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Speaker 2: So it looks like there's been a slight change in
Speaker 2: point spread. I don't remember what it opened up at,
Speaker 2: but with it now being known that Tyler Shuck and
Speaker 2: jackry Brooks won't be playing in Louisville's Sun Bowl matchup
Speaker 2: with Washington, that has led to a slight drop in
Speaker 2: the in the spread here. I think it's now let's
Speaker 2: see here. I was checking Vegas Insider and it didn't
Speaker 2: show there as far as what the spread was of
Speaker 2: different books, but looking here at FanDuel, it is a
Speaker 2: Louisville favored about two.
Speaker 3: And a half.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the amount of people going to
Speaker 2: this may be I could be wrong because obviously there's
Speaker 2: people that go to every louisvill Bowl game and there's
Speaker 2: some that you know, there's no way for me to
Speaker 2: know for sure, but I as far as us being
Speaker 2: about a weekend and knowing where Louisville was going to
Speaker 2: play in a bowl game or maybe you know, close
Speaker 2: to a week I don't know of anybody making the trip.
Speaker 2: So you know, in last year it wasn't convenient, and
Speaker 2: it certainly wasn't cheap, and the timing wasn't ideal, but
Speaker 2: it was also in one of the most beautiful places
Speaker 2: in America San Diego, California, Helpaso, Texas in late December.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it has the same uh has the
Speaker 2: same appeal. But if you are going, I hope you
Speaker 2: have yourselves a really good time. All Right, it's the
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Speaker 2: So we don't need to get back into last night's
Speaker 2: UTEP game, right, I mean we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 3: We don't need to do that.
Speaker 2: That was Uh, it was nice to see them hold
Speaker 2: on and survive in a game that they could have
Speaker 2: easily lost. And I will say this, I'm surprised that
Speaker 2: haven't brought it up in the first couple of hours.
Speaker 2: But they were taught, they were they were told to
Speaker 2: foul at the end there when you're up three. There's
Speaker 2: certain I mean, I think more often than not, you're
Speaker 2: now seeing coaches that are of the mindset.
Speaker 3: That you should foul when you're up three and the.
Speaker 2: Numbers are much better on your side as far as
Speaker 2: being able to hold on and win rather than you know,
Speaker 2: just trying to not foul and give up a three
Speaker 2: and then you get you get you know, you get
Speaker 2: hit with one and you go to overtime and lose.
Speaker 2: So they were trying, and I don't know, I didn't
Speaker 2: hear where the disconnect was, but I could see that
Speaker 2: Pat was trying to tell them to foul. And I
Speaker 2: feel like that there were a couple of guys out
Speaker 2: there that knew they were supposed to file, but they didn't.
Speaker 2: But in the end they held on and you just
Speaker 2: got it out of the way. That was probably the
Speaker 2: performance for me, And I've said this throughout the show.
Speaker 2: I think I hit a level that you guys were
Speaker 2: probably already at, maybe after all Miss maybe after Duke,
Speaker 2: or maybe even just as soon as you knew Case
Speaker 2: and Bryor wasn't coming back this year, and Korin Johnson
Speaker 2: was out for the year as well, Like I now
Speaker 2: know like hey this, you know I'm not at the
Speaker 2: I'm not There was a crossroads and last night didn't
Speaker 2: lead me down the optimistic side, but it also didn't
Speaker 2: have me turning on the negative side to where I'm
Speaker 2: just going to assume that this team doesn't sniff the tournament,
Speaker 2: but still hope that they play hard and maybe steal
Speaker 2: a win here and there, and we can still, you know,
Speaker 2: enjoy rooting for him.
Speaker 3: Like I'm not to the.
Speaker 2: Point where I'm ready to say, yeah, this season is
Speaker 2: for sure. Shot, let's just hope they play hard. And
Speaker 2: if you were there, I get it. But I was
Speaker 2: more so on the on the optimistic side, thinking like, look, guys,
Speaker 2: why don't we sack up a little bit here? I mean,
Speaker 2: I know, Caseon Pryor is somebody that you can't just replace,
Speaker 2: but they can, you know, they can do some things
Speaker 2: to minimize his absence. And I know Corn Johnson is
Speaker 2: a guy you really want, but hey, they showed they
Speaker 2: could be a pretty good team when they didn't have
Speaker 2: him already, and I'm just thinking, okay, let's you know,
Speaker 2: let's and I felt the same way after Duke, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I just thought that they outplayed
Speaker 2: Duke for thirty minutes and that was still worth something
Speaker 2: valuable and against Ole miss I you know, they wasn't good.
Speaker 2: But I'm just gonna say that that's the worst shooting
Speaker 2: performance that they'll ever have and we'll never see that again.
Speaker 2: But last night I kind of had to, you know,
Speaker 2: face the facts. Not that again that we should just
Speaker 2: prepare for this team to be really bad, but the
Speaker 2: visual of last night and just knowing the opponent they
Speaker 2: were playing. Them continuously have nights where they just cannot
Speaker 2: make three point shots and yet they shoot thirty plus.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't seem like a good recipe. So maybe
Speaker 2: they shock us and play really competitively against Kentucky on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and maybe you wouldn't be shocked. You know, I shouldn't
Speaker 2: say shock us, because I'm not gonna say I'll be
Speaker 2: shocked if they're competitive, But like, I don't expect to
Speaker 2: win that game, just because of the current situation with
Speaker 2: both teams. Kentucky, you know, they're they're a really good team.
Speaker 2: They've shown it with the resume. You know they're they're
Speaker 2: dealing with some injuries as well, but they can live
Speaker 2: without Kirk Crisa for the most part. They did have
Speaker 2: a weird game last night, though, because Colegate was two
Speaker 2: and eight coming into last night's game, and yet they
Speaker 2: led in the second half, which is just I don't
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't watch it from start to finish.
Speaker 2: I got to see the end of their game, and
Speaker 2: that's when Kentucky had kind of run away with it.
Speaker 2: But you know, I just wish I had some kind
Speaker 2: of of a feeling for Saturday. And I'm sure as
Speaker 2: we get closer to tip off, I'll get there. I'll
Speaker 2: have the anxiousness that you know isn't a good feeling,
Speaker 2: but you know it makes you feel alive. And it's
Speaker 2: why we are crazy about these teams, Louisville and Kentucky,
Speaker 2: because you know, we care a lot, We're emotionally invested
Speaker 2: in the rivalry. Takes it to a different level. So
Speaker 2: maybe I'll enjoy not being like super anxious and just
Speaker 2: stressed about the game that I will have no impact on.
Speaker 2: But it's also kind of sad because I wanted this
Speaker 2: to be a real reset of the rivalry, and it
Speaker 2: is technically both. I mean, neither coach has coached in
Speaker 2: this game, and there's not a player that's played in
Speaker 2: the game either, if you think about it. Every I mean,
Speaker 2: both teams have brand new guys, and I think these
Speaker 2: two coaches are very similar as far as their style
Speaker 2: of play. I think both have really checked boxes that
Speaker 2: you know, hadn't been checked around here in a little while.
Speaker 2: As far as likability, I mean, I have no problem
Speaker 2: saying I think it's gonna be really hard for me
Speaker 2: to not like Mark Pope. I'm gonna want him to
Speaker 2: lose every game because that's just how it works in
Speaker 2: the rivalry. But I think he's a pretty good coach.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think he's a really good coach. Don't
Speaker 2: know what his ceiling is, but you know, he's a
Speaker 2: good coach, and he's really likable. And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe not all Kentucky fans, but I know some probably
Speaker 2: feel the same way about Pat Kelsey. So to know
Speaker 2: that Louisvill's going into this sort of once again feeling like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just hope we can compete, or yeah, we're probably
Speaker 2: not gonna win, or you know, we're not expected to win.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, they're gonna fight, they're going to compete,
Speaker 2: and it wouldn't be the craziest thing ever if they
Speaker 2: do win. But you know, I just wanted it to
Speaker 2: be on better terms here from the Louisville side, and
Speaker 2: you know it's not, so what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: But I have a feeling once we get closer to Saturday,
Speaker 2: maybe I will maybe I'll be you know, amped up,
Speaker 2: like I haven't been for one of these games in
Speaker 2: a long time, because I kind of blocked out when
Speaker 2: we had the Kitty Payne Kentucky games because the play,
Speaker 2: of course was so bad, the games weren't close. And
Speaker 2: then you know Kenny last year acting like it was
Speaker 2: a joke when somebody referenced Louisville potentially being on the
Speaker 2: same level when it comes to talent as Kentucky. And
Speaker 2: I mean, that was one of the many signs that
Speaker 2: you know that that wasn't gonna end well, and you
Speaker 2: know it didn't. But yeah, five point fifteen on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and uh, I'm curious. We had somebody asking the break
Speaker 2: on the text line what the spread would be. I
Speaker 2: have no clue, man, I really don't. I would I
Speaker 2: would guess Kentucky. I'm gonna guess Kentucky minus eight and
Speaker 2: a half or minus eight. That would be my guess
Speaker 2: as far as what the spread is gonna be. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's maybe it's a little more, maybe a little less.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, Louisvell has got to be a tough
Speaker 2: team to figure out if you're the uh, if you're
Speaker 2: the sports books, because you know you're now evaluating them
Speaker 2: a little bit differently because they're not the same team
Speaker 2: they were early this year because of injuries. But you know,
Speaker 2: they've had some good wins along the way, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, they were favored against Oklahoma and they did
Speaker 2: play Duke competitively but ended up not covering. I don't
Speaker 2: I don't actually did they cover in that game. I'm
Speaker 2: not even sure what the spread was against Duke.
Speaker 1: Duke was seven and a half. I think, right, that's unds.
Speaker 2: About right, Yeah, there's eleven. So but you know that's
Speaker 2: one that you know clearly they they just got away
Speaker 2: from late. They were they were more competitive I think
Speaker 2: than the final score indicates. That's not to say, you know,
Speaker 2: we you know it wasn't an eleven point loss.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I say all that to say, I.
Speaker 2: Really don't know what they think of Louisville as far
Speaker 2: as far as you know spread. Now, last night, Kentucky
Speaker 2: was favored about thirty points and again trailed in the
Speaker 2: second half before they ended up kind of running away
Speaker 2: with it, and I'd say, you know, without watching and
Speaker 2: only looking at what I saw those who cover UK
Speaker 2: kind of referencing is that it was probably the biggest
Speaker 2: dud game of the of the season thus far for Pope.
Speaker 2: And I think you got honestly say the same thing
Speaker 2: about Louisville. So you know, neither team is coming off
Speaker 2: of great performances that make you feel great about you know,
Speaker 2: your team. However, let's be real, Kentucky has proof on
Speaker 2: their end as far as you know what they're capable
Speaker 2: of doing, and you know.
Speaker 3: Louisville, I don't know if they have that.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, if you want to go back
Speaker 2: to the proof that they can play well and beat
Speaker 2: good teams, you know, we got to acknowledge that those
Speaker 2: things happen when you had Case and Pryor and you
Speaker 2: know now you don't. All right again, it's Coffee and Company.
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Speaker 2: for those just now joining us.
Speaker 3: Josh Hurd. They gave the full approval the Board of.
Speaker 2: Trustees did for a contract extension for her that will
Speaker 2: run until twenty thirty. I shared some thoughts on that earlier. No,
Speaker 2: you know, not a real surprise for me. The only
Speaker 2: thing that I found a little surprising was the dates.
Speaker 2: The contract is now up until twenty thirty, just because
Speaker 2: I you know, that seems like a very long contract.
Speaker 2: But then again, maybe it's pretty normal. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, they did make it official earlier with the
Speaker 2: press release from the school.
Speaker 3: All right, let's see here, where do we want to go?
Speaker 2: Do I want to go to the text line or
Speaker 2: do we want to talk about let's actually let me
Speaker 2: share some good news, because you know, I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like for a while there, ESPN didn't didn't have
Speaker 2: the heart to like minimize what Dick Vitel was doing
Speaker 2: on their.
Speaker 3: College basketball broadcasts.
Speaker 2: But you know, and I kind of became, you know,
Speaker 2: over the Dick Vitel, you know thing the stick. But
Speaker 2: you know, obviously he's big for college basketball, and he's
Speaker 2: a legend, and you never want somebody to be dealing
Speaker 2: with what he's dealt with in recent years. So he
Speaker 2: has announced that he has cancer free after a recent scan,
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe that gets him back on on
Speaker 2: the sidelines. I can't really remember the last time he
Speaker 2: was doing ballgames. I mean, I do think he he
Speaker 2: had some he had some health scares with cancer, then
Speaker 2: came back and he didn't sound great, and then he
Speaker 2: went away again. Like I don't know what the what
Speaker 2: the plans are uh for Dick fi tell, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it is nice to know that he is he is
Speaker 2: cancer free after his most recent scan.
Speaker 3: Can you remember the last time?
Speaker 2: I mean, look, as much as we love college basketball viewing,
Speaker 2: it has been a little different in recent years because
Speaker 2: of Louisville situation, but I really can't remember the last
Speaker 2: time he was on a on a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me either. Did he even did he even go
Speaker 1: and do the the bracket stuff the last couple of
Speaker 1: years a kind of feature him too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean maybe maybe it's just kind of you know,
Speaker 2: out of sight, out of mind, because I don't, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't And this sounds terrible because you know, it's
Speaker 2: not personal. It's just like I tend to not really
Speaker 2: want to tune into anything if he's you know, it's
Speaker 2: not like it's going to be painful for me. But
Speaker 2: like I just you know, to me, he should be
Speaker 2: on college game day kind of he should be. He
Speaker 2: should mean, let me ask you this, why is he
Speaker 2: not like you have any say so one at Austin.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm just asking aloud to everybody, why isn't
Speaker 2: he doing what? What what the guy on game.
Speaker 1: Day does or not? What is his name?
Speaker 3: Uh? Of course of course why?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: Why is that not what Dicky V?
Speaker 2: Does?
Speaker 3: Like it should be that to where he's.
Speaker 2: Still just to gimmick. Come on, he's kind of a
Speaker 2: cheerleader of college basketball. He's certainly a fan favorite, like
Speaker 2: he's Dicky V.
Speaker 1: But it is kind of uncomfortable to watch because you
Speaker 1: know he's getting up there. I don't I don't want Dick.
Speaker 1: I don't want Dick to go out that way, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not the Dick.
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, I mean he's he's a legend.
Speaker 2: And if he still is able and gets the green
Speaker 2: light to be involved in some way and it's safe
Speaker 2: for his health, and then it's fine. I just felt
Speaker 2: like there were I mean many years where I just
Speaker 2: felt like, man, like, should this guy still be calling games?
Speaker 3: And you know, he's he was.
Speaker 2: Able to do it until you know, of course, his
Speaker 2: health got got in the way.
Speaker 1: I think a good retirement tour like you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: There's just one year and then I don't know, make
Speaker 1: his last game. Kentucky or Duke is two favorite.
Speaker 2: Teams, Like they probably would have initiated something like that,
Speaker 2: but it's one of those things where he wouldn't even
Speaker 2: he hadn't been able to work consistently these health scares
Speaker 2: and now he's so up there in age and he's
Speaker 2: had clearly some real health battles in recent years. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't really know how you would would go about
Speaker 2: doing something like that.
Speaker 1: How do you think he is. I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 1: I have no clue. I'm gonna guess he's in his eighties.
Speaker 1: He's gonna say eighty three.
Speaker 3: He's eighty five. Wow, yeah, so he's born in nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty nine.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Dickie, look, he's There's so many people that don't,
Speaker 2: you know, and it makes me sad because they don't
Speaker 2: know what they're missing. But we are lunatics for college
Speaker 2: basketball around here, much more so than really most markets,
Speaker 2: in fact, every market. There are some other hot debts
Speaker 2: for the sport, but we're we're different. So we've always
Speaker 2: known of the guy and we see him all the
Speaker 2: time and we're like annoyed by him when he's on
Speaker 2: the game, you know, drooling over Duke and whatnot. But
Speaker 2: like if you're just a college basketball outsider and you're
Speaker 2: really only focused on the tournament and you know, only
Speaker 2: the big moments within the regular season, like when you
Speaker 2: think of college basketball, you probably think of DICKYV. He
Speaker 2: was the mascot unofficially for the sport for a really
Speaker 2: long time, and he loves it. You know, he's an
Speaker 2: ambassador for it, and I'll always appreciate that as a
Speaker 2: college basketball super fan. But I just, you know, I
Speaker 2: never I never felt like even before he got super sick,
Speaker 2: that like he was still sharp enough to be to
Speaker 2: be I mean, think about this, how long has it
Speaker 2: been since uh, gosh, former notre date Digger Phelps. So
Speaker 2: Digger Phelps, he's been away from ESPN, gosh for at
Speaker 2: least seven eight years. Yeah, and you know, I think
Speaker 2: Shosh almost forgot about Digger. He's eighty three, so I
Speaker 2: feel like, I mean when he's younger than Dick Fittel,
Speaker 2: and I feel like when he retired he was still
Speaker 2: for years much more sharp at that than Dick E.
Speaker 1: V was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he let's see when did he retire? Like my
Speaker 2: last memory of my last memory, Yeah, so he left
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen. I was gonna say my last real
Speaker 2: vivid memory of Digger Phelps was he did well.
Speaker 3: No, it was Bob Knight.
Speaker 2: Bob Knight who got really mad at Kyle Kurri for
Speaker 2: for dunking on somebody. It was the weakest technical ever
Speaker 2: staring down but like it was like a week stare
Speaker 2: down like it was. It was as mild as it gets.
Speaker 2: You can't it's not even about giving somebody a pass.
Speaker 2: I think it's humanly impossible to not dunk on somebody
Speaker 2: the way Kyle did and not have some level of
Speaker 2: like I just owned you in the most polite way possible.
Speaker 2: And and you know, but for some reason I was
Speaker 2: thinking I think they might maybe they went to because
Speaker 2: Bob Knight would have been the analyst Digger Gigger is
Speaker 2: only an analyst, not the play by play guys. So
Speaker 2: maybe I remember watching that in our first apartment many
Speaker 2: many years ago, and they went to I bet it
Speaker 2: was at halftime.
Speaker 3: They went to the studio set and Digger was there,
Speaker 3: and he was.
Speaker 2: He was continuing to not since that Bob Knight was
Speaker 2: talking about with the uh with the with the dunk
Speaker 2: that cure can. But yeah, Dicky V is cancer free
Speaker 2: and that's uh, that's good. All right, Let's go to
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Speaker 2: So we've basically had two of the same things come
Speaker 2: in on the text line in different ways. But uh,
Speaker 2: somebody just sent me this list of quarter that have
Speaker 2: decided to play in their bowl game. And then one
Speaker 2: person just mentioned, like, hey, why does Shuck get a
Speaker 2: pass when it comes to not playing in the bowl
Speaker 2: game whenever guys that are gonna be really really highly
Speaker 2: drafted or deciding to play, And I mean giving him
Speaker 2: a pass. I mean, that's that's up to you. Like
Speaker 2: if you are if you are upset with these guys
Speaker 2: not wanting to play in a bowl game and you
Speaker 2: think that it's it's weak, then that's your opinion. So
Speaker 2: you've not given them a pass. There's no I mean,
Speaker 2: not everybody has to have the same opinion. I talked
Speaker 2: about it yesterday, and I guess that's why you're texting
Speaker 2: that in. Like I thought, I laid it up pretty
Speaker 2: clearly when it comes to the potential gain you would
Speaker 2: get from these bowl games. It's risk worth reward, and
Speaker 2: the risk is just not worth it because there's very
Speaker 2: little chance for any reward that could benefit you long
Speaker 2: term other than you know, making memories. So I don't,
Speaker 2: I don't, I'm never I'm still not ever like surprised
Speaker 2: to hear, oh, this guy wants to play in a game.
Speaker 2: But I'm also not at all surprised whenever they make
Speaker 2: the decision to just move on, skip the ball and
Speaker 2: go ahead and start preparing as best they can for
Speaker 2: their NFL future. Even if they don't have a future
Speaker 2: in the NFL, they're at least going to try, and
Speaker 2: an injury here would keep them from being able to
Speaker 2: get the opportunity a year later when you're you were
Speaker 2: already a guy that looked like probably wasn't going to
Speaker 2: be drafted, if you're coming off of an injury and
Speaker 2: you're you know, joining a new draft class essentially or
Speaker 2: joining a new list of free like you can't enter
Speaker 2: the draft again. So like it, you know, it's just
Speaker 2: it's not, there's so little to gain and a whole
Speaker 2: lot to lose, even if and I guess, more than anything,
Speaker 2: it's it's an opportunity that you lose, and I thought
Speaker 2: the example I gave yesterday was a good one. Cole
Speaker 2: Hiccattini was a tight end for UFL when Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: won his heismand trophy, was statistically one of the best
Speaker 2: tight ends in the country. Had some legitimate draft buzz
Speaker 2: gets hurt in that Bowl game against LSU, was never
Speaker 2: able to work out for any NFL team, did not
Speaker 2: go to the Combine because of the injury. He ended
Speaker 2: up later signing US like an undrafted free agent while
Speaker 2: he got healthy, ended up on the practice squad like
Speaker 2: who knows if he ever would have had a career
Speaker 2: in the NFL. But what I do know is that
Speaker 2: he didn't get a chance to show what he could
Speaker 2: do in the time when you're supposed to do that.
Speaker 2: So you know, even if you know that the guy
Speaker 2: has a better chance of not being an NFL player
Speaker 2: than being a surefire veteran in the league, the risk
Speaker 2: of losing the opportunity to potentially really, you know, show
Speaker 2: out what you can do. That alone makes it to
Speaker 2: where I get why guys decide not to play. But
Speaker 2: the news is that shad Or Sanders, who by the way,
Speaker 2: is certainly going to be drafted maybe, I mean he's
Speaker 2: gonna be the first round for sure, maybe the first pick.
Speaker 2: He's gonna play in his ball game. Cam Ward apparently
Speaker 2: is gonna play in the ballgame for Miami and Jalen Milroe.
Speaker 2: So you got three quarterbacks that are, you know, all
Speaker 2: gonna be taken in the first two rounds. I'd say
Speaker 2: their decisions to play, I mean, that's cool, good for them, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't you know, they could get hurt
Speaker 2: and probably still I mean, let's be honest, all three
Speaker 2: of those guys that just mentioned, they could get hurt
Speaker 2: and still probably not even fall in the draft. I mean,
Speaker 2: if Shad or Sanders got hurt, with all the buzz
Speaker 2: that he has, with the talk of him potentially being
Speaker 2: the number one pick, an injury, you know, that would
Speaker 2: keep him for being able to work out. Like these
Speaker 2: are guys that don't even they aren't even gonna need
Speaker 2: to work out, Like they don't need to showcase anything
Speaker 2: at the combine. In fact, they probably will be told
Speaker 2: not to by the representative. So again, like I think
Speaker 2: it's cool that they're playing, but their situation is a
Speaker 2: lot different. They could risk injury, and yeah, maybe it's
Speaker 2: a career ending injury where they never play again. Maybe
Speaker 2: they get hit by a bus when they leave their
Speaker 2: house today. Like I don't know, So I just think
Speaker 2: every situation is different. And if Chuck or Brooks decided
Speaker 2: to play, I can't say that I'd be shocked because again, like, hey,
Speaker 2: maybe that's just how they're wired. But when you do
Speaker 2: reflect on what you have to gain, which you have
Speaker 2: to lose, and you decide to go ahead and get
Speaker 2: ready for that next step in your career, I think
Speaker 2: it makes total sense. All right, quick break will come
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Speaker 2: get back to the text line, and we'll have some fun.
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Speaker 2: Wait a second, is it five o'clock?
Speaker 3: Is it three o'clock?
Speaker 2: Is at four o'clock?
Speaker 1: It's a case of the Thursdays. I'm going through it.
Speaker 2: I'm off tomorrow, So taking that last vacation day, the
Speaker 2: last vacation of the year. So man, the I really,
Speaker 2: for a second thought it was five o'clock and now
Speaker 2: it's I realize it's not. And sure enough like that,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm thirty minutes and I'm out here. We
Speaker 2: get to go see Santa.
Speaker 1: For that's right, that's positive vibes. Yeah, don't let me
Speaker 1: ruin your day.
Speaker 2: Well, we just missed out on one of the great
Speaker 2: music selections that you usually give us.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll still we'll get the next one back
Speaker 1: in the next Well, we can live with it.
Speaker 2: And yes, I'm going to see Santa with my kids
Speaker 2: this evening and I'm very excited about it. I know
Speaker 2: you probably have experienced this if you're a parent, and
Speaker 2: if you're not, I'm sure you've heard people talk about it,
Speaker 2: and I can confirm on mi end that it is true.
Speaker 2: You kind of you get the same level of joy
Speaker 2: out of the Christmas season, Uh, when you when you
Speaker 2: have children going through it and you're the adult, it's
Speaker 2: a different type but it's still awesome, Like it's just
Speaker 2: a different type of awesome. So looking forward to taking
Speaker 2: Moose and Maya to go see the Big Guy, and uh,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Moose has got his Christmas list ready and
Speaker 2: he's gonna let Sanna know he wants everything and uh,
Speaker 2: and then Maya's probably just gonna hug on him yeah
Speaker 2: and just say hey, Santa.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to I was gonna ask what what
Speaker 1: is what? What's at the top of Moose and Maya's
Speaker 1: list right now? Do you know? Man? Uh?
Speaker 3: Maya wants uh.
Speaker 2: She she's got her baby doll that looks freakishly real,
Speaker 2: and she wants more strollers. She already has her little
Speaker 2: toy strollers. She wants more strollers. Nice, she loves shoes,
Speaker 2: and she wants more clothes for her baby doll.
Speaker 3: So you know, she's she's pretty easy to shop for.
Speaker 2: Moose is as well. But like he'll you know, he'll
Speaker 2: see like, hey Dad, we should get that truck. Can
Speaker 2: I get it for Christmas? I'm like, well, son, no,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be something Santa brings, but you know,
Speaker 2: like like a truck you dry like, oh yeah, will
Speaker 2: you know like uh, like he wants. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not kidding you. If if my son could get one thing,
Speaker 2: he would want a lawnmower, a riding lawnmower, because he
Speaker 2: he there's nothing he loves more than mowers and cutting
Speaker 2: the grass. And uh, you know, it became like a
Speaker 2: it was you know, every kid, I think has their
Speaker 2: own interests and whatnot, but when he was really young,
Speaker 2: he just became obsessed with with with lawnmowers.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And I would I would be at a friend or
Speaker 2: a family member's house and uh, you know if they
Speaker 2: if they cut their own lawn and they've got like
Speaker 2: a big riding lawnmower.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then then Mason wanted to go see it, and I
Speaker 2: would like, hey, let's go, let's go look at his mower.
Speaker 2: And then it turned into where like now anytime we
Speaker 2: go there, he demands to be taken on a motor
Speaker 2: on a lawnmower ride with whoever whoever's house we're at.
Speaker 2: So if he could get one thing it would be,
Speaker 2: it would be a lawnmower. And then for a while,
Speaker 2: I think he now understands these aren't things that you know,
Speaker 2: you just keep at the house, but like bulldozers and excavators, real.
Speaker 3: Big and into that kind of stuff. So it sounds
Speaker 3: like he.
Speaker 1: Wants to be as so he's I don't know where
Speaker 1: he gets it from, but he's already much more of
Speaker 1: a manly man than me.
Speaker 3: When it comes to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I have to call Moose to change our tie.
Speaker 2: That's the reason we call him Moose. You know, he's
Speaker 2: the name certainly fits. He's uh, he's he's a big
Speaker 2: fella and uh, you know, he's he's pretty tough, tougher
Speaker 2: than me.
Speaker 1: He better be on that nice list.
Speaker 3: Oh he he he knows.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: He and one thing with the elf on the shelf,
Speaker 2: which has been a lot of fun forever for shelf.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, really really competitive. And Pickles is the name
Speaker 2: of of of their elf and she ends up in
Speaker 2: all kinds of crazy places because she's she's totally crazy.
Speaker 2: They may be listening right now, so they're gonna hear
Speaker 2: me talk about Pickles. But I didn't know this, but
Speaker 2: apparently a daycare because you're not supposed to touch your elf
Speaker 2: and if and if so, then the elf loses the
Speaker 2: magic and that impacts Christmas and that's just what you
Speaker 2: want to avoid. But I guess somebody at daycare told
Speaker 2: Moose that if you accidentally touch it, you have to
Speaker 2: sing every Christmas song you know to the elf, and
Speaker 2: then they get their magic back. So I had no
Speaker 2: clue why, but he went into eight like Christmas Carol playlist,
Speaker 2: him yelling because he accidentally touched pickles, and you know,
Speaker 2: thought maybe Christmas wasn't happening.
Speaker 1: So my man is real paranoid, it disciplined.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's He's definitely a big time Christmas guy,
Speaker 2: which you know, it runs in the family.
Speaker 3: It certainly does. All right.
Speaker 2: So we talked a little bit earlier about the YouTube
Speaker 2: TV price going up, and for those who missed it, it
Speaker 2: wasn't like some huge topic on the on the show,
Speaker 2: but they have raised their prices quite a bit. And
Speaker 2: I still love YouTube TV and I was happy to
Speaker 2: cut the cord. But now when you look at the price, like,
Speaker 2: it's not something that I'm like, oh yeah, I'm definitely canceling.
Speaker 2: But I am for the first time now considering like,
Speaker 2: with all these streaming services that I pay for, what
Speaker 2: do I really need live TV for from like a
Speaker 2: YouTube TV or even a Spectrum or a Hulu Live.
Speaker 2: And it's still just because you need to have certain
Speaker 2: cable subscriptions to watch some of these channels, even if
Speaker 2: they have an app. However, you know a lot of
Speaker 2: those channels I don't watch, so the local channels and
Speaker 2: of course ESPN. This is something that I did not realize,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad somebody sent this in on the text
Speaker 2: line to let me know of this. If you don't
Speaker 2: have a TV provider, you can't watch standard ESPN with
Speaker 2: ESPN Plus And that makes total sense that and that
Speaker 2: makes sense as to why, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: a lot of these live streaming platforms are are still
Speaker 2: thriving because you know that matters like the most watched
Speaker 2: live things of the year are sports, and a lot
Speaker 2: of them are on ESPN. And if you just have
Speaker 2: ESPN Plus, I guess you can't watch that, So that
Speaker 2: makes sense. But this is a timely update. This is
Speaker 2: from Park Associates Research Center. They've got an update here
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty four as we're wrapping up the year.
Speaker 2: The top ten US subscription streaming video services. Now, keep
Speaker 2: in mind, this is not this is not a YouTube
Speaker 2: TV or a direct TV or anything like that. This
Speaker 2: is just you paying for a subscription streaming service to
Speaker 2: where you're not you can util They occasionally will have
Speaker 2: a live event, but the majority of their existence is
Speaker 2: because of just being a streaming channel to where they've
Speaker 2: just got loads of content you can go watch on
Speaker 2: demand and any time as long as you have an
Speaker 2: Internet connection, so it's not live.
Speaker 3: So number one.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna see how many of these you have
Speaker 2: astin you're ready, I'm gonna see how many of these
Speaker 2: students do you have?
Speaker 3: Prime Video?
Speaker 1: Yes, technically it's a girlfriends but yes it's on the TV.
Speaker 2: Prime is number one, and it doesn't really surprise me
Speaker 2: just because of like the power of Amazon. But lately,
Speaker 2: I never find myself like if I'm watching Amazon Prime,
Speaker 2: if that app is up on my smart TV or
Speaker 2: my Roku, it's just because of the Sunday night or
Speaker 2: the Thursday night football game. Like fair They've had some
Speaker 2: good original stuff, but I just haven't found myself like
Speaker 2: looking for for anything on there in a while. Like
Speaker 2: I've watched some really good shows, but I just I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't feel like it's got a whole
Speaker 2: lot of momentum as far as new and fresh content.
Speaker 2: But again a lot of people have it because they
Speaker 2: have Amazon Prime, the subscription to you know, purchase things online. Right,
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be number one for a while. But
Speaker 2: Netflix is number two, no surprise. I'm assuming you have Netflix.
Speaker 2: Do you have Disney Plus?
Speaker 1: Yes, I sure do.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Disney.
Speaker 2: Plus is one that we we rarely ever use, and uh,
Speaker 2: in fact, I'll confess to a crime. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people are guilty of this crime as well.
Speaker 2: I don't actually have Disney Plus. I have access to it,
Speaker 2: but I don't. It's my sisters. Yeah, so I don't
Speaker 2: pay for it, but I have it, which is probably
Speaker 2: why I never like think of it. And we have
Speaker 2: used it lately though, just because it's got good Christmas.
Speaker 1: Movies, which, by the way, oh sure, last night I
Speaker 1: put on Jingle all the way Arnold Horsenegger. Yeah bad.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's a classic.
Speaker 1: My wife's like I never really liked this when she
Speaker 1: went to bed, didn't want to horse I went. I
Speaker 1: went to school with Sindbad's like daughter, like an illegitimate
Speaker 1: daughter years ago and that side streets.
Speaker 3: Let's could have dropped that on me at five point
Speaker 3: thirty six.
Speaker 1: Chase a squirrel real quick for you, nick this This
Speaker 1: girl her name was Rachel. I don't know what she's
Speaker 1: doing now, but for years they were People have always
Speaker 1: said like it that's Simbad's daughter. Like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: like Simbad the comedian, and I just thought it was
Speaker 1: I just thought it was I thought she was cappin, right.
Speaker 1: I thought it was just all for clout and nobody
Speaker 1: can prove her wrong. So she's just gonna with no
Speaker 1: one's Yeah, she's just gonna run away with it. So
Speaker 1: I even looked it up on Google, like relentlessly, and
Speaker 1: I never saw anything about like a Rachel. I never
Speaker 1: saw anything like any young pictures of her with this family.
Speaker 1: She had no proof, no proof. But then once, you know,
Speaker 1: at graduation, she's walking down with freaking Simbad and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you gotta be kidding me. That's Simbad, right,
Speaker 1: Because someone says, there goes Rachel with Simbad, and I
Speaker 1: look over, I'm like, oh, man, who would have? And
Speaker 1: I guess at the end of the day, he wasn't
Speaker 1: really kind of in her life most of the time.
Speaker 1: And then they kind of as she got a little
Speaker 1: bit older.
Speaker 3: He said started, Well, she didn't have the proof of getting.
Speaker 1: Back into it, but she she ran with that bro.
Speaker 3: This was in Arizona.
Speaker 1: This, yeah, this is in Tucson. Palaverti High School.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you could throw me some potential random
Speaker 2: things that I'm gonna find out throughout the show, finding
Speaker 2: out that Austin went to school with Sinndbad's child, that
Speaker 2: he didn't have a whole lot to do with this
Speaker 2: that would have not been not been on the list though,
Speaker 2: but here we are there.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like when you randomly on the air.
Speaker 2: Like tell me that one of your first jobs was
Speaker 2: you had to dress up as Chucky. Geez, I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's hilarious. Are you being serious? And you know he
Speaker 2: was being serious, so good stuffy man. Last night I
Speaker 2: watched on Disney Plus Jingle all the Way, and I
Speaker 2: was very very bummed to know that Moose wasn't into it,
Speaker 2: and I think his mom set him up when she
Speaker 2: said she didn't like it.
Speaker 3: Then he was just.
Speaker 1: Bored with Oh yeah, Stock.
Speaker 3: Do you have Hulu?
Speaker 1: I have Hulu.
Speaker 2: Hulu has had some good stuff, but I usually watched
Speaker 2: Hulu mostly for all the FX stuff, like the FX shows. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: because that's where most of their stuff is.
Speaker 1: That American story, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've talked about Peacock. Peacock, I have it, Honestly,
Speaker 2: I can't think of anything original on Peacock that I've watched.
Speaker 2: I ended up getting it, uh for access to like
Speaker 2: because again there's certain channels that YouTube TV doesn't have.
Speaker 2: They have most of them, but like, I watched a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff on A and E. So with Peacock,
Speaker 2: I get access to these A and E channel, these
Speaker 2: A and E shows on demand, and that's why I
Speaker 2: got that. And they've had some good movies on there occasionally,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also with Peacock, the you know, the I don't
Speaker 2: I don't consume it much, but they do have the
Speaker 2: full wrestling catalog, and uh, you know, it is nostalgic
Speaker 2: every now and then to throw on a Monday Night
Speaker 2: Raw after I've hit a couple of gummies and you know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of you're just gonna want to kind of vibe.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed that era of wrestling whenever I was young,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 1: Want to go watch someone get a mud hole stomping
Speaker 1: in your ass.
Speaker 3: It's right.
Speaker 2: Uh So HBO Max is number six. I have that,
Speaker 2: and that's I'm sorry to use that. I'm surprised that
Speaker 2: it's not more popular because they just HBO has just
Speaker 2: had so many really good shows. But uh, it's one
Speaker 2: of the more expensive ones, I believe, so maybe that's
Speaker 2: why it's down the list. And then number seven is
Speaker 2: Paramount Plus.
Speaker 3: Do you have that?
Speaker 1: I do, but I'm never on it.
Speaker 3: Same here, I have it, I pay for it.
Speaker 1: And uh, the two shows they've had that I did like, Uh.
Speaker 2: One was Gosh, what is the name of it? Which
Speaker 2: I guess it wasn't that good if I can't think
Speaker 2: of the name of it. I watched Tulsa King on there.
Speaker 2: I haven't watched the second season.
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Did you ever watch that one?
Speaker 1: No, I haven't watched that. It's on Paramount.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a Paramount Plus show.
Speaker 2: And then the I don't watch it off but my
Speaker 2: wife really likes the the MTV Challenge shows. I guess
Speaker 2: now they they have like you know they have I
Speaker 2: guess they have the archive of those old shows, but
Speaker 2: also they have like they still do those shows.
Speaker 1: And I don't think they're at all on MTV anymore.
Speaker 1: I think they're now all on on. Ridiculousness is on
Speaker 1: MTV twenty four seven every you know, basically every second
Speaker 1: of the day. All Right, So the the.
Speaker 2: Mayor of Kingstown is the crime thriller that has three
Speaker 2: seasons on on on Paramount Plus that I really liked,
Speaker 2: and I think that's why I subscribe for it. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've used it much since then.
Speaker 2: Apple TV they don't have as much as others, so like,
Speaker 2: I get why it's at number eight on this list,
Speaker 2: but I will tell you this, like they've had some
Speaker 2: of the best original shows I've ever watched. Its severance
Speaker 2: is phenomenal. It's coming out with the second season before
Speaker 2: I think it actually comes out next month.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know.
Speaker 2: Again, we talked about this the other day. Remember when
Speaker 2: I thought Apple TV was like an aptual TV? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: uh so for it was I'd gone through so many shows,
Speaker 2: like I'd binged so many series and just you know,
Speaker 2: like and I haven't watched one in a long time
Speaker 2: out of think about as far as just getting lost
Speaker 2: in the show, but like it was something I was
Speaker 2: just constantly trying to find shows that I didn't know
Speaker 2: of that were really really good. And I had had
Speaker 2: all the other streaming platforms, the streaming apps and and
Speaker 2: just thought, okay, and I'm just waiting for new stuff. Well,
Speaker 2: then once I realized Apple TV wasn't what I thought
Speaker 2: it was, I got a subscription to that and I
Speaker 2: found all these awesome shows on there, so I kind
Speaker 2: of like it's like I found like Bury Treasure or something,
Speaker 2: because I these are some of these shows were like
Speaker 2: years old, but I went through probably all of them
Speaker 2: that you know that I've watched really quickly.
Speaker 3: It's really good stuff.
Speaker 2: And then number nine is ESPN Plus, which I think
Speaker 2: with that, well, I don't know I was gonna say that.
Speaker 3: Tells you that they're because this is when you.
Speaker 2: Figure out the number for the what the number means
Speaker 2: as far as the super Bowl rating, and you realize
Speaker 2: that the super Bowl can break a record for viewership
Speaker 2: and yet still half the country didn't watch it. Like
Speaker 2: that blows my mind because I'm just thinking, what the
Speaker 2: hell could you be doing if you're not involved, if
Speaker 2: you're not watching the super Bowl, Like it's literally where
Speaker 2: everything stops. It's the freaking super Bowl. But there's so
Speaker 2: many people to where sports is not a part of
Speaker 2: the culture, and it's just you know, I'm sure they're
Speaker 2: great people, but like I can't relate to them. So
Speaker 2: part of me says, yeah, I guess seeing ESPN Plus
Speaker 2: at number nine is not a is not a surprise
Speaker 2: because there are people out there, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: that don't love sports. But then again, most of the
Speaker 2: sports that get the insane viewership is not on ESPN Plus, right,
Speaker 2: It's on ESPN or one of the channels within ESPN
Speaker 2: ABC National, Right, So you know that's probably not a
Speaker 2: bad sign for sports viewership because again, if you're watching
Speaker 2: ESPN Plus and you really need and you need it
Speaker 2: not because you want it, but you need it to
Speaker 2: watch what you want to watch, it's probably because your
Speaker 2: team plays in a league to where that's the only
Speaker 2: place you can get those games, and without that you
Speaker 2: can cause again you don't even need you don't need
Speaker 2: ESPN Plus to watch Louisville play last night against whoever
Speaker 2: the UTEP who's on the ACC Network Extra. You can
Speaker 2: watch it if you have an ESPN Plus subscription, but
Speaker 2: you can just utilize your your television service. So like
Speaker 2: in YouTube TV to be able to watch ACC Network
Speaker 2: Extra because I get access to that because I pay
Speaker 2: YouTube TV to be able to watch ESPN. And then
Speaker 2: number ten, I didn't even know this was the thing.
Speaker 2: YouTube Premium is that like just to skip ads.
Speaker 1: They have their own right, no ads.
Speaker 2: Like I kind of feel like now that I do
Speaker 2: remember YouTube having like some original series, but I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know, I never watched him. I never
Speaker 3: paid for it.
Speaker 1: Like one of the biggest ones when it first started
Speaker 1: and got really popular was Copra Kai Copra Kai was Oh.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think that launched it.
Speaker 2: I think that kind of launched them having their own
Speaker 2: version of like, you know, original shows. Yeah, it looks
Speaker 2: like they've had Yeah, but I'm sure enough they I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know any of these shows, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I've not heard of a lot of them,
Speaker 2: but they have had Now.
Speaker 1: It's on Netflix. What is uh Cobra Kai?
Speaker 3: Oh is it really?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, so I guess they don't own any of
Speaker 2: They probably just purchased exclusive rights to have that as
Speaker 2: their launch of their own streaming service.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I think the reason I brought this up
Speaker 2: is because we did talk about it earlier. Like I
Speaker 2: think what a lot of people said is that we're
Speaker 2: subscribing to so many different streaming services and there, and
Speaker 2: they're cheap, but when you add them all up, you
Speaker 2: might as well just rely on a provider like a
Speaker 2: Spectrum and or even a direct TV, because you'll have
Speaker 2: access to those channels, meaning you can then use the
Speaker 2: apps like you may just be able to. It may
Speaker 2: it may make sense for people to now realize, Okay,
Speaker 2: the price differential is either you know, there's no difference
Speaker 2: at all, or maybe it's a couple of bucks. So therefore,
Speaker 2: instead of having five six different things I pay for,
Speaker 2: even though it all adds up to be the same,
Speaker 2: I might as well just pay for, you know, somebody
Speaker 2: to give me all of those in one price. Because
Speaker 2: when I see YouTube TV going up to eighty four
Speaker 2: nine or eighty three ninety nine, knowing what I'm paying
Speaker 2: for all these other things like it's it's for the
Speaker 2: first time, it's got me thinking like do I really
Speaker 2: need all this? And actually I know the answer, I don't,
Speaker 2: but it's hard for me to just get rid of
Speaker 2: something that I know.
Speaker 3: Occasionally I may.
Speaker 2: Watch a new show or watch a show that you
Speaker 2: know has a new season or something like that.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to our last break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back here on the other side and wrap
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Speaker 2: Rams Niners. Uh, Niners favored by two and a half.
Speaker 2: Why am I surprised by that line? Like they sucked
Speaker 2: the last month?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I mean, iflick, the Rams should be favored like the Rams.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think that they're I don't know
Speaker 2: that that's me. I think the Rams are capable of
Speaker 2: beating I.
Speaker 1: Thought you said the Niners were favored. No, they are.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying I feel like the Rams should be.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well yeah they should. Well, the Rams or
Speaker 1: the Niners have kind of been.
Speaker 2: I mean the Niners have had bad luck with injuries. Uh,
Speaker 2: they're six and seven. I mean these teams are similar
Speaker 2: to the Rams are seven and six. The Niners are
Speaker 2: six and seven. Neither is having as good of a
Speaker 2: year as they probably thought they'd be having. But like
Speaker 2: I think, momentum. Maybe I'm just crazy and I don't
Speaker 2: my memory is off, but I feel like the Rams
Speaker 2: have momentum here to where you feel like they would
Speaker 2: be the favorite here.
Speaker 1: They do. They're fully healthy, they finally got pookin the
Speaker 1: Kua Kopa Cup. Cooper cut back both their guys back.
Speaker 1: Of course, the McVeigh Stafford thing. That's a that's a team.
Speaker 1: They could be dangerous the first couple of rounds in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Dude.
Speaker 2: The Rams started the season one in five and since
Speaker 2: then they have won six of eight, so they've got
Speaker 2: momentum on their side.
Speaker 3: I like the.
Speaker 2: Rams money line. I mean, I wouldn't put a lot
Speaker 2: on it, but that's what I'm rolling with tonight.
Speaker 1: I like that too.
Speaker 3: Let's let's ride, then.
Speaker 1: Let's do that, do it, Let's do that first touchdown?
Speaker 2: Okay, oh that'll that'll give us some juice. That's a
Speaker 2: decent a decent payday. I haven't looked at the college
Speaker 2: basketball slate. Usually Thursdays aren't great nights for for games,
Speaker 2: especially from the Power conferences, and we do have a
Speaker 2: rivalry game, and you know it is a real one.
Speaker 2: Iowa State in Iowa. Iowa State's the number three team
Speaker 2: in the country. They are at Iowa and Iowa State
Speaker 2: is favored by five and a half. I don't know
Speaker 2: enough to make a confident wager, but hey, hell, lot
Speaker 2: of the wagers I make I don't have much confidence in,
Speaker 2: but it still does.
Speaker 3: That's just what we do. And it's just that's just uh,
Speaker 3: that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And there are some Yeah, I'm looking here.
Speaker 2: I got a little I got a little excited for
Speaker 2: no reason because there are some decent games tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: including Indiana Nebraska, but those that they're already showing up
Speaker 2: as lines for tomorrow, they're actually not tonight. So enjoy
Speaker 2: a Thursday night football if that's something that you're into.
Speaker 2: If not, just enjoy your Thursday night deal, whatever it
Speaker 2: is you want to do, and we'll be back at
Speaker 2: it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Austin.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your final vacation day, brother, Thank you smack on Monday.
Speaker 1: See yes, sir, I'm back looking.
Speaker 3: Forward to it.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your long weekend you guys again, We'll talk to
Speaker 2: you tomorrow right here on Sports Talk seven ninety