Speaker 1: Time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports
Speaker 1: Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: So, with my voice fading as we are now two
Speaker 2: hours through the show, I left my quarantine studio here
Speaker 2: to go get a drink, and I made a mistake
Speaker 2: of chugging some sprite, which has left me just doing
Speaker 2: nothing but burping, which of course I would never do
Speaker 2: on the air. They'd be really professional, and that would
Speaker 2: be very unprofessional, and I'm clearly a trained professional. So
Speaker 2: excuse me. Well, I try to, you know, gather myself here.
Speaker 2: That was a mistake. I should have just got water.
Speaker 3: Sprite is a great drink to have, like when you're
Speaker 3: under the weather, like, oh, it's always been my go to.
Speaker 4: I didn't know if that.
Speaker 2: Sore throat, sick, any kind of sickness A sprite It
Speaker 2: just seems like it's It's what you need when it
Speaker 2: comes toially, when it comes to different carbonated beverages, sprites
Speaker 2: the way. I mean, I love sprite in general. It's
Speaker 2: like so crispy, it's got that bite to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, I.
Speaker 2: Mean it's sprite. Maybe it's just any soft drink, but
Speaker 2: I feel like It's just there's like a Sprite challenge
Speaker 2: where you can't like chug a whole bottle of some
Speaker 2: of one and not you know, and not throw up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a Sprite one.
Speaker 2: I've never tried it, don't want to, but yeah, sprite
Speaker 2: Sprite's delicious.
Speaker 3: On a nice, nice hot day, I could probably do
Speaker 3: about half of one.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 2: All right, so you only get three soft drinks the
Speaker 2: rest of your life?
Speaker 4: What are you picking? Uh, doctor pepper?
Speaker 2: Coke zero Okay, coke zero?
Speaker 4: Got a huge Coke zero?
Speaker 1: Got?
Speaker 4: The regular coach is kind of too much for me.
Speaker 2: It's too thick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well to to a syrupy Yes, that's what I
Speaker 4: was about to say.
Speaker 2: It's just way I feel like a pit of candy
Speaker 2: and mus stomach after I drink. Especially, I can do
Speaker 2: a fountain coke, like a Coca cola from from McDonald's
Speaker 2: is fine. But even at the end of that, I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, that's enough. But if I was to drink,
Speaker 2: like if I get a two liter of Coca cola,
Speaker 2: not diet or Coke zero, and I'm you know, and
Speaker 2: I have a few drinks of it, I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: that's rich.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of depends on where you get it.
Speaker 3: Like it like a fountain coke is pretty good. One
Speaker 3: for McDonald's pretty good. But yeah, it's no matter where
Speaker 3: it is, it's just universally surropy. And probably my last
Speaker 3: one is probably gonna have to be probably have to
Speaker 3: be mountain dew. I do, I do enjoy good mountain
Speaker 3: You do the dew? Huh, Yeah, I do the dew.
Speaker 3: I enjoy good mountain dew.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm going diet coke in sprite. Those are easily
Speaker 2: the two, But the third I don't know. Like I'm
Speaker 2: I'm somebody that there aren't. There aren't many soft drinks
Speaker 2: that I'm like out on, Like I clearly have a preference,
Speaker 2: but there's not many soft drinks you could give me
Speaker 2: that I would say, no, I don't like it. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to drink it. So for me, what makes
Speaker 2: the soft drink one, I mean, die coke to me
Speaker 2: is it's it's got to be a drug. Sure, it's
Speaker 2: got to be a drug that asps. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: no the way the diet coke can hit like. It's
Speaker 2: got to be a drug. And you know, I'm addicted
Speaker 2: to it, I guess, And I love Sprite always have.
Speaker 2: But other than that, man, it's just the carbonation, Like
Speaker 2: that's what I need. I need a drink with carbonation
Speaker 2: that's gonna give me a little bit of a bite.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I don't know what I would
Speaker 2: go with. Do you like Big Red? I love Big Red?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I guess I probably should have added I'll put Big
Speaker 3: Red in over Mountain Do yes, I love Big Red.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think my third would probably be Doctor Peppery. It's
Speaker 2: a go yeah for me. And then honestly, this is random.
Speaker 2: I don't drink it as much anymore, but it used
Speaker 2: to be always in the house when I was growing
Speaker 2: up with my mom, diet sunkissed. I don't ever seek
Speaker 2: it out, but I remember, like, yeah, cause it's it's
Speaker 2: it's kind of got that first of all, it's delicious,
Speaker 2: but yeah, like a sunkis the diet part of it
Speaker 2: like makes it to where it's almost like diet coke,
Speaker 2: Like I could drink ten of them, but if I
Speaker 2: drink ten regular cokes or regular sunkiss it'd be just
Speaker 2: a little too much. Yeah, Like I can't finish a
Speaker 2: twenty ounce bottle of Coca Cola anymore. That's how weak
Speaker 2: I've gotten it comes to that kind of stuff, just
Speaker 2: can't do it. What is it you think that makes
Speaker 2: the soft drinks at certain places different? Like I don't
Speaker 2: eat a lot of White Castle, but people tell me
Speaker 2: that the fountain Big Red at White Castle is just
Speaker 2: like a different world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have their own faucet now for the Big Red,
Speaker 3: like it's not with all the other all the other
Speaker 3: soft drinks. They have their own spickett that the big
Speaker 3: Dread comes out, but there's not. But they're not getting
Speaker 3: different Big Red than us, are they? I mean, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't think so. Aren't they one of the rush about it?
Speaker 3: Aren't they one of the rare? Like I don't even
Speaker 3: think it's it's not very popular to get.
Speaker 2: It's not very common that even that a place would
Speaker 2: even have Big Red as a drink, right, So maybe
Speaker 2: maybe they get their fountain because it's because it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's something that they use clearly as part of
Speaker 2: their branding. Is that not only can you come here
Speaker 2: and get these different shaped hamburgers that have onions on them,
Speaker 2: like White Castles just its own it's very it's it's
Speaker 2: it's got its own brand.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 2: Castle, nobody's doing really what White Castle's doing. I guess
Speaker 2: maybe what is Crystal like the is that deposer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a little bit more down south. I
Speaker 3: know it's I know it's like a little bit different,
Speaker 3: but like I think it's still kind of the same.
Speaker 3: They have the many sliders. I've never been but anytime
Speaker 3: I always go south, like you see a plethora of them.
Speaker 2: So let's let's so I would say the most notable
Speaker 2: soft drink fountain soft drink at a chain restaurant that
Speaker 2: people will just acknowledge is different. He's got to be
Speaker 2: McDonald's coke, right, Oh dude, McDonald's coke or sprite. But
Speaker 2: if you go to like if you're somebody who is
Speaker 2: in charge of supplying the product, like if you work
Speaker 2: for Coca Cola and you provide these different restaurants, like
Speaker 2: you deliver whatever it is that's delivered that they put
Speaker 2: into the fountain machine to make the drink, And you
Speaker 2: go to Burger King and you go to McDonald's and
Speaker 2: they're across the street from each other. Aren't you giving
Speaker 2: them the same thing? Like? What makes it different?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying I've read some of this
Speaker 3: and I don't know if really this has too much
Speaker 3: ado about it.
Speaker 4: Man, This is.
Speaker 2: This is the topic that the serious sports sports radio
Speaker 2: fans want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm pretty sure they've there's probably a lot
Speaker 3: of coat drinkers out there that the.
Speaker 2: Probably you know, that's right. We reach a lot of people.
Speaker 4: We don't kink shame. We said that several times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, live your life.
Speaker 3: But i've heard what the McDonald's thing. Have you heard
Speaker 3: the theory that they're that their straws are bigger than normal,
Speaker 3: so like you can guzzle it down a little bit better.
Speaker 2: And I think I have not heard that, but that
Speaker 2: would make sense as to why it's just different, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean?
Speaker 3: You can just chug it and slurp it for all
Speaker 3: by any means, any means. Let me throw one out
Speaker 3: there that I've not heard a whole lot of people
Speaker 3: talk about. But I'll stand by it's just different and
Speaker 3: it's really good, Okay, Elma, Paul.
Speaker 2: Those things are popping up all over Kentucky. Sure they
Speaker 2: have a and I usually get a thirty two ounce
Speaker 2: beer and throw it down the neck.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: But surveys, but the coke, the Coca cola, the fountain
Speaker 2: Coca cola, Elma, Paul. It's also like different in a
Speaker 2: good way, like it's just delicious.
Speaker 3: Do they use like the real like what they call
Speaker 3: the Mexican coke? That would make sense. Now, it may
Speaker 3: be just the same as everything else. But I know
Speaker 3: I've anytime I've drinking that sort of coke, it's just
Speaker 3: came in like the bottle. You gotta use a bottle
Speaker 3: open or I don't know if they actually put that
Speaker 3: in the actual machine.
Speaker 2: As a kid, whenever I would get the glass bottled
Speaker 2: coca cola, I mean, it was like finding, you know,
Speaker 2: a rare valuable item.
Speaker 4: Oh dude.
Speaker 2: And now I remember drinking one, probably a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago, and I keep in mind it's a it's
Speaker 2: a smaller amount of coca cola than you get really
Speaker 2: any other thing. I can't there's less of it in
Speaker 2: that glass bottle than there is in a can, and
Speaker 2: obviously in twenty ounces. But yet I couldn't finish it.
Speaker 2: Like it was it was like straight sugar, like straight candy. Okay,
Speaker 2: And you know it's still it's it's still nostalgic and
Speaker 2: just something about that glass like I feel like all
Speaker 2: the commercials when I was a kid watching Coca Cola commercials,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're only drinking the glass.
Speaker 3: That glass bottle, right, and it is something does feel
Speaker 3: like very like, I don't know, like fifties about it,
Speaker 3: very bright boomer type of like. I drink it and
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm I'm just you know, I'm ready
Speaker 3: to be drafted.
Speaker 2: So while we're talking drinking, when if you if you
Speaker 2: are gonna get like if you're gonna go out to
Speaker 2: dinner with the wife and have it have a drink,
Speaker 2: are you more of a beer guy? Cocktail like margarita
Speaker 2: depends on that they have.
Speaker 4: Like a good specialty I or.
Speaker 2: Am I wrong in saying you're not a big beer guy?
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 3: I've been, I've been on the beer train, and I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say I blame you, but like you've your vibes
Speaker 3: with the bush lattes have gotten me so loved. I
Speaker 3: get a bush light wherever I go, first of all,
Speaker 3: because it's like the cheapest and it's smooth, and it's
Speaker 3: so smooth. Oh my god, it's so good. So I've
Speaker 3: been like this this past week and I went out
Speaker 3: to a karaoke bar, and I.
Speaker 2: Just tell you nothing but liquid.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 3: I don't even need that good, but I just I
Speaker 3: just like, I just you know, I just like to
Speaker 3: have it. I'd like to have a good time. I
Speaker 3: get the crowd involved that start, I start shouting out
Speaker 3: the bartenders and the DJs, and I show show a
Speaker 3: lot of love. But I've been I've been on a
Speaker 3: beer kick when I've been going out recently. But if
Speaker 3: we go to like a nice restaurant, I might like
Speaker 3: try like their house old fashioned, or like their house
Speaker 3: margarite or something. I've been really huge into oh what
Speaker 3: do they call them with the coffee espresso martiniz, I've
Speaker 3: been into those.
Speaker 2: So yes, I got the answer I was expecting is
Speaker 2: that you you'll really you will really mix it up
Speaker 2: when it comes to having an alcoholic beverage. Rather it
Speaker 2: be at dinner. Maybe it's a social thing at the
Speaker 2: karaoke bar. I stick with beer. I mean, I'm pretty
Speaker 2: I'm pretty simple. I mean, I'm I'm a redneck. I'm
Speaker 2: from Bullet County and I drink bush Like. That's kind
Speaker 2: of it's kind of what I do. I stay in
Speaker 2: my lane. But one thing that has always bothered me
Speaker 2: about restaurants, and there's a there's a few that are
Speaker 2: known to at least for me that I've known that
Speaker 2: I know they have done it many times and talk
Speaker 2: about like it. It's one of those things that is
Speaker 2: not a big deal yet I can't help but like
Speaker 2: be angry about it. Is that if they have like
Speaker 2: four domestic drafts, rather it be like in a lot
Speaker 2: of places, like we'll have it. I mean, really, that's
Speaker 2: that's become a thing now. If you only have that
Speaker 2: as your options for draft, then you know you're you're
Speaker 2: you're not really keeping up with the competition. A lot
Speaker 2: of sports bars, a lot of places that I would
Speaker 2: go to watch a game, have have have dinner with
Speaker 2: my family. They're gonna have a lot of different types
Speaker 2: of beer on draft. But if you only have a few,
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna have bud Light, Cores Light, Miller Light,
Speaker 2: and probably if there's a fourth I would say michelobol
Speaker 2: Tret's say those are like the four most common domestic
Speaker 2: draft beers, and I'll always order if it's those four,
Speaker 2: I'll get a bud Light or a Michel. I'm not
Speaker 2: big on Cores or Miller, although I can.
Speaker 4: Drink it now. I used to be.
Speaker 2: I used to be no, like I couldn't. But but
Speaker 2: what always has irritated me. And there's at least few
Speaker 2: there's at least three restaurants in the last year that
Speaker 2: have done this. And I never make a big deal
Speaker 2: about it because you know, I don't want to be
Speaker 2: that guy. But why do people think they can just
Speaker 2: give you any of those and it's the same thing
Speaker 2: and you won't notice, you know what I'm saying. If
Speaker 2: they're changing the keg and they don't have a Miller
Speaker 2: light ready, they'll they'll bring you above light. Now, some people,
Speaker 2: if they've already drank a few of them, they may
Speaker 2: not even notice. Well they just don't know ball then yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, because I feel like, and this is something
Speaker 2: I've never been able to do this on the show
Speaker 2: with anybody, because you're the first producer I've had that
Speaker 2: that you know that I feel like this is something
Speaker 2: we could do and have fun with because you know,
Speaker 2: shout no offense to to to my previous producers who
Speaker 2: I love, it's just they don't they don't drink. But
Speaker 2: I feel like you could give me all four of
Speaker 2: those and I would tell you with the millisecond which
Speaker 2: one is which, so you agree, yes, not like the
Speaker 2: beer stoms who, like you know, they drink bigfoots, hairy
Speaker 2: ale and you know, the summer shandy stuff. Like I mean, like,
Speaker 2: I don't I pas nothing made me fat quicker than
Speaker 2: than when I switched to I PAS when I was
Speaker 2: younger made me. So I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't drink those such anymore, although I do. I
Speaker 2: do think that there's some really, you know, I can
Speaker 2: find one that I think is good. I'm just not
Speaker 2: going to go buy a six pack of it or
Speaker 2: get three of them at a sit down restaurant.
Speaker 3: I feel like me and you are both like drinkers
Speaker 3: to where like those are sipping beers.
Speaker 4: And we just can't sit Yeah, you know, we demolish them. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I feel like I could notice. I could
Speaker 2: notice the difference, and and like if you if if
Speaker 2: if First of all, you're paying more for a beer
Speaker 2: than you're playing paying for a soda at a restaurant, right,
Speaker 2: it's just a it's a no brainer. So if I
Speaker 2: ordered sprite and you were changing the sprite and you
Speaker 2: brought me a mellow yellow like you would never do that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, So if I'm paying for a beer and
Speaker 2: you're gonna bring me something that's you know, you think
Speaker 2: is just the same thing. Like that's not right, it's
Speaker 2: not a huge deal. A lot of people are thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: just drink it.
Speaker 4: Shut up.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's pea water. It's that light beer that
Speaker 2: doesn't have any taste. It just tastes like water. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm paid for it. Like, and it's happened once at
Speaker 2: an Elma Paul to where I dead like, hey, like,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, this is not bud light. This is
Speaker 2: cores light when it's darker, and they're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not And I said, all right, well whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not a big deal. But like I'm
Speaker 2: just telling you that it's not that. And I think
Speaker 2: they felt, I mean they felt really bad that, like
Speaker 2: I thought they were lying to me. So then the
Speaker 2: next time they went and I ended up getting so
Speaker 2: again it wasn't a big enough deal to where I
Speaker 2: was mad and left. I got a second one because
Speaker 2: you know, I was, I was having a night. We
Speaker 2: were having fun. So he wanted the waiter. He wanted
Speaker 2: me to watch because not not to be a jerk,
Speaker 2: but I think he genuinely thought I was. I was
Speaker 2: like that he was messing with me. So he showed
Speaker 2: me that he poured it, and I'm like, all right, man, whatever,
Speaker 2: and then sure and then sure enough he ended up
Speaker 2: coming back before I finished the second beer, boy and
Speaker 2: said they connected the kegs wrong. You're right. It's not
Speaker 2: bud light that's that's Coors lighted. And I was like,
Speaker 2: I told you, And he was like, how did you
Speaker 2: notice the difference? And I said, it's a different beer.
Speaker 2: They're not even made by.
Speaker 3: The same people one and at least with some sodas
Speaker 3: and some bar because you know some some places that
Speaker 3: they carry coke products or all these other products. We
Speaker 3: don't have doctor pepper, but we have h well, my
Speaker 3: sherry coke.
Speaker 2: You know, like this is I would have never thought
Speaker 2: to talk about this until we got on this conversation.
Speaker 2: And it happened on Friday at our Valentine's Day. I
Speaker 2: mean it was a Valentine's Day dinner, but it was me,
Speaker 2: the wife and kids. We didn't have some kind of
Speaker 2: romantic thing. But we went to that little hole in
Speaker 2: the wall place I was telling you about it yeah,
Speaker 2: And I could just tell from the beginning of the
Speaker 2: experience that this waitress probably it was her first day
Speaker 2: ever being a waitress anywhere, not because of like something terrible,
Speaker 2: but just like she could just tell she was very
Speaker 2: either uncomfortable or just new edit or whatever. And my
Speaker 2: son he wants coke.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: So my wife says he'll have a coke, and she says,
Speaker 2: we don't have coke. And typically, I mean, I feel
Speaker 2: like even if you don't work at a restaurant, you
Speaker 2: would know that they would say, is pepsi?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Right, Well, she just said we don't have coke and
Speaker 2: you know, nothing, so just kind of dead air after it.
Speaker 2: So so I then asked, well, is it not working.
Speaker 2: She's like, no, we don't. We don't have coke products.
Speaker 2: So then there's like three seconds of silence, and I'm
Speaker 2: before I could say anything, she says, we have pepsi,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, like you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: that's not that's not a terrible thing, that's not being rude.
Speaker 2: It's just like I've never heard a waitress or a
Speaker 2: waiter not automatically say if you ask for mister pib
Speaker 2: we got doctor pepper, right, we want pepsi? We got coke?
Speaker 2: Like that's just that's not even like something you're trained
Speaker 2: to do. It's just kind of like second nature. Yeah,
Speaker 2: especially as like a waitress. Yeah, like there's certain In fact,
Speaker 2: I don't eat much fast food at all anymore. How
Speaker 2: many Like is arbi still like a pepsi place? Or
Speaker 2: are they coke now? Because I can't think of many
Speaker 2: fast foods that are pepsi products.
Speaker 3: Been a while since I've been to Arby's, but I
Speaker 3: think that they might be pepsi.
Speaker 2: Like Taco Bell does not have coke, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: They have pepsi. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yes, I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure Arby's is the same way. I haven't been to
Speaker 3: Arby's in forever, but I don't hate it as much
Speaker 3: as everybody else does.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, Arby's. I mean I might have to refinance
Speaker 2: my home to eat there, but it's good, that's right.
Speaker 2: I Mean Arby's was expensive before all the others, Like nowadays,
Speaker 2: every fast food is expensive, but Arby's was charging high
Speaker 2: dollar amounts before any any any you know, any recession.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean they're like one of the ones that
Speaker 3: doesn't really have like a value me you too, they
Speaker 3: haven't upgraded to that or any sort of five dollars
Speaker 3: combo box or something.
Speaker 2: I've only had Arby's probably three times in the last
Speaker 2: ten years.
Speaker 4: Good for you. So where you got that body?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't know about that. Well, you know,
Speaker 2: I had a bad experience it in Arby's. That just
Speaker 2: the thought of it makes me nauseous. Bourbon Street the
Speaker 2: night after Louisville won the Sugar Bowl out and about
Speaker 2: needed a bite to eat to soak up some of
Speaker 2: the alcoholics. We had an early flight the next day
Speaker 2: and I went to bee I went to the Arby's
Speaker 2: on Bourbon Street round on the corner, got a beef
Speaker 2: and shaddar, and as I was eating it, I noticed
Speaker 2: that the roast beef was crunchy, but yet I still
Speaker 2: ate it happened and then it was a rough morning
Speaker 2: in the hotel, rough morning at the airport as well.
Speaker 2: So that that that's honestly the one like fast food
Speaker 2: place that I'm I think I'll always remember that crunchy
Speaker 2: roast beef that it kind of keeps me from from
Speaker 2: wanting to eat there. But yeah, Arby's has always been
Speaker 2: expensive and others have just kind of slightly or maybe
Speaker 2: not slightly, but like they've just kind of adjusted. But
Speaker 2: one place that used to be really cheap that now
Speaker 2: is absolutely on the big expensive side. When it comes
Speaker 2: to just a standard meal at a fast food place,
Speaker 2: it's Taco Bell. Like Taco Bell when I was in
Speaker 2: high school, I could have I could have dollars seventy
Speaker 2: nine in my pocket and go eat good.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 3: It grosses me out seeing some nostalgia pages where they
Speaker 3: shows from like two thousand and three, Casadia was three
Speaker 3: twenty nine. Now a Casady is like having bocks.
Speaker 4: You might as.
Speaker 2: Well just just the one, not even the meal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might as well just go ahead and spend
Speaker 3: the extra four dollars for the meal.
Speaker 2: It's it's gross. Just you know, take my wallet and
Speaker 2: and you know, get me back whatever. Cut me back
Speaker 2: to two thousand and three, Taco Bell. Can I sign
Speaker 2: up for financing? You? Do you have financing options for
Speaker 2: this value meal? The guitar Hero box please, Tucker Bill
Speaker 2: is so good though, so good? Yes, all right, quick break,
Speaker 2: welcome back, and maybe we'll talk sports. I don't know
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make any promises that what the show's about
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: That's right, Coffee and Company, about thirty minutes left, which
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to rest the voice from now until
Speaker 2: tomorrow at three o'clock. But hey, feeling better. And it's
Speaker 2: not like I'm crazy ill, I just a little son
Speaker 2: asy and man, they're h Have you ever had like
Speaker 2: a sinus infection?
Speaker 4: A few of them?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure everybody's you know, everybody's different as far
Speaker 2: as like how a cold can hit you differently than
Speaker 2: it does somebody else. But for me, the pressure on
Speaker 2: my face.
Speaker 4: It is, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, it's like I can't, I can't put
Speaker 2: into words is to describe the feeling. But I woke
Speaker 2: up on well, I guess earlier this morning at like
Speaker 2: four o'clock, and then the same thing the night before.
Speaker 2: And that's what gets me is I wake up and
Speaker 2: it's like there's something inside of my face squeezing it
Speaker 2: like like closer to my skull. It's just like an
Speaker 2: iron claw, like like these pressure points. I gotta I
Speaker 2: gotta like rub certain spots on my cheek and it
Speaker 2: even like it even hurts my teeth just because of
Speaker 2: how bad it can get.
Speaker 4: I've had that sensation.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's you know, it could be worse.
Speaker 2: I don't have the flu, which, in all honesty, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm pretty soft when it comes to, you know, getting sick,
Speaker 2: and I think more than anything, it's just because I
Speaker 2: don't really get sick that often, so when I do,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh man, this this could be bad. But
Speaker 2: the flu that has been getting everybody, at least in
Speaker 2: the last few months, I know so many friends and
Speaker 2: even colleagues here at work that have had the flu
Speaker 2: and maybe they get it every so often, maybe once
Speaker 2: or maybe once every year, maybe once every two years,
Speaker 2: but it just sounds like whatever version of the flu
Speaker 2: that is going around right now is as bad as
Speaker 2: it's ever been. So I'm lucky I didn't get that.
Speaker 4: Do you uh? Are you a big bourbon whiskey drinker?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, I mean I know that that's been a good
Speaker 3: remedy for some people.
Speaker 2: With I miss I miss out on so much like
Speaker 2: the bourbon culture, like even before it became and it's
Speaker 2: always been a big thing around here. But like bourbon
Speaker 2: exploded in the last decade. Sure, it's just I mean
Speaker 2: distilleries everywhere now. I mean we've always, to an extent
Speaker 2: probably had people who were into that they would travel
Speaker 2: here because you know, that's what we do. But now
Speaker 2: the explosion of it in the last ten years, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just crazy how many people travel from across the
Speaker 2: world to come and experience the bourbon culture that we
Speaker 2: have here in Kentucky. But I've you know, I've always
Speaker 2: been jealous of of of that because it just seems
Speaker 2: like such a cool thing to get into, be a collector,
Speaker 2: sampling different stuff. It's just I've never It's not like
Speaker 2: I dislike it.
Speaker 4: I just you never acquired a taste. Yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Now I will say whenever I would drink bourbon and coke,
Speaker 2: like when I would go to the bars when I
Speaker 2: was twenty two twenty three, I mean that that that,
Speaker 2: you know, if I ever wanted to drink bourbon now,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it that way. But I've had and again,
Speaker 2: I you know, another thing that makes me feel like
Speaker 2: I don't belong when it comes to the bourbon culture
Speaker 2: is that you could give me a bourbon that is
Speaker 2: insanely rare and insanely expensive, and then one that's not
Speaker 2: anywhere near that, and I probably wouldn't notice much of
Speaker 2: a difference.
Speaker 4: And honestly, this is just me completely different from the
Speaker 4: beer take.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. But here's the thing. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people will probably in the same boat as me.
Speaker 2: They just don't want to admit it because there's such
Speaker 2: a snobby type of you know, like you know culture,
Speaker 2: you know, I guess not everybody who really loves bourbon
Speaker 2: is that way, but by what I mean, so like Woodford,
Speaker 2: Woodford is like my favorite bourbon, and that's not like
Speaker 2: bottom of a barrel, low end like nasty stuff, but
Speaker 2: it's all it's obviously not like super hard to find,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So I remember I tried
Speaker 2: it wasn't like a pappy, But I remember trying a
Speaker 2: bourbon that that was really rare, and somebody offered it
Speaker 2: to me, and I mean I think I gave him
Speaker 2: a look of like ugh, like I didn't like that,
Speaker 2: and and it hit me like, don't do that again, nick,
Speaker 2: Like just don't, like just tell them you don't you
Speaker 2: can't drink it or you don't like it. Ahead of time,
Speaker 2: because it's like they've given me something that is really
Speaker 2: valuable that they probably don't give you a lot of people.
Speaker 2: And I visually gave them a look as if, please
Speaker 2: never make me drink that again.
Speaker 3: Right, And it's completely different than just like regular like
Speaker 3: beer or something. There's like there's rye whiskey, and then
Speaker 3: there's like single barrel and then there's like eight year
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. All I think, which the all
Speaker 3: bourbons sort of tastes the same, and I might get
Speaker 3: some backlash for that, but like and it's in taste
Speaker 3: of how it goes down and the smoothness of it,
Speaker 3: and like that after effect of it. Like I've taken
Speaker 3: bourbon tours, and all the bourbon tours are literally just
Speaker 3: the same. They try telling you they got this.
Speaker 2: One want I've done those and those are cool, Like
Speaker 2: those are those are at least a good experience.
Speaker 3: But they're all like they all tell you that they
Speaker 3: had this specific kind of filter that no one else.
Speaker 3: It's kind of the same song and dance, yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: and all of that, all that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 3: then they also.
Speaker 4: Tell you that there's like a way to actually drink it.
Speaker 3: It's called like the Kentucky hug, and you're supposed to
Speaker 3: like leave it in your mouth and kind of swish
Speaker 3: it around and then go ahead and like down it,
Speaker 3: and then you're supposed to like immediately like breathe out
Speaker 3: your nose and then you take an exhale from your
Speaker 3: mouth and then like the way that all the bitters
Speaker 3: and everything in it that just hits you.
Speaker 4: It's just it.
Speaker 3: It affects from different bourbon to bourbon, and I might
Speaker 3: be explaining that wrong, but there is a way to
Speaker 3: drink bourbon and get the actual full taste of everything
Speaker 3: that's in there, like out of the way that you
Speaker 3: drink it.
Speaker 2: And when I've and that maybe that's why I've actually
Speaker 2: had a good experience on all all of the different
Speaker 2: tastings and tours that we've done. Because I have family
Speaker 2: that that doesn't live here that'll come into town and
Speaker 2: if we've if they're here for a certain amount of time,
Speaker 2: we'll make it a point to go to one of
Speaker 2: those the distilleries because they're very much into bourbon, and
Speaker 2: those are things I always enjoyed doing.
Speaker 4: It cool to go to, yeah.
Speaker 2: And they're educational again, but it also just makes me
Speaker 2: feel like man, this is kind of what we do.
Speaker 2: We are, we are the Bourbon Country, and I just
Speaker 2: feel like such a poser because, like I mean, I
Speaker 2: wish I could say that, like I have acquired the taste,
Speaker 2: and I really like know what I'm talking about. But
Speaker 2: to your point, when you go to the like and
Speaker 2: the people who put those tours on, I've never been
Speaker 2: on one to where I wasn't impressed by the person
Speaker 2: who not only was taking us around and showing us
Speaker 2: and educating us on how it all works, but also,
Speaker 2: like you said, if they give you those little tips
Speaker 2: on how to consume it and what to do, it
Speaker 2: does make a difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now if you just like shoot it back, then it's
Speaker 3: all probably gonna take the same waste. Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 3: it's a waste, and it will probably just hurt your
Speaker 3: esophagaus the way it goes.
Speaker 2: It'll burn, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, so real quick, this is a wild stat
Speaker 2: and Rick Patino right now. I thought about this earlier.
Speaker 2: The glow up for Rick as we speak is something
Speaker 2: I'm not sure anybody would have ever predicted. It's been
Speaker 2: a long time since he got booted out of town.
Speaker 2: But if you remember the first the first few months
Speaker 2: after that happened, when it obviously still looked really bad
Speaker 2: for him. He was coached to how could he look.
Speaker 2: I'm not here to say that Rick has never done
Speaker 2: anything wrong at UVEL, but I do think as time
Speaker 2: has played out, you realize, like Rick would have killed
Speaker 2: somebody quite literally had he known that there was a
Speaker 2: stripper party, prostitution type of thing going on within his program.
Speaker 2: Now again it's his responsibility to know that that's happening,
Speaker 2: but either way, like that's not Rick. Also the whole
Speaker 2: Brian Bowen thing, Like his ego would never let anybody
Speaker 2: think that they were going to be paid to play
Speaker 2: for him because he's Rick Patino. He would actually think
Speaker 2: you owe him money if he's going to coach you.
Speaker 2: Like again, I know it sounds like I'm kissing his ass,
Speaker 2: but I mean more so just because of how he's wired.
Speaker 2: So around that time, when it looked as if, like
Speaker 2: you know, we were gonna hate him forever because of
Speaker 2: another scandal that we had on our hands, I don't
Speaker 2: think anybody would have predicted seven eight years later, whatever
Speaker 2: it is, that he'd be sitting where he is with
Speaker 2: a really really good Saint John's team. There's a Vice
Speaker 2: TV documentary series that is people are loving and you know,
Speaker 2: nobody ever claimed the guy isn't a great coach. But
Speaker 2: it just kind of seems like the glow up now
Speaker 2: has never been put it this way. I feel like
Speaker 2: he is being talked about now more positively than really
Speaker 2: he ever has. And I don't mean as a good coach,
Speaker 2: because even when people would bring up how awful the
Speaker 2: Katina pal stuff was, and even the Karen Ceipher stuff
Speaker 2: in the Brian Bowens, like even during those rough stretches
Speaker 2: for Rick Patino, nobody was saying he was a bad coach.
Speaker 2: We've always known he's a great coach. But to see
Speaker 2: what he's doing at Saint John's him, to me, he
Speaker 2: is a great example. If I was ever going to
Speaker 2: give examples to people about how you can use social media,
Speaker 2: you can use you know platform like Twitter or you know,
Speaker 2: doing interviews, doing pot like Rick Patino used to used
Speaker 2: to be such a larger than life thing that he
Speaker 2: hated social media, said it was the worst thing for society.
Speaker 2: He was larger than life. Like you you know, you
Speaker 2: never had any access to him. Well, now, I mean
Speaker 2: he's doing things like acting like he's Kentucky Basketball's grandpa
Speaker 2: and telling them that they need to behave and not
Speaker 2: Boo Caliperi. He's you know, saying that his players or no,
Speaker 2: saying that that the Saint John's fans that are that
Speaker 2: are yelling they want Yukon, they're just drunk, like he's
Speaker 2: just there's a different side of Rick that we're seeing
Speaker 2: now that we've never seen before. And part of it
Speaker 2: is that I think he has changed, but also I
Speaker 2: think it's just because he now realizes like he can
Speaker 2: become a little bit more endearing to people whenever he's
Speaker 2: you know, a little more relatable, right, Like he's sharing
Speaker 2: pictures of his grandkids on Twitter, Like who would have
Speaker 2: ever thought Rick Patino would ever do that? So anyways,
Speaker 2: I just it is wild because I think what's happened.
Speaker 2: I was on with Joe Elliott on Saturday Morning on
Speaker 2: HAS and he really you know, went out of his
Speaker 2: way to talk about how he feels like I shouldn't
Speaker 2: say he went out of his way, but he said
Speaker 2: that it seems like both fan bases Louisville and Kentucky
Speaker 2: are seemingly happy for Rick to have this success. And
Speaker 2: he never thought he would see that, And I agree, like,
Speaker 2: you never really know how things are gonna play out.
Speaker 2: And sometimes, man, we get so caught up in the
Speaker 2: emotions that come with being diehard fans of our basketball
Speaker 2: programs around here that like, it's just from an emotional
Speaker 2: standpoint when we say certain things, like imagine telling Kentucky
Speaker 2: fans they would have ever given him a round of
Speaker 2: applause when he came back to Big Blue Madness with
Speaker 2: Mark Pope, like you would have never thought that. But
Speaker 2: you know, things change over time. So I'm sure there
Speaker 2: are Kentucky fans and louisvill fans out there that right
Speaker 2: now still don't like Patino and think, you know, think
Speaker 2: poorly of him for whatever reasons they may have. But
Speaker 2: I do get the sense that enough time is passed
Speaker 2: here for Louisville and then clearly with Kentucky. I mean,
Speaker 2: they now have a guy leading their program that they
Speaker 2: love who was a captain for Rick Patino and an
Speaker 2: era that really helped Kentucky basketball. I mean, without the nineties,
Speaker 2: what is Kentucky's brand? It would still be good, but
Speaker 2: that era, and I know he only won one title,
Speaker 2: but for for Rick to be the rock star that
Speaker 2: he was in the nineties at Kentucky and be a
Speaker 2: you know, and leave that job, you know, from the
Speaker 2: Knicks to Kentucky and then back to the NBA with
Speaker 2: the Celtics. And I mean, I still think some of
Speaker 2: those teams he had in the nineties, ninety six, ninety seven,
Speaker 2: I having that team, honestly, one that didn't win the title,
Speaker 2: was one of the most talented teams I've ever seen
Speaker 2: in college basketball. So this documentary series on Vice, I
Speaker 2: haven't watched it yet. I don't know if I will.
Speaker 2: But you know, you're seeing a side of Rick that
Speaker 2: you don't see unless you're in the locker room playing
Speaker 2: for him. And these are the kind of things that
Speaker 2: like only Rick. I shouldn't say only Rick, but Rick
Speaker 2: can talk to players this way with his resume, a
Speaker 2: guy who if he takes see if he takes Saint
Speaker 2: John's to the Final four this year, he will have
Speaker 2: taken four different school to a Final four. Nobody will
Speaker 2: ever do more than two. I don't think. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess Cal did with I guess Cal could because
Speaker 2: Cal has Memphis Arkansas Arms are Memphis UMass in Kentucky,
Speaker 2: which by the way, there's a reason why, Like when
Speaker 2: those two guys were here together, like they're just different,
Speaker 2: and I think we knew it at the time, but
Speaker 2: now that more time has passed, like we'll never get
Speaker 2: anything like that. Those guys are. I mean, there's both
Speaker 2: still coaching, and who knows, maybe one of them wins
Speaker 2: the title before it's all said and done. But their
Speaker 2: presence and just their their overall I guess it's fame.
Speaker 2: Fame doesn't feel like the right word to use there,
Speaker 2: but anyways, This is a clip that's gone viral on
Speaker 2: social media. It's just a snippet from one of the
Speaker 2: episodes of this Vice Sports docu series on Rick Bettino.
Speaker 2: This is him talking in the locker room, and I
Speaker 2: just feel like he's the kind of coach with his
Speaker 2: resume and what he's proven as a coach, like he
Speaker 2: can still give this kind of a speech to somebody,
Speaker 2: to a team in the locker room and it's gonna
Speaker 2: hit like nobody else.
Speaker 5: Diggon and be a basketball player.
Speaker 3: Dig in.
Speaker 5: Every time you miss a shot your game to flates.
Speaker 5: We don't care about your misshots. Play defense. You guys,
Speaker 5: keep blowing opportunity upon opportunity upon opportunity. You're like children
Speaker 5: with bad things happening. Instead of thinking it's be tougher,
Speaker 5: you wilt. Where is your toughness? Where have you guys
Speaker 5: been raised that you're so weak mentally that you just
Speaker 5: give up when something doesn't go right for you? Don't
Speaker 5: you know what adversity is all about. That's the game
Speaker 5: of life, not the game of basketball. You don't get
Speaker 5: down when things go wrong. You're digging and get tougher.
Speaker 5: Your whole life's gonna be adversity. Learnt to deal with it.
Speaker 2: Patino, Red Storm Rising Tuesdays at ten. So it's on Vice,
Speaker 2: which I don't have, but Vice, I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: even really know what they were mostly known for, but
Speaker 2: they have and I don't know who owns them, because
Speaker 2: I believe it's the same people who used to own
Speaker 2: those like Fox Sports regional channels that have been sold
Speaker 2: like three times in the last five years. It seems yes,
Speaker 2: and they you know, clearly they don't have good ownership
Speaker 2: as far as I mean, they're not monetizing their product
Speaker 2: very well because it's insanely hard to get I only
Speaker 2: know the last I knew as far as how you
Speaker 2: like what subscription you needed to have to get Vice
Speaker 2: was at and t's like cable package. But I'm not
Speaker 2: even sure if it's still available then, so I'm not
Speaker 2: even sure how you watch. I mean, if I was
Speaker 2: gonna watch it, I would just buy it on iTunes.
Speaker 2: That's what I've done with some other stuff that Advice does.
Speaker 2: But they do that kind of television, that kind of content,
Speaker 2: like the documentary behind the scenes stuff really really well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have a.
Speaker 2: They do a Dark Side of a lot of different things,
Speaker 2: but they have a Dark Side of the Ring, a
Speaker 2: show that's that's had at least five six seasons and
Speaker 2: it just shows like wrestling, professional wrestlers and sort of
Speaker 2: you know, things that have that have gone wrong in
Speaker 2: their life and sort of how they end up there.
Speaker 2: And it's just so well done. So I'm tempted to
Speaker 2: watch it, but I don't know. I like Rick a
Speaker 2: lot as a coach, just because I think he's so good.
Speaker 4: He gave us.
Speaker 2: A lot of really good teams here that have been
Speaker 2: such a factor in me being the diehard fan than
Speaker 2: I am. Because again, I was born when Denny was
Speaker 2: two years removed from the eighty six title. He never
Speaker 2: got another one after that, and I remember really appreciating
Speaker 2: some of Denny's teams in the nineties, but I was
Speaker 2: really young and then Rick Matino got here and things
Speaker 2: were different, So you know, I I don't think we're
Speaker 2: at a point where like fans get bothered when his
Speaker 2: name comes up. But I also don't want to feel
Speaker 2: like I would never want to and I don't think
Speaker 2: I will. But like, if I was to watch this,
Speaker 2: it would almost feel like I'm leaning more to just
Speaker 2: being both a Rick and a Louisville fan. And I
Speaker 2: don't I mean, and I'm not. I mean, like, I
Speaker 2: hope Rick does fine, but I'm not losing sleep when
Speaker 2: he loses a game or anything like that. There's just
Speaker 2: there's still like he's the X, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like I need a comfortable balance with the X and
Speaker 2: watching him every so often on FS one when he's
Speaker 2: playing Yukon, that's one thing. But to watch like the
Speaker 2: behind the scenes documentary about Saint John's and Rick Patino,
Speaker 2: that would make it feel like I'm I'm giving the
Speaker 2: ex a little more of my attention than I should be.
Speaker 2: Does it makes sense?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I just I you know, maybe I'll watch it.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean I've had I've had the
Speaker 4: same thought just because you, well.
Speaker 2: You're a little younger than me, so I think it's
Speaker 2: different for you. I mean, like Rick, Rick is really
Speaker 2: all you know with.
Speaker 3: Leuis of basketball, right, it literally is I've been spoiled
Speaker 3: by him.
Speaker 2: And then it just and it'd be impossible for you
Speaker 2: to just like hate Hi.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't it Exactly.
Speaker 3: I'd never hated and I didn't hate him during everything
Speaker 3: that he's went through, but it it just more or
Speaker 3: less makes me sad because that's what I don't have anymore.
Speaker 3: And it's not nothing against our current regime, but like
Speaker 3: that's what I'm like, we used to see that with
Speaker 3: you know, our players, and you know, he's he's a
Speaker 3: complete lunatic for the game of basketball, and I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think really to know that Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 2: you know, seemingly open and I mean, look Patino doing
Speaker 2: the video for the two thousand and five Final four team.
Speaker 2: That was awesome and that that I think was like
Speaker 2: with the first step and like potentially like where we
Speaker 2: can all just agree he's not our coach, but he
Speaker 2: kind of still will always be our coach in a way,
Speaker 2: and we like him. I mean, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm getting ahead of myself, but we got to get
Speaker 2: to a quick break. We'll come back on the other
Speaker 2: side and wrap this thing up. Don't go anywhere, keep
Speaker 2: it locked right here. On Sports Talk seven ninety so
Speaker 2: we got caught up talking about the x Rick Patino
Speaker 2: and completely lost track of time, didn't we no time
Speaker 2: left before we have to to say goodbye here. So
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that tomorrow my voice will be in a
Speaker 2: little bit of a better, a better, a better spot.
Speaker 2: I mean, wouldn't you agree Austin that it was? It
Speaker 2: got a little worse as the show.
Speaker 4: Went on, but just a little bit.
Speaker 3: But hey, you know you can you you can tell,
Speaker 3: but you know you're a pro.
Speaker 4: And you power through it exactly.
Speaker 2: It's all I can do.
Speaker 3: You got to take a couple of halls, maybe have
Speaker 3: some I don't know if you're I know you don't
Speaker 3: like coffee, but maybe might be like a tea guy.
Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, tea guys something something to get this voice
Speaker 2: uh back alive because it's it's fading on me. But anyways,
Speaker 2: have a good night, everybody, stay safe. I know the
Speaker 2: roads are probably gonna be too arrible, so have a
Speaker 2: good night.