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Speaker 4: It is really starting to hit me that there are
Speaker 4: not many many shows left here of this program Coffee
Speaker 4: and Company field by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety,
Speaker 4: and it bums me out. I'm super excited, but you know,
Speaker 4: next Friday, who knows what's in store. But if I'm
Speaker 4: looking for a silver lining here, I think I may
Speaker 4: have found one. I won't be reminded that nearly every
Speaker 4: day we remind people to tune in at two fifty
Speaker 4: nine fifty five, as if like, oh wow, good thing
Speaker 4: you told me five seconds before. I wouldn't have you
Speaker 4: know anyways, Also the chipmunk voice like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I've been told that there's a certain like when it's
Speaker 4: national programming, because it is national programming here until.
Speaker 3: Austin puts us live right at three o'clock.
Speaker 4: Right, there's some kind of like thing that it's in
Speaker 4: that makes like, I guess, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: If it's automation, yeah, if it's a filter effect whatever,
Speaker 4: But like I sound like I'm thirteen years old, as
Speaker 4: if puberty hasn't actually come through for me yet. And
Speaker 4: it's never a good thing to hear as you start
Speaker 4: your show. But you know again that probably won't. I
Speaker 4: mean I would assume starting next not next week, but
Speaker 4: the week after, they will no longer be telling people
Speaker 4: to tune in because you know I won't be here.
Speaker 3: But anyways, let's get it started.
Speaker 4: Welcome in, Happy hump Day, a beautiful day here in Louisville,
Speaker 4: and we'll have some fun as always.
Speaker 3: We'll take you up till six o'clock. My name's Knick Coffee.
Speaker 4: Austin Montgomery's alongside, and I've been running running around all day,
Speaker 4: happy to be here, as mentioned, ready to get the
Speaker 4: party started. But I now have to completely just accept defeat.
Speaker 4: I have tried for the last few years, Austin, to
Speaker 4: just assume that it would get better on its own.
Speaker 4: I didn't need to do anything, but I need to
Speaker 4: be on medication for allergies. Allergies are kicking on my
Speaker 4: ass in the last like two weeks.
Speaker 2: How so, just like the sniffles, the little cough every
Speaker 2: here and there.
Speaker 4: So coughing, no, but my nose feels at times like
Speaker 4: it's being tickled internally, and my eyeballs itch. They're often watery.
Speaker 4: If I rub them, then I end up not being
Speaker 4: able to stop rubbing them, and then it looks as
Speaker 4: if like I've got you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, but it feels good when you rub them.
Speaker 3: But not me. I never get the satisfaction.
Speaker 4: Really, you know it, well maybe for a brief moment,
Speaker 4: and then I realized I just got to start, you know,
Speaker 4: like I want to I want to rip. The way
Speaker 4: my allergies have really impacted me in the last few
Speaker 4: weeks is that I want to be able to rip
Speaker 4: my eyeballs out and then scratch inside there and then
Speaker 4: put the eyeball back in. I can't, I obviously can't
Speaker 4: do that, but I feel like it would be awesome.
Speaker 4: And I've lived here my whole life, like I've I've
Speaker 4: literally lived in the exact same area my entire life,
Speaker 4: and as I've gotten older each year, it's gotten a
Speaker 4: little bit worse, and I don't know enough about really
Speaker 4: what causes it. But there are some times where I
Speaker 4: can be out and it's not it's not that big
Speaker 4: of a deal now though, like certain days like today,
Speaker 4: I was outside for a good chunk of the day.
Speaker 3: I went to the zoo, which was a nice little
Speaker 3: uh field trip for my daughter's school. But it it,
Speaker 3: it kicked my ass.
Speaker 4: I mean, I got back in my car and it
Speaker 4: wasn't even like it hit me while I was outside,
Speaker 4: but once I got in my car and drove away,
Speaker 4: like I had to not pull off to the side
Speaker 4: of the road, but I pulled into a gas station
Speaker 4: just because I needed to like gather myself because I
Speaker 4: was my eyeballs were were bothering me that bad.
Speaker 2: You're bowing down to the Uh.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes I am.
Speaker 4: I am bending the knee excepting to feed here because
Speaker 4: I cannot.
Speaker 3: I can't. I can't beat them.
Speaker 2: I'm losing you.
Speaker 4: And I've I've always for the most part, been you know,
Speaker 4: pretty healthy or I've got you know, as I get older,
Speaker 4: I try to make sure I at least monitor my
Speaker 4: health more than I did when I was younger. But allergies,
Speaker 4: I mean, I've always heard people talk about it. It's
Speaker 4: not one of those things that I just assumed weren't real.
Speaker 4: Like there are some people that still live in this
Speaker 4: world today thinking like mental health is not real and
Speaker 4: it's just like an excuse people make, which is a
Speaker 4: really sad existence. But but people think that, you know, allergies.
Speaker 4: I never was like, oh, you guys are full of it,
Speaker 4: but I never quite understood what it was like to
Speaker 4: actually deal with bad allergies. And I've always been told
Speaker 4: that where we live in this area, the Ohio Valley,
Speaker 4: that you know, I guess, dependent upon what really bothers
Speaker 4: you when it comes to allergies, we could we could
Speaker 4: be in a place that would be the worst place
Speaker 4: for you. I'm not sure if I'm there yet. Maybe
Speaker 4: I'm just maybe maybe people are listening like, oh, you
Speaker 4: have no clue what it's like. You don't go through
Speaker 4: what I go through. You you right, All I know
Speaker 4: is that what I'm dealing with now. I got to
Speaker 4: find a daily pill or something that can keep me
Speaker 4: from having to deal with this because it's been I
Speaker 4: mean you may see me in here rubbing my nose,
Speaker 4: rubbing my eyes, and here this is one that really
Speaker 4: makes me kind of thinking I need to really get it.
Speaker 4: Like the roof of my mouth itches, and I never
Speaker 4: thought that had anything to do with it, but apparently
Speaker 4: that that's all allergy driven. So what I think is weird, though,
Speaker 4: is why now, right, why now that I get older,
Speaker 4: is it bothering me. It's not like sometimes you move
Speaker 4: to an area or you end up traveling to an
Speaker 4: area and it really you know, you're out of your surroundings,
Speaker 4: so you realize, then, hey, if I lived here, I
Speaker 4: would have to be on medication because I can't deal
Speaker 4: with the pollen or whatever it is that you know
Speaker 4: gives you these kind of issues with allergies. But I now,
Speaker 4: today was the day where I was like, all right, man,
Speaker 4: you had a good run thirty six years as a
Speaker 4: as a citizen, as a resident in this area. You
Speaker 4: were able to put up a good fight. And it
Speaker 4: never I mean, I can't remember anytime growing up, or
Speaker 4: anytime maybe even in like the first thirty something years
Speaker 4: of my life, where I ever felt like I even
Speaker 4: really knew what allergies were. I mean, I'm not allergic
Speaker 4: to anything, and I've never been outside and felt like,
Speaker 4: oh wow, I need to take an allegra or something
Speaker 4: because I'm sneezing a lot or I'm rubbing in my eyes.
Speaker 4: But there's been at least like three or four days
Speaker 4: since we got to I guess, probably like mid April,
Speaker 4: that I like I can't be outside, and even if
Speaker 4: I am and I go indoors, I'm still paying the
Speaker 4: price for being outside for like five or ten minutes.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure none of you care about that, but
Speaker 4: you may hear me today have to just turn the
Speaker 4: mic off and Austin don't have to tap dance for
Speaker 4: us for maybe a few seconds because I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: to just like blow my nose. Wish there's nothing there,
Speaker 4: but I'm blowing my nose to try to like, you know,
Speaker 4: find default relief.
Speaker 2: Trying to tell your system I'm trying to fix it.
Speaker 4: Not only that, but like relief in itch like I can't,
Speaker 4: you know, I can't. I can't dig in my nose.
Speaker 4: But even if I could, like where I need relief
Speaker 4: and be able to get to anyway, Like it's there's
Speaker 4: the you know, the sinuses that's the the that that
Speaker 4: is the area for me that like I just I need,
Speaker 4: I need some relief. But anyways, I'm open to all
Speaker 4: suggestions on the text line. If you guys have a
Speaker 4: daily allergy pill that you take that has helped you,
Speaker 4: please let me know because I'm willing to try not anything,
Speaker 4: but i'll try something.
Speaker 3: In fact, my wife, you know.
Speaker 4: She's she's always she's dealt with it her whole life
Speaker 4: and not she does have sympathy for me, and she
Speaker 4: tries to help me, but like now I feel bad
Speaker 4: because she has it really bad, like she has to.
Speaker 4: She's always had to take allergy pills, allergy medic medication
Speaker 4: since she was a child, and it's if she doesn't
Speaker 4: then clearly it's going to be a bad day for her.
Speaker 4: And I've always been sympathetic, but like I've never actually
Speaker 4: known what that was like. And I feel like now
Speaker 4: I'm kind of getting there. But she's also told me, well,
Speaker 4: you want to make sure not take this because it's
Speaker 4: it's drowsy. I don't want to be drowsy during the day.
Speaker 4: And then I've taken one at night thinking it would
Speaker 4: be good to just go ahead and get it in
Speaker 4: my system. And then next day I'll wake up and
Speaker 4: not be drowsy. But if I take the one I
Speaker 4: took a couple of weeks ago, I woke up the
Speaker 4: next day feeling like I was hungover, Like I was
Speaker 4: still like just you know, groggy.
Speaker 2: So I've never had like even when I've taken some
Speaker 2: sort of bena drill or something in the afternoon and
Speaker 2: stuff that is supposed to make you groggy or sleepy
Speaker 2: or a lot of the stuff that people don't like
Speaker 2: to take in the afternoon just because they'll make you sleepy.
Speaker 2: Never makes me sleepy. We must have a high like tolerance,
Speaker 2: I don't know from other things that's destroyed my body.
Speaker 4: So when you came from Arizona to this area, did
Speaker 4: you have any kind of like a was it whatever?
Speaker 4: Like it didn't you didn't even really. I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: sure you notice the difference in weather, but like you
Speaker 4: didn't have any allergies because we I mean, I've always
Speaker 4: been told that where we live, if you have allergies,
Speaker 4: it's not a good place to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just because there's a lot of green,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of wind and stuff like that. From
Speaker 2: what I understand, that's how allergies work. I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not expert in that. But no, back in Arizona, there wasn't, No,
Speaker 2: wasn't a whole lot of allergy. No, because it's still
Speaker 2: for me now, ye know, Like the air is different there, yeah,
Speaker 2: and much thinner.
Speaker 4: And I've again what made me just fight this as
Speaker 4: if like there's no way, there's no way, because I've
Speaker 4: lived my whole life and it's never impacted me. So
Speaker 4: if I'm having these issues, it can't be allergies. It's
Speaker 4: got to be something else. Maybe it's a sinus infection,
Speaker 4: maybe it's just you know, I got something up my nose.
Speaker 4: But now again I'm throwing in the towel.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 4: I'm waving the white flag as they say, defeat. I'm defeated,
Speaker 4: and I got to start taking something. But there's nothing
Speaker 4: worse than taking medication that makes you feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: a zombie or something. And I've always been I've always
Speaker 4: I used to have. I used to I was going
Speaker 4: through trying to find a medication for me years ago
Speaker 4: that that was needed, but I couldn't find for a
Speaker 4: while the right balance and what I was taking to
Speaker 4: try to figure out what would work it made me
Speaker 4: feel like I was on autopilot, and I hated that.
Speaker 3: So since then, I've just kind of resisted trying different medicine.
Speaker 4: Because I didn't want to feel that way. But maybe
Speaker 4: it's worth it, because I mean, my eyes feel like
Speaker 4: they weigh seventy five right now. They can't be normal,
Speaker 4: right like, you know, even like the back of my
Speaker 4: head like like like like but you know right behind
Speaker 4: my ears, that area, like it feels like there's something
Speaker 4: built up back there. I don't know, I'm interesting, I'm interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe I needed to go get checked down. Maybe I
Speaker 4: got something much deeper going on than allegis.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: But you know, as soon as as soon as I
Speaker 4: sat down, and you know, I've been trying to fight
Speaker 4: through it, blowing my nose a bunch and I actually
Speaker 4: put some eye drops in. Uh. But as soon as
Speaker 4: we started the show, I'm thinking, okay, you're not. I
Speaker 4: want to get it out of the way because I
Speaker 4: may have to just you know. And and today was
Speaker 4: a day where I was outside a lot more throughout
Speaker 4: the day than I typically am. I'm usually not outside.
Speaker 4: You went to THEO today, right, Yeah, good little zoo
Speaker 4: field trip and we had a great time. I mean,
Speaker 4: I wish I could blame it on the animals, but
Speaker 4: I don't think they had anything to do with it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this was a day at the.
Speaker 4: Zoo where I think every school in the state of
Speaker 4: Kentucky took a class or multiple classes to the zoo.
Speaker 4: It was it was packed, but it was a good time.
Speaker 4: We we got to see a lot of the animals,
Speaker 4: get to play on the playground.
Speaker 2: Do you have any favorite animals you like to see
Speaker 2: at the zoo?
Speaker 4: So, yeah, but it's not exciting like it's I was
Speaker 4: telling my daughter Maya and some of her classmates about
Speaker 4: my favorite animal. They were talking about going to see
Speaker 4: the giraffe and going to see the lion. There was
Speaker 4: a snow leopard.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there was.
Speaker 4: Actually I feel like there was more big snakes than
Speaker 4: I typically see at the zoo. So you know, they've
Speaker 4: got all these exotic animals and here I am telling
Speaker 4: them I like the turtles, which I do. I like
Speaker 4: the I think turtles are fascinating animals. Yes, their shells
Speaker 4: are really interesting to me. I mean they're beautiful, so
Speaker 4: live forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The tortoise, I mean I thought it was a Big
Speaker 4: Rock when I first got to where they were set up,
Speaker 4: and no, sure enough it was you know, a tortoise
Speaker 4: was probably six hundred years old.
Speaker 3: Or something like that.
Speaker 4: I mean that's an exaggeration, but they, as Austin mentioned,
Speaker 4: they do live a long time.
Speaker 2: So they also have the koalas. I think they just
Speaker 2: got the Koala bears, like the baby koala cubs last year.
Speaker 2: Last year. Recently they got some koala cubs that I
Speaker 2: haven't yet to go see, but they I mean they're
Speaker 2: a doward.
Speaker 3: You're a zoo guy.
Speaker 2: I haven't been to the zoo in a while, but
Speaker 2: I do love when I get the chance to go.
Speaker 2: It's it's a great time. I love learning about the
Speaker 2: animals and their habitats and stuff like that. I know
Speaker 2: that there's not there's a lot of people like that
Speaker 2: look on it from the humane side that don't like zoos,
Speaker 2: But I like to look at zoos for what they
Speaker 2: do positive for all these species.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say this, I've I've never gone to
Speaker 4: the zoo as a kid or really even as an adult,
Speaker 4: and thought about what you hear from some people when
Speaker 4: it comes to like what zoos are, and I'd prefer
Speaker 4: to keep it that way, because you know, it can
Speaker 4: make you think like, Okay, you know, is this animal
Speaker 4: is it is it on medication to keep it from
Speaker 4: being like, you know, reminded that it's not in its
Speaker 4: natural habitat and it's basically behind glass for people to
Speaker 4: just look at. I mean, it's there is an element
Speaker 4: to it that's that's kind of sad. But I also
Speaker 4: like to think that maybe some of the animals that
Speaker 4: are at the zoo, like they're there because they needed
Speaker 4: to be rescued or something, yeah, to reserve them. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: the zoo was was was a good time, always good
Speaker 4: and there were a lot of kids there. I'm not
Speaker 4: sure I've ever been anywhere ever where there were that
Speaker 4: many kids, all manygains. The zoo is a huge area,
Speaker 4: so it's.
Speaker 3: Not like they were all in one in one spot together.
Speaker 2: The busy spot too, I feel like, could you go, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's like the only one that you can feed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the giraffe, and they're so chill, dude.
Speaker 2: The drafts are like like the potheads of animals. I
Speaker 2: mean they i mean their heads constantly in the sky.
Speaker 2: They only eat green, and they're just so relaxed and
Speaker 2: chill like they don't. They're not really scared of humans.
Speaker 4: Their pure existence is entertaining because their necks are you know,
Speaker 4: twenty feet long.
Speaker 2: Wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's always been my daughter's favorite, is the giraffe.
Speaker 2: That's pretty neat.
Speaker 3: Drafts are drafts are are? You know?
Speaker 4: They're a vibe and the I will say, I don't
Speaker 4: think I've ever gone to the zoo at any point
Speaker 4: and the lions not been just laid out, taken a
Speaker 4: power now.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, like they're never active.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not very active. In fact, the sloth today
Speaker 4: was more active than the lions, which I think is
Speaker 4: which is telling you something.
Speaker 2: Always been a fan of the cappy bara too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like the giant hamster looking thing like those exist
Speaker 2: in the wild. That's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean, I I don't know why, but
Speaker 4: today on the field trip we were there was more
Speaker 4: I guess, stopping at each spot rather than just doing
Speaker 4: the When we would take the kids, we would just
Speaker 4: you know, we didn't do a whole lot of stopping
Speaker 4: to really spend you know, much time looking at one
Speaker 4: specific area unless it was an area that one of
Speaker 4: the kids really liked, like the Girafts, which is usually
Speaker 4: towards the end of the zoo. But you know, you
Speaker 4: read about you know, and again it was an educational trip.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just to go see animals. We had her
Speaker 4: teachers and whatnot, some of them you know, talking about
Speaker 4: telling things. I mean, I was educated today about some
Speaker 4: of the animals there. So it was it was a
Speaker 4: good experience, but man, it kicked my ass because these
Speaker 4: allergies have just been you know.
Speaker 2: Been all the walking to I'm sure, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the walking wasn't wasn't as bad because we we
Speaker 4: had to go you know, you couldn't really go fast
Speaker 4: if you wanted to, because one, there were so many
Speaker 4: people there. But also when you have such a big
Speaker 4: group of kids like you got to make sure you're
Speaker 4: all together and you got to you know, stop every
Speaker 4: now and then to make.
Speaker 3: Sure you do it. We got it.
Speaker 4: We had to do a pretty consistent roll call throughout
Speaker 4: make sure we had all kids, which.
Speaker 2: I mean every three animals or so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully every you hear, hopefully every class was able
Speaker 4: to bring back all the kids that they took. But
Speaker 4: it would not shock me and I'm not sure anybody
Speaker 4: could really be at fault if for a moment you
Speaker 4: had to look around, Okay, where's this kid, where's that kid?
Speaker 4: Because it's a uh, it's a free for all. But
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, this is just a this is a
Speaker 4: no brainer. But like I would have never thought about it.
Speaker 4: But there's a reason why when they send you to
Speaker 4: the zoo, they make they don't make, but they.
Speaker 3: Encourage kids to wear.
Speaker 4: Like everybody in Maya's class had the same shirt on,
Speaker 4: which was very made it very easy for us to identify, Yeah,
Speaker 4: our crew, who's a part of what class, exactly, what
Speaker 4: grew exactly.
Speaker 2: So I remember having a birthday party years ago at
Speaker 2: Louisville Zoo, and I don't know if they still do
Speaker 2: it the same now, but they set you up in
Speaker 2: like there's like a sea through wall that's right next
Speaker 2: to like the monkey habitat so like, and the monkeys
Speaker 2: will come up to the glass and you can like
Speaker 2: mimic them and mime stuff with the pantomime stuff with
Speaker 2: them and everything like that. It's one of my more
Speaker 2: memorable parties. But this is probably when I was like
Speaker 2: five or six.
Speaker 4: Dude, I never had any we never had I never
Speaker 4: had a party at the zoo, and I never had
Speaker 4: any cool field trips like that. Maybe I just don't remember,
Speaker 4: but like we we went. I mean, field trips were
Speaker 4: always fun because you got to get out of class,
Speaker 4: like you got to go do something. We went to
Speaker 4: a lot of plays. I guess that was kind of fun.
Speaker 2: We okay, I never went to a place.
Speaker 4: We took some some trips to the tractors, theaters, saw
Speaker 4: some cool plays. We went to the Science Center a lot,
Speaker 4: which that was That was fine. But the zoo and
Speaker 4: when did it come? Yeah, we talked about the other day,
Speaker 4: like there was a Bats game where they started at
Speaker 4: like ten thirty in the morning because it was it
Speaker 4: was the kids dad the education day. And I'm like,
Speaker 4: we never got to go to the zoo when I
Speaker 4: was in school. We never got to go to a game.
Speaker 4: They'd be cool as hell. So I'm jealous of these kids.
Speaker 4: But this is the second year I've chaperoned our annual
Speaker 4: zoo trip for her classroom, and it was it was
Speaker 4: a good time. It was a good time. But again
Speaker 4: I'm paying for it. But hopefully hopefully you know, when
Speaker 4: I when I leave here, I'm probably gonna walk down
Speaker 4: to the UH to the Is it a Walgreens of
Speaker 4: CVS that's just down the slot, Yes, right down the blow.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hit that CVS and I'm just gonna say like, hey,
Speaker 4: please help me, give me, just say please, please give me,
Speaker 4: and they'll just look up allergies. It won't be quite
Speaker 4: the scene is if you've seen Hitch with Kevin James
Speaker 4: and Will Smith when he's allergic to some he's got
Speaker 4: like food allergies and he's in that he's in that
Speaker 4: that drug store and just like looks like completely like
Speaker 4: he's you know, yeah, he looks like death.
Speaker 3: It won't be that.
Speaker 4: I won't have the visual, but I gotta get something
Speaker 4: going here. So all right, let's let's get the table set.
Speaker 4: As mentioned, we are taking you up till six o'clock.
Speaker 4: There's a lot to get into. A lot of reaction
Speaker 4: from the big news in the last roughly twenty four
Speaker 4: to forty eight hours about the n C double A
Speaker 4: basically saying, look, we're going to leave it to you guys,
Speaker 4: meaning the four Power conferences to determine how you're going
Speaker 4: to enforce things, what kind of regulations, what kind of rules,
Speaker 4: And I think it may turn into a big game
Speaker 4: of chicken, right, Like, if you are a big, powerful
Speaker 4: school and you bring a lot of value to your league,
Speaker 4: and it would be clear that if you didn't exist
Speaker 4: in that league anymore, the league wouldn't be as valuable.
Speaker 4: And by the way, there aren't that many programs like that.
Speaker 3: But if you don't want to do this, who's going
Speaker 3: to force the issue?
Speaker 4: Who's going like if you you know, Tennessee is the
Speaker 4: one that comes to mind for me because they're the
Speaker 4: ones who still as of even this past you know,
Speaker 4: this past week, they are still filing lawsuits to try
Speaker 4: to basically say we'll pay whatever and we'll fight it
Speaker 4: in court to where we're going to utilize our pockets
Speaker 4: and our our deep boosters to where we can we
Speaker 4: can we can buy our way out of anything by
Speaker 4: any player we want. So if Tennessee was told by
Speaker 4: the SEC, sorry, you're kicked out of the league if
Speaker 4: you don't do it, like, would they actually do that?
Speaker 4: I Mean, here's where you really need everybody being on
Speaker 4: the same page, and that's that's best for everyone. But
Speaker 4: there may be some that just say, look no, if
Speaker 4: we feel like we've got a better ability to compete
Speaker 4: at a higher level, and we can take advantage of
Speaker 4: this and it'll be better for us to have more success.
Speaker 3: Then that's what we're gonna do. I mean, there may
Speaker 3: be programs.
Speaker 4: That I wouldn't be shocked if there's a few out
Speaker 4: there that think, yeah, this is a mess, but we've
Speaker 4: been able to benefit from it, So why we want
Speaker 4: to change it. If everybody's got an even playing field,
Speaker 4: we're no longer being able to leverage and utilize a
Speaker 4: strinth that we have.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I'm holding out hope that it gets
Speaker 3: worked out.
Speaker 4: But again, you're relying on everybody to work together, and
Speaker 4: I don't think everybody's going to be willing to do
Speaker 4: that because by doing that, they may put themselves in
Speaker 4: a position to where they're not as able to succeed.
Speaker 4: And you know, I kind of get it from that standpoint,
Speaker 4: but something's got to give. This is not sustainable as
Speaker 4: far as where it is right now with no regulations
Speaker 4: and it being a complete free for all. Also, Game
Speaker 4: one of the Western Conference Finals last night is now
Speaker 4: complete as the thunder protected home court they went over
Speaker 4: the Tea Wolves. I want to talk about this probably
Speaker 4: coming up here soon on the other side, because I
Speaker 4: found myself watching last night, and I've never been in
Speaker 4: the position that Kentucky fans may be in. If you
Speaker 4: don't watch the playoffs, then whatever, I get it. NBA's
Speaker 4: not for everybody. But like you've got Shay Gillis Alexander
Speaker 4: an MVP candidate leading the Thunder. You've got Julius Ramday,
Speaker 4: who last night had the Tea Wolves on his back.
Speaker 4: I mean, two former players that gave you some great moments.
Speaker 4: How do you decide who you want to win?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: How do you?
Speaker 4: Again, I've never I've never been in this position. I've
Speaker 4: never watched an NBA game or really certainly a playoff
Speaker 4: series where.
Speaker 3: I'm having to decide I've got a Louisville guy.
Speaker 4: Like the closest thing I've had is my Pacers last
Speaker 4: series going up against Donovan and the Calves. But for
Speaker 4: me it was pretty easy because I'm a Pacers fan.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, just it's not new that Canentucky's
Speaker 4: had such representation in the NBA.
Speaker 3: That's been the case for a long time.
Speaker 4: But I think I could be just making this up
Speaker 4: at three twenty one without giving in any thought before
Speaker 4: right now, in this moment, But has Cow's guys that
Speaker 4: moved on from Kentucky to the NBA. Has there been
Speaker 4: this much representation for them this late in the postseason? Again,
Speaker 4: maybe there hasn't. I'm just an idiot, But you've got
Speaker 4: again Shay and Cason Wallace for the Thunder. You've got
Speaker 4: Julius Randall, who's a big piece for the Wolves, dealing
Speaker 4: him doesn't play a lot, but he's with the with
Speaker 4: the Wolves as well.
Speaker 3: And then obviously Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 4: He's been a huge factor for the Bodega Cat as
Speaker 4: they call him. He's been a big factor for the Knicks.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, just I'm kind of envious in
Speaker 4: a way, but if I was in your shoes, I'm
Speaker 4: not really sure how I would determine who I wanted
Speaker 4: to win. Also, we've got an updated look at.
Speaker 3: The annual rankings that.
Speaker 4: CBS puts out CBS Sports, I should say, for the
Speaker 4: best coaches in college football. I do love the reaction
Speaker 4: from some Kentucky fans that are like Mark Stoops is
Speaker 4: no longer a consensus top twenty five football coach. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't want to do the rivalry thing and like
Speaker 4: make it about that, but like, did you ever really
Speaker 4: believe he.
Speaker 3: Was what would make you think that?
Speaker 4: The only thing that would ever make you think that
Speaker 4: is that he won some games at Kentucky which nobody
Speaker 4: else had done before. Like there's really not any specific
Speaker 4: accomplishment that isn't super related to just the fact that
Speaker 4: it's Kentucky that made him ever look good. And I'm
Speaker 4: not saying he's a bad coach. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 4: even saying he should be fired because last year, as
Speaker 4: bad as it was, he does probably deserve that Mulligan
Speaker 4: because of he has put their program in a much
Speaker 4: different world than they were in previously. But anybody claiming
Speaker 4: Stoops was a great coach during his time in Lexington,
Speaker 4: claiming he's you know, top twenty, they're just looking at
Speaker 4: it from one specific element. Damn, Kentucky isn't a dorm
Speaker 4: at anymore in the SEC. Guy must be pretty good.
Speaker 4: And that's not that's not unfair, but like that's that,
Speaker 4: that's that's always been what made him seem anything other
Speaker 4: than what he is, which is a coach that is
Speaker 4: pretty pretty blah. I mean, I don't really think that's
Speaker 4: a hot take. I don't think that's me doing the
Speaker 4: rivalry thing. I think that's just what it is, so
Speaker 4: we can get into that. Also, the tush push will
Speaker 4: not be banned. The tush push is here to stay,
Speaker 4: which I don't really care a lot about it, but
Speaker 4: I know it's a hot topic in the NBA or
Speaker 4: in the NFL, and I just love that the Eagles
Speaker 4: sent Jason Kelcey to this NFL owners meeting I guess
Speaker 4: in Minneapolis or wherever it was to like it's like
Speaker 4: it's like where it's like he's at Congress or something
Speaker 4: fighting for them to change a law like it. I mean,
Speaker 4: is it that big of a deal. I mean, clearly
Speaker 4: they they mean, clearly they benefit from it. The Eagles
Speaker 4: and others could do it as well, but like I
Speaker 4: didn't realize it was that big of an issue, but
Speaker 4: clearly it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything Eagles do is corny.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of with you. I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 2: I think I think Jason Kelsey's corny. I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, like Philadelphia US against the World,
Speaker 2: Philly is corny.
Speaker 4: That I don't mind as much, just because I think
Speaker 4: there's some hit like the Rocky thing kind of plays
Speaker 4: with me. But other than that like like Bert Kreischner
Speaker 4: is that his name?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And Travis Kelce, like they have the same build. They
Speaker 4: take their shirts off and drink beer. We're talking limited
Speaker 4: range here. That's not that funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they get the fat boy that's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not that fun Like again, I'm not saying
Speaker 4: those guys are bad dudes and I dislike them, but
Speaker 4: I've never quite understood like what, oh man, these guys
Speaker 4: are awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 4: Fifteen years Like the best thing ever was the the
Speaker 4: Tom Brady roast that Netflix did. And who is the
Speaker 4: girl who's so raunchy but kind of hot? Laer, Yeah,
Speaker 4: she's she's hot, but she's really hockey. She's really funny too,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Like that that that kind
Speaker 4: of works for me. But she was like, oh, oh
Speaker 4: is this Brett or Burt?
Speaker 2: It's Bert Bert Kreischer.
Speaker 3: Okay, well I was gonna say Brett Bert.
Speaker 4: Bert's the one who takes his shirt off a lot, right, yes, Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: like she was like, Oh, I love your joke where
Speaker 4: you take your shirt off.
Speaker 3: That's so funny.
Speaker 4: Because it's true, Like that's like if he like, that's
Speaker 4: such a subtle thing, but like, you know, and what
Speaker 4: was kind of funny in a way that maybe makes
Speaker 4: it makes me sound mean, but like he kind of
Speaker 4: and this is probably just him being a really good comedian.
Speaker 4: He kind of laughed, but then had the face where
Speaker 4: like he felt like he was outed, Like yeah, that's
Speaker 4: all I got. All I got is just I just
Speaker 4: ye hand, I'm kind of sloppy, and I take my
Speaker 4: shirt off and drink beer, and like everybody thinks it's funny,
Speaker 4: you know, like not there are many men in society
Speaker 4: that could do that that are also you know, on
Speaker 4: the heftier side or whatnot.
Speaker 3: So anyways, well have some fun today, stick around.
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Speaker 3: The allergies are actually improving.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's just because I've now been indoors for a
Speaker 4: good amount of time to where it's kind of fading away.
Speaker 4: But I've got my my son's baseball game tonight, and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be I'm gonna have some kind of medication
Speaker 4: in me before I get there, because I don't I
Speaker 4: don't want to. In fact, this is this is super
Speaker 4: not important at all. But just let me share this
Speaker 4: real quick, because what made me realize that I needed
Speaker 4: to just accept defeat wasn't just the zoo trip today
Speaker 4: where I was hurting, but on Mother's Day, we were
Speaker 4: at my mom's house and having a real good time
Speaker 4: just hanging out, you know, enjoying Mother's Day, spending time
Speaker 4: with my mom. But I'd been outside here and there
Speaker 4: playing with the kids, and it was a real bad day.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the pollen count was bad that
Speaker 4: day or whatever it was, but like anytime I went outside,
Speaker 4: like eyes water and I'm sneezing. I'm I'm not coughing,
Speaker 4: but like I just it was a bad day for allergies.
Speaker 3: And it got to the point where my mom was
Speaker 3: just like, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 4: What what is going on when you, like when you
Speaker 4: knock it off like thought I was doing it like intentional,
Speaker 4: and I was like, okay, yeah, she's right, I'm just
Speaker 4: I'm being I'm trying to be a hard ass here
Speaker 4: and not just accepting that I need to be, you know,
Speaker 4: on medication. And it's not like I'm We've already got
Speaker 4: people on the text line. Are you anti medicine?
Speaker 3: Not at all? Trust me?
Speaker 4: Uh, I would have a panic attack if I knew
Speaker 4: I didn't have meds that make me, you know, be
Speaker 4: able to get through a day. I'm not in any
Speaker 4: way anti med I'll experiment.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm not against that at all, not with anything. But
Speaker 4: you know, if you sell me off, well, I mean
Speaker 4: like you're not gonna do it.
Speaker 3: If I if I said, hey, Austin, I got a
Speaker 3: guy who's got some heroine, I'm not letting you do it,
Speaker 3: even if you want to. So don't leave.
Speaker 4: Don't leave the uh the listeners thinking you're out here
Speaker 4: putting anything. Yeah, I mean, but you know other things
Speaker 4: that may you know. Yeah, in fact, we're getting really
Speaker 4: out of out out of our lane here, if we
Speaker 4: even have a lane on this show. But have you
Speaker 4: noticed And maybe maybe I'm about to say something that
Speaker 4: you're gonna chuck out because you're gonna think, oh, Nick,
Speaker 4: you're so sheltered. But like shrooms are big now, yeah,
Speaker 4: not like you know to a crazy level, like you
Speaker 4: can now buy them like you can buy you know,
Speaker 4: like gummies to an extent in certain areas, and.
Speaker 2: Like it's got the psilocybin in Yeah. Yes, like I say,
Speaker 2: everyone's going off.
Speaker 4: It's a big market apparently. And you know, it's just
Speaker 4: something I didn't realize.
Speaker 2: I've had some of the the psilocybin drinks before, and
Speaker 2: they have like candies and stuff like that. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say that they've necessarily done anything for me. It's probably
Speaker 2: just not the high the highest of dosids, I guess.
Speaker 3: So you can now do like CBD drinks. They're real popular.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the cornbread people have Do.
Speaker 3: You think that they are? Have you had any of those?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we did collaboration with ah there. They taste
Speaker 2: really really good.
Speaker 3: That well, I'm not talking about taste here, sir, I'm
Speaker 3: talking about something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very much, very much. They even say it
Speaker 2: on the can, like how much you need to like
Speaker 2: if you really want to get that maximum like blissful
Speaker 2: type of feeling. And it's probably about like two and
Speaker 2: a half to three. But I can have one when
Speaker 2: I get off of work and that's all I need.
Speaker 3: Okay, now, now you're now we're talking, and.
Speaker 2: They taste like Seltzer's. I know you like yourself.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, Seltzer season is upon us, absolutely, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: And if Seltzer Season can now be enhanced with something
Speaker 4: other than just you know, little vodka or whatever they
Speaker 4: put in Seltzers depending on what you're drinking, then I'll
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll indulge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a corner of people spend good money here. Shout
Speaker 2: out to them.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Jim Team Jim.
Speaker 2: Awesome guy. There's another dude that runs their social Media's
Speaker 2: name is actually guy and it's he's a pretty he's
Speaker 2: a pretty cool, pretty cool cat.
Speaker 4: I feel like if you've got a guy in your
Speaker 4: group of guys, it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: You're trustworthy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't know any I
Speaker 4: don't know anybody like offhand named guy. But there's something
Speaker 4: that I that's an intriguing enough named or I would
Speaker 4: want to get to little.
Speaker 3: I would want to get to know guy a.
Speaker 2: Little bit, you know, like where does that come from?
Speaker 2: Is your name just Steve? And then you just you
Speaker 2: just happen to get on that crew like, Hey, I'm
Speaker 2: a guy. Look, no, your guy now.
Speaker 4: I mean, I look, if if it becomes such a
Speaker 4: momentous thing where I can't avoid the Nico, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go guy.
Speaker 3: I'm going guys, you know, instead of.
Speaker 2: Being like more of a guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a Nico.
Speaker 4: For those who don't get that reference, it's been made
Speaker 4: aware to me that my name is Nicholas. And most
Speaker 4: people now that are born within the last you know,
Speaker 4: fifteen twenty years, I suppose that are named Nicholas. It
Speaker 4: is more common that they go by Nico than Nick.
Speaker 4: And that completely threw me off. And I'm not I'm
Speaker 4: not conceding. I'm gonna be Nick.
Speaker 2: I knew one Nico when I lived in Arizona, but
Speaker 2: he was like Hispanic.
Speaker 4: Can you like, you know, and you wonder what his
Speaker 4: legal name was, Nico, because I guess that's that's a
Speaker 4: that's a real first name too. It's almost like if
Speaker 4: you're calling somebody Nico and their name is Nicholas, it's
Speaker 4: almost like you're a fraud, because like Nico can be
Speaker 4: a standalone name, Yeah, sure can be. I'm sure there
Speaker 4: are some people named Nick whose legal name is not Nicholas.
Speaker 4: But in fact, I think Nicholas Cage. It has like
Speaker 4: a bit where he talked, not a bit because he's
Speaker 4: not a comic, but like he had talked about how
Speaker 4: he learned of people named Nick and not Nicholas, and
Speaker 4: he didn't know that was the thing. And only I,
Speaker 4: as a fellow Nick, would remember that. I'm sure none
Speaker 4: of you care, but anyways, we'll move on. So the
Speaker 4: ncaa decision from Charlie Baker, who's now the president, which
Speaker 4: he's got to be like the least known name, who
Speaker 4: took over for a guy who everybody knew his name
Speaker 4: because everybody hated him. Mark Emmert was the I mean,
Speaker 4: he was the biggest punching bag in college sports for
Speaker 4: a long time for obvious reasons. And yet he also,
Speaker 4: you know, he was bringing in four or five million
Speaker 4: dollars annually, would get these big million dollar bonuses too,
Speaker 4: just because you know, the NCUBA made a lot of money.
Speaker 4: And at that time when he was running the show,
Speaker 4: you couldn't make any nil. And if you did anything
Speaker 4: to like, you know, sold to make ends meet as
Speaker 4: a college athlete, they tell you you're ineligible. I mean
Speaker 4: it was a real sham. But anyways, Charlie Baker is
Speaker 4: now the new Mark Emertt and he has confirmed as
Speaker 4: of yesterday that was the big news that they are
Speaker 4: currently meaning they When I say they, I mean the
Speaker 4: Power Conferences, the acc SEC, Big Ten, Big twelve. They're
Speaker 4: working together to get everybody within those leagues on the
Speaker 4: same page to sign off on an agreement that they
Speaker 4: will abide by rules and regulations that are put together
Speaker 4: in this document. Whatever they're calling it, the affiliation Agreement,
Speaker 4: I believe is what is being run with what a
Speaker 4: lot of people are thrown out there as far as
Speaker 4: what it's going to be called. So this would give
Speaker 4: us some guidelines, some guardrails, if you will, to where
Speaker 4: it feels as if college sports is not such a
Speaker 4: free for all. But I do believe that getting everybody
Speaker 4: on the same page to where they decide, Yeah, the
Speaker 4: way it is right now, it might be a mess,
Speaker 4: but you know what we're benefiting from it. We are
Speaker 4: able to utilize something we couldn't utilize before. That makes
Speaker 4: us more competitive, That gives us a better chance to
Speaker 4: be super successful. And those schools in that position, if
Speaker 4: they say no, we're not signing off on this, what
Speaker 4: really happens?
Speaker 3: Are they going to.
Speaker 4: I mean, it came out on Tuesday with I'm sorry
Speaker 4: Monday night with ross Ellinger's report that they would potentially
Speaker 4: kick schools out of conferences if they don't agree. I'm
Speaker 4: not really sure if they can do that, and I'm
Speaker 4: not sure to'll ever get to that point, but it
Speaker 4: might because again if you know that, like because Tennessee
Speaker 4: to me, I can't give you any specific I mean,
Speaker 4: they've been in trouble. They were in trouble for cheating
Speaker 4: until like the very end, until it became you know,
Speaker 4: really hard to regulate. I mean, they fired Jeremy pruittt
Speaker 4: and fired him with cause because they were able to
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, they basically acknowledged that they were
Speaker 4: cheating and made him the scapegoat so they didn't have
Speaker 4: to pay him a buyout, and he filed a crazy
Speaker 4: lawsuit saying that they, you know, have heard him from
Speaker 4: being able to continue to have employment in the industry
Speaker 4: that he that he started out in. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: Tennessee for some reason, maybe it's because of the lawsuit
Speaker 4: they filed last week, as they continue to still file
Speaker 4: lawsuits to fight the NC DOUBLEA and their ability to
Speaker 4: rule anything, but they to me just seem like a
Speaker 4: school that they've been better in football. Certainly they've been
Speaker 4: better in basketball, but I don't think that was because
Speaker 4: of necessarily anything within IL. I think they just have
Speaker 4: a good coach who's competent and does a pretty good job.
Speaker 4: But they also just went out and got Nata Ment,
Speaker 4: who some people say might have been the most expensive
Speaker 4: high school.
Speaker 3: Recruit in this class.
Speaker 4: So in baseball they won a national championship last year.
Speaker 4: So maybe they're not the school that comes to mind
Speaker 4: for others, but to me, they're the one who I
Speaker 4: could totally understand if you're like, yeah, it is a mess,
Speaker 4: but man, life's been better for us. We're not getting
Speaker 4: railroaded all the time by the NC DOUBLEA. We actually
Speaker 4: have a competent football coach and Josh Hypel. We have
Speaker 4: a good basketball coach in Rick Barnes, and now he's
Speaker 4: able to utilize deep pockets that we've always he's had
Speaker 4: because you can go buy a team by players now.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure every conference might have a school that says, yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't really know if this would make a lot
Speaker 4: of sense for us, because yes, despite it being such
Speaker 4: a mess, and they're not really being any clear guidelines
Speaker 4: that everybody knows what they can and can't do. We
Speaker 4: have been more successful in them in this chaos that
Speaker 4: has been existing in college sports the last few years.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: But this alone being sort of out there as these
Speaker 4: conferences try to work through it's that's a big step
Speaker 4: in getting this thing not as chaotic and not such
Speaker 4: a free for all. But the affiliation Agreement is going
Speaker 4: to be on the agenda at the Big twelve SEC
Speaker 4: in Big Ten meetings this month. So I guess at
Speaker 4: some point this month all of those conferences are going
Speaker 4: to have their own meetings and this will be a
Speaker 4: big topic of discussion. The ACC spring spring meetings obviously
Speaker 4: took place last week, where the agreement was not presented.
Speaker 4: The school presidents did not attend those ACC Spring meetings.
Speaker 4: So the Big Yeah, the Big Ten, the SEC, and
Speaker 4: the Big twelve are all apparently meeting this week and
Speaker 4: next week. So the Big Ten is this week, the
Speaker 4: SEC in Big twelve is next week, so school presidents
Speaker 4: will be involved in those meetings. So that's where they
Speaker 4: can really kind of talk through this and figure out
Speaker 4: if they're going to be able to come to an
Speaker 4: agreement with everybody within their league, the ACC presidents, though
Speaker 4: I don't know if this was already planned, but ross
Speaker 4: Ellinger does report that the ACC presidents will meet independently
Speaker 4: this week, and I would assume even if it wasn't planned,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, even if it was already planned, this will
Speaker 4: obviously be something they discussed. And I think, you know,
Speaker 4: you get the sense that it's a helpless situation as
Speaker 4: far as what you can and what you can't do.
Speaker 4: And when you're in that spot, you're really like, there's
Speaker 4: just no continuity. It's just a free for all. Nothing
Speaker 4: surprises you. It's complete chaos. And if you are working
Speaker 4: in this space right, if you're an athletic director specifically,
Speaker 4: like you probably just want some clarity and want it's
Speaker 4: some consistency as far as what you are allowed to
Speaker 4: do and what you're not. And we're at a point
Speaker 4: now where every day seemingly there's a new lawsuit being filed,
Speaker 4: where the NCAA has been been over so much in
Speaker 4: recent years that everybody's just trying to take advantage of that.
Speaker 4: I mean, sa Kai Ziggler. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: guys saw the lawsuit another Tennessee situation here. I mean
Speaker 4: he played four years of college basketball, and he played
Speaker 4: a lot of games. I mean he played I believe
Speaker 4: thirty ish games every year he was in school for
Speaker 4: four years. He did have an injury that cut one
Speaker 4: of his seasons short, but even in that year, he
Speaker 4: played thirty games. So he has filed a lawsuit that
Speaker 4: became public yesterday because he's claiming if there's a five
Speaker 4: year window, which, of course that five year o'clock still exists,
Speaker 4: that's why Ali Khalifa has been denied eligibility, and they
Speaker 4: wait for the appeal process to play out. But with Diggler,
Speaker 4: his lawsuit is pretty straightforward. He claims, I still want
Speaker 4: to attend school here. I'm still a student. I'm getting
Speaker 4: my master's degree. Why can I not play? And obvious
Speaker 4: people would obviously say, well, because you've already played four years,
Speaker 4: you get four years to play. That's the way it's
Speaker 4: always been. His lawsuit claims that it shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 4: If you've got a five year window that you are
Speaker 4: granting everybody, you get five years to play four His
Speaker 4: argument is, well, I'm still in school, I'm still a
Speaker 4: student athlete. I'm just getting a master's why can't I
Speaker 4: still play? And as far as where that lawsuit goes,
Speaker 4: I have no clue. But that's just another example of
Speaker 4: even if you feel like it's there's no real case
Speaker 4: to be made that you know, like these guys who
Speaker 4: tried to like Ziggler like that are trying to just
Speaker 4: claim that they should still be able to play college sports.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't see how the court system would say, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're right, you should be able to play five But
Speaker 4: it does seem like his lawsuits specifically. Maybe it's because
Speaker 4: he's he's such a talented player, but part of me says, well,
Speaker 4: that's an opening shut case. He's played four years, he's
Speaker 4: not eligible anymore. His time has come to an end.
Speaker 4: But also, I guess it wouldn't shock me if there's
Speaker 4: a judge who's like, yeah, if they're going to give
Speaker 4: you five years to get four in and you're still
Speaker 4: a student athlete and you're still going to school, why
Speaker 4: shouldn't you be allowed to play basketball like other students. Well,
Speaker 4: the answer would be because you've already played four years and
Speaker 4: that's the rule. Well, maybe there's a judge that says
Speaker 4: that shouldn't be the rule. And if that's the case,
Speaker 4: then it's a complete mess, right because if he was
Speaker 4: to if Ziggiler was to have some success in this lawsuit,
Speaker 4: that means everybody, everybody.
Speaker 3: Can claim I get five years. I mean, think about that.
Speaker 4: Think. I mean, it became a story with all these
Speaker 4: dudes that hit the portal that were just trying to
Speaker 4: see if this would happen. Well, if Zigler wins his lawsuit,
Speaker 4: everybody whose eligibility ran out after four years this past
Speaker 4: year would get a blanket waiver. And then you got
Speaker 4: to worry about guys who have been away from the
Speaker 4: game for however long that only played four I guess
Speaker 4: maybe they could claim, well, you know your five years,
Speaker 4: you should have followed this lawsuit within the five years.
Speaker 4: Maybe that would be the argument. But the more we
Speaker 4: discuss this, the more my head hurts, because it's just
Speaker 4: this would until something is done, like the affiliation agreement
Speaker 4: being cleared and agreed upon by every power conference. This
Speaker 4: is never going to end these endless lawsuits. And that's
Speaker 4: just I mean, it's not about right or wrong. It's
Speaker 4: just about what makes sense for college sports. Because what
Speaker 4: you think, what you think as far as just the
Speaker 4: way things should be doesn't mean that it's technically the
Speaker 4: right way, or it doesn't necessarily mean that that's what
Speaker 4: should be allowed. And the best example of that is
Speaker 4: there are and I understand this because it's the way
Speaker 4: it's always been. Like people think it's insane that you
Speaker 4: could transfer anywhere you want at any time, as many
Speaker 4: times as you want, And I get it because we're
Speaker 4: just used to, well, no, you commit to a school,
Speaker 4: you stay there, and the penalty for leaving a school
Speaker 4: that you committed to is that you have to sit
Speaker 4: out a year. That's just the way it's always been.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean that that's the way that it should
Speaker 4: have always been, though different conversation. I mean, I do
Speaker 4: believe this when it comes to like there needing to
Speaker 4: be a cap on nil, that I'm more in agreement
Speaker 4: with to an extent. But the transfer thing I've never
Speaker 4: I've never, i think, been on the same page with
Speaker 4: a lot of college sports fans.
Speaker 2: To me, if.
Speaker 4: Johnny whatever can leave the University of Cincinnati as a
Speaker 4: band member and go to u of L and be
Speaker 4: in their pet band and not have to sit out,
Speaker 4: why should a student athlete have to sit out just
Speaker 4: because the way it's always been, just because it'll be
Speaker 4: hard to maintain control because it'll be a free for all,
Speaker 4: because it'll be hard for coaches to retain players, it'll
Speaker 4: be hard for coaches to actually coach them and discipline
Speaker 4: them without them just up and leaving. All of that
Speaker 4: is true, but that doesn't mean that you should be
Speaker 4: able to restrict them from being able to play wherever
Speaker 4: they want. They're not employees, they're not on a contract.
Speaker 4: I mean they're they're getting paid, but they're not on
Speaker 4: a contract to where the NCUBLEA can tell student athletes
Speaker 4: you have to do this, and that's why they keep
Speaker 4: getting dunked on in court. So there's so many things
Speaker 4: that we just it's been that way since the existence
Speaker 4: with the NCUBLEA, and that's the way a lot of
Speaker 4: people think it should be. But that's a different conversation.
Speaker 4: Just because things have been that way forever doesn't mean
Speaker 4: that was the right way. Which the proof of that
Speaker 4: is the billion dollars settlement that is in place here
Speaker 4: because the nc DOUBLEA has been told what you've been
Speaker 4: doing for generations, Yeah, that's illegal, and that's why they're
Speaker 4: in this spot. Right quick break will come back on
Speaker 4: the other side, talking about last night's game one of
Speaker 4: the Western Conference Finals in the NBA, and we got
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Speaker 4: Day, I was telling Austin a story during the break
Speaker 4: that inspired him to play this song, which I've got
Speaker 4: no complaints. I mean, this is a jam. But I
Speaker 4: have a buddy of mine who who is Who's African American?
Speaker 4: And at times he'll he'll lean on me to I
Speaker 4: guess answer something that comes from I guess the white culture.
Speaker 4: He works on the assembly line at GE And I'll
Speaker 4: just tell you the question he said.
Speaker 3: He said, Hey, quick question for you. What is the
Speaker 3: is the.
Speaker 4: White version of whose man's is this? Get a load
Speaker 4: of this guy? And I'm like, yeah, that checks out.
Speaker 4: And I said, but there's another one and he was
Speaker 4: like what what could it be? And I'm like, you
Speaker 4: want to take a guess And he was like no,
Speaker 4: and I said, I think this also fits too. Look
Speaker 4: with the cat drug in, Like, have you ever heard
Speaker 4: anybody say that when somebody like shows up that you
Speaker 4: weren't expecting or you know, just trying to bust somebody's
Speaker 4: chops upon arrival. I mean, it's a little, it's a
Speaker 4: little it's a little old school. But you know, like
Speaker 4: if me and Austin are hanging out, you know, watching
Speaker 4: a game and having some beers and all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: you know, Dwight Witton walked in, it wouldn't be a
Speaker 4: shocker for me to say, well, look what the cat
Speaker 4: drug in right like, you know, and he was, he was,
Speaker 4: he was amazed, and he was like, all right, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go with that one and see what they say.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was like, well, I hope I'll
Speaker 4: find out if it if it worked or not. I'm
Speaker 4: not really sure what kind of debate he and his
Speaker 4: coworkers were having about this, but I just.
Speaker 2: Imagine they have like a family feud board and the guys,
Speaker 2: like in the survey says.
Speaker 4: I do like that he he reached out to me
Speaker 4: to as you know, someone that can that can speak
Speaker 4: on behalf of his white friends.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I mean I felt like I did a pretty good job. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I felt like I helped him out. But
Speaker 4: there are certain sayings when it comes to the culture,
Speaker 4: that kind of mean the same thing, you just say
Speaker 4: something different. And I feel like that, you know, I
Speaker 4: think he's right. You know, whose man's is this? Yeah,
Speaker 4: that that's that's often said more so by the black culture,
Speaker 4: and you know, get a load of this guy. That's
Speaker 4: probably more common and would look with the cat drug again,
Speaker 4: but I think both can work. I think both can
Speaker 4: work there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well yeah, he's uh yeah, he's verified on
Speaker 2: that one. He's invited to the fish fry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and hopefully with that he'll give us an invite
Speaker 4: to the cookout.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's that's.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing like your your black
Speaker 4: friend's gassing you up.
Speaker 2: I mean it. I mean, it makes you feel so
Speaker 2: much better as a white guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I remember one time I was doing
Speaker 4: a vibe check and this this older black gentleman. He
Speaker 4: had on like a like a cagole hat, you know,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, and he looked I mean, he.
Speaker 3: Looked like he was the coolest dude in the world.
Speaker 4: And I, uh, I complimented his hat and he handed
Speaker 4: it to me and I was like, can I put
Speaker 4: it on? He was like yeah, So I put it
Speaker 4: on and I was like, how do I look? And
Speaker 4: he was like, come on, man, rocketed better than me.
Speaker 4: He just like, you know, it made me feel like
Speaker 4: I was the coolest I've ever been in my life.
Speaker 2: Nothing makes you feel more handsome too, when when a
Speaker 2: lady says, hey baby, oh yeah, of course, and because
Speaker 2: they stretch it out, they make you feel oh yeah.
Speaker 3: It's I can't quite describe the feeling, but it's but
Speaker 3: it's awesome. It's good stuff, all right.
Speaker 4: So last night game one of the of the Western
Speaker 4: Conference Finals, as the Oklahoma City Thunder protected home court,
Speaker 4: and I mean it was I mean OKC is the
Speaker 4: number one seed, therefore them winning the way they did
Speaker 4: probably not a big shock. I still think this can
Speaker 4: be a really good series, but Anthony Edwards having a
Speaker 4: pretty doud fourth quarter that certainly didn't help Minnesota. And
Speaker 4: I think I think last night and watching the game,
Speaker 4: I've realized that I have, like I I've got some
Speaker 4: resistance on my end to kind of acknowledge just how
Speaker 4: good OKC is. And I don't think it's because of
Speaker 4: their small market, because yes, they're in a small market,
Speaker 4: and I don't, you know, they don't seem to get
Speaker 4: the like if they were if Oklahoma City had these
Speaker 4: pieces and they were this team and they weren't Oklahoma City,
Speaker 4: they were New York or even Brooklyn or LA or Miami,
Speaker 4: the Heat or something like that, it'd be different. I mean,
Speaker 4: it just would. And I think, you know, that's really
Speaker 4: not even up for debate. So maybe with that, I
Speaker 4: just don't realize that despite this guy, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't want to pick on this guy because he's a really,
Speaker 4: really good player. In fact, he's a lot better than
Speaker 4: I even realized. But Jalen Williams the guy who was
Speaker 4: really I think you can make the case I think
Speaker 4: he's their second best player. I mean, it's obviously Shay
Speaker 4: Gilders Alexander, that's their franchise, that's the MVP front runner,
Speaker 4: and they're really built pretty solid, Like they have a
Speaker 4: lot of good pieces in the stats don't really like,
Speaker 4: for example, Alex Caruso. I mean, his numbers aren't aren't
Speaker 4: going to jump out at you, but he's got a
Speaker 4: really important role. He's a big factor for their success.
Speaker 4: He's a veteran guard who you know will do the
Speaker 4: dirty work, a really good defender, and you know you
Speaker 4: got Isaiah Hartenstein, who's also been a really you know,
Speaker 4: solid player in the NBA. I mean, they've got they've
Speaker 4: got role guys who are really good at the specific
Speaker 4: roles they have, and then they've got a star in
Speaker 4: Shay who's averaging twenty nine points and six and a
Speaker 4: half assists, five rebounds the game. There's a reason he's
Speaker 4: an NBA Pete favorite right now. But like Jalen Williams, he's,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, easily their second best player. Some would
Speaker 4: maybe say Chad, I would say Jalen Williams, but he
Speaker 4: could walk into I feel like a lot of establishments
Speaker 4: across the country and nobody would know who he is,
Speaker 4: the second best player who's averaging twenty one points per
Speaker 4: game for the team with the best record in the
Speaker 4: NBA sixty eight and fourteen.
Speaker 3: It's rare that.
Speaker 4: I mean, for example, the Denver Nuggets, they've got four
Speaker 4: guys that I think are more noticeably famous from the
Speaker 4: NBA than Jalen Williams. And this is not a knock
Speaker 4: on Jayla Williams, but think about this. He went to
Speaker 4: Santa Clara and he plays for Oklahoma City. He's insanely good,
Speaker 4: But how many people even know about that. Again, where
Speaker 4: he went to college, you never heard of him. And
Speaker 4: in the NBA you might know the name, you might
Speaker 4: know that they're good. But like you know, I say
Speaker 4: all this to say that they're a lot better than
Speaker 4: I think I even realized, because last night they didn't
Speaker 4: do any crazy they didn't rely on any crazy night
Speaker 4: from one specific guy. They just they played to their
Speaker 4: ability and they're they're just better. So Minnesota still has
Speaker 4: has a chance to win this thing. I mean, they
Speaker 4: they've got ant man, who's you know, I think, one
Speaker 4: of the best players in the NBA. And I don't
Speaker 4: know why. I really, I'm a big I really like him.
Speaker 4: Is he to me, he seems like he's got charisma,
Speaker 4: like he's he's a pretty easy guy to like in
Speaker 4: the NBA. Maybe I'm wrong, but to me, he's he's
Speaker 4: a baller too. He's really good. And then also, I mean,
Speaker 4: he didn't show up last night. He did not in
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter. He was he was no show. But
Speaker 4: also guys like I mean, nas Reed's a really good
Speaker 4: role player for them. Jaden McDaniels had a breakout season,
Speaker 4: and then Julius Randall, I mean, I knew Julius Randall
Speaker 4: had had really improved in the last four or five years.
Speaker 3: It really started.
Speaker 4: Whenever he was in New York. But right now, I mean,
Speaker 4: this guy's been I mean, he's had a phenomenal season
Speaker 4: and he was really good for him last night, So
Speaker 4: it should be a good series. But I think Oka
Speaker 4: se uh just from what I saw, and again it's
Speaker 4: one game and they were at home and they were
Speaker 4: making shots. But I think right now, if I had
Speaker 4: to tell you who I believe is going to win
Speaker 4: the NBA Finals, I think I would go with I
Speaker 4: think I would go with OKC.
Speaker 3: And the reason that I'm, I guess more so up
Speaker 3: on them than I.
Speaker 4: Was previously is because I just with Jokic, you never
Speaker 4: can count anybody. The Nuggets could. The Nuggets could beat
Speaker 4: anybody in a series with Jokic, and they nearly did.
Speaker 4: They just you know, they end up getting blown on
Speaker 4: in Game seven, Aaron Gordon got hurt and they weren't
Speaker 4: as good as Okac. But obviously just taking them to
Speaker 4: seven was because of Yokic. In my opinion, he's the
Speaker 4: best player on the planet. Doesn't mean that he deserves
Speaker 4: MVP this year, because I think if Shay Good said
Speaker 4: it'll be well deserved, but this should be a really
Speaker 4: good series. And then tonight, man, I can't wait. I mean,
Speaker 4: I am ready for Game one between my Pacers and
Speaker 4: the Knicks. And what I'm really really embracing here is
Speaker 4: that if the Pacers were in the Eastern Conference Finals
Speaker 4: against anybody, I'd be excited, but I'd be a liar
Speaker 4: if I didn't acknowledge that I'm more into this series
Speaker 4: because they're playing the Knicks. Like if they were playing
Speaker 4: the Cavs in this series instead of the one they
Speaker 4: just played him in, or they were playing you know,
Speaker 4: the Celtics. I mean with that, you would have to
Speaker 4: you'd feel a little bit more worried because obviously the
Speaker 4: Celtics when they're fully healthy, I mean, that's they're the
Speaker 4: defending champs. But man, I hope my pad. I was
Speaker 4: about to say, I can't wait until they do. I
Speaker 4: mean maybe that was me just trying to speak it
Speaker 4: into existence, but I would love for my Pacers to
Speaker 4: get back to the finals and in the next season,
Speaker 4: and the Knicks deserve to be here. They had a
Speaker 4: hell of a run. They're a pretty likable group as
Speaker 4: far as I think they're personnel. I mean, I like
Speaker 4: Karl Anthony Towns. I think he's you know, he's a
Speaker 4: rare guy in a lot of ways, but he's a
Speaker 4: really good player, plays with a lot of passion, a
Speaker 4: lot of energy. And then clearly Jalen Brunson is their
Speaker 4: franchise and if he gets them to the finals, I mean,
Speaker 4: he's already looked at as like an all time nick
Speaker 4: because of the fact that they're relevant again. But like
Speaker 4: New York fans, if you get them, if you win
Speaker 4: the East, Like I don't know if he'd be fair
Speaker 4: to say he's like an all time a legend, but
Speaker 4: like there's already people talking like he's he's in the conversation,
Speaker 4: is one of the best knicks in a long time.
Speaker 4: And I want to fight against that. I want to
Speaker 4: resist and say, come on, y'all are crazy. He's only
Speaker 4: been with New York for what four years?
Speaker 2: You're one of the best knicks of all time? Oh
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: But either way, like I mean, they haven't had many
Speaker 4: great players, Like there have been guys that have ended
Speaker 4: up in New York whenever it was already over, like
Speaker 4: Stefan Marberry. I mean, Tracy McGrady was there, if you
Speaker 4: guys remember that or not. Mello kind of Mellow was
Speaker 4: good there, but they weren't great, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So uh and Mello was more of like it was
Speaker 4: a big deal because Melo was Mellow. Mellow was one
Speaker 4: of the biggest stars in the league. The Knicks, they
Speaker 4: weren't back home and they never made the finals with
Speaker 4: with with Melo. So I'm looking forward to this series tonight.
Speaker 4: But it's gonna be tough because obviously the Knicks have
Speaker 4: home court advantage and all the bandwagon celebrities are gonna
Speaker 4: be there. You gotta love the celebs like Jason Sadeikis,
Speaker 4: who court sided the Lakers because man, it's just his
Speaker 4: team court.
Speaker 3: Side at the Knicks, because man, it's just his team.
Speaker 3: Get out of here, you bum.
Speaker 2: Timothy Shallome, this huge Knicks fan, I'm out.
Speaker 4: I'm not watching Ted last, So not after Sadaeikis is
Speaker 4: gonna do. Not after Sidekas is pulling this stuck like
Speaker 4: he's like he's a lifer for the Lakers and the Knicks.
Speaker 3: Get out of here.
Speaker 4: You're a Hollywood bandwagon bum, and your Knicks even though
Speaker 4: you're not your Knicks.
Speaker 3: They're going down to night. I hope two hours left.
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