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Speaker 2: I was gonna say five o'clock hour, which it is,
Speaker 2: but you know, like we're late here, but that's okay,
Speaker 2: we were I mean, it's my fault totally, but I
Speaker 2: was gonna I almost said, well, you know, the bats
Speaker 2: made us start late, so that threw us off, but
Speaker 2: that would really be a lot because we did start
Speaker 2: late because the Louis of Vats. But you know, once
Speaker 2: we got to four o'clock, like I should have had
Speaker 2: better management of the of the time. And you know,
Speaker 2: as you as you know, even if you listen rarely,
Speaker 2: you probably know that I'm not great at at you know,
Speaker 2: keeping this thing on track, which again, as I say,
Speaker 2: if I was going to improve it, that I probably
Speaker 2: already would have. But anyways, five o'clock hour here on
Speaker 2: a Thursday afternoon. For those who haven't heard yet, I
Speaker 2: did recover from a really sad situation earlier today where
Speaker 2: I spent the first you know, forty percent roughly of
Speaker 2: my day thinking it was Friday, and some of asked
Speaker 2: on the text line, how do you do that? Well,
Speaker 2: I just I woke up and for some reason, I
Speaker 2: just my mind was set to Friday, like it was Friday,
Speaker 2: and nothing happened or was said, and I didn't I
Speaker 2: didn't have any indication that that it wasn't Friday. So
Speaker 2: got ready, took the kids to school daycare, came home,
Speaker 2: did some stuff at the house, hit the road, and
Speaker 2: then it was like eleven thirty something and I was like, actually,
Speaker 2: somebody did ask how did I What made me realize
Speaker 2: it was listening to jas I ate forty BHAs White.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was one of them, but it
Speaker 2: might have been one of the news anchors or one
Speaker 2: of the national updates where they said Thursday, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: son of a bitch, it is Thursday, and it was
Speaker 2: look it was. It was deflating. It was I mean,
Speaker 2: can you imagine being in my shoes? And I don't
Speaker 2: bring it up for sympathy and I do. I hate
Speaker 2: that I have to do this, but like, can we
Speaker 2: have like a disclaimer for each segment, like a what
Speaker 2: it was? A real? What are the real quick disclaimers
Speaker 2: that you hear? Like for like I used to have
Speaker 2: to read them when I would do ads for FanDuel,
Speaker 2: like you know, I'm older, but no, like we need
Speaker 2: something like that that does let people know that I'm
Speaker 2: at times sarcastic and I'm not like I'm I'm it's
Speaker 2: sometimes my sarcasm is a poor attempt to be funny,
Speaker 2: and I just that that does make me worry that
Speaker 2: people don't realize that, like I'm not like when I
Speaker 2: said when I'm when I referenced earlier that I did
Speaker 2: start the day thinking it was Friday and it was Thursday.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you believe that I was being serious
Speaker 2: when I said that God gives his toughest battles to
Speaker 2: his toughest soldiers, like I got to tell you if
Speaker 2: you are upset that I said that and you thought
Speaker 2: it was real with respect, I just don't think this
Speaker 2: show is for you. I mean. And again, now, like
Speaker 2: the remote chance that that was funny is ruined because
Speaker 2: you know, I got to reset it and let this
Speaker 2: person know that I wasn't being serious, and I probably
Speaker 2: should have left it alone, but I have, you know,
Speaker 2: and I guess an insecurity that someone would actually think
Speaker 2: that I meant that, like I was telling you that, yes,
Speaker 2: I've really had such a rough life and today was
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Speaker 2: get right into I guess where we started the show today,
Speaker 2: just referencing A and got I need to refresh some
Speaker 2: social media stuff here to I see if I might
Speaker 2: have missed something but there are some Louisvel fans out
Speaker 2: there trying to connect some dots that I don't think
Speaker 2: is like a crazy thing to do. It's just I
Speaker 2: try to be. I try to be, you know, pretty
Speaker 2: clear when we talk about these kind of things that
Speaker 2: there's no indication that there's any truth to it, but
Speaker 2: like it wouldn't be a shocker considering timing and circumstance.
Speaker 2: So Chad Baker Mazara is a twenty six year old
Speaker 2: or he'll be twenty six next year in Kyle college
Speaker 2: basketball player. He was at Auburn. I mean, you probably
Speaker 2: know who he is, if not was a factor in
Speaker 2: their success. A good player, no doubt, and you know
Speaker 2: he somehow has been able to maintain eligibility this long.
Speaker 2: So my guess is that that he started, and I
Speaker 2: guess I'll just get to it and then I'll get
Speaker 2: what I was gonna say in a moment ago. But
Speaker 2: he's entered the portal. He just signed something a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago after their season ended in the Final
Speaker 2: four with Auburn to come back for another year and
Speaker 2: also to to you know, agree on an nil deal
Speaker 2: as far as money, and I believe it was Jeff Goodman,
Speaker 2: who reported that there was some type of verbiage in
Speaker 2: his contract that like he would have to pay something
Speaker 2: back or something. So the portal kind of seems a
Speaker 2: little bit like, you know, a surprise, because you know,
Speaker 2: he's already playing in a really good role for a
Speaker 2: really good team that's likely going to be really good
Speaker 2: again next year, and you're wondering, why would he agree
Speaker 2: to that and then transfer. One would say, well, anybody
Speaker 2: transferring shouldn't surprise you anymore, and you're right, But here's
Speaker 2: the connection from the Louisville side that is certainly worth mentioning.
Speaker 2: He was a former teammate of Case and Pryor's at
Speaker 2: the junior college level a few years ago, and those
Speaker 2: two guys are good friends. So right after he agreed
Speaker 2: to come back to Auburn and he agreed on a
Speaker 2: new Nile deal, he then went on a vacation with
Speaker 2: Case and Pryor, and I'm assumed it was more than
Speaker 2: just those two guys, but they were together last week
Speaker 2: of the Dominican the Dominican Republic. Well, then he comes
Speaker 2: back from the DR and hits the portal, and now
Speaker 2: you know Case and prior I think there's always been
Speaker 2: the belief that he's coming back. Nata Mint seems to
Speaker 2: be no longer a Louisville I guess potential landing spot,
Speaker 2: like I don't know, you never know with recruiting Aleen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so Nata Mint, I mean, it sounds like Duke or
Speaker 2: Tennessee is now Like to me, it sounds like this
Speaker 2: guy's just gonna go to the highest bedder. Like that's
Speaker 2: what it seems like. But anyways, nata Mint plays kind
Speaker 2: of the same position, kind of a lanky, skilled four
Speaker 2: but can shoot it a little bit, can handle it.
Speaker 2: So maybe he goes to the Demican Republic with his
Speaker 2: former teammate, and maybe Casen's recruiting him because he realizes, hey,
Speaker 2: we could, We'd love to have you. We got some
Speaker 2: inn i ole money, and Nata Mint is no longer
Speaker 2: in the mix. I mean, I will have to do
Speaker 2: a lot of like you know, clarifying if he ends
Speaker 2: up here, meaning Baker Massar, because I find it to
Speaker 2: be one of the most unlikable college basketb players I've
Speaker 2: ever watched. And it's not just because he's old, but
Speaker 2: like he I mean, he flops, he winds, he gets
Speaker 2: a lot of technicals. I wouldn't know if he's dirty
Speaker 2: or not. I don't They didn't follow Auburn close enough.
Speaker 2: But like a lot of times, when you can get technicals,
Speaker 2: it's for either crying to the ref or doing something
Speaker 2: that like like you know you can't do and you
Speaker 2: just can't help yourself. Like he's been teed up, maybe
Speaker 2: as many times as Jahn Morant has for hitting a
Speaker 2: three and then pulling doing the you know, pulling up
Speaker 2: your shirt to indicate that you have a gun on
Speaker 2: your waistband. And you know, like he's just that kind
Speaker 2: of guy, not to say he's not to say that
Speaker 2: he's like an awful human being, but like, you know,
Speaker 2: he's a very easy guy to dislike in a major way.
Speaker 2: But maybe when he's on your team you view it differently.
Speaker 2: Maybe you love him. Although I will say I remember
Speaker 2: getting into the weeds on Twitter at tom or two.
Speaker 2: Even Auburn fans would be like, this dumbass has got
Speaker 2: to stop doing this stuff. He's going to put us
Speaker 2: in a tough spot. I don't know if he ever
Speaker 2: cost him a game for that kind of stuff, but
Speaker 2: like he would get very poor technical, no good tech,
Speaker 2: no good no, technical is a good thing, but like
Speaker 2: his timing would be awful, and like he became a
Speaker 2: talking point about Bruce Pearl's team. Is this guy going
Speaker 2: to be able to control his emotions or is he
Speaker 2: going to you know, mess around and really ruin this
Speaker 2: team's chances of having a really special season. He didn't
Speaker 2: do that. They made a Final four. In fact, I
Speaker 2: believe he led them in scoring in the Final four.
Speaker 2: So as much as I just mentioned, you know, things
Speaker 2: I don't like about him, he is good. And if
Speaker 2: he could join Louisll's team and make him better, and
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey thinks he's worth pursuing and that he would
Speaker 2: be able to fit the culture in the locker room
Speaker 2: that he wants, then hell yeah, would make a little
Speaker 2: bit better. Why not do it? But again, just to clarify,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any any mention, there's no like
Speaker 2: reporting of it. It's just timing and circumstance that has
Speaker 2: people trying to connect some dots here. But he averaged
Speaker 2: twelve points, three boards, just under three assists a game
Speaker 2: last year, had eighteen against Florida in the Final four.
Speaker 2: So he to me, he's a he's a grown man.
Speaker 2: Version of Nata Mint. I would say Chad Baker Mazara
Speaker 2: is probably as good as he's going to get, but
Speaker 2: that's okay. He's pretty good already. Native Minh obviously has
Speaker 2: a lot of potential, and if it plays out the
Speaker 2: way people will expect he's going to be an NBA
Speaker 2: player for a long long time. But he's only going
Speaker 2: to play in college, likely one year. And you won't
Speaker 2: get like I just the more I think about it,
Speaker 2: and maybe it's like, you know, just me coping with
Speaker 2: it or something, because if they got Natum Inn, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't do anything other than say, wow, you got another
Speaker 2: really good young piece, but I would. I'd be a
Speaker 2: liar if I said Louisville is going to be a
Speaker 2: substantially better team because of this eighteen year old kid
Speaker 2: that's built like a seventh grader. Now I'm insulting him,
Speaker 2: So now I just seem like a bitter X right,
Speaker 2: Like maybe I know and I don't mean to sound
Speaker 2: that way, but let's just be honest. Like if you've
Speaker 2: got a guy who you know is already as good
Speaker 2: as he's gonna be, but you know, like he's valuable
Speaker 2: right now, he's grown man, or the guy who might
Speaker 2: be as good as Baker Mazara in a couple of years,
Speaker 2: and clearly he might be an NBA legend, but that's
Speaker 2: not happening. Next year, the only year he's gonna play
Speaker 2: college basketball. So we'll see if there's any I mean,
Speaker 2: it could like again, it's just a potential scenario that
Speaker 2: could play out, but I would imagine he'll have suitors
Speaker 2: right away. And what I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 2: if he would have put in, if he'd have put
Speaker 2: his name in the portal as a guy who did
Speaker 2: not want to be contact, they do would be out there,
Speaker 2: and then there'd be even more of people saying, well,
Speaker 2: clearly he was with prior last week he's he's you know,
Speaker 2: this is where he's going. And I'm trying to figure
Speaker 2: out how it played out where he would have where
Speaker 2: he would have this much eligibility. So yeah, so this
Speaker 2: will be how this will be his fifth year of
Speaker 2: college basketball. Oh, now I get it makes total sense.
Speaker 2: The reason he's eligible is the for you know what,
Speaker 2: for I guess his fifth year is because of the
Speaker 2: JUCO rule. Just like Cason, now, Casey would be eligible
Speaker 2: regardless because he took a red shirt last year because
Speaker 2: of the injury. But Chad Baker Mazara started his career
Speaker 2: at I think it was the Caine now I gotta
Speaker 2: look it up. Yeah, he's twenty five, will be twenty
Speaker 2: six next season. Crazy to think about, but he's actually
Speaker 2: from the Demican Republic and he started his college career
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty twenty one, which is the year they
Speaker 2: did give everybody an extra year. He played in fifteen games,
Speaker 2: made thirteen starts, average ten points at Decaine and then
Speaker 2: he hit the transfer portal. After that, he transferred to
Speaker 2: San Diego State and averaged six points two boards in
Speaker 2: thirty one games, was the sixth man of the year
Speaker 2: in that league. And then after that season he once
Speaker 2: again hit the transfer portal, but he did not. He
Speaker 2: didn't end up jumping up. He actually went JUCO. So
Speaker 2: after one year at Decaanne, one year at San Diego State,
Speaker 2: he transferred to Northwest Florida State and played it looks
Speaker 2: like one season there and that's when he was a
Speaker 2: teammate with Case and Pryor, and then he's been at Auburn.
Speaker 2: It looks like this this past year was his second
Speaker 2: season there. So he's technically only played. He's played four
Speaker 2: seasons of NCAA Division One basketball and then one year
Speaker 2: of JUCO, which of course is giving him an extra year.
Speaker 2: And this is what's crazy about him, because the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one season was a freebie. He actually like
Speaker 2: he could be using I mean, I doubt it happens,
Speaker 2: but he could claim that this year, like upcoming would
Speaker 2: be his year that he's using. That's a freebie because
Speaker 2: the COVID year didn't count, and then he could also
Speaker 2: get the JUCO year back to where this guy could
Speaker 2: actually play two more years potentially if he fought for it.
Speaker 2: And you know, clearly he started college later than most, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, because we're talking about like if he was
Speaker 2: eighteen in twenty twenty, he would be maybe he'd be
Speaker 2: going on twenty three, Well, he'll be twenty six. So
Speaker 2: he just started late, meaning he was just older than
Speaker 2: most in it looked maybe like here's the thing, like
Speaker 2: age is never a factor. So if he looks like
Speaker 2: he Yeah, he was born and raised in the Daminican Republic,
Speaker 2: and then he came to play in high school in
Speaker 2: the States at Spire Academy in Ohio. Also he played
Speaker 2: in New Jersey briefly for Colonial High School. So anyways,
Speaker 2: he still played college basketball for many more years than
Speaker 2: you be able to play. But I think the reason
Speaker 2: he's the big outlier of like damn, not only has
Speaker 2: this dude been around forever he's old, it's because he
Speaker 2: clearly just started later, like there are dudes who sometimes.
Speaker 2: In fact, there's a wild story about a guy who
Speaker 2: uh And I meant to bring this up the other
Speaker 2: day because this is this to be I actually think
Speaker 2: is kind of a good story. Now, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are like, dude, you're too old, get a job,
Speaker 2: freshen up, freshen up that LinkedIn profile man like it
Speaker 2: it ain't it like that? Like I get that because
Speaker 2: sometimes it is crazy. But Jamal Gibson is I think
Speaker 2: a really interesting and interesting story. So this guy he
Speaker 2: didn't start his college basketball career. He didn't enter college
Speaker 2: until he was twenty six years old. So he is
Speaker 2: from New Orleans. He didn't finish high school and he
Speaker 2: ended up getting a ged and he was a tattoo
Speaker 2: artist in New Orleans, like a known tattoo artist, and
Speaker 2: then he was playing like open gym basketball in New
Speaker 2: Orleans and a school that is Southern University at New Orleans,
Speaker 2: which is an NAI school. They ended up. They ended
Speaker 2: up like their coach, I guess saw him in an
Speaker 2: open run and was like who is this guy? And
Speaker 2: he was like, yeah, you know, I'm sure. He told
Speaker 2: me I'm twenty five years old or whatever it was
Speaker 2: at the time, and they convinced him get a ged
Speaker 2: and enroll our in college. You know, if you get
Speaker 2: a test score, you can qualify to be an NAI
Speaker 2: player and you can play for US. And he decided
Speaker 2: to do it, and he became like the NAI national
Speaker 2: Player of the Year in All American He averaged twenty
Speaker 2: two points per game over two seasons in the NAI.
Speaker 2: So now he's at the portal and he has actually
Speaker 2: signed with New Orleans University and he will be next
Speaker 2: year with two years left of eligibility. He will be
Speaker 2: in fact, he could have four because again NAIs not
Speaker 2: n Cuba like they may not be if he wanted to.
Speaker 2: This guy could play U till Heast thirty. No joke,
Speaker 2: because he'll be twenty eight years old next season in
Speaker 2: his first year Division one. So again, like I understand
Speaker 2: everybody claiming, like come on, dude, like college basketball's for
Speaker 2: you know, college age people, but that's never been a
Speaker 2: rule ever. So with that, I actually think that's a
Speaker 2: good story, Like he's changed his life. And you know,
Speaker 2: there's never, at any point in college athletics been any
Speaker 2: rule about what you can and can't do eligibility wise
Speaker 2: because of your age. It's about like when you start playing.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's always been evident. But like
Speaker 2: this guy, to me, it's actually a good story, more
Speaker 2: so than like guys who are just out here taking
Speaker 2: up scholarships in an ay all money because they won't
Speaker 2: start their life after basketball. This is a guy who,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure is doing something now in life
Speaker 2: that he never envisioned. And maybe he plays pro somewhere.
Speaker 2: I don't know, But as I mentioned, he was a
Speaker 2: tattoo artist. Google him Jamal Gibson with a B in Gibson.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got to be the most tatted player ever.
Speaker 2: And this story became more of a I mean, it
Speaker 2: is an interesting story just because you don't see it
Speaker 2: very often. But master P was hired as the uh
Speaker 2: like the the the GM of New Orleans Basketball New
Speaker 2: Orleans University.
Speaker 3: First thing I see when I type in Jamal against
Speaker 3: the basket.
Speaker 2: Look at let me look look how tadded he is.
Speaker 2: I mean he's I mean again, he's probably done a
Speaker 2: lot of his own work, and he is. He's tatted.
Speaker 3: That's pretty yeah, very much. Body marked up like a
Speaker 3: subway in Harlem, like a shout out was Khalifa.
Speaker 2: I don't think that they'll ever be a point where
Speaker 2: guys in that situation aren't like made fun of. And
Speaker 2: I understand it again, like it is.
Speaker 3: It is he's got face tattoos.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. One of my favorite lines from Jim from
Speaker 2: from you know, the countless episodes of Jim Rome I
Speaker 2: used to listen to before I ever got a chance
Speaker 2: to do radio. There was a guy that it was
Speaker 2: like an NBA draft prospect who had who had a
Speaker 2: face hat, and Rome said, the very obvious thing was
Speaker 2: like face tat first of all, they weren't nearly as
Speaker 2: common then as they are now, but face tats were real,
Speaker 2: And I guess it kind of depends on now what
Speaker 2: it is. And tattoos, I think are becoming more more
Speaker 2: and more socially acceptable than they've ever been. And I
Speaker 2: don't mean like people think you're an awful human, but
Speaker 2: like you could be like tatted up sleeves and like
Speaker 2: it's now just much more normal than it was years ago.
Speaker 2: But I remember Rome said, dude with a tad on
Speaker 2: his face, that's a sign he does not give an
Speaker 2: f like, that's the direct indication. Yeah, that guy, he
Speaker 2: didn't care a lot about a whole lot because he's
Speaker 2: got his face covered in ink. Some people can pull
Speaker 2: it off to where it looks okay. I don't think
Speaker 2: i'd be able to, but you know, teach their own.
Speaker 2: It actually reminds me. I went and visited. I remember
Speaker 2: I went and visited Campbellsville University whenever I was going
Speaker 2: into my senior year, went for a football game, went
Speaker 2: and watched their basketball scrimmage, and I mean their loss
Speaker 2: left without the offer, so I mean, I'm not kid.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go enough play Campbell'sville. But anyways, we went
Speaker 2: on a visit with my dad and I did, and
Speaker 2: they had I think it was like their inner squad
Speaker 2: scrimmage getting started for basketball, kind of like a midnight
Speaker 2: madness kind of thing for an AI school. And it
Speaker 2: wasn't as big as you know, typical midnight madness, but anyways,
Speaker 2: we were there and it was very obvious that one
Speaker 2: of the guys for Campbellsville was like an adult you know.
Speaker 2: Here I'm thinking he's probably forty. He was actually like
Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty seven. But he was somebody that played
Speaker 2: high school basketball. But then he went to the service
Speaker 2: and was in I think the Navy or the Army
Speaker 2: for a long time, and then he started life after
Speaker 2: his military career, enrolled at Campbellsville, and like, sure enough,
Speaker 2: he's got four years of euligtibility. So I remember, like,
Speaker 2: and again, I probably thought he was old at the time,
Speaker 2: but he wasn't. He was just but he was just
Speaker 2: so visibly older than a lot of the eighteen nineteen
Speaker 2: twenty year old kids that were playing for Campbellsville. So
Speaker 2: it's always been a thing. It's just, you know, still
Speaker 2: relatively rare. All right, quick break, we'll come back on
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Speaker 2: just good vibes. I could, I could. I mean I
Speaker 2: could listen to this type of this type of stuff
Speaker 2: all day, every day, so good stuff.
Speaker 3: That's crazy is that was the beat that was sampled
Speaker 3: on Nate Dogg and Warren G's Regulators. It's wild.
Speaker 2: I didn't Is that like a hidden fact or is
Speaker 2: it really known? And I just didn't know it because
Speaker 2: as soon as you said that, now I now know that,
Speaker 2: but I would have never known that. Yeah, nowadays you
Speaker 2: know that song is old, but nowadays like it's it's
Speaker 2: sampling is huge and it's it's awesome. But maybe at
Speaker 2: that time it wasn't even like a known like maybe
Speaker 2: maybe this is one of the first samples. I mean this,
Speaker 2: when'd this song come out before you were born?
Speaker 3: I'm sure very much had to had to be in
Speaker 3: like mid eighties. It's called Regulate, right, Yes, that that
Speaker 3: song by Nate Dogg warn G is called Regulate and
Speaker 3: it came out and I'm gonna have to say mid eighties.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I thought it was way older. It's actually
Speaker 2: not nineties ninety four, oh yeahow, And this is back
Speaker 2: in the day. Uh And and by the way, this
Speaker 2: is I missed this era. And I don't even know
Speaker 2: if you really got this era because of your age.
Speaker 2: I think it might have just missed you. There used
Speaker 2: to be songs created by some of the biggest and
Speaker 2: best artists in music that were not a part of
Speaker 2: their album. It was a part of a soundtrack for
Speaker 2: a movie that had a ton of promotion and a
Speaker 2: touch like nowadays, you know, used to you couldn't just
Speaker 2: go a you couldn't go to the library on the
Speaker 2: internet in nineteen ninety four to find music for your
Speaker 2: for your for your you know, movie, your motion picture.
Speaker 2: You had to like recruit artists and sign them to
Speaker 2: help you put together a soundtrack. And I mean that
Speaker 2: was that was a really one of my favorite things
Speaker 2: about music when I was a kid is that, like
Speaker 2: there's a lot of songs that became big hits and
Speaker 2: that I remember, but like it all started because I
Speaker 2: heard it in the in the in the preview for
Speaker 2: a movie, or I heard it, you know, in the
Speaker 2: movie that I watched. And this was a this was
Speaker 2: from one of my favorite movies. That song Late Above
Speaker 2: the Rim, a really good basketball movie.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever watched them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, it's it's not one of the best
Speaker 2: basketball movies, but there's a lot of you know, for me,
Speaker 2: it's it's nostalgic. Uh, And any any movie about basketball.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid in the nineties, I was
Speaker 2: gonna watch. And as I've gotten older, I realized those movies.
Speaker 2: Some of them didn't age well, like Eddie with Whoopy Goldberg. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know that didn't. Although I will say it, this
Speaker 2: one that never got the love that it that it deserved,
Speaker 2: and I think has aged great. It's called, uh, The
Speaker 2: Sixth Man with Kadem Harrison, believe it or not. Randomly randomly,
Speaker 2: Travis Ford is in it because he just got done
Speaker 2: playing basketball and they were looking and that's that, and
Speaker 2: that matters. Getting guys who actually played basketball in movies
Speaker 2: used to be a real value. Like in fact, everybody
Speaker 2: in that movie outside of Kadem Harrison as far as
Speaker 2: basketball players were, yeah, outside of Kadem Harrison and Marlon Wayans,
Speaker 2: everybody else in the movie, like they didn't have any
Speaker 2: acting experience. They were they were basketball players that that
Speaker 2: you know, I guess tried out and were good enough
Speaker 2: to act. And it was perfect, but also Kennem Harrison
Speaker 2: and Marlon Wayns were also two dudes that, despite being
Speaker 2: known not for being basketball players, they were actors. They
Speaker 2: were also good at basketball. So like it worked. That's
Speaker 2: no joke if you ever find that on a streaming service.
Speaker 2: I think it aged really well and I think you
Speaker 2: would like it. Okay, it's good stuff, six man, good stuff.
Speaker 3: I love the Waynes Brothers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I Waynes they were more Yeah, and they were
Speaker 2: they were big man. The Wayans have been big forever.
Speaker 2: But man, the Waynes Brothers the show.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know what movie at the time, I
Speaker 2: don't really remember being like it was popular. I knew
Speaker 2: of it, like it was one of those movies at
Speaker 2: the time, like we didn't have streaming services or anything
Speaker 2: like that. You saw it in theaters. But it's become
Speaker 2: almost like a like a cult following type. Film is
Speaker 2: White Chicks with the Waynes Brothers.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I didn't love it growing I didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I thought it was fine. It wasn't any
Speaker 2: but there's things that I didn't think were funny then,
Speaker 2: but now, like I mean, Terry Crews is hilarious in
Speaker 2: that movie.
Speaker 3: He makes movie you.
Speaker 2: Probably couldn't make that movie now, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: you could, but and I'm not saying you know, I'm
Speaker 2: but there's certain things like if you really tried, you
Speaker 2: can put something out there, no matter what it is
Speaker 2: and find somebody that's defended by it, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that one will have a salad.
Speaker 2: Yeah I mean easy white chocolate. But I love now
Speaker 2: that it's become a thing on TikTok, where like if
Speaker 2: if somebody like a corny white dude or just like
Speaker 2: you know, honestly, any white dude that goes on TikTok
Speaker 2: and like shows off that, like you would never guess it.
Speaker 2: But man, that guy can move. He's a great dancer. Like,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of black women that'll comment in the
Speaker 2: first they all everybody wants to be the first to
Speaker 2: comment and say easy white chocolate. I don't want you
Speaker 2: to melt like can you imagine? Can you like again?
Speaker 2: Like I maybe it's just me, but if you know,
Speaker 2: I'm clearly a married man and I'm not looking for
Speaker 2: any companionship from a woman. But like if a black
Speaker 2: woman was to gash you up and say that, like
Speaker 2: you would feel like a million bucks.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I've never I've never felt cooler
Speaker 2: than when like an older black gentleman is is you know,
Speaker 2: is gassing me up. Not that it happens all the time,
Speaker 2: but I remember doing a vibe check and there was
Speaker 2: this guy who an older gentleman who had like a
Speaker 2: like an older hat. I can't think of a kind
Speaker 2: of mean no, but gosh, I can't. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what the hat is called, but like, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: can go yeah, And I like complimented his hat and
Speaker 2: he took it off and handed it to me, and
Speaker 2: I was like, you're gonna let me put it on,
Speaker 2: and he was like, look at him, y'all look at him,
Speaker 2: and then I and then I said, am I rocketed?
Speaker 2: Don't know why I said it. I probably sounded like
Speaker 2: I was very uncomfortable and not knowing how to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, keep up with his coolness because I didn't
Speaker 2: have it. But he just said, you rocketed better than me, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was like, all right, life's over now,
Speaker 2: like nothing nothing gets better than that. So anyways, I
Speaker 2: and we're we've only got fifteen minutes left. But I
Speaker 2: know I say this to you from time to time,
Speaker 2: but it never is set on air. You and I
Speaker 2: together on the radio. We end up in places I
Speaker 2: never think we would end up, but I'm never I
Speaker 2: never regret that we end up there, right, And I
Speaker 2: hope that people listening aren't, you know, like these guys
Speaker 2: should be talking more about sports.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: But it is fun and that's what that's the best
Speaker 2: part of being able to do this. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of things that are that are that are that are awesome,
Speaker 2: but ending up like you know, having things come up
Speaker 2: spontaneously on the air, that are you know.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love doing this and uh yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. So anyways, real quick, we don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of time left, but I do want to mention
Speaker 2: this because I teased it earlier. It's not a huge
Speaker 2: deal and I'm not bothered by it by any means,
Speaker 2: but it did stand out as a little bit hypocritical,
Speaker 2: I think for for Mark Stoops. So for those who
Speaker 2: are unaware, last year Kentucky was awful in football and
Speaker 2: they really had no This was the first year Mark
Speaker 2: Stoops had a team when it comes to personnel, and yes,
Speaker 2: they did play a very very very difficult scale but
Speaker 2: they should not have been nearly as bad as they were.
Speaker 2: I mean they lost, I mean who they beat. They
Speaker 2: had Ole miss which was their one year like the
Speaker 2: one win that made no sense. But other than that,
Speaker 2: you know, they lost to Vandy, They lost to South
Speaker 2: Carolina and got killed, and that loss didn't end up
Speaker 2: looking that bad because South Carolina ended up being pretty good.
Speaker 2: So look stupid this was to me. This was, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, the first year Mark Stoops had a team
Speaker 2: that was built to be solid, and they were awful.
Speaker 2: They were one and seven, finished dead last in the
Speaker 2: SEC OUTSID I'm sorry, I know they finished alone in
Speaker 2: fifteenth place out of sixteen teams at one and seven,
Speaker 2: four and eight. So you know, in the games that
Speaker 2: you felt like, well, hey, if they're gonna if they're
Speaker 2: going to get to a bowl, they got to win
Speaker 2: these split games. And they lost by fourteen at home
Speaker 2: to a bad Auburn team. They lost. They lost by
Speaker 2: twenty eight to Florida, who at the time wanted to
Speaker 2: fire their coach. Again. They lost to Vandy, and yes,
Speaker 2: I know Vandy's not a doormat anymore, but like Bandy,
Speaker 2: still lost to Middle Tennessee State. This year, so a
Speaker 2: bad year and in the end they're not going to
Speaker 2: get rid of him because you know, he's got a
Speaker 2: huge buyout and to be fair, he's this was this
Speaker 2: was an outlier for him. I don't think Stoops is
Speaker 2: a great coach, but having a team that was talented
Speaker 2: like this one was like, they shouldn't have been that bad.
Speaker 2: So if you remember the big Dog Vince Marrow and
Speaker 2: even Stoops like they were pretty outspoken about we got
Speaker 2: to change the culture and blaming like, well, we got
Speaker 2: to get rid of guys who aren't doing the right things.
Speaker 2: And clearly there was some truth to that. But I
Speaker 2: remember we had Cel Brown one time and he made
Speaker 2: a good point if those guys were doing the same
Speaker 2: exact things they were doing, meaning not the right stuff
Speaker 2: off the field, bad attitude, not you know, just not
Speaker 2: being good teammates, not really buying in. But yet the
Speaker 2: team was winning. Stoops would never say that because when
Speaker 2: you know so it is it is easy to throw
Speaker 2: those guys under the bus when you know they're transferring
Speaker 2: because how bad things are. Well, one of those guys
Speaker 2: is a receiver name of hard Hardly Gilmour, which, believe
Speaker 2: it or not, that's I mean, that's his name. So
Speaker 2: he transferred to Nebraska, and he was a good young
Speaker 2: piece for them that they did not want to lose.
Speaker 2: But he transferred Nebraska, and he's already been kicked off
Speaker 2: the team in Nebraska, and now he's coming back to Kentucky.
Speaker 2: And this is one of the guys that like absolutely
Speaker 2: was a part of like their I mean, he got
Speaker 2: arrested and it didn't get covered in Lexington, of course,
Speaker 2: because he was already on his way out and he
Speaker 2: got into a fight and I think he physically assaulted
Speaker 2: somebody at a storage facility like where he had his
Speaker 2: stuff that he was having to put away because he
Speaker 2: was leaving, and got arrested, got charged, and you know,
Speaker 2: he was an example of like all right, yeah, that
Speaker 2: guy was good, but trust me, we're gonna be better
Speaker 2: off without him because he was a bad locker room guy. Well,
Speaker 2: as soon as he gets in trouble again and gets
Speaker 2: kicked off the team in Nebraska, you welcome him back
Speaker 2: with open arms. So like, to me, it's not a
Speaker 2: big deal, But it just seems like you probably did
Speaker 2: have some guys that were locker room issues, not great character,
Speaker 2: not doing the right things, but you only brought it
Speaker 2: up this time because you stunk. You've always had guys
Speaker 2: that get in trouble, like Kentucky's not the worst, but
Speaker 2: let's be real, Mark Stops has had players and coaches
Speaker 2: arrested for nonsense more than the majority of college football programs.
Speaker 2: So just that's the thing that stood out to me,
Speaker 2: is like you can easily blame it that. Yeah, these
Speaker 2: guys were good. We don't want to lose them because
Speaker 2: of their talent, but man, we're gonna better because they're
Speaker 2: not buying in Okay, which one?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: All right? With it being five forty eight? We don't
Speaker 2: there's no need to take another break, right because we've
Speaker 2: gone too long? Would you? Would you agree?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, i'd agree.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I know you're probably having to crunch some numbers,
Speaker 2: but you just tell me that you should. You just
Speaker 2: tell me when we got it, when we got to
Speaker 2: scoot on out of here, because I sure will because
Speaker 2: I know we're probably close to it, and I should
Speaker 2: have taken a break five minutes ago, but you know
Speaker 2: I'm not good at that.
Speaker 3: You give me two minutes. Two minutes is all I need,
Speaker 3: and I'll tell.
Speaker 2: You that's what I told my wife always.
Speaker 3: That's a record for me.
Speaker 2: Two minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, two minutes. I don't like to brag, but with
Speaker 3: ageymbols coming on with me.
Speaker 2: With age, Austin, you do, you do develop a little
Speaker 2: bit of longevity, you know what I'm saying. So, again,
Speaker 2: not to brag, but yeah, two minutes light work. Are
Speaker 2: you thirty two now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Am I?
Speaker 2: I don't know how thirty.
Speaker 3: I think I'm thirty one.
Speaker 2: So I actually believe you that you don't know how
Speaker 2: old you are, because when you get to the thirties
Speaker 2: is where it kind of like every you know, there's
Speaker 2: really no birthday you celebrate once you're in the thirties,
Speaker 2: and you kind of not even realizing it. Tell yourself,
Speaker 2: I'm not really thirty six.
Speaker 3: Am I? Oh you are?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be thirty seven in July.
Speaker 3: Turn in thirty two in June. That's right, So.
Speaker 2: You aren't thirty two, you'll be thirty two.
Speaker 3: I will be thirty, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Gosh.
Speaker 2: That's one of the that's one of the things that
Speaker 2: makes me feel old. Like Billy Rutledge, a guy who
Speaker 2: you know, fresh out of college joined us here at
Speaker 2: I Heeart. When I just got hired in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be thirty soon, Like what he can't be
Speaker 2: thirty because if he's thirty, then like I'm I'm old,
Speaker 2: although I'm not, you know, like I think forty will
Speaker 2: be in all seriousness, like forty will probably be one
Speaker 2: that like really hits me. I didn't feel that about
Speaker 2: thirty because there's something about, you know, the young adult
Speaker 2: in the early thirties that like don't get in the twenties,
Speaker 2: there's benefits to it, but in the twenties you're kind
Speaker 2: of still viewed by people in like the professional world
Speaker 2: as a kid, you know what I mean, Like that
Speaker 2: that shouldn't be the case, but it's just the way
Speaker 2: it is. Now. I'm a seasoned vet here at thirty
Speaker 2: six years old, and my parents never never tell me this,
Speaker 2: but like with me feeling old because you know, I'm
Speaker 2: at this age, like that's got to make my parents
Speaker 2: feel old. But I don't want them to feel old.
Speaker 2: In fact, you know, my parents thankfully are okay, thank
Speaker 2: thank you. My parents are in great health. And my
Speaker 2: mom she's looked the same since I was like a
Speaker 2: five year old. I feel like, so, you know, age
Speaker 2: is what you make it right. You know, if you
Speaker 2: don't want to be thirty seven, don't live like your
Speaker 2: thirty seven. If you don't want to be eighty, don't
Speaker 2: live like you're eighty. My stepfather, he is in his
Speaker 2: in his mid sixties. He's going to Africa this weekend.
Speaker 2: He's sixteen days.
Speaker 3: Good for him.
Speaker 2: I'm scared who goes to Africa? I mean, like you
Speaker 2: could go on a safari and you know, seeing the
Speaker 2: world is a big thing, but like he had to
Speaker 2: take he had to take a bunch of like he
Speaker 2: had to get a bunch of shots, He had to
Speaker 2: take a bunch of pills to like, you know, make
Speaker 2: his body better prepared to be there. So like when
Speaker 2: I say who goes to Africa, what I mean is
Speaker 2: like that's not exactly like a vacation travel destination. He's
Speaker 2: going there to be for a wedding, which that's the
Speaker 2: reason for the trip, but like it's the kind of
Speaker 2: trip where I'm like, you better, you know, be careful,
Speaker 2: Like who knows what could happen?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean I worry about people when they you know,
Speaker 2: leave the house for an hour. Sometimes he's going across
Speaker 2: the globe, but hopefully he's safe and he will be
Speaker 2: all right. We're out of time. Thank you everybody for
Speaker 2: hanging out. We'll be back at it tomorrow and it
Speaker 2: really will be Friday, so it'll be fun.