last night too, everyone everyone
Speaker 4: was hot. The fiance enjoyed herself so nice, Entucky into
Speaker 4: it herself. But she's just kind of like moves. She
Speaker 4: doesn't like all she likes all the talking when they're
Speaker 4: like ish talking each other.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she was some action, no downtime right right, But.
Speaker 4: When the when the when the matches are happening, that's
Speaker 4: when she's kind of like not paying attention if you're
Speaker 4: like not like a nerd like me and just kind
Speaker 4: of like watching the story with that. She likes the
Speaker 4: story being told by like the announcers and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: and obviously you don't get that during a live show.
Speaker 4: You know, there's feedback and stuff like that. So when
Speaker 4: an actual wrestling match is happening. It's you're just hearing
Speaker 4: like the moves of the mat and you're kind of
Speaker 4: flowing along with the crowd, which she kind of gets
Speaker 4: lost in.
Speaker 2: But then the next sect it would come.
Speaker 6: I'm with you, Sidney, and then and then she and
Speaker 6: she she gets it.
Speaker 4: And I told her we've went to WrestleMania before, and
Speaker 4: I said, and she had that exact same thing. She said, wait,
Speaker 4: they're like not talking, you can't hear them. I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: this is all matches. And I tried telling her WrestleMania
Speaker 4: that's like the culmination of all the stories. There's hardly
Speaker 4: any backstage segments. There's gonna be some entertaining spots, but
Speaker 4: like that's all the storylines being wrapped up, where like
Speaker 4: this is like the episode that's being shown on TV.
Speaker 4: There's just gonna there's gonna be a lot of backstage shenanigans.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be like a lot of promos and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. And I think she is able to enjoy
Speaker 4: that a little bit more than just strictly match after
Speaker 4: match after match after match after match.
Speaker 5: I was gonna ask you this yesterday if it would
Speaker 5: have just been tickets, but good seats but not the suite.
Speaker 5: Would you still have asked her to go or do
Speaker 5: you feel like the suite made it to where it
Speaker 5: was the ultimate experience for her because she got, you know, whenever,
Speaker 5: whenever it was downtime, as you say, she could just
Speaker 5: you know, enjoy the the atmosphere that is being in
Speaker 5: a suite at the yum Cell.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and they even in the little the area
Speaker 4: that's where before you walk down to the actual seats
Speaker 4: of the suite, there was like like a couple of
Speaker 4: couches and stuff on the.
Speaker 6: Night chill and large.
Speaker 2: Babe.
Speaker 4: I like it. It felt nice. I feel like a
Speaker 4: regular at the KFCM center.
Speaker 6: Look at you again.
Speaker 5: I've it just dawned on me as you were describing this,
Speaker 5: the the the overall setup I've been into. We used
Speaker 5: to have a suite here at iHeart at the football
Speaker 5: stadium one Llen N Cardinals Stadium, and I remember I
Speaker 5: made my way in there briefly and then and then
Speaker 5: you know, didn't didn't stick around very long. I was
Speaker 5: I think, I think I had to head up to
Speaker 5: the press box. But yeah, I mean it's I would
Speaker 5: imagine if you end up in a situation where you
Speaker 5: can get to games and you can find yourself utilizing
Speaker 5: someone sweet or maybe you have one of your own. Right,
Speaker 5: it's probably tough to go back from that, right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm sure you get pretty spoiled up there.
Speaker 4: And of course, like to answer your question, no, it
Speaker 4: the only way that I would have like asked her
Speaker 4: and she would have been totally down to go is
Speaker 4: either like a unique experience like that we're in the
Speaker 4: suite or like front row seats if we're just like
Speaker 4: kind of I wouldn't say regular, but just had like
Speaker 4: general emission seating somewhere in.
Speaker 2: Like the lower bowl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some standard, Yeah, I would you know that's one
Speaker 4: of the boys would have went with me or something.
Speaker 2: But I figured you might enjoy this.
Speaker 4: It's sweet. They're gonna feed us up there. There's a
Speaker 4: you don't even have to watch the show from from
Speaker 4: your seat, Like there's like a little bar area you
Speaker 4: can stand up and watch it too. So shout out
Speaker 4: to my guy, Brian. He runs Brian, He runs at
Speaker 4: Brian's site. He's big wrestling fan, runs the events at
Speaker 4: rupp Arena, big fan of I heeart at everything. I
Speaker 4: heart Kentucky. iHeart Lexington, iHeart Louisville, and him and a
Speaker 4: couple other of the Rupp Arena fans were in attendance,
Speaker 4: and that's what they got, the doctor Mark and Sidney Lynn.
Speaker 4: Is that correct, sweet Cindy Sidney. Yes, that's doctor Mark
Speaker 4: and Cindy Lynn.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're in those suites.
Speaker 5: Oh nice you were you were at. I can tell
Speaker 5: you the suite you were in is probably a little
Speaker 5: nicer than some of the others because we're talking about
Speaker 5: doctor Mark and Cindy Lynn. So yeah, good spot for you,
Speaker 5: no doubt. And I'm glad you had yourself. It was awesome,
Speaker 5: good time. All right, We're gonna have an awesome time today.
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Speaker 5: We have our first opportunity to hear one of the
Speaker 5: two sides, Mark Pope or Pat Kelsey, discussed the schedule change,
Speaker 5: and there's not much to it, but we will let
Speaker 5: you hear what Mark Pope had to say about the
Speaker 5: game being moved from the typical December date to early
Speaker 5: early in the season.
Speaker 6: November. Is it November eleventh? I mean that just sounds
Speaker 6: too early, but I think that may actually be it.
Speaker 4: We thinks crazy twenty first, it's a week of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 5: No, No, the Louisville Kentucky game. Yeah, No, it's wait
Speaker 5: before that, no cause they're yeah, because they're because they're
Speaker 5: playing before they play in football, which just seems so weird.
Speaker 5: It's like three weeks before football, which again it's just odd.
Speaker 2: So uh.
Speaker 5: There was a little jab there for Mark Poe, but
Speaker 5: like it was playful and I wanted to. There's not
Speaker 5: a whole lot to really take from this, but I
Speaker 5: just I think we are going to be for a
Speaker 5: long time looking to see if there's any real, like
Speaker 5: genuine rivalry animosity between these two coaches. And obviously that
Speaker 5: could change, but I don't anticipate that. It Well, I
Speaker 5: think we're just gonna have to get used to the
Speaker 5: fact that these guys they might do the the very
Speaker 5: playful you know, acknowledgement of the rival and that people
Speaker 5: like don't want them to like each other, but I
Speaker 5: think they genuinely do like each other, which is, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of weird. I don't think that, you know, we're
Speaker 5: ever gonna get what we had with Caliperi and Patino
Speaker 5: that was a personal rivalry.
Speaker 6: But you know, it's just something we're gonna have to get.
Speaker 5: Used to, because I think today just hearing Pope and
Speaker 5: seeing Kentucky fans use it on social media as if
Speaker 5: he's talking crap about pat Kelsey and lit No, he's
Speaker 5: not like they like each other. And just you know,
Speaker 5: I'm not telling you you have to like it, but like,
Speaker 5: let's just not Let's not force something in a major
Speaker 5: way that is so clearly not there. Also, we have
Speaker 5: to talk about the results in last night's NBA Draft lottery,
Speaker 5: which we'll get to that coming up in just a moment,
Speaker 5: because I mean, for those that are of the belief
Speaker 5: that this is all set up, you got a result
Speaker 5: last night that certainly doesn't prove those people right, but
Speaker 5: it makes them I feel, I'd say it makes them
Speaker 5: feel more justified in thinking that the NBA is rigged,
Speaker 5: which which I mean, I don't believe that it is.
Speaker 5: I just can't quite ever think that it would be.
Speaker 5: But you know, last night, the way that played out
Speaker 5: with the Mavericks was kind of wild. And then in
Speaker 5: the NBA playoffs, you've got the Celtics now pretty much
Speaker 5: done as they lost last night. They're down three to one,
Speaker 5: and they lost Jason Tatum seemingly for a long time,
Speaker 5: maybe like next season. I haven't seen any confirmation about
Speaker 5: the injury, but just about everybody who loves to play
Speaker 5: doctor online is claiming that he's tore his achilles, which
Speaker 5: it did. I mean, it was a non contact I
Speaker 5: mean it certainly looked bad. And when you compare it
Speaker 5: to other injuries that you witnessed, where it looked as
Speaker 5: if somebody really, you know, probably ruptured their achilles, I mean,
Speaker 5: that's what it looked like.
Speaker 6: So that's tough.
Speaker 5: You know, Tatum is a very criticized athlete for reasons
Speaker 5: that I get, But I don't really know how he
Speaker 5: became him a punching bag like he's he's very awkward
Speaker 5: when it comes to kind of you know, charisma and
Speaker 5: really kind of you know, just I don't know's there's
Speaker 5: such a force there with Tatum when it comes to like,
Speaker 5: first of all, he wants to be Kobe Bryant so bad,
Speaker 5: which that's that's admirable. He looked up to Kobe, idolized
Speaker 5: Kobe and whatnot, But like there's things along with that
Speaker 5: that have been kind of cringe. I don't know, he
Speaker 5: just seems kind of awkward. But he's a really really
Speaker 5: good player and he has absolutely I mean, he's he's
Speaker 5: won a title, he's I mean, he's been one of
Speaker 5: the best players in the NBA for a long time.
Speaker 5: He's clearly a top tier a one NBA player, and
Speaker 5: yet you know, he still seems to just if you're
Speaker 5: a Celtics fan, you love him. Outside of that, I
Speaker 5: feel like he's not like this villain, like a Draymond
Speaker 5: Green that everybody just dislikes.
Speaker 6: But you know, he just kind of seems like a
Speaker 6: cornball in a way.
Speaker 5: And and with all that said, him getting hurt last night,
Speaker 5: I think there was like there were a lot of
Speaker 5: fans across the cut NBA fans that is, they were like,
Speaker 5: you know, I've been pretty hard on this guy. I've
Speaker 5: probably said some mean things about him. I've probably tweeted
Speaker 5: out some nonsense, and you know what, I really don't
Speaker 5: know why not to say. People are out there apologizing,
Speaker 5: but he's not an unlikable guy. He's just not real popular,
Speaker 5: which is kind of odd. But obviously nobody wants to
Speaker 5: see someone of that cam. Nobody wants to see anybody
Speaker 5: get hurt. But that's an injury that if it is
Speaker 5: what a lot of people are speculating, I mean, he
Speaker 5: won't play the rest of this postseason. Obviously they've only
Speaker 5: got probably one game left, but you got to think
Speaker 5: he's probably out for all the next year too. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's not good timing by any means. Also, the college
Speaker 5: football playoff conversation continues as far as what it will
Speaker 5: look like when it's expanded, and I keep hearing from
Speaker 5: the ACC side, which, by the way, the ACC spring
Speaker 5: meetings are currently going on. I don't have a clue
Speaker 5: where they are taking place, but you've got some ACC
Speaker 5: coaches that have been doing some different interviews and Bill
Speaker 5: Belichick talked today and there's something he said specifically that
Speaker 5: that tells me he's been told like, if you want
Speaker 5: to do you want to do this, like, do you
Speaker 5: want to be our coacher at North Carolina? Because if so,
Speaker 5: like you need to get out in front of this.
Speaker 5: You're going to go on ESPN from the ACC Spring meetings.
Speaker 5: You're gonna go on Good Morning America with Michael Strahan
Speaker 5: on Friday, and you were going to set the record
Speaker 5: straight that this is not a circus and your girlfriend
Speaker 5: is not running the show. And I mean, Belichick doesn't
Speaker 5: seem like a guy that I think would just fall
Speaker 5: in line and do whatever a superior tells him. But
Speaker 5: I do think, like even even he has to read
Speaker 5: the room here that if you're Carolina and you know,
Speaker 5: you invested in him and made him a very very
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, he's already wealthy and already well off.
Speaker 5: But I mean they paid a lot of money to
Speaker 5: get Bill Belichick, and clearly I guess you know he
Speaker 5: wants the job.
Speaker 6: He wouldn't have pursued it if he didn't.
Speaker 5: But like they they got to rain this thing in
Speaker 5: a little bit, and I think we're starting to this week.
Speaker 5: See more so here Belichick kind of put some stuff
Speaker 5: out there that really doesn't change a lot of people's opinion.
Speaker 5: Mine certainly has not changed. Like, I think this is
Speaker 5: pretty much what you see. I don't think there's it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think this woman is running his life.
Speaker 5: I don't think she's you know, holding him hostage or
Speaker 5: holding a gun to his head. But none of this
Speaker 5: makes any sense. The only real person benefiting from this
Speaker 5: is her, and to me, that's that's that's how we
Speaker 5: ended up here.
Speaker 6: So there's that.
Speaker 5: But anyways, back to the ACC side of things. I
Speaker 5: keep hearing when it comes to the college Football Playoff
Speaker 5: expansion and the guaranteed slots for the ACC, I'm sorry
Speaker 5: for the SEC and the Big Ten and then two
Speaker 5: for the ACC. I mean, look, that's what it's probably
Speaker 5: gonna be. You have no real like like leverage, I mean,
Speaker 5: if you if you hold out against it. I mean,
Speaker 5: I mean, I the reality is this college football is
Speaker 5: going to do really whatever Greg Sankie wants to do.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's he's the guy who because he's leading,
Speaker 5: the biggest bully on the block.
Speaker 6: He's the big bully.
Speaker 5: And I don't know that the ACC in five six
Speaker 5: years will ever be will be able to say. Man,
Speaker 5: I can't believe we agreed to only guarantee two spots
Speaker 5: for our conference when now we're we're we're deep with
Speaker 5: programs that are really good right now, have a lot
Speaker 5: of momentum. It looks sustainable. We've got some championship caliber
Speaker 5: programs here. I can't believe we took that deal. Like
Speaker 5: I'm not telling anybody that that's what I expect to happen,
Speaker 5: and that the ACC is about to explode in a
Speaker 5: good way and really just take off and no longer
Speaker 5: be third at best when it comes to the conference hierarchy.
Speaker 5: But just agreeing to it, And again, I don't know
Speaker 5: what else you can do, but I don't know how.
Speaker 5: It's one of those It's one of the rare things
Speaker 5: in my time doing this where I just I can't
Speaker 5: quite understand why I am in the minority so much
Speaker 5: when it comes to why would you agree to guaranteed
Speaker 5: spots per conference like before any games are played? Again,
Speaker 5: I know, I keep hammering home on that, but like
Speaker 5: what if things change?
Speaker 6: Like what if?
Speaker 5: And by the way, has college sports ever changed as
Speaker 5: much in the last five years? I mean, college sports
Speaker 5: has existed a long time, a lot longer than I've
Speaker 5: been here. I feel like we've seen more changes in
Speaker 5: the sport in the last five years than we have
Speaker 5: at any point over the entire existence of the sports.
Speaker 5: So it'll again, I think what's been out there as
Speaker 5: far as each you know, this each conference getting a
Speaker 5: certain amount of auto bids and whatnot. I imagine that's
Speaker 5: what's gonna end up happening. I just I just nobody,
Speaker 5: nobody's considering the fact that you could, you know, let's
Speaker 5: just say the ACC crumbles and it's not about, hey,
Speaker 5: you only got like but they may have to they
Speaker 5: may have to put two ACC teams in when you
Speaker 5: get to a point where maybe there's like the best
Speaker 5: team in the league is borderline top thirty. I mean, again,
Speaker 5: these are hypotheticals that may not ever present themselves.
Speaker 2: But I just.
Speaker 5: I wish there was an easier way to determine a
Speaker 5: national champion in college football. And look, we've already made
Speaker 5: a lot of progress. It uhould just be a computer
Speaker 5: would tell us which two teams were deserving to play
Speaker 5: for it, Like that was really stupid, right, So we've
Speaker 5: made progress. I'm not being I don't want to be
Speaker 5: such a complainer. Whenever, again, now we actually have a
Speaker 5: bracket and you know, just the playoff race, especially with
Speaker 5: that expanded to twelve like it was last year. That
Speaker 5: has given us so much more throughout the season to
Speaker 5: really kind of you know, lock in on and there's
Speaker 5: more inclusion, way more programs can at least dream big
Speaker 5: realistically and say, hey, we're you know, we play in
Speaker 5: a power league.
Speaker 6: Therefore, if we take care of.
Speaker 5: Business and you know, do really really well in our conference,
Speaker 5: there's a good chance we get in.
Speaker 6: So you know, that's good, that's progress.
Speaker 5: But first year of a twelve team playoff and now
Speaker 5: we're fighting once again in the off season. Everybody's yelling
Speaker 5: at each other about what makes the most sense, and
Speaker 5: it's really just like there needs to be one either
Speaker 5: group or individual that has zero connections or ties to
Speaker 5: any specific school or conference they can actually you know,
Speaker 5: lead and rule the sport. We have that in college
Speaker 5: basketball with the NC DOUBLEA. I mean, I know, you know,
Speaker 5: the committee that decides who makes the tournament. I've oftentimes
Speaker 5: said that it really shouldn't be people who are you know,
Speaker 5: athletic directors or presidents at schools because or commissioners of conferences,
Speaker 5: because clearly there's a conflict of interest there. And also
Speaker 5: you know they've got like really important jobs where they're
Speaker 5: not watching college basketball around the clock like a lot
Speaker 5: of other people are. Like, I'm not saying this to
Speaker 5: make a bad joke. Joelenardi is as qualified to put
Speaker 5: together the bracket as anybody. He's not, you know, when
Speaker 5: I say he's not great at what he does, I
Speaker 5: mean he's not great at predicting the committee. But like
Speaker 5: a lot of times, if you look at his bracket
Speaker 5: on Selection Sunday and you look at what you get
Speaker 5: that night, I think those who watch college basketball really closely,
Speaker 5: if they were being objective, they might say that Leonardi
Speaker 5: did a better job at fielding it. So in college football,
Speaker 5: what we have is n STAA has nothing to do
Speaker 5: with it. NSABA has zero to do with the college
Speaker 5: football playoffs made for TV event. And you've got ESPN executives,
Speaker 5: and I guess now you've got other TV partners as well.
Speaker 5: But like TV executives, networks and commissioners like Phillips and
Speaker 5: Sank and I don't even know who the commissioner of
Speaker 5: the Big Ten is anymore. And like there's there's just
Speaker 5: never gonna be a point where those that are you know,
Speaker 5: involved in this process as far as what decisions are made,
Speaker 5: how the playoff looks. There's clearly a complict of interest.
Speaker 5: They're gonna, they're gonna. I mean, their job is to
Speaker 5: actively at all times advocate for whatever is best for
Speaker 5: their league, specifically, not for the product that is the
Speaker 5: college football Playoff and the sport. So like, I just
Speaker 5: to me, it seems like a bit waste of time
Speaker 5: because no matter what, each individual is going to just
Speaker 5: downright advocate for their league. And I don't blame them,
Speaker 5: like you know, Sankie, he he, He's clearly a very
Speaker 5: powerful powerful person being the commissioner of the SEC, which
Speaker 5: is right now the biggest and best conference in college sports,
Speaker 5: and it has been for a while in football, and
Speaker 5: now look at him in basketball and look at all
Speaker 5: the revenue they bring in from the SEC network and
Speaker 5: all that stuff. So you know, I guess he's looked
Speaker 5: at as like a bully in the eyes of some.
Speaker 5: But his job, like quite literally, is to do exactly
Speaker 5: what he's doing. He can't worry about if the Pac
Speaker 5: twelve dies like it did, or if the ACC gets poached.
Speaker 5: I mean, his job is to do whatever is best
Speaker 5: for the members of the Southeastern Conference. But you know,
Speaker 5: whatever is great for the Southeastern Conference might kill a conference.
Speaker 5: Like there needs to be somebody above it all that
Speaker 5: can can fairly assess it and decide what makes the
Speaker 5: most sense for everybody. And that doesn't mean that, you know,
Speaker 5: the ACC gets four teams automatically guaranteed like the SEC.
Speaker 5: But like there shouldn't be any guaranteed spots for any conference.
Speaker 5: It should be a committee of people that are objective,
Speaker 5: that follow it closely, that determine which teams have put
Speaker 5: together the best resumes in order to make it to
Speaker 5: the college football play. It's really not that complicated. Actually,
Speaker 5: I feel like I just had a you know, to
Speaker 5: be a that's pretty easy. But clearly, you know, when
Speaker 5: money's involved, TV, networks, all that kind of stuff, it's
Speaker 5: it becomes a mess. So anyways, let's get to a
Speaker 5: quick break. We'll come back on the other side again.
Speaker 5: Last night's NBA Draft lottery, the Dallas Mavericks after executing
Speaker 5: one of the worst trades maybe in the history of sports.
Speaker 5: As far as the initial reaction, I think we got
Speaker 5: a long way to go before we can determine if
Speaker 5: it was one of the worst trades ever. But man
Speaker 5: Nico Harrison. He's got to be feeling really good about
Speaker 5: the luck that came his way to where he could
Speaker 5: potentially salvage his situation in Dallas. Now, some won't call
Speaker 5: it luck, and they'll claim it was clearly just some
Speaker 5: type of a setup to where, you know, the small
Speaker 5: market teams that tank and usually suck, they weren't going
Speaker 5: to let Coop flag end up there. I've got a
Speaker 5: I've got a theory on the whole thing, which we'll
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Speaker 5: So the Dallas Mavericks, they are the winners of the
Speaker 5: NBA Draft Lottery, which they had a one point eight
Speaker 5: percent chance of getting the number one pick, and they
Speaker 5: got it. It's the fourth lowest odds for a winner
Speaker 5: since nineteen eighty five. And teams that you know tanked
Speaker 5: because they, I mean probably felt like that was their
Speaker 5: best chance of getting into the top three or maybe
Speaker 5: even getting number one and then getting a franchise draft
Speaker 5: pick that could potentially turn things around for him. And
Speaker 5: you know, you've got teams like the Wizards, which, by
Speaker 5: the way, I mean they fell all the way to six.
Speaker 5: I mean you could have potentially, I mean you had
Speaker 5: you and three other teams had the best chances of
Speaker 5: landing the number one spot, and you didn't get it.
Speaker 5: You got number six. So instead of getting Cooper Flagg,
Speaker 5: you know, you're getting somebody like Ace Bailey or Jeremiah
Speaker 5: Fears or Trey Johnson, and maybe those players end up
Speaker 5: being really, really good. But I think the answer to
Speaker 5: my question that I asked yesterday, I think I now
Speaker 5: know the answer to that, and that is that those
Speaker 5: that cover the NBA and the draft and really would
Speaker 5: be best suited to evaluate is this a strong draft?
Speaker 5: Is it a week draft they've I mean at this
Speaker 5: draft it I don't know if it's terrible, but there's
Speaker 5: a humongous gap seemingly between Cooper Flag and everybody else.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure many will tell you that it's because
Speaker 5: Cooper Flag is just that good, and maybe that's the case,
Speaker 5: but I also happen to think that there's a big
Speaker 5: gap because outside of him, like, who do you feel
Speaker 5: like for sure is gonna even be like a good pro.
Speaker 5: There'll be plenty of guys that end up having careers
Speaker 5: that are successful, but as far as like a guy
Speaker 5: that you could envision being a All Star caliber player,
Speaker 5: I mean, maybe it's Edgecombe, maybe it's Canipple, I mean,
Speaker 5: maybe it's Dylan Harper, but I don't I mean, I
Speaker 5: didn't watch much of Rutgers last year because you.
Speaker 6: Know, why would I.
Speaker 5: So, I uh, and look Trey Johnson from Texas and
Speaker 5: even Jeremy Fears of Oklahoma. I don't mean to single
Speaker 5: those guys out, but again, if you're one of these
Speaker 5: teams that decided to tank, like the Jazz, the Spurs,
Speaker 5: the Hornets, Wizards, is mentioned the Pelicans. You weren't tanking
Speaker 5: so you could end up with Derek Queen of Maryland.
Speaker 5: I mean again, it might be a good player for you,
Speaker 5: but I don't think that's probably you know, probably who
Speaker 5: you had in mind, Carter Bryant, the swingman from Arizona.
Speaker 5: Like I doubt teams were tanking hoping that they would
Speaker 5: end up in a physician to draft him. So this
Speaker 5: has led to everyone claiming, and I shouldn't say everyone,
Speaker 5: but a lot of people claiming, well, the NBA, this
Speaker 5: is this is, this is rigged because the NBA they're
Speaker 5: they're helping out Dallas. That I don't understand that lot.
Speaker 5: Like I mean, if the NBA wanted to somehow cook
Speaker 5: this thing to where teams like Utah, teams like Charlotte,
Speaker 5: New Orleans, maybe even Toronto Portland, Like if if the
Speaker 5: NBA was trying to make it to where there was
Speaker 5: a really really, really really small percentage chance that those
Speaker 5: markets ended up with the number one pick, I guess
Speaker 5: maybe Dallas would make sense. Dallas is a huge market.
Speaker 5: You know, Luca being traded and then the pieces that
Speaker 5: they currently have in place, nearly all of them being
Speaker 5: on the back end of their career. I mean, Klay
Speaker 5: Thompson in NBA years old as hell, Anthony Davis in
Speaker 5: NBA years not old as hell, but old but banged
Speaker 5: up all the time. Kyrie Irving, he's not NBA old
Speaker 5: as hell, but he's NBA old. I mean, I don't know, Austin,
Speaker 5: what do you think, your ball knower.
Speaker 2: What would thank you?
Speaker 6: What would you say is old in the NBA? Like
Speaker 6: I think if you're thirty two year old.
Speaker 4: In the NBA, yeah, because I mean they play a
Speaker 4: lot of games too, so I got to take that in.
Speaker 5: And I think your position is a factor too, right,
Speaker 5: Like you know, depending on what position you.
Speaker 2: Play, Yeah, I would.
Speaker 4: I would probably kind of agree with you about thirty
Speaker 4: two to thirty three years old. And then once are
Speaker 4: like reaching thirty five, you're like, this guy's still in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And look, there's exceptions, like some guys just you know,
Speaker 5: for like, let me give you an example. Al Horford
Speaker 5: has to be one of the oldest guys in the NBA.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna guess that Al Horford is. Yeah, Al Horford's
Speaker 5: thirty eight years old, So wow.
Speaker 2: I thought he was older than that.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie, but if he's forty, like, there
Speaker 5: aren't many forty year old guys in the NBA. So like,
Speaker 5: if he was forty, I mean he would be not
Speaker 5: necessarily setting a record, but there aren't many forty year olds.
Speaker 5: I mean Lebron just turned forty, I believe, right, I
Speaker 5: think that's this year he celebrated his forty birthday. So
Speaker 5: so Horford to me, like the way he plays, he's
Speaker 5: a you know, he's he shoots threes, he's you know,
Speaker 5: not really necessarily using a whole lot of athleticism or
Speaker 5: like he's a good skilled big that is pretty good
Speaker 5: at about everything and really good at a couple of things.
Speaker 5: And he's got a specific role and he's had his
Speaker 5: best playing days in Boston, which is why he was
Speaker 5: in Boston for a while. And you know, then he
Speaker 5: left and now he's been back in Boston for many
Speaker 5: years and he's still a good player. So you know,
Speaker 5: like there's certain guys depending on what you do to
Speaker 5: where like you can, like Al Horford can do what
Speaker 5: he's doing for I think at least a couple more years,
Speaker 5: unless father time really comes and gets him right, So
Speaker 5: you know, like Dallas, not only did they get rid
Speaker 5: of a guy who is one of the faces of
Speaker 5: the NBA in Luca, the guy that they brought in
Speaker 5: to replace him is again you know, old in NBA standards,
Speaker 5: and also always injured and got injured as soon as
Speaker 5: he got there. So you know this actually, Like again,
Speaker 5: I'm not in any way claiming that I believe that
Speaker 5: the NBA made it to where the Mavericks got this
Speaker 5: and nobody else because they were trying to help a
Speaker 5: big market franchise who was really blossoming. Right, they just
Speaker 5: made the finals a year ago, and then they just
Speaker 5: gave it all away by getting rid of Luca. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm not you know, I don't believe that, but if
Speaker 5: they were going to I do think that was the
Speaker 5: right move. Like when I was looking at all the
Speaker 5: teams in play for the lottery, I'd never even considered
Speaker 5: the Mavericks a legitimate option because they had a one
Speaker 5: point something percent chance, Like it just didn't seem in
Speaker 5: any way possible.
Speaker 6: But they got it.
Speaker 5: And again I don't think the NBA had anything to
Speaker 5: do with it, But if you want to run with that,
Speaker 5: I think Dallas is the type of franchise, not only
Speaker 5: with the market size, but you know, they were I mean,
Speaker 5: they were relevant for a while.
Speaker 6: I mean, look the Mavericks.
Speaker 5: I don't know where they rank all time as far
Speaker 5: as just like notoriety and buzz in the NBA, but
Speaker 5: they've been pretty relevant for the majority of the time
Speaker 5: I've watched NBA in the last twenty years. So again,
Speaker 5: I don't believe that they would ever conspire. But I'm
Speaker 5: also at tomes naive and would never think that certain
Speaker 5: things like that could happen in times where I've been
Speaker 5: proven wrong. But look at this, I mean this, The
Speaker 5: MAVs lineup next year will likely be this, Kyrie Irving
Speaker 5: and Klay Thompson, Anthony Davis and then Daniel Gafford.
Speaker 6: Who is that the guy who played for Did he
Speaker 6: play for Arkansas?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, have you heard of him?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he's been in the league for a
Speaker 2: couple of years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he played.
Speaker 5: He played at Arkansas and was a second was a
Speaker 5: second round pick, And like, I don't mean, there's not
Speaker 5: a whole lot here on his statistics that make him
Speaker 5: look like he's you know, a great player by any means.
Speaker 5: But you know he's he's a thirty I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 5: a twenty six year old, you know, I guess role player,
Speaker 5: role playing big. And then you've got now Cooper Flag,
Speaker 5: a guy who will be what nineteen years old and
Speaker 5: maybe one of the best young players to enter the
Speaker 5: NBA in a long time. So, like, if Cooper Flag
Speaker 5: is ready to go, which by all accounts he'll be
Speaker 5: effective from the jump, maybe he'll be really really good
Speaker 5: from the jump. Like that's actually kind of a perfect scenario.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's way too early to say this,
Speaker 5: but if you're the Mavericks, you went from hating everything
Speaker 5: about your franchise because of what Nico Harrison did to
Speaker 5: where now you have new life right away. And I
Speaker 5: don't have a clue just how good Cooper Flyave is
Speaker 5: going to be. I think it'd be a real shocker
Speaker 5: if he's a bust or something like that. But like,
Speaker 5: why can't it if this guy is even close to
Speaker 5: as good as people have claimed he is going to
Speaker 5: be when it's all said and done, based off his
Speaker 5: potential and all the skills that he has. I mean,
Speaker 5: he grew an inch and a half at Duke this
Speaker 5: past year, Like that's I mean, he's still young and
Speaker 5: very much still raw and developing, and even in the
Speaker 5: midst of this development, he's still a really effective player
Speaker 5: that at any given night in college could go out
Speaker 5: there and do whatever he wants. I mean, last year,
Speaker 5: before they took off of the Olympics, I mean, he
Speaker 5: was competing against Team USA and more than holding his own,
Speaker 5: he was actually out playing them at certain times. So like,
Speaker 5: if you're a Mavericks fan like this, this this might
Speaker 5: work out to where like in the end, you never
Speaker 5: wanted Luca to go, but if there's one player that
Speaker 5: might be able to just make you forget that you
Speaker 5: ever had a Luka Doncic because things are going so
Speaker 5: great because of what they're bringing to the table.
Speaker 3: Maybe it is.
Speaker 5: Cooper Flag who people think is, you know, gonna be
Speaker 5: the next best thing to ever happen to basketball. I
Speaker 5: think his personality and his real you know, he seems
Speaker 5: pretty mild mannered for the most part, not a whole
Speaker 5: lot of flair to him, which I don't say that
Speaker 5: to be critical by any means. It's actually kind of refreshing,
Speaker 5: But I think that is at times made people not
Speaker 5: realize just how much hype this guy has had, Like
Speaker 5: he has had more hype than Zion. He has been
Speaker 5: I think in the in the public eye as this
Speaker 5: up and coming phenom that could be one of the
Speaker 5: best that ever play this game for like three years.
Speaker 5: So you know, if you're a Mavericks fan, I'm sure
Speaker 5: you're feeling great. And again, you never know how good
Speaker 5: anybody is going to be, but I'd say this could
Speaker 5: work out, and it's a He's a young guy that
Speaker 5: you know is a great shot blocker. I mean really,
Speaker 5: there's not a whole lot that you look at Coop
Speaker 5: Flagg and say, yeah, here's a real big weakness. He's
Speaker 5: better at certain things than he is at others. But
Speaker 5: there's a reason why he's viewed as this guy who
Speaker 5: just has so much potential because there's really no flaws
Speaker 5: in his game that you know you'll be able to
Speaker 5: potentially expose at some point.
Speaker 2: Maybe.
Speaker 5: So these guys I mentioned that are old in the
Speaker 5: NBA's eyes, which I know I hate saying somebody that's
Speaker 5: thirty two or thirty one is old, but like in
Speaker 5: the NBA, you are, You're on the older side for sure.
Speaker 5: So with all that said, this young phenom could be
Speaker 5: the perfect piece to kind of help you get through
Speaker 5: where these guys are getting older. But man, it's Cooper
Speaker 5: Flag's team already. And you know these guys they're not
Speaker 5: young anymore. They're not on their prime, their best days
Speaker 5: are behind them. But man, they're still really good players
Speaker 5: like Kyrie Ad Klay Thompson.
Speaker 1: They're old.
Speaker 5: And sometimes not available to play, especially Clay and Ad,
Speaker 5: but still like those are three of the better players
Speaker 5: to play.
Speaker 6: In the NBA in the last twenty years.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, Clay's a little tough because he was
Speaker 5: always with a good cast, but he did his own
Speaker 5: He had his own role in that too, right. Klay
Speaker 5: Thompson was instrumental for the Warriors run that they've been on.
Speaker 5: So anyways, not, I mean, my dad told me that
Speaker 5: we were at my son's baseball game yesterday. My dad
Speaker 5: told me that the Mavericks won the lottery and he
Speaker 5: just said it as a he looks like Dallas won
Speaker 5: the lottery, And I'm like, no.
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they just got it. I'm like, what are you
Speaker 5: talking about, Like there's no way, Yeah, they got it.
Speaker 5: And like I'm like, there was a one point six
Speaker 5: percent chance that happens, and like you know, he didn't
Speaker 5: have any shock value, but sure enough you pop open Twitter.
Speaker 5: It's all anybody was talking about. Mostly you know, people
Speaker 5: complaining that it's rigged. But even if you believe that,
Speaker 5: just know you'll never be able to prove it. All right,
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Speaker 5: So tomorrow is my fourteen year wedding anniversary. So my
Speaker 5: wife and I were planning on next year to celebrate
Speaker 5: fifteen having a big like trip like where we go somewhere,
Speaker 5: you know, probably go to another country, just try to
Speaker 5: really have a special trip to celebrate fifteen years. We'll
Speaker 5: do something to celebrate this year as well, but nothing,
Speaker 5: you know, no big trip or anything like that. But anyways,
Speaker 5: the reason I bring this up is because you know,
Speaker 5: we're trying to figure out travel plans really over the
Speaker 5: next year and two years, just because you know, she's
Speaker 5: very good at preparing for things, and I'm somebody that
Speaker 5: waits till the last minute procrastinates. But Disney is a
Speaker 5: place that we I've never gone to. I've never been
Speaker 5: to Disney World as an adult. I think I went
Speaker 5: when I was a really little kid, but I don't remember,
Speaker 5: like I was too young.
Speaker 6: In fact, I know that I went.
Speaker 5: I just know that I don't remember because you know,
Speaker 5: I was probably I don't know, two, three years old, which, look,
Speaker 5: you can never operate as a parent with Okay, well
Speaker 5: I'm not going to do this because my kid's so
Speaker 5: young you won't remember it. Like, if that's the case,
Speaker 5: you might as well just lock them up in a
Speaker 5: cell until they're old enough to remember things, like, you know,
Speaker 5: so you can't you know, you can't just have that
Speaker 5: in mind. Well, yeah, I'm not going to have this
Speaker 5: cool experience with my kid who's three, because you know,
Speaker 5: when he's ten, he won't even remember it. But anyways,
Speaker 5: long story short, we've always said that, like we we
Speaker 5: just don't see us being a family that would like
Speaker 5: would go to Disney. And we've been able to avoid
Speaker 5: our kids like begging us and you know, being all
Speaker 5: into it for a long long time. And I kind
Speaker 5: of feel like at this point, I mean, maybe Moose
Speaker 5: gets older and he's really into it and he begs
Speaker 5: us to go. But Maya, she's cool, she's chilling, she's
Speaker 5: she's she's she's fine as far as you know, the
Speaker 5: trips we go on and whatnot. In fact, for a
Speaker 5: while we would take our kids to the Hillview Fair
Speaker 5: in Bullet County and they had they had, they had
Speaker 5: some rise. We told him that was Disney and they
Speaker 5: believe this for a little while, and you know, then
Speaker 5: we then they realized, you know, we were, we were
Speaker 5: we were playing a joke on it. But anyways, I'll
Speaker 5: bring all this up because I still don't see us
Speaker 5: ever going to Disney. But knowing what it costs just
Speaker 5: for a day at Disney now makes me more confident
Speaker 5: that like, there's no way we could, we would, we
Speaker 5: could justify going. It'd be one thing to spend this
Speaker 5: amount of money on something to where we feel like
Speaker 5: we would enjoy it too. And I know, I know
Speaker 5: there's people listening right now. No, you would love it,
Speaker 5: trust me, you would love it. You know, you'll never
Speaker 5: regret taking your kids because because you know they'll they'll
Speaker 5: have fun and uh, you know the look on their
Speaker 5: kids on your kid's face when they see Goofy walking down,
Speaker 5: you know whatever.
Speaker 6: So isn't Goofy one of the people that you'd see there.
Speaker 5: So anyways, there's a guy who's gone viral because he
Speaker 5: posted a video showing the cost of a family of
Speaker 5: five I have just for one day at Disney World.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: So this has over seven million views, and he breaks
Speaker 5: down all of the he breaks down everything.
Speaker 6: As far as you know, just the entire day.
Speaker 5: So it starts with, let's see, yeah, is the unnamed
Speaker 5: dad posted a video on social media revealing the price
Speaker 5: tag for the theme park adventures, starting with tickets to
Speaker 5: get in at nine hundred and seventy four dollars, which
Speaker 5: includes god which includes one for a kid that's under ten.
Speaker 5: So nine hundred and seventy four dollars just to get in,
Speaker 5: like for a day.
Speaker 6: That'll I mean.
Speaker 2: That's for the whole family, right, yeah, I mean just
Speaker 2: one person?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, of course, yeah, all of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So.
Speaker 6: Let's just do a breakdown here.
Speaker 5: Thirty bucks just for all day parking before they get
Speaker 5: out of the car, he's thirty bucks.
Speaker 2: In the hole.
Speaker 5: And then the biggest expense is the tickets just to
Speaker 5: get into the theme park, which costs nine hundred and
Speaker 5: seventy four for the five of them, and that does
Speaker 5: include a Florida resident discount for a child that's under
Speaker 5: the age of ten.
Speaker 2: Oh well, thank goodness for that.
Speaker 6: Fueling up for.
Speaker 5: All the waiting in line and riding rides means lots
Speaker 5: of snacks, which costs lots of money. At Disney, the
Speaker 5: first round of two bottles of water and three ice
Speaker 5: creams was twenty nine dollars and fifty cents, and then
Speaker 5: a pretzel and a beer cost another nineteen dollars. For lunch,
Speaker 5: the family got personal pizzas, a side and SODA's for
Speaker 5: a total of forty four dollars and thirty five cents.
Speaker 5: When they visited the Star Wars Galaxy Park, they spent
Speaker 5: six dollars and fifty cents on Star Wars themed coke,
Speaker 5: thirty six dollars on a margarita for Mom, a a
Speaker 5: chiro and a bottle of water, and another ten dollars
Speaker 5: in twenty nine. I guess the margarita, the thirty six
Speaker 5: bucks with the margarita, the chiro on the bottle of water,
Speaker 5: But then they paid ten dollars and twenty nine cents
Speaker 5: for a special blue milk for the movie, bringing a
Speaker 5: total of for the snacks at one hundred one dollar
Speaker 5: twenty nine cents. Dinner at Disney Springs, an outdoor shopping
Speaker 5: entertainment area was a was at a Mexican restaurant, and
Speaker 5: they spent two hundred and forty five dollars on carnitas,
Speaker 5: carne asada, and more. That brings the grand total UH
Speaker 5: to just under fourteen hundred dollars. One three hundred and
Speaker 5: ninety one dollars and ninety one cents is what this
Speaker 5: family paid for them to go to Disney. That's five
Speaker 5: two adults, two kids, and then one kid under the
Speaker 5: age of ten. And yes, I'm sure you're thinking, well,
Speaker 5: you could probably do it cheaper than that. You know,
Speaker 5: you can you cannot eat or not drink, but like
Speaker 5: you're gonna be there all day's yeah, I mean it
Speaker 5: just I just forty hundred dollars may not be a
Speaker 5: lot of money to some people, but like that's a
Speaker 5: full Like you, I could use that to go on
Speaker 5: vacation by oh yeah, like I could that that could
Speaker 5: go a long way for more than just one day
Speaker 5: at Disney, where I would imagine the majority of the
Speaker 5: time that I'm there, like I'm gonna want to leave
Speaker 5: and feel like, what did I get myself into?
Speaker 4: Like to me, Disney and you're not gonna do the
Speaker 4: whole Disney Park in just one day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like to me, I get it that there's there's
Speaker 5: there's some magic that comes with it, but there's also
Speaker 5: to me Austin, it kind of seems like hell on Earth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does, the Florida heat, the long lines, Well,
Speaker 4: that's what they want you to do is pay for
Speaker 4: the fast pass, and it just looks miserable. There's all
Speaker 4: I've never been. There's always been some like kid part
Speaker 4: of me that's like, yeah, that'd be cool to go,
Speaker 4: just to say that I've went, but I have no
Speaker 4: desire to go. I'd much rather go to like Universal Studio.
Speaker 5: Yeah you can do, and and again just consider the
Speaker 5: price point, like there's so much you could do. And again,
Speaker 5: let's say you are somebody that really does like you
Speaker 5: like Disney, you think it's cool. You're not looking at
Speaker 5: it from my perspective, which again, a lot of it
Speaker 5: as far as the experience seems like hell on Earth
Speaker 5: to me, But that's just me, Like just let's just say,
Speaker 5: I'm an old, crotchety curmudgeon who just doesn't like fun,
Speaker 5: even if you you enjoy the thought of it and
Speaker 5: you think it would be fun. If I tell you
Speaker 5: that that's what it called, and then you have a
Speaker 5: comparison of all the other things you could do with
Speaker 5: your family for fourteen hundred dollars, Like I think you'd
Speaker 5: be foolish to choose Disney.
Speaker 6: But again, you know, choose whatever you want. It's your money.
Speaker 5: But like I just I used to talk about this
Speaker 5: here and there, and there would be so many they
Speaker 5: would say, oh, look, trust me, you got to you
Speaker 5: got to do it. I was the same way, you
Speaker 5: gotta do it.
Speaker 2: Nick.
Speaker 5: You'll you'll, you'll never regret taking them, the look on
Speaker 5: their face when they see you know, min mouse, yeah,
Speaker 5: mini mouse. And you know, I hear you. I think
Speaker 5: you're coming from a good place. But talking about it
Speaker 5: here and there has led to others being like, yeah,
Speaker 5: we went never again, Yeah we went the biggest waste
Speaker 5: of money ever and then you know, hell on earth,
Speaker 5: like you said, Nick, So like I've had some people
Speaker 5: confirm that, you know, it's not for everybody, right, Like
Speaker 5: some people go and they love it. I know people
Speaker 5: who go all the time, and let's not talk about
Speaker 5: the people who go to Disney. You know, just adults
Speaker 5: with no kids all the time. Like to me, you
Speaker 5: got if you got the means to do it, do whatever.
Speaker 5: But that's weird.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 5: I'm sure I'm doing stuff I like to do, stuff
Speaker 5: that you all think is weird. So like everybody has
Speaker 5: some weird quirks about them, but like Disney, I'm out
Speaker 5: on it. Kids, if you're listening, I doubt you are.
Speaker 5: You're not going with me. Me and Mom aren't taking you.
Speaker 5: So you have to find another in the coffee, have
Speaker 5: to find another sucker, and you have to do some
Speaker 5: fundraising if you want to go.
Speaker 6: Deal with it.
Speaker 5: We got the Hillview Fair coming up in June, by
Speaker 5: the way, that'll be your Disney trip. All right, we
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