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Speaker 2: I think at some point we will no longer be shocked.
Speaker 2: And maybe that's already happened for some people. It kind
Speaker 2: of has for me. But when I say no longer
Speaker 2: be shocked, I'm talking about stories of some funny business
Speaker 2: going on with college athletes and sports books. I mean,
Speaker 2: the first big one that I can think of since
Speaker 2: it became you know, I mean, it's been legal in
Speaker 2: a lot of states for multiple years.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It's relatively new here in Kentucky, but you know, it
Speaker 2: grows every year as far as the amount of people
Speaker 2: who are in fact wagering on sports legally, rather it
Speaker 2: be from an app on their phone or in person
Speaker 2: at a sports book. And uh, you know, with it
Speaker 2: being a growing and booming thing, it's it really shouldn't
Speaker 2: be considered some big surprise that you find out that
Speaker 2: there's some players and or coaches that are you know,
Speaker 2: that are doing things that you can't do, and they
Speaker 2: are making mistakes that are resulting in the NC doualea.
Speaker 2: Some of these universities themselves, leagues like the NBA, the NFL,
Speaker 2: they're gonna make examples of you because that's all they
Speaker 2: can do. I mean, it's not going anywhere. You're gonna
Speaker 2: always be able to gamble on sports moving forward, unless
Speaker 2: you know, something unforeseen happens to where they like take
Speaker 2: it away. But that's not happening because everybody's benefiting from it,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, And I don't mean everybody's
Speaker 2: winning money, but like it's it's a very boom. It's
Speaker 2: a booming business. And you know, heck, now you've got
Speaker 2: the Bally Sports channels that used to be the Fox
Speaker 2: Sports regionals. It's been a huge mess because no TV
Speaker 2: provider seems to have them, Like it's really really hard
Speaker 2: to get anything. Well, they, I guess, got a lifeline
Speaker 2: where they're going to be funded by FanDuel sportsbooks. So
Speaker 2: when you tune in to watch whatever games are on
Speaker 2: those stations, if it's you know, if it's the Reds
Speaker 2: or if it's the Pacers or whatever it may be,
Speaker 2: whoever has you know, Bally Sports South, Bally Sports Florida.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what they call their channels anymore,
Speaker 2: but instead of being called Bally, it's gonna be FanDuel.
Speaker 2: So I mean, think about that, You're going to be
Speaker 2: watching live sports, some college, obviously a lot of pro
Speaker 2: and it's going to be wrapped in a network that
Speaker 2: is essentially a network that is one of the biggest
Speaker 2: sports books on the planet. I mean, it's not that
Speaker 2: crazy now because again it's it's not brand new and
Speaker 2: it's boomed for years now. But just think about ten
Speaker 2: years ago knowing you're watching a professional baseball or professional
Speaker 2: basketball game and the network is a sports like you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's a sports book essentially. It's just, you know,
Speaker 2: it's crazy. So d NBA, what do they They banned
Speaker 2: Javonte Porter for life. You've had the coach at Alabama,
Speaker 2: the baseball coach who was you know, providing information to
Speaker 2: somebody that was making making bets for them, Like heck,
Speaker 2: there was point shaving going on with like Iowa, like
Speaker 2: it it's there have been a handful of of, you know,
Speaker 2: stories that that you know are probably scary to people
Speaker 2: who worry, oh, this is getting out of hand, but
Speaker 2: like it was, it was inevitable that it was going
Speaker 2: to happen, and all these all you can do is
Speaker 2: make examples of people who do this, rather it be
Speaker 2: you banning them from playing in the n C Double
Speaker 2: A like, you know, you say that they're no longer eligible.
Speaker 2: Schools dismissed them, ban them from the league. And then
Speaker 2: some of these people face criminal charges because you know
Speaker 2: you can't do that. It's illegal to to shave points. Essentially.
Speaker 2: I know that's not the actual charge that it is,
Speaker 2: but people learn the hard way, and I don't think
Speaker 2: they'll ever be a time where it never happens. But
Speaker 2: you know, some people are still very surprised to see this.
Speaker 2: But I you know, and and maybe I should be.
Speaker 2: But there's a college basketball story that that involves point
Speaker 2: shaving that when we don't have all the details here,
Speaker 2: but I just read as best I could during the
Speaker 2: break there. Pat Forty at Sports Illustrated apparently one of
Speaker 2: the big transfers for the Virginia Tech program, Heijer Miller.
Speaker 2: He has been dismissed from Virginia Tech after transferring from
Speaker 2: Temple because you know, allegedly he shaped points. I'm reading here,
Speaker 2: it's just some of the details. Temple last year, who
Speaker 2: you know, they weren't they weren't very good, but they
Speaker 2: had a basketball game flag they played UAB on March seventh,
Speaker 2: and that game was flagged by a gambling watchdog company,
Speaker 2: US Integrity for an unusual fluctuation in the point spread
Speaker 2: in the hours before the game. One casino the line
Speaker 2: moved from UAB is a one and a half point
Speaker 2: favorite over Temple at the beginning of the day, UAB
Speaker 2: was an eight point favorite. Yeah, yeah, it says here
Speaker 2: that one casino the line moved from UAB as a
Speaker 2: one and a half point favorite over Temple at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the day to UAB is an eight point
Speaker 2: favorite by mid afternoon, then settled at seven closer to
Speaker 2: tip off. So this was the second straight loss for Temple.
Speaker 2: They ended up losing that game, and it's the second
Speaker 2: straight game where they did not come close to covering
Speaker 2: the spread. So you know you're gonna I'm sure you
Speaker 2: can do it, and I'm sure plenty have done it
Speaker 2: and not made it obvious. Like it's scary to think about.
Speaker 2: Maybe it bothers people you don't want to think about it,
Speaker 2: But like, I'm not that naive to think that we
Speaker 2: haven't watched sports with somebody out there involved in the
Speaker 2: action being well aware of what a spread is, what
Speaker 2: a total is all that kind of stuff. But this
Speaker 2: guy transferred from Temple once this story kind of you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't know any details. They just know that it
Speaker 2: was those I mean, nobody in real time was punished
Speaker 2: by the NC douablea or anything else. But this kid
Speaker 2: has transferred a game as a leading scorer at Temple,
Speaker 2: he transferred to Virginia Tech, and as the season is
Speaker 2: about to start, he's been dismissed. And Pat Forty claims
Speaker 2: that his sources tell him that it is due to
Speaker 2: the information that they have here. So maybe this is
Speaker 2: a guy that was maybe the ring leader.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe he was absolutely shaving points and you know he
Speaker 2: got caught. You can't do that. Not only is he
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to play Virginia Tech, he's probably gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, be in some legal trouble too. Is this
Speaker 2: thing unfold So you know, it's never a good story.
Speaker 2: It's just you got to keep in mind there was
Speaker 2: no scenario when those who were fighting like hell to
Speaker 2: make sports wagering legal in states across the country, including
Speaker 2: this one, those that are you know, in power, that
Speaker 2: have influence, they knew that there would be things like
Speaker 2: this that happen, and all you can do is just
Speaker 2: make examples and hold those accountable to do it in
Speaker 2: hopes that others won't be that stupid. I mean, it
Speaker 2: ain't worth it. I mean that goes without saying. If
Speaker 2: you're a pro athlete, even if you're a college athlete,
Speaker 2: like some quick money can can go a long way,
Speaker 2: but you're eventually going to get caught and it'll ruin
Speaker 2: your life. And who would want that to happen? All right,
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Speaker 2: us here on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon. We've got Kendrick
Speaker 2: Haskins of Way three Sports coming up here at about
Speaker 2: five point thirty. We'll get his thoughts on where each
Speaker 2: of the football program around here currently are. The ones
Speaker 2: who you know are are sad and underwhelmed with their team.
Speaker 2: That's Louisville and Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Indiana.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, not as many Indiana football fans
Speaker 2: around here in the Kentucky and area, but clearly you
Speaker 2: can hear them. They're louder now than they've ever been.
Speaker 2: They've probably just been you know, chilling, not having a
Speaker 2: whole lot to cheer about for many, many years. But
Speaker 2: now they got the candy stripe pants on. They're sigged
Speaker 2: up in a major way. And I'm jealous.
Speaker 4: If Indiana goes to the college football playoff, I'll come
Speaker 4: to work in my candy stripe pants.
Speaker 2: I mean, you got to do something bigger than that,
Speaker 2: Like you gotta get like a tattoo or signetti.
Speaker 4: Non tattooing and signetti on my face or wherever Signette's
Speaker 4: face on my body.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to put Signettes's face like on your calf or something.
Speaker 2: I can respect it because I would There's nothing I
Speaker 2: would ever get it. I mean, do you have any
Speaker 2: tattoos that I've never seen?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't either, and I'm not anti tattooed like people
Speaker 2: who have them cool. I mean I think some people
Speaker 2: look bad ass with their tattoos. I could never There's
Speaker 2: never anything I would want on my body forever. So
Speaker 2: you know, even if my team won, you know, five
Speaker 2: consecutive titles, like, I wouldn't. I would never get a
Speaker 2: tattoo of anything. So you know, we got to think
Speaker 2: of something else because just wearing the candy strap, I mean,
Speaker 2: John you do that every day. That's your religion. You're
Speaker 2: a candy striped guy. Like, we got to think of
Speaker 2: something special that you'll do. And I don't mean like,
Speaker 2: you know, torture yourself or eat a live animal on
Speaker 2: the air. I mean like you got but you gotta do.
Speaker 2: We gotta do something big for you. If they get there,
Speaker 2: which I think they're going to look, I mean, look
Speaker 2: at look at where they are, look at their path.
Speaker 2: I'd say it's way more likely than unlikely that they
Speaker 2: don't end up there. I mean, maybe I'm way off here.
Speaker 2: Maybe we learn the hard way that Rourke's injury is
Speaker 2: going to keep him out longer than one game, and
Speaker 2: they needed him more than maybe you thought.
Speaker 4: But it just requires you to at least go eleven
Speaker 4: to one. I feel like, yeah, and just can't slip
Speaker 4: up against you know, in Michigan State next week or
Speaker 4: even this week. We know you're without Curtis Rourke at home.
Speaker 2: Michigan's never looked more beatable.
Speaker 4: And I think Indiana is gonna kill Michigan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who you more worried about outside of Ohio State.
Speaker 4: This week against Washington just because of the circumstances of
Speaker 4: Michigan State on the road next week just.
Speaker 2: Because of the Trap game, because they suck. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 2: Boston College beat Michigan State.
Speaker 4: But after that, though, I mean after the Michigan State
Speaker 4: game on the road, you have Michigan at home, you
Speaker 4: have Ohio State on the road, and then you finished
Speaker 4: with Purdue.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And look, Louisville was there last year after their sixth
Speaker 2: game or fifth game, whatever it was. And obviously we
Speaker 2: know they turned around and lost to Pittsburgh, a bad team,
Speaker 2: and they weren't blowing teams out at least not consistently
Speaker 2: the way that Indiana has up to this point. So
Speaker 2: I'm not really making the comparison, but I can. I
Speaker 2: can take you back to last year for me when
Speaker 2: I'm thinking like I'm nervous, I'm scared, but not of
Speaker 2: one opponent. I'm just thinking like, man, it'd be great
Speaker 2: if we don't screw this up. Yeah, and I'm yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: And you know, Louisville did screw it up. They lost
Speaker 2: a pit and in the end, I still feel like
Speaker 2: that team probably it probably capped out, and ten wins
Speaker 2: was really his best. It was as good as well eleven,
Speaker 2: because I mean, heck, maybe twelve, because let's be I
Speaker 2: mean again, it it's not worth even going down this
Speaker 2: path because you lost both games. But like you played
Speaker 2: pit ten times, you probably win nine out of ten
Speaker 2: and the one you lost was the one that counted,
Speaker 2: you know, so it's what it could have should have
Speaker 2: in the Kentucky game, like they had no business losing
Speaker 2: that game, and they did. Like Louisville could have gone
Speaker 2: twelve and er last year and I would have said,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously put them in the four team playoff.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, but you know it would have been truly
Speaker 2: because their schedule was a huge factor. Not that they
Speaker 2: weren't a good team in general, but like overall they
Speaker 2: benefited and they took care of business. Because you could say,
Speaker 2: at the end of the year last year, the only
Speaker 2: good team you played was Notre Dame. And I'm not
Speaker 2: sure how I mean, I shouldn't say the only good team,
Speaker 2: the only like respected team, because you ended up playing
Speaker 2: some teams that ended up finishing with winning records, and
Speaker 2: some teams that you played end up finishing in the
Speaker 2: top twenty five that you beat at least a couple
Speaker 2: of them. So you know, I know the feeling of
Speaker 2: being there and thinking like, well, hey, we've shown we're
Speaker 2: clearly good enough. Like it's not a question of can you, like,
Speaker 2: can you beat Michigan State? Can you beat Washington like
Speaker 2: you know you can. It's just like going and getting
Speaker 2: it done. And there's teams every year. In fact, probably
Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the college football programs out there
Speaker 2: have a loss every year that they know, Hey, that
Speaker 2: was on us more than it was them just being
Speaker 2: that much better than us. And it's inevitable it happens
Speaker 2: to nearly everybody. But for your sake, John, I'm hoping
Speaker 2: it doesn't happen to your Hoosiers. We're also talked to
Speaker 2: Kendrick Haskins about some college basketball right we got our
Speaker 2: We got a chance to see this Louisville team in
Speaker 2: action on Monday night against Young Harris where they bombed
Speaker 2: twenty four to threes and look good doing it. Kentucky
Speaker 2: in action tonight in their first exhibition game taken on
Speaker 2: Kentucky Wesleyan. Somebody on the text line earlier asked me
Speaker 2: have you given any thought like what the reaction would
Speaker 2: be if Kentucky loses? No, I haven't thought of I mean, like,
Speaker 2: they're not losing. I mean, that'd be insane if they
Speaker 2: lost to Kentucky Wesleyan, but like, I just don't, I
Speaker 2: don't see it happening. I mean, they'll probably win, maybe
Speaker 2: at a similar level that Louisville won by I mean Wesleyan,
Speaker 2: although is Wesleyan last year and I'm not saying this
Speaker 2: because they beat Louisville again. Kenny Payne lost to Kentucky
Speaker 2: Westley last year in a game where he only put
Speaker 2: in four and five star players, recruits like you had
Speaker 2: maybe just on paper, and again, none of that matters
Speaker 2: if your team stinks and loses like Louisville did for
Speaker 2: two straight years. But like quite literally every player that
Speaker 2: like he was using a rotation that you'd use in
Speaker 2: a real game in that exhibition because they were that
Speaker 2: close all throughout it and then they ended up losing.
Speaker 2: So that Westling team I think brings back everybody that played.
Speaker 2: I mean, they lost their leading scorer, which of course
Speaker 2: is obviously something you don't want to lose, but they
Speaker 2: bring back everybody else that played a key role, and
Speaker 2: they've added I think one or two guys that jumped
Speaker 2: down from D one to D two. So they'll probably
Speaker 2: be a better challenge for Kentucky than Young Harris was
Speaker 2: for Louisville, but Kentucky will probably still win by a
Speaker 2: big margin. However, I did hear a little bit of
Speaker 2: KSR this morning, and they were acting as if in
Speaker 2: the Blue White Game that nobody got to see because
Speaker 2: Mark Pope hates the fans. He didn't want them to
Speaker 2: see the Blue White game unless they had a lot
Speaker 2: of money. I mean, it's sad that he did it.
Speaker 2: I mean, not something I don't want my coach to do,
Speaker 2: but that's what he did and that's his choice. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hate that he did that to you guys as
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans, but he didn't want you to see his
Speaker 2: team play. But anyways, apparently they didn't. They didn't shoot well,
Speaker 2: which clearly they're gonna rely on three point shooting. Not
Speaker 2: as much as Louisville, but like a lot. Like you've
Speaker 2: heard me mention this stat before, it's worth mentioning again.
Speaker 2: The top three teams last year as far as three
Speaker 2: point field goals made, both Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope
Speaker 2: were in the top three. Pat Kelcey and Charleston. I
Speaker 2: think we're at number two BYU and Pope were three,
Speaker 2: and I think number one might have been like North
Speaker 2: Florida something. It was a random school. So they have
Speaker 2: clearly more traditional front court players, meaning like they've got
Speaker 2: dudes who are truly fives that are rim protectors. And
Speaker 2: louisll does I mean loud of does two. I mean
Speaker 2: James Scott is not a guy that you're going to
Speaker 2: really see out on the perimeter a whole lot, but
Speaker 2: he is. But he's somebody that they do trust that
Speaker 2: if he gets the rebound, he can take off and
Speaker 2: go with it. But they're going to play relatively similar,
Speaker 2: Like they're gonna shoot. Both teams are gonna shoot a
Speaker 2: lot of threes. They're gonna at times have five guys
Speaker 2: out on offense, They're gonna spread the floor. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's I'm sure there are some differences, and we'll see
Speaker 2: it when you when you watch each team play, but
Speaker 2: there are certainly some similarities as far as the overall.
Speaker 2: You know, the way in which both these coaches want
Speaker 2: to play fast, a lot of three points shooting, a
Speaker 2: lot of spacing, a ton of passing, and you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if Louisville's implemented it, but it wouldn't
Speaker 2: shock me if they have. I mean, these are two
Speaker 2: coaches that are now leading these programs in this state
Speaker 2: that in practice, and again I don't know I Louiell
Speaker 2: was doing it right now, but I know Pat did
Speaker 2: it at Charleston. The shot clock in practice is not
Speaker 2: is not thirty seconds, it's like fifteen or less, because
Speaker 2: that they want to constantly be playing at a faster pace.
Speaker 2: That way, it's just repetitive, and it's just, you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's second nature to you to just, you know,
Speaker 2: not only be out there and executing, but you need
Speaker 2: to be playing really really fast, which is gonna lead
Speaker 2: to it times, some out of control play, some slop play.
Speaker 2: But clearly, I think the numbers have proven it to
Speaker 2: be pretty pretty effective for these two coaches because they
Speaker 2: want enough at their previous spots that they got big
Speaker 2: opportunities here. Clearly Pope's connection to UK was the biggest
Speaker 2: factor in him being the coach here, but that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean he can't have success. Are they only on stream tonight?
Speaker 2: I would imagine it's probably on the SEC network plus
Speaker 2: or whatever. I would assume that's the case. Don't know
Speaker 2: for sure, but I'm going to tune in and watch
Speaker 2: because you know that's what you know. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: make it a priority this evening to where I just
Speaker 2: lock in for two hours, but I'll certainly check out
Speaker 2: some of it because you know, I I'm eager to
Speaker 2: see what they look like. Not to say that I'm
Speaker 2: expecting them to look terrible, but you know, if they do,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be I wouldn't be sad about it, but
Speaker 2: I'd also be a liar if I told you that
Speaker 2: I expected them to be, you know, bad this year.
Speaker 2: Who knows how good either team's gonna be. Again, it's
Speaker 2: the ultimate unknown in every way. But I think both
Speaker 2: fan bases have good reason to feel pretty good about
Speaker 2: where they are. I mean, if you're expecting national championships
Speaker 2: and final fours from from from either of these teams,
Speaker 2: I'd say, you're, you're, you're. You're probably a little misguided there,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't mean you can't have success. And I
Speaker 2: know both programs, especially Kentucky, because you know, they haven't
Speaker 2: gone through what Louis has gone through in recent years.
Speaker 2: You know, every year for Kentucky it seems as if
Speaker 2: they're they have legitimate aspirations for a final four, but
Speaker 2: like this would be the year where if you don't
Speaker 2: and you only make it I don't know, to the
Speaker 2: second weekend and you look pretty good at times and
Speaker 2: have some big wins. I mean, I doubt that they'd
Speaker 2: say that it was like a phenomenal season, but like
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have a meltdown. I wouldn't think, although I
Speaker 2: don't know, man, we'll see. They love Pope now and
Speaker 2: I get it, But the first loss they take, no
Speaker 2: matter who it is against, I am going to be
Speaker 2: really eager to see how they react, not to say
Speaker 2: I'm predicting they all melt down and lose their mind
Speaker 2: and demand the guy be fired because that you know
Speaker 2: that I don't believe that that would be the case,
Speaker 2: but I think does they have any kind of doubt
Speaker 2: that like this guy? And again, if he loses to
Speaker 2: Duke by twenty in the Champions Classic, it might be
Speaker 2: because you know, Duke's just that much better this year,
Speaker 2: but it'll also give them maybe some fear of like
Speaker 2: we hired a guy and now I'm reminded that, yeah,
Speaker 2: he went here, and he's great, he's lovable, he's nice,
Speaker 2: he loves Kentucky. But like is he good enough to
Speaker 2: be our coach with cal You knew within the first
Speaker 2: year that he was elite because of what he did
Speaker 2: with that first team. So yeah, I mean when they
Speaker 2: lose to somebody that isn't a blue blood like John,
Speaker 2: that's when that's when we're going to learn about how
Speaker 2: they react as to this whole process of Mark Pope
Speaker 2: being their new guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because and they'll be patient if they lose in
Speaker 4: the Champions Classic and it's close, Yeah, I think there
Speaker 4: will be some frustration because they do want to be
Speaker 4: Kentucky and say, you know, we are the best.
Speaker 2: Team, and I'll make fun of them for doing moral victories,
Speaker 2: but that's just because it's the rival, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Yes, So yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean this is I find it to be really
Speaker 2: exciting that both fan bases are going through a new
Speaker 2: or starting a new era at the same time. But
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure some of you, if you're a
Speaker 2: Louisville fan, you may not give a damn about what
Speaker 2: Kentucky doing and vice versa, and I get it, but
Speaker 2: don't act like you know, you wouldn't take great satisfaction
Speaker 2: and a loss for your rival. I mean, we all do.
Speaker 2: That's how it works, and I wouldn't have it any
Speaker 2: other way, all right, So Kendrick Hason's going to join us,
Speaker 2: coming up here on the other side real quick. Some
Speaker 2: sad news that I think I'm a little bit late on.
Speaker 2: It looks like this came out earlier today, but it
Speaker 2: looks as if, according to Twitter, that the mother of
Speaker 2: Mike and Mark Stoops has has passed away. Mike Stoops
Speaker 2: Mark's younger brother. I think he's a younger brother. Maybe
Speaker 2: he's an older brother. I'm not sure, but he posted
Speaker 2: something on Twitter confirming that their mother, Evelyn D. D. Stoops,
Speaker 2: has passed away. So condolences. That's obviously super super sad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so very sad news. Condolences to Stoops and and his
Speaker 2: and his family. No real easy way to transition here,
Speaker 2: but I'll give it a shot again real quick. I
Speaker 2: want to reset something before we take a break. Bring
Speaker 2: in the one and only Kendrick Haskins Bronni James playing
Speaker 2: last night at the same time as his dad. Like,
Speaker 2: obviously that's probably the most talked about thing, certainly the
Speaker 2: most talked about thing on ESPN right now, because you know,
Speaker 2: if they get a chance to talk about Lebron for
Speaker 2: twenty four straight hours, they're gonna do it. Obviously, him
Speaker 2: playing in a game with his younger son becoming the
Speaker 2: first ever father son duo in the NBA, Like they're gonna,
Speaker 2: they're gonna run with it, and I get everybody's issues
Speaker 2: with it and just being annoyed and just being like,
Speaker 2: you know, come on, Lebron, like, really, who you kid
Speaker 2: and your kid's not any good? You're setting him up
Speaker 2: to be a punching bag because everybody's gonna make fun
Speaker 2: of him for only being in the NBA because his
Speaker 2: dad is Lebron James. This is a circus. The NBA
Speaker 2: is an unserious league. Like these are all things you're
Speaker 2: hearing people throw out there, and I don't disagree with
Speaker 2: really any of it as far as you know, it
Speaker 2: being clearly a circus. However, I did start the show
Speaker 2: with this because it was the first time I'd really
Speaker 2: given any truth thought to the Lakers side of this
Speaker 2: whole thing as to why they're doing it. Why would
Speaker 2: they want would they give Lebron whatever they want? Why
Speaker 2: would they draft his son and not act like it's
Speaker 2: you know, clearly them just doing what their franchise player
Speaker 2: wants them to do. And it was Brian Windhorst on
Speaker 2: ESPN who I thought laid out something that really makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense, and that's that you do this
Speaker 2: because it gives you an energized, enthusiastic really bought in
Speaker 2: Lebron James late in his career, Like Lebron could walk
Speaker 2: away in any moment and nobody'd be surprised because he's
Speaker 2: nearly forty. Even though he's still playing at a high level,
Speaker 2: He's got nothing left to prove. He's got his business
Speaker 2: ventures and whatnot, Like, you know, it would make sense
Speaker 2: for him to not be as driven. Well now he's
Speaker 2: I think he's rejuvenile or rejuvenated, rejuvenid. He's rejuvenated because
Speaker 2: he's he's playing alongside his son and like obviously he
Speaker 2: wants to win at all times. But man, how great
Speaker 2: would it be if those guys won a title together?
Speaker 2: Like it's a good investment on a second round pick
Speaker 2: if you're the Lakers, because it gives you maybe Lebron
Speaker 2: at his best since he's been in LA because he
Speaker 2: may be as locked in and as focus now as
Speaker 2: he's ever been. We all know it's a stunt. Lebron
Speaker 2: deep down knows it, I'm sure, but like, let them
Speaker 2: act as if this is all earned and not something
Speaker 2: done because of the ability that his father has to
Speaker 2: do because he's you know, Lebron James. If they want
Speaker 2: to live in their world as if this was you know,
Speaker 2: not what it is that we all know it is.
Speaker 2: If I'm the Lakers, I'd say, knock yourself out, have
Speaker 2: at it. We'll continue to run with it, as if
Speaker 2: this is all earned by Bronni James and it has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with his dad being Lebron. If that
Speaker 2: gives you Lebron at his best, you know which, I
Speaker 2: don't know if it'd be truly at his best, but look,
Speaker 2: the guy doesn't. He hadn't slowed down much, man. He's
Speaker 2: still an elite player that at any moment, on any
Speaker 2: given night can can clearly be the best player in
Speaker 2: the NBA. And if you get four more years of
Speaker 2: that guy at that level, and all it cost you
Speaker 2: was you letting his son hang out on the bench,
Speaker 2: I'd say it's worth it. But I also get why
Speaker 2: it annoys everybody too. All Right, Kendrick Asking is going
Speaker 2: to join us on the other side, keep it lock
Speaker 2: right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right, it
Speaker 2: is Coffee and Company. Got about thirty minutes left here
Speaker 2: on a Wednesday afternoon. As you know, we are fueled
Speaker 2: by Thornton's. If you didn't know that, now you do.
Speaker 2: And it's always a pleasure to bring in mister Kendrick
Speaker 2: Haskins from Wave three Sports. Kendrick, how we doing on
Speaker 2: this beautiful Wednesday afternoon?
Speaker 5: Doing it great? Making our high school football rounds that
Speaker 5: we do every Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So hardest working man in show business. It is beautiful outside,
Speaker 2: still right. Sometimes I say that and then you know,
Speaker 2: I've been in this cave in the studio for two
Speaker 2: and a half hours. I walk in it's nice, and
Speaker 2: then I come out and it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: terrible outside. I hope it's still beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's perfect outside.
Speaker 5: I'm in the same boat at the station where our offices.
Speaker 5: We don't have any.
Speaker 3: Windows, and so I don't know what depressing it raining
Speaker 3: unless it's raining really hard, and I know it's raining.
Speaker 5: Outside of that, I don't know what's going on outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some some sunlight coming in from a window can
Speaker 2: really can really be uplifting when it comes to a mood.
Speaker 2: But yes, we in media, we work in caves, which
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's worth it, you know. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you view this, you know, being able to cover sports
Speaker 2: for a living, yes, it's a job. You work hard,
Speaker 2: but you know what I do. I've always used it
Speaker 2: as an excuse to never really have to grow up, right, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm kind of an adult, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 5: Right, I get paid to sit here and care about
Speaker 5: these games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, I'm gonna keep doing it until
Speaker 2: they don't let me anymore. It's a pretty good, pretty
Speaker 2: good scam that we've we've been able to, uh to
Speaker 2: pull off. All right, So let's start with football. I
Speaker 2: guess we haven't. We haven't talked much about it on
Speaker 2: the show today. But Kentucky, you know, they I keep thinking, okay, well,
Speaker 2: you know, if they lose again another game, you know,
Speaker 2: to Vandy or to Florida, man, that would really be
Speaker 2: the ultimate let down for for for the Kentucky fans,
Speaker 2: and they may really be bothered and unsure about how
Speaker 2: they feel about Mark Stoops moving forward. But like that's
Speaker 2: happened the last two games for them, I mean, obviously
Speaker 2: Auburn's not a great team, but I think when you
Speaker 2: look at what Kentucky's done this year, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: they could easily come in and beat them, given that
Speaker 2: Kentucky not only has has struggled more so than people
Speaker 2: would have expected, they've not want at home very much
Speaker 2: in the last few years. I mean, what do you
Speaker 2: think is the ultimate problem with this Kentucky team, Because
Speaker 2: I still happen to believe they have some pretty good players.
Speaker 2: I don't think that they're losing the teams like Vandy
Speaker 2: in Florida because they don't have talent. I think they're
Speaker 2: just kind of a mess.
Speaker 3: They are kind of a mess. I mean you look
Speaker 3: at that defense. I mean, that defense is pretty good,
Speaker 3: and then you.
Speaker 5: Look at their receiver.
Speaker 3: Room, and then I mean you you wouldn't trade their
Speaker 3: receiver room for just about any receivers in the country.
Speaker 5: Dang Ye and Brown. I mean, those are two.
Speaker 3: Of two elite receivers, so they're fine there. And I
Speaker 3: think do think the offensive line is a big problem.
Speaker 3: But I mean, other than that that, the offensive line
Speaker 3: did it's.
Speaker 5: Part for the most part in that Florida game, and
Speaker 5: the defense fell apart.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if maybe I don't never want
Speaker 3: to see I never wanted to really call coaches to
Speaker 3: be fired, but I wonder if it's time for a change,
Speaker 3: just a new voice in the program and inject some
Speaker 3: new new energy into the program.
Speaker 5: Because it just doesn't feel I just feel like we're
Speaker 5: at the top of what we're gonna get out of
Speaker 5: Mark Student.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, things run their course. I think
Speaker 2: fans who love Stoops and would still you know, push
Speaker 2: for him to have some kind of a statue or something,
Speaker 2: would be open to hearing about a new voice. I mean,
Speaker 2: not to go back to what Cal said when he
Speaker 2: walked out, but there are some similarities here to where
Speaker 2: I think fans appreciate Stoops and all that he's done,
Speaker 2: but they don't really feel as if right now he's
Speaker 2: the guy that can not only get them to where
Speaker 2: they feel like they are in a better place, but
Speaker 2: maybe even get them back to where Stoops at one
Speaker 2: point had them. I mean, you know, he coaches don't
Speaker 2: stick around as long as Mark Stoops has at Kentucky.
Speaker 2: And you know, if he did walk away, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be completely stunned just because he's kind of seemed a
Speaker 2: little bit checked out. I mean, he's not the only
Speaker 2: coach that's complained about how different the job is now,
Speaker 2: but I think he's probably been a little more vocal
Speaker 2: about it than others. And I can appreciate that, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I like coaches that are transparent.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's just saying it to make excuses.
Speaker 2: I think he's saying it because he is annoyed by
Speaker 2: all the other things that he has to do now
Speaker 2: that he didn't have to use to do before the
Speaker 2: portal and before before nil. But I mean, you gotta
Speaker 2: be you gotta be some kind of stupid rich to
Speaker 2: just walk away from a nine million dollar a year job, right, Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can be burned out, but for nine million,
Speaker 2: I'll be burned out for a decade, man, right right?
Speaker 3: And that's that's the other part of it, is like
Speaker 3: Kentucky really can't get rid of him because his buyout.
Speaker 2: Is so he's gonna have to just walk I mean
Speaker 2: that would be the best case, or you know, start winning,
Speaker 2: and he may do that, but I just I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like the best days for Kentucky football under
Speaker 2: Stoops probably have have already come and gone. That's not
Speaker 2: to say they're gonna be terrible, because I don't think
Speaker 2: they're a terrible team now, but they already doesn't It
Speaker 2: feel like they're at a point now in the season
Speaker 2: that if if this thing's kind of turned into a
Speaker 2: snowball going down a hill and another loss here to
Speaker 2: an Auburn team that isn't very good. I mean at
Speaker 2: that point, I think you'd look at the Murray State
Speaker 2: is the only sure win that they have, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they lose to Auburn is going to get really
Speaker 3: loud because you don't expect them to beat Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Texas at Texas. Nope.
Speaker 5: No. And so the Louisville game is always in.
Speaker 3: The air because reason they keep beating being favored to
Speaker 3: beat him with three years in a row. And so
Speaker 3: there's that if they lose to Auburn and the season
Speaker 3: goes like he could go and a lost to Louisville
Speaker 3: is going to get really uncomfortable in Lexington. But like
Speaker 3: I said, he Stoops is the one who's the control
Speaker 3: if he's there next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think if that, like if it did
Speaker 2: play out that way, because I think the you know,
Speaker 2: I understand where these programs are. When it comes to
Speaker 2: college football, more often than not, a good season is
Speaker 2: going to be considered pretty pretty mid and average compared
Speaker 2: to the hierarchy of college football. But that's why beating
Speaker 2: your rival always goes a long way around here, and
Speaker 2: Stoops has done really, really good at that. I mean,
Speaker 2: he got off to a rough start because of what
Speaker 2: he inherited, but you know, he's he's been very successful
Speaker 2: against Louisville and that goes a long way. And if
Speaker 2: if you're a Louisville coach and you beat Kentucky regularly,
Speaker 2: that would go a long way here too. It's obviously
Speaker 2: been a while since that happened, but I think the
Speaker 2: noise would be louder than ever if the season played
Speaker 2: out that way, where maybe they're only when is Murray,
Speaker 2: or maybe they beat Murray and Auburn but lose to
Speaker 2: Florida or lose to Texas Tennessee in Louisville of course,
Speaker 2: which would be the punch to the gut for their fans.
Speaker 2: So if in fact that scenario played out, and it's
Speaker 2: not a crazy one, it would turn to where I
Speaker 2: think Stoops would have to kind of like campaign to
Speaker 2: like win everybody back, and I just feel like that
Speaker 2: seems like the last thing he's got energy to do
Speaker 2: right now, you know what I mean. Like, he just
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like he would have the give a damn
Speaker 2: to do that. And I don't even mean to say
Speaker 2: that to be critical, but I just feel like he
Speaker 2: would be like, Nope, I'm certainly not doing that.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if for him personally, if it's
Speaker 3: not a good idea to go ahead and just get
Speaker 3: a first start somewhere, it's because he does seem like
Speaker 3: it's kind of weighing on him and he's mean, he's
Speaker 3: a nice guy.
Speaker 5: Anybody who's ever been around Mark, he's as nice as Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt that at all. I think it is
Speaker 2: the right. I'm a diehard Louis fan obviously, but as
Speaker 2: a rival coach, he's not somebody that I think is
Speaker 2: like a natural villain. I think he's a pretty straight shooter.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, He's not a guy that like you're gonna
Speaker 3: hate if you're the other fan base, other than if
Speaker 3: other than beating you.
Speaker 5: But just he's not gonna say anything crazy. He's not
Speaker 5: gonna be disrespectful in any ways. For my fashion, but
Speaker 5: he's he's done a great job.
Speaker 3: He's done and I said, he's been probably the best
Speaker 3: football coach ever outside.
Speaker 5: Of Bear Bryant. So he's done a lot. But you
Speaker 5: just wonder if it's just run its course, and maybe
Speaker 5: it's not for him to get a fresh start, Maybe
Speaker 5: the program get a fresh start, maybe just have a
Speaker 5: clean break, and you know, years and years from now,
Speaker 5: and they bring him back for the spring game like
Speaker 5: they brought back to Bigness.
Speaker 2: Or just or just not even a fresh start, just
Speaker 2: go be rich and retire, like that'd be a good
Speaker 2: life to live. I mean, that's these guys can. These
Speaker 2: guys can walk away and retire early and have a
Speaker 2: lot more money than someone like myself will ever have.
Speaker 2: So if you can't tell I'm pretty envious, let's let's
Speaker 2: switch gears to to Louisville football. I don't know if
Speaker 2: i'd call him a mess, but they are four and three.
Speaker 2: You got to look in the mirror. You are what
Speaker 2: your record says. Yes, their losses have come against some
Speaker 2: good teams, and they've been there with a chance to win.
Speaker 2: I mean each of those games you lost by one score.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm I'm kind of I'm kind of stunned.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that sounds a little over the top,
Speaker 2: but I just didn't think Louisville would be four and
Speaker 2: three at this point. And it be because they their
Speaker 2: identity is is a team that you know can't help
Speaker 2: but make some big time mistakes at really bad times.
Speaker 2: Nobody's asking to be perfect, and they really only made
Speaker 2: one huge mistake against Miami, but you're playing the number
Speaker 2: six team in the country. I mean, that's the kind
Speaker 2: of mistake that you know will haunt you against a
Speaker 2: good team like Miami. Where do you think Louisville is
Speaker 2: right now? Should fans maybe? I mean, obviously, if you're
Speaker 2: expecting acc championship appearance, that seems to be out the
Speaker 2: window right now. But you know what makes it even
Speaker 2: more difficult for me as a fan, Kendrick, is that, like,
Speaker 2: I still think this team has good players, Like I
Speaker 2: think they have the ability to be a lot of teams,
Speaker 2: they're just not getting it done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 5: Thing that's frustrating about it because, like you said, they're
Speaker 5: one they're one score losses. Every one of those games
Speaker 5: they could have won to play goes here, they don't
Speaker 5: hike the ball over the punter's head on a punt
Speaker 5: against Notre Dame. You know, they don't give up big
Speaker 5: plays against s U. They don't give up, you know,
Speaker 5: a big play here and there against Miami.
Speaker 2: To fumble too, fumble calls that got returned on your
Speaker 2: home field. I mean, you know, and maybe some of
Speaker 2: the maybe those were the right calls at the end
Speaker 2: of the day. But yeah, I mean it just seems
Speaker 2: like breaks have not gone their way and they've just
Speaker 2: they've hurt themselves more than anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, That's that's exactly what it is. It's frustrating because
Speaker 5: you look out there.
Speaker 3: You see the talent.
Speaker 5: I mean, Shuck is as good a quarterback as Wolves
Speaker 5: had around here.
Speaker 3: Since Lamar I agree, and then and the received the
Speaker 3: receivers was Brooks and all the players they're making that
Speaker 3: receiver you see it there.
Speaker 5: The running game is.
Speaker 2: Great Lacy with the kick return.
Speaker 5: Man, Colin Lacey. I mean, he's come in since.
Speaker 3: That Notre Dame game and has been everything you expected
Speaker 3: it more so, you're getting what you thought you were
Speaker 3: gonna get out of your stars. It's just it's occasional
Speaker 3: plays here and there that has killed them, and it's
Speaker 3: surprising with defense, with all the talent they had coming
Speaker 3: back on defense. But that's the frustrating part, is like
Speaker 3: this team could easily be.
Speaker 5: Seven and zero and we're sitting here thinking about the
Speaker 5: college football playoffs. But now they're four and Three's like, okay,
Speaker 5: let's get to a bowl game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and look, I still think that they will,
Speaker 2: but I feel like, you know, this Boston College game one,
Speaker 2: it's it's a game where you don't really have a
Speaker 2: whole lot to gain, but certainly a lot to lose,
Speaker 2: because you wouldn't be able to claim that, well, our
Speaker 2: losses were competitive against good teams. Boston College, they're not terrible,
Speaker 2: but they're certainly not viewed as a as a good team.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's still a chance for them to
Speaker 2: do something they haven't done in a long time. Beat Kentucky.
Speaker 2: There's still a chance to do something they've never done,
Speaker 2: which you know is went at Clemson. But it's just
Speaker 2: hard to kind of expect those results to be there whenever,
Speaker 2: you know, whenever they've had big opportunities so far, they've
Speaker 2: just they've shot themselves in the foot. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think it makes fans feel a little bit better
Speaker 2: to know that their head coach is just as beside
Speaker 2: himself as they are. I mean, Jeff Brom, I mean
Speaker 2: I don't think he's you know, I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's down on his team to where he's not
Speaker 2: going to bring it every day and try to try
Speaker 2: to get this season turned around. But you could just
Speaker 2: tell not only in how he talks and what he says,
Speaker 2: but like his body language. Man, he's he's as he's
Speaker 2: as bummed as anybody that the team that they that
Speaker 2: they're in this position.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he wears it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And look and that matters too again, like you
Speaker 2: gotta win. Like if you lose all the time and
Speaker 2: you wear it, then you know what, you're a loser.
Speaker 2: But I do think it goes a long way to
Speaker 2: to to you know, not try to sell us like
Speaker 2: Sadderfield did that. Don't know where boy's upset we would
Speaker 2: do a bowl game last year?
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: He knows that the bar is higher than where they're
Speaker 5: at right now. He knows that this team is better
Speaker 5: than four and three and hoping to win and win
Speaker 5: enough games to make a bowl game. This is a
Speaker 5: team that's better than barely making a Bowl game, so
Speaker 5: he knows that he's he's just as upset as the
Speaker 5: fans are, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. All Right. We got to see Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey's team in action on Monday night at the Young Center,
Speaker 2: taking on an exhibition opponent, Young Harris. They bombed twenty
Speaker 2: four to threes, won by a humongous margin, and we're
Speaker 2: pretty entertaining. I mean, it's entertaining when you watch your
Speaker 2: team play and they can win big. But the way
Speaker 2: they play, as far as the style, they're going to
Speaker 2: get a lot of shots up. Just your first impression
Speaker 2: of seeing this team in person. I know they played
Speaker 2: a couple of games in the Bahamas, but you know,
Speaker 2: getting close to it actually being real here in the
Speaker 2: next couple weeks.
Speaker 5: It's fun to see them, like, look like they know
Speaker 5: what they're doing. They got an identity, Yeah, they have
Speaker 5: an identity.
Speaker 3: I don't anticipate seeing them shoot fifty plus three pointers
Speaker 3: a game, and I think that was part of the
Speaker 3: team they were.
Speaker 5: Playing, was kind of letting them shoot for some reason,
Speaker 5: because they wasn't like they were just jacking up shots.
Speaker 5: Those were open shots.
Speaker 3: A lot of those came off with a couple of
Speaker 3: passes and got the open shots, so it wasn't like
Speaker 3: they were just coming down just throwing up threes. But
Speaker 3: the only thing that they concermy was the rebounding because
Speaker 3: they I think they ended up out rebounding.
Speaker 5: Them by double digits. But it was fairly even for
Speaker 5: a good chunk of the game. So that was something.
Speaker 5: If you have to have a criticism that I guess
Speaker 5: that would be it. But they it was fun to watch.
Speaker 5: It was fun to hear the young loud, and then
Speaker 5: it was fun to be in an exhibition game that
Speaker 5: you wasn't on pins and needles about because this is
Speaker 5: an exhibition game is supposed.
Speaker 2: To be a blowout.
Speaker 5: So it's been good to have at least that part
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 2: Be Yeah, And and Kentucky's got their first exhibition game
Speaker 2: tonight against Westland, a team that did beat Louisville last year.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you've got a chance to see
Speaker 2: much of the Blue White Game or any of this
Speaker 2: Kentucky team at this point. I know they've had media
Speaker 2: days and whatnot, but you know, similar situations here, new
Speaker 2: coaches and really brand new teams for for for these
Speaker 2: two coaches, who do you I mean who are you?
Speaker 2: Who are you hearing? Who have you seen that you
Speaker 2: feel like is going to be like the guy for
Speaker 2: Kentucky this year? Is it similar to Louis of the
Speaker 2: to where it's probably going to be a collection of
Speaker 2: guys or do you think they're gonna they're gonna have
Speaker 2: a guy that sort of you know, is the straw
Speaker 2: that stirs their drink as they say, it feels like.
Speaker 5: It's going to be a collection of guys, especially when
Speaker 5: you have so many new faces around there. Lamont Butler
Speaker 5: he does kind of stand out for him and Jackson
Speaker 5: Robinson does. I've been impressed with what I've seen with
Speaker 5: Colin Chandler, the UH freshman they came in it had
Speaker 5: had a miss a miss because of a Mormon mission.
Speaker 5: He is crazy athletic.
Speaker 3: I was going to when he when he first committed.
Speaker 3: I was looking at some of his high you can
Speaker 3: take here or there, but which you can't see as
Speaker 3: this kid is a heck of an athlete.
Speaker 2: Yeah, former former five star recruit, I believe, Yeah.
Speaker 5: And he's going to be a fan favorite. He has
Speaker 5: a little bit of an accent.
Speaker 3: He's a nice Kid's got the curly hair, but he
Speaker 3: can simply jump out of the gym.
Speaker 5: He had a nice dunk in that blue white scrimmage.
Speaker 5: I think he's gonna be kind of the guy that
Speaker 5: kind of stands out the most. And then of course
Speaker 5: they're gonna root on Travis Perry and Trent Noah.
Speaker 3: Because I was the Kentucky kids, and I really I
Speaker 3: like Travis Perry.
Speaker 5: I saw Travis Perry.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be really good. I watched him in high school.
Speaker 2: I'm I I think he'll be way better than most
Speaker 2: are anticipating guys. One of the best shooters I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw him give Reed Shepherd thirty points And.
Speaker 2: Was that was that at the Shelby at the Collins game? Yes,
Speaker 2: I was there too, Man, that was that was memorable?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: He was something else and I was like, who is
Speaker 5: this kid?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Where's that?
Speaker 5: Where's that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He's He's a hell of a player, no doubt.
Speaker 2: But Kendrick, we got to run. Is always. I appreciate
Speaker 2: you making time for us. Keep up the great work
Speaker 2: and we will talk to you soon, my friend, all right,
Speaker 2: take you kick care. That's Kendrick Haskins Way three Sports.
Speaker 2: Always appreciate him making time for us. We got to
Speaker 2: run quick break. We'll come back and wrap it up.
Speaker 2: On the other side, supprise you didn't take the day
Speaker 2: off today. John. With Tim Walls in town, I know
Speaker 2: you're ready to go support him. I'm kidding. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: just landed an hour ago, and I'm only bringing it
Speaker 2: up because, like I fear now that, like with this
Speaker 2: kind of a visitor in town, maybe like traffic's going
Speaker 2: to be terrible because they're like, you know, shutting down
Speaker 2: roads so Tim Walls can can I mean, the only
Speaker 2: Walls that matters around here, folks is Jeff Walls. So
Speaker 2: if you're going to shut down the street for a Walls,
Speaker 2: do it for Jeff, not this guy who's here, you
Speaker 2: know obviously to do Yeah, that's right, that's right. Tamp
Speaker 2: uh is it tampon him? Is that what they call him? Yeah? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: We're out of here, back at it tomorrow. Week's flying by,
Speaker 2: isn't it It is? Can't believe it's already going to
Speaker 2: be Thursday tomorrow. So anyhow, have a good night. Everybody
Speaker 2: will talk to you tomorrow