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Speaker 2: All right, the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: Let's get started as we get closer to Kentucky Derby
Speaker 3: one fifty one.
Speaker 2: I don't do they have a.
Speaker 3: Day for Wednesday at the track. I'm sure they have
Speaker 3: like a theme and whatnot, But you know, I.
Speaker 2: Think it's just wind day.
Speaker 3: Okay, you got five oh Tuesday, Derby Oaks Derby. Does
Speaker 3: Wednesday have a cool day if it's win like I mean,
Speaker 3: it's Winduesday. I mean, I guess it, you know, makes sense,
Speaker 3: It's okay. You don't want to Yeah, you don't want
Speaker 3: to force something that's not there. That's an easy play into,
Speaker 3: you know, the day Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Wednesday is a tough day to make names off of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I haven't looked outside since I walked in
Speaker 3: here about two and a half hours ago, so I
Speaker 3: could be totally wrong, but I thought today was going
Speaker 3: to be a pretty pretty crappy day when it comes
Speaker 3: to weather.
Speaker 2: But it was gloomy, humid, and then at least for
Speaker 2: a little while, it was sunny.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if that stayed, you know, if it
Speaker 3: stayed sunny outside but as I said at the beginning
Speaker 3: of the show, it kind of seems like earlier this
Speaker 3: week it appeared that the forecast was going to be
Speaker 3: not in our favor for midweek, but by the time
Speaker 3: we got to Friday, Saturday, Oaks and Derby, it was
Speaker 3: going to be a little bit better. But now it
Speaker 3: looks as if we've got some some good rain chances
Speaker 3: on Friday, and then Saturday still looks pretty solid from
Speaker 3: what I'm looking at right now, but obviously that could change,
Speaker 3: and we never really know, like if it's worth even
Speaker 3: looking at the forecast. So anyways, just getting closer and
Speaker 3: it's exciting. Derby season here in Louisville is awesome. And
Speaker 3: I was out at the track this morning. Austin was
Speaker 3: there yesterday and he was a big winner at Tuesday,
Speaker 3: and he's been winning races to that too, so good stuff.
Speaker 3: And I didn't I wasn't there yesterday for anything, in fact,
Speaker 3: and I got there this morning and backside for a
Speaker 3: little while and then headed out. But just being at
Speaker 3: Church Dunts, even though it really wasn't the full experience
Speaker 3: of you know, like taking in the races, but just
Speaker 3: being backside making making you know, a couple laps around
Speaker 3: the barns. I mean, I really only went because my
Speaker 3: son thinks it's the coolest thing ever that, Yeah, he
Speaker 3: gets to see you know, the barns and see the
Speaker 3: horses as they get ready. I mean, he, as we've
Speaker 3: discussed before, he's he's in love with horse racing. I
Speaker 3: don't really know where he got it from, but you know,
Speaker 3: I thought maybe there's a chance because he's now playing
Speaker 3: every sport possible seemingly and is really into that, that
Speaker 3: maybe he wouldn't be as excited an into it, But no,
Speaker 3: he was. I mean I got him up this morning
Speaker 3: at six o'clock and as soon as he opened his
Speaker 3: eyes to kind of, you know, wake up while I'm
Speaker 3: picking him up out of bed, he said, are we
Speaker 3: going to? Are we going to the horse track? And
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, we are, and he was he was
Speaker 3: ready to roll, and uh, you know, he asked me
Speaker 3: because last year we we it was the first time
Speaker 3: he got to go behind the you know, backside to
Speaker 3: where he can actually see some of the horses, yeah,
Speaker 3: as their training and that kind of stuff, and I mean,
Speaker 3: you know it's so sweet. He was like, do you
Speaker 3: think they remember me? He was talking about the horses,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, sure, of course they do. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: wondering what the hell you've been Yeah, this guy, They've
Speaker 3: been waiting for you. So uh, he he got to
Speaker 3: see not every horse this morning, that of course is
Speaker 3: going to be in in the Derby, but you know,
Speaker 3: he got to see a few of them. And then
Speaker 3: I showed him, uh you know, the program and uh
Speaker 3: there there I did it. I showed him online and
Speaker 3: in the Churchill Downs website it actually shows a picture
Speaker 3: of each So he was looking at him, and uh,
Speaker 3: he decided to roll with uh one that is believed
Speaker 3: to be one of the favorites.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I hope, I mean, I'm I'm I'm still gonna
Speaker 3: take Rodriguez because, as I talked about earlier this week,
Speaker 3: I just loved the story behind it because of the documentary,
Speaker 3: and it's also seemingly it's the Badford horse. I mean
Speaker 3: that alone speaks for itself. But American Promise is what
Speaker 3: Moose is going with. That's that's number five and and
Speaker 3: uh that's what he's picking. And I'm pretty sure in
Speaker 3: his four years on Earth, he's he's had the Derby
Speaker 3: winner at least twice now.
Speaker 2: Sired by Justify the good jeans you good Jean.
Speaker 3: I mean, justif I was the one of the triple
Speaker 3: Crown winners, right, yes, look at me, I think the
Speaker 3: I act like I don't know.
Speaker 2: Horse racing hung around me too much this week. That's right,
Speaker 2: Justifies the youngest triple crown one. He's the youngest Derby
Speaker 2: winner and the youngest triple crown on here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Justify correct me if I'm wrong. Was that
Speaker 3: the second or the first of the recent two that
Speaker 3: we had?
Speaker 2: The second American Pharaoh was? That's right? That's right. I
Speaker 2: knew that there were two. I just couldn't remember the
Speaker 2: name of the other one.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Derby vibes are strong right now, and uh,
Speaker 3: it's exciting. I'm looking forward to getting out there Saturday
Speaker 3: and doing whatever the team needs me to do. Being
Speaker 3: a part of the eight forty whas coverage is U
Speaker 3: is always a lot of fun and something I'm happy
Speaker 3: that I'm able to be a part of. And you know,
Speaker 3: I growing up we would go to derby parties around
Speaker 3: you know, we had friends and family. I mean there's
Speaker 3: like three or four derby parties I can kind of
Speaker 3: pick from, and sometimes I try to make it to
Speaker 3: multiple of them if I can. It's been more difficult
Speaker 3: to do with working Derby now. But what I'm getting
Speaker 3: at is that I like, I don't really remember listening
Speaker 3: to radio during Derby day as a kid. I would
Speaker 3: just run around at parties, play basketball and pick horses
Speaker 3: out of like a pot, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And see like that was kind of what we did.
Speaker 3: But you know, I've learned since being a part of it,
Speaker 3: and of course, you know, learning a little bit more
Speaker 3: about the history of eight forty whas like it's a
Speaker 3: big deal, Like it's a full on Like there's a
Speaker 3: lot of people who from start to finish, if they're
Speaker 3: not at Derby, even if they're watching the races on television,
Speaker 3: like they keep it, keep it on in the background
Speaker 3: because you know, it's I mean, it's full coverage from
Speaker 3: of everything. Right, We've got interviews with with you know,
Speaker 3: people on the red carpet different you know, it's our
Speaker 3: entire team here at iHeart Louisville collectively working together to
Speaker 3: provide what we hope is good cover. And I'm a
Speaker 3: very small part of it compared to the others that
Speaker 3: you know have done it for years, the Tony Cruzes,
Speaker 3: Terry Miners, Tony Venetti, but really looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: And if you haven't checked it out, I'm telling you
Speaker 3: it'll probably enhance your derby party if you have a song,
Speaker 3: because we'll kind of set the scene. And speaking of
Speaker 3: derby parties, I just thought of this. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think that's one of the really cool things about how
Speaker 3: we really embrace the Derby around here, because it's become
Speaker 3: really more it's become more of a difficult thing for
Speaker 3: the locals to go, right. I mean, it's just more
Speaker 3: expensive now than it was. And I'm not criticizing Churchill
Speaker 3: downs in any way because when it comes to the
Speaker 3: Kentucky Derby, I think they'd be foolish to really, you know,
Speaker 3: cater to locals. I mean, it's nice if they do
Speaker 3: here and there, but like the Derby is like again,
Speaker 3: you could restrict anybody locally from going like you can't
Speaker 3: be which would be stupid to do, of course, but
Speaker 3: I'm just giving you hypothetical. You could say that nobody
Speaker 3: from the state of Kentucky's allowed to go, and you
Speaker 3: would say, have a crowd that is massive, because that's
Speaker 3: what the Derby is now. Can it be really stupid
Speaker 3: to do that. But I'm just saying, like they know
Speaker 3: that they don't need to cater to us. And as
Speaker 3: we talked about earlier this week, as expensive as things
Speaker 3: have gotten and as much as they are really pricing
Speaker 3: certain people out and making it to where you get
Speaker 3: all inclusive if you buy this really expensive ticket, I believe,
Speaker 3: and hopefully we never find out, because I don't want
Speaker 3: them to do this, but they could double the price
Speaker 3: and still get people to come, because you know, there's
Speaker 3: enough people that just know.
Speaker 2: What the experience is like.
Speaker 3: And even if they really can't justify the expense as
Speaker 3: to where it I mean, I guess if you make
Speaker 3: the decision and you pay for it and you enjoy it,
Speaker 3: then if you that that I guess means that you
Speaker 3: thought it was worth the expense. But what I'm getting
Speaker 3: at is that, like it's such a place to be in,
Speaker 3: a thing to do for people all over the world,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of people in the world last
Speaker 3: time I checked that. I mean, I don't think they'll
Speaker 3: ever have an issue with being too expensive to have
Speaker 3: a huge turnout. And I think they know that too.
Speaker 3: And again I go back to just the pictures over
Speaker 3: the years I've seen at Bowman Field with all those
Speaker 3: private jets that fly in for the weekend or maybe
Speaker 3: just the day, and I think, Okay, you know, people
Speaker 3: who are on a private jet to come to Louisville,
Speaker 3: Kentucky for the Kentucky Derby, they're clearly living a much
Speaker 3: different lifestyle than I am. They're clearly in a much
Speaker 3: you know, they're they're they're in a different tax bracket.
Speaker 3: But you know, that's who Churchill caters to. Now for
Speaker 3: the most part, it seems on Derby day and they're
Speaker 3: doing a good job at that. In fact, the more
Speaker 3: you make it like what it has become with it's
Speaker 3: kind of elegant now more so, I mean it's it's
Speaker 3: I mean clearly, the renovations that they've that they've done,
Speaker 3: it makes me sad that it doesn't look like it
Speaker 3: did when I was growing up, But like I get
Speaker 3: it from their perspective, it looks a lot nicer now,
Speaker 3: looks more modern. So, you know, the more they do that,
Speaker 3: and then there's a weird thing about like events Austin.
Speaker 3: You know this as somebody who's into you know, pop
Speaker 3: culture and and and and and I guess, you know,
Speaker 3: being younger, the more you make, the more you make
Speaker 3: something expensive, the more people want to be there.
Speaker 2: Sure like that that the more people keep buying it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and where they what they run into is that
Speaker 3: they they have something that let me back up, like
Speaker 3: the super Bowls are one of the biggest it's the
Speaker 3: biggest sporting event in America every year. But the but
Speaker 3: the super Bowl they have max capacity when they have
Speaker 3: it in the biggest stadiums that are built in the
Speaker 3: biggest cities.
Speaker 2: It's a sellout.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's a maximum amount amount of tickets
Speaker 3: that you can sell, and clearly they go for a
Speaker 3: big dollar amount. But your Churchill downs, like can you
Speaker 3: sell out Derby? I don't think you can, Like you
Speaker 3: could have you know, I feel like double the amount
Speaker 3: of people that have been there in previous years, and yeah,
Speaker 3: i'd be crowded, but like it's a humongous place, like
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, I'm sure they monitor the amount
Speaker 3: of people that come in, but I mean it's also
Speaker 3: a huge property that you know, there are some areas
Speaker 3: that you know when you walk through it's gonna be tough,
Speaker 3: but like you you then will get to an area
Speaker 3: that's much more wide open. Yeah, and you can kind
Speaker 3: of find your own like you're not crammed in a stadium,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. Right, So, you know, I
Speaker 3: think Church You'll probably for good reason, made some decisions
Speaker 3: in recent years to really just you know, go all
Speaker 3: out and continue to build and build as this is
Speaker 3: going to continue to be a bucket list item for people,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna build it as We're gonna build it
Speaker 3: and sell it as that market it is marketed as that.
Speaker 3: And again, there's enough people in the world and I
Speaker 3: mean across the entire world that will will at some
Speaker 3: point make their way here, and a lot of people
Speaker 3: and I've learned this just in doing interviews with different
Speaker 3: folks that are there every year for Derby. They come
Speaker 3: back like they're clearly enjoying themselves enough to where not
Speaker 3: only do they justify the expense, they start saving, you know,
Speaker 3: if they need to, or maybe they just have the
Speaker 3: money to where they know they're coming.
Speaker 2: Back next year.
Speaker 3: So you know, there's something about being in a place,
Speaker 3: being from a place, living in a place that that
Speaker 3: has a big event like we do here in kind
Speaker 3: of embracing it and you know, like I feel like
Speaker 3: we we kind of own the week in a good
Speaker 3: way as far as you know.
Speaker 2: Put it this way.
Speaker 3: Let me give you an example. I'm not even joking, by
Speaker 3: the way. This is not like some poor attempt to
Speaker 3: be funny.
Speaker 2: It's the true.
Speaker 3: I didn't think of it until I noticed it yesterday,
Speaker 3: and then I interested again today. We sometimes let the
Speaker 3: grass and the medians on these interstates in Louisville get
Speaker 3: to be eight feet tall. You won't find that right now.
Speaker 3: Everybody's coming to Louisville. We got to get the grass cut.
Speaker 3: There might be a nineteen ninety six Chevy trail Blazer
Speaker 3: that's been sitting on the side of the Greenbelt Highway
Speaker 3: for nine months, not anymore. They got it out of there,
Speaker 3: take it to the junkyard, take it to the you know,
Speaker 3: the impound.
Speaker 2: Lot or whatever.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 2: You know, we clean up a little bit.
Speaker 3: Around here whenever we got people coming in town for Derby.
Speaker 3: There may be certain areas where the city only cuts
Speaker 3: that grass once a year, but I guarantee, if so,
Speaker 3: it's going to be during Derby Week because we realize, hey,
Speaker 3: we got to clean up a little bit. We got
Speaker 3: people coming to town. We want to look our best now.
Speaker 3: I didn't plan on going here, but now that we're
Speaker 3: talking about it. Dave Portnoyd before he became the Dave
Speaker 3: port Nord that he is now, meaning like he's one
Speaker 3: of the most influential sports media figures in the country.
Speaker 3: Clearly a very polarizing guy, but obviously very successful. I
Speaker 3: happened to be a fan of his content. I don't
Speaker 3: always agree with everything he has said or done, but
Speaker 3: like I'm you know, I'm a stooley if you guys
Speaker 3: want to make fun of me.
Speaker 2: So he came to Derby many years ago. This was
Speaker 2: actually this was so long ago.
Speaker 3: I was on a different radio station at the time
Speaker 3: and I've been here for ten years, so in fact,
Speaker 3: it's been a lot longer than actually realized. But he
Speaker 3: came to Churchill Downs and I believe it might have
Speaker 3: been the first time he came to Derby, and it
Speaker 3: was when Barstool kind of began developing a big following
Speaker 3: and he really ran the city in the ground in
Speaker 3: a way that you know, was not nice. And he
Speaker 3: said something that I'd never really made the observation because
Speaker 3: it's just always been that way.
Speaker 2: But he's right.
Speaker 3: Churchill Downs, for you know, being the place that hosts
Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby, the home of the Kentucky Devery, one
Speaker 3: of the biggest events in sports across the planet. In
Speaker 3: our city, it's it's not exactly nestled in a nice
Speaker 3: area really at all. Now they've bought up a lot
Speaker 3: of the property year there over the years to where
Speaker 3: it's kind of its own neighborhood of Louisville, right, like
Speaker 3: the Taylor Boulevard.
Speaker 2: Like there's areas of Taylor Boulevard.
Speaker 3: That now you can tell, oh, Churchill A bought that,
Speaker 3: and it's no longer somebody's property, it's now property of
Speaker 3: Churchill Downs, and they're just making parking lots or expanding
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. But like, I'd never really
Speaker 3: consider the fact that what is the biggest attraction globally
Speaker 3: in our city. It you know, it's not in an
Speaker 3: area that anybody would claim as one of the nicer
Speaker 3: areas of the city. I mean, I guess it's close
Speaker 3: to Cardinal Stadium and it's close to ul in that aspect.
Speaker 3: But like when I grew you know, even at this
Speaker 3: day when I go to when I go to the track,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of different ways to go, but like
Speaker 3: this morning when I went, I got on Waterson, I
Speaker 3: got off at Taylor Boulevard, and I remember what Taylor
Speaker 3: Boulevard is.
Speaker 2: Like I took a.
Speaker 3: Rite and then I hit Longfield Avenue and you know,
Speaker 3: like that's just my route. So like if I was
Speaker 3: going there every day, which I'm not, like, I would
Speaker 3: always go past an area that and I'm not. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm saying anything that anybody is going
Speaker 3: to to speak, it's no disrespect to people that lived
Speaker 3: there and grew up there.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm from Bully County.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean I make fun of where I
Speaker 3: grew up all the time, and you know, I love
Speaker 3: the place. Wouldn't change anything about where I'm from. But
Speaker 3: like obviously sometimes we make it pretty easy for people
Speaker 3: to make fun of us, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So you know, Taylor Boulevard, that area, I mean, even
Speaker 3: if it's your home and you love it, like I
Speaker 3: think we could all agree, it's not viewed as like an.
Speaker 2: Area that you would expect a big attraction.
Speaker 3: That is, you know, Louisville's claim to fame, but you
Speaker 3: know it's been there forever and I just always think
Speaker 3: about the amount of people who've been able to just
Speaker 3: timing on their side. They own a home near the track,
Speaker 3: and like, they know Churchill's got endless money, they know
Speaker 3: Churchill wants their property, and like what they've probably they've
Speaker 3: probably made life changing money at times selling property in
Speaker 3: houses because they know Churchill will pay whatever, because you
Speaker 3: know they can. So have you ever thought, I mean again,
Speaker 3: you didn't grow up here, so maybe it's not something
Speaker 3: that's really been like, but I remember thinking, I remember
Speaker 3: wanting to be like offended and like I can't believe
Speaker 3: Prez is coming at us like this, how about you
Speaker 3: show some respect pizza boy, Like that's what I'm That's
Speaker 3: what I'm thinking. Yeah, And I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, you know what, he's right, Like he showed a
Speaker 2: picture of.
Speaker 3: Him walking from Taylor Boulevard to like, you know, I
Speaker 3: guess he got dropped off and made a long walk
Speaker 3: and he didn't walk in near uh you know, Jim
Speaker 3: Patterson Stadium.
Speaker 2: He walked in on the other.
Speaker 3: Side over the old deja Vu. He was right there
Speaker 3: by DejaVu. And I remember thinking like, yeah, you know
Speaker 3: what if that if you get off a plane you
Speaker 3: drop your stuff at a hotel and you get an
Speaker 3: uber and you get dropped off at the Deja Vu
Speaker 3: and that that route to there and then you walk in.
Speaker 3: That's that's your first impression of this city. I kind
Speaker 3: of get his reaction, you know what I'm saying. It'd
Speaker 3: be like Outjavu by the way. Yeah, oh all right,
Speaker 3: p r ip. Yeah you're well miss burned down. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the only strip club in town where you could be
Speaker 3: eighteen and get in, at least at least that I
Speaker 3: know of. I know.
Speaker 2: Uh, that was my first when I turned eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was there's I didn't know it, but at
Speaker 3: some point maybe somebody just told me this and I'm
Speaker 3: idiot and believed it. But like, were we known as
Speaker 3: like a strip club city at some point?
Speaker 2: I don't know. So let me give you the.
Speaker 3: Explanation as to why I heard that, and this would
Speaker 3: make it make sense.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of we had a lot.
Speaker 3: Of them per per you know, per population, and we
Speaker 3: had rules that were a little bit lenient compared to
Speaker 3: others to where they could get like, you know, butt
Speaker 3: ass naked. Oh yeah, also bars can bars could stay over.
Speaker 3: I think other cities have adjusted, but I didn't realize
Speaker 3: this whenever I was young, and you know, a guy
Speaker 3: just hitting bars trying to party and not you know,
Speaker 3: not drinking, you know, to be social, but just drinking
Speaker 3: and get hammered like a dumb twenty one year old.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that we had it good where we
Speaker 3: could stay out till like four o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 3: Whereas you go to Nashville, Like I remember my first
Speaker 3: time partying in Nashville, bars closed like one o'clock.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the hell is this? We just started.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So I think because of.
Speaker 3: The rule that and I imagine it's changed since then,
Speaker 3: but I believe the rule about just how naked you
Speaker 3: could get and how late we stayed open that made
Speaker 3: it to where like if you're in and I don't
Speaker 3: really know, I mean, I guess there are strip club guys, right,
Speaker 3: the ones that you know, if they're out of town,
Speaker 3: they want to find the nicest gentleman's club and you know,
Speaker 3: have a night. You know, do you live your life.
Speaker 3: Everybody's got to make a living. You're supporting people who
Speaker 3: you know, that's what they do to to, you know,
Speaker 3: to provide for their family. So no, no, shame in
Speaker 3: in that that being what you're doing. But I'd always
Speaker 3: heard that we were, like you know, we were. In fact,
Speaker 3: I was at I was at a strip club in
Speaker 3: New Orleans for a bachelor party, and I remember we
Speaker 3: told one of the young ladies that was there trying
Speaker 3: to hustle us as best she could for any money
Speaker 3: we had, that we were from Louisville.
Speaker 2: And no, she was just really into you guys.
Speaker 3: Oh, every every group, by the way, has a guy
Speaker 3: that thinks oh yeah, right, yeah, I got two of them.
Speaker 2: Think it's a real name. Oh like look, I know.
Speaker 3: But like we had a connection, like she she she
Speaker 3: asked me if I wanted to come to the back,
Speaker 3: you know, like that's an exclusive offer everybody's got, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's it's it's adorable too, because like, you know,
Speaker 3: the two people that I know of that are in
Speaker 3: my friend group that that have that have been that guy.
Speaker 3: Like they're really nice dudes that like just take people
Speaker 3: at face value, and like, you know, we had to
Speaker 3: break it to them easy, like dude, trust me, it
Speaker 3: got it got not contentious at one point, but like
Speaker 3: when we were leaving Trixies, you know where Tricksies was
Speaker 3: we're still open anymore. Here I am at the five
Speaker 3: o'clock hour on a drivetime radio shift. I'm throwing out
Speaker 3: all these names about all these strip clubs. People. People
Speaker 3: don't think I'm some horn dog that lives in strip clubs.
Speaker 3: That's all right, It's not the case at all. But
Speaker 3: we were at Trixies one time, and I remember like
Speaker 3: instead of just kind of hearing us out, like he
Speaker 3: was like, you guys are just jealous, Well, no, we
Speaker 3: wanted to save you know, you know, we're twenty one.
Speaker 3: We wanted to save the money we had for booze,
Speaker 3: not wasted on a you know, a lap dance.
Speaker 2: So so, yeah, so I threw you off your train
Speaker 2: of thought. So what did you tell this girl in Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, I told her we were from Louisville, and you know,
Speaker 3: here we are in New Orleans Bourbon Street, you know,
Speaker 3: big lights, big city, big party town. And she was
Speaker 3: she was envious, like she I wish I could come
Speaker 3: to Louisville and you know I was, I come a
Speaker 3: little and work for a year there because I clean up.
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking what And then she explained and it
Speaker 3: made sense. She was like, you know, we have to
Speaker 3: close early here and we can't get as you know,
Speaker 3: as as naked. And then she then she wanted us
Speaker 3: to know, but you know, we can actually kind of
Speaker 3: do whatever we want if we're careful about it, like
Speaker 3: basically saying, look, you guys, whatever you pay whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 3: whatever wild.
Speaker 2: Stuff you're into.
Speaker 3: We've probably heard a lot wilder in us young naive
Speaker 3: kids from Bullet County.
Speaker 2: We we we we we.
Speaker 3: Left pretty soon after that. Very intimidating a situation there
Speaker 3: and very very uh, you know, overwhelming, but yeah, shout
Speaker 3: out DejaVu. That's right, rip DejaVu. All right, quick break,
Speaker 3: we'll come back on the other side. Keep this thing
Speaker 3: rolling along. It's coffee and company. We are fueled by Thornton's.
Speaker 3: And again, you know, I'm just thinking, it's five twenty five.
Speaker 3: My mom's probably driving home from work. She's probably sitting
Speaker 3: here thinking, you know, that her son's some you know
Speaker 3: perv that just hangs out at all these trip clubs.
Speaker 3: That's not the case, mom, at all. I've only gone
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Speaker 2: I try not to go.
Speaker 3: I don't even I don't even I mean I've I
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Speaker 3: for Big Cat and PFT, and it was a great
Speaker 3: it's you know, it's a great song by itself. That's
Speaker 3: also a great podcast. But now I always think about that. So, okay,
Speaker 3: this is good stuff. When did the song come out?
Speaker 2: It's a vibe that's a great because.
Speaker 3: The sound of like the music, I feel like it
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Speaker 3: so you could have told me like nineteen ninety four
Speaker 3: and I would believe it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, good stuff you do.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I gash you up enough, but
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, you do a really good job of
Speaker 3: giving us a lot of variety when it comes to
Speaker 3: the soundtrack that we hit each day here.
Speaker 2: So I try thank you.
Speaker 3: And I hate that our podcast listeners don't get a
Speaker 3: chance to experience just means that's the incentive to listen
Speaker 3: love because you get to you get to hear Austin
Speaker 3: you know, DJ travel Chief on the ones and twos, right,
Speaker 3: you know, bringing the vibes so good stuff. Last week
Speaker 3: when it was Friday night, whenever we heard Tyler Shuck's
Speaker 3: name called early in the first I'm sorry, early in
Speaker 3: the second round to go to the Saints. And I mean,
Speaker 3: I wasn't that surprised because clearly it was building that
Speaker 3: he was likely going to be the third or fourth
Speaker 3: quarterback taken. But man, I was just grinning watching it
Speaker 3: on TV because they're just talking up Jeff Brohm and
Speaker 3: Nick Saban, Like it wasn't as if they're going out
Speaker 3: of their way to to to really gass up Jeff.
Speaker 3: They were just acknowledging that one of the things that
Speaker 3: really made that really made Tyler Shuck, you know, attracted
Speaker 3: to the NFL outside of the obvious arm and just
Speaker 3: you know, his his I mean, he's got to he's
Speaker 3: got the build and he's a good player. So I'm
Speaker 3: not trying to give all the credit to Jeff for
Speaker 3: Tyler Shuck being a second round pick, but you know,
Speaker 3: Nick Saban just you know, and and you know they're
Speaker 3: they're talking up why he would be picked this early,
Speaker 3: and they would throw in, well, any any played for
Speaker 3: Jeff bram in appro style offense and that really helped him.
Speaker 3: And you know, clearly quarterbacks. No, Jeff Brown is a
Speaker 3: guy that if you have the talent, he can make
Speaker 3: you look good. But man, this is a stat that
Speaker 3: doesn't surprise me now that I hear it. But I
Speaker 3: was unaware and I'm trying to I did trying to
Speaker 3: do some some research during the break to see where
Speaker 3: this ranks. But since Jeff Brown became a head coach,
Speaker 3: which he was hired as a head coach for the
Speaker 3: first time at WKU in two thousand and fourteen, so
Speaker 3: roughly ten years ago, since he's been a head coach
Speaker 3: at both at Western Purdue in Louisville, he's had six
Speaker 3: quarterbacks drafted. I mean that's in a you know, ten
Speaker 3: roughly ten year span. Like that's impressive. Six different quarterbacks
Speaker 3: are drafted at three different stops. Maybe that's not as
Speaker 3: impressive as it sounds to me, but I mean if
Speaker 3: you consider the amount of I mean, I just according
Speaker 3: to like LSU has had the most quarterbacks drafted since
Speaker 3: two thousand, they've had nine. I mean, think about that.
Speaker 3: That's I think that's pretty pretty telling to you know. Now, again,
Speaker 3: they haven't had super successful careers in the NFL, meaning
Speaker 3: the guys that played for Jeff. But here I go
Speaker 3: again giving him all the credit for these quarterbacks in
Speaker 3: their play. But I mean, I think there's some guys
Speaker 3: like David Blou. I mean, nobody would have ever thought
Speaker 3: that guy would be in the NFL and he's still
Speaker 3: in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Who else? Who is the kid? At Western? There were
Speaker 2: two of them because Bailey's appy was post Brahm. But
Speaker 2: who was the guy?
Speaker 3: There was a gunsling and quarterback in Western that ended
Speaker 3: up playing for the Dolphins for a little while. I
Speaker 3: believe kind of had like a bro vibe to him.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about here? Think of it, man,
Speaker 3: it's gonna drive me crazy.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah. So at Western it was.
Speaker 3: Brandon Dowdy, That's right, you know he was he ended
Speaker 3: up he ended up getting drafted in the seventh round.
Speaker 3: And then obviously at Purdue you had blow And then
Speaker 3: who's the quarterback that just started recently for Purdue, Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeh.
Speaker 3: So he was with the he was at Purdue, and
Speaker 3: then obviously he was a starter at time last year
Speaker 3: for the Raiders. I'm not so again, these guys, you know,
Speaker 3: Jack Plumber, will all use him as an example because
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody would disagree with me. In fact,
Speaker 3: I got accused often of being like too nice about
Speaker 3: Jack Plumber. I mean, Jeff Brom like is probably the
Speaker 3: reason he was He's able to be in the.
Speaker 2: NFL as a practice squad.
Speaker 3: Guy like Jeff brom will make it work with a
Speaker 3: quarterback that's got a little bit of ability, but man,
Speaker 3: he can really really produce a high powered offense if
Speaker 3: you've got a guy like Tyler Shuck, and hopefully that's
Speaker 3: the same thing with Miller Moss. So, I mean, I
Speaker 3: talked last week about how Shuck it kind of feels
Speaker 3: weird because usually if you've got a guy that's got
Speaker 3: a chance to be one of the top three four
Speaker 3: quarterbacks taken in the draft, it's somebody that has been
Speaker 3: here a long time that's a real special player. Shuck
Speaker 3: was special, I believe with his ability, but he was
Speaker 3: only here one year, Like we barely got to know him.
Speaker 3: So it's just different. But I was thinking, you know what, man, like,
Speaker 3: we've been really lucky. We've been spoiled as a program
Speaker 3: with quarterbacks because we've all we've had a lot of
Speaker 3: all time greats. In fact, the guy who you know
Speaker 3: is coaching us now is one of our greats and
Speaker 3: his little brother was was phenomenal and now he's on
Speaker 3: the staff.
Speaker 2: So like, we've been really lucky.
Speaker 3: But like, now we've got a guy that, you know,
Speaker 3: like we should be able to sustain this as far
Speaker 3: as being a program that really can sell if you
Speaker 3: are if you are wanting to really make the most
Speaker 3: of your the rest of your college career, you know,
Speaker 3: Louisville's going to be the place that can really make
Speaker 3: you shine if you've got the ability. Because and this
Speaker 3: will always stand out to me because I wasn't expecting it.
Speaker 3: I was kind of surprised to hear, but it made
Speaker 3: sense once we got a little bit of an explanation.
Speaker 3: But during the Notre Dame game on Peacock, Jason Garrett
Speaker 3: was really gassing up Tyler Shuck and Jeff Brohm, and
Speaker 3: he'd mentioned that, you know, a lot of coaches don't
Speaker 3: like the new world where they got to go get
Speaker 3: a new quarterback every year, and you know, it's just
Speaker 3: a revolving door. But he said that Brom loves it
Speaker 3: because he loves being able to go out and find
Speaker 3: a guy that you know, he can he can see
Speaker 3: their ability, he can see maybe how they weren't utilized
Speaker 3: to their best ability in a different offense. And you know,
Speaker 3: he thinks he can really make it work. And honestly,
Speaker 3: I mean he he's done that. I mean again, I
Speaker 3: hate to sound as if he deserves all the credit,
Speaker 3: but let's be real here. I think if you are
Speaker 3: a quarterback and you're looking at options as far as
Speaker 3: where you could go to really showcase your talent and
Speaker 3: have some success and maybe get ready to be able
Speaker 3: to run an NFL pro style offense. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: not saying Brom's the only option, but he's a pretty
Speaker 3: good one. And you got and something else I wanted
Speaker 3: to mention because the Jack Plumber thing like Jack was
Speaker 3: good enough for us to not be you know, to
Speaker 3: not slip up and lose to bombs, right. I mean,
Speaker 3: there was that Pittsburgh game and you know, he clearly
Speaker 3: didn't make big plays whenever you needed to in some games,
Speaker 3: but like, he wasn't terrible. He just it was weird
Speaker 3: because usually you would think if Jeff Brom's got a
Speaker 3: team that's going to the ACC Championship, it's because he's
Speaker 3: got an elite offense that's high powered with a quarterback,
Speaker 3: they're throwing it all over the field. Whereas that team,
Speaker 3: their strength was not quarterback at all. It was a
Speaker 3: really good running game with Isaac Garrindo and Juar Jordan,
Speaker 3: two guys that you know, we kind of forget about
Speaker 3: because we got two freshmen that just knocked it out
Speaker 3: of the park in their first season with Isaac Brown
Speaker 3: and Duke Watson. So it was it was running back
Speaker 3: in a really good defense early on that really made
Speaker 3: that Louisville team in year one for Brom have the
Speaker 3: success that they have.
Speaker 2: So Plumber didn't get drafted, did he?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: He went undrafted. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the reason I bring that up is because I
Speaker 3: don't think this kid ended up really doing much of anything.
Speaker 3: But Louisville was apparently in line to get the transfer
Speaker 3: Tyler Ferguson from Western I'm pretty sure his name was
Speaker 3: Tyler Ferguson. No, no, Tyler Ferguson that might have been
Speaker 3: the guy who played at Louisville long long.
Speaker 2: Ago then transferred there.
Speaker 3: There was a guy who I'm forgetting his name, and
Speaker 3: he played it Western. I think two years ago was
Speaker 3: his final season, and he was suspected to come to Louisville,
Speaker 3: and I mean, I think he had more ability, better arm.
Speaker 3: I think he could have been pretty special, more so,
Speaker 3: you know, clearly than Jack Plumber and probably would have
Speaker 3: maybe been drafted. And you know, so one the reason
Speaker 3: they had Jack Plumber is because it fell through Western
Speaker 3: Kentucky actually did come up with some pretty big an
Speaker 3: al money to keep to keep that young man there,
Speaker 3: and you know that's why you ended up with uh
Speaker 3: with Plumber. And again there's really no way around it,
Speaker 3: like there's no way to say it without sound. It
Speaker 3: was Austin Ree was his name, by the way, But
Speaker 3: there's no way to to say it without it sounding
Speaker 3: mean or personal. But it's just it's just the truth
Speaker 3: in the facts, and that is that you know, he
Speaker 3: was the weakness of the team. I mean, again, the
Speaker 3: team wasn't super weak because they were ten and two
Speaker 3: team that you know clearly fell apart late a little bit,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless, like being the weakness of a team isn't
Speaker 3: always you know, doesn't mean you're terrible player, it's just that,
Speaker 3: you know, if there was this, and I really do
Speaker 3: think the brom component of it made it made people
Speaker 3: more willing to be like, who the hell is this
Speaker 3: guy under center? Which Jeff thinking this guy sucks like
Speaker 3: people would call into the postgame show and say those
Speaker 3: kind of things. And I think it's just because with Jeff,
Speaker 3: you expect there to be a really really high powered,
Speaker 3: you know, high powered offense with a quarterback that's thrown
Speaker 3: it all over the field. All right, real quick, So
Speaker 3: what did you make last night of the And you
Speaker 3: may not have even seen it. I know you know
Speaker 3: of the story, but the the kerfuffle if you will,
Speaker 3: after the game between the Pacers and the Bucks.
Speaker 2: I mean instant reaction when you see even though it.
Speaker 3: Probably wasn't live Tyrese Halliburton's dad doing what he was doing.
Speaker 3: I mean where you take I mean, like I think
Speaker 3: that is that's beyond lame. And I don't really I've
Speaker 3: not heard anybody claim, like, you know, he was justified
Speaker 3: and you know, Jannis was being sensitive. The only person
Speaker 3: I think that was that was that was taken a
Speaker 3: different approach as far as responding to it, reacting to
Speaker 3: it with Shaq, And I think Shaq is a character,
Speaker 3: and I like Shaq, but I think Shaq also really
Speaker 3: just enjoys, really enjoys, you know, going against the grain,
Speaker 3: playing Devil's had. Yeah, because everybody else was like, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just your your dad should never be out there anyway, right,
Speaker 3: and that that to me is the first thing. But
Speaker 3: also like this is gonna sound weird. Jannis Santetakounmpo is
Speaker 3: a specimen. He's tall as you know, a skyscraper building,
Speaker 3: and he's got arms long enough to do, you know,
Speaker 3: things that none of us would ever be able to
Speaker 3: do with our arms. But I think because of his nature,
Speaker 3: just because of his presence, in him being a very
Speaker 3: peaceful person. Clearly, you know, one of the issues for
Speaker 3: him early on in his career was not really having
Speaker 3: the motor right, like just not having the intensity because
Speaker 3: he's just a very mild mannered guy, very very calm.
Speaker 3: I almost feel like he did that to Yannis because
Speaker 3: he felt like he could, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But again, you wouldn't usually do that to somebody who's
Speaker 3: that tall and that big.
Speaker 2: But then again, like Yannis is not.
Speaker 3: Really a you know, scary, imposing kind of presence, and
Speaker 3: yet I saw Yannis angry in a way that you
Speaker 3: don't typically see, but I also totally understand it. So
Speaker 3: the biggest loser here is is the dad, sure in
Speaker 3: every way, because not only did he do something that
Speaker 3: like embarrassed his son and embarrassed the Pacers franchise, he
Speaker 3: also took away the moment like his son was the
Speaker 3: star last night. But that's not the story at all.
Speaker 3: People know it, but it's it's backburner compared to this,
Speaker 3: this situation that he created, that he started. And I
Speaker 3: thought Yanni's the long explanation about sort of why he
Speaker 3: just believes in being humble makes total sense. And I
Speaker 3: think if there's any player that might actually hear his
Speaker 3: side of it and maybe be a little bit more
Speaker 3: mindful about winning with you know, I know it's going
Speaker 3: to sund corny and cheesy, but like winning with grace
Speaker 3: and class, Like you know, there's there's like I think
Speaker 3: you can look good doing that too, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3: I know, we want to be flashy and in your face,
Speaker 3: and a lot of times that does add an entertainment element,
Speaker 3: and sometimes it's just people's personality that that that comes
Speaker 3: off either, you know, I think clearly certain guys who
Speaker 3: are really animated and over the top, that's their personality
Speaker 3: on or off the floor. Johannis, I think the guy
Speaker 3: you heard last night just kind of explained why he
Speaker 3: just doesn't register to him. For people to act like
Speaker 3: that and and you know, be in your face and taunting,
Speaker 3: that's just not who he is. And it's all because
Speaker 3: of you know, how he was raised. But I really
Speaker 3: thought Halliburton being in that situation, Like I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to paint him as a victim here, but he kind
Speaker 3: of is is he not sure? Like because his dad
Speaker 3: did something that clearly he wouldn't he wouldn't condone, he wouldn't,
Speaker 3: you know, he wouldn't.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Ever, there's no way that like he would want his
Speaker 3: dad to do that. And I think he's a grown
Speaker 3: man and like he's mature. So maybe I'm maybe I'm
Speaker 3: off here, but I think even given the fact that
Speaker 3: he's a grown up and he understands the optics of it,
Speaker 3: like there's some things that my dad could probably do
Speaker 3: that I would I wouldn't hear you meaning now it's
Speaker 3: my dad, I don't really care like I'm gonna support him.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna, I'm gonna defend him, and I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: because it's my dad, so you know, to have the
Speaker 3: maturity and you know, I just again, I think I
Speaker 3: think this was about as good of a response as
Speaker 3: you could possibly have for the situation that took place.
Speaker 4: You know, as far as the incident between the honest
Speaker 4: and my pops, I had no idea what happened till
Speaker 4: I got to the back and showed the video.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Me and my pops have talked about that, and I
Speaker 4: don't agree with you know what what transpired there from him.
Speaker 4: You know, you know, I think basketball is basketball and
Speaker 4: let's keep it on the court. And I think that
Speaker 4: he just you know, got excited saw the Sun make
Speaker 4: a game winner and came on the court. But I
Speaker 4: think we had a we had a conversation, and you know,
Speaker 4: I think he just needs to just allow me to
Speaker 4: just play basketball. Stay over there. I'll come to him
Speaker 4: to to to celebrate. But I think it's the emotions
Speaker 4: of the game. Just got excited there. But I talked
Speaker 4: to him I'll talk with you honest eventually about it.
Speaker 4: Just you know, I don't think that my pops wasn't
Speaker 4: the right at all there and unfortunate you know what
Speaker 4: happened in the end there. But I mean this series
Speaker 4: was a lot of war of words, a lot of
Speaker 4: war of antics, a lot of stuff going back and forth.
Speaker 3: So again that was the that was the gist of
Speaker 3: him talking about his dad, and I think, you know,
Speaker 3: it's just words, but I think that's about as good
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Speaker 3: Not a lot of time left here before we wrap
Speaker 3: it up and Austin, this will be another day where
Speaker 3: I just get the hell out of here because I
Speaker 3: got to get to a baseball game that starts at
Speaker 3: six o'clock. Oh but what if I told you that
Speaker 3: James Scott is going to be visiting.
Speaker 2: Auburn. What do you think of that? Oh, as long
Speaker 2: as we're trading him with the thirty year old, Well,
Speaker 2: he already committed to USC. Oh I didn't see that.
Speaker 2: It just popped a couple of days ago, maybe yesterday.
Speaker 3: So this is weird for me because James Scott has
Speaker 3: become the first trendsfer that I'm genuinely worried about, like
Speaker 3: I want. I want it to work out well for him,
Speaker 3: regardless of where he is, because I like him. I
Speaker 3: think He's a good dude, and I wish he was
Speaker 3: playing for us, But you know, I just I just
Speaker 3: know how close he is to Pat Kelsey, and you know,
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey genuinely wants him to have a great career
Speaker 3: the rest of the the rest of the way, even
Speaker 3: though it's not gonna beat Louisville. And I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna feel the same way. I just hate that
Speaker 3: James is leaving, but you know he's gonna look out
Speaker 3: for himself and do what he believes is best for him.
Speaker 3: But Auburn, like if they just give him a bunch
Speaker 3: of money, but yet he struggles and maybe does play
Speaker 3: a lot or doesn't because he's not able to fit
Speaker 3: what they want to do. Like can you say that
Speaker 3: that's a bummer because this is going to be a
Speaker 3: new element to just this new world. Is that Yeah,
Speaker 3: you didn't produce, you didn't have the you know the
Speaker 3: year you thought, but damn.
Speaker 2: You got paid.
Speaker 3: Like that's what that that matters a lot, right, Like,
Speaker 3: So you know, I worry for him because they do
Speaker 3: need a big you know, they've added a lot of guys,
Speaker 3: they lost Jenni Broome. The only center they have coming
Speaker 3: in is a Juco guy, and they also they also
Speaker 3: let's see, they've added some other guys in the portal,
Speaker 3: like Keishan Murphy, but these are guys that are not
Speaker 3: I mean, James is a true five because he doesn't
Speaker 3: have any really, you know, that's just what he is.
Speaker 3: He's a rim protector, a rim runner, and you know,
Speaker 3: they have a real need. So maybe they're going to
Speaker 3: pay a lot of money. But I just don't think
Speaker 3: he'd fit there because you know, put it this way,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think he'd be a much better
Speaker 3: situation at Louisville. But you know, it's his decision, his choice.
Speaker 3: And also if money is really the factor in Auburn
Speaker 3: can pay a lot, then you know it gonna be
Speaker 3: hard for me to say he's making a mistake. But yeah,
Speaker 3: he's gonna be visiting Auburn soon and that kind of
Speaker 3: tells you. I mean, Auburn's a one seed from last
Speaker 3: year Final four team. I mean, yeah, he's gonna have interest.
Speaker 3: For those that just think this guy's super replaceable, I mean,
Speaker 3: he has a value that won't always show in the stats,
Speaker 3: and that's why I'm gonna miss him. All Right, We're
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