WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.719 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's. 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.679 On Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick. 3 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:16.120 Coffee, Well not exactly Nick Coffee. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. 4 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:18.839 He is John Alden. I'm filling in one hour. 5 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:21.440 To go here before we knock off and head over 6 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.000 to Little Bro's in town. You're gonna go get some 7 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:25.719 dinner and then I'm gonna go over to the Lynn 8 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.079 Family Stadium watch me some footy. Night gonna be fun. 9 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:31.160 I'n rock Frankfurt is the team that is in town. 10 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:35.119 Pot of Bundesliga. Get me in that soccer sort of mood. 11 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.000 International friendly tonight would have many held at Lynn Family Stadium. 12 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.200 The Ladies played Theirs already Kaisersladen was in town last year. 13 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.159 Lots of good things happened in Loui City's sitting up 14 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:50.359 point above Charleston in the USLS Prince Performance standings. 15 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:52.119 With that, what is it? I think it's all. 16 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:53.799 I'll get the exact day for it, but it's coming 17 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:57.079 up in August, that all important showdown with Charleston at 18 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.920 Lynn Family Stadium. It's gonna have a lot ride now 19 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:01.759 that that's for sure. But Luke City with the best 20 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:05.640 record in the us L. John, you were sitting with us, 21 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:07.200 and we're sitting here, we're talking with my brother, he's 22 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.480 a pilot for American Airlines, and we're getting a little 23 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:11.280 insight into the airline, and so we had a question 24 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:12.280 for what was your question? 25 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:12.680 I did? 26 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:14.560 I know you were talking about the craziness of the 27 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.920 airports and that type of thing with different airlines. 28 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:18.599 And one thing I've kind of wanted. 29 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.239 Since we do have a pilot with us, what is 30 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:25.159 the craziest experience that your little bro has had as 31 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:27.560 an airline pilot with the. 32 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:31.159 Patron or somebody question, it's a great question. Oh, let 33 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.159 me turn your mic on there. Yeah, there you go, 34 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:34.000 Now you're good. 35 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:37.680 Or fortunately unfortunately, I don't know which way you want 36 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:38.159 to look at it. 37 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.480 I haven't had anything where somebody's video and me, you know, 38 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:43.640 and it's going on tack or YouTube, yeah, whatever, But 39 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.359 I have had you know, you'll have people getting off 40 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.760 the plane and they'll just say thank you, thank you. 41 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:51.879 And I've had customers say, hey, use a little too 42 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:53.040 much break on that landing. 43 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:55.519 Oh thanks for the flying tip. 44 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:01.159 John. Let me let me ask you this. 45 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:04.400 Do you do you still get people that clap when 46 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:05.079 planes land. 47 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:11.199 I've heard it as a passenger and then uh, but 48 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.240 but you don't hear it from from the front. I mean, 49 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.919 you pretty much just land. And usually when I'm landing, 50 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.759 I'm just closing my eyes and hoping for the best. 51 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:22.120 Anyways, So that's that's encouraging. It's the American way. I 52 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:22.759 get it. Now. 53 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:24.840 Do you kind of feel like you're in your own 54 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.560 little world, separated from the passengers while you're up there. 55 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.199 I'm not gonna lie to you. Sometimes I do, and 56 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:30.039 sometimes I enjoy it. 57 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.000 Okay, that makes sense. 58 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:33.879 I'm not a pilot, obviously, but I feel like i'd 59 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:35.759 be the same way I'd want to feel in a 60 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.560 totally different environment than them. 61 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.319 Yeah, it's yeah. 62 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.120 Once the door shuts, you know, we're just in our 63 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:44.199 own little closet up there, and and and then occasionally 64 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.080 they'll get somebody call up, hey, we got this going 65 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:50.080 on back here, or somebody's getting rowdy, but nothing where 66 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.560 we got to get crazy or anything. I did just 67 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.280 recently have my whole family fly with me from Miami 68 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:55.800 to San. 69 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.479 Francisco, just so just does Amy's wife. By the way, 70 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.159 my sister, who we love dearly. She is a beautiful, 71 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:06.360 beautiful person. Did she sitting back and go shut? She 72 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:07.400 did get first class? 73 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.520 She sat up and she does enjoy wine, so yes, 74 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:14.960 yes she does. There was no Luckily I could not 75 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:16.840 hear through the door. Although when you have to use 76 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.199 the bathroom, you come out, you know, and they block 77 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:19.919 off the entrance. 78 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:20.400 H yeah. 79 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:22.120 Yeah, I got to see her and talk to her. 80 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.319 But I did have a customer. When we come out 81 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.400 of the bathroom, the flight attendants block off that first 82 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.879 roll and first class, and so we come out there 83 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:33.879 and a customer first class is wearing Ohio State shirt 84 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:38.039 and she was she was talking to me about football, 85 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.960 and you know, I told her I was a Michigan fan. 86 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:45.039 And it doesn't happen very often, but sometimes you got 87 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:46.639 to get into it with the customers a little bit 88 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:47.439 and let them know. 89 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:52.280 You know, play played the victors over the PA announcements. 90 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:52.879 You do that. 91 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.000 Let me ask you, now, you've traveled along those lines, 92 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:57.759 You've traveled a lot, You've been around a lot of 93 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.639 different places. Do you get you currently live in Florida, 94 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.560 Pennscola right, yes, yeah, I didn't know that, right. 95 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:06.479 Do you get it? 96 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.080 Do you get adapted to the Florida sports scene at all. 97 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.120 I think no, you know, we live in Pensacola, which 98 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:17.920 is about as close to Alabama as you can get. 99 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.000 We're right on the So now we've got but we're 100 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.399 kind of we're in this weird place where you've you're 101 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:27.759 three hours from Tallahassee, you're four hours from Tuscaloosa. You're 102 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.959 probably four hours from from Baton Rouge. So you're in 103 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.639 like sec country there. 104 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:35.120 So no Florida, no Florida state. 105 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.600 Now well we're about three hours from Florida state, so 106 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.680 you got you got Florida state. Those are the three 107 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:42.680 and then all learn I guess, oh yeah, and so 108 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:45.199 we're in this in the southeast and then and then 109 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:49.879 some Florida fans, some some Miami fans. My daughter, by 110 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:53.319 the way, Molly is a huge Alabama fan, only because 111 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.120 we got her a stuffed elephant when she was little. 112 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:56.519 Yeah. 113 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:58.519 Yeah, she's a huge role Tide. 114 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.160 So but that went in the house. Well this year, 115 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:01.600 didn't it? 116 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:06.079 Not so much? Right, We didn't talk. We actually flew 117 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:08.000 out to Colorado when we were watching the game out there. 118 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.279 But yeah, so it's an interesting sports mix and I'm 119 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.040 not you know, we didn't really grow up in the SEC. Yeah, 120 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.040 I'm more of a big ten, you know, But now 121 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:18.959 what is the big ten? 122 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:19.279 Right? 123 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:22.519 What is anyone? What is anyone anymore? 124 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.279 Yeah, looking at the schedule, you know, Michigan's got USC 125 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:27.720 Washington and it's just crazy. 126 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:29.560 Well, you know, I will say along those lines. 127 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.040 And the reason I asked you that question was because 128 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:33.639 you and I grew up in the same environment. But 129 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.399 our travels have taken us all over the world and 130 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:38.160 all over the country. Living here now for close to 131 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:42.240 thirty years, I've become in John, You and I were 132 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:44.240 just having this conversation when we came on the air. 133 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.279 The beauty of working in sports media is I've learned 134 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:52.000 to become so objective, unlike what sometimes happens to people 135 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.319 that get into this business, especially sports talk business. And 136 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.920 it almost makes you Homer to some degree. Which don't 137 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.199 get me wrong, people like Homer. You need Homer in 138 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.480 this business. I want to make that clear. You need 139 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:06.759 Homer hosts in this business. But in the same token, 140 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.399 this has made me objective because I don't know if 141 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.560 you you saw, we opened the show talking about the 142 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:13.560 TVT Tournament and we had a big dust up here 143 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:17.680 last week yeah, and I saw both sides of the coin. 144 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:20.399 I mean, it was embarrassing for both sides, is what 145 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:24.800 what I was going for. But you know, you know 146 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.240 my son, your nephew, Brogan, he is a big Louisville fan. 147 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.000 And John and I were talking on the air when 148 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.000 we came on that this year in baseball Kentucky went 149 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:39.000 pretty far in baseball louis fans. Louisville dominates baseball pretty much, 150 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:41.639 and they're always the top dog, the big brother, to 151 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.360 use the term. And now the table's returned. So I 152 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.759 was trying to talk objectively with your nephew about that, 153 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:52.000 and he wanted nothing to do with it. And because 154 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.120 but we get into those modes. We're fans and that's why, 155 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.360 you know, being in this business for a while, and 156 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.639 you were around when I did my college football show 157 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:02.399 nine years that taught me to be a little bit 158 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:04.879 more objective when it came to Michigan. Ohio State didn't 159 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.680 get me wrong, I still don't like Ohio State, but 160 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:09.600 but you do get a chance to be objective to it. 161 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:11.240 And John and we're talking a couple of times. I've 162 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:13.480 been to Columbus to see that. It's ironic I've never 163 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.560 seen Michigan play Ohio State in ann Arbor. 164 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.399 I've seen him twice in Columbus. Yeah, yeah, that is weird. 165 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:21.920 I didn't know that, right and so, but in the 166 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.959 same token, John was. I was telling John the story 167 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.839 about how I went down there and I didn't put 168 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:28.399 any Michigan gear when I went on because I just 169 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:29.319 want to enjoy the game. 170 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.519 So well, I think the the being objective because I 171 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:35.639 feel the same way in Pensacola. As a matter of fact, 172 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:37.560 we good buddy of mine's an Auburn family might go 173 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.560 up to an Auburn game just to take my son 174 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:41.000 who's ten, and his son. 175 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:42.079 And great experience. 176 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.199 I think it'll be awesome because we're not we don't 177 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:45.439 have a dog in the fight, but you can just 178 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:46.439 take in the atmosphere. 179 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.040 And we've done that. We went well. We went to UCLA, right, 180 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.560 Ucla was great. We went to the Rose Ball and 181 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.040 saw UCLA play. We went to We. 182 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.000 Said to Oakland, remember going to open Yeah, we went 183 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:56.680 to Oakland. 184 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:00.279 John, Yeah, there is no fear like, dude, when you're now. 185 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:02.399 Oakland was the one game I was stupid enough to 186 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:05.560 wear Lions gear too, And I'm staying at the urinal 187 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.399 behind a bunch of Raider fans. And dude, these aren't 188 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:11.079 the Las Vegas travel We'll show up Raider fans. These 189 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.360 are the Oakland hear, the real ones? Yeah, I mean 190 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.920 Oakland is I mean people in Detroit are scared to 191 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.000 go to Oakland. Well, put it that way, and so 192 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.079 we go there and I remember that day. Now we 193 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:26.839 did see we saw UCLA play Miami. We saw him 194 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:31.160 play Michigan, but not the Rose Bowl game itself. Right, 195 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:33.200 But you don't have to go to the Rose Bowl 196 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:34.440 game to appreciate the venue. 197 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.039 Well, I want to ask you this, Scott too. Yeah, 198 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.200 so Indiana travels to UCLA this year playing in the 199 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.600 Rose Bowl. Right, is the environment a little difference? I know, 200 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.519 UCLA the fan base isn't necessarily what it is in 201 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:50.000 football compared to what it is in basketball. 202 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:51.240 Is it a little more sleepy? 203 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:52.000 Is it not? 204 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:55.200 It probably doesn't live up to what yep, maybe somebody 205 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:58.000 would expect out of a stadium that has that much history. 206 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.080 Yeah, USC fans a little bit more hard. In fact, 207 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.720 if you watch an early UCLA game. I got one guy, 208 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.080 he's one friend of mine. He's an Ohio State fan. 209 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:08.240 He's that fan. 210 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.159 If you watch a UCLA game early in the season, 211 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:17.039 there's nobody there. That's because the students are all gone. 212 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.320 They don't go back to school at UCLA till way later. 213 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.279 So for the first couple of games, there's this big 214 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.960 empty section in the Rose Bowl and people just think 215 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.559 it's Califans not showing up. And here's the hardest thing 216 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.799 I tried to explain to people living on different coasts. 217 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:31.559 When it comes to sports. 218 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.919 What we loved was one when we got we could 219 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:38.360 watch the NFL afternoon games and be done with the 220 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.519 late games by what four o'clock, and then go up 221 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.679 to the little Asian fast food place up the corner 222 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:44.519 and get some dinner. 223 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:46.480 It was such a chill lifestyle. Dude. 224 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.759 Yeah, Well the Rose Bowl too, is just you know, 225 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.080 for it being La and LA is a Southern California. 226 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.159 Is a lot going on outside of the sports. 227 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.559 It's not like you know, Lambeau and Green Bay, where 228 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.320 that's the attraction, right right. But the Rose Bowl was 229 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.600 such a great venue because you got the backdrop of 230 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:03.759 the mountains and when you go in there, it's a 231 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.799 bowl style stadium, so you really don't have you don't 232 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:10.360 have an obstructed seat, and it's just one huge crowd. 233 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.879 And I thought that was really awesome as compared to 234 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.399 I've been to a couple of USC games and you 235 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.720 go there and that's like situated right in. 236 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:19.879 You know, that's a rough part of town. 237 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.399 Yeah, exactly, And so there's not a whole lot of 238 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:24.679 places to tailgate, and there's not a whole lot of 239 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.399 places to kind of hang out to the Rose Bulls. 240 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:29.480 And it's the granddaddy of them all. You know, there's 241 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:30.279 so much history there. 242 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.600 So it's beautiful. It's a beautiful. The San Gabriel Mountains 243 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.480 are so beautiful in the backdrop. And I will say 244 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.960 this our neighbors when we lived in our apartment in 245 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.480 San Diego, our neighbors were Laker fans. 246 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:43.519 And you know, I. 247 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.159 Will say this for the LA sports scene. Laker fans 248 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:51.200 are dedicated. Yeah, Laker fans. I think Lakers in Laker 249 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:55.279 fans own Southern California. So for people that say the 250 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:58.639 So Cal sports scene is two blase, it's too quiet, 251 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:01.159 it's too Baker fans would beg to differ. 252 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:02.720 I mean this team you. 253 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:04.600 Look any I mean, the Lakers sneeze out of the 254 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:06.480 left nostril, and that's headline news. 255 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:08.519 That's headline news with everybody. 256 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.080 But again, there's so much tradition with the Lakers. 257 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.360 Two, every time I fly into Los Angeles, you fly 258 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.120 right over, you fly right over Sofa Stadium and it's 259 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.679 right next to the form. You want to talk about 260 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.639 a pass versus the President Mohment, you fly with the 261 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:22.639 form and it just looks. 262 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.120 But that's what the eighties was. 263 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:27.159 It was this small little venue and now you got 264 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:29.200 so fine. And then you got Staples Center right next door. 265 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.080 But you fly right over all three of them, and 266 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:32.559 it's pretty pretty amazing. 267 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.559 So let me get your take without putting in and 268 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:37.399 give me an honest opinion. And because you're you're from 269 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:39.440 out of town and you come in in like today, 270 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.039 you're crashing in the Gold House and the pillows set 271 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:44.039 horses on them. 272 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:47.919 When you see NBC paint that picture in Derby Town. 273 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:49.960 Now, you were here one year for the Derby But 274 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:51.960 that was an unfair I think that was an unfair 275 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.919 assessment because you all drove literally the night before you 276 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.679 show up and you go straight to turn three in 277 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.360 the infield, and this was long before. 278 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:02.600 As you get. 279 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:04.960 Older and you mature some what do you think of 280 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.320 when you see maybe horses or you see a Santa Nita, 281 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.720 or you see a track or del Mar even. 282 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:12.919 Yeah, West, well it was you know, even just walking 283 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.440 up here from the gulhouse and seeing all the signs 284 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.679 for the you got the bourbon and the horses, and 285 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.159 bourbon and horses is a tradition unto itself. 286 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:21.120 I think. 287 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:24.320 And yeah, I remember that weekend. I think that was right. 288 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.360 I don't even think I was married then. And we 289 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.559 loaded up two SUVs full of guys and we said 290 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.240 let's go to the derby and we were driving from Norfolk, Virginia. 291 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:34.120 I think I forget what it was, an eight hour 292 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:37.320 drive straight to the infield. We crashed with you guys, 293 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:40.440 But it was an experience that I was just telling 294 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:41.519 the guy I was flying with today. 295 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:43.360 I said it was awesome because it was one of 296 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:44.080 those things you do. 297 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:45.759 Now what I want to do it right now as 298 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:50.360 a guy approaching fifty with the kid, I don't know. 299 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.039 I would definitely love to go down there and be 300 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:53.879 part of the atmosphere. 301 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:55.559 I've been to del Mar. 302 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:00.159 I like to place bets on the ponies, but that history, 303 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.080 that that exists. 304 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:02.840 There is amazing. I was telling you guys, like we 305 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:04.039 were on the infield, you didn't. 306 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.200 See horse racing, right. 307 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.279 That was one thing that surprised me. You're you're betting 308 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.720 on the horses and you're looking at the screen. 309 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:14.679 But but I think it's a great tradition. It seems 310 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:16.639 like what this city is all about. And it's a 311 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.600 great identity, I think. And we've taken tours down there 312 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:22.320 with you guys, and uh, every year I get excited 313 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:23.960 and I get my kids in there. 314 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.440 Yeah you do it. Call me who you got, who 315 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:26.960 you got? 316 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:31.440 And I think you see for and for me, I've 317 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.360 okay every This Derby was so much fun this year 318 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.440 and John John helped me out in Oaks Day, I 319 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:38.879 was up under the grand stand. 320 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.360 I was able to broadcast and sit there and be 321 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:42.120 part of this. I can go. 322 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.039 I love going to the track every year. I love 323 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:46.360 doing that. That's we don't get any extra money for 324 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:49.320 doing it. That is just that's a perk of the job. 325 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.080 That's all it is. And it still cracks me up 326 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:54.519 John that there are some people that say I'm not 327 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:55.320 getting paid for this. 328 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.399 Yeah, I mean, this is a privilege of the job. 329 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:01.679 It's probably I mean, I hate to say, it's probably 330 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:03.840 just people, the olds, the people who've been around while 331 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:05.799 they've covered up their entire life, and maybe it's just 332 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:06.960 old hat to them. 333 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:07.480 Right right. 334 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.480 I mean you you were such an awesome part of 335 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.960 Oaks Day and we were able to sit there and John, 336 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.759 John just kept me going and the boss threw me 337 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:17.639 and he goes, hey, look you're gonna sit under the 338 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.159 grand stand. You're gonna You're gonna do Oaks Day. And 339 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.279 I was like okay, and John made that so easy. 340 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.519 And after the day was done, I sat there and 341 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.799 I'm like, I am so lucky to be able to 342 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:29.759 do this. Now, I just need to talk to the 343 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.440 company and to let me go to sant Anita. 344 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:33.559 That's what I want to do. 345 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:34.799 I want to get out west and go to Santa 346 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:36.600 I've never been to sant Anita. In fact, I don't 347 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:37.840 think I've ever been to del Mar. 348 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:39.919 Oh really no. 349 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:41.559 And I think del Mar's where they host the California 350 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.279 Stay Fair, isn't it. 351 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:44.639 I think so it's it's been a while now. We 352 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:45.559 just went out there or. 353 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:47.399 San Diego State San Diego County Fairs. 354 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.480 I think I believe so yeah, but del Mar is 355 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.159 great because it's right there on the ocean's where the 356 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:51.639 Breeders Cup. 357 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:53.759 I think the Breeders Cup is coming there. I had 358 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:55.879 to wait before I open my mouth and double check 359 00:14:55.919 --> 00:15:00.679 this stuff. But you know, to your point, you know 360 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.000 what's funny you mentioned that about how how now when 361 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:05.240 you're pushing fifty, you don't. 362 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.000 Know if you can go to the derby and do that. 363 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.200 Do you find yourself maybe? Like for me, like, Okay, 364 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:12.559 I got a night. I don't have to get up 365 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.360 and go to work tomorrow. I'm going to lose city. 366 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:16.440 I can rock. 367 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:18.720 Frankfurt is here. They're giving away free beer, s dines. 368 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:21.840 I should be out there pounding studs like there's no tomorrow, 369 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.000 and yet I'm sitting here going not. 370 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:26.799 On drink during the week. I'm like, what is happening? 371 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:28.840 What kind of weird universe are we in? 372 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:29.159 Now? 373 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:32.320 But no, Yeah, we went to We just recently went 374 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.440 with our son out to Disneyland for a day and 375 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:37.320 we flew out there, you know, flew out their standby, 376 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:38.879 dealt with the crowds and stuff. 377 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:40.840 And as I get older, I'm like, I'm all set. 378 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:44.759 I think, what what is your What's your you've been 379 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:48.559 to Disney which I hear so many stories about Disneyland. 380 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:51.000 What are your impressions? You don't I think do we 381 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:53.120 take you when we went when we were younger. 382 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.440 I don't we. I think we went out there once. 383 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.000 Maybe, Okay, I want to, yeah, but I you know, 384 00:15:58.080 --> 00:15:59.320 as I get older, and I hate to be the 385 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.720 ba humbug, but I'm not a Disney guy. 386 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:02.039 Yeah. 387 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.879 I think there are adults who are Disney people, all right. 388 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.559 Those are people my age, the Disney adults. That is 389 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.879 not me specifically, but my generation. There are so many 390 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.240 people friends of mine even that like their number one 391 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.960 vacation destination's disney World or Disneyland whatever. 392 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:18.240 They because they grew. 393 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.399 Up watching the movies and now all the different rides 394 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.720 that they've added on that type of stuff. It's it's 395 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:25.399 a lot more newer, like they still have the classics 396 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.120 and that type of thing, but it fits what. 397 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:27.919 They grew up doing. 398 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.360 And I don't know what it is about the marketing 399 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.679 that they've done, or you know, just the overall experience 400 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.080 of it. But my generation, people between twenty and thirty 401 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.080 years old, those are the Disney adults. People going without 402 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:41.879 kids and just taking it in for themselves. 403 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.080 It's that type of crowd. Oh, I see. 404 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:48.120 It's crazy that people will wait two hours in a 405 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.840 line for a four minute ride. That's just I don't 406 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:54.159 understand it. And maybe again, maybe I'm just getting old 407 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.080 and I'm becoming that guy. But yeah, for vacations like 408 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.399 I enjoy going skiing, I like something where you get outdoors, 409 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:00.919 you tire yourself out, and you go back to the 410 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.080 hotel room, you have a drink, and you know, you 411 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:03.720 call it a day. 412 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.559 But waiting in a two hour line while everybody's just sweating. 413 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.160 You just look around at everybody and they all look miserable, right, 414 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:12.319 and you go. 415 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:13.559 What we what do we do? 416 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.200 They've done marketing has I don't know how Disney, what 417 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.480 their marketing team looks like, but they and they keep. 418 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:19.279 Raising their prices. 419 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:21.880 I know, hey, how about you pay more money to 420 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.359 come be miserable. 421 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:25.960 All day long? Again, maybe I'm just being a little 422 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:27.039 negative Nancy there, But. 423 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.759 No, no, no, you're not alone, dude. I just don't 424 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.640 do amusement parks. I'd like to because I don't mind 425 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.119 roller I went through the stage in my life where 426 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:36.720 I loved roller coasters. 427 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.200 Then I hated them, then I loved them again. I've 428 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.880 been that way before, right to your point in Ohio. Yeah, 429 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.240 oh yes, I mean that's if you're into roller coasters, 430 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:45.920 that's the place to be. But the same thing though, 431 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.039 if you're if not in the lines, either find go 432 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.039 during the off season or you got to get one 433 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.160 of those fast passes or whatever they call them nowadays, 434 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:53.200 that type of stuff. 435 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:56.759 Right right Amy. My wife she had this plan. I 436 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:59.799 mean she must have spent weeks concocting this plan for 437 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.079 the ass passed. It's a whole system now. And we 438 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.119 did find something out on Disneyland. If you go into 439 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:06.799 a single rider line, it's. 440 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:07.400 So much quicker. 441 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.960 Really, it's a little hack if you're if you're okay, 442 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:11.680 all right, Well. 443 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:13.319 The by the way, the Breeders Cup is it del 444 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:15.640 Mar this year, So you can go to del Mar 445 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:16.880 if you if you want to go. 446 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:19.279 So I did see that, Sorry. 447 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.799 Squirrel, uh but no, it's we're visiting with my little bro. 448 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:24.920 He's in town. He's flying for American and this just 449 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:25.640 happened to work out. 450 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.359 He just happened to be the day that that I 451 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.319 was sitting in here with John filling in for Nick coffee, 452 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.559 having a little conversation with him as he travels the 453 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:33.400 world and gets out. 454 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:36.519 So let me ask you, you leave here tomorrow, where 455 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:36.960 are you off to? 456 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.039 I go back to Miami and then I do a 457 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:42.039 flat of Cuba. 458 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.079 Back and what's like flying into Cuba? 459 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.839 It's uh, you just you land and it is kind 460 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:49.720 of funny. They do have a truck that follows you 461 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:52.880 out to make sure nobody's attached to your gear landing gear, 462 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.319 trying to really jump onto your plane. It's but no, 463 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:59.599 it's it's it's it's nothing different really than any other place. 464 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.720 When we go down there. We just we just go 465 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:03.759 down there, unload and load up and get back up. 466 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:06.200 Do you guys are a lot of people going to Cuba? 467 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:09.920 As far as I know, I don't really. Yeah, are 468 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:12.359 your flights full of flints? Are pretty full? Usually? 469 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:17.720 So yeah, it's uh. 470 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.200 Since they opened it up for people, I guess maybe everybody. 471 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:20.000 Everybody goes down and then you go to Cuban and 472 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:20.960 then you come back to Miami. 473 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:22.960 Is that what you do? You spend the night in Miami? 474 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:25.079 No, then I'm done. Then I go home and hang 475 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:26.920 out with a family for how long you're home for? 476 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.319 I'm actually home for three weeks because I've got some 477 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:32.680 military duty to do there. So yeah, so I've got 478 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:35.519 some reserve stuff to do. So so's your three weeks. 479 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:37.119 So is the family ever? 480 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.440 Say, do you spend a lot of time in the road, 481 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:41.599 like a lot of people listening probably do. Whether they're 482 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.319 truck drivers, whether they're transported, whatever they do, they spend 483 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.519 a lot of time on the road. How is it 484 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:48.880 when you come home? Is the family having to get 485 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:50.640 used to you again being there? Do you have to 486 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:51.359 get used to them? 487 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.400 You know, I think it's different as the kids get older, 488 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:57.759 there's definitely a different dynamics. So you know, sometimes they're like, hey, 489 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:01.359 when are you leaving again? It's usual. It's usually after 490 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.400 I told them, hey, why are there? During dishes in 491 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.480 the same right right. But no, I've always since my 492 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:09.359 kids have been young, my only thing about this job 493 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:11.440 is being away. So I try to minimize the time 494 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.400 away and and I try to maximize my time at home. 495 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:15.400 Because it is a different job. 496 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:19.279 I mean, you're you're I'm gone for maybe twelve, thirteen, 497 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:21.839 fourteen days a month, but when I'm home, I'm home. 498 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:24.559 It's a different job. You know, when they wake up. 499 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:27.240 I'm taking them to school and I'm getting them breakfast. 500 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:29.799 And you haven't lived life until you've been in a 501 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:32.079 carpool full of teenage girls and you're taking them through 502 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:33.240 the Starbucks line, going. 503 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:33.960 What do you want to order? 504 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:34.319 Oh? 505 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:36.799 And I'm like what, I don't even know what they're 506 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:40.039 ordering anymore. It's a yeah, but so so it's a 507 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:42.279 little bit different lifestyle. But I always you know, I've 508 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.079 coached their their sports teams and stuff, so I try. 509 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:47.240 To even while you're on that, even while you're flying 510 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:49.400 yes to coach, it wouldn't that a challenge. 511 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:54.039 It was considering coaching basketball and I've never played organized basketball. 512 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:56.240 And that's funny to see the same thing happened to me. 513 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:00.319 I was picking my daughter up from tryouts over at 514 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.160 Saint Martha one year and the ad comes out to me. 515 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.880 He goes, hey, coach. I go, no, I'm not coaching 516 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:08.599 this year. He goes, yeah, you are. What are you 517 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:13.640 talking about? He goes, I need coaches. You're coaching your daughter? Like, man, 518 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:17.039 so I got to coach, and I mean, like you, 519 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:20.279 I don't know how to coach basketball. You're basically glorified 520 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:22.640 babysitter at this point is what you are. And then 521 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.559 you always get that one parent that goes, hey, it's 522 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:29.079 my coaching. I'll give you a hand man, and that 523 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:31.039 time you're on an ego trip. At that time you're like, no, 524 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:33.319 I can do this. I got this, you asked me. 525 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:34.920 Now I'm like, hell, yeah, take over the team, will 526 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:35.359 you plase? 527 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:36.440 Yeah? 528 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.720 Do you have effy deal with people or parents saying 529 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:39.920 their kid wasn't playing enough? 530 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:41.519 I haven't. 531 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:43.799 Oh, I got a story five too, John, good question. 532 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.319 I coached middle school girls basketball and the first I've 533 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:50.359 done it two years now. The first year I said, Hey, 534 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:53.240 everybody's gonna play. This is gonna be awesome. Everybody's gonna 535 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.200 get equal amount of playing time. And then the next 536 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:57.000 year I was like, well that's not fair, Like we 537 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:58.039 need to start winning. 538 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:01.160 Games, right, So then I was like, hey, not everybody's. 539 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:04.160 Gonna be get the same playing time and nobody said 540 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:06.400 anything to me. Though nobody was like, hey, my daughter's 541 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:09.920 not playing or anything like that, and so it was. 542 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:11.119 It was pretty interesting. 543 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.079 It was it's a private girls it's not private girls school, 544 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:16.319 but it's a private Christian college. And it's funny cause 545 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:18.720 we did play a team where the girls would come 546 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:20.279 off the court and they'd be like, hey, they're cussing 547 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:20.839 this out there. 548 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.519 They're they're they're getting a little rough. And and we 549 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:25.519 did have to speak to the other coach about stuff. 550 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.279 Oh, I say, but now I didn't really have to 551 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:31.119 deal with too much parent drama. Everybody was pretty you 552 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:34.039 know you did in middle school, middle school girls. 553 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:36.400 I totally underestimated what it would take to coach. 554 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:38.480 It's a lot. That's how old Kayla was when I 555 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:40.240 coached your team. It's a lot. 556 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:40.640 Dude. 557 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:41.279 Well, i'll tell you. 558 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.480 I coach Cameron, who's my son, his his flag football team. 559 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:45.880 It's like, this is gonna be awesome. 560 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:48.880 I spent hours, at not hours, maybe like an hour 561 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:50.079 drawing up all these plays. 562 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.119 And I go to them they're probably in third grade, 563 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:53.839 and I go, all right, guys, here's what we're gonna do. 564 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:54.400 See this play. 565 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:56.799 Let's let's line it up. You got two receivers, a quarterback, 566 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:59.240 a center. And they go to line up and I says, kids, 567 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:01.599 stand around, what are you doing? He goes, what's the 568 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:02.480 last scrimmage? 569 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:03.000 Oh? 570 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:07.079 No, oh no? A lot more share. 571 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:09.160 I'll have to share a story that I had one 572 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:10.440 parent and then we'll go to break because I know 573 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:11.559 we're getting over on break here. 574 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:15.440 I had. I had one parent when I was coaching Broken. 575 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:19.759 Your nephew his soccer team, actually make a lineup and 576 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:21.359 hand it to me before a game. 577 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:22.480 Because her kid wasn't playing. 578 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:25.519 She goes, I've taken the liberty to draw your lineup, 579 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:28.400 and thank goodness we had like two games left in 580 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:31.279 the season, because I would have literally just walked off 581 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:34.160 after that. So here you go, mom, have at it. 582 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.440 You can coach. So yeah, I had great question, John. 583 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:39.319 I'm glad you brought that up because I'll tell you what. 584 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:41.440 Obviously, I've never been a coach, but I feel like 585 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:43.440 if I was in that position that you were just 586 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:45.680 talking about in the parents up and does that and 587 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.799 I hate to to kind of punish the kid for that. 588 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:49.559 Yeah, it is. 589 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:51.880 There is kind of association. You almost don't want to 590 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:52.960 play the kid at all for that. 591 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:53.799 That's exactly. Yeah. 592 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:56.000 I didn't want to say that, but I'm glad you did, 593 00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:58.359 because Yeah, that's kind of where I was going with that. Hey, 594 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:00.400 when we come back, we got about a half, we're 595 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:02.480 gonna wrap things up. We're actually gonna talk some sports. 596 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:04.880 We're gonna get my little bro's take on some of 597 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:06.680 the teams here and get John to jump in here. 598 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:08.640 Just having a ball today. But this has been a 599 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:11.119 lot of fun. This has been a treat to have 600 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:13.160 everybody here and just kind of yip yap around. Glad 601 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:16.119 you're along with us too as well, Tony and Tony 602 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.279 Vanetti and Dave Jennings is gonna take you home the 603 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:20.200 rest of the week, and I'm gonna head over to 604 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:22.359 lou Cities game after this too, So it's a good time. 605 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:24.920 We're back after this on Sports Talk seven ninety. 606 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:30.960 Now you're playing my music there, mister John Alden, little Fogerty. 607 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:32.480 Big baseball guy. I am. 608 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:36.400 I know it's not unpopular take, but if you listen 609 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:39.359 to Tony Cruz in the morning, baseball is my forte 610 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:42.480 and I love me some baseball and I can do it. 611 00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:44.599 The first thing, in fact, when I get I get done, 612 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:46.680 my day basically goes. I work with Tony, go to 613 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:50.039 the other gig, I get home, well, I go to 614 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:52.119 the gym. After that, I get home, probably around six, 615 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:54.319 I go upstairs, take a shower. 616 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.000 First thing goes on the MLB network. 617 00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:57.720 I just have to have it on his background noise 618 00:24:57.799 --> 00:24:59.359 because they do a great job because they bunce around 619 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:00.359 ballpark cam etcetera. 620 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:02.000 And I just love to have that on. 621 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:04.119 Then I sit on the couch at night and and 622 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:06.799 pretty much if I'm not watching pressure luck because I'm 623 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:09.920 old and I watch game shows. Now I've got the 624 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:12.200 ballgame on, and so I pick a ball game because 625 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:15.079 I got the MLB TV app, which is fantastic on 626 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.240 every level. So little brother Sean is in studio with 627 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:20.880 John Alden and I. He flies for American Airlines. He's 628 00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:23.119 in town and louisvan a layover. We're gonna go get 629 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:24.960 some dinner soon as we leave here, and then I'm 630 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:26.319 gonna head off to the game and You're gonna go 631 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:28.759 home get some sleep because if people are flying American tomorrow, 632 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:30.000 they don't want a tired pilot. 633 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:31.119 No, they do not. 634 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:35.920 You probably said this before, but my Add's and Flago. 635 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:38.680 Are you back to Charlotte tomorrow morning, Miami, Miami. 636 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:43.200 Thank you. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. Okay, So, uh, Sean, 637 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:45.319 we were talking a little bit. Sean. Let's let's talk 638 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:46.079 some sports now. 639 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:47.839 And John, you feel free to jump in here when 640 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.160 you can we've got the new look Big ten. You're 641 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:54.359 a Michigan guy, John's an Indiana guy. Indiana's got a 642 00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:58.319 new coach. John's Signetti. He is uh, he's fiery. I 643 00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:01.559 don't know how much he is, but he means business. 644 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:05.200 He's expecting to or he's already raised expectations without even 645 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:07.759 coaching a game for the Hoosiers. The guy has never 646 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:10.359 had a losing season as a head coach. He's been 647 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:13.319 at three different places, never been at the power four, 648 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:14.319 power five level. 649 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:14.599 Yep. 650 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:16.799 But I think this will be a very good experiment 651 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.200 for Indiana to see if they can, you know, kind 652 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:20.519 of get out of the cellar. They did it for 653 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:22.200 a while and or Tom Allen a couple of years 654 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.319 they had some success, but they haven't found sustained success. 655 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:27.920 And Signetti maybe the guy to potentially get in there. 656 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:28.720 We'll have to wait and see. 657 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:28.920 Well. 658 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:30.200 And that's why I was going to ask you what 659 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:32.640 your comfort level was with him, because not only do 660 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:34.440 you have a new coach coming in now, but you 661 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:37.319 have a new coach who's coming into a new Big ten. 662 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:39.599 I think it was the perfect time to do it. 663 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:42.200 I said last year, whenever Tom Allen, whenever it was 664 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:43.799 kind of his time to go. I'm like, if you're 665 00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:46.440 going to make the move, you want to do it now. 666 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:49.240 Whenever everything's changing in the Big Ten, because it's going 667 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:52.240 to be new for everybody. Yeah, you have the experienced 668 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.680 guys like Ryan Day and that Krew, Kirk Farnce, that 669 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:56.799 type of stuff, but it's still going to be new. 670 00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:58.880 With all the traveling to the West Coast, all four 671 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:00.880 of those teams out there, it's gonna be way different 672 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:03.599 for them, and really it's it's just gonna be a 673 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:05.839 totally different game. I mean, the game will be the same, 674 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.000 but like it's gonna feel different. Whenever you're watching these 675 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:10.160 teams play that have never played each other, you're gonna 676 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:11.960 have some of the jet lag issues with the West 677 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.039 Coast and you know the Midwest teams they travel to 678 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:17.160 each other's home stadiums. So it's a lot of different 679 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:20.200 stuff coming to college football and the Big Ten specifically 680 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:20.640 this year. 681 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:24.400 To your point, first, get you got FIU at Home 682 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:29.240 Western Illinois. Then they go to UCLA. Go to Ucla. 683 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:31.200 That is a primetime game on NBC. 684 00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:34.480 Bro. I'm at So's that's actually gonna be fun. 685 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:36.519 I'm gonna tune that one in and then the only 686 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:41.319 other former Pac twelve opponent they have is Washington coming 687 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:42.039 to Bloomington. 688 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:44.759 So you avoid the USC's, you avoid the organ You're 689 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.519 probably playing more than likely the two weaker teams of 690 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:50.000 the four that are coming. 691 00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:50.680 From the West Coast. 692 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.599 And UCLA is kind of in a weird position this 693 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:55.559 year because they had to get a new head coach 694 00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:57.960 in the middle of the off season and Chip Kelly 695 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:00.960 jump to be the offensive coordinate at Ohio. 696 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:02.039 State, which is a very weird move. 697 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:04.519 But in college football you're seeing a lot of weird 698 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:07.279 moves now with coaches who don't want to mess with 699 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:09.440 the nil and the transfer portal as much and have 700 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.279 less responsibility and that type of a thing. So Deshaun 701 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:15.759 Foster comes in for UCLA, and again, you probably didn't 702 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.559 pay a lot of attention to Big ten media days, 703 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:21.039 and I wouldn't blame you, but Deshaun Foster kind of 704 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:23.880 embarrassed himself at the podium whenever he was speaking to 705 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:25.200 the Big tim media for the first time. 706 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.680 He got up there to do his opening statement and 707 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.359 he just froze. He said a few things. 708 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:32.559 And then he got starstruck or stage fright, whatever, you 709 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.680 want to call it, and kind of just made a 710 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:38.480 fool of himself. Wow, I didn't see the entirety of 711 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.119 his statements, so he might have picked himself back up, 712 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:43.759 as I'm assuming you might have. But that's not a 713 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.559 good look whenever you're introducing yourself to a brand new 714 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:50.440 conference and really to your fan base like that for 715 00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:53.799 the first time. So it'll be interesting to see what 716 00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:56.279 UCLA doesn't really all these new teams do. 717 00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:58.240 But I'm obviously super. 718 00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:00.759 Intrigued by Indiana traveling out to the West Coast taking 719 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.119 on UCLA because to me, that's a turning point game 720 00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:06.119 for Indiana and Kurtzignetti's first year. 721 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:07.400 Absolutely it is. 722 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:10.119 And the nice thing for IU this year, bro, you 723 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:13.720 get a little time in between Michigan and Ohio State. Yes, 724 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:16.960 Michigan comes into Bloomington on November ninth, then you don't 725 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.920 face Ohio State until November twenty third. You've got a 726 00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:22.559 bye weekend between, yes, so which is nice. And speaking 727 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:24.680 of remember we were visiting last time and I was 728 00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.119 trying to remember that place in Bloomington that we always 729 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:29.680 go to, and I was on with Joe Lincoln on Saturday. 730 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:32.119 He's not you guy, like you Sells and I remember 731 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:35.359 what it was. It was Buffalouis. Okay, that's the place 732 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:39.880 to go. The Wings were amazing, a bit pricier in Bloomington. 733 00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:42.519 But definitely take all the recruits. Is it that they 734 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:43.079 think go there? 735 00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:44.759 Now? 736 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:48.920 Sean, you obviously no secret you're a Michigan fan. What's 737 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:50.079 your take on the new Big Ten? 738 00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:51.960 What do you think I think it's gonna be. 739 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:54.559 I think college football in general, we're going to see 740 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:57.640 a lot of different a lot of different looks because 741 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:00.559 now you've got you know, obviously the two power Power conferences. 742 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.000 I'm what I'm more curious about is is the l 743 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:08.440 nial stuff. Do you guys think that's going to make 744 00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:12.720 players stay longer in college football because now they they're 745 00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:16.519 making more money here will have a positive effect on 746 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:19.359 college football? Or will you still see one and done's 747 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:21.559 people you know, jump into the NFL quicker. 748 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.000 That's a great question. I think the one thing. 749 00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:26.119 I think one thing that you're going to see, And Scott, 750 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:27.799 I can't remember if you and I talked about this 751 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:29.519 or if I mentioned it with a Nick whenever he 752 00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:32.039 was on here, but I think one thing you're going 753 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:34.440 to see in the near future, probably maybe not this year. 754 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.279 But I think one thing that's been one of the 755 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:40.039 biggest issues is players opting out of playing in bowl 756 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:43.480 games because they they'd rather not risk getting injured and 757 00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:44.400 get ready for the NFL. 758 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:45.160 That type of stuff. 759 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:48.920 I think you're going to start seeing NIL incentives or 760 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:53.759 maybe maybe even requirements from whoever's paying these players to 761 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:56.960 force them to participate in these bowl games, because it 762 00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:00.279 kind of whenever your your stars for your teams aren't 763 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.440 playing in the postseason, it kind of ruins the product 764 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:05.200 in a sense, and it almost becomes more of a 765 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:08.440 tryout for the second string, you know, your lower tier 766 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:11.400 players to get ready for the next season. So I 767 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:14.160 think that's one thing you'll you'll see be a positive 768 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:16.039 change when it comes to NIL down the road. I 769 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.680 don't know when that type of stuff would go into effect, 770 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:20.960 but I think that's one way you could you can 771 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:24.119 definitely see improvement in a positive way for these players, 772 00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:26.079 these players to get played paid. 773 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:28.160 Excuse me, you know, I had a chance to talk 774 00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:30.799 with Chancellor Douge and the women's basketball coach A Bellaman. 775 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:32.880 They just signed it to an extension and we had 776 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:35.519 that conversation. You heard it here on this station. Here's 777 00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:37.519 what she had to say quickly about Nil. 778 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:43.319 No, I've gone through and seen everything, you know. I never, 779 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:48.279 in my wildest dreams would have thought that the NCAA 780 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:55.200 would have given so much autonomy, because it's like the 781 00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:58.119 Wile Wall West. Yeah, I mean the rules change and 782 00:31:58.359 --> 00:31:59.559 update daily. 783 00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:02.160 I do think that they need to reel in an 784 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:05.160 il to some degree. I think the NCAA could do 785 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:06.839 a much better job at that. I don't want to 786 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:09.240 critique them because I don't I don't live in that world. No, 787 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:10.759 they get paid a lot more money and have a 788 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:14.559 lot more education than I do. I constantly remind mister 789 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:18.319 Cruz about that in the morning. You know this, It's 790 00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:20.519 like so funny. Everybody wants to a d but nobody's 791 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.279 ad in and everybody seems to have the answers. It's 792 00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:25.240 just like in our business, everybody wants to coach, they 793 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:29.000 have all the answers, but nobody's coaching Colin Coward And 794 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.160 just saying that, I do think that they need to 795 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:36.400 reel in Nil to some degree and give places like 796 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:39.200 a Bellerman kind of a fair shot because right now, 797 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:41.519 let's be honest, Bellerman can't run with who is it 798 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:43.559 that the Texas there was at NC State one of 799 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:45.960 the softball players send a million dollar anil deal. 800 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.519 I mean, Bellaman can't run with that, you know. So 801 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:51.359 this is really gonna be college athletics. 802 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.880 So to your All's point, this is going to be 803 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:57.519 very interesting to see how this shakes out. Sean, you 804 00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.400 were telling me off the air. Now, Michigan in defense 805 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:02.680 of their national championships. By the way, they're getting ready 806 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:05.240 to issue there. I guess their nose of allegations is 807 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:06.880 coming out from the sign stealings. 808 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:07.799 They're gonna have to deal with that. 809 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:11.240 But they have Texas at home on September seventh, and 810 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:13.160 you looked into September twenty first. 811 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.519 USC is coming to town. Yeah, what were the ticket 812 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:16.359 prices going for that? 813 00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:20.880 They were two hundred dollars minimum, is what you're looking at, 814 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:22.279 And of course it goes up from there. 815 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:24.079 And then Texas is going to be an. 816 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:28.599 Interesting battle because they got their quarterback back, Irwin or 817 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:31.759 drown a plank on his name. But Steve Sarkejian's put 818 00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:34.400 together a pretty good product out there. So now you 819 00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:37.839 got Texas in the SEC, and then where's Alabama going 820 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:39.839 to come into play there because they're, you know, a 821 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:42.799 new head coach. That's the other thing is how are 822 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:45.160 the head coaches going to handle this whole It just 823 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:47.559 seems like a whole different landscape, and it seems like 824 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:50.720 it's a new now. I mean before recruiting was tough. 825 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:52.640 Now you got to deal with the nil, you got 826 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:54.440 to deal with money, you got to deal with boosters. 827 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.880 So I think we're dealing with a whole new, whole 828 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:01.359 new game here. But and you add in the twelve 829 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:04.640 team playoff. Now you've got a team like say a 830 00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.440 top mid mid tier team, say in the Big Ten, 831 00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:10.280 like in Indiana or Nebraska that normally would all right, 832 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:12.519 you had a decent year, maybe it got you know, 833 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:14.519 eight or nine wins, but you're certainly not going to 834 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.079 be in the hunt. Now you're in the hunt because 835 00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:17.239 all you got to do is get to that top 836 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:19.719 twelve position. So how many teams are we going to 837 00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.519 see that? You know what we see in basketball where 838 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:25.760 it's you know, a number seven team goes all the 839 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:28.360 way or so it'll be interesting to see how that 840 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:31.800 plays out and does that lever like kind of lower 841 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:34.840 the competitive field as far as it's not going to 842 00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:37.760 always be Alabama always going to be, you know, the 843 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:39.280 big name team, so well. 844 00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:41.400 You know, it will be interesting to see how the 845 00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:43.599 college football landscape shakes out. It's going to be a 846 00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:45.480 very interesting year, to say the least. I know a 847 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:47.360 lot of people are looking forward to it. Switch gears 848 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:49.000 while we have a little bit of time left, Fellas. 849 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:50.039 I can tell you. 850 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:54.480 When I was in Detroit for the NFL Draft, I 851 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:58.400 saw firsthand what a massive beast this machine really is. 852 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:01.920 You have no idea of what seven hundred thousand people 853 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:03.840 feels like until you're in the middle of all of them. 854 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.280 And I don't think i've ever seen you know, Detroit 855 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:09.840 was such a ghost town for so long, and I 856 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.159 remember going over to Greektown the night after the draft. 857 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:17.880 You could not move in the street. I mean people 858 00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:22.360 were everywhere. They came from all walks of life, every 859 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:24.719 fan if you were listening to Terry Miners. I had 860 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:27.800 a chance to interview fans from all different teams that 861 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:32.239 right now, the NFL is a machine and it's only 862 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:35.599 getting bigger, it's only getting better. How do you see 863 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.880 it shaken out? John, I never did get a read 864 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:39.519 on where you're at when it comes to the NFL. 865 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:42.360 Do you have a team, So I buy association. 866 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.599 I have a team, and it's I have a family 867 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:47.639 member up in Buffalo and whenever, whenever we went and 868 00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:50.239 visited them. A couple of years ago, my wife took 869 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:52.400 a big liking up for the Bills. We went to, Yeah, 870 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:55.480 we went to a bar that was a Bills centric bar. 871 00:35:56.119 --> 00:35:58.320 And so my wife decides she's gonna be a Bills fan. Like, 872 00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:59.880 you know what, I don't have an NFL team, Let's 873 00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:02.239 just be Bill's fans. And so I'm not you know, 874 00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:04.280 it's not like something I grew up watching being a 875 00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.000 fan of the Bills, that type of a thing, but 876 00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.880 it is. It is fun to be a part of 877 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:11.639 kind of a crazy, you know, group of group of people. 878 00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:13.360 And I know you're I'm sure you're familiar with the 879 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:17.000 Bills mafia. Yeah, I'm obviously not that type of person. 880 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:19.840 I could never be out in the tailgate grounds, jumping 881 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:23.480 on tables, that type of thing, breaking tables. But that's 882 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:25.039 kind of where I'm at with with the NFL. 883 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:27.440 And they're building that new stadium form now too, and 884 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:29.239 it's not a dome, right, It's still going to be 885 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:32.519 out there. It's crazy That's where I respect Bill's mafia. 886 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:35.880 Yes you had like Minnesota build a dome stadium. Yes, 887 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.119 Bill's Mafia said, no, none of that noise. We're going 888 00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:40.440 out in the cold. We're going to do miss the Bay. 889 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:41.320 They'll never change. 890 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:44.840 Exactly, dude, exactly. And Sean, you and I are both 891 00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:47.639 Lions fans. We saw they got so close. The proof 892 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:48.920 is going to be in the pudding to see if 893 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:52.000 they can do it again in year two. That was 894 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:55.559 probably the most frustrated I've been. That was almost at 895 00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:58.320 the NFC Championship. Was almost as frustrating as the Owen 896 00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.559 sixteen years to get that close. 897 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:01.880 And sure, I think it. 898 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:04.119 Would have been better if that game was just a blowout, 899 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:06.440 if it was just the forty nine ers rolled over them. 900 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:08.360 But if you look at the Lions coming back this year, 901 00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:10.920 they got a lot of returning players. They've got a 902 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.199 lot and both coordinators are coming back, which I think 903 00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:16.719 they interviewed but didn't take jobs. And so you've got 904 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:19.760 this like, and I travel a lot. Obviously, I talked 905 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:21.280 to a lot of people and they're like, oh, you're 906 00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:23.199 a Lions fan. Oh I was rooting for the Lions. 907 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:24.360 Oh I didn't know you're a Lions fan. 908 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:26.960 Oh, I was. Really everybody seems to be pulling unless 909 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:27.280 you're a. 910 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:31.920 Diehard, you know San Francisco or a Bills or but 911 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:33.880 a lot of people in the country are really pulling 912 00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:35.920 for They like Dan Campbell as they should. 913 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:39.960 Yeah, a blue collar guy, he's in a blue collar city. 914 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:42.400 But then I was just looking at the odds to 915 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.199 win the championship and I saw right behind them, just 916 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.119 behind them, as the Bengals, and so. 917 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:49.000 It gied you went there, because that's where I was 918 00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:49.519 going next. 919 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:52.599 Yeah, it seems like behind the Bills, the forty nine 920 00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.039 Ers and the Chiefs, you got the Lions, and then 921 00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.159 you got the Bills or the Bengals are right there 922 00:37:59.440 --> 00:37:59.920 in the hunt. 923 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:03.239 Well, that's where our house is. My son is a 924 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:05.840 huge Bengals fan, and so it's very interesting. My son, 925 00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:08.440 born and raised here in Louisville, is kind of fit 926 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:11.079 that mold. He loves the Reds, he loves the Bengals. 927 00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:12.559 He's a big Louisville fan. 928 00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:13.719 He's into it. 929 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:17.000 So it's funny with the Bengals one because I cover 930 00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:19.480 him in the mornings here. I covered the Bengals, Colts 931 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.559 and the Titans. Which is a lot of fun. It 932 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:24.119 really is, because those are the geographical teams here. But 933 00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:26.320 you know, the Bengals, I find myself rooting for him 934 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:28.480 because my son does. In fact, when they went to 935 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:31.880 the super Bowl that year when they won the AFC Championship, 936 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:33.920 we were coming home from a hockey tournament in Ohio 937 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:37.159 and I will never forget us sitting in the car 938 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.320 driving along when Dan Horne announced they were going to 939 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.480 the Super Bowl and it was just like, what I mean, 940 00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.000 I was excited for him. Yeah, I didn't grow up 941 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:48.599 a Bengals fan, but I was excited for him. And 942 00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:50.880 so they got a lot coming into The Bengals got 943 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:53.000 a lot coming back. And you know, sometime and when 944 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:54.960 I feel and again we'll talk more about the NFL. 945 00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:58.920 But the Colts there's high expectations with Shane Steichen, and 946 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.280 of course the Titan have the Bengals old offensive coordinator 947 00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.920 Bill Callahan and former Kentucky quarterback Will Levis. The Titan's 948 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:08.559 gonna try to put this thing together. So if you're 949 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:11.639 an NFL fan and you're living here in Louisville, you're 950 00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:14.719 in prime real estate. There's some good NFL action all 951 00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:17.280 around you, right here. So hey, we're gonna wrap things up. 952 00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:18.760 There's been a lot of fun. We're gonna wrap things 953 00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:19.960 up when we come back in just a bit. I'm 954 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:22.800 Scott Fitzgerald. He's John Alden. That's my little bro Seawan. 955 00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:27.920 We're back after this on Sports Talk seven ninety all right, 956 00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:30.239 great song. As we're wrapping things up here. Boy, this 957 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:32.119 has been a lot of fun. John Olden, you always 958 00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:33.599 make this so much fun. Buddy, Thank you. 959 00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:36.079 I will take you any day, Oh brother. 960 00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:37.159 I love this. 961 00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:38.760 And I know Nick's gonna be back. He's probably not 962 00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:39.960 gonna take any vacation. 963 00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:41.760 For a while because it's coming up on his This 964 00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:43.960 is his sweet spot now as we get into football 965 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.199 season in basketball season. 966 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.480 To him, this is the beginning of the calendar year, 967 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:49.599 whenever sports really get back into play. 968 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:51.239 Right, the big sports right. 969 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.280 And I did want to say that imparting to I 970 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:56.480 just wanted to give Nick a lot of love because 971 00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:58.639 he's one of the best we have in this building, 972 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:00.480 if not the best, when it comes to of sports. 973 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:02.800 And I don't think that gets set enough around here, 974 00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:05.519 and it doesn't get acknowledged by people in our own house. 975 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:07.119 But if you're a fan of Nick Coffee. You know 976 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.840 what I'm talking about. If you're not dial him up. 977 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:12.079 My man is so dilled him when it comes to 978 00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.199 Cardinal sports. He's critical of the Cardinals when he needs 979 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:17.239 to be, but also at the same time he's not 980 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:19.880 a homer either, So you know, take it for what 981 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.320 you will. Nick Coffee, Love you, brother, Appreciate you letting 982 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:24.639 me on. John, love you too, Man, Thank you so much. 983 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:26.639 Look forward to whenever it is you come on again. 984 00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:28.239 All right, And Sean, thanks for joining us. 985 00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:28.360 Bro. 986 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:29.400 Yeah, this has been fun. 987 00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:31.800 That's a great, great sports city. I love Louisville every 988 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:32.320 time I come here. 989 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:34.599 So if you fly American, ask for Sean Fitzgerald, then 990 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:35.159 give him. Hell. 991 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:38.960 I don't ask for peanuts, right for peanuts, all right? 992 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:41.559 For John Alden, my little brother Sean. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. 993 00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:43.320 Make it a great day, everybody. I'm off to Lynn 994 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:44.920 Family Stadium. We'll talk to you next time.