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Speaker 4: If not, it's Nick Coffee. Nice to meet you, Austin Montgomery.
Speaker 4: That's the other voice that you're gonna hear. Nice to
Speaker 4: meet you, Nice to meet you, brother. Let's have some
Speaker 4: fun today. I'm scrambling a little bit here as we
Speaker 4: get the show started. Luckily I did prepare earlier. Believe
Speaker 4: it or not, I do prepare for this show. But
Speaker 4: on the way in, I was a little late as
Speaker 4: far as when I typically get here. I mean, I
Speaker 4: wasn't late, but usually I tried to get here earlier
Speaker 4: than I did today, only by you know, five ten minutes,
Speaker 4: because I was in a situation that I feel like
Speaker 4: has happened before, and I remember bringing it up on
Speaker 4: the show, like I've had weird daja vu with this,
Speaker 4: because let me let me share with you what what
Speaker 4: happened on my way in, and then you tell me
Speaker 4: if you remember me ever bringing this up, because there's
Speaker 4: a chance I'm just completely having deja vu, or.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe this is something that happened and I
Speaker 3: just forgot about it.
Speaker 5: Be a coincidence, by the way, r ip DejaVu, Right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, didn't they didn't it burn down?
Speaker 2: Did they did it burn down or did they just
Speaker 2: take it down?
Speaker 4: I think it caught fire and then they just demolished it.
Speaker 4: I could totally be wrong there, but yeah, that uh
Speaker 4: Friday night, Yeah that was That was a gentleman's club
Speaker 4: over on Taylor Boulevard, and it's the first one I
Speaker 4: went to because it was the only one that I'll
Speaker 4: allowed you to get in at eighteen.
Speaker 2: That's right, so here.
Speaker 3: Most of the other ones are are twenty one and older.
Speaker 5: I will never forget the entertainer Love that I end
Speaker 5: up having a couple of nice minutes with.
Speaker 3: And I remember telling you that was her name.
Speaker 2: Her name was Love.
Speaker 3: Yes, and he only gave you a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5: Yes, Well, that's the best I can do, I think
Speaker 5: as a personal record at the time, you need to
Speaker 5: go see.
Speaker 3: The men's clinic.
Speaker 5: Remember I told you a couple maybe have been like
Speaker 5: a month or two ago. I think I brought it up.
Speaker 5: And I know that I saw her and like her
Speaker 5: four kids at mister Gaddy's like two weeks later because
Speaker 5: I recognized her for I think.
Speaker 3: I told you. I think you told me that story,
Speaker 3: but I don't remember if it was on the area.
Speaker 2: It is on the area.
Speaker 3: Okays, all right, Well, because.
Speaker 5: We're talking about your we were talking about your radio
Speaker 5: voice and how it could possibly translate into a strip
Speaker 5: club detail.
Speaker 4: And that's one of that's one of those things that
Speaker 4: when you put it out there for the entire world
Speaker 4: to know, you know you're probably gonna hear me. That's
Speaker 4: a memorable thing. I wonder if she's still alive maybe,
Speaker 4: I mean, how long has it been.
Speaker 2: Twelve years ago?
Speaker 4: The lifestyle you need, really the lifestyle that sometime, you know,
Speaker 4: comes with those that are in that industry.
Speaker 3: I guess maybe you're right.
Speaker 2: You never know. But anyways, telling her.
Speaker 5: That I was in a US Army vet so I
Speaker 5: thought I could get a little discount didn't work. Huh,
Speaker 5: I think it did. I think that's when I.
Speaker 2: Oh, so she does support the truth absolutely.
Speaker 4: You just admitted a stolen valor on the air. But
Speaker 4: at a strip club, I'm not sure if that's something
Speaker 4: people would you know, ends on Taylor Bullotard. So the
Speaker 4: deja vu, not the club, but the experience I was.
Speaker 4: I was right around the old Cardinal Stadium on sixty
Speaker 4: five heading north, and there was an ambulance that was
Speaker 4: two lanes over. I was in the fast lane and
Speaker 4: two lanes over there was an ambulance and.
Speaker 3: Their lights were on.
Speaker 4: It was loud, like it was going crazy, as if
Speaker 4: you would have assumed that they need to get somewhere.
Speaker 4: Somebody's gonna die. So I'm kind of just standing here
Speaker 4: like I can't just stop. I'm clearly not in the way.
Speaker 4: But it was almost like the guy driving the ambulance
Speaker 4: didn't realize that he had like all the lights on,
Speaker 4: which there was no way, Like, I mean, it was
Speaker 4: it was as loud as I've ever heard, mostly because
Speaker 4: I was close. But I'm just kind of sitting there
Speaker 4: looking around, like all right, like he's got the lights on?
Speaker 4: Is he gonna go around us? And I wasn't even
Speaker 4: in his lane, but like everybody was just kind of
Speaker 4: hovered looking over their steering wheel seemingly like.
Speaker 3: All right, is this guy like does here?
Speaker 4: Because he was driving as if he was not in
Speaker 4: an ambulance, right, like just he was just another driver
Speaker 4: on the road. And sure enough, like I just kept going,
Speaker 4: you know, probably like ten under the speed limit with
Speaker 4: everybody else. And then I realized this guy's not not
Speaker 4: in a hurry, because everybody's gotten out of his way
Speaker 4: and he's he's just like he has it on cruise control.
Speaker 4: So finally I sped up a little bit. But how's
Speaker 4: that happen? Like what are you supposed to do there?
Speaker 4: In fact, that's actually kind of dangerous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I the.
Speaker 4: The only time that I uh, got pulled over really
Speaker 4: in the last I got a speeding ticket in the
Speaker 4: last couple of years. It was the first time I
Speaker 4: ever got a speeding ticket. But prior to that, I
Speaker 4: hadn't been pulled over in a really really long time,
Speaker 4: and I'd never had a ticket. But I got a
Speaker 4: warning because I didn't yield to a fire truck because
Speaker 4: they were and it it was an issue for me
Speaker 4: and I didn't like, you didn't move out of the way, yes,
Speaker 4: but also it was they were probably responding to an
Speaker 4: accident because there was ice on the road right because
Speaker 4: it was it was like six o'clock. This is when
Speaker 4: I was on in the morning. It was like five
Speaker 4: point thirty in the morning actually, and there was black ice.
Speaker 4: Like I got on the road to go downtown, and
Speaker 4: then by the time I got on sixty five, I
Speaker 4: ended up just seeing every few minutes somebody just sliding
Speaker 4: just completely just like a like like they're on a
Speaker 4: ice skating rink, their vehicle hitting like the media and
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. So I got off the exit
Speaker 4: and took the back roads, I mean like Preston Highway
Speaker 4: essentially to get home because I just I didn't want
Speaker 4: to get stuck downtown, so I ended up heading back
Speaker 4: to do the show from home because of the weather,
Speaker 4: and by the minute it got worse and there was
Speaker 4: a I was going.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was probably going to speed limbit. It probably slower,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, because of the ice and
Speaker 4: the light hit yellow and I didn't. I didn't stop
Speaker 4: because I feel like I would have slid, But also
Speaker 4: the ambulance wasn't close enough or sorry, the fire truck
Speaker 4: wasn't close enough to where they would like. If I
Speaker 4: would have stopped and slid, I would have probably ended
Speaker 4: up in the middle like in like you know, in
Speaker 4: the middle of the road as they're trying to turn,
Speaker 4: and I would have just been in their way. So
Speaker 4: with the light being yellow, like, I didn't stop them
Speaker 4: from getting where they needed in any way, I was
Speaker 4: not in their way. I did run a yellow light,
Speaker 4: and I think because I asked him, I was like,
Speaker 4: did you was it because I ran the red light?
Speaker 4: I said, I, you know, I would have expected, you know,
Speaker 4: not leniency. But you know, the reason I didn't slam
Speaker 4: on my brakes at the yellow light is because there's
Speaker 4: ice here. I didn't even really think anything about the
Speaker 4: fire truck because it was, you know, far enough away
Speaker 4: to where I would not have I don't feel like
Speaker 4: I would have you know, kept them up by any means.
Speaker 3: But you know, I didn't even get a ticket, so
Speaker 3: I shouldn't.
Speaker 4: But it's still it's still ir hates me because sometimes
Speaker 4: when they're out like people don't know what to do.
Speaker 4: Like I'm sure there are people that have been in
Speaker 4: accidents because you know, everybody's just like, hey, we need
Speaker 4: to get the hell out.
Speaker 2: Of the way.
Speaker 4: And when you're on the road, like you know, and
Speaker 4: depending upon how many lanes you have, it can be
Speaker 4: it can be tricky. But I don't know, I'm starting
Speaker 4: to just think, Austin that the guy did not realize
Speaker 4: that he had his lights on because I looked over
Speaker 4: at him as he got closer because I was slowing down.
Speaker 3: He kept going the same.
Speaker 4: Speed, and he's just chilling, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Like there's no I mean, no look of urgency. He's
Speaker 4: just driving along. But yet he's got and I'm sure
Speaker 4: there's different levels to how loud you can make the
Speaker 4: sirens and that kind of stuff. So anyways, that threw
Speaker 4: me off a little bit as far as just getting
Speaker 4: here a little bit later than I wanted to, and
Speaker 4: then my wife hit me with the dreaded text about
Speaker 4: school being out for the next few days. So I
Speaker 4: think Oldham County did this, or maybe it was Harden
Speaker 4: County recently. And then today we just found out my
Speaker 4: kids go to Bullet County Public schools, what my daughter does,
Speaker 4: and they're going to be out the rest of the
Speaker 4: week to clean the schools because everybody is sick. Do
Speaker 4: you know anybody knock on Wood that has been sick lately,
Speaker 4: like with the flu or anything.
Speaker 2: No, I hadn't.
Speaker 5: I know, I haven't, but I have, like just been
Speaker 5: seeing on Facebook.
Speaker 3: So this is what happens. I'm convinced.
Speaker 4: I can't prove this, but like whenever you whenever you
Speaker 4: get sick and you and you talk to your friends, colleagues, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, just people, you know, whenever you get to
Speaker 4: the point where you can comfortably say, yeah, there's something
Speaker 4: going around, right, like the maybe not the majority of
Speaker 4: the people you know have an illness, but like it's
Speaker 4: not a surprise at all if you talk to somebody
Speaker 4: and they're down with the flu or something like that. Well,
Speaker 4: I'm convinced it comes from schools because well, sure you know,
Speaker 4: tea my daughter's teacher. You know, she'll tell us every
Speaker 4: now and then as far as just you know, we've
Speaker 4: got a lot of kids out because my daughter is
Speaker 4: in and out with different therapies and whatnot. So it's
Speaker 4: just not uncommon for her to tell us, hey, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of kids sick, or you know, be careful,
Speaker 4: make sure everybody washes their hands. Hey, if she starts
Speaker 4: feeling bad, just know that we had last week a
Speaker 4: kid in class.
Speaker 3: That had this.
Speaker 4: So she's pretty transparent about that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 4: she'd started to kind of hint that it was getting
Speaker 4: bad to where a lot of kids missing schools.
Speaker 3: So that's that's that's where we are.
Speaker 4: But what I'm getting at as far as like where
Speaker 4: usually we have a situation with the school and then
Speaker 4: like a week or two later, it's it's all the adults.
Speaker 4: Kids are bringing home stuff, parents are then taking it
Speaker 4: to work and getting everybody sick.
Speaker 3: Again. I can't prove it, but.
Speaker 4: The timing here has always seemed to be pretty consistent.
Speaker 4: That you know, usually you hear about schools having issues
Speaker 4: with so many so many kids out and teachers too
Speaker 4: by the way, that's where it really gets. If you've
Speaker 4: got a bunch of teachers out and they already have
Speaker 4: a shortage of subs. That's when you get to the
Speaker 4: point where they just say, Okay, we're going to cancel
Speaker 4: school for the next few days and just disinfect these
Speaker 4: all these schools out here because there's just nasty germs
Speaker 4: getting everybody sick. But you know, now we're scrambling to
Speaker 4: try to find childcare, which you know is.
Speaker 5: Feel one of those things that went around kind of
Speaker 5: like after Christmas, because I got pretty sick, and well,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say pretty sick, but I definitely felt it.
Speaker 5: And there was always a talk of what there's something
Speaker 5: in the air and something spreading, and I would hate
Speaker 5: that if I got it, because I was literally just sick.
Speaker 2: Like a month. It's ago.
Speaker 4: I have not been like six sick in a while,
Speaker 4: and I hope that that that stays the case. However, again,
Speaker 4: when it comes to everybody, usually if if if we
Speaker 4: get to this point where all the kids at school
Speaker 4: are sick, my daughter will probably bring something home and
Speaker 4: give it to me or my wife, And that's just
Speaker 4: that's just unfortunately, that's just part of life, I suppose,
Speaker 4: But yeah, in TI that's what they're doing. So it's
Speaker 4: not like, I mean, it's that's the worst again. I
Speaker 4: I COVID did a lot of things to change society,
Speaker 4: but the doing school from home. I mean, I'm to
Speaker 4: the point now where I feel like those who say, well, hey,
Speaker 4: it's better than nothing, No, I think it actually is. Like,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not ideal for those to go to
Speaker 4: work or work from home, because like it's just when
Speaker 4: you throw it at somebody, Hey, we're not going to
Speaker 4: have school open, so you you know, you need to
Speaker 4: have somebody to basically do school for your for your kid. Like,
Speaker 4: it's just it's not It's not easy for a lot
Speaker 4: of folks. So we'll make it work. I'm sure others
Speaker 4: have it, you know, a lot worse than us as
Speaker 4: far as just resources. We've got people that can look
Speaker 4: after the little one and help her do her NTI.
Speaker 4: But anyways, before we really dive in here, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: remind folks of something that I do around this time
Speaker 4: every year, and that is that college basketball season is
Speaker 4: flying by. We are now into the month of February.
Speaker 4: We are well past the midway point of the season.
Speaker 4: In fact, we only have a month left really of
Speaker 4: the regular season, and as somebody who loves college basketball,
Speaker 4: this is where I get to really nerding out to
Speaker 4: where like, if I know there's a game on, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna think, Okay, maybe I can go to Apple TV
Speaker 4: and start binging season two of Severance, which I love,
Speaker 4: or other shows that you mentioned. Landman, Right, that's a
Speaker 4: show that I want to Yeah, I want to start
Speaker 4: that at some point because I keep hearing how great
Speaker 4: it is. But but it can wait because college basketball season,
Speaker 4: I can't binge. I can't binge that later. Right, So
Speaker 4: instead of you know, starting land Man, which again I
Speaker 4: hear is phenomenal, I'm thinking, you know, what is that Pepperdine.
Speaker 4: You see Irvine game on at eleven thirty on esp
Speaker 4: and you you're damn.
Speaker 2: Right it is, And I'm tuning in Billy Bob can wake.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I'm a sicko for college hoops and I'll
Speaker 4: be so sad whenever it is it is gone.
Speaker 3: And look, I've always loved college basketball, always will.
Speaker 4: I found a different way to kind of be a
Speaker 4: big nerd for the sport in the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: because you know, the team that I care about was
Speaker 4: essentially dead right, not relevant in any way. So this
Speaker 4: season's been even more fun because not only am I
Speaker 4: following along and enjoying everything that comes with college basketball.
Speaker 4: Louisville is not an elite team by any means, but man,
Speaker 4: they've been fun to watch. I've enjoyed every second of it,
Speaker 4: and they're good. The loss to Georgia Tech obviously not
Speaker 4: a good loss. First time you had one of those,
Speaker 4: meaning one that doesn't help your resume. And I think
Speaker 4: they're going to bounce back. They're in Boston College. They're
Speaker 4: at Boston College tomorrow night, and Boston College is not
Speaker 4: a very good team, and Louisville has been pretty good
Speaker 4: in these spots right where they've gone on the road
Speaker 4: to play teams in the ACC that they should beat,
Speaker 4: right Like, we saw what they did to SMU, we
Speaker 4: saw what they did to Syracuse, to Virginia. Boston College
Speaker 4: is worse than all of those teams. So I expect
Speaker 4: this team to bounce back, and you know, if they don't,
Speaker 4: I guess it'll depend on how it looks. But if
Speaker 4: they win, that's really all that I mean. I don't
Speaker 4: want to say that's all that matters because it should be.
Speaker 4: But you know, with you losing to Georgia Tech, you
Speaker 4: kind of need to beat the bad teams bad or
Speaker 4: you'll continue to kind of slowly fall. I mean, as
Speaker 4: we talked about last week, Louisville beat wake Forest by
Speaker 4: double digits at home, a fifteen and five wake Forest team,
Speaker 4: and yet they fell in the net rankings, So you
Speaker 4: kind of need to beat teams badly. But hey, just
Speaker 4: bouncing back and getting a win, I mean, I guess
Speaker 4: at that point it really depends on what it looks like.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: If they somehow lose this game, then you know, I
Speaker 4: don't know, I mean, that would be I don't even
Speaker 4: want to think about it.
Speaker 3: But again, I expect them to win.
Speaker 4: They've proven who they are at this point, especially against
Speaker 4: opponents like this, but the visual right actually seeing them
Speaker 4: lose for the first time in a long time over
Speaker 4: the weekend, I guess more than anything, it's just reminded
Speaker 4: me that, you know what, they could slip up and
Speaker 4: loose anybody. And I know I've mentioned that many times
Speaker 4: over the past few weeks. Is that expecting them to
Speaker 4: just win every game the rest of the way, I mean,
Speaker 4: it clearly didn't happen, and it seemed kind of foolish.
Speaker 4: But I mean, I think they've They've been really consistent,
Speaker 4: and I think they even came out ready to play
Speaker 4: against Georgia Tech, meaning like they were good defensively and
Speaker 4: they withstood an early run from Georgia Tech. It kind
Speaker 4: of took took control the game, and then they didn't
Speaker 4: have control of the game, and then it kind of
Speaker 4: just slipped away, and late game execution wasn't great. They
Speaker 4: missed some shots. Free throw shooting has been an issue
Speaker 4: all year, So I think Pat Kelsey's going to tighten
Speaker 4: some things up.
Speaker 3: And it does look as if Pat.
Speaker 4: Was feeling the same way we felt about Chucky Hepburn
Speaker 4: being left off of the Bob Coosey Award Top ten
Speaker 4: watch list. I mean, I don't know how he's not
Speaker 4: a finalist. He's one of the best point guards in
Speaker 4: the country, leads the acc and assists and in steals
Speaker 4: and oh, by the way, he's also averaging fifteen and
Speaker 4: a half points a game. I mean, I said it
Speaker 4: yesterday jokingly and again I'm not being serious, but maybe
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey is getting so much love deservedly so that
Speaker 4: people watching Louisville and just seeing how much they've bounced
Speaker 4: back from the Kenny Payin era, and they're just thinking, Man,
Speaker 4: this Pat Kelsey guy, he's really impressive, which he is.
Speaker 4: This guy looks like the perfect fit for Louisville. He
Speaker 4: seems like he is. All those things are legit. But
Speaker 4: maybe it has kept people from realizing that he's got
Speaker 4: a point guard that is one of the best in
Speaker 4: the country.
Speaker 3: So it's all your fault.
Speaker 4: Pat, I'm kidding, not really, but that might be an
Speaker 4: explanation because does not see him on there as a
Speaker 4: real surprise. But anyways, the list that came out yesterday
Speaker 4: from I think Jeff Borzello is the one who put
Speaker 4: it out there first. As far as which ten players
Speaker 4: were finalists for the award, Kelsey shared it with what
Speaker 4: looks to be an emoji of himself?
Speaker 3: Can you do that?
Speaker 4: By the way I'm spoken, I feel like I should
Speaker 4: know this as somebody who considers myself to be technical,
Speaker 4: you know, technologically savvy, So you can create an emoji
Speaker 4: of your face?
Speaker 5: It looks dead up like you. I think it's called
Speaker 5: the gen moji or something like that. I don't know, gotcha.
Speaker 5: I still don't know how to do it, but my
Speaker 5: buddy sent me one yesterday and he's like, bro, this
Speaker 5: is really me. And I look at it. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's just an emoji, and then I look at it deeply.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my god, it looks exactly like you.
Speaker 4: So they basically just take like a picture of yourself
Speaker 4: and cartoon like cartoonize it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, if you go to Pat Kelsey's Twitter account or
Speaker 4: x whatever you call it, you'll see he just responded
Speaker 4: with the emoji of himself looking as if he's got
Speaker 4: a angry slash confused face, which you know, again, if
Speaker 4: they you look at it like it's it's it's what
Speaker 4: it looks like.
Speaker 2: I have to go see you go.
Speaker 3: Check it out.
Speaker 4: But anyways, he uh, you know, I get I don't
Speaker 4: think that Kelsey or Pope, to be honestly, you are
Speaker 4: the kind of guys that are going to really go
Speaker 4: out of their way to manufacture some uh some haters
Speaker 4: as far as.
Speaker 3: You're motivating their team. I just don't think that's how
Speaker 3: they operate.
Speaker 4: But clearly these guys, Pat Kelsey is somebody that is
Speaker 4: driven and motivated. He's a competitor. He wouldn't be here
Speaker 4: if he wasn't. Chucky Hepburn's the same way. So you know,
Speaker 4: if anything, it's going to fuel him not to say that,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, Chucky Hepburn. I feel like, and
Speaker 4: really that's kind of why this season, you know, one
Speaker 4: of the reasons why with this season, I haven't given
Speaker 4: a ton of thought about how far can they go.
Speaker 4: I mean, clearly, when they were on the streak and
Speaker 4: they were looking really good, trust me, like I started thinking.
Speaker 3: Okay, like they're pretty good, aren't they?
Speaker 4: And I still think they are, but clearly, you know,
Speaker 4: the Georgia Tech loss is a reminder that they could
Speaker 4: be beat by bad teams. But I think Pat Kelsey
Speaker 4: is really getting the app almost the absolute most out
Speaker 4: of everybody he has. So therefore, like with Chucky, even
Speaker 4: if he is motivated, like I think Chucky's given us
Speaker 4: some of the best basketball he's ever played. And you know,
Speaker 4: maybe he does have a higher ceiling than what I'm seeing,
Speaker 4: so maybe he does kind of kick it into overdrive
Speaker 4: and really start playing even better. But no doubt you
Speaker 4: could tell that they felt understandably so Kelsey and Chucky,
Speaker 4: I think they felt kind of disrespected that that Chucky
Speaker 4: wasn't wasn't on this list.
Speaker 3: All right, Kentucky is in action.
Speaker 4: Then I by the way, I loaded loaded night at
Speaker 4: college basketball, which means I'm gonna bet and probably lose.
Speaker 4: But I made a mistake last night. I tried to
Speaker 4: build that energy. Yeah, you're right, I need to I
Speaker 4: need to believe in the power of positivity. But last
Speaker 4: night I was building the parlay, and I there was
Speaker 4: not many games on overall, and certainly not many games
Speaker 4: I would be interested in betting on, or that I
Speaker 4: know much about the teams. So I ended up doing
Speaker 4: a three leg parlay. But I didn't realize that one
Speaker 4: of the games I bet on was actually tonight. So
Speaker 4: I've got two legs down with a three point win
Speaker 4: for UAB when I took him to cover minus two
Speaker 4: and a half. So I had a late free throw
Speaker 4: that kept that one alive. And then I also I
Speaker 4: can't even remember which which which the other one was,
Speaker 4: but yeah it was it was at Ohio State, who
Speaker 4: played like I don't know, it was a big ten game,
Speaker 4: but I got it. I got I got that one correct,
Speaker 4: and now just need Rick Petino to cover minus two
Speaker 4: and a half at home against Marquette, So we shall
Speaker 4: see what happens. But Kentucky right now there are four
Speaker 4: and a half point favorites against Ole Miss, and I'm
Speaker 4: eager to see what this team looks like tonight. For
Speaker 4: one reason in particular, did they like, did did the
Speaker 4: emotional toll to.
Speaker 3: You know, did it? Did it? Did it impact this group?
Speaker 4: Because I don't think it will because to be honest,
Speaker 4: none of these players that played in that game on
Speaker 4: Saturday night, like there wasn't there can't be any like
Speaker 4: energy or animosity towards Cal and those players because they
Speaker 4: none of them know each other at all. Like there's
Speaker 4: no like a year ago today, none of those guys
Speaker 4: that are playing for Kentucky this year had any clue
Speaker 4: that they would ever be playing in rup Arena for Kentucky.
Speaker 4: So I think the only real issue that they may
Speaker 4: have as far as maybe just letting one loss get
Speaker 4: you twice, because that was you know, regardless of them
Speaker 4: not having any personal connection to the storyline of Cal returning,
Speaker 4: they clearly know that was a shuemong game for their
Speaker 4: fans and they came up short. I mean, they had
Speaker 4: probably the best atmosphere we've seen in a college basketball
Speaker 4: regular season game in a long time, and their fans
Speaker 4: were excited. And you know, that was a bad loss
Speaker 4: to a bad team, at least as far as the
Speaker 4: resume is concerned. And it's more than just a loss
Speaker 4: in the record column, and it's a loss that you know,
Speaker 4: stings the fans. I'm sure they'll get over it soon,
Speaker 4: and I doubt they're out on this team. But what
Speaker 4: I'm getting at is, you know, this this group all year.
Speaker 4: This's one of the things that has been so impressive
Speaker 4: about Mark Pope. Anytime it looks like Kentucky is vulnerable
Speaker 4: and you know, oh man, they just lost to a
Speaker 4: team that they probably shouldn't have lost to.
Speaker 3: And now, man, they got to go on the road.
Speaker 4: They got to go play Tennessee after losing to Vandy,
Speaker 4: they got to go to Mississippi State after losing to Georgia,
Speaker 4: and in those moments, and in fact, another example, they
Speaker 4: lost to Ohio State by twenty and then they had
Speaker 4: to go to Gonzaga. Anytime they've been in this spot,
Speaker 4: they've bounced back and won. They never get too high
Speaker 4: or too low. Now they are in a tough environments
Speaker 4: and I'll miss a good team. It's a big game.
Speaker 4: I've got no problem saying it, despite Kentucky losing on Saturday.
Speaker 4: I mean, Kentucky coming to town is a big deal
Speaker 4: for a lot of teams, including Ole Miss. So I mean,
Speaker 4: I have no clue what to expect. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: bet on it. But if they end up playing well
Speaker 4: and win, I mean, what can you say about Mark Pope.
Speaker 4: I mean, you'd wonder, hey, how you keep beating all
Speaker 4: these good teams and yet you slip up and lose
Speaker 4: to some of the teams that you know you're better than.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure the answer would be, hey, it's a
Speaker 4: tough night in the SEC that lead, because the SEC
Speaker 4: is insane this year. But if they even if they
Speaker 4: play well and come up short, I mean, that probably
Speaker 4: wouldn't hurt him in the resume and it would still
Speaker 4: be maybe a good showing. But like, if they come
Speaker 4: out and get drummed, I'm not really sure what it
Speaker 4: would mean. I doubt that it would mean that you
Speaker 4: know their season is going to crumble, but it would
Speaker 4: be the first time that they didn't bounce back from
Speaker 4: the kind of loss they took on Saturday. But again,
Speaker 4: when you need to bounce back off of a loss
Speaker 4: to a bad team. It's not exactly ideal to have
Speaker 4: that game be Old Miss at their place, who's a
Speaker 4: top twenty five team coached by Chris Beard. But again,
Speaker 4: they've been in this exact spot three other times and
Speaker 4: they've come through. So we shall see. We shall see tonight.
Speaker 4: Also we'll get to some super Bowl super Bowl stuff today.
Speaker 4: That's tough for me to say. And uh, last, but
Speaker 4: not least, I think the Mavericks now realize like they
Speaker 4: made a big mistake because they're offering something that is
Speaker 4: unprecedented when it comes to.
Speaker 3: Taking care of your fans. Because you made you made
Speaker 3: a mistake.
Speaker 4: I mean they're not saying that, but I'll tell you
Speaker 4: what they're doing on the other side here and it
Speaker 4: it I think all but confirms they realize, uh oh,
Speaker 4: this might not have been the best move for us.
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Speaker 4: Thank you to my Bullet County Public School parents on
Speaker 4: the text Lon who've let me know that they're not
Speaker 4: doing NTII tomorrow. They're just going to have traditional closure, which, hey,
Speaker 4: that makes it easier to where you don't just have
Speaker 4: to have somebody watch your kid, but you all, you know,
Speaker 4: actually you just have to do that right The other way,
Speaker 4: aroun where would be really tricky is to find somebody
Speaker 4: to not only watch your kid, but you know, help
Speaker 4: them have school. And I'm sure kids that are older
Speaker 4: they don't really need somebody to watch them if they
Speaker 4: can take care of themselves, and they don't really need
Speaker 4: anybody to like, you know, teach them because they just
Speaker 4: know what their assignments are that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 4: you know, everybody's situation is different, so hey, I know
Speaker 4: they're doing it to keep kids safe, but it really is,
Speaker 4: you know, to find out within you know, really less
Speaker 4: than a day's notice that school's out for three straight days.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm not. We're not.
Speaker 4: My wife and I can't be the only parents that
Speaker 4: are like, oh man, this is not convenient. But hey,
Speaker 4: if it gets the kids healthy, then then that's that's
Speaker 4: good news. Speaking of good news, I think Jeff Bron
Speaker 4: made the right decision here with the promotion for Dion Branch,
Speaker 4: who is going to be.
Speaker 3: The wide receivers coach.
Speaker 4: After Lonnie Galloway left to go work for Bill Belichick
Speaker 4: at North Carolina, the position opened up, and it makes
Speaker 4: absolute total sense to elevate Don Branch, one of the
Speaker 4: best receivers to ever play at Louisville, and of course
Speaker 4: a guy who has a Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 3: And he's one to zero as a coach.
Speaker 4: I keep forgetting that he coached that bowl game against
Speaker 4: Cincinnati up in Boston.
Speaker 3: Man, isn't that the.
Speaker 4: Absolutely the storyline there is crazy how it all came
Speaker 4: together that our coach left us for Cincinnati while the
Speaker 4: two teams were getting set to play in a bowl game.
Speaker 4: I mean, that storyline is something you rarely ever see.
Speaker 4: But man, I think that'll be a game that people
Speaker 4: always just forget happened, because you know, Sad didn't coach
Speaker 4: or anything.
Speaker 2: Like that, was already the coach by then.
Speaker 4: All right, yes, yeah, they were both on the broadcasts,
Speaker 4: and I remember being irritated because they gave Sat more
Speaker 4: time than they gave Brahm, and I just was bothered
Speaker 4: by it. But yeah, Den Branch coached that game, and
Speaker 4: uh yeah, I mean I think Dan Branch is clearly
Speaker 4: a good enough player to where he can develop that position. Now,
Speaker 4: just because you're a great player doesn't always mean you
Speaker 4: end up being a great coach. But knowing Dean a
Speaker 4: little bit and knowing people who know him real well,
Speaker 4: I have no problem.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't see any issue with him being able to
Speaker 4: transition to being out there, you know, developing and coaching
Speaker 4: that position, especially considering it's a position that he was
Speaker 4: really really good at. But also he is a really
Speaker 4: really energetic guy. Has a lot of charisma, really, I
Speaker 4: mean that big smile he has. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 4: somebody that can only help you when it comes to recruiting,
Speaker 4: whether it be I mean, and also not only because
Speaker 4: of you know his personality and you know his ability
Speaker 4: to you know.
Speaker 3: To relate to people.
Speaker 4: His resume too, right, Like, if you're if you're calling
Speaker 4: players that hit the portal or an up and coming
Speaker 4: player that's a high school recruit, Deon Branch given him
Speaker 4: a call. I mean, they probably don't remember him playing
Speaker 4: because it's been some time, but they can they can
Speaker 4: check it out. This guy was an MVP of the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl when Tom Brady won one with New England,
Speaker 4: and I mean, I'm sure there's a there's a random
Speaker 4: fact that makes it even more impressive. But has Brady
Speaker 4: ever won and actually, maybe see if you can look
Speaker 4: this up Austin. Has Brady ever won a Super Bowl
Speaker 4: and not been the MVP? Part of me says he
Speaker 4: has multiple times, But maybe Dion is the only one
Speaker 4: that's able to claim the MVP trophy when Brady was
Speaker 4: the QB.
Speaker 2: I'm may be wrong, but I think ad On Man.
Speaker 4: Yes, one of his white receivers. I feel like it
Speaker 4: was also. Yeah, yeah, so let me look that up though, Yeah,
Speaker 4: check it out. But real quick, what I was mentioning
Speaker 4: when it comes to Dallas, maybe realizing they made a
Speaker 4: bad decision. I mean, I guess only they could could
Speaker 4: could speak to that. But man, this is this is
Speaker 4: a report coming out coming from one of the TV
Speaker 4: stations in Dallas, Abby Jones. She says that the Mavericks
Speaker 4: have offered refunds for the remaining home games this season
Speaker 4: to fans who have canceled their season ticket plans. It's
Speaker 4: valued around two thousand dollars, so there are a lot
Speaker 4: of people and well this has been deleted, so maybe
Speaker 4: maybe she got it wrong, but that's that's one unprecedented
Speaker 4: So if in fact it is true, I mean, that's
Speaker 4: not a I mean again, the NBA franchises in the end,
Speaker 4: I mean, these pro franchises are not hurting for money anyway,
Speaker 4: but kind of doing that wouldn't it. I mean, you
Speaker 4: don't want people canceling tickets, meaning canceling their season ticket plans.
Speaker 4: But clearly that's happening right now. So if you give
Speaker 4: them refunds, maybe it's your maybe it's your your offer
Speaker 4: to say, look, we're going to refund you. We understand
Speaker 4: you're upset, give us some time. We want you to
Speaker 4: watch this new version of the Dallas Mavericks without Luca.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have still gonna have Kyrie and obviously now
Speaker 4: we've got Anthony Davis. Like maybe they're gonna just say, look,
Speaker 4: we want you to see how good this team can
Speaker 4: still be without Luca and in hopes that they will
Speaker 4: come back and still be season ticket holders. I mean,
Speaker 4: rarely do you see fans, you know, just quit on
Speaker 4: their program, quit on their team, because I mean, if
Speaker 4: you're a if you're not a bandwagon fan, meaning like
Speaker 4: you're a fan of a team, regardless if they win
Speaker 4: or lose, and you've gone through I mean, look, Louis
Speaker 4: of basketball, think about all the scandals they've had, all
Speaker 4: the misery we've.
Speaker 3: Had the last few years.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't know how to quit being a
Speaker 4: fan if I tried, I couldn't, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: so hard to imagine that this is the kind of
Speaker 4: move where Dallas has fans they just decide they're no
Speaker 4: longer going to support the team. But like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe this is the kind of move because I knew
Speaker 4: Luca was beloved in Dallas, But I mean it wasn't
Speaker 4: something I sat around and thought about often, right, Why
Speaker 4: would I But to see the reaction from Dallas fans,
Speaker 4: how they're just devastated. I mean, some people are acting
Speaker 4: like he died, And you know, I get it.
Speaker 3: He's your he was.
Speaker 4: Your franchise player and was already off to a great
Speaker 4: star just got you to the NBA Finals. So it
Speaker 4: is sad, but you know, life goes on.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: So Tom Brady has only not been the MVP of
Speaker 5: the super Bowl, He's won twice. And like I said,
Speaker 5: that was Deon Branch and Julian Edelman.
Speaker 3: What year was Edelman?
Speaker 2: Edelman was twenty.
Speaker 5: Eighteen, Okay, I think that was when they played the
Speaker 5: when they played the Falcons.
Speaker 4: That was okay, yea, yeah, was a twenty eight twenty
Speaker 4: eight three comeback. The real MVP of that game was
Speaker 4: just the collapse from the Falcons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 4: And and so how many Super Bowls did Brady get?
Speaker 4: I guess after that one? Was it one or two?
Speaker 5: So after that one he went to two, he.
Speaker 3: Went with one more in New England and then Tampa, right, yes, okay.
Speaker 5: No, actually after that one he just only won one more,
Speaker 5: just just with Tampa, Okay.
Speaker 2: And then that's when.
Speaker 5: That's basically after that year is when Kansas City really
Speaker 5: started coming up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Because I mean there are times where I look
Speaker 4: at Brady and think, man, he really got lucky to
Speaker 4: have this super Bowl, in that super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Not to say that he's not.
Speaker 4: Great, but obviously he is going to be viewed as
Speaker 4: the goat for one reason all the rings, and that's
Speaker 4: what matters in sports at the top. And if I
Speaker 4: wanted to be a hater and act like he's not great,
Speaker 4: I don't think I could. I mean, I kind of
Speaker 4: had to live through it because earlier in his career
Speaker 4: I was the guy defending Peyton Manning as if, no,
Speaker 4: he's better than Brady. And then there was a point
Speaker 4: where I couldn't really do that anymore, and lot of
Speaker 4: myself for anybody else because Tom Brady was, you know,
Speaker 4: was great and look him winning if I was somebody
Speaker 4: that after his career ended in New England felt like
Speaker 4: he just benefited from, you know, luck, like a team
Speaker 4: collapsing the way the Falcons did. I mean him winning
Speaker 4: a super Bowl in his first year with Tampa and
Speaker 4: then Belichick in New England falling apart. Man that speaks
Speaker 4: to how good he actually was. So again, thank you
Speaker 4: for looking that up too, by the way. All right,
Speaker 4: so let's see here.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 4: This is a this story is it fascinates me and
Speaker 4: I was gonna make sure we have enough time.
Speaker 3: Here to get to it. But pat Riley has has been.
Speaker 4: Mentioned well quite a bit lately because of the feud
Speaker 4: seemingly that he has with his star player Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 4: but also because of this super Bowl win and what
Speaker 4: it would be for the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: And you're thinking yourself.
Speaker 4: By the hell would pat Riley, the GM of the Heat,
Speaker 4: be brought up in the Super Bowl conversation. Well, I'll explain.
Speaker 4: So he is expected to make over a million dollars
Speaker 4: if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, and it's all
Speaker 4: because of a decision he made nearly forty years ago.
Speaker 3: So he led the Lakers.
Speaker 4: To back to back championships in eighty seven and eighty eight.
Speaker 4: So in eighty nine, the Lakers were about to get
Speaker 4: their third consecutive championship, so wisely, pat Riley filed a
Speaker 4: trademark for three peat. So the trademark was granted to
Speaker 4: Riley and essentially covers everything related to merchandise hats, shirts,
Speaker 4: I mean, jackets, even backpacks. Anything you can think of
Speaker 4: that you know you'd put that on. He owns that
Speaker 4: he has the trademark for it. So the Lakers end
Speaker 4: up losing in the finals to the Pistons, if you remember,
Speaker 4: but Riley's trademark is still a thing and it's still
Speaker 4: paying off decades later. So apparently he made three hundred
Speaker 4: thousand dollars when the Chicago Bulls completed their three peat
Speaker 4: in ninety three, and he made another six hundred thousand
Speaker 4: dollars when they did it again in nineteen ninety eight. Now,
Speaker 4: again that's a lot of money to anybody as far
Speaker 4: as my tax bracket. But you got to keep in
Speaker 4: mind how much money that was in the eighties and
Speaker 4: early nineties. I mean, that's that's a lot of money.
Speaker 4: And it's just because he decided to wisely trademark three peat.
Speaker 4: So not sure how much it's going to be used,
Speaker 4: but the Kansas City Chiefs, if in fact they end
Speaker 4: up winning and in having the three peat, they can't
Speaker 4: sell any merchandise that has it on there without cutting
Speaker 4: the check.
Speaker 3: To my man, pat.
Speaker 2: Riley, that's a business man right there.
Speaker 3: I mean, what a story, right.
Speaker 4: I mean again, that's I mean, that's a successful guy
Speaker 4: in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: He's been a finale, to be honest with you, he's
Speaker 4: been a he was a phenomenal player, was a phenomenal coach,
Speaker 4: and now he's been a phenomenal GM. So he's just successful. Therefore,
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised that he's somebody that's able to, you know,
Speaker 4: to think ahead and really profit from it. In fact,
Speaker 4: this is from Awful Announcing. Apparently the NFL has agreed
Speaker 4: to a deal with pat Riley for a three peat
Speaker 4: if the Chiefs win. This is from Darren Ravel. Who
Speaker 4: would know this kind of stuff? This is from from
Speaker 4: Darren Novel's article. It says Riley's trademark attorney, John Aldrich
Speaker 4: told us on Tuesday that there is an agreement in
Speaker 4: place with the NFL to use three pet if it happens.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't comment on what percentage royalty Riley would make,
Speaker 4: but did say plans are as has been in the
Speaker 4: past to earmarket for the pat riy Ley Family Foundation.
Speaker 4: So it's they go on to mention the same thing
Speaker 4: we just brought up, but the this is this is
Speaker 4: from somebody who works for a sports business insider.
Speaker 3: They say that if you if you.
Speaker 4: Adjust for inflation on the previous payouts that he's got.
Speaker 4: So if you just for inflation on six hundred thousand
Speaker 4: pat Riley earned in nineteen ninety eight, he'd be in
Speaker 4: lined to earn another one point two million on a
Speaker 4: chief Super Bowl win, which, hey, I'm sure that's not
Speaker 4: a whole lot of money to him given what he's
Speaker 4: done in his career, but still, who's who's not happy
Speaker 4: about putting away one point two million all because you
Speaker 4: had a good idea forty years ago. Must be nice
Speaker 4: guy just wakes up and succeeds, doesn't he pat Riley,
Speaker 4: Did you realize he played at Kentucky?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I knew that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was gonna say, because that's one of the
Speaker 4: it's one of those things that he's so I mean,
Speaker 4: he's so old now, and when you think of him
Speaker 4: in basketball, I think of him as as an NBA guy.
Speaker 4: Bet I know he's from Kentucky because you know, I'm
Speaker 4: a little bit older. But I bet there's a lot
Speaker 4: of people out there that don't. They don't make that connection.
Speaker 4: But yeah, shout out to pat Rose.
Speaker 5: Now, someone that they always love to kind of in
Speaker 5: your face one of the players. I mean, I guess
Speaker 5: it's kind of non thought of, but they'll be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: and we had pat Riley too. Did he won a
Speaker 5: championship with them?
Speaker 2: Right or no? Yes?
Speaker 4: So he played from sixty four to sixty Yeah he
Speaker 4: Let's see, as a players bulk of their championships. Doesn't
Speaker 4: look like he had a title. But he didn't win
Speaker 4: an NBA championship and was sec Player of the Year
Speaker 4: in sixty six. You remember that sixty six year he
Speaker 4: went off right. Yeah, of course his number forty.
Speaker 3: Two is retired.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, this guy's a five time NBA champion,
Speaker 4: five time NBA Coach of the Year, non time NBA
Speaker 4: All Star game head coach. I mean he's a legendary player.
Speaker 4: I mean as an executive, he's won two titles and
Speaker 4: he did it indifferent. I mean, guy's been really successful,
Speaker 4: So shout out to him.
Speaker 5: I love how he kind of doesn't take it literally,
Speaker 5: doesn't take any flak from nobody, Like he wasn't going
Speaker 5: to let Lebron try to hold that organization hostage. He
Speaker 5: doesn't care about getting rid of Jimmy Butler. At some point,
Speaker 5: these guys got to look at that look at that
Speaker 5: ring collection. Yeah, like you know what, like maybe we
Speaker 5: should listen to this guy.
Speaker 4: And you're right with his ring collection and his resume overall,
Speaker 4: if there is a coach out there that can, you know,
Speaker 4: pull the resume out and say I don't I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do what I want to do and I don't need to.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to cater to anybody. I clearly have
Speaker 4: proven that at every level of this thing. Player, coach GM,
Speaker 4: I'm good. I can handle it. And you know there's
Speaker 4: not many I mean, God, the GM for the Mavericks,
Speaker 4: like this will end his career.
Speaker 3: This doesn't work out, I mean, you know, and that
Speaker 3: thing's so weird. I know it is.
Speaker 4: It gets weirder the more time passes, because it still
Speaker 4: makes me think that they mean, I think everybody's kind
Speaker 4: of come to the realization that man.
Speaker 3: They hated Luca, like they just had to not like him.
Speaker 3: So anyways, let's get.
Speaker 4: Too quick break. We'll come back on the other side.
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Speaker 4: to the phone lines and welcome in, Chris. Chris, You're
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Speaker 3: What's happening Hey, Nick, how are you doing well about yourself?
Speaker 6: Good? Good? Hey, I was just listening to your all's
Speaker 6: conversation about pat Riley and my father and my family
Speaker 6: are originally from upstate New York. My father passed away
Speaker 6: many years ago. But long story short, Upstate New York
Speaker 6: not a not an area typically known for basketball, and anyway,
Speaker 6: my father liked to like the athletics, so he kind
Speaker 6: of kept up with things up there. And there was
Speaker 6: a pretty good high school kid and lo and behold
Speaker 6: kids signed with the University of Kentucky. This was back
Speaker 6: in the early nineteen sixties. So my father became a
Speaker 6: UK fan.
Speaker 4: Well, oh wow, so he became a Kentucky fan because
Speaker 4: that's where Riley ended up going to college.
Speaker 6: Right, that's exactly right. Well, lo and behold about uh
Speaker 6: oh what about five years four or five years later
Speaker 6: we moved to Kentucky. Wow, didn't know that was going
Speaker 6: to happen.
Speaker 3: And now was it was kind of was it was
Speaker 3: it for work?
Speaker 4: Was it you were trying to get to Kentucky or
Speaker 4: just kind of life worked out that way to where
Speaker 4: you ended up here.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, it was it was from work, but it
Speaker 6: was he ended up going to a different company. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and it was definitely not expected.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Well that that's you know, I uh, I know that
Speaker 4: my I'm a big Louisville fan because my father was
Speaker 4: a big Louisville fan and he got it from his
Speaker 4: his older brother who's quite a bit older than him.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think a lot of us who
Speaker 4: are diehard fans. There's always kind of a root to
Speaker 4: the story as far as how it all came about
Speaker 4: and yours. I mean, it's pretty obvious how it all
Speaker 4: came together.
Speaker 6: Well, it didn't pass from his generation to mine though. Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm a big, big u of l fan.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, even better? Even better?
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: Well I appreciate you giving us a call, Chris and
Speaker 3: sharing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how about that ends up in Kentucky because his
Speaker 4: father gets a job while he was already starting to
Speaker 4: follow Kentucky because hey, a hell of a ball player
Speaker 4: from upstate New York pat Riley, I mean, big deal
Speaker 4: obviously going to Kentucky at that.
Speaker 2: Time, and I didn't know it was from New York.
Speaker 4: Then he ends, Yeah he's from says Rome, New York
Speaker 4: is where he's from. But Schenectady is Schenectady, Schenectady, something
Speaker 4: like that. Yeah, Senectity, that's you're right, you said it,
Speaker 4: You said it correctly. Thank you for correcting me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a. That's a that's a hard area of
Speaker 5: New York. From what I understand, it's a tough area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in what way? You gotta be curious. It could
Speaker 3: mean a lot of things.
Speaker 5: Well, it depends on where your brain goes. But it's
Speaker 5: just it's it's the slums of from what I've heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean Upstate New York has got to
Speaker 4: be a beautiful place in the summer, but a miserable
Speaker 4: place any other time, I would imagine. But anyways, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he ends up growing up in Kentucky, I would imagine,
Speaker 4: and it's because his dad moved here for work and
Speaker 4: he's a UK fan. But he said, no, I'm going
Speaker 4: to be a fan of the cards, which I like that. Now,
Speaker 4: real quick, before we get to the top of the hour. Here,
Speaker 4: how many Austin. By the way, he has a wrestling
Speaker 4: podcast that that covers pro wrestling, right, the baby Faces, Yeah,
Speaker 4: baby Faces podcast. The interviews a lot of different stars
Speaker 4: from from the WWE and Impact in aw there you go.
Speaker 4: So he went to the Royal Rumble over the weekend
Speaker 4: in Indie and you posted a video and it's got what.
Speaker 3: Thirteen million, thirteen million views?
Speaker 2: We went mega vue.
Speaker 4: That's insane and that just fascinates me. How timing you know,
Speaker 4: you really can't. I don't want to call it just luck,
Speaker 4: but I mean timing is key when you post something
Speaker 4: for it to really just start spreading like wildfire and
Speaker 4: h thirteen million. I mean that's that's insane. I mean,
Speaker 4: like three thousand followers from it. Yeah, thirteen million views.
Speaker 4: You got to keep in mind that that alone is
Speaker 4: in the I mean the percentage of is this on TikTok, It's.
Speaker 2: On Instagram, ig reels?
Speaker 4: Oh wow, so the ig reels doing thirteen million. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's insane. I mean, I'm just trying to think
Speaker 4: of there are people who probably have millions of followers
Speaker 4: that'll post something that doesn't get that just just because
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, that's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of views.
Speaker 4: I've never I've never had anything close to that. My
Speaker 4: my most viral video that I was that I was
Speaker 4: responsible for was the was the the TikTok that I
Speaker 4: can't say what it is on the air, and if
Speaker 4: you follow me on TikTok or Instagram or Twitter, I'm
Speaker 4: sure you've seen it. But I played a prank on
Speaker 4: my wife and I videoed it, and you know, and
Speaker 4: again like that that's something I thought. I wouldn't have
Speaker 4: done it if I didn't think it might get a
Speaker 4: laugh out of some people. But I would have never
Speaker 4: expected it to be at seven hundred and seventy thousand views.
Speaker 4: I mean, you just never know, like what's going to
Speaker 4: really take off. I mean, I don't think that has
Speaker 4: that video. I don't think it has that many views
Speaker 4: because it's that funny. It's just because it was funny
Speaker 4: enough to start for people to start sharing it, and
Speaker 4: you know, and by the way, you know, it's like
Speaker 4: I got anything out of that. I did get followers,
Speaker 4: which I guess was good from from from TikTok from that,
Speaker 4: But I mean, it's not like I'm monetizing it. And
Speaker 4: the video that I that I put up that I
Speaker 4: that has the most views, probably more than anything I'll
Speaker 4: ever do. It wasn't thirteen million. But Kevin where if
Speaker 4: you remember when he broke his leg in the championship
Speaker 4: run within you know, not that long In fact, it
Speaker 4: was they were getting ready to start practices in the
Speaker 4: in the fall that next season when Kevin came back
Speaker 4: and he dunked, and there was a video of it,
Speaker 4: but I think ended up on somebody's Instagram and I
Speaker 4: screen recorded it and posted it. And of course, you know,
Speaker 4: he was a big storyline in the Final four because
Speaker 4: of just how gruesome the injury was, how Louisville rallied
Speaker 4: behind him, and then they were able to actually, you know,
Speaker 4: win the championship. So it was, uh, it was certainly
Speaker 4: a big deal that he was recovering that quickly. I
Speaker 4: mean the coverage of I mean I forgot about all
Speaker 4: that man he was on. Was he on Letterman like,
Speaker 4: I mean he got hurt and became like an insanely
Speaker 4: famous person for about five minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he sure was. I remember all the interviews they did,
Speaker 5: like an ESPN interview with them. I remember them following
Speaker 5: him like out of the hospital.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was TMZ everywhere.
Speaker 4: And that's why that video got so much news because
Speaker 4: TMZ picked it up and embedded it on on their site,
Speaker 4: and that obviously is going to do big numbers. But
Speaker 4: it was like a six second clip of actually you
Speaker 4: know what it was.
Speaker 2: I think I remember that video too.
Speaker 3: It was a vine, that's what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, original TikTok.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's where I got the video, was vine,
Speaker 4: and then I shared it and of course you know
Speaker 4: it went crazy.
Speaker 3: Fine, RP good, that's right.
Speaker 2: All right.
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