Speaker 1: Ice Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety. Holy crap, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know who the hell we think when we are.
Speaker 1: Get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 3: The kids are playing or trail off.
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Speaker 3: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Now? Here's nick coffee.
Speaker 3: I'm really hoping this monster energy drink kicks in in
Speaker 3: the next few minutes because I can't be the only
Speaker 3: one tired today. I stayed up later last night than
Speaker 3: I usually do. And I know if you watched that
Speaker 3: game last night, Louisville on the road against Virginia Tech,
Speaker 3: the nine o'clock tip to the game ending a little
Speaker 3: bit after eleven I think it was, and I was
Speaker 3: probably wide awake until about I don't know, two o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning. And I'm sure not that, I'm sure
Speaker 3: that's I'm sure I'm in the minority there, because that's
Speaker 3: just I have this issue where once it gets late
Speaker 3: and I realize, uh, oh, I'm not that tired and
Speaker 3: it's already late, I better fall asleep, and then your
Speaker 3: mind does this thing where it prevents you from being
Speaker 3: able to fall asleep. And then for me, there are
Speaker 3: some things you can take to help you fall asleep.
Speaker 3: But you know, if you pop one of one of
Speaker 3: those gummies, maybe something else, whatever your vices, that can
Speaker 3: help you relax and fall asleep. If you do it
Speaker 3: that late into the night, really end of the morning,
Speaker 3: you're talking about really dragging ass the next day. So
Speaker 3: I'm running on fumes. But man, sometimes you need to
Speaker 3: pick me up. And the one and only mister also Montgomery,
Speaker 3: the travel chief himself, he provided to pick me up.
Speaker 4: You're not running on much sleep either.
Speaker 5: No, No, I think I went to bed. I think
Speaker 5: I fell asleep at like two o'clock. Yeah, it was,
Speaker 5: it was late. Got here, got to the office about
Speaker 5: like eight thirty. We had a bit baby Faces interview today.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2: That's pretty easy.
Speaker 4: I saw a shout it out play.
Speaker 2: Baby Faces podcast. You all know.
Speaker 5: We had a TNA World champion, Joe Hendry. Say his
Speaker 5: name and he appears, and he's one of the more
Speaker 5: popular guys in the business.
Speaker 2: Right now. We know TNA is now kind.
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Speaker 3: I mean, how about a baby face this podcast plug
Speaker 3: before we get three minutes in.
Speaker 5: Look at that well, I mean it works later a
Speaker 5: wrestler sun last night.
Speaker 3: I know you were shocked at the big Papa Punk. Yes,
Speaker 3: we need to get to that. Coming up here shortly,
Speaker 3: because I was I actually thought people I thought people
Speaker 3: were just making a joke about the name. I didn't
Speaker 3: realize it was actually his son, which makes it kind
Speaker 3: of funny.
Speaker 4: But anyways, we are both here.
Speaker 3: We were tired, now we're not because we're we've got
Speaker 3: a jolt of energy, some good vibest up.
Speaker 4: In what way? Both ways?
Speaker 2: All of them?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 4: Good to know.
Speaker 3: U's your imagination. It's called Fee and Company. No imagination
Speaker 3: needed there, that's really us. My name is Nick Coffee.
Speaker 3: He's Austin Montgomery, and we'll take you up till six
Speaker 3: o'clock if you want to join us on the show.
Speaker 3: We will open up the phone lines coming up here
Speaker 3: shortly because I do want to get thoughts from you
Speaker 3: guys as far as sort of what we do with
Speaker 3: last night, and that's probably not even the right way
Speaker 3: to set it up, because I mean Louisville one, and
Speaker 3: it was a nerve racking game. Definitely felt like I
Speaker 3: was about to have a heart attack, and I kind
Speaker 3: of processed a loss, not like into the world there's
Speaker 3: no way they win, but man, it just didn't feel
Speaker 3: like they were going to be able to pull it out.
Speaker 3: And sure enough they did, and I mean they never
Speaker 3: even ended up trailing, but it was close. But we'll
Speaker 3: talk about it. But again, if you guys want to
Speaker 3: join us, we'll open up the phone lines coming up
Speaker 3: here shortly you can all the.
Speaker 2: Masters are pulling out.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, you were on fire four or four
Speaker 3: minutes in, four minutes in, you're on fire.
Speaker 5: If you had texted me last night, you sent out,
Speaker 5: you sent out, you sent out the text, you sent
Speaker 5: out the bats signal. I felt like that was help,
Speaker 5: you said, I don't love this feeling right now.
Speaker 3: It was wild for you to play the role with me,
Speaker 3: as usually I'm the guy like, why don't you calm down? Man?
Speaker 2: Usually put in the fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't. I wasn't you know.
Speaker 3: I guess you can just read me because I was
Speaker 3: probably more so panicking and worried than I appeared. But
Speaker 3: yet you mentioned they got this, You're not worried, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, okay, then we should be.
Speaker 4: We should be all right, and uh.
Speaker 3: They pulled it out and again, well we'll break down
Speaker 3: sort of some takeaways because and let me get to it,
Speaker 3: I'll say, because I want to make sure I am
Speaker 3: very precise here as far as how I lay it out,
Speaker 3: because I don't want anybody to get the perception that
Speaker 3: I'm worried that like this team is not as good
Speaker 3: as we think they are, and that they're they're they've
Speaker 3: run out of gas, and it's just, you know, the
Speaker 3: best basketball that we've seen from this group is actually
Speaker 3: in the rear view, Like I don't believe that, but
Speaker 3: there were some things that were concerning, but big picture,
Speaker 3: just to get it out there as we start the show,
Speaker 3: every team great, really good, somewhat good, even bad, has
Speaker 3: games like last night where it just it wasn't there
Speaker 3: night and Louisville honestly, we were spoiled as fans because
Speaker 3: I know they lost to Georgia Tech, and I know
Speaker 3: that they nearly lost to EKU had it not been
Speaker 3: for the Noah Waterman bucket late. But I mean outside
Speaker 3: of the beginning of the game, which what a weird
Speaker 3: roller coaster. I mean, couldn't have started any better, eleven
Speaker 3: to nothing, and then from then on, I think, and again,
Speaker 3: we all love Pat Kelce. The guy is a made
Speaker 3: man around here. What a what a phenomenal job he's done.
Speaker 3: I'm doing all the ass kissing right now because what
Speaker 3: I'm about to say is not really any critic It's
Speaker 3: not criticism. It's not like I've had any type of
Speaker 3: change in my mind. You know, there's no change as
Speaker 3: far as how I feel about him, this team, and
Speaker 3: even the future of louisvill basketball. But it's just something
Speaker 3: that really hasn't been said before, Like last night was
Speaker 3: the worst this team has looked under Pat Kelsey. They
Speaker 3: still won, though, and it's nice to be battle tested
Speaker 3: like that when you really have rolled through a lot
Speaker 3: of your road games. I mean, Louisville ended up with
Speaker 3: I believe, the second largest average margin of victory in
Speaker 3: road games this season. I mean, they weren't really in
Speaker 3: late game situations where they had to make big plays
Speaker 3: to win, and last night you didn't want to be there,
Speaker 3: but they were, and they knew it wasn't their night.
Speaker 3: They were gassed, it was a mess, but they hung
Speaker 3: on found a way to win. So, you know, I
Speaker 3: think we saw this team really in a way we
Speaker 3: have it all year and it can happen.
Speaker 4: It's one game they still won.
Speaker 3: It's not a loss, but it was just a weird
Speaker 3: and kind of unusual thing to see because you know,
Speaker 3: they just didn't really have I mean, they didn't have
Speaker 3: a whole lot of juice. And it was almost as
Speaker 3: if you could you could you could see that they knew, hey,
Speaker 3: they're they're fighting, but they were just they just didn't
Speaker 3: have the same edge that we've seen this team have
Speaker 3: really for the majority of January, in most of February.
Speaker 4: But again, they found a way to win.
Speaker 3: And that alone, I mean again, it's it's it's probably
Speaker 3: a real stretch to say that this team is feeling
Speaker 3: great after last night, because you know, they know that
Speaker 3: they didn't play well, and they and and I'm I'm
Speaker 3: sure they're not thinking about point spread, margin of victory.
Speaker 3: That's probably not you know, something they go into the
Speaker 3: to the game thinking about as far. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: sure the players are aware of the spread. They're aware
Speaker 3: that Virginia Tech stinks, but you know that's not something
Speaker 3: that Pat Kelsey's probably got on the board before they
Speaker 3: walk out to you know, take the floors. Hey, we
Speaker 3: got to win by this many points, so we're gonna
Speaker 3: fall on the net. But despite it being just a
Speaker 3: rough night for really everybody, I mean, Chucky ended up
Speaker 3: having a really good game when it comes to just
Speaker 3: the stats. Now, the turnovers were an issue, and that's
Speaker 3: something that you know, he's had I think three straight
Speaker 3: games with five or more turnovers or something like that.
Speaker 3: But in the end, he was still five of twelve,
Speaker 3: made all four of his free throws, had fifteen points
Speaker 3: and six assists, and you know, I'd say he had
Speaker 3: the best night of anybody. But again that's saying something
Speaker 3: because it just wasn't a great night really for anybody.
Speaker 3: So it happens, and I'm sure these guys in a
Speaker 3: way feel I guess relieved to know that they were
Speaker 3: able to survive and get out of Blacksburg with a win.
Speaker 3: But they also I feel like, at least should I
Speaker 3: don't know if they do, but I feel like they
Speaker 3: should have some level of confidence now that, Hey, even
Speaker 3: when we can have a night like that where.
Speaker 4: Threes just aren't falling.
Speaker 3: Rain Smith will never in my opinion, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know this for certain, but I have a hard
Speaker 3: time thinking Rain Smith will ever have another night where
Speaker 3: he just simply can't buy at three point shot and
Speaker 3: rain was getting good looks. He was one of nine,
Speaker 3: and I felt like every time he shot it, I
Speaker 3: knew it was going to not only miss, but it
Speaker 3: was going to be short, Like he just didn't have
Speaker 3: his legs and those kind of things happened. So like
Speaker 3: they know that Chucky Chucky had more turnovers than he
Speaker 3: typically does. He missed a wide open layup and he
Speaker 3: just fell down twice and turned it over in crunch time.
Speaker 3: Trey Oure gave you some good minutes here and there
Speaker 3: last night and did some positive things, but you know,
Speaker 3: had the breakaway lay up and was anticipating contact and
Speaker 3: just like lost the ball up in the air like
Speaker 3: he airballed a floater, which is he airballed a floater layup,
Speaker 3: which is pretty hard to do. I mean, Terrence Edwards
Speaker 3: made some big shots late, and I mean some real
Speaker 3: big shots late, but other than that, he was not
Speaker 3: great and just didn't have a good night. Didn't look comfortable,
Speaker 3: he still looks winded. I don't know if he was
Speaker 3: one that had the flu or what it was, but
Speaker 3: he looked he looked gas gased, I should say, so,
Speaker 3: Javon Hadley, you know, not a bad night, but I
Speaker 3: kind of thought he didn't give you the same edge
Speaker 3: you typically get, although he did make a phenomenal defensive
Speaker 3: play late in the game. You know, James Scott, I
Speaker 3: didn't like he got scored on a couple of times,
Speaker 3: but he was actually pretty solid now that I think
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: James Scott, he only.
Speaker 3: Made one of his three free throws, but he was
Speaker 3: six of seven from the floor, big shots, late, big dungs,
Speaker 3: I should say, for thirteen points. So again, these guys
Speaker 3: know that not a single one would say that they
Speaker 3: played anywhere close to what they hold themselves to as
Speaker 3: far as their individual standard. But yet they found a
Speaker 3: way to win, So there can be some growth there.
Speaker 3: And again, repetition is important in every aspect of life,
Speaker 3: certainly as in basketball as well. You now can at
Speaker 3: least say this team was on the road back against
Speaker 3: the wall. Clearly nothing was really working, and they found
Speaker 3: ways to win. So I'm not going to shine it
Speaker 3: up as you know something that we can because again,
Speaker 3: as I always say, doesn't have to just be one
Speaker 3: complet elite side or the other multiple things.
Speaker 4: A variety of things can be true.
Speaker 3: And I think there are some positives you can take
Speaker 3: just knowing that it didn't look it didn't look good,
Speaker 3: but they found a way to get it done. But
Speaker 3: also there were some things that are worrisome. Now you
Speaker 3: can determine if you're really worried or if you're thinking it's,
Speaker 3: you know, a flute kind of thing, and hey, they
Speaker 3: were due for that kind of game, because it really
Speaker 3: hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 4: And when I say it, it.
Speaker 3: Sounds as if I'm being dramatic or over the top,
Speaker 3: and I don't mean for it to sound that way,
Speaker 3: but it's just the truth. I think after the eleven
Speaker 3: and oh start eleven to nothing start, that was the
Speaker 3: worst we've seen Pat Kelsey's team play here at Louisville.
Speaker 3: That's not call nine on one. This thing's broken. I mean,
Speaker 3: who knows how it's going to play out. But I'm
Speaker 3: just saying like we hadn't. I don't know if there's
Speaker 3: any game where we would say that again, other games
Speaker 3: that you lost and you got beat down, it was
Speaker 3: recently into the injury issues, or you just knew you
Speaker 3: were playing a really, really good team. So like last night, again,
Speaker 3: I'm sure there are mixed emotions, mixed feelings within the
Speaker 3: fan base, and that's that's expected because you know, not
Speaker 3: everybody's going to feel the exact same way.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: For me, again, I think there's a couple of things,
Speaker 3: in fact, if three specific things that I'm going to
Speaker 3: get to coming up here when we get back from
Speaker 3: our first break that I'm at least gonna be paying
Speaker 3: attention to in these last few games, just because I
Speaker 3: do think I'm starting to sense a little bit of
Speaker 3: a pattern here, and that's a little worriesome. But again,
Speaker 3: I can't tell you if it means that we should
Speaker 3: be alarmed, because again, at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: this team still has proven in the vast majority of
Speaker 3: the games we've watched them play who they are now. Again,
Speaker 3: competition can't do anything about that. You haven't really been
Speaker 3: challenged by a good team in a while. You were
Speaker 3: challenged by a bad team last night, and that, of course,
Speaker 3: you know that can that can be a worry for fans,
Speaker 3: But I'm trying to stay balanced. If you can't tell right,
Speaker 3: there's things that can be worrisome. But also I know
Speaker 3: this team, I know Rain Smith is not gonna have
Speaker 3: nights like that. I know Chucky unless he's dealing with
Speaker 3: something we don't know about, like that's probably gonna be
Speaker 3: a late game. Well, I guess was it twice? He
Speaker 3: I know he fell down twice and turned it over
Speaker 3: and I think actually know he tried to split the
Speaker 3: defense once and I don't remember if he fell down,
Speaker 3: but he ended up yea, he tripped.
Speaker 5: And they didn't call that, and Jim Baheim was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: they're not gonna call Yeah.
Speaker 4: And they shouldn't have.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was just a risky it's it's a
Speaker 3: risky play and a lot of times a guy like
Speaker 3: Chuck he can get away with it. But you know,
Speaker 3: last night he he didn't. And then and then late
Speaker 3: he he just fell down once. I mean just just
Speaker 3: kind of was was going going to his uh, going
Speaker 3: to his left, and he was kind of getting pushed
Speaker 3: a little bit outside. And I think because he's he's
Speaker 3: pretty good it it. He doesn't look like a physical guard,
Speaker 3: but he'll he'll get his hip. He'll meet you hip
Speaker 3: for hip, if you know what I'm saying, and he'll
Speaker 3: he'll trying to think of the.
Speaker 4: Right way to describe it.
Speaker 3: He doesn't get a body on him, he doesn't hook,
Speaker 3: but he'll use what frame he has his physicality that
Speaker 3: he does have to just get around you. Because once
Speaker 3: you get somebody on your hip, all it takes is
Speaker 3: you to get a little bit of of a of
Speaker 3: a of a lead on him, if you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Yeah, and then you just put that ass
Speaker 3: out there and then they got a vaulue and chuck.
Speaker 3: He's usually pretty good at that, where he will either
Speaker 3: really really uh sell his hip and they'll either foul
Speaker 3: him or they'll back off to not get the foul,
Speaker 3: and then he's right there for a bucket.
Speaker 4: So he was doing his typical stuff. It just didn't
Speaker 4: work out.
Speaker 3: So I feel like the late game errors that he had,
Speaker 3: I mean in the miss layup, like that's very uncharacteristic.
Speaker 3: And until he does that, you know consistently, I'm going
Speaker 3: to assume that that's that's an outlier. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: forgot what it's like.
Speaker 2: To be.
Speaker 3: In a weird place mentally when you're because Louisville, I mean,
Speaker 3: the Georgia Tech game that's stunk, but that was kind
Speaker 3: of like, all right, you're on a heater, Like eventually
Speaker 3: this team was gonna come down to earth. And I
Speaker 3: feel like Georgia Tech really had a big, big factor
Speaker 3: in them winning that game. Credit to them, and in fact,
Speaker 3: I mean they've I mean they're not good, but like
Speaker 3: they can mess around and beat some teams that are
Speaker 3: at least believed to be solid for the ACC. I mean,
Speaker 3: they beat Clemson, they beat Louisville, they got Pittsburgh last night,
Speaker 3: which I don't think Pitt's great, but they should be
Speaker 3: better than they are so last night though, I mean,
Speaker 3: this is one of my biggest takeaways from the game
Speaker 3: all around.
Speaker 4: Every you know, there's a lot to unpack him. We'll
Speaker 4: certainly do it today, but.
Speaker 3: Takeaways from the game top to bottom, not just from
Speaker 3: the Louisville side, not just from the Virginia Tech side,
Speaker 3: not just from the broadcasters who Beheim. I mean, I
Speaker 3: kind of love him, but I kind of can't stand
Speaker 3: him in a way. And then West Durham is such
Speaker 3: a pro, but like he needs to tell Beaheim, like, look,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're blind, old man, but like
Speaker 3: it clearly went off his finger. Yes, Like I think
Speaker 3: Wes Durham has an obligation in that role to like
Speaker 3: to the audience that's listening to him, to like, let
Speaker 3: us know that you are not either blind like him
Speaker 3: or maybe Beheim had Virginia Tech money line, because clearly
Speaker 3: the ball went off of and Pat Kelsey got hot
Speaker 3: because it hit the guy's finger right in front of
Speaker 3: the ref.
Speaker 2: And he literally his finger. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So again, there's a lot, a lot to unpack from
Speaker 3: last night. I about the guy doing L's Down with
Speaker 3: some extra zest. Did you see that?
Speaker 1: That was saucy?
Speaker 2: That was the best dozes down I've ever seen do that?
Speaker 4: Diva?
Speaker 3: I mean, he is, he's got some energy about him.
Speaker 3: Did you see they found him on Twitter?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they found him.
Speaker 2: He's he's handling it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: It was like, man, I was into it, thought we
Speaker 3: had it. You guys are good, And I'm like, how
Speaker 3: you how can you want me to not like this guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Exactly, you love him.
Speaker 3: So anyways, with all that said, the one thing that
Speaker 3: I believe, you know again, I'm looking at it from
Speaker 3: not just the look, because I could I can micro
Speaker 3: analyze everything about Louisville, and I'll try not to do
Speaker 3: that today because I don't think they'd be great for radio. However,
Speaker 3: the biggest overall takeaway among many was that Virginia Tech. Yes,
Speaker 3: they made some big shots late or throughout the game.
Speaker 3: They made eleven threes, that's how they were in it.
Speaker 3: But man, they suck. I mean, they did some good
Speaker 3: action in the half court. Actually felt like they were
Speaker 3: really well coached last night, with really good half court sets. Really,
Speaker 3: I mean, Louisville could have been better defensively obviously, but
Speaker 3: they did some good action to kind of catch them
Speaker 3: off guard. They you know, they did some really good
Speaker 3: stuff in the half court. I always felt like Mike
Speaker 3: Young is really good at half court offense, has really
Speaker 3: good sets, and he just now doesn't have great players.
Speaker 3: And you know, Virginia Texas school that will fall behind
Speaker 3: in this new world. So they're but like their turnovers,
Speaker 3: some of them, I mean, I couldn't believe it. And
Speaker 3: you know, you give Louisville credit when you when the
Speaker 3: team turns it over, no matter how they do it,
Speaker 3: it's a credit to the defense to an extent. But
Speaker 3: some of those Turmers turnovers for Virginia Tech last night.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, what are you doing? And I'm happy
Speaker 3: they did it. I mean just throwing it out of bounds.
Speaker 3: I mean in that late play, it didn't seem like
Speaker 3: some great defensive play, but man, to have that switch
Speaker 3: there right out of the time, I mean, that was brilliant.
Speaker 3: And I heard Pat Kelsey last night in his postgame
Speaker 3: radio interview giving Brian Klohman, basically the DC, the defensive
Speaker 3: coordinator for Louisville, a lot of credit for strategizing to
Speaker 3: have that switch there. And I think twice at the
Speaker 3: end putting length on. Was it stein Reg Steiner reck Steiner, Yes,
Speaker 3: And that's what threw me off. He is the son
Speaker 3: of Big Papa Pump Scott Steiner, former wrestling legend, and
Speaker 3: I just thought because his name was Kinna Steiner reck Steiner,
Speaker 3: that people were making the reference and I got it.
Speaker 3: And then I later learned after the game that it
Speaker 3: was actually his son, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but reck Steiner twice ended up committing really stupid turnovers.
Speaker 3: Again credit to Louisville, but like I think James James
Speaker 3: Scott switching on him with the mask, I think just
Speaker 3: scared him to where he was gonna throw a pass
Speaker 3: across the court through it.
Speaker 4: In the nosebleeds.
Speaker 3: And then and then the other time. It was just
Speaker 3: really savvy to have Hadley there. Was it Hadley at
Speaker 3: the end?
Speaker 5: What this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was Hadley at the end.
Speaker 3: Pickpocket who just you know was there And it's like
Speaker 3: they weren't expecting it. So I'm very happy the Virginia
Speaker 3: Tech stunk last night.
Speaker 4: And again, like.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna dwell on it too much, but they
Speaker 3: made a lot of open threes last night. They shot
Speaker 3: forty two percent eleven of twenty six meeting the Hokies did.
Speaker 4: But do you know how many open threes they missed?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I feel like nearly every three point shot they took
Speaker 3: make or miss was wide open. Now, some of them
Speaker 3: weren't wide ass open, as if like nobody was near him,
Speaker 3: but there were somewhere like you got to get a
Speaker 3: hand of and they and they didn't. And that's where
Speaker 3: I just feel like they were fatigued. They were flat,
Speaker 3: They didn't have the energy, and that happens, I mean,
Speaker 3: if we see it, like I'm actually really really looking
Speaker 3: forward to seeing what happens against Pittsburgh on Saturday. Not
Speaker 3: because you know, a close win for Louisville would make me,
Speaker 3: you know, panic, But Pittsburgh is a team that does
Speaker 3: have better players than Virginia Tech. They're clearly a much
Speaker 3: better team, and you know, they've proven to be a
Speaker 3: solid team. They just keep crapping away every year. It
Speaker 3: seems like they crap away chances to go to the tournament.
Speaker 3: So there's a few things, and I'll talk about this
Speaker 3: on the other side, there's a few things that have
Speaker 3: lingered in the last three games, specifically that have been
Speaker 3: resulting in a loss. In fact, I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's even safe to say, I don't even know if
Speaker 3: it'd be accurate.
Speaker 4: To say that you've played like poorly last night. You did,
Speaker 4: But notre Dame, Florida State Virginia Tech.
Speaker 3: We've seen flashes of you know, what this team has
Speaker 3: done to put themselves in the position they're in to
Speaker 3: be a top twenty five team, top twenty team in
Speaker 3: the rankings. But I just I really hope that they
Speaker 3: haven't run out of gas. I hope that's not the case.
Speaker 3: All Right, We'll talk about a lot of other things today.
Speaker 3: Kentucky is an action tonight against Oklahoma, and I haven't
Speaker 3: seen an update since earlier today, but I did see
Speaker 3: that both Jackson Robinson and Lamont Butler were probable for tonight,
Speaker 3: which has to be good news for Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Some of the things we'll get into some potential changes
Speaker 3: to the college football playoff seating, and we've talked about
Speaker 3: the ACC openings because there's already three and there may
Speaker 3: be more. But it sounds like according to CBS Sports,
Speaker 3: they had a good rundown earlier today with there's some
Speaker 3: coaches out there that I don't think you would say, man,
Speaker 3: they're on the hot seat. But the hot seat's different
Speaker 3: now with this world of college basketball so different now
Speaker 3: than it was when all these guys got their jobs. Like,
Speaker 3: it's not really about the hot seat, it's about Okay,
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Speaker 3: h two five seven one seventy nine hundred. I'm genuinely
Speaker 3: interested to hear what you guys think about last night,
Speaker 3: because I do think this is one of those games
Speaker 3: where I'm sure you feel maybe maybe some things you
Speaker 3: were worried about, angry about during the game, you cooled
Speaker 3: off a little bit once it came to an end.
Speaker 3: But certainly a game that I don't think is comparable
Speaker 3: to any of the others when it comes to this
Speaker 3: Louisville team. And that I mean, I say that more
Speaker 3: so just as a statement than you know, a sign
Speaker 3: of something. But I believe a lot of things can
Speaker 3: be true in situations. Last night certainly worrisome just to
Speaker 3: see this team play the way we've never seen him
Speaker 3: play before, flat uncharacteristic turnovers, just looked gassed. And now
Speaker 3: I don't think it was as they were out there
Speaker 3: just sleepwalk and they came out phenomenal. Levin Is you
Speaker 3: could not have had a better start, and then they
Speaker 3: just kind of hit a wall. A little bit, and
Speaker 3: it just felt like from midway through the first half
Speaker 3: on not like they were going to I mean, in moments,
Speaker 3: it did feel like that they lost a momentum and
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech had it and they were good because Virginia
Speaker 3: Tech kept getting wide open shots and they had moments
Speaker 3: to kind of really go on not a big run,
Speaker 3: but just you know, take advantage of Louisville struggling, and
Speaker 3: they would then just give the ball back like it
Speaker 3: was a weird game for a variety of reasons. One,
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech they were getting really whatever they wanted offensively,
Speaker 3: but when they weren't, they were just giving the ball away.
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Speaker 3: So I mentioned yesterday that I'm spoiling my kids and
Speaker 3: I'm I'm hoping that it doesn't lead to them just
Speaker 3: assuming they can. They can, they can get whatever they want.
Speaker 3: And last night my son Moose was was super excited
Speaker 3: when it comes to getting his PlayStation. I mean, he
Speaker 3: ran it. So I was home already, my wife came
Speaker 3: home with the kids. I was in I was in
Speaker 3: the other room, and he ran upstairs, and I didn't
Speaker 3: realize that she wanted me to that she wanted me
Speaker 3: to leave the door shut because she was gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: I guess, unveil it to him. Well, he runs in
Speaker 3: the house looking for me, knowing he has a surprise,
Speaker 3: and he runs in his room and he doesn't know
Speaker 3: where I am, but I hear him and he just
Speaker 3: is get little his little voice of excitement, daddy play station.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: And it was the all I need hearing that made
Speaker 4: me so happy.
Speaker 3: But also it was like, all right, well, now I'm
Speaker 3: gonna probably get him everything he ever wants, because I
Speaker 3: love making my kids happy.
Speaker 4: But anyways, I.
Speaker 3: Didn't know because when I played video games when I
Speaker 3: was young, long long time ago, and I was never
Speaker 3: really a gamer.
Speaker 4: I never had to download a game. I had a
Speaker 4: physical game. I didn't know it took that long to
Speaker 4: download a game.
Speaker 5: It has to download and then you have to install it, yeah,
Speaker 5: which takes like any other could take forever.
Speaker 3: So I downloaded NBA two K for him, which is
Speaker 3: what he wanted to play, and it was downloaded by
Speaker 3: the time he got home, and then I had to
Speaker 3: install it, so it took forever. So he goes to
Speaker 3: bed still hasn't installed. So finally, as the game ends,
Speaker 3: I go in his room to shut it off and
Speaker 3: I see that it finished. So I sat down in
Speaker 3: his gaming chair and I'm obviously way too big for it,
Speaker 3: and I played NBA two.
Speaker 4: K for an hour and a half.
Speaker 3: Nice, I mean, has I'm sure it's happened before, but
Speaker 3: it's got to be rare for somebody at the age
Speaker 3: of thirty six nearly thirty seven to then get into gaming.
Speaker 3: I feel like people who are adults that are into
Speaker 3: gaming and it's a hobby of theirs, it's something they
Speaker 3: really enjoy. It's probably something they've been doing since they
Speaker 3: were kids. Right, It's never too late to start. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm probably not gonna get it. Why you're so tired,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Like, because then I realized, okay, wow,
Speaker 3: now it's twelve forty five one o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 3: and then I went and set in the recliner, tried
Speaker 3: to relax, couldn't do it. I was up way too
Speaker 3: late and I've been running on fumes today. But hey,
Speaker 3: it's okay. I mean it would have been a much
Speaker 3: worse day and morning and even night of course too,
Speaker 3: all the way around.
Speaker 4: It would have been a lot worse.
Speaker 2: I love that you have the Dad recliner.
Speaker 4: Oh I got the Dad recliner. It's my throne.
Speaker 3: But it would have been a lot worse had all this,
Speaker 3: you know, had me staying up late, not being able
Speaker 3: to sleep, being tired and it and it be a
Speaker 3: louis a loss from yesterday, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was a win.
Speaker 3: It wasn't pretty, but they got it done. And I'm
Speaker 3: not going to give you a win as a win
Speaker 3: because anytime you and I'll reset this later because I
Speaker 3: know people on the text line, even have people on
Speaker 3: Twitter last night trying to set me up. They were
Speaker 3: throwing the bait out there about the whole well is
Speaker 3: a win because I've got some thoughts about you know
Speaker 3: what that actually means when people say it, and I
Speaker 3: think you can figure it out for yourself.
Speaker 4: But anyways, let's get to the Boe lines.
Speaker 3: FIBO two seven seventy nine is the number. Let's welcome in, Steve, Steve,
Speaker 3: how are you doing?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 6: How you doing?
Speaker 3: Nick?
Speaker 4: Who to hear from you?
Speaker 6: Listen? I just want to say, I think it's wonderful
Speaker 6: that we all can get mad, angry and have anxiety
Speaker 6: and nervous because we're going to be in the tournament
Speaker 6: this year.
Speaker 3: Yep, it makes you feel alive again, doesn't it.
Speaker 6: You know, And Kenny Payne won those games. Brother, you
Speaker 6: know that. But anyway, we it is wonderful that that
Speaker 6: finally we can you know, we don't have to talk
Speaker 6: about whatever. I mean, we can talk about the University
Speaker 6: of Louisville going to the tournament. Yes, they had a
Speaker 6: bad game. I think there was probably more sickness going
Speaker 6: on through the through the team, and it's staffed, and
Speaker 6: you know, people knew and probably they don't need to
Speaker 6: know that. But you know, I'm just glad that I
Speaker 6: have something to worry about. I'm with you day, and
Speaker 6: I hope your son gets to play as video games
Speaker 6: when he gets home today.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's excited. I appreciate the call, Steve, Look, he's pumped.
Speaker 3: He told me, uh, he can't wait to get home.
Speaker 3: He's gonna play with uh with the Celtics because that's
Speaker 3: his team he plays in, So that's a team he
Speaker 3: plays for in his league. But he also you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's asking me about I mean, the kid asked
Speaker 3: a lot of questions and it's and it's and it's sweet.
Speaker 3: But man, once he saw all the available teams, and
Speaker 3: who's this guy?
Speaker 4: Is he any good? Who do he played for? He
Speaker 4: played for the Guards? How do you dunk?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 3: Why does this guy look like an alien?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is this video game? Can I play with somebody from
Speaker 4: uh from from another state?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes to everything.
Speaker 3: So anyways, look, the illness thing, Look, we all they
Speaker 3: they had a real big issue with with with a
Speaker 3: bug with with a.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to call it the flu.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's what it is.
Speaker 3: But I feel like if you're listening right now, and
Speaker 3: it's probably not just in this area, but I know
Speaker 3: around here, you'd have a hard time finding someone that
Speaker 3: has not had either themselves or somebody they work with,
Speaker 3: maybe a family member, maybe an acquaintance that has gotten sick. Lately,
Speaker 3: and it's been a bigger issue to get well than
Speaker 3: it typically is. Like again, the flu is really what's
Speaker 3: gone what's gone crazy here locally? And I got sick
Speaker 3: last week, but it wasn't the flu, luckily, it was
Speaker 3: more of a bronchitis kind of thing. But I think
Speaker 3: the guy because my worry is that these guys have
Speaker 3: just played so many minutes and they're just getting worn
Speaker 3: down and they're just kind of gassed out. Because that
Speaker 3: is a real thing that happens with teams. I mean
Speaker 3: the team that I feel like had a similar and
Speaker 3: I don't I'm not making a comparison by any means,
Speaker 3: but the twenty nineteen team for Louisville that was Chris
Speaker 3: Max's first year. That team, you know, I don't know
Speaker 3: what their ceiling was, but that was Kristin Cunningham.
Speaker 4: That group.
Speaker 3: You know, they played a very short lineup. I mean
Speaker 3: they didn't even have enough players to run a full practice.
Speaker 4: You know, they.
Speaker 3: Played warra Enoch Sutton McMahon maleik, I mean.
Speaker 4: Who else a quan four? Remember him?
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, So they had a really so they
Speaker 3: played the same short lineup like forty minutes a game,
Speaker 3: almost I mean thirty five plus for just about everybody roughly,
Speaker 3: and they played a lot of close games and they
Speaker 3: just always ran out of gas. Now, maybe that was
Speaker 3: just they had, you know, they weren't clutch, or maybe
Speaker 3: they maybe they weren't preparedly. I don't I'm not saying it,
Speaker 3: but I remember feeling, for the first time watching a
Speaker 3: team throughout know that if they got in a game
Speaker 3: that was close late that they may have a tough
Speaker 3: time finishing because that just one they weren't great at it,
Speaker 3: but also they just kind of hit a wall, not
Speaker 3: in one game, but kind of in the last you know,
Speaker 3: twenty percent of the season. I'm not saying that that's
Speaker 3: that's Louisville, but I do feel like the last three
Speaker 3: games specifically, I have started to sense that they just
Speaker 3: look a little winded, and I'm hopeful that it's due
Speaker 3: to the fact that they've all been sick. I mean
Speaker 3: last week before the Florida State game. This didn't come
Speaker 3: out until right before tip off, to my knowledge, but
Speaker 3: they they had guys all misspractices last week at some point.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody was able to go on was able
Speaker 3: to practice by Friday, other than rain. I don't think
Speaker 3: Rain practiced on Friday. Coach Kelsey has been sick. He
Speaker 3: had to get an IV just to hydrate. Because you know,
Speaker 3: these guys are dealing with it, So that would explain
Speaker 3: why they just look winded. Like It's not like I
Speaker 3: think they're out there asleep or they're not giving effort,
Speaker 3: but they just look exhausted, and I would I'm hopeful
Speaker 3: that it's not because you know, they've hit a wall.
Speaker 3: I'm hopeful that it's more so just because they're dealing with,
Speaker 3: you know, coming off of a bug.
Speaker 4: Like for me, I mean, I didn't have the flu,
Speaker 4: I'm sure, but these guys had.
Speaker 3: It's probably worse than mine, to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: but sometimes you can be better. You can be well
Speaker 3: to where you're not contagious, you don't feel sick, but
Speaker 3: you still don't have like the energy.
Speaker 4: You're lethargic.
Speaker 3: And I'm hopeful that that's why because I think, look
Speaker 3: the Notre Dame, the Florida State game, and this one.
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like there was a little bit
Speaker 3: of a pattern in those three games to where you know,
Speaker 3: this team was still the same team, right they still
Speaker 3: you know, they have the same identity.
Speaker 4: They just they just look winded.
Speaker 3: And you know aren't as you know, they haven't been
Speaker 3: as effective at knocking down shots. And I think when
Speaker 3: you are winded and tired that that can linger to
Speaker 3: other aspects of the game. Like these guys were making
Speaker 3: uncharacteristic They were very uncharacteristic last night with some of
Speaker 3: their decisions, turnovers, even shots selection. Like I feel like
Speaker 3: once they got up to a big lead and then
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech answered with a couple of threes, and then
Speaker 3: Louisville I think once again got up to you know,
Speaker 3: twelve to fifteen point lead, and then once it got
Speaker 3: to be where it was, you know, a few possessions
Speaker 3: really throughout, and then Louisville did, of course get it
Speaker 3: back up to ten in the second half. But I think,
Speaker 3: you know, instead of just doing what we typically see
Speaker 3: them do in the half court, being patient, focused like
Speaker 3: they were, they were careless and you know, there wasn't
Speaker 3: as much movement to where somebody kind of just had
Speaker 3: to fire up a shot a little bit late in
Speaker 3: the shot clock. That wasn't a great look. Like they
Speaker 3: were just not themselves and that happens. That's that's life, man,
Speaker 3: don't even look at it just from a basketball team.
Speaker 3: That's life. People can sometimes just have a have a day,
Speaker 3: have a week. That's just they're kind of off. And
Speaker 3: these guys they had it last night. So that's that's
Speaker 3: the way you can view it and say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: not worried. Let's just see how they respond. And that's
Speaker 3: that's a normal way to look at it. That's kind
Speaker 3: of where I'm at. But then again, something I said
Speaker 3: earlier this week, and I think I even touched on
Speaker 3: it yesterday. And this isn't like a hey, I told
Speaker 3: you so kind of thing. Trust me, because if I
Speaker 3: have a chance to say I told you so, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell you I told you so.
Speaker 4: That's not what this is.
Speaker 3: But I wasn't expecting Louisville to be a close game
Speaker 3: last night because honestly, let's look at the pattern. When
Speaker 3: they go on the road against those kind of teams
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech, they usually win big roadkill in your house, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, they've they've been phenomenal on the road this year.
Speaker 3: The only loss they have on the road in conference
Speaker 3: play is that Georgia Tech game, And did they play
Speaker 3: an they lost in Rubb and that was a true
Speaker 3: road game. I guess that's really the only road game
Speaker 3: they had that was a true road game in non
Speaker 3: conference play. But anyways, like I was expecting them to win,
Speaker 3: like they could have played a B plus game, and
Speaker 3: I feel like they still could have won by twenty something.
Speaker 3: They didn't play that last night. So again, what I
Speaker 3: start to really think about when I look at bracketology,
Speaker 3: and this is me going back to what I referenced
Speaker 3: the other day. And I didn't do it till like
Speaker 3: panic anybody, but it's just something that I was, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of thinking out loud. Honestly, it wasn't something like
Speaker 3: I'd planned to talk about on the show. But I'm
Speaker 3: looking at bracketology, looking at who Louisville could play in
Speaker 3: the first round if they're a seven seed, who they
Speaker 3: play in the first round, if they're an eight seed,
Speaker 3: even a six seed for that matter, And I'm realizing, okay,
Speaker 3: the teams that they would play here in the first round,
Speaker 3: even if they are a six going up against an eleven,
Speaker 3: whoever that eleven is, they probably deserve to be there
Speaker 3: as a play in because they didn't get the job
Speaker 3: done to where they could safely be in the tournament.
Speaker 3: But there's a good chance that that eleven seed is
Speaker 3: substantially better than the vast majority of the teams that
Speaker 3: Louisville has played in acc play, and that, you know,
Speaker 3: that's just maybe I am worried about it, and I
Speaker 3: don't want to admit it. I don't feel worried, but
Speaker 3: I just think that's something that I'm aware of. Doesn't
Speaker 3: shake my confidence, but it's just something that I think
Speaker 3: is worth mentioning that, like last night, to have a
Speaker 3: Virginia Tech team have you on the ropes like that
Speaker 3: and you really had to And again credit to them
Speaker 3: for making the place they made late right, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a bad night. You want to get the hell
Speaker 3: out of there. You're tired as can be, You're making
Speaker 3: mistakes you don't typically make. But you know what great
Speaker 3: execution late for Actually whatdn't even execution him? James Scott
Speaker 3: right place right, Tom big dunk, Terrence Edwards really bad game,
Speaker 3: but he made some big shots that changed the ending
Speaker 3: of that game. Javon Hadley not his best night, but
Speaker 3: you know what, he makes big plays defensively all the time.
Speaker 3: Made a big one to kind of close it out
Speaker 3: and put this thing to bed. So again, Virginia Tech,
Speaker 3: if they can have you in that spot, I just
Speaker 3: I'm trying not to go there. But I think when
Speaker 3: I and I'm not gonna spend a lot of time
Speaker 3: thinking about it, because why would I. But when we
Speaker 3: go back to this game, until we get to the
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament or til we get to maybe the ACC
Speaker 3: tournament and see Louisville play a team like Clemson or
Speaker 3: Duke or maybe even Carolina, who we know is better
Speaker 3: than the record, they just you know they can't get
Speaker 3: it done. This was the game for me where I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I still love this team. I've seen them regardless of opponent.
Speaker 3: I know they're better than what we're seeing tonight in Blacksburg.
Speaker 3: But also, man, you could talk about like a bubble
Speaker 3: team barely getting in. Hell, a twelve seed that gets
Speaker 3: in the tournament because they won their league, but it's
Speaker 3: not a great league. Like they're gonna give you a
Speaker 3: way bigger test than they're gonna They're gonna hit you
Speaker 3: with a much bigger punch than Virginia Tech did last night.
Speaker 3: Because Virginia Tech, I give them credit, they hit some
Speaker 3: they hit enough threes to stay in it. There's seasons
Speaker 3: essentially shot. But yet they you know, they were there.
Speaker 3: They gave them all they wanted, but they also did
Speaker 3: it while reminding us here and there they're bad. I
Speaker 3: mean some of their turnovers. So again it's in the
Speaker 3: rear view. Now you got it done. But I really
Speaker 3: think this Pittsburgh game on Saturday will be an opportunity
Speaker 3: to kind of see, Okay, how fluky was that?
Speaker 1: Was? That?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 3: Just a man? Every team has a game like that
Speaker 3: kind of game. And I don't mean they need to
Speaker 3: beat Pittsburgh by twenty for us to say that was
Speaker 3: just an outlier. But to me, it's going to be
Speaker 3: more about how they look because last night it was
Speaker 3: a closer game than any of us expected, and they
Speaker 3: were making mistakes that we don't usually see. But they
Speaker 3: just looked completely gassed, and I hope by Saturday that's
Speaker 3: not the case. All right, quick break, we'll come back
Speaker 3: on the other side. Keep this thing rolling along. Oh
Speaker 3: and by the way, I also have some.
Speaker 4: Tickets to give away today.
Speaker 3: I have the most random, oh really random pair of
Speaker 3: tickets to give away today.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what it is.
Speaker 3: On the other side, it's random to me, but you
Speaker 3: may think, Oh goodness, Nick, tell me what I gotta
Speaker 3: do to get these tickets.
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Speaker 3: All right, so I will be giving away a pair
Speaker 3: of tickets. We'll do it at four thirty, or at
Speaker 3: least as soon as we get back from our first
Speaker 3: break in the four o'clock hour. That's usually roughly a
Speaker 3: little bit before four thirty. But I mean, everybody's on
Speaker 3: the edge of their seats right now, right I am
Speaker 3: anticipating to hear what it is.
Speaker 4: What you got that we're going to be given away?
Speaker 3: How about a pair of tickets to go see Brett Michaels,
Speaker 3: Brett Michaels, Brett Michaels. Let's got Rock of Love at
Speaker 3: French Lick. Oh boy, that's right, my parents. The Kirkster
Speaker 3: is going there. Oh is he this weekend?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Shout out to I was about to say my wife,
Speaker 5: but his wife my stepmom Nancy.
Speaker 2: It'd be weird the right.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's Kentucky, but it is the she's probably
Speaker 5: the biggest Brett Michaels fan you would ever know. I
Speaker 5: think my dad has told me that they've went and
Speaker 5: seen him over thirty times. If they're in any three
Speaker 5: hundred mile radius, they're going to Brett Michael's show.
Speaker 3: So he will be at French Lick on March first,
Speaker 3: at the Exhibition Hall, and it will be you see,
Speaker 3: never seen a concert up there, though I have not seen.
Speaker 3: I've been to French Lick a bunch of times. I've
Speaker 3: not been to a but my parents, my mom and stepdad.
Speaker 3: I think my dad has been to some shows up
Speaker 3: there as well. It's it's a good venue for concerts.
Speaker 2: Very much.
Speaker 3: I there's there's some casino resorts that that like concerts
Speaker 3: there suck, but I can tell you French Lick's not
Speaker 3: one of them.
Speaker 4: And and I don't know, I.
Speaker 3: Mean it's it's it's I'm not even sure they even
Speaker 3: still have their like ballroom. But I saw two concerts
Speaker 3: at what used to be called the Boat. We still
Speaker 3: called the Boat, but it's now Caesar's. Do they still
Speaker 3: have concerts there.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't think they do. I think I think the
Speaker 3: concert Hall. I could be wrong, but I feel like
Speaker 3: the concert hall was more so when they were actually
Speaker 3: when they were a boat. When they redid it, I
Speaker 3: think is when it changed. It was like right before
Speaker 3: you walked into the boat, right, yes, yep, that's right.
Speaker 3: And now it's of course totally different. So anyways, French Lick, Indiana,
Speaker 3: great resort up there at French Lick. They've they've got
Speaker 3: Brett Michaels coming on on March first, and we're going
Speaker 3: to give you away tickets coming up around four thirty.
Speaker 3: And I've got a little bit of a first of all,
Speaker 3: the Brett Michael's Rock of Love. Did you know that
Speaker 3: they they filmed some of that in Louisville?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I did not, Yeah, so he it was a I
Speaker 3: mean that was early reality. Oh yes, I mean it
Speaker 3: was trash realities. Even was that before reality or was
Speaker 3: it all part of the same thing v H one
Speaker 3: They had Rock of Love, I Love Money, Charms School
Speaker 3: with Ricky Lake. I mean, they had really good trash
Speaker 3: reality shows that that did well. And then you know,
Speaker 3: like that kind I mean a lot of that stuff
Speaker 3: at the time. I don't know if we knew it,
Speaker 3: but like that was all like, oh, that's staged. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like it's it's it's made.
Speaker 3: Even Jersey Shore is like manufactured, like it's it's real people,
Speaker 3: but like they put a show together. If you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. It's no, it's it's it's a show
Speaker 3: more so more so than it is. Like reality shows
Speaker 3: are very much, uh manufacturing.
Speaker 4: I don't people know that or not.
Speaker 3: Documentaries are not me and it's a totally different, different world.
Speaker 3: But I have a I have a Brett Michael's uh
Speaker 3: story that that I'll always remember because I just think
Speaker 3: of him as the guy who you know, like he's
Speaker 3: he's he's old now, like he's you know, he's sixty
Speaker 3: one years old and he's still you know, he's still
Speaker 3: doing his thing. And there's nothing wrong with being in
Speaker 3: your sixties. But I guess, like you know, like he
Speaker 3: hasn't had new music in a long long time. And
Speaker 3: I don't look at it this way because you know,
Speaker 3: hair band rock was fun, sure, but you know there's
Speaker 3: certain people who you know who viewed it, view it
Speaker 3: as you know, I guess beneath them. But he showed
Speaker 3: up to the what was the the I always forget
Speaker 3: the name of country Hometown Rising.
Speaker 2: Yes, the only year that we had it.
Speaker 3: So we had Hometown Rising that year and it was
Speaker 3: loaded with all country artists and he was on there
Speaker 3: kind of like sticking out like a sore thumb, like
Speaker 3: wait a second, like what's this? And I remember, you know,
Speaker 3: thinking it was really weird, like, man, somebody owed this
Speaker 3: guy favor, Like how'd he get on the bill?
Speaker 4: And I was there for his set and he was
Speaker 4: fun nominal.
Speaker 3: It was a real reminder that it's not just about
Speaker 3: being a recording artist and being you know, having an
Speaker 3: image and a look in charisma. To be a star
Speaker 3: in whatever music you whatever genre you're in music, you
Speaker 3: got to be a performer to to like really make
Speaker 3: your mark to where he can still be at sixty
Speaker 3: one having these tours and people buying tickets and going
Speaker 3: yes like he did like sweet Home Alabama covers, like
Speaker 3: he was out there performing and absolutely owned his set.
Speaker 2: Mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll.
Speaker 4: I mean, he was, he was great.
Speaker 3: And I you know, I just when I think of him,
Speaker 3: I think of Poison, I think of Sure, I think
Speaker 3: of you know, rock of Love, and you know just
Speaker 3: he's he's a he's a celebrity, yes, and he's you know,
Speaker 3: had a lot of his life later in life play
Speaker 3: out on reality TV.
Speaker 4: But man, he took it serious.
Speaker 3: Like he wasn't one of those guys that's just you know,
Speaker 3: running on e just trying to still get a check.
Speaker 3: Like he took it serious and he performed and it
Speaker 3: was really really awesome because I just remember thinking, like, man,
Speaker 3: I can I can appreciate that also again, like he
Speaker 3: was really good at performing. And like there's certain people
Speaker 3: who and I don't know much of I haven't seen
Speaker 3: any of like the big stars now, like I know,
Speaker 3: if you're Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Morgan walland like you're not
Speaker 3: just out there saying you're performing and you got you
Speaker 3: gotta be able to do that. Or but like I
Speaker 3: watched George Straiton concert once, worst concert ever been to George.
Speaker 3: Like George Strait is a legend, he's great, but like
Speaker 3: he just sits up there and doesn't move and plays
Speaker 3: his guitar right now again, like that's.
Speaker 2: Chris Stapleton does that.
Speaker 3: I mean it's fine, but you know it's it's it
Speaker 3: can go a little flat now, Garth Brooks, on the
Speaker 3: other hand, that man's a performer. Of course, that man
Speaker 3: still doing stadium man will perform like he'll do three
Speaker 3: shows a day in the same stadium or arena, and
Speaker 3: every every show's got the same level of energy. So
Speaker 3: like you can, you can be successful in a variety
Speaker 3: of ways. But man, like that's why Garth Brooks will
Speaker 3: as long as he wants to keep doing those tours,
Speaker 3: he'll make an insane amount of money because he brings
Speaker 3: it every time. He's got a catalog of hits that
Speaker 3: everybody knows. And I just remember thinking of Brett Michaels
Speaker 3: and being, okay, man, you know what when I when
Speaker 3: I think about going and seeing somebody in concert, which
Speaker 3: I rarely do, like I'm gonna be more so incentivized
Speaker 3: to go and watch them if they're gonna put on
Speaker 3: a show and it's performance more so than just you know,
Speaker 3: to call it karaoke would be wrong. But like George Strait,
Speaker 3: like he didn't move and he didn't say anything other
Speaker 3: than his songs, which again he's a legend. People love
Speaker 3: that he could he could tour. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: he's had maybe six fair fairwell put the name on
Speaker 3: the market. I think he said six farewell tours overall.
Speaker 3: We said by to him sometimes, but you know, and
Speaker 3: when you're a legend like that, you can do that.
Speaker 4: But Brett Michaels man, he brought it.
Speaker 3: So we're giving away two tickets and I'm sure he's
Speaker 3: gonna bring it to French Lick.
Speaker 5: One of my favorite rock concerts. I've seen him with
Speaker 5: Poison twice. And here's a fun thing before we get
Speaker 5: out of here. He still looks like Brett Michaels. He
Speaker 5: still sounds like Brett Michaels. Everybody else gets up there,
Speaker 5: especially when they do these casino tours. They're just in
Speaker 5: like the French Lick hoodies and they're just kind of
Speaker 5: like they're they're phoning it in, right, But Brett, Brett
Speaker 5: throws a party.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's a vibe, no doubt. So again four
Speaker 3: poin thirty, we're gonna give away tickets.
Speaker 4: I don't know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: We'll probably just see who can who can call in first,
Speaker 3: But stick around you'll find out. We've got two hours
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